April 2, 2026 • 39 mins
We head outside to record and immediately prove we should not be trusted with telescopes, technology, or having a podcast. We start under the night sky and somehow end up in a wandering tour of pop culture, nostalgia, pets, small business economics, and the chaos of trying to capture shooting stars.
In this episode:
• Forgetting the plan and leaning into the tangent
• A Star Trek gripe about "full fire" visuals
• Star Wars theatrical re-release
• Ryan Reynolds comfort rewatches and persona fatigue
• Celine Dion’s voice, health, and why the documentary hits
• Captain Kangaroo across generations
• Power Rangers and Tickle Me Elmo
• The terror of silence with kids and dogs
• Trash pickup reality checks and small home logistics
• Tripod anchoring, Starlink headaches, and tech friction
• Flappy Bird and laundromat economics
• Shooting stars and testing phone astrophotography
• Old projector frustration and the "meatloaf" bit
The story continues at www.save4swing.com
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SPEAKER_03 (00:07):
Hey everybody, welcome back to Marker.
Yeah, we have a little somethingspecial, a little different
today.
Um we have uh we actually haveanother in the wild episode that
the editor forgot about.
Um and uh it was recorded beforeyou left.
Uh so I thought um I thoughtwe'd go ahead and uh and we go
(00:32):
ahead and play that one today.
Those were those were prettyfun, right?
SPEAKER_04 (00:36):
Yeah, those were a blast.
I enjoyed those.
SPEAKER_03 (00:38):
Yeah, me too.
Um so yeah, here's uh in thewild.
Um again, I think we're outthere trying to mess with our
telescopes in this one, um, andprobably failing.
I would imagine.
Always.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
So uh hope you enjoy.
Here it goes.
(00:59):
I'm like, and I think I told youthat drone has the lidar and all
the you know the stuff.
No.
I didn't tell you this.
No, fuck no.
Well, if you can I go pee beforeI tell you Oh, Jesus Christ,
little bladder.
The size of proton, and there'snothing wrong with it.
SPEAKER_04 (01:16):
Proton.
Firing proton port torpedoes.
No, photon.
Photon.
Well, mine's a proton.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (01:29):
Oh, that actually reminds me of a beef I have
about Star Trek since we'retalking about that.
Which is one that continues, Imean, pretty much to this day.
Yeah, I told you to, I told you,you know what?
I'll I'll remind you, you mayhave forgotten.
Since you're off Star Trekschool thing, whatever, academy.
(01:50):
Uh uh Picard season three.
SPEAKER_01 (01:53):
Yeah.
Remember we talked about that?
SPEAKER_03 (01:54):
Yeah.
Yeah, it's great.
Um, but no, and in that one,they did it again multiple
times.
This drives me crazy about StarTrek.
Be like, you know, enemy ship,whatever, and uh they're like
uh, you know, give themeverything we got, full fire,
blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:14):
Everything we got.
It's like boom, boom, boom.
SPEAKER_03 (02:17):
Three little torpedoes.
Yeah.
I'm like, you got more thanthat.
SPEAKER_04 (02:20):
Yeah, come on, man.
Yeah, they uh I heard that sinceuh in 27 is the 50th anniversary
of Star Wars.
Star Wars, yes.
They're coming out with theoriginal from 1977 and they're
getting rid of all this shitthat um what's his name did, you
(02:43):
know, on the second one where ithad Java Yeah, Gilo.
Or G Lu.
Yeah, it had him in it andstuff.
It's gonna be the original one,but it's gonna I think they're
gonna update it to like just thequality of it and shit.
So that should be pretty good.
SPEAKER_03 (02:57):
So I assume you mean they're talking like a
theatrical re-release.
SPEAKER_04 (03:00):
Yeah, they're gonna put it out in the theater.
That's fuck.
SPEAKER_03 (03:03):
It'll be a make bucku bucks off of that.
Oh, yeah.
They're also, I think.
I guess I saw something earlierthat they're making either a
movie or a show with RyanGosling or Phillips called
Starfighter, maybe?
Huh.
Uh I could be wrong about that.
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
I don't know.
Yeah, I watched the Adam Projectagain the other night.
Since the last time you told meyou watched it?
SPEAKER_03 (03:30):
Yeah, I really like that.
Dude, I'm gonna okay, you knowwhat?
I'm not gonna judge because Ikeep I get into these things
too, and it makes me want towatch it again because I watched
it and I really liked it too.
And so maybe I would really,really like it.
No, I mean it was a really funmovie, and I had meant to watch
it again, but the fact that youwatch it that often means it's
(03:51):
probably a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_04 (03:52):
Yeah, I I I really because it the way it's set up
and stuff, and I just like RyanReynolds.
I mean, I've watched uh Deadpoola few times, oh well, all of
them, and then I like the Ireally like the one with uh
Wolverine in it.
Did you Deadpool and Wolverine?
SPEAKER_03 (04:13):
No, is that what you meant?
Deadpool and Wolverine?
SPEAKER_04 (04:16):
Well, I like the the first two Deadpools, and then
now they have one?
Yeah, there's two Deadpools.
Okay, and then they came outwith uh Deadpool and Wolverine,
and it was funny as fuck.
Really?
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:29):
Uh I didn't know that.
Did you watch um Van Wilder?
Oh, dude, a hundred times.
Well, it's okay, it'sinteresting.
So the reason I ask is becauselike me too, and I really like
Ryan Reynolds too, but like I'mfeeling it's starting to wear on
(04:50):
me a little bit, his wholeshtick, you know?
Oh, really?
Because he's always kind of RyanReynolds, and maybe in the Adam
part it well, he's always gotthat thing.
Um but I mean like he's great.
The only thing about DeadpoolI've ever seen, and I don't even
know if this was in the movie ornot, but it was uh Celine Dion
(05:12):
singing.
Oh, Deadpool 2, yeah.
It was in the movie, yeah.
I think it fucking died becauseit was in the movie.
I don't know.
It may have been just a promothing, right?
But she's singing, you know, andjust blowing it out, and he's in
the theater, and he's like, Oh,you know, that's a little over
the top.
It's like Deadpool.
Like, can you take it down tolike a six, maybe?
(05:33):
And she goes, she's like, Thisthing only goes to eleven.
Yeah, that's fantastic, that'shilarious.
And that thing only does go toeleven when she's singing, which
is all fucked up now.
SPEAKER_04 (05:44):
No, she's actually doing better.
Uh, well, okay.
The stiff syndrome or whateverthe hell she had.
Yes.
Yeah, she's doing better withthat, and she credits Ryan
Reynolds for it.
SPEAKER_03 (05:56):
Uh okay, elaborate.
SPEAKER_04 (05:59):
Uh, because of Deadpool 2 with that, it
something to do with that.
She really started working onher that syndrome or whatever
that she has.
SPEAKER_03 (06:10):
Well, uh, I mean, she's been working on it for a
while.
Um may I there's a God, I Idon't know if it was a
mini-series or if it's just likea one-shot like movie, but it's
a documentary uh about her andthat syndrome, um, which is
something honestly I would neverwatch, but yeah, my mom knows
(06:34):
this.
But the reason I watch it isshe's like, this kind of thing
is not your jam typically, butyou should watch this thing.
It's called I Am Celine Dion,and you know, i I was like, it's
amazing.
So I love Celine Dion afterthat, yeah.
As a person, and then everythinglike her music is objectively
fantastic, not not my thingthough.
(06:56):
Um, but yeah, as a person, she'sgreat.
And so we we had watched thatit's been a couple years, and
then I don't know.
Must have been the lat theOlympics two years ago.
She opened, she sang theopening, I think the opening
ceremony in Paris.
I think the first time sheperformed that she kind of
stopped performing.
And so yeah, she's really Imean, she's been working at it
(07:17):
and stuff, but God, you know,before all that shit, like her
fucking voice.
What a fucking there's a clipactually in the in the
documentary, just like they werein the studio, whatever, kind of
early, maybe earlier in hercareer, and they're like uh
sound check, sound check, andshe started she's like and she
(07:38):
sang like this just like blewthe doors off kind of thing that
she can do.
And they're like, whoa, okay.
The sound sounds like okay,okay.
Yeah.
And uh she's like, so somethinglike uh I think it just broke
the the sound man's board orsomething like that.
SPEAKER_04 (07:55):
She's got a hell of a voice, she's got a hell of a
voice.
Uh she got popular right aboutthe time that Koi was born.
Uh oh, you're right, because Ithink it was in '97 that Titanic
came out.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Yeah, Koi being born in '95.
And then he by the time I gothome from Long Cruise, Koi was
starting to crawl.
(08:15):
And there was one Celine Dionsong that my mom would always
hold him and rock him to.
So then when he was reallycrawling, he'd crawl over to
grandma to hold him, and thenshe'd rock him and he'd go to
sleep almost every time.
What song?
I don't remember which one itis.
Slow song?
Huh?
Slow song?
Yeah, I think it was.
(08:36):
I can't remember.
I'd have to ask Choy if heremembers because he's that you
should say, Yeah, I'd beinterested.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
Um, yeah, dude.
Uh and then she did uh what'sthat thing?
That fucking that that chubbyBritish dude who had a late
night show.
Oh god, yeah.
You know, oh the carpal karaoke.
Yeah, did you ever see when shedid that?
Yeah, oh god, I was so in lovewith her.
Yep, she's just a great sport,blah blah blah.
(09:03):
She did baby shark, she's sayingbaby shark.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:06):
Baby shark is that.
I'm like, that's the best babyshark I've ever heard.
SPEAKER_04 (09:10):
Yeah.
Saw that work.
That's tomorrow, is to get thefurniture and straight out from
underneath there in the blackstone.
And I'll just roll the barrelsup here.
SPEAKER_01 (09:22):
Roll out a barrel.
SPEAKER_04 (09:25):
I don't remember there's the song.
There you go.
Oh, yeah.
That was way before mygeneration.
SPEAKER_03 (09:33):
Oh, yeah, that was way back then.
SPEAKER_04 (09:35):
I probably learned that on Captain Kangaroo.
SPEAKER_03 (09:40):
That might be wow.
That might be the touch point ofthe crossover of our
generations.
The captain kangaroo?
Yeah, because like just when Iwas very young, that was the
thing.
Yeah.
Wasn't around for very long.
That's where our tips touched.
That's where our tips touched.
SPEAKER_04 (09:57):
I thought it'd at least be Sesame Street or the
Electric Company.
SPEAKER_03 (10:00):
Uh well, Sesame Street, yes, electric company,
no.
Uh, I I I've heard the I'veheard of it.
SPEAKER_04 (10:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:06):
I lost my flashlight, which I can't find
without my flashlight.
Do you have something?
SPEAKER_04 (10:11):
That's uh where Morgan Freeman started out was
Electric Company.
Uh damn it.
SPEAKER_02 (10:23):
Can I?
unknown (10:26):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (10:28):
There it is.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
That corner.
Yeah.
Got it.
Oh, yeah, I know what you'retalking about now.
Electric Avenue.
You're gonna buck down toelectric.
SPEAKER_04 (10:38):
No, that's a fucking disco song.
unknown (10:40):
Damn it.
SPEAKER_03 (10:42):
Yeah, Sesame Street, we had that.
Of course, that's that's notreally fair because that's been
going on for fucking ever.
SPEAKER_04 (10:49):
Uh since 1969 or 70.
SPEAKER_03 (10:52):
Yeah.
Um no, like Captain Kangaroo.
Because I'm thinking like ifthere's something that was like
uh in your childhood, yeah, andin my childhood, but only like
in that period.
Right.
Because Sesame Street's beengoing on forever.
(11:14):
Yeah, maybe Captain Kangaroo oruh Mr.
Rogers.
Mr.
Rogers loved Mr.
Rogers.
When did that end?
SPEAKER_04 (11:22):
Oh shit, it was in the 90s.
Right.
Uh well as when Fred Rogerspassed away.
SPEAKER_03 (11:29):
Oh, he did it till he died, huh?
SPEAKER_04 (11:31):
I didn't, I don't know if because he was out
before he died because I thinkhe had stomach cancer or some
shit.
Okay.
But yeah, like me as a kid, Iremember when Mr.
Hooper died on Sesame Street andshit, and then it's like they
actually explained because BigBird was asking, when's Mr.
Hooper coming back?
When's Mr.
Hooper?
(11:51):
And they had to explain to himthat Mr.
Hooper died, and that was likeeven at that age.
SPEAKER_03 (11:59):
That's so unprofessional, too.
You're trying to do a show, andBig Bird's like, Where's Mr.
Hooper?
Oh, look, it is clearing up.
Yeah, it is.
Uh, yeah, I didn't see that one.
Um probably Captain Kangaroo.
And honestly, I don't remember.
Uh I don't remember CaptainKangaroo.
(12:21):
Um, but I know it was around.
I remember a guy probably a holdon, don't just don't stop me
until I get to the end.
Like a sort of old old or likenot old, middle-aged ginger
fella.
A little chunky, maybe kind of alittle fat.
Little no chunky, in a red andwhite stripes outfit.
(12:42):
Did I get it?
SPEAKER_04 (12:46):
It wasn't striped.
But it was old.
So I got like one thing out ofseven.
Yeah, I got it.
SPEAKER_03 (12:54):
I'm gonna look it up now.
SPEAKER_04 (12:56):
Because he actually was the clown on howdy duty in
the 50s.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Okay, see now you've you've gone too far in the other
direction.
Oh yeah.
He looks like Scotty from StarTrek.
Yeah, with the mutton chops andshit.
Yeah.
Oh god, he's terrifying.
Oh my god, he's awful.
Him and Mr.
Green.
(13:21):
Oh, no wonder everybody's sofucked up.
Yeah.
He looks like a raper.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (13:27):
Jesus Christ.
Take it back, undo.
SPEAKER_03 (13:31):
Oh, well, that was 19.
So 1955 to 1992.
So.
Yeah.
Because I was at born in 83, so92 out of 9.
So yeah, you know, a coupleyears there.
I might remember something.
Power Rangers.
Oh, that was before after yourtime.
Oh, the Pink Power Ranger.
What about her?
SPEAKER_04 (13:52):
She was fucking odd.
Was she?
SPEAKER_01 (13:54):
How could you tell?
She would they had the PowerRangers.
SPEAKER_04 (13:57):
No, when they weren't when they were in their
civvies.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, because the kids' brotherwould watch the Power Rangers
and the Mutant Ninja Turtles andshit like that.
SPEAKER_03 (14:11):
Yeah, so that let's see.
Rob was born in '88.
Okay, so that was a long time.
Well, quite a bit before Koi.
Because I was thinking, well,maybe you do remember even not
having a kid that age.
Do you remember the fuckingMania?
Like over the Power Rangers?
Like toys and shit?
Oh, fuck yeah.
Oh my god.
Because Rob was so into it.
(14:32):
Yep.
And I remember my parents tryingto just trying to find like a
megazord or whatever toy.
Like fucking couldn't find him.
SPEAKER_04 (14:40):
Well, when Koi was little, it was the sleeping Elmo
or whatever the fuck it wascalled.
SPEAKER_03 (14:47):
Oh, Tickle Me?
SPEAKER_04 (14:48):
Yeah, the Tickle Me Elmo.
SPEAKER_03 (14:51):
That's so creepy in retrospect.
SPEAKER_04 (14:53):
And he wanted to Or do you want me to touch you,
Elmo?
Yeah.
And then he wanted one, and wehappened to walk into a KB Toys
in Vancouver, just not in themall, but by the Target.
And they had like six of them.
I'm like, are these then?
And the guy's like, yeah, if youwant one, you better get it
because people are gonna startjust fighting for them.
(15:14):
So we bought a koy one thatlasted all of up like five
minutes.
Did it break?
No, I got tired of it.
We just got tired of it.
Of groping Elma.
Yeah.
Teddy Ruxpin.
That's Teddy Ruxpin.
Put Ozzy Osborne in the fucking.
So you had that as a kid too?
No, that was kind of right atthe end of my you know grade
(15:36):
school era.
SPEAKER_03 (15:37):
Yeah.
Yeah, we had a Teddy Ruxpin.
Uh and then gosh.
Well, one thing that we had, ofcourse, well, of course, Legos,
but I guess we had Legos.
Uh well, we didn't for a while.
(15:58):
We had the off-brand ones andthey were terrible.
Oh, yeah, we had that's what wegot.
Yeah.
At some point we eventually gotsome Legos, but and then the
other army guys.
Do kids have army guys anymore?
They still sell them.
Have you ever seen kids as armyguys?
Because you know, you'd have youset up all your army guys.
And then you blow them up withfirecrackers.
Yes.
Yeah.
(16:18):
You had a whole like bucket ofarmy guys.
Yep.
I should get a bucket of armyguys for Robbie as a gift.
And you just be so you'd belike, what is this?
SPEAKER_04 (16:28):
You can get them for Kai and you can put them around
the cactus.
Oh.
Kai would probably love the armyguys.
Yeah, he would.
He's at that age now at four.
SPEAKER_02 (16:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:44):
Hi, Callie.
Hi, Callie.
Hi, girl.
Bailey's kind of jealous, is uh.
Imagine that.
Bailey jealous.
Yep.
(17:06):
Oh, jealous.
Yep.
Ah, Bailey.
Ah, Bailey, how are you?
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Huh, my pup must have gone tosleep.
Huh.
She's been quiet for a while.
Bailey, no, we don't need to dothat, sweetie.
I'll see that or she's insidedoing something terrible.
(17:31):
No, she's locked in her pen.
Ah.
Since she tore up those napkins.
SPEAKER_03 (17:37):
Why don't you prepare for image enhancing?
Yeah, so that was anotherfucking thing.
I was dealing with the Starlinkand shit earlier.
And while I was uh I was in thehouse and I was back and forth,
blah blah.
And uh at some point I was like,God, Hartley's being really
(17:57):
quiet right now.
Whatever he's doing, it's beenreally quiet, and I appreciate
that.
And then at some point I go outand he's chewing on a uh milk
jug.
Oh shit.
And I'm like, no.
So I put two full trash bags onthe back of the golf cart.
Oh my god, I go out there, it'sfucking everywhere, Mark.
(18:20):
Oh fuck.
Yeah, it's like it's just it'sone of those things, you know,
like you've had kids, you know.
I've heard Rob tell me.
It's like when you have littlekids, the worst possible sound
you can hear is nothing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:36):
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
Yeah, I was gonna call the trashcompany and see if I can't put
my trash on hold for a month.
Oh, um what why would you whatdo you mean well because they
they they're gonna come out andpick up my fucking cans, you
know, all the time.
SPEAKER_02 (18:57):
They don't they don't pick them up.
SPEAKER_03 (18:59):
I mean are you worried about paying for it or
no, I'm not worried about payingfor it.
I'm worried that here's what youdo just just turn them, either
pull them back in, right, orturn them away from the root
street.
Okay, because if that's how youknow that's how they know is if
they're on the street facing theroad, then they check them.
(19:19):
But if you have them just turnand the the smart ones, they
don't always do it, but smartgarbage men will when they empty
them, they'll turn them aroundto face back to your property.
Uh uh, so yeah, just turn themaround or just pull them up on
the driveway.
SPEAKER_04 (19:35):
Pull them up on the driveway, yeah.
Because somebody came through,one of them came through without
a garbage truck.
It was the middle of the week,and they grabbed the one that's
been sitting out there on theroad this whole time.
SPEAKER_03 (19:44):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (19:45):
And put it right back next to the other one.
Oh, and so when they came theother day to to dump it, I don't
know how the hell they grabbedit, how far their arm goes out
or whatever, but they dumped it.
Oh Mark.
What?
SPEAKER_03 (20:00):
No, no, no.
Hold on.
Oh, Mark.
Like my mom said, Oh Mark.
Yeah, they don't have a grabbyarm.
They have a guy.
Oh no shit.
Yeah, they have and that's whythat's what you you've seen me
do my trashes, right?
Yeah.
Double bag all the you know, allthe time.
They because the guy gets down,he opens the lid, and he pulls
(20:22):
the bags out himself.
Oh they don't have an arm thing.
Oh fuck, I thought they had anarm thing.
No, they don't have one.
SPEAKER_04 (20:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (20:30):
So you know, the more you know.
Yeah.
Oh, it moved it.
God damn it.
SPEAKER_04 (20:39):
Well, that makes me feel better than it's I can
leave them right up there, butyeah, I'll pull them up.
SPEAKER_03 (21:16):
Um my tripod anchor thing mabooby works works really
well.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, because I had it runningfor like three minutes.
It's on a 10 second intervalright now.
It was running for three minutesand I came back over here and it
hadn't captured anything.
(21:38):
I guess because it was movingtoo much.
And then I anchored it and itwas running for about a minute,
and it had captured like 40seconds, so like it was actually
capturing.
But then the bad news was afterI anchored it, uh well,
(21:58):
obviously I moved it a littlebit, probably.
What?
Okay, I take back everything Ijust said.
SPEAKER_04 (22:08):
Ryan and technology.
SPEAKER_03 (22:14):
I'm not good at it.
SPEAKER_04 (22:17):
Don't get there.
SPEAKER_03 (22:20):
Hang in there, Sanjay.
SPEAKER_04 (22:21):
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03 (22:30):
Five seconds.
Oh, okay.
Well, if I get ten, that'll begreat.
Almost dead.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um Yeah, man.
(22:52):
Apps.
Those are hard.
SPEAKER_04 (22:54):
Yeah.
Seen a little kid.
He wasn't little.
He was like in third grade.
This was like 10, 12 years ago.
And he he uh came up with a gameon an app and he posted it for
free.
And within like two months hehad over a million downloads.
How long ago was this?
(23:16):
It was like 10, 12 years ago, Ithink.
Flappy Bird, right?
Flappy Bird?
It might have been.
Because like, okay, finish yourstory.
Sorry.
But yeah, then after that, it'shis parents like next one he
does, because he just got a bookout of the library and learned
how to do it.
Oh.
This is or something like that.
This is next next one he does,they're gonna charge a dollar.
(23:36):
It's like, well, yeah, if youget a million fucking downloads.
SPEAKER_03 (23:40):
Yeah, uh, well that I know, right?
Well, the the Flappy Bird storywas I'll have to look it up.
It's been a while since I hadread about it, but it was
something like a totallydifferent story, but like
whoever developed it, like thedeveloper, he did it and put it
out there, and like of course itbecame wildly popular.
(24:04):
And if I recall, I think like hewas basically like, ah, I don't
want to deal with all this likepublicity and money, and like
he's just like, I'm out, and hejust disappeared and took the
game down.
And so, like, at least when Iwas reading about it back then,
the whole thing with Flappy Birdis like if you had on your
(24:25):
phone, then you had it, but nopeyou couldn't get it otherwise.
Oh shit.
SPEAKER_04 (24:31):
Dude, I was watching a guy today that me too.
Uh yeah, wrong guy.
But he has uh he bought a carwash and for one week he made
over$19,000 or something in acar wash.
Yeah.
Like fuck.
(24:52):
He's put a lot more money intoit.
No, yeah, he said that he therewas some for sale around where
he bought his uh for like twomil.
Yeah.
He bought his for like$340,000with an eighty thousand dollar
uh construction thing, you know,to upgrade it.
Yeah.
And then he put in like$50,000himself.
Wait, so he's in for four fivehundred thousand, right?
(25:17):
Pretty much.
Yeah.
But he fucky he says uh he doesthe best in winter time after a
snowstorm.
Yeah.
Or shit like that.
But it's like, holy shit, that'sa moneymaker.
SPEAKER_03 (25:32):
Well, it is it actually is um 19,000 a week.
Is that revenue or profit?
SPEAKER_04 (25:39):
Uh it would be like 13,000.
Well, he said his monthlyexpenses are about six thousand
dollars.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
Um, so I'll tell you this about car washes.
It's um it's it takes money toget into it.
You have to find them and thenlike if you can find the cheaper
ones like him, then you have toget them up to snuff and
whatever.
Once you get it going, like it'sI mean very low.
(26:08):
I mean, you still have to payfor chemicals and employees and
shit, but it's pretty low input.
Um but the other thing about carwashes is a lot of people have
got figured this out that thatexists, the opportunity.
And so it's kind of like thriftstores.
You remember like back in theday, thrift stores were great,
and then viral and wise out,yeah, they're fucking terrible.
(26:32):
Um I actually listened to apodcast about this about car
washes, people.
I have a podcast I think youwould actually like.
It is called The Economics ofEveryday Things.
And they basically are like,what's the deal with car washes?
Like, how does somebody get intothat?
What does it cost to buy it, torun?
(26:55):
What do they make?
And they're 15 minutes longtops.
They're super short.
Oh wow, I think you'd like it.
I probably would.
Yeah, I'll send you the oneabout car washes and you can see
what you think.
Um they're like bite-sizedpodcasts, yeah.
But they're usually prettyinteresting.
SPEAKER_04 (27:15):
Yeah, because Kloy uh has always talked about a car
wash or uh laundromat.
SPEAKER_03 (27:20):
That's uh there was an episode on that too.
Um same podcasts, andlaundromats are very similar to
car washes in that uh you buyinto it and either you pay like
a decent amount for it or youpay less and then you renovate
it, whatever.
And then you have like a verylow effort continuous revenue
(27:41):
stream.
Uh, but again, it's sort ofbecome like the thrift stores
and stuff, like people are ontoit.
Yeah.
But like uh that was a reallyinteresting one because like one
of the things is like they'vegot quarters, like coin, like
pounds, like hundreds of poundsof quarters, you know, how do
you deal with that?
(28:02):
And then the the the guy theyinterviewed, he's like, we don't
we just try not to, like we justtry to put them back in the
machine, yeah, like put thequarters in the cash machine.
But then they were talking aboutlike you know, you it's like
what's your yeah, I think youasked him like what's your
biggest like day-to-day sort ofobstacle?
He's like, dryer lint.
SPEAKER_04 (28:21):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (28:22):
Because I guess like they have this whole wall of
dryers, and it all goes to acentral thing in the back, and
like, you know, they gotta keepit cleaned out and shit, but
then if they don't, uh whatever.
It's just and then and then youget into like with a car washer,
a laundromat, electric, youknow.
Yeah, like for you know, for anormal household, uh dryer is
(28:46):
one of the biggest users ofelectricity.
Yep, and so you got you know 50of them or whatever.
Yeah, I'll send you those twoepisodes.
Yeah, maybe maybe as a podcasthost, you can get into a
podcast.
SPEAKER_04 (28:56):
Yeah, no shit.
SPEAKER_03 (28:58):
Yep, or like Robbie, you'd be like, eh, they're
boring.
SPEAKER_04 (29:01):
Yeah, because I went to the one.
If you go through the circle atCrockett, you know, when you go
past the pharmacy and stuff, andthen turn and head towards
Whataburger, there's that quicklube right before the stoplight.
Oh yeah.
And then there's a car wash inthere.
And I went in there to wash offthe truck when I was down here
(29:21):
the last time by myself.
Fucking truck didn't even fit inthis son of a bitch.
Trucks too long, trucks toowide.
You changed subjects fromlaundromass car washes.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:33):
Was it an auto cut?
It was a manual one, right?
SPEAKER_04 (29:35):
It was a manual one.
They had an auto one, but youcouldn't have a hitch in uh
receiver in, you couldn't havethis, you couldn't have that.
Bed had to be cleaned out, andit's like, nope, not happening.
SPEAKER_03 (29:45):
Dude, I saw a video today um on Reddit.
You probably saw it because youlook at stuff.
Um, it was a guy who'd gonethrough one of those auto car
washes where like the ones withthe brushes and stuff, yeah.
But in the bed of his pickup, hehad a reel of just wire, like
very thin, small wire, likehundreds of feet of it, and it
(30:09):
just got fucking tangled andsnared and on the other cars.
Like, oh what a fucking mess.
SPEAKER_04 (30:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (30:17):
I think this is turning out okay.
Oh, it looks like a sombreroalmost.
SPEAKER_04 (30:28):
Hard to believe that shit's out there.
Oh, oh, it's out there.
Yeah.
Yeah, I figured this weekendI'll get your help to put that
canopy on.
Yeah.
Whatever you can.
SPEAKER_03 (30:40):
I've only moved it 17 times for you so far, so no,
not the not that one.
Canopy for the truck.
Oh, yeah, I haven't done thatyet.
I'll yeah, I'll do that.
I mean, it's it I'm sure it'sheavy, but not for two of us
will be fine, right?
SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
It's about the same weight as the fifth wheel hitch.
Okay.
Yeah, perfect.
Rob put that fucker in there sogood.
You gotta it it sits down inthose slots.
SPEAKER_02 (31:08):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (31:08):
And then uh one of the feet, you actually have to
hit it a little bit to get it toline up, but it makes it tighter
than shit.
It's really nice.
Good.
So yeah, he did a great job onthat one.
Uh cat.
SPEAKER_03 (31:28):
That's not how I spell a car.
SPEAKER_04 (31:31):
Oh, dude, shooting star.
Did I get where where was it?
It was over here.
I can't see your hand.
Relative to your truck.
Uh oh shit, there's another onejust went that way.
Was it relative to what?
You might have got it in youryour w the second one I just
saw.
Oh, okay.
The first one, no, because itwas pretty much over the over
the tree.
SPEAKER_03 (31:51):
Okay, so I'm doing an astro with the phone from the
hood of the X-bed toward theback of the X bed.
Was it that direction?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, maybe maybe.
I don't I can't really.
We'll see.
That's a great answer.
I mean, well yo, I don't know.
(32:11):
No, I have well, I'm doing thetelescope, but then I put my
phone to do an astro over here.
That'd be cool if I got it.
I was trying to get like just alittle bit of tree in it.
SPEAKER_04 (32:24):
Right.
You know, it's nice.
That might have been up at toohigh of an angle.
But yeah, that's another thing Iwant to work learn before all
the fucking shooting stars go.
Yeah.
And then we can face because itsaid Orion's belt, you know,
Orion, and all the shit washappening over here when you
turned around.
It's all behind us.
SPEAKER_03 (32:43):
I know.
Yeah.
That reminds me, it's been awhile since I've heard Orion.
Yeah, Orion.
That was that was that wasn'tbad, right?
That wasn't bad at all.
You think anybody's done thatone before?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, god damn it.
So I got nothing.
I got no original jokes.
Is that what you're saying?
Neither do I.
Christina said, after threeyears, I repeat myself.
(33:05):
You do repeat yourself a lot.
I know.
But uh Oh, I had one.
I'll I'll ask you this becauseum I wasn't sure if this was the
original joke or I heardsomewhere.
But that night that like we'dbeen fucking around that
projector like for days, butthere was one night where both
of us were doing it.
We spent like four hours on it,and like we started and like the
(33:29):
film goes in and then it breaks,just like, oh god damn it.
And like and then you don't havethe motor running, but the
lamp's still on, so it burns thefilm.
Oh, yeah.
Like, oh shit.
So we're going through all thisstuff, and it didn't work, but
it kind of worked, but it almostwouldn't work.
And it's I'm like, oh, we'regetting so frustrated with it.
And I was like, you know, I kindof I feel like I'm not seeing
(33:51):
any movies, but kind of gettinga feel for the experience of
watching movies.
And she's like, Oh yeah, it'slike it was a whole thing.
Because you know, the uncleswould be over, blah blah blah.
Everybody's there, you know, inthe living room, and the thing
never fucking works, and it wasalways breaking.
And I was like, Yeah, I can justimagine it, you know.
Like your dad with a cigar,cigarette, like, goddamn this
(34:14):
fucking thing.
And then your mom comes out,she's like, What's wrong with
it?
And here's here's the joke thatI thought was my original, but
I'm not sure.
And then I'm like, your dad'slike, God damn it, we won't get
back in the kitchen.
That meatloaf meatloaf ain'tgonna dry itself out.
Oh shit.
Is that my is that?
SPEAKER_04 (34:31):
That's pretty new, yeah.
You have you heard that before?
SPEAKER_03 (34:34):
I've heard about meatloaf drying out not get your
ass back in the kitchen becausethe meatloaf's not gonna dry
itself out.
Have you ever heard that joke?
Uh-uh.
Me too, yeah.
I was like, She's like, Where'dyou hear that?
I'm like, I think I just came upwith that.
But she was fucking dying, andthen I was getting all into it,
and I'm like, God damn it, I'llknock you across the coffee
table one more fucking day.
Yeah.
(34:55):
Yep.
Oh, I think it's done.
Yeah.
And then I was telling her,like, I could just fucking see
this, you know.
You got fucking uncles, cousins,everyone.
We'll show you the whole videofrom our trip to Disneyland.
And then you're over there, thefucking things breaking, blah,
(35:15):
blah.
And then, like, you know, whenyour uncle's like, well, we got,
I told you get that one fromMontgomery Ward.
We got that one, it doesn't skiplike this.
You're like, God damn it, Bill,shut your fucking mouth.
Yeah.
(35:39):
Well, that was fun, right?
Kind of there's lots of stuff inthere that I forgot about.
Uh we really again, I think thetakeaway is we really shouldn't
be allowed to have a podcast,but anyway.
SPEAKER_04 (35:52):
Wait till we do it drunk.
SPEAKER_03 (35:54):
There you go.
Yeah, we'll have to come up witha name for that one.
In the whatever, in the drink.
SPEAKER_04 (35:59):
Drunk in the wild.
Lost in the wild.
SPEAKER_03 (36:02):
Yeah.
But anyway, hope you all enjoyedthat uh episode of our in the
wild episode.
Um and that's it.
So I'll catch y'all later.
SPEAKER_04 (36:10):
Have a good one.
Hey, it's Mark here at StetCentered.
Uh, just want to let everybodyknow that if they want to catch
us on the socials, you can catchus at our webpage,
setcenter.live, or on Facebookat StetcenterLive.
(36:34):
Uh, we'll maybe post some littlestupid videos that we've done,
stuff like that, that's where wekeep on going.
And also, we've talked a lotabout the animals here on the
ranch.
And you can we'll post picturesof them.
We'll see how it goes.
Let us know.
How are we going?
Hey everybody, welcome back to Marker.
Yeah, we have a little somethingspecial, a little different
today.
Um we have uh we actually haveanother in the wild episode that
the editor forgot about.
Um and uh it was recorded beforeyou left.
Uh so I thought um I thoughtwe'd go ahead and uh and we go
(00:32):
ahead and play that one today.
Those were those were prettyfun, right?
SPEAKER_04 (00:36):
Yeah, those were a blast.
I enjoyed those.
SPEAKER_03 (00:38):
Yeah, me too.
Um so yeah, here's uh in thewild.
Um again, I think we're outthere trying to mess with our
telescopes in this one, um, andprobably failing.
I would imagine.
Always.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
So uh hope you enjoy.
Here it goes.
(00:59):
I'm like, and I think I told youthat drone has the lidar and all
the you know the stuff.
No.
I didn't tell you this.
No, fuck no.
Well, if you can I go pee beforeI tell you Oh, Jesus Christ,
little bladder.
The size of proton, and there'snothing wrong with it.
SPEAKER_04 (01:16):
Proton.
Firing proton port torpedoes.
No, photon.
Photon.
Well, mine's a proton.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (01:29):
Oh, that actually reminds me of a beef I have
about Star Trek since we'retalking about that.
Which is one that continues, Imean, pretty much to this day.
Yeah, I told you to, I told you,you know what?
I'll I'll remind you, you mayhave forgotten.
Since you're off Star Trekschool thing, whatever, academy.
(01:50):
Uh uh Picard season three.
SPEAKER_01 (01:53):
Yeah.
Remember we talked about that?
SPEAKER_03 (01:54):
Yeah.
Yeah, it's great.
Um, but no, and in that one,they did it again multiple
times.
This drives me crazy about StarTrek.
Be like, you know, enemy ship,whatever, and uh they're like
uh, you know, give themeverything we got, full fire,
blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:14):
Everything we got.
It's like boom, boom, boom.
SPEAKER_03 (02:17):
Three little torpedoes.
Yeah.
I'm like, you got more thanthat.
SPEAKER_04 (02:20):
Yeah, come on, man.
Yeah, they uh I heard that sinceuh in 27 is the 50th anniversary
of Star Wars.
Star Wars, yes.
They're coming out with theoriginal from 1977 and they're
getting rid of all this shitthat um what's his name did, you
(02:43):
know, on the second one where ithad Java Yeah, Gilo.
Or G Lu.
Yeah, it had him in it andstuff.
It's gonna be the original one,but it's gonna I think they're
gonna update it to like just thequality of it and shit.
So that should be pretty good.
SPEAKER_03 (02:57):
So I assume you mean they're talking like a
theatrical re-release.
SPEAKER_04 (03:00):
Yeah, they're gonna put it out in the theater.
That's fuck.
SPEAKER_03 (03:03):
It'll be a make bucku bucks off of that.
Oh, yeah.
They're also, I think.
I guess I saw something earlierthat they're making either a
movie or a show with RyanGosling or Phillips called
Starfighter, maybe?
Huh.
Uh I could be wrong about that.
SPEAKER_04 (03:21):
I don't know.
Yeah, I watched the Adam Projectagain the other night.
Since the last time you told meyou watched it?
SPEAKER_03 (03:30):
Yeah, I really like that.
Dude, I'm gonna okay, you knowwhat?
I'm not gonna judge because Ikeep I get into these things
too, and it makes me want towatch it again because I watched
it and I really liked it too.
And so maybe I would really,really like it.
No, I mean it was a really funmovie, and I had meant to watch
it again, but the fact that youwatch it that often means it's
(03:51):
probably a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_04 (03:52):
Yeah, I I I really because it the way it's set up
and stuff, and I just like RyanReynolds.
I mean, I've watched uh Deadpoola few times, oh well, all of
them, and then I like the Ireally like the one with uh
Wolverine in it.
Did you Deadpool and Wolverine?
SPEAKER_03 (04:13):
No, is that what you meant?
Deadpool and Wolverine?
SPEAKER_04 (04:16):
Well, I like the the first two Deadpools, and then
now they have one?
Yeah, there's two Deadpools.
Okay, and then they came outwith uh Deadpool and Wolverine,
and it was funny as fuck.
Really?
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:29):
Uh I didn't know that.
Did you watch um Van Wilder?
Oh, dude, a hundred times.
Well, it's okay, it'sinteresting.
So the reason I ask is becauselike me too, and I really like
Ryan Reynolds too, but like I'mfeeling it's starting to wear on
(04:50):
me a little bit, his wholeshtick, you know?
Oh, really?
Because he's always kind of RyanReynolds, and maybe in the Adam
part it well, he's always gotthat thing.
Um but I mean like he's great.
The only thing about DeadpoolI've ever seen, and I don't even
know if this was in the movie ornot, but it was uh Celine Dion
(05:12):
singing.
Oh, Deadpool 2, yeah.
It was in the movie, yeah.
I think it fucking died becauseit was in the movie.
I don't know.
It may have been just a promothing, right?
But she's singing, you know, andjust blowing it out, and he's in
the theater, and he's like, Oh,you know, that's a little over
the top.
It's like Deadpool.
Like, can you take it down tolike a six, maybe?
(05:33):
And she goes, she's like, Thisthing only goes to eleven.
Yeah, that's fantastic, that'shilarious.
And that thing only does go toeleven when she's singing, which
is all fucked up now.
SPEAKER_04 (05:44):
No, she's actually doing better.
Uh, well, okay.
The stiff syndrome or whateverthe hell she had.
Yes.
Yeah, she's doing better withthat, and she credits Ryan
Reynolds for it.
SPEAKER_03 (05:56):
Uh okay, elaborate.
SPEAKER_04 (05:59):
Uh, because of Deadpool 2 with that, it
something to do with that.
She really started working onher that syndrome or whatever
that she has.
SPEAKER_03 (06:10):
Well, uh, I mean, she's been working on it for a
while.
Um may I there's a God, I Idon't know if it was a
mini-series or if it's just likea one-shot like movie, but it's
a documentary uh about her andthat syndrome, um, which is
something honestly I would neverwatch, but yeah, my mom knows
(06:34):
this.
But the reason I watch it isshe's like, this kind of thing
is not your jam typically, butyou should watch this thing.
It's called I Am Celine Dion,and you know, i I was like, it's
amazing.
So I love Celine Dion afterthat, yeah.
As a person, and then everythinglike her music is objectively
fantastic, not not my thingthough.
(06:56):
Um, but yeah, as a person, she'sgreat.
And so we we had watched thatit's been a couple years, and
then I don't know.
Must have been the lat theOlympics two years ago.
She opened, she sang theopening, I think the opening
ceremony in Paris.
I think the first time sheperformed that she kind of
stopped performing.
And so yeah, she's really Imean, she's been working at it
(07:17):
and stuff, but God, you know,before all that shit, like her
fucking voice.
What a fucking there's a clipactually in the in the
documentary, just like they werein the studio, whatever, kind of
early, maybe earlier in hercareer, and they're like uh
sound check, sound check, andshe started she's like and she
(07:38):
sang like this just like blewthe doors off kind of thing that
she can do.
And they're like, whoa, okay.
The sound sounds like okay,okay.
Yeah.
And uh she's like, so somethinglike uh I think it just broke
the the sound man's board orsomething like that.
SPEAKER_04 (07:55):
She's got a hell of a voice, she's got a hell of a
voice.
Uh she got popular right aboutthe time that Koi was born.
Uh oh, you're right, because Ithink it was in '97 that Titanic
came out.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Yeah, Koi being born in '95.
And then he by the time I gothome from Long Cruise, Koi was
starting to crawl.
(08:15):
And there was one Celine Dionsong that my mom would always
hold him and rock him to.
So then when he was reallycrawling, he'd crawl over to
grandma to hold him, and thenshe'd rock him and he'd go to
sleep almost every time.
What song?
I don't remember which one itis.
Slow song?
Huh?
Slow song?
Yeah, I think it was.
(08:36):
I can't remember.
I'd have to ask Choy if heremembers because he's that you
should say, Yeah, I'd beinterested.
SPEAKER_03 (08:41):
Um, yeah, dude.
Uh and then she did uh what'sthat thing?
That fucking that that chubbyBritish dude who had a late
night show.
Oh god, yeah.
You know, oh the carpal karaoke.
Yeah, did you ever see when shedid that?
Yeah, oh god, I was so in lovewith her.
Yep, she's just a great sport,blah blah blah.
(09:03):
She did baby shark, she's sayingbaby shark.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (09:06):
Baby shark is that.
I'm like, that's the best babyshark I've ever heard.
SPEAKER_04 (09:10):
Yeah.
Saw that work.
That's tomorrow, is to get thefurniture and straight out from
underneath there in the blackstone.
And I'll just roll the barrelsup here.
SPEAKER_01 (09:22):
Roll out a barrel.
SPEAKER_04 (09:25):
I don't remember there's the song.
There you go.
Oh, yeah.
That was way before mygeneration.
SPEAKER_03 (09:33):
Oh, yeah, that was way back then.
SPEAKER_04 (09:35):
I probably learned that on Captain Kangaroo.
SPEAKER_03 (09:40):
That might be wow.
That might be the touch point ofthe crossover of our
generations.
The captain kangaroo?
Yeah, because like just when Iwas very young, that was the
thing.
Yeah.
Wasn't around for very long.
That's where our tips touched.
That's where our tips touched.
SPEAKER_04 (09:57):
I thought it'd at least be Sesame Street or the
Electric Company.
SPEAKER_03 (10:00):
Uh well, Sesame Street, yes, electric company,
no.
Uh, I I I've heard the I'veheard of it.
SPEAKER_04 (10:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:06):
I lost my flashlight, which I can't find
without my flashlight.
Do you have something?
SPEAKER_04 (10:11):
That's uh where Morgan Freeman started out was
Electric Company.
Uh damn it.
SPEAKER_02 (10:23):
Can I?
unknown (10:26):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (10:28):
There it is.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
That corner.
Yeah.
Got it.
Oh, yeah, I know what you'retalking about now.
Electric Avenue.
You're gonna buck down toelectric.
SPEAKER_04 (10:38):
No, that's a fucking disco song.
unknown (10:40):
Damn it.
SPEAKER_03 (10:42):
Yeah, Sesame Street, we had that.
Of course, that's that's notreally fair because that's been
going on for fucking ever.
SPEAKER_04 (10:49):
Uh since 1969 or 70.
SPEAKER_03 (10:52):
Yeah.
Um no, like Captain Kangaroo.
Because I'm thinking like ifthere's something that was like
uh in your childhood, yeah, andin my childhood, but only like
in that period.
Right.
Because Sesame Street's beengoing on forever.
(11:14):
Yeah, maybe Captain Kangaroo oruh Mr.
Rogers.
Mr.
Rogers loved Mr.
Rogers.
When did that end?
SPEAKER_04 (11:22):
Oh shit, it was in the 90s.
Right.
Uh well as when Fred Rogerspassed away.
SPEAKER_03 (11:29):
Oh, he did it till he died, huh?
SPEAKER_04 (11:31):
I didn't, I don't know if because he was out
before he died because I thinkhe had stomach cancer or some
shit.
Okay.
But yeah, like me as a kid, Iremember when Mr.
Hooper died on Sesame Street andshit, and then it's like they
actually explained because BigBird was asking, when's Mr.
Hooper coming back?
When's Mr.
Hooper?
(11:51):
And they had to explain to himthat Mr.
Hooper died, and that was likeeven at that age.
SPEAKER_03 (11:59):
That's so unprofessional, too.
You're trying to do a show, andBig Bird's like, Where's Mr.
Hooper?
Oh, look, it is clearing up.
Yeah, it is.
Uh, yeah, I didn't see that one.
Um probably Captain Kangaroo.
And honestly, I don't remember.
Uh I don't remember CaptainKangaroo.
(12:21):
Um, but I know it was around.
I remember a guy probably a holdon, don't just don't stop me
until I get to the end.
Like a sort of old old or likenot old, middle-aged ginger
fella.
A little chunky, maybe kind of alittle fat.
Little no chunky, in a red andwhite stripes outfit.
(12:42):
Did I get it?
SPEAKER_04 (12:46):
It wasn't striped.
But it was old.
So I got like one thing out ofseven.
Yeah, I got it.
SPEAKER_03 (12:54):
I'm gonna look it up now.
SPEAKER_04 (12:56):
Because he actually was the clown on howdy duty in
the 50s.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Okay, see now you've you've gone too far in the other
direction.
Oh yeah.
He looks like Scotty from StarTrek.
Yeah, with the mutton chops andshit.
Yeah.
Oh god, he's terrifying.
Oh my god, he's awful.
Him and Mr.
Green.
(13:21):
Oh, no wonder everybody's sofucked up.
Yeah.
He looks like a raper.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (13:27):
Jesus Christ.
Take it back, undo.
SPEAKER_03 (13:31):
Oh, well, that was 19.
So 1955 to 1992.
So.
Yeah.
Because I was at born in 83, so92 out of 9.
So yeah, you know, a coupleyears there.
I might remember something.
Power Rangers.
Oh, that was before after yourtime.
Oh, the Pink Power Ranger.
What about her?
SPEAKER_04 (13:52):
She was fucking odd.
Was she?
SPEAKER_01 (13:54):
How could you tell?
She would they had the PowerRangers.
SPEAKER_04 (13:57):
No, when they weren't when they were in their
civvies.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, because the kids' brotherwould watch the Power Rangers
and the Mutant Ninja Turtles andshit like that.
SPEAKER_03 (14:11):
Yeah, so that let's see.
Rob was born in '88.
Okay, so that was a long time.
Well, quite a bit before Koi.
Because I was thinking, well,maybe you do remember even not
having a kid that age.
Do you remember the fuckingMania?
Like over the Power Rangers?
Like toys and shit?
Oh, fuck yeah.
Oh my god.
Because Rob was so into it.
(14:32):
Yep.
And I remember my parents tryingto just trying to find like a
megazord or whatever toy.
Like fucking couldn't find him.
SPEAKER_04 (14:40):
Well, when Koi was little, it was the sleeping Elmo
or whatever the fuck it wascalled.
SPEAKER_03 (14:47):
Oh, Tickle Me?
SPEAKER_04 (14:48):
Yeah, the Tickle Me Elmo.
SPEAKER_03 (14:51):
That's so creepy in retrospect.
SPEAKER_04 (14:53):
And he wanted to Or do you want me to touch you,
Elmo?
Yeah.
And then he wanted one, and wehappened to walk into a KB Toys
in Vancouver, just not in themall, but by the Target.
And they had like six of them.
I'm like, are these then?
And the guy's like, yeah, if youwant one, you better get it
because people are gonna startjust fighting for them.
(15:14):
So we bought a koy one thatlasted all of up like five
minutes.
Did it break?
No, I got tired of it.
We just got tired of it.
Of groping Elma.
Yeah.
Teddy Ruxpin.
That's Teddy Ruxpin.
Put Ozzy Osborne in the fucking.
So you had that as a kid too?
No, that was kind of right atthe end of my you know grade
(15:36):
school era.
SPEAKER_03 (15:37):
Yeah.
Yeah, we had a Teddy Ruxpin.
Uh and then gosh.
Well, one thing that we had, ofcourse, well, of course, Legos,
but I guess we had Legos.
Uh well, we didn't for a while.
(15:58):
We had the off-brand ones andthey were terrible.
Oh, yeah, we had that's what wegot.
Yeah.
At some point we eventually gotsome Legos, but and then the
other army guys.
Do kids have army guys anymore?
They still sell them.
Have you ever seen kids as armyguys?
Because you know, you'd have youset up all your army guys.
And then you blow them up withfirecrackers.
Yes.
Yeah.
(16:18):
You had a whole like bucket ofarmy guys.
Yep.
I should get a bucket of armyguys for Robbie as a gift.
And you just be so you'd belike, what is this?
SPEAKER_04 (16:28):
You can get them for Kai and you can put them around
the cactus.
Oh.
Kai would probably love the armyguys.
Yeah, he would.
He's at that age now at four.
SPEAKER_02 (16:38):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:44):
Hi, Callie.
Hi, Callie.
Hi, girl.
Bailey's kind of jealous, is uh.
Imagine that.
Bailey jealous.
Yep.
(17:06):
Oh, jealous.
Yep.
Ah, Bailey.
Ah, Bailey, how are you?
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Huh, my pup must have gone tosleep.
Huh.
She's been quiet for a while.
Bailey, no, we don't need to dothat, sweetie.
I'll see that or she's insidedoing something terrible.
(17:31):
No, she's locked in her pen.
Ah.
Since she tore up those napkins.
SPEAKER_03 (17:37):
Why don't you prepare for image enhancing?
Yeah, so that was anotherfucking thing.
I was dealing with the Starlinkand shit earlier.
And while I was uh I was in thehouse and I was back and forth,
blah blah.
And uh at some point I was like,God, Hartley's being really
(17:57):
quiet right now.
Whatever he's doing, it's beenreally quiet, and I appreciate
that.
And then at some point I go outand he's chewing on a uh milk
jug.
Oh shit.
And I'm like, no.
So I put two full trash bags onthe back of the golf cart.
Oh my god, I go out there, it'sfucking everywhere, Mark.
(18:20):
Oh fuck.
Yeah, it's like it's just it'sone of those things, you know,
like you've had kids, you know.
I've heard Rob tell me.
It's like when you have littlekids, the worst possible sound
you can hear is nothing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:36):
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
Yeah, I was gonna call the trashcompany and see if I can't put
my trash on hold for a month.
Oh, um what why would you whatdo you mean well because they
they they're gonna come out andpick up my fucking cans, you
know, all the time.
SPEAKER_02 (18:57):
They don't they don't pick them up.
SPEAKER_03 (18:59):
I mean are you worried about paying for it or
no, I'm not worried about payingfor it.
I'm worried that here's what youdo just just turn them, either
pull them back in, right, orturn them away from the root
street.
Okay, because if that's how youknow that's how they know is if
they're on the street facing theroad, then they check them.
(19:19):
But if you have them just turnand the the smart ones, they
don't always do it, but smartgarbage men will when they empty
them, they'll turn them aroundto face back to your property.
Uh uh, so yeah, just turn themaround or just pull them up on
the driveway.
SPEAKER_04 (19:35):
Pull them up on the driveway, yeah.
Because somebody came through,one of them came through without
a garbage truck.
It was the middle of the week,and they grabbed the one that's
been sitting out there on theroad this whole time.
SPEAKER_03 (19:44):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (19:45):
And put it right back next to the other one.
Oh, and so when they came theother day to to dump it, I don't
know how the hell they grabbedit, how far their arm goes out
or whatever, but they dumped it.
Oh Mark.
What?
SPEAKER_03 (20:00):
No, no, no.
Hold on.
Oh, Mark.
Like my mom said, Oh Mark.
Yeah, they don't have a grabbyarm.
They have a guy.
Oh no shit.
Yeah, they have and that's whythat's what you you've seen me
do my trashes, right?
Yeah.
Double bag all the you know, allthe time.
They because the guy gets down,he opens the lid, and he pulls
(20:22):
the bags out himself.
Oh they don't have an arm thing.
Oh fuck, I thought they had anarm thing.
No, they don't have one.
SPEAKER_04 (20:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (20:30):
So you know, the more you know.
Yeah.
Oh, it moved it.
God damn it.
SPEAKER_04 (20:39):
Well, that makes me feel better than it's I can
leave them right up there, butyeah, I'll pull them up.
SPEAKER_03 (21:16):
Um my tripod anchor thing mabooby works works really
well.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, because I had it runningfor like three minutes.
It's on a 10 second intervalright now.
It was running for three minutesand I came back over here and it
hadn't captured anything.
(21:38):
I guess because it was movingtoo much.
And then I anchored it and itwas running for about a minute,
and it had captured like 40seconds, so like it was actually
capturing.
But then the bad news was afterI anchored it, uh well,
(21:58):
obviously I moved it a littlebit, probably.
What?
Okay, I take back everything Ijust said.
SPEAKER_04 (22:08):
Ryan and technology.
SPEAKER_03 (22:14):
I'm not good at it.
SPEAKER_04 (22:17):
Don't get there.
SPEAKER_03 (22:20):
Hang in there, Sanjay.
SPEAKER_04 (22:21):
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03 (22:30):
Five seconds.
Oh, okay.
Well, if I get ten, that'll begreat.
Almost dead.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um Yeah, man.
(22:52):
Apps.
Those are hard.
SPEAKER_04 (22:54):
Yeah.
Seen a little kid.
He wasn't little.
He was like in third grade.
This was like 10, 12 years ago.
And he he uh came up with a gameon an app and he posted it for
free.
And within like two months hehad over a million downloads.
How long ago was this?
(23:16):
It was like 10, 12 years ago, Ithink.
Flappy Bird, right?
Flappy Bird?
It might have been.
Because like, okay, finish yourstory.
Sorry.
But yeah, then after that, it'shis parents like next one he
does, because he just got a bookout of the library and learned
how to do it.
Oh.
This is or something like that.
This is next next one he does,they're gonna charge a dollar.
(23:36):
It's like, well, yeah, if youget a million fucking downloads.
SPEAKER_03 (23:40):
Yeah, uh, well that I know, right?
Well, the the Flappy Bird storywas I'll have to look it up.
It's been a while since I hadread about it, but it was
something like a totallydifferent story, but like
whoever developed it, like thedeveloper, he did it and put it
out there, and like of course itbecame wildly popular.
(24:04):
And if I recall, I think like hewas basically like, ah, I don't
want to deal with all this likepublicity and money, and like
he's just like, I'm out, and hejust disappeared and took the
game down.
And so, like, at least when Iwas reading about it back then,
the whole thing with Flappy Birdis like if you had on your
(24:25):
phone, then you had it, but nopeyou couldn't get it otherwise.
Oh shit.
SPEAKER_04 (24:31):
Dude, I was watching a guy today that me too.
Uh yeah, wrong guy.
But he has uh he bought a carwash and for one week he made
over$19,000 or something in acar wash.
Yeah.
Like fuck.
(24:52):
He's put a lot more money intoit.
No, yeah, he said that he therewas some for sale around where
he bought his uh for like twomil.
Yeah.
He bought his for like$340,000with an eighty thousand dollar
uh construction thing, you know,to upgrade it.
Yeah.
And then he put in like$50,000himself.
Wait, so he's in for four fivehundred thousand, right?
(25:17):
Pretty much.
Yeah.
But he fucky he says uh he doesthe best in winter time after a
snowstorm.
Yeah.
Or shit like that.
But it's like, holy shit, that'sa moneymaker.
SPEAKER_03 (25:32):
Well, it is it actually is um 19,000 a week.
Is that revenue or profit?
SPEAKER_04 (25:39):
Uh it would be like 13,000.
Well, he said his monthlyexpenses are about six thousand
dollars.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
Um, so I'll tell you this about car washes.
It's um it's it takes money toget into it.
You have to find them and thenlike if you can find the cheaper
ones like him, then you have toget them up to snuff and
whatever.
Once you get it going, like it'sI mean very low.
(26:08):
I mean, you still have to payfor chemicals and employees and
shit, but it's pretty low input.
Um but the other thing about carwashes is a lot of people have
got figured this out that thatexists, the opportunity.
And so it's kind of like thriftstores.
You remember like back in theday, thrift stores were great,
and then viral and wise out,yeah, they're fucking terrible.
(26:32):
Um I actually listened to apodcast about this about car
washes, people.
I have a podcast I think youwould actually like.
It is called The Economics ofEveryday Things.
And they basically are like,what's the deal with car washes?
Like, how does somebody get intothat?
What does it cost to buy it, torun?
(26:55):
What do they make?
And they're 15 minutes longtops.
They're super short.
Oh wow, I think you'd like it.
I probably would.
Yeah, I'll send you the oneabout car washes and you can see
what you think.
Um they're like bite-sizedpodcasts, yeah.
But they're usually prettyinteresting.
SPEAKER_04 (27:15):
Yeah, because Kloy uh has always talked about a car
wash or uh laundromat.
SPEAKER_03 (27:20):
That's uh there was an episode on that too.
Um same podcasts, andlaundromats are very similar to
car washes in that uh you buyinto it and either you pay like
a decent amount for it or youpay less and then you renovate
it, whatever.
And then you have like a verylow effort continuous revenue
(27:41):
stream.
Uh, but again, it's sort ofbecome like the thrift stores
and stuff, like people are ontoit.
Yeah.
But like uh that was a reallyinteresting one because like one
of the things is like they'vegot quarters, like coin, like
pounds, like hundreds of poundsof quarters, you know, how do
you deal with that?
(28:02):
And then the the the guy theyinterviewed, he's like, we don't
we just try not to, like we justtry to put them back in the
machine, yeah, like put thequarters in the cash machine.
But then they were talking aboutlike you know, you it's like
what's your yeah, I think youasked him like what's your
biggest like day-to-day sort ofobstacle?
He's like, dryer lint.
SPEAKER_04 (28:21):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (28:22):
Because I guess like they have this whole wall of
dryers, and it all goes to acentral thing in the back, and
like, you know, they gotta keepit cleaned out and shit, but
then if they don't, uh whatever.
It's just and then and then youget into like with a car washer,
a laundromat, electric, youknow.
Yeah, like for you know, for anormal household, uh dryer is
(28:46):
one of the biggest users ofelectricity.
Yep, and so you got you know 50of them or whatever.
Yeah, I'll send you those twoepisodes.
Yeah, maybe maybe as a podcasthost, you can get into a
podcast.
SPEAKER_04 (28:56):
Yeah, no shit.
SPEAKER_03 (28:58):
Yep, or like Robbie, you'd be like, eh, they're
boring.
SPEAKER_04 (29:01):
Yeah, because I went to the one.
If you go through the circle atCrockett, you know, when you go
past the pharmacy and stuff, andthen turn and head towards
Whataburger, there's that quicklube right before the stoplight.
Oh yeah.
And then there's a car wash inthere.
And I went in there to wash offthe truck when I was down here
(29:21):
the last time by myself.
Fucking truck didn't even fit inthis son of a bitch.
Trucks too long, trucks toowide.
You changed subjects fromlaundromass car washes.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:33):
Was it an auto cut?
It was a manual one, right?
SPEAKER_04 (29:35):
It was a manual one.
They had an auto one, but youcouldn't have a hitch in uh
receiver in, you couldn't havethis, you couldn't have that.
Bed had to be cleaned out, andit's like, nope, not happening.
SPEAKER_03 (29:45):
Dude, I saw a video today um on Reddit.
You probably saw it because youlook at stuff.
Um, it was a guy who'd gonethrough one of those auto car
washes where like the ones withthe brushes and stuff, yeah.
But in the bed of his pickup, hehad a reel of just wire, like
very thin, small wire, likehundreds of feet of it, and it
(30:09):
just got fucking tangled andsnared and on the other cars.
Like, oh what a fucking mess.
SPEAKER_04 (30:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (30:17):
I think this is turning out okay.
Oh, it looks like a sombreroalmost.
SPEAKER_04 (30:28):
Hard to believe that shit's out there.
Oh, oh, it's out there.
Yeah.
Yeah, I figured this weekendI'll get your help to put that
canopy on.
Yeah.
Whatever you can.
SPEAKER_03 (30:40):
I've only moved it 17 times for you so far, so no,
not the not that one.
Canopy for the truck.
Oh, yeah, I haven't done thatyet.
I'll yeah, I'll do that.
I mean, it's it I'm sure it'sheavy, but not for two of us
will be fine, right?
SPEAKER_04 (30:54):
It's about the same weight as the fifth wheel hitch.
Okay.
Yeah, perfect.
Rob put that fucker in there sogood.
You gotta it it sits down inthose slots.
SPEAKER_02 (31:08):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (31:08):
And then uh one of the feet, you actually have to
hit it a little bit to get it toline up, but it makes it tighter
than shit.
It's really nice.
Good.
So yeah, he did a great job onthat one.
Uh cat.
SPEAKER_03 (31:28):
That's not how I spell a car.
SPEAKER_04 (31:31):
Oh, dude, shooting star.
Did I get where where was it?
It was over here.
I can't see your hand.
Relative to your truck.
Uh oh shit, there's another onejust went that way.
Was it relative to what?
You might have got it in youryour w the second one I just
saw.
Oh, okay.
The first one, no, because itwas pretty much over the over
the tree.
SPEAKER_03 (31:51):
Okay, so I'm doing an astro with the phone from the
hood of the X-bed toward theback of the X bed.
Was it that direction?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, maybe maybe.
I don't I can't really.
We'll see.
That's a great answer.
I mean, well yo, I don't know.
(32:11):
No, I have well, I'm doing thetelescope, but then I put my
phone to do an astro over here.
That'd be cool if I got it.
I was trying to get like just alittle bit of tree in it.
SPEAKER_04 (32:24):
Right.
You know, it's nice.
That might have been up at toohigh of an angle.
But yeah, that's another thing Iwant to work learn before all
the fucking shooting stars go.
Yeah.
And then we can face because itsaid Orion's belt, you know,
Orion, and all the shit washappening over here when you
turned around.
It's all behind us.
SPEAKER_03 (32:43):
I know.
Yeah.
That reminds me, it's been awhile since I've heard Orion.
Yeah, Orion.
That was that was that wasn'tbad, right?
That wasn't bad at all.
You think anybody's done thatone before?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, god damn it.
So I got nothing.
I got no original jokes.
Is that what you're saying?
Neither do I.
Christina said, after threeyears, I repeat myself.
(33:05):
You do repeat yourself a lot.
I know.
But uh Oh, I had one.
I'll I'll ask you this becauseum I wasn't sure if this was the
original joke or I heardsomewhere.
But that night that like we'dbeen fucking around that
projector like for days, butthere was one night where both
of us were doing it.
We spent like four hours on it,and like we started and like the
(33:29):
film goes in and then it breaks,just like, oh god damn it.
And like and then you don't havethe motor running, but the
lamp's still on, so it burns thefilm.
Oh, yeah.
Like, oh shit.
So we're going through all thisstuff, and it didn't work, but
it kind of worked, but it almostwouldn't work.
And it's I'm like, oh, we'regetting so frustrated with it.
And I was like, you know, I kindof I feel like I'm not seeing
(33:51):
any movies, but kind of gettinga feel for the experience of
watching movies.
And she's like, Oh yeah, it'slike it was a whole thing.
Because you know, the uncleswould be over, blah blah blah.
Everybody's there, you know, inthe living room, and the thing
never fucking works, and it wasalways breaking.
And I was like, Yeah, I can justimagine it, you know.
Like your dad with a cigar,cigarette, like, goddamn this
(34:14):
fucking thing.
And then your mom comes out,she's like, What's wrong with
it?
And here's here's the joke thatI thought was my original, but
I'm not sure.
And then I'm like, your dad'slike, God damn it, we won't get
back in the kitchen.
That meatloaf meatloaf ain'tgonna dry itself out.
Oh shit.
Is that my is that?
SPEAKER_04 (34:31):
That's pretty new, yeah.
You have you heard that before?
SPEAKER_03 (34:34):
I've heard about meatloaf drying out not get your
ass back in the kitchen becausethe meatloaf's not gonna dry
itself out.
Have you ever heard that joke?
Uh-uh.
Me too, yeah.
I was like, She's like, Where'dyou hear that?
I'm like, I think I just came upwith that.
But she was fucking dying, andthen I was getting all into it,
and I'm like, God damn it, I'llknock you across the coffee
table one more fucking day.
Yeah.
(34:55):
Yep.
Oh, I think it's done.
Yeah.
And then I was telling her,like, I could just fucking see
this, you know.
You got fucking uncles, cousins,everyone.
We'll show you the whole videofrom our trip to Disneyland.
And then you're over there, thefucking things breaking, blah,
(35:15):
blah.
And then, like, you know, whenyour uncle's like, well, we got,
I told you get that one fromMontgomery Ward.
We got that one, it doesn't skiplike this.
You're like, God damn it, Bill,shut your fucking mouth.
Yeah.
(35:39):
Well, that was fun, right?
Kind of there's lots of stuff inthere that I forgot about.
Uh we really again, I think thetakeaway is we really shouldn't
be allowed to have a podcast,but anyway.
SPEAKER_04 (35:52):
Wait till we do it drunk.
SPEAKER_03 (35:54):
There you go.
Yeah, we'll have to come up witha name for that one.
In the whatever, in the drink.
SPEAKER_04 (35:59):
Drunk in the wild.
Lost in the wild.
SPEAKER_03 (36:02):
Yeah.
But anyway, hope you all enjoyedthat uh episode of our in the
wild episode.
Um and that's it.
So I'll catch y'all later.
SPEAKER_04 (36:10):
Have a good one.
Hey, it's Mark here at StetCentered.
Uh, just want to let everybodyknow that if they want to catch
us on the socials, you can catchus at our webpage,
setcenter.live, or on Facebookat StetcenterLive.
(36:34):
Uh, we'll maybe post some littlestupid videos that we've done,
stuff like that, that's where wekeep on going.
And also, we've talked a lotabout the animals here on the
ranch.
And you can we'll post picturesof them.
We'll see how it goes.
Let us know.
How are we going?
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