October 7, 2024 • 23 mins
The Mega Wheel lands on some wild topics in this episode! Bunny and Scot rant about privacy vs. safety, West Ham’s disappointing start to the season, and whether tattoos of your daily activities would be better than emotional mood skin. It’s chaotic, random, and totally Gen X!
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Generation X. In general terms, it was born between 1965 and 1980. Lachkinite. Independent.
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Existentialism. Modern philosophy focusing on personal experience, human ability and
responsibility in an otherwise meaningless universe. We're the cause. This is the effect.
We're the Gen X existentialists.
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Welcome in friends to the Gen X existentialist podcast. My name is Scott. And I'm Bunny. And we are here to take questions from Mega Wheel of Magnificent and talk about various topics from a Gen X perspective.
I do want to throw one thing out real quick though. Okay, so the day that we are recording this is the beginning, well, the second day, I guess, of the new Premier League season.
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Oh, is it? And it is. And so I am an avowed West Ham fan. And I just want to say I'm thoroughly disappointed because like 15 minutes into the first game, they're already down one nothing to freaking Aston Villa.
So I'm in a bit of a sour mood right now. Oh no, sour grapes. And I try not to let like sports scores and stuff like that affect me these days the way I used to.
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But with all the money we've spent, with all the players we've brought in, within 15 minutes to go down by one to Villa is just, I'm aghast. I'm appalled.
See, I had this discussion with Gene, my wife, before I came over to the studio actually, where it's like, I'm a very peripheral fan of things. I don't deep dive into things.
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So it's like, you know, I like West Ham. Probably my favorite Premier Soccer League team. But it's one of those things where now Scott was kind enough to give me a West Ham hat, which I wear on occasion.
And every time I do, someone always stops me and wants to have long lengthy discussions about West Ham. And I just sit there and stare at them like, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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It's like, yeah, I like the team. And it's like, what did you think when boobity bop did this thing the other day? And he didn't get the kick and he kicked the ball. And I'm just like, I don't know. I didn't watch it.
I'm a fan, but I'm not a super fan. And that's the way I am with most things. But it is amazing how, you know, I love hats. I love hats.
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And when I wear a West Ham hat out, I am almost guaranteed to meet somebody that either is also a West Ham fan or wants to tell me about how they're a Chelsea fan.
An Arsenal fan. See, that's the one I can't abide. Yeah. Everybody else is cool. Arsenal a bunch of cheaters. Arsenal sucks. Arsenal is terrible.
And the fact that they have gotten good in the last couple years again is just, it just infuriates me. I'm also a fan of the Spurs. Really? Spuds? Yeah, I like the Spurs. I don't like Tottenham.
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I like them. I can deal with Tottenham now that Harry Kane is gone. They have a chicken as a mascot. This is the depth of my fandom. They have a chicken as a mascot.
That's fine. I mean, actually, the best thing that happened to me at work this week was Friday afternoon, leaving the security guard at the gate. I hadn't seen him before.
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But I'm leaving. I said, hey, you know, have a good one. He's like, I like your West Ham hat. And from his accent and stuff, he was African.
And we talked for 15 minutes about West Ham and all the signings they had had in the season and stuff like that.
Scott, building bridges across the lake.
If you're a Hammers fan, I'm a fan of you. Let me just say that. Awesome. A fan club of one.
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Yeah. Let's jump in and give Mega Wheel the Magnificent a spin. What do you say? About 1,495 questions on the wheel now.
Let's see what we've got for our first one. And it is how much privacy are you willing to sacrifice for safety?
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Hardly any. I'm not a fan of the whole I'd rather be safe and live in a panopticon like like most people are in this country anymore.
And many European countries. I mean, we were talking about West Ham. Look at England. Good grief. What a mess.
And, you know, I'm all about privacy. Talk to my wife about the time we would get these mysterious letters from the government, from like the local government saying, oh, we need to speak to you, blah, blah, blah.
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There's going to be, you know, about something happening in the neighborhood, things like that. We lived right next to a cemetery.
Every time something happened at the cemetery, we'd always get a letter from the local government saying, OK, we need to talk to you about what proposed change like, oh, they're going to fire a cannon.
Yeah. On certain days, it was a memorial cemetery. So we had a lot of veteran. Sure. Barrels, a lot of 21 gun salutes and all that jazz.
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But I would get so rankled every time I got some mysterious letter like, oh, there's a certified letter waiting for you at the at the post office.
And I'm like, fuck these people. Get out of my life. You know, I'm just all I want to do is live my life.
I'm the Rambo that doesn't have the muscles. You know, all I wanted was to have some breakfast and everybody's up in my shit.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi. Exactly. You know, I'm the suicidal tendencies.
I caught that reference. I wanted a Pepsi, man. Yeah. OK. I'm a Gen X guy. What can I say?
So, yeah, but I just I want to be left alone. I'm the kind of guy who's like, don't get into my shit.
I'll pay my taxes. I'll play the game. Yeah. But I don't want to I don't want to deal with the government.
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I can't stand the majority of the time I deal with the government. It's a nightmare. It's a bureaucratic nightmare.
It's such a waste of my time and a waste of your money. So it's just like just leave me out of it.
That's where I'm at with privacy. I hate to be one of those guys, but no, I don't disagree with what you're saying.
It has merit. And I think I am less willing to sacrifice privacy and time for safety.
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And safety to me is very important. Yeah, we know. And it depends on what kind of safety you're talking about, because we are safe.
I don't want to be hunted down on the streets by roving gangs of lunatics. We've got police officers, but we don't pay well enough for that service.
We've got fire departments and we don't pay well enough for that service.
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All those people, police, fire, EMS should be paid more and should be held to the higher standard.
And it should be a job that people aspire to. And I think the salary is why there are issues there.
Well, that lack of respect, I think, from the general, the growing younger populace especially.
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It's like, why be a police officer when everybody's a cab?
Yeah, I am less willing to sacrifice privacy now, even though I understand that a little bit, but it's such a slippery slope.
The more that you give up, the harder it is to get back.
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The only way you get it back is through fighting. Nobody gives you back anything.
Whenever the government takes something from you, you never get it back.
Well, and it just becomes a norm. When the Department of Defense can misplace trillions of dollars and isn't held to account,
as in, okay, if you can't show us where that money went, you're getting that much less this year. Good luck.
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That's the way it should be. It should be gulag. I mean, if you're doing that.
Yeah. I mean, when the government has dipped into Social Security, that should be paid back with interest because that's not there.
Here's the thing about Social Security, folks, and this is about safety because Social Security is a safety net for the elderly.
We, every time we get a paycheck, we pay into Social Security. It's not a benefit. It's something that you pay into your entire working life.
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It's an investment.
Yeah, exactly. So that when you are retired, you start drawing that money out.
It was like the first 401k, except you don't have any say in how it's used.
So when the federal government dips into that and doesn't pay it back, they are dipping into your safety.
I'm not willing to sacrifice that. That shouldn't happen.
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Didn't you hear? They have to launder that money through the Ukraine or Israel back into the four-year cycle of elections.
Yeah. And see, I mean, the conversation here is going off the rails.
Oh, my God.
But something else we talked about.
We're in the weeds.
You didn't want to get political, but here we go. Why would anybody donate any money to any freaking political candidate?
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They've all got plenty of money. And to be honest, it's all a waste. It's a freaking waste.
Anybody listening to this that tells me, I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for is a liar.
You all know political campaign ads don't do anything.
Signs in yards, they might in local races bring someone's name to the forefront that you didn't know about.
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And you can look at their website. Federal, national races, it's a waste of money and it's a waste of time.
We were discussing some other Gen X podcasts out there earlier.
And I will say one of them that I listened to, a gentleman has a very succinct way of putting it.
He's like, I don't care about what the news tells you or what the media tells you or what the government tells you.
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He's like, I just want you to look out your front door.
That's the sort of analogy. He's like, everybody can look out their front door and you know what is really going on and what is a bunch of propaganda and bullshit.
You really do.
And I mean, if you get if you cut down to the bone, you ultimately know who you're voting for, what you believe in, who you believe, who you don't believe.
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So he likes to just keep it, you know, straight to the point.
You know, rubber meets the road. What what's really going on as opposed to what everybody tells you is going on.
So I mean, 1984 and Animal Farm were not meant as user manuals for government and society.
Although pigs are still pretty tasty.
Yeah, just don't let them wear pants, man.
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I made a pork loin last night. It was really good.
With some homemade onion gravy.
And you didn't bring any over.
I didn't. Sorry. I brought animal cookies and which are sort of an animal farm.
And for that we are very thankful.
There you go.
It's funny how everything just fits.
It does. Serendipity, baby.
OK, let's see if we can completely shift gears and spin Megaheal the Magnificent again and get a final question about cartoons or boobs or candy bars or something.
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I can just make something up if you want. Oh, my God.
This one's long. That's what she said.
Would you rather have skin that changes color based on your emotions or tattoos that appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday?
What the hell? Well, I don't have a lot of clothes that go with red.
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So I don't know if color changing skin is really the way to go.
It depends on where the tattoos are. I don't want like a Charles Manson style tattoo of me jerking off on that.
I mean, it says all over your body. All over your body.
Yeah, I can't even tell you what I did yesterday. I cooked, I worked.
And see, here's the thing. The tattoos, would they be moving or would it just be like the story of yesterday?
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I think it's like the Illustrated Man, you know, Ray Bradbury.
Oh, OK. All right.
Every horrible thing that happens or whatever that appears on this man's skin.
So I would have to go the tattoo route because I don't really it would be the most boring tableau you'd ever see on a human body.
And if you did end up with dementia or something, it would be an interesting like.
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Just remind me of me sitting in a chair staring out the window at a leaf, you know, on my body every day.
I feel like what day is it?
That looks just like. What's that yesterday? I don't know.
I don't know where I am. Yeah. So I go with tattoos.
Yeah, oddly enough, I'm going to go with the skin that changes color based on your emotions.
OK. Because I think it would save me a lot of needless interaction in public.
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I think if if people were walking up to me and my skin just changed color to like solid, just scarlet,
they would understand that I didn't want to be bothered.
That gets you in a lot of trouble, though.
But but how? I mean, because the cops see a bunch of people like with red skin wandering around the streets,
they're going to like keep an eye on you. Talk about your government privacy again.
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And the reason I don't like a good color changing is because it would be like red, white and blue would be my only colors.
And not not just because of my patron, patronism, but because I'm either angry, sad or nothing.
That's fine. There's very few. Emotions in between anymore.
So see, I think I would be like I would look like fruit stripes, gum all the time.
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There would just be different rivers of because I stunning and brave of you.
Yeah, I just at any one moment I can be angry, frustrated, happy about something else stupid that I thought about in another corner of my mind.
I would probably frighten people away because of that.
If they had a guide in their hand to the colors and how they relate to emotions, they would look at me and just go, I don't know what the fuck this guy is.
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What how can you how can you have those dual emotions at the same fucking time?
OK, so here's a question for you. What color would you never or very seldomly become if you could change skin color based on your emotions?
That is, I think probably green, which I would associate with just being OK.
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Oh, you mean like envy. That's what I first. Oh, green with envy.
Not envy green I associate with calm, OK, just calm and content and happy.
I would very seldom be green, often red, often blue, which I would equate with sadness or freedom
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and probably a mix between the two of just, you know, kind of a purple, purple, a purplish.
That would be my life. Purplish frustration.
You'd look like a big bruise. Yeah.
And now I'm thinking, God, is my life just a big bruise?
Well, it can't be because I'm incredibly happy when I'm sick therapy.
Yeah. When I'm like home with Tracy playing with the cats, when I'm playing music, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea.
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I'm not, you know, heading out the door where we're hyperbole in a bit for entertainment purposes.
Because that's that's what we do. We entertain here. Yeah, you know, that's what we think we do.
That's what we hope we do. Yeah.
That's it's an interesting question, though, especially when you bring up like the dichotomy between what you did yesterday versus just your current emotions.
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See, maybe having the tattoos would inspire you to get out more and do more stuff because your tattoos are so boring.
They might. That would be my thing. It'd be like a tattoo of me staring at the computer, a tattoo of me asleep,
tattoo of me in front of the television and a tattoo of me in front of the oven.
Yeah, one fixing a pork loin. Exactly.
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Would you look at that pork loin? So succulent.
So, yeah, that's that's that's like, wow, that really sucks.
Remember when my my tattoo tableau was full of all sorts of crazy lunacy, sexual deviance, you know, all sorts of dalliance, you know.
What about the impact you could have on people like somebody could go home to their wife and say, you know, honey, we should have a pork loin.
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I saw it tattooed on a guy's cheek. It looked really tasty.
So you couldn't get down to any dirty, you know, any dirty stuff with a tattoo thing, because if you were screwing around on your spouse, it would show up on your body.
But that would be good.
What did you do while you were gone this week, huh? And be like, here it is. Pretty exciting.
But see, that's good, too. It keeps people honest. That's true.
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Which which is well worth its weight in gold, I think, or tattoo ink, whichever way you want to look at it.
Oh, honesty. What a what a rare, wondrous substance.
Yeah, unfortunately.
So we're going to give Mega Wheel of the Magnificent another spin here on the Gen Existentialist podcast.
It's another long one.
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OK, would you rather see what was behind every closed door or be able to guess the combination of every safe on the first try?
Oh, I'd probably be safe.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, why not?
I mean, I could either become a cat burglar or I could become a locksmith and be very successful in either one.
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So yeah, call me for your very difficult locks.
Now, see, but that that would be the thing. If you were going to be a locksmith, that would be well helpful.
Yeah. Well, but you could be a locksmith and be very successful because I would imagine locksmiths have a lot of calls where people inherited a safe
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and are just unsure how to get it open. And you could just go over and amaze people like, oh, it's one of these. Let's try this.
You have to run your hands over sandpaper first for some strange reason.
Or something else.
And then put your ear next to it and go, ah, there we are.
Or whoever owns the safe. I need a single strand of your hair and perform this magic ritual and then be able to pop it open.
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That would be awesome.
I would go, I would probably go with the safe, too, just because of that. It would be fun to like do that.
I don't really care what's going on behind anybody's closed door.
See, here's the thing. If I was playing Dungeons and Dragons, I would want that to be able to know what's behind every closed door.
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Because, like, especially to amaze whoever the DM is.
Here's the wizard I spell.
Yeah. I'm just going to like do this and then I'm going to look at the DM and say, oh, it's a beholder. I'm not opening that door.
I just changed my mind.
Oh, the power of the DM.
Oh, now it's a lamb.
Oh, now it's...
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It's a lamb in the closet. How'd that get in there?
These Scotsmen live here. Whoa, look out.
That's okay, kids. I'm of Scottish descent. I can make those kind of jokes.
Oh my god.
That's my N-word.
Completely gone off the rails here.
Okay, one more for Mega Wheel?
Sure.
Okay, I'm going to give Mega Wheel of Magnificent one more spin for this episode.
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Roll in the hay and see what she comes up with.
Oh, it's so sticky.
I was going to say flower, but that was a good one.
Okay, this is a good one to end on.
What is a boundary you have that you've always upheld?
A boundary I've always upheld is that if I care about someone, I won't let anybody speak shit about them in a nasty way.
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I mean, you can be critical of people that I love, but you can't step over that boundary being insulting, especially to my face.
That's bad news bears. So that's something that I've always upheld.
I've got a boundary about just being unnecessarily violent as something that kids being shitty, bullying other kids, kids abusing animals, kids doing stuff like that really sets me off.
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That's a trigger point for me.
Same here.
So that would be it.
Yeah, I agree with all those loyalty. If you're my friend, I will defend you to the ends of the earth.
The innocent animals. If people are bullies, you don't cross that boundary with me.
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And oddly enough, a boundary and we were kind of talking about this at lunch, a boundary that I had always tried to have was separation of work and personal life, the home life balance.
And there have been times in my past where I haven't been able to uphold that.
And I'm feeling that strain again.
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I changed jobs recently and it's kind of a push and it's been a little bit stressful.
So that's not a boundary I've always upheld. It's been popped a few times.
That's a boundary that's harder to hold when you're an adult.
Yeah, exactly. And it's difficult and I'm having some struggle with it right now.
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But the boundaries you mentioned, yeah, I agree with that 100%.
So folks, if you would like to get in touch with us here at the GenX, that's the line you can cross.
You can drop us a line. Yeah, talk to us.
Drop us a line where you found this podcast and it will get to us.
Little flying monkeys will bring it to us and we'll add it to them.
Pick up the messages. And if you've got a question to add to Megawheel, by God, we are always looking to make Megawheel even bigger.
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That's true.
The bigger she gets, the more chance that we'll just hit upon topics that will just take us away.
And blow our minds.
Blow our minds. Until next time here on the GenX existentialist, my name is Scott.
And I'm Bunny.
We'll catch you next time. Have a good one.
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Bye.
Generation X. In general terms, it was born between 1965 and 1980. Lachkinite. Independent.
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Existentialism. Modern philosophy focusing on personal experience, human ability and
responsibility in an otherwise meaningless universe. We're the cause. This is the effect.
We're the Gen X existentialists.
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Welcome in friends to the Gen X existentialist podcast. My name is Scott. And I'm Bunny. And we are here to take questions from Mega Wheel of Magnificent and talk about various topics from a Gen X perspective.
I do want to throw one thing out real quick though. Okay, so the day that we are recording this is the beginning, well, the second day, I guess, of the new Premier League season.
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Oh, is it? And it is. And so I am an avowed West Ham fan. And I just want to say I'm thoroughly disappointed because like 15 minutes into the first game, they're already down one nothing to freaking Aston Villa.
So I'm in a bit of a sour mood right now. Oh no, sour grapes. And I try not to let like sports scores and stuff like that affect me these days the way I used to.
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But with all the money we've spent, with all the players we've brought in, within 15 minutes to go down by one to Villa is just, I'm aghast. I'm appalled.
See, I had this discussion with Gene, my wife, before I came over to the studio actually, where it's like, I'm a very peripheral fan of things. I don't deep dive into things.
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So it's like, you know, I like West Ham. Probably my favorite Premier Soccer League team. But it's one of those things where now Scott was kind enough to give me a West Ham hat, which I wear on occasion.
And every time I do, someone always stops me and wants to have long lengthy discussions about West Ham. And I just sit there and stare at them like, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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It's like, yeah, I like the team. And it's like, what did you think when boobity bop did this thing the other day? And he didn't get the kick and he kicked the ball. And I'm just like, I don't know. I didn't watch it.
I'm a fan, but I'm not a super fan. And that's the way I am with most things. But it is amazing how, you know, I love hats. I love hats.
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And when I wear a West Ham hat out, I am almost guaranteed to meet somebody that either is also a West Ham fan or wants to tell me about how they're a Chelsea fan.
An Arsenal fan. See, that's the one I can't abide. Yeah. Everybody else is cool. Arsenal a bunch of cheaters. Arsenal sucks. Arsenal is terrible.
And the fact that they have gotten good in the last couple years again is just, it just infuriates me. I'm also a fan of the Spurs. Really? Spuds? Yeah, I like the Spurs. I don't like Tottenham.
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I like them. I can deal with Tottenham now that Harry Kane is gone. They have a chicken as a mascot. This is the depth of my fandom. They have a chicken as a mascot.
That's fine. I mean, actually, the best thing that happened to me at work this week was Friday afternoon, leaving the security guard at the gate. I hadn't seen him before.
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But I'm leaving. I said, hey, you know, have a good one. He's like, I like your West Ham hat. And from his accent and stuff, he was African.
And we talked for 15 minutes about West Ham and all the signings they had had in the season and stuff like that.
Scott, building bridges across the lake.
If you're a Hammers fan, I'm a fan of you. Let me just say that. Awesome. A fan club of one.
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Yeah. Let's jump in and give Mega Wheel the Magnificent a spin. What do you say? About 1,495 questions on the wheel now.
Let's see what we've got for our first one. And it is how much privacy are you willing to sacrifice for safety?
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Hardly any. I'm not a fan of the whole I'd rather be safe and live in a panopticon like like most people are in this country anymore.
And many European countries. I mean, we were talking about West Ham. Look at England. Good grief. What a mess.
And, you know, I'm all about privacy. Talk to my wife about the time we would get these mysterious letters from the government, from like the local government saying, oh, we need to speak to you, blah, blah, blah.
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There's going to be, you know, about something happening in the neighborhood, things like that. We lived right next to a cemetery.
Every time something happened at the cemetery, we'd always get a letter from the local government saying, OK, we need to talk to you about what proposed change like, oh, they're going to fire a cannon.
Yeah. On certain days, it was a memorial cemetery. So we had a lot of veteran. Sure. Barrels, a lot of 21 gun salutes and all that jazz.
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But I would get so rankled every time I got some mysterious letter like, oh, there's a certified letter waiting for you at the at the post office.
And I'm like, fuck these people. Get out of my life. You know, I'm just all I want to do is live my life.
I'm the Rambo that doesn't have the muscles. You know, all I wanted was to have some breakfast and everybody's up in my shit.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi. Exactly. You know, I'm the suicidal tendencies.
I caught that reference. I wanted a Pepsi, man. Yeah. OK. I'm a Gen X guy. What can I say?
So, yeah, but I just I want to be left alone. I'm the kind of guy who's like, don't get into my shit.
I'll pay my taxes. I'll play the game. Yeah. But I don't want to I don't want to deal with the government.
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I can't stand the majority of the time I deal with the government. It's a nightmare. It's a bureaucratic nightmare.
It's such a waste of my time and a waste of your money. So it's just like just leave me out of it.
That's where I'm at with privacy. I hate to be one of those guys, but no, I don't disagree with what you're saying.
It has merit. And I think I am less willing to sacrifice privacy and time for safety.
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And safety to me is very important. Yeah, we know. And it depends on what kind of safety you're talking about, because we are safe.
I don't want to be hunted down on the streets by roving gangs of lunatics. We've got police officers, but we don't pay well enough for that service.
We've got fire departments and we don't pay well enough for that service.
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All those people, police, fire, EMS should be paid more and should be held to the higher standard.
And it should be a job that people aspire to. And I think the salary is why there are issues there.
Well, that lack of respect, I think, from the general, the growing younger populace especially.
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It's like, why be a police officer when everybody's a cab?
Yeah, I am less willing to sacrifice privacy now, even though I understand that a little bit, but it's such a slippery slope.
The more that you give up, the harder it is to get back.
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The only way you get it back is through fighting. Nobody gives you back anything.
Whenever the government takes something from you, you never get it back.
Well, and it just becomes a norm. When the Department of Defense can misplace trillions of dollars and isn't held to account,
as in, okay, if you can't show us where that money went, you're getting that much less this year. Good luck.
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That's the way it should be. It should be gulag. I mean, if you're doing that.
Yeah. I mean, when the government has dipped into Social Security, that should be paid back with interest because that's not there.
Here's the thing about Social Security, folks, and this is about safety because Social Security is a safety net for the elderly.
We, every time we get a paycheck, we pay into Social Security. It's not a benefit. It's something that you pay into your entire working life.
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It's an investment.
Yeah, exactly. So that when you are retired, you start drawing that money out.
It was like the first 401k, except you don't have any say in how it's used.
So when the federal government dips into that and doesn't pay it back, they are dipping into your safety.
I'm not willing to sacrifice that. That shouldn't happen.
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Didn't you hear? They have to launder that money through the Ukraine or Israel back into the four-year cycle of elections.
Yeah. And see, I mean, the conversation here is going off the rails.
Oh, my God.
But something else we talked about.
We're in the weeds.
You didn't want to get political, but here we go. Why would anybody donate any money to any freaking political candidate?
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They've all got plenty of money. And to be honest, it's all a waste. It's a freaking waste.
Anybody listening to this that tells me, I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for is a liar.
You all know political campaign ads don't do anything.
Signs in yards, they might in local races bring someone's name to the forefront that you didn't know about.
(09:51):
And you can look at their website. Federal, national races, it's a waste of money and it's a waste of time.
We were discussing some other Gen X podcasts out there earlier.
And I will say one of them that I listened to, a gentleman has a very succinct way of putting it.
He's like, I don't care about what the news tells you or what the media tells you or what the government tells you.
(10:14):
He's like, I just want you to look out your front door.
That's the sort of analogy. He's like, everybody can look out their front door and you know what is really going on and what is a bunch of propaganda and bullshit.
You really do.
And I mean, if you get if you cut down to the bone, you ultimately know who you're voting for, what you believe in, who you believe, who you don't believe.
(10:38):
So he likes to just keep it, you know, straight to the point.
You know, rubber meets the road. What what's really going on as opposed to what everybody tells you is going on.
So I mean, 1984 and Animal Farm were not meant as user manuals for government and society.
Although pigs are still pretty tasty.
Yeah, just don't let them wear pants, man.
(11:00):
I made a pork loin last night. It was really good.
With some homemade onion gravy.
And you didn't bring any over.
I didn't. Sorry. I brought animal cookies and which are sort of an animal farm.
And for that we are very thankful.
There you go.
It's funny how everything just fits.
It does. Serendipity, baby.
OK, let's see if we can completely shift gears and spin Megaheal the Magnificent again and get a final question about cartoons or boobs or candy bars or something.
(11:31):
I can just make something up if you want. Oh, my God.
This one's long. That's what she said.
Would you rather have skin that changes color based on your emotions or tattoos that appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday?
What the hell? Well, I don't have a lot of clothes that go with red.
(11:52):
So I don't know if color changing skin is really the way to go.
It depends on where the tattoos are. I don't want like a Charles Manson style tattoo of me jerking off on that.
I mean, it says all over your body. All over your body.
Yeah, I can't even tell you what I did yesterday. I cooked, I worked.
And see, here's the thing. The tattoos, would they be moving or would it just be like the story of yesterday?
(12:16):
I think it's like the Illustrated Man, you know, Ray Bradbury.
Oh, OK. All right.
Every horrible thing that happens or whatever that appears on this man's skin.
So I would have to go the tattoo route because I don't really it would be the most boring tableau you'd ever see on a human body.
And if you did end up with dementia or something, it would be an interesting like.
(12:40):
Just remind me of me sitting in a chair staring out the window at a leaf, you know, on my body every day.
I feel like what day is it?
That looks just like. What's that yesterday? I don't know.
I don't know where I am. Yeah. So I go with tattoos.
Yeah, oddly enough, I'm going to go with the skin that changes color based on your emotions.
OK. Because I think it would save me a lot of needless interaction in public.
(13:06):
I think if if people were walking up to me and my skin just changed color to like solid, just scarlet,
they would understand that I didn't want to be bothered.
That gets you in a lot of trouble, though.
But but how? I mean, because the cops see a bunch of people like with red skin wandering around the streets,
they're going to like keep an eye on you. Talk about your government privacy again.
(13:30):
And the reason I don't like a good color changing is because it would be like red, white and blue would be my only colors.
And not not just because of my patron, patronism, but because I'm either angry, sad or nothing.
That's fine. There's very few. Emotions in between anymore.
So see, I think I would be like I would look like fruit stripes, gum all the time.
(13:54):
There would just be different rivers of because I stunning and brave of you.
Yeah, I just at any one moment I can be angry, frustrated, happy about something else stupid that I thought about in another corner of my mind.
I would probably frighten people away because of that.
If they had a guide in their hand to the colors and how they relate to emotions, they would look at me and just go, I don't know what the fuck this guy is.
(14:21):
What how can you how can you have those dual emotions at the same fucking time?
OK, so here's a question for you. What color would you never or very seldomly become if you could change skin color based on your emotions?
That is, I think probably green, which I would associate with just being OK.
(14:45):
Oh, you mean like envy. That's what I first. Oh, green with envy.
Not envy green I associate with calm, OK, just calm and content and happy.
I would very seldom be green, often red, often blue, which I would equate with sadness or freedom
(15:10):
and probably a mix between the two of just, you know, kind of a purple, purple, a purplish.
That would be my life. Purplish frustration.
You'd look like a big bruise. Yeah.
And now I'm thinking, God, is my life just a big bruise?
Well, it can't be because I'm incredibly happy when I'm sick therapy.
Yeah. When I'm like home with Tracy playing with the cats, when I'm playing music, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea.
(15:38):
I'm not, you know, heading out the door where we're hyperbole in a bit for entertainment purposes.
Because that's that's what we do. We entertain here. Yeah, you know, that's what we think we do.
That's what we hope we do. Yeah.
That's it's an interesting question, though, especially when you bring up like the dichotomy between what you did yesterday versus just your current emotions.
(16:03):
See, maybe having the tattoos would inspire you to get out more and do more stuff because your tattoos are so boring.
They might. That would be my thing. It'd be like a tattoo of me staring at the computer, a tattoo of me asleep,
tattoo of me in front of the television and a tattoo of me in front of the oven.
Yeah, one fixing a pork loin. Exactly.
(16:24):
Would you look at that pork loin? So succulent.
So, yeah, that's that's that's like, wow, that really sucks.
Remember when my my tattoo tableau was full of all sorts of crazy lunacy, sexual deviance, you know, all sorts of dalliance, you know.
What about the impact you could have on people like somebody could go home to their wife and say, you know, honey, we should have a pork loin.
(16:46):
I saw it tattooed on a guy's cheek. It looked really tasty.
So you couldn't get down to any dirty, you know, any dirty stuff with a tattoo thing, because if you were screwing around on your spouse, it would show up on your body.
But that would be good.
What did you do while you were gone this week, huh? And be like, here it is. Pretty exciting.
But see, that's good, too. It keeps people honest. That's true.
(17:08):
Which which is well worth its weight in gold, I think, or tattoo ink, whichever way you want to look at it.
Oh, honesty. What a what a rare, wondrous substance.
Yeah, unfortunately.
So we're going to give Mega Wheel of the Magnificent another spin here on the Gen Existentialist podcast.
It's another long one.
(17:29):
OK, would you rather see what was behind every closed door or be able to guess the combination of every safe on the first try?
Oh, I'd probably be safe.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, why not?
I mean, I could either become a cat burglar or I could become a locksmith and be very successful in either one.
(17:52):
So yeah, call me for your very difficult locks.
Now, see, but that that would be the thing. If you were going to be a locksmith, that would be well helpful.
Yeah. Well, but you could be a locksmith and be very successful because I would imagine locksmiths have a lot of calls where people inherited a safe
(18:14):
and are just unsure how to get it open. And you could just go over and amaze people like, oh, it's one of these. Let's try this.
You have to run your hands over sandpaper first for some strange reason.
Or something else.
And then put your ear next to it and go, ah, there we are.
Or whoever owns the safe. I need a single strand of your hair and perform this magic ritual and then be able to pop it open.
(18:38):
That would be awesome.
I would go, I would probably go with the safe, too, just because of that. It would be fun to like do that.
I don't really care what's going on behind anybody's closed door.
See, here's the thing. If I was playing Dungeons and Dragons, I would want that to be able to know what's behind every closed door.
(19:03):
Because, like, especially to amaze whoever the DM is.
Here's the wizard I spell.
Yeah. I'm just going to like do this and then I'm going to look at the DM and say, oh, it's a beholder. I'm not opening that door.
I just changed my mind.
Oh, the power of the DM.
Oh, now it's a lamb.
Oh, now it's...
(19:25):
It's a lamb in the closet. How'd that get in there?
These Scotsmen live here. Whoa, look out.
That's okay, kids. I'm of Scottish descent. I can make those kind of jokes.
Oh my god.
That's my N-word.
Completely gone off the rails here.
Okay, one more for Mega Wheel?
Sure.
Okay, I'm going to give Mega Wheel of Magnificent one more spin for this episode.
(19:49):
Roll in the hay and see what she comes up with.
Oh, it's so sticky.
I was going to say flower, but that was a good one.
Okay, this is a good one to end on.
What is a boundary you have that you've always upheld?
A boundary I've always upheld is that if I care about someone, I won't let anybody speak shit about them in a nasty way.
(20:19):
I mean, you can be critical of people that I love, but you can't step over that boundary being insulting, especially to my face.
That's bad news bears. So that's something that I've always upheld.
I've got a boundary about just being unnecessarily violent as something that kids being shitty, bullying other kids, kids abusing animals, kids doing stuff like that really sets me off.
(20:51):
That's a trigger point for me.
Same here.
So that would be it.
Yeah, I agree with all those loyalty. If you're my friend, I will defend you to the ends of the earth.
The innocent animals. If people are bullies, you don't cross that boundary with me.
(21:15):
And oddly enough, a boundary and we were kind of talking about this at lunch, a boundary that I had always tried to have was separation of work and personal life, the home life balance.
And there have been times in my past where I haven't been able to uphold that.
And I'm feeling that strain again.
(21:37):
I changed jobs recently and it's kind of a push and it's been a little bit stressful.
So that's not a boundary I've always upheld. It's been popped a few times.
That's a boundary that's harder to hold when you're an adult.
Yeah, exactly. And it's difficult and I'm having some struggle with it right now.
(21:58):
But the boundaries you mentioned, yeah, I agree with that 100%.
So folks, if you would like to get in touch with us here at the GenX, that's the line you can cross.
You can drop us a line. Yeah, talk to us.
Drop us a line where you found this podcast and it will get to us.
Little flying monkeys will bring it to us and we'll add it to them.
Pick up the messages. And if you've got a question to add to Megawheel, by God, we are always looking to make Megawheel even bigger.
(22:26):
That's true.
The bigger she gets, the more chance that we'll just hit upon topics that will just take us away.
And blow our minds.
Blow our minds. Until next time here on the GenX existentialist, my name is Scott.
And I'm Bunny.
We'll catch you next time. Have a good one.
(23:09):
Bye.
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