Inside Thoughts Episode 88

Nick talks about texas roadhouse rolls, being filthy rich, and fighting over pokemon cards

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Are you still speaking that that should not have made
it to the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thoughts Jordan, Chuck check check, welcome back. I hope you
are having a great week. You getting the toy. Piggy.
My cat is having a fun time. She she loves
me being unemployed because every day she wakes up. She
was like, we're gonna throw the ball. I've never like

(00:35):
met a cat had a cat that was so about
playing with the ball before, But this one wife's playing
with the ball. So that's good. Hope, Uh, hope, you're
doing good. I hope you're enjoying your week. I did
a podcast today. Go check out stat Yeah, sat Chats,

(00:58):
sat chats on and to Spotify, Apple YouTube. Nice guy
Stuart and Chris. They're good. It's about bitcoin. I don't
know shit about bitcoin, but they had me convinced. Man,
I feel like I got tricked into a religious conversion.
They're like, man, the dollar, the dollar's just not real, man.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
We got these Nation State paper moneis man, bitcoins where
it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And I was like, all right, it sounds good to me.
Pay me in bitcoin, that's fine, we can do that.
They were actually like trying to explain it to me.
And I'm way too dumb to understand it. But apparently
it's some guy Satachi Nakamota. I'm butchering his name, but
made some program sixteen years ago and made digital currency

(01:46):
so that everybody can see every single transaction publicly and
nobody can control it or something like that. And there's
only twenty one million bitcoins, and once they're gone, they're gone.
I don't know, I was I was trying to listen,
but like when you got a dumb brain, you can
only retain so much information before like you start daydreaming.

(02:08):
Now it's like remember when I had a bunch of
ninja turtles, Like that's where my brain was going when
they were telling me about bitcoin. But this guy Satachi Nakamoto, whoever,
sounded like a good guy. He was just trying to
create something for the world and not have it be

(02:29):
corrupted by whatever country was controlling the world at the time. No, no,
he sounded like Jesus Crypto Christ. I said that to them.
They think it was that fun I thought it was funny.
Jesus Crypto Christ. Anybody tough from But yeah, I hope
you're having a good, good week still, first month of

(02:51):
the year a lot of things happening. Talked to some
people and they're just like, do you see all the crazy,
crazy things that are going on? Like, yeah, I feel
like first month of the year, there's always something wild
that goes on that kind of chills out around springtime.
Nothing wild happens until summer, so it'll be good. I

(03:13):
hope you're keeping calm, not getting too anxious. It's tough though.
I was reading this thing that said anxiety levels can
increase after only fourteen minutes of news exposure, most or
all of which is negative content. Which yeah, that's that's
how these newsplaces make their money, and that's why you
feel kind of crazy. Like if you scroll on social

(03:34):
media for too long, you're like, why do I why
do I feel bad? It's like, because you're just looking
at terrible shit for three hours on a artificial light.
Your brain hurts. But researchers say that incidental exposure catches
us off guard on social media, making us more vulnerable

(03:54):
to distressing content. So you're just like, oh, I wonder,
I wonder why funny dog videos happening on her Let
me check out this funny video on TikTok, And then
somebody's like Elon Musk is a Nazi. You're like, oh no,
the world's ending, So it catches you off guard. But
the article said, negative headlines seriously play on her emotions,

(04:19):
which is why they push engagement so powerfully. A recent
Stanford University study reported, for example, that emotional stories are
around twenty two times more memorable than facts alone. It's
why even like good stories, they're like, no, the firefighter
saved a dying baby. Like, they don't just do regular
stuff like somebody helping somebody across the street. You know

(04:42):
what I mean, Because that's not it's not playing on
her emotions. So they want the big emotional stories that
will make you walking around feel like shit, get angry,
you go back to the TV like I need more.
It's rage porn, that's what it is. It's aid u.
Negative headlines with emotionally triggering words and images subsequently offer

(05:05):
a powerful means of gaining viral political exposure, maximizing the
chances that a story will rise at the top of
an editor's pile and become an outwitz next headline and
then it says here's a tip.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Easy interventions like switching off news notifications can help protect
their mental health, because every fourteen.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Minutes you get on the internet and you're just like,
I have anxiety. I was having a good day and
then I got on Twitter, and now I hate everybody
in the world sucks and I feel depressed. What happened?
Well read terrible shit, So I get We always say
you are what you eat. Why do I feel like
a bag of shit? You hate a bunch of junk food?
That's why. Wait, you are what you see too, You

(05:49):
are what you surround yourself with. You are what you
put into your brain. Why do I feel angry and
hate other people? Well, it's because you're watching news networks
that tell you to do that twenty four hours a day.
Maybe we just need to turn it off. Maybe the
world's not that bad, or maybe it is. I was

(06:10):
reading something else that's said. A record number of people
are making only minimum payments as their credit card balances rise.
In the third quarter of twenty twenty four, ten percent
of all active credit card accounts paid only the minimum
ballance balance, the highest rate in twelve years. The trend
reflects increasing reliance on credit cards due to higher costs
for merchandise and inflation. Nobody has any money, but we

(06:35):
gotta keep getting stuff because Instagram is just it knows
what I want. The algorithm on Instagram is just like, Hey,
you want a ninja turtle shirt. Huh? You want to
go back to the time feeling like a kid and
you didn't have to pay any bills? All right, pay
me thirty nine ninety nine from this Chinese website and
I'll get you the sickest ninja turtle shirt you've ever

(06:57):
seen in your entire life. I put it on the
credit card. A month later, Well I don't have money
for it. I'll just pay the minimum twenty five dollars.
Just keep racking it up. Being a CEO for a
credit card company's got to be sick, though, you know
what I mean, Like every Monday you get to go
we made how much poorer? Pieces of shit? Like I

(07:22):
hate super rich people that view poor people as like
the underclass and statistics, But it would be fun to
be able to be that evil for a day, you
know what I mean? Like, would you like to drive
into town past the local walmart and see all the
poor people. It'll be like going to the zoo. Honey,
come on hop in the Bentley. I don't know that

(07:47):
was pessimistic. I just like I don't know, getting older,
like living through a bunch of bullshit with no change
makes you think pessimistic shit about the world. Like I
like people in the world, and I think they're generally good,
But I think the world gives people the opportunity to
be bad and selfish, you know what I mean. Like
everything has some kind of bullshit behind it now, like

(08:11):
nothing can ever be nice, like even even delicious sugary bread.
Those Texas Roadhouse rolls trick you into ordering more food.
You ever been to Texas Roadhouse? What do you go
there for? You go there for the steak. No, it's
a second rate steakhouse. You go there for the rolls.
Then you end up spending a bunch of money and
think that the steak tastes good. Why. It's because those

(08:35):
rolls are pre dinner tricks to get diners to order
more food. And it's because they're eating highly processed sugary
bread that spike blood glucose levels and send them crashing,
making some people feel hungrier. The Texas Roadhouse rolls are
simple carbs that turn to sugar in your body, which
raise your body's blood sugar level. See everything's got something

(08:59):
to it. Like, oh, no, rolls are bad, but I
bet you they're not doing it on purpose. They just
know that they taste good and they want me to
have them. No, they're given those to you so that
you were a big, fat steak. You got those sweet rolls.
Feeling the diabetes rise up in you. How about a
nice salty, buttery steak. Huh, that'll balance it out. Al
I fat fuck you back in your car. I'll see

(09:20):
you here next week. Everything, everything's got something, but we
gotta talk about something happy. Okay. Well, Lebron James got
sent to the All Star Game again, extended his record
to twenty one All Star selections last Thursday when he
was again named a starter for this year's All Star Game.

(09:44):
You know what I mean. We're witnessing greatness. We're witnessing greatness.
We Lebron James is the best at playing basketball probably
for another I don't know, Wemby could be at least
another twenty years. You know what I mean, because I
think Wemby's like prototype three of the tall big men

(10:06):
that can do it all. It was like the old guys,
old tall Eastern Europeans in the nineties where Prototype one
Durant and Yokovic or Prototype two Wemby's probably Prototype three.
He's probably still got to fight through some injuries, but
he might be great. But I'm just saying Lebron's doing
all this twenty one years. I was in third grade
when he got in the NBA. Thirty two now and

(10:28):
he's still balling. That's crazy. Gotta respect greatness. You also
gotta respect steroids. Like I am a Lebron fan, but
come on, man, he takes two weeks off out of
the year to go to Germany every year. What was
he doing. Probably he's had a little something, But guess what,
that's okay. We get to watch the greatness longer. Steroid players,

(10:50):
they're fun to watch, Like the Baseball Hall of Fame
voters are always like, I'm not letting steroid baseball players
are into the Hall of Fame, not my stagers Hall
of Fame, dude. That was the most fun time to
watch baseball. When McGuire Sosa, Clemens Bonds, you go back
like I see those old MLB clips on my Instagram

(11:14):
all the time. It'll be like the nineteen ninety eight
San Diego Padres lineup was stacked everybody's hitting three forty.
Everybody's got thirty home runs and ninety RBIs at the
All Star Break. That was fun baseball to watch, and
we want to take it away because of the purity

(11:34):
of the game. Everybody cheats at everything. Like you go
into business, people are cutting corners, they're getting getting promotions
they don't deserve because of xyz. But we can't have
that in sports. Why because sports are truthful, they don't cheat,

(11:56):
they're not rigged. Unrelated, got to talked about the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs and the Eagles are playing, and I hate
the Chiefs so much because they're making me root for
a Philadelphia team. But like we act like we don't
like cheating in sports, and the Kansas City Chiefs just

(12:17):
get to do whatever they want all the time. Oh,
the Rets aren't helping them out. Oh really. It was
like some statistic. It was like number of roughing the
passer calls in the playoffs Chiefs versus opponents. The opponents
had six called on him. The Chiefs had none. Holding penalties.
They hadn't had a holding penalty called on him in

(12:39):
like two years. Holding happens every play. And then against
the Bills, Josh Allen was trying to throw a fuck it,
Dalton Kincaid's down there somewhere type of pass. Kinkaid dropped it,
but the officials threw a flag as soon as he

(12:59):
got to ball off, and then they picked it up,
and everybody was just like, oh, that was weird because
there have been about four or five calls this game
where none of us thought that that was a penalty
or should have been called, but the Chiefs benefited from it.
Maybe the refs through that just in case dun Kin
kid caught that pass and then they could call some

(13:20):
bullshit holding on the bills. I'm just like, it's sports.
There's no sports gitting rigged. Might not be rigged, but
it's definitely massaged. They're pushing something in a direction. I'm
not saying the Chiefs aren't good. Patrick Mahomes is amazing,
Travis Kelcey is amazing, their defense is incredible. Steve Spagnola

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is the best defensive coordinator in the league. I'm just
saying they're getting extra help. Man. Because we like stories,
we like negative stuff. Our anxiety levels increase after only
fourteen minutes of news exposure. That's less than a full
quarter of watching the Chiefs football game. It's crazy, though
Dalton KK dropped that pass. He didn't think he was

(14:05):
gonna get to him. I'll fault him for it. But
if you had a bad week, it wasn't as bad
as Mark Andrews, tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, dropped
the tying two point conversion pass, and it was terrible.

(14:25):
He just he choked, That's what it was. That's what
let the Bills go to the AFC Championship to play
the Chiefs. But Mark Andrews like he messed up so bad.
He wrote an apology on his Instagram page. He said,
it's impossible to adequately express how I feel. I'm absolutely
gutted by what happened on Sunday. I'm devastating for my teammates,
my coaches, and Ravens fans. I pour every ounce of

(14:47):
my being into playing at the highest level possible because
I love my team in the game of football like
nothing else. That is why it's taken me until now
to collect my thoughts and address this publicly. Even though
the shock and disappointment are unlike anything I've ever felt before,
I refuse to let the situation to find me. I
promise that this adversity will only make me stronger and
fuel us as we move forward. Imagine feeling so bad

(15:10):
you got to publicly admit something and say sorry for
some shit that happened at your job. Like I ain't
even do anything wrong. It's not like he cheated on
his wife or you know, had to give one of
those Tiger Woods Bill Clinton speeches. I did not have
sexual relations with that woman. He's not even a corporation
that gave everyone E Coli has to say sorry for

(15:30):
almost killing you.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
We've washed the lettuce. It's Chipotle. It happens.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
He dropped the ball. You should have just sen out
a tweet that said hey, I'm asked and kept it
pushing come back next year. But he had to know him.
It's soft for apologizing. Dude, I just like it. What
are you talking about? Well, what are you talking about?

(15:57):
Woolsh Aame's gonna get a British word of the week.
Just yell it? Oh dunk to have one? All right? Perfect?
Now let's get your headline of the week and then
I'm getting out of here. A fight broke out at
a Costco store in Los Angeles over Pokemon cards. The
fight was caught on a video two men fought over

(16:18):
a Pokemon box set, with one of them elbowing the
other in the face. Police weren't called to the scene
and aren't investigating the bra It's hilarious to watch the video.
The's two dudes fighting over Pokemon box in a costco.
And the one dude, he was kind of older, he
was smaller, and he just grabbed the other guy, who

(16:41):
was bigger than him, like by the back, you know,
like he was trying to crack his back. It was
just holding on to him. He's like, give me the cards,
give me the cards, and the guy was like, get
off me. He just hit him with a spinning elbow.
It was hilarious two grown men doing that for what
Because they were both like way too old. They just
looked like, okay, I'll say this. They didn't look like

(17:03):
they were collectors, you know what I mean. They ain't
look smart enough to like really actually care about Pokemon.
It was like both of them went to the store
that day for the kid because they just like heard
it for the last time. Like, Dad, you'd never get
us any pokebod, Dad, you'd never get us any pokemont
He's like a fuck, oh, go to the store. I'll

(17:24):
get one. He gets there, it's the last one. He's like, fuck,
got the last one. Some other guy tries to grab it.
He's like, what are you doing dude. The other guy
he had to go get his Pokemon cards for his
kids because he's actually divorced and he's trying to reconnect
with his kids. He's like, I gotta get this Pokemon set.
I gotta get like, don't love me again if I

(17:45):
get him the Pokemon set. He goes to reach for
the other guy. Gaus, You're like, no, you understand. I
need this for my children. That's the only reasonable situation
I can think that they were fighting over poking, Like
I'm trying to humanize him a little bit, you know
what I mean, because otherwise it's just too dumb. As
is fighting at a costco. I want to peek at you.
You know, I went to peek at you. The cops

(18:05):
didn't even show up. They're like, two people are fighting
over Pokemon cards. Nah, I'm gonna go deal with this
sex trafficking stuff that's happening in La. Did you see
that there are pictures by train tracks. Somebody like wrote
out help in the ground called on Google Maps. Anyway,
go ahead, right and on a high note, but I'm
out of stuff talk about. That's the podcast. If you're

(18:27):
listening to this today and you're in North Carolina, I
got a show in Wilson at Brewmasters tomorrow. It's Wednesday
at eight o'clock. Pull up. It's gonna be fun. I
hope you have good rest of the week and I'll
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