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Speaker: Sunnyvale.
Speaker: Palo Alto.
Speaker: Burlingame.
Speaker: Nopetus.
Speaker: Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker: Sorry, James.
Speaker: Nopetus is a city.
Speaker: Nope, nope.
Speaker: Stop saying it.
Speaker: You can't say it.
Speaker: You gotta cut it out.
Speaker: You can't say it.
Speaker: James, there are children listening to this, and you keep saying it.
Speaker: So Jason, you mentioned we were talking through our mic stuff from our last record session.
Speaker: And so you've got a condenser mic, but it's round.
Speaker: Yes, I forget.
Speaker: No one can see me nod.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You're nodding.
Speaker: We can see me nod.
Speaker: You can see me nod.
Speaker: Well, I was thinking that if you didn't have a stand for the mic or you said you can't find the stand, I was wondering if you were going to put it in some like golden chalice or, you know, the Ark of the Covenant, you know, some kind of effectively I'm talking about a pimp cup.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: A little John bedazzled pimp cup.
Speaker: That's how you can carry your round condenser mic around.
Speaker: I can tell you with certainty.
Speaker: I tried to do a promo for that because one of the regions of the country I cover is a place that is synonymous with what I would call chalice culture.
Speaker: I said, hey, can I do a branded chalice?
Speaker: And they went, no.
Speaker: I went, that's fine.
Speaker: We'll do a chalice.
Speaker: Then we'll do a crown.
Speaker: We'll maybe do a staff.
Speaker: And they went, what are you trying to do here?
Speaker: And I go, well, the city itself.
Speaker: I'm like, come on.
Speaker: It's a royal city, so why would we not want to celebrate royalty?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But what vocation were you doing this as?
Speaker: Like for fun?
Speaker: Oh, as an actual work giveaway thing.
Speaker: Oh, I see.
Speaker: My whole thing was to be able to get away with giving them a pimp cup.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker: I could just see you up late at night, like two in the morning, hot glowing, like bejeweled and crusted sort of on that.
Speaker: That'd be funny.
Speaker: We don't put hot glue on this.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Gorilla glue.
Speaker: Like, why would you look at it?
Speaker: You can't see it once it's glued, right?
Speaker: Hot glue.
Speaker: What is this?
Speaker: Cub Scouts?
Speaker: I wonder.
Speaker: Shout out to Troop 309, by the way.
Speaker: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker: There you go.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: Hold on a minute.
Speaker: Before, I know you probably have a different path, but I have a question.
Speaker: And I don't know if this is the path we want to go in if we're totally deviating.
Speaker: Who has been the most severely injured from Boy Scouts that's on this?
Speaker: Ooh, definitely not me.
Speaker: And definitely not me.
Speaker: Well, clearly.
Speaker: That narrows it down.
Speaker: I've had a couple injuries.
Speaker: There's only three of us.
Speaker: Our late fourth brother, Rory.
Speaker: Rory!
Speaker: He passed away.
Speaker: Sorry, Rory.
Speaker: Rest in peace.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: So Jason, what?
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Well, it's his fault he played the water moccasin challenge.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Well, what, what, what, what reminded you of that, Jason, besides the hot glue gun pimp cup?
Speaker: I think that was it.
Speaker: I remember how many, like, why did we have so many hot glue gun sticks that were always, it was like, Hey, carry this bin in for a Cub Scouts or a Boy Scouts event.
Speaker: And the whole time you're sloshed around 30 goddamn glue sticks are just rolling around in this thing.
Speaker: And you're like, these never get used.
Speaker: They get covered in like,
Speaker: camping debris or they get fused together because of how hot it is in Texas.
Speaker: Texas, yeah.
Speaker: And we have to sit here and look at these like off yellow colored glue sticks.
Speaker: Maybe a different question that comes to my mind is...
Speaker: Do you think we got more exposure to dangerous things being in Scouts than we did had we not just lived like, you know, were we exposed to certainly knives much earlier as a part of as a part of Scouts, right?
Speaker: Like pocket knives?
Speaker: Well, pocket knives or like pocket knives, certainly.
Speaker: Hatchets, for sure.
Speaker: Later, maybe not as little Cub Scouts, but as like older Cub Scouts and then Boy Scouts, we absolutely had access to hatchets and machetes.
Speaker: I mean, there were a lot of weapons around that I don't know that the average kid, unless, you know.
Speaker: Archery.
Speaker: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker: Archery.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I mean, there were a lot of, there were a lot of, of dangerous things that, that we were exposed to as scouts or we had access to as scouts.
Speaker: The three of us all had above board experiences with scouts when it came to camping and community.
Speaker: But to your point, Jeff, yeah, there were a lot of dangers even outside of the, like the rogue Pinewood Derby car that would go off the track and fly into somebody's face or something, you know, it's not going to be bad.
Speaker: Or cut on like a rain gutter regatta.
Speaker: A rain gutter regatta.
Speaker: I don't remember that.
Speaker: Yeah, the rain gutters themselves are sharp like, you know, metal, like corrugated.
Speaker: Yeah, and so you could cut your finger on a rain gutter regatta.
Speaker: Yeah, rain gutter regatta.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I think the most dangerous thing we probably dealt with for Boy Scouts was...
Speaker: I think matches.
Speaker: We played a lot with fire, right?
Speaker: We had a lot of- Fire was a big, yeah.
Speaker: Fire was a big component of scouts.
Speaker: Starting fires, learning how to make your own fire.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Putting fires out that sometimes got, yeah.
Speaker: No, fire was a big, fire was a big thing for sure.
Speaker: I still like the bow and arrow thing though.
Speaker: Like the thought of little Johnny going down range and getting just absolutely nailed by a solid point arrow.
Speaker: Oh man.
Speaker: Oh,
Speaker: So besides my own injuries, which happened, and to be fair, one was caused by dad.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: I shouldn't leave that hanging.
Speaker: Jeff, tell the truth.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's a horrible... Puddle tea box.
Speaker: Get out of here.
Speaker: What's wrong with you?
Speaker: So, so one of the, and it actually wasn't even like a sanction.
Speaker: When I say it wasn't a sanctioned scout activity, it wasn't like for a project or for a merit badge.
Speaker: We just happened to be playing football outside of the scout house after, after not practice.
Speaker: What was it called?
Speaker: It was like a, it was like a, like a troop meeting.
Speaker: And basically I remember it is.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Maybe you tell the story.
Speaker: Cause I, I, I'm, I was the victim in this situation.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I was attacked by my father.
Speaker: Yikes.
Speaker: There was a 30 minute troop meeting.
Speaker: It was September, October, and it was also like dusk in Texas.
Speaker: So like a Monday night, 7.30 PM.
Speaker: And at the end of it, you have 20 teenage boys, you know, it's high school football season.
Speaker: So of course they're raring to go.
Speaker: So you split up on a touch football.
Speaker: It was a, it was a touch football and like a 30 yard patch behind the church behind the scout house actually.
Speaker: So scout house sat between the,
Speaker: uh between them was a parking lot so you have a scout house on one side the church on the other and then there's this patch kind of in the back um that you know kids would play touch football on all the time james i before you get going too far sorry to interrupt your rhythm there were no crimes committed you're not being deposed the the level of detail that you're giving about the location of the scout house the church the parking lot is the statute of limitations done
Speaker: Just to be clear, there were no crimes committed.
Speaker: But the level of detail that you were providing, we may lose some people.
Speaker: And for me, who is clearly comfortable giving too many details, you're giving a lot of detail.
Speaker: I had a cream soda.
Speaker: I was watching on the sidelines.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So post-troop meeting, we are playing football.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And then what?
Speaker: And then I remember you going out deep for a pass or catching the ball and running to what was the end zone, which would have been the sidewalk before the street.
Speaker: And I can't recall if you and dad were on the same team or maybe dad was reaching or trying to tag you.
Speaker: Maybe this is where you can take over because I only recall the, yeah, the aftermath.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Yeah, I just remember like going up for the pass and either I tripped over his foot or maybe he tripped me.
Speaker: I don't think I don't think our dad, dad didn't trip me.
Speaker: I tripped over something and it may not even been him.
Speaker: It may have been like a root in the ground or something.
Speaker: I do remember a sidewalk being near why, which played a near nearby where like right on the border there, right on the.
Speaker: Yeah, I guess that was the sideline.
Speaker: I don't remember how many meters it was, James, but I'm sure you could you could pull that from memory.
Speaker: I can convert, but I don't know the exact length.
Speaker: I can go meters to feet, but I don't know meters.
Speaker: Perfect.
Speaker: Do the Google Street View and figure out.
Speaker: I got an iPad.
Speaker: I could do the measure thing right there.
Speaker: I don't think the sidewalk has changed.
Speaker: At some point, I fall near the sidewalk.
Speaker: And at that point, dad also fell.
Speaker: And I fell, unfortunately, feet.
Speaker: No, I'm sorry.
Speaker: Face first, really tooth first onto the sidewalk, at which point dad fell as well.
Speaker: And so the combined mass of our two objects was was quite not so good.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: And then Danny Willie's a little bit, actually.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So then what?
Speaker: So my tooth got knocked out, broken something, right?
Speaker: I mean, I didn't lose consciousness.
Speaker: It hurt like hell.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But then take it take us from there.
Speaker: Do you remember the rest?
Speaker: I actually don't.
Speaker: All I mean, best I don't think we went home.
Speaker: I do think we went directly to the hospital, the town hospital up the street, but I also don't think it was a situation where put it in milk or anything like that or whatever they say you're supposed to do with teeth.
Speaker: I think we did that.
Speaker: But did we go to hospital or the dentist?
Speaker: No, I think we went home.
Speaker: I think because the dentist wasn't.
Speaker: Well, no, we didn't go to get milk.
Speaker: There was milk at home.
Speaker: I think we... We should stop by the grocery store.
Speaker: Let's stop at Safeway or Kroger and get some... No, no, we didn't.
Speaker: We just went home because I wasn't like... The bleeding had stopped at that point.
Speaker: It wasn't like I... And I didn't have a concussion or anything like that.
Speaker: I mean, that...
Speaker: But one other plug for scouting is if you are in a situation where you get injured, it's good actually to have a few people around who know first aid and stuff like that, right?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Or to talk you into, nah, you're fine.
Speaker: Half your tooth is missing.
Speaker: You're fine.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Suck it up, go ahead.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Yeah, and whistling was challenging after that.
Speaker: So I do remember like getting the fragment of the tooth possibly and putting it, you know, like wrapping it in a Kleenex or something, going home, putting it in milk.
Speaker: Reverse tooth fairy.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Here you can have it back.
Speaker: Either mom or dad looked at it and we're like, yeah, there's nothing here to save or whatever.
Speaker: And so then it would likely have been the next day that we went to the dentist or whatever.
Speaker: Was it an adult tooth?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, it was actually.
Speaker: I was going to say with the tooth, could you imagine because we drank whole milk, that thing going in a glass of whole milk, it probably bounced off of the surface of the milk.
Speaker: It's like –
Speaker: Mom was probably with a cigarette in her mouth, took it out and said, yeah, boys, this isn't going to work.
Speaker: Like real old timey doctor stuff.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: No, but the only other thing with that tooth.
Speaker: So I, you know, I had a, I got a, not a crown or maybe it was a crown.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I got something covering it, like it built up or whatever.
Speaker: And so, so got a, like a temporary one, I think.
Speaker: And then, then they made a permanent one, which was fine.
Speaker: And, and then I want to say like, yeah,
Speaker: 12 years later, 15 years later, I went, uh, or I was brushing my teeth in the morning, getting ready to go to work.
Speaker: And my tooth fell off.
Speaker: Like, Oh my gosh, really?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And because it's right in the middle, you know, it's right on my, it's one of my front tooth.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: One of my front teeth.
Speaker: So I'm like brushing my teeth and I was like, what the hell?
Speaker: So then, then I had to, then I had to call, uh,
Speaker: No, I had to call my boss and I was like, hey, I'm not going to be in this morning.
Speaker: And he's like, well, why not?
Speaker: And I was like, well, my tooth fell out.
Speaker: And he's like, what are you, eight?
Speaker: Like, what do you mean?
Speaker: And I'm like, no, no, no, it's not that or whatever.
Speaker: And so...
Speaker: I'm telling the tooth.
Speaker: I'm telling the tooth.
Speaker: I promise.
Speaker: Stop it, James.
Speaker: You're done.
Speaker: You are so done.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Your penalty score, by the way, right now, it's at least 50.
Speaker: I'm going for the high score.
Speaker: Unbelievable.
Speaker: But what I do remember is going to a dentist and they were like, oh, well, because I kept it.
Speaker: What fell off, I had in my hand.
Speaker: And I didn't put it in milk, by the way, because it's fake.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But I took it in.
Speaker: Soy milk.
Speaker: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker: And this is a this is a true this is a true statement.
Speaker: So they're like, well, hey, it's fine.
Speaker: It looks like whatever they use to bond it has just fallen off.
Speaker: I'm going to rebond it temporarily.
Speaker: And then, you know, you'll need to come back.
Speaker: Well, I never went back.
Speaker: So so to be fair, I think.
Speaker: I don't know, 15, 18 years, whatever it is, how long ever ago that was.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I don't, I don't remember ever going back and getting it fixed.
Speaker: So it's highly possible that any day now this thing's going to pop off again.
Speaker: And so, and not pop off in a, yeah, not pop off in a good way, like a, uh, you know, a pimp cup kind of party thing.
Speaker: The tooth will pop off.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What if you have your pip cup, you chip it on there and you take a jewel and you just stick it on the bottom of the missing tooth.
Speaker: I mean, we are, we are from the Houston area.
Speaker: It's true.
Speaker: Grill area was for grills.
Speaker: If we get 10,000 listeners, can we each get grills?
Speaker: Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: All right, cool.
Speaker: We'll go see Johnny Dang, right?
Speaker: Get some real grills.
Speaker: Can I just have a girlfriend instead?
Speaker: Because I don't want to grill.
Speaker: That was not a pun.
Speaker: No, that's not a pun.
Speaker: You stretched it, okay?
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: All right?
Speaker: You have exhausted your limits.
Speaker: We're done.
Speaker: We're done.
Speaker: The other thing that you, that telling you guys that story reminded me of is thinking about work because we're all professionals.
Speaker: Speak for yourself.
Speaker: Well, I mean, we have professional jobs.
Speaker: Whether we're professional or not, we have professional jobs.
Speaker: I had two instances where I was late for work at a restaurant.
Speaker: So mine were actually the same job.
Speaker: I worked at a, I worked on the border, you know, at the Tex-Mex restaurant.
Speaker: And, um, and I rode my bike to work.
Speaker: Now there's a much longer story.
Speaker: Definitely.
Speaker: I got to get some Kleenex.
Speaker: It was a lot.
Speaker: It was a lot.
Speaker: It was pretty heavy time, but, but suffice it to say, you know, as a grown, I think I was 20, um, you know, having owned a car, driven cars, all that stuff.
Speaker: Grown boy of 20.
Speaker: Yes, something like that.
Speaker: Well, I was late to work twice.
Speaker: One time because a lady hit me with her car when I was riding to work.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: The old Eric Idle getting hit in European vacation.
Speaker: Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's just a flesh wound.
Speaker: No, it was the first.
Speaker: So this time where I got hit by the car, I'm, you know, riding, riding to work.
Speaker: And this lady pulls out of a parking lot, doesn't see me and hits me as, you know, she's pulling out of the parking lot.
Speaker: And this is like, you know, three in the afternoon or something.
Speaker: This wasn't like at night or anything.
Speaker: So she hits me with her car, knocks me off of the bike and unfortunately, knock the chain off of the sprocket too.
Speaker: And so, so I was fine.
Speaker: I mean, I, you know, I, I didn't like go up on her hood or smash her windshield or anything, but, but I got, so she hits me and then like, so I'm getting up and she like gets out of her car and she's like, Oh my God.
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: And I was like, I was like, you hit me with your car.
Speaker: And she's like, Oh my God.
Speaker: And I'm like, I'm fine.
Speaker: And she's like, do you need anything?
Speaker: And I was like, well, now I got to fix my bike because my chain was off the sprocket.
Speaker: So, so that was frustrating.
Speaker: So, so I, you know, figured out, I mean, it wasn't, it didn't break the chain.
Speaker: It just knocked it off.
Speaker: You can never break the chain.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: That's a good one, Jason.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That is, hey, listen, if we're going to make Fleetwood Mac references on this thing, the chain is a great one.
Speaker: So I dust myself off.
Speaker: She's like, can I do anything?
Speaker: I was like, nope, I just need to get to work.
Speaker: I'm fine.
Speaker: And popped the chain back on the sprocket and then finished my ride to work.
Speaker: Well, it wasn't hours, but that interaction probably took...
Speaker: I don't know, five minutes or so, five to eight minutes between her hitting me with the car, her going, oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker: And then me popping the chain back on.
Speaker: And I suspect I probably didn't ride as fast as I had been the rest of the time.
Speaker: So when I got to work, I was a few minutes late and I remember the manager was like, hey man, you're late.
Speaker: And I was like,
Speaker: Oh my God, I got hit by a car.
Speaker: No, no, no, no.
Speaker: No, I should have though.
Speaker: And so he's like, you know, Hey, why, why, why weren't you here?
Speaker: Whatever.
Speaker: You know, cause it, even in a restaurant, you're supposed to be there a little bit earlier on time, just so you can do your side work, pre-work, whatever.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And so I remember I was like, uh, he's like, you know, what's why, why, why were you late or whatever?
Speaker: You need to be here on time.
Speaker: And I was like, I got hit by a car.
Speaker: And so, and so he was like, Oh,
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: You're excused.
Speaker: So pull that tooth out.
Speaker: You're like, I forgot.
Speaker: See, we really needed you to refill the tortilla chips.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I got a 12 top over there and Sally with the busted leg.
Speaker: She can't carry three plates of enchiladas by herself.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Jeff, we really needed you at the, on the border.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: You literally lived tchotchkes from Office Space.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: That was you.
Speaker: I didn't have any flair, but I did.
Speaker: But the other time at On the Border, actually, that I was late was also bicycle related.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: You had two bicycle incidents?
Speaker: I had two bicycle incidents.
Speaker: So I had a situation where what I would do, the long and short of it is I would ride city streets to work, except there's a fairly busy intersection where I would have to wait for all the traffic.
Speaker: Well, there's actually a bike trail that ran close to where the restaurant was.
Speaker: And so I could save, you know, call it five minutes by taking the bike trail.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: That lady decided to go for seconds.
Speaker: She wanted to say five minutes too.
Speaker: I got to finish the job.
Speaker: No, even better, even better than that lady assaulting me again with her vehicle.
Speaker: No, even better than that.
Speaker: So I'm riding and look, I probably was just not doing a good job leaving on time slash being there, you know, on time or early.
Speaker: So I was no doubt pushing the envelope.
Speaker: Well, as I'm riding on, you know, riding to work, I get to the bike trail and I'm riding the bike trail.
Speaker: Well, there was construction on the bike trail and construction to the point where they had it all ripped up.
Speaker: It was like a big gully.
Speaker: So I couldn't ride through it.
Speaker: So I had to turn around, double back, and then go around.
Speaker: And so same thing, not the same day or the same week, maybe not even the same month.
Speaker: But here I'm a few minutes late and a different manager, I hope.
Speaker: Or if it was the same manager, they must think that this guy is backed out of his mind.
Speaker: But they're like, hey, you're late and I'm sorry.
Speaker: I'm like, well, sorry, there was construction on the bike trail.
Speaker: And they're like, construction on the bike trail?
Speaker: Come on, dude.
Speaker: You need to come up with something better.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: now you could actually like whip out a phone and like take a picture and say, look, I have photo proof of me, like not being able to traverse the bike trail because, um, you know, there's now, if you started doing like a tick tock and like posting like to all social medias of like, I'm late because of the bike trail, you do like your poses and stuff, then it'd be a problem.
Speaker: You could have done it back then.
Speaker: The problem is, is that you're waiting for the processing time of the film after you take the picture.
Speaker: It's like you're late.
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: You're four days late, Jason.
Speaker: It's a one hour photo, okay?
Speaker: But I didn't realize they had a two day backlog, okay?
Speaker: I had to tell you.
Speaker: I think I had a Nokia.
Speaker: Like a camera phone?
Speaker: Probably.
Speaker: I don't remember.
Speaker: I mean, your T nine texting.
Speaker: I am, am, am, am late, late.
Speaker: You're trying to punch in the numbers.
Speaker: James.
Speaker: Is that, are you still using a Nokia James or are you okay?
Speaker: You still have a Sony Ericsson or what do you have a next tell?
Speaker: What do you have?
Speaker: I'm on the nothing phone now.
Speaker: Oh, okay.
Speaker: He's fancy.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: You want to see?
Speaker: There's my nothing phone right there.
Speaker: What is that?
Speaker: It's the glyphs on the back of the nothing phone.
Speaker: It's pretty cool.
Speaker: Does like little ring tone.
Speaker: Can you do FaceTime?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Now I can because I also have an iPad.
Speaker: So yes.
Speaker: What about, what about iMessaging?
Speaker: Yeah, I think I can get your iMessage.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: But Jason, you're asking via the nothing phone, not via the iPad.
Speaker: Correct.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: Oh, how much was the nothing phone?
Speaker: It was something.
Speaker: It was something.
Speaker: It was not nothing.
Speaker: It was something for sure.
Speaker: Can you go into the nothing store and buy a nothing phone?
Speaker: In London.
Speaker: Oh, so you got to go all the way to England to get your phone looked at and serviced?
Speaker: I bought it.
Speaker: Yeah, I bought it.
Speaker: I didn't buy it in London, but yeah.
Speaker: Do you hate yourself?
Speaker: No, because I'm an adopter of both Android and Apple.
Speaker: So I like both because now I... James.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I thought it was an audio break.
Speaker: I thought you said I'm adopted.
Speaker: I was like, wow, we learned something new mid-podcast.
Speaker: We need to get a substitute sibling in here quick because I don't belong here.
Speaker: Hashtag bring Rory back.
Speaker: That's what we need to do.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So you're an early adopter, I think is what you're saying, right?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Except this iPad is like four years old, so it's fine.
Speaker: I got it used.
Speaker: I'm also cheap, so that should surprise nobody.
Speaker: Not cheap.
Speaker: You are fiscally conservative.
Speaker: You're frugal.
Speaker: You're very frugal.
Speaker: It's a great compliment to you.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think I shared this with with Jason and you, Jeff, as well.
Speaker: Not I've never been late.
Speaker: So I'm I'm just going to stick to that rule.
Speaker: But have you really never been late?
Speaker: No, I've been late, but I've never been comically late, if that makes sense.
Speaker: Like, I don't really have very many stories.
Speaker: I don't know how getting hit by a car is comical to you.
Speaker: But I don't know.
Speaker: But I do have a dentist story and it's very quick.
Speaker: It won't take too long.
Speaker: So I actually, when I moved to Minnesota, I didn't go to the dentist for a couple of years as we all like maybe have anxieties about, you know, any sort of dental work or whatever, but I didn't go to the dentist and something was messed up in my pH levels.
Speaker: Who knows what it was?
Speaker: Could have been the energy drinks.
Speaker: I went to the dentist once they did their checkup and they said, you have some cavities.
Speaker: And I said, Oh, well, how many do I have?
Speaker: And they said, 12.
Speaker: And I said, what?
Speaker: They said you have 12 cavities.
Speaker: Hold on.
Speaker: How many teeth?
Speaker: Adult, like 32.
Speaker: So a third of your teeth had cavities?
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: After not going to the dentist for three years to the point that they said we have to fill them because we don't want them to get worse.
Speaker: But we can't do it all in one sitting.
Speaker: We're going to split your mouth up into two sides.
Speaker: So they did one side one appointment and one side the other appointment.
Speaker: This is no stranger.
Speaker: But I also did topical and like...
Speaker: um you know novocaine i didn't do gas or anything both of you probably had and if this is too personal let me know but sometimes i have gas is that what you're asking yeah not like not like gas i meant the dentist chair hey we need to cut that out that is that's super nasty no we cannot talk about flatulence i can isolate you saying sometimes i have gas
Speaker: Sometimes I have gas.
Speaker: When you both have had dentist appointments before, you've had, is it laughing gas or nitrous oxide?
Speaker: They just give you nitrous and put you under it.
Speaker: I think they're the same.
Speaker: Yeah, they're the same.
Speaker: It's nitrous.
Speaker: I've unfortunately gone through similar struggles with the dentist and I found someone that was...
Speaker: Fantastic.
Speaker: And it's just been my dentist for probably the better part of eight years.
Speaker: And a lot of what he has done that has kind of set it apart was getting me comfortable with the relaxation, right?
Speaker: The sort of bring me back.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I've really liked, you know, kind of what his thought was for me, which is, Hey, let's just make it super comfortable.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: It's, it's going to be uncomfortable every time you come in here.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So it's like, if you can kind of cut the edge out, act like you've had a glass of wine, we could do our thing, but they're phenomenal.
Speaker: That, that was a huge difference.
Speaker: The only problem with it is they almost do too much.
Speaker: So it's like you leave and you're just kind of, you know, it a little bit of, you
Speaker: a difference of state of mind.
Speaker: And are they playing music?
Speaker: Is it like, like soft lighting?
Speaker: Like what, what, is there anything environmental?
Speaker: They usually have screens now, right?
Speaker: Where you can play like Netflix or prime.
Speaker: But for me, I'm usually listening to podcasts such as, you know, three ring circus Maximus available on Spotify, Apple.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And what's the other one that we're on?
Speaker: Amazon?
Speaker: Amazon, YouTube, wherever you fill your podcast bucket.
Speaker: Wherever you fill your podcast bucket.
Speaker: So usually a podcast or...
Speaker: and listening to some album to just kind of get into it.
Speaker: The best thing to listen to when you're on nitrous oxide, funny enough, it's like two albums you can listen to serious by, uh, Alan Parsons project.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's a very good one.
Speaker: And then Tame Impala, anyone, because when you're kind of in that like weird zone, you just kind of,
Speaker: You're focused more on the music than anything else that's happening.
Speaker: And so it kind of brings you into a different state of mind, which is nice.
Speaker: And then they're done.
Speaker: So, James, you mentioned two teams were working simultaneously in your mouth, one on each side, or it was two visits?
Speaker: Two visits, but it was walking distance from where I lived before, except it was like late fall.
Speaker: And I decided to take the shortcut to get to the session early, basically the first session.
Speaker: Was there construction on the shortcut by chance?
Speaker: No, there wasn't.
Speaker: But I took the back way and it was like a big, like a berm, basically like a 15 foot like hill that I would walk up.
Speaker: And I slipped in the hill coming back up.
Speaker: But I was also like sore because they did this, the six fillings or whatever.
Speaker: So I came into my girlfriend at the time, like all she saw was just me teary eyed and like it was, it had rained.
Speaker: So I was like all just like muddied up and like soaking wet.
Speaker: You're muddy, disoriented, swollen.
Speaker: And she's like, oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker: All I said was I fell in the mud.
Speaker: I was so dejected of just like, oh, man.
Speaker: But yeah, that was what it sounded like because my mouth was still like coming down from the numbness.
Speaker: I was like, I fell in the mud.
Speaker: Other than that, I didn't have any other interesting like later dental stories.
Speaker: What about you, Jason?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So you want to talk about dental or being late?
Speaker: We're open to both.
Speaker: If you want to keep the dental train going, go for it.
Speaker: So the dental thing, it's great.
Speaker: So you're pro dental health.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Haven't really had any bad dental experiences, it sounds like.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: But you got the right dentist now.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Incredible human being.
Speaker: One of my favoritest people on the planet overall because he...
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Every doctor should kind of mimic what he does overall, which is just have good, like good manner around your, your clients, set a plan and stick to it and make them confident in your direction as a, as a dental professional or as a, as a medical professional.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: Jason, I didn't know that you had had, uh, I actually wasn't even familiar that, you know, we haven't really talked about dentists.
Speaker: Like that's one of the things we don't talk about is like doctor as brothers.
Speaker: Like we still like, Hey, how was your doctor appointment or whatever?
Speaker: How's your point then?
Speaker: Uh, I don't really want to talk about it.
Speaker: why why is it always poop with you jason you always go to feces when i talk to you guys i just think shitty thoughts there you go there's a pun hey but i didn't know about the dentist stuff so i appreciate you filling us in on that so yeah all right so we're clear dentally filling it sounds like filling unbelievable
Speaker: So, Jason, being late, are you generally on time?
Speaker: Are you sometimes late?
Speaker: Have you ever been comically late as James described my not humorous in the moment getting hit by a car and less humorous in the moment?
Speaker: Less humorous in the moment, having construction on the bike trail.
Speaker: What's your sitch with being late, Jason?
Speaker: I think I've been pretty fortunate so far.
Speaker: Usually what has made me late, it's all about communication.
Speaker: So if I've got...
Speaker: kind of a straightforward, like, Oh, I think I'm going to be late for this.
Speaker: I just make phone calls and usually I'll, I'll be fine, but I can't stand being late.
Speaker: It drives me nuts.
Speaker: But even think like target journeys, best buy, you were never late.
Speaker: Any of those places?
Speaker: Rarely, rarely, rarely best buy.
Speaker: You know, I cared so much about working in a place like that, which is silly.
Speaker: But it, you know, it,
Speaker: I mean, really, you know, I just wanted to be kind of, you know, omnipresent and show up on time.
Speaker: By the way, it wasn't silly.
Speaker: I remember vividly when you were working there while you were in school, you took a ton of pride in your job.
Speaker: And I think that's really, I think that's really impressive.
Speaker: You never approached it as if,
Speaker: hey, I want to do this for the rest of my life or whatever.
Speaker: And you would, I think, been fine when you finished your degree.
Speaker: If you were passionate about it, you would have stayed.
Speaker: But but you never dismissed it or said, ah, this is just a bullshit job.
Speaker: Like I'm not I don't care.
Speaker: But I think that's really impressive, Jason.
Speaker: And and.
Speaker: I think you've done that with a lot of jobs and James, I think you're very similar.
Speaker: Like you guys both, I think take tremendous pride in what you're doing, even if it's not your ultimate passion or vocation.
Speaker: I look at it this way.
Speaker: You're going to be late.
Speaker: So as long as you communicate to the impactful people that understand you're going to be late, a lot of times it's like you'll get through it.
Speaker: And the other thing too, is just, if you're, if you're honest, you're fine.
Speaker: If you're dishonest,
Speaker: Guess what?
Speaker: You're going to be late a lot more than that one time.
Speaker: And so that was, you know, when I was, when I had a couple of people that worked for me,
Speaker: I would just tell them that, Hey, this is all you got to do is just tell me.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And I'm not going to beat you over the head on this, but if you make it a habit, what you don't want is you don't want an occurrence to turn into a, you know, a common occurrence to turn into a habit.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Cause when it becomes a habit, you're done.
Speaker: I think one I was probably more apt to be on time for than any other place was at the motorcycle dealership.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: I had no excuse to be late because I had a vehicle that could get me there at over a hundred miles an hour in the summertime.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So it's just like, just again, give yourself more than enough time to get to places that you need to be.
Speaker: I think that's fair.
Speaker: And I do appreciate the, just be honest.
Speaker: One, one of the places I worked, the, the phrase that, that we all used was liars get fired.
Speaker: And so it's like, Hey, if something goes sideways or you make a mistake or, or whatever the situation is, it's always better to be truthful and honest and, and, you know, acknowledge, take responsibility for, for what you've, what you've done or what happened.
Speaker: But, you know,
Speaker: being, um, being untruthful about it, uh, you know, lying about it is not, is not cool.
Speaker: The more, you know, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I don't, I didn't, I didn't mean to be serious.
Speaker: I, now I feel, I feel as the lesser brother, you guys are like early slash on time for everything.
Speaker: And I'm at times pushing the envelope the other way.
Speaker: So, or at least when I was, I served.
Speaker: You're
Speaker: Here's all your thing.
Speaker: It taught you at an age of young adulthood that bicycles are really bad for your health.
Speaker: They're the worst.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, they were certainly dangerous.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You got hit by a car.
Speaker: I got hit by a car twice on a bike too, in my early twenties, but.
Speaker: Oh my goodness.
Speaker: Hey, motorcyclist here for 12 years.
Speaker: It's true.
Speaker: Knock on wood.
Speaker: Never got hit by a car.
Speaker: It's true.
Speaker: And never, and never put the bike down.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Off road, but it's off road.
Speaker: Not, but not on the street.
Speaker: No, not on wood.
Speaker: You also survived a fire on a motorcycle as well, which we spoke about recently.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We did.
Speaker: I haven't had to jump or anything like that, but I was thinking about Jeff's bicycle story about could he have channeled his inner rad?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And done like a sweet, you know, BMX style on a Walmart Huffy just to watch the whole, you know, the whole front tube disintegrate for peddling, you know, this 135 to 150 pound man through the sky.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, and also...
Speaker: There's a commitment you're making when you're riding that bike that's been assembled at your average big box retailer or sporting goods place.
Speaker: You have to hope that Jojo, the bike tech who comes in every other Tuesday, is of sound mind and body when he or she is putting together those bikes.
Speaker: Because I suspect that there are bikes that are assembled
Speaker: And then afterwards, hey, what are these extra parts?
Speaker: Ah, we didn't even, the bike is fine.
Speaker: So Jason, there's always that risk that the bike that you're riding on may not be assembled to the highest quality standards.
Speaker: I think we spoke about my bike getting stolen from a Safeway before, and I did replace that bike with what was a new bike from a Sport Mart, I think it was called.
Speaker: And I was just riding it up, Santa Clara, San Jose, like El Camino Real, which makes me sound super snobbish because it was the main thoroughfare in Silicon Valley.
Speaker: You can get like north to south, basically, on El Camino Real or whatever.
Speaker: Jason...
Speaker: I feel like, and he's our crack editor slash audio engineer, all these things.
Speaker: James, could you come up with some kind of sound effect for yourself?
Speaker: Silicon Valley.
Speaker: Not an air horn, not that.
Speaker: Not that.
Speaker: Please, anything but that.
Speaker: Can you come up with some kind of sound effect?
Speaker: So every time you say Silicon Valley, the listeners will know to James and Silicon Valley again.
Speaker: But, but I need a suggestion from each of you, um, of something like, what is the most symbolic thing from Silicon Valley?
Speaker: One each Jeff, you first.
Speaker: Like a computer?
Speaker: Yeah, some kind of computer, like war games.
Speaker: Like, would you like to play a game or something?
Speaker: Is that your Whopper?
Speaker: Is it Whopper?
Speaker: That's the computer.
Speaker: Hello, Professor Falcon.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: What about you, Jason?
Speaker: I don't know where to start because you either have to do a soundbite of Steve Jobs yelling.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: Like, you know, like something like that.
Speaker: It was just like he did it again.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I'll come up with that.
Speaker: I'll use Steve Jobs yelling microchip computer sound effect.
Speaker: I'll look for it.
Speaker: Professor Falcon.
Speaker: I think you just need a guy saying, no, no, no.
Speaker: This is this is someone's like, what does Silicon Valley sound like?
Speaker: And I go literature.
Speaker: You just say the word, like say a fancy word.
Speaker: Literature.
Speaker: I studied in anthropology.
Speaker: No, I'm kidding.
Speaker: I don't want to say anthropology.
Speaker: Anthropologists will come after me and I'll be in a lot of trouble.
Speaker: Yeah, Jason, the American anthropological, which I can't.
Speaker: What was that?
Speaker: You should have listened to Silicon Valley, Jeff.
Speaker: Jason, what you described is the auditory version of the gif where the guy throws the glitter in the face or whatever.
Speaker: That's what you mean, James, is the audible version of someone throwing glitter in the face.
Speaker: Okay, I can do that.
Speaker: So I'm on my bike in Silicon Valley, brand new bike.
Speaker: And this.
Speaker: That was the sound effect.
Speaker: Oh, I can do that.
Speaker: I'll make something with that.
Speaker: I got that.
Speaker: I think you need to say a city.
Speaker: San Ramon.
Speaker: Yeah, I'll just go through the whole list of Silicon Valley cities.
Speaker: Sunnyvale.
Speaker: Palo Alto.
Speaker: Burlingame.
Speaker: Burlingame is a fancy yes.
Speaker: No-petus.
Speaker: Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker: Sorry, James.
Speaker: No-petus is a city.
Speaker: No, no, stop saying it.
Speaker: You can't say it.
Speaker: You got to cut it out.
Speaker: You can't say it.
Speaker: James, there are children listening to this and you keep saying no.
Speaker: So I was on my bike.
Speaker: He's just talking about Milpitas.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: So the bike I had before that got stolen from Safeway had one brake lever.
Speaker: I don't know why.
Speaker: This bike had two brake levers and I didn't know what the reason for two brake levers was until I tested it out for myself stopping at a red light.
Speaker: Because I was like, oh, well, one is for the back wheel and one is for the front wheel.
Speaker: So I could squeeze both and I'll stop even like twice as fast.
Speaker: No, no, you don't stop twice as fast.
Speaker: Because I was going like 10, 15 miles an hour.
Speaker: I hit both brake levers and I doubled over the front of the handlebars.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And so like I'm, you know, like sprawled out.
Speaker: I didn't get hurt or whatever.
Speaker: It was almost like a front flip.
Speaker: So I didn't land on my feet, but I landed in like kneeling position basically.
Speaker: And like the bike didn't even tip over, but like I, yeah, like I had one hand still on the handlebars or whatever, but, um, you, you know, operator error, you know, as much as the assembly, uh, error.
Speaker: James, I don't, I don't want to be that guy, but I don't think you were truthful and honest a few minutes ago.
Speaker: About what?
Speaker: Well, you said your bike was stolen from Safeway.
Speaker: I don't think that was an accurate description.
Speaker: Number one, you left your bike unlocked and untethered.
Speaker: I'm a trusting person.
Speaker: Well, okay.
Speaker: I can appreciate that.
Speaker: So at best, someone borrowed your bike, which you were leaving unsecured.
Speaker: Now, they never returned it, which may constitute theft in some states.
Speaker: I don't know exactly.
Speaker: Bicycle...
Speaker: I don't know property law that well.
Speaker: That was only my minor, not my major.
Speaker: But yeah, saying your bike got stolen when you repeatedly left it unsecured and unlocked is not really truthful.
Speaker: Well, again, I know you're not a liar.
Speaker: I wouldn't call you that.
Speaker: But that certainly is stretching it truthfully.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: One more thing.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We need to kind of think about.
Speaker: You've also had how many cars stolen?
Speaker: Stolen?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: One, right?
Speaker: Yeah, the one.
Speaker: But hold on.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Was it really stolen or did you also potentially not secure the keys?
Speaker: And are you not sure?
Speaker: There were two sets of keys.
Speaker: What I can't remember is if I used the second set to warm up the car in the wintertime and forgot to remove them, but also forgot to lock the vehicle with the second set of keys inside.
Speaker: And not just a key fob where you can secure the car, but like a literal key.
Speaker: inside but how you don't want to find out is when you are reliant on that vehicle to get McDonald's for breakfast and so you're looking forward to Egg McMuffin and instead you're filling out a police report saying hey my vehicle is done like where is it
Speaker: What's funny, I don't know, Jason, you know this.
Speaker: Maybe, Jeff, you don't know this, but for a few years after, May was when it got stolen, like late May or whatever.
Speaker: But I would get a letter in the mail from the local police department in late May, and the letter would basically say, hey, Blake, you filed a police report about your vehicle being stolen.
Speaker: And it was like a sheet of paper or two sheets of paper in the mail.
Speaker: And it was like a questionnaire.
Speaker: There were like five questions.
Speaker: The first one was, have you gotten any clues about what happened to your car?
Speaker: I was like, what?
Speaker: It was like, do you have any sorts of updates to share with the police officers about what might have happened?
Speaker: So they were asking me my own updates for an open police report of...
Speaker: But it was on the anniversary of the theft of your car?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We noticed it's been three years since you opened this police report.
Speaker: And we're just curious, like, have you heard anything about this vehicle?
Speaker: Or do you know what's going on with it?
Speaker: I'm like, no.
Speaker: I didn't respond or whatever.
Speaker: But, you know, it was almost like a, hey, isn't this your job?
Speaker: Aren't you the ones that are supposed to investigate what's going on with my car?
Speaker: Did you find your stolen car yet?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Did you find my stolen car?
Speaker: It would be better if it were an auditory prompt like, press one if you found your stolen car.
Speaker: Press two if you think you know who stole your car.
Speaker: Press three if you don't want us to follow up on who stole your car.
