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  In this episode, Jason and I literally cover everything from Xbox and PlayStation 5 drops and the challenges in trying to get those consuls with the superconductor shortage the conspiracy behind the government raising the gas price so that more people start to go out and buy themselves an electric car to be able to afford to drive around and how this whole crazy Covid thing with a mask or not mask shot or no shot is actually creating a whole new class system in our country! those with the vaccine and those without, boy we could really get into some controversial stuff here. We also touched on cryptocurrency and what that's all about and just like all good things Jason and I can't go through an entire conversation without talking about movies or music as well so sit back relax and enjoy.

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It's hard to speak your mind these days. voicing your
opinion is tough and a climatewhere you're either seen as an
ultra conservative or a bleedingheart liberal. But what about
our perspective? What about theGen X perspective? Hi, I'm Tony
a latchkey kid from the 80s and90s. Now I'm in my 40s wearing
cargo shorts, collecting StarWars figures and reminiscing

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about the days before my firstcell phone. The Gen X
perspective as for us caughtsomewhere in between boomers and
Millennials are we see things abit differently? I'm tired of
staying silent. It's time torant, discuss, unload and
debate. Join Tony and his guestsas they tackle the topics of Pop
Culture, Sports, religion, andyes, even politics. If life's a

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Rubik's Cube, we've got theexperience to tackle it. Welcome
to the Gen X perspective withTony Randazzo.
Hey, guys, this is john. And I'mFrank from the basement search.

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You may have heard of us. Westarted off slow in season one.
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for that. And now we're back inseason three, doing what we do
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This is a basement searchwaiting German.

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What is Gen X? What is thesilent generation? What do
generations have in common? Hi,I'm Trish the dish from the
genix voice podcast and I inviteyou to listen to conversations I
have with folks from differentgenerations, backgrounds,
beliefs and experiences in anattempt to see what connects
rather than divides us. Eventhough Gen X has been called

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slackers, Karen's are notmentioned at all. In some cases,
we are the bridge generation. SoI feel compelled to do my part
to destroy ageism by bringingall these voices together. And
as a bonus, each guest gets toanswer some 80s questions at the
end of each show. So downloadand listen to genix voice today
on Apple, Spotify, Amazon orwherever you listen to podcasts.

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And let's see how much we havein common after all.
What's going on, brother? Howare you? Good. Yeah, how was
your week?
It was a good week.
Had birthday dinner with Aliciaon Monday. Yeah, she told me. I

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talked to her yesterday.
Got my Xbox series X onThursday. Finally, did you get
it in one of the drops? Or whatdo you have to do it? Yeah.
This app. Yeah. That sends younotifications when businesses
get certain products in? Yeah.
Which so I've been runningrelying on Twitter. There's a

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couple of people on Twitter thatdo the same thing, basically.
And yes, I was I was doingTwitter. Yeah. No. App worked
really well. It's called hotstock. Yeah.
And you set it up to send younotifications when what you're
looking for in stock and ittells you all the businesses

(04:28):
where it's at how much is andeverything in like super live so
that you don't miss out on thedrop. Yeah, it
sent me a notification and twoseconds later I was at gamestop
and had it ordered and out thedoor. No shit. What was it
called again? what's hot stock.

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I got to do that now we're allforget. So I you know, I've had
my Xbox. I got it beforeChristmas. I got lucky I just
done a drop wasn't payingattention and just was screwing
around.
literally like, Oh, I wonder ifI can get it because I just
randomly had my phone in my handwhen one of the drops happened.
click through and it went, youknow, pick up at Target this
afternoon. I was like, no way.

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And I got it, and I love it. SoI've been trying to
get a PlayStation because Ihaven't had a PlayStation since
like play based and two, maybeone. I don't remember it's been
a long fucking time. But um, soI've been trying No shit every
week, I getcloser to getting it actually,
this week, I got it in my cart.

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And then it spun out. And I wassome of the tips and tricks
about stay. Don't refresh onceyou hit this certain point, even
though they say they're sold outbecause it'll stay in your cart.
And then you'll be like thefirst one when they when they
adjust the inventory 10 minuteslater. So I got to the second
phase, and it went in my cart.
And I hit you know, apply thepay basically it because it was

(05:59):
there. And I got to that andthey had a bit the store because
it was Best Buy. And I hit thebutton and it spun out and then
kicked me out.
Like Fuck, the week before. Samething I didn't get quite as far
the week before but I got Ithink that was was target's drop
two weeks ago. And I didn't getit. I got close on that one too.

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I got close on a Best Buy drop.
And I'm close. I've been close.
So close Microsoft. Yeah. Andno, I'm obsessed with getting
one that I probably don't needto spend the money on.
Right.
reading an article that they'rereleasing it updated version and
about a year of the PlayStation.
Yeah. Well, yeah, there becauseof the semiconductor shortage,

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they were talking about redoingsomething in it, to give them
more whatever. And Apple I thinkthat's why Apple honestly came
out with the M one chip on alltheir stuff because of relying
on Intel, etc, etc. They're justdoing their own proprietary shit

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so that they can control hiswarehouses in the factories. You
know, I was reading an articleabout how that
chip shortage is affecting theAmerican auto industry. Yeah,
wicked used cars. Holy shit.
Throw up like 30 or 40 new carsthey have.
Ford has 45,000 f150 is sittingwaiting for a tip seriously.

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And they said by the end of theyear, they're gonna be looking
at 230,000 cars.
The same? They're all in thatboat. Yeah, I
had been reading somethingsimilar in which has caused the
used car market to just gobonkers because of the shortages

(07:56):
in cars used and new. So I soldI had a 2000
what was a 20,018? Jeep Rubiconthat I had been banging around
in for about a year, two years,year and a half. And
maybe it was an 18. But whateveris still basically brand new low

(08:18):
miles, you know, I hadn't, youknow, I haven't been hanging out
with Judd. So it didn't getsuper offloaded and banged crap,
and it was still in pretty goodshape. And
I had a hard top soft top forit. And it was right.
Right. I want to say right whenmy wife and I got back from

(08:38):
Florida a year ago. So rightbefore the pandemic really hit I
hador no, I let me take that back.
It was when we it sat. It was itwas right after the lockdown
when all the car dealershipsclosed for 90 days. And they
were kind of the first toreopen. It was right after that

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I sold that used and I gotstupid money for it. I mean, for
a used car, I paid off theremainder payment and like 10
grand. I mean, it was stupidmoney that they gave me for the
car. If I were to hold on to itnow I'd probably walked away
with 20 grand cash and stillpaid it off. Because they're so
desperate I've gotten within thelast three weeks.

(09:25):
No less than three or fourletters in the mail from
dealerships around town that youknow, they pulled DMV records
and obviously everything hasn'tupdated yet. And they've been
sending me letters saying theywant to buy my car.
We'll give you a top dollarwe'll give you whatever you
want. Just sell it to us. Andyeah, no shit, stupid, stupid.

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And it's all over thesemiconductor chip crap, I think
for sure. And then you know, andthen everything gets backed up
in inventory, right so all thecars got backed up and they got
behind on everything. And nowThey're just scrambling around.
And I did learn something today.
I mean, I guess I kind of knewit. I'm stretching to grab
something. But I did not realizethat this has become

(10:15):
a collector's item on amonumental scale where she let
me get her ins focuswhoops I gotta get her back here
Who is it? Is that Cara Dune?
Hahathey didn't realize they pulled
the her action figures fromother stores. And I wish this
one was still in the damnpackage all of a sudden now but
yeah, you can't get her I thinkI might I got a double check. I

(10:39):
might have a second one of hercuz I ended up with a couple
duplicate songs and stuff but Igot a check at work in a box. If
I have her box is the drops youthey drop you Holy crap, like
deleted you totally. Andapparently there's been some
blowback I was reading anarticle today about her.

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whatever his name is gryllus.
Bear Grylls is the adventure guythat takes now he takes freakin
famous people out in the woodsand tortures them and makes them
drink their own pee and eatmaggots or whatever he does. She
had done a recording with himand hadn't aired yet. And they
told him and his productionteam, whatever, hey, we're not
going to release this episode.

(11:24):
You know, we've basicallydeleted this woman from our, you
know, from our catalog, and hewent to bat for and they're
gonna air the episode. And hebasically said, you're gonna air
it and she didn't do anythingwrong. And you guys are crazy
and whatever, which I thoughtwas really surprising because
most people just put their headsdown and just kind of Hope it

(11:46):
all goes away because shedecided to get
he's got a rough cloud, hehasn't got enough clout and and
that's stirred up a bunch ofcrap, of course, because
somebody is actually standing upfor it. And I listened to an
interview with her today,because now I went down that
rabbit hole. And you know, Ipassively paid attention to it,
you know, it's like, Okay, whatdid you know? What did she say

(12:07):
stupid that they decided theyneeded to delete her from
everything. So you know, kind ofwent back and was paying
attention to it, and then listento an article or she was on a
she was doing a live or a videointerview. And she was kind of
explaining herself now after allthis has transpired. And she's
done with Disney and all thisstuff. And it was really

(12:28):
fascinating. She actually satdown with the head, like the two
head people of the LGBTQkind of the action group or
whatever that kind of representsthem and deals with
people or issues in regards topeople saying stupid shit, or

(12:49):
when they're basically thespokespeople that kind of go in
and I don't know, troubleshootersit down with to get the story,
my guess. So Disney early on,brought them in to meet with
her. And she agreed. And I guessduring the course of that
conversation now granted allhearsay from her was that

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they basically said, Yeah, youjust got wrapped up in this kind
of.
It's not that you know, thecanceled culture kind of thing.
And we realize, you obviouslydon't feel that way. And this
was based on a tweet that shemade where she put some stupid
comment. It wasn't even acomment. It wasn't real words.

(13:30):
It was like boppity booty orsomething stupid at the end of
her Twitterhandle or her Twitter, where her
her bio is or something. And itwas in contrast to some comment
aboutwhat were they saying that she
wasshe was under pressure to write

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her bio a certain way, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah. And she
said, No, I'm gonna write it theway I want and put what I want
in there. And she basically justdid what they said, but she
added this stupid little monikerat the end. And somehow that
turned into this whole thingthat she was a hate monger and
crazy and hated LGBTQ communityblah blah blah It was really

(14:15):
crazy story that see how thatrabbit hole from a person's
perspective that seemingly Okay,yes, she's a Republican. Yes,
she's on the conservative end,but seems like you know, pretty
well, just a normal person. Thatjust they decided to target at
least from her explanation ofit. And it was really, really
fascinating to see how that shitcan spin out of control and take

(14:36):
you down a notch or ruin yourwhole life or make it impossible
to work or holy crap. I couldn'timagine being under being
targeted like that. If youdeserved it or not, is
irrelevant. I mean, just if thathappened, Holy smokes, that
would blow.

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So yeah, I really liked her tooand Mandalorian that just
bums me out. She's a good damncharacter. And her the whole
thing was that the Star Warsfandom in the Mandalorian fandom
didn't weren't the ones thatwere having the issue with this
whole thing like, maybe theythought, well, that's kind of
inappropriate, but we love hercharacter and that's what we're

(15:18):
here for. And it turned intosomething obviously different
because they're, they don'treally the way things are so
heated right now and so hypereverything, you know, whatever.
But yeah, crazy. That that's,that's what I did today amongst
other stupid things. Went down arabbit Twitter rabbit hole for a
whileand realized I had a really cool

(15:40):
toy on my shelf, that's probablyworth I don't know, double what
I paid for it. So maybe it'sworth 40 bucks now.
Right? So yeah.
So yeah, you saw my text fromthe stupid cards that I just
spent a ridiculous amount ofmoney on so that we can so that

(16:01):
we can fight the super fight. Sowhat we're gonna do, folks,
because we do have Jace, by theway, I haven't told you. So on
my podcast right now, I checkedit today, because I try not to
check my, my stats is what theycall them. So it's, you know,
people listen and win and blabla bla bla bla. So I checked it
today. And I'mI'm almost a 900 downloads,

(16:21):
people listening and our twoepisodes that are last two that
we've done together.
Collectively, we're at like, 60or 70 downloads, which in the
podcast world, for some people,that's huge. For some people.
That's nothing for me. I'mpretty impressed. And so people
are listening to us. Andso it's the first time ever

(16:45):
anybody's listening. Yeah, whynot be totally fuckin annoyed.
monumental level. But. So, yeah,so a lot of people listen to us.
So what we're going to be doingis, Jason told me to buy these
cards or get these cards calledWhat was it? What's it called,
again? Super fight, super fight.
So I went, and I figured, okay,kind of like Cards Against

(17:10):
Humanity, they probably got acouple expansion decks,
whatever, and I get on Amazon,and holy crap.
So I buy the starter deck, putthat in my little shopping cart.
And then I start scrollingthrough all the decks. So the
nerd Deck, the sci fi Deck, thehorror Deck, the

(17:33):
the sci fi nerd deck,super villains deck. I mean, I
could have bought probablyanother 20. I think about four.
Which would be prettyentertaining if this game is
exactly what I think it is. Andit basically is a game that
somebody must have invented bylistening to us in the 90s
sitting in Denny's arguing aboutreally stupid shit. I mean,

(17:55):
that's what it sounds like it isit's exactly what it is. And I
figured that we'll do like aThursday night, or we'll pick a
night. And we'll do it. And withwe figured this whole thing out
with with E cam and streaming, Ithink we should do it live
because I can push it to myFacebook page and then share it

(18:15):
to yours. And we can go livewith it. And people can actually
watch this plant this game liveand they can comment and you'd
actually be able to see thecomments. They'll come up on
your feed like they do on mine.
And then we can put the commentsup and we can read them and I
just realized your name isn'ton. Why is your net then we can
have people who are watchingvote su NZ. Oh yeah, that's

(18:36):
right. We can totally do that.
So we talked about we textedearlier. Are we in tension to
my handy other things that wemight talk about? Yeah, just so
we can get past Cards Againsthearing cards and then I get
Tawny Catania, you weren't afan, obviously of Whitesnake,

(18:59):
but we'll talk about that.
That's just horrible. I don'tbelieve that you weren't a fan
of hers. You weren't reallydidn't have a poster on your
wall? No, not really. No, I hadyou probably had a poster like
Einstein on your wall not tinycontain I had
when I was younger, I had afaucet and a bunch of movie
posters. I did have FarrahFawcett. I had a Farrah Fawcett.

(19:24):
a pillowcase? I don't know. It'screepy. I don't know who gave it
to me. I mean, obviously, that'screepy. And it was silk or
satin. It was Yeah, I'm notpleading my case. Right. Well, I
know butso for years I had that my tree
in middle school. I had allthese movie posters on my wall.

(19:47):
Yeah. Okay, that if I would haveknown would have never gone on
the wall but I've gone intostorage, because I had jaws
like Close Encounters etWow. And, you know, x caliber
posters that are thought ofMonday night. Well yeah, stuff
like we talked about last weeklike original Star Wars stuff

(20:08):
when we were kids, I mean thingsthat we just ended up I don't
even know where all that crapended up really.
What I do have I just ran acrossit again is my dad when I was a
kid, so we're talking circa1979. Starting there, probably
through like a baby.

(20:30):
I've 86 he was traveling all thetime when I was little.
And,and every time he went out of
town when he went to New Town,new city when he was doing all
the, when he was traveling alot, he would come home with a
baseball pendant from whereverhe was. So you know, Red Sox,

(20:52):
the Marlins, maybe Marlins, justI have a box full of probably 25
or 30 pendants. Now thosependants are not in mint
condition. They're not trashed,but like they were stapled to
the wall. So like the tips areripped on some of them and
right, because they were stapledon my bedroom wall is how I put

(21:13):
them up because I was a littlekid, you know, whatever figuring
it out. But I mean, I'm probably25 or 30 of them. And I haven't
checked to see what the valueon. Some of those are. I mean,
some of the teams don't evenexist anymore.
Or the names have changed. Imean, some of that kind of
stuff. We're talking again,we're going back early 80s. I
mean, I don't know. I don't haveany idea what that stuff could

(21:35):
be worth if anything other thanit was really neat to see that
and pull it out was like, Oh, myGod, look at this
was really cool. And the otherthing that I can't find in the
last in the last house thatLaurie and I were in Oregon. I
don't know if you remember inthe garage, because we're

(21:57):
adults. We took all of the heavymetal posters. I think they were
all Lori's maybe one of them wasmine. But they were they were
originals from the correct timeperiod. They weren't remakes.
And we had them on the ceiling.
Do you remember that? I don'tknow if you remember that.
Those are somewhere in a box orrolled up in a tube somewhere. I
can't find them. Not that I haveanywhere for them. But I'm

(22:18):
really curious to go back andlook at them because some of
that stuff. I mean, I thinkthere was Metallica, of course
and a big giant Iron Maidenthing. My Grateful Dead flag
that I've had in my bedroomsince I was a single kid in
Oregon is actually in my room. Idon't have it on the wall. It's
actually filled it up. But Istill carry it around and have

(22:41):
it still somewhere have myhulkamania bandana.
Nice.
That's awesome. So yeah, talkabout old stuff that I still
have. And then all the old stuffthat I've been collecting, which
I showed you a few weeks agoaround this room, but oh my god.

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So before I set up this officeand all my stuff, Laurie had
been buying me random thingslike especially at Christmas and
stuff she'd always be lookingfor.
she'd give me like a Star WarsLego set, like a little tiny,
you know, little tiny boxes andjust little like stocking
stuffers. And so all that stuffkind of got just either ended up

(23:24):
in a box, I never opened it orwhatever, just kind of forgot
about it over them. We'retalking over 10 years, just got
randomly put in differentplaces. And every time I've been
running across this stuff, Ikeep bringing it in here. So
today was Yeah, thing. Yeah, soI have one she gave me like
three years ago. And it's a Liloand Stitch stitch.

(23:48):
And it's a super rare oneapparently. That's like highly
coveted. It's been sitting in acupboard. I forgot about it. And
I remember her telling me at thetime that it was this kind of
rare pop in it because it was aglittery Bluth instead of
regular blue or whatever. It wasa very limited edition that she
ended up getting a hold of. AndI thought it was cool at the

(24:10):
time and off it went into acupboard and hadn't seen the
light of day until today. And Ibrought it in here and I'm like,
Whoa, we're not gonna stick thatsince this room is full. So I
kind of spot on the shelf behindme Actually, it's you can kind
of see over my shoulder you cansee
the Mandalorian little dude backthere on my shelf. And he's

(24:32):
radiata Yeah, baby Yoda and he'sright above it. Of course, it's
out a filter. I kind of see it.
Yeah, and kind of see it backthere. It's on the shelf, living
there enjoying its life. Theother thing that I had were two
collector setsof Hot Wheels, cars. The ones
that kind of come in the acryliccases and they're like a series
and this was the original firstmovie Fast and Furious.

(24:57):
I found those two the so thosehave got to be wicked old.
I'm so old that the, the acrylicis starting to
it's almost a little hazy now.
And it's been in a cupboard soit's been there a while. So I'm
starting to kind of re migratestuff into this room and get it
out of everywhere else because Ido and eventually we're going to

(25:20):
move because the apartment iswonderful, but we want to get
into a house etc. Andthere's a lot of stuff in here.
And you know, of course, it'sgot to all get boxed up and you
know, some of its worth a couplebucks and I don't know, it's
overwhelming just thinking aboutit. I'm looking up at the

(25:42):
shelves of stuff above my head.
So we never got back to Tani. Wegot off a tiny did you did she
bring about when I told you thatshe had passed away? I knew who
she was. Yeah, you know, I canpicture her. You know, he or she
hunting on the front of that carbetter and transit. Yeah,

(26:02):
something like that. I don'tremember the car. Yeah, she was
alsodid some videos and some cover.
I think it was the cover art forrat, too. She was I think she
was dating one of the guys inrap. If I remember right, as
well. So yeah, she wasdefinitely an ABS icon.
kind of woman. And then todaydid you watch? Do you watch

(26:22):
Sunday morning with Jane Pauley?
Do you watch that show onSundays by any chance? So I I
catch it from time today. I washome and it and they had What's
his name? He was one of thebrand McCarthy Yes, I put that
out on on Facebook on Facebooktoday. And watch that and he was
kind of like the one kid thatdidn't really want to be

(26:49):
remembered Brat Pack. Yeah. AndI didn't realize that he I just
because I wasn't hadn't paidattention to him that he had
quite a career in directing,which we talked about last week
somebody else or you know fromgoing go Boingo. And yeah, just
what?
Andy's old now. That's alsoreally kind of funny. That

(27:11):
reminds me, he's almost 60. Sohe's roughly 10 years. 10 years
plus older, for sure. Which is?
Yeah, quite a career andespecially like TV stuff. And
yeah, he does a lot oftelevision. Yeah. Which I
thought was really cool. It wasreally neat. In the interview.
I used to watch a show. royalpain. About a concierge doctor

(27:36):
was on USA. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. I think the whole thing'son Netflix now that he was in
episodes in season one. And thenonce either come back. Yeah.
Brother, three episodes.
We'll see the brother in seasonone. No, he wasn't the brother.
Oh, he was dad. This kid thatkind of had a reoccurring role.

(28:00):
Okay. Yeah, I like that show. Iwatched it when it was
originally airing to Lori and Iliked that one. That was a good
show. I forgot about that. Igotta go look that one up.
That was a good show. I enjoyedthat one. That was Yeah, Royal
Pains right the dock that fellfrom grace and ended up. He was
in the Hamptons, right? Isn'tthat where it was? Yep. It was
based in the Hamptons, and hewas kind of the Hamptons doctor

(28:20):
now.
Whatever. I don't think I gotpast the second season for
whatever. And I don't even knowif there was there more than two
seasons. I think around five. Ohmy god. Okay. Well.
There you have it. Life caughtup to me. So yeah, I'm watching
the 100 now.
Okay, have you watched itbefore? Or is this your first

(28:41):
time watching it? This is firsttime Okay, so I think I got
before I stopped watching it. Ithink it got through the second
season. Maybe the third.
Now in the first season, doesn'tit have?
What's his name?

(29:02):
Maybe it wasn't him. Not therock. But
Aqua man. What's the name?
Jason momoa. Yeah. Isn't he inthe first season? Isn't he the
main character guy from the theit's just somebody who kind of
looks like it. Okay. That's howlong it's been since I've
watched it. That's who I waspicturing. But we just finished

(29:24):
Season Two nights the show thatI watched with Julie and then
Julie goes to bed.
Started rewatchingLucifer, okay, because the
second half of season five. It'sout later this month.
I haven't gotten that far onLucifer in the 100. I think I

(29:44):
stopped on season two or threeand a third like five or 6777
total seasons out there. Arethey done? Is it done now? Yeah,
okay. They actually they did 100episodes of fitting
I really, it gets weird, forsure. I mean, it's already
weird. It's a great show, butboy does it go off the rails,

(30:08):
you'll, you'll definitely enjoyit for sure. And I that's kind
of like so some of those shows,I kind of keep in my back pocket
as you know, when I'm home sickor just like in the back of my
head, like when I'm gonna lay onthe couch all day or something
like I need to have multiples ofyou know, because I have a bunch
of shows I haven't finished. Butthat's one of the ones that I
want to come back to for sure.
And get caught up and watch it.

(30:30):
And then some of it, it's when Iknow that I'm a couple episodes
or a season before it's done. Istopped watching it because I
don't want to get to the end.
And then it's over.
The last five episodes ofsupernatural out of 15 or 16
seasons, I haven't last watchedthe last five episodes.
I think I told you the reasonwhy on that because I'm mad

(30:51):
because they're not it's not theending that it was supposed to
be because of the pandemic. Theyaltered it. But yeah, I haven't
watched those last few episodeseither. Which, whatever. That's
kind of stupid.
It's a weird quirk that I have.
So I can turn on Netflix andfind a show that I haven't
finished watching. jump right insomewhere. They just announced
that show that what we weretalking about

(31:15):
Shadow and Bone. He was Shadowand Bone that they're not
renewing after the first Czregulars. Yeah, the irregular.
Thank you. I just read that too.
That kind of bummed me out. Ithought it was a good show.
Yeah, I enjoyed that. But Ienjoy all things Sherlock
Holmes. Sure. Well, and thatwent down another rabbit hole
about Netflix that they recentlyor now I've kind of trending to

(31:37):
cancel shows. And people arereally starting to get pissed.
Because they're not given stuffa shot necessarily. And I think
it's just they're just such ajuggernaut anymore that well,
and you know, those shows costmoney and right. You know, you
look at something likeirregulars, it was what six
episodes? Right? Probably coststhem. You know, 15 $20 million

(32:00):
produces six episodes. Oh, yeah.
They're not seeing that kind ofreturn immediately. It's not
worth it. That's right. Yeah.
Well, I mean,it's in it's really funny how
things have changed. So if I goback to brat camp, that's an
example. So we had viewership oflike 10 million in episode. And

(32:21):
apparently now, getting thosekinds of numbers is almost done
heard of, because there's somuch like the bar has changed,
like 10 million.
Today is like,knocking it out of the park on
like, such an epic, ridiculousscale. Because there's so much

(32:43):
out there like it's usually oneor 2 million or 5 million. And
it's just totally changed thewhole landscape of what kind of
how the ratings work and theviewership. Because there's so
much more out there than thereused to be. And just really
crazy stuff on what theyconsider successful or not.
Yeah, then there's people likeme who are totally unplugged. We

(33:04):
just, you know, we have ourdownloadable services, but we
have no cable. We have no localchannels. We have no TV.
When you guys have always beenthat way, though, you guys have
never really had cable. We'vehad cable a few times.
We quit our cable, let's saythree or four years ago. Yeah.

(33:28):
It was costing us $80 a month.
Right? basic cable with HBO.
Yeah, yeah, we were doing wellwe are doing so I've had the
same package in the apartment.
They don't even offer thepackage anymore. So it's a
screaming deal. And if I changeand like if I dump my cable, and
just go to my internet at thespeed that I'm at right now,

(33:48):
it'll cost me more money.
I keep a cable which is kind ofnice because
mindless television watchingflip a couple channels on and
watch whatever. You know, it'spretty easy to do and make sense
and you know, whatever. But itis also

(34:10):
I don't spend a lot of timewatching television shows
anymore on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox,whatever. Everything is almost
streaming exclusively. Like inthe evenings I sit down and I
turn the Apple TV on. And I gointo that and watch whatever I
want to watch Netflix etc. Anddon't watch cable much at all

(34:31):
anymore other than the basicservice. I mean, really anymore.
And well, you know, go and movewe'll probably get rid of it.
Totally. Peacock. So we geteverything that's on NBC
Universal. Sure. We haveParamount plus, which is yes,
yep. So we get live football andanything on CBS plus, right?

(34:53):
Yeah, like eight other channels.
Right. I have discovery pluswhich
Again, I do too, you know, it'slike food channel and HGTV.
And all that. Right? I actuallyget that for free because I had
to think through Verizon. Oh,cool. Very nice. So plus Disney

(35:17):
plus, HBO Max, HBO Max, you'reprobably spending more money
on cable.
Yep, I do the same thing. I haveall of those as well. And then
basic cable still. But when wemove on, sure. The really the
end the only need to keep basic,a basic channel like there's um,

(35:40):
it's called News 10. Now, it'skind of the on spectrum. Time
Warner Cable. It's just theirtheir 24 hours of local news.
Right? And that there's a valueto that because of weather means
just kind of local news. For themost part, you get your weather
on your phone? Well, I do aswell. Of course I do. But it's,

(36:03):
you know, it's one of thosethings like when we're in
Florida, and we're traveling andstuff, it's nice to be able to
watch the local stuff and what'sgoing on, I guess. It's habit.
No, I know. It's down to the21st century shop. You're
talking like your dad. I know.
Hey, and I still like to readhis.
Hey, I still read newspapers,just saying. And you're you

(36:27):
probably have to still read anewspaper. I'm guessing, based
on your right to get thenewspaper anymore. How is that
possible? I use the app. I stillread it every day.
Shame on you. I can't believethat Julie doesn't have a paper
delivered to her house everyday.
You know, it would getdelivered. And never kids would
bring it in and put it down atthe entry and it would be more

(36:50):
and more pilots. Two weekslater, we'd have this huge
100 newspapers that we get theirway. Okay, fair enough.
I get it. I guess you know, weget our news. Online, right.
Sure. Great. regular people.
Yeah, well, I yeah. I mean, I dotoo. I do too.

(37:14):
I guess. I mean, I do.
And it's stupid.
I saw Justin on Friday. Oh,yeah. How's Mr. holiday? He's
doing pretty good.
You just got a new jobhousehold, I
assume. Well, he just got a he'sstill massaging but in a new

(37:38):
place. Okay. He starts tomorrow.
Nice. I have to call him back.
He called me last week. Twoweeks ago, maybe.
And I got to call him before hisdamn birthday. I didn't miss it.
His he's the 19th. Right. Yeah,he's, yeah, he's a couple days.
So I gotta call him. We got toget to know and up pops up on my

(37:59):
phone. We got to get onFacebook. Yeah, we got to get so
and so's birthday. We got to gethim on here to think that would
be fun.
Unless he's a weird shut in nowor something. Does he still have
that?
His his weird eye thing goingon? Or did that finally get? Did
you finally get that anger? Idon't know. He's always got some
weird thing going on.

(38:19):
God bless him.
Oh, boy. Crazy.
That's kind of funny. Yeah, Ihaven't talked to him. It's been
a couple years. I mean, we youknow, birthdays texts. I look at
my text feed from him. And it'sliterally in April and May of
every year during our birthdays.

(38:40):
I you know, I rely on Alicia tokeep me caught up. For the most
part. She's pretty good at it.
And I know what's going on withJudd. I know what's going on
with Justin and Carrie for themost part. You know, Glenn's
pretty good on Facebook. I tryjust follow him now. And yeah.
We talked last week about him.
And about Glenn. Yeah. Maybe itwasn't with you. So a couple

(39:02):
days ago, Glenn posts, finallygoing back to the gym. And it
takes it's a picture of himselfgoing to the gym. It's been a
year and a half since I went tothe gym, motherfucker sport in a
second attack sport in a sixpack. His freakin biceps are
twice the size of my head. He'stotally ripped in beautiful

(39:22):
shape and hasn't done anythingin a year and is excited to get
into the gym and then I feellike a total lazy slog because
he still has that Adonis freakinbody that everybody went googly
eyed over even all the guysbecause he just was that guy.
Right? Oh, son of a bitch andnow he's all gray haired and
looks all nostalgic and evenbetter. He's kind of a George

(39:46):
Clooney type jerk.
He's gonna laugh if he hearsthat for sure he'd be another
good one for us to get on hereand chat with and harass for a
while.
Talk to him in a while.
But yeah,and I talked to Alicia this
morning was it this morningyesterday morning, Dr. Lee

(40:07):
yesterday, before she wentkayaking caught up with her and
then I noticed she posted acouple pictures of herself
kayaking yesterday and she gotburnt to a crisp. Oh my God does
she either forgets onsunscreen at home desire I died
last week so I'm not gonna getI'm not gonna get burned and

(40:29):
then she'll I'll call hertomorrow and say, Oh my god, I'm
just laying here at my body's onfire.
Some things never change. Godbless her. We she's having fun.
Crazy. So So yeah, that was afun tangent. So So how's

(40:50):
how's thehow's the pandemic in the
getting a shot going there inOregon these days? I think it
got worse this week since Italked to you.
Because so many people arerefusing to get the shot. Yeah,
they've shut everything downright in Oregon is totally shut
down now. And and that happenedsince we talked. They shut it

(41:11):
down.
A week ago, Friday and nowthey're starting to reopen
Little by little, likerestaurants. I totally closed
takeout only. Yeah, like youguys are were the rest of the
country was like literally ayear and a half ago, almost now.
While it's where we were a yearand a half ago. Seriously, it

(41:32):
was that bad back then towas the numbers. Yeah, kept
going up and up and up. Andpeople in this state just they
won't get the vaccine. Theywon't wear their mask. It's not,
ya know, how is that part oftheir fault that everything
happened? And so they're stillblaming Trump? Right? They can't

(41:52):
be still blame. They blame theyblame Kate Brown, who? Oh, your
governor, Governor. Oh, okay.
It's all her fault. Yeah, ofcourse. It'd be good one to
blame. So that literally peopleare not wearing masks still.
That's happening in Oregon. Oh,yeah. Of all places. Like in
Portland, like super ultraliberal. Now left? Are you

(42:16):
talking out in like, burneverywhere else?
Where everything is red.
Wherever they vote red. Yeah.
But the trumpers the forevertrumpers are that the VA it
doesn't exist, etc, and so onand so forth. So they complain
states being shut down, right.

(42:37):
And then they refuse to get thevaccine, they refuse to wear
their masks their socialdistance to refuse to
quarantine.
So then the state gets shut downagain. And then they complain
that the state's being shut downagain. So so they're, they're
still. So I find that reallyinteresting, because so New York

(42:58):
is kind of similar to Oregon.
It's funny to say that becauseit really isn't. But so you got
New York City you got downstate.
So south of Syracuse. I mean,it's even further south than
that. We're talking like HudsonValley did the city and beyond.
It's all very democrat basedvery liberal.

(43:21):
You know, that's where thestronghold for the state is.
That's why it always It's whywe're democratically you know,
the democrats have run New YorkState forever because of the
city and the population downthere by Oregon, but
even on the rural red, likewe're up in the area that I'm
at, it's it's red, it's not asred as it maybe was 10 years

(43:42):
ago, but it's still red.
Everybody kind of bought intothe whole thing. And everybody
put a mask onall the businesses of course,
like and that's the part thatdoesn't make sense. So you
refuse to wear a mask, but allthe for the most part 99% of all
the businesses require it.
Like how do people function?
refusing to wear a mask? That'swhat does just crazy to me. I

(44:06):
don't understand businessesaren't enforcing it really. They
needthey need revenue. Is it that
bad in certain areas that itmakes that would make a
difference? I don't really. Andthere's some businesses that
Yeah, don't support to not onlydo refused to make people wait
and wear masks, yeah. But theywill serve people who are

(44:30):
wearing masks. No, seriously.
Like the so the opposite of noshirt, no shoes, no service. So
it's like you walk in with amask get out. Right, take it
off, really.
That I've never heard that goingon anywhere. That's interesting

(44:51):
that that you'd figure that'd bea good national story that they
would be reporting and I pay waytoo much attention to the news
and I haven't heard any of that.
That is That's wild.
That is really crazy. I'vehonest to god truth so go into
Florida, you know New York allover the place. I've yet to go
into a place that was we don'twear masks and we're proud kind

(45:13):
of place.
Which is there's a place inprineville. Okay. I mean, yeah,
well, yeah.
Well, it's kind of hard in townwhere you know, everybody but
didn't like Amazon or is there abig call center out there now
where there's lots of Facebook?
It's not a call center. It's adata center. Okay. They have to
Apple has one. And maybe Amazonhas one and Facebook is building

(45:41):
a third out there and prinevillearea up there out there on the
plateau above prineville. Isthat where they're building all
those big buildings? I think so.
What that employs a crap ton ofpeople right now, damn play like
15 people. What they're like,oh, data centers? Oh, Jesus.

(46:01):
Okay, so there, that's where thethe hardware is. That's where
all the where all the so itdoesn't take a lot of people.
You got a couple of people doingmaintenance couple people day in
security. people doing dusting,and you're done. So it's just
buildings and serpo Super ruralareas that can't get messed with
basically, that's why they'redoing it out there.

(46:25):
Is I mean, it does add somejobs. Sure. But it brings in
people who are, you know,running the facility? Sure.
Because there's very few peoplein prineville, who are who have
the education to run a facilitylike Sure, yeah, the skill set.
Right. So it diversifies thepopulation for sure. I mean it
or at least it helps a littlebit. That's why property values

(46:48):
are starting to go prinevillenow, right? Well, you know, it
can only get so expensive inBend, and then in Redmond. And
you just have to keep goingfurther out if you want to live
in Central Oregon. And so you goeither south, you go to lupine.
Or you go the other way, I meanreally in the other way is kind
of more expensive, because ifyou go towards sister's housing

(47:09):
up there is got to be rightthrough the roof anymore. And
you're gonna have to live inMadras to afford to live in
South Florida. Well, right.
Because if you have the view ofthose mountains, you're gonna
pay top dollar anymore.
Good lord. Yeah, that's crazy.
But I don't know that the wholemask thing is just New York is
is lifting its orders. You know,state fairs back in play.

(47:38):
sporting events are back inplay. You know, they just
announced new york city bySeptember. All the plays, you
know, the lights on? We'll beback on Broadway. Yeah. I mean,
in what was interesting aboutthat is, I overheard the
governor talking about it. And Ithought he said, it's, you know,
it's back open. I'm like, What?
Seriously? Wow, okay, how arethey gonna do that this quick?

(48:01):
Well, they're not. They're justopening ticket sales right now
or at the beginning of themonth, for September. So that's
one of the things that isn't,that's gonna take some time to
get going again, but puts a lotof people back to this.
trailblazers finally startedallowing
fan live spectators on Friday,how many days ago? Did you say

(48:25):
five? Like,live? So live? Live? Okay. Yeah,
that started here. We wereactually, I think, the first
sporting event in the country toallow spectators and it was a
Buffalo Bills game. And everyperson going in had to be COVID
tested. And it was like 25%capacity, whatever it was, but
it was quite a few people inthere. And that happened this

(48:48):
winner. And that was kind of abig deal. I think it was a big
experiment to see if they coulddo those kinds of things at the
time. So if they knew they couldpull that off, that they could
do other events, the same kindof way as test people as they go
in. And that was, I think,before the shot was out must
have been before the shot wasout. So that's probably a little

(49:08):
longer than my brain is goingwhere that was. But I think the
shot that it shouldn't be a blowup until beginning of January.
Right? Was it that late? Ithought it was before the first
of the year. might have beenmight have been It was after
Trump was on office because thatwas the whole push for him. I

(49:29):
think he was hoping that thatwould happen squarely before he
was out of office or before theelection and that didn't happen.
And now and that was I know hewas pushing saying it's gonna
come this month. That's right.
That's right. No, it's gonnacome this month. That's right.
So you could always conspiracytheory that one out if you want
for fun, butright, yeah, I don't know.

(49:49):
Whatever. But because Pfizercares. Yeah. Because they care
that Trump was in office. Theyjust care about the Benjamins.
The amount of money they madefrom the every government in the
world seriously, how much moneythey made it people have. I
mean, I don't think I canimagine

(50:10):
how much money that thosecompanies have made well, and it
was only one of them has thepatent on the COVID vaccine. I
don't remember which one it is,if it's Madonna, I don't know
which one it was. There's onlyone of those companies has a
patent. And the rest of themwere given permission to
manufacture it. And in the inour President is looking to open

(50:31):
the patent up. Yeah, that'shuge. That's huge money. Like I
mean, that. Why would you expandthe hand that feeds you like
that, so that they don't playnice next time? I mean, I mean,
you know, as of now, that'slike, almost 2 billion people
have been, yeah, vaccinated.
Right.

(50:56):
So they make their money.
Yeah.
But oh, well, yeah. I mean,from a capitalism standpoint,
and a business has got to makemoney, and proprietary
information. I mean, I get allof that, too, at the same time,
like if somebody came in andsaid, I want all your recipes,
because we're going to make thempublic. Because we're going to

(51:18):
do that if the government camein and did that to me.
I mean, that is prettyintrusive. Really, they're not
actually asking for all therecipes, asking for one recipe.
The one most popular recipealready paid millions of dollars
for Oh, if not trillions, I'msure. Yeah. You know, is there

(51:43):
to help the human race? Moveforward? I all good points. I
mean, it's hard to argue thatfor sure. But I think it's the
idea of setting precedent, whichis where companies and attorneys
and lawyers would go with thatas it happens once it's going to
happen again, because every timeyou deem it important enough,

(52:05):
then you're going to impose thisthing on us. So I can see that
going all the way to the SupremeCourt gets madana
they have six members of theboard,
all of whom are worth less than$10 million. Oh, yeah, a year
ago. Now they're all on thebillionaire list.

(52:27):
Wouldn't it have been nice to bea minority shareholder on that
board?
Wow, so many Wouldn't it havebeen nice? Yeah. Wouldn't it be
nice to be the owner have stockin three m before the pandemic
hit?
Wouldn't have been nice to buyMicrosoft in 1979 when I'd have

(52:49):
you know, so when my grandpa wasstill alive, he had this story
about throwing this door to doorsalesmen off of his property.
And you know what he was sellingIBM stock
so I got to think back to when Iown some apple stock.
Now, this would have been2530 years ago, and that stock

(53:13):
is split I don't know how manytimes since then, but I sold it
at some point for whatever itwas worth and I must have made a
little bit of money on it andsold it I didn't have many
shares but I mean I had fullshares I mean it because it was
affordable at the time andsold it

(53:34):
and any other stock that I hadat the time paid off I think and
I think and was when I was withLaurie It was early on and got
rid of all that and think aboutnow what that would have all
been worth and then I think backif I would have actually done
those surveys that they weresending out when they were
giving away free Bitcoinfull Bitcoin like a coin a full

(53:56):
like one coin.
What that would be worth today.
So So have you started buyingcryptocurrency yet? Speaking of
now cryptocurrency really atall? Have you been paying any
attention to it?
I pay attention to it. I don'tbuy it yet. Okay, so, um, you do

(54:21):
you? You do pI? I noticedbecause you like you're on my
list. Yeah, go on, like on theweekend be like an every time or
I every time I send you the damnthing to mine for me because I
yeah, cuz right now you'reinactive Shame on you. I'm

(54:42):
looking at it right now on myphone.
Lori's mining. My other guythat's on there with me is
mining but you and my sisterboth aren't mining right now.
And I know you get my alertsbecause I send them every single
time that I log in every day.
But the other thing that I do isI've stopped
Did I don't know it was a couplemonths ago, when I did pi and

(55:03):
got onto that I started talkingto another guy that used to be
an inn used to work on WallStreet used to be a trader, like
legit. And we were talkingabout, he's the one that got me
on pi.
And we started talking aboutdifferent
Bitcoin companies to startpaying attention to. So I took

(55:29):
$200 200 bucks, and I got on awebsite or an app called
Coinbase. And I put 200 bucks inand I bought these five stocks
or five Bitcoin, or differentkinds of Bitcoin companies that
were kind of the that weregetting kind of the most

(55:49):
press really more than anything,and, and then didn't pay much
attention to itat all, I mean, it was like,
well, 200 bucks, if I get my 200bucks out in a year or two,
whatever, and it was kind offun. And but, but what if
something happens, right? Whatif like lightning strikes
accidentally, so I've doubled mymoney.

(56:12):
So I got 400 bucks in there, andI haven't taken anything out
yet, which is probably stupid. Ishould take my 200 out, but I'm
kind of letting it ride. Andthis whole dodge coin fiasco
that was set up as a joke thateverybody got on board with,
that's trading stupid money, andthen took a nosedive after Ilan
musk yesterday made fun of it onSNL. Yeah.

(56:36):
So it's gone back up today,almost a full percentage point
from its drop last night. And asworth a whole lot more, I'm
like, I'm looking at it rightnow, it's worth a lot more now
than it was yesterday. Because Imay have spent a little money on
Dodge, just thinking that maybethat would be even though a joke
that could take off, I shouldprobably sell what I have. But

(56:58):
it's really been fascinating.
And it's super hard tounderstand.
And I don't understand it. Andit pisses me off that I haven't
found the right person that canexplain it in a way that I get
it.
This investor guy that I know myfriend, Jeremy, he's know some
super smart people that arestill in that world. And he's

(57:21):
trying to get kind of meetingtogether for somebody to explain
cryptocurrency to us in a waythat
you can understand it. And theonly thing that I can tell you
for sure that I've learned aboutcryptocurrency, if I teach you a
lesson today is there's twokinds of way to buy
cryptocurrency. One is you buyit
for what it's worth, in, let'ssay US dollar, and it's only

(57:46):
worth what it is in US dollar,which is you're just buying.
You're not it's not a stock,you're not buying a percentage
of. So like Robin Hood isanother trading app. If you buy
cryptocurrency through them, andthey only represent like seven,
six or seven different ones.

(58:08):
You if you can't transfer it,you have to sell it for us
dollars, which is kind ofdefeats the purpose and in
cryptocurrency idea behind it isyou own it and it grows. And
then you use that in the valueof that to buy things, obviously
like money.
Instead of having to just turnaround and sell it for what the

(58:29):
US dollar says it's worthbecause the US dollar, of course
is dropping in value and has fora couple of years now pretty
significantly. So the dollarisn't as strong.
And yeah, it's just reallyfascinating. That's about as far
as the understanding of it thatI have.
Yeah, going back to wishing thatI had gotten free Bitcoin back

(58:51):
in the early 2000s 20 years ago.
But yeah, between that and notwearing a face mask, I just lose
him.
So I'm officially as oftomorrow, tomorrow morning,
tomorrow morning, I'm officiallytwo weeks after my second shot.
So I am consideredimmune not you're not immune,

(59:16):
but you're you're totallyvaccinated. I guess it's run its
course in my body. And I'mapparently able to say that, but
it doesn't make a differencebecause you still got to wear a
mask everywhere. And there's nodifference. And that's kind of I
think what pisses people offalthough New York State is

(59:37):
starting to make some changes,is if you go get the shot, and
you're safe. And you're notgoing to get severely ill.
But you still got to wear a maskeverywhere. I can see I can see
people's point when they bringthat up. They're like what
what's the purpose? What's thepoint? I can't go anywhere I can
do anything and I still gottawear a damn mask everywhere I

(59:58):
go. Why shouldTo get the shot, it's not going
to make my life any different.
That being said, New York Statenow has said things like,
certain sporting events, if youhave your vaccine,
you can sit in one area of thearena as an example, which

(01:00:20):
doesn't have the width, thesocial distancing is relaxed,
you can sit with more people,blah, blah, blah, maybe better
seats just to piss people off. Idon't know, they haven't said
that yet. But there's they'redefinitely doing the shots and
the no shots, right, likeseating and spaces. And I can
see that really becoming aproblem. But and I find it

(01:00:41):
really fascinating. Like they'remaking, they're literally
creating two new classes ofhuman beings, people that have
the shot and people that don'tlike and that never existed
before. That is a new, literallya new class and a new citizen
class. And it's not likeeverybody doesn't have equal
access to it. Well, it's mychoice, aka rich versus poor, or

(01:01:04):
white versus black or whatever.
Right. Everybody has,you know, way to get that shot?
That's right. They are choosingnot to right. No. Bill Gates has
put a microchip in his jacketthat I have heard that?

(01:01:29):
Myyou know, the truth is, we were
segregated like that for kids.
If you didn't have your all yourshot, he didn't go to school.
That's right. Yeah. You weren'tallowed to go to school? That's
right. We were no.
Yeah, it's just reallyfascinating that something that

(01:01:51):
literally 18 months ago was thethought of it, or even the term
didn't exist. And now it's hereand it's real, is there's now a
whole again, two new classes ofpeople that didn't exist prior
to it again, by choice or not.
And you know, when people couldargue that there that there
isn't a choice or that there isor whatever, you get the
extremists, but it really iscoming down to you can do X, Y,

(01:02:14):
and Z because you have a shot,you can go on a cruise, because
you have the shot. I want to payfor a curious I want to pay for
the super sweet on the topfloor. That's $20,000 a night?
Well, okay, can you send over acopy of your immunization
record, essentially, that yougot your shot? Well, I didn't

(01:02:35):
get my shot, well, you can'thave that as well, I'm gonna
give you $100 bills, sorry, Idon't want your money because
you know, the shot, seriously,two different classes, and it's
leveled the playing field, too.
So the playing field is leveledthat anybody can get the shot.
But those two classes don't careif you're rich or poor, or black

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or white, either. On the otherside of it, it's just, you could
have all the money in the world.
But if the rule is you have tohave that card. I mean, anybody
could bootleg the card, I'm sureit's not like it's like a
driver's license. And they canbootleg those too. But that card
is gonna become really difficultto forge a card or no, yeah. And
they'll start doing that, I'msure. Because if you look at the

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card is just a piece of paperreally, that anybody can get on
a computer and make it's notlike a driver's license. Made
the card a usable size. Yeah,like the size of a business card
or a credit card that would bedamn wallet totally, as opposed
to face square, and things thatyou can't do it right. It's
stupid. Yeah, it was so. So weknow that we're going to have to

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present or have those at certainshows and different events that
we do. So I'm not going to havemy original. And I'm gonna, and
I want to put it on lanyard. SoI need to have it on a lanyard
with my other ID that we werewhatever. Well, it doesn't fit,
right. So I spent, I spentliterally 45 minutes with a
paper cutter and sizing it downand making photocopies of 100

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different photocopies give it tothe right size to make a copy of
it so that I can laminate thatcopy and put copy on it. It's
not the original I'm going toleave that at home of course, so
that it would fit and it was atotal pain in the ass and the
whole time I was thinking is whothe hell thought of this. Who
had all this extra perforatedpaper laying around that it was

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this stupid ass size that theydecided to make these
immediately these immunisationcards how stupid This is. Just
piss me right off.
How hard would it be to make itthe size of a damn credit card
really so can fit in everybody'swallet on the planet.
Things that really think you'rethe you know, everybody.

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Any man who gets it, they'rejust going to have their woman
carrying it around than ours.
Well, a woman it's going to pissthem off too because they don't
carry their shit loose in theirpurse. It goes
their wallet in their purse,which is happens to be the same
size for the same cards that weuse.
I mean, there's a reasoneverything is that a woman's
wallet is like, well, it foldsopen like nine times small

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purse. Well, yes. I mean, youknow, it's a damn you know, it's
a card. It's a, you know, whycan't it be that size? Seriously
that size? It's all it's got tobe.
Yeah, things that just piss youright off. That is one of them
recently that just pisses meright off.

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things that make you go home.
totally stupid. What else isstupid these days? to price a
toilet paper? That's kind ofstupid. The price of gas is on
sale. Holy shit. The paper is onsale at Costco right now. Okay,
so the toilet paper stock hasbeen renewed in your part of the

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world. Very nice. Yes.
Impressive. The price of gas onthe East Coast going up because
of that hack of the pipeline.
Yeah. But before that happened,our governor, Governor, or in
some cases they call himel presidente a or,
or dictator, just sayingthat he's proposing a 51 cent

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gas taxfor not only fuel, but for also
heating fuel oil across everynight. Yeah. 51 cent tax. That
could be that could be as soonas this year. Seriously, like
it's gonna happen. There wassomebody in the Oregon
legislature who was trying toget a bill passed. Banning

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diesel fuel from the statebanning it. Yeah.
What do they not realize thatonce you get over the past that
diesel trucks are the majorityof what's driving around.
Now, I understand that, butyeah, not gonna sell it in the

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state anymore. Really? They'regonna stop selling diesel fuel
in Oregon. For real? I don'tthink it passed the legislature.
Right. But it was brought up. Imean, how could I mean, you
think about it as How couldsomething and we've seen crazy
stuff pass? But how couldsomething like that? I mean,
automakers and you got you haveso many lobbyists with so much

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power and poll. I mean, I don'tsee something like that, at
least right now. I can see themtaxing it, just like they're
doing New York State. I thinkthat that's how our governor is
finding kind of the backdoor togreen energy to kind of push his
you know, he has a prettyaggressive plan for the state.

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In green energy, I mean, reallyaggressive? Well, the best way
to fund that, well, you wantpeople to start driving electric
cars, make gasoline reallyexpensive in the state. I mean,
that's one way to do it, forsure.
The only way you're gonna getmore people to drive electric
cars is to make electric carsaffordable. Well, and that's
happening, this electric car is$60,000. People aren't going to

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be driving electric cars. Well,yeah, I mean, we got to know
that. Tesla is always probablywell, and they do have a couple
cars that are more in the$30,000 price range. One car
that's in the 35. Yeah, but youcan't get it because it's sold
out forever. years ago for thenext 10 years. Yeah, so so but

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Ford came out with the Mustang.
And I think that was a greatexperiment. I think they were
doing that to prove a point. Sothey started with their sports
car. And all the Europeanautomakers are coming out with
one Volkswagens coming out withy. All right.
And I think horse and I thinkwe're the big money on coming

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out with electric Yeah, andwhere the big money is going to
be in those cars is going to beservice stations forum, it's
going to be charging stations,that's going to be
either they're going tohopefully make the charging
stations fully universal, so youcan pull up to a Tesla charging
station or just a regularcharging station. And they work.
And I don't know if that's thecase now, but it would make

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sense that they would make thatmechanism the same, or at least
right you have adapters orsomething somehow that that
would work. Now that may havealready that may already be the
case, and I may be talking likea moron, but that would be where
the big money is going to be ischarging stations. And of course
I got really hung up on. I mean,I even maybe might have sent a

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text to Ilan marks saying, hey,when I send my cybertruck so
that I can test it out in theNorth Country where we get real
weather and we live on a farmthat and he might not have
responded but I was hopeful thatmay be what
but I got really what you whatyou might think about is putting
a charging station I've lookedinto at the winery. We're gonna

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I think I'm gonna do that.
Put the wrapping there becausethey have two kinds, they have
regular charging that thecommercial, they have regular
charging, they've rapidcharging. And the rapid charging
stations are pretty impressive.
I mean whether the length oftime that somebody would take to
come in and do a tasting, theywould have like a 90% charge on
their car. And if you look atwhere the charging stations are

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geographically where I am, theclosest one is about 30 miles
unless somebody else has put onein and it's not in the system
yet. Like it's not on their,their map. But I thought that
that would be that would make alot of sense. And I have reached
out to him. I haven't got anemail back yet, but they do have
a whole program for those. Soyou basically pay for the unit.

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And then you can chargebasically for the use of it. Now
that's not it's not uncommon.
It's kind of in the middle ofthe road where that I think that
that'll end up people chargingcharging people money for the
power right now. For the mostpart, I believe that it's
complimentary or free justbecause in the balance of how
much how many cars there areversus not there's not a lot of

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people in comparison, but myfriend Meyer here in town has
six right? Yeah, you got toWatertown in like a couple of
hotels and the mall all haveparking spots to be able to do
that. And and in Portland, youthey're everywhere. Oh, I'm sure
yeah. But it's uh, I we'reseeing I mean, we're seeing a

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shift you know, forward again,they had to do their flagship
car their hot rod to prove thatyou can have a cool car that
goes really fast. That'selectric. And people yeah, they
don't realize how stupid fasteven the cheapest version of
those cars are. Holy crap. Teslais ridiculous. Yeah, it's
stupid. Yeah, I mean, zero to 60in like three seconds. Yeah, two

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point it's under to set the thetriple engine, blah, blah, blah,
is under three seconds. It'slike 2.9 seconds or something. I
mean, in. I mean, that's a dragracer. You're no, it's not drag
racer fast. It's faster thandrag racer.
You can get through anintersection faster than the

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light can turn fromred to green. If you hit it,
right. I mean, it's stupid fast,like dangerous, fast naki to the
back of the car fast. And it isself driving. And it you can
play video games while you'redriving, although you're not
supposed to. Or watch movies,and the inside look like there's
nothing in his cars,specifically the Tesla's What I

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really like about them is theytake that technology and go all
the way through the car with it.
So you get in the car, itdoesn't feel like a regular car.
It feels like an electric car.
There's maybe a couplecupholders. But there's no
doodads. There's no nothing.
It's all smooth. And there'sjust one screen or two that run

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the whole shebang. Like there's,you know, there's no air vents.
Everything is integrated in liketemperature control how the cars
run because there's nocombustion engine to make heat
in its electric and how they dothat whole thing is utterly
fascinating to me to get into acar that is basically has all
smooth surfaces. I mean, that iswhat we grew up watching in

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movies in the 80s. tying back tomovies in the 80s. Just super
futuristic. The cars are flying.
Yeah, what right? Or they fillup with foam when you crash them
or something cool like that,which would be awesome. A big
mass, but it would be awesome.
Yeah. So I've been totallyhooked on like the Tesla
cybertruck cybertruck actuallyaffordable. Even the loaded

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super loaded ultra truck isn'tbeyond what somebody would pay
for. an Escalade? Really? Imean, a loaded escalator. It's
the same brand. Yeah, totally.
But like they're even their Sseries, which is the sedan. It's
not their sports car, but it'skind of their sport sedan. I
love the look of that car. Imean, I would,

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I guess if I lived anywhereother than here or had a car
that I would just drive in thesummer, that would be it. And
that would be pretty damn neat.
See, I would love to have onefor just getting around town.
Yeah, totally. I mean, and I'lltell you on the East Coast,
because we were we were inFlorida and I wanted to test
drive one and they didn't evenhave any test drive at the time.

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Like there just wasn't any inthe dealership was empty. They
didn't have any. But I waslooking at the charging stations
and I could get on because wedrive to Florida. You know, so
you start looking at how long ittakes. You know how many hours
you know how many miles inbetween stops. You could
comfortably drive from Clayton,New York to basically the keys

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and not be stressed out aboutfinding stops to re energize
your car so to speak or getenergy gas burden that gas but
get electricity. They're allover the fucking place. I think
and I think if you were onThe three main interstates going
east to west, you wouldn't haveany problems either. I think if
you start getting off the beatenpath and rural Montana, well,
like anything yeah, you know,you start, you know, gas

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stations are scarce as well. Soyou got to kind of plan out
later on you find more banjos.
That's right. That's exactlyright.
And people with no teeth in you?
Yeah. And yeah. So, but it'sdefinitely I'm hooked on
electric cars. I'm all about it.

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I mean, if I'm going to own acar with a combustion engine, I
want it to be a hot rod. Andthen I'll convert so my daily
drivers, my pickup trucks, thewhole shebang. I'll go full
electric and then I'll have youknow, the Hot Rod, motorcycle in
the hot rod hot rod in thegarage. That will still take gas
and I'll pay 10 bucks a gallonor whatever. Because I'm not

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driving them very often. I cando that. I'd be okay with that.
I do the driver regular. OurPrius? Yeah, well, yeah. Didn't
you have one? Can you have anelectric you had a hybrid? Well,
we have a hybrid. Okay. Youdon't have to plug it in now.
Right. It's a Prius. See? It'sit's the tiny one, right? We've
had it six years. We've put50,000 miles in six years. Wow.

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Yeah. Just driving here. Well,if you're not traveling or going
anywhere and just driving aroundtown.
That's not bad. And that's gonnayou know, go into Portland twice
a year. Yeah. I that's aboutwhat I put on. I guess the kind
of mileage I put on our carsbecause we're just driving
around locally for the mostpart, right. But the Prius gets
50 miles to the gallon, right.
That's right. Yeah, I mean,that's bordering on you know,

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motorcycle range. You know, mymy Harley is that much. Speaking
of which, the new fat boy I justsaw it today. It's called the
fort and fat boy for 10. I mightget that wrong. I just saw it
today. It's a damn sexymotorcycle.

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Harley has a cycle to death andwhatever Harley just came out
with a electric bike to lastyear maybe I just noticed that I
didn't realize it. It I haven'tbeen following. I actually
haven't. I haven't written mymotorcycle on a street.
Two years.
They've been nice orgy. Well,bikes that have the two wheels

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in the front and the one wheelon the back. Yeah. And I think
actually, I don't think thoseclassifies motorcycle. I don't
think maybe they do. I don'tremember now. But I really like
e bikes, too. I don't have one.
But I like the idea of pedalinga bike that you don't have to
pedal anymore. It's kind ofcalled a moped in my mind, but
they call an E bikes. Reallystep that has one? Yeah. Does he
have the super cool one where itbasically is like, now he only

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paid like 500 bucks for it not5000. Okay, so it's not a
scooter. Basically, theirscooters, they go 3540 miles an
hour. When we last time we werein New York City, which was
probably a year and a half ago.
Now. They're all they were allover the place. Like these guys
were a lion, and they're onbikes. But it's all under power.

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They're not pedaling, not adamn, one of them were paddling,
and they were going a bazillionmiles an hour. So I thought
those would be cool. Because,you know, I do have, you know, I
do have a couple motor bikesbehind me. They don't have
motors on. But I might use themmore if they had motors. Or if I

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just use mme legs. I'd be a lotskinnier. But that's a different
discussion.
Though, they are kind of cool.
Don't they do a good good jobfor background? For the podcast?
For sure. Yeah, with nine lightsand low ambient lighting going
on there. Yeah, whatever.

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Alright, I gotta go makeMother's Day dinner. Awesome.
What are we having?
We're havingrib, ribeye steaks, okay.
And lobster tails. Nice. Andhomemade Caesar salad was
homemade dressing. Okay, so Iwant to make sure we get this on

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the air. So as soon as I knowexactly when my cards are kind
of come in. We'll we'll set atime probably next weekend based
on when the show will come in.
And we'll figure that out and dothat. So when I saw I saw your
text that hadwhich expansions you order.
Yeah. So I will order thoseexpansions. Oh, so you got the

(01:19:26):
right ones. Do you have anyexpansions? If you do, let me
know which ones and I'll getthose as well. We have any
expansion. Okay.
I'll ask the boys. Yeah. Soawesome. So we'll get together
next week. And we'll do that andwe'll figure out how to
livestream that. So maybe thisweek, we'll get together in a
short couple calls and do somedry runs. Maybe get up and get

(01:19:46):
the live stream actually runningon our pages. Make sure all that
works before we officially doit. And that'll be cool. Next
Sunday, I'll be in Los Angeles.
That's okay. We won't do it.
Sunday, we'll pick a differentday. I can do the podcast from
LA if you want to probably on myphone again. Okay.

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