Vinyl Records, Movies & the Eclipse

Plenty of talk about the 2045 eclipse, the movie Weapons, vinyl records and a smidge of politics.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Radio. Oh it's so exciting. I can understand it. It
just saucible hot radio that has nothing to do with alrightio.
But maybe one of these days we will hook that
old radio back up and play Christopher Todd's album All
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(00:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:02):
Speaking of Christopher Todd, he's not going to be on
the show tonight because.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's Facebook Live, and then he we could probably have
him on next week because we didn't record Buzzhead Radio
with Styton.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah yeah, So if you're listening, just tentatively plan on calling.
We'll call in next week.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah earlier. We'll message you too, just in case you're
not an editioning. Of course he's listening. Of course he's listening.
They've called, they've called, and I'll mention it here too.
He does. He dislikes the birthday song for whatever reason.
Can't wait when your birthday when is Dave's birthday? I

(01:46):
don't know, Dave, have we played the birthday song for you?
It might be some dash stayton. I don't know if
we have or not. I never really thought about it.
We need, see, we need like an assistant that puts
everybody's birthday in a calendar and reminds us of everybody's birthday.

(02:09):
Can you get your Scooby Doo guy to do that?
If we could? If we yeah, if we would remember
to tell him it's February eighth, this is birthday. I
bet we have. I bet we've played something for him.
My Memories is just shot on four hundred episodes. I
there's just yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, And I can't even remember my all my grandkid's birthdays.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I feel terrible. Yeah. Well, I'm like way behind on gifts.
So anyway, Dave, we're not changing this on. It's become
a part of us. So sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
URTIs loves it way too much and I'm indifferent.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Sorry, dude. He mentioned that Hines is coming out with
a Smoothie. No, they came out with us movie. It's
a Heines catch up smoothie. But I can't remember if
it's tropical smooth the I can't remember where you get it,
but they had it on one of the news stations
and they had like five people and every one of

(03:07):
them had one, and they all said it was good.
And then I was telling Styton and Denise about it,
and Stayton brought up the fact that maybe it's like
a bloody mary taste. I'm thinking of a sweet smoothie taste,
but maybe it's like a bloody Mary. I don't like
bloody Mary's because I don't like tomato juice, but maybe
that's what it's like. Maybe I love bloody Well, then

(03:30):
maybe that's what it's like. Maybe that's why people like it.
I don't know. I haven't tried it, So if anybody
out there has tried the hinds ketchup smoothie, let us
know if there if it's some weird sweet taste or
is it like a bloody mary taste?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Tomatoe tomatoe spicy?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah? What is it that put in bloody mary? Celery?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
So that's a gard Uh? What's just iyer sauce? I
think your sister wash your sister saw your sister did
what your sister wister?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
She whistered what.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
He also mentioned that his favorite drink was heigh see orange.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, he was talking about triggers for the seton which
we probably should have mentioned on the other podcast. But yeah,
I see would be a trigger probably for me as well.
Any anything kool aid or Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
He just went and saw the movie Weapons. Everybody I've
heard says it's great.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh I got it right here. I got information on
weapons right in front of me, because, uh, the it's
one of those movies which sounds like it's going to
live up to the trailer. What's it about? I'll tell
you here in a second, Okay, but the trailer makes
you want to go see it. But there's a lot
of movies that the trailer makes you want to go

(04:51):
see it, and then when you go see it, you're like,
oh my god, it was a spider on my buse. God,
I had nothing to do with the trailer. That's not
what this anyway. I want to bring this up first
and then we'll get to what is that all they've had?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Uh And he didn't mention AOL's dial up is going now,
Oh that's right.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So if you guys, I'm sure you guys got an email.
If you're still on dial who's on dialup? How could
you even still be on dial up. But anyway, I
guess there's somebody out there that's still on dial up
and AOL is ending that ending it. So if you're
on dial up, I haven't had dial up in probably
twenty years. You know. I wonder if it's like some

(05:32):
type of special computers or old kind computers that couldn't
be upgraded and so they had to be on it.
I don't I can't imagine a normal, everyday person being
on dial up, especially AOL. I didn't even know AOL was.
I know, I think they have a search engine. I
didn't know AOL was even still a thing, but it is.

(05:56):
I guess they are. Okay, So today, what is today?
August twelfth? Yes, okay, are you guys ready? Twenty years
from now? Everybody mark this on your calendar. Oh yeah,
the clips, the eclipse. You we're gonna talk about weapons,
I said, after this, Oh okay, I didn't want to forget.

(06:16):
So twenty years from now, I wrote, it is the
next big solar eclipse over the United States, and it's
so big it's going right over Oklahoma. ENID is in
the path of totality. We're not on the center, but
we are really really close to the center. We will

(06:39):
get over six minutes of totality, which is more minutes
than you and I have seen on either eclipse that
we've been to, and both of those were pretty good. No,
well they were very cool. So I have purchased Enid
eclipse dot Com and I don't have anything on there yet,
but eventually I will have a calendar and a countdown

(07:00):
thing and I'm going to be selling ended. So my
thought is to come up with a really cool Enit
Eclipse T shirt and everybody by it now and wear
it for twenty years, and then bring it and wear
it on the day of the eclipse and just have
these T shirts that are just worn out and be
kind of a cool So basically what I'm saying is

(07:23):
kind of like Russellville did in Arkansas. I want Enid
to be one of the hubs. Yeah, I need an
event for the eclipse. So plan on coming to Enid,
Oklahoma in twenty forty five for the eclipse. So and
we will have places for you to sit, So come
on over. Okay, So let's go to the movie Weapons.

(07:45):
This is like really the only movie that I really
want to see in the theater. Right now. Zach Craiger,
a sketch comedian turned horror director. He's the one. He
did Barbarian in twenty twenty two. Have have you seen Barbarian?
It keeps popping up on Netflix or Prime and I

(08:06):
never watched it, but I guess I should watch it.
But he did that one. It opened to ten point
five million in September and went on to gross forty
million dollars. So for his next effort, which is Weapons,
it just beat Barbarian with an opening of forty two

(08:29):
point five million. And this is like kind of small budget,
unexpected type of opening. After wondering where horror fans were
for fresh new titles, it is turning into quite a
year Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Now and then there's Final
Destination Bloodlines. But this thirty eight million budgeted Weapons joins

(08:53):
a number of successful August openings for horror over the years.
So basically we're kind of we're just inching into the
Halloween mode. Just bear it. I bet you go to
hobby lobby. There's Halloween everywhere. Oh sure, so let me
get to Did I not write it down? And Barbarians
is on Prime? Okay? I don't think I wrote dog

(09:15):
cone it. I did not write it down. So basically,
have you not seen the trailer for Weapons. It's basically
a town and like seventeen kids in one class all
run away from home on the same night, and and
so the town's like going wild, where are our kids? Well,

(09:38):
the only missing kids are the kids that were in
that class, and the people have like videos, like ring
videos of the kids running down the street, running away,
and it's got your face stick though. The older brother
in Goony's.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh no, the actor yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, yeah yeah, anyway, barbs step so there you go,
that guy exactly. It's got some some pretty big actors
in it. But anyway, so the trailer really intrigued me.
It's like, oh man, now I got to watch it
to figure out why did all the kids run away
from home on the same night? So why did it?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I would think it was like just a gag thing
they were doing or something.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Oh no, this is like horror. This is a horror movie. Okay.
So but from the reviews I've read, it's like the
ending and I guess there's like humor in it. Somehow,
somehow he's worked some humor into it he's a comedian.
But it sounds like it's not a disappointing ending. However
it ends. We're not going to do a spoiler because

(10:51):
I don't even know the spoiler, but sounds like it's
a good movie. Dave made it sound like he enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, like I said, everybody, I've Oh, that was what
I was going to read.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Critics, has altul made their voice heard making Weapons certified
fresh at ninety five percent to make it one of
the best reviewed films of the year on Rotten Tomatoes.
That's saying something, Yeah, certified fresh. So anyway, let us
know if you let us know your thoughts on Weapons

(11:25):
at the phone number or the email if you saw it,
and I'm going to try to figure out how to
go see it somewhere sometime. Uh, you asked me. So
if you guys saw my Facebook account tonight, you saw
my Venmo money that I sent Todd, I'm like, why
is he? And I sent him money for al macramay

(11:48):
owl owl, the bird owl, the owl macromay al because
he makes a lot of macroma and sells it to me,
and for smuggling because we small and what was the
other one? Oh, body disposal. So when Todd does away
with x's, I do the disposal. So anyway, that was

(12:11):
to prove a point, and the point being that there's
this if you know, if you haven't heard, we live
in Oklahoma, so it's a big deal in Oklahoma. Oh
use new quarterback John Matteir, who's so good. Several people
are talking about him winning the Heisman this year. That's
how good he is. Somebody is afraid of him and

(12:35):
doesn't want their team to lose to owe you, so
they it could be. I think it may be they
went all through his Venmo because venmo's public, and basically,
if you make your account public, people can see who
you're sending money to, and if you put a reason,
you have to put a reason. It tells you what.

(12:56):
And a lot of people use emojis, but some people
put words. Always put hookers and cocaine, hookers and cocaine.
Proving the point. So he put sports betting in twenty
twenty two, and then sports betting USC versus UCLA, and

(13:17):
so whoever dug that up published it everywhere to make
it seem like John Mattieir was betting on sports. Well,
you can't be a collegiate athlete. It's against NCAA rules
to bet on college sports. So if that was found
to be true, he could get suspended, probably not for

(13:39):
you know, like a year, but like for half the
season or a couple of games, which would really hurt
oh use chances and his chances at the Heisman. So anyway,
a lot of people, especially OU fans and people from Oklahoma,
are pointing out the fact that you cannot trust the

(14:02):
description of payments on venmo because of like what I posted,
people do it as a joke. They put the description
as a joke. And he came out with a statement
today saying it was a joke. I don't bet on
college sports. I never have. That was a private, a
inside joke between me and my friends. And then he
made his account private. Did did he play for one

(14:25):
of the teams that no? Oh, he was. He was
playing at Washington State and the only team that he
teams that he pointed out in one of them was
USC versus UCLA. Okay, so I.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Thought, I thought, if maybe he played one of those teams,
that would look a little little fishy.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
But if he didn't, it what the hell? And he
admits that it looked. He shouldn't have done it, being
in collegiate sports, you know. But who who thinks that
some ahle is going to go scrounging through your old
venmos for two years years? Who was? Okay, So I
haven't delved into the controversy on that yet. But whoever

(15:06):
the guy is that dug it up says he was
from some media source. Well, they went to the media
source and he's not. They say, no, there's nobody by
that name here. So whoever dug it up is lying
about who they are pencil fire, Yeah, from what I
can tell. So in anyway, Uh, that's why I posted

(15:31):
that on venmo. So let us know, do you guys
when you venmo somebody, do you actually put the real
reason of the money or do you guys? Also, if
you use something funny, what do you guys use? Yeah,
let us know. Yeah. I was talking to a guy.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Friday customer actually, and I was installing a TV on
a you know, on a wall thinging. They're really easy
to do, there's nothing to them.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
And he was telling me, if.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
You got the tools, yeah he was when he was
at best Buy buying this TV. He said that the
best Buy guy told him that from now on the
smallest TV you're gonna be able to get as like
a sixty five inch tea.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh wow, I mean I can believe that.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
I mean I'm like, okay, Like the TV in my
bedroom is not that big. It's it's not as big
as yours. I mean it's not huge at all, because
I don't know what, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
It just it'd be too big. I mean, like, so,
what's every gonna do if they don't want a giant TV? Yeah,
good question. There's probably a company out there that may
not sell them through best Buy. Oh, but it will
probably sell smaller sizes. Maybe best Buy is just not
going to carry Oh maybe that's any of the smaller ones,

(16:50):
which is still but I could see eventually, I mean
they don't. I don't. You hardly ever see the little one.
I remember when they used to come in the flat,
but they were like little like you'd put in your bathroom,
almost like a computer monitor. Yeah. You barely see those anymore,
if at all. I don't haven't really looked for one,
but yeah, so interesting. That is interesting. Uh. If you

(17:16):
guys listened to the seventies Post podcast Facebook a minute ago,
you will know that when we were recording this, it
is National Vinyl Record Day. So I looked. I think
we all kind of understand that the seventies were the

(17:37):
pinnacle of vinyl records because I mean, what they do
in the sixties eight tracks, I guess, but probably yeah,
mostly eight tracks, and then the eighties were partly cassette,
DVD or CD CDs, but pretty much the seventies. And
so basically, when you almost any list that includes other

(18:00):
decades other than the seventies, still a major portion of
the top albums are still seventies. And I think it's
because of Columbia House and just because it was the
seventies and that's what we listened to. So anyway, I
got a list of US sales in vinyl records. Oh poop,

(18:22):
why don't I have the years? I think it was
from nineteen seventy to nineteen ninety nine. I don't know
why they picked those years, but that's what it was.
So these but it kind of gives you an idea
of the top selling nineteen ninety nine, Yeah, nineteen ninety nine,
thirty years, a thirty year span, and well, I guess
basically after ninety nine they quit selling at some point

(18:44):
they quit selling albums. Yeah, I mean you literally pretty much. Yeah,
and I guess it was the nineties. Yeah, it pretty
much was the nineties. So that's why. Okay, so this
and I'll start at the top rather than going from
the bottom in their list. This is US sales Vinyl Records,

(19:05):
Fleetwood Mac Rumors number one, nineteen seventy seven, which is
pretty pretty easy to believe. That covers the eighties in
the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, So this list again includes eighties
and nineties albums, but it's heavy on seventies. Number two,
Dark Side of the Moon four, I think three, four, five,

(19:30):
somewhere somewhere in there. Now. Number three is not in
the seventies. It's Nirvana never mind. And then we've got
Oasis at number four. Really yeah, which I who knew?
Queen Greatest Hits at number five, Bob Marley and the

(19:51):
Whalers Wow at number six, Legend Wow. Now this one
I meant to look up and I didn't have time.
Stone Roses, the Stone Roses number seven. I don't know
if that's rock country hillbilly. I don't know what the

(20:13):
Stone Roses are. Oasis came in again at number eight.
I didn't know Oasis was that big. I must have
missed out on the whole Oasis thing.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Stone Roses was a rock band formed in Manchester in
nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh, I bet they had a lot of UK sales.
Well no, this says us sales. Oh well, I've never
even heard of them. How could they be number seven
in album sales of all time, of pretty much all
time and we never heard of them? Yeah, I don't know.
What does it have a year?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
They formed in eighty three in eighty three, huh, Yeah,
they had a big song I Want to Be Adored.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Wow. Oh she bangs the drum that sounds from Oh yeah,
that sounds like a song that I probably heard. But yeah,
I bet that. I bet it's one of those one
song wonders that made their album go big. Number nine

(21:14):
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stadist. Oh Wow.
Nirvana comes in with another one in the top ten
Unplugged in New York. And then we got led Zeppelin
at eleven, Fleetwood MATC, Greatest Hits at twelve, Smith's at thirteen,
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here at fourteen Smiths Wow

(21:36):
Back at fifteen Pulp Fiction Original Soundtrack at number sixteen.
I'll be doing I don't have that album. I think
I need to look that up, because that movie did
have some good songs Guns N' Roses number seventeen, Joy
Division number eighteen, Radiohead nineteen, Abba number twenty and then

(22:00):
I went to Throw Prince and the Revolution came in
at twenty one. So there you go. That's kind of
give you an idea of and so so pretty much,
vinyl fizzled out in the late nineties and then stayed
fizzled out, and now I don't know, probably within maybe
the last I know, at least the last five, possibly ten.

(22:25):
It's kind of made a comeback. Not a huge comeback,
but enough comeback that there's vinyl. Record stores and artists
are now releasing their music on vinyl, and like Buckingham
Nix are re releasing some of their old vinyl on
new vinyl. So if you don't have a turntable, get one,

(22:49):
or like we used to call them, record players, go
get one and listen. I still love vinyl. I mean,
it's cool to play, it's fun. I've said it before.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I remember when CDs came out and everybody over them.
I was not impressed, but I just didn't because you.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Couldn't scratch them and they didn't skip, and and they
last for a thousand years.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, well they would skip, actually, well they would skip,
and then they started doing that thing where they read
like six seconds ahead, so if.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
You went over where oh yeah, I had the anti
skip built.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
In, but they just didn't have the you know, the
soul of a final album, you know, the little hiss
and the pops every once in a while. And yeah, yeah,
but I guess technically, technically they're probably better than vinyl.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't know. I've read an article where guys kind
of battled on that, and it I don't it's there's
no way to prove either way. I mean, like maybe
sound quality again or these guys. These guys were battling
on that. And it kind of gets down to records
have this, like I can't remember how you described it,
like a bassy something something that CD's don't have. CDs

(24:01):
have this clarity of something that records don't have, and
so I think it's a personal choice. But now we've
got digital, just digital, which is interesting. I remember, I
distinctly remember when I got my first I guess shuffle

(24:26):
no iPod my first iPod, and I I remember, you know,
I had it and I kind of would listen to
songs at home. But I distinctly remember one day, and
it was in the mid nineties, going to the YMCA
and getting out of my vehicle and being able to

(24:48):
walk across the parking lot with this little bitty thing.
It'll little bitty thing, no CD spinning, no cassette, just
this little gizmo. And I was listening to Jurassic Park
soundtrack and I thought, this is the coolest thing ever.
I'm literally and it's like and then I'm thinking to myself,

(25:09):
there's like five hundred songs on this thing in my pocket. Yeah,
outside of a cigarette ladder. Yeah. It just I and
I just I'll never forget that as like wow. And nowadays,
you know, it's just not a big deal.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
It's just so you had to Back in those days,
you had to have earbuds to listen.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh yeah, with the cord. Now there's no speaker. Yeah no,
I had earbuds. And every iPod came with, you know,
even iPhones for years and years came with chorded and
chargers and charger charger plug and the chord.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
So how did I'm trying to remember, how did you
get I never had an iPod, but we bottom for
the kids, and we had them personalized, you know, because
they came to different colors and had their names engraved
on them and stuff, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
How'd you get the songs on there? Just sing it
with a computer? You had Apple Music on your computer,
and then you would plug your phone your iPod into
the computer and just transfer. And then as time went by,
then the cloud came along, and now can you just
get like I can get a song on my phone

(26:18):
just from the cloud. But it took a while before
the cloud came along. So basically you just had to
sync with your computer, and that was a kind of
a drawback. You had to have an Apple account on
a computer or you couldn't get the songs. So it
was kind of for non Apple people it was, I think.
And then eventually I think they came out with Apple

(26:40):
Music for PCs Eventure sure somewhere somewhere around there. So yeah,
interesting and and the little and then plugging it into
the computer you have a charge. I think it would
charge it at the same time if it was plugged
into the computer. But then I think they did have

(27:01):
little charging chords like a little standard. I think it
did have stand the shuffle. Yeah, then they started. I've
got like a whole box of Like I bet I
got twenty shuffles in a box over here, every color
and size you can think of. Why because every time
they came out with a new one, I would get it,
and then they'd come out with a new one. And

(27:21):
then those remember the little ones that were just a
clip that they were literally one inch or inch and
a half by an inch and a half and it
was in the back, had a clip. So you like
the little microphones I've got, Yeah, I bet I got
six of those because they came into all kinds of
funky colors and they cost like forty nine dollars. So
we were always buying them for the girls. And I

(27:43):
don't know, I just somehow I ended up with all
the used shuffles and they all got songs on every
one of them has songs on them. Yeah, none of
them have been cleaning the I don't know if they
all I don't know if you could charge them all
up if they had still work. I'm assuming they would,
they wouldn't. I don't know. I don't know how the
battery well, kind of how the battery works in those

(28:04):
little itty bitty things. Oh, I don't know. I don't
either anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, I can't change the battery in my phone anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
He never could in these Oh really, well I guess not. Yeah,
but no, yeah, no, I remember the first Apple laptops
you could change the batteries in and now yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
My last laptop I could, yeah, which is still all
my stuff sold.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, if you can change the battery in your laptop,
it's probably pretty old.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
It's older than my all in one, which is I
think it's fourteen years old.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, you can't have a computer fourteen years old. That
makes no sense. Five years is pushing five years is pushing.
It kind of works, don't it? Kind of with a
television monitor, which.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Is hard to see because it's an old, crappy television.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, yeah, time to switch your over. I'm just scared.
Don't be scared. I'm scared of gonna lose all that stuff.
You won't lose it.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
I may take it to somebody, say here, take all
this off here and put it on here.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
That might be a smart thing to do, because they're
so the problem you may run into is they're so
far apart the operating systems might not sync up and
be able to transfer, So you probably better get somebody
to Yeah, that's the problem I have on a lot
of my old Apple laptops. They won't work. You can't

(29:36):
do air drops and things with it because they're so
out of date that they only work with what's on them.
You can't you can't make them do anything with other ones.
You can't add new software, you can't update the software.
It's it's like they've timed out. They're in their own
little time capsule, but they still work. They're just stuck

(30:00):
in whatever time they're stuck in.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Ninety seven, there you go, and then nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know what year I got. I got one
of the I got the first titanium Apple laptop way
back in the day. I can't eve remember what year was.
Let's see, it's time for the meteor shower. How's the
cloud cloud cover coming in tonight? So around eleven or

(30:29):
twelve tonight, go out and try to see the perseed
meteor shower. And then in the middle of the night
you're going to run into a little problem with the
moon so you should wait till the early morning hour
when the moon's starting go down and you'll be able
to see him a little better again. But tonight is
the best night to see the perseed meteor shower. And

(30:55):
normally in a good year, you can see up to
forty to fifty visible meteors per hour, but because of
the moon, you're probably not going to see that many tonight.
And if you've got clouds like we do in Enid,
you may not see squatch. Just see what the weather's doing.
Oh yeah, there's a couple of storms. The thing is,
there's storms popping up. I can see that one right there,

(31:19):
but I don't know what's in between. I don't know
if it's cloud cover or clear sky because we're here
in the studio. But anyway, if you live in an
area where you can see, go out see the meteors.
Let us know which is h'all. Speaking of Apple iPhones,
they're getting ready to release the iPhone seventeen. They haven't like,

(31:46):
I don't think they've announced officially, but they are rumoring
that it will be September eighth, possibly September ninth, when
they will release the iPhone seventeen. Seventeen Pro and seventeen
Pro Max.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
So what's all the whistlebil on this one.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I don't know yet, again because they haven't released it yet.
There's only rumors. So but it sounds like I'm gonna
want it. I mean from the people that have rumors,
they're making it sound like it's a big enough upgrades
to the things I use that I probably And I

(32:25):
think I bought that Apple's got this thing called I
think it's called Next or something, So even if you're
in a contract on your old phone, you can just
just give them your old one and pick up a
new one. And it just continues one. There's no big
switchy poo thing, my jigger bobber so. And then it

(32:45):
says the previous Plus models believe to have dropped and
instead there will be a slim iPhone seventeen Air. That
sounds interesting, not that I would want it, but slim
iPhone seven teen Air. So we'll wait and see what happens.
We're only a couple of weeks away. So anyway, that's

(33:09):
all I got on the Apple thing. And then I
had talked about Apple or Amazon's free V A couple
episodes Free V free v FR E E v ee
that it's that new streaming service that's free with original
titles and stuff on it. Oh, vaguely remember you talking

(33:32):
about that? Yeah, I was gonna say, I think I've
talked about that before. Alzheimer's Real quick, you guys know
that I spend about two hours on the trail every morning,
seven miles walking running. They're saying Alzheimer's is the most
common form of dementia, with seven point two million Americans

(33:53):
over the age of sixty five currently living with the disease.
I've been seeing a lot of new studies where they're
thinking the cause of Alzheimer's isn't even close to what
they thought it was. And I can't remember what these
new studies are saying it could be. But it doesn't matter.
The way to prevent whatever the cause is from getting

(34:14):
it is to walk. Says walking or participating in any
other physical activity can lower the risk of developing disease.
And I don't have the exact number here of what percentage,
but the doctor goes on to explain why the physical
movements make an impact on prevention. So walking does a

(34:36):
lot of things. It helps with cardiovasc your health health
and helps with brain function to that forward movement. The
forward movement actually helps your brain as well. So anyway,
if you want to lower significantly, it could be like
thirty percent. I think, wow, your chances of Alzheimer's stay active.

(34:57):
It doesn't necessarily have to be walking, but it has
to be physical activity.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
When I was last week, when I was working at Oba,
you know it's it's a really pretty big school for
a little school.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Spread out.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, it's spread way out. And I had to replace
a bunch of ceiling tiles. Well there there'd be like
two in this room, two in that room two and
you know, so it's not like I could so I
kind of got centrally located and tons of walking. And Greg,
let's so Kevin's brother, He's the the maintenance guy out

(35:32):
there who I deal with.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
One time he walked by, he goes, you tired of walking? Yet,
I go, there's a lot of walking. He goes. He goes,
He goes, do you get your stepper on your counter?
I said, no, I don't. You don't have one of those.
He goes.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
On an average day, he goes, I get ten thousand
steps a day.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
And he just had knee surgery. Oh wow, yeah, so
I think people would be surprised at how many they
get just in a normal day. If you if you're
not sitting on your butt all day, but just walking
to the refrigerator or you know, if you go to
the convenience store or post office, you get a lot
more steps. Now, I don't think they're super beneficial as

(36:12):
far as your cardiovascular but they are beneficial as far
as movement physical activity. Now for you in a building,
if you're you know, when you're going pretty long distances,
it helps. But yeah, yeah, I talked to a post
Office mail delivery guy the other day and he told
me what he gets, and it's like thirty or forty

(36:35):
thousand a day just you know, I get sixteen thousand
in the morning, and then I try to go just
over right now, I've kind of got a goal of
going right over twenty thousand a day. You know, throughout
the day I try to add some steps. But yeah,
just on his average day of doing his job, I

(36:56):
think he's getting thirty or forty thousand a day. So
if you want to live a long time be a
mail carrier, think on't they hiring around He says, they're
hiring everywhere I guess they can't just they can't get
enough people to work for him anywhere. Oh that's true
with a lot of businesses and jobs. Well, one of

(37:16):
the downfalls that he was explaining to me was they
have to work on weekends, which I guess would just
be Saturday, because they don't deliver on Sunday. So, and
a lot of younger people. Younger people are weird these days.
They don't want to work at nice, they don't work
on weekends, they want five weeks vacation. You know. They've
got all these demands and if you don't meet them,

(37:40):
they don't work for you, and they go try to
find another job. So a lot of these companies are
having trouble hiring people.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
I told you Derek got a new job, right, yeah, yeah,
And he started yesterday.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
It was his first day, actually day, so I.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Had texted him. I said, so how's that going? He goes, Man,
he goes, I love this job. He goes, it's remote,
do it from anywhere?

Speaker 1 (38:01):
He goes.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
I actually contacted my supervisor and said, you know, because
you know, one of my one of my expected to
log on he goes.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
He goes, I don't give a shit. He goes just
get your stuff done. Yeah, which it's too bad at
all jobs aren't like that. I just I understand for
some employees when you have to go into an office
that you have to watch some employee. But it would
be nice if the majority of jobs were you know, Okay,

(38:30):
I've worked eight hours a day, but today, you know,
I know that I'm going to be able to get
everything done in six hours and just let the person
go for two hours but pay them. Yeah, I mean
because maybe you know, three weeks from now they're going
to have to work an extra thirty minutes or I
don't know. It just would be nice if people had
I think people would enjoy their jobs where they have

(38:53):
to be at a physical location, except for like a restaurant.
You know, there's some jobs you can't but office type
jobs where as long as you get the work done
that you're required to get done, I think you should
be able to leave and not just sit there and
waste time, right, I mean, let them go and be
productive and run to the post office and pick up

(39:13):
their kid or whatever. I mean. I just don't see,
because I remember when I was at Evans, there was
a lot of times I would get everything done, and
you know, it wasn't like I felt like I could
just leave, so I didn't. But that's where I learned
a lot of my computer skills. And that's where I
learned correll draw and photoshop because I would tell Jim, hey,

(39:36):
if we buy this software, I can do this stuff
in the office and we don't have to farm it
out and so on my off time. Not only was
I learning the software to do my job there, but
it helped me with all the business stuff I do now.
But it would have been nice to know that, oh,
you know, I got everything done and I need to

(39:56):
go do something, so I you know, you could leave
an hour early, which I'm sure there's a few companies
out there that let you do that. But I think
if you guys want to keep your employees or keep
them happy, I think more people should do that. Yeah,
and if you're an employee, be honest and make sure
you got the work done. Don't be leaving, you know
if you don't have all your work done. So I

(40:19):
don't know. I think I just you know, me being
an entrepreneur and working here for twenty years now, I
tell everybody working for yourself the greatest thing about working
for yourself is not the money, It's not it's the freedom.
I can freaking do anything I want. I can go

(40:39):
to a three hour lunch if I want. You and
I sometimes meet at Barnstormers and spend two hours or sure,
you know. And because I do a lot of work
at night, after we leave, after we're done with this podcast,
I'll be doing in a bus stuff, so I'm working
like an hour or two at night. Well, that gives
me the freedom to go out and play frisbee with
Graham in the afternoon. And you know, I mean, I

(41:00):
don't know it just I get all the work done
that I need to get done, but I get it
done on my time, you know, when I know I
need to get it done. And that freedom is what
you all, if you're listening, should try to achieve work
for yourself. Yeah, of course everybody. Everybody can't work for
that unfortunately, I know. But look at Terry. I mean

(41:24):
there's people that work for these companies for years and
years and years thinking I've got a secure job. No,
if you're working for somebody, you do not have a
secure job because they could fire you, go out of business,
sell to somebody else. At any time, and you may
not be on the list to keep, which just happened
to one of our friends.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
I'll never forget. Stayton had just graduated. He was just
starting his new job, and somehow it's like, what, you know,
what's Todd going to do?

Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
I'm just going to be working for myself. And he's like, well,
aren't you worried about security? I'm like, if I was you,
I would be worried about security.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah. I mean that's been forty years ago, and I
think he's gone through where his companies have been sold,
and I think he's had to jump from from some
companies to companies. Yeah, and you know, and it's not
easy being an entrepreneur working for yourself. I mean, we've
got to do our own schedule and make sure we

(42:23):
get our work done, and I mean and bill and
get paid, and bill and get paid, and file taxes
and have no Social Security when we reach retirement age.
But hey, we had the free I wouldn't trade the
freedom that I got to watch the girls every day
of their growing up and take them to lunch and
pick them up and drop them off every day of school.

(42:46):
I wouldn't trade that for you. Know, five hundred thousand
in retirement. So anyway, off on a little tangent there,
That's all I got. You got any other news? I mean,
there's tons of Trump. I guess Trump's about to meet
with Putin.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah, and he he took over the police department in
d C.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Yeah, he had the federal government takeover because d C
isn't a state, it's a district, and so legally he
can do that, and he did. And so but yeah,
I mean, here's what I heard today. And of course
you never know, but I heard somebody on a democratic

(43:34):
show that on a station that leans democratic, and he's
a Democratic leaning host. He said that he had Democrats
calling him saying that Washington, d C. Wasn't safe. They did,
they feared really to walk around. They wouldn't probably let

(43:56):
their wives or their kids, you know, go tour the city.
But as soon as they got on TV with a
camera in front of him, they all blasted Donald Trump
for what he's doing and said you can't do that.
But in private they were I think they're all happy
he's doing what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
So I guess it was really really was getting bad
over there.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah. Oh no, I mean, have you not seen. You
probably haven't watched as much news as I you do.
You remember Big Balls from Elon Musk and the What's Doge?
So you know the Democrats, you know, went through all
the DOGE members. Well, one of them had been using

(44:41):
a username of big Balls, and so they made a
big deal out of Oh, one of the people deciding
what they're going to cut is called big Balls. Well
it was just a they interviewed him and the guy
was young. But anyway, the other day he was in Washington,
d C. And I think, I I'm not going to
get all the details exactly correct, but I guess there

(45:02):
was a lady maybe getting carjacked or robbed, and so
he jumped into helper and like five youths beat him up.
And so there's a picture of him laying on the
ground shirtless. They ripped his shirt off and blood all
over his body in his face from getting beat up.

(45:23):
And it was that's one of the reasons Trump was like, look,
this has gotten out of hand. I mean, when officials
of the US government are getting beat up, you know,
trying to save people, it's gone too far. And so
so yeah, it sounds like it's DC has gotten really bad. Well,
so good thing I wouldn't plan on going to visit. Yeah,

(45:44):
I mean I think if well, I don't know. I've
heard so many people this week say, yeah, we don't
do anything in DC anymore. We sid yeah, we won't
go here or there because it's you know, you're taking
a chance. So anyway, uh, good or bad? I don't know.
We'll wait, wait and see. But I hope he can

(46:04):
figure out something with Putin. We'll see. Who knows.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
And it sounds like he's not happy with Ukraine. Yeah,
for whatever reason, I quit watching the news not long.
You know, last thing I remember watching is the Doge stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Oh well, now the big deal is the Republican what
not Republican Texas? So do you know what jerry mandering is?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Sounds familiar but no. Okay, So so there's a big
jerry mandering thing going on in Texas. But the other
day I was like, that's such a cool word. There's
got to be a real Why is it called jerry mandering?
So I wonder if anybody out there actually knows what
the word where the word, not what the word means,
but where it came from. So I looked it up

(46:50):
so way Back in the day, there was a guy
with the last name of Jerry g r g e
r r Y, mister Jerry. He was a politician or something,
and he's the one that started this whole jerrymandering thing. Well,
the district that he jerymandered before it was a word,

(47:12):
this guy named mister Jerry. When he got done with
the district, it looked like a salamander. So somebody coined
the phrase jerry mander because the first one. So that's
where the word jerrymander came from. So jerrymandering is basically
taking making a district that goes around a group of people,

(47:37):
so all the people in that district are either Republican
or Democrats. Okay, so that the redistrict redistricting. Now here's
what the controversy is. Now. Democrats have done it in
the past and Republicans have done it in the past.
And it's wrong when anybody does it, but they've both
done It's what the Texas people are so mad about.
The Texas Democrats are so mad about is they usually

(48:00):
do it every ten years after a census. Well, we
had the census like what five years ago, quite a
while back, and so yeah, five years. So for the
first time in history a group is trying to do
it mid stream, like on the five year rather than
on the tenure. And that's what the Democrats are upset about,

(48:23):
so basically, and it's because Trump. Trump told the Texas
governor Jerymander, to get me some more people up here
in Congress so I can pass more stuff. And so
you can see what the problem is. And so now
Newsom in California, who is jerymandered the hell out of California, says,

(48:47):
I don't care however much jerymandering you do in Texas.
That's what I'll do in California, the exact number to
Negate whatever you gain in Texas. So I don't know
what good it's going to do anybody. So anyway, the
Democrat House members in Texas have left the state and
a lot of them have gone to Illinois, so they're
not even doing their job right now. Are those the

(49:08):
ones that are supposed to be arrested? Yeah? If but
they yeah, they have pretty much have to be in
Texas to be arrested though, although I think they maybe
they did sick the FBI after him, but I don't
know if they can really arrest him. I don't know.
The thing about Trump is we're going to know a
lot more about the law when he's out of office
because he's testing and pushing everything. So he's kind of

(49:31):
rewriting the laws. I mean, you know, things are and
then anything that was kind of on the fence because
of Trump, we find out pretty much which side it
really should be on. I don't know, it's it's an
interesting time, yes it is. So anyway, Uh, that's all
the political stuff we'll talk about. Uh, you guys hit

(49:53):
us up at five eight zho five four one three
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if you guys have some subjec you'd like us to
talk about and all that good stuff. I think I
want to figure out how to go see weapons here
one of these days. Well you got to drive about
a hundred miles. I think I may drive about how
I may drive down to I wonder if it's a Kingfisher.

(50:13):
I'd like to go down. Have you ever been to
the Kingfisher? No, but I've always wanted to drive by
it all the time. They cruise down. That's cool. Check
that out. So okay, Uh, that's all we got for now,
Where you get out of your chair,