Terribly Unoblivious
Dive deep into the realms of the unconventional with "Terribly Unoblivious" – a podcast where norms are challenged, thoughts expanded, and openness cultivated. This is not your average dialogue space; it’s a confluence where curiosity meets a willingness to listen to diverse opinions. Every episode is a journey that untangles the threads of conventionality, exploring the world through lenses unfettered by the ordinary. Join us as we engage in enlightening conversations that ignite insights, foster understanding, and provoke thoughtfulness beyond the visible horizons of societal expectations. Get ready to transcend the ordinary and embrace the extraordinary with "Terribly Unoblivious."
Terribly Unoblivious
The Art of Finding Purpose in Dark Places
What drives someone to build a full-sized airplane in their basement? The same thing that makes us question insurance company CEOs, contemplate multiverses, or find reasons to stay alive during our darkest moments – the search for meaning.
From the moment we descend into Dylan's basement workshop, surrounded by airplane parts and half-finished projects, this episode takes us on a journey through the things we build to outlast ourselves. Dylan's four-seater aircraft isn't just a hobby; it's a legacy he hopes his grandchildren will inherit (though he jokes they might use it to end his family line). This ambitious project, planned for completion in 2026, becomes a metaphor for purpose throughout our conversation.
We pivot to discuss the recent shooting of a United Healthcare CEO, noting the strangely muted public reaction compared to other violent events. Digging deeper, we explore how the insurance industry's high denial rates (United's exceeds 30%) and massive profit margins have created a system where essential care becomes a business decision. This leads us to question how regulated industries often lack the competitive pressures that might otherwise force better practices.
The most profound moments come when we share personal insights about mental health and suicide prevention. Referencing philosopher Albert Camus, we contemplate his assertion that deciding whether life is worth living is the only serious philosophical problem. What emerges is a surprisingly hopeful perspective: perhaps if we could see our lives as our own sitcoms – free from others' expectations and judgments – we might find more reasons to stick around and see what happens next.
Whether you're building an airplane, questioning corporate ethics, or simply trying to find your purpose, this episode offers raw, unfiltered perspective on what makes a life worth living. Join us as we navigate these complex territories with humor, vulnerability, and occasional detours into carpeting ceilings and fitted sheet frustrations.
This is the Terribly Unoblivious Podcast.
Dylan:Yep, I said it before and I'll say it again Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it.
Brad:Right there. Guess what? Carpet the ceiling? We're not carpeting the ceiling. Yeah, car carpet the ceiling. We're not carpet. Yeah, carpet the ceiling. This is our first. Uh, it's our first. You're the monitor, by the way, because I have no idea. I gotta look behind me. I don't like this at all. It's our first video podcast. How many episodes? You know what this is really good for, what my posture I normally I'm like this yeah, I was thinking about that today.
Dylan:I like sitting like this because it's good for my back it's funny you make a.
Brad:It's funny you make a silly uh voice, because I decided I was gonna be way more peppier and not the long, slow, drawly drawn out guy that I always feel like I am. Yeah, but everybody loves that guy Only when he's making fun of you Maybe there's my pen. They like him more when he's making fun of me. That's true, I believe. Yeah, so it's actually our logo. Sorry about the echo, though. We're going to carpet the. We're gonna carpet the ceiling uh first and the drapes.
Brad:We're gonna carpet the drapes first and the ceiling first video podcast in a first time in a different studio for us and which is my basement. Normally we sit about 10 feet above us, eight feet above us. Oh, it's a low ceiling, uh-huh. You know what I feel like? What I'm in a cave. It's nice, right? Oh, now it's nice, mm-hmm.
Dylan:Okay, all right.
Brad:I enjoy that. You think that's fun. Now why? Because you hate caves. I do hate caves, but the caves don't have a back door on the way out. I texted you a little bit ago a couple of weeks ago, Was it like two weeks ago About what the little cave hole that I was in. It was much scarier in person. I probably didn't look at it. I sent you a picture of it, yeah, but then you preface no, you post this. How would you say that you didn't preface? You postmarked, Postmarked.
Dylan:Thank you, you postmarked it with your favorite thing, or something like that, and I instantly knew oh you so you didn't?
Brad:I, nope, never saw it. I people do that to me when they send me tiktoks and you see the screenshot and it's it's a like a horrible looking dude that's got his hands like next to his nose or something. I'm like I'm not, I'm not watching this. I'm not watching this. I don't. I don't know what that is, but I know it's going to be disgusting based on who sent it to me, so I don't want to do it. Or it's just mid projectile vomit of somebody like I don't need to watch this video, like yeah, I already know what happens. I and I don't like that part. But yeah, I was trying to fix something and it was just a literal four-foot, five-foot hole in the ground.
Brad:You're kind of in it. It's like I mean, I've been in holes before, I could see how this could collapse and I would just die upside down in here.
Dylan:You know why do you?
Brad:do that to yourself With my legs. Oh, remember when we uh, we talked about this, the dude that got buried, the skier, or?
Dylan:snowboarder upside down yeah, upside down.
Brad:That's. That's what it would look like. It would just be me kicking my legs and then fucking suffocating to death. Don't do that. I didn't, I'm fine. Look at me. I don't. I'm good to go I don't like it.
Dylan:Okay, I don't like it.
Brad:Okay, I don't like it. I like that your son's cleats are on your phone still. I hate it. Brad's in the middle of a mid season, mid season mid off season, mid off season, cleat off with his son?
Brad:Uh, apparently the socks are more important than the cleat there there's. So I uh, when, when me and shannon used to date, meaning like we would go somewhere besides mexican, you guys stopped dating, we stopped dating. I thought you're not supposed to stop dating when you're married. Yeah, I mean, we do date, but it's always mexican, it's always okay. Yeah, fair, it's fair. Uh, let's go get margaritas and uh, that's, we're gonna call it a night. I have two date locations delua and Crow Valley. Yeah, we switched, so we pretty much only go to the river and I'm getting kind of nervous that they're going to close why it's not very busy. I mean, maybe the times you go, maybe, yeah, or maybe people see me going there and they're just like we'll come back later.
Brad:It's not prime time, dining time for you too. It's prime time, like margarita time. All day, every day. Margaritas are good, no matter what time of the day it is. Oh, they're so good, you know, I like them down there. They have those aluminum recyclable cups down there.
Dylan:Oh, they got the ball ones yes.
Brad:Yeah, those ones are the, those are the best good, yeah, they're real good. Actually, we'll like brit and I when they're two for one, when we leave it, when we leave a, when we leave a party. If they have them, we'll just be like, oh, we'll just take ours with us. You know how you throw your solo cup out.
Brad:Yeah, you're like, no, we have a couple shannon wanted to get some and I think she was looking online. She's like, oh, just buy a couple of these. And it's like, nah, you gotta buy a 30 pack minimum and you got to engrave them. You don't have to, but that's going to be our next purchase. What Logos? Yeah, right here. Yeah, I need Matt to clean up. I know Right here it's not as good over there.
Brad:I'm trying to tell if I have the camera setting set up or not, right or correctly, I don't know. But logo's a little blurry because the framing's on us and I don't know how to do a full, full frame shot because I'm not a videographer.
Dylan:It looks amazing I need for easy to clean it up a little bit.
Brad:But yeah, I think that'd be fun to get that. It'd be more fun if this was a live fire. You want the uule log? No, I don't. Oh, I mean, maybe I hear we can do a Yule log. Okay, it's our, it's our video podcast, we can do it. We can do what we want. I like that. I do too. That's actually so. It was really funny. I was filming um some material last night.
Brad:I bet you and, um, I had to keep pausing. I had michael buble, christmas the 10 hour mix on there with a yule log going, yeah, and I had to. I had to, uh, um, I had to keep pausing because, uh, I was like, oh, I don't, I'm never gonna get this video out if, um, if I get copyright infringed, oh well, that's, I don't know. I've watched too many videos lately and it doesn't happen. You're not just like replaying it?
Dylan:for the sole purpose of him.
Brad:Fire, fire. Can Netflix kick us off? Go down when Right there? Oh, I had it on already. Fireplace Classic from Wow 4K edition. Wow, I had it on already. Fireplace classic from wow 4k oh edition. Wow, that's. Can we get kicked off for browsing netflix? I need to probably why yeah, why now they're gonna look? Why? Because I don't understand where's that in it. I don't like this. Why just a second? There's too many things happening, guys.
Dylan:There's, there's a camera right here there's a screen here, a screen there screen there there's.
Brad:I don't like this. Why? There's too many things happening, guys, there's a camera right here. There's a screen here. There's a screen there. There's a screen right here. Okay, also, that's a dumbfire. Why is that a dumbfire? It's not out of control. That's not what the Yule Log's about. What's the Yule Log about? I don't know. I thought that was a way of saying you gotta go take a shit, is it?
Dylan:I like it.
Brad:I like it.
Dylan:It's good.
Brad:It adds some depth and some color. What was I saying before that? I don't know. I feel a lot calmer now than I did three hours ago. You were coming in hot. I'm glad we had, uh, some soccer and things to do before this, because, wow, yeah, yeah, I don't know what was happening, but there's a lot of mixing, mixing and matching the stuff happening inside the chemicals. Speaking of chemicals, I started moment uh, some momentous stack. Yeah, what's that like ginseng? No, it was alpha gpc, um tires your route?
Brad:no, I don't know what it's called. I don't know some root. A couple things. Yeah, I don't know if it's just placebo effect, but I do feel a little bit less susceptible to adderall highs and not like just the like sometimes when you, when it takes you up, you're just you're trying to like redline and keep productivity and you're like I can just relax for a second. Don't like relaxing. Yeah, I don't like that.
Dylan:That's a problem I don't like that. That's a problem.
Brad:I don't like that feeling. No, Relaxing is when I drive. It's relaxing until somebody cuts me off. I was going to say I've talked to you a couple times. Then it's through the roof. I've talked to you a couple times. Yeah, Stay strapped, get clapped. Sponsor of our video today. Mississippi River Distilling Company.
Dylan:It's not a sponsor, it's still not.
Brad:No, they're not. It's still not no rip we can. We can keep saying that until it is. I mean, that's what you want to do, sean? Or was on our podcast. He just didn't talk. It's true, if we would have had video back then.
Brad:I don't blame the guy? Oh, missing out, did I tell you? This is how good it's going? I ran into a guy at lunch a couple of weeks ago yeah and uh, really good dude, uh, great coach. And I was like, oh, it'd be interesting to get some insights on just you know motivation and like organization and a wide big picture of you know sports in general and consistency, like why things go well so often for certain clubs and not other clubs. It was just like nope, nope. I was like you want to talk about it on podcast? Nope, good for him. Do you know? Like two second pause, just like I could probably do some of that more often in my life.
Dylan:Random yeah, just ask me a question. What was your favorite? Nope, okay, that, yeah, yeah, just like that, that's awesome, I can get it out.
Brad:That's awesome good for that guy. Yeah, not good for me, though. Why?
Dylan:because you got it, then I go, then I go all introspective and I was like it's a numbers game, you gotta.
Brad:I got a cold call. More people, yeah, yeah, finance bro, you got a finance bro. The guest that's uh, I just I'm gonna start asking everybody at at the restaurant when I'm on dates you want to be in the podcast? Like uh, hey, do you know anything about anything? I'll talk about it. That'd be good. No, I'm like we got, I don't we got yule log. I don't know where we're gonna fit, like we're at a. I'm gonna need a different, we're gonna need to get different lenses. I mean, I'm gonna I guess we are very not the. The other lens goes deeper, deeper and then or sorry it goes.
Brad:That's a 30, 56, 16. 16 goes way too wide. The problem is it'll show the cat box. Yeah, this is just practice. This isn't even a real. This isn't even like a real episode. Uh, no, I'm kidding it is. But okay, you know, look back. I mean, joe rogan started in like a couch, did he? Yeah, oh, people make that look good. Yeah, we would actually. I just don't.
Brad:You're not like a comfy, cozy guy to me no, I tried I tried, like setting up and recording my therapy session the other day, and she's like this is not okay, you can't do this. I was like I, but I have. You know, I have. I have problems remembering. I want to figure it out. I'm going to teach you how to use a lab mic. After this, this is not going to work. I'm going to teach you how to use a lab mic after this. A lab mic, lab Lab, like a laboratory, the one that clips on right here.
Dylan:Oh, okay, and it's wireless, it'll plug in.
Brad:Yeah, I'm going to be like those YouTubers, the old guys that clip it on their hat. That might be one of my personal favorites.
Dylan:I have that one, especially the side. So that's what it is, the side clip.
Brad:Those have a microphone built in and you can use it that way, but I hate how big and bulky they are when I watch other videos, so I have a lab mic for mine. No, I like, I like when they're, when it's like this, it's just like on their whole head. It's my favorite. It's like Austin powers when he's like mole, mole, mole mole, that's a morning.
Brad:Your eyes get naturally drawn to it Cause it's in. Or the guys that do the the wired AirPods and they, they always have to hold it Like um AirPods. And they, they always have to hold it like the microphone doesn't work, so they have to hold the microphone right here.
Dylan:I work for. I work for my phone right here.
Dylan:See it, I worked with a salesman Um, that was that guy.
Brad:I mean, he would walk around, but they weren't AirPods, they were just the that's back when you used to plug them in. Yes, but I've actually.
Dylan:But, now the best part about the.
Brad:AirPods. They have wires for them that aren't there just to hold them around your neck. I went back to the wired plug-in ones because mine kept dying and I'm like I don't like this. But then when I'm working with them, every time I move my arm down, they rip them out of my ears.
Dylan:And.
Brad:I want to murder somebody. I know Catch-22. I've been thinking about buying a pair of ISO tunes for uh down here. Yeah, it's pretty lame, why Cause?
Dylan:Okay, nevermind.
Brad:I have my Stan or sorry, not Stan I have my uh three M work tunes. Those are pretty nice. I can tell people why we're in the basement. Dylan did a thing you can't see, but all around us is a is a workshop. So, um, what do you mean? It's like some tables with some stuff on it. What do you mean with some stuff? Like some tools?
Dylan:yeah, this is a workshop.
Brad:You don't think it's a workshop, it's more of a workshop in your garage.
Brad:Wow, fucking shots fired. Yeah, uh, it's cleaner. I definitely. I meticulously clean this thing, not just before and after every every project or every day that I'm doing something. It's like in between steps I clean. I hard reset, like 20 of mine every day, okay, so what brad's alluding to is I'm building an airplane. Yeah, yeah, um, uh, questions that I get often oh, like a little one seater, like a little guy, and you're like no, it's a four seater, it's a it's a fully fledged.
Dylan:That's not for the fucking model airplane?
Brad:Uh, it is not. It's not a model. It does not even have any movable parts. It's empty. Weight is 1400 pounds. Yeah, and weight is 1400 pounds. Yeah, and when you push it off the mountain it's gonna go straight down, most likely, yeah, yeah, so, um, because I assume that's how you take off, is you just shove it off something really high? Uh, james bond, which is also a good way to get rid of people you don't like golden eye? It was golden eye. It was when him and alex were in the uh dam at the beginning. The russians and they push an airplane. Remember, he has to run after the airplane?
Brad:I don't remember, it's been a long time and then he pulls on the stick and gets it up.
Dylan:But he does, yeah not the only time he's taken off in a jet at the beginning of a movie well tomorrow never dies as well.
Brad:Yeah, I mean he flies airplanes a lot. Yeah, he does actually all kinds jetpacks, airplanes, helicopters, hella airplanes. He does the one in did all kinds Jetpacks, airplanes, helicopters, hella airplanes. He does the one in Bolivia, that was the one right after.
Dylan:Oh, that was a big one yeah that was the twin engine, yeah, it might have been a B something.
Brad:It was like, yeah, I don't know, like a mini C-130. Definitely not that it was. I said mini, yeah, okay that it was. I said mini, yeah, okay, completely different wing structure. So yeah, uh, building an airplane, so was going to build into the garage garage is detached from my, my, uh, my, my residency comfort and all my, I am so glad that I did not have enough power run out to that garage to build the power, all the tools. So, um, we made a hard decision of it wasn't a really hard decision.
Brad:We don't use this space.
Dylan:Yeah, we didn't use the space at all, but we had a big comfy couch down here.
Brad:So we got rid of the pretty furniture upstairs, moved the big comfy couch upstairs, which actually is super comfy didn't you notice that when you walked?
Dylan:in.
Brad:Yeah, I noticed the giant fucking couch was the entire living room.
Dylan:I didn't know it was down here.
Brad:It was down here okay yeah, so emptied this out, moved all the equipment down here and, um, I am so happy now that it's cold out that I'm not in that garage. Yeah, I bought uh, thirty dollars worth of draft door stops the other day for my garage door because the top of it leaks air. Um, but I recently found some good, uh little hacks on on some. I'm back on Tik TOK. Yeah, yeah, like what? Um, just like I wedge but random pieces of wood between the garage door rail and the door to push it tight against the air seal.
Dylan:Okay.
Brad:This guy just mounts toggle clamps on either side, like three to a side. Yeah, clamps them down, pushes it tight against the door.
Dylan:That's it Okay.
Brad:I'm like, yeah, that's probably less intrusive on the mechanicals of that, instead of me just hammering wedges into it. I don't like it that much anyways. Wow, uh, what the door, the tiktok video no, the door I don't like the door that much so let's see if it'll look good.
Brad:Oh, oh, yep, right there, that's the airplane. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. Uh, yours is like an ugly green. Uh, no, it's not. Oh, yeah, no, that's the primer. I'm looking at it right now. Oh, fuck what. Oh the flickering? Yeah, we have ghosts down here Really. Yeah, oh what, he told me that. I'm sorry. Fuck, it's just the other. I got James Bond over there, though One of them yeah, roger.
Brad:Moore, it's a Vans RV10. That's what we're building. How many pounds of cocaine can you fit? That About a usable About 850. It's about 1,000 pounds, usable 1,100 depending on. I'm going to load it down, though Like Tom Cruise no, not like that movie. That's a good looking one, though. That guy did a good job on it, so I don't I. I are you gonna have me paint it? No, uh, what what? You could do something like that. Fuck yeah, I don't trust you. I got frog tape, I'm good I'm good to go.
Brad:I love that. That's the qualifier. I've got frog tape. Yeah, that looks. But do you know? What's really funny about this is that I'm over here laughing like not a fucking chance. But every time I do something a new part or a new thing that ain't related all I'm doing is going I got the, I got the tools, I got the. I've never done before, but I'll do it. Yeah, yeah. And who'd you call for paint?
Brad:yeah, yeah yeah, this isn't working yeah, it's not working, I'm so glad it was not a mechanical issue and it was just a function of me not mixing the primer. Well, enough that, and that was primer, you know. Yeah, I'm an artiste. I I've never seen you do anything artistic, whatever, fuck you I used to do faux painting. So that's what your plane would look like It'd just be fucking sponges all over the place. That would be good.
Dylan:It'd be a good look You'd pom-pom it 100%. But die down on the aerodynamics a little bit.
Brad:Yeah, just make it textured, although so hopefully 2026 is planned flight time now. Mythbusters, did that golf ball car? You ever see that one? Uh, so they were going over the aerodynamics of a golf ball, okay, and wondered if they applied it large scale to a vehicle dude I love, I love airplay.
Brad:it went right back to it. Thanks, if, if it would be you know, as aerodynamic and all that, and I think it ended up like, yes, it was so, even because the way they did it was like they modeled the clay all over the place and then took these divots out. Yeah like the dimples, yeah, and if they did it enough, even though they added all of this weight with the clay, it was still slightly more efficient than a regular car, so you could do that.
Brad:Speaking of golf, I got dumped by my two-man partner today. I'm looking at you, mike Gonzalez. You were supposed to golf today. No, we have a summer league where you get a partner's you just went there I know, but he dumped me for next season already. Yeah, got no one to fold them. Yeah, exactly so I just didn't. You just revamp your swing. Oh yeah, yeah, it's probably why he's done with me. Oh, so that's not perfected? Oh god, not yet. You rent it. You don't own it, man.
Brad:Yeah, little things, harvey pennock these river pilots are going down really well right now. Uh, you want to talk about assassins? I had to. Are we talking about new york? Uh, yeah, I think so yeah I, um full transparency, have not done a lot of reading on it and I've just been oh, oh, no you don't need to read it. Okay, yeah, no, I'm not. No, this is not a fucking factual take, hot takes. Yeah, this is hot takes, hot takes, hot takes, because I've been on the old ticky-tocky. Okay, tell me about it.
Brad:I think Wait just before that Be curious not judgmental. That's how I feel about TikTok. Funny thing about that Nobody's judging the guy that shot the CEO very harshly. I was going to say nobody Former Hawkeye, by the way. Like went to Iowa. Yeah, he went to Iowa. He's an Iowa grad. Okay, I live in Iowa, brad. I know you live in Iowa. He's an Iowa grad. Okay, I live in Iowa, brad. I know you live in Illinois, that's fine.
Dylan:Okay, anyway.
Brad:I don't think that's pertinent to the story. Let's continue. So douchebag United Healthcare CEO gunned down outside of a conference. Nobody really seems that upset by it. Do you know what happened at the conference? Did he lay off people? No, he was going to the conference, I believe. I thought they said he was leaving his hotel to go to conference, correct?
Brad:Okay, the conference still went on, even though he got shot. They probably had a lot of money invested. They can't lose that man, and therein is the moral of the story. Life goes on. Uh, he, yeah. So we need to learn some more details about about that. What was what was written on the? Deny something and depose? So casings, guys, yeah, casings, they're different than the bullets.
Dylan:Yes, sorry so.
Brad:The shell. Yeah, nobody's going through the metallurgy already and being like oh he wrote on this yeah, especially because it's probably hollow point.
Dylan:So they're going to just explode, yeah, yeah.
Brad:But, yes, yes, there was. What was that? Deny, uh, uh, like, argue. Well, give me a d word for argue deposition, no, discourse, no, don't know, don't make me go to the, go to the sphere, don't, don't make me go to the tiktok. Okay, anyways, you wrote on that um, new york's offering up whole ten thousand dollars, so they like really want him. Yeah, for, for a guy that is worth, uh, a fair amount of money that got murdered 10K, that's it. Yep, I feel like. And so the general consensus. I feel like we okay, so Trump won the presidency again, we're back into TV land and now we're going through like fucking actual episodes of the Punisher. That's what it feels like it feels, but I think, I think it. I think, think this is a simulation. I don't think this is real life. It was fifty thousand dollars for the boston marathon bombers. That's what I was curious about. Yeah, there's two of them. Right, still 25, yeah, yeah, and that was back in 2015 but, but they killed innocent people.
Brad:But they killed innocent people. Yeah, you don't see a lot of people really upset about this one, do you? I see a lot of other insurance CEOs Pretty upset, really. Yeah, the same day that he got shot, blue cross, blue shield said we're going to decide how long surgery should be covered for anesthesia. Like, how long do you think a kidney transplant takes? 30 minutes, no, okay. Well, if it takes seven hours, then we're going to bill you six and a half hours of anesthesia. We're only covering 30 minutes of it and I don't know. But there's a real sense amongst the people of something needs to be done.
Dylan:Yeah.
Brad:What do you think that is? Well, I think what was it? United made like $31 billion revenue, but revenue is just a bullshit number. It's about what the bottom line is. $9 billion profit. Okay, so we'll call it 30-ish percent, give or take a few points. Yeah, it's not. It's not uncommon. Most a lot of businesses have between 20 and 40 profit margin. Um, I mean, it matches their denial rate, which was the highest of any insurance company at over 30%.
Dylan:Yeah. I'm I'm not defending the insurance companies, by the way, I don't know what to do with my line.
Brad:While I wait, I'm going to put it right there on my mic stand. So that's. I'm really mad that you get a monitor and I don't that's a problem? That's a problem. I, I I sorry. Are you setup? That's a problem. I, I'm sorry. Are you? Are you really shit? I can't now. It's on, it's on, it's on the, it's on the mid, the mimmage, um, I don't know, man, I, I have a problem with insurance, mostly because government's probably involved. So you think more privatization is better? Yeah, more privatization.
Dylan:Yes.
Brad:I don't know if either one's good, because I just read a whole bunch of shit about like medicare scams. Yeah, it's not good. No, you know where they happen in retirement communities. Uh, give me a state florida, yep. Give me a city orlando. Nope. Tampa, nope miami. Yeah, I mean they happen everywhere they happen. In miami, uh, freaking, a multiple fold of all of the other, florida, what kind?
Brad:of scams. So they. There are buildings like office buildings, one room office buildings dedicated to this, okay, where you walk into the building and there's like little names and everything on the outside of the doors, and then you walk in and there's just like maybe an old dude sitting behind the desk you're like hey, and he's like people don't come in here, like what are you doing here?
Brad:I don't know how I got here Bye. I don't know what's happening. Like, what's on your computer there? It's not plugged in to the wall. There's just one person that sits in these things and it's a physical address that somebody else can bill this out to, and so what they do is they get clients and then they get some doctors to sign off on stuff, and then they just keep sending stuff, and there's literal office buildings just dedicated to this. Yeah, and the people that are supposed to be enforcing it are aware of this, but prosecuting each and every single one of those is like, it takes time. So, like there is a, there's a unit that is dedicated to that.
Brad:There's three people Miami has, like most of the people there, because that's where it's it's most relevant at. So, um, so there's, oh, there's problems all over the place. Oh, oh, that's what I was gonna talk about. So when rome got insurance adjuster shows up and he was a flood guy. He, that's what he does I think some other maybe natural disaster, hurricane as well but he would come in and he was a claims guy. He would walk around the building, take notes, document and I need to.
Brad:I need to have a conversation with a couple of people again because I don't want to give out false information. I know this for sure. He told me I make a percentage of what I give out. Okay, so, and I'm almost positive. He told me what was happening is insurance was just so cutthroat that they were trying to deny, deny to save, you know, make more money. And then the federal government came in and put some rule in place and they're like these people have to be independent and they get paid on a percentage of what they get. And he goes I love giving money away, he's like where's all your furniture at?
Brad:Did flood take it? And I'm like I thought so and I was like I didn't see any furniture in there.
Dylan:It floated down the river.
Brad:And you're like it absolutely did.
Dylan:It's probably in Louisiana right now.
Brad:But it just. He's like yeah, so I get, I get paid. I get paid a cut of what I give out, like that's wild, so you are paid more money to spend more money. He's like yeah, basically, and in this year the following year, uh, if you increase. So you got to just like are you talking about like?
Brad:are you talking I'm talking about margin growth or are you talking about like growth? Because your margin, when you pick a business, your business, you know your vertical probably has, uh, uh, normally will have some sort of percentage attached to it and that's just kind of what the market will dictate.
Brad:So a contractor like you, so there's like so for, like every hundred thousand dollars of work, let's talk about your labor. Let's talk about, so every hundred thousand dollars of work you do that includes buying material labor. You're probably what, netting 25 to $40,000 on that a hundred thousand dollars worth of work, okay.
Dylan:No, I'm just, I'm just.
Brad:I don't know. In your field, I mean I think that's probably, I mean it probably you can probably go upwards of 50 if you're really really good at what you do and you're really high in demand, and it varies, yeah. So basically, but the market will always dictate, like some sort of. What I'm saying is profit margin, but there is like a general average, like percentage growth, percentage growth. It depends on the industry as well, because businesses that are in the support or customer service industry you can grow really, really fast, you can sell new products, you do all these things.
Brad:But how do you support it on the backend and not have attrition and a churn rate that just goes through the roof as well? So what you have to, you know you kind of have to be careful with what sector, what industry you're in, which is we want growth because we want to sustain, but we can't do growth at a rate that's so aggressive that we can't backfill employees to be able to support what we're doing. So software, um, other things are different, but like you, you can't be like oh, I'm going to go from doing half a million dollars a year in business to $2 million a year in business because you can't hire guys fast enough to come help. You do that and you're. So I'm saying is that okay?
Dylan:so I guess what you want to outgrow.
Brad:I mean you want I mean six to 15%, depending on your, your sector. Some people will say we need to be double digit. You know, okay. But you, yeah, you want to outpace. If you're not growing, you're dying.
Brad:Because there there is a a percentage of uh, I don't even know what you would call that, but as shit gets more expensive, or labor gets more expensive, like so that's inflation. So so there is a a yearly. You so more or less so. So when people talk about more profits and there is, and everyone immediately goes to owners and everyone are stakeholders they just want to pad their pockets. They just want to pad their pockets. And don't get me wrong, there's always a case for that. But they're the ones that invested, they're the ones that put a lot of times, a lot of their money on the line and they risked a lot to put that there. So there should be a return on that investment.
Brad:However, you have you're. You're a 40 person shop. Okay, you got two owners, three owners, single owner. You have a 40 person shop. You have 38 ish people. You know, know, if it's a 200 shop, they come in every day and do a job to make the owner's money, they make themselves a salary at that time. Mostly they might be an hourly waged employee.
Brad:But if you don't grow, they don't get get a pancreas Right, because that cost. So companies have to grow because it's it's to me, it's ethical to want to grow for your employees benefits, because, yes, and you know we, you worked your tail off this year for us we want to not only give you bonuses, we want to make sure your base comp next year grows. So when everyone gets always mad about like, oh, they're just sniffing for more pennies and it's like, maybe, but you also have to think about all the families they're feeding and they want those. Those employees have been loyal to them and they want to provide for that. Well, so yeah. So what I'm getting at is there is a essentially a base number yearly yeah, that has to be like it's every, it's every.
Brad:vertical like if you profit, it's vertical, the vertical man. If you profit a hundred thousand this year and then you profit a hundred thousand the next year, it's it's not even a zero%, it's going to be like a negative.
Dylan:Yeah, there there's a but like.
Brad:So profit again. There's deceiving here. Profit is after you've paid all your employees and everything else, right, so for you to, for you to do more next year and to still have the same bottom line as what you did last year, that means you're probably your top line revenue grew a little bit, yeah, so there, there, there's all these finances and art science, all these different things all combined at once, it's. You know where do you combine that?
Brad:So you could, you could also but you want to do is you definitely want your top line growing, no matter what. But you what you can also be doing, but you can also be cutting back.
Brad:So Cutting back expenses. But think about this you grow the top line but you buy another business and so you've got to finance that. That's a really expensive check and the bank wants however much money a month. So sure, we made, we'll say, $100,000 last year.
Brad:Brad sees Jeff's contracting business down the street and he goes hey, jeff, I like your book of business, I'm gonna buy your book of business. Fuck you, jeff. But jeff goes all right, I want three year, I want three, I want a three multiple, I make this, I make this a year. Yeah, I think you should pay me three times and that's my go-away price. He said okay, cool, so you pay him that.
Brad:Well, now you've got to pay, jeff, and it's, of course, over a period of time. So you still make the same bottom line. Your top line's growing, but eventually it's going to pay off because you're paying. You know you have a bank note above your bottom line. So you know it's all just a game. At the end of the day you have to win. But you see, you have to know what you're doing along the way. I mean, right, um, but insurance is an odd, is an odd one. It is because it's just, it's a different. It's a different game. You're hoping nothing. You're hoping people pay and nothing happens to them, right? Or when something catastrophic does happen, you're hoping to catch them in one of the clauses that gets you out of it. Yeah, yeah and yeah.
Brad:However, I will say, because it's such a highly regulated industry. Again, this is what I get into. Highly regulated industries don't have free market tendencies, which means you can have competitors come in and out very easily.
Brad:So, because of the highly regulated nature of it, unitedhealthcare is protected in a sense's. We don't have to worry about people trying to infringe on our business, so we can kind of do whatever we want. I look at a lot of businesses like them are there. Yeah, how many people, how many people are getting I mean, I mean, they're big, they're big there's a there's a lot of big. There's a lot of big insurance companies.
Dylan:Okay, I mean by a lot.
Brad:How many people do you know that aren't on Blue Cross, blue Shield or United Healthcare? I only know like four people total, I know, and two of them are herbal holistic, so they don't have insurance, they're never going to get sick.
Dylan:They're a larger organization.
Brad:So there's not a lot of movement. And what I'm saying is is yes, in the short run those can become mon monopolistic because they take a chunk of the market, but after a period of time someone's going to go. They're really shitty customer service, they're really this, they're really that. Let's create another insurance company over here. And this is again. You have to decrease regulation for this, because you got to be able to have some easy entry and exits and guess what? We're going to pay out, no matter what. You know, we're just going to be the really good customer service people, right. And then all of a sudden everyone's going to go. Oh, we want to go over there. So you have to like there's a little bit of that easy ease of movement. I get that. But the way that insurance works also is it's like what do you, what are you paying into it? So if you start up a small business, you don't have as many people paying into that. Oh yeah, I mean that could be an.
Brad:I'm assuming that could be a major issue insurance wise because what if you got 10 people paying in and fucking nine of them are, you know, uh, like high risk heart attack or something you know? Yeah, you're really sure. So it's something like that. I don't you know. So there, there is a. It's it's like oh no, this is, this is what's offered, and we offer this cause it's the cheapest one. And then all of a sudden, you got, you know, a hundred million people on your insurance roll.
Brad:You're like yeah well, we, we go with this one because it's it's the cheapest, and so I'm not. I don't, I don't go all the way to the extreme, which is like remove government. I think government has its place and government is supposed to be a safety net. But I think you allow free market terrain and then you have a program that says for the people, these people that are going to fall through that net, you know the, the free market net, because there are the very extreme, high risk, the whatever. Yeah, you, we have programs that we can backfill you with.
Brad:So that would be interesting to get a take on, because there's like a 13% average denial rate. That's kind of the status quo across all of that. But you have a wide variation, from companies that are less than that to United, who was below 30%, so they were on the very high side. And then you had a couple other big ones that were in the twenties and like blue cross was down there, you know somewhere 20 or under, or they were pretty close to the cutoff, I think something like that. So, but sorry, I just want to look at the monitor. So, yeah, I don't know, but yeah, I get the sense that people are not upset.
Brad:We just went down a very deep rabbit hole to understand that nobody's upset that the CEO of United health work healthcare died. I mean, I'm doing those I'm doing the the drone.
Brad:I'm doing the droney voice again. I gotta get some. Some people are gonna get like dude, nope, please don't don't. Uh, obviously some people are upset and yeah uh, an australian said it best um america. I'd like to apologize that your unrestricted gun laws actually do, uh, seem to be solving some problems. Oh, only an australian can say that, though. Yeah, but that's not a road you want to go down, it's okay. So at the end, of the day at the end of the day one. It's not solving the problem.
Dylan:At the end of the day one. It's not solving the problem.
Brad:No, it's not, because it's going to create a bigger divide. You're using it wrong.
Brad:The other side, yeah, yeah, fuck, you Don't tell me how to use this no, no, no no, no, no, it's, it's, no, no, no Other. Oh, weird how that works. So this side is for twist offs. If you're offs, if you're, if you, uh, are feeling a little weak, but the teeth, the, the teeth are for the twist. Yeah, what, what? The game's stupid. This teeth are for the twist off and then. So still, one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. By the way, this is a k bar. You're welcome. Um, you didn't give me this. What sean eldridge did I was going to. No, thank you, sean eldridge, I thought about it, yeah, uh. So I'd seen some other things where it was like whoever hired this guy is so smart because there's so many people that would be upset, like it's impossible to like start tracking down and I'm like new york's got $10,000. They're going to get this guy by Friday, right? Do you know who's going to be on the case? Andy Sandberg.
Dylan:Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Brad:Okay, and then he watched the video.
Dylan:Yeah, nobody paid this guy to do it Didn't his weapon jam.
Brad:It certainly looked like it was not working properly. Yes, but good, because he was pulling repeatedly and on the slide. So I'm I'm guessing maybe it did jam. Um, but how many people can actually have the wherewithal to clear, like to go through the clear, and still I'm not saying he didn't know what he was doing, no, I'm just saying that's. You would think most people panic if you know if your gun jammed and you didn't have some and I don't know if that was, or maybe off the get-go or maybe it was in between.
Brad:Or maybe they had no idea what they were doing and they just were racking it.
Dylan:If they had no idea? They just were racking it as they were going.
Brad:It's like a single shot. You just got to rack it every time, right? Also, when you start engraving your shells Some Derek Zoolander shit I mean that's not good. You know, if you look at certain shells wrong, they jam. Yeah, I mean there's a precision there. I mean like when I used to shoot regularly and you're like, oh uh, ammo is kind of, kind of expensive. I'm going to buy some, some of this cheap ammo All my guys.
Brad:That work for me Good, that work for me good, good. Good is ammo. Is cheap ammo good good? No, it's not. Do you know how easy this is for?
Dylan:me it's not easy.
Brad:It's not easy, sorry, you gotta keep racking it so many people like at a gun range they'll get a jam and they're just like it's fucking jammed on here. I can't get this thing out of here. You're like, please unjam, just I just fucking solve this problem right now. That should be. That should be your t-shirt, please unjam. Get it over with. Please unjam. But the amount of heat that's produced in that and any, any movement in that shell casing, it's like stuck, just like that instant. And so you can imagine now that after they found these and you're fucking around with the, the casing, it's like okay, well, was it engraved? If it was engraved, is there like a burr on the outside of the shell? If there is, you might not want to fucking come out. I got Scotch Brite over there. He didn't do that. 7447. It's the maroon pad.
Dylan:A lot of deburring over here.
Brad:So that makes sense actually, yeah, but uh, yeah, why it's so wild? The uh england's a lot similar to australia and that their views are very, very opinionated about us. It's so fun to hear other people's opinions of americans opinionated about us. It's so fun to hear other people's opinions of americans, yeah, like well, why do you need? Why do you need? And you know ben's family say like, why do you, why do you guys need guns?
Dylan:you're like I don't think we need guns, I just we, just we just grew up, we just have them.
Brad:It's like growing up with your ball in your square, you just yeah yeah, I mean I'm like four and my grandpa's like try to hold this double barrel shotgun. It's fucking heavy, grandpa, is it loaded? I don't know. You get a 12 gauge. A 12 gauge when you're nine years old, double barrel, yeah, and you're just your shoulders sore the next day oh no, he wouldn't let us shoot it, oh no that was for intruders only oh, but I remember shooting skeet.
Brad:I mean it's funny because you know english people act like they're all fucking smart, but there's manchester united fans out there. So oh, and thai fans we know better, yeah, root thai better than, oh, that was a direct shot. Happened, so, yeah, but uh, australians seem to be the most outspoken, though I do they. Oh, that was a direct shot Happens though, yeah, but Australians seem to be the most outspoken, though they have like a very, very opinion.
Dylan:Yeah, but they have you guys are.
Brad:So why are you guys? And it's almost, it's condescending, like what.
Dylan:It is because they got rid of all their guns. You guys aren't. You guys aren't. They took the moral. You guys aren't. You guys aren't elevated enough to get rid of your guns. They took the moral high ground.
Brad:Yeah, but what about Crocodile Dundee? Did he get rid of his guns? He didn't need guns. I feel like he had a knife. I feel like there was probably guns. I mean, that was never in the movies, but I mean they still have. But his house probably. Their gun laws are just super strict, right like there still has to be rifles, kind of like. It's like hunting rifles, it's the uk is the same way, though, like it's, you have to have some property.
Brad:You gotta have a 20 gauge uh over under shotgun, but you must provide a proof that you have dedicated hunting dogs in order to get the ammunition yeah, it's wild. Well, that's, that was like the hash house harrier thing, right, like the origins of that, like that was off season, that's how that got started. Heron hounds, yeah, when it was like, okay, well, we can't well, we can't go hunting well here? No, that's not how the hash was.
Dylan:Yes it was no, it wasn't yes, it was. I know the orange Fucking. Look at that. No you don't.
Brad:Oh shit, hair and hounds. So that was a? Yes, it came from that game, but that was a schoolhouse game that they grew up playing. No, it wasn't Because Drinking God damn it the older guys drank yes yeah, they made that up.
Brad:So what happened was follow, follow, follow. They use chalk you not to talk for five seconds okay, they use chalk, they lay down a trail. This flower so sugar. The game of heron hounds originates from off season, where they would go run around and fuck about. It became a schoolhouse game. What happened was is these these expats lived in kuala lumpur. British army guys.
Dylan:Kuala lumpur is that thailand? I?
Brad:don't know. No, it's over there, right, it's over there singapore.
Brad:Anyway, the house they were at was called the Hash House, like that it was. That was the name, because Brits like to name their residences. Skyfall yeah, I gotta name my house, so you do need to name your house. This is Cat Condo, spelled K's. Of course it is. Yeah, three K's, no, two K's, two k's, two k's. Yeah, makes sense. Cat condo. Okay, k-a-t-k-o-n-d-o. Okay, yep, I own that uh domain. By the way, good for you. So qualum, poor, mission impossible. Yes, that's what it was from, dude, no right trapment oh was it yeah, the, the two banks.
Brad:Yeah, she was my favorite, zeta jones. Yeah, so good, she was so good. And then she married michael douglas downhill and then he got mouth cancer from eating her out. What that was that was. That was what he said lock jaw. I can see. Yeah, cancer, tmj need some botox pushing it. How would that be unbelievable? I need botox because I've been eating my woman out too hard. I mean I could think of worse ways.
Brad:I like it yeah yeah, why you have such? Why you have such a burly jaw? It's like Popeye, but your jaw it's going to smell like spinach.
Dylan:No, no, no, no.
Brad:Okay. So anyway, these guys, when they were off duty, they would go get absolutely pissed drunk Okay, Makes sense. And then the next day that was like their one day off. That's back when six-day work weeks were happening. That was like their one day off. That's back when six day work weeks were happening. So sunday was their one day off. They would go run and drink to fight the hangover and they played heron hounds. So that's how it became the hash house harriers. So the heron hounds is the chasing of the yeah person.
Brad:Yes or yes whatever, yeah, right it's the same thing yeah. Yeah, but that's not how that started, yeah. Okay, yeah, it's like five degrees. Whatever I read it on Wikipedia, it's probably true. Separation douche. Okay, kevin Pompous, duck up Snot nose. English Giant Twerp Sc.
Dylan:English giant twerps speaking of English from, was that from?
Brad:you don't know. No, okay, john, clean animal house. Mm-hmm. Okay, john Cleese is your first. Okay, john Cleese. No, don't know. And then never heard of him. Now I'm having trouble. She was in true lies, jimmy Lee Curtis, true Lies, jamie Lee Curtis. Okay, john Cleese, jamie Lee Curtis. And Kevin, not Spacey the other one, there's a lot of those. Kevin, no, oh, home Alone. 3. A Fish Called Wanda that's the name of the movie. You've never seen A Fish Called Wanda. I didn't know we named fish. I thought we were naming houses. You need to watch that movie. It's really good.
Brad:I don't know about that. I feel like I got some other things on my list. This Kevin's going to drive me. Do you know what I wait? Kevin Durant, kevin, kevin Klein Sorry, yeah, that's what I was going to say. I think maybe so. British gangster George Thomason and his hapless aide Ken Pyle draft a pair of arrogant Americans, grifter Wanda and weapons expert Otto West, for a massive diamond heist. When the job goes badly, wanda attempts to seduce george's stuffy lawyer, archie leach john cleese to find out where george hid the diamonds. Meanwhile, ken repeatedly attempts to kill an elderly woman, patricia hayes, who witnessed the robbery.
Brad:This sounds like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrel Kind of. It's a really good movie. That's not what I thought that was about. It's like the original. It's a 1988 movie. Kevin Kline Kevin Kline, he was in a. What was that house? Klein? He was in a. What was that house one? He was in a lot of them. Let me see a picture. I really like Kevin Klein as an actor. I can't remember what the house one was called. Not Cider House, look it up, hurry up. Well, he was in Pink Panther, emperor's Club. Life as a House. Was that what it was? Life as a House, comedy drama 2001. Oh yeah, scroll over who else?
Brad:Who was the woman in that? It's really sad.
Dylan:Why, huh, why? Emperor's Club is really sad. Why, huh, why?
Brad:emperor's club is really sad. Okay, because he spoiler alert he dies. Yeah, you should watch emperor's club. He's got like cancer and he wants to build this house. I think kevin klein's best role was wild wild west with uh Smith. Fuck you, one of the best movies ever. Fuck off, what are you talking about? Okay, dude, 16% on Rotten Tomatoes Like, how does it not get better? Okay, so when I was in high school, okay, and the internet was you know a thing? What's the internet? It was a thing. Back then, okay, you could get these MPp3 players like mini discs. No, no, no, no, no, no, only on your computer. It was an mp3 player. When, on your computer. When?
Dylan:winamp, yeah, when I went in and then you could have had great porn and no win.
Brad:It was like the yeah, but there was a movie where you could get. You get porn on when oh no, no.
Dylan:No, this was just the music one, because it was a player.
Brad:Yeah there was Winamp yeah, and I think that's what it was. I'm pretty sure that's what it was. So they open source Winamp and you can get it again now so you could get skins for it. Yeah, I know I was like fucking, what is this? This is amazing. I think I had a Wild Wild West skin for that Dude. I saw Wild Wild West at 53rd Cinema. I've never seen the movie. What no, Will Smith is a fire actor. Oh no, I know that song. That's when I said he's going to win an Academy Award.
Dylan:The difference between your generation and my generation.
Brad:He's going to slap Kid Rock when he does it yes.
Dylan:Chris Rock would have been so much better it would have been so much better.
Brad:My name is.
Dylan:Kid.
Brad:He's at me.
Dylan:Name out of the mouth.
Brad:That would have been really good. Chris Rock took it much better. I think Kid Rock would have cried a little bit and then been like get him he would have pointed to somebody.
Brad:Probably, yeah, I think he could have pointed to that. Probably yeah, I think he could have pointed to that guy that we talked about in one of our first episodes. Yeah, I did hear that Kid Rock sent bodyguards after Tommy Lee one time because they were both trying to date Pamela at the same time. Yeah, I mean, if you're going that routemmy lee's top of the pyramid, yeah you have to take him out, yeah yeah, he's the final boss.
Brad:So, yeah, big dick. Yeah, kid rocks a ways down. That what's his real name. It's clarence, is it?
Dylan:I don't know it's something like that, though You're right.
Brad:There's something about Tommy Lee that's just like. Hey, I love that. We have a Yule log, by the way. Oh, it's gotten out of control again. We've got Nah, it's fine. They haven't even added logs to it yet. We've gotten carbon Guys. This is fake. This. We've gotten carbon Guys. This is fake. This is a fucking natural gas fire right here the wood's doing absolutely nothing.
Brad:You know, who makes the best fire starters? Durlock, my wife. What'd she do? Egg carton, okay. Candle wax, sawdust. Where did she get the candle wax From old candles, okay, so she just melts down the wax. And then I thought candles melted, and then went away. Yeah, but there's always residual, oh yeah. Or like the wick can't get to it, yeah, yeah. Or you have the shitty ones that just burn halfway. So egg carton Mm-hmm. I thought you had a kid that was allergic to eggs, so, huh, I miss.
Dylan:Eggs aren't dear born.
Brad:Eggs are literally my favorite thing in the world and I don't buy them. No, I don't know why.
Dylan:The funniest part about that is, that Shannon ate eggs.
Brad:I stopped cooking when I started taking Adderall Ooh, like that was just a revelation I had about five seconds ago before I said that, yeah, I stopped. But I used to have every ingredient, fresh and non-fresh, in this house and I used to cook all the time.
Brad:You know what I used to cook Hot pockets no, close Bologna quesadillas Ooh, I can get down with that. I love bologna. I would just have shredded cheese and tortillas at all times and then whatever I was left over in my refrigerator this is mine that went in there. Heat it up, eat it. Love bologna yeah, that, and I would do, like hamburger helper quesadillas. So if you ever go to a butcher shop and or they have some italian this, maybe some italian meats, and they're like, oh, the mortadella, and the mortadella is always one of the most expensive cuts, it's bologna. You're just like just taste bologna next to it it is.
Brad:I mean they make it the same way. It's just really fancy bologna. What is that? Just a mix of meats yeah mortadella is just really fancy bologna. What is that? Just a mix of meats. Yeah, mortadella is just really fancy bologna. Don't get me wrong. Like you can taste the difference. It's delicious, it's beautiful, it's delicate, it's all these things, but at the end of the day, I want.
Dylan:Yeah, but it used to be like that, did you?
Brad:ever get the b? The, that's pickle and pimento loaf. Is that what you?
Dylan:mean.
Brad:The one with the cheese stuff.
Dylan:Was it the ham that had?
Brad:the cheese in it. Yes, that's weird. I never liked it. My grandpa used to eat pickle and pimento loaf. Oh yeah, and some people are like, oh no, absolutely not I was like what's wrong with? It. What about Braunschweiger? What's that? Do you ever get the oscar meyer? The braunschweiger like the. No, braunschweiger is like pate. It's basically just like chicken liver.
Brad:I don't actually know, it might be beef, but braunschweiger is like just a mousse, like a pate it's kind of funny that I don't like certain things because, like I, growing up was at my grandma grandpa's a lot and they ate lots of vegetables because they always had a big garden and sardines every single day, like my grandpa ate a can of sardines every single day for lunch and I don't know. I don't know what it was, but even as kids we were like nope, nope, not gonna do it. I want you to see this photo. I gotta give me a second because I'm gonna have to delete it I don't know, I have to give you shit.
Brad:This is why I hate you. I gotta go back. Oh, yes, okay, I want you to see this photo. Oh sorry, sardines are.
Dylan:It's not sardines, sardines can be big though, right I? Don't know. Is that true? I?
Brad:like sardines. I've had some good sardines in my life From a can no Okay.
Dylan:No, it was in Spain, because that's what he was doing.
Brad:No, no, no, no, no. This was not beautiful. This was like they're feeding me kava, and I was just like mmm champagne.
Dylan:It's not champagne.
Brad:No, this was lunch Lunch, the bell was ringing on the water tower.
Dylan:You don't drink at lunch.
Brad:It was lunchtime I mean, yeah, I do, but they didn't. I gotta save this first before I how do I say done, saved a photos? Okay, I really don't understand how you can set all of this up and then not work on that thing. What thing? That thing, what do you mean? Your phone, what do?
Brad:I what don't I work on. What does that mean? I don't know what you mean. You know what I don't know. What does that mean? I don't know what you mean. You know what I don't like. What is that? People are just gonna be watching me and you talk to each other. Hi guys, look at that wait what's? That, that's caviar, that's dom perry on. I see that that's crystal we've got. Look at that. Look at the old absolute bottle. I don't know what the other Russian vodka bottle is that's not old, that's like college.
Brad:This is 1989. Like I said, okay, but this is from one of my favorite photographers in the whole world, slim Aarons Two A's. He doesn't look cold. That's not Slim Aarons, that's a different guy. Yeah, no, no, he's in. That's definitely mink. You think that's mink? Or the fox, that's fox. So this is saint maritz um 1989. Slim aarons was a photographer that, when you think like lifestyle, is rich and famous. He was a middle class guy that just inserted himself in high society because he was a photographer and his prints are unbelievable.
Dylan:And when you do all my frame, yeah, my office, it's mostly going to be his but this photo to me okay, you're saying sardines but like look at how aggressive the cat.
Brad:Like yeah, this is not this is not jestful, like this isn't a joke. This is just what the branding was back in the 80s, which I love caviar, caviar. Okay, so that's beautiful, that's beautiful branding fork of caviar, yes, probably worth five thousand dollars. Okay, tell me about that. Like, uh, nutritionally, I don't have no idea what the nutrition is there. Like a like how many thousands?
Dylan:of calories. Fatty, it's gotta be fatty shit, right I mean what is caviar nutrition?
Brad:you're right, that's a great call. I don't know well, like we can't, we can't get, uh, our nutrition. What's the stem cells? Like we can't do stem cells, why not? No, we can't do some stem cells, right? Okay, one tablespoon is 42 calories. Oh, that's not bad. It's actually four grams of four grams of protein and three grams of fat. It's not bad, and you kind of do one a tablespoon. You do like a teaspoon at a time.
Brad:Yeah, or a teaspoon of butters like a teaspoon at a time, yeah, or a teaspoon peanut butter is what? No, it's tablespoon. Oh, teaspoons, teaspoon and peanut butter is way worse than that.
Dylan:It's not worse.
Brad:180 calories don't say like worse, it's still good. But everyone's like I'm eating, so healthy I'm eating, I'm eating peanut butter. You do realize that it doesn't take very long for you to just be completely shot on your calories for the day. Um, speaking of calories, isn't a good photo? Yeah, do you think he was on ozempic? Um, by the big nose, rosy cheeks and, uh, pointed ears? Um, no, do you think he was giving a fuck in that photo? No, the fact that he's sitting there means that he was giving a fuck in that photo. No, the fact that he's sitting there means that he's wealthy as fuck and doesn't get food Shit. And he's sitting in the snow in slacks. I've actually never noticed that. I've only noticed the fur. That's pretty cool. No, definitely suit pants.
Dylan:Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, actually you're right Because look at the collar. Yeah, actually, you're right, look at the collar.
Brad:Yeah, yeah, wow. You're so perceptive, I know, but this is what I missed. This is what. What do you mean? You weren't alive in 89. I'm an old cigarette, fuck you. What's the little tiny bottle right there, the glass? Is it a glass, or is it a vodka glass, is it? It could be champagne or vodka. It almost looks like an upside down bottle. Uh, it's definitely not champagne, though, because none of the bottles are open. All the vodka's open, though. So that's stoli up on the top right. Yeah, but look at the two little ones up top there.
Dylan:Yeah, but they're empty, oh, but that's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying it's not glass, it's a bottle, right?
Brad:no, no, no, that, that, no, no. I'm sitting on top of the blue lid. Oh, that is, that's a, that's a, but isn't that the same thing up?
Dylan:there, those are shooters.
Brad:Those are vodka shooters, because you're supposed to do vodka with caviar, so you're supposed to um, don't tell me what to do, but does not look. It's got like a little bit of uh, wes anderson, but it's overt it that this is what I get a problem with is, everyone wants everything to be so beautiful, and don't get me wrong, I like beautiful things, but that just tells you exactly what it is. It's caviar. Branding should be on the nose, on point and good looking soviet union caviar the best around it could have been.
Dylan:It's gonna be really weird when putin was like we killed the united ceo.
Brad:No, no, no, we couldn't get zielinski. But we can't, they would have poisoned him you're right there.
Dylan:That's their mo.
Brad:That's their MO, that's their thing, we know what you're up to. Anyway, I have a bottle of Cristal. It's upstairs right now Stupid. I'm not going to drink it though. Yeah of course it's a Titanic bottle. I don't know what that means. I had two bottles. I had two or three bottles of Cristal in rome's wine cellar and I drank one, I don't remember when. Oh wait, when it flooded.
Brad:One didn't flood, what, so one was like up on a shelf somewhere yeah and it was fine one we found at the bottom on the floor and it was still in the foil covered in mud and it's still covered in mud. It's in my fridge, okay, and I decided when are we drinking?
Brad:I'm not gonna open it. What? And it's a vintage too, come on, and I don't know if you know this, but champagne isn't. What's a vintage for champagne? What does that mean? What? Uh, 85, no, no, no. Well, it'd be. Yeah, yes, but no, I don't, actually don't even know if 85 is a vintage for champagne um uh, a vintage, uh, small batch here, so champagne is. So it's such a small region and it's such a um yeah you dummies.
Brad:Champagne is where the grapes come from. Oh, so we're talking to the audience yeah, we can do that, right?
Dylan:Yeah, fucking idiots.
Brad:Good, no, that's a dumb one.
Dylan:Yeah.
Brad:That's the one you picked. So what normally happens is you mix multiple years of grapes together to get champagne, but a vintage is all same same year which is hard for champagne. For most wine you're gonna be like, oh, it's a 17, it's a 16, but you'll see dom perry on, you'll see other things without a vintage on a boat, if it has a year on it.
Brad:That's. That means. It was like a phenomenal year side quest, since you described vintage, because it's not what we think it means in terms of that. Okay, did you know that genuine leather is the lowest grade of leather? I believe that that's what genuine means, and then they just rebranded it to make it look fucking legit.
Brad:Yes, I like it so it was probably the cow so genuine leather is actually leather, but it is the lowest grade of leather it was probably you can get it was probably what the cow hides, that came from the meat locker.
Brad:I don't know. I don't know how they came up with it, but and I don't know what, non-genuine. Well, there's obviously other kinds. So now I feel bad, because what are we going to do about the wrapper? But he wasn't leather. Genuine has more than one meaning, it's not just leather. Why wouldn't he be genuine? Then Genuine, he went genuine, isn't that how you say it? I don't know, man. So I I feel like when we, uh, I feel like we should, I feel like we should set a, uh, a high bar, high bar foob, we should set a foo bar so that when we reach this level Of what we drink, the mud champagne. Okay, I don't know what that level is Really.
Dylan:We can think about it.
Brad:No, it's really Okay. So it's really weird and I'll give you. I'll give you.
Dylan:So, no, no no, no, camera's got to be better.
Brad:Your ship's got to be way high. Yeah, yeah, okay, we can talk about that, but I want to talk about the mud bottle.
Dylan:More than two, I want to talk about the mud bottle.
Brad:Okay, I am absolutely going to buy a replica of it. I don't think I'll ever be at a point in my life. No, why? Because I I it's not gonna mean anything to anybody else, I don't it's. I feel like it's tainted. I feel like if I open it, bad shit's gonna happen.
Dylan:It's like it's like it's like jumanji, you know what I mean.
Brad:I feel like it's already. This is a simulation. I I need to keep it and I like it because it means something to me. But at the end of the day, I feel like if I open it, it's gonna bring back the bad vibes. What if? What if, when you open it, we leave the simulation? That's a risk I'm willing to take really to leave it closed like it here we really like this place.
Brad:Lou, I don't know. You don't know where I've been. Lou there, there. There are days that I'm like leave it, and then there are days I'm like that's not that bad. Um, normally the days that aren't that bad, though, is when I'm like elbow deep in the airplane. I I'm actually really nervous for when the airplane's done.
Dylan:I'm not why because the podcast is gonna thrive.
Brad:I'm not yeah, okay, uh, I'm not gonna be in it. You're not legally allowed to be in it ever. It needs a couple hours of okay, yeah, ever, why uh, uh, ever it needs a couple hours of okay Ever, why my wife Okay? Yeah, that's fair. She already told you you're not going to be in Dylan's airplane. She doesn't understand how close to death.
Dylan:I am regularly Okay cool.
Brad:And so she feels like not being in the airplane is safe hmm, but she doesn't know about the four-foot hole yeah yeah, yeah, so that's my miss Ogie, that's her simulation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so did I just do safe things all the time I think yeah, so you want to leave her simulation or your simulation.
Brad:Um, I don't know. Do I want to leave? Do I want to leave? If it is, well, let's contextualize leave If you so, let's. Let's say it's like the matrix, and you want to leave, take the pill I saw where they went Wake up in the pod. I saw where they went. It fucking sucked. They're on a ship, yeah, fuck that In a sewer, yeah, and they're out running little fucking weird electronic jellyfish. And then what happens if you do leave?
Dylan:what are you gonna do yeah?
Brad:I started watching this. Uh, we started watching it. I gotta finish it. I'm not sure shan's totally into it. It's called dark matter on apple tv and essentially this guy. Uh, so it it circles around a quantum theory that they have actually proven. So the idea that Da Vinci code no, not.
Dylan:Da Vinci code.
Brad:If you're angels and demons, no.
Dylan:Yeah.
Brad:It says sir, no, I mean dark matter. If you're no, it's's, it's fucking stop it okay.
Brad:If you have a quantum particle in a confined space and you do something to observe the particle, it changes the properties of the particle, okay, okay. So you have a box, a box here, yes, and when you look inside the box, I like this, I want to do this, like this. Sorry, you see the particle right here, okay, in the upper left, yeah, okay, prior to you looking in the box, the particle is what they call in a superposition, which is it's everywhere in the side of the box and it's nowhere inside the box monolith eyes.
Dylan:Yes, okay, kind of monolith eyes da vinci was already Monolith size?
Brad:Yes, okay, kind of Monolith size. Da Vinci was already ahead of it. So the act of looking changes the property of the thing, right? So this show is based on this guy literally builds a physical box and then has somebody create a potion toxin to change your frontal lobe. A lobotomy?
Brad:no, it's like a temporary type thing okay, so it's an injection, it's a temporary thing, and you are not like, you're conscious, but you're not able to register, register anything, and so it puts your mind in this super position, and the super position looks like an endless hallway right, and then there's all these doors in this hallway. And why?
Dylan:is it always a?
Brad:hallway. Uh, because doors are an easy acronym yeah, but it's not acronym. It's not an acronym uh, metaphor a-k-y-j yeah, ass, no, I'm not gonna do it. Yeah, you're an idiot. Yeah, okay, and every door you open?
Brad:metaphor. That's all you're looking for. That's what I said. Analogy, no, I said metaphor. Yeah, use that analogy. Allegory. Allegory that's a story. Behind every door is. It's basically the multiverse, so it's every possible scenario of your life that could happen, including things that are really similar and things that are entirely chaotic. Right, which one do you want to be in?
Brad:What do you want to be in? What do you want to be? Do you want to pick one? So, do you want? You want, like, a little spoiler alert? I haven't finished the show so I can't give you like the whole spoiler.
Brad:Yes, so the guy that created the box like actually created the box wants to be back in his mom's belly? No, so he creates the box, right, and he, it's also the space time continuum where you know you. You go into this space and it feels like so when does Matthew McConaughey interstellar intertwine? I've never seen that movie yet. What do you mean? You've never seen it. I haven't seen it yet. Why? Because I don't know, because he's staring out the window like crying at himself doing something. Is that right? No, no, okay, so the guy that creates the box goes into this hallway, right, so he's in the hallway and he sees Just a second. You log right out. He sees in another door himself, but he has this wife and this kid that he doesn't have in his original life. So you know what he does. He figures out a way to go into this world and drug himself and put the drug self into his world, and then he inserts himself into the world that he wants to be in Right. Wait what? So? It's the same guy.
Brad:Yeah, so he puts more or less, but so, but it's not. It's not reality.
Dylan:There it is. It is a reality.
Brad:Why? Oh, because it's a multiverse. They're all real, so he can remove, but he has the ability to move through the multiverse, as he knows Right. So so he has the knowledge. Essentially, what he has has done is, when he stepped into this box, he left for like a year for like a year. So every everybody ends for other people. Everybody else back here was like you've been gone a year. We thought you're dead, like when we didn't know how to go get you. We don't know what's the?
Brad:german show or that time travel dark. I need to watch that. Yes, you do. That's different. Um, because it's time travel. This is multi-verse same thing. No, no, yeah, no, because when he goes from this box to this space, he's the same age okay but when you time travel, you create infinite possibilities because you can fuck with it, because you know things, so it can go spot it's not infinite, you don't play this game yeah, this game, if you two, no, no no two sides same time travel is you're going from this, this world in this time, to the same world at a different time.
Brad:This one, you're going from an entirely different world to another world. Okay that's it. The only difference here is you don't have you don't have input on what that multiverse looks like without you over there, but in time travel, your multiverse, you have input into because you have an infinite amount of ways you can change the future. Okay, so killing the fucking butterfly, brad bradbury, is it bradbury? But that's not time travel. Yes, it is. They went back to the dinosaurs, stepped on theberry, but that's not time travel.
Dylan:Yes, it is. They went back to the dinosaurs and stepped on the butterfly.
Brad:Okay, but that's not how dark works. Okay, but so there's different versions of that. I don't like it. You guys aren't.
Dylan:No, no, no, no, no no.
Brad:It's not conducive. Hey, by the way, guys get your Terribly Unoblivious Cl jack uh merch at the uh terribly on the business. That's not a thing it's kenny bunk for me it's not a thing, kenny bunkport, it's a fun time, I mean. So what he does is he leaves this box and he studies this guy like he studies his life for a year. Why? So that he knows. So that when he inserts himself into him being that guy, he knows like he can make more babies with the wife yes, without her.
Dylan:Is she?
Brad:hot.
Dylan:Yeah, it's, of course she's hot. Nobody inserts themselves in a. Why would?
Brad:you, I'm just. This has plot holes all over it. Who is the it's? Why do I always forget her name? I don't know man, oh shit, okay, nevermind, sorry, no. Oh dude, good, good, no, that says road. Yeah, exactly it's what it's supposed to idiot Dark metal. Uh, jennifer Connelly, really dark metal. Uh, jennifer connelly, really what that's his wife? Yeah, she's, I mean she's, she's, she's like I mean we're not gonna say no, are we? Uh, what no?
Dylan:shannon's not watching, watching.
Brad:She's a brunette, connelly's. How old is she? I don't know 53. We're saying yes, yes, yeah, I'm sorry. 1970? Yes, pick up sticks, I'm sorry, what she was? In a movie with Tom Cruise Fucking hard. No, why? Tom Cruise is great. He's my favorite person in the whole world. I don't know about this. Are we going to pause this or do you get to talk on your own For what? I don't know? I got to leave. You got to go? Yeah, okay, for like two seconds. Oh, I gotta leave. You gotta go, yeah, okay, for like two seconds. Oh, I don't know how to do this actually.
Dylan:Yeah, you do.
Brad:Oh yeah.
Dylan:I hit the pause record button.
Dylan:What's this thing?
Brad:And All right, because I'm going to have to match those video clips up later. Good job. I don't know, that's what I see everyone else do, so I'm assuming that's what I need to do Okay. This segment has been brought to you by Pirate Booty. Pirate Booty, it's small, it's crispy, it's aged white cheddar. Apparently, it is Okay. Okay, jennifer Conley, that's all. Who's your celebrity crush? Ooh, right now. Oh, right now. I don't really have any right now.
Dylan:Oh, Alice, do you?
Brad:like short or tall Alice Eve? Who's Alice Eve? Oh, um, alice, do you like short or tall? Alice eve? Who's alice eve? He's just like whoa, let me go to my spank bank dummy, you know. Craig ferguson, yes, okay, just watch this shit when he's super inappropriate with women I love it. Yeah, figure it out, he's really good. Oh, I know, alice Eve, what's she in? She's in some different shit, okay.
Dylan:Okay, avengers, she's not in.
Brad:Avengers Shut up. Okay, she's British, british girls, I think, right, uh-huh, oh, she was in Star Trek, one of the new Star Treks. Hmm, 42, 42, age appropriate. How old are you? 42 in nine tenths? Oh, that's right, the 19th, right? Nine and a half tenths december 19th, yeah, yeah, uh, next thursday, what, what? No, it's like 14 days, two thursdays.
Brad:Sorry, I'm in here next thursday so yeah, she's in some, but she's actually when you see her on the craig ferguson thing, you're like oh you're, you're not just pretty, you're like really smart. So so you're like that guy that dates ugly girls that are really smart new what I'm just shannon, god damn it. I'm just kidding shannon's a smoke. Show man, you gotta, you gotta go. Shannon's a babe. It's funny because we joke about she's blonde like alice, even blonde yeah shannon's a ginger that doesn't look like natural blonde, right?
Brad:no, look at her roots. Yeah, but I've never seen her with dark hair. Yeah, but that's you know ever. That's hollywood baby, all the time showbiz. I mean, she doesn't have dark hair there. Yeah, look at it's dark right in there. Yeah, I wasn't looking at that that's amazing blonde blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde, still blonde, yeah. Yeah Well everyone knows there is a blonde now.
Dylan:Blonde and British yeah.
Brad:Yeah, but people make changes. Look at me I'm losing all my hair. I'm making a change, proud of you.
Dylan:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Brad:Can't wait till I shave my head and you guys can see how fucking tall it is.
Brad:It's really tall. It reminds me of the thomas are having to do the cone heads. Voices five, nine, six, three, with afro fledge. I started lying about my height. Uh, like on my I don't know anything. I have to write my height down for in the in the opposite direction, is that good? I used to lie about my weight in the opposite direction. Why? Because I always wanted to be bigger. So I'm like yeah, I'm like 5'9", 190. And the police were always like this is not the right guy.
Dylan:Whose ID did you steal? We don't have the right guy.
Brad:This looks like your picture, but these stats don't match up.
Dylan:And I was like hey, fucking settle down guy.
Brad:I never had that problem.
Dylan:You're still writing me the ticket. I always had to go down.
Brad:No, so now the weight's the same and now I'm just like you know what, let's bump down the height. We're just going to bump the height down so that you think I'm really proportional Portly gangly. Mm-hmm, so that's not true. Oh man, everything is a lie. Now you're getting back to the Matrix.
Dylan:Yeah, yeah.
Brad:I don't fall on this shit. I don't know. It's like oh, you're going to take the pill and you're going to be super, fucking miserable on this ship. I don't get it. I don't know. I really like taking pills, so is it.
Brad:Xanax. Is it the blue ones? Oh, is it the red ones? I don't know. Just take the randos. I was just take the randos. I was talking with her the other day and I was like I'm getting really like a lot better about doing stuff. She's like well, what do you mean define stuff? Well, just like you know stuff, work, motivations, bullshit no, okay and she goes oh, what's, what's uh changed with that? I was like an add Adderall, sorry. Remember when that guy misdiagnosed you and said you don't need it.
Dylan:I You're not an abuser.
Brad:When you take it, you're just a normally functioning human being. Functioning, yeah, unless I have like 800 grams of caffeine. That's my favorite then, dude riding that high every once in a while it gets a little wild okay okay.
Brad:So I guess, yeah, I see, okay. So these are if you do 10 out of these 12 things, it's time to see a doctor about an agha diagnosis. Okay, let's hear it. I'm not gonna play you the whole thing. It because it ends on if you do number one, send it to me. I can cast it up here like 100. That is me. Um, never mind, I'll do it. Don't do it, man. And I was. I was like you know what? These are fucking a joke. This, everybody does these things. And then he got to number one. Wow, I can turn that shit down. We're going to New York next week.
Brad:No I got to figure out. Good luck, they're only killing execs.
Dylan:Oh, my boss won't pay me more than a fucking meter.
Brad:You never know he might make a mistake. Trust me, they never. Oh yeah, okay, that was me, okay, okay okay, I got to try to figure out how to. Oh, he posted this on 911. That's rude.
Dylan:System.
Brad:You don't have anything better to do on 9-11 than post a TikTok about ADHD. Oh, that's a little aggressive Suddenly I don't want to play this one so insensitive. Roadcaster. Pro 2, right, is that us?
Dylan:No.
Brad:Search for oh okay, here we go, sent, we're going to On. Oh, no, search for oh okay, here we go, sent, we're gonna on. Oh, you know what I did have to for today, what'd oh, now I gotta find it why?
Dylan:do? I always say the fact that I have tiktok.
Dylan:If you do 10 out of these 12 things, it's time to see a doctor for an adhd diagnosis. If you do the last one, it's 100% adhd you don't know, a slow talker to finish their sentence is excruciatingly painful for you because you already guessed the ending in the first few seconds.
Brad:You have a spare room for the once tried hobbies.
Dylan:You have an abandoned Etsy store. You can't unpack your suitcase until you need it for another trip Not yet. If someone turns on the big light without suitable notice, you erupt with rage. You're allergic to verbal instructions. You become in a crisis but get overwhelmed at the thought of sending an email. You have a cupboard full of reusable shopping bags. When you achieve something, you don't feel any sense of accomplishment, only a mild sense of relief that it's done. You hate the settings on your windscreen wipers, so you tap the lever up every time.
Dylan:You need a single swipe if you have a minor excitement tonight you'll be stuck in waiting mode all day, you're excitedly call but then ignore their attempts to call you back because the dopamine has left your body, Do you?
Brad:do that, I will go through my three people on my favorites list. I'll be riding this fucking high like driving and then I'm like call Dylan, fucking answer. Okay, I'm going to fucking'm gonna fucking call. Don't lie to me, I'm not fucking, no, but you're on the list, yeah okay, yeah, fuck you and and then nobody answers, and then, inevitably five minutes later somebody calls me and I'm like fucking decline, you're all dead to me, you're all fucking dead dead to me I was like why do I do that?
Brad:I was just excited to call him and then he called me back and I fucking declined it.
Brad:I've been there before too. Man, I don't know the windshield light for one. It's like too fast, too slow. It's like you hit it when you want it. Yeah, I don't know that one doesn't do anything for me. You so like you hit it when you want it. Yeah, I don't know that. One doesn't do anything for me. You don't drive enough. What are you talking about? I used to just be a traveling salesman. Fuck you. Okay, whatever vacuum cleaners I wish orc orc man it's fine. Um no, I had found this. Uh, what was the other one that he said? That was just epic. Um no, the waiting all day, oh, that's. That was like. If someone hits me up, like when I'm at work, and they're like, hey, can we meet in 45 minutes because I got some stuff to talk about.
Dylan:That's not bad you're like okay, no, that's not bad.
Brad:When they call you in the morning, they're hey, let's meet at five o'clock tonight. Fuck, that's nine hours, dude. I have to think about this, but it's.
Brad:I know, but it's still, I know it is. It is terrible. It is terrible. You're like I don't, I don't know what to do about any of this. Um, that's, it's one thing that I have mostly I don't want to say gotten over, but gotten better at, because my day consists of like dropping kids off at school and then picking them up, and so that's a short window, but because you always have that thing at the end like yeah, I do this, but like I got to pick the kids up at three o'clock, like that's only, it's only six hours, and if I do this and this and this, it's, it's, it's only three hours. Nope, now we're down to two hours. It was. I don't really have much to do. Oh shit, can't do this in an hour. It was 845 when I was leaving the shop tonight.
Brad:We're supposed to be podcasting at nine, because I went to the shop at five o'clock tonight to prime aircraft parts and somehow it's magically 8, 45 wait, what time did you go there? Five? How many parts? Um a lot. Oh okay, the skins look at a beautiful they look.
Brad:Did you Look at it? Look at it, don't just look at me. Look at them. They look green. Yeah, it's like pea soup. Yeah, it's exactly here. This is the $400 gallon bullshit that I have to put on this fucking airplane. I don't have to, by the way, it's optional, yeah, but I want this airplane to be in my grandchildren's possession because, that's how narcissistic I am.
Brad:It's going to be. If I get that paint job done, it's going to be fucking epic. They're like well, the grandpa, why is pirate booty on here Shut up? You don't know about it. That's so when I talk to vans, who's the aircraft manufacturer, um, or when you talk to their support, and it's like well, what do you want your aircraft to be like? Do you want your aircraft to live to? To live 50 to 70 years, because then don't prime it. Do you want your aircraft to live 100 years? Then prime it? I'm like okay, you want your aircraft to live 100 years, then prime it. I'm like okay, I want my aircraft to live 100 years.
Brad:Yeah there's not going to be any fuel left. The dinosaur juice is going to run out.
Dylan:Yeah, good thing.
Brad:Elon and I are already on. You're talking about the new your grandkids are going to be like. Look at my cool cabin. Yeah, actually I probably don't trust my grandkids. It has wings. That's that's the end game is that my grandchildren will fly the airplane to their death and I won't have seed I like that.
Dylan:Yeah, like that story long game. Yeah, it's a long game yeah, you know what?
Brad:I don't want to end my lineage right now, but but in like 60 years gone.
Dylan:Yeah, yeah, you can't yeah, you know, we know you. I know you guys didn't see that coming, but I'm playing sons of anarchy game right now.
Brad:All right, like you guys can't see behind the, but I'm playing Sons of Anarchy game right now, you guys can't see behind the curtain. What was Jax's dad's name? I'm playing what?
Dylan:was his name.
Brad:Teller. Teller, that was his last name. No, but what was his dad, jonathan, the one that, when he was writing the diaries, yeah, all up, yeah, dad. Was it all a game? What? Him writing in the diary about how he was against the sins. No, I just meant like that show was set up and kind of like peaky blinders, where it was such a way where you know the story that's happening but you're not privy to everything that's happening in the main character's brain yeah.
Brad:Yeah, so the pre-planning that they're doing Off Off, but I just love the what.
Dylan:Peaky Blinders.
Brad:Cillian Cillian, cillian Cillian. No, it's not C Cillian Cillian, maybe the best actor of our generation. His wife hates him when he goes into character. By the way, have you heard the interviews with her? Have you heard that he doesn't understand anything about technology? I believe that he's the modern-day Daniel Day-Lewis. What?
Dylan:do you think about he's a?
Brad:Daniel Day-Lewis what do you think about the meme of you? And he's like what's a meme? He's like this thing that he's a daniel. There's millions of people share on a regular basis he's a. He's a guy that like goes a set all in have you seen oppenheimer? Yeah, is it good? You want me to put it? I haven't seen it. No, you can't put it on?
Brad:I, I'm I haven't seen it I need to give you a jump drive because I have it so for that movie, because they were out basically in the desert filming that. Oh, this is my favorite. Is this about matt damon? And matt damon and that like. And they went to a mexican yeah, every night and he didn't go, yeah, because he's supposed to be getting skinnier and like more stressed out, yeah, so he just didn't go and they're like we had the best time on set we took this mexican restaurant over it was.
Dylan:It was like the closest restaurant, and so they're in a town of nothing yeah, they would.
Brad:So they would go there every single night and eat mexican and have a great time and talk and everything, and they're like we, just we we sent an invite every day and kelly never went. He just sat in his trailer and was like miserable, blow up the world. It's very true, but that's why that's the difference, man, although if you're matt, damon, you go. I got mine a long time ago, I don't need it. No, what was it?
Dylan:Oh, no, oh no, fix it. I did that to yourself. No.
Brad:I'm sorry we're just having a bad day. We are having a bad day. Where's the Matt Damon one? Well, the world needs to know. No, oh sorry, it stops. Stop touching. You know how easy this is for me, thank you do you? Have any fucking idea how easy.
Dylan:This is a fucking joke. It's a fucking joke and I'm sorry you can't do this. I really am, because I wouldn't have to fucking sit here and watch you fumble around and fuck it up.
Brad:Yeah, that's right. I could just be washing floors right now instead of doing these math problems for you in your fucking scarf. Um, how old were him and ben affleck when they did that? They were in their 20s, mid-20s. No, I don't even know if it was mid, early 20s, maybe when they wrote that screenplay. Yeah, that's well at a bug, hey caseleck. Yeah, how far he's come.
Brad:Dude he's always been that good, though I think Casey's always been that good. I was reading these Carl Jung quotes. That's dangerous, that's kind of crazy. You're going to start start quoting Peterson, aren't you? No, he's a big Carl Jung fan. Yeah, that's because of psychology.
Dylan:okay well, he's.
Brad:Carl Jung's fans like, okay, let's go, let's go it's like the bible let's go Jordan, come on oh even more Jordan. Yeah, you want to be. You want to be a saint or you want to be a sinner, with like which one you want to follow? All right, sinner what, what?
Brad:no tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell. I don't get it what I have no idea. I'm gonna cut this by way, because there's two different audio feeds. You ready to have your mind blown? Blow my mind. If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. Why is my mind blown? Because that's how I feel my entire life.
Dylan:Okay, cool.
Brad:Most people get mad at me for that same, but whatever.
Dylan:Okay.
Brad:What. I'm not lonely when I'm with you. Does that mean that you're smarter than me? Probably, yeah. Thinking is difficult. That's why most people judge good, you want a jaco?
Dylan:no, we're not that was a good one.
Brad:Yeah, I'm really sad to see that people are disenchanted and nihilistic, and depressed and anxious. Yeah, I'm really sad this episode of Terribly Unoblivious has been brought to you by Florida Conner.
Dylan:That's not true, that's not true, it's a fake.
Brad:It is a fake out, it's. Who's the one that? I was really in a mood yeah, you were, I think, when I saved this. Talk to me, judy. Um, so what about young? Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Yeah, we can understand what we hate people.
Brad:Yeah, but it isn't like the things that you hate in people, sometimes the things that you like most despise in yourself. This is like what we were talking about the other day, which is our, our love language, which is a terrible fucking thing to say between two dudes. But the thing you create the thing you created the most is the becomes your toxic trait. Yeah, so your toxic trait is the opposite. So I need this in my life, but anytime I get it, I'm going to reject it, or I'm going to create things that are going to reject. So, like, if your love language is uh, what's called a happy language like acts of.
Brad:Uh. What do they say? The fuck, is this like helping I? Say that acts of kindness, not really kindness, gifts, not gifts. Uh, doing things for people right, just acts your toxic trait is like never asking for help. Or if your love language is physical touch, your toxic trait would be avoidance. I keep looking over there. Do it, I don't care, I don't know. You can move it over here. I need to move it. You can't move it over there.
Brad:You know what's over here, I can get another model Fucking airplane parts, airplane parts. You know what's over there I've? Oh, it's over there, I got leather gloves. I don't know why. I think the studio has a dual purpose, but that's just me.
Brad:Those leather gloves are for that grinder and those sanders over there, it sure is Okay, because why you don't want to hit your delicate little fingers and just fucking cut them into pieces like I do? I know you've done this before. But when you put your knuckle into a belt sander, that's 80 grit and you're like, oh, that's my bone, I don't have any skin anymore. No, why would I want more skin? No, that's it on your knuckle is just skin, that's all you got. Oh, did I send you this? So there's your puke green yeah.
Brad:It's definitely. It's not army, army green, but it could definitely pass. I've there is a. There is a color code for it. I don't forget what it's called, but but this is a dumb dumb green. This is uh. What is this? So this is the rudder I got into this little like machismo bro tiktok somehow, and so what do you? Mean? What do you mean? Somehow it's, it's all of these, these kind of like well, like dark cryptic, like angels and skeletons. Yeah, but that's who you are.
Dylan:What you're not.
Brad:Yes, it is no, yes, you're a dark, moody Judy. Okay, and Shannon is a light.
Dylan:Okay, well, angel, I'm gonna bring some comedic relief into it.
Dylan:Okay, because one of them. I've already done it because you're gonna steal my thunder no, I'm gonna just add to it okay it's gonna be like a little car after the boom.
Brad:Okay, that Ca-ca. No, it comes before the boom. Okay, it's the ca-boom. So it's one of these things and it's.
Dylan:There are no points for second place.
Brad:No, but there are points for about the joke I'm about to tell. Okay, let's hear it. So you and your best buddy are in a post-apocalyptic world. Wouldn't know what that's like, mike Gonzalez? Would I Because, in a post-apocalyptic world, wouldn't know what that's like Mike Gonzalez, would I Because you dropped me from two-man tonight. Smart choice, yep, yeah, revamp your swing.
Dylan:Mm-hmm.
Brad:And you're protecting everyone you love or getting them out of that way. And it's just, you know, it's you two left and the world is closing in on you. Top gun no, no, okay. But like Custer's Last Stand, it was Iceman and Maverick yeah, but it wasn't like the world closing in on them. Six against two no, okay. It's the F-16s, okay, against what? A fucking MiG-28? Nobody's been ever this close before. Whatever, I'm trying to think of something.
Brad:That's what we're going to do Well, I already know what we're doing. One of our episodes is going to be a breakdown of Tagan Great, what do you mean? Great, we're going to put a breakdown of tag gun great, what do you mean? Great, we're gonna put it right there. Okay, well, fucking, an hour of it is going to be the decline of you know who? Fuck, there's so many people in there that has decline, think about it think about it, um curious, it um curious, not judgment. Think, braveheart, right there, that was brooklyn 999 like just forces from all sides, you're gonna end up freedom.
Brad:You're gonna end up losing right and do you? Have to, though you don't have to, but the the deal was you. You look at your buddy. You know this is it, but you're going to go down guns blazing. What do you say to him Are we talking about, when we know you're going to go lay a load in a girl?
Dylan:No no no, no, no, no, okay, no, sorry, it's a little similar, right? My answer applies to both.
Brad:I'm going in my answer applies to both, and by the time I'm done with this, we're never going to see each other again. No, not because I'm dead, but because I have a baby. So your line is what's your go-to line For having babies? No, maybe it's going gonna hit the fan and everything changes after this, most likely because you're dead, or you're gonna have a baby I think my line's probably the same as most people.
Brad:It's like see on the other side. It's the worst. Why do you know what mine is what? And this is. This happened before I conceived both of my boys too, For Harambe. Harambe was alive before you conceived both of your boys.
Dylan:Was he.
Brad:Yeah, I can't believe you just lied in front of national television. It's not that old, no, really.
Dylan:No, how old?
Brad:Sorry, no Okay it's not that old, no, really, no, how old? Sorry, no, okay, I guarantee you phoenix and corbin were both born. No, no, yep, harambe, death. Fuck, god, damn it, just barely. I'm really sad, shannon. We need to go for a third. Fuck God damn it, just barely. I'm really sad, shannon, we need to go for a third.
Dylan:Oh fuck, I need this in my life. I can't do that.
Brad:I can't believe you got so bravado on me and you're like no, I can't believe you'd ever do that. I didn't think about it in terms of like having kids, but definitely if we were ever in a firefight to end our lives for Harambe yeah, I don't know, I've always just I don't know I love bad decisions.
Dylan:That's a good line, not like.
Brad:I would go out with that. I love bad decisions. I don't. I have to qualify the statement. I don't like bad decisions that are like have no consequences on the line. I don't. I don't want to be bad for bad sake, but when you know, buddies, reputations, quotas, other things are on the line.
Dylan:I'm in.
Dylan:It's like, yeah, I'm in.
Brad:I think that's my last line. I'm in, I could be easily influenced. Oh well, I did see. I did see a really funny actually this is I don't do you play halo at all growing up? Yeah, so at the end growing up. I was in fucking college. I was growing up. You were trying to figure out why you were moody and angsty yeah, that's the best. Dylan was in high school, needler dylan was in high school needler dylan was in high school playing halo trying to pick up chicks have sex.
Brad:You weren't in fucking high school you brad, you were in brad, was that best? This reminds me. This is, this is, this is wedding crashers I was evading.
Brad:This is wedding crashers to a t. When vince vaughn walks in, he's like like well, what's this suicidal book? No, it's just, it's not for me, it's for a friend. I was just reading it. And then I'm reading Don't kill yourself books, and you're like you just said, it wasn't for you, it's not for me. That's not the point. It's not the point Speaking of no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Um, yeah, I was going somewhere, but the adhd took over. That's okay. Can I replay it? No, you can't. You know what I do like, though. I like going to uh, counseling and talking time management. When I recently got a tattoo on my arm as a reminder to not kill myself how come we don't talk about that?
Brad:okay. So I'm genuinely curious about this and and this is actually a really good topic Some delineating points or some differentiators, because there's levels to that point in your life, Um, I've never been at the um like going to do it phase and I'm not saying I've ever been, even been close but I've heard people discuss items or discuss this in a way that has made sense to me, which is I've never thought about suicide, but I've started to understand why people would do it. So we're like there's a spectrum obviously oh yeah.
Dylan:You know, there's the phases.
Brad:And that's so. Where do you fall, Like those, like we were talking about what's the most severe case you've ever been in, and we don't need to? Get into the nitty-gritty and the details, but how many times have you gone past the wall? I can understand why somebody would want to, because I don't think a lot of people have ever been to the.
Brad:I understand they want to right, I shouldn't say that I shouldn't qualify it with. I maybe a lot of people have and maybe they just don't talk about it, but that's a really because that's a scary place to be of. Like you should not understand why somebody wants to take their life because not hardship, other things. You, you need some. We've talked about this. You need some difficulty in your life. There is, there is a definite mindset to that, I think, and the I think it's getting better, and there's things like the gray matter collective and things like that, where there are actually groups now and, like you know, people with depression or suicidal tendencies, or people that have survived attempts or whatever.
Brad:Um are talking and being more public about that. But for a long time, uh, I remember early on as a painter, I would do insurance jobs, oh god, and so it was mostly, like you know, fire, water damage, things like that, and I had to do one that this kid had killed himself in his, in his basement bedroom, and it was like you know, it was their blood splatter.
Dylan:No, no, no it was.
Brad:It was because it's it's entirely cleaned and, you know, sanitized and all like somebody else has that fucking horrific job like the. Well, didn't they make a movie about that? The? It was like amy adams or something. Uh, sunshine cleaning or something, something like that.
Brad:Okay, uh, that was kind of like that spotless pine right. No, no, no, that was not it. Um, but having our already been in that place and then going down to this bedroom and it's like yep, yep, I feel all of this down here, I was like you put some fucking different lights in here or something like he could have used some shit down here, so what?
Dylan:was it?
Brad:you know, like a spencer's no, it was just, it was just like a basement bedroom with like a little thing you know and it's it's like there's no overhead lights and no. It just felt and and part of that is just your- yeah where you're walking into it knowing, knowing what happened. Yeah, um, but like dude, I fucking feel this room. But during that time was there, uh, no, who's the band the black parade? I can't remember the fucking band there was.
Brad:I mean, there was no, like there was nothing in the room Okay, never, mind, I didn't know if it was like a Spencer's, but yeah, people that shop at Spencer's don't fucking kill themselves. That's true.
Dylan:Let's be honest yeah, no they had Zanga before.
Brad:It was cool, but shout out to Zanga. During that time, I think, even locally, there was kind of a series of close to here and it was shocking to other people. They were like, oh, they came from this nice family, they had money and he was an athlete.
Brad:Yeah, they probably had more pressure than you did Blah, blah, blah, no wonder they did it. More pressure than you did blah, blah, blah, no wonder they did it. Um and the, the. But the response in general is always I don't. I just don't understand, like, why anyone would do this. I'm so it's like can I understand exactly why? He just had the metal? It hasn't. It doesn't have anything to do with their circumstance, like their living circumstance. It's how they were feeling and perceiving what was going on and actually, um, what else we're talking about? But it's the. The newest malcolm gladwell book it was the. His first one was tipping point.
Brad:This is the revenge of the tipping point revenge of the tipping point and he does a series on it's like got some red flames in the next to them yeah, yeah, he does a series on flames just got some red it might be flames. Yeah, um, oh yeah, it's the match. That's like inverted right this this town and he doesn't name it, but if you, I think, go through and do the matchup, it'd be pretty easy to find, and so they have like the best school system and all the houses are here and anytime you enter and all the suicides right there.
Brad:That's what happened was like all of a sudden, this suicide rate started just like going through the roof and it was like one. And so the tipping point was like basically one kid did it, yeah. And then the rate throughout the years just was like yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, and it was the immense amount of pressure to perform. So it was like this is the best school system and you can get the best grades and you can go to the best colleges, and everything seemed like it was kind of perfect. So they built an Instapot. But in these kids' mind it was like I don't fucking get this right. I'm out of here, I'm done because everybody else is perfect. Everybody else is doing this thing that I'm supposed to be fucking doing and I'm not doing it and that was it.
Brad:So these kids that are funny or athletic or they're smart, they're doing these things trying to fit this mold and in the back of the mind they're just like this. It's not right I'm out. That's not right. And so yeah, when it's like everybody's saying I don't understand how anyone could do that, uh good, no, we're not. Hot takes no, we're not.
Dylan:You should not really I'm sorry, I shouldn't just start pushing buttons I can't wait till the lawsuits fall.
Brad:Oh, they said you should practice fucking lawsuits, but uh, also, if you learn a little bit about it. Yeah, you don't want to be like a male practicing suicide.
Dylan:No.
Brad:Yeah, their success rate is really high oh.
Dylan:What is the male versus?
Brad:I don't even know what the male versus female rate is.
Dylan:It's just really high Astronomical.
Brad:Because, well, males Firearm versus female, right, it's just really high astronomical. Yeah, uh, because typical, well, males firearm and females is like pretty much not everything else.
Dylan:But a lot of other things around the neck.
Brad:No, no, no I feel like that's like an old gentleman's thing or something maybe but you know, like pills or the old you know Whole bottle ibuprofen, yeah.
Dylan:I don't feel any pain.
Brad:How do you feel Like? Do you think Hemingway actually offed himself? Do you think that was an accidental discharge? Do you think that, like what do you think I mean way actually offed himself?
Brad:do you think that was an? He did discharge. Do you think that? Like what? Do you think? Um, I do you know anything about it? You don't get to be that good of a writer without some major problems. 100? I don't think, probably, yeah, so also, they said that he really lost his shit when Cuba got exiled, essentially when the embargo on Cuba, because he had a fishing boat down there that he used to just love fishing off of.
Brad:You see one of my fucking paintings and you tear my whole life apart. Yeah, I'm sorry. We're supposed to be doing, ferris.
Dylan:Bueller Selfie.
Brad:Selfie Well that's Goodwill hunting. Yeah, I know that park scene is unbelievable, though when he is.
Dylan:No, it really is. You're a move kid.
Brad:Not just that, but what you, what you think about the world versus what someone else has experienced. Um, I bet you'll quote me a sonnet, maybe even shakespeare, yeah, but I say war all once more into the breach, dear friend, but you've never held your friend when he's dying, it's true, yeah.
Dylan:It's true.
Brad:He's absolutely right.
Dylan:There's intelligence. There's smarts.
Brad:There's wisdom, it's its own thing, and that uh so, even though that feeling comes, like the, the idea of, uh, small things mattering, you know, like something that just kind of breaks you out of that cycle, and it can be, anything.
Brad:What cycle are we talking about right now? Sorry, like, like a feeling of suicide. Okay, the gray matter collective just posted something like this the other day that was just an uncommon interaction with somebody at you know, whatever could just be like. That person was in a really dark place and then you just they bought something from you at a store and you were really kind to them and it it was like enough to to break that for at least that that period of time, you know, and it's like sometimes you just need enough of those times before you kind of figure shit out. Uh, so that was the to find a reason part. So, oh sorry, your mountains, oh yeah because did you draw that?
Brad:it's a nice little drawing I did and I actually you're still not paying what I'm playing, but he would have fucking tattooed that instead of what he did.
Dylan:But are you talking about the music?
Brad:it's now, you're right. What's on your arm? Shit, yeah, he's like oh, I can do, I can just do this drawing. I was like, yeah, I mean, I expect you to do better than that. Yeah, it didn't work out that way. But but this all comes from albert camu. I always said came us.
Dylan:Oh, I see, this is very fucked up.
Brad:That's fine. What that's me?
Dylan:Yeah, you fucked up there.
Brad:Yeah, I did better this time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't do that on your skin. Try and try again. Um, he always said there was there was but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide, so his whole philosophical essence was like if you can't decide whether or not you should be alive, everything else is not worth discussing.
Brad:Is this life worth living or not? That's the main problem. If it is great, let's move on to the other shit. If it's not, let's move on to the other shit. If it's not conversation over Right. And for him the suicide was the rejection of freedom. So he thought that I mean, there's, there's some philosophers that talk about, like the, the absurdity of life, or I don't know if it's Nietzsche that said, like the, the thrownness. Like you're thrown into the world, you have no choice over who your parents are where you live you know how you're going to be raised.
Brad:There's just a sense of here you are and then at some point you get to start. You know making decisions and moving with that You're in the trillion other people.
Dylan:So why is that your?
Brad:problem, um, or like religion and uh, you know some people, if I talk to somebody about this, they're like, well, what you know, like what changed your mind, like the loss of religion saved my life, because at some point I started thinking that this was it, this is it, this is all I got. So, is it? Am I sure? Am I sure that I don't want this Because there isn't anything else? So am I sure that I don't want this? Be positive, be 100%. There's nothing on the other side, or there's this. You're gonna go to nothing eventually. You want to do it right now. Velvet curtains or not, carpet on the ceiling, shit or not now I'm starting to see it I know, now I'm starting
Brad:to see, it's gotta be thick. It's gotta be thick astro turf, and that was it. It was just like. What are you gonna choose? Because if you believe the other way, like you're like, that's it. It ends this and then thus begins this whole new life. I'm thinking about it a different way now. I'm going to try to put thoughts to words that probably don't make sense. I think it's words to thoughts, but thoughts to words. I'm going to try to put thoughts to words that probably don't make sense, I think it's words to thoughts, but thoughts to words.
Brad:I'm really sad. I'm always sad. I'm always angry, I'm always angry. That's the joke, it's the Hulk. It's good, it's a good Bruce Banner joke. I like it.
Dylan:Yeah.
Brad:Okay, that's my secret, that's my secret, and then we'll move on. You don't? You don't have it.
Dylan:No, I have it but that's it, that's it great I'm never gonna hear it.
Brad:No, it's kind of. It's kind of like um, it's almost the, it's almost the antithesis of um. Why do people believe in god? Well, I, I I'd say that you should believe in god because, whether he does or doesn't exist, if you fucking when you die and it does exist, and if you don't believe in him, you go to hell.
Dylan:You should your odds say you should probably just believe in him because when you die.
Brad:So.
Dylan:But I'm saying but the odds aren't that great. But the odds aren't that great because there's like 300 of them.
Brad:Well, the elephant one's my favorite. That's secret, I don't remember. It's Hindu, okay. But when you, when you exit the world early, you're normally doing it on somebody else's behalf, because you have somebody else, so you're entrenched in somebody else's own world so much. And whether that's stigma, that's you need to uphold the standard, or somebody left you, or I'm not saying that's all of it, but I feel like that's a majority of it and it's like, well, I could feel like that's a majority of it and it's like, well, I could just maybe just stick around and figure it out. Not figured, I don't even have to figure it out, I can just stick around and see what the sitcom does next. And why am I so sad about these things right now? Because I could just do nothing and just sit here and see what happens. Yeah, but I think the, I think the final straw usually is there. There is this level of pain oh right, so there.
Brad:So there's this level of pain, but that level of pain comes from other people or your perception of what perception what it is or what it is, and I'm not saying other people are directly imposing it on you. It's your, it's your filter system saying that this is not feeling these things. But if you take everyone else out of your world, out of the equation, I have a hard time believing. Like if you could truly say nobody else's thoughts matter, just mine it. It definitely decreases the number.
Brad:And there are 100% people that are so micro in themselves not in a weird way, just that's how their brain works that there's like no, I'm in my own little tragedy. But I think if you can tell people, fuck them all, it's your sitcom, nobody else's sitcom, nobody thing else matters. Just live the sitcom out and don't think about anybody else. No, because it's. It's. Ultimately it is your sitcom, though, like if you think at the end of the day it's like a sick, like your life is a sitcom, but I think, ultimately, it's either the immense amount of pain or the the false feeling of other people's lives will be better without oh god me in it.
Brad:That's the worst one man and what's that, no, no, no. I'm not saying that, like people don't have a right to feel that, because I've felt that before. Like well, maybe just easy, but that is a misconception of other people's thoughts about you.
Dylan:Yes, like I haven't met these standards and it's so bad I don't think it's a misconception.
Brad:I think it's a misinterpretation, because I don't know if there's a real difference that's the point probably sucks enough to just not be healthy enough to give the yeah, but not even that I mean it can shit, the birchwood fire, it can.
Brad:it can be a complete, like essentially made up scenario where these people are putting, uh, these parameters on themselves, you know, yeah and basically superimposing them from like, my parents expect me to do this and if I don't do this, it's just, it's just going to be the end of everything. That's your brain telling you that that's not necessarily your parents telling you that. Oh shit, podcast, are we on here?
Dylan:Top charts Go to top charts it's definitely top charts.
Brad:Uh, it's definitely not t we're on the t's terror oh, we're not even character out church emergency podcast terribly and terrifyingly. Nope, oh, you had to put the un-N in. I know, man, that's what happens when you make one of these every six months.
Dylan:That's us.
Brad:Bathroom Antics, diy Flamethrowers and the quest for what, for balance, makes sense. It looks way better over there. Have you ever wondered if a teenager's bathroom antics could lead to a slippery disaster? I love Chad GPT. God You're welcome.
Dylan:I'm really sad to.
Brad:Yeah, hot takes, hot takes will come next. Yeah, you have another one of those dos keys. No, I'm done. No for me. I got to pee, go, pee. No. All right, are we wrapping this up then? I don't feel like we got to a conclusion, sorry, yeah, this was definitely a rambling episode. I have no idea how I'm going to edit this. I've never done a video podcast in my life and YouTube fucking sucks, by the way.
Dylan:First time for everything.
Brad:There are a lot of fucking bitches out there that are like oh, I'm a youtube expert. And then you're like oh, we just tell you about really cool stuff that we get sponsored by, but we don't actually tell you how to do it. It's the worst. Yeah, that's why I'm building an airplane.
Brad:So bad fucking easy is it? Building an airplane's easier than fucking youtubing. You got to work a lot. Yeah, you do. Yeah, when kids are like, when kids are like I'm going to be a professional YouTuber, it's like you know, a fucking hours that takes, yeah.
Dylan:No, you don't have the grit for it. No, you don't.
Brad:I'm telling you right now you don't push, you can't do your fucking homework.
Dylan:You go, do an eight to five.
Brad:You can't is a lot of fucking work. It is a lot of work. I've met and most of the people that do it that are marginally good at it, are just super into what they're doing and just want to like.
Dylan:Hey, I kind of like do like, like this.
Brad:Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not saying we're marginally good at it I'm just saying marginally terrible we're into it. That's why we're doing it.
Brad:Yeah, we're not here for money, no we have, I could be building an airplane that'd be worth way more than this right now. I could be doing a lot of other things, like what brad's doing? Christmas trees. I'm not sleeping. Are you gonna do your etsy tree? You know, okay, hot takes. I'm fucking over fitted sheets. Which one, the fitted sheet? Which one's that one, the one that goes on the mattress, the bottom one, yeah.
Brad:Fuck those sheets. Why Hot takes. They don't stay in place. Hot takes, so you just sleep on the mattress. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have two of the open sheets. Loose sheets, yes, because you know what the loose sheets don't do Move. You know why hot takes. No elastic, okay I. You know what rubber bands do when you stretch them out. It's not to go back. I don't believe it. That's what the fitted sheet does. Okay, the fitted sheet's like fuck this stretched, okay out bullshit. I want to go to the middle. My girlfriend would freak the fuck out if you said that to her. What Brittany would be like? No out, she needs fitted sheets in her life. Oh, fitted sheets. But now the new, like Gen Zers, they don't even do top sheets. No, top sheets, dude. I used to sleep on a mattress and a comforter.
Dylan:By the way, it makes sense, comforter had 12.
Brad:Comforter had no nothing. Mattress empty, Just slept on both of them.
Dylan:I slept on a futon.
Brad:It was awesome With a giant knife.
Dylan:I missed that For two years.
Brad:I missed that. That's all Like a boonie, like, oh, we've gone full circle. Big knife, crocodile Dundee. He had guns, maybe, maybe he knew how to use them, but he relied on the knife. Hot takes. Old ways are the best Skyfall. God named my house. I'll do it. We really went full circle.
Dylan:That was awesome.
Dylan:I got a down year for that one. Actually, all right, we're going to end it on that.
Dylan:I'll do it. See you guys later. You're still here. It's over. Go home, go.
