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Late Discoveries: The Things We Wish We'd Known Sooner
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On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, we talk about this. Did you ever fall in love with a music band that's been around forever, or become obsessed with a TV show that had several seasons and has already ended years ago, and think to yourself if I only knew, hey Scott, drop the beat the beat.
Speaker 4:It's on season three. Well, hello, hello. Welcome back to the Powers Point Podcast, Season 5, Episode 16. The show where we talk about anything and everything. We only have two rules here. We don't talk religion and we don't talk politics Because, let's be honest, we're here to make you laugh, not start a heated family dinner argument. And if you're new here, welcome to the show and the family. And if you're a returning listener, welcome back to the madness. You know the drill we aim for one or two solid laughs per episode, but if you laugh three times, you owe each of us a snack. I'm Scott Powers and I'm hanging out with my partners in podcasting crime. I'm talking about the one and only Jim Banks. Hello, hello, hello. And all the way from Ohio, Keith Mackey.
Speaker 4:And I I like snacks, so you know what I'm shooting for so they're here to keep me honest or at least interrupt me when I start straying off on a tangent, like I usually do. They keep me back on the net the right way. So before we dive in today's topic, I gotta ask you guys, man, how was everybody's week?
Speaker 2:interesting. I can say that I got I got, definitely got a funny story. If you guys are ready for this one um, ready, yeah, I was. So you know, when my parents coming back, I've been doing a lot of work, uh on the house and getting everything set up. Well, at one point I was, uh, reconstructing stuff here in the living room and I found these two old uh edible cookies marijuana edible cookies that I had from like two years ago. They were still in the package. I didn't plan on eating them because they're, you know, they were like, you know, bricks and whatever, and I don't really like edibles to begin with. But I took them and I set them on the kitchen counter and they were maybe on the counter for 10 minutes tops. Well, I went in and I noticed that one of them was missing off the counter and I went upstairs and my daughter, who has never touched a drug, a drop of alcohol or anything in her life, had it sitting in front of her. She hadn't thank God, hadn't eaten it yet.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Like how many milligrams are we talking there?
Speaker 2:oh, like I think, a hundred milligrams, ten doses. So it would have been yeah, it would have been a nightmare and a half and thank god again, thank god that did not happen and it was. So. You know, I'm glad I noticed it, but you want to talk about dodging one there. So that definitely put me in a in a state of gratitude, if you will do you eat it to get rid of it?
Speaker 2:No, I threw them away. Like I said, they were too old. They're, you know, a couple years old. I don't know if they would have even been potent anymore.
Speaker 1:Did she think it was a brownie or something? She just thought it was a regular cookie.
Speaker 2:All she thought it was because it's fat, you know, for children, you know you should have said hey, snacky mason, that's not yours, and just exactly. Well, she has this weird tendency and I'm sure she doesn't want me to tell this, but she had this weird tendency of like, uh, you know, grabbing sodas, grabbing snacks or whatever, and uh, it's not that anybody ever tells her no, you know, no, you can't have that, but it's, it's that thing, it's like, well, you know, it's, it's better to what do they say? It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission yeah, right you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So she like will grab something out of the fridge and she'll like keep it held like right under, you know, at her side, like, hey, good night everybody. And we got these counters where you can't see what she's walking through the kitchen with you know what I mean. So she walks up with it and so it's like that kind of thing, and so that's what kind of set me off. I was like this is why I tell you to at least let me know. You know what I mean, at least say something. If you would have said, hey, is this cookie okay, I'd have said no, it's not.
Speaker 1:But she's practicing a career of stealing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:How about you, Jim?
Speaker 1:Um, nothing much. I really can't think of anything.
Speaker 2:Nothing to that level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just work. And of course we had to go back up to Chicago again and I had to have my niece watch Jimmy and I had to clear off the basement, the bedroom, the bed that I had. I was sorting all my junk on like in the basement, separating, throwing stuff away, and then once she came over to I really didn't realize the last, the hours before that she was spending the night. So I'm like crap, I gotta move that stuff back over to the other side of the room, like move a whole half a room back over just so she could stay the night. And then on my next day off I gotta put it all back here. And it's just like god.
Speaker 4:I just went backwards again trying to clean this junk up it seems like when you try to start cleaning it's kind of worthless the time. You know you wasted time yeah, and now you gotta do it two or three times more, and you guys know it's not like when we were kids, where there was infinite time.
Speaker 1:I mean, we realize how precious time is and I'm looking around near your house and you're like I got a lot of stuff to do and I gotta calculate the time to do all this stuff. So you can't do nothing. Fun because you got all this huge stuff to you know, get rid of and stuff.
Speaker 4:So the topic of our show is kind of like what you kind of do right now if I only knew she was staying. Yeah see, so this topic fits so well into everyday life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you get so caught up you don't realize something you know that you never knew.
Speaker 2:Something became routine without you realizing it. Huh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Or an addiction, yeah, candy. So it sounds like you guys have been keeping busy, though, and we are going to take a quick commercial break, but when we return we're going to dive into today's topic. If I only knew All those little things we've learned a little too late in life, so stay with us. We'll be back after these messages.
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Speaker 4:Welcome back and let's kick it off with those little day-to-day things that we learned a little too late in life, Like first, let me did you guys know that the hole in the pot handle is not just for hanging it on the wall, it's a spoon rest. I spent years slapping spoons on paper towels like some kind of budget chef, when the pot had my back the whole time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I never knew that. It's got the holes and you just put, like if you're doing sauce, you just put a spoon right in the pot.
Speaker 1:I see videos like that all the time and I'm like like the whole topic is here. I never knew that and I wish I would have known that. Or even some of the ladles that have like the claw part on one part of the ladle, yeah, and it has a hole in the center and if you put the spaghetti like through the hole, it's like one serving or something. Yeah, yeah, I'm like how come I never knew that?
Speaker 4:And why weren't?
Speaker 2:we taught right and there's no internet. Then that was the thing is. You had to, you had to gorilla style everything. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:You had to get it like like a renegade man, you know it's true, and and by the time the internet came in, what around 94, 95 ish yeah, whereas people like me probably didn't get on until about 99 2000 right and and with lime wire and everything else, uh. But yeah, there's like so many things out there now that you see it on tv or little life hacks and they're like if I only knew that would have made my whole life a lot simpler back in the day someone, just just.
Speaker 1:They had a video online, one of those quick videos, and it showed how to fold your bed sheets.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 1:Like the elastic rounded parts. It shows like three steps how to fold it and where to grab on the folded parts and it comes out like a store or something perfect. And my wife knows how to do it. She's just watched it a couple times and I still can't figure out how they fold, fold, fold, done. Yeah, those folded sheets, because I didn't. Whenever I do it it's all wrinkled and uneven and stuff. It's like a big wad and I'm like, oh, it's close enough. It's a legitimate effort too. The president isn't coming. Who cares?
Speaker 4:They say that if you keep the tag of the sheet on the lower right-hand side, it's easier to fold, go figure.
Speaker 1:I always get the job of folding things because my arm wingspan is so long. Yeah, you fold everything, okay.
Speaker 4:Did you guys ever know the little paper ketchup cups at restaurants?
Speaker 1:Yes, I found this out a couple years ago.
Speaker 4:You'd actually expand them and you could actually put the fries on this thing. It gets that big.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you pulled the wrinkle parts or straightened it out.
Speaker 4:If you pull the whole thing out it makes like a tray. That's amazing.
Speaker 4:I never knew that man Me neither. So there's like again, like it's again. It's not just like everyday life things, but it could be movies, tvs, music, and we're all generally the same age here, yeah, you know. So we all basically have grown up with the same technology and man, there's a lot of things out there. Basically have grown up with the same technology and, uh, man, there's a lot of things out there. So what else stuff do you guys? If you only knew.
Speaker 2:Go first, Jim, go ahead, buddy.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think.
Speaker 4:It's like so much. How about preheating the oven? You didn't know about preheating the oven. Well, I do for the last year or two, but it didn't take it. It's like my kids she don't preheat the oven oh my god, really, oh wow or boil the water first and then put the pasta in.
Speaker 2:She'll put the pasta in the pot and just turn it on yeah, that's called cold water method, though that's uh, some people swear by that that it's better right, and that's what I do.
Speaker 4:You know, and I've always boiled and salted and everything, but I watch everybody just throw cold pizza in the oven, turn the oven on and call it a day.
Speaker 1:I didn't know about when you boil eggs or make a hard-boiled egg. I never knew. Once you get the eggs out or something, you put them in a bowl of ice. Yeah, and when I found out, like two years ago, all of a sudden I see everybody like doing it in videos. I'm like those videos weren't around you. Everybody just found this stuff out because I never seen any recipe or anybody in my family put it in ice after they've to easy peel or something it separates it right when you put it when it's like the swelling, it's something about like it.
Speaker 2:It makes it reduced to where it's. It puts like a little bit of space between the the body of the egg and then the shell.
Speaker 1:And I still see a million different ways to make it to where you don't they just they fall off. You don't have to sit there and pick the shells off, but I can never do it.
Speaker 4:I still have sit there and pick the shells off, but I can never do it. I still. How about gavin the, the host of majors mess hall, and he's also like a friend of the show. Have you seen his egg trick, which, like, baffles me every single time?
Speaker 1:no he'll.
Speaker 4:He'll take a little tip off the shell after it's boiled off the bottom, and a piece of tip or like a little hole in the thing, and he blows the egg right out the shell okay, I've seen that done. I haven't seen him do it though and it's perfect no divots in the eggs or anything. And I'm like, well, if you're doing it for yourself, that's cool, but if you're doing it for like guests, you're like blowing on their eggs, yeah, yeah now if you're good at blowing.
Speaker 1:I didn't know this about the man I mean yeah, I definitely haven't seen gavin blow eggs yet.
Speaker 4:Yeah dude, that's a. That's the only fans for uh, right we? All need money, yeah, how about, uh, for entertainment? Okay, uh, there are bands, albums, shows and movies that I completely ignored when they first came out only to discover later that they were incredible. My biggest show that I just held off and held off for, and again, gavin's like you, gotta watch it, gotta watch it. And when I watched it I was like a fish on the hook.
Speaker 2:Dude, uh breaking bad I was gonna say the same thing. That would be the same one for me, except, uh, I actually don't remember how we wound up watching it, but that was the same, as we didn't watch Breaking Bad forever. And then we caught on, right, I think, before Better Call Saul started, so at least by that point we were caught up. But through the entire season of Breaking Bad, though, yeah, we didn't watch it either.
Speaker 4:It was like the Sopranos. Everybody still tells me this day. Got to watch it, got to watch it, and I'm still putting it off.
Speaker 2:Same. Thing. We haven't watched it either.
Speaker 1:I've watched the Sopranos. I've never seen Breaking Bad.
Speaker 4:Oh, dude, I'll start the Sopranos. You start Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1:What's funny is the Sopranos. I was watching it before it ended and stuff, because I caught it right before the last season or two and whenever I'd hear that theme song because, uh, my italian family and stuff I'd go to my grandma's house.
Speaker 1:Yeah and when in the intro of the video you see him driving and now you see the landmarks and stuff while you hear the song. And when I go to my grandma's I told my wife I just look at the landmarks going into gary and stuff and seeing by her neighborhood and that, and it just put myself in that you know the going to the Italian house and stuff.
Speaker 4:Well, like everyone was talking about it, nonstop, you know, breaking bad.
Speaker 4:And I thought, nah, I get it, it's about drugs and drama. Then I watched it and suddenly I'm Googling what a Heisenberger is and and I can't. I wish there was more, you know. So that's like a drug, you know. And then I'm not gonna ruin it out there. But the ending of the series it's like did this happen or did this not happen? You know? Now I'm like I'm like any other good show. You don't want to end, and when it does, you're're like ah, it should be back, it could come back, it can come back. And here it is. What, 10 years later?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:We only get like a Jesse story man, yeah, El Camino right yeah. Or how about another TV show? Man, I really put off the Office. Uh, the english, the american version. Yeah, I've seen like the english version with ricky gervais and it was good. You know it was a little slow. But then I was opened up to the american version and I was like, oh, here's like the next meth lab I'm working on here and I had to watch like five episodes a day.
Speaker 1:I've seen only a couple episodes of both series.
Speaker 2:I've never seen one of either.
Speaker 1:It has that awkward. Merlene hates that kind of humor. That awkward humor, yeah, where someone's doing something so cringe as the kids say cringe worthy, and it's just dying laughter. She can't stand that.
Speaker 4:But I find a little bit of human, human, uh, humorous well, it's also episode one of both american and the uk version. They're exactly the same, just different characters, which I thought, oh, this is gonna be kind of boring, you know. But then they start doing some other stuff and the cast become amazing the more you watch, you know, and and then it.
Speaker 1:I just started because you start pointing out people at your work that look, that act just like some of those characters and stuff right and I, I love how, yeah, like you said, I can take somebody and be like well, this is so-and-so, you know trying to be cool and they're just a jerk or something yeah, and then I also.
Speaker 4:Now you want to start doing videos in the background, while you can see the office workers in the background working you know and and you're talking shit about them you know on camera, uh, you guys got any tv shows that you guys got hooked on or anything that you put off uh, well, we weren't.
Speaker 2:We caught into uh letter kenny, actually about four or five seasons in before we, and obviously that turned out to be a big one for fucking for me personally, geez. But um, yeah, we weren't like uh right off the jump. You know from that it took us a little. It wasn't because we kind of put it off, it was just that we was unaware of it. You know, I mean, a friend of mine, uh, came and told me about it and the first thing I thought was that uh wayne looked like uh matt hughes from the ufc and so I was like, okay, I could probably watch this. This looks funny enough. By the end of the episode, by the time I saw McMurray, by the time I saw McMurray, that was it.
Speaker 4:I was sold and that's obviously still one of our favorites it's like I started trailer park boys late in life, you know them too, yeah and the first seven seasons I was like way behind.
Speaker 4:And then I, I watched them and they became like my, my new friends. You know, I had to watch them. But then letter kenny came in, like I used to watch the stuff on youtube or pirate it, and uh, I even had to tell uh daryl that I was pirating it, right? But uh, all of a sudden, I like that better than the trailer park boys and I was like man, what is this madness?
Speaker 4:you know, I thought nothing would ever do that to me right uh, shorezy, I heard is the same way, I haven't watched one episode, yet shorezy wicked.
Speaker 1:I've only seen like three or four or five episodes.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, what do you think so far?
Speaker 1:It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2:That show gets me jacked, like just wanting to ask, whatever you know what I mean, I don't know I get pumped up after watching that show. I love Shorzy, I love that character, I love the whole, you know, set the tone, the humanness of it, that, just all of it. I love it all. I love it all. Quiso's a quiso's a bad bitch, if I may say so.
Speaker 4:I mean not that he gives a shit what I think, but I think you know I dig, I dig the whole cast. I know you. You have a different feeling it's a case-by-case basis.
Speaker 2:You know, I love all I love, I love them all. But you know, I mean obviously I've seen less than what I feel like is less than human sides of a couple of them. But that's with anything.
Speaker 4:You and I both love Connor on there. That's our boy. I want to try to get him on the show. That should be no problem. That's another show.
Speaker 2:That's why I watched this show the first time was because he was on.
Speaker 4:With the gas mask. Yeah, no, no's.
Speaker 2:Why I watched this show the first time was because he was on With the gas mask and the yeah, no, no, I mean this, the Powers Point podcast.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the reason that I discovered this podcast, because I was, you know, because I was in contact with him all the time, and then I found out that he was on here, so that was my like, I had watched, you know, it was probably what? A year or two before I was actually on it myself, you know yeah, yeah, wow, that's pretty cool man it's crazy coincidence, is it not?
Speaker 1:no, I mean, yeah, it is man, it is uh any any other movies or tv shows or the thing about tv shows and movies is that I've I I'm bad at watching like trying to finish watching stuff, or like something's been out for a long time and I haven't watched it and my co-worker and everybody's like you how have you not seen this? It's been like five or ten years and I'm like I just I jump onto other stuff or I'm not paying attention and then I want to finish stuff. But I never like uh Marvel's daredevil show. I really like how uh D'Onofrio played Kingpin. Yep, and I I was like this is, he is one of the greatest and I'm watching it, but I can only watch. I only watched one season so far and I never finished. Yeah, or Cobra Kai.
Speaker 4:I watched. Well, now daredevil's back.
Speaker 1:So yeah, C yeah. Or Cobra Kai I watched. Well, now Daredevil's back. So yeah, Cobra Kai. I watched one season and I'm like this is frickin awesome and then I just never finished. Or Black Sails I like, Black Sails rules, but I never finished it.
Speaker 2:Do you ever see it kind of like like weather patterns? You know you look at weather patterns over top the map and they circle. Yeah, and sometimes one circles over here and sometimes you know what I mean. And circles over here, and sometimes you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It circles over, that's kind of how I see it, it's like if you're not ready for it or you're just not, you know, in the vicinity at the time, you know I mean it doesn't necessarily mean you're never gonna be, it just means you haven't been in the case, especially if something that you're gonna enjoy, it's kind of nice to know that you still have something waiting for you if we were all like in our teens yeah, we would have binged all that oh yeah, you have nothing else to do but growing up and and being a parent and and life hitting you and all that it kind of like pushes whatever you want to see farther and farther back because you forget about it, you know the main thing is, back when we were younger, in our youth, in the eighties, seventies and eighties, something came along that was all you saw and everybody talked about, so you focused on it.
Speaker 1:Now there's like 20 streaming apps or more, and they each have 500 live channels or something. There's so much to watch you can.
Speaker 4:I mean, I can go back and watch Columbo, all the old Columbo's or something, or uh uh, go back and watch colombo, all the old colombos or something, or uh, uh, just one more question yeah, yeah, uh, if you don't mind, and it's like that was a genius show and stuff and I never I never appreciated or watched it when I was a kid.
Speaker 1:I'm like you could do all this stuff any. You pick any show, any movie, you could just jump in and watch. We're just flooded with all this stuff to watch.
Speaker 4:There's no time you know you say that. But you know, uh, one of my co-workers. He likes to bring up quotes from old tv shows and he's like, oh, remember when fish said this and fish said that, and I'm like fish next thing. You know, I'm watching barney miller man, I've never yes, like when I was a little kid I didn't care for a cop show. You know I didn't understand it.
Speaker 2:Now, like I get it, you know, and now I'm watching barney miller and especially, that's for sure, I knew that baseline because barney miller was on right before the three stooges well, he showed me.
Speaker 4:He showed me the episode where, uh, everybody ate hash brownies yeah, yeah and the thing, and everybody was high, I was a kite and and uh, and they're like don't tell nobody, you know it was just, it was funny, man and the the with today, with reality shows and everybody trying to just I want to be rich and I want to be on tv.
Speaker 1:but back then they were like stories and, like you know, it was more creative and funnier and there wasn't so everybody all worried about don't say this and talk to, you can't have a white person say this about a black and or or you can't talk about Asians or Mexicans. I mean, everybody was just all paranoid now. But back then, everybody equally, just for jokes and insults. You know it was all in funny, it was just all it made sense.
Speaker 2:And the first priority was talent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, you watch Sanfordford and son. That stuff is a riot.
Speaker 4:that's hilarious some people don't want to give it a chance because they think it's racist. And it may have been now or it is now, but it was funny back then and everybody accepted it and you knew it wasn't all mean and hateful and stuff it was just for the sake of comedy.
Speaker 4:You had them, the, the bunkers and and the jeffersons. You know those were the three big ones that were really pushing the line and uh. But I watch it now and I still laugh at it and I'm not a racist but I enjoy, like, especially, like you said, sanford and son, you got the all the races right there and you know, having a good laugh, you know, and that's what is taken away from us nowadays is because everything is so woke. You know you want to laugh because it was funny, it is funny, but then you're like you don't want to laugh because then you feel wrong and everybody's like either remaking something to be in their nowadays standards or something, and it's taking away none.
Speaker 1:Nobody's doing nothing creative and all the creative stuff was back then and stuff and they're ruining them too.
Speaker 2:Man, they redid good times like come on, man. Good times is one of my favorite from the as long as I can remember, good times has been one of my probably top five shows. Yeah, they just I don't know. I barely saw what they did with it. New, but I'm not.
Speaker 1:I don't like it at all or they tried a magnum pi a couple years ago yeah or hawaii 50 yeah, or uh uh they did punky brewster, they did wonder years again.
Speaker 4:Oh really, yeah, yeah, uh, but I won't get into that but you know, oh shit, okay, I remember now never mind, we talk about tv, we talk about movies, but there's a big genre that that really gets us. Because we do it more, we listen a lot of music.
Speaker 4:Let's just say I used to mock genres because I didn't understand them yeah you know, then one day I actually listened to what I used to make fun of, and then I'm like I'll hear vibing stuff I once swore I hated. So growth is real yeah, what kind of music or groups. Did you guys hear that you may not have liked as a kid, but but now you're like man. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, obviously, kind of what inspired this episode is my obsession and love for the killing joke, and that's since they've been around, you know, since I think, like around 78, 77, something like that. But honestly I don't think my 16-year-old self would have been ready for them. You know what I mean. I think maybe I needed to, you know, and I was.
Speaker 2:I've been listening to him since probably, I don't know, 2000, something like that, whenever I could start, I guess, downloading shit for free, you know, whatever big giveaway. But you know, I started wanting everything and then I would go to the library and I would grab CDs from the library and I would burn them from that. You know, go to the library and I would grab CDs from the library and I would burn them from there, you know. So, whatever source, I was always trying to build my collection. I've been studying basically since I was, you know, 15, 16 years old, um, but, like I said, I don't really think, uh, you know, my 16 year old self maybe not even my like 26, 27 year old self maybe would have been as ready for him as I am now. It's like I feel like I had to see and hear all the rest of the stuff that I do like to catch them and hear them the way that I hear them now.
Speaker 4:You know, when I was in Somalia, I never listened to Pink Floyd before.
Speaker 1:And this was late 92, 93.
Speaker 4:And I used to lay like when it was dark out. It was dark out because everybody stole all the copper and everything else from the telephone lines and the electricity lines. And then the bath had these big-ass 50,000-gallon water bags, man, for the showers and all that, and it was like a huge waterbed. And for the kids that don't know what a waterbed is, and it was like a huge waterbed and for the kids that don't know what a waterbed is, you filled up a mattress of water and heated it up with a heater and it felt great. So I used to listen, I laid up on the big shower bag and then all of a sudden I hear comfortably numb and I could see all the stars, dude, and it was like I was high without being high, you know.
Speaker 4:And from then on, floyd touches me, man, you know. Their songs hold up to this day. You know. Probably some more songs hold up more today than before, you know, with the way life's going and everything. But that was a huge one for me is Pink Floyd in 93. And I haven't turned back since.
Speaker 2:And it's awesome when it's like that, when it's you're helpless to it and it becomes like the soundtrack of a moment in your life. Because, honestly, if you think about it, you know when you say people only listen to one type of music, it's, that's just. I don't understand that, because it says that one the course of a day isn't never, doesn't feel the same from the time you get up to the time you go to sleep, and that's, you know, definitely not through your life. And I would definitely imagine the most significant musical you know, moments in your life that at least been like something kind of profound would be when you were hearing something kind of against your will, you know, I mean, something significant was happening in your life would be like, oh shit, this is playing. It's rarely going to be something that you choose you know what I mean that that you would put on, unless, that's, you know, you're in your own home and you're listening to something that you only you play.
Speaker 2:But like something like that, especially if you like uh, like we have that amusement park, uh, pretty close to here, cedar. Like, if you go there you're listening to stuff, you're not necessarily unless you listen to nothing, but you know radio hits, which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that. That's his job too, you know, to make you feel something, to make you do something. What I really hate is when I feel like people abuse music and make it a vehicle for their own pleasure. Personal agenda of like looking cool, they weaponize it, man, yeah.
Speaker 4:But this is why I'm glad Instagram's around, because when people make the reels I'll hear a tune and I'm like oh man, what is that? It's just like TikTok, you know. So then I look to see what the group is, but then I go research it myself and I'm like man, they've been out for like 10 years. I've never even heard of them until this moment.
Speaker 4:And then I'm like I go to amazon music and save, save, save, save, download, download, download. And I'm like holy cow man, I'm like stocked up for like an eternity uh like, uh the pixies in fight club.
Speaker 2:Have you seen fight club yeah, of course or know the end of the movie where the building's crumbling and they play the acoustic song. And they play when Is my Mind? That's the Pixies. The Pixies weren't really that popular. You know what I mean. That song you hear. All kinds of bands are covering that, Just that song. Now, like Miley Cyrus has done it Okay, and they weren't that big it's like movies man, again a movie.
Speaker 4:uh, we'll have a good soundtrack, and then from that you would buy the soundtrack back in the day. You know, even if it was just for that one song, cause we couldn't just pick and choose that song until, of course, limewire and, uh, the one that Metallica sued.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Napster Me back in Metallica. Yeah, napster, put me back in Metallica.
Speaker 4:But, jim, have you discovered music that you may not have liked.
Speaker 1:Like I said in the previous episodes I know I told you, scott, that thanks to Spotify, we have a Spotify account and all these other kind of apps like that. It's just you have everything, every genre. I like this band and you could just look up all their albums, all their songs. Were back in our day you had to spend 40 to 50 dollars to get like just an album. It was like I'm not wasting money if I don't like it and stuff and commit it. But now you could just go and my friend, like a two years ago, sent me a meme that was making fun of like uh, van halen band. But they uh, uh. They put a jackie chan's face on every one of the members of van halen and it said uh chanama chanama.
Speaker 1:The album was chanama and it was was Chan Halen and I was laughing so hard. I didn't know it. I didn't know it was Jackie Chan. I was actually looking for the band on Google and I told him I feel so stupid. I was looking for the freaking band and it's Jackie Chan, but then that that made me think.
Speaker 1:I remember Loudness so I said, okay, let me look. Uh, let me look at loudness. And so then that took me down a rabbit hole and I started looking up 1980s japanese hair bands, hair metal bands, and I have been on this kick. That's like the biggest uh crack cocaine that I've ever had with music I'm listening to like anthem, the band anthem loud uh with a y.
Speaker 2:Right, is it anthem with a y okay?
Speaker 1:yeah, uh, no, uh, I think it's just anthem with a n t, uh, h e m, okay, uh, wow, wow, I'm listening to blizzard reaction. All these uh like tons of 80s, uh, japanese hair metal and like what's. What's brilliant about that was that a couple of them came to america like loudness was the first one to come to america and it they never really took off. Big anthem came over and uh, ezo, aso and aso was uh, gene simmons brought them over and he wanted to make them big in America, but they never really took off.
Speaker 4:At first I thought you said Enzio, I was going to say how you doing.
Speaker 1:No, but it's like what's great about Japanese hair metal is that they'll sing one lyric in Japanese and then one lyric in American. And there's a lot of bands, a lot of them phonetically learned english by, you know, like repeating and learning english to to get for the song, and they have a lot of albums that you'll you'll know one line, but you don't know the japanese line. But me myself, I'm like memorizing how to sing and sing it in japanese, so I'm almost knowing the words and it's like and these guys I mean I swear to god, guys, we know 80s hair metal and I'm like that's one of my favorite genres ever is 80s hair metal okay, and then you all sudden, it's like this giant warehouse opens and all this 80s hair metal music comes to me and this is this was going on in japan and us in the 80s.
Speaker 1:We didn't know this was going on because we didn't have the internet no, you didn't know that. All these bands were doing that and they sound awesome. It sounds like brand new 80s hair metal now just throwing at you.
Speaker 1:They usually advertise those in the back of circus magazine like the last two pages, you know or there's a couple bands that sound like american 80s bands and I'm like this one sounds like uh, kind of like epic, like great white and stuff, or not like great white, but uh like operatic kind of. Yeah, wow, wow, sounds like that, okay. And anthem or uh, yeah, anthem and loudness. They're. They're guitarists, I don't know which one, I can't remember. He patterned off eddie van halen in that. So when you hear a lot of their songs, you're hearing eddie van halen's notes and stuff and you're like this is freaking amazing, that's great I can't get off this 80s uh japanese hair metal that's uh rock and roll, crazy nights right
Speaker 4:yeah, crazy nights for loudness okay, yeah, you guys, you're talking about this, uh chan hailing and all that. Uh, one band I discovered, like really late, was dread zeppppelin. It's like the Jamaican Led Zeppelin with the lead singer of Elvis.
Speaker 1:And it actually works. Did you ever hear the band Mack Sabbath?
Speaker 4:No, oh my God, oh the Ronald McDonald.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this band does Black Sabbath, but they're dressed in McDonald's like Ronald and Grimace and they play music. They took Ozzy to see a private, like he does a uh black sabbath. But they're dressed in mcdonald's like ronald and grimace and they play music they took ozzy.
Speaker 4:They took ozzy to see like a private and he didn't know what. What was going on. It's like, yeah, welcome to max sabbath.
Speaker 1:And they started playing like and ozzy aspern was just smiling dude like super big and but there's like so much stuff man I'll have to give you guys a playlist of uh the japanese, some of the from each band. But there's like so much stuff, man, I'll have to give you guys a playlist of uh the japanese, some of the from each band but there's like so much stuff in music that we haven't even tapped in our generation.
Speaker 4:And yeah, I mean, that was japan. That's just one country, what about?
Speaker 1:what about germany has? Germany has like a bunch of uh metal bands and stuff.
Speaker 4:You know like we were always talked about like Russia's the bad country and everything but man, they got their stuff too and we haven't heard it. Or like every country had their like 80s rock band.
Speaker 1:Their stilt skins and, like you said, keith, it's like the weather patterns. You said I'll listen to that for like a couple days or a week and then all of a sudden I'll jump to like classical music and then, I'll jump. I'll jump to like, uh, folk music from like europe or something, or like. I'll just start jumping all over the player. Like the blues, I'll get all into the blues.
Speaker 1:That's the best man, that's the spice of life, right variety I'll do motown forever and people at work looking at me like I did not think you would like motown.
Speaker 4:I'm like I know a lot about motown and that's crazy, like keith was saying, to think that a person only sticks to one genre no and and not know anything else. What's going on. I mean, you could like you don't like old, our new country, but you like the old country.
Speaker 1:That's the only ones I like is the old.
Speaker 4:Nowadays country sounds too pop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or that mumbling stuff everybody does.
Speaker 4:It's like there's no border between that genre, no more between modern day country and pop music.
Speaker 1:Because some of the artists back then in country were like you wanted, if you like, were sad about you lost your woman or something, or, or you can't get that girl you want, that's you listen to conway twitty, twitty. That dude is like thirsty as hell, I mean he is like oh, if you love my woman in tight fitting jeans or like when, that when, when that guy's done with you and dumps you, I'll be there for you. It's like, dude, take a shower or something, man.
Speaker 4:It's like the Cowardic County when they raped his wife and beat her and then he came in and they all thought he was funny because they thought he'd turn around and walk away, but he was really locking the door and then he took the whole gang out. That's badass.
Speaker 5:You locking the door and then they took the whole gang out.
Speaker 4:That's badass, you know, it's just uh, but there's no music nowadays that compare to the 80s rock band. There's none, no, and and that's sad, like that genre is gone because there's no rock bands anymore. I mean, you got that screaming bullshit, guar stuff, you know like I mean there are, they're just not to the top right you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean, I could probably name you 20 killer rock bands that are current right now that's on 80s no, that don't sound like 80s. No, no, that's.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm saying that sounds like, you know, like motley crew. You know, back in the day we thought we thought, damn, motley crue is pretty hard.
Speaker 1:But then you listen to them now and they're on like the oldies channel now and it's like, yeah, you know, home, sweet home, it's like all right, I mean last night I stayed up watching a youtube video past past my normal bedtime because it had underrated 80s uh metal bands that that started coming out right when grunge took over, so they had no chance and nobody wanted to back them. Like right, like not. Not a lot of people know who triumph was, oh yeah never surrender or like people why is he in?
Speaker 4:that people didn't want to even give alice in chains uh, uh, uh go because they thought that he wasn't like a power rock singer and he wasn't like everybody else. But they were badass, I enjoyed them, you know and I just okay this I recently just started listening to corn.
Speaker 4:you know I've been to their concert but I've never really sat down and I I'm listening to Blind and Freak on a Leash Like I'm like wah. And the reason why I started picking up on them is because I seen the Carrie Underwood and that dude on American Got Talent and I'm like Carrie Underwood is badass dude because she was out there word for word, you know, with the dude jamming with them, and I thought that was incredible. So then I dude because she was out there word for word, you know, with the dude jamming with them, and I thought that was incredible. So then I started listening to the music and I'm like this is cool again. I was there to see them when they first started, but I was with a girl and that was the only reason why I was there is just because impress her and uh, like with corn.
Speaker 1:I mean, I stopped it after a certain album, yeah, but they've been making albums every year, every couple years, so I I could just pick right back up and start listening to them and see, you know, see what that they, which ones I like nowadays you know it's like uh, who's the lead singer?
Speaker 4:limp biscuit, uh fred durst yeah, when, when they made their return with the original band at lola paloozaooza just a couple years ago, they thought it was just some old man walking on the stage, but it was Fred. And then Fred used to wear the red hat but now he wears the red rose glasses and he looks like some old man, and he even acknowledged it.
Speaker 1:He looked like Jeff Jarrett kind of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but you know what man? They made me want to listen to their music again because he was badass, you know. And uh, there's just like so much stuff out there that you you see something or you hear something, and then when you do your research is like 30 years ago, yeah, like where was I? What was I doing that at time? You know, I only listened to what was on the radio because that's all we had.
Speaker 1:Maybe we're going to have to like have on once a week or something. We have our like music selection or something like what are we listening to today, or something you know that would be. I would be very much into that, Like the three of us give one recommendation a week or something for music or something.
Speaker 4:You know, it's like Keith, he's brought up killing joke Like like uh three times three weeks in a row and I'm like man, we're not even sponsored by this group and uh. But now I want to see if I can get somebody in the band.
Speaker 1:I don't even care if it's like the the roadie.
Speaker 4:You know like, just like, appease you, because now I kind of want to. I I didn't check into it, but I I want to know. You know, like you, you put uh, a little like piece of corn in my head or whatever man, you planted the seed and and then it's just like, sooner or later I'm gonna be like right, let me listen to these guys.
Speaker 2:Well, if anything, I would just hope you caught my enthusiasm.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's stuck in my head for three weeks now, man, yeah.
Speaker 1:You're just going to say I'll do one song, ok, once, and then all of a sudden you're like, ok, maybe another song, and then that's it.
Speaker 2:Right have to, because sometimes there's a good chance you picked the wrong song.
Speaker 4:Yeah, or you picked the B-side song, you know. But moving on, man, let's dig in a little deeper. These are the big ones, the real. If I only knew life lessons, like, if I only knew that saying yes to everything isn't noble, it's exhausting, I might have saved myself from a few awkward favors, a couple of pyramid schemes and helping a stranger move a piano up a fire escape. Holy jesus, you know, because you always want to make people happy, it seems like, and like if you got a pickup truck next thing you know, you become a mover because everybody wants you to help them move in a refrigerator, up a little skinny ass stairway and on the eighth floor, no elevator, you know. And we?
Speaker 1:we just did it yeah, I mean especially we, we hit the big, uh, landmark year and uh, you realize I can't do everything and I'm I'm guilty of it for how my nature is and I was, was, raised. I mean you help everybody, you don't say no, you always be nice, you always. And then, like you said, we realize I can't keep doing this. I can't let everybody just going to use me and walk all over me if I keep doing this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, happily, and feel like it was like they just play in the game better than you.
Speaker 4:They expect you, they expect you, oh you, I expect you to do this, so you're part of my plan, and it's like, no, I can't do that or how about this one, guys, and I'm sure we can maybe all agree with this if I only knew credit cards aren't free money, I would have gone on that. I wouldn't have gone out on that late night shopping spree and ended up the proud owner of a fog machine in a pizza oven I've only used once or twice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, I had a $200 credit card when I was 20, and I maxed it out and didn't pay it and I've never had another one since.
Speaker 4:Good for you dude, good for you, you broke free. I never spent like that. I'm like 15 grand in the hole.
Speaker 1:That's because you're bragging about Timu and stuff and look what I got, guys, look what I got. Well, I'll be honest, I bought Timu.
Speaker 4:I got this for like $250 for $250, come on, and it's a real.
Speaker 1:Or, as you said, jared Kiesel, there you go, boom you're gonna need that $250 when you get the old folks home and stuff for your money, your weekly money.
Speaker 4:It's like on the mess hall when we had Rocco the voice that played Rocco's Modern Life I had to go out and buy Rocco man. You know, it's just, it's like everywhere, man. But now I think my issue is stuff that I wanted when I was younger and I, my family, couldn't afford. You know, my mom and dad just couldn't do it. And now all of a sudden I see it and I'm like, okay, I, I can afford it. Next thing, you know I'm in deep. You know I got a war in my room with gi joe's running all over the place fighting batman and everybody else. That's a toy. You know, I'm not embarrassed to say I'm 52 and I still buy toys.
Speaker 1:I don't care I just slowed down a lot because I, like I said, I've got to clean this junk up and display what I have buried and stuff and in boxes. Why should I have it if it's in boxes?
Speaker 2:right. But I mean you could. You could have spent that money drinking, buying rounds at the bar, buying food, you know, or even in worst cases. But you know putting it up your nose. You know what I mean in very, in various, whatever in your veins, various fucking other places, that if you're getting toys and whatnot, you know I mean ain't necessarily quite as bad, you know, I mean you're not going to necessarily destroy your life and your family's life by buying toys. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Not less like you would with, uh, you know saying right, it's not like I sit in my underwear with a big bowl of cereal playing coming up with wrestling moves anymore. Right, you know, right now I keep them in a package and they, they actually grow in money. You know, and I'm like man, it's like the stock market. You gotta know when to get rid of them and when to take them in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and again, like we were saying earlier, if you can find someone to buy them off, you.
Speaker 4:Right, exactly, they're only worth as much as the person's willing to pay. Yeah.
Speaker 1:One life lesson I wish I would have known which I still don't know because no one showed me, but I've been watching videos a little bit online like everybody else is how to invest your money right, like put money in certain things and how it make it grow and stuff. I mean, there's ways I've seen people do it nowadays but I never were was told, put it here, put it there, because nobody wanted to. I don't want to tell you where to put it, then if you don't make money you're going to blame me. It's like, no, I could you help out a little bit, you know?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, my mom's got investments that are still out there. So I mean, how's that? How's them dinars doing mom? You heard that one, the whatever the money, where people was buying the money, and it's like, hey, when this goes dollar for dollar, everybody who has this money is going to be millionaires. Well, my mom's invested in that one. We're still waiting on that one to pay off.
Speaker 4:You know, I have here, even talking to my younger self, I got a younger Scott Bleach. Tips are not a personality, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:And then I go cargo pants with more pockets than a pool table is not fashion. I go cargo pants with more pockets than a pool table is not fashion Because remember them days back when you had like the Zumbas, and remember then they came out with the Janko jeans that you could sweep the floor while you walk because they just hung off of you. And then, to touch on what Jim was just saying, putting off learning how to budget is not an act of rebellion, it's just math avoidance, because now you're trying to figure out how much goes here, how much goes there. And yeah, it's been a lot in credit card repayments, but I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
Speaker 4:The older Scott's trying to talk to the younger Scott like what the hell? Or how about this one guys in a personal conversation? We should hang out sometime. This code for this conversation's over and I'm trying to escape politely. It took me a while to read between those lines yeah or how about this one?
Speaker 4:It's not you, it's me, it's not me breaking up, it's you breaking up, you don't want to hurt me. It's a lot of things that I wish that I could tell my younger self. If I can whisper one line to my like 15 year old or 16 year old self, I would really say watch the credit cards, you know, because with 30% interest, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:You know it's, it's crazy, just because I want something right now or you'd say to say to your younger self don't uh stop worrying about what other people think of you.
Speaker 2:Nobody cares about you that's what I was gonna say get out of the fucking feelings yeah, I mean what you're worrying about.
Speaker 1:Nobody's thinking about.
Speaker 2:Stop it you damn, snowflake, fuck the fuck up and get a move on man Focus on yourself.
Speaker 1:Think about something and do it. Just stop worrying about what other people are going to think.
Speaker 4:Or if you can't fix it right now, don't stress about it. If you cannot think, if you can't. If you got a car repair and you can't, you're going to fix it. But if you can't fix it at this moment, don't stress about it. Think about how to come up with a game plan to fix it.
Speaker 1:Or let like negative thoughts in your head. Just keep swimming in your head thinking negativity, negative. It's like. Stop thinking negative, just stop. Just, you know what's going to happen. What's going to happen, what's that? Don't stress about what you have no control over. Yeah, like you, you can't. You, how are you going to control this outcome? Well, I can't. Well, then, why are you worrying about it?
Speaker 2:yeah, right, you suffer more in theory than you do in reality, or?
Speaker 4:don't, don't worry about something that hasn't happened yet. Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, man, I hear so many people say, oh, I don't want to go to this party because so and so, it's just going to be stupid, it's going to be dumb. And then you go to a party, you know, and it's adults. And then next thing, you know, you hear, man, that was fun, that was really fun. I'm glad I went. Yeah, but you sat there and worried yourself sick, so, but now it's your turn.
Speaker 4:Everybody at home. What are your? If I only knew moments? Was it a skill you didn't learn until adulthood? A show you finally watched after the finale aired? Or did you, too, believe that gum stays in your stomach for seven years? Send us your stories through social media or email at powerspointpodcast at yahoocom. In the subject line just say show idea. Or if you're listening to the show and you want to add to it, we'll read it out later on in another episode. So don't be shy. We're not shy, no more. So send us that. Or you can find me at powers31911 on Instagram. You could find Keith at soulfreedom, is that no?
Speaker 2:I guess the TikTok one. I'm at keithmaki08 on TikTok.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you can talk to us there and leave a comment. This week I put a couple videos up on on youtube about the last uh show and I got 115 views, which I thought was awesome. Keith was following with like like 110 112. Now he left me in the dust, man. He's like almost 500 views now off of the one video.
Speaker 2:What, yeah, dude, check it out on tick tock man what did you know that one day was the anniversary of his death?
Speaker 4:no yeah, that might have played a part in it it's just, but I I talk about some of the same thing and I only got, like you know, I'm not even like 120, you know, maybe they like Keith's voice better than yours, yeah probably I don't blame them honestly but send us your thoughts and your stories on social media, especially the ones that make us laugh, cry or feel just a little bit better than our own bad choices.
Speaker 4:We are going to get out of here, but before we do, Jim, yeah, Drop us the quote or the knowledge or I don't know. Just drop us something, man, because it's good, All right.
Speaker 1:Here's the quote there are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.
Speaker 4:That's a good one, man, that hits home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We learn new things today and you always learn it. Like we said, the whole topic things you didn't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm glad it went the way it is because I have notes written down. That was good. That would have fucking that was like I'm not even going to say what the notes were, because it was going to end up causing me to go into some like seriously negative fucking shit, and so I'm glad that this, I'm glad that this went the way it went yeah, and not the way I was anticipating you know and save it for, uh, an upcoming grind your gears, yeah we'll grind your gears, save it and file it away.
Speaker 4:So once again, I'm scott powers here with jim banks and keith mackie, and this has been the powers point podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us today. Stay curious, stay weird and remember if you only knew then what you know now, you probably would have still not done it. Anyway, we will talk to you next week Later. Bye everybody.
Speaker 5:Bye. So Well, the story's been told. The lessons are through Another tale, wrapped in a. If I only knew.
Speaker 3:The laughs, the tears, the what the heck We've danced through truth and side effects. That's a wrap. It's time to go. We said it all At least we think so Brought to you by your Powerspoint crew, where the weird gets wise and the nonsense is true.
Speaker 5:Till next time keep wondering what, if you only knew. Thank you,
