Pod in Pod

For the first time in history the podcast has been recorded inside of a podcast. Plus the mailbag of course

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Parenting responsibility.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

I'm available. You're available? I'm available. Well, let's podcast then. All right, let's go. What are we waiting for? We're waiting for a mic stamp. Oh, maybe not.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

There you go. That's a good mic stamp. That'll work. I'm Gator. I'm Gator. You're Gator. I'm Sliceberg. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:20

So I the my my phone is gonna ring here soon, and I've got to go do my other podcast. You double booked.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

You got so many podcasts, you don't even can't even schedule them.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

Yeah. The other one I'm still yet to know whether that's gonna how it's gonna work or if it's gonna take, because you know, I think it's uh I don't know who our audience is. I don't know that we really have an audience. I don't know that it matters.

SPEAKER_02 0:45

I've listened to I'm your audience. I'll listen to at least a couple episodes.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

A couple. We do like one every day. We've got like five hundred. Right.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Well, I'm not about that, but I've l I would say I probably have listened to three or four of them.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

Okay. Well, we uh we'll see how it goes. You know, um I wonder there I wonder if we could do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Anyway, I might you might be a bit guest on the other one since they're about to call in. That's c I mean, I know we always make this joke, but that is really cutting edge to do a podcast on the podcast. Like is there even a word for that?

SPEAKER_04 1:18

Well, that would be like I wish we could do that. I wish we could actually do that podcast while we were doing this podcast. But when my phone rings, my phone rings and then I'm not gonna be able to record enough.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

We don't have the technology. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

Right. We'd have to be recording this podcast on your phone. Right. Which we've never done. That would be truly cutting edge because we've never done that.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

But you probably have software or recording. Yeah, but do you I don't even know how you do it. Do you do it on you don't do it on the BuzzSprout app, you do it on like your voice memo app, right? Yeah. It's called voice recorder or whatever. Aaron Ross Powell, Jr. Yeah, of course an iPhone is equipped with that, of course. It's not an iPhone. No, I'm saying my iPhone is Oh, you have an iPhone.

SPEAKER_04 1:55

Trevor Burrus, Right. You have a voice recorder, too. I must, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I must.

SPEAKER_04 1:58

Yeah. Man, every yeah, okay. So everybody's got iPhones these days.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

That's cool. Yeah, you're the iPhone's not. You're kind of like almost aggressively anti-PR. I mean really anti-P. I really am. Not almost. You are aggressively anti-Apple products. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:14

I mean, I I like Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

What about what about the iPod though? I know it's kind of laughable to talk about the iPod, but I will say, in all seriousness, when I got my first iPod in like 2004, it kind of changed my life a little bit. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

The iPod was the best product ever, and I'm kind of bummed that they don't I was really enjoying this. Like they had one that had I had a 256 gigabyte iPod. Right. I got the i music.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

Exactly. I could have so much music. Eventually that was my last I probably had three iPods over the lifespan of the iPod. I did too, probably. And uh and I got I I'm pretty sure that was the one that I got last was like the big one, the one with all the storage. So much storage. Oh. Yeah, but now it's funny. Because you say iPod is like people are like, what is that? But it was but for you know a decade there at least, it was like you know I mean I could not imagine my life without it. Well the thing is, I owned my music. Yeah. I owned my music. You were buying it on like Google Play or something?

SPEAKER_04 3:14

Well, you buy like you you you you you you uh first of all I had CDs and I put them into and then I put those onto the i think and then and then you could buy and you buy music from iTunes and you and it would go on your like you're buying the music on iTunes and it's living on there. So when you have that I that iPod, you can walk around with this music that you own, right? And play it when you own. Right. Well, like now I'm on a and then so I could say I'm not I don't have Spotify, I don't want any of that stuff, I've just got this. Right. I own a physical copy of it, the digital copy. Kind of like owners' CDs. Yeah. So I and then and then you but now you gotta have it's all about the the um memberships, you know.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Yeah, streaming, recurring payments.

SPEAKER_04 3:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

I pay we get the family one. I think it's like $24 a month, something like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:59

Forever, for the rest of your life.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

Yeah, until they you know jack the price up, but yeah. Hey Kat.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

Hey. Um so uh what we're talking about. So it's it's gonna be a little bit um disjointed.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Disjointed. Right.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

Yeah, you're fine.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Quick. I haven't that's my I that's why I really shine is in vocabulary.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

It's gonna be a little disjointed because we're gonna stop for the other podcast, and then I'm gonna we I've got a friend coming, we might stop for that, and then we might we might stop and start a few times today. It's just the it's our life. It's no rules. And there's no rules. No rules, just right. It's just right. Um I was thinking about this woman who wrote in the other day an email, and she was mad because she didn't get enough onions on her pizza. But it was more than that.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Which is this is and this is in an email. She took the time to sit down, which is what I really appreciated, honestly. Because she's giving you some honest feedback.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

Honest feedback. If she didn't get enough onions, I feel triple. And she's like, why am I paying $2 for onions when a whole onion costs two dollars? Well, uh okay, then this man clearly does not have an MBA. Then she says, you know, like she's kind of she's kind of bringing up the fact that like onions are cheap, right? And that topping should be cheaper. We all know that onions are cheap. We all know this. And so I wrote back, and I and I and I I was I was telling her how much I appreciate her email because first of all, it always helps me to know if somebody's not getting enough toppings. You know, I don't know the situation. You want to know? Like, does she have five toppings on there and onions is one of them? Well, we're not gonna put a ton of onions. Right. But in any event, she didn't have, you know, it I like to know kind of what the complaints are. Yeah. And then and then we we we she I explained to her that there in mo a lot of places they have uh tiered pricing.

SPEAKER_02 6:00

I've always noted, I'm glad we're talking about this because this is something I've always noticed and really loved about the pricing structure as naturals. That's naturals of the toppings. Yeah, you don't it it's it's like it's socialist. All all toppings are equal. You're paying as much is for steak as you are for onions.

SPEAKER_04 6:17

Right. And so I pointed out the fact that I never really liked the tiered pricing like we have, and I've seen it sometimes two tiers, sometimes three tiers. Oh, you see it everywhere. Toppings, premium toppings, super premium toppings, you know? Right. And I said, I don't like that because I just want to simplify it. I just find one price and it covers everything way better that way. And then I said that, you know, you you you you know, some things cost more, some things cost less. A salad doesn't make as much profit as a as a soda. Right. That's what I mean. She's not, she's only thinking about the onion, not about the whole picture. Right. So I'm trying to back it out and tell her the whole picture. And then I said, hopefully, when you all this happens, the whole thing wobbles true. That's what I wrote. I like that. The whole thing wobbles true. You know, you're getting more money on this, less money on this, but in the end, it's true. But it's what it's still wobbling a little bit, right? But slightly. But it's wobbling true, like, right? It's a good analogy. And because in the restaurant business, I feel like that's what's happening all the time. Sure, yeah. It's not like, sure. But um, but when I wrote it, I'm like, is she gonna think that's AI? And I'm like, no, because I was like, no, I was definitely writing um a very personalized thing. And uh I don't, I don't, I like to, I like to write. I don't I wouldn't want to use AI to respond to people. But anyway, no, you don't want to do that. So then she wrote back and she said, Yeah, uh actually just with a quick search, I noticed that like she named four or five, four other places, like Blue Highway, Paisanos, whatever, like places that she not not chains, comparable local local establishments. And she said they all have tiered pricing. Right. And then I yeah, but I don't told her like I don't want, and then I but then she's like, they all have tier pricing, and and and and I think what it is in her case is that it she's a vegetarian, right? So she's getting vet, like she's helped, she's she's one of the people that's paying. She's subsidizing, she's subsidizing the steak all the dudes who come in and want steak on the page. Or pepperoni or each sausage or whatever. Right. And you know, I usually think about it like, and I and I wrote her back, I said, exactly. I don't want to be like those guys, I want to do something different. That's the whole point. That's the whole point. It's not the point, but it's part of the point. Right. And um, so most people just appreciate they can order whatever they want and they're not having to do this tiered pricing.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Like I said, it's something that I've always loved and appreciated about thank you. The pricing structure.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

I thought it was so good, like that everything was the same price. Like nobody does that. That's great. I know. Because why not? You could I could probably get away with saying two dollars for the lower priced items and then go three dollars for the next one.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

She's talking about Blue Highway. Guaranteed it's two dollars for an onion. Yeah, probably more. Yeah, I should do a little a little quick check on that. Yeah, I mean, I love Blue Highway, but I would if I had to bet, I would bet that you want to it's two dollars a topping. It just is. I bet it is. And that there's a premium topping where you can get like onions are two dollars, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 9:18

Yeah, yeah, I need to find that out. That's interesting. But anyway, I wrote her back, and um she and then I you know, by the end she's loves the plays, and she's gonna, you know, of course it's like I gave her a free pizza. I gave her a free pizza. You know, there you go. And then she's just singing our praises by the end, which you know, I but when she first wrote, she was a little bit teed off. Like she's like, I pay, I didn't get enough onions, I paid two dollars for onions. Right. Can you turn that off for us? We'll turn it back on. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah, um or you could go with like a pricing noise uh structure that's completely nonsensical and doesn't make sense. Like, for example, you could say, like, black olives, that's a dollar fifty, green olives, dollar seventy five or whatever. Yeah, like some different. Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_04 10:06

I was like, why would I go?

unknown 10:09

Right.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

So it's so it's you got the tiered pricing for toppings, you got the egalitarian system, which we use, you use satchels for what? For the toppings. Everything's the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then and then, or you could go a different route, like random, nonsensive. Right?

SPEAKER_04 10:24

Yeah, that would really make people mad. I just don't think people really want to sit there and try to look at different tiers and be like, oh, I'm this one off of this one, this one off of this one, this one off of this one.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Yeah, and I love it, like uh, you know, while we're on the topic, the fact that you can build whatever slice you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's just like yeah, you don't walk in there and sit under a heat lamp. Right, exactly. I know that's like the New York way to do it. They got all the pizza there, and you can see but like I I just love the idea of just like, you know, you got the slice pies there, you just create literally any slice you want, whatever toppings you want.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Well, and I it I explained to her, I'm like, I understand what you're saying about the veggie, you know, the veggies being sure, if you're cheaper, but I said I've been doing this 23 years. I'm not gonna complicate my system.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

And it's been I assume it's been like that for 23 years.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

Yeah, it's always been like that. I've always had the same feeling. Like, I don't like different tiered pricing. Uh-huh. And I want you to be able to put whatever you want on a slice. Those are like those were That's the foundation.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

That's the yeah. The foundation, the very foundation of Satchel's Pizza.

SPEAKER_04 11:28

We are sitting in the greenhouse at Satchels Pizza, Gainesville, Florida. And uh 32609. Sliceberg here just got off of work. He said, Oh, I think I'll be done around 10:30. He was done at, I think 10:30 on the dot. I think I clocked out at 10:36. Okay. And um we we we're just hanging out in the back. Uh, and and that's was Kat, who's setting up the greenhouse with napkins and cheese and peppers. She comes out here every day. She comes back here, she sets all the tables up.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

Turns on the fans, and then I'd asked her to turn the fan off.

SPEAKER_04 12:02

She turns on the fans, turns off the fan. Because it was it was a little loud. The word fan by us felt good, but it was a little loud. Yeah. But that's what that was. Yeah. Um, so I keep thinking I'm about to get a call here. Well, you got your uh podcast. It it's uh you guys are you and I'm talking to your buddy.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Okay, so um maybe you should plug the other podcast. I don't think you've talked about it that much on this podcast, have you? Maybe you haven't, I just don't remember, but it's a good opportunity to like, you know, what's that cross uh pollinate?

SPEAKER_04 12:33

Cross-pollinate. Uh yeah, we've mentioned it on here before. Yeah, and uh I think most people get enough of me in an hour and a half. That's eight minutes a day.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

It's only eight minutes, so yeah, it's like you got eight minutes.

SPEAKER_04 12:46

Yeah, but I think that most of the people come here for you anyway. Oh, they must. And so when they go to the other one and it's me, the the bad side of the equation, and some other random dude. What's the point? Um, so I was gonna say we should check the mail, but he's about to call. Let's see, what can we do? How could we do this? I don't think we can there's any way to do it unless I had him call you. Um maybe I could do that.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Right. So, in other words, you guys you could be talking to him on my phone and and he would still be recording. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, great, yeah. I wonder. Oh, we're really we're pushing boundaries. We know what we're doing. We really know what we're doing. We do we do?

SPEAKER_04 13:33

Yeah, we do. Alright, let's just do the other podcast in this podcast. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

I mean we are really pushing boundaries. I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

Alright, let me I get right now he's saying, I say call Brian, he's like, who?

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Slayer. Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Okay. Uh Steve Bebe. Next.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

I'll uh I'm gonna take my phone off to not disturb so I don't so he doesn't think I'm like screening.

SPEAKER_04 14:05

And you got it on um you got it on uh speaker. Well it will be, yeah, when it calls. Okay. Here we go. That's coming up. Coming up next is another podcast inside of podcasts. Nobody's ever done that literally ever.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

I don't think anybody's ever thought of that. We should uh we should what's that called? Like a patent, we should patent it before everybody starts doing it. And we can say we were the first ones.

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Yeah, everybody's gonna want to do podcast. It'll be called like pot P and a P or P and P. P and a P and an S and an S 88. Well, it's triple S because Slicberg's joining that Satchel Sliceberg and Steve. Right. Um so I want to find out about Disney. What do you call it? Yeah, it's not Disney, but it's Universal. But is it part of Disney? No, it's part of Universal. It's called Epic. Disney only has the Disney property. Universal has a like all these other people are different entities coming in to build.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Right. Disney, of course, was the original, of course, right? Yeah. But then like um, probably in like the late 80s, Universal built like their theme park. Um, and then they've since built two more theme parks. Universal. They built two more theme parks. How do they get the land? I mean, you see. You know, it was until Disney. I mean, they're in Orlando though, right? Yeah. But it's on the outskirts, I guess. No, it's I I think actually Universal, like how many acres? I think. Yeah. Um But yeah, well, it's interesting you say that because this park, the one we went to, Epic Universe, is not that big. It's actually pretty like manageable. Like it's um, which is one thing that I really liked about it. It's like uh you could basically, I mean, you'd have to hustle a little bit, but you could probably do every ride in a day. You know, what were the lines like? They weren't that bad. Yeah, I think it was maybe because there's just so many parks now. So many parks. It was a holiday weekend, which you would think would make it more crowded, but maybe because it was like, you know, America's 250th, maybe people were doing barbecues with their family. I don't know. And then um the other thing that I I think they do is they limit it because when you buy a ticket to the steam park, you could only use the ticket on a specific day. So I think in through that system, they like control how many people are there on a day. And I think because it wasn't that crowd, I mean, like it was uh surprisingly not that crowded. Surprisingly not that crowded, but it was it was pretty amazing, I gotta say. Um we're waiting anxiously for Steve's phone call.

SPEAKER_04 16:36

Yes, and he's Steve's a little slow. He's like, uh, well, it's not totally his fault. I had told him yesterday we were gonna call, he was gonna call, and we were gonna try to call my friend Steve, who's coming here today. Different C. It was too many, too many C's. I know three C's. I know. Get another Steve that my friend's coming and get him on the phone, and we were all gonna talk like a conference call.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Three Steves. There we go. I'm getting a call from an unknown number in Los Angeles, California. All right, it's gotta be, it's gotta be him. All right, got it.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

Hello?

SPEAKER_01 17:11

This call will be recorded.

SPEAKER_04 17:14

Hello, dude. Dude, uh, I'm making a podcast inside of a podcast.

SPEAKER_06 17:22

Bro.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

I gotta go turn off a fan. This is when when you called, I heard a recording that said this call will be recorded.

unknown 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

But but wait, you're you're recording it? Oh, oh, okay. Okay, I understand what's going on. So you're recording it, you're in charge of uploading it, and then um Gator here is recording for the other podcast. There's so much going on. I'm just now recording. Yes, I got it now. It took yeah, it took me a minute, but uh I finally wrapped my head around it.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

All right, but this is how things start getting confusing because nobody knows in SS88, nobody knows who Gator is.

SPEAKER_02 18:01

Oh, that's right. Um I'm talking I'm like referencing like a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

We're like sending to another dimension. Right. So this is SS88 in like 4D or some other dimension. Right. I meant that together.

SPEAKER_04 18:17

Well, the the other thing is, is like I have this other name, Steve, that I had before Statchel. So not only do I have Statchel and Steve and Gator, I had then I have those three names. And then uh and I told I had told Steve, I had said, hey man, my buddy Steve is in town, so call up and then we'll call Steve. But Steve, just when he thought it couldn't get any more confusing, there's another Steve. There's another Steve. And so, but Steve couldn't do it today. So then it was we're trying to get our podcast um number one podcast for people, for all those listeners on the SS88 feed. Uh, we're trying to get our podcast done a little early today. So we're doing the podcast, and then we thought, wow, what if we did a podcast inside of a podcast?

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Killing the proverbial bird with the proverbial, no, wait, the proverbial stone that kills two birds is what I meant to say. You're killing two birds with one stone.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Yeah, I am. All right. Anyway, Steve, what's up?

SPEAKER_01 19:18

I'm just so confused. I'm very confused. Because here's the other thing. Number one podcaster people doesn't know me. I'm not Steve. There's no Steve from number one podcaster people.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

No, no, no, because you're Donkey. They know my nickname is what I mean. Yeah, but that was a uh placeholder name because now we're giving you a new name.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Steve, your actual name.

SPEAKER_04 19:49

Laserbeam.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Laserbeam?

SPEAKER_04 19:52

Yeah, that was the new name we came up with because you like that better than Donkey.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Oh, donkey. I can do both both names, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 20:01

I think you can just be Laser Beam for number one podcast. You could be Laser Beam.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Laser Laser for Dart. Why'd you get your name to Hatch off? Why'd you change the name to Tatchel? What's all the Steve? Steve's a cool name.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

Steve's a great name, isn't it? I'm friends with people named Steve because we have such in common that somebody has been uttering these this one awesome syllable their whole life at them. Steve, Steve, Steve. It's got the S and the T in the beginning. It's got that cool V in it. Well, then it would be Steph. Stefan.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Well, I know there's a there's some stuff that that's other name.

SPEAKER_04 20:45

Well, my my my name my name is spelled with a pH.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

You're a pH.

SPEAKER_04 20:54

But I can still be you can shorten Steven with a pH to Steve with a V. You can.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Well, Stephen Stefan with a phone line.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

When I call like uh, you know, some sort of uh phone line about something and they see my name on the screen and they'll say Stefan a lot of times, and I'm like, no, it's Steven. It's not Stefan, that would be S.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

We're gonna call the other Stevens for the bottom.

SPEAKER_04 21:26

There's not sound. We need we need that to get to the bottom of it. Like, what's causing it?

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Don't don't you have the number one podcast that people have that buddy that's like the top target?

SPEAKER_04 21:41

Yeah, but Jared. Jared, every time during SS ADA podcast, somewhere happened, there's a little a little time. And we don't know what that is. And I think it's from his iPhone, and it's not from iPhone.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

But here's the thing with the PHP.

unknown 22:04

You are you are like breaking the rules because you're a PHP Stephen.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

I have E N. It's Steven. That's how you pronounce S-D-E-P-H N you pronounce it Steven. Donkey.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

I thought it was laser beam.

SPEAKER_04 22:25

It will be laser beam when you say smart things.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Well, all I know is the V the V teams are the color beats.

SPEAKER_04 22:36

No, the pH Stephen is very right.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

How do you spell sophisticated?

SPEAKER_04 22:53

Sophisticated.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Yeah, what so what did you guys be talking about? SS88, we don't we just we just we just lab our mouth and hopefully words come out somehow.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

We do talking too.

SPEAKER_04 23:11

We do have a uh you know we do talking, and I think on SS88 we do talking.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Yeah, you guys talked about your grandparents, for example.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

He uh he's been listening to he's listened to three of them. Slides are good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

That's good. That's a good thing. So, how far into number one podcast are you guys?

SPEAKER_04 23:32

15 minutes. Yeah, it sounds about right. Two and a half hours minimum.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Well, what and what are you gonna talk about? So like is there like a short version of number one podcast that you guys like make it 15 minutes? Because this is people they're busy.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

Yeah, they they they in eight minutes that's like a that's we're pushing it already, you know.

SPEAKER_04 24:00

It's a busy time. Yeah, well, we uh it's just uh you you just have to um the thing to do is listen to it um while you're trying to go to sleep, and it'll put you right to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

Yeah, and we wake you up in the morning and number one podcast for people, which is a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

That's really good, Steve. There you go. That's it, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

I like that. Boy, we boy, we really didn't talk about anything this time.

SPEAKER_04 24:31

No, we talked we we look, we're three men having um, you know, uh male friendship. Right. It's all about bro time. Bro time. Bro time.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Yeah, I guess I guess we did we did clear something up that uh these things are coolest.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

Didn't did you did your daughter, Ava, did she tell you not to be mean to me or to be mean to me? Oh, that's right. She said, don't be mean to me. You were being mean to me because I didn't come up here. I couldn't make it up here for that barbecue on the 4th of July, and you were like, oh yeah, everything's gonna, that's the worst. Like it's terrible. You're a terrible person.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Well, and we're gonna have to end on that because that's the that's the show.

SPEAKER_04 25:13

All right.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

This call is no longer being recorded. Okay, but but but we're still number one podcast, or people are still on, right? Oh yeah, we're always on.

SPEAKER_04 25:24

We go for days.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Like it's done.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

That was a podcast and a podcast right there.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Yeah, we call that pod and pod right there. That's our new we're we're trademarking that pod and pod. Pod and a pod. We're calling that the pod and pod. Like two pods in a pod. We might have to do that every Thursday, actually. Pod and pod. Um this is like such groundbreaking stuff, Steve. It's really groundbreaking, laser beam.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

This is this is comedy called groundbreaking. I said I sent I sent SV to my buddy, well, your buddy to chat. Um no, sorry, wait. And um it's really hard. I sent the I sent a link to the tour chest. Life altering that's level podcast of epic proportions to the extreme.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

A very accurate description.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Like that's good, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:29

That is good, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

It's a little it's a little over the top. It's a lot of hyperbole there.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

Hyperbole, that's another word. Wait, is that we back to the word? Is that the word that I didn't know of?

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Yeah. Yeah, that's hyperbole. What you're saying right there to Jess is hyperbole.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

But you didn't really know what it meant either. And now you're just like using the word like you know what it means. Like you've always known.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Well, that's how words work. Once you learn what they mean, then you can use them easier.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

You have to use them three times in a week. You you know a new word.

SPEAKER_04 27:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

That's pretty awesome. And you can use it just like whenever you want.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

I had already told Jess about that podcast and he didn't seem interested.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

He doesn't like it.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Well, I'll I'll let you guys, you know, you gotta get back into your dimension. I'll I'll I'll I'll let you guys go too nice to nice to hear your voice.

SPEAKER_04 27:27

Have you been checking in with um with uh Big Moki about uh we we talked about we talked about calling uh Courtney, but uh we when we talked about it, we were kind of the end of our last podcast, and we were like, we're probably gonna need a little more time, like devote a whole episode to it. Yeah, devote a whole episode to that.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

You need to call him and talk about healthcare. He's got some stuff today.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

That's what I hear.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

That's yeah, he had a whole operation. Um pretty major operation on the spine. Um you know that was you guys can do an hour and a half on that quite easily.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Yeah, you can do a lot longer than that, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

Yeah, yeah. So I know that's something that you guys are that you're passionate about.

SPEAKER_04 28:16

Quite well, we'll just we'll just ring them up in the middle of the day and be like, hey, we're you know, do you remember me? Um uh yeah, we were ready. We're here to talk to you for an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Well you can just text them, let them leave.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

Yeah, that's not as fun that we that's not how we do it over here.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Yeah, I know, I know. It's hard, it's hard to live in a different dimension. But sometimes you have to come into like this dimension with the normal people. I know you guys at number one podcaster people are you know next level, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:49

Anything but normal.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Next level breaking new ground, extreme wait. What was it?

SPEAKER_04 28:53

Do you know what we did, Steve? We just did the very first pod and pod. We did the podcast inside a podcast. Never been done before. First in the history of in recorded history. And I'm kind of thinking about I'm not that got me thinking of how I can do a podcast inside of a podcast inside it like a three-layer and a third layer. No, no, no. This got me thinking about it. Impossible.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

How about if you did a podcast inside a podcast inside a podcast, standing between two Starbucks locations? That would talk about coffee.

SPEAKER_04 29:39

What if it was between like on in in the road between two Chick-fil-As that are across from each other? I think we have that in Games Game. We could easily do that. I mean, there's two Chick-fil-As like right across each of them.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

And you're eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

A waffle fry. Um unprecedented, never been done before.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Right, absolutely. Pot and pot in here. Or yeah, or in between two waffle houses, eating pancakes.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

Well, and sometimes those are like on either side of the expressway. Right. So you could be right in the on the bridge out between the two. People are coming in for lunch now, man. They're they're pulling in this restaurant we're at. We're open. Yeah. Open for business.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

All right, you guys, you guys go to it.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

All right, and have a good day. We'll catch up on all things um SS88 tomorrow, like um men's health issues. There you go.

unknown 30:32

All right, bruv.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

All right, bruv.

unknown 30:35

Alright, prof.

SPEAKER_04 30:40

Um. Do you know where that comes from? Yes, we were we were just talking about the British way to say it, right? Brof. Ed Bruf.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

You luck, you luck got a proper good vibe.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

You look. All right. So that was first, that was cool.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

First ever pod and pod. Groundbreaking.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Uh completely unprecedented in recorded history.

SPEAKER_04 31:01

It and I I'm wondering if our listeners like really realize the gravity of what just happened. Probably not. We do. We we route realize that. They probably don't.

SPEAKER_03 31:10

Yeah. They don't probably have it.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

So t so you so tell me about your trip. Uh it was incredible. I have to say that Epic Universe was epic. It was super cool. So cool. And you have five kids. Uh correct.

SPEAKER_04 31:24

And how many adults? Uh four. Four adults and five kids. Right. And were you all going around together or did you split up?

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Uh mostly together. Um we I guess eventually we split up a little bit. Um but yeah, mostly sticking together. And uh yeah, it was just like And the lines weren't long? The lines were amazingly not that long. 15 minutes. Yeah, and we had the uh the Fast Pass or whatever they call it. I don't know if that's they call it express lane or fast pass. And um especially with that, we were not like waiting. Probably the longest I waited for any ride was like 20 minutes. Yeah. Not bad, not fast. That's pretty good. Yeah. It was um the lines were super reasonable. The food was good. I got a pizza with barbecue chicken on it. Thought of thought of you. Wow. Thought of you. You should have taken a picture of that. You know, it's funny. I uh afterwards I was like, oh, I can't believe I didn't take a picture. Uh I forgot. But it was the pizza was very good, I have to say. The food was good. And um yeah, I highly recommend it. It's expensive, obviously, but it's well worth it.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

Do you would you say uh how long were we there?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Uh two nights, three nights? We were there for three nights, but we only went to the park one day. So like one day we were at the park, one day we went to the pool. Uh just the just the hotel pool. Hotel pool, yeah. Third day? Yeah, third day. Well, we got there, I guess the third day that was the pool. You're leaving. We were leaving, but we went to the pool a little bit before we left.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

So I mean, you probably don't know an answer to this, but I'm just curious. Three nights at a resort, tickets, two adults, two kids, five thousand dollars. Maybe not five dollars.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Like the the hotel I want to say is was probably like three hundred and fifty dollars a night. Oh, that's not as bad as I'd think. For the hotel. The tickets uh probably like one fifty each around there ish. Um yeah, and then what but the the fast pass is extra, so maybe it's like closer to 200 with that. But you don't really need that, obviously. Um you can get it. But yeah, it was um it was super cool, I have to say. Like they they've obviously learned a lot over the last like 50 years or however long, you know, thing parks like this have existed about how to design them and just like and the it's kind of weird because um everything is like based on like facial recognition software. Like I they gave you like a physical ticket, and the first time you go in the park, they do scan the ticket, but simultaneously they take a picture of you of your face, and from that point on, it's like that's all like you just walk, you know. Because we remember I was saying the hotel is in the park, so we would like go back to the hotel, so we were like in and out a lot, and every time we went back in, they just like the camera automatically like scans your face, and I'm like, all right, you're good to go. Wow, and they have like lockers where like you go on the roller coaster, right? You gotta put all your stuff in the locker. And the lockers uh do that too. Really? Yeah, they scan your face, and then when you come back, you scan your face and your locker opens up. It's pretty. What's the best? What was the best ride? The best ride was probably um the Harry Potter ride. Uh-huh. Each world had kind of has like two rides. And in Harry Potter world, there's a ride that was amazing. And there's also like a live show, and both of those were like spectacular. Super good. Probably Harry Potter was my favorite. The Mario ride was cool. They have like Mario Super Mario worm there. Pretty cool, like Mario Kart ride. Yeah. Are you jumping over barrels and stuff? Kind of, yeah. But it's all like kind of like it's hard to describe. It's like kind of like virtual reality, or it's like, I don't know if that's really technically really what it is, but you um it does look like you're in a video game. It's super cool. Super cool.

SPEAKER_04 34:48

Yeah, it sounds fun. I don't have kids anymore, but I wouldn't go without the kids.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

But well, it's really for kids, obviously. But yeah. But it was fun, I gotta say. I wanted to, you know, I'm just I'm just a grumpy Gen Xer. I'm real jaded. I'm like, you know, pissed off with the world, so I kind of want to hate stuff like that. But I couldn't. It was just super fun. It was so cool.

SPEAKER_04 35:08

You'd think you'd hate the facial facial recognition software like that. That's gotta be somehow a little. I kind of do hate that, but it in a way it's kind of like if you're walking around in the world, there's they got like if you go want to travel on a plane, right?

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Exactly. They do it there, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

They all know where you're at, man.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

My uh I heard you talking to Sean about the self-driving Tesla. Speaking of technology.

SPEAKER_04 35:33

Sean, uh who works with us, uh works with you, and I mean works at the restaurant, he wants to get a Tesla now because he wants it to drive him around.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

Right. My and uh interestingly, my parents have a self-driving Tesla. Oh they got it recently. And I went down there to visit them, and me and my dad went to Publix, and guess what? He didn't drive. Nope. The car drove us to Publix, the car backed out of the garage, drove to Publix, and then when you're pulling in the parking lot, it says, Oh, do you want me to drop you off in front of the store and go park? Or or should I just go park and you're gonna walk?

SPEAKER_04 36:06

You want him to drop you off.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Well, no, we park because that's uh I mean if you're if you're like old and decrepit and you can't walk, you got you know some disability, then yeah, but I feel like I can walk.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

I just don't think the technology is I mean, it's there, obviously it's doing it.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

I just don't think it's um it's tried enough. Like it's it's tested enough. Well the guy we pulled in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

We pulled in the parking lot and there's a guy crossing the street or cross crossing the parking lot. And I was just thinking, well, is does this car know that there's a person there? Or is it just gonna run into him?

SPEAKER_04 36:38

Well, it knows there's a person there.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

Well, yeah, obviously, because it didn't run over him, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

But I mean, I see I still see stories of like, okay, it's an autopilot and it, you know, crashed into this building or went into the lake or whatever. And I just think there's gonna be outside scenarios where it it messes up. Right. It doesn't know how to are you gonna be so used to it driving that you've kind of checked out and then it's gonna you're you know, uh like I don't know, like I was surprised, like it seems like you know, a lot of ex it seems like a lot to buy a new car. If you're gonna get a new car anyway, and and that's helpful for you, then like I guess it's helpful for him because he does I mean what is the part of driving? Is it the sitting or is it the mood?

SPEAKER_02 37:23

Like he seems to think it's the steering wheel. Right. So he doesn't if he has the self-driving Tesla, he doesn't have to steer. He can just he can maybe scroll his phone, you know, be on his phone instead of driving it. Like seems very odd, but obviously that's what you can do in the self-driving Tesla. Yeah. Yeah, it's um I don't trust it.

SPEAKER_04 37:42

But I I I I don't trust it. I'm not a big fan of Elon Musk, and I didn't like the I didn't like the car I had in 2016.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

You had a bad experience with your with your Tesla.

SPEAKER_04 37:54

I had one in 2016, so I've just but whatever. I don't look at that. There's somebody broke the glass. Yeah, notice that. What why is that one glass pane missing? Somebody broke it. Well, the thing is, I was worried. We're sitting in a booth with glass around us, colored glass. Yeah. And I was always worried, like, man, if they throw their arm up, like that's glass, you know. But I'm like, well, it's like, why would you like you've got a place for your arm, like why would anybody mess with it?

SPEAKER_02 38:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

But somehow somebody wants to knock the glass out of that one.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

So you gotta get a pane of colored stained glass to replace that.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

I have plenty of I have plenty of glass at the house. It's easy to do, but it's a little worrisome when you because somebody could have gotten really hurt if that if that glass broke and your arm was in it, safety hazards. Safety concerns. All right, so let's check our mail. Oh, yeah. That's the whole reason why we're here. That's that's the only reason we do this podcast. Opening up the email program.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

But the last thing I'll say about the the self-driving Tesla is um you know, like you say, oh yeah, I don't trust it. You know what I don't trust? Fuck human beings driving. That's what I don't trust. Yeah. Because people, I look around and I see people on their phone. Oh, don't get me wrong. I would love I would that that Tesla is not on its phone, it's watching what it's doing, which is unlike the typical shithead driver.

SPEAKER_04 39:15

That once they get all the cars to drive themselves, I think that's a better like it's gonna be safe. Right, because you get all every all the cars talking to each other and all the time.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

How many years in the future is this gonna happen, what you're talking about? I think it's gonna be 10. 10 years in the future, cars just drive themselves? Yeah. That kind of sounds pretty amazing.

SPEAKER_04 39:33

I think that's a great future. I just think right now, you want to go out and get you a Tesla so it can drive you to the around. Yeah. Maybe, I mean, I just think like for Sean in particular, it's a big expense because you got to get the charger at your house. Right. You got to get the car. How much are you gonna really use this feature? Are you gonna use it all the time? Well, it's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

Uh supposedly every Tesla now has the feature, but you pay a subscription. 100 bucks a month. 100 bucks a month. Right. So you could so theoretically you could get a Tesla and use it or not, you know.

SPEAKER_04 40:04

Like, but and that's the problem. So he's now he's gonna pay a subscription fee to use it.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

And are you gonna use it all the time? Right. Yeah, yeah. Well, you better be if you're paying a hundred bucks a month for it.

SPEAKER_04 40:12

Uh yeah. I mean, that's that's I don't like that. I don't like it. Like, honestly, if if a guy comes to me and he's like, real rich guy, he's like, I want to get one of these cars, I'm like, I don't trust him, but go for it. Oh, for sure. You got money, right? Might as well, yeah. But Sean doesn't have a ton of money. I don't he and you know, I don't know. And he only drives he only lives two miles, few two miles down the road. I'm like, yeah, do you really do you really want to anytime you go on a trip, make sure you're getting charged everywhere you need to get charged? And yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

I just think obviously if he's driving it two miles, he's not gonna use up very much.

SPEAKER_04 40:47

Well, and he claims that he's driving two miles because he does it's it's painful to drive because of his bad back. Yeah. He would he would get out more.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Right. He could go somewhere that's farther than two miles.

SPEAKER_04 40:59

Yeah. Anyway, I I I i yeah, I don't know what to say. I I can't make people's decisions for him. I give you my advice. All day. May like it, it may not like it.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Do we got any mail? Do we got any mail? Of course we got. We always got mail. This is the whole the whole purpose of this podcast. People, nice catch. I wish I had a video of you making that safe. All right, here we go. First email from the one and only Eleanor. Eleanor. All right, our favorite uh mother of twins. Of all the mothers of twins we know, she's our favorite. Subject line, shapes. So this is interesting because that's right away. I like it. I like it, but it's like that could go in a lot of different directions. Ah, right away I like it. Right. Here we go. Hey, Podpals. That's a cool portmanteau. Is that even a portmanteau? Podpals? It's like two. Well, again, a cast is a word. And pals is a word. Yeah. Kind of like a semi-port mate. Hey, pod pals, I have another pizza-related question for you. Well, Eleanor, you've come to the right place. Do you think that pizza tastes better when it is cut into squares, or is it better to cut it into triangle shapes? I think triangles are the correct way, but if square pizza is the only pizza available, I'll still eat it. Okay, yeah. Agree about that.

SPEAKER_04 42:11

Yeah, I think we all agree on that.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

Grummy and I are taking the twins out to Eddie's house and then to visit the Vermont Babcocks. It will be an adventure, Eleanor. That does sound like quite an adventure.

SPEAKER_04 42:21

We've talked about the Vermont Babcocks and we've never got them to listen to the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

Uncle Tim, right? Is that who that maybe I'm getting?

SPEAKER_04 42:27

Why aren't we why what this is their chance to like get the ver like we had that whole season seven to try to get the Vermont Bobcats and all the people on. All right, well, we'll see what they can do. Let's like get the if you're going to Vermont to talk to them. If you're going all the way across the country, might as well. Tell them about the podcast. Tell them they need to get into season seven. Start with season seven. Right. The Bobcock family union.

SPEAKER_02 42:51

But more importantly, though, we got to address this question.

SPEAKER_04 42:54

Well, I think the peop I think round pizzas should be cut into triangles. My pizza specifically has a crust around the edge. It's like a breadstick. That's right. So every slice gets a crust. That's right. I think when you cut squares on a round pizza, you got all these middle ones that you pick up, there's no crust, they're little squares. They taste good. It's maybe finger food, but that's that's the downside is that you know. It's not really crusty. It doesn't feel like pizza anymore. It feels like little cheesy bread or something. Sure, yeah. If you have a square pizza, uh rectangle, uh brazilian. Yeah, kind of what could you even cut that into triangles? You could cut it. You probably could always cut into triangles. Just like you can even cut a round one into squares. You can always cut them any way you want. I just but then you get squares, which makes sense. Square pizza makes sense to squares.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

Square pizza, right. You got a square pizza, you cut into squares. You got a round pizza, you cut it into circles. I mean triangles.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

Maybe we should cut. It into circles. That's actually eccentric circle. So the outer circle is just the crust.

SPEAKER_02 44:03

Just the crust, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

And then you go into circles.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

I know we were joking, but actually sounds like a good idea now that I think about it. I don't know that it sounds like a good idea, but it sounds groundbreaking. You got that right. Shapes. Shapes. Here we go. Hey, I love, I love when I see this. You've got fan mail. All right. Bus sprout. We've only gotten fan mail as far as I know from one person. One time we got it from uh dudes. Oh, that's true. Early on. I do right. That's right. Except for that one time. It's from Oklahoma, bro. And this one is from Oklahoma, bro. So Oklahoma Bro says, What's up, fellas? What's your thoughts on UFOs? Do you think they're us from the future, or do you think they've always been here for thousands of years and usually human species and uh to mine gold or whatever precious metals they need? You think they're multidimensional bros just stopping by and saying, What's up? So, so really the the options are are there are the UFOs us from the future coming back? Okay, one. The other option is are they interdimensional bros? Like not, you know, um, they're not us, or you know, I guess aliens, interdimensional, or they're from another. Well, that was the last one he said, right? Right. And then um, no, right. And then do you think or the other choice is always always here for thousands of years, right? Because they need the resources of this planet in order to um sustain their their their their space. I'll let you take this one first. UFOs, uh okay, so uh my feelings on UFOs is like I really want to believe, like I really very badly want to believe that there are alien races out there that are like you know, traveling millions and billions of light years, trillions of light years across the galaxies. But it's probably not that likely realistically, but I want it to be true, so I'm gonna I want to will it to be true. But yeah, I don't think I don't time travel, that's I feel like that's less likely. I feel like more likely I would be more in the in on the side of like, you know, uh there's the aliens have always been here and they're living among us, but we don't know they're aliens, like in Men in Black. I think that's what I think. I think Men in Black is the most accurate portrayal of extraterrestrial life to date. Have you seen that movie, Men in Black?

SPEAKER_04 46:23

I don't I don't remember. If I did, it was I just it was too long ago for me to remember. Right.

SPEAKER_02 46:31

Um I don't think there's any I don't you think we're unique in this universe? There is no other life forms in the universe except for the human race on this planet? No. But I don't think that people from other planets are visiting us. Okay, you're saying they exist out there, but there's no intergalactic travel, space travel.

SPEAKER_04 46:53

Yeah, okay. Not to say that there's there's not a race that couldn't figure out how to do that in at some point, but I don't think there's anything going on here, but I haven't looked into it very much. But I think if something was going on here, yeah, they would be traveling here. It would be intergalactic something was going on here.

SPEAKER_02 47:20

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_04 47:21

Like if there were if if we Or if they needed something. No, if if there's gonna be any uh aliens, yeah, I don't think that they're already here. Yeah. I don't think that it's us from the future. Yeah. I think that it's somebody, uh, an alien who's figured out travel and they're traveling to us. Got it. And they're gonna come. Right. They could check us out in 30 seconds and be gone. They do their anal probe and they're out.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Yeah, I don't know. I mean you mean annual? Well, I mean annual and anal. But that's but it's interesting, right? Like any story of alien abduction invariably always involves anal probing. Does it? Oh, yeah. Guarantee. Like anybody who claims they've been abducted by an alien, anal probing. It's like they the these aliens, these advanced life forms have traveled trillions of light years across galaxies only to come analyzed.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

I didn't know that the anal probe was the thing.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Oh, it's like it's like the bedrock of of alien abduction conspiracy theory. I wonder if Oklahoma Bro knows that. Oh, I'm sure he does. Believe me, Oklahoma Bros knows that. He knows about anal probing of uh extraterrestrial. Well, so did you look into any of these UFO files that were released? You know, it's funny, I that I I had that thought just now, but I'd haven't.

SPEAKER_04 48:36

Like, I I it's probably so much of a the tranche is probably so it's like how you'd almost have to like I guess you could go out there on the internet and say, like, what's the boiled down version of kind of like the Epstein files? What's the craziest stuff that happened in these files or whatever?

SPEAKER_02 48:52

But it's like, yeah, I did hear that, but I like I guess if it was such a bombshell, wouldn't we know right now? We say, oh, and this, you know, I don't know, like what was it even saying?

SPEAKER_04 49:01

Like that there's really aliens, like I think it's just sh it's just a phenomenon in the sky. Right. Like, what's this thing?

SPEAKER_02 49:07

It's a it's an unidentified flying object. Now it doesn't mean it's from another galaxy. Yeah, it's could be like a Sarah tells the story. I've heard, you know, I've been with Sarah 25, 30 years now. I've been hearding her tell this story for the last 25 plus years.

SPEAKER_04 49:20

Is she a person in her own right?

SPEAKER_02 49:22

She's a human being in her own. That's why I used her name. I didn't, I'm not, I don't say my partner, my life partner. Actually, I do say that quite a bit, but my life partner who is a human being in her own right. Uh yeah, she tells this story about when she saw an unidentified flying object um when she was a kid. Uh-huh. But it wasn't like you say UFO, people automatically assume that means an alien spacecraft. It probably it probably wasn't. It was probably like a something, yeah. Like an Air Force, you know, like a govern Department of Defense.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

What are the ones she saw looked like?

SPEAKER_02 49:54

She just said she couldn't really make out the shape of it. It was just like she was looking up. She happened to be looking, it was at night. She happened to be looking up at the stars, and all of a sudden, like it was like um how do I describe it? Like uh, it was like a big shape was obscuring the stars. So it was basically like a like blackness, like kind of obscured the stars for a brief moment and then went away. So it was like a shape passing over her, enough to like block the you know, the starlight. Um but it was realistic. I mean, she grew up, you know, uh, as you know, on the on this army base in the Pacific. So who knows what kind of crazy shit they're testing out there, you know, stealth uh fighter planes and that kind of stuff, you know. Uh so realistically, that's probably what it was. But I can't confirm or deny that.

SPEAKER_04 50:42

All right. Well, I I I you know, I the I mean, much to Oklahoma Bros dismay, I'm not one of these people who is like really, you know, I'm like pretty straightforward. I'm not like, oh yeah, UFOs or all these conspiracy theories. Now I would like to talk about another conspiracy theory, but we'll get back into it. Let's finish the mail and then we'll get back into my other conspiracy.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

Now we're getting into it. This is uh email from Shell Dog. Okay. Woof woof woof woof. And the subject line says it all Shell Dog's employment status. So we were trying to get him by this. So he's gonna weigh in on uh on his current employment status. Because we had some questions. We didn't know what he does. Right. Right. Well, I I do remember uh before we get to the email, I remember Emmy Lou said, Oh, he's got his finance bro job. Remember she said that? Uh I don't. Well, we're gonna let's get into the email. Well, we're gonna Okay, here we go. Hey brothers. This is from Shell Dog, as I said. Hey brothers. Thanks for all the guidance on moving to Florida. Frankly, I'm sold. I spent most of my college spring breaks traveling to Jacksonville and Florida, has a special place in my heart and my liver. Perfect. Shelldog, if you could sum up especially Jacksonville in one sentence or two sentences, whatever that was, that's it. You just hit the nail on the head. For my job, I work remote, so I can go anywhere in the US. I work in software, and my actual title is quote, solutions engineer, end quote. Which basically means I am the salesperson who knows how all the software works. I have had all kinds of jobs in tech, like IT, customer service, software engineering, being a manager, etc. I'll be interested to see how tech jobs fare over the next five years with the surge in AI and how quickly the technology is evolving. But for now, I'm very fortunate. My company even buys me lunch every day. Yeah, now we're talking. Heck yeah. Do you think and he works from home? He works from home. So they're giving an extra 10 bucks or whatever? Well, we hope more than that, but yeah. Do you think uh sentient robots will ever make pizza and or run a business? That's shelldog. It's interesting because we were already just talking about this with the Teslas or whatever. Yeah, so he's like, We didn't know he was gonna say this, but he's kind of following up. He's saying, So, well, obviously we already talked about sentient robots driving, but do you think sentient robots will make a pizza ever?

SPEAKER_04 52:58

I think robots are definitely the wave of the future. Even to make a pizza? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

And to run a business, I mean they can make robots now. They got they got robot pizzas. Do you think AI can uh run this business better than you? No. No. Why and why is that? But eventually, eventually, well, because they'll get better. Is what that's why you're saying that?

SPEAKER_04 53:15

I just I mean, the a lot a lot of running the business is making uh a relationship with the plumber. That's right. That is true. The plumber's like, are you gonna be up there? Right. And then I'm gonna be up there and then talk to the plumber about the plumber politics. The plumber ain't using AI, I could tell you that much. Uh then uh like, you know, I gotta meet the equipment repair guys, gotta fix, you know. So like there's there's a lot of relationships in this world if for people that fix things and do things, right? So I don't think about I don't think I I think AI can run a business, all kinds of businesses where it's making decisions on hiring or firing or what who's doing good and what they need to buy. And I think that's and that I mean I think there's that's even happening right now. There's there's like there's like a business that's like a some sort of a little store, and AI's running it and doing all the ordering and everything. And it it like I remember hearing it ordered like you know, the toilet toilet seat covers little that you put on a toilet seat.

SPEAKER_02 54:15

Oh, like the little tissue paper. Do they still I haven't it's been years since I've seen one of those? Oh, yeah, they have when I was a kid. I feel like they had those in literally every bathroom I ever went in. But like I can't even tell you the last time I saw one of those. Well, the AI ordered like ordered too many a thousand or something because it was a better deal.

SPEAKER_04 54:30

Right, yeah. Because they've got like just I mean, and but they're but they're trying to teach the AI to do more of that um, you know, administrative stuff. So I don't think that but as far as making food, I mean, I think in the future you'll go into a restaurant, you'll order on your phone or on an iPad. And we're already doing it. Your food is gonna be made by a robot and it's gonna come out to you with a robot or it's gonna be delivered and you go pick it up. You go pick it up, yeah. I mean, pizza can be made by a you know, a robot. Um like I just think it's the the future. Now, I'm not worried about mine, my job because there's always gonna be a place for a restaurant where you go in and they walk up to your table and talk to you, and then some real person makes your food. Like if it costs three times as much, people you still want that experience, they're gonna pay because they want people in there, you know. Because they're if you can go get a pizza for five bucks and a robot makes it and it tastes great, yeah, you'll be like, I'm gonna do that. But it doesn't mean that when your grandma comes to town, you're not gonna want to go out and sit down and have a real people. I agree with that. So I I think that that that's insulates us from that. But I do think that um robots, I mean, they got vending machines where actually, you know, the the the machine makes the pizza, puts the dough out, the sauce, what do you want on it, yeah, cooks it, drops it to you. Like it's totally doable. And I I'm all for it. I would love to be able to, I think like I want to do vending machines because they may have vending machines now where you actually make the pizza here and you put it in the cooler, it's in a cooler. Okay. So I make 20 cheese, 20 pepperoni, right, 20 mushroom. Okay, it'll hold 60 pizzas or whatever. You put them, then they're maybe they're 12 inch or 10 inch or whatever. Yeah, they'll have to do that. You put them in this thing, and then they just cook them and deliver them. The advantage is you can order that pizza at three in the morning, four in the morning, five in the morning, anytime. It's open 24 hours.

SPEAKER_02 56:27

Yeah, that is nice.

SPEAKER_04 56:28

And you can go pick up a pizza that's been made, right? And then the app tells you, like, oh, you're you're out of pizzas. I mean, you know, they last for a few days, so you know you know how much to stock it, right? Right. So the pizza is pre-made, it just basically heats it up. It just heats it up, which I think is the best way to go because then you're just making pizzas, dropping them off at this place, and you're selling them all the time anyway. I I I'm all for it.

SPEAKER_02 56:46

Um, but now I'm gonna um some occasionally we'll do this. We're gonna read the speaking of AI, we're gonna read the AI generated response to Shell Dog's.

SPEAKER_04 56:55

Oh, you know what? Wayne loves this.

SPEAKER_02 56:57

I think this is Wayne's favorite part. All right, this is this is uh the AI response. Hey Shell Dog, that's awesome. You're sold on Florida. Sounds like you have a great gig too. Getting lunch bought every day is huge, which is funny because that's as a human being, that's what I would have said. Yeah, right. Sentient robots making pizza? Maybe eventually, but I doubt they'll ever have the soul of a good pizza place owner. Running a business is more than just efficiency, right? Let me know when you lock down the moving date. So it's kind of interesting because the AI is like self-doubting. Right? You see, you would think that the AI would be on board for AI. Yeah. But it sounds like the AI is saying, I don't know, people are gonna want the soul, right? It seems like the that's interesting. I wonder if the AI just naturally um thinks that, or it had to be toll to tone it down, right? Let's not get too carried away here, you know. But anyway, that's what I would like. I that AI response is probably what I would say.

SPEAKER_04 57:54

So I mean, it you the the way the thing to do, it sounds like to me, would be to apply for jobs in Florida. Or maybe you don't have it doesn't matter. You don't have to be in Florida. It's remote.

SPEAKER_02 58:02

You can yeah, but why would you go to Tulsa, Oklahoma if you could be anywhere? Because Emilou got that job there at the zoo. I mean, at the pool. Oh, yeah. Which is a zoo. Remember, I thought she worked. Yeah, it turns out it is a zoo, not the kind I was talking about. I just knew she had some kind of like municipal job, and I was just like, oh, a zoo, like the city zoo. Like that's what I totally made that up. Like uh Yeah. Well, if there even is there even a zoo in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That's what I want to know.

SPEAKER_04 58:27

I would like him, his company to buy him lunch here every day. So I'm kind of biased on that one.

SPEAKER_02 58:33

Like, I want you to lunch to be brought here. That would be fun. I would love to have a lunch date with Shell Dog. Yeah, that would be fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 58:41

Maybe they can come in the end of August to um Texas meet us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:46

Well, uh, aren't they going to uh Grummies, though?

SPEAKER_03 58:48

I think I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 58:49

Maybe it's I don't think it worked out at the time. Okay. All right. Well, come on down to uh Dallas Fort Worth. We'll be there.

SPEAKER_04 58:55

You we'll be at Dallas Fort Worth in uh end of August, and you can always come stay in the Airbnb here. Honestly, you can just because you guys are good enough friends now that you can just say, Hey, I uh you know, hey. Yeah, play the friend. They're gonna play the friend card. Hey, can we stay in your Airbnb? Two bedroom, yeah, one bath, no pets allowed.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

Yeah, hard hard rule on the pets. No firearms, no firearms, no pets. Other than that, anything goes. No smoking in the house. Of course not. No smoking in the house. Of course not. What do you think this is? The 1960s? We don't see that.

SPEAKER_04 59:27

So my buddy Steve, who I knew from I don't know, gosh, when I was a teenager, I guess, or we we worked together at Leonardo's Pizza in town, and I taught him how to make pizza. Right. He went on to eventually open, he worked in restaurants as uh in the hotel restaurant kind of situations, like running running hotel restaurants, and then he ended up opening his own pizza place in St. Augustine. Oh, cool. And it was delicious. His food was so good. He had Italian food. He had pizza. You keep saying was, does that mean it doesn't exist? Well, it's not there anymore. He had this great food, but he had a really bad location. Okay. You couldn't get to it easily. Oh, okay. And he didn't have the right name, and he didn't, he just it didn't work out. He did it and he ran out of money. And so now he's in the Sarasota area working for a caterer. Uh he does he, you know, sometimes you have to work in restaurant, like especially hotel, you're on salary. Sometimes you're working 80 hours a week. Right. You know, yeah. But now he's that older, he's at a place where he he doesn't even work 40 hours a week and he's catering and he's he's he's got only one person under him. He loves it. He's gonna be here any minute. And when I see him, we'll we'll we'll you'll hear a little bit of that interaction, and then we're gonna pause. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:38

But um, what else we got? Okay, what else we got? We got Buzz Brow Weekly Update. Your podcast receives 635 downloads. Very respectable. Yeah, I could not be more happier uh with those numbers. Uh and it looks like we got one more from Emu. What would it be? What would it be? Would it be a mailbag without an email from Emmy Lou? I have something to say too about Teams call, but let's get to this. Well, it's meant it's interesting you say that because the subject of this very email is no teams call this week. Oh, okay. All right, so uh Emu says we had to punt on Teams this week due to travel. Here's the recording of the hike Sheldon and I went on. It's a nature trail with hills, gravel, ponds, etc. I think Sheldon is sold on Florida, but I don't know if I am. I need winter. Well, in North Central Florida, we get it does get cold. We get surprisingly cold.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:25

It it gets cold. Last year it got really froze fast. South Florida 20 degrees, 21 degrees for like days.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:32

In South Florida, it will never get that cold. In South Florida, there is not a winter. In North Florida, where we live, like it's a mild winter, usually. Usually, but it's it's not out of the question to be in the 20s. Like that's a it'll be it'll get to the 20s. Yeah, it's not out of the question.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

You'll you'll wear you'll you'll wear your winter clothes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:48

Because it's a wet cold, too. Yeah. So humid cold. Yeah. I would say, yeah, maybe um, yeah. I mean, emily if Emmy Lou likes the winter, come visit in winter and see what it's like. You know, there you go. Yeah. Uh that's good. So let's see, what do we got? We got the well, it's not a Teams call, it's a field recording. It's seven minutes long.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:05

I think we're gonna drop that as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:07

Season seven never dies. Right, yeah, got it. And you were gonna, what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:11

You're gonna say oh, so uh I I've listened to podcasts for so long, Sliceberg. Like this American Life was the only one, you know. Like I was I went to this, I listened to the uh Slate Political Gab Fest when they started, and then they just had their 20-year reunion. Right. You know, I've listened to so many podcasts, The Moth, the Radio Lab, you name it, 99% invisible, like you name election profit makers. Election Profit Makers, so many podcasts over the years. And there were times when I might have, you know, I might just my feed is just full, and I get tired of ones and I I kind of weed some out. And I'm, you know, as I get older, I don't, it's not, they don't, I don't get as much out of them. I get tired of them. And so I'm to the point now where I get I I'm kind of out of material, right? So I go to my feed and there's like, you know, um criminal, which I like, but not like every week or all the time. So there might be three or four criminals there that I haven't listened to. Then there's uh the explosion, um uh Song Exploder. Sonic Sploder. That's a good one, yeah. I don't listen to that every time. So it's a few of those packed up. There's this guy, Home Homemade, which is this Shannon Caseon storyteller, and he's been doing more lately when they and he's done he's done the series called like Every Day's a Story, where he's doing a short story every day. And that gets a little bit backed up. Like, I don't know, I'm you know, and so I go there and there's all these ones, but I don't really want to listen to them. Yeah. My favorite podcast right now is a Teams call. Because the and I'm not even lying, I'm not even just saying that. Like the thing about the Teams call is first of all, I don't listen to it, so I just I don't listen to it before I like I just drop it into the feed. And I don't I drop it into the feed and then I go about my business because it's got to take a minute. Right. And then later when I open it up and there's a a Teams call, I'm like, oh cool. And I listen to it, and I just it it it takes me, it takes me into another world where another dimension. Yeah, I'm there there's this family, they're just talking to each other, they're like, you know, I just it it's there's no commercials, there's no structure, they it's just people, there's just a family talking to each other. You're just dropped into that universe. You're dropped into this family's personal, it's so intimate, right? Right. I mean, this last time she said she's recording, and then she goes, Oh, I've been recording since that buh buh buh buh part. Well, and nobody cares. Like normally, like, so if I go, hey, I'm gonna record this Teams call, everybody doesn't say anything. Right, they all clam up. Yeah, like, oh, we're being recorded, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:54

It's a psychological.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:55

But if you record and then later you say I recorded all that and nobody and nobody complains, you get a more it's organic. You get that organic slice of life, right? The hardest thing about recording people is you have to tell them. If I walk up to you and I want to, if I'm not you, let's say I walk up to like let's say I walk up to Ari and I say, Ari, what's going on? And we start talking. She's out. We're well, no, if we just start talking, we're talking, there's no problem. Without telling her that yeah, we're we're just having a conversation. Right. If I go up to her and I said, Hey, I'm gonna record this conversation, there's no conversation. Sure. So the thing that when you can grab a slice of life and you you have willing participants, but also they don't necessarily know, it just it it's my it's my favorite podcast. Yeah, it's my favorite podcast. And it's not my podcast, it's just one that I happen to uh facilitate, but it's not even mine.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:48

No podcast can replicate that type of organic intimacy. It just can't be.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:54

I could probably make something that sounded like that, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

That's true.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:58

Um Well, w we got John Almond, who is um uh the salad maker that works next to Slicberg here every day. Um he has to have almonds in the salad, so we have a a bucket where we put the almonds and I've wrote on the top almonds, almonds. Almonds, almonds.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:16

Makes me laugh every time I say almonds almonds.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:19

John is uh wasn't feeling good and went to the emergency room yesterday and uh we don't know what's uh what's really going on with him, so because he's not real he's not big on texting and telling everybody what's going on. So I think that um Sliceberg and I might go see him later today. But we probably won't record anything if we do.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:39

Probably we probably wouldn't like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:42

No, well we won't record him, but and we probably yeah, we probably won't. But anyway, that that's gonna go on. We're gonna probably cut out early because Steve's gonna be here. And I thought I would be running out to say hi to Steve, and you get which only reason I told him about Steve. Right. But do do you have your recorder? It's in my car. Let's go get let's go do a duo for these folks.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:00

That's that's why we're here anyway. We gotta remember to turn these fans on.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:05

We gotta remember. Uh I'm gonna turn the other one on. We gotta remember to uh what what do we gotta remember besides the fans? There's like a yeah. Yeah. There we go. I forget. We're supposed to remember something else, but we it's alright. We gotta Well, if it's important, we're gonna remember it, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:40

Ah, what a day, what a day. Sun is shining bright, it's hot, it's humid. I wonder if that's Steve's car.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:49

That that truck? Yeah. No, he has a Chevy, black Chevy. You also probably wouldn't park like that, like an asshole over there. Oh, that is kind of bad parking stuff. Terrible parking.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:00

Terrible parking. Unexcle. Oh, there's Aerie.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:05

Don't tell her you're recording, else she won't say anything.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:07

What do you gotta say?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:08

Why? About what?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:10

About anything. What do you think about um um aliens? Do they exist?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:14

Of course they do. You're an alien.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

Hey, case closed. Okay, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:24

So that was that didn't get too bad. She talked, she wasn't too clammed up.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:40

Let's walk. Let's walk back to that way. Just don't forget your cup on your car. Oh, I won't. Oh, you will. You might. No, I'm not. I'm gonna fill it with uh half and half iced tea before I leave. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:27

Right. It's the heart and soul of the podcast. The mail mailbag.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:31

The mailbag's it. And and I don't think we have any pictures to post this week.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:34

Like not even I didn't take a single picture.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:36

Well, there was it. I mean, we were just sitting at a table. You know?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:40

I could have taken we we talked about that broken pane of glass. That's a I could take that. It's not that interesting, but I could take a picture of that. You know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:47

Yeah, well, I think that's why people love our Instagram because it's not that interesting. But we might not, you know, in in in uh in I don't know the word I'm looking for in unison, in conjunction with Wayne. We just won't post on Instagram. Right. In solidarity, solidarity with Wayne. We're not even gonna post on Instagram.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:09

Right. That's that's for that's for Wayne.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:11

Yeah. No, no posts this week. Wayne, there's nothing you're missing, nothing. You know what we could do is every time we take a picture, uh-huh, we can put post that we post on Instagram, we can just text it to Wayne. Yeah, or we could email it. Yeah. Or we could print it out and mail it in the mail. Yeah. This has been the very first podcast ever with a podcast inside a podcast. If you can find another copy of that, then if you can find another instance of that happening. Yeah, you won't, but if you did, you should let us know. You won't, but if you do, let us know. But if you do. Jared, has there ever been a podcast inside a podcast? Because Jared will know. He'll find out if he doesn't know. Certainly.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:51

What was the other thing we had for Jared? Did it have to do with the word theirs? No. Theirs with no apostrophe?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:57

No. Oh, it was something that Steve said, and he we said, Oh, we know something.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:01

Oh yeah, just now, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:02

Um what was it?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:04

Yeah, I already forgot. We said Jared would know. Isn't that bad? What didn't it have to do with like technology or something? I can't remember now. We talked about we He'll remember. We covered so many topics and areas. I'm just it's all kind of jumbled up in my head right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:16

My head is so jumbled up. Okay. Number one, podcast. Four people write us. Don't forget to write us every week, even if it's dumb stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:27

Especially if it's dumb stuff. Oh shit, I wasn't recording this all the time.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:33

Yeah, you are.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:34

That's just joking.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:36

What are you talking about?