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Jank POS POD 12-8-2025
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Surprise Orgy Scenario: A Humorous Start
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It's like you don't hear about surprise orgies or any sort of other event that's surprise. Your cousin, who was kind of hot, is there naked you're like, oh, shit. Surprise orgy. Someone's like, surprise.
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And they're just like, get in there, bro.
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That's your cousin, man. Check out them titties, bro.
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they're like every There's already like movement happening and shit. When you walk in, everyone stops for a second. Surprise! And then it just picks up again. Yep, with the gays.
AI Skepticism from a Bartender's Viewpoint
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No orgies like the 90s, bro. No, not shit i was doing.
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Shonda Robinson. She is black. Yuck. At least I'm white, dude.
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Matt sees a paraplegic that has to use a voice box and he's like, quit your bitchin'. It's like, dude, hey guy, have you thought of Live Edge Wood? If you haven't, quit fucking robotic crying through your breathing box.
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That's the number one for me, dude. Like, if I'm busy with the phone, I can't be specking out ass, bro.
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I did also, dude. I had a long conversation. It was ah a listening conversation but because i didn't I didn't get one word in edgewise, but how a guy felt about AI. And he's not sold on it. It's taken over the world. So that's that's all I have for the podcast. I just like the listeners to know that one guy told me it's not it's not a threat. So I'm not worried about it anymore.
00:01:45
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Oh, shit. Smart guy? trust Trustworthy? Yeah. he's He's actually, so he's the bartender, like, house manager of the cigar lounge of my friend's bar.
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Oh, shit. Bartender. But, like, in this cigar, you know, his whole life is conversation. i'd say Even more so in a regular bartender. Because it's like, here's your smoke and kind of chill out. There's only a few people there, you know. it's like a club.
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so So no AI expertise, but has had many a conversation about the subject.
The Agreeable Nature of AI
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Well, his expertise is he's been a small business. like he's He's run some restaurants and he's he's thinking about opening another one. He's trying to use AI to do like planned layouts and and it's like it just doesn't work.
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like You can't get it perfect. and he He thinks it's too it's too affirmative. So you could say whatever you want, you know, like you like so you could say whatever you want. It's always going to sort of agree with you, even if it gives you a different point of view.
00:02:47
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It's too like there's too much affirmation. Then there's too much probably too much risk for the people that whoever is behind it, like whoever owns chat, GBT or whatever, to to just to go down a path that might get them in trouble.
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yeah Or that might upset the user. you know confront the user Confronting the user probably doesn't sell in most use cases. Yeah, I don't i haven't use it. like yeah So if I was like pounding on the fact that I think the earth is flat, and and then it would it would i what I got the idea is that it would be like, well, I could see why you think that way, so but it will always give the user a reason to think that they're right still instead of just being like, you're a fucking idiot.
00:03:27
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Like in a normal conversation, with a human, they'd be like, you're wrong. Yeah, it could advance psychologically as they they learn more. But yeah, no, you're right. I don't think it's going to replicate a human right away.
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But you like the you get the arrogance of a person that's in a position that just can't be replaced. Like you know like he's a bartender. like He's probably like, yeah, come get me AI. What are you going to fucking do? like You're not going to get the same experience with a robot or even me selling him wood. I know you think that robots are going to take over the slabs industry. But ah there's a bit of arrogance for some people are like, yeah, you can't touch me.
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You know? Yeah, I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. And if like if other industries are obliterated with advanced robotics and AI, all of that stuff can be replaced.
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what it Yeah, but what industry is replaced? like It
Empathy and AI: A Challenging Replacement
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might be replaced the labor behind it or it might replace the logistics. i don't like But how can you replace wood with AI? or How can you replace a bartender's a bartender like so service and empathy and conversational? You'd have to adhere to the theory that humans can at some point develop relationships with advanced robots.
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Like they're they're able to sit in your showroom and sell. They're able to get on the phone and sell. So they're developing like AI agents right now that try to talk as real human beings and they pause and they make up like versions of a real life that are fake.
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Like, oh yeah, I went out and we had a drink and they make shit up. They try to be humans. Suppose that were to get really good and suppose people were okay with that, which is the part that I'm most pushed back on is I think humans will resist that kind of transition and be like, fuck the clankers. We're not going to work with those assholes. I don't want a robot bartender.
00:05:16
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But suppose people did start to accept that. It could replace everything. Yeah. Well, is that is that really happening in our lifetime where they're so realistic? But I could see a bartender. i could If I had a bar, actually, be kind of fun that you have the normal staff and shit, but you have this one robot that just for like for fun, for people to fuck with. Yeah, talk shit, too.
00:05:36
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yeah and just like that's that you i could see that but that's more like a gimmick but even in your and yours you set up that i don't see i mean yeah that's the one thing is that these these human like i don't know what that their sideboard outside boards that's a half-human right but human like a jet like things that act like us i guess that could be that could replace a bartender but mikey like you said they could be selling ship or man then great they're still selling wood and i'm i'm off recording content bro well what what could happen and like we're all only thinking in terms of threats here but somebody could start a business a live edge business with a bunch of AI agents who can do the selling over the phone and then have a showroom ah staff with robots they could start that and they could scale that beyond what you're doing that's a possibility it's a theoretical possibility and but would
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scaling live edge wood across the nation be the top priority of any sort of conglomerate or or business enterprise? Probably not. And you you would hope that it's, ah I mean, i'd probably be a part of it. I think what would kill us As if there was just so much, so so they found a way to integrate it in everything. There was just nobody to buy shit because nobody had jobs except for the people that run these companies. And that's it.
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Oh, exactly. Yeah. I think though we're missing the resistance of of humans. And I think it's not already, it's not a very popular thing. The idea that, they're implementing AI and replacing jobs.
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So the resistance is gonna be heavy along the way. And so I think you're gonna have a choice at some point is the company that has used this exclusively to lower its costs versus do I wanna pay more to work with human beings and to have my fellow citizens have jobs.
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I think that's a piece that we'll see.
AI's Impact on Job Markets and Society
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We'll see how that plays out. I think you mentioned you know someone that's gone to a virtual a virtual receptionist, so to speak. Do you know what the driver was on that? Was it cost? Was it they're so good? Was it receptionists are always showing up hungover?
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Like what what was the driver? Do you know? To implement that? Yeah. Yeah, 24-7 service. You can answer most people's questions. ah You could program in most most questions depends on the business.
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You know, we struggle to do that in healthcare because it's so complex and like there are so many risks in those initial triage type conversations. So, but in certain businesses, it's, they're pretty structured conversations. Save them money?
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Oh, for I'm sure. I mean, I not i don't know what the return on investment is. Yeah, I guess also just it's not even money. At some point, you're just probably not going to be able staff someone in the middle of the night. or you could but what You're not going to pay to staff someone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So this way you basically have some contact coverage always, right? Yeah, yeah. The truth is none of us know how it all play out. It'll just be this weird thing that none of us could have predicted.
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I don't even know if I'm – I don't know if I'm using it or not. I might be using it now. Like when you put in Facebook ads and online ads and you can kind of select like let the let the system work or or or do all your own work, you know? It's like like where you know where someone says use a manual configuration or and like you're kind of just supposed to let it work and all of a sudden it's like it really seems to be working and I'm not changing anything.
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So I might already be benefiting from it. I don't know if it's AI, but like what people refer to, the algorithm. Something's happening. you know yeah Yeah. Will this be ah an equalizer amongst the people, or will...
00:09:29
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Only the most powerful organizations be able to siphon off more and extract more from everyday people. I'm not sure how that'll work out. So,
Balancing AI and Human Roles in Business
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you know, if we're all using it to enhance our thinking and our planning, it doesn't really give us give you a competitive advantage.
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Which is the way I look at undergrad college. Right. Yes, sir. Nice. and Game set match, bitch. But it yeah, like it's so, our you know, it replaced it replaced projects for us. It could have been a photographer. It could have been a marketing person could have been, you know, and we still might end up back to those people. But I don't know if it replaced the job. It just moved it from being like, i'm a graphic designer to,
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I'm an expert on the algorithm or AI and I could help your company use it. So like there's a little bit of that. I think it replaces jobs for sure. I think that jobs that nobody wants are the ones that are the hardest to replace.
00:10:29
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So if you want to go pick berries on a farm, some shit like that, you're probably pretty good for a long time. Low margin type of business, low pay.
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there's ah Does the the the the receptionist thing that we talked about, does that bother you? Are you like, oh, that's a detriment to the workforce? Or are you like, that person should fucking in go back to school anyways, fucking climb the charts?
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what I think what bothers me more than anything about this this transition is that you've got a whole industry and it's the type of personality that I mostly hate. They come across as very optimistic and they'll talk about transformation and innovation.
00:11:11
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And at the end of the day, there isn't much thought about the carnage that they leave when they build out these new tools and projects. That's going to be an experiment. And I guarantee they won't think much about the everyday people because that's what industry has done over history. So that's the part is like, we'll see how that plays out and how the masses feel about that. You know, if you were to just automate away all the truck driving roles, that'd be a huge transition in this country. And it'd be a huge problem for men in particular. And we already know men right now are bitches.
00:11:42
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And lot Lazards dude, where are they gonna get their business from? Truck stop pokers, as we call them. Yeah, exactly. You gotta think about them.
00:11:52
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You're not gonna go in there and give a BJ to a robot driver. don't even what would be in the cab anymore. There probably is no cab. ah Yeah, is that a negative? I mean, it's just hard to make the case. Like, oh, we got to protect our long-haul truckers. Like, it'd be hard to sell it that way. But it is probably, what, 500,000 jobs in the U.S.? Who knows? Maybe more. I think it's millions.
00:12:14
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Yeah. But yeah, I don't know how all that plays out and what weird politics
Social Media's Influence on the Music Industry
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forms in the wake of this chaos. Like, what... I mean, we're already moving towards insane, like, white nationalist weird shit. How how much weirder does it get? dude i was this i was ah and then I was telling you before we got on here, I would drive around St. Louis, I listened to the the yeah Black News Network, I think, or Black News Channel. so it's like It's a radio station. It's a BNT, but it's so funny, dude, because almost every...
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almost every Story it'll it'll it'll be about a black person or a black thing in culture yeah like like for example There's a bunch of snow in st. Louis last week. It was the first time this new it was like director of I don't know cities director of transportation the first test on on rolling out like plowing the streets or something like that and so they'll be like ah yeah, it was first test for for you know Shonda Robinson and as the director of transportation in St. Louis. And then they'll go, she is black.
00:13:21
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And then it'll be like, and now with news and weather, like every every single story they have, they will be like, just straight up, we'll be like, a black man. It'll be like, you know, Prince, a black man, made made Purple Rain in 1980, this week in black movies or something like that. But though every single story they will say, this person is black. Like they'll say it that frankly. It's it's so bizarre.
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Yeah. and Nice. I like it. Yeah, but well, it's happening. It's a bashful. I mean, they, I think they, what they remove all the black? like Oh yeah. The hall, no, no, uh, no park, no federal park discounts on Martin Luther King and maybe Cesar Chavez. Juneteenth. Juneteenth. But there's that, but I mean, they removed, in the military, they moved quite a few, fired quite a few generals that were black and they've been really going after, black leaders. It's funny. I think of the black dudes that were
00:14:15
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We're going hardcore MAGA to like increase their status and potentially get elected. God damn, they got to be kicking themselves because they'll throw your black ass under the bus once once they got the power, which just seems to be happening. It's fucking sad. And obviously, you're an immigrant, you're you're almost like a Jew in Nazi Germany if you're an immigrant.
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ah Yeah, they were talking about that today. Like the Haitian community obviously is taking a beating. which Yeah, Haitians, Somalians. Yeah, Somalians. And then there were there were a few MAGA brothers that that are, i don't know, quit or got fucked up too. i kind I didn't really understand the story. But I'm like listening to a couple of those I was listening to it thinking they were actually talking about some white redneck MAGA dude.
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And at the end of the story, I'd be like, and he was black. I'm going to be like, what? I swear, if I could record it for you, I would. It's that Frank, and and he was black. Which would be kind of, it'd be like if you and I were doing a a parody skit, we would do something like that.
00:15:12
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So it's it's so funny. but But yeah, it's like it's become that clear cut now. Yeah. Well, rap's down too, bro. Rap is down is down big.
00:15:23
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It's because rap's fucking terrible. Like, new rap sucks. Is that why, though? Or is it racism? No, don't think so, dude. I mean, it's not... ter What are you talking about? They're fucking... they Rap has been... Like, the last few Super Bowls have basically been rap. New and old stars. That was a joke, dude. But I think that it's... Yeah, it hasn't innovated, but like... I see it going... I do see like...
00:15:49
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younger kids, maybe we can speak, like, going more towards, like, this kind of country thing. It was, like, more split in it, and then some kids are going more to rap. There's nothing in the middle anymore, it seems like. It's not even rap. It's more like, i don't know what you call it, if it's R&B, or it's, like, maybe that's why I don't like it. don't There's no, like, good, hard rap. It's all, like, self-absorbed.
00:16:10
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It's very repetitive, yeah. and the the The rhyming schemes are super repetitive. There's no, like, melody. There's mumble rap and shit. There's, like, all sorts of, yeah. i said oh about don't go i can out im a hall i'll tell itanic call a mana man not oh my name henna oh Over and over. It's unbelievable.
00:16:28
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Yeah, but that's old man shit probably. but but i yeah I don't think that's old man shit. What is... what is a This is a segue into what we want to talk about. but what are what are Kids are still listening to rap.
00:16:42
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like Kendrick goes around the country and he's selling out fucking everything. right but he and He played the Super Bowl. so That guy's still on top of the world. Travis Scott. I don't even know those guys are rappers. i don't even consider him rappers, but they're something. but They're popular, widely successful wildly successful.
00:16:58
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so That's happening. yeah The kids are doing... They're supporting the big acts. I don't know that up-and-comers have much opportunity. You don't see anyone talking about like, oh, this, you know, regional band or this band is so cool. I saw them. you don't You don't hear kids like that because they have access to that whole library on Spotify. It's just a different world.
00:17:20
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Yeah. Why would you even invest in some new fuck? You you have yeah access to every song ever made. Yeah. and all the old music, they're they're dialed into all that. They know that better than we did. Like they're in the 80s, Not me, bro.
00:17:34
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Your dial. My dial was tight, bro. Super tight. Yeah, i it's there's that, and then there's no like career. like There's no career, because everything pops in this instant viral way.
00:17:50
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So it's not necessarily like, I'm going to be with this guy for next 40 years, like Bono or some bullshit. It's just like, oh, this guy popped with a ah meme or whatever.
00:18:01
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i I try to think through this because i a big part of me wants to say that it's sad the way their lives are. Are sort structured behind the screen. You've got to gather the social media followers. You've got to like have hits.
00:18:14
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Then maybe you can get a live gig. Whereas he used to call up places and be like, hey, can I play? Can I
Shifts from Live to Digital in Entertainment
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play on your open mic night? And build it up from there. And it was a whole.
00:18:24
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Live first, right? Yeah. Live first. There was a whole host of experiences, though, like real world experiences. of shaking hands, meeting people and like drinking and meeting women. And like, there just was like a place of connection. They're doing it all behind the screen, throwing chats around, but they're not out in the real world in the same way. Just like, I'm just even thinking of just artists.
00:18:47
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It seems like a ah sort of a sad way to exist. Like even this podcast, dude, we don't engage any listener. Not like you would if you were out in a concert or a comedy venue and work in it. All those things still exist. I just don't think they exist for work the non-successful folks as much.
00:19:03
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it's just It's flipped. yeah Touring used to be the way to get your name out. Now you do this so that when you go on a tour, you make money. it's like everything's Exactly. right Yeah. Yeah. Which is, I mean, it's cool that I could sit here on the couch and if we really gave a shit, it might it might be our avenue to the world.
00:19:20
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but It's cool, but is it better There's hustle in it. Yeah. Yeah. Is it better for you? Because then you look at, and there's all that talk about the kids being kind of pussies now, and like bitches. They just don't get out in the world. They don't drink and party. They don't like you know have teenage pregnancies anymore.
00:19:36
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Not saying that that made our society better, but there's no risk. And so they live behind the screen, and they might make their mistakes there, but like it's just harder to get out in that real world.
00:19:48
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yeah What does a high school party look like these days? You know? Yeah, my son goes to them quite often. I mean, I think they're fairly tame. An honest report? Yeah. there's I mean, they they they do weed and and they drink and stuff, but it's... No orgies, dude. Like the ninety s No orgies like the 90s, bro.
00:20:07
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No, bro. Not shit I was doing, dude.
00:20:12
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Not shit I was doing. one You're like... Well, hear that. You hear like younger people aren't drinking, but I i'd see younger people drinking. like At least down in Costa Rica, people are drinking.
00:20:25
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But not like crazy. It's not like a party world. but well But what happens when everybody aspires to have a life behind the screen, not even because they want to, but just because it's there's a necessity to be successful behind the screen, whether it's your relationship with AI or creating your business.
Social Media Necessity for Business Success
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like You can't create your business right now without social media. You really can't.
00:20:46
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get it going in the way that you need to, which to me is, mean, it's just a fact of life, obviously, but it's also like, damn, you gotta fuck with the screen. Yeah, I go back and forth. I mean, if you're talking about our business, I look at the hustle is still real of go getting out and talking to people and meeting people, but We've had five people walk in the last two or three days and said, we saw your stuff on Facebook. It looked beautiful. And they just showed up.
00:21:08
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Yeah. And like i never I couldn't hustle. It's like the only way i would to hustle those people if I found out where they lived and drove out there was and just randomly was like, hey, guys. It's an absolute necessity. I could not get booked without some sort of social media presence as a musician.
00:21:24
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where there was a significant following i couldn't get booked but yeah it's like what are your numbers that's what some of my old comedian friends say now it's just said what are your numbers and they're talking about you know instagram followers and tiktok followers but i wonder you know the other thing about this generation is like they're not they're not partying as hard and stuff which is like it's kind it's ironic that we're we're worried about them because of that because it's i as a parent you're like oh this is great they got their head on their shoulders but that you don't you don't seem and with anything too many people and in the moment because they're trying to record it or film it or post it so like no even those parties is just like an opportunity even with my my daughter she'll be at the beach with her and you're like oh that must have been great but then it's gotta be selfie with the friends and then like couple different angles and maybe a dance take you're like what did you enjoy it at all? like put that fucking phone away
00:22:17
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I do did. Now we sound old. That's not even a kid thing, though. That's not a kid thing. i mean that's No, it's everywhere. I make fun of it all the time. Put it down, bitch. Yeah.
00:22:29
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I mean, it's it's weird how much everything needs to be documented. But but I don't get the idea. It's cool to document. Like, you're on a family vacation. Let's a picture. Great. But there has there's, like, the reporting of it, and then it has to be accepted is fucking weird.
00:22:44
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All let's say you're walking into, i don't know, Bank of America office building, going to hit the ATM, and LeBron James walks in front of you. Be honest. Are going to pull out your phone and film?
00:22:57
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Maybe. Maybe? i definitely wouldn't. You would not? No, hell no. Well, I would like to say no, but i thought you were going to call me a fucking liar. so i No, honestly, I just wouldn't.
00:23:12
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I don't get excited to see celebrities at all. ah Not only that, but like... I don't understand it. Celebrity, anything. Crush. i think Yeah, i well, I just think people have different perspectives. Like when there's a pretty sunset or something, my wife will take out her phone and want to like capture and I'm like, no, you need to absorb that shit in your mind. You need to feel it.
00:23:33
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And I'm sure she is too. And everybody's different. But like, now I'm so resistant, like the the biggest criminal scene or like ah like some serial murderer. No, experience it live.
00:23:46
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Experience it. Nobody needs to see his face. It's like LeBron James skiing into a grizzly bear. Yeah, no. And then you're like, I will not film it. ah i like i mean I like the idea of being like, not the I don't know, just you're there and you're like, I'm standing in the ATM line with fucking LeBron.
00:24:06
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And I was like, what's up, man? what i like that That's funny, interesting to me. When I like when i was working up in the mountains, every once a we'd run into celebrities and just talk. they'd be talking to us like Joe Montana was in our ski shop for like five days and it was it's it's always interesting to me like that that story but it but it it was there was no like I don't know like celebrity awe awe you know awe struck or anything we were just sitting there talking we were literally watching like football with them like watching Notre Dame play while his kid was trying on snowboards and it was like it was just very interesting but like that was that was 99 so I don't even know I don't think we had phones then
00:24:46
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And I'm sure people would want a selfie. I'm less worried about the celebrity thing and more of like, will you miss from the corner of your eye a hot girl or somebody that you're attractive that you would have in our era gone up to? and be Like, hey, what's up?
00:25:02
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That's the number one for me, dude. Like, if I'm busy with the phone, I can't be specking out ass, bro. Yeah. But you might miss the love of your life. And then if you need some sort of online validation now,
00:25:16
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how do you deal with the kid the kid thing i mean i i'm not above recording my kids ah especially because i try to send it to my parents but like you don't experience it if you're recording you're not experiencing it i know that you know if i'm trying to capture my son playing hoops or or surf i can't watch it i'm like i cannot and enjoy it and like that's 100 true i don't care what anyone says if you're trying to film it you're not experiencing it and when you play it back it's not the same experience The good news is like I will say, I can share it with people around the world.
00:25:47
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and i don I don't share it to like on social media, but I can send the video to my parents who live in another country, and they can be like, wow. Nice wave. Yeah. i I think, though, if you capture everything, nothing special, and you know some people will have like, i was listening to some guy, he's got like two or three terabytes.
Rising Costs and Financial Stability Challenges
00:26:06
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of data and Dropbox, like to fill that up. I mean, he doesn't have what family videos. No, he doesn't. He has space, which is an obscene amount of space. He's probably nowhere near filling it.
00:26:18
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The idea that you want to capture everything all the time and store it. There's only so much you can archive and go back and experience again. It's just funny that we're only a few years away from not having the capability to do that and we didn't give a shit.
00:26:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's great. I just bought a new computer. So my computers suck. Get ready for that. 600 bucks, a terabyte of storage for 600 bucks. Six hundy. That's like the shittiest laptop you can possibly buy.
00:26:45
Speaker
It was, I know. No, but it was, it's a $2,800 laptop. It was on sale. on sale. On your favorite, your favorite site, dude. It was, it's a Lenovo ThinkPad. It's fine. It's, it's a 32 RAM, like, gigs of RAM. It's, it's a fucking, if if it was 10 years ago, it would have been like Nassau's computer.
00:27:05
Speaker
I got it for $600. Life expectancy, 3.5 months. On that piece of shit, because I bought it on, on sale. No, it probably has like, Something's discontinued. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:16
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You wouldn't, you wouldn't believe how shitty, don't know if you remember, but I'm not like that great at taking care of shit first of all. And then then I have kids and we're just frisbing my computers around and fucking treating them like shit and not worrying about it.
00:27:28
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so this computer I'm on right now, the mouse doesn't work. So I have to plug in the, this like external mouse, as you know, that's why the connection keeps dropping. Cause that's where the audio feed. And then my other computer, the whole keyboard doesn't work.
00:27:40
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Because fucking i have no idea why. And you should see the screen on that. Like the whole thing looks disastrous. Like some something something bad was happening. Typical rich kid. Typical rich kid doesn't have to take care of his shit because mommy and daddy will buy a new one.
00:27:57
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And this won't they Matt Don and Judy Don and Judy will just buy another one. You got you segwaying into the insurance bit. Is that what you just did? I'm impressed, dude. Tom and Judy won't be buying me shit because they're fucking property taxes and what is it?
00:28:14
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Property taxes and homeowners insurance is skyrocketing. they have their whole heart Their house has been paid off for a while, but they're like, fuck, we might have to move because it's out of control.
00:28:27
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that wel I think it just keeps inching up. The homeowners inched up 100, and then a couple years later, another 200. It's like, oh, now it's like a month, I think.
00:28:40
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Yeah, let me hit my spreadsheet, because my property tax, it went down. it went down from like 8,600. year? Yeah, now it's That's fine fucking that's so much.
00:28:53
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it's obscene and then what i think i found Like I said, one episode, dude, the my homeowner's insurance was going to go to like $5,000. And then I found a company that was willing to do it at $25,000, but then they have like a $15,000 hail deductible because hail happens like every year.
00:29:11
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So um you're fucked either way, but it's so expensive. so Well, yeah, right there, dude. with that but without So you without without paying a mortgage or anything else, you're what are you at? that's twelve thought You're at $1,000 a month right there.
00:29:24
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, where they're fucking they're in their 70s living on Social Security and what ah and maybe a little bit of money they have. So that $1,000 kind of hurts. Then they still got Medicaid or some shit? or The cars are the thing I'm most... Oh, then you got car insurance. i don't even What's car insurance look like in the U.S. now?
00:29:43
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So my daughter had two fender vendors, so keep that in mind. I have teenage boy. And it went down significantly. I'd say it went down 900 bucks over this last year, but that total is seven grand Dude, it's so funny when you say 900 bucks I'm like that's that's the whole family for a year in my head I know like what what you said was the discount I thought was the the cost so right there you're at 20 grand of with zero like not even what people talk about car payments mortgage You're at 20 grand a year from just insurance and taxes.
00:30:24
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Uh, well, I have an umbrella policy and then so yeah all in on all the insurances and just this this just the side stuff So because I have to pay for health out of pockets based on we try to like lower income to like fuck with the system It's it's we're looking we're close to 30 to 30 grand and just bullshit that doesn't even include The fun stuff your spotify subscription your netflix your food your fucking travel your It's all the garbage.
00:30:56
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30 grand before you even have a place to stay. I guess you wouldn't have some of the taxes or the homeowners if you didn't have a house. if you're pay No, that doesn't include the the actual mortgage payment. yeah We put a shit ton of cash down on this hoe.
00:31:08
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So it's not like we don't have a big mortgage payment. It's just obscene. and ah
00:31:15
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I don't know. How do you get rid all that? Are the other taxes working in your favor, though, when it comes to to home value because the school district's got a good, the parks and racks are tight, and it keeps your home value, Jack? is that Way to reframe.
00:31:28
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No, I'm just wondering, do you see do you think that you can make the case for that? Because i there are people that probably like, no, keep the property taxes high. No, I'm fine with it. Yeah, I'm fine with it. I'm fine with the tax piece.
00:31:38
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It's just the car insurance. I think it's the only one that really healthcare sucks, too. uh... yeah but you were you got your it would yeah that i mean that's the issue of the u s like this the risk of not having health insurance tied to your job is insight that signs that side of employment is that is the the deal with the fender bender's cuz probably every but can't get like most kids and the prepender bender's are not does that really the where the ball go wire are turned so expensive Or just because there's four people driving and that's just the way it is.
00:32:10
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Yeah, hers is up there, dude. But he added a significant amount to ours. So ours is close to $4,000 a year. And that's just the three of us. Two people under 20 driving, right?
00:32:22
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Well, no. That's just the three of us. And then I still pay for hers because of the fender benders. And hers is just liability. It just tells you, like, because the cars are so expensive out there. Hers is like $2,900 for year.
00:32:35
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for a year by herself, liability only. It's because she's high risk because the two fender vendors. And they were unfortunately like, we had to file claims because I tried to negotiate with one of the kids, but he was like asking for all sorts of bullshit. or What about some recoup for me having to miss work? And I was just like, all right, bro, enough of this shit. You just call my insurance company. Here's the number. Thank you.
00:33:00
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2,900, like you how how could she ever take that on by herself? She couldn't. And then we're paying her college right now too, dude. So like, I just think of. But wait, she's lucky she has you guys, but there's a lot of people that don't have that. They just can't drive. but I don't get it. Well, yeah, they probably don't drive or they don't have insurance, but I don't, I am not really seeing cause we've been lucky.
00:33:19
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Like we've had professional jobs and saved and whatever we have resources. And I'm not sure how many people are doing it. When you look at the cost of cars, Isn't it really nice cars? Is she driving a... No.
00:33:32
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She's driving a fucking 2013 Toyota Prius. 2,900. The problem is, is if she hits one of these Teslas, or she hits one of these cars with all this advanced camera work, and...
00:33:44
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You know, those repairs can be like 12 grand. So she's just. And for no doubt, the insurance company is like, we're not making any money on her. That's just what the price the price of doing business or something. and That's what they would say. Yeah.
00:33:56
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It's just a lot. And we can do it. And but I know that a lot of people can't. And I'm like, what what's going on here? Yeah, it's, it's tough. I mean, i don't, I don't really, i don't understand, but you are, but I, I can see that like when we had some money before shit hit the fan, we, we paid off all our cars and we paid off a big portion of our house. And like, because of that, the downtime's not, it doesn't hurt as much. And then my health insurance is nothing down there. Yeah.
00:34:23
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Yeah. We did the same. And, uh, yeah, I paid 28 bucks a month for health insurance. And then, uh, My car insurance is not, like for our two cars all in, it's probably $150 a month or something like that.
00:34:34
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But that's because my wife's car is this big-ass fucking SUV. But i anyways, yeah, it's just funny to thank $30,000 and you're not getting out of the gates with that.
00:34:46
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that's Well, it's adding no value. It's sort of like if you did a house remodel and it was sort of like... beams and fucking concrete and nothing you'll ever see a lazy river didn't one of our friends build a lazy river that's probably not good for resale right which friend i think they did that in arizona oh arizona yeah you got to have a lazy river in arizona it just cracks up it's a great idea i love it i just but if someone's looking at the house they're like what am i gonna do with that gotta fuck with that thing yeah but it's a lot so i worry in this i don't know this year uh
00:35:21
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So that's why like the AI shit, dude, you you couple that with a screen-based living and these extreme expenses that only half the country can afford. And you're just like, really, where are we going? So make me positive, dude. Help me be positive.
00:35:36
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Well, there is that. It's like capitalism leads to more capitalism. so So the justification for a lot of people listening to this or, well, come on, who we kidding? But not listening this, but people that are,
00:35:47
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you know, that you're like, well, yeah, i'm I'm trying to fucking kill it and make money and that's my only focus because I have to. You got you need a lot of money to to live in this environment if you do everything right. Like, you you play by the rules. You have insurance in your and all that stuff. And to do that, you need to make more money.
00:36:05
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And then that drives more these things up. Yeah, exactly. park at end man And the aspirations of people are much higher than they were in the past. So, like, our our desires are much more luxurious than say our grandparents.
00:36:20
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And so you're you need a lot more money to deal with that. But it's a strange world, dude. It's all right. Strange. Well, the fact that you were able to make it work tells me that it can be done.
00:36:32
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I think there's just a lot of luck, dude. A lot of luck. I don't think, you but you probably don't believe in that. You're probably more of a bootstraps motherfucker. but Why do you say that?
00:36:44
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Also, like, because I'm in this, I'm an entrepreneur segment of my life where I just think it's possible? No, I think you just often will lean more towards the, right like, isn it isn't that what we want? People getting out there and working hard?
00:36:59
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Or you're just, when I have a point of view, you just counter it for fun. and I have a take. ah When you're done, I'll tell you what I think. No, go ahead. Go for it Well, I don't, even, even if you say this is, this is capitalistic of me, what I don't like about everything you just said, that 30,000 to play, like, I feel like it limits risk taking and limits, you know, ingenuity because you like, what are you going to do? Like, you're just going to, if you, if I didn't have, like for me that we're in the right, like the three people partnering with were in the right place. Cause somebody already has a job, has health insurance.
00:37:32
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The other guy, I think his wife has a job, her health insurance, and then he just he did pretty well on some other deals. I have health insurance from in another country that has universal health care. It's like, but how the fuck could, if I did this with people that had any like any situation, they they couldn't do it. They couldn't take a risk. They couldn't like lean towards, let's let's try something, let's start a business or or or some sort of,
00:37:57
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ingenuity without raising a shitload of money and all in like so that like it seems like it it limits sort of like growth and ideas and capitalism as much as it fuels it that's what bothers me about it more than like uh in this sort of like you know whatever your holistic pansy ass view of it should be everything's free like the The barriers to to be like, I'm going to take a risk seem like they're mounting up to the point where no one...
U.S. Opportunities vs. Global Hardships
00:38:25
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Our country is supposed to be a bunch risk-taking cowboys.
00:38:29
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That's how we all got there. and and You can't really do that because you're get you're like you're not even fighting for security. You're like fighting for survival is is what it's perceived. like People are very nervous to not have health insurance right and and that kind of shit.
00:38:44
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so yeah got a bit i gotta i can't i can't be a cowboy because... I'll be out there and if if i um if i if I take a risk i'm and anything fucking happens to me, it's it's a financial death sentence.
00:38:58
Speaker
If I break my leg and I go and i go to the hospital, it's 50 grand or more. That's where i get to the concept of luck. For you to start this business, there is a fair share of luck involved. Yes, there's hard work and in all likelihood, when you're reflecting on how this went and if it went well, you're going to overweight your unique talents and how hard you worked.
00:39:19
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versus luck. And part of the luck is that you do have some of the scaffolding in place that will allow you to take this risk. There's, it's all luck. I mean, there's no. Part part of it's your white. um You were raised in a good family and you can fucking talk the talk. That's a huge piece of the initial luck. And we don't acknowledge that as much as like we probably should. And that's what I hate about our capitalistic system. Just be honest that a lot of it is luck. Yes, in this society, it historically, at least it's been a fairly fortuitous thing to have been born white in Western society.
00:39:53
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Yeah, I don't know. Like, i don't see it as a, I don't know. I don't see it as like, well, it's good because I'm white and I'm accepted. It's just The circles I was in actually allowed allowed it to, the white circles that I was in allowed me to raise money easier probably.
00:40:09
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you know It was like I knew new white people with money. and then they're Exactly. Yeah. Although a lot of the way they made money, the the original the original thing that connected me to these people was not by a white person, ironically, which is funny. Well, sure. i I'm not saying it's a ubiquitous.
00:40:26
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scenario. like I don't know how you how you overlook luck. The whole fucking thing of what you know I'm in Costa Rica and my kids went to school with somebody who who had this thriving wood business. like It's all bizarre.
00:40:37
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you know I don't even know how to describe it as luck or what. True. But you could conceptually at least agree. like You grew up, stay-at-home mom, dad had a C-suite type job.
00:40:48
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I'm sure they had their ups and downs. but you know On a relative basis, there's some luck being... This has affected you more than me. No, you just luck being born into that.
00:40:59
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That's giving you different opportunities. Now you've squandered all of them, but here you are. And now you have a chance to redeem yourself. But some people don't have anywhere near that. i We all know that.
00:41:11
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We all know that. so So like if you didn't have health care and you did fall into that trap where you did get injured, you did go bankrupt, then you are a lazy piece of shit. At least I'm white, dude. I guess a society can't solve all those situations. It can't solve all of them, but there's some middle ground.
00:41:27
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I just get, when I hear that though, I agree. And I had a very fortunate upbringing, but I feel like when you get out into the world, then you come here and you kinda get the idea that like fuck all that dude anybody that's been around either was here or let in here comfortably is is better off than and than anywhere else in the world as far as just financial opportunity and like it's all about the same there's problems in the US, s there's racism, there's barriers to entry but if you're if you're here you can probably make shit work if you really want to that's how I feel and and when I see other places i mean Costa Rica is a pretty good safe
00:42:05
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place but you can't you know the wages the opportunities the amount of free-flowing money and debt is not as easy to get to and like you can get it here no matter what and and like you you can get it here so i so i have a little bit as like you're right i am fortunate but if you're in the u.s you're pretty pretty fucking fortunate Well, for sure. That's part of the luck. i mean, that's that's part of it, yeah. Yeah. Well, there's people crying up here, and I'm like, shut up. You're fine. I know it's like kind of cynical, and there are people that are in bad situations here, but that's that's how I feel from being outside of the U.S. for so long. like Yeah, Matt's a paraplegic that has to use a voice box, and he's like, quit your bitch and start your business, motherfucker.
00:42:46
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It's like, dude, hey guy, have you thought Live Edge Wood? And if you haven't, quit fucking robotic crying through your breathing box, dude.
00:42:58
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Oh, shit. No, like, it's just so funny and pathetic listening to Americans cry or whine about their lot. ah Like, it's just like, call just shut up.
00:43:11
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i That's how I feel. Which is what I just did by whipping out my spreadsheet.
Surviving on Low-Paying Jobs in the U.S.
00:43:17
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Well, you're just managing it. I mean, i'm i'm i'm speaking a I'm speaking out of both sides of my mouth. I realize this because I was just bitching about the barriers to entry and the $30,000 to survive. and but i But still, you can if if money is your concern in the U.S., you can do whatever you want. you could you could you could put Within a few months, you could have an insurance sales contract.
00:43:40
Speaker
License and fucking just start selling insurance or are you or you can always go work at Starbucks and make more than 99.9% of the people in the world for selling coffee and You know you can like if you hit rock bottom and other places You can't go you can't go be a waiter and make a 30 or 40,000 a year like you can know you're you're on a mound of electronic waste trying to pull out copper and while while you ingest lead there we go I mean you're you're literally fucked
00:44:10
Speaker
Yeah, I wasn't ready to go there, but goddamn, dude. Wow. Yeah. Here, you can go you can go to Outback and probably make $300 a night in tips. Yeah, and just talk up the bread.
00:44:22
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Blooming Blossom. Or is that Outback? I don't know. What's that thing? Yeah. You used to love that thing, Lance. No, I did like that. Onion Blossom. Yeah, so i I'm like, you can make it happen here. But I do sound like one of those idiot entrepreneurs that's like, it's just because you're being a pussy always.
00:44:39
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But... I think the but what people don't value here as much as they should is that there is like there is a path. If you hit rock bottom, there is a path to to earn money here, like to earn some money. like You're going to have to take a hit You're going have to swallow your pride.
00:44:57
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But you could go out tomorrow and find a fucking job making at least $15 an hour like... somewhere. and But you you can't be like, I'm above it. I'm above working at Chipotle or I'm above working somewhere, you but you can do it.
00:45:08
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Unless you're an ex-con. Unless you you have a felony. I'm not even sure about that. You think Wendy's gives a fuck? they A lot of companies have in the past. i mean Some of those laws have changed, but lot of felons struggle.
00:45:21
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They got to go under the table and do different weird shit. ah You should hear the people I talk to now because I'm talking to these contractors and remodelers and shit, and they're always talking about how they can't, not only can they not find someone to work, they'll hire people and people just won't show up to work.
00:45:38
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Well, they, and now they're, they're missing a huge piece of their labor. I mean, like a lot of immigrants are just staying at home, illegal immigrants. They're just not coming out. It's uh Yeah, it's good stuff Freaking times there, but you're right. You're absolutely right We do sit here and spin and I'm ah so fucking guilty of this about how bad the US is I couldn't last two days in a shitty part of India or in a shitty part of Africa I couldn't last two fucking days. I'd be dead I'd be that big of a pussy, but I'll sit here and bitch and whine and be like, oh, well, you're not taking care of the Starbucks workers That's why they're striking You bad corporation. You evil corporation. So, I mean, I get that.
00:46:23
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I could see you in New Delhi on a trash hip that heap of trash teaching people financial planning. But we couldn't even handle one sip of the water. We'd be we'd be bent over going, anyway. I'm on my high horse like i like I've been living in fucking, you know, Somalia or some shit.
00:46:41
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It's not the case, but. you you you can deal You can pretty quickly get used to almost anything. couple days of dysentery and then all of a sudden you're like, okay, I got this. like you You can get through it, but you can get used to a lot of shit. You just don't realize it.
00:46:55
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You think these weak-minded motherfuckers in America could go and transition cold. To a trash heap, their caloric intake shrinks by probably seven-eighths?
00:47:07
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No, I don't think so. Most of us would perish. No, but. Yeah, most of us would perish. We need fucking 400,000 calories a day live this American life.
00:47:20
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Well, yeah I think you gave me the book. there's ah You made me read a book about how the need for comfort is like, is like Yeah. where It's too much. And I think that's what I mean. Like you there are perceived comforts that are necessities and they're not.
00:47:37
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Just look at what you're sitting on. I mean, this, this is a woman that's a family member and that looks like a big old sectional, like super comfy couch.
00:47:47
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She's, is she single? Yeah. She lives here by herself right now. so but But she inherited this house from her mom. So it's not like, ah you know. Okay. Regardless, it it wouldn't be unique. It's not a knock on her.
00:48:00
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If you were to have by yourself just a normal house, 2,500 square feet, you'd fill it with shit that like one person couldn't fathom having in another country. All because ah once every 180 days, you've got a couple of friends that come over and you guys fucking watch a football game and and sports bet on DraftKings.
00:48:19
Speaker
And you need a place for people to hang out. But like we all are doing that. This room is not is not used where I'm at. like I think her nieces and nephews use it once a year. Oh, it's just not used. but this is What is it? 90% of the household real estate in the US is not used. right like the big how you You spend all your time in like one room. The room you're in, you probably now you probably wouldn't be in there ever if it wasn't for the podcast. right Or is this where you do your financial? That's where I fucking do my machinations. Yeah.
00:48:49
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I love watching, watching ah you know, if you watch the home like HGTV in another country with other people, even people with money, it's kind of like that that looked brand new, what they were ripping out, what they were taking. was like, oh, what are they doing? Yeah, it's funny.
00:49:09
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Well, in and it's another thing. Like every every corner of where I live, something's under construction. And you'd say, well, that's capital that's what you're talking about That's capitalism, like insurance.
00:49:20
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People cycle through. They want bigger and better. That's how we continue to have more and more jobs and increase our lifestyle. and Dude, I'll go like five years. I'll go 10 years on like a pair of pants, maybe even more.
00:49:33
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But you're not helping the economy. Oh, yeah. I'll go through five fashion cycles and I'll never hit any of them. I have a bet with my kids, by the way, that corduroys will be back in style before. can't remember what year it is.
00:49:45
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or I owe them a thousand bucks or they owe me a thousand bucks. And I've told them I've been through like four corduroy cycles in my life. First one when we were like in second grade and I went in all that.
00:49:57
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early 2000s. Oh yeah, second grade, ah like junior year in the 90s or no, right after high school actually. And then it came back again. The chords got big in the mid to late 90s. Yeah. Yep. And then it came back again.
00:50:13
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Came back again in the mid to twenty like 2010, 2012, 11. Yeah, with the gays.
00:50:21
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So they'll come back. So I told them I'm always going to be wearing corduroys, dude, all the way to the end. Although now I can't fucking find them. like Nobody has them right now. But they're like – AI. That's because of AI. Yeah.
00:50:36
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the The AI fucking – It's
AI's Influence on Fashion Trends
00:50:40
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true. I bet you're some idiot somewhere being like, AI, what's the next fashion cycle look like? And AI is just like, fucking it'll be cords and then some version of ah of a a wide boot, bell bottom. Ooh.
00:50:53
Speaker
And then it's all. I'll know AI is going to take over the world when it just starts dismissing us and trash talking us. what's the What's never going out of style? That's the question.
00:51:06
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Miniskirts? whats ah that goes That goes in and out. There's miniskirts with the leggings. they go ah It goes in and out maybe like from a female magazine perspective, but no dude's ever like, ah come on, dude.
00:51:21
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You in that miniskirt is so 2017. In fact, I did, dude. I did. Because that that thing got so high, it was like I had to see ass crack, and and especially teenage It got too small. Yeah.
00:51:36
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It got too high. Turtle tennis skirts are never going out style. Tights, maybe. with Tights are like a new thing that's been around for like 20 years, but no one was fucking walking around so comfortable in tights, like spandex, yoga pants.
00:51:50
Speaker
And that looks like it's never going away. And I'm fine with that. You know what's in these days is chicken breast. What's that mean? We were rolling through Costco, dude. Oh, the actual chicken breasts. Chicken breasts, dude. These motherfuckers. First off, can I just say that humans have gotten dramatically bigger.
00:52:10
Speaker
I thought I was decently tall. I thought I was decently big. Dude, there's so many 6'6", D2 linebackers running through Costco, but many of them. Women, too. Stacks of chicken breasts. Are these like those CrossFit women with the fucking shoulders and thighs and asses? Some of them.
00:52:26
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No? Some of them, yeah. But I think it's just there's a protein craze. It's like i off the charts. Is that good or bad? There's this idea that chicken's like better for you, but I think it like from a cholesterol perspective, it's pretty pretty intense. maybe if you take off of it Maybe that's why you chicken breast.
00:52:43
Speaker
You take all the skin and chew it off. I read a long time ago the most efficient way to get protein is is vegetables. You took that. You read it once, and you're like, I'm ah i'm building my whole life around this one article in the Inquirer. Is there a modern Inquirer?
00:53:00
Speaker
What's the crack for shitty news? It's fucking Facebook and fucking social media. Did you read that on social media? That's the Inquirer. Is the Inquirer still like... ah i haven't really noticed.
00:53:14
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Is the Inquirer still... It used to be like right at the checkout at grocery stores. I haven't seen the magazines there anymore. That's like the greatest fucking thing ever when you think about it.
00:53:26
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It was like the Onion but not but not even... And I bet you a lot of it was probably true. Not like three-legged man fucking runs into an alien, but like the celebrity crap.
00:53:38
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We could do a whole episode on how the grocery store has changed because they'll do the novelty magazine of like the hundred most beautiful people or something like that. That'll be up there. They'll have like a space, but it used to be members of space of like, well, how much space square footage there?
00:53:56
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Three by four. And the only thing that hasn't changed is the cards, you know, the birthday cards, the anniversary cards. And I don't know who's buying all those, especially when you could send one of those email versions.
00:54:08
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Yeah. You can text ah an HBD without even the letters. You can just text. Yeah. It could be like a GIF, like a GIF, a GIF. Mm-hmm. Birthday cards.
00:54:19
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Yeah. the the it's It's interesting, though, like, that so you don't have the inquirer up front, but grocery stores have kind are kind of, like, the same. not much has changed. Hmm, not too much. Which is interesting. Still hot workers.
00:54:34
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Hot workers behind the register. That's a not the place you go if you're a – like what's perception of a grocery store worker? Like are they also – like you're going in there making 15 bucks an hour there or what? Well, some of them are union. They make quite a bit more. But my impression is very unhealthy people, maybe gout, maybe little arthritis, just struggles. It just struggles.
00:55:00
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why did Why does that industry attract those people? kind of There's a lot of like limping and stuff. I mean, I think it's hard work to, like, scan that shit. Is that harder than fucking working at Chipotle or you know, where you find the really healthy, good-looking people?
00:55:17
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There isn't a vibrancy to it, that's for sure. ah Unless you're at Trader Joe's or you're at Sprouts because they'd be hiring some decent peeps. Then you're talking about nose piercings, some tats, shit like that, right?
00:55:32
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You get a... yeah Just more friendly... It's funny. I never think, you know, when people are like, oh, you can't get you're having tough times. Go get a fucking job. Go work at McDonald's. or go like No one ever is like, go work at the grocery store.
00:55:45
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I don't know why. because they know. Although my buddy had to do that. He lost his finance job, and he he went worked at King Soopers as a checker for about four or five months. He said, fucking embarrassing as hell, because people he knew were coming through there. He was like, shit. Yeah.
00:56:00
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I think it's funny. I mean, I i laugh now. i'm like, well, would I be that cool with it? But this is my point. If you're doing that in Costa Rica, you hit rock bottom, you're going go making $600 month that.
00:56:12
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to do that And so there's no like there's no way to just be like, oh I'll support my family for a little while while I fucking figure this out. Like, you're fucked. You know, you could you're not going to, I don't think, like, you're going to make you're not going to get, like, a restaurant. I mean, some fucking waiters here are making $80,000 or $100,000 a year if they're in the right place. I know.
00:56:33
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Yeah. so But how about those birthday cards funny oh in the grocery store, huh? Do you like getting cards?
00:56:46
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We both have birthdays coming up, dude. I got 12 days on mine. it day the 8th? Yeah. You got you got four days. Well, just talk about the etiquette because when I get a birthday card. what yeah What the fuck do you do with a birthday card? When someone buys one and they purchase it and has a message like that somebody else wrote and then they just put happy birthday, Lance.
00:57:07
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Or like dear Lance above the message and then sign it, love you know yeah Matt, love dad, whatever. Yeah, and you know what i do with that? Right in front of their face. and i fucking get my lighter out and I burn it because I say you didn't put any effort into this shit.
00:57:22
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Easy carrying a lighter. But if you get a card and someone wrote you a long-ass, message like, heartfelt message, it's like... Yeah, I just prefer a piece of paper. piece of paper I don't have to sift through some dumb saying at the front.
00:57:36
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May all your wishes come true. How old were you when you kind of... I don't know if your family would make it rain on you your birthday if your grandma and grandpa and aunt uncles give you 20 or... How old were you when you stop how before you stopped kind of shaking the card?
00:57:50
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See if there's little checky poos in there. I'd say like. College. Senior year college, yeah.
00:58:00
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Oh, like a birthday card, dude. What's your ideal birthday? You're not a birthday guy, and i don't think. You mentioned when you turn 40, you have break dancers and shit. But you don't.
00:58:11
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you're not Are you so anti where you're like anyone's like happy birthday? It's like, blah. No, I just don't want to feel obligated to like please other people on my birthday in a way that like they want it to be a celebration or they want it to be special. and you know I just want it to be sort of what I want, which would likely be a chance to exercise, yeah chance to see the family members that I like, and then maybe some activity. So sometimes we've gone to Nuggets game or we go to like a restaurant. like We're going to go to a restaurant, ah and the kids will just something. that a four-person deal, or are you get bringing in other moms and everyone, or it just four-banger? No, it's going to be it.
00:58:51
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Me and Sarah and a friend because they're her birthday is the same. They're pretty close. so Like a double date situation? Yeah. but the kids The kids can give me whatever piece of shit gift. I'm just kidding. i'm Give me what they do.
00:59:05
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Number one liberal dad in in America hat or something like that. yeah Yeah. But when I have to like rally to do what someone else wants to quote unquote give me,
00:59:19
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I don't like that dude was there any push this year since it's a big one number wise or was anyone like we should have a fucking blowout did you get there's anyone trying to push a big event on you we should go to Paris or anything fucked up I think people know I'm an asshole by now no I don't think so no there wasn't any of that the a lot of people in my life don't have the money to do anything so there's not there's not going to be any celebration there's not going to be anything special coming my way that costs money so no yeah I hate to be like, it's now I got kids, so like I almost have to take my birthday more serious than I want to.
00:59:56
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but um and I mean, i I can't lie. I loved my birthday when I was a kid. it was It was a big deal. But at some point, it stopped, and I never, like, I just don't give a shit about it. Yeah, but you do have to pretend. i told my kids, not when they were young, but like when they started getting teenager a little bit. i was like, dude, I don't like,
01:00:16
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any of these holidays. i I don't like the presents. I don't like any of that stuff. I think it's stupid, but you know, it's a sad thing for a dad to say also realistic. I didn't like completely destroy their happiness, but like, I just honest, it's not for me. The the Christmas, especially.
01:00:33
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I don't even know what I do, dude. If someone tried to have like an event for me, I don't i don't even know what I do. It would be so awkward. I don't know if I can do it. Like a surprise?
01:00:44
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Well, just like, yeah, maybe. Oh, you think that might drop on you? Is there any possible way? you're getting a spell she impression she might No, my wife knows way better than that. She would never want that either. But like we have a friend that's going to have one.
01:00:56
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We'll go to it. but Are they the type person to love it Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think so. what is What is that? There's some human thing. Who the fuck came up with surprise parties and why is everybody, why do people like to do them?
01:01:10
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it's It's so funny. That is a weird thing. I'm not sure. It's like you just want to for one second, scare the fuck out of somebody and make them confused for like 30, you know, like their first reaction is like, what is what are all these people here for?
01:01:25
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I know. It's like you don't hear about surprise orgies or any sort of other event that's surprise. Your cousin, who was kind of hot, is there naked, and you're like, oh, shit. Surprise orgies. Someone's like, surprise.
01:01:39
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you know And they're just like, get in there, bro.
01:01:45
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That's your cousin, man. Check out them titties, bro. they're like every There's already like movement happening and shit. when You walk in and everyone stops for a second. Surprise! And then it just picks up again.
01:01:57
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Surprise orgy. Why do we do surprise parties, dude? Well, I'm not going to plan one for you, buddy. But i'm I'm excited for you. you're You're in good shape.
01:02:09
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For whatever, if we were talking in 94-ish, what it would look like to be the big 5-0 or close to it. But I'm pretty sure at that point, 50 looked so far out in the future and like what an old person would be.
01:02:24
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I don't feel like we' we're there. I don't feel like we're as bad as what we might have perceived at that age. So I'm happy about that. Oh, yeah. I think my younger self would be like, you did. You did good, buddy. You're good.
01:02:35
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Yeah, you're fine, dude. You wear it well. I hope you enjoy your little dinner. Yes, I will. You know what's an underrated dish at a nicer restaurant? It's a pork chop. and They usually have a real thick motherfucker. Dude, that's a, yeah, that's a, the kind of old man-ish I think.
01:02:51
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Thinking of kind of craving a pork chop four days out from your birthday. That sounds like something. Either a really young, even a down syndrome person might crave it. You know, I can see my uncle who was down syndrome would talk about his birthday meal like the way you are. Why
01:03:10
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don't you go get me one of them peas, boy?
01:03:16
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I want one of them O's Now go get one of them S's What's that spell?
01:03:27
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POS It doesn't stand for anything
01:03:43
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You feel me, motherfucker? P to the O to the S, you know. P to the O to the S, you know. P to the O to the S, you know. You stupid motherfuckers ought to know.