December 5, 2023 • 18 mins
Picture this, you're in the middle of a heated debate at work, the topic? Politics. Our guests, Gen Z members and active duty air force, Kai and Lance, spill the beans on how they handle this delicate dance in the military. As we delve deeper into the conversation, it's evident that generational changes are reshaping the approach towards political discussions in workplaces. We also shed light on a survey that unveils the current stance of employed adults on this touchy subject.
Hold on to your seats as we switch lanes and venture into the world of current events and ground-breaking technology. We chew over the ramifications of Trump's PPP loans, and the escalating carjacking incidents in Seattle aren't left untouched. Ever wondered how iPhones and Androids could bridge their texting gap? We've got the scoop from Apple! Lastly, we introduce you to a technological marvel, a pin that can project images on any surface. It's Thanksgiving, after all, and we're serving a feast of lively discussions on Foundation Nation.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, Matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast, we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Hey, I'm Matthew Cote.
This is Foundation Nation, witha couple of guests today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, my name is Kai.
I'm based out of Little RockAir Force Base at the 314th
Aircraft Mania Squadron.
I do aerospace propulsion, orin other words, I fix airplane
engines that break.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Thank you for your service.
Young man, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hey, how you doing.
I'm Lance Airman, First Class.
I'm with the 88th Com Squadron,also known as the Ninjas,
stationed out ofWright-Patterson Air Force Base.
I'm a communication technicianspecialist and that means we
make sure the physical aspect ofthe communication is
operational and working to thebest of our ability so our
(01:00):
planes can take off.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hey, all right, thanks for joining us.
We are clearly in the middle ofa freeway, underneath the
airplanes at SeaTac Airport.
Today, we're going to talk withthese gentlemen about a couple
of local and internationalthings going on, and I think it
should be interesting.
So what's been going on withyou today, lance, or this last
year?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I hit my one year time in service.
Me and Kai bolted, so we had alittle celebration.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What does the celebration in the US Air Force
look like?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well, to us it's not much.
We don't really get muchrecognition for it since we're
so new.
But for higher people, like 10year marks, they're getting
parties and a whole bunch ofstuff like that.
But yeah, it's just between us,you know.
Yeah, all of each other saidwhat's up, checked in, uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now, kai, you and your brother were thinking about
getting into a podcast, right?
Oh, definitely, is this yourfirst podcast?
This is my first podcast Everin your whole life, ever In all
of your life, in all of my life.
And what is your brother's name?
Caleb?
Yo, what's up Caleb?
Hey, caleb, we're going tostart our own podcast anywhere.
Podcasts are in the whole wideworld.
Yeah, yeah, yo, lance, saywhat's up Caleb?
What's up Caleb?
(02:21):
How you doing, bro?
Yeah, we know where you live,man.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, we coming for you.
Yeah, don't worry, caleb, we'llstart our own podcast someday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, the two dorks.
So let's see, it's cloudy today.
There's planes flying outeverywhere.
Thanksgiving is in two days.
Turkey what do we got?
Turkey, Ham Cranberry andSeahawks versus 49ers.
That is going to be a fun game.
That's going to be fun.
I'm excited.
(02:48):
It's okay, you don't have tolike football, but I like
football.
It's exciting, it's fun.
So a couple of things we'regoing to talk about today.
One is Gen Z and the workplace.
It's really interesting.
Do you guys know whatgeneration you guys are titled
as?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think we're Gen Z right 2003.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is that Gen Z?
I thought it was four.
I should be Gen Z.
I'm not entirely sure on that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, well, you're not a baby boomer, because I
know I'm not that.
I think I'm Gen X, and then wegot Millennials, which is in
between your guys' age and mine,so I think that's accurate Gen
Z.
But basically, you know thingsare changing.
You know, when I was your guys'age, you know you'd go to work
and you never want to talk aboutpolitics.
(03:32):
And nowadays people are likekicking it in the office,
talking about politics, arguingabout you know, trump and
whoever else and what all thesethings are going on, and it's
like kind of a normal thing.
As a matter of fact, people aregoing to work for people that
don't even believe in the samepolitical views as they do.
They don't even care, yeah, sowhat do you guys think about
(03:54):
that?
How do you feel about thepolitics in the world right now?
And you know, like, do you guyseven talk about it?
Does it even come up?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, it's interesting because when you
look at the military side ofthings, I would think they would
lean towards Republican right,because usually when the
Republican comes in they givemore money to the military
because they're more likemilitary based right, and I've
been talking to people.
It could just be Ohio andeverything, but there's a lot
(04:26):
more people that are leaningtowards the blue side, which I
mean I can't really comment oneither word, but you know, more
money for us.
So I'm going to read right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, that's, I mean, that's it.
That's a perspective that Ithink is pretty common in the
military.
You know most people are.
You know your boss is is rightnow.
Your boss is Biden.
Yeah, you know, have you gotten?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
a raise, not that I know of.
We're getting one soon, are we?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, usually before presidential elections,
it's really interesting how youstart getting raises.
Okay, that's sweet Because,especially if there's a
reelection of the existingpresident, you know, you think
about it right.
So he's your boss, he's givingyou a raise, vote for me, kind
of thing.
Yeah, At least that's how Ialways understood it.
Right, you know so.
But yeah, I mean, you know someof these, some of these Gen Z
(05:17):
and is kind of the workplace ischanging Uh-huh and they're,
they're slowly growing into theposition you know, and there is
a survey that came out, theHarris Poll Survey 1,055 US
adults employed full-time orpart-time.
In early October on behalf ofGlassdoor.
So Glassdoor is a thing whereyou can go on and you can look
(05:39):
at like, if you're going to, ifyou're going to go work for a
company, you look, you can lookup Glassdoor and it'll give you
reviews about the owners, theworkers that are there, the
workers that were there andstuff.
And Glassdoor uncovered a widerange of expectations for
political interactions withcoworkers.
82% of the workers arecomfortable working with those
(06:01):
that have very differentpolitical views, and that's a
big deal, because when I was akid, it was not that, it was
everybody on the same page oryou're getting fired.
You said 82%, yeah Well now it's80.
Yeah, yeah, wow, you know andwhen I was, when I was young, it
was everybody's, we're all,we're all.
One team means same religion,same political views, same.
(06:26):
You know, I mean shit,everybody's drive Silverado, you
know all the same stuff.
And now it's it's.
It's a lot better, it's a wayit should be.
We shouldn't be scared of ouryou know, or have to worry about
that stuff at our work.
Yeah, you can download that.
Yeah, so anyway, so do you guys?
Uh, how about you, ky?
(06:46):
Are you guys talking anypolitical stuff at work?
Or like what's the what?
When you go to work, what's acommon chat besides chicks and
dudes and this and that Um?
so what are the categories ofconversations that you have?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
if we're going to have a categories, Well for me,
since I'm from California, soI'll talk to someone like where
are you from off in California?
Okay, and then that's whenwe'll get political, because,
for whatever reason, they'rejust like oh, you're from
California.
Man, man, man, it sucks andthen I'm like, yeah, I'm a
nuisance and everything's onfire.
Then that's how, um,everything's on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, there's no trees, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's how my conversations usually lead to
politics.
Yeah, it's a long drawn outthing, but other than that, um,
I mean it's not uncommon, butit's not like an everyday thing.
Yeah, discussing politics Right, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Do you have you talked to anybody?
I've either one of you guystalked to anybody about when
Trump was president?
That was in the militaryworking when he was president.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, here and there Is there a specific uh, is there
a specific feedback that thosepeople give about that time?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Usually they're it's pretty positive.
It's pretty positive, yeah,usually it's pretty positive.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, I mean as a business owner it was a positive
experience for me as well.
So, yeah, how?
So?
Um, well, he's the firstpresident in the history of the
United States that gave theseloans out to struggling
businesses because of COVID.
What loan was that?
It's PPP loans, right?
So they would give millions ofdollars to businesses that were
(08:13):
struggling to make sure thattheir employees got paid and
were supported.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, and you know when, whenyou own a company and you have
$10 million show up in the bankfrom the government, that's,
that's complete.
Yeah, I don't even know what tosay, you know.
I mean, it's just a shock inall directions.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The game changer.
So what is it?
It's just like a low interest.
It's a zero interest.
You don't have to pay back loan.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What, yeah, can I have one?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, let me ask you this Do you think another
president would have done thator no?
I don't know.
I think it was just that Trump,because it was in the COVID
time, it was yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So there was.
It was specifically for COVID,more or less Right, right.
But, yeah, I don't really know.
I just know that it happenedunder his watch.
Okay, you know, and there's alot of good things and bad
things that happened, but as faras you know, being a business
owner, that was the mostimpactful thing in my 25 years
experience that I've everexperienced.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Wow so some, some terrible news.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
There's a couple of men charged with murder after a
carjacking turned hella deadly.
So have you guys ever, eitherwhen you've ever been seen a
carjacking go down or beeninvolved in one or anything?
There is this.
Instagram Taking the fifth I'lltake the fifth.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'll take the fifth.
It's a lot of you lads.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
There's this Instagram channel that I like to
watch for my own guiltypleasure and it's pretty much
just like the news of what'sgoing on in Seattle and they've
said they've had an all timecarjacking taking the Cadillac,
cadillac converters, yup, yup,yup, and there's been a lot of
(10:05):
that stuff going on.
And there was that thing withthe Kia.
I think it was the Kia boys.
The Kia boys what.
They would plug in their USBinto the car and start it.
Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
With the phone?
Yeah, where do you?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
got.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Whoa, that is awesome .
I mean, that sucks.
Oh, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right, it was like a manufacturing problem.
And somehow they just figuredout that you plug it in, do this
or that I'm not really sure onthe specifics, but and you could
just jump the car with yourphone plugged in.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, brand new Kia.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, that's the best app ever.
Yup, yup.
Well, this was a trip.
So you got to hear this man.
This is crazy.
So there's three guys involvedwith the shooting.
There's two guys that aretrying to seal the car and the
guy that has the car.
So Jonathan is 19 from Kent andAlu Shane I'm not sure if I'm
saying that right 18 is fromFederal Way.
(11:02):
They're both charged lastMonday with first degree murder
and killing a 26 year old guynamed Robert in the parking lot
of a Federal Way auto partsstore October 25th.
But the guy Robert that had thevehicle that was being, you
know like armed Robert Karjakt.
(11:24):
He had a handgun with him.
He fired at the guys and butthen he was gunned down before
they fled with the Jeep they hadstolen from him at gunpoint.
That's crazy.
So this guy had a gun on him,they stole his Jeep and they're
driving away, but they gunnedhim down and killed him before
they left.
So he's shooting at them,they're shooting at him, they
(11:45):
won, they killed him, you know,and they're always saying guns
say you know, have a, you know,you know people that like he
kind of did the right thing butit didn't.
I wonder if he's alive if hedidn't have his gun.
That's an interesting point.
So if he didn't, if he wasn'tarmed.
Would you die for a car?
No, never, Lance, would you diefor a car?
(12:05):
It depends, oh that Lambo Lambo.
Wait, are we talking goldplated?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
here?
No, probably not, but I don'tknow.
But it says right here that hisJeep that was stolen was stolen
three days earlier to when hedied, though.
So, yeah, I don't know which.
I'm confused on that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know, I think it's it's.
The thing is is there's twoguys, there's guns and there's a
Jeep.
Yeah right, you know, and I'mjust thinking, like there is not
a Jeep that I have seen, thatI'm willing to take, take, take
a cap in the ass, for Me neither, let alone die.
I mean I do not like them thatmuch.
Yeah right, somebody comes,steals my truck, you're welcome
(12:52):
to it.
If it's that gunpoint, you'resuper welcome to it.
Yeah, like just shoot me a text.
I'll leave it in the parkinglot.
I'm not dying for shit.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No way, man, Bring your phone charger yeah bring
your phone charger.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, zap it up.
So anyway, it sounds like theygot them.
They're going to jail, you know, and long story short, don't
mess with people with Jeeps.
I mean, it sounds like they gotguns.
Yeah, I'm never buying a Jeep.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I guess Never buying a Jeep.
Yeah, yeah, just just yeah,stick to the Kia Stick to the
Kia.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, the Kia boys, yeah, so some some interesting
techie kind of news.
Apple plans to start makingtext easier between iPhone and
Android.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Blue bubble Finally Green bubble, blue bubble, green
bubble.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, you know, the engineers are just sitting
in the room.
You know, you.
I wonder how many jokes theygot about all the interactions
with these two things.
You know, it's just asridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you think this happened?
Like the, the Android CEO shotapple a text and like bro come
on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm sick of this green bubble let's do something,
man, switch it up like I havegirls making fun of me for my
green bubbles yeah, please, man,can I change the shades?
Throw me a boat yeah, theyshould make the bubbles like all
colors you want, any kind ofcolors you want custom bubbles
no blue bubbles forever, if youhave a green bubble or your text
to me and bro yeah, well, noyou, so you could you take your
(14:14):
iPhone.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You take a picture of , like I don't know, a stadium
full of people.
Okay, you know it's like youknow the.
The photo is like 400 feet by700 feet, and then and and it's
a beautiful picture and you textsomeone with an iPhone it's a
beautiful picture, okay, youtext that picture to someone
with an android and it's thesize of a stamp yeah, it is and
it's all.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And you zoom in and like it's all.
It's minecraft yeah, yeah, likethe, the field of vision, like
a butt crack looking at thisweird picture yeah oh god, it's
just terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, so have you guys either owned android before
I have, and what'd you thinkabout it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I've never owned one.
I was pretty hyped.
I was there like my firstphones.
I had like a no key.
I never ran on the, on theandroid OS, I guess, and it was
cool.
Yeah, like never had an android, no thing, big baller moves
yeah, yeah, I've never had anend.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right, so this is how my cell phone history went.
I went, I had a uh a phonecalled a razor.
Uh-huh, it was a flip phone yesand then from that I went to a
iPhone 3.
Oh wow, the very first.
I've had every single iPhonethat they've ever made, yeah,
except the new 15.
You know what I noticed on thenew 15?
Uh-huh, no sim card,interesting, yeah, well, I don't
(15:27):
know what game they're playingthere, but no sim card now it's
classic apple, it's integrated,everything, proprietary,
everything, yeah, you stuff justmaking it's harder.
Yeah they, they want that thinglike sewn into us so bad so
this is all and like in thecloud.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
How does it work?
I don't know, must be in thecloud, isn't the cloud not full?
Like yeah, what up, like whatisn't in the cloud at this point
, right?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
that's the future.
Human, physical humans.
Everything else is in the cloud.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I remember I had one like 20 dollar android and that
was cuz I got.
No, no, no.
I got in trouble at school.
I think I was like skippingclass or something to play video
games and my mom took it.
So I hopped on Amazon thecheapest android piece of junk
(16:19):
you could get and I got three ofthem and hid them around so in
case she found one, and then I'dhave another yeah, back up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, did they look like little dinosaurs and stuff
like ancient?
Were they little, like littlebabies?
Yeah, you know, like a littlepink phone, that's.
That's not even a phone, mom,it's like that's just a
walkie-talkie, it's a toy phone,it's a play phone.
That's pretty awesome.
You know, you get like a plushtoy.
That's actually a cell phone.
You know, just totally throwsomebody off like pure iPad kids
(16:52):
?
well, hopefully, apple and youknow androide get it figured out
, so everybody's workingtogether.
I know Tim cook, the CEO, iskind of a little more open to
making things more likeintegrated, accessible and stuff
like that, but androids foreverything and anything.
That's the whole idea, right.
So their iOS system is free andall you have to do is build a
(17:15):
phone, download android systemonto your phone and it makes it
so we have a competitiveindustry.
If it only ends up being Apple,that sucks for the consumer
right, but I think they bothneed to exist, though they do
for competition they're playinga little different games, kind
of yeah well, I hope they comeup with an iPhone that's a flip
phone, because I love phones.
That'd be cool.
(17:35):
I love a bendable iPhone thatwould actually work or something
.
Yeah they have that no, no, yeah, just android it's android,
okay, okay, yeah no apple, butthey do have this one up and
coming thing that actually youguys should check out and read
about.
It's what it is, it's called.
It's a.
It's a phone that is got tonsof support anyway.
(17:56):
It's a little pin that goes onyour shirt, uh-huh, and that pin
you hold your hand out and itputs your it projects the phone
onto your hand, whoa.
And then you push the buttonand it's a tv screen.
It's just like your phone, butit's on your hand like your.
Tony Stark, yeah, yeah, you canget it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's just a little pin and you put it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Swiping the air, you put it you put a little pin on
on your shirt and it projects onyour hand.
Wherever your hand is, it fallsit around and it can project it
on the screen of a car, on thetable on your table.
It can do a keyboard and uh.
So they're trying to get thatout, but we'll see.
You know how that, how that allworks.
Okay, guys, that was a greatepisode.
Thank you for joining and Ihope you have a great
(18:34):
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You.
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, Matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast, we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Hey, I'm Matthew Cote.
This is Foundation Nation, witha couple of guests today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi, my name is Kai.
I'm based out of Little RockAir Force Base at the 314th
Aircraft Mania Squadron.
I do aerospace propulsion, orin other words, I fix airplane
engines that break.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Thank you for your service.
Young man, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hey, how you doing.
I'm Lance Airman, First Class.
I'm with the 88th Com Squadron,also known as the Ninjas,
stationed out ofWright-Patterson Air Force Base.
I'm a communication technicianspecialist and that means we
make sure the physical aspect ofthe communication is
operational and working to thebest of our ability so our
(01:00):
planes can take off.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hey, all right, thanks for joining us.
We are clearly in the middle ofa freeway, underneath the
airplanes at SeaTac Airport.
Today, we're going to talk withthese gentlemen about a couple
of local and internationalthings going on, and I think it
should be interesting.
So what's been going on withyou today, lance, or this last
year?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I hit my one year time in service.
Me and Kai bolted, so we had alittle celebration.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What does the celebration in the US Air Force
look like?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well, to us it's not much.
We don't really get muchrecognition for it since we're
so new.
But for higher people, like 10year marks, they're getting
parties and a whole bunch ofstuff like that.
But yeah, it's just between us,you know.
Yeah, all of each other saidwhat's up, checked in, uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now, kai, you and your brother were thinking about
getting into a podcast, right?
Oh, definitely, is this yourfirst podcast?
This is my first podcast Everin your whole life, ever In all
of your life, in all of my life.
And what is your brother's name?
Caleb?
Yo, what's up Caleb?
Hey, caleb, we're going tostart our own podcast anywhere.
Podcasts are in the whole wideworld.
Yeah, yeah, yo, lance, saywhat's up Caleb?
What's up Caleb?
(02:21):
How you doing, bro?
Yeah, we know where you live,man.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, we coming for you.
Yeah, don't worry, caleb, we'llstart our own podcast someday.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, the two dorks.
So let's see, it's cloudy today.
There's planes flying outeverywhere.
Thanksgiving is in two days.
Turkey what do we got?
Turkey, Ham Cranberry andSeahawks versus 49ers.
That is going to be a fun game.
That's going to be fun.
I'm excited.
(02:48):
It's okay, you don't have tolike football, but I like
football.
It's exciting, it's fun.
So a couple of things we'regoing to talk about today.
One is Gen Z and the workplace.
It's really interesting.
Do you guys know whatgeneration you guys are titled
as?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think we're Gen Z right 2003.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Is that Gen Z?
I thought it was four.
I should be Gen Z.
I'm not entirely sure on that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, well, you're not a baby boomer, because I
know I'm not that.
I think I'm Gen X, and then wegot Millennials, which is in
between your guys' age and mine,so I think that's accurate Gen
Z.
But basically, you know thingsare changing.
You know, when I was your guys'age, you know you'd go to work
and you never want to talk aboutpolitics.
(03:32):
And nowadays people are likekicking it in the office,
talking about politics, arguingabout you know, trump and
whoever else and what all thesethings are going on, and it's
like kind of a normal thing.
As a matter of fact, people aregoing to work for people that
don't even believe in the samepolitical views as they do.
They don't even care, yeah, sowhat do you guys think about
(03:54):
that?
How do you feel about thepolitics in the world right now?
And you know, like, do you guyseven talk about it?
Does it even come up?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, it's interesting because when you
look at the military side ofthings, I would think they would
lean towards Republican right,because usually when the
Republican comes in they givemore money to the military
because they're more likemilitary based right, and I've
been talking to people.
It could just be Ohio andeverything, but there's a lot
(04:26):
more people that are leaningtowards the blue side, which I
mean I can't really comment oneither word, but you know, more
money for us.
So I'm going to read right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, that's, I mean, that's it.
That's a perspective that Ithink is pretty common in the
military.
You know most people are.
You know your boss is is rightnow.
Your boss is Biden.
Yeah, you know, have you gotten?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
a raise, not that I know of.
We're getting one soon, are we?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, usually before presidential elections,
it's really interesting how youstart getting raises.
Okay, that's sweet Because,especially if there's a
reelection of the existingpresident, you know, you think
about it right.
So he's your boss, he's givingyou a raise, vote for me, kind
of thing.
Yeah, At least that's how Ialways understood it.
Right, you know so.
But yeah, I mean, you know someof these, some of these Gen Z
(05:17):
and is kind of the workplace ischanging Uh-huh and they're,
they're slowly growing into theposition you know, and there is
a survey that came out, theHarris Poll Survey 1,055 US
adults employed full-time orpart-time.
In early October on behalf ofGlassdoor.
So Glassdoor is a thing whereyou can go on and you can look
(05:39):
at like, if you're going to, ifyou're going to go work for a
company, you look, you can lookup Glassdoor and it'll give you
reviews about the owners, theworkers that are there, the
workers that were there andstuff.
And Glassdoor uncovered a widerange of expectations for
political interactions withcoworkers.
82% of the workers arecomfortable working with those
(06:01):
that have very differentpolitical views, and that's a
big deal, because when I was akid, it was not that, it was
everybody on the same page oryou're getting fired.
You said 82%, yeah Well now it's80.
Yeah, yeah, wow, you know andwhen I was, when I was young, it
was everybody's, we're all,we're all.
One team means same religion,same political views, same.
(06:26):
You know, I mean shit,everybody's drive Silverado, you
know all the same stuff.
And now it's it's.
It's a lot better, it's a wayit should be.
We shouldn't be scared of ouryou know, or have to worry about
that stuff at our work.
Yeah, you can download that.
Yeah, so anyway, so do you guys?
Uh, how about you, ky?
(06:46):
Are you guys talking anypolitical stuff at work?
Or like what's the what?
When you go to work, what's acommon chat besides chicks and
dudes and this and that Um?
so what are the categories ofconversations that you have?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
if we're going to have a categories, Well for me,
since I'm from California, soI'll talk to someone like where
are you from off in California?
Okay, and then that's whenwe'll get political, because,
for whatever reason, they'rejust like oh, you're from
California.
Man, man, man, it sucks andthen I'm like, yeah, I'm a
nuisance and everything's onfire.
Then that's how, um,everything's on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, there's no trees, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's how my conversations usually lead to
politics.
Yeah, it's a long drawn outthing, but other than that, um,
I mean it's not uncommon, butit's not like an everyday thing.
Yeah, discussing politics Right, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Do you have you talked to anybody?
I've either one of you guystalked to anybody about when
Trump was president?
That was in the militaryworking when he was president.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, here and there Is there a specific uh, is there
a specific feedback that thosepeople give about that time?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Usually they're it's pretty positive.
It's pretty positive, yeah,usually it's pretty positive.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, I mean as a business owner it was a positive
experience for me as well.
So, yeah, how?
So?
Um, well, he's the firstpresident in the history of the
United States that gave theseloans out to struggling
businesses because of COVID.
What loan was that?
It's PPP loans, right?
So they would give millions ofdollars to businesses that were
(08:13):
struggling to make sure thattheir employees got paid and
were supported.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, and you know when, whenyou own a company and you have
$10 million show up in the bankfrom the government, that's,
that's complete.
Yeah, I don't even know what tosay, you know.
I mean, it's just a shock inall directions.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The game changer.
So what is it?
It's just like a low interest.
It's a zero interest.
You don't have to pay back loan.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What, yeah, can I have one?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, let me ask you this Do you think another
president would have done thator no?
I don't know.
I think it was just that Trump,because it was in the COVID
time, it was yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So there was.
It was specifically for COVID,more or less Right, right.
But, yeah, I don't really know.
I just know that it happenedunder his watch.
Okay, you know, and there's alot of good things and bad
things that happened, but as faras you know, being a business
owner, that was the mostimpactful thing in my 25 years
experience that I've everexperienced.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Wow so some, some terrible news.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
There's a couple of men charged with murder after a
carjacking turned hella deadly.
So have you guys ever, eitherwhen you've ever been seen a
carjacking go down or beeninvolved in one or anything?
There is this.
Instagram Taking the fifth I'lltake the fifth.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'll take the fifth.
It's a lot of you lads.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
There's this Instagram channel that I like to
watch for my own guiltypleasure and it's pretty much
just like the news of what'sgoing on in Seattle and they've
said they've had an all timecarjacking taking the Cadillac,
cadillac converters, yup, yup,yup, and there's been a lot of
(10:05):
that stuff going on.
And there was that thing withthe Kia.
I think it was the Kia boys.
The Kia boys what.
They would plug in their USBinto the car and start it.
Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
With the phone?
Yeah, where do you?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
got.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Whoa, that is awesome .
I mean, that sucks.
Oh, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right, it was like a manufacturing problem.
And somehow they just figuredout that you plug it in, do this
or that I'm not really sure onthe specifics, but and you could
just jump the car with yourphone plugged in.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, brand new Kia.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, that's the best app ever.
Yup, yup.
Well, this was a trip.
So you got to hear this man.
This is crazy.
So there's three guys involvedwith the shooting.
There's two guys that aretrying to seal the car and the
guy that has the car.
So Jonathan is 19 from Kent andAlu Shane I'm not sure if I'm
saying that right 18 is fromFederal Way.
(11:02):
They're both charged lastMonday with first degree murder
and killing a 26 year old guynamed Robert in the parking lot
of a Federal Way auto partsstore October 25th.
But the guy Robert that had thevehicle that was being, you
know like armed Robert Karjakt.
(11:24):
He had a handgun with him.
He fired at the guys and butthen he was gunned down before
they fled with the Jeep they hadstolen from him at gunpoint.
That's crazy.
So this guy had a gun on him,they stole his Jeep and they're
driving away, but they gunnedhim down and killed him before
they left.
So he's shooting at them,they're shooting at him, they
(11:45):
won, they killed him, you know,and they're always saying guns
say you know, have a, you know,you know people that like he
kind of did the right thing butit didn't.
I wonder if he's alive if hedidn't have his gun.
That's an interesting point.
So if he didn't, if he wasn'tarmed.
Would you die for a car?
No, never, Lance, would you diefor a car?
(12:05):
It depends, oh that Lambo Lambo.
Wait, are we talking goldplated?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
here?
No, probably not, but I don'tknow.
But it says right here that hisJeep that was stolen was stolen
three days earlier to when hedied, though.
So, yeah, I don't know which.
I'm confused on that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You know, I think it's it's.
The thing is is there's twoguys, there's guns and there's a
Jeep.
Yeah right, you know, and I'mjust thinking, like there is not
a Jeep that I have seen, thatI'm willing to take, take, take
a cap in the ass, for Me neither, let alone die.
I mean I do not like them thatmuch.
Yeah right, somebody comes,steals my truck, you're welcome
(12:52):
to it.
If it's that gunpoint, you'resuper welcome to it.
Yeah, like just shoot me a text.
I'll leave it in the parkinglot.
I'm not dying for shit.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No way, man, Bring your phone charger yeah bring
your phone charger.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, zap it up.
So anyway, it sounds like theygot them.
They're going to jail, you know, and long story short, don't
mess with people with Jeeps.
I mean, it sounds like they gotguns.
Yeah, I'm never buying a Jeep.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I guess Never buying a Jeep.
Yeah, yeah, just just yeah,stick to the Kia Stick to the
Kia.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, the Kia boys, yeah, so some some interesting
techie kind of news.
Apple plans to start makingtext easier between iPhone and
Android.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Blue bubble Finally Green bubble, blue bubble, green
bubble.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, you know, the engineers are just sitting
in the room.
You know, you.
I wonder how many jokes theygot about all the interactions
with these two things.
You know, it's just asridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you think this happened?
Like the, the Android CEO shotapple a text and like bro come
on.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm sick of this green bubble let's do something,
man, switch it up like I havegirls making fun of me for my
green bubbles yeah, please, man,can I change the shades?
Throw me a boat yeah, theyshould make the bubbles like all
colors you want, any kind ofcolors you want custom bubbles
no blue bubbles forever, if youhave a green bubble or your text
to me and bro yeah, well, noyou, so you could you take your
(14:14):
iPhone.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You take a picture of , like I don't know, a stadium
full of people.
Okay, you know it's like youknow the.
The photo is like 400 feet by700 feet, and then and and it's
a beautiful picture and you textsomeone with an iPhone it's a
beautiful picture, okay, youtext that picture to someone
with an android and it's thesize of a stamp yeah, it is and
it's all.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And you zoom in and like it's all.
It's minecraft yeah, yeah, likethe, the field of vision, like
a butt crack looking at thisweird picture yeah oh god, it's
just terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, so have you guys either owned android before
I have, and what'd you thinkabout it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I've never owned one.
I was pretty hyped.
I was there like my firstphones.
I had like a no key.
I never ran on the, on theandroid OS, I guess, and it was
cool.
Yeah, like never had an android, no thing, big baller moves
yeah, yeah, I've never had anend.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
All right, so this is how my cell phone history went.
I went, I had a uh a phonecalled a razor.
Uh-huh, it was a flip phone yesand then from that I went to a
iPhone 3.
Oh wow, the very first.
I've had every single iPhonethat they've ever made, yeah,
except the new 15.
You know what I noticed on thenew 15?
Uh-huh, no sim card,interesting, yeah, well, I don't
(15:27):
know what game they're playingthere, but no sim card now it's
classic apple, it's integrated,everything, proprietary,
everything, yeah, you stuff justmaking it's harder.
Yeah they, they want that thinglike sewn into us so bad so
this is all and like in thecloud.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
How does it work?
I don't know, must be in thecloud, isn't the cloud not full?
Like yeah, what up, like whatisn't in the cloud at this point
, right?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
that's the future.
Human, physical humans.
Everything else is in the cloud.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I remember I had one like 20 dollar android and that
was cuz I got.
No, no, no.
I got in trouble at school.
I think I was like skippingclass or something to play video
games and my mom took it.
So I hopped on Amazon thecheapest android piece of junk
(16:19):
you could get and I got three ofthem and hid them around so in
case she found one, and then I'dhave another yeah, back up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, did they look like little dinosaurs and stuff
like ancient?
Were they little, like littlebabies?
Yeah, you know, like a littlepink phone, that's.
That's not even a phone, mom,it's like that's just a
walkie-talkie, it's a toy phone,it's a play phone.
That's pretty awesome.
You know, you get like a plushtoy.
That's actually a cell phone.
You know, just totally throwsomebody off like pure iPad kids
(16:52):
?
well, hopefully, apple and youknow androide get it figured out
, so everybody's workingtogether.
I know Tim cook, the CEO, iskind of a little more open to
making things more likeintegrated, accessible and stuff
like that, but androids foreverything and anything.
That's the whole idea, right.
So their iOS system is free andall you have to do is build a
(17:15):
phone, download android systemonto your phone and it makes it
so we have a competitiveindustry.
If it only ends up being Apple,that sucks for the consumer
right, but I think they bothneed to exist, though they do
for competition they're playinga little different games, kind
of yeah well, I hope they comeup with an iPhone that's a flip
phone, because I love phones.
That'd be cool.
(17:35):
I love a bendable iPhone thatwould actually work or something
.
Yeah they have that no, no, yeah, just android it's android,
okay, okay, yeah no apple, butthey do have this one up and
coming thing that actually youguys should check out and read
about.
It's what it is, it's called.
It's a.
It's a phone that is got tonsof support anyway.
(17:56):
It's a little pin that goes onyour shirt, uh-huh, and that pin
you hold your hand out and itputs your it projects the phone
onto your hand, whoa.
And then you push the buttonand it's a tv screen.
It's just like your phone, butit's on your hand like your.
Tony Stark, yeah, yeah, you canget it.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It's just a little pin and you put it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Swiping the air, you put it you put a little pin on
on your shirt and it projects onyour hand.
Wherever your hand is, it fallsit around and it can project it
on the screen of a car, on thetable on your table.
It can do a keyboard and uh.
So they're trying to get thatout, but we'll see.
You know how that, how that allworks.
Okay, guys, that was a greatepisode.
Thank you for joining and Ihope you have a great
(18:34):
thanksgiving you too.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
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