Beer Porn, Cowboy Kinks, and AI That Wants Your Job (and Maybe Your Wife)

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Chad (00:00):
Hey everybody, please hold and go, get in here, we gotta
start the show.
We gotta start the show.
Oh, hello everyone and welcometo the Funky Panther.

(00:21):
Coming to you from Fort Worth,motherfucking Texas.
We have got the very first showof 2025 here for you.
That still works, so sit back,relax, enjoy, let's get into it.
I'm Chad.
I'm.

Tim (00:37):
Javier, I'm disappointed and we are the Funky Panther.

Javier (00:44):
Is that a um that goose?
Uh fucking beer goose head,it's jingling Gooseneck.

Tim (00:51):
Gooseneck, it's like the last chocolate border that we've
got from like a year ago.
Is that that gooseneck?
Is that a gooseneck trailer?
You're drinking, dude?
I popped open a uh, a GooseIsland, bourbon, the bourbon
what was it Bourbon barrel?

Chad (01:03):
Yeah, goose Island, bourbon, bourbon Barrel, bourbon
County Style or whatever.
Which year was it?
Because I know I looked.
I still have something like2016.

Javier (01:09):
The one we got.
It was a 2016.
Really, which is the one thatwe got?
Because I still have the onethat it was around 2016, 2017.

Chad (01:18):
Yeah, because that was when we were collecting beer
around the same time yeah, so Igot the same one it was actually
good dude they hold up, they dothat's that bottle I swear
would probably sell for 50 to100 on the black market are you
serious?

Tim (01:30):
yes, and I drank it.

Chad (01:31):
Yeah, that's the only reason, because well, I mean,
now that you said it was good, Imight still drink it but like I
thought it's pretty good, it'sa gamble, and if you were to
sell it.

Tim (01:39):
But you know jesse's like always pushing get rid of, get
rid of your bottles.
I dude, I've got Jester King inthere.

Chad (01:46):
I still have an atrial.

Tim (01:47):
Yeah, I've got an atrial, that's what I'm saying.
I've got an atrial that'sprobably like four years old.

Javier (01:51):
On the group chat.
Is that a new hat?
Tim, is that a new hat?
Or Chad, is that a new hat?

Tim (01:55):
Yeah, that's a new hat.

Javier (01:57):
Oh, don't Do that again.
Oh God, my name is SenseiLedoux.

Chad (02:03):
My lady.
God damn, I don't care for thatmuch.
It's.

Tim (02:07):
Christy, you got to tilt your head.

Chad (02:09):
Okay, yeah, yeah, it's a new hat.

Tim (02:12):
I picked this bad boy up in Eureka Springs.
Let me tell you, eureka, I'mtrying to be a hat guy.
I've noticed I'm trying to be ahat guy.
I mean you pull off a hat.
Very well, I'm a little jealous, I almost bought a top hat when
we were in New Orleans severalyears ago.
You're not that much of a hatguy.

Javier (02:27):
No, maybe if you had curly hair like Slash from Guns
N' Roses, from GNR.

Tim (02:33):
That would have been good yeah.

Javier (02:35):
I've been thinking a lot about hats.
You bought a hat recently.
Yeah, yeah.
It got stretched out as I like.

Tim (02:44):
Hey-o, does it fit better?
Now it fits a little better,yeah.

Javier (02:47):
Yeah, it's actually, like you know, wide enough to
fit over.

Chad (02:50):
It needs some alligator teeth on it.
Sometimes you just gotta likework it out.
You know what I mean.

Tim (02:54):
Yeah, get it to fit the way you need to Exactly.

Chad (03:05):
You know, Chad, Chad tried your to like.
When I try on a normal hat in astore without being a nice one,
like a nice hat store.

Tim (03:12):
Yeah, it just looks dumb and you feel bad about yourself.
I mean You're like well, damnit, I got a big head, I didn't,
but now yeah, thanks, manstarted screaming in the store.
Kids are looking at I'm likewhy is this dude screaming in?

Javier (03:28):
walmart.
Those oversized sports hats arethe only ones that really fit
you like.
You know those big obnoxiousones that you know.
I mean that's fitting for youand zeus man.

Tim (03:37):
I think that's what you have as an oversized sports hat.
Uh, I, I, I think you could.
You could pull off um a nicepair of boots and some jeans and
a hat, I mean you just got toget the fit very well.

Javier (03:50):
You got to get it like a , you got to go and you got to
figure out what you're going tolook like in your ghost skin,
because you can't wear anythinglike dark denim.

Chad (03:59):
Oh, because of the whiteness.
Because of the whiteness, oh,okay, okay, not that I'm wearing
ghost skin.

Tim (04:05):
No whiteness because of the whiteness, oh okay, okay, not
that I'm wearing ghost skin noyou're.
I am ghost, you are ghost skin.
I think you could go with um.
All right, hear me out, I thinkI could wear this yeah, you
could, but I think we get yousome, uh, some like lighter
washed wranglers, oh, like acidwashed.

Javier (04:17):
No, that's too, I don't like light washed jeans.

Tim (04:20):
Dude, light wash jeans are um, are a thing right now, and I
think you could now and I thinkyou could pull it off.
I think you could pull it off.

Chad (04:28):
Okay, I'll let you guys do a makeover on me.

Tim (04:30):
Yeah, we're going to do a makeover.
Let's do a cowboy makeover.
No, no, no.
I think there's a fine line ofmakeover.
Why are y'all messing with myeyelashes and my eyebrows?

Javier (04:39):
We're just drawing penises.

Chad (04:42):
Why is there makeup?
No, the thing about hats,though.
I'll be honest with you.
The thing with hats is, ifyou're gonna wear that hat,
you've got to have a veryspecific ensemble.

Tim (04:50):
Yeah, you just can't yeah you just can't throw something
like that hat and hoodie won'twork no, and I saw a guy with
just this hat and a short sleeveshirt and I was like unless
you're morgan wallen, you'rereally douchey looking yeah, but
like a shirt and maybe a vest,like you gotta be somewhat now
like if we would have gottenchad when he was in his vest era
wearing that, I wouldn't maybelike a flat brimmed hat like

(05:11):
that?

Javier (05:11):
yeah, because you could.
You would look like, uh,nathaniel rateliff, because he
yeah, when I see that, yeah, hewears like I actually want to.

Tim (05:17):
I want to take it and have it like uh, have it a little
shaped, a little bit more, um, Idon't know if this hat can do
that or not I, I looked, I meanI looked too much like a child.

Javier (05:26):
Then, like you know what I mean, like I was you mean
like a blank check child or like, uh, like, what are we talking
here?

Chad (05:32):
I don't even know at this point.

Tim (05:35):
That is a great reference and a great movie yeah, except
for the pedophilia at the end Idid watch that.

Chad (05:40):
I think we all did right within the past five years or so
.

Javier (05:42):
Yeah, I, I did.

Chad (05:42):
I think we talked about it one time and it was just very
much like ugh, very cringe withthe woman.

Javier (05:48):
I mean Three.

Tim (05:48):
Ninjas is very cringe too.

Javier (05:50):
Yeah, it is At this point, yeah you're not wrong,
but they had all the cool things.
They had an alarm where, ifyour parents were walking to
your room, you could jack ourween and our mom's coming in.

Chad (06:08):
I think I watched a different movie Surf Ninjas.

Javier (06:10):
Surf Ninjas was good.
I like Surf Ninjas because theyimplemented a Game Gear into
the movie, where they used it asa part of the plot.

Chad (06:18):
That was his whole superpower, though.
Yeah, he was not good atanything except for fucking
playing his little Game Gear.

Javier (06:24):
So that was pretty.
Game Gear was ahead of its time.
I got one at the house.

Chad (06:29):
It was just the battery.
Life was just awful right,wasn't it like an hour of play?
And you're like, okay, here wego, give me nine more, or eight
more.

Tim (06:35):
Yeah, because it took either four or three on each
side.
I can't remember.
It was nine.

Chad (06:41):
Yeah, nine was such a random fucking number, For
whatever reason.
It's big batteries.
It literally takes nine.
You have to buy an eight-pack.
You're like, fuck, I got to getan extra battery.

Javier (06:49):
Where am I going to get?

Tim (06:49):
that extra battery.
It was big battery.

Chad (06:52):
Oh, they were trying to Game Gear.
Enduracell, Energizer were allin it together.
You can't buy two double.

Tim (07:02):
A, you sure can't.

Chad (07:02):
Yeah, you can't buy them in threes.

Javier (07:04):
Yeah, no, Chris, on the group chat, all our kid movies
are cringe.
You go back and you re-watchthem and you're like, oh my God,
I like this.
Not all.
Sandlot still holds up.

Tim (07:15):
Yeah, Right of course, and so does the Mighty Ducks.

Chad (07:19):
Yes, I haven't seen the Mighty Ducks in years.

Tim (07:21):
It's great Heavyweights.

Javier (07:24):
Heavyweights still holds up great Maybe you want to go
to Fat Camp?
It was pretty offensive too.

Tim (07:29):
It is pretty offensive.
It's pretty fucked, but it's agreat movie.
I want to go jump on the blob.
Ben Stiller what?

Chad (07:34):
an asshole.

Javier (07:34):
Yeah, it's the same character in Dodgeball.
It's the same guy.
It's the same fucking guydidn't?

Chad (07:41):
I think we made a joke about that at one point.
I was like this is this wherehe went after have y'all ever
really thought about never beenkissed so?

Javier (07:47):
I actually I watched that just uh two nights ago
really yeah, it's one of jesse'sfavorites and I actually really
like it as well within the pastsix months, like I was like, oh
yeah, I've never seen this andI watched it.
And then I'm thinking it'sfucking, didn't guy, didn't a
guy go to jail for, like, goingback to high school and playing
baseball, what's?

Tim (08:06):
his name A woman recently posed as her daughter.

Javier (08:11):
Oh yeah, she did.

Tim (08:12):
And broke into the high school and went to class and
everything.
She got busted and ended upgoing to jail.

Chad (08:17):
Did she break in, or did she just pretend to be her
daughter?
Well, no, she went she snuck in.
She broke the glass and goesI'm my daughter now.
How did they ever know it washer?

Tim (08:27):
Yeah, that's exactly how they did it.
It was crazy.
Never Been Kissed, though ifyou don't know Josie Geller, she
goes back to high school to doan expose on High School Life,
okay, and then she's roped intospoiler.
I'm sorry.

Javier (08:43):
She's roped into, she's roped into Spoiler.

Tim (08:44):
I'm sorry she's roped into.
She's 25 years old.
She ends up really liking herteacher and her teacher thinks
that she is a high schoolstudent.

Chad (08:50):
Which she is.

Tim (08:52):
They realistically have kind of an inappropriate
relationship, yet nothingactually happens.
It's just not an appropriaterelationship.
Well, her brother's, like you,were a nerd in high school
originally, so I'm going to comeback and save you, and then he
really likes doing his thingwith baseball.
I was a god, and now I'mnothing.
And then he ends up.
He's at a party and this girl'slike I want you to be my first,

(09:15):
and he's like 25, 26 years oldJesus, I don't think I'll
remember this movie.
Yeah.
It's good, but it's like that.

Javier (09:26):
this movie yeah it's, it's good but it's like that
ending sucked diddly yucks.
That was just the corniest.
It is the corny me at thebaseball field in the seventh
inning, great inning.

Tim (09:31):
Whatever, I'm like bitch it is the corniest, but it's still
.
I mean it's, it's good, it'sgood.
You should watch it.
Watch it and go back and belike I love drew barrymore.

Javier (09:40):
I fucking love her.
I mean to be G enough to have amovie where you're only in it
for five minutes to have topbilling and you as the main
poster.
That's like the best thing youcan think about.

Tim (09:54):
Yeah, so, chris, he's referring to the inappropriate
teacher-student relationship.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
There's this whole thing whereI mean you're not really a
student, but you are a student.
It's like Chris Hansen, wherethey you're not really a student
, but you are students.
It's like the.
It's like chris hansen, wherethey you know, gotcha yeah, and
that's exactly what they'retrying to do, because then there
was like oh, there's this wholestory that you could be doing
about this guy.

Javier (10:15):
You should bait him, oh I don't beat this teacher
because he's a pedophile okay itwas a mr.

Tim (10:22):
Uh, well, you know shall we you know the guy that we went
to teach at our school, anyways,oh who.
Oh, he's like a wombat orsomething.

Javier (10:32):
My sister's friends with his daughter, oh wow.

Chad (10:36):
Nice, so it has been.

Javier (10:38):
The one that was born during that situation.

Chad (10:40):
Shut the fuck up, so it's been three weeks since we've met
the last time we were here wasright before Christmas.
That was a hell of a show.
Shout out again to Mikey forcoming on.
Shout out to all of our friendsthat showed up.

Tim (10:52):
Shout out to Jay and Lance.

Chad (10:53):
Jared Lance Sarish for all hanging out and getting a
little toasty with us.
That was a fun night.
We got to have people in thestudio more often.

Tim (11:01):
We have a lot more people in here than what I realized.
We did figure.
We got to have people in thestudio more often.
We have a lot more people inhere than what I realized.
We need to figure out somethingto do with the TV to where,
like I don't know, we mountsomething up on the ceiling.
We could drop it down, get itout of the way something, I mean
we could put it on the walldude, yeah, we could.
Yeah, we could.
We could put it on the wallright behind there, but the
problem same.

(11:21):
We just have the camera set upthere because then we have the
TV and shot yeah we could throwon like a fucking a logo.

Chad (11:27):
Yeah, oh okay and just have it go in the background
yeah, we could do that boom, see, alright, problem solved.
I fix things, I'm a fixeralright, so over the past three
weeks.
What the fuck y'all been up to.
We haven't seen each other,have we no?

Tim (11:42):
we have not.
Well, y'all have yeah, yeah,yeah, because we have a bar.
I saw y'all at Crystal Springsone day.
Yeah, you did, yeah, but wehave a bar.
We have Crystal SpringsHideaway.
That literally splits Javierand my house in half.
Right and so just driving there.
It's an easy two-minute driveto get over there and have some

(12:03):
good drinks and everything.
So we've seen each other therea lot because it's just yeah,
why the hell not right?

Javier (12:08):
And then, like, we've gotten to meet, like and get to
meet and know the owners oh yeah, we've become With JD and Shana
.

Tim (12:16):
Yeah, we've become first-name basis with them and
our bartender Shelby.
Yeah, like the car Shelby, likethe car Shelby like the car,
Shelby like the car, and thenthe dude that is now your.
You know Tammy's brother now.

Javier (12:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, Was it James?
I think so, and also Kelly.

Tim (12:35):
Kelly, yeah.

Javier (12:35):
Who runs the Sharkoot stuff inside?

Tim (12:37):
The Sharkooties yeah, it's a great spot, so we've seen each
other there a lot.
Outside of that, we hadSnowmageddon.
That did happen.
That really didn't happen, butit did happen.
I mean, they shut the schoolsdown.

Javier (12:55):
There was a little bit of debris on the road, a little
bit of racism here and there,wait, what Sprinkled with racism
.
Yeah.
I mean Thursday, I mean whydoes it got to be white snow?
Why can't it be brown snow orlike black snow, black?

Tim (13:04):
ice.
They got black ice.

Chad (13:05):
Yeah, thursday afternoon or Thursday morning afternoon
was a little rough.

Tim (13:09):
Was that when it started, right?
I'm pretty sure it was Thursday.
Yeah.
No, it wasn't, it's a Friday.

Javier (13:14):
Thursday morning.
Yeah, I think it started.

Chad (13:17):
Thursday.

Javier (13:18):
And then it stopped.
Well, it did it from then, andthen it iced, and so the roads
were bad, so we were like we'renot going into work.

Chad (13:27):
Well, thursday was like it was just the back and forth.
It was like it's rain, it'ssleet, it's snow, it's sleet,
it's some wintry mix bullshit,and it kept going back and forth
all day, but for a while thereit was snowing so heavy like big
ass snowflakes.

Tim (13:41):
It actually was pretty legit.
I mean up in your neck of thewoods, but like here, it was
barely anything.
You're right.

Chad (13:46):
There was a pretty obvious line.
Yeah.
Because I drove a little bitthis way and it was just like or
even my mom's house is not thatbad.

Tim (13:53):
Yeah, if you went up, if you got north of I-30 and went
further up, like closer to A-20,started getting kind of rough
up there I mean, it's Texas,North Texas especially we just
shut everything down because wedon't know how to cope and deal
with.

Chad (14:09):
Well, people just don't know how to drive too.

Javier (14:10):
It's like the.

Chad (14:11):
Yeah, If you, because I was on the road, a decent I mean
.
Like Friday we went out of townand so people on the roads just
sucked.
People are going too fast ortoo slow, and nothing in between
.

Tim (14:23):
I mean, you put that bad boy in four-wheel drive.
He can go anywhere, can't stop,but he can go anywhere.

Javier (14:28):
I think it's kind of like.
You know, people are postingthat scene from King of the Hill
where, like it starts likesnowing like a little and people
are freaking out and they'relike, oh, we gotta go get gas to
the town.

Tim (14:43):
Yeah, people buying bread and stuff.
I mean Jessie's kind of.
She kind of did the same thingin a sense.
I mean she bought stuff forsandwiches and things just in
case, like if it got really badwe couldn't get out for whatever
reason.
But I'm like we've got likecanned goods and stuff.

Javier (14:56):
Yeah, we've got plenty of food.
We've got milk and cereal.

Tim (15:00):
We didn't get enough toilet paper.
And you know, realistically,whenever it snows, I'm afraid
that I'm going to run out oftoilet paper.
Bidet bro, Because I'm justgoing to shit nonstop.
Bidet bro, I mean, I've got one.

Chad (15:11):
I know.
So what are you?

Tim (15:12):
worried about.
I got a shower.
I like to pat down.
I got a shower.

Javier (15:15):
I just put my ass on the nozzle and I just slip upside
down and turn it on.

Tim (15:23):
Just do the handstand in the bathtub All right, so let's
back it up.

Chad (15:27):
Our last episode was right before Christmas.
How was y'all's Christmas?

Tim (15:31):
Oh man busy.

Chad (15:33):
Yeah.

Tim (15:33):
Yeah, we were down to Frost , texas, and then back up to
here and then back down to theCorsicana area the next day and
then back up here, and then wehad a few days.
And then Sunday, um had to wedid our uh Thanksgiving.
We did our Christmas at mydad's, yeah, um.
So I mean it was just a lot ofback and forth traveling but I

(15:57):
got some cool stuff that Ienjoyed and um you know got me a
little versace dylan blue.
That dylan blue smells real nice.
It's a, it's a nice cologneversace.
But yeah, it was, it was, itwas good.
It was a good christmas.
It wasn't anything crazy.
We kind of uh just chilled atthe house, uh, when we got back
from christmas day.

(16:17):
Yeah, it was nice.
What about you?

Javier (16:20):
same um, or you know, we celebrated on new year's or
christmas eve, so we were withthe family and um as y'all do as
we do.
And then uh went over totammy's um parents.
Uh, that night, my mom's momsin the morning, I don't remember
.
Um, it was great um new year's,me and Tim and the ladies went

(16:45):
and had dinner at Lily's.

Tim (16:48):
Yeah, we went to Lily's yeah.

Javier (16:50):
And then went to the usual.

Tim (16:52):
The usual, yeah After that, and it was a lot of fun.

Javier (16:55):
It was a lot of fun.

Tim (16:56):
Yeah, the usual was open until 2 am.
We didn't stay that late.
I ran into.

Javier (17:00):
Edward Brown over there.

Tim (17:01):
Yep downtown with Edward Brown.

Javier (17:05):
And I couldn't have my glasses off because whatever,
and I was gonna go take a pissand he's like oh, hey, I know
that, I know that piece of shitand I'm like oh what.
And now it's edward, and youknow he's joking, obviously.

Chad (17:17):
But no, he wasn't.
He was like I hate you well,he's like.

Javier (17:22):
I wish you could have me back on the show, but I guess
you'll hate me.
Jesus, we are not.
I was like dude.
We talked about having you onbecause of his whole thing after
hours, stuff that he's doingand then he's been with Paper
City Mag for a couple months nowwriting a couple stories, so a
couple good articles, might Iadd.

(17:43):
But yeah, we did that.
Uh, you know, I want to justtalk about lily's bistro.

Tim (17:49):
That place is phenomenal they've been oh man, you got,
you got to go, so you're not.
They don't have a full bar, soit's, it's a, it's gonna get
wine.
They've got a really niceextensive wine menu and that's
the one on magnolia.
Yeah, it's on Magnolia.
I ended up buying a bottle of aSauvignon Blanc.
It was quilt.
It was absolutely delicious.

(18:10):
It wasn't that expensive, wasit?
Mikey approved?
I think Mikey would haveapproved of it, and what was
nice about it.
So I looked up how much MSRP ison it and they charged $10 over
what I could buy the bottle for.
Oh, that's not bad.
So I'm yeah, and you know theyprobably got it for uh, I think
it was like fifty dollars whileyou pay, still making money yeah

(18:31):
, because they buy it wholesale,right.
So they probably got a littlebit cheaper, but still ten
dollars over what I can buy itget a whole bottle.
It was.
It was fantastic, it wasdelicious.
I will say, uh, the food, yeah,it's like it's french inspired.
It's not french, but it's likea lot of french inspired stuff.
They have escargot that's.
I'd never had it from there.

Javier (18:47):
It was fantastic buttery delicious it was really good uh
the um calamari was fuckingbomb the slaw that came with
that.

Tim (18:56):
Calamari was delicious literally go there, get uh, get
the calamari, get an order ofescargot, get an entree um and
the dessert was fucking, yeah,divine, fucking, amazing.

Javier (19:08):
The coffee and the dessert, coffee and donuts were
perfect, you know yeah, they dolike a donut.

Chad (19:14):
It's almost like a beignet sort of yeah, kind of yeah, but
is it like cinnamon sugarinstead of like powdered sugar?

Tim (19:20):
cinnamon sugar, yeah, cinnamon sugar yeah, my mom used
to make those but it's warm andjust like, oh my god yeah, it's
delicious perfect date night.
Yeah, like really.
Uh, you know, take sarish overthere.
Uh, go and enjoy.
They've got a little um, I'vealways sat on.
They call it the lily pad.
It's, oh, it's the outdoorsection.
Yeah, but it's not outdoor.

(19:41):
They've got like this bigclosed-in spot, so even during
the winter it's really nice andwarm in there.
It's low-lit.

Javier (19:49):
It's just nice They've got a three-piece jazz ensemble
playing.
Yeah, yeah yeah.
A lot of fun.
And then last Friday went andsaw Fatboy Slim at the Silo in
Dallas.
Fuck man, that was.

Tim (20:02):
We were Hang on, but something else happened.
You had a birthday that was thenext day.
You had a birthday that was thenext day.
Okay, it was the next, it wasmy birthday that wow it was a
birthday weekend yeah.

Javier (20:14):
So yeah, we did fat boy slam and then if you're gonna go
to a show at silo and you're anadult, um, just know that the
main dj will not go on untilmidnight and it ends at two in
the morning.
So I'm just letting you know.
We went out there and we were.
We were there at nine o'clockbecause doors open at nine and

(20:36):
they had a dj who sucked atfirst, who played the same
fucking like tempo but switchinglike music in, and we were like
holy fuck.
Not to mention, we were at thevery front of the stage.
You know right where you cansee, like from you to me.

Tim (20:54):
Um, did you have to get there early to get that spot?
We didn't know we had no idea.

Javier (20:59):
You could have probably gotten there like around 10
o'clock and still been able tolike get up, front get up front
and it started filling up prettyquick.
So whenever he came on it waspacked um.

Tim (21:08):
It was amazing, like every song that I wanted to perform uh
, yeah, it was.

Javier (21:12):
It was phenomenal, like I was like jumping up and down
and like he was pointing at melike here's a couple times he
was like pointing at me becauseI was singing along with with
some of the tracks and it wasawesome.
So much fun.

Tim (21:25):
I got a lot of video I haven't posted.
Sir, please stop, you're tooold.

Javier (21:28):
Stop jumping.
Your knees are going to giveout, sir, but it was a lot of
fun.
Me and Tammy had a good time.
And then, saturday, for mybirthday, we went out to Crystal
Springs.
Jay and Lance, and you showed-up, swung by.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
I think I blacked out thatnight, did you?

Tim (21:47):
Yeah, because I had a couple drinks and I left.
Yeah, yeah, so it was prettyheavy.
I'll stop by say hi, drink alittle bit, go back home.
Yeah, Jesse's been underweather.

Javier (21:56):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't want to stay out too late, but
it was a lot of fun.
Then, of course, the next daywas the Liverpool-Man United and
we tied up.
We drew in that match.
It was good stuff.
We didn't lose.

Tim (22:09):
Yeah, Lance and I went to Tulips.

Javier (22:13):
Oh yeah.

Tim (22:14):
Friday yeah, friday night.
So same time you were at theFat Boys' Land, we were at
Tulips.
I'm going to tell you thatplace was packed.
We were talking about it alittle bit earlier.
It was difficult to move aroundin the building.

Chad (22:26):
Who'd y'all see.

Tim (22:27):
So we saw it was the band Trauma Ray just released an
album, If you like.
The best way I can describethem is like kind of like a
Deftoni-ish sound.
They call it Shoe Gaze.
It's just this very likeatmospheric kind of alternative
a little bit of grunge, a littlebit of emo mixed in Trauma Ray

(22:48):
is really fantastic.
When you look at the album art,you're going to be like, oh,
this is going to be like a metalband.
And then you listen to it andyou're like what?
What is?
this.
So they were headlining.
But of course our boys, joe,kelly and Ozone, joe and Ty and
the other guys were up there.
They came on.
They were like the second, nothird band to the headliner.

(23:12):
They came on.
I mean, as soon as they had adownbeat, the whole room spread
out.
There was a big pit going on.
It was a great time.
Joe was killing it up there,ty's third band, so Ty's one of
the guitarists.
Um, it's feral cry.
It's just the most uh obnoxious, um in your face music.
Uh, it was a lot of fun as well.

(23:34):
Uh, listen to them.
But again, like, as soon as thedownbeat hit, the room spread
apart.
People started going crazy.
But I will say there was, thisis.
This is abnormal for this kindof like show.
In this kind of scene,typically you don't have people
that are targeting each otherand trying to beat the shit out
of each other it's usually justlike everybody's throwing arms
around yeahwindmill kicks and slamming into

(23:54):
the crowd and just having agood time, and ever it's mutual
combat at this point.
But this was like this guy wastrying to fight this other dude
and it was right in front of usand I let it go on for a minute
and then they started reallygoing at it and this one dude
kept getting away and he cameback in and they would start

(24:14):
back up again and so I ended upstepping out in between them,
grabbing the one dude that wasclose to the doorway and just
pushed him out and handed,handed him off to security.
Come back.
Everybody's like okay, cool,that's, that's settled right.
So we're just chilling, havinga good time.
Tim's the hero over here we'rejust chilling, having a good
time, and then the dude that wethought was originally lance

(24:35):
thought he was the instigator.
I didn't think he was theinstigator, but apparently he
was, um, started picking onsomebody else and they started
kind of like going at and he wastrying to, you know, fight him.
I ended up grabbing his uhjacket.
I reached over, grabbed,twisted in, brought him in real
close to me and started justpushing him out and the dude
took one look at me.
He's like, dude, I'm good, I'mgood, I'm good, I'm sorry.

(24:56):
And I was like, and I don'tknow if I just had dad face,
you're so ripped no, yeah, thisis a fucking devil.

Javier (25:02):
Look in your eyes like, yeah, I'm gonna fuck you in your
ass son.

Tim (25:06):
I think that's what it was.
I think I had that like murderyou.
I had that.
I think I had the crazy eyesbecause I was like, yeah, I'm
tired of it.
Man, we're trying to enjoy theshow.
Yeah, you're causing all sortsof shit.
Everybody's having a good time.
Nobody's.
Nobody's trying tointentionally hurt anybody,
except for you you're harsh inthe fucking mood.

Javier (25:21):
Yeah, he was destroying the vibe right.

Tim (25:22):
What's funny is I ended up making friends with, uh, one of
the security guards.
This dude's big, like he is abig dude.
He's ever been as tall as I amand like maybe two of me wide
yeah, he's just big and he'slike man, this pit's out of
control and I was like nah, man,it's, it's all good,
everything's good, everybody'shaving a good time.
It was just those guys.
He's like I don't know.
I was like, trust me, it's it'sgood, it's everybody's having a

(25:45):
good time.
Nobody's targeting anybody.
Everybody's having fun.
They're picking people up offthe ground like they should.
Um, yeah, it's a great show.
And then they had somethinggoing on at loadout as well.
They had a dj in there, so theyhad two things so say like they
had two things going on.
Uh, loadout was not a ticketedevent so you could have gone
there and just hung out.

Javier (26:02):
Dude, that place is like you couldn't get in the room,
though it was so like that barwas like packed, low doubt,
slowly becoming like one ofthose chill places to hang out
where they're going to starthaving events, and I think I'm
here for it.
On the group chat, uh uh, ourfriends Holly and Bob introduced
Christie to the living spacesbar.

Tim (26:21):
Yeah, the living spaces, bar, yeah, they got a bar up
there.

Javier (26:22):
I didn't know it's so cheap and they have free daycare
.
I think we need to have asegment where we we have a lot
of friends that are parents.
So I think we need to have likea segment where she like finds
like cheat code or pro tip areasfor parents.

Tim (26:39):
Like hey, the tom thumb over there on west seventh has a
bar inside I want to say Ithink that we should just try
some of these alternative bars.
Yeah, I'm going to call italternative bars, right?
I like that.
Because it's not like a, it's astore right.
It's a grocery store or?
Whatever, we should go to TomThumb Dude and hang out at that
bar for a little bit.

Javier (26:58):
Then maybe a couple weekends go by, we go over to
Living Spaces and we hit thatbar up for a little bit, so like
I ran into Polito over there atTrump Thumb.

Tim (27:08):
Everything is $2 at the Living Spaces bar.

Chad (27:10):
God damn, Holy shit Fucking that's a cheat code.

Javier (27:13):
if I ever see one, they're like you get drunk
enough, you're going to want afucking couch.
Living, Living.

Tim (27:18):
Spaces.
You're going to want a fuckingcouch and you're gonna want a
fucking dude like um, yeah, yeah, so you can.

Javier (27:25):
You're able to go to the bar and get a beer, get a pint,
have it, because they obviouslyhave the drink holders on the
carts.
You can go shopping in tomthumb while you're like.

Tim (27:35):
You can drink while you're shopping which, which sounds
wonderful, except for the factthat I hate going shopping.

Chad (27:40):
And we, we have everything delivered so do we, so do we
walmart yeah, lifesaver theyused to have that at whole foods
over there, uh, at waterside,and same thing.
Like the carts had the beerholder and everything like that,
you would go and they alwayshad fantastic craft beer on oh,
yeah, yeah and then, forwhatever reason, it might have
been around covet actually Ithink it was covet they stopped
and I don't think it ever cameback amazon, but like amazon

(28:02):
Bezos, yeah, but come on theyhad to have made money.
There was always people, justlike the guys, that sit at the
bar while the women are outshopping.

Javier (28:10):
Dude.

Chad (28:11):
They'd just be sitting there drinking their beers.

Javier (28:21):
If I got to go pick up food or something for dinner
whenever I leave work at TomThumb.

Tim (28:24):
The bar is always full and I'm sure it's the people that
live in the apartments.

Javier (28:30):
Yeah, bar is always full and I'm sure it's the people
that live in the apartments thatlike, because they also I heard
, I heard they got like reallygood like steaks and like
chicken fried steaks that theymake at the little you know cafe
.
They got there too.
But you know, obviously thestarbucks is next to it but,
like it's every time I go atlate at night it's always packed
, always, always, always.
So jingling two dollars.

Tim (28:43):
Damn.
So, christy I think that'schristy yeah, we gotta go
christy's time she comes up withany tips or whatever.

Javier (28:49):
Then she needs to go ahead and like uh, send us that
info so we can go try.

Tim (28:54):
All right so we we've gone on about what we did.
Chad, you have had someadventures while we were away a
little bit yeah, I mean y'allseems like fun as shit too.

Chad (29:04):
Uh, so christmas was great .
Got to see the family hung outwith the family on christmas eve
.

Javier (29:09):
But you did multiple, just like me I mean, obviously
we all do multiple, but you do,yeah, three different.

Chad (29:15):
You didn't do no, I just did two.
So we had my mom's housechristmas eve and then we had
all the serious family over atour house on christmas day, and
then we went to go see PrairieLights with my mom Christmas
night, which was kind of fun.
I haven't gone out.

Tim (29:27):
Where is that?

Chad (29:28):
Grand Prairie.

Tim (29:29):
Okay.

Chad (29:32):
Well, don't do that, because I didn't ever connect
the dots either.
Last time I went, I was in highschool.
I'm thinking Prairie.

Tim (29:38):
I'm thinking like in the middle of nowhere.

Javier (29:41):
Like a little house on the Prairie Did you take the
train.

Chad (29:44):
No, there's no train to Grand Prairie.

Tim (29:45):
There is a train to Grand Prairie.

Chad (29:47):
No, there's not A slow train to Minnesota.
Yes, there is.
There is not a train to GrandPrairie.
Oh no, that's great, that'sgreat Fine, never mind, I'm
sorry it was going to click,correct, joe pool.

Javier (30:06):
Yes, yeah, I think it's Joe pool, the furniture store.

Chad (30:07):
I think it's on Joe pool, is it the one in Grand Prairie,
I believe.
So I think that's right.
Yes, that's right, that's right.
So we did that.
And then For New Year, so we,we talked, y'all went on like a
date night, stuff like that.
We did a date night one nightand we went to Clay Pigeon been
there in years, so damn goodlike the.

Tim (30:22):
The last time I went was, uh, during like restaurant week,
oh yeah, and that's been.

Chad (30:26):
It's been some time uh, it was great we had the, you know,
the um bone marrow.
Of course, this is like insane,yeah, so good, that's bro.

Tim (30:35):
Anything bone marrow, that's the one thing you have to
get from there.

Javier (30:37):
Yeah, for sure, you got me a bone.
You always do you always do.

Chad (30:42):
Uh, we also want to go check out that salute bar, that
that new wine like self-pourwine bar kind of over there by
Mabel Branch.

Javier (30:49):
Oh, it's the old other wine bar, right, it used to be
21 Savage, 21, yeah.

Tim (30:53):
I don't know what it was before.

Chad (30:55):
But it's, yeah, it's just Salud Wine Bar, is it?

Tim (30:57):
the same people who own Hoppin'.

Chad (30:59):
No, because it's the same concept concept.
No, they were first.
They were first there wellbefore hopping.
Yeah, so it was this other barand they.
They had to sell jay and Iactually were looking at like it
was actually for sale for areally decent price.
We're like I don't know, whyare they selling?
And they were saying because itwas like a business partner
issue.
Um, obviously it must have beenthat because they were packed
yeah they were doing really well.

(31:20):
We got to try it like they havelike self-pour flights and stuff
like that.

Javier (31:22):
It was just good Dude, this is marketing, the reason
why they're.
I mean the marketing back thenwasn't as good as it is now.

Tim (31:28):
I think the self-pour wine is a better venture than
self-pour beer, because youdon't get the bubblies and it's
easy.

Chad (31:34):
You can actually get what you want ounce-wise you know,
what I really liked about thewine bar compared to Hoppin, is
that there's three options oneach wine bottle.
Obviously, it's not coming froma keg, it's coming out of the
bottle right, yeah.
So you've got three, six andnine ounces or something.
Maybe it was one and a half,three and six ounces.
So you get to press the buttonand it's going to pour you

(31:54):
exactly what it is and it'sgoing to give you that price,
exactly how it is.

Tim (31:59):
So it's not going to be like foam Gu or guesstimating or
yeah, you're not fucking aroundwith that stuff, right exactly,
so it was kind of nice.
That was my only complaintabout hopping.

Javier (32:04):
Yeah, because you're you gotta have somebody there to
show you how to pour it, and yougotta get the timing right
because, if you fuck around,then it kicks off, you gotta
wait like a half a second to asecond and then put it under at
an angle to be a dick.

Chad (32:20):
But like, wouldn't you put your they want?
They want you to put yourbracelet back in the bucket
because it's, you know, justfast.
Like oh, go ahead and go wedon't have to check out or
anything like that then they putgratuity on that, they put a
gratuity, which is fine, I guess, but at the same time it's like
it's self-poor I'm doing itwell.
They're washing the dishes okay, but so are bus boys like, I
don't know, like I don't know.

Tim (32:41):
Yeah, no, I get it.

Javier (32:42):
I'm kind of with you, man, I don't know man, I was a
bus boy and I loved getting tipswhenever I loved getting the
tip.
I loved it you know, they werelike 20 years older than me, but
I mean I was 16.

Tim (32:52):
Let's just ask the chat um.
Do you feel like you should tipat a place?

Chad (32:55):
self-service yeah, I want to know if I'm the asshole uh no
, no, you're honestly like.

Javier (33:01):
You're right.
It's for for you to get likecharged gratuity for just
pouring your own beer.
It's kind of like whenever yougo, like when they have
festivals and they ask you, theycrack your beer open and they
just give it to you.
Even then, I usually do it, Ido it, I, I don't care I'm a
good tipper, that's because I'ma condition.
I'm a good tipper, I don't care, I tip 33 on everything.

(33:24):
I don't give a shit what it is.

Tim (33:26):
But yeah, depending on what it is, nice boy, you might get
25% out of me.

Chad (33:33):
Yeah, I do 20 to 25.
I never really go above that.

Tim (33:36):
If service was bad, I'm only doing 10.
I'm still going to tip.

Chad (33:40):
See even if it's bad, I don't go below 15 or 20.

Javier (33:45):
Yeah, fuck this cough.
I've had this cough for liketwo weeks.
Fucking ridiculous BronchitisOn the group chat.
If you go to Tom Thumb between4 to 6 pm, the bar will be three
deep.
Yes, I've seen it deeper thanthat.
Let's see the furniture store.
Yes, you already said that, thefurniture store for and the

(34:06):
target bar.
I did hear about that.
I hope that comes true.
That'd be very much trouble.
It would be very much trouble.

Chad (34:11):
They could partner with starbucks and do like an
espresso martini situation ohdamn, that would be good.

Javier (34:16):
The whole tipping ecosystem has to be rethought,
uh yeah, yeah, I think a littlebit.

Tim (34:21):
Yeah, I think we need to.
You need to pay.

Javier (34:23):
Just pay your people like I mean in europe.
They pay their people livinglike livable wages.

Tim (34:28):
None of this dollar 25 or whatever.
Three dollars an hour and then,like it's it's ridiculous.
I mean, you can make a killingon tip.

Chad (34:35):
So if you're yeah, you can , but whatever.
So we did that one night.
Uh, slew, definitely.
You need to check it out if youhaven't already been there.
And then for New Year's we wentup to OKC.
I've only been to Oklahoma Cityonce and it was like coming
back through after we went toKansas City or some shit like
that.

Tim (34:55):
Did you go to Botanic Gardens up there?

Chad (34:56):
No, oh, you should have.
You mentioned that.
Real nice, and we didn't Fuckme right.
Yeah, exactly it was.

Tim (35:02):
Fuck me, right yeah exactly .

Chad (35:04):
Last time I went, it was like during the middle of the
day, I think we went to twodifferent bars or breweries and
that was it.
Oh yeah, I forgot.
I finally brought y'all yourshack gummies From that shack
concert Gummy me.
Yeah, it's just big old shackheads.
But yeah, that was fun.
We went to.
We went to Prairie Becausethey've got a Prairie in
Oklahoma City and we tried Everysingle beer they had on tap and

(35:25):
it was like 30 of them.
We just kind of like we eachgot Two, four ounce pours.
How fucked up were you?
We were fucked up.
We each got four ounce pours andthen we passed them around, so
we were trying Eight beers at atime, so it's not like we were
drinking full beers, yeah, butbut we got to try them all, man
dude some of these beers, dude.

Tim (35:44):
I haven't had Prairie Bomb in a long time.
I haven't thought about Prairie, to be honest with you in a
while.

Chad (35:49):
Their stouts were fantastic, as always, but their
sours were insane.
They had one that tasted likepeanut butter and jelly.
They had one that was like aChristmassy, like cranberry
thing.
Like every single one of theirbeers were on point Not a single
one.

Tim (36:01):
We were like, oh, that sucked how would you feel the
next day, though, after drinkingthat much crap beer?

Chad (36:06):
not as good as it used to, not as good as it used to I
don't think it's.

Tim (36:09):
I don't think we ever felt good.
You're probably right.
We were just so used to it.

Chad (36:12):
It's just so much, so often so much more alcohol.
I mean, it's not that it's thethickness, the sugar, the yeast,
like everything about a craftbeer, just fucks your stomach up
oh yeah, blood and honeys wouldfuck me up all the time, oh
yeah, but we had a great time.
We went to this thing at abrewery for actual New Year's
Eve and it was this.
Y'all would have fucking lovedit.

(36:32):
The girls would have loved ittoo.
It was like this Cirque duSoleil.

Tim (36:39):
Was it burlesque?
Burlesque show?
I was just guessing.
No, yeah, for sure, I'm herefor that.

Chad (36:44):
You had guys doing like the, you know the ribbons where
they kind of hang and do thetwirls and all that kind of
stuff.

Tim (36:48):
What else were the guys?

Chad (36:48):
doing.
You had some girl come in.

Tim (36:50):
Can you tell me?
More about the guys.

Chad (36:52):
I mean it was just all over the place, like this girl
comes in with a trumpet andcastles and stuff, like it was
just so much fun that soundslike.

Javier (37:02):
Remember when we were in vegas and that stripper had the
ring in her ass no, I don'trecall this I'm sorry that I
don't recall this.

Chad (37:11):
She had a ring in her ass but yeah, it was just a fun
night and the beers were supercheap and they were good and
then we got like champagne as apart of the situation and yeah,
it was slipping off somebody'sfinger or what group chat will
say it it'll come up in thegroup chat.

Javier (37:24):
No.

Chad (37:25):
Where was this at?
Where was it at?
It was a place called I thinkit was Anthem Brewing in
Oklahoma city.
We Ubered there we had alreadybeen out kind of all day and so
we went there.
There was another bar.
It was called the lunar bar.
It was like this littlespeakeasy.
Someone had to tell us how toget in, cause.
Had to tell us how to get inbecause we had no idea, because
it was just a wooden wall andthere was a button that kind of
looks like one of those likehandicap metal buttons, yeah,

(37:47):
but it just by itself and youpress it and the door pops open
and so you go inside and it'slunar bar, because it's kind of
like all kind of space themedand shit.
Um, but they have a five dollarbeer and shot special and
they've got this big coolerbehind the bar and if you get
the five dollar beer and shot orwhatever you don't know the
beer, they just hit the mysterybutton on the cooler and

(38:08):
whatever pops out pops out.
So one of us got like coors,one of us got keystone, one of
us got like the uh, the shitthat we had in new orleans.
What is the?
The tea?
twisted, twisted tea so we justgot all sorts of random shit,
it's like whatever they justkind of threw in there all right
, I right, I have an idea for abar, okay, for like a speakeasy,
let me hear it.

Tim (38:27):
So it's going to be a Seinfeld kind of themed bar,
right?
So you walk in and it's a guyselling soup, okay, and you have
to order a specific way.
And if you don't order it, nosoup for you and you get kicked
out, you get kicked out.

Chad (38:45):
Okay.

Tim (38:46):
Yeah, so you have to order it the right way in order to get
in.

Javier (38:49):
You've got to go in there like beer, cold mug, no,
no, no.
Actual soup, actual soup.
Oh, like actual soup, it's aspeakeasy.

Tim (38:56):
It's a speakeasy.

Javier (39:05):
So you've got to tell him what soup you want and then
he opens the door.
Whenever he said a little dooropen.
Whenever he popped open I wasthinking it would be a little
door and a little penis comesout.

Chad (39:09):
Of course you did.

Javier (39:09):
And then you're like what do you do?
I'm like you got to just grabit and squeeze it.
And then the door opens.
You grab it and squeeze it, andthen the way they serve the
drinks, the little penis comesout of a hole and just pees.
I think we're done here, Putyour mouth on it.
No, no, no, I didn't say any ofthat.

Chad (39:25):
No, because he's done that before.
He didn't get into any cool bar.
That was New Year's.
It was a bathroom at a Shoney's.
You knew it was going to happen.

Javier (39:33):
You knew it was on the other side of that stall.
On the group chat, got to hearthe Seinfeld jingle every time
you go in through the door.
Yes, yes or whenever you getinto some quirky situation, it
just plays in the background.

Chad (39:46):
Just randomly.
So Snowmageddon you mentioned,it happened Friday.
We had plans to go to BrokenBow and they got it way worse up
there than we did down here,right, and so we kind of make it
all the way up and we weregoing pretty slow all the way to
Broken Bow, just because, assoon as we got off the highway,

(40:06):
I guess past Paris, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, it was just thick,
like the roads were still thick.
Uh, all you had to like staybetween the tire marks on the
road or else you're going to begoing all over the place and
you're talking like you know,just one lane each way, and so
it was pretty crazy and we getout to broken bow like right
around six, and people are likespinning out.
Uh, the only thing I mean we'veall been a broken boat the only
thing clear was the main roadand everything on the sides.

(40:27):
You know it's mountains andhills and stuff like that.
And so, if you like, if youjust sit there, because we went
to that pruitt's, that grocerystore, you just, yeah, you just
hear people, because that'swhere we're like all grouping up
, because we're like what thefuck do we do?
Um, because the road that we,we could see it and there's cars
just getting stuck and likeanywhere you go, you just kind

(40:48):
of like turn off your car andyou're listening and you hear
cars just like peeling outtrying to get out.
All over the city People aregetting stuck.
And so this guy in a four byfour truck, he was able to get
in and out.
And he's like, all right, well,we're just going to all load in
my truck and then just take oneone trip.
I'm like like there's no way,fuck, there's no, there's 10 of
us and we have all of our stuff.
Like there's no way we're allgoing to fit in this truck
safely.
And so he was like well, youdon't have four by four in the

(41:09):
four runner.
And I'm like I know I don't,but hold my beer like you know,
if I get stuck you can help no,you don't have four by four.
No, it didn't have four by four,but I had zero issues
whatsoever, like I.
I don't know what.
Maybe it's the tires, maybeit's just my superior driving
tires have a lot to do with it,or the latter part, right like.

(41:30):
I'm pretty sure the tires areokay now that I'm talking about
it and it's really just asuperior driving problem I don't
know.
I don't know either way, wewent in and out of that about
four or five times and that'sabout average for me what?

Tim (41:43):
four or five?

Chad (41:44):
pumps and I'm good to go.

Tim (41:45):
We go out of it four or five times.

Chad (41:48):
It was a good time, though .
We just drank a lot, watchedsports.
It felt like college.
We were playing beer pong, weplayed three man, we were just
playing drinking games allweekend.

Tim (41:56):
That's too much for me.
It was a lot of fun.
I can't deal with that muchdrinking anymore.

Chad (42:00):
Yeah, I slowed down on the second night.
I still drink a lot, but thefirst night we were up until 4
am.

Tim (42:05):
Yeah, after a Borg incident I'm like I can't.
I'm kind of I can't.
I can do a Borg all day.
We had so much alcohol on thatlast trip that we did that was
ridiculous.
That's not all we had.

Chad (42:15):
Yeah, it's been a fun couple of weeks.
It's been great, but back withyou boys.
The only thing that sucks isback to five days in the office
and it's already killing me,yeah and I'll be honest with you
, I was all.
I wouldn't even work.
I was working from home lastthursday and friday and it's
already still killing me.
I fucking hate it I can't standit.
I hate it.

Tim (42:34):
Welcome to my world, man.
I've been five days.
I know you got a longer commute.
I get that.
I get that you take you 10minutes to get to work.
I get 14 if I hit all thelights.
Excuse me, I get that.
Are you riding the train?

Chad (42:44):
No, because the train adds 30 minutes each way.

Tim (42:48):
Yeah, but you just get to chill and decompress.
I get it, I just want to getthere.
You swing by the gas station,you get yourself a little drink
for the way there.
And then you swing by the gasstation, you get yourself a
drink for the way back.
I'm not going to drink on theway to work.
I'm not saying that you drink awhole lot.
I'm just saying you drinkenough.
Drink enough to enjoy work.

Chad (43:07):
Yeah, you're ridiculous.
All right, so this is our firstepisode of 2025.

Tim (43:13):
Hang on, I got a question though, okay, okay, okay,
because I don't think we talkedabout this on the podcast, but
you rode the train for the firsttime not that long ago.
It's been a while, right, right, right.

Chad (43:23):
And they hit a vehicle.
So I hadn't been taking thetrain in a while because, like I
said, it's just faster to drive.

Javier (43:30):
I'm not going to lie.

Tim (43:31):
I think you're going to play like the Seinfeld thing
whenever you had that.
God damn it.
You got to add that in post.

Javier (43:36):
You got to cut that in the chamber, man.

Chad (43:37):
Yeah.
So I was like you know what, atthe start of the year I'm
probably going to start takingthe train again because it's
cheaper Overall it's cheaper andI'm not putting all these miles
on my car and stuff like that.
And so I was like I'm going toget back in the rhythm, I'm
going to decompress.
I just kind of had my laptopopen doing a little bit of work
on the way to work and thenwhenever I was coming home, I'm

(44:00):
like you know what I'm done, I'mdone for the day.
I'm just going to sit here andrelax.
We hit three train stops and aswe're passing through Irving, I
see this white flash on theright side and I'm like what the
fuck was that?
And then the train just comesto a screeching stop, screeching
stop, and all you smell is likeyou know, the metal on metal,

(44:20):
brake shit.
And so I'm like what happened?
And some guys like we just hita truck.
And I'm like okay, and then Ikind of connected the dos.
The white flash, essentially,was the truck.
This truck was right over therail and he stalled I guess it
was a manual or something and itstalled and so we clipped the
front.
It's not like we hit him headon because that motherfucker
would not be here, but weclipped the front of the truck
and it kind of spun to the sidea little bit.

(44:41):
They were apparently fine, butwe sat on the tracks for two
hours.

Javier (44:45):
You couldn't get out.

Chad (44:46):
No, they had police officers come check us out.
Firefighters come by, they hadto wait until the TRE manager
comes out and inspects thedamage to make sure that they
don't have to call insurance oranything like that, and if they
did they were going to have toget us on another train, but
otherwise we had to sit there.
So we sat there for two hours.
It was a three-hour train ridehome.

Tim (45:05):
Fuck that.
The best thing, though, and Ijust want to bring this up Okay,
chad, you've always said thatif there was a plane crash, you
were going to survive, right,yeah, well, you survived a train
crash.

Chad (45:16):
I can now say I was in a train crash, or train wreck, or
train clipping, I don't know.

Tim (45:21):
We'll call it a train crash .
We won't say a derailment,because you didn't get derailed.

Chad (45:24):
We did not but you survived a train.

Tim (45:28):
Literally everyone did you survived a train incident,
that's great.

Chad (45:31):
Yeah, I'll put that on my resume.

Tim (45:33):
I would, I would, I would you know.
And if TikTok's about to goaway, yeah, and I think this
would be a great, you know,somber music.
Yeah.
You're like I just wanteverybody to know that I
survived a train accident andyou start telling the story as
if, like you know, it's going tobe like a really bad you know,
and then it's just not, and then, yeah, you get to the end Like

(45:54):
it's nothing like it's nothing.

Chad (46:01):
Yeah, it's going away anyway.

Tim (46:02):
So it's on the fucking train like guys.
Today I got into a trainaccident.
People are looking at you likewhat is this idiot you drove?

Chad (46:05):
a train, all right.
So now into the con are we?
Are we kind of we covered allthe things?
Yeah, 53 done, I know all right.
So we are now into 2025 and itis pretty.

Tim (46:21):
Sorry, it's already gone off the rails.

Chad (46:24):
Well, from the chat, Chad's had multiple trains run.

Tim (46:29):
On him.

Chad (46:30):
And he survived.
Each one of them Love that.

Javier (46:32):
Each one girthier than the last.

Chad (46:34):
So yeah, 2025 already seems like a shit show.
He's got a little wear and tearnow, but he does.
He's a little stretched out butokay, enough, enough, we're
talking about 2025 yeah, allright so I've kind of
categorized them in fivedifferent categories.
We want to like just talkthrough them.
Are they in the notes?
No, I've got them in my ownpersonal notes because I don't

(46:55):
think that we even look at thoseanymore.
It's's been a minute.

Tim (46:58):
It's been a minute.

Chad (47:00):
All right, so so we've got a broken down into four
categories wild politicalmaneuvers and controversies,
extreme weather andinfrastructure chaos,
technological and spaceadvancements, economic and
consumer shocks.
And cultural shifts andlifestyle trends.

Tim (47:17):
Oh man, where do we begin?
All of these sound wonderful tome.
I'm not actually beingfacetious.
I'm actually legitimatelyexcited about every single one
of those categories.

Chad (47:27):
All right, let's just start from the top.
Let's start from the top.
Okay, so obviously we are goingto have a new president here in
the next week, right?
He's going to get sworn in infive days the next week right
he's gonna get sworn in in fivedays new, old, new old, yeah,
new again but still old right,they're all old, the oldest, so
fucking old, um, but there'salready a bunch of shit

(47:48):
happening I hear he's thehealthiest, though with the
things that he's saying.
So he's talked about wildproposals like buying greenland.

Tim (47:57):
Which okay.
He wants to buy Greenland.
He wants to take control of itfrom Denmark.

Chad (48:02):
Right.

Tim (48:03):
All right which?

Chad (48:04):
okay, which is not a thing Like they're not going to sell
it.
I mean they could, and they area free and independent people.
I mean minus being controlledby Denmark, Controlled by
Denmark.
But they're a free andindependent people.
Yeah, I get that, but they're afree and independent people.
Yeah, I get that.
Why do you think?

Tim (48:19):
he wants to do like what's the point?
So he wants it for strategic.
Well, he claims a strategic um,like a strategic base.
Essentially, I put more troopson greenland.
Um, in reference to closeproximity to russia, okay, um, I
believe that denmark has said,uh, they've kind of struck a
deal maybe where it's like youcan just increase the troop

(48:40):
count, okay, but Trump stillwants it.

Chad (48:45):
Do you not think it's absolutely wild that he can just
say whatever the fuck he wants?

Tim (48:50):
There's a theory behind that, so it's President Nixon.
It's a President Nixon theorycalled the Madman Theory.
All right, so essentially I'mnot giving this man credit, I'm
just saying that maybe, maybethat's what he's going for is
the Madman Theory, where youjust say off the rails, unhinged
things.

(49:10):
You seem like you're completelycrazy.
It worries the other worldleaders to the point of, like
this guy's got nukes.
We're concerned enough, let'sjust.
Let's just give.

Chad (49:22):
give baby his pacifier because he's going a little
crazy.

Tim (49:25):
We got to deal with it for four years, yeah, and then we
can go back to being normal thatmakes sense, actually that that
actually makes a lot of sensewell, I mean he's.
He's screaming what uh gulf ofamerica that was another one.

Chad (49:37):
okay, he wants to rename, to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf
of America, he wants to annexCanada and he wants to reclaim
the Panama Canal.

Tim (49:45):
I don't know where y'all have been, but I've been calling
it Gulf of America for a while.
In fact, he got that from me.

Chad (49:52):
Dude.
I actually went on chat GPT andI was like, is that a thing
that a country can do?
And it's like, no, you actuallyhave to get it approved by
worldly leaders.

Javier (50:01):
The United Nations.

Tim (50:02):
Yeah you can't just go change a body of water, he could
call it that and he could tryto encourage the rest of the
nation to call it.

Chad (50:12):
It's kind of one of those things where you, I think I
guarantee you there's alreadyshirts and hats made.

Javier (50:15):
There are, I promise you .

Tim (50:21):
All them are all them hillbillies like, yeah, come to
the gulf of america I.
But what you do is you start,uh, it's.
It's one of those things whereyou just like, um, like in the
office whenever uh, no when uh,nelly or nilly or whatever takes
over.

Chad (50:31):
She just calls herself the manager oh yeah, and just takes
up shop in the office.

Tim (50:36):
And yeah, I think if you do that enough and you get enough
confidence and crazy.

Chad (50:40):
You're key, right, right.

Tim (50:41):
Well, the mexican president said something to the sort of
like well, you know what elsesounds good the the united
states of mexico but you know,what trump has also said is that
he would like to buy mexico andI thought, hey, look, more
power to him.
I thought this whole time wewere trying to keep them out can
Canada and Mexico.

Javier (50:58):
you will never have another Republican, fucking
president, I'm just saying Never.

Tim (51:02):
I thought we were trying to keep them out, that's the thing
.
And so why would you want tolet them in, right?
If?

Chad (51:08):
you were the president.
I mean at this point.
It's been such a.
I'm not saying me, I'm justsaying it's been such a a
contention on every, you knowevery, a contentious topic, I
guess for every like, why not?

Tim (51:18):
Well, Trudeau is stepping down.

Chad (51:21):
Right.
At the same time, all this talkis happening.

Tim (51:23):
So maybe he was, maybe he was going to make a deal and
someone caught wind of it.

Chad (51:28):
Uh, another thing that's going on is massive
cybersecurity breaches.
Y'all know that I know that'shappening a lot of like
companies and stuff too, butforeign hackers target US
government agencies,intensifying geopolitical
tension.

Tim (51:42):
Yeah, so we went through that at my job a couple of
months ago, no, a couple ofyears ago.
It's been a couple of years now.
Yeah, it's been.
It's been a couple of years.
I actually just recentlystarted up in the office at that
point, yeah, and I didn't knowthis.
And it, um, and I didn't knowthis.
And it makes sense that allthese different groups kind of
have their own little signature.
And so the fbi, when they gotinvolved with ours, they knew,

(52:03):
like, based off of the movementsthey did and all the stuff they
did, that this was a group outof like ukraine.
Ukraine actually has a lot ofif you didn't know, we're
helping ukraine a lot, uh, butthey have, um, one of the
largest amounts of ransomwarehackers working out of that
Ukraine and that region.
So they knew this one came fromeither Ukraine or Belarus.

(52:26):
One of the two, yeah, they weretargeting specifically
healthcare.
They were trying to gethospitals, because hospitals, a
lot of times, will just give youthe money.

Chad (52:38):
Yeah, and it's a lot of personal data.
They can go and just doanything with anybody's
information.
Yeah, and it's been a lot oftech companies too like a ton of
tech companies over the pastyear or two have been hacked or
information hijacked.
It's pretty wild somewhere too,that I think it was china that
has like china, china, china haslike hacked like 1.3 billion

(53:01):
dollars worth of bitcoin frompeople because they just have
all these hackers just going andgathering bitcoin that just
goes into the country's pocketyeah, and one of the things that
people do, if you don't knowthis, is don't keep your wallet
key on your computer.

Tim (53:16):
Keep that on a usb drive, put away right, because, um, I
read the story on reddit.
This guy was trying to figureout like how he can get his
stuff back.
So his kid got on his ipad andwas playing like something with
fortnite or something,downloaded a mod or something
along those lines.
Um, the kid thought it was justnormal.
Turns out it wasn't, and thisdude went in there and took all

(53:40):
of his bitcoin so you beat theshit out of the kid, right you?
beat the shit out of your kid.
I think that's when you takeyour kid to qt, where it's a
safe space and you just leavethem there.

Javier (53:50):
At that point, this is my child, he's yours, your
problem now.

Tim (53:53):
Yeah, the guy said it was daddy.
No, the guy said it wasbasically his entire retirement
that was taken.

Javier (54:00):
What a prick Damn that sucks.
Fucking kids are assholes.
Dog.

Chad (54:04):
Kids are the worst.
The last one for politicalmaneuvers and controversies is
the potential TikTok ban.
So a Supreme Court decisionlooms, with millions of users
facing the app's removal January19th.
Unless ByteDance divests.

Tim (54:18):
Which January 19th is whenever it's supposed to go
into effect, and InaugurationDay is the 20th.
Yeah.

Chad (54:23):
And so Trump has tried to push it back because he's got a
love for TikTok.

Javier (54:30):
He's got a love for people loving him.

Tim (54:35):
So I heard Elon was trying to buy it.

Chad (54:37):
I heard that too.
I also.
This came out today I think itwas on X that Mr Beast said all
right, fine, I'll buy TikTok.
And he said a ton ofbillionaires reached out to him
immediately about it.
So I think that there areoptions.
I don't think that it's likely.
I don't know.
What do y'all think?
Do you think it's likely?

Tim (54:55):
So here's what I think is going to happen.
I've got a prediction, so theban's going to go into effect
and it's not going to affect usthe way everybody's kind of
making it seem like it goes intoeffect and boom, switches off,
you can't access TikTok.
You're still going to be able touse the app, right, and you
might have to use a VPN to getaround it, but you're not going

(55:24):
going to get any support.
Yeah, no updates or anythinglike that.
So eventually it'll becomeglitchy and, un, you know,
unuseful.
What I think is we're going tohave the savior complex, right.

Chad (55:29):
So inauguration day, it gets inaugurated signs in the
thing that tiktok is no longerbanned I don't think that he can
just turn it around that he can, though he can, he can yeah
executive executive executivedecision.

Tim (55:37):
Yeah, no, he can, he can yeah, executive, executive,
executive decision, yeah, no, hecan, he doesn't really matter
either way, so I mean, that'sone of the scenarios like.

Javier (55:43):
it's like telling the courts like dude, well it's,
it's taking the, because they'regoing to be these uh phone
companies going to be fine, likeuh, android and apple are going
to be fine if they offersupport, like updates and stuff
like that.
So they're going to find them.
For each time.
What he can do is just say,well, you won't be fined, you
will not be fined, and it's notnecessarily like unbanning it,

(56:05):
it's just like telling thembecause it's not a ban,
technically it's a ban, but it'snot.
It's offering, like Tim said, asupport option for updates and
new features.
He can just say, well, we won'tfind you if you do this stuff
and then boom, that's it.

Tim (56:21):
or, like he said, vpn or mexico, and or you just do like
I did and you join red note.
You can find me, uh, underusername cunnilingus rice yes
listen if if anybody knows thatreference other than cunnilingus
rise.

Javier (56:39):
Sounds like a than like.

Tim (56:40):
Do you know what that's from?
Yes, what's funny is I don'tthink a lot of the Chinese
people I'm interacting with haveany idea what that's from.

Chad (56:47):
Not yet, but you will get banned.
I'm telling you that right nowthey're apparently worse on Red
Note, which isn't actually thename.
That's just what we've beencalling it.
It's not called Red Note.
I think it translates to rednotebook no, yeah, that's true
there's a chinese lady that saidthat you found the red notebook
well, regardless, like ifthey're going to shut down

(57:09):
tiktok, it's going to be crackeddown across the board.
Yeah yeah, I know, I mean andso people are going to red note
or whatever it's called.
They're also going to eliminate, but eliminate is also bite
dance.
So yeah, like it's not going toRed Note or whatever it's
called.
They're also going to Lemonade,but Lemonade is also ByteDance,
so it's not going to lasteither.

Javier (57:21):
I just want to give a shout out to our Chinese fans
out there.
Ni Hao, wang Zhu, ni Hao, it'sfor them.

Chad (57:31):
Okay, yeah, thank you, I'll see you all at the end of
March I'll be in Hong Kong.

Tim (57:37):
I am.
I'm proud of my name.
Yeah, we could tell it was sogood.
You see it this morning.

Chad (57:44):
He's like look what I did.
He was just, he was like afucking, like a child with a
goddamn coloring.

Javier (57:50):
Yeah, look what I did.
And then I changed the or theretoo, I saw.

Tim (57:59):
So I had to get.
I found a picture ofCondoleezza Rice, condoleezza,
condoleezza, condoleezza,condoleezza.
Condolingus Rice Found apicture of her and I edited it
enough, I put a helmet on there.
And you know it's prettyfucking good, I'm gonna say it's
pretty yeah it's great, um.

(58:21):
And then I posted on tiktok, onmy own personal tiktok page,
the screenshot of that.
And then there's a band calledzahner, um, that's out of I
don't know someplace, um, butthey have a song called murder
shout out to y'all they got uh,they're overseas but they're
like anti-establishment.
They've got a.
They got a song called murderto the government so I had that

(58:42):
blasting I was like find me onred note.

Chad (58:44):
You know, and I've already had people find me so it's uh
rage against the machine oncrack dude, it's crazy, they
have a song called killdozer oh,shout out to the killdozer yeah
, oh, mr uh hemeyer, whatever,that's right yeah, all right,
anything else that y'all knowabout, like anything political
happening, that has just beenwild for the past few weeks um

(59:05):
politicizing the la fires.

Tim (59:08):
Oh shit, have you have you seen that they've like a?
So, first off, they arrestedsomebody that was dressed like a
firefighter who was lootinggood so somebody put on like a
fire outfit and started lootingright um.
The other one was so I watcheda video on tiktok because it's
not gone yet um of these twoguys that live in a neighborhood

(59:29):
basically stopping a guy fromsetting more fires yeah, I've
seen I've seen.
So they've had several peoplegoing around and like just
setting shit on fire now.
Well, the whole place is onfire.

Javier (59:40):
Might as well add to it.
Right, look, you know what Idon't understand.
I don't understand why peopleare recording these people doing
this.
Don't, don't record them Like,go beat their ass, throw them in
the fire.
So that was my whole thing, sothey can die?

Tim (59:59):
Oh can die, oh god, because fuck those guys that are
starting the fires.
We've been on long enough thatwe're not gonna get demonetized,
if we got monetized at all.
Um, anyways, yes, and so I Icommented, I was like why are
you just like pouring water onthis dude's blowtorch, trying to
keep him like?
Do something, beat the shit outof him, like there's two of
y'all.

Javier (01:00:15):
I've been you know what I.
I don't care anymore.
I'm putting stuff on tiktokwhere I'm like I would not be
mad if they were on a shirt.
Put that motherfucker on at-shirt.

Tim (01:00:23):
I don't give a fuck speaking of fucking around and
finding out, I watched a videowhere this lady I couldn't.
I watched it four or five timesbecause I'm like this is
ridiculous I don't know whatyou're talking about.
It was a road rage.
It's on on the Daily Mail'sTikTok it was a road rage thing.
This lady gets out of her car,walks up to the car behind her
and starts screaming at thewoman that's driving the car.

(01:00:44):
Well, that girl's got herboyfriend in the car, so he gets
out and it's like lady, what'syour deal?
You know whatever.
And she's like back up, awayfrom me.
So he turns around, starts toto walk away and she swings and
hits him.
So he beats the shit out of her,grabs her and body slams her
kits in the car, drives off allright, so now this lady's just

(01:01:06):
laying on the ground and shefinally gets up and she walks to
her car and another guy who wasthere pulls up, gets out of his
car, walks up to her like whyare you getting out on people?
Yeah why are you getting out ofyour car and getting out on
people?
Get your ass in the car andstay in the car.
Yeah, so she gets, goes throughall that and then she gets
admonished by some random dudetalk about fucking karma.

Javier (01:01:29):
Fuck.
I like seeing those.
I like seeing the people werethere that are in accidents and
they're like, hey, you can'tpark there, and they're like,
fuck you.
I saw one where a lady was.
I started shooting in the air,pulled her gun out and I saw
that one too.

Tim (01:01:43):
That's fucking wild all right.

Chad (01:01:45):
So the next category here is going to be extreme weather
and infrastructure chaos,because we just talked about the
wildfires which is bizarre.
I mean some of those videoslook fake like it, looks insane
they.

Tim (01:01:55):
I mean it's pretty fucking wild yeah, hold on say that
again the la wildfires yeah,yeah, they look wild, they sure
do if you see them on likevideos.

Chad (01:02:03):
They had some tornadoes driving through and shit.
No, you mean like fire,tornadoes, yeah fire tornadoes.

Tim (01:02:07):
Because, okay, so you, I do know a little bit about fire
science because I've taken a fewclasses on it, but you get the
thermal upset and it creates itsown weather at that point.
so there's so much heat and itmixes with the cooler air
temperature and it creates itsown weather at that point.
So there's so much heat and itmixes with the cooler air
temperature and it causes allthis disruption and shit and
you'll have winds of over 100,like hurricane force winds out
there that are pushing this fireat this point, and sometimes

(01:02:29):
you get full-on fire-nators,which should be a movie.

Javier (01:02:33):
Yeah.
Oh well, there was a backdraft,wasn't there?

Tim (01:02:38):
Backdraft's about the dude that was setting arson and
causing backdrafts.
Are you?
Sure.

Javier (01:02:45):
Yes, but shout out to Gladys she's trying to set
something up for a benefit.
She was talking about howplaces over there by her
hometown in LA have beenaffected and she wants to have a
benefit show.
So if any artists, friends ofours, are listening or on live
right now, she'd like to talk toyou to donate some time for a

(01:03:06):
great benefit, helping outpeople from the city of LA.

Tim (01:03:09):
One of my favorite videos I've seen from this whole thing,
though, is there's this guy andhe's interviewing.
He's up in the Hollywood Hillsarea.
It's old Hollywood, right.
Yeah.
And he's talking to this guyand this dude's like yeah, I've
been helping my neighbors getout and everything.
We've got all this stuff uphere and we're trying to get
them out.
And they're like oh yeah,that's great, and what's your

(01:03:31):
name?
And he's like Steve Guttenberg.
Oh yeah, I saw that, I saw that,and it hurt me because I'm like
as soon as I saw him doing theinterview I was like that's
Steve Guttenberg, that's cool,yeah, and this news reporter has
no idea, no idea who, no idea,three men and a baby Fucking.

Javier (01:03:48):
Police Academy.

Tim (01:03:49):
All the Police.

Javier (01:03:49):
Academies Police Academy 1 through 20.
Yeah, and he was.
But he had good advice.
He was like if you're leavingthe city, if you're leaving your
cars, leave your keys in there.
There's going to be people likeme that need to move them.
For people like emergencyvehicles to come up to the
driveways, up to the houses.

Tim (01:04:05):
Dude, he's like hanging out , he's like I ain't leaving.

Javier (01:04:08):
He's putting in fucking work, man.
Shout out to that man.

Tim (01:04:10):
Shout out to that man Dude, we're going to have.

Javier (01:04:14):
Call us old Goody Gutenberg.
Dude the videos of pets stayingaround the smoldering fires and
getting back to their.
It's crazy Dude.
There was a video that girl'slike.
I don't give a fuck aboutanything, I just want to make
sure my cat's okay.

Tim (01:04:29):
Well, and then the video of the two guys and their dog in
the house.
Yeah, they got out, so we knowthey're safe, but he's like the
dog's freaking out.
You see the fire raging, likeit's, you know, 20 feet away
from the house, kind of thing,and I'm like get the fuck out of
there.

Javier (01:04:46):
I can't imagine being in that situation, Dude honestly
like the first thing I would dolike before I grabbed anything
like files and shit.
All of the animals are in therein the car load them up and get
them out, and then I'll haveher take them.
I'll stay behind and get asanything that I can like

(01:05:06):
important shit and that's it.
Anything else, my insurancewill cover everything that's in
there.
Fuck the shoes, that's theother thing that's.

Tim (01:05:15):
the other thing is that insurance companies, as the fire
is approaching, they'recanceling their fire insurance,
right, but there was a Senatelaw passed.
One of the guys I think he waslike an insurance commissioner
said you know, while I was inthe Senate we passed this and
we're going to go ahead andenact this.
And I'm like wait a second, youmean the government can step in

(01:05:37):
and make insurance companiesnot do this kind of stuff, right
?
You mean they could probablystep in and not let them price
gouge us.

Javier (01:05:46):
Dude, they've been leaving states Like they left
Farmers left, yeah, californiaand Florida.

Tim (01:05:51):
Yeah, so, like farmers, canceled my insurance because I
didn't want to bundle with them.
They've got some of the highestcar insurance.

Javier (01:06:01):
Progressiveives doing the same shit now too.
Yes, yeah, insurance companies.
They can get fucked.
They can go ahead and go to theroute of the fucking well
they're having healthcare ceo.

Tim (01:06:05):
so part of the issue with it is they're having to pay
because they've paid out so muchin these fucking claims here
over the you know last, you knowseveral years that they uh, so
they buy insurance companies,buy insurance um, themselves
from the lloy Lloyds of London,things like that.
I didn't know Lloyds of Londonwas a thing I've never heard of
it.
It's like a big room, it's gota bunch of people and they call

(01:06:28):
up.

Javier (01:06:28):
They do auctions also.

Tim (01:06:30):
Yeah, and so it's all set up to support the insurance.

Chad (01:06:35):
Do you have to be named Lloyd in order to be a part of
this project?
And you have to be from.

Tim (01:06:37):
London.

Javier (01:06:38):
Like Lloyd from.

Tim (01:06:38):
Entourage.
Yes, he's up there.

Javier (01:06:41):
He is up there Impressive.

Tim (01:06:43):
Yeah.
So now their insurance rateshave gone up, and so they're
trying to recoup money, right?
So what do they do?
They raise their rates, and nowwe're having to suffer from it.

Javier (01:06:51):
Yeah, but they collect premiums every month.
Right, every month you'repaying into this.

Tim (01:06:57):
I can't help it if they've had poor investment
opportunities.
I mean, because that's whatthey're doing they invest the
money we put in there.
I'm sorry.

Javier (01:07:04):
Like what do you want me to do?
Like the same with your carinsurance.
Like they raise your premiumsbecause there was like three
hailstorms in that year.
Okay then you can't bitch about.
You got to do all OEM partsinstead of doing aftermarket.
Yeah.
You got to give me my rental,full fucking whatever for the

(01:07:25):
whole month that I need it orlonger, because we've had
situations where they're like,well, since they're not a
claimant, then we can only payfor 30 days.
I know they're our customer,but it's not.
You know it's their fault.
I'm like no motherfucker was ahit and run, like I don't know
what you want me to fucking.
It's annoying being in theindustry.
Yeah, it is, it's annoying andfighting for every fucking penny
.

Chad (01:07:42):
Fuck all that.
All right, so let's just runthrough these three real quick
and move on to the next section.
So a couple other things withextreme weather Unprecedented
winter weather, heat waves insome areas and record snowfall
in others disrupt travel, travelTravel's been crazy Sure.
Yeah, Whatever.
And then energy grid failures,holiday season blackouts exposed
weaknesses in the USinfrastructure, global food

(01:08:02):
supply issues, erratic weatherand supply chain disruptions
lead to grocery shortages andrising prices.
So all sorts of crazy shit.

Tim (01:08:10):
You know whose grid did not fail.

Chad (01:08:12):
Texas, texas, our grid was fine.
Look, it's not even Februaryyet, bro Like usually that shit
happens in February.

Tim (01:08:19):
I was watching ERCOT.
They've got a little thing.
You can download the app andyou can see what the demand is
versus what the load is.

Javier (01:08:24):
I've been to ERCOT.
I got drunk over there, yeah,what?
Yeah, I was in Mexico and I wasin like China and Germany and
England has a little pub Likeit's really cool to hang out and
drink at, Did you?

Tim (01:08:35):
try that one.
Oh, epcot, isn't that what?

Javier (01:08:37):
we're talking about.
We're talking about Epcot.
Is that what we're talkingabout?
We're talking about the energycompany.
Try that one soda, urquhart.

Tim (01:08:44):
Which one?
That one soda that everybodyhates.

Javier (01:08:47):
Oh, in Rebrew or which one, I can't remember what it's
called.

Tim (01:08:50):
Is it the?

Javier (01:08:51):
one that tastes like d Her car is in Disney.

Tim (01:08:55):
There are two different things.
My dude, yeah, we get our powerfrom Disney.
It's a small world.

Javier (01:09:01):
Speaking of Disney, though real quick.

Tim (01:09:02):
Did you know?
They took the Disney Channeloff there.

Chad (01:09:04):
No what.

Tim (01:09:05):
Yeah, like I think, last week they took it off there.
That didn't make my list.
That's pretty wild.
No way, I'm going to checkright now it's because they've
got the old Disney Channel, theDisney Plus.

Chad (01:09:18):
All right.
So technological and spaceadvancements is number three.
So number one SpaceX'smilestone rocket launch,
successful Starship launchsignals advancements in space
travel and Mars exploration.
Space travel is getting prettywild and, like the Starlink
capabilities and being able tolike soon our phones can just we
could use our phones anywhere,like we aren't even going to
need cell phones.

Javier (01:09:45):
Did you Starlink um starlink?
Only, did you hear what thewhat the sun sounds like?
Yes, did y'all hear that?
Oh it's, it's creepy dude thevideo.
Did you see the video of?
Uh, was it the parker solar, uh, solar, uh thing the probe,
yeah yeah, yeah.

Tim (01:09:55):
So they got the probe like it's the closest anything has
ever been to the sun.
The video's wild and it gotclose enough to where it didn't
burn up, right, but nobody cango there.
Where was that?
Yeah, and it sent what thesolar winds and all that stuff
sound like and it's fuckingcrazy.

Javier (01:10:11):
So cool thing Whenever before it launched, they had a
thing you can get in the websiteand they they had a thing you
can get in the website and theycan etch your name into the
probe, and I did that.
Really I had my name etchedinto the probe.

Chad (01:10:21):
That's cool.
Yeah, how much did you pay forthat?
Nothing.

Javier (01:10:24):
It was from the NASA website.
Oh that's fucking awesome.
It was like 2017, whenever Idid that.

Tim (01:10:29):
That's legit.
Yeah Well, that's cool.
So your name's been to the sun.
It has, man.

Javier (01:10:35):
They will know me into the cosmos.

Tim (01:10:37):
It sounds like they will.
Yes, but you know the aliensare coming from the ocean.

Javier (01:10:41):
Yeah, they are.

Tim (01:10:43):
I've got to go drain the weasel real quick.

Chad (01:10:44):
All right, you know.
Again on the space thing, chinaapparently is doing better than
we are in the space race tolunar exploration on the moon
again.

Tim (01:10:53):
China's doing better in a lot of things.
Man, I've seen some cars thatare coming out of china.
Oh yeah, the new ev is like alot of their evs that are if it
was, if it was made not made it,because nothing's made here,
really um, but if it was anamerican company, yeah, you'd be
paying for some of the stuffthat they're showing 60, 70, 80
000.
They showed a car that was like, yeah, in china it's like 25

(01:11:15):
000.
It's crazy.
And they're like really goodtoo, too, and they're like Tesla
and luxurious, yeah.

Chad (01:11:19):
And every yeah and they're also like they're.
I invested in Robinhood, I putsome money towards flying cars
and, like you know, that kind ofstuff.

Tim (01:11:30):
We were supposed to have flying cars by now.

Chad (01:11:32):
Well, they're coming very soon and I'm talking very soon
and there's a Chinese companythat's doing really well too,
but all three of them, all threeof the stocks are like up and
quite a bit too.
The other two here AI, ofcourse.
Generative AI tools transformindustries, sparking excitement
and a lot of ethical concernscoming out recently, because
it's like progressing veryquickly and so we're getting to

(01:11:55):
the point where it's like, ohshit, well, I was telling you
about before we started.

Tim (01:11:59):
I had a class that I was going to have to have the Honor
Lock extension on my Chrome,right, and if you don't know
what Honor Lock is, it's alockdown browser but there is no
proctor.
Okay, they use AI, and that'sone of my issues that I have
with it is they're using AI andthey track your eye, movement
and things like that and usingAI and they track your eye
movement and things like that.
And so I'm one of those and likeI'm going to try to get my

(01:12:20):
doctor to sign off on somethingor whatever, to say I don't have
to use that so I can turn intothe university.
I'm paranoid, like at thatpoint, like I'll be doing my
test.
I'm like, oh crap, it was myeyes doing the right thing.
Like I'm going to be in my ownhead thinking like what if my
eyes shift and it triggers, andthen they bring a proctor in?
You know, it's those littlethings.
And I'm like I can't do that.

(01:12:40):
Well, it's all ai driven, it'sa.
Well, if you didn't cheat youhave, you wouldn't have to worry
about it, and I don't.
So here's the thing is all my,all my exams, every single one
of my exams over the past um,like almost two years that I've
been in school, have been openbook yeah, every single one,
yeah.
Online is the way to go exceptfor, like, the math classes and

(01:13:03):
spanish are not open, book thespanish one.
Get this.
You also have to disable yourspell check.
Oh yeah there's.

Chad (01:13:11):
I've actually read, so I started my.
I can't spell for shit.
I know words, I just can'tspell them.
I I started my MBA program thisweek.
Mba, you're going to playbasketball, I'm going to play
basketball.
Hell, yeah, brother, I'llannounce the team soon enough.
So I started class back againand one of the things because I
was looking at it, because AIwas not a thing whenever I
graduated my undergrad- right.

(01:13:33):
Sure.
And so now I'm looking at likewhat can I and can I not use and
how can you get in trouble?
And people are getting introuble because spell check and
there's a thing called Grammarlyand even just a spell check can
trigger their AI testing onyour documentation and say hey,
like this was AI was used.

Tim (01:13:51):
But that's the thing is like, because even like without
even using Grammarly because Iwas dude I had a teacher several
semesters ago that said thatsuggested us to use Grammarly
and the thing is, is like I'vewritten legitimate, like my own
words, right?
Did not use AI at all andchecked it against the AI

(01:14:14):
checker and it said that it was30% AI Right yeah.
So there is no such thing as agood AI detector.

Chad (01:14:25):
Right, I agree.

Tim (01:14:30):
Now there's things that the teachers can do and they put in
like white text on a whitebackground, and so it'll put a
phrase in there and then theycan just search for the phrase.
There's little sneaky thingsthey can do, right?
What I use chat GPT for, though, whenever's any any paper
related stuff is I actually useit to help me with my outline.
Yeah, I tell it like this iswhat I'm working on.
I need you to break down andthen, and then it just breaks it
down to where I work, sectionby section, and it just makes it

(01:14:53):
a whole lot easier it's kind ofhow I.

Chad (01:14:55):
I use it at work quite bit and I use it as kind of like a
first draft and then, like Iplug in, I obviously have all
the information that I want.
I'm really good at prompting itaccordingly, and I have it as a
first draft and then I editaccordingly.
Yeah, I mean, and so I it allit is.
It's a tool, it's a time saverand it kind of sucks that
universities.
I get it, don't get me wrong, Iget it, but it kind of sucks

(01:15:15):
that we're kind of in thisin-between spot where we can't
use it.
You shouldn't use it, but itwould really help out, kind of
like calculators.

Tim (01:15:22):
Yeah, none of my emails that I write at work are written
by me.

Javier (01:15:26):
I believe that, dude, I've written a response to a
review to make it as respectfulas possible, but still call her
a cunt.

Tim (01:15:38):
How's that prop?
Look, uh write this, uh respondto this review make it sound as
cunty as possible withoutwithout saying that they're a
cunt.

Chad (01:15:46):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you I feel like I am second
guessing myself, more than Iever did, though, with ai,
because I'm a fairly good writer.
But even now, now to your point, like normal, just quick three
sentence emails, I'm like let mejust see, what it would do yeah
.
And I might make a couple ofadjustments, but like it's, it's
nice to have it, but it'salmost like I'm, I don't want to

(01:16:07):
be using it too much, I guess.

Tim (01:16:11):
You know, and it's funny, as you get, as I get some more
advanced chat GPT, especially ifyou pay for the service.
You could start advanced chatgpt, especially if you pay for
the service you could start.
You could upload your own, yourown writings and say I want you
to use this as reference fortonality and all that stuff and
it will write shit based off ofhow you normally write have you
chad tried apple intelligence todo any of that stuff?

Chad (01:16:32):
I'm not a fan, like I don't like how it it I don't
like how it uh does yourmessages.
They're never quite right, likehow it summarizes your messages
.
Other than that, like, the onlyAI that I've enjoyed from Apple
intelligence is the photos,because you can really get like
just make things disappear andthey're gone, and it does a
really good job of doing that.

Javier (01:16:50):
I think my dick look bigger.

Chad (01:16:53):
I mean, there's always, it'll just disappear things if
you want your dick to disappear.
You are now a woman.

Tim (01:16:59):
I've uh, I've gotten some wild summaries though.
Yeah, um, and so, like one ofthem, it was like shots fired
multiple people at your frontdoor and it was all the stuff
from ring and so whatever youlike.
So you're getting all the ring,nate, like the ring neighbor
stuff, and like I heard gunshotsand it's like I can't stand it
and it literally said like shotsfired multiple people at your
door and I'm like what the?

Javier (01:17:20):
fuck is this?
Yeah, yeah, same same, likewhat is happening.
The blink camera too.
It says like multiple, yeah,multiple people in in cat room.
What the fuck's going on?

Chad (01:17:30):
all right.
Last thing about technology uh,we gotta move on, we're out of
time but this is one that Iactually wouldn't mind us like
doing a little bit of researchon and bringing on one of the
next couple episodes, becausedid y'all look at the c ces 2025
at all?

Javier (01:17:42):
yeah, yeah, a little bit of it there's some crazy.

Tim (01:17:44):
What is that?

Javier (01:17:45):
it's like the tech consumer electronic oh yeah,
okay, I got you.

Tim (01:17:48):
They have it every year, but this year.

Chad (01:17:49):
It's just like just wild.

Tim (01:17:52):
Some is that where the ai dolls were, because I've seen
videos of that and it wasn'tlike.
So these were not like.
It wasn't at like a sexconvention.
I'm going to preface thatbecause I could tell like it
looked like, because he knowshe's been there before.

Chad (01:18:06):
There was no scantily clad women.

Tim (01:18:08):
They had him like.
They had like this AI robot inlike a normal war clothes.
They had a male and a femaleand it was like it tracks you.
It tracks you with its eyes, itcan respond to you, it can talk
to you all sorts of shit well,the the ai robots are coming
along like who is it case not?

Chad (01:18:26):
kai's not, or whatever his name?
Is yeah he had a robot that was.

Javier (01:18:29):
That was a human.
That was a human in makeup.
That was not a fucking robotthat was a human.
That was a fucking human thatwas a robot.

Tim (01:18:36):
It's like the tesla robots.
Those were weird looking.
But they were people respondingto the answers, right, yeah.

Chad (01:18:43):
But Elon said and I believe him because he makes
these wild claims and generallyhe does it but he said within
the next year he'll have like100,000 AI robots made, and in
the second year and this iscoming up within 2025, 2026,
whatever they're going to havealmost half a million.

Tim (01:19:01):
They made a movie about this.

Chad (01:19:03):
Yeah, it was called.

Javier (01:19:05):
Johnny and the Sex Robot .

Tim (01:19:07):
It was called iRobot.
Different one and nobodybelieved Will Smith until it was
too late.

Javier (01:19:13):
He's just slapping people and now everybody doesn't
believe blood pressure the cuffyeah dude, why don't they do
that on sex robots, where it'll,like you know I think they
already do and then, like youknow, just squeeze it to where
it's not that hard and it feelsyour heartbeat and just goes

(01:19:34):
moving?

Chad (01:19:34):
on economic number four I think they already do that
number four economic andconsumer shock.
Uh, so, if you hear globaleconomic changes or challenges,
rather, inflation and risingliving costs affect households
worldwide.
We're seeing it a lot here.

Tim (01:19:49):
They're saying OK, so they've said that Fort Worth
itself.

Javier (01:19:53):
They got six.

Chad (01:19:54):
second rule we saw the highest inflation rate
comparatively to all othercities similar to us because of
the mix of people moving hereRight and housing prices going
up and normal inflation fromothers.
The amount that we've gone upin comparison to most people
yeah, we've become like one ofthe.

Tim (01:20:11):
I also heard a realtor saying that like, last year was
like, or yeah, last year was oneof the worst real estate
history since uh, 2014.
I don't think that's true.
I think it is, to an extent.
I think it was not a seller'smarket.

Chad (01:20:29):
It slowed down.

Tim (01:20:31):
I think because I've seen a lot I watch Zillow a lot and I
believe I've seen a lot of pricecuts.
So I don't think it was quite aseller's market as much as it
was as more of a buyer's marketright now, but we're still
selling a lot of houses.
Right, we're still moving thatproduct.
Right Another one hereStreaming service price hikes,
Subscription fees rise forNetflix, Disney, everything else

(01:20:53):
which was really frustrating toeveryone which I've got a
mystery Netflix account that Ican't find and it's been drafted
on my account.

Chad (01:20:59):
I had two Netflix accounts .
Somehow Did you download RocketMoney.

Javier (01:21:04):
I have it and it won't.
Let me cancel it.
Go through every email that youown or cancel those cards.
I don't know what cards it'sset up cancel all of them get
new ones all right.

Chad (01:21:15):
So, despite all the money, it's 100 cards.
We still had record sales forholiday retail oh yeah, which is
why that's disappointing what'sdisappointing about it is like
if you take a look and you go,like research numbers, like
credit card, you know how peopleare, like maxing out credit
cards and like those pay as yougo, what are the?

Tim (01:21:36):
payday loans no, you like.

Javier (01:21:38):
I know what you're talking about?

Tim (01:21:38):
Oh, like a firm.

Javier (01:21:39):
And yeah like a firm.
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Chad (01:21:41):
Those are going nuts because people are like oh, it's
not a credit card bitch, it'sworse than a credit yeah, you're
.

Javier (01:21:46):
The interest you're paying is pretty much higher.
Credit cards what?
28 to 30 percent?
So?

Tim (01:21:51):
well, I use a firm.
I actually use a firm.
Uh, quite a bit in my interest.
The interest isn't bad likethey have different ones, right,
so you can do zero percent ifyou have a, if you have a decent
credit you can do like zeropercent for six payments and
then I've seen some that werelike 26 percent, which is like
what a credit card is.

Chad (01:22:07):
But for a lot of people, it's literally like doubling
whatever they're purchasing.

Tim (01:22:11):
Right, it's stupid to just let the payments run out.
You need to pay it off like acredit card.

Chad (01:22:17):
Yeah, but even if they did a year in payments, people with
decent to low credit are stillgoing to be paying basically
double within the year.
It's like Fingerhut.

Tim (01:22:29):
Fucking Finger ever.
You never had, you never usedfinger right so finger has like
catalogs or nothing.
Your mom didn't get uh fingerhut was like this consumer
credit thing where it, if youhad bad credit, you could get a
finger hut account and if youyou buy something, you make the
payments helps boost your creditup, but everything on there is
like double the price, shit.

Javier (01:22:49):
It's like appliances and like all sorts of shit.
Yeah.

Chad (01:22:53):
And then last one here on this category is electric
vehicle revolution.
Affordable EVs from Tesla andFord bring sustainability to
more consumers.
That's another thing that'sgoing to be happening soon.
Is the Tesla taxis Like that'sgoing to be taken off in the
next ev pure ev is not whereit's at and it will.

Tim (01:23:11):
It will not be where it's at anytime soon hybrids the way
to go like your true plug-inhybrid, right where you have a,
have a.
So.
So ram.
Ram is going to be the first.
I think they're the first, uh,us company that's going to put
out, um, so, daimler Chryslerand all that stuff, dodge Ram,
they're going to put out a truckthat has a generator, so it's

(01:23:32):
like a little V6.
I think it's like the Pentastaror whatever their V6 they have
is actually pretty reliable.
It's going to be hooked up to agenerator.
All it's going to do is reducepower.
It fills the batteries up,keeps the batteries charged or
charging and supplies power tothe, the dual motor or single
motor setup, giving you aneffective range of somewhere
between 600 to 700 miles.

(01:23:53):
Damn so if you charge yourbattery up plus have a full tank
out, so you should be able togo about six, seven hundred
miles.
That's where it's at, I agree,because emissions it's going to
be low to low, low to moderateemissions coming out, because
you're not.
It it's not going up and down,it's going to stay within the
power band where it needs to be.
It's the same technology theyuse on locomotives, diesel
locomotives, and then there's acompany up out of Canada that

(01:24:16):
started producing this for large, big trucks.
It's called Edison Motor Worksor Edison Motor Company.
They're taking logging trucksand converting them to this
basically locomotive stylegenerator with with electric
driveline.
That's where it's at.

Chad (01:24:31):
I agree.
I think that it's not.
You know, obviously gas is notthe way to go, and if you've
seen land man, he does a reallygood job of kind of explaining
gas and oil, which I think isfunny, but like it's not, we
live on a world where it'sneeded, right Like the people
before us created the need forgas and oil.

Javier (01:24:50):
They made it to where every product essentially is
made out of petroleum.

Chad (01:24:54):
Yeah, right, but also it's one of the cheapest things out
there and it's still a veryreliable source or resource.
However, it's all about balance.

Tim (01:25:02):
So like having your electric because even electric
vehicles like going out thereand getting all the fucking
materials for the rechargeablebatteries yeah, because you got
to get the lithium mines, andthe lithium mines require heavy
machinery to do all that, plusthe child labor and all that
shit.
But then you start throwing inthe wind farms and those wind
farms.
What people don't realize isthose wind generating electrical

(01:25:23):
things out in West Texas.
They have a shit ton of oil inthem.
Yeah, Like it requires oil tolet those things go.

Javier (01:25:31):
Everything requires oil, everything.

Chad (01:25:34):
But it's a balance, right Like so you have some wind,
you've got some solar, you'vegot some EV, you have some gas,
you have some diesel.
Like you spread it out.
There's no one right answer,but you've got to have it spread
out so that you're not usingall of one fucking resource.

Tim (01:25:48):
I'm waiting for nuclear and , honestly, that's what they're
saying, you see there, doc Brown, I don't think we're that far
out, because they've now figuredout number one, so everybody's
afraid of nuclear weapons andthat it'll cause this crazy
fallout and all that stuff.
That's not necessarily the casein modern nuclear weapons.
Now, right, it causes, you know, concentrated radiation issues

(01:26:10):
in that one little area, butit's not spread out like the old
school stuff that you're goingto have in like india and
pakistan with those weapons theystill have.
But they're coming up withthese miniature nuclear reactors
now.
They've looked at creatingpower plants out of these that
are stable and they produce verylittle waste and they last for
20, 30 plus years without havingto change out fuel rods and all

(01:26:32):
that.

Chad (01:26:32):
Well, a lot of these tech companies are going to be
leaning that way here prettysoon, just because how much?

Tim (01:26:37):
It's clean as long as it doesn't melt down.
Right, Right.

Chad (01:26:40):
It's clean, but AI takes like four times as much power as
they thought it was.
And water, and water.
And water.

Tim (01:26:49):
And water and water Right Like it's a huge energy and
water stock.
Microsoft, I think, looked atopening up, starting Three Mile
Island back up or something.
Yeah.

Chad (01:26:54):
I think Facebook was talking about it too.
I think, like a lot of Google,I think there's a lot of all the
tech companies at this pointare trying to figure out how
they can like move with nuclearwell, I mean quantum computing
can like easily do the data nowwhen it comes to like nuclear
fusion.

Javier (01:27:10):
So, like you know, the breakthrough happened here.

Tim (01:27:11):
I always get it mixed up with fission versus fusion,
which one's vision which one'sthe good one which one is it.

Chad (01:27:16):
It's fission, isn't it?
I don't know, you're right.
It is jizzing, yeah, jizzing,uh, so jizzing.

Tim (01:27:21):
I hope this makes it the tiktok, um, because we'll have
someone say, no, it's, it'sFusion and it's blah, blah blah.
It's definitely not JetsonFucking.
Tell us what it is.

Javier (01:27:29):
I'm a virgin and I'm on TikTok and I learn how to cook
dinner and buy things.
I buy things and I learn how tocook dinner.

Tim (01:27:36):
We're a bunch of morons when it comes to this stuff, but
I know.
Fusion versus Vision, whichone's the bad one?
I don't know.

Chad (01:27:43):
Whatever?

Javier (01:27:52):
It don't know, whatever, it doesn't matter.

Chad (01:27:53):
Did y'all, so y'all had to have seen because y'all know
more about current events andthings like.
Obviously we're smart, right?
Uh, in ron like and ron hubbard.

Tim (01:27:57):
So in ron obviously was a thing that happened years ago
where the company was so goodthey were basically like uh,
they were shut down because ofall of the stealing money well,
yeah, there was a, there was abunch of yeah, it was like
almost like a Ponzi scheme goingon.

Chad (01:28:10):
So then they sold basically the name rights and
logo for dirt cheap and somegroup, young kids I mean.
I say that they're probably intheir 20s.

Tim (01:28:21):
I think they're probably close to the 20s or our age.
Yeah, they're young Somewherearound there.

Chad (01:28:30):
They purchased it and they just started going out there
and throwing out merch becauseit's the enron logo, like we've
seen it all over the news, andso all the merch is getting
snatched up, and then they go onsocial media and it looks real
as shit it looks so real.
I actually had to go and likefact check I did too, because
I'm like there's no way this isreal.
So it was like during CES oraround the same time as CES, so
it was like they were launchingthis new product.
Did you see this at all, javier?

Tim (01:28:51):
They did it Steve Jobs style.

Chad (01:28:53):
Yeah, he was on stage.
He's like we got this newproduct for you.
You're not going to believe thebreakthrough that we've had.
We want to introduce the egg.

Tim (01:29:14):
And it's this egg-like thing that is no bigger than you
know.
I mean probably like an ostrichsize egg, you know what I mean
like that, and it is a in-homemicro nuclear reactor, but it
looked so real.
It was supposed to like, likeprovide power for the next like
50 years or something like thatwith one purchase, like you're
good to go.

Chad (01:29:20):
You just hook up your home to this one thing and you're
good to go.

Tim (01:29:24):
And I'm thinking like damn, enron came back hard but the
way, the way they did it dude,it looked like, it looked like,
uh, it looked like an old schoolsteve jobs, apple um, you know
the new I, you know the newiphone type thing.
It was the most insane thingthat I've seen.
I think, well, it was last year, right right.

(01:29:44):
Whenever it came out, yeah,last year I, I too had to fat
check this.
I was like, well, it came outweeks ago, it was last year,
right Right.

Chad (01:29:48):
Whenever it came out, yeah , last year, I too had to fact
check this, I was like, well, itcame out weeks ago, it was a
big thing, yeah, because it wasvery recent, yeah, so just Okay,
I had to go on there and look,I was like, oh man, I'm going to
buy one.
It was on their website likethis new release to news things
and they're like yes, it is ahoax, just letting everyone know
.
This is a hoax because they'recoming around and it's more of

(01:30:08):
like in runs taking this likecomedy stance.

Tim (01:30:11):
Now kind of like they're just trying to like whenever a
radio yeah, that's what a radioshow with the twitter right and
and inron was gonna do like uh,I think a coin or something like
that too yeah they're like allright, great, they're gonna pull
the rug again, but whatever, Ithought that was pretty
interesting.

Chad (01:30:25):
Um, I also thought something was interesting.
Before we get this lastcategory is I didn't.
Actually I haven't heard theepisode yet, but zach, uh, zach.
Mark zuckerberg was on joerogan, joe rogan oh dude and he
was talking some mad shit aboutapple and he was right.

Tim (01:30:39):
I think he's right, but he was also talking shit about the.
So he said that during thebiden they were constantly
getting phone calls from theirpeople screaming at them and
like saying some nasty stuff,telling them to take this down
about the vaccines.

Chad (01:30:56):
Well, that's why they started the fact check thing
right.

Tim (01:30:58):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
They were wanting to removestuff on there.
That was actually accurate.
That was the whole thing, andso now he's come out.
Zuckerberg has come out andsaid we're not doing the fact
check.
It's going to be will allowpeople to fact check themselves
kind of thing it's going back toold school facebook.

Chad (01:31:16):
It's kind of funny that he's kind of like through he's a
bro now, well, through eachadministration he just kind of
like changes this too.

Tim (01:31:23):
Oh yeah it seems like he is , like it seems like he's
straight up a uh, one of therogan bros, now right, and I'm
like yeah, look at the curlyhair and the gold chain he wears
shirts like he's.

Javier (01:31:32):
He's looking like the dude, he's like an into mma,
like he's apparently he's like afucking badass too.

Chad (01:31:38):
Like the dude can fight he likes uh, he likes uh smoking
meats.

Javier (01:31:42):
Yeah yeah, he hunts uh all his food with his baby, or
yeah, yeah what is?

Chad (01:31:46):
it Old baby Ray, sweet baby Ray.

Tim (01:31:47):
Sweet baby.

Javier (01:31:48):
Ray On the group chat we got a fission thing.
Fission splits a heavy elementwith a high atomic mass number
into fragments, while fusionjoins two light elements with a
low atomic mass number, forminga heavier element.
In both cases, energy is freedbecause the mass of the
remaining nucleus is smallerthan the mass of the reacting

(01:32:08):
nuclei.
From Google and not my nerdbrain, Shout out to Christine.
I will say this real quick thewhole.

Tim (01:32:13):
TikTok ban, though, is partially because of Zuckerberg,
I believe that.
So Meta and Google spentbillions lobbying against TikTok
Of course they did.

Chad (01:32:28):
They were the only competitor.

Tim (01:32:29):
Right, they want to get rid of it, and here's what's funny.
Here's the funniest thing,though, is that it kind of
backfired.
Yeah, because everybodyswitched over the red note.
Yeah, he was expectingeverybody to go to reels.
Go back to.
Yeah, go to reels, go to meta.
Reels are trash.

Javier (01:32:42):
Yeah, I told Tammy I'm like they're old, I'm not gonna
watch.
We've already seen them.
Because we watched tiktok.
I'm like I'm not gonna yeahshe's like oh, I sent you
something with this.
I'm like yeah, I already saw it.
I saw it on tiktok like a monthago.

Chad (01:32:53):
The searchability and algorithms are not quite as good
on instagram as they are ontiktok I know that for sure.

Tim (01:32:58):
Look, I built my for you page brick by brick.

Javier (01:33:02):
Dude me too, kitties and titties like that's dude I'm
kidding it's cats and like foodand tiktok shop shit come uh
what they come and come, comenow, come the 19th, my life will
not change at all.

Chad (01:33:17):
I know, because you don't doom scroll I.
I just don't, I just don't.
All right, he does, he does, hesure as shit does dude.
I'll show you how can I.
I'll show you my iphone, likewon't it tell me how many
minutes I was on tiktok?

Tim (01:33:30):
hey god, I gotta speaking about the, about your, the, the
summarize of alerts, right, soring, here we go.
Black and white dog runningaround, helicopter circling near
river oaks.

Chad (01:33:41):
It does be no good I have no idea what's happening.
All right, hold on, let's allgo to our phones.
Where on your phone does ittell you, like, how much you've
spent on certain things?
Oh uh, in your settings okay,so I'm gonna go to settings.
Uh, is it general?
Screen time, screen time okayoh, this is good I want to

(01:34:02):
figure out what everyone's topthing is.
Let's do a week.

Javier (01:34:07):
Top five, top five.
Is there a top five?

Tim (01:34:13):
Yeah, if you go click on where it says daily average, so
you go to screen time, it sayssee all app and website activity
.
Click on that and then mostused.
All right, you go first Tim.

Chad (01:34:25):
TikTok Top five.

Tim (01:34:26):
TikTok's number one at five hours and 46 minutes.

Chad (01:34:28):
Fuck off.

Tim (01:34:29):
Chrome three hours 42 minutes.
Youtube two hours 37 minutes,facebook two hours 20 minutes
and Red Note two hours and 20minutes.

Chad (01:34:38):
Damn, that's quite a bit.
That's quite a bit of time, man.
Yeah, is that this week or lastweek?
This just shows, it's justshowing my uh most, yeah, I
don't know.

Javier (01:34:50):
let me see, let me see, let me see the front of yours
that's, that's uh this week, letme see, let me see how's that.

Tim (01:34:54):
Mine doesn't do that I don't know what, but mine's down
.
You know that's the thing islike.
You know, it's all.
It's all down, dude, you turnyour activity off you did this
shit on purpose I swear tochrist I did this shit on.

Chad (01:35:07):
No, I, I swear to Christ, you did this shit on purpose.
No, I didn't.
You're like, they're not goingto catch me, they're going to
catch me watching the cavemansafari.

Tim (01:35:16):
I've spent an hour and 10 minutes on Red Note and only 27
minutes on TikTok.
Which week?
Just for today, okay.

Chad (01:35:27):
So this week for me it was three hours and six minutes on
Instagram, two hours and 44minutes on Google Maps, two
hours on Pokemon Go.
I picked that back up.
That's okay Because Danny Anhour and 27 minutes on Facebook
and an hour and six minutes onChatGPT.

Tim (01:35:41):
Is he moved back up here now?

Chad (01:35:42):
No February, 3rd February 3rd.

Tim (01:35:44):
Okay, we'll have to have him, we'll have to have him and
we'll go to Crystal Springs,yeah, for sure He'll love it.

Chad (01:35:48):
He's never been to Gusto's either.
We were talking about that lasttime We'll do both.
But yeah, dude, TikTok's noteven on the list.
I'm going all the way down.
I'm past five minutes.

Tim (01:35:56):
Congratulations.

Chad (01:36:00):
You're not a doom scroller , what do else?
I don't I don't know.
I don't know either.
Like my tiktok is not even onthis list.
Fucking brain rot, that's allit is.
Also, I I'll tell you what.
I turn off notifications onsome of my like linkedin uh,
tiktok facebook.
I turn off notifications foreverything except for instagram,
so I don't even have to like.

(01:36:20):
I only go to things that notifyme because I don't.
I don't know, I don't thinkabout it yeah and so I don't
think about it.
That's it all right lastcategory.
We're running way the fuck over.
We gotta get our 37 minutes,buddy.
All right.
Cultural shifts in lifestyletrends one NFL playoff drama,
unexpected upsets and standoutperformances captivate sports
fans setting up a wild SuperBowl.

(01:36:41):
Who's you mean the Super Bowl?

Javier (01:36:43):
um, damn the way it's looking right now.

Tim (01:36:46):
I want to say it ain't going to be the Commanders.

Javier (01:36:49):
No, it's not, but they're doing really good.
The Lions, I think, will comeout on top.
They'll be the NFC's pick forFuck, For the AFC man, it's
really I would say it's atoss-up.

Tim (01:37:02):
You're saying Lions.
I'm saying lines for the.

Javier (01:37:05):
NFC For the AFC.
It's going to be a toss-upbetween the Buffalo Bills and
the Chiefs.
I think the Chiefs are going topull through only because I
don't think that, because I meanthey've been playing.

Tim (01:37:17):
I would like for them not to.

Javier (01:37:20):
I mean I'd love to see a three-peat because he's already
going to be a first ballot Hallof Famer Travis Kelsey and
Patrick Mahomes I think they'reboth first.

Tim (01:37:34):
I would like to go to a Chiefs game though.
Yeah, just to sit in thatstadium.

Javier (01:37:38):
But I will say this you saw the Minnesota Vikings lose
pretty bad.
I will say that one of thosewins was all because of Mike the
Bike's cousin, because hescored all the points.
Yeah, he scored every field.

Tim (01:37:55):
He's with the Vikings now, right?
No, he's with the Patriotsright now.
Oh, he's with the Patriots.

Javier (01:38:00):
He signed to a future contract and their practice
squad.

Tim (01:38:03):
Oh nice.

Javier (01:38:03):
But Mike, the Bike's cousin, scored all the points in
a win a couple like a monthback, and he got the game ball.
It was really cool to see.

Chad (01:38:12):
I would love to see the Lions Chiefs.
I really would.

Javier (01:38:19):
Lions Chiefs and man.
I don't know who would win that.
I wouldn't mind seeing theBills, though.

Chad (01:38:22):
It'd be kind of nice to see the Chiefs not in the Super
Bowl for once.
Just kind of nice to see thechiefs not in the super bowl for
once, just kind of like changeit up.
If it wasn't the chiefs, Ithink it'd be cool to see the
texans no, they're too young.

Javier (01:38:31):
They're not going to go in.
I know they're not, but itwould be cool uh lamar lions
would tear them apart dude.
I want to see the ravensbecause lamar jackson has been
such a great quarterback for thepast couple years.
Um, mvp, obviously last yearand he's won, won multiple, but
it would be fun to see someonedifferent.
It would be fun to see theBills and the Lions.
I think it would be fun.

(01:38:52):
Nice, it would be a fun Super.
Bowl Nice.

Chad (01:38:54):
All right, I'm just going to read through these.
Some of these are not worthtalking through.
Really Sure.
But fitness trends in 2025,fitness tech adoption grows as
people embrace at-home workoutsand virtual trainers.
I like fitness tech adoptiongrows as people embrace at-home
workouts and virtual trainers.
I like the idea of that mirrorthing.
Have you seen that?
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty neat.
Uh diy can do it yourself.
Culture on the rise, inflationand supply chain delays push

(01:39:16):
people toward uh do-it-yourselfhome improvement and, honestly,
the do-it-yourself everythingrecently has become like more
and more.

Tim (01:39:23):
I got real big with covid and it just never went away.

Javier (01:39:25):
But also with tiktok, had a good hand in that oh, yeah
, right teaching people how todo things youtube as well.

Tim (01:39:31):
I started following this uh person on tiktok um.
Build it like becker, I think,is what what her name is, um and
she does furniture flipping oh,yeah and dude and the stuff
that she comes up with.
I'm like picking up from garagesales and shit like that right
and it, and she is putting outsome awesome stuff Like truffles
for money.

Javier (01:39:48):
Oh yeah, dude Tammy picks meals like she sees on
Instagram.

Tim (01:39:53):
That's what Jessie does.
Yeah, yeah, Sarah does it tooLove that Dude.

Javier (01:39:57):
it sucks that they're taking this stuff away, even
though they might not, but Imean I know all the DIY stuff
that you're saying.
It's just been such a helpFuture of work.

Chad (01:40:08):
hybrid models and AI productivity tools reshape
workplaces which not for thebest?

Tim (01:40:14):
Yeah, not so much, and not so much the hybrid models either
.

Chad (01:40:16):
Yeah, not anymore, because there's like all the big
companies are going back tooffice.
You know why, though?
It's because they have it'sbecause they Well?

Tim (01:40:24):
no, I don't think it's, I don't think it's, I don't think
it's, it's partially.
They're force firing.
It's partially.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's partially that, but theyalso have like I mean, at your
organization there is a verylarge piece of real estate that
they own and they're like weneed to put people in it.

Chad (01:40:41):
Right, it's not even just that.
There's a whole micro economy.
I don't want to get into itbecause I don't like talking
about my place of work, right, Iknow.
But prices at the cafeteriahave gone up like 30%.
It's like you have to come here, but now the prices of food and
drink have gone up 30%.
Yeah.
So now they've got money comingin where everyone is blowing

(01:41:03):
money on gas and parking and allthis shit and they're just
making it all.
It's fucking wild.

Tim (01:41:08):
Yeah, I went out to Dallas not that long ago to go see a
show and we went to Deep Ellum,okay, and so drove right down
that street, right, and ended upover on Elm Street and there's
a parking garage I normally parkat.
That's right next to thefactory.
So on a weeknight it's onlymaybe $12 or $13, unless they've

(01:41:30):
got some big show playing andthen you're going to pay $25.
There was a surface lot rightnext to Twisted Root Burger and
the club I was going to is rightnext to that.
So I was like I'm just going topark here.
There's no pricing, nothing upon the screen, but there's a
parking lot attendant walkingaround making sure people are
paying.
She's like oh yeah, you go overthere and scan the QR code.
So I go over there and scan theQR code $30.

(01:41:51):
Shit, god damn $30 in themiddle of the week.

Javier (01:41:54):
That's wild Dude on the group chat.
I still use Pinterest for allthat stuff.

Tim (01:42:07):
I still use.

Chad (01:42:07):
Pinterest too.
I use it for how I wanted todress for my brother's wedding,
like I got that idea frompinterest.
Yeah, so so does that covereverything?
Yeah, there was a thing abouthow, like the, the academy
awards, or whatever it was,golden gloves, what was?

Javier (01:42:13):
it golden gloves.

Chad (01:42:14):
That were the golden gloves golden gloves, golden
gloves, uh yeah.
And then recession fears mounts.

Tim (01:42:20):
Concerns over potential global recession loom very heavy
this year which I, I think Ifelt like we've been in a
recession this entire time,though I don't think it's gotten
as bad as it's about to yeah,well, I don't know.

Chad (01:42:32):
I have a feeling like I don't know.
I just have this weird feelingthat stocks and all these, like
cryptos, are going up, up, upand then, as soon as trump comes
in, everything's gonna wellthey.

Javier (01:42:42):
They've been down for the past week.
They just jump, yeah up today.
They just jumped back up today.
It's just been so back andforth the trend normally, when
there are incoming presidentsgoing into office, is there is a
bump up?
Of the economy, like stocks andall that stuff.
But that's normal, it alwayshappens.
It's the prosperity of thethought of a new administration

(01:43:05):
and seeing what's going on.
So I don't know how I feelabout that, but I mean We'll see
, we'll see.

Chad (01:43:11):
I think it's going to get weird.

Tim (01:43:12):
All right.
Well, I think we coveredeverything.

Chad (01:43:16):
That was fun, man.
It's good to see y'all.

Tim (01:43:18):
It's been so long.

Chad (01:43:19):
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Stay good, everybody.
I'm Chad.

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