MyDayFriday: The Second to Last One

The second to last episode is! AHH!! We reminisce about the past but talk about everything else like: phones are like slot machines, America is SO big, and taco cab medallions!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I guess this is the last time we are
going to be alone in a studio doing the My
Day Friday podcast. I don't like it. That's kind of
crazy to think of because our last and if you
didn't hear, sorry to break the news to you that way.
But um, the last Monday Friday is going to be
a week from right now. It's gonna be June seventy two,

(00:20):
but that My Day Friday episode will be done down
the Jersey Shore at Point Pleasant Beach at your brother's restaurant.
Use should we do a yager bam wile we're there
on sum And by the way, there's no stage if
you're listening to this, especially on June tenth, like right
now as we're recording this. Basically, there still are a
couple of spots available to hang out and experience the

(00:43):
last My Day Friday along with us. So if you
want to come hang out, we would love to see
you there. There's gonna be a link in the description
of this podcast episode and if for whatever reason you're
having problems or maybe you filled it out and you
haven't heard back from us yet, you can email us.
It's Hello at Carla, Marie and Anthony dot com and

(01:03):
as we like get ready to end this, that'll be
how you can reach out to us kind of forever
Hello at Carla Marine Anthony dot com unless we disband
Carla Marine Anthony. Yeah, and then you'll just be emailing
Carla Marie because I still don't really check emails. Let's
get into the podcast, shall we? Oh yeah it County

(01:24):
Partners for Year Safety. Remain shady with your hands, feet,
arms and legs inside the train, and be sure to
watch your kids any of your books, because this here
is the wildest ride in the wheelers hold on time
and here we go hitch my day. You know, one

(01:50):
of the reasons that those intros that I made for
so long, um, I think one of the reasons they
were so fun was because that's in the time in
my life when I was listening to a lot of that,
like E d M music and just going out and
getting black out drunk. And I don't want to do
that anymore. Well, I don't want this whole episode to
be like it's gonna be. I know it every time
something comes up and like, well, I was listening to
an old episode because I listened to so many of

(02:12):
the first I think it ended up being twenty episodes
that by the time this episode is posted, you'll be
able to go back and listen to the Lost files
the first episodes. But there's we were playing songs back
then in the podcast and we would be like, Oh,
I got this song. It's so cool, and I'm like
that that ended up being like a huge song. But
you were like, oh, I got this E d M

(02:33):
song and I was like, Oh, that's a d M.
I like that, and I'm like, now that's one of
my favorite genres. And it's cool to just hear or
what our musical tastes were back then and like what
we thought and oh we were such little weasels. I
feel like we still have. I still have the same
musical tastes, mainly because my tastes were all over the place.
I know there's one where like, oh, I love country,
You're like me too, I love we love country. We

(02:54):
should go to a country concert together, and I'm like,
we literally just got back from a country It's just nuts.
We will talk about obviously the fact that we are
ending this podcast. That will come up at some point,
but what I want to talk about first because I
don't want this isn't gonna be a podcast all about
the next last podcast. Um, we'll have enough time to
you know, reminisce in person together down the shore, but

(03:16):
live on the podcast, talk about something. This is the
time to reminisce. I'm going to bring an extra microphone
for the podcast in that way if anyone wants to
come jump in on the conversations that of you know,
been like, hey call us right now, We'll just be
able to jump in and hang with us. Maybe you
have some fun things you want to talk about, some memories,
um that stick out to you with the mo Day
Friday podcast. I did see that Matt from Baltimore is

(03:38):
coming and I remember it immediately, and I pulled up
the email of when he invited us to his wedding
and was like, Hey, my fiance and I want you
come to the wedding. And I'm like, that's nuts. Now
they're married with two kids, and we got to meet
one of the babies. And by the way, we met
the baby on our road trip back to Seattle, because
we drove from Philadelphia down to Gina and we made

(04:01):
a quick pit stop to see Matt. So I decided
today that since when I was listening to these old episodes.
We were constantly talking about being drunk, which, by the way,
when you listen to the second of all of the episodes,
it's April We are waste. I know exactly what show
that was too. We came back from a wine tasting

(04:21):
with Elvis's crew at like some wine cellar and Chelsea
and uh, I think there's a picture of Elizabeth Fasio
on my shoulders. I thought Lizza was there, but you know, uh.
And I'm also talking about how I went out and
Andy like pops in. He's like he and like says
like two little words and he like leaves, and it's

(04:43):
just we were I was listening to my voice. I'm like,
oh my god. Well, also, the microphones are different, Like
the processing in those studios was different, So we're going
to sound different based on the studio of the microphone,
the acoustics. No processing is going to stop the drunk though.
So I heard a bunch of that talking about drinking.
I gotta drink, of drinking, you could drink. I'm like,
we're drinking on this, You're drinking. I'm drinking the on

(05:06):
the rocks. Uh my tie. You have the old fashioned
and I think it's funny now that we would always
talk about drinking and alcohol, and I was like, now
we have an entire show twitch that is truly like
on Twitch that's like driven by alcohol sponsors, and are
we going to take a shot and all this stuff. So, um,
the one thing I didn't want to talk about. So
this has nothing to do with reminiscing or anything. I

(05:29):
was on Instagram this week a lot, and I don't
know if we've talked about this yet before Carla Marie,
but the amount of people that I know who are
attending uh bridle showers, bachelorette parties, things like that, who
are then posting venmo QR code. I brought this up
to you. I literally just saw it like thirty seconds

(05:51):
ago before we started. I said, we need to talk
about this because last weekend I asked you. I said,
I think I know your answer, but I'm going to
ask the question just to get your response. And I said, Anthony,
how do you feel about people going to bachelorette parties
and posting a venmo to buy the bride to drink?
And you said I hate it, yeah, but I think
today I am conflicted. I don't like it and I

(06:14):
don't know if I will ever say this is a
good idea and something that should catch on. I am conflicted,
and I have to remind myself that most people don't
use social media the way that we use social media, right,
And actually I think I mentioned this in either Twitch

(06:34):
or one of the podcasts recently. I was listening to
our friend Christis Stefano, phenomenal comedian from Brooklyn. He was
on the Joe Rogan podcast, so I decided to give
it a listen, and Chris was talking about how he
has been so much healthier now that he doesn't go
on Twitter. He has a team, he has someone that
like will post his clips form on Twitter. Doesn't react

(06:55):
to any on Twitter specifically, UM doesn't react to any
of them. It's just here's my content, because it's part
of the mechanism, right, It's part of the machine that
that gets him money. And Joe Rogan was the one
that stepped in and said something like, well, you have
to remember that most people don't use social media the
way you and I use social media, because most people

(07:16):
only follow, they followed their celebrity accounts that they like
and their news accounts. Then they just get followed by
their friends and family and a couple of randos. You know,
not everyone has tens of thousands of people or millions
of people who just want to shoot on them. I
had to remind myself if I am doing that, like, hey,

(07:37):
it's going out to way more people and it looks
like weird and desperateness. So I did say. We were
with our friend Hannah when I brought this up, and
she was like, we were talking about if I ever
have a bachelor party. I'm like, what I do it?
And she was like, you wouldn't have to pay for
anything the whole weekend. But really, at the end of
the day, I feel like most trips the bachelor or

(07:57):
bachelorette is being paid for by their Like that person
isn't paying anyway. So really, when you're giving that money
to the bride, you're just helping the bridesmaids. Yeah, and
normally like I've sent it, um, God, where was I
or where was this person? Oh? I think I sent
our friend to Erica when she was in Vegas for
her birthday. I sent her like, that's like a birthday
gift from you. She wasn't like, hey me venmos, but

(08:20):
I don't know. I don't hate. It doesn't mean like
do it. I don't care. I may not money. I'm
just I'm very conflicted. I got venmos from random people,
like who listened to the podcast on my birthday and
no one posted about it. Really buy a drink. That's
pretty cool, Kristen. I remember she sent me one thing, Well,
my birthday is in days. That's true. You can do
that if I'm just kidding, but you don't need to
send me money. Think about the social media and like

(08:42):
we don't like we don't use social media like the masses. Right.
My niece was like, I'm so bogged down, like I'm struggling.
She was just like not doing well. I said, number
one tip, I'm going to give you for at least
a week, delete Instagram off your phone. She's like, I won't.
She didn't delete it. She said, you know what, I'm
gonna gona turn off notifications for it. And I was like, oh,
past that, Like I don't even have the little badge

(09:02):
icons on, and she's like, dude, it is so refreshing
not not getting the alert and that like you're being
lured in, right, Like those apps are all that they
are literally designed psychologically with psychological implications to make you
need to open them and scroll and do all of
those things. Even that little um when you can like

(09:23):
pull down from the top of it's the same motion
that you would do the same idea of like a
slot machine. Yes, so speaking of I was gonna talk
about I think I definitely talked years ago, talked about
this in the podcast how our friend Matt who actually
works for seed Tech that build out our website. They're amazing.
He was the you know, very into tack and would

(09:44):
explain to me that our phones are meant to remind
us of a casino, have the same addiction of a casino,
like Anthony just said, pulling it down, like when you
pull Instagram down for more, it's like that to ching. Well,
one of the things that is recommended to help you
not feeding the addiction is to turn on the black
and white filter on your phone, which you can do.
You can set it. I think to do it certain

(10:05):
times of day and it's just like you look at
your phone like I don't. Because we are animals, and
pretty colors attract animals. Like think of a peacock, right,
The reason that male peacock has all those colors is
to attract and mate. The reason colors are used in
nature is too. It's a survival and attraction thing. Survival
not like I'm not I'm going to die if I
don't get in this color, but it's survival like will

(10:28):
not survive if you're not attracted to that color. And
that's how things are designed, and that goes. You can
go down a lot of logos and companies. I look
at the Mightday Friday logo. It's a bunch of bright
fun colors. We wanted to be like, this is a
bright fun podcast. Come peacock to us and we will
party with you and mate with you and keep it.
I don't know if we're gonna with everyone, but but

(10:50):
even take a lot of time our show on Twitch,
we try to make it look bright. Our colors are
bright in the background. It's a fun like we want
you to have that that good vibe. Have been be
attracted to our show. So we're gonna get off of
this because we don't want to go down. We're having fun,
we're drinking, we're doing all this stuff. But my brother
sent this to me in our group chat. So we
have in discord, which is there a link to Discord

(11:13):
in this podcast. One of the ways you can stay
in touch with us once this podcast is done is
we have a Discord channel. And if you're not familiar
with Discord, it's essentially Slack if you use it for work.
But it's a messaging platform. You can do calls and
videos with it and stuff. But it's a community based platform.
And my brothers and I have a group chat group Chat.

(11:33):
We have a server, right and within that server, one
of the categories, one of the text channels is political chatter.
So if there's anything like a news story usually goes there.
And my brother Justin sent this yesterday. It's a post,
it's an excerpt. Excerpt is that the word excerpt from
the Washington Post. Okay, more than two thirds of the

(11:56):
one thousand most popular iPhone apps for kids are collecting
and sending their personal information to the advertisement industry, according
to a study by Pixelate on Android. The number is
se on Android, about sixty on iPhones, from Angry Birds
to Candy Cross Saga. The app picks up on children's

(12:17):
general location and other identifying information, then pass it along
to companies that track their interests and attempt to predict
what they want to buy online the reason and that's
what they do with adults to people, what about the
whole ask app not to track thing that we have?
Now you can if you go into settings and stuff
that you can make that happen. But this is why
it's different for kids than it's for adults, because all

(12:39):
those same apps are doing it with us, right like
whatever app And I'm like, oh, I know, I but
here's the problem. Children's privacy deserves special attention, this post says,
because kids data can be misused in some uniquely harmful ways,
because research suggests many children can't distinguish an add from
content and that's why there's so much more power adults. Um.

(13:05):
But it was just a really the fact that we
brought up how that system works, Like we've got to
we have to all be very uh conscious of who
we give our information to the things that we use
all that kind of stuff. It's like my friend Marco
d J Marco Penta was just posting because people were
complaining about airline ticket prices and his suggestion was, clear,

(13:26):
your your cookies and your cash from your web browser,
open up an incognito window, like if you're using Chrome
and don't use Google Flights because I'm not gonna give
you all of the options. Use something. I think there
was there's two other websites he used. But it's basically
because even when you're searching for a flight, they know
how many times you've searched for it and what you're

(13:47):
willing to pay. Basically, okay, crazy, um twenty years this
podcast has changed us, twenty year old Carla Marie. I
think it would have been I too a media ethics
and law. No, it wasn't because it was a different
class at Rutgers. It was a media class and one
of the things so this was fourteen years ago. My professor,
a professor Pike one name. She was like, they're what

(14:11):
companies with the Internet is doing now is it's going
to track you and then it's going to put ads
on websites that are going to be geared towards you.
And she was like talking about how it was bad,
and I raised my hand. I was like, but why, Like, well,
I would rather But this was again in twenty year
old I said, I'd much rather be served ads for

(14:32):
some stuff that I want and need than see ads
that don't Actually, and but here's the difference. There's a
difference in saying, hey, this person loves working out, so
we're going to you can We're gonna sell that person's
ears and eyes essentially. Right, the advertising medium, how we
take an advertising we're going to sell that to work

(14:56):
out related companies, so fitness products, jim supplements. Right, that's
different because yeah, I am someone I go to the
gym a lot. I like working out and like knowing
what's new and trending and whatnot in that space. The
difference is when they know all the details about your
web and so in your app history that it changes

(15:18):
like prices, Like that's not even that they they're now
in your brain and they know the keywords that are
going to trigger you. Right, it's different. So TV, generally speaking,
people don't think of TV this way, but if you
watch ESPN at night, those ads are targeted to a
very specific type of person. Right. It's usually male dominant,
especially the later you get and that's when you'll see like,

(15:43):
that's when you see a lot of those like as
C on TVs type ads like the the manly like
sunglasses that never break and they're tested by the U.
S Army. Yes, but that's and that's normal advertising because
they know that the audience at that time is into
those things. It's very different when you get to a
personal level and you know the words that can trigger

(16:05):
someone and you can use those words against them. That
is the biggest difference. It's not it's not like a
study saying, hey, if you use the word joy in
an ad, it helps people. It's like, oh, that girl
Carla Marie searches I don't like cat something I don't
know where. It's like, oh, well, she cares about her
cats like their children, so we should serve. It's just yeah,

(16:27):
it's but we listen. We also everyone if you have
a company, especially if you're a small business, you're trying
to use that information to your advantage as well. So
it's crazy. It's just a crazy world we live in. Um.
But cheers Carlin Marie. As we move on from that, Okay,
one of the things that I laugh out, laugh out

(16:47):
loud about when listening to the Lost Biles is your accent.
You keep saying that, and I haven't. I purposely haven't listened.
I think I'm gonna go listen to like all of
them once we're done. No times for because that, like
I think you need to hear it before it ends,
don't you know. It's funny is everyone says this when
they hear themselves, especially for the people that we've had

(17:09):
on the podcast. We're used to it now we're different
people then. Yeah, but people like we've we play a
bunch of games on our new podcast, The Morning Show Podcast,
and people will always yeah, that's going to continue. We'd
love to see you there and listen there the Morning
Show Podcast. There's Lincoln the description of this podcast episode
as well. Um, and that when we make money off
of But when people message me after they've played a game, like,

(17:34):
oh my god, I can't listen to myself. I don't
know how you guys do it. It's taken a long
time to just say I may not like listening to myself,
but I'm going to just yeah, it's I'm numb to it. Yeah,
but this is different. This is like all over again.
And you're the word pronounced the word t h E
r E for me. What they're yeah, why because it's

(17:57):
a lot of there, no way. Yeah, you're like, yeah, Carla,
you over there, and I'm like I did, I did
not sound like that. Ever, You're you're a full blown Tony,
You're like over there and chain right now, you should
and a lot of that, and you're like yeah, you know,
like if I'm like talking to like a girl at
like a bar and I'm like, who are you, dude? Like,

(18:19):
who is this Jersey douche? It is weird that and
I am. I I'll listen to some of it, especially
the lost episodes like the very ones. I'm gonna listen
to that this week, and I suggest you do that
as well, but I'm going to listen to all of
it straight through once we're done. I think that's gonna
be my cleansing of like, wow, I can't believe eight years,

(18:43):
eight and a half years basically of this podcast. I
feel like there were some dark times that it'll be
interesting hearing back that people don't necessarily know we're dark times.
But when you see that date, h like whether it's
just your own personal life or the two of us
going through work stuff together, like just see being the
date and being like, oh my god, I know what

(19:03):
was going on in my life behind the scenes that
I couldn't share. Not that like we were like fighting things,
which also that, but you know, here's an interesting perspective
on that though, I'm actually excited to listen to those
times because human nature. We talked about human nature being
attracted to bright colors and survival human nature. This is
another survival instinct that we all have. We remember the

(19:24):
bad things all the time because to to to survive
back in the day before the comforts of today, you
had to remember all of the things that were dangerous
or bad because if you didn't remember them properly, you
were going to die. Okay, but hold on, I have
a question about that. So when I think back to
certain times in my life, I'm sure right now, if

(19:46):
you ask me, I would only think of the challenging,
trying times. But the podcast, the way that we did
it for so long was we had to focus on
the good. We had to put aside all the bad stuff.
So it'll be interesting to go back to those times
that I know we're tough for me, but also listen
to the highlight reel of good things that were happening
around that time too. That's fair. But there's a cat

(20:07):
in my lap now, I say, which he would have
never said. But there's like this whole thing about how
women don't remember the pain of childbirth because if they did,
we wouldn't have society. That's part. That's yeah, I don't
know how the opposite that is opposite of what I said.
I don't know how those and I'm not saying what
you said is right, but they can both be right.

(20:28):
But like that almost makes that's not like a well,
maybe it's like the octopus thing. Remember I did the
octopus in the Morning Show podcast where octopus octopuses killed
themselves after they give birth because most of their chemical
and balance gets so thrown off that they literally end
up committing suicide. Crazy, And part of the theory behind

(20:49):
it is, I guess m octopuses will kill each other
and they essentially do that so that they don't kill
their babies after they That makes sense. It's like a
self sacrifice thing. Yeah, I forget what's going on. Oh,
it's like maybe it is ingrained in us to not remember,
but part of me feels like it's like a magical
spell that you don't remember the pain of childbirth. So
the survival instinct that I was talking about, there is

(21:11):
a name for it. I don't exactly know what it is,
but it's essentially, let's say old cave versions of us
cave woman caveman versions of us. We go out into
the wilderness, right, we eat a berry that makes us sick.
We're always going to remember that berry because the chances
of us dying by doing that, Like, it's way more

(21:32):
important to remember that than the berry that you had
that was good. Okay, fast forward to modern day. It's like,
you get sick after certain alcohol and food. You're not
needing that for at least six months, almost the same
exact phenomenon. It's just interesting because you're like, oh, I can't,
but really it's your body being like, no, don't think
about that alcohol that you had in you know, high

(21:53):
school or college that you got really sick off of
and hypnotic you were drinking hypnotic. I don't know. It
was so Buddy's parents Arlington, somebody's parent parents cabinet. That's weird.
What is that song drunk Off the Hypnotic in Hennessy,
I don't know what are you looking it up right now?

(22:16):
I'm googling drunk off that hip natic and say, people
are mad, but I'm waiting because I need to know
what the song is. Well, apparently hypnotic and Hennessey you
make an incredible hulk chingy right there. Oh and I

(22:36):
forgot about that song. You know. We recorded another game
for the Morning Show podcast and a lot of it
was like I would say, two thousand six to two
tho eleven hip hop. What a weird time in music
that was. You had the stinky leg, you had the whip,
and then you had all It was a little later,
but just all those weird, weird rap songs. We fired

(22:58):
up off that Hypnotic in Hennessy she can't keep her
emirate mother f and hands off me. Okay, Well, um,
were you drinking hypno and Hennessey? I don't think so,
but I had so. I I don't like Hennessey. I
don't like Hypnotic either. Um, I don't know. It's like,
what is it? It's just blue? Is it all the core? Probably?
I don't know. I don't like either of those drinks.

(23:19):
I'm also like, I was a You're a Keystone guy,
weren't you? Um No? Maybe yeah, because Keystone kegs were
available at the place next to my house at Ston
Hall I think high school it was it was cores, like,
because I could get those at the Premise food center
on Premise Road next to my church. I feel like

(23:39):
Rutgers was natty ice that makes sense. Ruckers is disgusting,
Keystone was at least Keystone was cores like basically would
have been like such an amazing college experience for me
if I knew I wasn't tolerant to glue and I
wouldn't throw up every time I drank beer. So this
is what I was gonna say about drinking. Uh More
recently is I love of the Seltzer's are a thing

(24:01):
now and we've all gotten past because I remember, like
when Mike's and Mike's hart was super sweet. You couldn't
have more than one of those we invented icing people
to make jokes about it. That was spirit. But I
love that we're in a place now where you can, like,
you know, you could be like manly and still have
a Seltzer because there was that time, but it was

(24:23):
it wasn't long ago, but there was a time where
like you had to prove that you were a guy
by being like, oh this is my favorite, I p
a blah blah blass. It's like I don't need that
in my life. If I drank if I drank half
a glass of an I p a right now, I
would be toilet and garbage. Last week we went to

(24:45):
the Luke Hombs concert and that one, I mean we
mixed a lot. We had like a froze a. We
had what was I thinking? We had a lot. We
had beers, We had jello shots. I had four jello
shots before we left our neighborhood and we went to
the concert. Much so that wasn't a good idea. But
that was the first time I had drank like beers

(25:05):
a lot of them again, and that was what was
the weird experience. Give me seltzers all day every day.
I don't care anymore. I don't care if you're still
like old school and like, no, give me a beer.
I don't want that fruity stuff blah blah blah. Man.
I don't have fruit, Yeah, I don't. I don't do
fruits and vegetables in my beer or in my drink.
What is that a green drink? Loser, green juice? That's

(25:29):
oh you good, drink your green juice and alcohols at
vegan and kale. I'm just glad. Like when we were
at uh stagecoach and I did have some beers a
stage coach, but normally it was seltzers. I was drinking
high dudes, I was drinking all of those. I was
just drinking teatoes and water, and man, it is such
a better experience. I feel so much lighter. I don't

(25:50):
like I don't mean like belly. I just mean like,
I don't feel like bogged down with beer. By the way,
if you're a beer company like to sponsor one of
our podcasts or maybe or maybe our Twitch show, trust me,
I still drink it. I'm just glad that I'm I mean,
in college, I was, I was going with like ten

(26:11):
to sixteen beers a night, and that was normal. I'd
be in the hospital then and now. I mean, I
was still much bigger than you at the time. So
what is the equivalent for me then of me drinking that.
I mean, I was that's six, like six beers for me,
not even because I'm not half your size. I would say,
if you had seven beers, it would probably be equal.

(26:31):
I would be truly dead. You would have to take
me to a hospital. No, that's not true, because when
we used to celebrate Monday Friday and go to a
little town and Hoboken, which no longer exists. What is
it now? Do we know anything? Change Walmart? Who knows?
I We would go there and our friend Maggie would
be serving and she would just like keep poking it

(26:53):
up with beers. But they only served beers on tap
from New Jersey. Do you remember that? So everything was
from Jersey. We would drink exit fours, I believe. And
we found out about a year or so after going there,
and we had a different waitress one day that they
weren't supposed to be served in the tall glasses. They
were supposed served in smaller glasses, but Maggie would just

(27:16):
serve them to us in the tall glasses. We would like,
I'm telling you, I would vomit every weekend. Every weekend.
I would be like, Oh, it was the food I
ate there. I know. I know there's like I shouldn't
be eating cheese, which maybe maybe you shouldn't have a
cheese either, Yeah, but I do. I'm excited to go
back to New Jersey and to be there for an

(27:38):
extended period of time without a holiday, right without the
time you have Father's Day different, not like Christmas. Father.
I'm gonna be hanging out with my family, which is
something I would have done anyway, like a Sunday, So
we'll probably go to like an Arabic restaurant or something.
We'll probably my dad's favorite restaurant. Is they going to play?

(28:00):
Gonna be his birthday? But um no, we'll probably go
to Cedars. I don't know what Patterson on Father's Day. No,
you should probably spend time with your own father. Well, yeah,
I will, which sounds that sounds like cold or we
don't get to spend time with our families enough, so

(28:23):
especially for something like Father's I even I've never been home.
I don't think I've been home for a Father's Day
since we moved. You haven't put I have? Is that?
But No, that doesn't make sense. I was thinking because
you did a trip with your family to Arizona. Yeah,
that was around the fourth of July, and I went
back home. I was home for we were home for
a Father's Day. Not important, Okay, so maybe I've been

(28:47):
there for one six years. Friday Night with we have
our celebration at the Jersey Shore Um, which we haven't
really figured out. Like, I guess our parents are gonna
trave his home after Why can't we? Why can't I draw? Well,
if we're drinking. Then yeah, maybe I'll just stay down there. Well,
I don't know, I'll get a hotel somewhere. Then Saturday,

(29:08):
Anthony has been invited to this on shore. If he's coming,
my sister is throwing a barbecue at her new home.
And it's like a birthday barbecue for my other sister
and her husband's mom because they have like the same
birthday and your sister and her mother in law yes, okay,
yeah have the same birthday. Yes, so it's like a

(29:29):
big Tina Marie's birthday is so we don't overlap, just
making sure. Yeah, and that is her actual birthday, like
I'm saying, barbecue, yeah, and it's like a pre Father's
Day thing. So um, yeah, Anthony might come. You are

(29:49):
invited and people are probably gonna expect you to be there.
Why is that? Who's gonna expect me to be there? Everybody?
Because all the people love, like, oh where is Anthony?
You know, I'm gonna say this, and I know as
other people that I know, you know what you as
you're listening to this, you probably feel the same way.
It's tough being this awesome and this likable, you know
what I mean? Because everywhere you go, people want more

(30:12):
of you, and at some point you just have to realize,
like there's there's no more of me to spread around.
I can't I can't do it. So it sounds like
I'll try to do your family this favor and show
up and grace them with my presence. Um, but I'm not.
You know, We'll see if I'm at full strength, right,
We'll see if I'm at like full knowledge sharing, joke

(30:35):
telling capacity. That's funny. People like me because I'm the smartest,
funniest person they know. I feel like you said that
a lot in the old podcast, and I was just like, Okay, cool,
this is the old podcast, older like the first ones,
but this is going to be you know, it's crazy.
This is going to be the oh that old podcast
eight years in two weeks, in two weeks, this is

(30:58):
our old podcast. In the original episodes, you go to
your friends Nicole and Shawn's wedding and you come back
and you're telling me about how much of a good
time it was, and you're like telling me all the stuff.
I was like, I said, Anthony, did you get a
date for that wedding? And you said yeah, And I said,
did you bring someone. You're like no, I'm like, what
the hell? Why couldn't you take me as a date?

(31:19):
And you're like, I would have taken you with my date.
I think it was like because I would have been
I'm so much fun. I love weddings. I would have
been such a good date. And you're like, I don't know,
Like i'll think about it next time. I didn't even
think about it once. And let me let me explain
why I love weddings. And you said that exactly. I
can't wait love weddings, and I need to be if

(31:40):
it's possible. I need to be free. I'm not trying
to be weighed down. Plus, when they do the slow
dances and the couple of things, that's when I go
to the bar. That's when I recharge. Okay, well otherwise
I got no recharging. A few things to touch upon here.
You don't want to be bogged down and weighed down?
What is that in reference to I'm just a free bird?
You know I've got how many goal I got a sore?

(32:01):
And in reference to this couple of things in the
slow dances, you do realize that now at this point
in this podcast, we are a couple of weddings together
together and do the slow dances. Yeah, so are you
boxed down at those weddings? Yeah? Absolutely. You shouldn't be
going to the bar as much anyway now that you're old. No, No,
I should. I should because I think when you're especially

(32:22):
when you're single or if you're significant other can't go
to that wedding for whatever reason. I think it's a
better time. I think you because you can bounce around conversations.
You have to worry about where anyone else is or like, oh,
con wh blah blah, they really worry about that. I
don't know. I just I like being I like my freedom.
That's why, Like for a long time, and I'm sure
if you go back into this podcast and you listen, Um,

(32:44):
my favorite thing was going to like bars and stuff
and meeting up with my friends, but going alone. So
like all of my friends would be at a bar,
Like what do you mean going alone? Like who? I
would show up alone? No, Like I wouldn't even make
a plan like, oh, let's go to this place together.
I would just show up. That way, I was free.
I could get there when I wanted to go and
leave when I wanted to get out. That's actually something

(33:06):
you should go to there before? Are you kidding? But
what do you mean not going to the bar with them?
We weren't like, hey, I'll meet Yeah, I guess like
I could never see you being like we're gonna go
at this time and to pick you up in the Uber. Also,
when you think about it, Uber when we started was
barely a thing, like we were just talking about this.

(33:27):
It was illegal and hoboken it was. But also, you're
a jerk. You need to like, you need to fix that,
fix what you have mental problems? Which which ones are
we talking about? You need to not you need to
be able to be connected to people and be like
I will do this with you. I don't know. Maybe
I have fought eight years to get you to be

(33:48):
in a relationship with me. No, you weren't. That's a
long time. No, I'm saying from Bay went til now,
but not really. Also, I will say, when you listen
to all the episodes, I'm like, why am giggling so much?
I'm like, I don't even know the fact I have heard.
I'm like, oh, I'm a giggle mon. Sorry hate me. Anyway,

(34:11):
we were talking the other day, the two of us,
not on any podcast about how back, like Anthony just
said in earlier whatever, there is a point where you
you legally couldn't get into an uber and you couldn't
request one in hook and when you would call the
uber because the app still worked obviously, um they couldn't,
like I'm sure maybe if they wanted to, but there
was a city of Hoboken they were going to set
up like a parameter where it wasn't gonna work. You

(34:34):
you have to call the uber. They wouldn't pick you
up on the main street and Hopeboken, New Jersey. It's
it's one square mile if you've never been, literally one
square mile, a crap ton of bars and restaurants. The
main thoroughfare if you well, the main street has most
of the big bars, and there's a train station that
goes to New York from there in a ferry station
as well. But the uber at the time, because lift

(34:57):
wasn't even in our brains, it was is the thing
in San Francisco when this podcast started to get an uber,
they had to drop you off. If they were dropping
you off, it usually wasn't bad, like if they were
picking you up in Jersey City, but if they were
picking you up the driver would call you and say, hey,

(35:18):
I know you requested it on Washington. I'm gonna be
on Fourth Street. But make sure you come into the
passenger seat, not the back seat. And my name is
SO and so say hello like we gotta pretend like
we're friends. We were in the mob. And there were
times where my friends would get pulled over in Uber's
because in the Uber driver would get a ticket because

(35:39):
they weren't supposed to be operating there. And a lot
of that was the stranglehold that the taxi company had.
And and here we are now in when it's nine
thou dollars to get in Uber and cheaper to get
in a taxi, and I am more likely to take
a taxi around than I am an Uber. Well, the
crazy thing in Hoboken was also to pick up a taxi,

(36:00):
like to get into a taxi, you had to go
to the taxi stand. You couldn't just hail one like
in New York City, right, you would have to go
to a specific place that was right by the train station.
They would pick you up and they'd But I couldn't
call a taxi to come to my apartment. Makes sense.
You could call them a different service. You couldn't hail one.
You couldn't hail one. Stupid Also, like does Hoboken just
want people to just drunk drive? The problem was there

(36:25):
was only one company doing this, so they were able
to make all of their own rules, and that's what
that's what you left. An Uber really did a good
job of like taking the power away from taxi companies
and saying, like why do we need people with the
medallion or whatever? Everyone just do the service. It was
essentially your license to be a taxi driver, which in

(36:46):
New York City for a while it was it was
like seventy go do check. It's very expensive, it was
like seventy dollars. I had a conversation with an Uber
driver here who used to drive there and was saying
how it was insane. Let's see future of n y
C's iconic yellow cab. No, um, how much does it cost?
About one hundred thousand dollars? What's wait? The value of

(37:08):
a taxim medallion was more than one two million dollars,
but is now worth about a hundred thousand the value
But that's not what they were paying, wasn't Well if
that's the case, and they clearly had money, and they
could have ripped fixed those rips in the seats. Most
medallions sell for around one hundred thousand dollars. Found that

(37:29):
Cabby has had outstanding debts of more than five hundred
thousand dollars. I don't understand what is a medallion? Is
it a pokemon? You gotta get that to be able
to drive? That sounds idiotic. Could you imagine being like, hey,
you can't be on the radio unless you pay a
hundred thousand dollars. We have dead air? Like well, if
if there's a Union station, you have to pay the
union hundred thousand dollars. I mean, come on, even sag

(37:51):
after it. But that's also because generally speaking back before
Uber and left, like, you can make a lot of
money being a taxi driver, but if they're cars, did
not resemble of having a lot of money. No, but
they probably have families to support and people coming in
the cars all the time. Oh, here we go, New
York City. Total value of all madalla, No, that's the

(38:12):
total value, give me the number. Wow. In nineteen sixty two,
the market value of a medallion was around twenty five
thousand dollars. That price rose steadily in two thousand five,
and individual medallion was around three hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars. You're telling me in two thousand five, right,
If I was like, I just got my license, I'm

(38:34):
going to be a taxi driver in New York City,
I would have had to pay three thou dollars to
become a taxi driver. Is that I'm a dead ass?
That's how that works. If by the way, if you've
been a taxi driver, if your father, your mother was
a taxi driver, feel free to email us hello at
Carlo Brine Anthony dot com, give us the down low
on it, because this is crazy. San Francisco two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars was the height of that two

(38:57):
thousand five? In Philadelphia six five thousand dollars. I don't
but like it takes you. How much do you make
it being a tax Do you work for a company,
So then there's corporate medallions. So if you own a
fleet and you hire the drivers, that's actually more expensive.
But if you pay for the medallion then and they

(39:18):
probably make less money. Um, yeah, because then it's it's
more of a But most taxis they were cash for
the longest time, So like as a I guess you
would have to show your wages at the end of
the night. Maybe the meter with that is insane to think. Well,
even now, if I take a taxi, they're like, oh,
you don't have cash, And I'm like, well, I make
sure to ask all the time, like do you take
cash first before I even go anywhere? Or do you

(39:39):
take cards? I mean, because I don't care cash like ever.
I think that's the biggest difference between like our generation
and the older The older generation always has cash on them.
My dad, I don't know, if I've ever been around
my dad, if he didn't have cash, I'd be like,
were you robbed? Yeah, if my dad didn't have cash
on him, I would think something was terribly wrong. Okay,
we to think they were about to four clothes on

(40:01):
the house. Like, if my dad doesn't have cash on
him on his person's he's been kidnapped and roped. Something's happened.
Next week at the meet up, I'll have my dad
take out his his I don't even say his wallet.
It doesn't have a wallet. Was it a rubber band
or the money clip? Both? God, Yeah, my dad has
a wallet, but the wallet really just has cards and

(40:21):
he has like cash in a different pocket. Well, we
talked about this on every show everything we've been on
on Monday Friday. That my dad used to tell me
in high school that if a guy has a wallet,
he's cheap, do not date him. So your dad's rubber
band is more valuable than a wallet, yeah, because it
means he's like too cheap to go into a wallet

(40:41):
to take out this money. Like a money clip or
rubber band means your money is right there and you'll
use it. And I'm like, I use my card way
more than anyone whouses their cash um buying me all
these things. I remember I used to have a money clip.
And you gotta remember my dad was a jeweler, so
like they were nights, like you know, he would sell
money clips and that was usually usually to get him engraved.

(41:02):
And it was like a big thing that he would
sell um, especially around like Father's Day, Christmas things like that.
So I had my dad a new money clip for fathers.
How do I I don't like the money clips. I
don't even like the wallets that have like the card
holder with the money clip little like fastener. Hate that.
I want the most minimal thing that I can put
in my pocket. Um but are too tight. That is

(41:25):
not the most minimal. The wallet I have that your
parents got me for Christmas is more minimal than the
wal so you have a card holder, you have but
not fly in um so my and Freddy Murray's like
they have openness and get to your cards so cheap.
What I have. Let me explain, it's not like your
typical try or buy fold wallet. It doesn't have like

(41:45):
that flap where you would put cash in and then fold.
I would have to full. It's this is mainly a
card holder that folds. If you can put that mental
image in your head, it's too bulky. I have too
many cards in here right now because I've got like
business cards because we're in business, and I've got because
i'm you know, older. Now I've got a cost go card.

(42:07):
Let's see what I got in here. Credit card, health insurance,
which I think is expired. This is not expired. What
the hell is this? This is your health interns. Let
me see senior brand something. So we met them like
nine months ago. We met this persona So I've got

(42:27):
for debit slash credit cards, my hs A card for
health insurance stuff from my heart cost go and my license.
Make sure you're using that. They charge you monthly for it.
Now charge me? What the h A card? Oh, I
gotta get that money off of it. Then I gotta
get it. I got insurances, soul lame. Can we just

(42:47):
talk about that for a second. It's just lame. Well,
I've been looking into some part time jobs to a
have a steady flow of cash all the time, just like, Okay,
I know I always have the US and I don't
want to say what it is at this moment in time,
but because it's just something that I would I am
passionate about. But there's a chance they offer health insurance,

(43:10):
and I'm like, this is amazing, Like but then I
thought the fact that it is a perk and I
am actually looking to work extra aside from the multi
media business we are running just to get health insurance
is gross. Yeah, I'm not trying to do any of that.
I'm just trying to make sure that our podcast in

(43:32):
our twitch show does well and then maybe someone's gonna
give us a lot of money one day. Like, Hey,
I like the things that you guys put together. Let's
let's have a partnership and I could like, here's here's
what we do. Let's make yeah, except I pay three
dollars a month for my health insurance. That's crazy. I
don't have health health insurance right now, so I don't
pay anything. I think you do. I don't think I do.
I'll have to check. This is riveting stuff, though, and

(43:55):
this is actually a good question. Again. You can email
us hello at carl or and Anthony dot com. Maybe
something we'll talk about on twitch. Do you have your
main job, maybe your self employed, whatever, whatever your main
thing is, you don't have health insurance. Do you have
a side job that provides it. Because we were just
talking to someone who works at Starbucks part time and
they get health insurance, you know, and that's one of

(44:17):
the reasons they have that job is they make some
extra bucks, they can make some tips, and then they
get health insurance as well. I've always had health insurance.
I felt like I needed it. We went a few
months without it, and I had someone recently being like, honestly,
there's insurances you can buy that are just for emergencies,
meaning terrible car accident. You get your meaning like, Okay,

(44:39):
if I need to go to doctor A my doctor
and just do a check up, or I have a cold,
I pay out a pocket for that, and that's like
maybe a hundred hundred fifty bucks, right because you get
a better rate when you don't have insurance opposed to
me doing that once every six months, opposed to be
paying three hundred dollars a month. So there is emergency insurance,
and I think next year I'm gonna look into that.

(45:00):
But also like one day, if I want to have
a kid, I can't be that's a hundred thousand dollars
right there, just to have a baby. If you have
a C section. There was a TikTok or I saw
that I guess didn't have insurance, didn't have dental insurance specifically,
and when she was gonna need a root canal or
something like that, and it was going to be like

(45:21):
six thousand dollars. I don't know what is the root
canal cost in America these days. I'm gonna google that.
My dentist so I don't have dental. My dentist is amazing.
They actually offer somewhat of not necessarily an insurance, but
it's called the V I p something at the office
and you pay. I don't want to pay maybe like
five fifty four. I'll get two cleanings in one year

(45:46):
X rays, and then I get a percentage off of
any other treatment I need. So I got thirty percent
off of getting two cavities filled, and I'll get two
cleanings for that that cost. It's actually really awesome. Let's
see average total also the root canal. The fact that
the cost of a root canal is different at different offices,

(46:06):
and that there should just be a base thing. See
this doesn't make sense, it says nerd Wallet estimates. The
national average cost for a root canal is seven hundred
and sixty two dollars for front teeth, eight hundred and
seventy nine for a pre molar, and eleven basically even
u for a molar. But the TikTok account that I
saw was basically this, This girl was gonna be charged

(46:28):
like six thousand dollars. Maybe that's not including the crown
and all the other things. It was gonna end up
being all on inclusive, like six thousand dollars. She found
a dentist in Turkey, flew to Turkey, stayed in like
an all inclusive resort, got the root canal, and it
was still less. Then and I'm like that actually sounds
kind of cool, like take a little vacation, get a
root canal, come back. My friend Dino went to Brazil,

(46:50):
should get donners? Is that teeth? That's teeth? Right? It
was I think dollars last trip included. What exactly are veneers?
Is it? Like they do they redo all of teeth
at once? It's crazy? Yeah, I think so why it is?
They put like fake ones on first to see like
how they're gonna look, and you wear it for like
a few days in the so it's like an implant.
I I don't it's like a cap. I don't fully

(47:11):
know what are veneers? Again? People are screaming in the car,
like I know. A veneer is a layer of material
placed over a tooth. So it's kind of like um offence.
So are you wait? So now you have two rows
of teeth like a shark. But I think it's like
melded melded. What is melded is not a word? Is

(47:33):
it melted? Is a word? Mine? Meld melded? Your teeth
don't get melded. Meld oh past tense melded? So what
does that mean? Australia's winemakers have melded modern science with
traditional art. That's a that's mixing. So that mixing your teeth,
No like melding them together. Ad try saying welding. It's

(47:54):
the same thing, because no. So at my dentists on
my orthodontias and my dentist had a chip on my
front tooth. He was like, would it like what happened
on this chip? And I was like, it just keeps happening.
And I said that, you know, my Orda Dantas had
been like kind of smoothing them out. Why, like you
can grind them down. He's like, yeah, but if you're
gonna keep chipping your tooth and whatever you're doing, you're
gonna run out of teeth to grind down. So he

(48:16):
used a composite and basically built more tooth onto my teeth.
Different than veneers, like sparkling your teeth. That's basically what
he did to me. Yes, veneers, I'd say, is more
of like putting up new plaster and spackle. Okay, interesting,
So with a veneer there's like a front tooth above
your front tooth, and that it just looks better. Yeah,
like uh yeah, maybe that one in the corner shows

(48:40):
you oh interest, So it's like a cap. I don't know.
It's like a cap. If you have veneers and you're
coming to our meet up next week, let let us
talk about that. My mom got something done. It's not Veneers,
but similar, like they had to do like a bone
graph and they had to use like bone to put
it in her mouth. I don't know, man, Let me
tell you what when you get older, your teeth because

(49:02):
dental is not covered under whatever you medicare medicaid when
I don't know that. It's kind of crazy that you
can get regular health insurance but you still have to
get your your eyes and your teeth insured separately. I
was in the furious about it. But it's not covered
under insurance for old people, so which it should be
covered more for them. Yes, and luckily the dentist my

(49:23):
whole family goes to now is amazing Dr Rocco. He
was on Elvis the Show years ago. Amazing. Whole entire
family goes to him and he takes care of them.
Checks in on that like, he's wonderful in bayonn New Jersey.
He and his wife also foster and adopt out kittens.
So if you're looking for kittens in New Jersey. Let
me know they have a bunch. Um he what was

(49:44):
it going? Oh, he'd make sure that my parents aren't
spending tens of elvens dollars on their teeth. We have
one of my mom's cousins is a dentist, so I
remember when because my parents have been self employed forever,
so he would handle our teeth for a long time
and my parents would just pay out a pocket. I
guess it will get like a good deal and such

(50:06):
a New Jersey. I don't know why, and I'm sure
that you know. Obviously people have family friends that cut
them deals around the country. But there's something different about
New Jersey because New Jersey business has done so differently
in New Jersey specifically, I can't wait to go back. Um,
there's this weird thing that happens. If you tell anyone
that you bought anything, their first response is always where'd

(50:33):
you get it? Because I know a guy, I got
a guy. I say, I got a guy. So you
went to the dentist. Well, I got my dentist. I
could connect you, you you could give you a good price.
It's all like that is the conversation you know that's
built That's that is literally how I built side Hustlers.
That's the podcast. I took my Jersey roots if I
got a guy and started connecting the small business owners.

(50:54):
And I'm guilty of it as well. Every time if
I hear someone saying like, oh, I need a new
logo for this, I need to produce some I got someone.
If you don't have anyone, I got someone for you,
and they'll I can vouch for him, our merch guy
we've connected. I mean, we should get kickbacks. What I
don't tell people though, is I very rarely say oh,
he'll give you a good price or something like that,
because I'm always like, no, they help charge you whatever

(51:14):
the if they want to charge you, it's not up
to me. Um. But if I do know someone's overpaying
for something, I'll step in and say, hey, I know
you're paying this for for this product or the service.
I got a guy who does it better for less.
I don't know why. Maybe you're part of America does
this as well. But I feel like most places in
America outside of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. And

(51:38):
when I say Connecticut and Pennsylvania, I mean the parts
that like border yeah, not like out there, not like Harrisburg, Pittsburgh.
We love you, but not You're not a part of
the MOP. I'm talking Philly, Stanford, in Philadelphia, and I'm
sorry in Pennsylvania, in Connecticut because we are so upfront
and void of boundaries, right like if you said no,

(52:06):
one in I feel like Kansas asks you how much
you would pay for something, right if you bought a
car or a house. They were just like, oh my god,
congratulations on your car, your house. You know what, though
I almost disagree with you on that. Why I actually
kind of feel like it's opposite. I feel like people
in New Jersey are like, you don't ask how much
you paid, Like that's a very disrespectful thing to do.

(52:27):
I feel like it happens all the time. You don't
talk about money. We're like out here, when I bought
my house, people who are like, how much? And I'm like,
excuse me, we talked about that. Maybe the house part
that's different. But I think with goods and services, I
feel like maybe it's an Italian thing. I'm like, you
don't ask money, I'll smack you in the back of
the head. You don't talk about money. Yeah, I feel
like healthy, completely opposite. I feel like in Jersey you

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just ask not okay, how much did something costs? Okay, yeah,
maybe they're but like, I don't know, there's a weird
there's weird rules that make no sense. Yeah, when it
comes to that stuff. And that's one of my favorite
things about just the regionality of America. Like America is huge.
I know that sounds you're listening, You're like, oh, yeah,

(53:09):
America's huge. It's a country, of course, it's huge. It
should be like five countries, it should be really and
then you start looking like my parents, like my dad
is from Lebanon. Lebanon is, I believe, the thirty second
smallest country in the world. How many countries have we
got two hundred and fifty six, that's what I'm gonna guess.

(53:30):
How many countries are there? You look at counting the
ones on other planets, right, the countries on other planets. No,
it's not countries, only a hundred. So Lebanon is I
think thirty four thirty seconds something like that. What the
total conversation that's Oh, there's a hundred and nine companies

(53:51):
that are members countries that are member states of the
United Nations. And two countries that are non member observer states,
which is the Holy See in the State of Palestine. Yes,
anything else you're gonna add to that? No? Sorry, Um,
we got a text from our merch guy about the
thing you want to add to the store, and I'm reading, Oh,

(54:11):
by the way, we are launching our newest collection of
you Look Great products on Monday, so we are recording
this on June. The launch is June. There's a lot
of really cool stuff. It's only available for a limited time.
It's all preorder, so you get your order in and
then after the pre order is done, it all gets created.

(54:34):
He asked what size me. I'll probably shall you go
a larger extra large that was on you because I'm
wearing a large Now I'll tell him. I'll get back
to him. This isn't podcast material, you know, it's important.
I think what's more important is there's a cat on
my lap and I'm talking about the size of Lebanon.
What a weird day. Um. But what I was gonna say,
and I was just having a conversation with our friend

(54:54):
Jason earlier, who might have to go to like central
Washington to do some work. Now I'm saying I love
traveling around America. And yes, I love going to big cities.
Give me Nashville, give me Phoenix, give me Miami, Austin.
Love it. But I also love traveling to rural parts
of America. What is my favorite city, Wyoming, whole existence,

(55:20):
the Ponderosa Cafe. I believe it was what it was called.
But this country is so big and so different as
you go from one coast to another and drive in between,
that there's so many specific regional things, whether it's a
regional food, or regional dialect, or regional saying um, a

(55:42):
regional custom, and it's the most beautiful thing about America.
And I know that we have a very divisive country
at the moment, but I think this is one of
the conversations that I was having with our friend Jason
this morning, was on the internet. It is very divisive
because on the Internet, you're not getting to know these
people that you're screaming at on a Twitter feed or

(56:03):
a Facebook feed, getting bite size information. You're getting the word,
generally speaking, the most outspoken part of their personality that
you probably disagree with the most well. Matthew McConaughey said
it this week in his speech at the White House.
He said, America, you and I are not as divided
as we are being told we are. And the people

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in power stay in power by keeping us divided. Because
the last thing, just like your your boss, right, if
you have if you work for a big company, we've
got a CEO. They don't want you talking about your salaries.
They don't want you getting along to the point where
you guys can connect without them as the mediator. And
it's the same as all your local and federal politicians.

(56:49):
Their power comes generally from divisiveness. Because there's only two
ways you can stay in power. You're either really good
at what you do and you create policy that helps
people's lives what is easier. But what easier is just
making people fight with one another and saying I hate
those people to vote for me. But the thing that
I love the most is when you actually do travel

(57:10):
around the country, you do just have random conversations, and
sometimes they might dive into political or religious topics. But
because you got to see that person face to face,
and you're now developing a relationship with that person, even
if they are at a different point of that topics spectrum. Right,

(57:32):
there's a chance you're going to talk about things in
a way more civilized, even if it's different, even if
your opinions are opposite, You're going to speak to each
other as civilized humans because you're doing it in person.
And that's one of my favorite things about America that
we have lost because we don't travel to We don't
road trip as much as we used to. I mean,

(57:54):
gas is also eight seven dollars a gallon, even when
you go like, we don't even go to the grocery
store as much as we used to because things get
delivered to your home. We don't go to the mall,
we don't go to the Walmart or whatever the acme
in your area because things get delivered. So your your network,

(58:14):
even though we feel like we're super connected, is smaller
and smaller and smaller and smaller. When what we talked
about this on Monday Friday years ago, when we did
that first road trip to Yellowstone National Park and we
ended in Bozeman, Montana with our friend Tommy. We met
these two guys from rural Montana who were there for

(58:34):
a bachelor party, well originally from Texas, originally living like
rural Montana, and one of them owned an outfitters. Yeah,
he owned in Wyoming. He owned like the hunting outfit Okay,
so he would like take people out hunting for the weekend,
get their animals that they killed, and take them home.
And he was like, oh, you're from Seattle in New Jersey.
And for some reason at that time, we got into

(58:56):
the conversation of gun control. And while we would like
if we would have had to write on a piece
of paper how we felt about guns, we would have
been so opposite, right, like if you had just write
down like a quick blurb, having a conversation, we were
so understanding of one another, and it made so much
more sense having conversation with them and understanding them and

(59:17):
them understanding us. And we were like all of us
wanted to cry, and we were like, we wish the
whole country could do that. They sent us one of
the two sent us a really nice email on behalf
of both of them. I'm not sure to say one
liked us, sent us an email and just thanking us
for the conversation, saying how how Because this was also
in two thousand sixteen, right after Trump got elected, and

(59:37):
I feel like that was it. Political anger kind of
shot skyrocketed in that that year, and in the middle
of all that, we got to have this conversation with
people who, generally speaking, we might have different ideas on
different policy points. Um, but it was a great conversation
and we we both appreciated speaking to the other side,

(01:00:00):
and we I think all of us came away from
it like I guess I never really thought about it
this way, or I didn't live where this person lived,
so my life experience is different. One of the things
that they brought up was how in their rural part
of Texas where they grew up, like everyone just had
a gun. That's just how things were, Like, yeah, and
that's why it's normal to you. The part of New

(01:00:20):
Jersey that I grew up and was so densely populated
that you know, we we were lucky where if we
needed to call the cops in an emergency, there was
a cop down the street. Generally speaking, in a lot
of these more rural places in Wyoming, you are your police.
You're by yourself, and a cop is not gonna get
to you for ninety minutes because there's one cop patrolling
the county, which is the size of Vermont. So yeah,

(01:00:42):
so understanding that I think is important. Obviously this has
nothing to do with no. I mean just with like
the world we live in now with most recent current events,
like we're not not even like that aside, and just
in this thought process, like just hearing someone out, and
I think if everyone sat down with like a scantron right,

(01:01:05):
and it was like so matter of fact of like
almost like a ture false, like where do you stand
on this? And you had to pay, it wasn't like
a oh well, I think if this's no, like where
do you stand? I think if you had to choose,
we'd all be more similar than we think we are.
We would we would agree on more things than we disagreed,

(01:01:25):
but we are not. The the political climate and the
way social media works is not conducive to that because,
like I said, with policy, they wanted to be against
one another as much as possible so they can make
you vote against one another. And the algorithm doesn't work
towards the middle. The algorithm works towards extremes. If you're
very happy or very angry, that's what triggers the algorithm. Well.

(01:01:49):
Emotions periods like just the video of me crying as
the pandemic was hitting that I wanted people to stay
inside and wear masks because my mom was one of
the people who whose heart surgeries We're gonna get canceled
went so viral. This was before reels existed, which you
know happened. You know, you go viral Easy went so
viral that I got on Fox and Friends to have

(01:02:11):
a conversation with them. Listen, this has been an hour
long podcast, and I feel like oftentimes, whether it's on Twitch,
whether it's here, it takes us a long time to
say goodbye. So Carlin made you have one more thing
you want to say before we go. So we had
mentioned on our podcast last week, like we remember when
Chris from Austin used to send us like long emails,
and I hadn't think he'll make up, like I wonder

(01:02:32):
if he's going to send a final email, and he did.
I pulled it up. I started reading it the other
day and I was like, I can't read this now.
I'm gonna cry, are you gonna read it now? But
I just went to and look how many words it is.
It's a lot of words, so I can't read the
whole thing. But I why don't you pick the best
part for the last podcast okay, or unless you want
to read it now. No, like I was gonna see
if there was like a quick blurd blur. But he

(01:02:54):
does mention how I can still remember back when I
used to email my day Friday Show at gmail dot com. Yeah, yeah,
don't email that any more. Oh my god. Okay, I'll
find the best part of this and I will save
it for the last. But when you listen to the
old episode, you'll hear Anthony saying that his Twitter handle
is what worst Assistant. Yeah, and then you change it
very early on to worst Anthony and then we're like, yeah,
just tweet us at Mindy Friday Show or at mind

(01:03:16):
frind that doesn't exist anymore. Well, I think I think
we have it, but we don't. Like I we we
switched all the followers over to see him and Anthony,
but we claimed Monday Friday so no one would take it.
But we never got the Mindy Friday email. Just show
kind of weird. Unlessen we think one of us may
have saved it and forgot. Let's get out of here.

(01:03:38):
Thank you very much for spending a whole hour with us.
And like Carla Marie said when we started this podcast, today,
there are going to be the lost episodes, the first
I guess a dozen or so a little more than
that that you can listen to between now and the
final podcast, which is next week. This is nuts. Thank
you for hanging out with for eight years. Thank you
very much. Enjoy your weekend. You look great. No, no

(01:04:00):
Mighty Friday, bitches,