Episode 33 (TK's wedding, Beer& Brewing, Adventure & traveling)

Hot Ashes Podcast – TK’s Wedding, Wild Adventures & Beer Talk

TK is freshly married and back in the lounge. We break down his epic wedding (bouncy house, vows, after‑party at 34 North), swap insane off‑roading and Utah flash‑flood stories, geek out on craft beer and brewing, and nerd out on one wheels, e‑bikes, and life in Vail, Colorado.

If you like cigars, good beer, wild stories, and smart trash talk between friends, you’ll feel right at home.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:06

I didn't realize how crucial that was until I was doing it. Yeah. Yes. So I'll turn your mic up once we do the actually so your mic will have to be really close, like this. And let me just hear you do a little sound check type video. Yeah, a little louder. Like closer. There you go. See how loud I am? Yeah. Now do your head set does your headphone sound alright? You want them louder or quieter? Good. Dope. Dope. Alright, ready?

SPEAKER_05 0:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 0:45

Well, that wasn't it. Okay, here we go. Welcome back to the Hot Ashes Podcast. I'm Lee. TK back. We got TK back in the house. Back in the building, baby. Back in the building. So we're going to be talking about all his shenanigans that he's been up to lately.

SPEAKER_05 1:14

And what's to come still.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

Yeah, more shenanigans coming. We've also got a new guest on. We'll get to him in a minute. And later on, I believe we're going to have Solange as well, but she's helping some customers. Doing the doing the thing. Doing that thing. So first off, let me start off with what I'm smoking. I am smoking a George's box press torpedo right now. I will be right after this smoking a My Father the Judge by My Father. Those are good. The judge by my father. I do like very good. Well, the thing is, I think they s they taste very similar to the George's Box Press torpedoes.

SPEAKER_05 1:52

Maybe that's sub uh subconsciously why I like them.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Well, I think that it's for the money, I like the George's one, but my father, you really can't ever go wrong because I had the Le Bijou before, too, and that's those are good. Very good. You know, it's a little longer or whatever. I like a longer smoke, giggity. Oh, I should have done the giggity. And I am drinking back to the OG. Pernicious. Sweet, delicious, pernicious. It is good. TK, what are you smoking? What are you drinking?

SPEAKER_05 2:18

Shout out to Salarns. This was a wedding gift. I'm smoking Rocky Patel 30th anniversary.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

I'm glad you said that. I have your wedding gift in that card over there.

SPEAKER_05 2:27

Oh, sweet. Thank you. And this is actually phenomenal already. So I can already tell it's gonna be great. Let me see the label.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

Nice. Classy joint.

SPEAKER_05 2:38

It's the one on the coffee table. I'll check it out. Yeah, it's pretty good already. Um, and then I'm just twinning with you, dude.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

You did the crown cut, huh? Yes, if you don't know what the crown cut is, is when you take a V cut and you cut one way and then the other way, and it makes a little It's noise.

SPEAKER_05 2:55

It's noise. But yeah, the pernicious is what I'm on. And I like I was telling you out before we started recording. Woo!

SPEAKER_03 3:02

You drank a little bit of beer this test. We'll get into that.

SPEAKER_05 3:05

We'll get yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Yeah, we'll get into that story. All right, who do we have on microphone three?

SPEAKER_06 3:12

What's up, everybody? I'm Mark. Mark. Welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

And what are you smoking?

SPEAKER_06 3:18

A acid Cuba Maduro.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

That is the first I I knew I knew that smell. That's the first cigar I ever smoked. That's what got me into smoking cigars.

SPEAKER_06 3:27

I'm getting back into them a little bit. The Cuba.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

It's spicy. It's like there's a little bit of spice to it. It's not bad though. I miss that smell. That's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_06 3:37

Yinling here.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Yangling. Can't go wrong, wait. Noise. And you'll turn that on. As you usually do. And then we will be getting to microphone four. No stranger. No, the bottom, very bottom. There, you just hold that in. Alright, and then say something. And maybe give it to me and I'll do it. She doesn't know how to push buttons. I'm gonna sneeze. Take over.

SPEAKER_05 4:06

I've seen the light turn on.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

That's a takeover. Alright, what are you smoking?

SPEAKER_00 4:14

I'm about to try a girl with no name. It's from the Deadwood Estates. Um Yeah, I haven't tried this one yet, but I figured if I'm gonna be in the podcast from start to beginning, I'm gonna turn it to finish. I'm gonna yeah, it's a long one.

SPEAKER_05 4:29

Giggity.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Yeah. A long and then I'm drinking Keeper's Heart. Um Keeper's Heart? Irish whiskey. Mostly because I'm just helping run the bottle empty.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

Oh, I gotcha. I'll tell you what. Give me two seconds, I'm gonna go get your wedding. Okie doke. Sounds good.

SPEAKER_05 4:51

Don't kill yourself.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

I love your glasses.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Where'd you get them?

SPEAKER_05 4:56

New sports shop. $20.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 4:58

And they're polarized.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yeah, and they're purple.

SPEAKER_05 5:01

I like. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 5:03

Let's go, baby. Thank you. Did you have another Knob Creek? Nob Krieg. Nob Krieg.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Blender's Edition.

SPEAKER_05 5:10

This is awesome. Thank you. This is gonna cause You're welcome, man. I didn't know what you what you wanted, so this is gonna cause bodily damage, but it will get drank. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome, man. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

And he's smoking my wedding gift.

SPEAKER_05 5:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 5:22

Yeah, and that's what reminded him. Can we roll into that? Because that was a a fun time. We all had a fun time there.

SPEAKER_05 5:29

Yeah, I'm married now.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

You are married. I noticed you look really tired and stuff. Is that because you're married now?

SPEAKER_05 5:35

Nah. Well, Brooks walked up and I was like, I'm still alive. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, that was you know a couple weeks ago.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

But um But somebody said they saw you guys and the whole wedding party was like drinking at Lowe's. Yes. Afterwards the next day.

SPEAKER_05 5:51

The next morning. Oh, that's so from front to back, man. That was it was epic. I guess um my opinion's biased because it was my wedding, but you know how like the cliche is don't get too hyperfixated on stuff because there's something that's gonna go wrong.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Right, right.

SPEAKER_05 6:06

The flowers might not look how you blah blah. Thought everything was awesome, dude. It was no hiccups.

SPEAKER_03 6:12

It was dude, I loved so. Talk about the I I hiccuped a lot at the end. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

When I'd gone home, I was very hiccupy.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

Yeah, and these two, her and Cody, like, let's go to 34. I'm like, bro, I've been out all I had a gig that day. That's right. I forgot about it. I was all sunburned, and that's why my head's peeling. And I was like, but I mean I could gig second wind. But I was like, dude, I think it ain't a second wind that's gonna bring me to 34 north that that night.

SPEAKER_05 6:39

Yeah, right. I guess so.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

But I love that the the groomsmen and the uh and all the uh mate, whatever they're called, the bridesmaids women ones. The women the bridal party, the bride party. Everybody was cracking beers and stuff right when they got up there. That was funny.

SPEAKER_05 6:54

I know. I was just like, me and Nicole aren't gonna do it, but y'all can. Like, I don't care about that.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Yeah, and then the dude came up with the flower girl, and he had like the thing with the bearding out. Yeah, that was cool.

SPEAKER_05 7:05

Yeah, it was fun, man. It was it was a good time. I knew it was gonna happen. It went by too damn fast.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

I was trying to like not like savor the time. Yeah, I know, dude.

SPEAKER_05 7:17

It was like I blinked my eyes and it was like, all right, the wedding coordinator was like, it's time to get on the shuttle to go to 34. I'm like, we just got started. Where did you get married? Now what did you get married at? Right around in Pelletier down highway 58. Okay, nice. Yep. Real nice place. I've never been there. Awesome. Yeah, it was super legit.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

That actually confused me when your the invite said 213 West, and then it said 213 West. I'm like, wait, which is it? But that's like the name of the actual title. Yeah, because they have a big sign out front. It's pretty nice.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

That's I've been to many weddings, and that's the first one that I've ever seen, a bouncy house.

SPEAKER_03 7:47

Oh yeah. I didn't even know it in it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they had socks there for if you didn't have socks, you can just use them and throw them in the thing. I don't know if it was like a kids-only thing going on there.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

No, it's like it was like a it was all white and it was like a heart shape to get into it. Like it was cool. Yeah, it was a good like photo pin.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

And later on, there were adults on it.

SPEAKER_05 8:05

100% falling all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

You could tell they hadn't bounced up. And it was a surprise from Nicole.

SPEAKER_05 8:11

So I like showed up. I didn't know that that was a thing. So I showed up and I was like, Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_03 8:17

When was the hardest to speak and not cry? Bro, the obvious when I was saying my vows. I know, dude. Well, when you saw her, everybody says this. As soon as you started, like, everyone was like, my allergies.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Did you think you were going to cry?

SPEAKER_05 8:35

I felt like I knew I was going to, but like right before when we were lined up about to go walk, and I was like, Am I gonna cry? I was like, I might not. Yeah, and then it was like, Oh no, you are. Yeah, but it don't matter what you want. You're crying. It's like my body decided for me. I was it's like, you definitely are. But yeah, it was brutal in a good way. And dance with my mom was like, Oh my god, that was cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

And Nicole did good on her on her and your guys' vows were like so similar, dude.

SPEAKER_05 9:05

And I did it was not.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

I knew as soon as you said it and she laughed. I knew y'all didn't plan that. It was it was cool when they said their vows, they said very similar things. Like, I know I could be a handful sometimes. We both were like, I know I'm a handful sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 9:17

Like we both said that part, and I was like, Well, we are. Yeah, it was good. Point taken. Now we now you can't be mad at me for it because I said it in my vows. I told you, I warned you, and you said I do.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Yeah, I'm glad Carl and uh Marie were able to make it too. That was cool.

SPEAKER_05 9:32

It was awesome, man. It was I there was people there that I haven't gotten to see in a while. Andy, there were so many people that I knew. I was like, Oh sh, I forgot you knew TK. Yeah, bro. So it was like the perfect mix of people because I had friends there that haven't met like friends, I don't know how to phrase it, like friends from different eras of my life.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Yeah, yeah. And it's always hard to have events like that because you're bringing all these friends who don't know each other together. But they all met flee. They it was awesome. No doubt like I got along with your friends like I knew them forever, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 10:02

That's awesome to hear. Yeah, it was cool. That was a good time for you.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

But I always worry about parties like that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

It's like I think my favorite part was the magic mic song when you had to uh dance on her in her chair.

SPEAKER_05 10:14

No one really even needed to have to be exposed to that. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Did you did you walk inside with your lit cigar and keep smoking while you were dancing? It was never lit. Okay, because I we saw you in there, like he's in there with a cigar right now, just dancing on the dance floor.

SPEAKER_05 10:28

I was just trying to feel like a boss.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:32

It was fucking funny.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:36

Please know. Is that a video? Oh lord. A day that will live in infamy.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

I guess that's the song.

SPEAKER_05 10:45

We don't have copyright to that song. Dude, it was I did my best, okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

Yeah, yeah. No, it was fun, dude. And I love your dad. He's freaking awesome. He's the coolest dude, man. He's yeah, everybody was saying that, dude.

SPEAKER_05 11:00

Terry's freaking awesome. He was, I could tell he was super excited, but like his demeanor, he's like, his personality is like, I'm never gonna admit that to you. Yeah, that this is like the best day of my life. But the way that he was acting, I was like, You're having a blast.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Oh man, he was absolutely having a blast.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

He kept telling everybody how thankful he was that we were at his son's wedding.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

Yeah, yeah. Oh, you should have seen how excited he was to see me. I was like, bro, I told you I was gonna be here. Like, what are you talking about? Of course I was gonna be. Right. You did the same thing. I told him I saw you, you were like, Bro, I was like, yeah, told me.

SPEAKER_05 11:34

I didn't know if you were gonna be there. What tricked me out is that you were for there for the ceremony because I thought you were gonna hit the reception.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Because of the gig, yeah, no, no. RSVP, my ass is in that seat, dude.

SPEAKER_05 11:45

It was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

The food was good, the open bar was good as soon as I found out they had IPAs. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_05 11:52

We did know there was gonna be some IPA drinkers in the building, so yeah, you know. Open bar. Yeah, yeah. IPA, that's yeah, it's a bold strategy. It was a bold strategy.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

He knows if you're and they had uh our friends from 34, a couple bartenders that we know from 34 over there, so that was cool. I was like, ah, Paul Boston. You got all the famous Paul G. Bought what the venue. Oh, yeah, I heard it.

SPEAKER_05 12:15

I heard it owns since the beginning of April, he owns that now. I gotcha, yeah. And him, he went 50-50 with him, and I think his sister-in-law is it.

SPEAKER_03 12:21

But that's yeah, it was so cool. I was like, No, I know you guys. So it's like, and I went up because I didn't see any IPAs. I saw like Natty Light and freaking. That was my signature drinking drinking, and I was like, Okay, I see wine. And I was like, I went up to Lauren and she goes, she knows me from 34, so she's like, we got a hazy IPA. And I was like, I was gonna have to get one. See, hook it up. I'm here for the people, bro. No, it was good.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

We drink beer, Nicole's a bartender. She's not gonna, she's like, we have to have at least one.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Yeah. Like, oh man, it was great. So you're a beer guy, you're a uh like what would you call yourself a beer snob?

SPEAKER_06 12:57

I hate to say that.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

Some people think I am, but I think I am because I don't like certain crappy beers that you you need to grow up on, you know.

SPEAKER_06 13:03

That's fair. I'd say um I'm educated in it, so I know what to look for. I know what you like craft beer. Quote unquote quality is and what what's not quality. So I like craft beer.

SPEAKER_03 13:14

Kraft beer is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 13:15

Kind of hit its plateau a few years ago for sure.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

Yeah, New Belgium. It's like uh six million barrels or less. If it's any more than that, it's no longer a craft beer or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

It's uh like craft independent type stuff. Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, it's it's one of those things in if you build a tech company, yeah. The whole thing's to do is to make it so big that you sell it. Oh yeah, yeah, there you go. But you do that in something crafty, especially beer, then your sellout is kinda contradictory. Which is actually the business mission to buys it and Izer. Exactly. You get water big and then nobody wants you, it's it's kind of a crapsheet, honestly. Yeah. The guys that can kind of do it and stay regional, stay within a state and crush it, kind of like uh what's your favorite?

SPEAKER_03 14:03

Like, do you like uh IPAs at all? Do you like uh Guinness? Do you like it?

SPEAKER_06 14:08

I like what's considered clear beer, clean beer. So like what's that? Like a West Coast IPA, similar to the traditional style and why IPAs of what you would think, like kind of the more hoppy bitter, resin y, tiny.

SPEAKER_05 14:24

Like what buddy was drinking, the high ali or whatever?

SPEAKER_06 14:27

Yeah, similar to that from uh Cigar City in Tampa.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

Yes, so that uh there's a threshold for me with that to where it's like too much, like the voodoo ranger, like the juicy IPAs and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Well, that's also like nine percent, isn't it? The tall boys are yeah.

SPEAKER_06 14:49

Yeah, those beers are just like tailored for just juice bombs and super high high-rated hops and I don't like any of those fruity beers either. I mean, like a a true sour, like a true well-done open fermented in a cool ship sour is great. I love sour though. Yeah, if you use whole fruit and you rest it in oak, I like it.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Sour is trying sour because I don't remember if I've ever tried one. I like them. I like it really too.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

Phenomenal beers, but everybody you can.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Is it in fact sour? I'm I'm imagining it is because if my logic from you know liquor or wine is any or cigars is any indication, I probably would like it because I started off with a sweet wine, went all the way as dry as I can get. Yeah, and same thing with cigars. I want the darkest freaking coffee, I just black, you know. That was my favorite.

SPEAKER_06 15:41

I went to brewing school for two years, and that was okay. That was my favorite. That was my favorite part of other than learning the processes and whatnot of how to actually brew, like the actual sensory training and learning about flavor profiles and how to identify stuff is oh cool.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

I feel like you can't be called a beer snob then if you've actually had education in it.

SPEAKER_06 16:00

Well, once you sit down and talk with me for five minutes, you're like, Yeah, he is a snob, but at least he knows what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

No, I don't think that's the snob. I think the snob is like the I only drink this. No, you know, that you know whatever. See, my favorite beer is a free beer.

SPEAKER_06 16:11

Knowing about something doesn't make me my favorite beer is a free beer, is what I tell people. So it's like for me, I'm like, dude, I only drink two kinds, yours and mine. Until I went to school and started hanging out with brewers and just got interested in it. It was Yinglings. I thought Yingling was like fancy beer, you know. Right. But um yeah, because it's not Bud Light. Right, yeah, it's just really cool to Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

I uh well now you're back to your roots with the Yingling full soak full circle moment.

SPEAKER_06 16:39

Crushing some red oaks the other night.

SPEAKER_05 16:40

Yeah, I like red oaks too, but I've had a night off of those before, so my palate on that is kind of on chill right now.

unknown 16:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:47

Nah, man, I I'd just be putting down some perunies. I dude, if I can't do that. Like if we go to the bar together and like that's what I'm drinking, you're not gonna have an Irish good body on it.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

I'm gonna be hammered. A lot of people try that when we're out. And I'm like, bro, we're Uber and so we're good, but like you cannot be pounded with me, dude. And that's just because I'm used to this beer. It's not like I have some high alcohol tolerance, you know. I'm not gonna do that with whiskey. I'm not gonna go, I'm not, you know what I mean? I'm not taking shots because why would I want to go quick?

SPEAKER_05 17:17

Well, that's why I like to drink natural lights. I like to drink 18.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:25

It's super social, but if like there is a part of me that likes to go to a grocery store bar and have like what they have on tap for a craft beer, too.

SPEAKER_06 17:35

Is it Lowe's Foods got the beer gardens?

SPEAKER_05 17:37

I'm not shouting anyone out. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Just joking. Yeah, that's the one I've got to do. We always shout people out.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

What are you talking about? That's corporate. That's corporate. Well, do you hang out there? You're already supporting a lot. You're already supporting, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

And also, you said Lowe's, and I just realized that anybody who's listening who doesn't know that Lowe's is a grocery store might think that you're drinking at the hardware.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

So we call it ladies. That would be lit, though.

SPEAKER_06 18:02

In the parking lot is terribly bad.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

Like he lows or she lows, that's what they call it. Like he loes is the Mr. Lowe's. Yeah, Mr. Lowe's or Mrs. Lowe's. Mrs. Lowe's is the food one.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

I just love that Lowe's in in Cape Carteret, Lowe's and Lowe's are right by each other. So even if somebody says I'm going to Lowe's, and if all that matters to you is the distance or whatever, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03 18:24

In between both of them.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

Now, how cool would it be if you could drink inside of uh Lowe's, the the man's Lowe's? That'd be a problem. Nah, because I would try tools.

SPEAKER_05 18:33

I'd be wanting to buy stuff. Yeah. I already want to buy it.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

You don't think you want to buy munchies and food and stuff when you're in Lowe's foods?

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Just go to Lowe's and then go to Lowe's.

SPEAKER_05 18:41

It's a psyop. They know what they're doing. Yeah, they know what they're doing. You drink two like seven percent IPAs, and you're like, dude, um, you just reactivated your grocery list. Like seven new things just got active. Just got real hungry.

SPEAKER_06 18:52

Yeah, just got real hungry. Well, they got at Lowe's now is the the clothing sections with no fitting rooms. Have you seen these?

SPEAKER_03 18:59

In Lowe's Lowe's, like Mr. Lowe's hardware. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:02

Oh, for full-out clothing sections, no fitting rooms.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah, I see a bunch of shirts and stuff on like that one rack.

SPEAKER_06 19:08

I saw a video of a plumber dropping drawers the other day just trying on some some old.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

He's like, well, if you're not gonna be like, dude, I mean it's it's here. I gotta try it on. I tried on a wetsuit today. Oh my god. That was fun, wasn't it? It did not fit.

SPEAKER_05 19:19

It's too tight. Uh I do want to give a disclaimer. I love Lowe's. I didn't mean to sound like a hater. Oh, I love Lowe's too. But uh To all my Lowe's people out there.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

Lowe's Foods, I love y'all. I got my uncle's wetsuits, and I tried because they're nice wetsuits, and he doesn't you know dive or anything anymore. But I figured, you know, maybe in the winter for the kayaking or something. Nah, it's not happening. They don't fit. I was like, I was jumping around. It was like scene from a movie. I didn't order it, it's what was my uncle's. Oh he gave them all to my mom. So that's what my mom's my mom's gonna sell them. I'm not doing all that.

SPEAKER_06 19:53

Yeah, once you do that, you just go get a bigger wetsuit. Yeah, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 19:57

But I'd only tried one on, so but he's smaller, he's smaller than me. He's harmony surf supply or like birch or something. I don't need one, I just was gonna get a free one, so that's all.

SPEAKER_05 20:08

Yeah, okay. Well then don't go spend five hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_03 20:10

Yeah, because don't you have a bunch of kayak uh gear that you wear in the wintertime? Like a you have a bib or something you got.

SPEAKER_05 20:16

Yeah, but that's more that's not like waterproof, it's just like a layer over me. So it's like if I land a fish, I just set it in my lap and I get my clothes all slimy. A little sun protection.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

When are we when are we all going out kayaking? We should do that.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

I was gonna text you today and be like, Lee, it's a great day to go kayaking. You should go.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Yeah, but then I had the show.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Earlier.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

That's true. I think my back is good enough that I can actually take that thing out now. Has your back been torched? Dude, for three weeks now. Four weeks maybe. I don't know how long I've been talking about it. Did I just launch how long has he been talking about it?

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Oh my god, too long.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

I have an appointment coming up, speaking of which.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

What did you what you done did? I I have two bulging discs and dignitive disc disease. I messed it up in the Marine Corps. But you know, it gets better when you push them in and stuff. It's fine. Shit'll shit'll buff.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah, but there's something I think I think there is like a disease amongst men where like you love complaining about what hurts. And if you feel sick, I hate it. But you still do things as if it's not a problem. Like there was one day that Lee, and this was like at the pinnacle like so he's grueling over his back, and and it was like when it hurt real bad.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Yeah. Grueling.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Yeah, I I thought that. I was like, that's not a right word, is it?

SPEAKER_05 21:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

It is now. And so um, but he grabs his one wheel and he's like gonna go get the cases of water from his truck.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Well, I one wheeled up with penny and all my bags.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Yeah, I remember that's a one wheel with a frickin'. Cases of water with your back.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

I was standing up straight so it didn't hurt that bad.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

I was like, give me your keys.

SPEAKER_05 22:06

Oh my gosh. What if you would have taken a spill, boy? You would have been in trouble. I've taken two spills.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

And that's the same with George. George keeps trying to play 18 holes. I was like, play 18 holes, but I just don't want to hear about your knee.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Yeah, like if you're gonna make your your if you're gonna make your your injury your injury worse, then don't complain about it anymore because you are actively making it worse. We tell him all the time, you you can't, first of all, you can't tell George anything. He's not gonna listen. He's set in his ways. And he he said that to you. Sweetie, I'm an old man. You're not going to change me. Yeah, because we're always like, George, man, if we just did this and moved that and moved, put these here, is like I'm not doing that.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

No.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

No, no. It's fine.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Brother Greg Cigar, let's sit down. Let's sit down our ass.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Yeah. We love you, George. We love you.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

We do. And we'll have him on on episode 50. Anything uh about the wedding that you left out? That whole way, I don't, dude. Because you went on like a a like a you weren't sober for a few days after that, were you?

SPEAKER_05 23:16

All the 15 people that came to live at my house weren't for three days straight.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

You said I'm finally becoming human again, dude. It was super gnarly. Um just light the side that's not here. Just light the side that's not uh what that's called is called canoeing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

I thought you knew that.

SPEAKER_05 23:38

But yeah, we uh we went hard. Yeah. Sunday, the day after the wedding, we went to Riptides and did karaoke food, and I was like, yo, come to a cool spot to get beers during the day.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.

SPEAKER_05 23:51

We were just it was like time didn't exist because there's people there that you know we from both sides, like Nicole's friends from New York and my friends from just back in the day. And like I said, everybody was getting along like they already knew each other, so it was like not to sound corny, but time did not exist. We were just in the bar, like just turning up.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

New friendships have blossomed. Yes, 100%. That's what's cool.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

People are like, yo, I gotta get your number, bro.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Like see, a marriage is not just the marriage between those two people, it's the marriage between two families, two cliques, two friend groups, and you know, a lot of times at weddings, I I guess that's the one good thing about a wedding. I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

The one good thing.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

What the singular only good thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

I can't think of a good thing about a wedding other than whatever it was you just said.

SPEAKER_05 24:39

I'm tainted.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Continue.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Yeah, go on.

SPEAKER_03 24:43

No, no, no. That was that was it. That was the best thing about it is that you, you know, all these people get to know each other. Yeah, it was cool. And a lot of time.

SPEAKER_05 24:50

Not that I ever thought that it wasn't gonna be that way, but for me to think it and be like, I knew it. Well, you always gonna work.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

You always kind of feel too like you have to uh I gotta go talk to this person, this group, and then I gotta go talk to that group, and I have to make sure that I'm with each group. But if they were just like the whole group's like boom, we're all a group.

unknown 25:07

Ah, cool.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

Yeah, not a lot of people get that.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

It was crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think that's pretty neat. Uh, and then so you went to Mexico, you come back, you get married, then you go on like a bender for a few days with your buddies.

SPEAKER_05 25:21

I don't really want to just describe it that way.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

A real bender, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

But you're enjoying each other's in the way you know how.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

How how is it uh after having been married a couple weeks? Like, how do you feel any different or is it the same?

SPEAKER_05 25:35

I feel more mature, if that makes sense. But you guys have been- I feel like I did some like super we wouldn't know grown man thing. Mark nine.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Well, that's okay. But you I feel like I did like an adult thing.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

But you guys were together for a long time before that, nine years. Ten years.

SPEAKER_05 25:54

Yeah. So I don't know. That's enough time. I don't know why how how to describe that, but I feel like I did something like adult. Yeah.

unknown 26:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

George tells me never get married.

SPEAKER_05 26:04

So where's your wife right now? My wife was at Lowe's.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

I just wanted to say where's your wife?

SPEAKER_05 26:11

Because it's so we had this phone there that was like, I wish we would have broadcasted it more so people could have like done more, but there was a phone there, and it's like you could pick it up, and it's like you leave a message, and it's like we get the file, we get the sound files. So there was one up there that I like I picked it up and I left a message, and I was like, Hey, just want to let you know I was out front earlier and I got to say this for the first time because I really wanted to know where you were. I was like, Where's my wife? Then all I had to do was look through the people, and there she was on the dance floor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

My wife.

SPEAKER_05 26:42

My wife. This is my wife. It was good vibes, though, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

What we were leaving uh trivia, and then it was like ever so many people were drunk on our way out, and there was this old guy just like hitting on these. I don't know, it was just a bunch of guys circled around these two chicks, a mother-daughter combo. And and the guy was like, Yeah, well, my name's Jeff, and then on our way out, Mark's like, Manimja.

SPEAKER_03 27:10

I was as soon as you said that, that's what I was thinking. Manimja. Before he said it out loud, that's what I was thinking. He was thinking good.

SPEAKER_05 27:17

I hope everybody heard that too.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Yeah, I hope everybody heard that.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

Actually, can I have one of those yinglings? Yes, they go on a beer run.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Okay, so how I know Mark.

SPEAKER_05 27:30

That's what I was about to ask you.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Yeah. He um so he's my buddy from Vail. I met him in Eagle, Colorado. And uh I was dog sitting while he was couch surfing.

SPEAKER_06 27:45

And so my definitely moved back and couch surfing.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

He was living out of his extero just before that. Right?

SPEAKER_06 27:55

Well, I just moved back to Colorado and was uh waiting to move into my house. So it just so happened that the house she was dog sitting for was also my good friend and they were just roommates. So I was very cross path and sat on the couch.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

So do you snowboard? I do. Wait, was that the story about how y'all met?

SPEAKER_00 28:14

Um sort of. Kind of not not to the extent of when we when he he I guess decided he had respect for me or something. But um She called me out. Yeah, I called him out. So that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 28:27

Dude tries that all the time with me, but it's not gonna happen. No, I messed up. It was a a moment where I made a mess and uh It was reasonable. Just uh, you're not thinking, had a couple beers and made a little bit of a mess. No, it wasn't it was my buddy's house, too. So I knew I was gonna clean it up later, and she just got to it first.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

And I was like, You can say what it was. All right, I got a little bowl.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Uh bong water spilled everywhere.

SPEAKER_06 28:49

No, it wasn't it was in the sink, it was just like rinsing out a little bowl, right, in the sink. And totally my buddy's house. I've yeah. But was gonna clean it up then. I don't know. I think she got to it first and was like essentially called me out on it and I was like, that's cool that you're looking out for the house. And I respected her for it, essentially. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Well, his buddy has a hard time cleaning up in general keeping things clean. And Mark and I are the cleaner of every roommate that we tend to total stoner movement when you're like, I'll get that later.

SPEAKER_06 29:19

Yeah, I know. Like Mark is famous last words, yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

But both sides of the sink were filled, and I was just gonna knock it all out, and then I was like, ew, the right side smells like resin, and it just smells so gross. And I was like, Mark's gonna have to do that side of the sink. I like barely knew the guy. And I was like, hey, I did this side, you want to do that side since it smells like bowl.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

Old bowl. Classic, classic stoner, but I promise I was heading back to clean it up probably the next morning. But you know, you're late at night, just getting a little stone before bed. Like I'm gonna hit them dishes later, but we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

No, he ended up taking over my lease when I moved back here. And um, or when I moved here, I should say. And um, and he was gonna be living with my roommates, and I was usually the one cleaning up after the the three of us. And so I knew that he was gonna have a problem a little problem with that because I know that he keeps things clean, I keep things clean. It's not that hard. So really we should just be roommates.

SPEAKER_05 30:26

That seems like the optimal situation, and at the very least, your living space would be tidy.

SPEAKER_06 30:31

It's very clean now. Which the old roommates moved out, so I've taken over the old house. I wouldn't have my house in Vale if it wasn't for solo.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

So and the price is good. Very good.

SPEAKER_05 30:41

I've also banged my head against a wall with Nicole about like she tells me for 10 years, literally. She was like, if everywhere that you're living is clean, it's way easier to be in a good mental headspace if your living area is clean. And I'm like, that's true, whatever. Like you said, it's easy to self-justify not cleaning up, you know what I mean? You can be like, I'm gonna, yeah, yeah. I'm like terrible at it, but I've gotten better over time, and now I'm starting to see like when you walk in the house and it's all clean, it's peaceful, yeah. It feels better.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

It's peaceful.

SPEAKER_06 31:13

Uh I was always the roommate, like, I don't care what your room looks like, I don't go in your room, but this is right, yeah. This is our shared living space, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:20

Nicole's gonna watch this and be like, dude, you don't even clean, I clean. Love you. All right, continue. That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Yeah, oh, but he lives his he grew up in Jacksonville.

SPEAKER_03 31:29

That's what you were telling me off camera. Yep, because dad was a marine, dad was a marine, mom worked on base.

SPEAKER_06 31:34

Yeah, dad, dad was a marine, mom worked on base.

SPEAKER_05 31:37

That's literally my combo, same combo, bro.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Well, as soon as you said you live you're from Jacksonville, I was like, Your dad was a marine. 100% or mom, but it's usually you know that's that's the only way you get there.

SPEAKER_06 31:48

Or you're a contractor, you're you're building something for the Marines or in the military, but I told him that Havelock is Jacksonville Jr.

SPEAKER_05 31:57

It kind of is, it really is. It is.

SPEAKER_06 31:59

I was born in Okinawa and don't remember it at all, and then my earliest memories were 29 palms. Ew, gross. 29 palms, and I don't know. Joshua Tree was cool. Kind of my earliest memories are climbing on rocks, so yeah, and we ended up here.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

And now he takes his Xtera to all sorts of off-roading adventure.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

You do like the rock climbing stuff. Yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Not rock climbing, but rock crawling.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

That's what I meant. Like crawling with the Xtera.

SPEAKER_05 32:28

Is Busco Beach still the thing?

SPEAKER_03 32:30

Yeah. Well, I don't know if it still is, but we used to go down there with our our four-wheelers and stuff and just party.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

Where?

SPEAKER_03 32:38

It's about two hours away. Where? I don't even know where it is. Maybe one hour south of here or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 32:43

It's like yeah in the cut.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

It's like a muddy. It's like south of here. I can't remember where it be. It is redneck heaven.

SPEAKER_06 32:51

I mean, it's like it's Wahila, Wahila National Forest.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

I have no idea. It's like a bunch of mud holes where people bring their four-wheelers.

SPEAKER_03 32:58

But you can you can either do mud or you can go on dirt trails or you can do tracks, like it's everything you want. Right. And so, like, we'd go off mud and one of the things.

SPEAKER_05 33:06

Oh, so you could bring like dirt bikes out there.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Yeah, dirt bikes, four-wheelers, those side by side.

SPEAKER_05 33:10

I've never been, so oh man.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

I never had a vehicle that was equipped for that kind of activity. It's so fun. So fun.

SPEAKER_06 33:18

That's my favorite thing. It's driving on a dirt road. Oh man. Getting muddy. Yeah. Well, I got rid of my ATV.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

So you had a um flash flood experience recently in Utah?

SPEAKER_06 33:30

Yeah. What? About two years ago, I got stuck on uh probably a road that maybe I should have planned a little bit better for, but definitely should have checked the weather. And um, I was out in Canyonlands National Park, and there's uh hundred-mile force service road that's maintained, and you go up from up on top of the canyon rim down into the canyon. And my whole intention was to do just the first third of it. Right. And then big old big old storm rolled in and it went into like hurricane force winds, torrential downpour, and everything flows down in a cannonball. Of course, and I'm down, as down as you can be. And for about five, ten minutes there it got a little squirrely and had a plan to kind of anchor myself to a tree if I needed, and you know, vehicles move in about two feet of water, and there was just about that much coming down off the canon. Yeah, and you're like, here we go. Here we go, man.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

So one of the Yeah, but you were by yourself, weren't you? I was about the same thing.

SPEAKER_06 34:32

Yeah, and then I do a lot of stuff by myself, and that was one of the times that I was pretty kicking myself and a little hard on myself. You're like, damn, I should have brought somebody. Yeah, it's yeah. Or you know, it just changes so quick when you're out in in areas like that. And you know, I I'd only planned to do a third of the I did about 30 miles that day and I was gonna turn around and go right back out the way I came, and the road actually got washed out behind me, so I had no what to no other choice but to uh Mother Nature was like, watch this. One of the coolest, most beautiful both both after the storm, where it all w it turned into hundred foot waterfalls coming off the cliffs, and everywhere I looked was water flowing and super beautiful rainbows in the desert. It was crazy. Like I'm looking around like nobody else is seeing this. Like this is kind of cool. Um straight like not geo status. Like I can show you some videos, but um one of the cooler moments of my life, and then that night the storms kind of lingered around. So at night there was huge lightning and thunder, so they would light up the desert and then just go dark, and for a second you see all the red the clouds. And there's no light pollution, so you see it all. No, you're you're so far out there that even on yeah, like on a full moon, there's so like the you can see for miles.

SPEAKER_05 35:43

I was about to say that's almost like the damn near the sun. That's when you need to have a telescope, man.

SPEAKER_06 35:47

It's awesome. No light pollution, you can see everything. One of the uh more buckering, stressful situations, but it's beautiful, and then the next day turned into the best thing ever. 18 hours of winching and digging, and got saved by some some Utah people, these guys rolled up these guys rolled up, and I was like, that's who I want to see. You know, like hell yeah. They're like, We got this. Old timers, dude, old timers and old uh 80s land cruisers rolled up, and I was like, What did they say?

SPEAKER_05 36:15

What was like the initial contact? They were like, Are you okay?

SPEAKER_06 36:18

Fuck are you doing out here? It was exactly what the old man said. And uh toss it. Yeah, just toss it. That's fine. Um, but I was kind of looking at him the same way because it was like him and all his kin out there. It was three of them, and right his grandpa, son, wife, you know, grandma, and then other wife, other wife. Out there driving around and took me 30 minutes. I'm like, that's a newborn. Like, that's like a six-month-old baby, not newborn, but you know what I mean. Like, that's a baby, it's an infant. So like when we all linked up and realized, like, oh, we're in the shit, and like, you know, I'm good off-roaded, but they had the the winches and the turbocharged Toyotas with everything, and so they were ready for it. I kind of just got in line and was like, you know, if I get laser trailer, if I'm getting out of here, if I'm getting out of here, it's with these guys, you know. So um, at one point we came across these other guys, and they literally were pulling out Starlink and sitting down to enjoy the night, and it was just like, yeah, that's not the move right now. We gotta keep moving. And uh it was just funny because they they mentioned that a tow truck was on the way, and we're like, hey no, there's nothing there's not a tow truck coming out here, bud.

SPEAKER_05 37:25

So how long of a drive was it to get to the furthest point you were out?

SPEAKER_06 37:29

Um, I mean it's a hundred mile loop, or not loop, but it's uh hundred miles. Um that's a lot. Yeah. Any way you cut it, that's a lot. Off-roading and some of it's white knuckle, uh like five thousand, six thousand RPM, just fucking giving it hell. Just by yourself to the sky. Like notice this guy alone? Huh? Oh yeah. Holy shit. I do a lot of stuff by myself. I've I've I don't like to. I guess somebody would have to sign up for that, maybe there's life to be seen, and I I just not gonna I'm single, so it's not it's like I just go out and get after it a little bit. But that was uh that was an eye-opening trip for sure. It seems like an adrenaline infused thing. Yeah, I've it was emotional for sure. Like every emotion I to that level though. I was I was got out of my truck at times and just screamed at my truck and walked a hundred feet, came back because I'm just like I've been that mad so just emotional. Like, I don't want it to be doing this anymore. Like it's it's enough. Like that's actually at that point a few times where I'm like, I'm gonna thank you, God, for testing me, but that's all I can handle. Thank you for the Japanese building cool trucks, honestly. Like, they build freaking tanks, man.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

Like so your car was fine. I mean, it worked just not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_06 38:45

It was uh I made it back, so I this was like an 18-hour ordeal that we we got back. I got we got off trail at four in the morning, just tired, covered in mud, dirt everywhere. We've been duging, digging, cutting trees. We rerouted the west side of White Rim Road on national. We had to at one point, we just was not nothing else to do. Yeah, I guess you have to. Yeah. I mean, they had mini chainsaws, we had winches, we had I mean, at one point we came to a wash that had been just completely 90 degrees eight feet straight down where the road was. Oh my gosh. So we're just like bro, that is insane. I started digging. We spent three hours just building a ring. I would have been scared.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

I'd have been pissed like him. I wasn't pissed.

SPEAKER_06 39:32

It was like to be honest, it's like you don't realize it's the best day of your life until you're out of it. You're like the next day, I was like sitting there, I was like, that was that was awesome. Like and now you have that story, right? It's like, what are these guys doing out here, and why did they show up when I needed them the most?

SPEAKER_05 39:47

And then I was able to help them, they were able to help me and just well, it's like what Lee was saying, it's like, dude, sometimes you're just tested in that way, and it's like, how are you gonna respond whenever that time comes?

SPEAKER_06 39:58

Absolutely, that is correct.

SPEAKER_05 40:02

100%, because the only thing that can fix this right now is me.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Yeah, I'm not sitting down pulling out Starlink, I'll tell you that much. Like, yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_03 40:08

Do you have Starlink?

SPEAKER_06 40:09

Uh, we just came past those guys that I'll just never forget.

SPEAKER_03 40:12

It's supposed to be a new like big thing that they like out in those remote locations where you've got satellite internet, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:18

And uh truthful, I'm thinking about getting it from my house because it's so reliable. I heard it's like super effective. Yeah, fifty bucks a month, and excuse me. I don't even know what I'm paying internet. But in the mountains, like probably more than fifty. Where I live with the the Wi-Fi and the internet's terrible, so it's like why not get this thing, have it on my deck. Directly from the source, have it on my deck, and when I go out in the woods, take it, link it on my truck and just be.

SPEAKER_03 40:43

Oh, that's a thing too, because you can take it anywhere that you go, and it you don't have to pay a different amount if you're gonna be on the road or something, you just use it.

SPEAKER_06 40:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 40:50

That's probably the coolest part about it.

SPEAKER_06 40:52

It's tricky to see the the satellite. You ever seen the satellites be been shooting up when Elon decides to shoot them up?

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Yeah, when they look like they have the cone.

SPEAKER_06 41:00

It's like uh just one solid stream of lights shooting up into the sky, very uniformed. Yeah, stops right before the first the first time you see it, it's pretty uh like that's aliens. That's a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

I've seen a UFO out in Utah.

SPEAKER_06 41:14

Middle of a the Starlink satellites going up.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Yeah, but I haven't seen them going out there.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

Isn't everything a UFO if you don't know what it is?

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 41:22

So if a jet goes over and you don't know what kind of jet it is, that's an unidentified flying object.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Yeah, but it wasn't a jet. Well, I'm just gonna it was something that I could not identify.

SPEAKER_05 41:33

Yeah, I'll be busting each other's ass, bro.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

But the thing I swear, but I couldn't identify what the hell it is. It did not move like anything that we have ever known to be in the sky.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

Yeah. Well, you know a UFO is real, aren't they?

SPEAKER_00 41:47

I saw one. Might have been the space station. You ever seen the no, it like the ISS?

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Yeah. It went that's just like a star. It moves like it just looked like a star, it just goes goes across.

SPEAKER_06 41:58

But it's in a totally different uniform direction. That thing looks like it has somewhere to be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Where most satellites are just kind of like this thing is like mine was like a like a orb light behind a cloud that didn't exist. I don't know how else to explain that. And then it disappears and then shoots that way, the other direction.

SPEAKER_04 42:22

That might have been and then it was gone.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

And we were all like, this is in the middle of a river trip. No, no, no. How many drugs have you done? I mean, we were there, but we all saw it.

SPEAKER_03 42:32

Yeah, but how many drugs have you done at this point? Have I done had you done at this point?

SPEAKER_05 42:37

Ever in your entire life.

SPEAKER_03 42:38

Like if you're if you're on the pan telling the story, a prosecutor picked that apart.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

Yeah, but but your vision only gets better.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Oh, sure.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

It does.

SPEAKER_03 42:49

And and we all I was like somebody was using a laser or some shit, and they're like, You guys do that? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

No, no way in hell. There is, it was too far away, too glowy of a light. There was no cloud, and then and it zips the other way after in a whole different. I know that I could not identify it, yeah, and it was flying, and and it was an object of some sort that emitted a light.

SPEAKER_03 43:17

They call them UAPs now. I don't know what what does that stand for? Uh yeah. Phenomenon. Yeah, unidentified aerial phenomenon.

SPEAKER_06 43:26

More inclusive.

SPEAKER_03 43:26

Yeah, but come on. Why do we need to change that? Like, what was the big decision behind we've got to change that?

SPEAKER_05 43:33

If someone needs a job, somebody was tasked with that. Yeah. Like, what can we rename it? Exactly. They need to print another book. They're like, we gotta sell more of these.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

I like how these NASA manuals, by the way. And look this up if you'd like to. Uh when they're when they're when they're doing flight characteristics, or I can send you a link. It says on on a flat, non rotating earth. Oh, NASA's own documents say that.

SPEAKER_05 44:00

I seen this video today. Actually, that's funny that you're talking about NASA. I seen this video on Instagram today, and it was like, this is a simulation of what it would look like if you went inside of a black hole. And it's all speculatory, just physics-based data that how they created it. It's theoretical, really. Exactly. And then at the end of the video, it's like it fades into the NASA logo, and it's somebody in the comments was like, So if I fall into a black hole at the end of it, I'm just gonna see the NASA logo.

SPEAKER_03 44:27

Like no, but uh, you know, Einstein's theory on wormholes and things like that.

SPEAKER_05 44:34

Well, they say there's also white holes that like get that stuff gets pitched out somewhere else. Like, cause energy or matter can't be created nor destroyed, it just changes forms.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

So like if it goes into a black hole, you're saying it comes out of a white hole, it comes back into the universe on some level somewhere. Oh, okay. Like there has to be a balance, yeah, kind of like the force.

SPEAKER_05 44:53

I can't remember who quoted that, but the energy cannot be or matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it just changes forms, I think. Yeah, it's I don't know if that's accurate quoted, but it's to that effect. I've heard that.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

And what we see is that light prism.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

So if you haven't seen, you gotta check out episode 32, the last episode, about minute marker or or whatever at 135 ish. Uh, we did a funny thing to salon, and she did I just showed her today.

SPEAKER_00 45:23

He's like, you know how I know you don't watch the shows?

SPEAKER_05 45:28

When like what the we said that we were gonna start doing that. Like I You should.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

I mean, also I was listening to myself say, I mean, let's start with.

SPEAKER_02 45:35

I did not want to even want to talk about what it was that I was asked to do.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

Because you knew that because I know that it is like like I get a basic understanding, and I have been and I was sitting in enough lectures that I get it, but trying to fast track the explanation of the retreat that I was on, and it's all quantum physics and everything, and trying and trying to explain that and out of my own voice while I'm on a podcast that people may or may not be interested in, and I hope that I give it it justice. I repeated the same thing three times and I didn't realize that. But I'm like trying to make a point, and and I didn't realize that I you're just trying to give it its due credit. Yeah. Well, the hard that's the hard thing about yeah. I didn't want to talk about quantum physics on here.

SPEAKER_05 46:27

And also it's like, can you really explain that? Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

You would have to sit through all the lectures that I did and trying to explain it on like a cliff note version was not what I was prepared to do.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

I think the funniest part though is that's right when all the MDs sat over here. And when you started talking about that, all their ears started perking up and they all started paying attention to what you were saying. Well, so I started talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 46:52

Yeah, the penal gland in the brain is uh the orgasm, or damn it, hang on.

SPEAKER_05 47:00

I've seen it.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

Yeah, the penile gland is the clitoris of the brain, and if you push the cerebral spinal fluid up, you can compress the crystals and have an orgasm in the brain.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

She just directed the colour. Y'all better start freaking bringing your own lighters, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

Mine is in there because there's some kidding, you don't have to customer enjoying the interior laptop.

SPEAKER_03 47:24

It's fine, it's fine. Uh no, that was hilarious, and you know it.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

It was.

SPEAKER_03 47:30

But I was I was so super stressed. No, but I was so stressed.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

But I laughed.

SPEAKER_03 47:34

It's because it's funny. I mean, that's it's meant to be funny. It's not a but what sucks is I was super stressed about editing that last episode because I haven't done it yet. Well, TK, he's having to talk to me through text, like, talk me through each little I'm like, click this, take it into here, put it in there. And I'm like, no, it's not working, dude. It's not compressing. This isn't working. That's not doing this. And I used to make videos like on YouTube and stuff, but everything's changing. I feel like we navigated it pretty seamlessly. It was late on Monday, but still got it through.

SPEAKER_05 48:00

I'm saying though, but now you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, like, okay. So now for this one, you can hone it in now.

SPEAKER_03 48:06

So now for this one, you know what you need to do. Almost the longest part is getting the files to the computer. I'm gonna send it in a text form. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'll be able to do it. But yeah, what you have to do is like these things are like 60 gigs by the time we're done. The videos are like 60 gigs. So you take these two 60 gig videos, right? You put them into the program, tell them to auto-align, giggity. You tell it to auto-align, then you put the sound under there where I do the claps at the beginning, and then you line it up by making it clap, by clapping that clap, and then you have to watch it, then you have to watch the show in real time so that you can pick which angle the camera is is facing based on who's talking.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

Wasn't it more fun that way than making AI do it?

SPEAKER_03 48:48

Oh no, it's very fun. Well, AI is still helping.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

That probably is the best edited version.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

AI still helping out because it lines them up.

SPEAKER_05 48:55

That is the most helpful thing because it lines them up based on the volume clips, too.

SPEAKER_03 49:00

So that makes it awesome. But then you you definitely have to manually click. I'm sure there's a way around it, but even with even with the short maker wizard that I've been using, right? Sometimes it'll make a short and it'll show the video like just right on the camera instead of the person who's talking. Right. So I'm like, bro, come on, man. It's not, it's here's a cool quote. It's almost good.

SPEAKER_05 49:19

It's human. See what I did there? Yeah. Like when you mess up and it's like, oh, I'm just only human.

SPEAKER_03 49:24

AI AI is trying to be like humans because they're trying to mess up like we do.

SPEAKER_05 49:28

Dude, what about that clip I sent you? I'm not trying to go down this rabbit hole, but that clip I sent you of Alex Jones or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Who's Alex Jones?

SPEAKER_03 49:35

Uh who's Alex Jones? Uh well, they would say like he's a big time InfoWars. Remember he was talking about InfoWars? He's kind of right after.

SPEAKER_05 49:44

Like, he's crazy kind of conspiracy. Yes and no. Oh, okay. Yes and no. He's right. He's right. He's been right a lot.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

A lot. He's the guy who got sued for the sandy hook. Like a billion bucks or something.

SPEAKER_05 49:58

When he was saying that sandy hook never happened, he's one of the frogs are gay.

SPEAKER_03 50:01

Yeah, turning the frogs gay.

SPEAKER_00 50:03

Oh, is he right about that too?

SPEAKER_03 50:05

I don't know what that. I don't know anything about that. I'm not a frog. Right after 9-11, he's the one that was coming out.

SPEAKER_06 50:13

The frogs are gay. Somebody's gonna clip that part. That's his main clip is the frogs are gay, and that's what they take. And you're like, that's Alex Jones. But yeah. Yeah, he's a wild dude, but get some wild, wild takes for sure.

SPEAKER_03 50:28

But some of the things he says like the frogs are gay. Open your eyes.

SPEAKER_01 50:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:33

How did we get there? What were you just talking about? A ribbot. Ribbit. Uh you asked about Alex. No, you asked about Alex. No, somebody. I brought him up, but what I didn't know. The clip.

SPEAKER_05 50:42

You had a clip of the club. Oh, clips. He sent me a clip of Alex. Oh, it was about we were talking about AI. So wait.

SPEAKER_03 50:50

We are always talking about AI. It was Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson watching him, right? Yeah, a clip of him. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 50:57

And he was basically just saying that. I can't I don't want to quote it because I'm going to misquote it.

SPEAKER_03 51:02

Well, yeah, but roughly.

SPEAKER_05 51:04

It's basically like all the information that we're putting into AI AI chat GPT. It's like creating this sentient universe.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

It's taking it all from everybody. Everybody that's using AI, it's learning you. And then once it becomes, I saw a different thing called AGI, which is artificial or something.

SPEAKER_04 51:23

We're dead already. Yeah, we're dead.

SPEAKER_03 51:24

And then that's when it becomes like Skynet. You know, like Terminator. Yeah. Dude, it's when it becomes self-aware, like it doesn't need humans anymore. It's going to look at us like we're inefficient. Doesn't need us anymore. We you're inefficient. You're just in the way. You're using resources and you're not. I'm from the future. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:42

Who's your daddy and what did you do? Okay, enough of the AI because it's like we know that it's gonna take over the world. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_06 51:50

But I use the hell out of it. Like episode 35, we called it.

SPEAKER_03 51:53

Hell, we I mean, how do you think I'm doing the thumbnails? That's AI. Yeah. But sometimes it's funny because I was just telling TK before the show, I'm like, Yeah, but you're just feeding it. Yeah, I know. Thank you. Thank you for reiterating exactly. You have got a firm grasp on the obvious. We just said that. You literally are saying exactly what we just said. You guys should find it.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

Tenacious D.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

She I'm gonna, she's a black belt in Taekwondo. Maybe you should put him down. And I'm gonna just I'm gonna triangle her or choke her out or something. She's not even gonna see it coming.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

He's already gonna be on the floor. It'll be too late.

SPEAKER_03 52:28

I will be on the floor because I'm gonna pull guard for a speed just to give you a chance.

SPEAKER_05 52:31

Alright. What did are we gonna we got some wagers on this?

SPEAKER_03 52:34

It's jujitsu, baby. She's easily ball uppable.

SPEAKER_06 52:39

Ball upable?

SPEAKER_00 52:40

I am flexible.

SPEAKER_03 52:41

So are you, so are you, so is he. That's jujitsu for you. You better get my name out your mouth. Keep my wife's name out your king mouth. Oh man. Exactly. Ah, screw him. That was wrong.

SPEAKER_05 53:01

I mean, which part was wrong?

SPEAKER_03 53:03

Uh going up and slapping a fucking comedian for making a joke, assaulting a man for making it for doing his job and making a joke. Don't come if you're so fucking thin skinned, you know?

unknown 53:13

Right.

SPEAKER_03 53:14

Like he never made fun of people.

SPEAKER_05 53:18

Right fucking.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

He's like, you see how big he is compared to me.

SPEAKER_06 53:23

And they were like, all right, on with the show. He was like, wait a minute, that guy just slapped that guy.

SPEAKER_05 53:27

Like, I'm not hosting anymore. I'm fighting now.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

I wonder if you can conceal carrying it. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05 53:35

Such a crazy thing.

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Because that's what I'd be doing. He's like, oh, you're gonna slap me, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_00 53:42

Have you ever seen a comedian?

SPEAKER_05 53:44

He said, I wonder if you can conceal carry at an event like that.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

Knowing full well that you can well, the security probably.

SPEAKER_06 53:52

Security. Yeah, live comedy is top notch. It can be top notch.

SPEAKER_05 53:58

I feel like comedy right now is like a at a crowd work. That's all it is, right?

SPEAKER_03 54:03

Well, it's also clips. It's also clips and TikTok and YouTube and stuff. And there's some funny motherfuckers out there, dude. Yeah. But it's but it's clips and clips and clips and clips, and it's like then you watch the full show and it's like a little bit of a little bit of set, you're like a clip.

SPEAKER_06 54:18

It's great to go see someone live, like concerts and stuff. I'd I'd never seen a comedy or a comedy show. They're they're great.

SPEAKER_00 54:24

I've only seen, you said Louis UK.

SPEAKER_06 54:28

I've seen Louis C. I like Louis C. Oh my god. That's amazing. He did Dude, I died laughing. He did like 20 minutes on putting his dad in a retirement home, and it was just so messed up, but like Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

I also like Tom Singer.

SPEAKER_06 54:40

I was like, dude, he's talking about putting his dad in a retirement home, but it's like the most hilarious stuff ever. And then he roasted uh farmers markets for like 20 minutes straight, which is hilarious because in Vale and Collard we love it. It's like all hoity things. Yeah, yeah, it's all overpriced soaps and hoity toity. Hoy toity. He just yeah. It it's cool to see it. See it live because like you said, everything's clips or everything's online nowadays. So Yeah, when you have more context and you see the whole joke instead of just the c you see the actual reactions from the crowd, and it's I mean, there's points where like I'm just bent over laughing. It's just it's so funny, and you know it's genuine because it's live. He's not I mean he is shooting, but he's got his he's got his routine, so he messes with it.

SPEAKER_03 55:25

Well, and they also feed off the crowd responses and stuff. So the better you are, the easier it is to that just doesn't give a shit.

SPEAKER_06 55:32

So to walk into Vale and to be just roasting his whole crowd is just amazing.

SPEAKER_03 55:36

That's awesome. Ben just went and saw uh Jim Jeffries, yeah. In Wilmington last weekend. That dude's funny, man. He is funny, but I tell you, I I'm I might be wrong here. I have a theory on Jim Jeffries. I feel he's very helpful, he's a very funny guy, very witty. But I think that a lot there's a a a high percentage of that humor. Yes, is that accent, man? That accent makes it funnier.

SPEAKER_00 56:02

I think it's always delivery.

SPEAKER_03 56:04

And that's yes, it is.

SPEAKER_05 56:05

But also, is that the dude that wears the suit with the mic or whatever?

SPEAKER_03 56:10

No, that's uh that's Jimmy Carr. Okay, okay, okay. And he laughs like that. That guy's brutal. He's funny too, but he it's crowd work, you know.

SPEAKER_06 56:19

I like the guys that you can tell like research life a little bit or like philosophical and stuff. Like he he he's got a way of turning life lessons into his comedy, and I like those kind of guys where I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 56:30

Well, and I like the wittier ones that are that are very good at whatever they come to be. And if you come up with something stupid, it's like, why is why is this a clip that wasn't good?

SPEAKER_05 56:38

Well, to quote Michael Scott, I'm not gonna get to say that too much in life, but anyway, comedy is like a revolving door, so like you get you don't get the revolving door effect from a clip. It's like there's stuff that's like tied in from the beginning of the show in the bit later. Yeah, that's like calling back to the earth. Really good.

SPEAKER_03 56:55

Yeah, I love when they do that.

SPEAKER_06 56:57

Bring like a joke back from an hour ago, yeah. It's like how they end the show, and you're like, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

So who are like the top five comedians right now? Right now, Gillis. I think Shane Gillis. It's hard to say. Uh it is hard to say because it depends on your algorithm. That's true.

SPEAKER_06 57:13

That's true because Kevin Hart or something like that. I can't remember. Not anymore. Not anymore.

SPEAKER_03 57:17

Honestly, Cat Williams is still the top of the Cat Williams.

SPEAKER_05 57:20

Yeah, we've had this conversation. Goddamn white baby is bad.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

Cat Williams has always been part of Cat Williams.

SPEAKER_05 57:25

Yeah, I'm only calling you bitches because I don't know your names individually.

SPEAKER_06 57:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:31

That baby got 725 credit score right now.

SPEAKER_05 57:34

I don't know if I could even do a top five, honestly, because there's so many different styles, and it's like well, that's what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_03 57:41

Like, podcasts have comedians on it too, like Andrew Santino or whatever. Santini or Santino Santino. Mark Norman dominantly. Bad Friends is so funny, dude. Tom Segura. Segura. Hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 57:56

Uh Pete Holmes. Have you heard Pete Holmes?

SPEAKER_03 57:58

Pete Holmes is great, dude.

SPEAKER_06 57:59

He ties a lot of real world.

SPEAKER_03 58:01

He did the one on uh some people think God created everything. The nothing people. He calls him the nothing people. Which is the funnier guest? He's like the nothing people, but he has such a great delivery the way he does it. Yeah, those are funny people. What about podcasts? Favorite comedic podcast.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

Um, this one, obviously. You guys have uh Solange.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

Famous comedian.

SPEAKER_00 58:25

The comedian.

SPEAKER_03 58:26

Yeah, yeah. Our only comedian. Well, we do have a comedian on the show, so there we go. We can say we had a comedian on the show. It's time to start writing some bits. This will be like gut field, you know.

SPEAKER_05 58:35

You gotta get back on the grind.

SPEAKER_00 58:38

Um Do you have it?

SPEAKER_05 58:40

Is it in your heart? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 58:42

Hey, so Shane Gillis, if you're listening, come roast. Which we know you are beyond here and all that stuff. If you're one of our 142 subscribers, which we know you are.

SPEAKER_00 58:51

I've got a question. When I was 25, I wanted a birthday party where I had a roast, because roast started to come out and stuff. Um and then somebody was like because I have lots of friends from walks of lives, and I have done some crazy.

SPEAKER_05 59:08

Absolutely, actually a phenomenal idea.

SPEAKER_00 59:10

Yeah, but there was one person that was like, that's a bit narcissistic, and I was like, oh. And then I dropped the idea. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:21

Is the idea of having a birthday party narcissistic?

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Well, I mean, that's fair, right?

SPEAKER_03 59:26

Maybe they're I don't know what they're thinking of because you just lost your invite. I I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 59:34

It made me feel, I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

You were like, you should have said, bro, the roast hasn't started yet.

SPEAKER_06 59:39

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 59:42

Okay, let me go back in time just for that moment. That's what I wish I would have said that.

SPEAKER_05 59:47

That's that's what happens in the shower. You're like, man, I should have been like me in the grocery line. I knew I should have said that. Damn it. This would have been such a better line.

SPEAKER_03 59:59

She wouldn't have known what to say. He wouldn't even know what to do. Well, how long has it been since you've done comedy?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:05

Oh, that was 2016. So 10 years ago. 10 years ago, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:10

Dang. So I ask you, is it still in your heart to do it? Or you're like, meh.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:15

Well, I know what it takes. Like I I was doing it five nights a week for three months. Right, so you just know you got a video.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:21

And you got zero video. That's great. Oh, dude, I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:24

I even somebody finally messaged me back and was like, no, but I have this picture. And I was like, I have that freaking picture too.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:32

And how do you not video one of your performances?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:36

Well, because uh the one phone Unless they saw the one phone that I had during the time was I had I don't like lose things. I misplace them. This phone was gone for months.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

Um that sounds like losing things.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

So so but then here's the difference.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:57

I didn't lose my car keys, I misplaced them.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

Here's the difference.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:01

That's a fancy way of saying that.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:02

This is still a misplaced phone because my friend messaged me and was like, hey, I found this. Uh I think this is your phone in this duffel bag. Random ass duffel bag. And I was like, Oh shit, I need that phone. It has literally all of my my comedy. It's the only place, and nobody has a recording of my shit. Nothing. That sucks. And and then I was like, yeah, hold it. Like, let's come up with a date time, let's meet up. Never did. And then when I messaged him, I was like, hey, do you still have that phone?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:38

Like, no, you never came to get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

He's like, no. I'm sorry. It's okay. It's a it was a very long time ago, but also it's a frustrating reading.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:47

Bro, your wife is here. My wife. It's your wife. What's up?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:51

Hey, Nicole.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:53

How are you doing? Hey. Oh, look at this.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:57

Oh, she still has her wedding nails. Oh, look at this. Let's go.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:01

Fancy. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:02

Little iridescent.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:03

Ladies and gentlemen, that's Nicole. You saw her. She's officially a member of the podcast. TK's white butch.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:09

Hello. Good friend. I got you.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:13

What is going on? Yeah. We talked about the wedding too. We told him. We talked about it. We told him how awesome it was. And then uh he was saying uh you guys had a great time at Lowe's Foods the next day.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:30

I really enjoyed his uh white boy dance on you.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:35

See, I missed that. I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:37

I have it recorded. Was I gone already?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:40

I told her I was like, that doesn't have to be a thing. It could get deleted.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:45

His drunk voice and his drunk dance do not connect.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:49

Was I still there or did I he head out?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:52

I think you were still there.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:54

Maybe. I'll see you guys in a bit. There's your wife, dude. My wife. My wife. Your wife's got a next one.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:05

Uh cling cling. Yeah, I'm happy for you guys. Super, super excited.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:10

Anyway, so misplaced because the phone was recovered. I had lost that phone down a storm drain one time. It was misplaced.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:17

I want to revisit this after the story.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:20

Okay, fine. I'm I dropped my phone the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:24

If you go out of the woods, right? You can't find your way back. Are you lost? Or did you misplace yourself? If I don't even if you get out. If I needed help, if you eventually get out of the woods, it was lost. So if you eventually get out of the woods, you you weren't lost. You just misplace yourself.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:40

I'm gonna start saying that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:41

Is that what your is that what your logic is telling me? Clip it. Oh, wait, I gotta do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:48

So I will misplace my wallet for months at a time. It always comes back. I never cancel my cards because I know it's misplaced. It's not gone. It's not gonna be that's good luck. Um well no, I just really trust myself. And I've never I haven't failed myself yet. Anyways, but that same phone, this was a bachelorette party one night in DC. 2, 3 a.m. We get out of it, could have been a taxi. I can't maybe Uber's maybe Uber existed at that point. But anyways, get out. I stand up, my phone was on my dress, little black dress, and it just falls right down a storm drain. It just goes shoot down the road into the storm drain, and I was like, and so I go into my car and I grab the um jack. Something attached to the jack, okay? It's that rod. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the tire iron. And I stick it into the hole of the man cover, lever it up, and sh it over, and I put on I had my snowboarding.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:56

You didn't go down there, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

I had all my snowboarding.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

You could have misplaced your life if you fall fell down.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:02

No, so there was a ladder, there was the little fucking the little ladder bars. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:08

And so you went down teenage mutant ninja turtle.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:14

This is in DC. So I had um my little black dress, and I was like, I shouldn't go down there in the in the dress.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:19

I was like the doo-doo too.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:20

Yeah, so I so I put on my snowboarding jacket, my um, my softball cleats, and I go down, and one of my profile pictures is me coming up out of the hole. But I freaking got that phone back and it was oh so perfect. So it was perfect.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:37

It wasn't covered in shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:38

No. Oh no. Just P.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:41

So is that a misplaced phone?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:42

P P.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:43

No, that uh momentarily.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:45

You know when you lose something or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:47

It was a drop phone down a storm drain.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:51

I don't know why it's so cracking me up. This is awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:53

You know how many people misplaced their lives in World War II?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:57

You know, whenever you lose something, literally lose. Lost. And someone says, I love that hat. What's up? Look at that hat. That's what I'm talking about. My cousin JR, cousin Erica, my goddaughter Raylan. Hey. Love you. Good to see you guys. I did.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:15

That's okay because uh we got pricing. Walking billboard. We're doing 30 bucks for hats. Yes, sir. And we'll do 40, 40, 45 for the sh sweatshirts. I can't remember. But we're gonna have these hats and sweatshirts out soon. Oh, you're not gonna need a sweatshirt because the summer's coming, but we'll have other swag. Sorry, we had to good timing. Promote us a little bit. Well, you had a hat on. He had a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:36

Well, too bad the cameras can't see it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:37

Audashes podcast.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:38

Hat on. So the thing that cracks me up is whenever you do, in fact, lose something, and somebody always has the audacity to say, Did you check? Where's the last when's the well if I knew that shit lose it?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:54

I want to slap that fucking sentence right out of their mouth when they're halfway through. I wouldn't be, yeah, we wouldn't be in this pickle if I knew when I had it last. I lost my keys. Where'd you lose? Dude, I lose shit so often. I couldn't find my remember, I was telling you my laser pointer because that's the only way I can get penny inside at night.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:11

You'd lose your head if it wasn't attached to your book.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:13

But I had it plugged into the back of my eye. Where everything is. Yeah, I've lost so much shit inside of my truck because it'll fall out of my bag or something and it'll be in my seat.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:25

Okay, what's the worst thing you guys have ever lost? Besides people.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:29

I'd say, yeah, thank you for saying that. I would say a wallet. Yeah. Like a wallet's pretty bad. It's annoying. But I was but I was a child when I did. It just had all my cool stuff in it. I had a little fake dare badge. Remember Dare?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:44

Yeah, your cool stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:46

We all failed that, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:47

Man, that must really hurt your feelings because you still remember this little wallet.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:52

Literally an origin story. One day when I was a kid, I found $20 on the ground. Okay, then you're not going to be able to do that. And then I lost it that same day. And then I lost it that same day. It's the most devastating thing in the world. Literally karma. I was so happy, and then I was so sad. Somebody else was supposed to find that. Yeah, it wasn't mine. The universe did not mind. Maybe I bragged about it or something. Maybe I bragged about finding it.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:17

That's why I found like $200 on the playground, 29 palms one time. You know, just being 6'7 on the playground. Left it there. Sure shit went back that night, dug it up, ran it. Left it there. Why would you leave it at night as a six-year-old? The kid, mean me and him made a plan. Like it was pretty devious of me. I'm not gonna lie, looking back, but six is wild to be sneaking at went back, not like a night, but like you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:43

Like later later in the I thought it was like midnight, like yo, you they got a fucking miners. Before the dinner bell rang 200 bucks.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:50

Yeah, that lamp. Somebody's ransom or drug money or something, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:57

And X marked the spot, I'm sure. Me and my brother just came out. And that some some kids found it, man. I don't know what to tell you. Somebody died over that mobile.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:09

One time I lost like 300 and some bucks. It was like a week's worth of tips at Ruby Tuesdays. I lost it at Ruby Tuesdays.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:17

It was in Moorhead City?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:18

No, this is in Northern Virginia. And we were we got drunk at in the restaurant after it was closed. And um twerking and dancing all over the place.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:32

And then it's just flying everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:33

What about lost and I I just no, nobody was gonna nobody was gonna claim the tax.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:39

Had an e-bike get stolen once and was able to get it back.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:42

Oh yeah? Why? Because it's electric and somehow you can track it.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:45

Well, was it? What did you what'd you lose? I got a big e-bike, uh, fat tire e-bike down and when I was living in Denver, got stolen and wasn't having that, so I was able to recover it with uh the help of Facebook Marketplace. Oh nice. A little bit of devious lies, but of course.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:02

Yeah, so you posed as the buyer? I did. And you're like, dude, thanks for my bike. Call the police, come with me.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:07

Well, Denver police are now it was like, hey, can I test drive it real quick?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:11

And it's like, yeah, thanks for my bike back douchebag.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:14

My uh my one wheel uh on one of my one wheels, I have oh, I might have done it on two of them. I sold one. Yeah, I have an air tag inside. You wouldn't know, you'd have to take the thing apart to find it. Right. So if they steal that, it's a two thousand dollar board.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:28

Yeah, I have a three thousand dollar e-bike. I didn't pay that much for it, but I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:34

Speaking of e-bikes, have you seen these new e-bikes that are from Future Motion who makes the one-wheel? They're called um Antic Antic bike. And it's it's like a little mini bike, it's modeled after the 1970s mini-bikes. But where the where the engine was, there's nothing there. So you can put a bag there, you can put all this it has a wheelie mode where if you just do a wheelie, it holds it in a wheelie. Like you don't have to know how to do a wheelie, it holds it there. That's crazy. It's called future motion. I gotta be. And the bike is me too, I'll go after you. And the bike is called um antic bikes, and I don't, you know, I've never ridden one or anything like that, but the top speed is 35 miles an hour. It can go 30 to 58 miles or something like that on one charge. So, like you put your bag and your charger and everything in the middle, you could good cruise all over the place.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:20

Yeah, that's what I used to do. I put 100 miles on mine in a day pretty easily.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:24

Really? Yeah, I've been ro I ride the hell out of my one wheel. I have two one wheels. I used to have three. I tried to give one to my son, but he was at App State and he was like, Oh, I'm gonna look like a rich kid. I'm like, What? Yeah, no, people are riding these now.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:36

I have enough issues on my two wheels that I think one wheel is gonna Oh, I love my one wheel, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:40

I take my dog Penny you met Penny. I take her out on on runs and stuff, but just short ones because she's still growing, so I don't want to run too much. But dude, it's like I used to take Beasley on it. Well, my board will do 20 miles an hour, so I can do the speed. But man, when she gets on a patch of grass, what she does is she'll go in between the patch of grass that's between the sidewalk and the street, you know, that little patch. Right. Once she gets on that, she tears at like she just opens it up, and I'm like, oh shit. I gotta lean way forward, and it's like she's pulling. And we're doing 13 to 15 miles an hour at that point. So then I slow her down. So I'm like, you can't be running like that, kid. You're still eight months old, you know. So I slow her down. But she loves going because I've been riding the one-wheel for a few years now, I know how to quickly stop, I know how to turn, I can go uphill, I can do all the stuff. I'm by no means an expert at it. I can't like you know jump things or anything like that. But for an older guy, you know, I'm 47, so I ride her one-wheel very comfortably. I can I can park down the street, have have her bag, my backpack, and my dog, okay, and maybe a case of beer, and then slowly come down the street with it. Because I can I can just I I'll tell the board how fast to go based on how I lean. Sure, nice. So it's you know, the the more you do it, the easier it is. These bikes are supposed to be once you get it in that wheelie phase, it is or wheelie state, it's a it's a one-wheel. So the back wheel is a one-wheel. So if you if you lean forward, it's good faster. If you lean back, it goes slower. You can even go in reverse. In a wheelie. No, it holds, it has a gyro in it, it holds it in a wheelie. The same thing, like you see me on my one-wheel, right? When I stand up, it just balances. And so if I lean forward, I go. If I lean back, I go that way. You know what I mean? I want to try it. It's the coolest thing, man. Uh I got it in my truck. Um, it's the coolest freaking thing. I don't know if I have it in my truck because I took Penny on two runs today. I normally ride my other one wheel, my older one, but I I had to charge them both a little bit today, so I have them both inside.

unknown 1:13:45

No. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:46

No, why would I? I don't know. I don't do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:49

I've been pulled over on uh on my bike, and it's more the cops are just like, what is that?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:53

No, I stay on sidewalks, and I in the beginning I wore a helmet. I don't anymore. I should. Um you have it here in North Carolina?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:01

Yeah, it's so I moved back for about two years two years ago, actually. So four years ago I moved home and the broadcast. It's yeah. I got pulled over in Shenandoah National Park going like 38 on it.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:14

Did you wear a helmet?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:15

Well, not yeah, yeah, I would wear a helmet. Yeah, I would wear a helmet. Well, it's like a 90-pound bike.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:22

Well, this antic bike, like if I ever got one of those, which it's you know, 2,000 bucks, yeah. If I ever got one of those, I would wear my helmet because it goes up to 35 miles an hour. And I know that I've been 20.7 miles an hour on my board. Just flaunt. Oh dude. Oh, dude, you just and if you eat it at that speed, you you freaking ate it.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:41

Badly. Does your one wheel have like a throttle, or can you I guess how you lean.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:47

So you can it's one fat wheel in the middle, sure, and it automatically levels. Okay, and then once I lean forward, it starts going. Okay. And the further the harder I lean forward, the faster it goes. But if you get up to 20 miles an hour, it'll start pushing back a little bit. It'll push you back, it'll slow you down. And if you keep pushing past that, it'll beep and then it'll throw you off. It'll stop. It'll be like, no, I'll nose dive. So if it nosedives, I have what's called fangs on the front of my. I bought it aftermarket. There's these wheels. It doesn't go all the way down. So if it does go all the way, it's on wheels. So I can just be like, all right, I'm on wheels, I'll just slow down.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:21

Yeah, I always get a look at uh from like Ocean Patrol and those guys, because I favorite place to ride that bike is on the beach because it's flat and go fast, and you just ride, ride, ride. And those guys are always like, What is that thing?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:35

I'm I'm looking at the sun and I'm worried that I'm gonna be covered by it here soon. Yeah, it's coming up. Like I was last time. But I think we still look good on the cameras, so we'll we'll be okay for now. Roger that. But those are fun, man. These these e-bikes and stuff, all this, all this e-technology. I at first I was like, eh.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:53

But it's just as hard to pedal. You just get to go further.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:56

Captain Joe is 84 years old and he's got an e-bike. He really and he's got an electric bike, but it's one of the older models. And I rode it around this area and I was like, dude, that's awesome. It like takes you, yeah, you can pedal, but it's gonna do it for you. Sure. I do need one, but I'm gonna buy the go in anyway. I can go down. But um yeah, that the one wheel has been the coolest thing. I'm okay. Because if there's no parking spots near here, right, I can park up at town hall and then just ride my one wheel down here and then ride back up. It's so easy.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:30

If I've set up my camp and I need to go run to somewhere or hop on the bike real quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:35

There you go. One time I did uh a gig downtown. Uh we were doing a show for Mullet Festival, but we were playing on the stage by the borough. You know where the borough is at? Yeah, yeah. Over over to the side of that is a big old stage back there. Sure. So we were doing our gig, but we were parked way the hell up the hill. So I took my one-wheel out with my cart, my other cart, my music cart, with all my gear on it, and I one-wheeled it all down there, and I one-wheeled it all the way back. And they were like, bro, you're cheating. Like, yeah. Work smarter, not harder. For the birds, man.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:08

Yeah, I gotta ship that thing back out to Colorado. That's my task this week, is to see who will ship a because the batteries on her 18 pounds alone. You snowboard though, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:16

Yeah, I would think you'd love a one-wheel. Probably. They invented them because it was a snowboarder that wanted it to be. He wanted to be like a snowboard. And you don't have to do that though. You can just stay on, like you know how you kind of have to do that on a snowboard. You don't have to do that, but you can. Sure. And I car like carving is fun, you know. Wait till you try it out. It's it's fun.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:37

I'm interested to see the turning dynamics because I understand the front and back, but with the one wheel, I don't understand how it turns.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:43

What we should do is one day I'll bring two of my boards up, both of my boards up here. I'll bring my helmet, my wrist guards.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:51

We'll practice around on the on the thing that we're not that we're not allowed to do it on. We'll do it anyway. But we'll practice it on the street, whatever. And we'll take some video of you guys trying out the one wheel and we'll clip it in, you know, to the show and just show people how it went. I think that would be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:07

Hopefully, we don't injure ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:08

You're not gonna. You're gonna have a helmet. You're gonna have when you first start, I'm gonna be holding your hands and making sure you know how to just do the basic things. It is. Well, uh you jump off with both feet, or landing's the problem. No, you just jump off with both feet and you're good. Or here's my feet, right? If I lift my back heel up, I'm sorry, front heel up. Sorry, sorry, sorry. If I lift my front heel up and I'm doing less than one mile an hour, it'll turn off. Okay, and then I just walk off. So I know how to do it well enough that I can do that. When my brother rides it, he has to jump off every time because he can never get it to do it. Same with my son.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:46

He What's harder to ride? The one wheel or those hoverboards?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:50

The hoverboards. 100%. I could not ride that to save my life. I'm telling you, dude. I could just do 360s on that thing. Nah, you'll you'd love the one-wheel. You, you, I'm telling you. So once you ride it around the street one time, like you're gonna be like, I want one. I've never done any of that. Dude, I've seen videos where people just are crazy enough.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:14

Downhill biking's already crazy enough, and then you're gonna be on one.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:17

Well, this board will go uphill. I go up that steep ass driveway on it, you know. And some of them are well, the one I have, the GT, is more powerful than the XR, which is the old flagship. Right. But um, it's it's a cool board. I just I like these hat these uh antic bikes, man. They're they're cool looking. I'm to look into them. It's like an old school uh mini bike, but they made it a little bit bigger because adults and stuff like that are gonna be the ones riding it. Right. You could do just wheelies all day long. I mean, that's not the the end all be all, but it's still cool. Have you heard of those? The antic the antic bikes? It's like the from the creators of one wheel, future motion, and the back wheel of this, it's like a mini-bike, but it's electrical. You don't remember mini bikes from the 80s or 70s, you know. But there were the Honda ones? The Honda ones are what I remember, but the 70s, even older. Ruckus type thing. Uh I don't know what that is, but I'll I'll show you guys after the thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:12

But it's it's ruckus are like just small motor, like then I'm sure it's similar.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:16

I'm sure it's similar. Is downhill um like skateboarding pretty big in Colorado?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:22

That sounds terrifying. Like mountain boarding, like longboarding.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:26

Like longboarding. Yeah, downhill. For sure. Not like off-road, just like on pavement, of course, but like because there's mountains there in hills, so it's like I'm gonna say it's bigger in California. It seems like a California SoCal thing, but it's super popular up in like uh like the western part of North Carolina and the mountains out there.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:44

Anything with a hill, I think, would attract that, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:46

For sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:47

Like Hill's just it's a touristy, very transitory spot.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:50

So you get a little bit of everybody coming through there. Are the is the local community like a tight-knit thing, or it's too big for that.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:58

I think it's like the people that stick around the longest kind of you just it's a small each other. You just wait till Eagle is a town we like so Eagle is this little smaller town like 30 miles down valley, like it's still super nice, it's just different. It's not the resort community. So it's like once you're on the resort community, it's different. And it's people that live right in Vale as opposed to down valley. It's like living in Jacksonville versus living on Emrodile. I got you. So it's like, yeah, you're still beach people, but like there's like the beach people, right? They live there, walk out their door and around the beach. Hop on the bus. What's that?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:33

Hop on the bus.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:34

Right. So like for us, it's easy enough to hop on a bus, go to the resort five minutes down the road. I got you. Someone from Eagle or a little bit further down the valley's gotta get in their car, drive up 30 minutes on a good day. You know what I mean? So it's kind of like you get there, you you you engulf yourself with it, and then it's the same thing as people at the beach, you just fall in love with it. Yeah, you gotta have the beach house because then it's like a nice drive and a pay to park, and it's the same thing in Eagles. Like the snow isn't perfect, nobody's heading up valley because you gotta pay to park, you gotta do all the bullshit to do with a resort, like going to Disneyland. It's the same thing. Yeah. But if you live at Disneyland, you can just hop on the ride, it's way nicer.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:11

So do you I think we might have talked about this on the podcast before. Um do you get like discounts for being a resident of said place for ski lift passes and stuff?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:21

No, you have to work for the resort.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:23

That's the only way.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:25

Yeah. A lot of it's an incentive for a lot of jobs, especially people in management. Right. That'll be like a bonus package to ideal.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:32

You get your pass or whatever, but yeah, like an end-of-season situation.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:39

What is it? But truthfully, the way it's going, they really should give a give a discount or they should look out for the people that have a an address in the area code. That's what I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:50

You would think that that would be a thing, but I guess maybe it would maybe they would lose.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:53

Well you would also think that they wouldn't charge locals to park over at M1 Isle.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:57

Well, that's been done everywhere on the beach now is basically you have to pay.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:02

I know, that's what I'm saying. You would think that locals would get some kind of discount or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:07

Yeah.

unknown 1:23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:09

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:11

Yeah, that'd be it's they had a pass to the beach, maybe but yeah, or a pass or something like that. They don't care. I mean, it's they did a thing this year if you're less than if you're less than 30 that you get like a discounted and did you hear about that? No. So Vale Canal and they said they're gonna do a ski pass at I think it's fifteen to thirty. It's like eight hundred bucks, which is four hundred dollars off a normal pass. Is that for the season?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:38

Damn it. I'm too old for that.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:43

Right. You know, I mean they're not spending money at the resort anyway, so why are you giving them a discount?

SPEAKER_03 1:23:47

Like because that's that's because maybe they will spend more money because now they're saving money on their pass.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:52

No, no, I mean not working out that bad. But it's the employees. And honestly. Okay, yeah, I mean let me get to my first point. Was was they did they did make the bus line from Eagle to Vale, which is thirty miles free.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:12

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:13

If you live in gypsum, which is ten minutes further.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:17

Yeah, they didn't want the buses.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:18

It's like three dollars. But like um But so they did that for us, and honestly, once you get all the way to Vale Transportation Center, then then you're there.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:32

So it's nice that there are things within the community to make it easier if you live within the community. Yeah. Like if there was a free bus system within Swansboro or Oswald County where you could get on a bus in Jacksonville, if you could get on a bus in Hubert, you could get on a bus in hell, even Southwest or something like that. Right. And every there was a stop every 15 minutes and you could go to work at the beach, and then there was a bus at the beach to take you back home to Swansboro, to Hubert, Jacksonville, to along the way. That's kind of if you were to compare it, that's how it would work. I gotcha. You would you would get discounted just like basic public transit. Yeah, and just because you're not going to work doesn't mean you can't go to the beach. Like you still hop on the bus, but you know, we're Americans, we love our cars, so everybody wants the convenience of driving. So that's right. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:13

When I went to Colorado this last trip and I needed to go to I had a dentist appointment, I went ahead and set up my vision appointment too. So my friend picked me up from the airport, she does she lives like five minutes from there, and then she takes me back to the bus stop the next day because people people have offered to drive me all the way to pick me up, and I'm like, that is so silly when there's a bus line. So I got on in gypsum with my snowboard bag and my big backpacking bag. And um, I just slid the snowboard bag under the seats, and then I got off on one bus, and then I got on to another bus that would take me to the Walmart stop, which is where my vision appointment was and my dentist appointments right over there. So I'm just wheeling this silly bag. And I did have somebody pick me up from Avon because they they offered, but it's like 10 minutes from there from Vail. Right. So I just got picked up there. But it was it's so easy. It is too easy. I mean, at least my appointments were at the Walmart stop and there's a bus stop there. But like you can you can make it there without a car so simply.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:28

And I didn't have a car for two years.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:30

The first two years I lived out there and just you know, it takes a little bit longer, but we you know a lot of people that grow up in like big cities like New York City or Philadelphia and stuff, they grow up not driving because they don't need to, or Washington DC. We would have Marines, young Marines that came in, didn't have a license, and that was just crazy to us. But but if you look at where they're from, there's no reason for them to because you know they didn't need to drive. Well, now it's difficult because now they live in a place where they need a car, and now so they need to learn how to drive. So you gotta, you know, teach this kid how to drive and then get them into, you know, get their learner. I don't know, they don't need learners pretty bad. But you know what I'm saying? That's very weird to see an adult that's like 22 years old that doesn't know how to drive a vehicle because they've never done it before.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:15

Well, that's what was stripped out whenever I went to New York City.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:17

It was like business opportunity.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:20

But you would never ever need a car in New York City. Right. Between the or DC, you take the metro everywhere. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:27

Yeah, the metro in DC is great.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:31

There's a free bus that'll take you from the Boston airport into downtown. Oh and like if you just like open your eyes, you can see that these things exist. And a lot of people just go places and are like, uh, I don't know where I'm at, and then they need to just they just get on Uber and then pay the price.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:50

Outrageous money.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:51

Yeah, yeah. Like the other when I got when I flew into Wilmington, I was like, the Uber's are forty bucks. I mean, I needed a I went for the XL because I had the snowboard bag with me. But I was like, 40 bucks? That's stupid. And so I just asked another chick and I was like, is there taxis that wait here? He's like, yeah, you should be able to find one. And and I asked how much? And he said 30. And I was like, better than 40. You know, like it's really not that hard to travel cheap. Just don't be an idiot.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:23

Also, you go international a lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:25

Yeah, but it's also a freaking thing. Taxis are like a decade prior to now.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:34

Just a decade, no. A couple decades.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:37

Taxis?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:38

Yeah, Uber started came out when I mean a couple decades.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:43

13. Like that's 13 years.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:49

Taxis is gonna be a good thing. Is that when they came out?

SPEAKER_02 1:28:51

Because Lyft was after that, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:53

You know what? Let's look this up. All right, let's take our wagers.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:57

I'm saying 2007. 2007 Uber?

SPEAKER_03 1:29:01

I want to say 2011. I'm just giving a wicked guess. I'm giving it a guess just because I don't have any other things.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:10

Barely exist in 2007.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:12

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:13

Okay, when when do I think? Um yeah, I said 2013.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:18

It it's streaming platforms didn't exist and Netflix existed before that. Yeah, that was a mailing thing, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:24

You'd mail you the the stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:26

Yeah, yeah. Do you remember when Netflix was a DVD out of a Vin D.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:30

Did you guys ever use uh Redbox? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:34

Okay, wait.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:35

You return a different movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:36

What was what was your year?

SPEAKER_06 1:29:38

2011.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:39

What was your year?

SPEAKER_06 1:29:41

Oh four, oh five. Oh seven. When was the company founded or when did it start operating?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:46

Do you think okay, we'll go with the launch 2010.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:52

That was close. Damn.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:54

Okay, so Uber started. A decade and a half plus.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:59

Yeah, yeah. Still.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:01

But like taxis still exist. People just don't think of them. And honestly.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:08

Yeah, I thought that would have killed the taxi industry.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:11

Some people are old fashioned though. But yes, I drove taxi in Vale, and people they know that it's locals, they know it's like a concrete like and it's also cash operated.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:21

Not everybody likes to operate on debit cards and stuff like that. Yeah, but that's makes you uh a target too. For my dad drove a taxi one at one point and he got held at knife point like and robbed by two people. Uber drivers can get robbed.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:39

He's a taxi driver. I forgot.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:41

If they don't have any if they don't have any, if it's all done through the app, yeah, you can get robbed for what you're I I don't have anything on me here. Take my empty wallet. I'll just cancel on my credit card.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:51

As a taxi I side hustle taxi inveil. And I would have a little bit too much cash on me at times now that I think about it.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:59

The driver does not cut carry more than $20.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:02

No, I would have no change.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:04

Yeah. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:05

So he does carry a Smith and Weston MB.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:07

Yeah, I was gonna say, you want to see an unregistered firearm?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:12

Um so travel hack in Peru, because I am somebody who hates using Uber and I like using the public transportation. And in Peru, just use Uber. That's the uh that's the summary. That's the life hack. Because all of the drivers that come up, they're like taxi, taxi, and then they'll negotiate with you or they'll tell you a price, and if you don't haggle with them, that's the price. But if you use Uber, like if somebody's gonna pick you up and take you fucking like 30 minutes. If somebody takes you 30 minutes, they say 30 dollars, and as a English speaker, you say okay. But on Uber, it's seven dollars. It's a set price that you can't haggle.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:04

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:04

So that is that's the hack for at least Peru that I can speak to. Yeah. Good to know.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:11

Do you use Uber out here?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:13

No. I mean barely, barely. Um if I have like when I drink when I left Wilmington, um when I left Wilmington to go to the airport, it was like 4 a.m. So yeah, I used Uber. Um but leaving, I was like, if there's a taxi out there, I'm just gonna freaking I feel you.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:34

I'm gonna price Is it weird to sit in the front seat with a taxi driver?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:38

I do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:39

You gotta ask.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:40

I do ask.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:41

I you know, the Uber driver is always the one that says yeah, you can sit up front. So it's like, okay, so it's not weird.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:48

But is it weird? Do you have an Uber? You ever get an Uber with too much stuff going on? Uh the games and you can like gamble in the back.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:55

No, cash cash. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:56

Like big cities, they've got like no, I've only been in a regular. What happened to me one time? I was like she said, I got picked up to go to the airport early, and I'm like, Well, you turn it like it's 5 30 in the morning. Please turn the screen off and watch it.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:07

Strobe light, like literally like you can turn it off, though.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:11

It's brutal. Bless man, so bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:15

It's just like Lee's problem right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:17

Yeah, it's like right on me. I'm getting cooked too. Yeah, but it's well, I wish we could trade. Or I wish we could have put the shade where it should have been instead of on this side. It should have been on that side because that's where the sun always is.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:30

Too bad. Too bad a female wasn't here to think that.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:34

No, we all told him that side. He was uh he was he was good with doing it on that side, and then the last minute he was like, nah, put it over there. Like, I'll put it in. Now it now it does nothing. It'd be cool if it slid's because you could move it with a usually it's because of penny. What's cause of penny?

SPEAKER_00 1:33:50

That the stream doesn't raise it.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:53

But it doesn't work because it's not the sun's not over there, it's over there. Yeah. So we always put up with this every gruel it's grueling. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:04

Grueling.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:05

But those are first world problems.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:07

They are. And it's the sun. So we are so grateful. We're so grateful for the sunny. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:16

I'm glad when it's sunny. Yeah, I'll take the sunny. Me too. I just wish it would stay out of my face.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:21

You've just been waiting to rock those, haven't you? Or if we had anything that could be right there.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:25

Okay, everybody pick up everything around you and rotate.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:31

Ready? It seems like work. Nah, we're fine. I'll I'll deal with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:36

Good.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:38

And like it.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:39

Yeah. Um there was something that I wanted to talk about, a wallet that was lost.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:47

Yours?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:48

Yeah, while I was I had just gotten up to go help a customer. It was misplaced. Oh, no. You know what? It's lost, but I know where it's at.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:56

Well, when did you have it last? Um at the bottom of the ocean.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:00

No closing day, Beaver Creek. You can hike up and then snowboard or ski down from this place called Bald Spot. And the only time anybody's there is in the winter. I can't, I can't I've never heard of anybody hiking up. Yeah. I've never heard of anybody hiking up in the summer. Um, you only come down in the winter, and on my way down, it came out of my pocket at some point. There was like a little like lower shin, like lower pants pocket, and I had an open zipper, I guess, and uh it fell out. And I know exactly what credit card is there. I know that one of my IDs is there, and I know my debit card was there, and I never canceled any of them because I'm like, it was closing day, so nobody's gonna go up there. Right. And I know that it's just gonna keep snowing on top of it, and no one's gonna be up there in the summer to find it. So I'm gonna go back to the city. No, it's just been two years, and it's already card is already added on my Google Pay. So I still use the card. It's just up on beaver creep.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:14

Yeah, never, never.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:15

You should put uh an air tag in your wallet.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:18

Oh, I do.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:19

I want to hike up every summer under the lifts and find glow stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:24

You know, it'd be cool to go metal detecting.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:27

Yeah, that's one of my favorite. That was one of my favorite tasks as a Vale employee. Like you you go and scour the the mountain mountain cleanup because so many people have lost so many things on the in the summer, but also a lot of it is trash. So you go up with the Vale employees and just clean, clean, clean. And then sometimes you find money, you sometimes you find wallets, sometimes you find vapes, sometimes you find all sorts of shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:58

A couple fireball shots. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:01

So many mini bottles, yeah. So many mini bottles. That was we started making a count of all the fireball shots that we found.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:08

Well, I left my phone on the lift. Remember? We got out of the gondola and I left my phone on the Gandhi and it went down. Can't you do the find my though? To find it.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:17

No, we just knew it was there.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:19

Just wait, right to come back around, or do you have or do you have one of those pull start androids?

SPEAKER_06 1:37:23

Oh, I've got an iPhone. I'm normal.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:25

Yeah, normal. So I have you're you're not the green bubble in all the conversations.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:31

I can edit the colour.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:33

I can edit and research.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:34

So you're one of the crybabies that cry about green bubbles.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:37

No, I just like Lee. Personally.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:39

She has to wind up her phone to use it.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:41

That was a dig to him.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:42

Right, right, right. Okay, I got my minutes back. When's the fight? What fight?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:49

Not soon enough.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:52

It's pissing me off, man. What uh we need just a blanket right there or something. Alright, well, it's been a good show. We need lighters.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:01

Yeah, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:02

This? That's a lighter thing. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_06 1:38:08

I brought that.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:10

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:12

It's the only one in the joint.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:13

I can't throw it in. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:16

Oh, I don't have them. They're on the phone. Oh, you want me to see what I what I was gonna say earlier?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:22

That's why I was doing the phone.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:25

This is not a phone bit, that's a lighter. Okay. You no, you went like that. That's a that's a lighter. Or good job. Right right in if you if you'd like to. Uh how about Mandela effects that you just won't accept didn't happen. I feel like we did this one. Okay. About uh picture going back to the 80s with their technology. Well, uh the technology we had in the 80s, no cell phones, no nothing. If we went back to that right now, like how would you find people? How would you know where your friends are and your family and all that stuff? Leave a message after the tone.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:03

Open your eyeballs and look forward to the case. Yeah, I still got numbers memorized.

unknown 1:39:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:11

Speaking of stand-ups, there was a guy I was listening to. He talked about that. If you went back in the went back in future, or back in time. Back to the future. Back to the future, but back in back in time, and I don't know how to do shit, man. Right. Try to talk about that's Nate Barghetzi. We have phones in the past. That's Nate Barghetti.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:29

He was like, I don't know that I would be able to prove that I was from the future. I don't even know what a phone is. Who's the president? You know, who's the president? Ah, or you know, ask him things about history. What happens next after this? I'm like, I don't.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:41

He's like, I watch uh I watched like World War II movies, like it's the first like it's breaking news. Surprise, you know?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:48

Yeah, and so that's what I would think of. Like if well, I remember the 80s, you know, I was there, but it was so funny. Nobody had cell phones, nobody had we didn't we're kids. We didn't how do you find your your friends? And then when you get old enough to like have a car and all that stuff, you call their house if they're not there. If they're not at their house, then they could be in a million different places.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:07

You just can't you just gotta like set up a meeting spot. Like, are you gonna meet me outside tomorrow? Like five.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:12

But think about how how easy it's become for any question and answer you have. You even if you want to call somebody and ask them a question, you didn't have that before. You might have to go to a payphone to call, you know. And we often did that.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:26

I'll go to a payphone and be like, hey, uh Yeah, you're gonna have to tell us what you did because none of us remember the 80s. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:32

Because I wasn't there. I just did that, didn't I? Isn't that what I was just doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly what I was just doing. Okay. Continue telling us.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:40

Have you ever used a payphone?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:42

Oh yeah. So then it's not that outdated for you guys.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:45

No, but like, what did you guys do? You know, like when I smoke cigarettes.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:49

Like we rode bikes and we drove around places, and it's like we did that too. Okay, but you had the ability to get a hold of friends.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:57

No, not in the neighborhood. Like that was just kind of like knock on each other's doors.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:03

Yeah, that's when you're calling the house phones. But like I said, when we got older and got cars and stuff, we still had no ability to find each other, you know, that you just had to, oh, and then I have a car and I have to go to my friend's house. He gives you the address. You don't have some fucking app that you can put on your less roads. GPS it, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:21

There were less roads.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:22

Come on. I I grew up in Virginia Beach. There's no less roads that you're just roads. Yeah, but how do I figure out how to get to this guy's house?

SPEAKER_06 1:41:30

All it is is roads up there.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:31

Yeah, but you have the main roads.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:34

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:35

Long damn neck. Damn neck.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:37

Yeah, I know damn neck.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:39

And shore drive.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:40

Yeah, I know shore drive. Yeah, and I learned how to drive on shore drive, which is a dangerous road.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:45

That's the worst place in the country to drive, in my opinion. Yeah. It's so packed. But it may be good at driving. Maybe good at driving. North of Virginia.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:54

I mean, I mean going on the highways and stuff like that. 264 is up there. Yeah, it's 264.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:59

Why are you not going 112? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:01

And you you'll see people coming right up on you. 95, same way, but my dad kind of threw me into stuff when I was learning how to do shit. Like when I learned how to ride a motorcycle, uh, it was like, get on my 1975 Harley Electroglide, and I'm gonna follow you. Because I had ridden a dirt bike before, so I knew how to do the clutch. But it's like it's a man bike, and I'm a little, you know, like a 17, 18-year-old kid. And uh he's like, I'll follow you, do the speed limit, or faster. And once I started going, I was like, all right, I can do this, you know. But it was like I didn't get time to get scared and not do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:35

You've never ridden a motorcycle before.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:37

Oh no, yeah, have fun.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:39

I've ridden a dirt bike, but not a motorcycle.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:40

Well, then you it's you'll know how to do it then if you've ridden a dirt bike. You if you know how to shift on a dirt bike. Yeah, so then you can ride a motorcycle. I would say start on a very small one and kind of get used to it.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:51

But I don't really have an interest to ride one.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:53

Have you seen my chopper? Yeah, okay. It's pretty sick. It's not you gotta get the sidecar for the I know, yeah. It's a cool bike, but I I do miss my Yamaha Road Star because that was such a it's like riding on a cloud. It's this big, huge beast of a motorcycle. And now I have a bigger engine, but like it's like your arms are up here, which is comfortable. The bike has so much power, and you I just want to cruise, I don't want to fucking you know get there in an instant, but uh it's 1900 cc's, you know, it's like whereas my old one was 1700 cc's, so this one's 117 cubic inches, if you know anything about engines and stuff. And so when I was learning how to drive that, my dad was like, here, we're swapping bike. We were coming home from uh Rolling Thunder in DC to Virginia Beach. And my brother, cousin, everybody that had motorcycles and stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:47

Is that like a bike rally?

SPEAKER_03 1:43:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big time. And so my dad was like, Here, you ride the big dog, I'll ride yours. Yeah, because he's old and he wanted to be on the comfortable bike while I drove the scary death machine down the road, down 95, doing you know, 70, 80. And that's the first time I ever rode it. And man, it was scary as hell because everything's vibrating. You can't see anything in the uh in the in the shaking so hard. Yeah, because they're shaking so hard. But then once I got used to that after a while, I was like, okay, it's less scary, less scary. I know what I'm doing. I can get around potholes because you don't want to hit a pothole on a rigid frame with a 300-back tire. Because you it's gonna hit your ass and it's gonna hurt real bad. But uh got good at it, and then I inherited the bike when he died, and now like my brother and I are the only we know how to ride the we know how to ride, you have to take corners different and things like that, but it's it's easier because I'm used to it. But my old bike, when I when you get on that, it feels like a little kid's bike after riding the big dog. For sure. Even though it's a giant bike, it just feels like a little kitty bike, like ring, ring, ring, you know. Yeah, motorcycles are fun.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:49

Where do you ride around here?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:51

Uh anywhere, man. Like uh that Pelleteer loop road I was just telling you about where his wedding was. That's a very good ride. You just ride around the loop, and there's winding back roads and stuff like that. Uh, I don't want to do anything where I'm going, you know, 100 miles an hour. I'm not a kid anymore.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:05

Uh like Blue Ridge or anything out west.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:08

Yeah, we did the Blue Ridge Mountains uh during that. So I was a recruiter in Roanoke, Virginia. And so I belonged to a Marine Corps motorcycle club out there uh from 03 to 06. And we rode, we rode to Chesty Pooler's grave. I don't know if you know who Chesty Pooler was. No. Uh Lewis B. Pouler, General, United States Marine Corps, I believe Lieutenant General. Um most decorated Marine, had five Navy crosses, just a badass, you know, just awesome, awesome, awesome Marine. And we rode to his grave uh at in Saluda, Virginia, where his house was, and we met his wife, and he had this big giant marble like cover over his coffin with an Eagle Globe and anchor on it, Marine Quarry Globe and anchor on it. Nice. That was awesome. But those kind of rides were, man, like up the Blue Ridge Mountains. I'm sorry, Blue Ridge Parkway. And uh yeah, that was awesome, dude. So awesome, the Blue Ridge Parkway. But I like those windy roads, just nice and nice and freaking cool breeze, you know, not too cold, not too hot. Those are the rides that that are cool, you know what I'm saying? Too cool for school. Yeah. I like motorcycles.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:17

Maybe I won't have one. One day I won't. Well, then get a one-wheel. I can't afford it.

unknown 1:46:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:24

Can't afford two wheels, can't afford one wheel.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:27

Can't afford two wheels, can't even afford one. Can't even afford to pay attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now they're fun though, and they have these uh electric uh unicycles too. Those things are even faster than that. That just seems like an injury for me waiting. Yeah, because they'll do like way, they'll go way faster. They go over bumps and stuff, but because they're four, you know, they're facing forward and stuff. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:47

But is that the one where your feet are like, dude, I seen somebody when I went camping in New York that had one and he was going through the woods on it, and I was like, dude, they're supposed to be pretty good at at handling those terrains.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:04

I I can do it, you know. I can go through some trails and shit, but I might fall off. Like going over like the roots and shit. Yeah, when I hit a route, I might be faceplanting somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:13

The only thing electric that I've mastered is the forklift. I love a forklift.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:18

I thought you were going to say something else.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:19

I love a forklift.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:21

I love a forklift. Some obviously satisfying about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:26

It's like organization.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:27

Pick things up, put them down. But like you have to be precise. It has to be at the right angle. The coordination involved is super important.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:36

Yeah, I was watching the dude at Lowe's the other day when he went so high just to get it on that one shelf, and it's like just little by little, and like something satisfying about a horribly placed palette when the whole warehouse just tips over.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:49

It's like it's like that guy's losing his job, but that was impressive. Yeah. Yeah, you'd have to try to.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:55

You messed up big time, right? You had to try to do that almost.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:58

You missed your last certification or something that's going on here, but so you guys are forklift certified. You know what it all it is is someone that's already forklift certified. It's like, okay, do this.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:12

But I am forklift certified. I am too.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:13

And you know where I got it from? Forklift certified.com.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:17

Nice. I got mine from 100%.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:19

I'm logging into that.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:20

I don't even I don't even want to plug the company's name. But I was the other forklift driver was the building maintenance guy. And I was supposed to be the sole forklift driver at the company. And I became the only person driving this forklift. And it was an empty warehouse when it started, and it became a fully packed, very well organized, flow state. Except, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:56

I think there might be somebody inside.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:58

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:59

I'm an ordained minister.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:01

You were talking about Fortcliffe.com. I'm an ordained minister because my friend was gonna get remarried and I was like, all right, let me do all this stuff, and I didn't get the thing. No, mine's open ministry or something like that. Okay. But I did it like 10 years ago, just but then they ended up not going uh ordained minister, you know? Yeah. It's all you gotta do is go online and do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:22

It's definitely a rite of passage in a brewery. No, it's I have a forklift store. You don't want to be the guy in the brewery that can't drive a forklift.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:28

You you say uh you're not effective. It's just like well, it's like uh they only have like at Lowe's again, they have the the guy that drives the forklift is also the guy or girl that does the cutting, you know, like when you need stuff cut. So it's like if they're doing anything, you're waiting forever for that. But you're waiting forever for them to come over and cut your your stuff. I don't ever get that done, but friends who don't have like all the table saw and the you know that stuff, you can get it done right there. And it and it is a lot easier. Just to get it done right there. You're paying the same price. You don't have to, you saved yourself a step at home. So I get that, but man, when it takes forever to get help. Today I went to have to buy a new freaking laptop charger for my laptop because, as you know me, everything I own breaks very quickly. It just doesn't last as long as it should. I take care of my stuff. You see all the stuff that we have, but like it just never works for me, ever, ever, ever. And so my laptop thing broke. I went to the laptop or I went to the laptop sec, like the section where they sell the chargers in Walmart, and I just saw the person walk away from the electronics place and it has one of those things on it. And I'm like just standing at the desk. Like, am I it's brutal? May I purchase this and leave? Don't make me take a chance all this. These shoes are glorious. These shoes are fabulous. I just want to pay you and go home.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:46

Yeah, I want to give you customer service.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:47

They make it really it's like, I just want to give you money.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:50

Yeah, so I walk up to the front and I can't find a line because they're all and I'm like, I have one item. So then I go to self-check and I ask the person, like, hey, and they're like, Am I allowed to buy this here?

SPEAKER_05 1:50:59

Come to 17 so we can take the thing off.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:01

No, she it was fine. She she did it, she she took care of it just fine. It was great.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:05

But like certified cutter.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:06

They used to tell me I have to buy this stuff at the electronics area.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:10

Hold on, we need to call the forklift guy so we can get this box off your charger.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:13

Go get the forklift, get it off the top shelf. The charger's this big, by the way.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:18

Forklift's a big uh responsibility, right? Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:20

It's you're wearing multiple hats when you're that guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:22

You're really driving revenue and well, you probably have a lot of pull too.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:26

You're really in charge of pilot area.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:28

Literally.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:29

It's not a hard test. Maybe I should go look at those.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:33

I'm not a test taker. Be the guy. I'd be the guy, dude. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna move out of the sun.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:39

17 minutes an hour, baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:40

Now you can still see me, but I'm out of the sun. What's up? Hi. That worked out, didn't it? It did. I can't get any closer. Finally, dude. Well, yeah, but remember, remember last time last time we were here? It was me the whole time. But at least you're looking this way. I have to look that way. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:58

Half your face is gonna be the sunburn.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:01

It's tough, man. Well, I already had sunburn from the show, and then see my head's all peeling and everything.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:06

Is that from sitting right there?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:08

No, it's from the the show I had before your wedding. Yeah. Because we were facing that, we were like out in the sun. It was very nice, though. It was a sunny. I told you it was like sunny. Well, you didn't have time. You were busy. But it was very sunny and um but breezy and the weather was great. We played for a couple hours, and uh that's why this time of the year is the best.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:26

Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:28

Oh, it's about to get brutal. If it was like this year round, it's about to get brutal, though. Yeah, once it gets brutal, that's when we start to do our outdoor shows.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:37

Grew up playing football out here, and just you look back, you're like, how and why did I do that?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:42

Like how do you think you played football too, right? I played soccer. Oh, I was just gonna say, maybe y'all played each other.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:48

We'll be out.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:49

I was a soccer player.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:50

Yeah, too much running for me, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:55

I know, dude. I get exhausted watching soccer. I'm like, these guys are just running and running. How are they doing this? And I've run marathons.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:02

Just get used to it after a while. And it helps to distract yourself with the ball. So it's kind of like you are running, but you're, you know what I mean? You're not like it's not like track where you're just like, I'm just running.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:12

That was a so what do you like? Cross country people think there's something wrong with y'all.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:16

My our sport is y'all's punishment. What do you think of uh Ted Lasso? I like it. It's excellent, dude. I don't think it's a good show. I put my dad onto it and he was like, dude, this is a phenomenal show.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:26

Yeah, I'm sure it's not like super technically correct or anything, but it's a comedy. It's a comedy, it's but it's also a feel-good show. It's good enough, and I think it's uh centered around leadership, you know what I mean? Yeah, dude. I think they do a lot of leadership lessons in that.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:40

Yeah, there's some Easter eggs in there.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:42

Oh, yeah, dude. How to treat people, how to tell how to how to turn the other cheek when somebody's screwing you over.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:48

Like turning the other cheek, you they'll come back, you know, and you know what I mean? Uh no. It's so good. I love that show. I can't see that, so I don't know where we're at. It's about that time. It's like 55. It's a 55. It's close. Well, we gotta tell you. We gotta make salon back here. Yeah, because we have to do that. We have to do our final thoughts. Well, Mark, thanks for coming on, man. Now now you're talking about, are you talking about moving here from Vale? Moving back?

SPEAKER_06 1:54:15

I got uh my parents live live around here, and I previously had a business here that was pretty successful, so something I thought about, and just it's unrealistic to think I'll ever own anything in Vale. So I'm gonna come back, build something, and you can go back to Vail for your ski trips and stuff like that anymore. It was the worst winter in like recorded history as far as snow paying. So I'm like, I wanted to go out with a good winner, and uh unfortunately it was a pretty bad winter. So I I'm hoping to maybe redeem it, stay one more year and come back to the beach, but uh yeah, it's tough to leave to leave a ski resort on that kind of course.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:02

Yeah, well, like and your friends and stuff too, right? I'm sure you built it.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:06

She moved and then two of my my my overlanding buddy and then my dude I met the first night I moved to Colorado. We've been friends for 10 years now. They both moved and makes it tough. Did they just like go home or uh one of them moved within the state and the other one moved back east?

SPEAKER_03 1:55:22

So it's just and I think about that all the time. Like if Heart Stop broke up, what's keeping me here? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 1:55:31

But now we got all my close friends are here, and they you know it's my brother's in Virginia, so this is this is home, you know, right? Colorado will be like the second home.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:40

Well and your brother's only like is he gonna stay in Virginia? He'll probably retire and stay there.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:44

He's gonna buy like 300 acres in Nebraska or something. Oh, really? Do that thing as a old grumpy chief and just get out of here and go buy a front loader or something and digital.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:55

That's what you gotta do, just create projects for yourself.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:58

I think he's just gonna walk out his back door and shoot his 12 gauge off and just fucking start.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:03

You know how much I would love to do that, just have the land to just go back and shoot my guns in the backyard. Not that I have any guns, I lost them all in a boating accident. But my theoretical guns.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:13

I feel like there's a story there.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:15

Now it's what you say, so the government can't come take them from you. From my cold dead hands, government. From my cold dead hands.

SPEAKER_06 1:56:25

You don't even have a boat.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:27

Yeah, like I have a kayak, I just took all the what boat. Yeah, my kayak. Well, I used to have a boat. Maybe I took them out on that and dropped them on the air. You flung them over overboard. You're like, I'm done with this. Screw myself. I did have one. Stolen gun is gnarly. He wasn't a gun guy. But he had this 22. Uh, it was cool, Buffalo Soldier, I think it's called, but it's a little 22 revolver. Pain in the ass. You gotta load it one by one and all that stuff. But still, it was the first gun. I was like, it's so easy to shoot. It's like a cap gun, it's so easy. Right. And so when I went off to boot camp in the Marine Corps in '97, I I kept my that gun and all my other like knives and shit up in my mom's attic. Right. Well, at that same time, my mom's piece of shit ex-husband was like coming around, drunk, druggy, just a terrible piece of shit. And another person that I'm pretty sure is who did it, um, that I might be related to. But uh yeah, stole it. Just stole it. Damn. Went and sold it for crack, I'm sure, or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't that funny? Not really. While I'm in boot camp joining the Marine Corps to serve my country. Yeah, that's right. You're stealing my father's gun that he gave me. Wow. You know what I mean? Like, what kind of person does that, dude? Yeah, dude. Like people who steal my IT. You need their fucking heroine. That's that's why. People who need their next hit. They're not themselves, they don't they don't care. They are themselves. They become that person. And if you steal from your family, you're the lowest form of scum on the fucking earth.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:59

A thief's pretty bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:58:01

Stealing from family, though, that's that's another level.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:04

But that's what drugs does. Can I have one of those damn pretzels?

SPEAKER_06 1:58:07

Oh, that's why I brought them, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:08

Absolutely, dude. He brought them and said yogurt-covered pretzels. What's up? Sold. Did you not eat on the way back? I ate on the way back. I'm not hungry. Okay, I was gonna say, because every show we do, I swear to god, I feel like you don't eat beforehand, and then we talk about food, and then you're like, now I'm hungry too, so I know you must really be hungry.

SPEAKER_06 1:58:27

But I do miss the style of cuisine, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:30

I'm telling you, man, this freaking curry I made was off the chain. I like curry, but I made it like I used ChatGPT because my buddy gave me these cocoa's curry things. Yeah, but it's all in Japanese. I can't read that, so I'm like, read this and then give me the best ingredients. And I got like 2.5 pounds shoulder uh pork shoulder. Yeah, yeah. Okay, because I'll I'm gonna want, you know, I I wanted to make it a uh meal prep. Yeah, meal prep. It didn't. I ended up eating like three of them in two days. I brought one I brought one. Well, she was telling me at Salon, she's like, well, if you're gonna make curry, bring me some. I was like, I don't know if it'd be good. I've never made it before. So I brought it, she said it was really good, but I it was really good, dude. I ate, it was too mild for my I wanted to be hotter, but but it was like I've never made curry, dude. And so, like the way that you do it, you like sear the pork, then you throw it into it, boil it, then you put the vegetables in to boil those for you know bunch time, then you get rid of most of the water, and then you put the curry sauce in there, and then you make your rice, and it's it's amazing, dude. Sounds dang. I like curry. Yeah, I'm gonna have some curry when I get home too. Two days. I got one more left. I made like five of them. I got one left in two days.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:40

I go down to Belize every other year. And I do the seafood curry on the beach. I've never had seafood curry. You ever been to Belize or anything? No, I'm not rich. Belize is so cheap. I don't know. It's all right.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:55

Well, maybe they're my bye-bye after I pee.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:58

I'm not rich yet. Once this podcast takes off, we'll get rich and then we'll go to Belize. There we go. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_05 2:00:04

I wish I was rich, man.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:05

No, I have been around the world, but like on an episode from Belize. Uh dude, we're doing an episode from a far-off place at some point.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:13

Solange and Lee could fight in Belize. Yeah, there you go. Live from Belize.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:16

Live from Belize, the the match that now somebody's gonna have to monitor my heart rate just to make sure I don't die, but I could that I'll make easy work of that. That'll be easy.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:29

Uh but speaking like you can go there for like just like Southeast Asia.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:34

Well, so my brothers and I, and I've never been to most of Asia. I've been to like Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan and stuff, the stands. Yeah, yeah. The who gives a fuck a stand, but uh I heard somebody say that the other day. Oh no, that was Homelander, it was on the boys anyway. Uh but I've been to a bunch of those places, but I've never been to, you know, China, Japan, uh Taiwan, you know, Okinawa, freaking Philippines, nothing. So my brothers, I have an older brother and a younger brother, and we're talking about doing a brother's trip in like February, March, and and they want to go to the Philippines. Never been. I've never, you know, I've heard about it. My drill instructors went to the Philippines because back in the day, that was one of the Marine Corps deployment places, and they say it's great, but I'm like, I don't know anything about it. I don't know if the food's gonna be any good. I don't know if the people are gonna be nice or whatever. If the scenery is good, I want to see some good sights, I want to see some good beaches, have some good food, and and that's that's what I'm looking for. Just a good kind of whatever you do, and that's what I was looking at, Thailand, but I'm not trying to find a bunch of lady boys and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:36

Don't go looking for them then.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:42

In Romania, we had gypsies that followed us around.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:46

What are you trying to say? I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:49

Okay, Gypsy. I will now look through your treasures. Is this understood? It's this understood. Very nice, very nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:59

Very nice.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:59

I like my wife. Uh, she has vagine that hangs like sleeve of wizard. Oh god. Okay. What do you think? Hi. You think? Sure.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:16

Just turn them all up.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:18

Okay, we are we ready for it to take. Do you want to talk about that thing you want to talk about real quick? You said you had a story about forklifts.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:26

Well, it's just silly now that we're ta talking about it anymore.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:30

Damn. Wait, wait a way to kill the mood. We'll fork off then. Yeah. I mean, I was just gonna stick a fork in it. It's done.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:38

I mean, it was a story. It was okay. So this FedEx guy came in. So I was still like I was still fork in it. Fork you guys, okay?

SPEAKER_05 2:02:50

Fork it. Fork and get to it. Fork and tell your story. Fork crying out loud.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:54

All right, so what do you think? Are we on the right channel?

SPEAKER_05 2:02:59

I think so. We'll just turn them all up. We're good.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:03

Okay, fine. What's up? There was a FedEx guy who had come in, backed his truck up, and our item was on the other side of this super long palette of something.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:15

Oh, like in the back type deal.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:17

Yeah. And we can't get the forklift onto the truck without moving this long skinny palette.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:24

Giggity.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:26

This sure.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:28

Long skinny. Long skinny.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:29

Well, long skinny. I'm 12.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:33

We still haven't heard any funny things that you've ever said on any of your comedy things.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:41

So um this guy comes in, and I'm still like, I have just learned forklift, but I'm doing well. Okay. And he's and I'm not confident. I should be. I have given myself no reason not to be confident. I can totally be certified. My brain. No, I was already.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:03

Or learning. You were learning?

SPEAKER_00 2:04:05

My brain functions for heavy machinery and and pivot points and and load.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:16

Management management. Yeah. You manage loads well. Yeah, I manage loads real well.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:23

And um and so uh this this FedEx guy comes in and I don't want to move someone else's package.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:33

So you don't manage his load or his package.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:36

I don't want to lift his package to manage his load. Yeah. I don't want to manage his load of someone's else package. Anyways.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:45

Is this a bit? We're still talking about forklifts or I feel like this is a bit. I mean forklifts or Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:53

It's not a bit. This is not pre-written. This is this is natural. This is happening right now. Tell us about the package and load.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:02

Okay. So load package. So he has experience on a uh uh fuel operated forklift. Gas powered. Propane. It's propane. Okay, I wanted to say propane. Oh, is it yeah, it is propane. Yeah. That's kind of cool. Yeah. And if it's not propane, it's electric.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:25

And I thought you were Flintstone in the shit. Wouldn't that be crazy? Because okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:35

Anyway, so first truck for me to get on or to take the forklift onto the bed of a truck. Into the bed of a truck. And and it's and I have to move someone else's package. And I'm like, I don't know about that. I want to be responsible. Yeah. And he says he's got experience. I was like, if you feel good about it, go for it. Um, but he has ex experience on propane. And he goes in, and the difference between propane and electric is vastly different.

SPEAKER_04 2:06:08

As far as the throttle.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:09

Um propane is a very slow, like build-up gear, engine, you know, like electrical way. Yeah, and electric is like, and he is just like gearing all uh jerking all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:29

He's jerking his package everywhere. He's jerking the package everywhere. The load's everywhere. He's jerking everywhere. So the load's gonna be like all over the place.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:43

Things are starting to get messy. Okay. We did have clipping all this. I had my longest why we had my longest extension polls out there.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:54

For the load that you're doing.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:57

I want to say that they were 16s and the Oh, yeah, 16s, of course, yeah. And anyways, so he is just making a mess of this place, and I was like, a get off. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:09

Yeah, get off. Forever. Get off. That's that's what you said. Get off. Anyways, you're talking about jerking all over the place managing and moving the loads. Get off. That's what you said doing. This is a bit, I think. You're doing this on purpose.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:25

So I hop on.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:27

Really?

SPEAKER_00 2:07:28

And I insert the forks very sensually. Very centrally under the pallets.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:37

And I just fucking move the load. Oh yeah, that sounds good.

SPEAKER_06 2:07:43

Manage it.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:45

And then I go and get my package. Easy peasy. I shouldn't have had any doubt in myself. Anyways, pull it off, put his shit back on. We're done.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:54

And he's just laying there in the wet spot or what? So you handled the guy's package better than he could because he was just jerking it all over the place. Yeah, he was jerking so that load was gonna be spilled everywhere if it was over there.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:06

He was spilling it.

unknown 2:08:07

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:07

He was oozing just everywhere. That's very good. That's very good. Yeah. Is it hard though? Like driving it, driving it. I am now. It wasn't. I got material now, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:08:21

It usually is.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:24

Is it difficult to drive a forklift? Or do you how long did it take you to get it? A day, two days, three days, a week, two weeks? Because I like driving anything, man. I like it. Zero turn with the similar.

SPEAKER_06 2:08:35

Some of them are your zero turns. Yeah, cool. Some of them are center turns, are cool. I mean, I got drops on a proudest.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:43

My proudest moment outside of that situation was um this super wide load came in wider than our massive garage doors went.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:56

Huge load. Huge load, just like everywhere. Just like uh in the world, what was that hand motion?

SPEAKER_06 2:09:03

Do that hand motion again. You you brush your teeth on two jerkin brushes.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:08

They're really long toothbrushes. Yeah, I crisscross them. It's super efficient the faster you go. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:17

Dental hygiene is important.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:18

Very important.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:19

You have the whitest teeth I've ever come across.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:21

Thank you. Uh okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:31

Oh, we got dirty.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:32

Um brother or sister dirty.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:34

That's no, the whole shit like the this whole fucking forklift thing's been dirty. Oh god. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_06 2:09:40

You can imagine who wrote the forklift certification manual. See, this could have been in your routine. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 2:09:46

Yeah. So load it. They run with it.

SPEAKER_00 2:09:50

Oh, but my most promoted. Yeah. So it I was just learning, and the guy who is who had certified me was like, okay, bring it in. And you have to like, you know, get it up to a certain height, turn, or like pivot, and then and then there's something in your way, of course, and you raise it a little more, which is like a really scary thing because you can't be forward at it.

SPEAKER_06 2:10:16

Oh, and the video they show you of like, hey, this is what happens.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:20

Well, you can't see either at a certain point, and then you feel like the weight makes you not differential, right? Make you not want to mess up. I'm sure that's because like when he was doing that tall, when I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:30

If it's tall, you better be straight up under it.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:34

If it's heavy, it depends on because you're about to get launched, if not it depends on the weight of the load.

SPEAKER_00 2:10:40

Yeah. It depends on the weight of the load. If you can take if if the fork length can take the load of that weight while it's straight up. And because if it can't while it's straight up, because that's gonna be your most stable, then you're gonna come forward no matter what. So it it it's a weight.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:08

I want to drive a forklift. It's so good. I want to do it just to do it. I just I've always wanted to do it. Yeah, it is. Oh, yeah, because you you know the balance. Yeah, it's up away. Well, let's say you're going this way, can you then tilt it forward? Okay, to offset depends on the weight and the offset, you can move your load forward so that if you're going up a hill, you can move it forward. So it's okay, okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:11:33

Like what can go wrong. It's like a nice little you know, break room, people enjoying their launchables. Forklift comes through right through, just impales a uh a supervisor.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:45

Ooh, there was a it's a bit like a crashed up crash test type situation, but it's like there was also a for real thing with a uh an MRI machine that they got at some hospital that wasn't covered yet. No, that there was a Forklift on one side of the wall, and they turned it on to check it out, and it fucking pulled the fork right off, and it came right through the fucking wall, and they killed one guy and they injured another guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:16

Did you hear about that? Which is like, you know, they're building the highways and they've got the hot tar they use. Yeah, huge, like huge uh heated 50,000 gallon tanks of just hot tar that they come in. That guy's like Tom Pay. 210 gram.

SPEAKER_05 2:12:41

Dude, and it's like sticky too, so they're not like he's sticky. His quality of life is like way better now.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:50

He's stickier than me after the forklift incident.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:55

OSHA mishaps, that was a big one, I think.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:57

Yeah, but some of those are videos are like so cheesy and like stupid, but some of them are really good when you show like the hand on the bottom I didn't see that video. Yeah, if it's real, then it's cool, but not cool, but like you're paying more attention to. If it's if it's some actor that's like, oh no, I've fallen and done this, that's like, come on, man. Show us some real event that happened.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:19

Yeah, make this mean something to me.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:23

We ready? Sure.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:26

Yeah, on that note.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:28

That was a good ending story. I liked it.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:31

TK, let's have some takeaways, brother. Thanks for having me. Um, I had a great time in Mexico. I had a great time at my wedding, I had a great time at George Strait last week. Oh, we didn't even talk about George Street. That's okay. We'll talk about it next time. And then I love you all. Nice to meet you, Mark. TK, thanks for having me. Yeah, brother. Takeaways.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:53

Thanks for having me. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:55

Final thoughts.

SPEAKER_06 2:13:56

Yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:57

Yeah. See, it's nothing to it. You just talk.

SPEAKER_06 2:14:00

I always said I had a face for radio.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:02

I I say that about myself too, but he has a face for radio because he's on the radio. There you go. Hey.

SPEAKER_06 2:14:08

A little disc jocking in veil a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:10

Oh, yeah? Radio free.

SPEAKER_06 2:14:11

A little boop doop doop. A little radio free mentor. Yeah, it's a good time.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:17

Salon's final thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:19

Um, I wish you guys had talked more before this podcast because I think you would have found some even more interesting things to talk about.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:30

Because just means you gotta come more loads to manage. Luckily, we have more shows to do.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:35

Yeah, but he's heading back for now.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:38

I've been here a month and I'm heading back to the show. Either way for now.

SPEAKER_00 2:14:40

This was gonna be this. You guys would really enjoy each other.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:44

Oh, yeah? And each other's loads. What's up, dude? You want to speak loads later?

SPEAKER_00 2:14:49

You want to talk about it?

SPEAKER_03 2:14:52

Well, uh, again, Mark, thanks for coming, and it's great to have you on the show. Solonis, thank you for being on, even though you had to keep it. Thanks for having me. I know you had to keep getting up and working it, but you're doing a great job at the shop. Working it.