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Change for the better and Chris loses his mind
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, some talk about cycling, vehicles, EMS, and Chris’ odd anger toward the state of Connecticut; Ron challenges us to change one thing about ourselves; Chris ponders if Time is real? As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introductions and Weather Concerns
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm a very sweaty Ron. Yeah, Ron just got done biking 300 miles. No, not today. Have you worked out and then rode your bike home? No, I just, there was, no. Oh, I thought you said you were working out. I worked out. It was my bike ride. Oh, okay. I got you. I'm of an age where I'm not sure how much lifting I'm going to do anymore.
00:00:30
Speaker
Yoga, bikes, run, walking. How much more do I need in my life? Yeah. Body weight. I'm good with that. Yeah. No, I just wanted to get as much done as possible today. Well, it was still nice. It was supposed to storm or not storm tomorrow. Who knows? Nobody knows. The weather's been so bonkers. Yeah. I hope it doesn't storm. It's supposed to hit golf balls tomorrow. Oh.
00:00:57
Speaker
I mean, I hope it doesn't storm because you're at work. I'm at work and if all goes well, I'll be crossing the bay on the ferry at night. Nice. I don't really want to do that in the storm. No. I mean, the ferry's large and displaces enough water. You shouldn't feel it. Sure. I mean, it doesn't make me I don't get seasick normally anyways. Right. But I think if it was a bad enough storm, we could definitely rock that ship. Yeah, I'm sure.
00:01:27
Speaker
And then you can't go out on the deck and enjoy the sun. I mean, I'm surprised you're not just driving up on I-95. No. No, that's done for the foreseeable future. So they're going to have crews working like 24 seven on it. Yeah. Yeah. It's still going to take a year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I like the one guy who's like, well, the first step is to backfill
Infrastructure and Traffic Challenges
00:01:53
Speaker
it. It's like.
00:01:54
Speaker
Really? No, I thought you would just magically levitate things up. I mean. Well, they've got to knock the one side down first and then rebuild the whole thing. Yeah. This is not great. Yeah. I don't understand. Yeah. Cause if I, I feel like as you
00:02:13
Speaker
if you knock the next section out or whatever. So it's like, isn't that going to cause possible stress to the adjoining one and then the adjoining one? Well, I think where that is, it's dirt, dirt, dirt, overpass dirt. Oh, okay. So it's, it's litter. Cause I, from my understanding, the truck was coming off the exit and took the turn too hard and rolled it into the,
00:02:40
Speaker
into the underpass. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Sounds like a bad Michael Bay movie. Yeah, sounds like a bad Michael Bay movie. Yeah. Well, I think we can definitely put to bed the 9-11 myth of jet fuel won't melt steel.
00:02:57
Speaker
as we watched a concrete and steel bridge melt. Yeah. From gasoline. I couldn't believe the insane people driving across it. Oh my God. I saw like a travel truck that was like, Oh my God. Videotape yourself going, I don't think this is a good idea, but here you go. Like what the hell? My wife was like, well, why doesn't the fire department stop them? What are they supposed to do? Shoot them? Yeah. They couldn't get up to them.
00:03:26
Speaker
Because the 95 was blocked. Right. You know, so they had to come from the other sides and get to. I mean, it was a nightmare. Yeah, I had to direct some traffic today and people are stupid. They people are insane. Yeah, I'm telling people you can't turn here. You have to go straight. So like three cars go and like this lady watches me wave all them on and then she pulls up and says, Can I come? Yes, madam. I the other three people I didn't like you. You're a peach. Come on it. No. God.
00:03:56
Speaker
Oh, it's part of my favorite part of my job is when I tell people, no, yeah, you're not going there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I know that the way I had to detour people, it was such an inconvenience to them. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of the problems with how the shores laid out. Oh, you mean there's like single roads that you get to certain places and. Right. And it's like a very long time to get to a another route. Yeah. But there's also so many people that
00:04:26
Speaker
They find one route and that's the only route they know. Right. And they know no other way. Yeah. Yeah. It's like that. I always turn right into my development. Well, yeah, you might have to come around and come left. I don't know how to get there. It sucks to be you. If only we had these magical little computers in our pockets that we could, you know, punch in a map coordinate and would tell us where to go. Yeah, that's very, very true. And they'd be using their phone while in the vehicle. But stop punching your address.
00:04:57
Speaker
it, then set it down and follow the directions. It always annoys me. It like has the fire side of it is, look, we're trying, we are not there. We don't want to be out there any longer than we have to be. Right. We're shutting the road down. It's because we really have to, you know, if you, if you can't wait 15 minutes, because that's usually, unless something bad happens, like power lines down, we're out there 15 minutes. Yeah. The power lines are down and all bets are off. Yeah.
00:05:25
Speaker
It's like some of the people I'm like, Oh, look, I've stopped you here. Here's yet more time for you to check TikTok or Facebook or something. Cause I know that's what you're going to do is stop light anyway. Cause you're a moron. No, but I stopped at the light. Were you still operating motor vehicle? Don't play with your phone. I mean, you know, who's the worst offenders of that police office. I see them on their phone constantly.
00:05:53
Speaker
constantly just talking away. Yep. The harpoon gun needs to come in. It's true. It's true. Did you drink like a recovery drink or something? I'm having water. OK. I don't I don't.
00:06:15
Speaker
It, maybe this might be my old man stubbornness. I don't really buy into a lot of the recovery drinks and pre-workouts. I mean, I was talking like a Gatorade or something. Oh, I don't, I don't think Gatorade is a normal cause it's too, too much sugar. Yeah. There's a lot of sugar in it. Yeah. That tells you that you haven't drank anything but water for a long time and something like Gatorade and you're like, Oh God, this is sweet. Yeah.
00:06:42
Speaker
Every once in a while,
Healthcare Costs and System Critique
00:06:44
Speaker
I'll order a tea and they will give me a sweet tea instead of the very specific unsweet tea I've asked for. Which at Dunkin' Tunes drives me nuts because you actually had to add the sugar to the tea. So you took an extra step to annoy me. And one sip in and I'm like, oh. Your foot starts hurting from the diabetes. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. I can't say I'm sugar free, but I'm as close as I can get.
00:07:13
Speaker
You know, well, speaking of sugar free, you'll appreciate this. I saw on a run sheet the other day that a concerned citizen was trying to help the diabetic by giving them Coke Zero to drink. Oh, the work. No, weird. It's amazing how a drink with zero sugar didn't bring the person sugar up.
00:07:38
Speaker
I mean, even a regular Pepsi isn't going to help that, you know, they need to have milk, milk or peanut butter or something. Yeah. Something better than just sugared up. Just take a big glob of peanut butter and jam it in their mouth. Don't do that either. No, don't do that. No, no. We are not recommending you do that. We sit there like a dog. You just scrape it on the roof of their mouth. That way they're occupied.
00:08:08
Speaker
It's one of my greatest fears, though, is getting the diabetes. I think you're good. I mean, if it hasn't happened by now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can still get it late stage, right? I guess it's rare. I mean, I always make sure they check my A1C. Yeah. Which our insurance is such a racket.
00:08:34
Speaker
The doctor wanted to check my A1C, and luckily we had done it at work, but Quest charges you extra. Really? And insurance won't cover that. I'm like, how does health insurance not consider that a wellness check? Well, I'm sure it's one of those BS, well, based on your age and everything, we don't think it's necessary. Well, I'm fat, so you should be checking my A1C. Well, you get the fire department clinic to check it. Yeah.
00:09:04
Speaker
That that does happen quite a bit. Who was it the other day? It was like, you imagine how much money we'd save. We just had a fire department doctor that just said a headquarters every day. I was like. No, I mean, there are departments that do it. Yeah. They said a city doctor. Sorry. I was like, yeah, you just want them to just go from department to department there. So I know bigger departments do have like a contracted doctor.
00:09:34
Speaker
Not even a contracted doctor. It's a staff, like county system doctor that, you know, um, now the downside is when you call out sick, you have to report to this, the staff doctor, which is kind of annoying. Uh, but yeah, there are a lot of places that have gone to that model because same thing, like how much money does it cost our insurance to send people to a clinic? Yeah.
00:10:05
Speaker
or, like, God forbid, go to the ER. True. You know. Our ER is so messed up anyway. That's what kills our insurance premiums. Yeah. Going to the places. I just. The ER that's run by doctors who aren't paid by the hospital. Yeah, I was talking to my wife about that. And it's so weird that something as basic as health care
00:10:35
Speaker
the American people have no saying. Right. It's all for profit hospitals run by doctors or CEOs who have, they don't have your best interests in mind. That's what they're looking for. Many individual doctors really do want to help, but it's a company. Yeah. I mean, anytime they have like multiple CEOs, CFOs, CCOs, all that, those,
00:11:05
Speaker
Yeah, they're making money and they get to make decisions based on that. Is this going to make us money? If not, sorry about your luck. Exactly. It's a sad state of affairs, but that's the way it is.
00:11:23
Speaker
Well, the good thing is there's plenty of private care, you know, private practice doctors. That's easy to get in and people for make to make appointments and be seen and wait. Yeah. Yeah, that's not going to that's not going to get resolved anytime soon. No, I don't. I don't know the way forward for our health care system. I know it's so broken. Yeah, it feels like it's so broken that it might not be fixable. Yeah. You know.
00:11:53
Speaker
I mean, every time a big hospital buys out a little doctor's office, you lose freedom of choice. I mean, how are hospitals not monopolies at this point? Yeah. They don't have any competitors. Right. And if they do, they buy that competitor out. Oh, yeah. How does that not violate the antitrust act? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. You're going to... Yeah. Whatever you want, yo.
00:12:19
Speaker
Sunny Hills Hospital, a subsidiary of, you know, whatever. But and then they're going to send you to Sunny Hills Imaging, a subsidiary of whatever. Yep. Follow up at Sunny Hills Nephrology. You know, they've bought everything. Yeah. You know, there's very few private imaging places left. The private practice doctors that aren't part of the hospital are very, very few in far between. Oh, yeah.
00:12:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and part of that is because now, I mean, with the malpractice insurance and everything, it's. Ridiculous for them to try to have their own practice, probably. Sure. And now we have this doctors of nursing leading practices. Yeah. Of nurses. I don't understand that concept. I don't know. I just it's.
00:13:17
Speaker
Not going to be good. And it seems getting worse and worse every year and no one's doing anything. Yeah. Well, I'm sure there's a committee that's assembled to analyze and report back. Sure. Yeah. I mean, our our state of Maryland, not so much PRC.
00:13:38
Speaker
Well, it's getting bad, but yeah. And a rundle was a two hour wait for to get a patient off a stretcher. Yeah. So evidently they posted something yesterday and the median wait time in across all the regions was 22 minutes. OK. Yeah. But the 90th percentile. In a couple of the regions was 66 minutes.
00:14:07
Speaker
So what that tells you folks, for those who don't understand what they're bullshitting you at, is that there are little hospitals out Western Maryland and Eastern Shore Maryland that have pretty good wait times. So they make up the averages, bring down that horrific number inside the central core where all the calls are. And it's probably because of the way Maryland works, because I don't know how, like do they track
00:14:36
Speaker
patients up north who come into Delaware. No, these were just state of Maryland hospitals. Right. And the hospitals to go into DC. You're not counting that. Right. Nope. Take those numbers, Adam. I bet it gets worse. Oh yeah, I'm sure. But even 60 minutes is a long time. Oh, good God. Yes. For provider to be sitting on a stretcher going, I wish I could do something for you. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:03
Speaker
I'm sorry, a clinician. Yeah, thank you. I'm an old man. I'm allowed to say provider. I've been a provider my whole life. Back in my day. We didn't even have ambulances. We had wagons. It's tough coming undoing 20 plus years of saying provider. Yeah, I know. And I don't
00:15:29
Speaker
I still don't agree with the negative connotation of provider. I. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, like an NP or a CRMP or whatever, they're an advanced practice provider. Right. And when you talk about like your health care provider, you know, they provide you health care. Yeah. I provide emergency medical services. That's what I do. Yep. And you're damn good at it.
00:15:57
Speaker
I might have been at one point. No, you are. It's tough now. It's tough. I used to hate the certain paramedics that we worked with who would be like, whoa, give that drug. We haven't carried that drug in 10 years, bud. Yeah. But I see how I could slip into that person tomorrow.
00:16:27
Speaker
You know, two o'clock in the morning, my brain goes, oh yeah, give atropine. We used to give atropine all the time back in the day. Yeah. But since you got earache, atropine. I did enjoy that the Maryland Protocols has finally reflected the one thing that I've been yelling about for 20 years, and that says you should pace before atropine.
Medical Protocol Changes and Personal Reflections
00:16:46
Speaker
Yeah. You can turn electricity off. You can't bring back drugs. Yeah. Well, and you just give them something to slow them back down.
00:16:57
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, that things you could turn off, those are better. Yeah. Yeah. We have hospital just disconnected immediately. And then, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It does happen. Yeah. Well, uh, any other rant
00:17:20
Speaker
I don't know more rants. I do have, you know, a new quick note. Oh, get to see. We get to see a small bit of sort of the Star Wars outlaws. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That does look good. Looks pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When is it? I don't know when it's set. I didn't catch that part. I didn't either, actually. Yeah. It kind of looks post empire, but I'm not sure. Yeah.
00:17:47
Speaker
Because it's a B X, whatever droid. That's with her. Yeah, which, you know, you would assume to be tons of them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, no space magic for her to fall back on its. And also. I don't know what's going on with this as the. Please unscrew yourself.
00:18:16
Speaker
Wait, you didn't like Starfield? So, I mean, I haven't tried it because the game was supposed to come out, what, three years ago? Yeah. And it's coming out this September. Maybe you didn't like what you saw. I'm not saying that I didn't like it. I just... What's going on over there? Yeah. And what they... They've cut Old Republic. Yeah. Right? Completely. They're focusing on the next Dragon Age and...
00:18:47
Speaker
That's about it. Yeah, we still have Baldur's Gate three, right? That's August. Yeah. Yeah, it's still you're talking about Bioware, not Bethesda. I'm sorry, but Bioware. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and they will. Baldur's Gate isn't even them anymore. Yeah, it's Larian Studios. Oh, yeah. Because Bioware drug their feet and Larian was like, yeah, we're just going to buy this off you and run with it.
00:19:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, the starfield thing from besides that is Bethesda. Yeah. You're just making fall out in space. Yeah. Yeah. And I saw they've got like some Skyrim guy in it. That's like super annoying that followed people around or something and or oblivion guy. I don't know. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm also
00:19:44
Speaker
My brother and I were talking about it because he's like going through Game Pass. Like a lot of games like, yeah, none of these games are co-op. Nothing is co-op. Like, yeah, it feels like a dying breed. Yeah. Yeah. Which doesn't make me happy. What was it? There was some game I heard somebody talking about the other day that it's only online co-op. You can't do couch co-op. And it was like a split screen kind of game. It's like, that's dumb.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah. You won. I get that I'm never going to enjoy the fun of a LAN party again. Yeah. But boy, do I miss it. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to get like my 45 year old friends together and we play Halo where we have Xboxes rounded out throughout my house. We can just yell at each other again. Yeah. Those were good times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a different time. Yeah.
00:20:39
Speaker
If people come with all this stuff with them, it's like, Oh, yeah, you know, plug everything in, hook it all up. I'd have a router gateway just to figure out how it's working. Yeah. But I miss co-op. I wish more games would focus on co-op. Yeah. Yeah. And Diablo for $70. Is it really? For the base game. Wow. I've never played a Diablo, so.
00:21:08
Speaker
I mean, I've played all of them except for this one. I didn't buy the mobile ones, but that is good. Some of the most beautiful games in the world, also some of the most repetitive and boring games in the world. Yeah. I mean, they seem very grindy. Yeah. Very grindy. Very grindy. And that is the end of my noted topics that I bring up. Yeah. I guess I can move on to topic one. Sure. Topic one.
00:21:38
Speaker
Uh, so I just was thinking about this the other day and we are both getting older. We're still in our prime. Oh yeah. You know, 40 is the new 30. Yeah. Maybe even 20. Yeah. Sure. Look, we had this conversation, I can't, another day, like 40 year olds from when we were kids look so much older than we look. Oh, they look like they were in their seventies. Yeah.
00:22:05
Speaker
So I don't know what we're doing. I'm doing something right. But as I get older, I get more annoyed with myself. That was more people, but other people more with myself. And I was thinking about what is, if I could change one thing, what would I change? And so what I came up with is the thing that makes, gives my wife the most, my life, most grief is I hold onto grudges.
00:22:31
Speaker
I will go to a restaurant, have one bad experience, and then never go to that restaurant ever again. I will watch a TV show and watch one bad episode and be like, no, I'm done. I think it takes myself from enjoying things constantly. Maybe. I don't know. For example, I'm going to stand up for this example.
00:22:59
Speaker
There was a Chinese place in town, which everybody was ranting about. This is an aggressive Chinese place, whatever. And then we went there one time. The service was terrible. Like the food was fine. It was pricey. And I was like, this place sucks. I've never come here again. And then a few years later, I was like, Oh, you know what? I'll try that again. But it was probably five years. Well, they went out of business. Oh, yeah.
00:23:25
Speaker
Oh, I'm sure it's not because you didn't buy an egg roll. I'm not saying because I didn't, but then I never got to experience with the good food that everybody was saying. Yeah. It's really good because I stubbornly held to this grudge that I didn't know I had a grudge against them. They didn't care. It was only me that was affected by it. Yeah. You know, they don't know that they could have been sitting there crying. They could have been, but they didn't go to business because of me. I'm assuming. We didn't like it. It's fair.
00:23:54
Speaker
Yeah, but I do that, too. I mean, like if I go someplace and it's a bad meal, you're like every now and again, I'll give him a second try. But I don't know. I mean, if I go there and the food is just God awful, terrible. I'm not going back to that place, you know, probably for a good while. But I always I hate myself a little bit because. I want to be the person that tries new things all the time.
00:24:23
Speaker
Yeah. Because you're not trying new things. What are you doing? I guess. You could tell introvert uncomfortable. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, remember, I'm the guy that has the deep seated hate for the state of Connecticut for some reason. For some reason. I don't know why seriously. And like I'm going to Connecticut next week. And it's like I there's part of me that's just like, Oh, my God.
00:24:50
Speaker
Sure. That's Connecticut. Connecticut. Something's going to happen. Something terrible. I'm sure it's something stupid. Like I know one thing is they get a weird goofy tax or whatever, but they have a lot of weird, goofy taxes, actually. Yeah. I'm like the other day, somebody's like, oh, yeah, where are you going? It's like, for a couple of days, we're going up, you know, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Like, oh, yeah, Connecticut. I'm like, yeah, screw Connecticut. I'm like, why? I was like, I don't know. There's a bad state.
00:25:18
Speaker
They don't deserve to be a state. They're just a bad state. He doesn't deserve to be a state. That's, that's rational. It is. Connecticut's a lovely state. I went to a very nice brewery in Connecticut. We'll see. I had a very nice disc golf course. It's very nice. It was like Western Connecticut. If there's such a thing as Western Connecticut, such a small state. I don't know. Never been as small as Rhode Island.
00:25:45
Speaker
Not a small island, but also a very lovely state. I have Kith and Ken in Rhode Island. I'm going to lump that and Connecticut and Mass together. Massachusetts is also lovely. I don't care. Yeah, Massachusetts is delightful. They should take the other two over. They tried back in the 70s. No, I just, but I feel like
00:26:11
Speaker
holding onto that kind of stuff is not helping me. Yeah. And I do it in people too. Oh yeah. You know, uh, there are people who have wronged me and will never recover from that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there are, yeah, but some of that's worthwhile. Sure. But there's like, they say people change, but yeah. There's EMS providers who I would,
00:26:40
Speaker
I would literally allow myself to bleed out before I let them touch me based on some interaction I had with them 15 years ago. They might be much better people now. I don't know. Maybe they got good at their craft. I wasn't amazing as an EMT the first day, I'm sure. Nah, you were. You just got to give people a second chance. With some things, yeah, but other things, I don't know.
00:27:06
Speaker
Like life and death like that. It's like, I, yes, I, I understand the concept of, but you know, you gotta get, you gotta give them the chance to get better or, well, yeah, I'll give you that, but they're never going to get better. Yeah. You know, look at all these doctors that kill people constantly. Oh yeah. You know, we hope they get better. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:38
Speaker
You know, perfect example, football players. Football player wrongs you by being on the wrong team. You will spit on that person when he comes near you. That's crazy grudge. Oh yeah, it is. I mean, Derek Carr got traded to the Saints and he's dead to me. Dead to you. He could be a delightful young man. Well, he's not a young man. No, Derek Carr is.
00:28:06
Speaker
28, probably maybe. But then, like, as because I've stepped further away from football fandom, I think he will always have a place in my heart. Doesn't matter what team he plays for. It doesn't matter what he does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I always. And again, I was never, you know, the bills or anything fan, but the old Amish rifleman always had something for him.
00:28:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's Patrick. Oh, Fitzy. Go smart as man football. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, is this. Yeah. And I could. But yeah, there are others like, you know, that I don't really follow baseball. I never really did. But, you know, I was Orioles fan. So like Derek Cheater did. Yeah. Anybody that played for the Yankees.
00:29:02
Speaker
They could have given all their money to charity, saved handy, capable children from trees that. And it's just one of those weird, deep seated things. Or so you get the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Commanders fans. Well, anyway, a place where the Cowboys. Well, let's see. You do that with the contract. Yeah. Come on, you know, you know, yeah.
00:29:33
Speaker
I feel like there's car companies that I feel that way. Like Kia, I will never drive a Kia. Really? Yes. Hmm. Yeah. I don't have that opinion about car companies at all. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like I don't buy into the whole Ford versus Dodge crap. Ah, no. When it comes to that, I'm more like, you know, what's it look like? What's the mileage? But there are certain things like we're trying to find a car for my oldest.
00:30:03
Speaker
You know, our in-laws had a Kia that they're like, oh yeah, I was like, no. It's a very safe cars. Yeah, I don't care. Supers are really safe. Yeah, they are. Super expensive these days. They are. Yeah, side tangent to that. My brother might be getting another job where he has to drive a lot more. And he's currently driving my Jeep. What? Yeah, he's got my Jeep. I've had it for a few months. Gotcha.
00:30:32
Speaker
What's that? I said, no, I just said, gotcha. Yeah, I'm just, you know, being helping my brother out. That's good. But it's just not the most reliable vehicle after, you know, 20 years of Ron Wizzer owning it. And it's also not the most fuel efficient vehicle. I don't know if you know this, bricks on wheels don't do well for fuel efficiency. They're less fuel efficient than a cow. Yeah. I've seen the wind models. So he's looking at cars and he's like, well,
00:31:01
Speaker
How do you like your car? And I was like, oh, except for the one fluke that's driving me insane with my Bluetooth. Love my car. Yeah, that's right. But I bought my car for like 22. That's two years old. You can't even find a car for 22 anymore. Right. Insanity. The cheapest hybrid from Honda now is 31.
00:31:20
Speaker
And that's the thing, if they want people to buy hybrids and electrical and everything, they need to make it more affordable. Well, even gas cars are just as expensive. Yeah. Go find a Jeep. Tell them you should get a horse. Yeah. It'll be a long commute up and down the Susquehanna River. Yeah. Oh, a donkey. A burro. They could go along the path. The burro path, it still exists on the Susquehanna. Yeah.
00:31:50
Speaker
No. Yeah, I... Yeah, that's... But it's a nightmare trying to find cars. Yeah. Do you have a certain preference for tennis shoes?
00:32:02
Speaker
Uh, I sorta. Yeah. Usually what happens with tennis shoes is I buy a pair and they don't fit right. Cause I have wacky feet. Yeah. And then I just don't ever buy. I'll never look at that brand again. Yeah. Um, what's what kills me that, you know, Oh, well, you know, a nine and a half in a Nike, it's like an Adidas seven and three quarters. All the sizes should be the same. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. It's the same with pants. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. Yeah.
00:32:32
Speaker
I've worn a 32 for the last, I don't know, 15 years. I'll brag about it. Hmm. And I think it's a little snug sometimes, but still, I like I'll, you know, I've even bought like jeans from the same manufacturer and it's just two different cuts.
00:32:49
Speaker
It's like, you know, no, they they both should fit the same. They should have the same waist. They should. It's 32 is 32 is 13. And look, I'll even go one further. If you want me to switch to some goofy S metric thing, I don't care if it's, you know, oh, 75 centimeters or whatever. That's fine. If that's what it takes for you, people, as long as it's not women's sizing because women's sizing makes no sense. No, it doesn't. Yeah. Oh, you're a size negative to all what? Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:17
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Yeah, but with shoes, usually shoes, it's not that I have a grudge against company, it's just that they're expensive. And once you find one that doesn't fit right, you're stuck with it for a year. Yeah. It's like, ugh. You wear them till your feet start to hurt. Yeah, pretty much. Actually, I'm kind of in that problem now. I bought a pair of Columbia's that... My wife and I, we're walking like two miles a day every day.
00:33:44
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We're like, oh, let's get some new walking shoes because we don't want to screw up our backs. Right. I bought these Columbia as in like, they're just not comfortable. Just wear Crocs. That doesn't seem like a great plan for your safety. You just lock them into sport mode. Lock them into sport. I don't really like Crocs because my feet are so sweaty. Yeah, but they're comfy. Yeah.
00:34:09
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I love my chucks. Yeah. See chucks that have zero support. So I'm like, well, talking to my podiatrist over supportive shoes, really mess up your balance. And that's why you develop foot problems. Yeah. My wife and I will wear Crocs while we like cook. Yeah. Staying barefoot on the tile floor. So yeah, I'm barefoot all the time in my house. I don't wear anything. I don't wear socks or nothing to myself because it's, it's bad for your feet.
00:34:42
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And see, I'm the guy that also when I get done with my regular shoes, I get a new pair of shoes.
00:34:49
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My old shoes become my grass cutting, whatever shoes. So when Matt actually doing manual labor, I'm in shoes that really aren't good for my feet at all anymore, so. You should see, my grass man shoes are a pair of new bonnet shoes that I bought in 2012. Yeah. They are the most raggedy ass things. I don't know that the soul's even left.
00:35:10
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It's just green underneath of there. I was cutting grass today and I'm like, oh man, soul's flopping around a little bit. Pieces are coming off the damn thing. Throw some more duct tape on it. Yeah, yeah. There's some regular shoes. But I don't buy like
00:35:28
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I don't buy regular sneakers anymore to wear around. Yeah. Either buy like running shoes because I've been trying to run. This is the worst thing in the world. Yeah, it is. So it's never going to be fun. No. I'm never going to enjoy any minute of running. You know who likes running, I bet? Connecticutians. Connecticutians.
00:35:51
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I just, every time I go running, the only thing I'm looking forward to is being done. Yeah. Yeah. Just hate it so much. Yeah. Yeah. These people are like, Oh, you hit the running high. No, that's their body shutting down. Never happened once. It's all lie. No, no. Uh, yeah. So anyways, if there's any things you want to change about yourself, now's the time to start. How about this? Forgive Connecticut. Let's start there. I know. I got to take a smaller one than that.
00:36:22
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Oh, gosh. I mean, I know. Who knows? Maybe I'll come back from this trip and I'll be like, oh, yeah, Connecticut's delightful. Supposedly the best pizza in the country is in Connecticut. There is no way. That is that is what I have been told multiple times by multiple sources is the best pizza in the country, which is probably the best pizza in the world. You say you say it's in Connecticut. Yeah. Also.
00:36:51
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I kind of like Detroit pizza now. I believe Connecticut is the original birthplace of the hamburger. Really? Yes. I. I think there's a place you can go that's like the oldest operating steam hamburger place in Connecticut. So, you know, things to do while you're there. Oh, let's see.
00:37:19
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fun things about Connecticut. Oh my God. The lollipop was invented in Connecticut. Who doesn't love a lollipop? One of the questions is, what is Connecticut good for? Frankie Pepe's New Haven, Connecticut constitution state is one of America's best 15 pizzas.
00:37:48
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It's state bird is the American Robin. How lame is that? That is the most vanilla. What's the state bird of Delaware? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mark Twain is from there. Oh.
00:38:13
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Our our state dog is the rescue dog really in Delaware now. Officially, huh? Oh, my gosh, here's an odd facts from Connecticut. I'm sure this is a good one. To be called a pickle in the Connecticut, the pickle must bounce. What are state fish is the weak fish, right?
00:38:43
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I've never heard of a weak fish. Oh, yeah. I can see them. I. Oh. Their state insect is the praying mantis. Oh, that's pretty cool. That is that is given that. Our state macro invertebrate is the stone fly. Oh, I know what that means. Stone flies, aren't they?
00:39:11
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They're not parasitic, are they? No. All right, maybe I'll try to give Connecticut a chance. Yeah, you should try pizza from Pepe's in Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napolitana, New Haven, Connecticut. I don't know if we're going to New Haven.
00:39:35
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going to some silica of immaculate conception for the wedding. Yeah, it's a Catholic wedding. I asked my wife if she should jump up and yell praise the All Father at some point. Lewis's lunch is also in New Haven, Connecticut.
00:40:00
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first restaurant to serve hamburgers. The oldest hamburger restaurant in the United States. Oh, I bet they have a good burger. Good burger. Might be a detour. See, it probably won't be that much of a detour. Connecticut's a pretty small state. Oh yeah. I'm sure. See, I'm turning it around on the Connecticut. Let's see. Again. Yeah. We'll check back in next podcast and see how I feel about Connecticut. See if we've changed our Connecticut ways. Right. Yeah. Cause we will have another,
00:40:31
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Let's see this goes up on I can't math So This podcast is coming up on the 19th So, oh no, it'll be at the podcast after the next one Yeah, no, no, no, no we could do it. Yeah, it will be able to do it Yeah, so I'll be back on I'll be back from Connecticut on 27th. Yeah. Yeah, so I'll check back in on the next podcast and see what my feelings are on Connecticut and
00:41:00
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I expect great things out of this. Oh, I'm sure there'll be a story. Sure. There will be a story. Well, what are you going to change? I'm going to try to get rid of these crudges. I'm going to try to stop holding, letting grudges hold me back from things. Okay. So I'm going to work on that. I don't know what crudges I'm going to give up yet. Maybe I'll watch the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings. Don't.
00:41:30
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Don't don't know. Probably won't do it now. Hey, if you watch any of them, you have to watch the Three Hobbit movies. Oh, God. I don't think I can. I don't think I can bring myself to do that. That's too far. Have you watched any of the series on Amazon? No, I heard such bad things that I.
Pop Culture and Scientific Concepts
00:41:50
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Oh, God, did you hear the horrible things about the Gollum game? I saw all the pictures of it. Oh, my gosh. I saw a gameplay of it. I was like, Oh, God, no. Yeah.
00:42:00
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So no, did not look good. I said they're heavily influenced by Peter Jackson and his wealth of knowledge. It's fair. Well, I mean, the first article that I even knew that the game existed was them apologizing for the game existing. Oh my God, that's always good. So I said, well, this is probably not for me. Yeah, I think they're doing a new Lord of the Rings MMO. Yeah.
00:42:29
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You know, yeah, you sent me that length, especially. Yeah. Yeah. So I tried their little mobile game that's supposed to be like Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. Yeah. Horrible. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, on the topic dose. Sure. Topic two. So the other day was.
00:42:55
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It's watching something on YouTube and then, you know, it has, you know, next up for you or whatever. And one of them was it was I know scientists find something that disproves the big bang theory or something like that. I was like, that sounds interesting. So 30 minutes later, after watching this, I'm questioning everything in my life because they were talking about all the it's the oh, and I can't remember the name of the telescope.
00:43:25
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The web? No, the JL space telescope or whatever. The John Lowstein or something. But it's like it's like Hubble on crack.
00:43:36
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OK. And it's taking all these pictures. And in theory, you know, the Big Bang, it started and then everything the universe is continuing to expand. Right. So as things get further out, you know, they should be, you know, bigger and, you know, it's there were all these calculations like, you know, based on how far away they are, they'll appear dimmer or they'll appear brighter because their light is already gone. But, you know, and it'll be bigger.
00:44:06
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And they found these galaxies that should be like three times our size or like a quarter of our size galaxy. And it's like all these things are disproving that it's a constantly expanding, growing universe that it's just kind of there. And yeah, it was just I was just like, oh, and then the one, you know, physicist or whatever he was like, I mean, and really, if you think about it, the whole concept of time
00:44:36
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That's a make believe thing. Oh my God, it is. Time means nothing. Don't ever.
00:44:44
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If you don't want to trip your balls off, listen to somebody talk, try to explain time. It makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense. I have gotten it. I have been in this exact rabbit hole because as soon as I start talking about time, I'm like, wait, nothing's real. It isn't. That's the thing. My wife came home from work and she's like, how are you? I was like, I don't know. I don't know. Are you real?
00:45:13
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But it was talking, you know, there's four dimensions, you know, we live in our three dimensional space and then the fourth dimension is the time. But like string theory, there's 11 dimensions in string theory. Mm hmm. How? And then you've got.
00:45:32
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I mean, quantum mechanics and I mean, it's amazing, but it's also like I don't want to know. No idea. I thought. Maybe this is me misunderstanding. I thought we could literally see the big bang at this point. No, I don't think so. I thought we could look back far enough in time. Well, there might be a big bang, but it's not. Oh, that's not the way that we thought it did.
00:46:01
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Well, that's shockingly, we find new evidence and change our opinions, you know. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's the whole thing about science. The James Webb space telescope. So I said, sorry, I was wrong. I thought it was a JL. Yeah, that's the big. That's the new big one. The new hot ones, hotness. Yeah, no, that is trippy stuff. And as soon as you get into quantum mechanics. Yeah. And they're like,
00:46:31
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Gravity doesn't make any sense. You're like, what? They're like, no, gravity doesn't work. Duh. I thought gravity was a thing that we. Right. We all agreed. Well, but but OK, so the whole reason why like the Earth revolves around the sun isn't because. It's like on a line or whatever, it's because
00:46:57
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The sun sinks into the gravity well and makes this dimple that the earth gets trapped in that goes. Oh, my God. Yeah. You know, it trips me out more than that, and it makes me just feel like the dumbest person in the world is when you read about historical scientists and they're like, oh, by measuring the weight of these two spheres, I was able to figure out the entire weight of the earth.
00:47:26
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I wouldn't even think about how to start that process. They've known how the radius of the Earth for thousands of years at this point because they were able to figure it out using geometry. A million years, you'd be like, you got to figure out how big the Earth is. I would not be able to do it. It's like Googled. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The Copernicus,
00:47:56
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was wrong, but he was also very right. You know, Copernicus was the idea. He was centric where we could, we said we orbit the sun. His numbers were off, but he was so close without a calculator. Like I couldn't even begin to think about how to figure that stuff out. Yeah. It's crazy. And then you have Einstein who just blows everybody's brains out because they're like, none of this is real. None of this matters. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:24
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It's like there was the one. What was it they were talking about? It's like relative association or something for certain things that. Certain items or, you know, something quantum wise, they are so similar and bonded that they could be. You know, how far apart and if you impact one, it'll show impacts on the other.
00:48:54
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before things that were right next to the first one showed impact or any kind of stuff against them. I was like, how does that work? But it made sense. He was like, well, think about if you take a trip and your wife is at home and something happens to you, it's going to impact her and not your neighbor. I'm like, how does that affect quantum physics? I don't know.
00:49:24
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I still get weirded out by the fact that electrons disappear. Right? Like when they visibly watch electrons, they disappear and they don't understand why. There are parts of me. It freaks me out that there's parts of me that nothing touches, right? Like you can never touch something. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah. What we feel as touch is like the electrons pushing back and giving us
00:49:52
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feedback like we don't really know what wet feels like. We only feel what the coldness of the water or something. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah, because there's that tiny little barrier of electrons. Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's insane that if you drill down far enough on a quantum scale and you pick a point on my toe, there's nothing there.
00:50:22
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Right? Yeah. There's literally gaps. This all the way down. There's, you know, smaller, smaller, smaller, smaller, there's just nothing. So I made out of nothing. And if I remember correctly, I'm more nothing than something. You're something Ron. I think all of us are more nothing than something, right?
00:50:48
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Yeah, yeah, you're you're very, very true. It's it's it's it is trippy. Yeah. Yeah. So here's your whole wetness thing. In contrast with insects, which humidity receptors, you know, had they are built in.
00:51:11
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Human's largest sensory organ, the skin, has no specific receptors for the sensation of humidity in skin wetness. We appear to rely on a mixture of inputs. Oh, my God. Yeah. So a variety of they took volunteers and put a variety of stimulus onto their hands and arms. The temperature of the objects they were in contrast decreased, for example, and their sense of wetness increased. They also found that hairy skin is more sensitive to wetness than non hairy skin.
00:51:42
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Oh, I'm in. There's not much meaning that's not hairy, so I'm in. I'm a super wet sensor. Yeah. But I know what water feels like. You don't even know what the chair you're sitting in feels like. Damn it. You just know the pressure, the electrons of the chair is pushing against the electrons in your butt feels like.
00:52:11
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That's what you know. Oh, gosh. How's that for a trippy? Oh, God. My wife's going to come home tonight and be like, Oh God, you're broken again, aren't you? Yeah. Every time I get into like a rabbit hole of theoretical physics, I just like, uh, this is, how do these people not like go insane? Right.
00:52:37
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I really not sitting caught up in a ball. It's like, I mean, trying to wrap your mind around an Einstein Rosenbaum bridge or whatever it's called. That the wormhole theory. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And that. Oh, God, what was it? Well, I mean, just the stuff they can do at the. How you doing, Kleiner? Yes. Yeah.
00:53:01
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Well, my favorite part about the Hadron Collider was like when they first turned on, they're like, we might accidentally make a black hole. I know. Yeah. In Switzerland. Yeah. Yeah. I got news for you. If there's a black hole in Switzerland, we're all impacted. Yeah. Yeah. I think it might be real bad for all of us. Yeah. They also found footage or they've determined what it looks like inside a black hole also. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See that.
00:53:29
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And look, I mean, if this is all getting me one step closer to having a ghost like in Destiny, super. But until that happens. I don't know. It's. Now I'm sitting here like touching my arm going, I'm feeling myself touch my arm again. I can feel my arm. But no really feeling the electrons pushing back.
00:53:59
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Oh, what? In in general, all quantum numbers add up to zero. That's fun to know. What? How? How? Oh, well, that was yeah, that was one of the things they were talking about. Because when you do like some of these theorems and everything,
00:54:25
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You know, your probability, you know, is you're hoping to get somewhere between like, you know, point seven and one. I mean, if you get a probability of one, you're doing amazing work because, you know, that's like every time it's going to happen. But some of these things they were running, they're like, oh, yeah, the probability came back on that three point eight. I'm like, what? How how do you have probability higher than 100? You know that? No. Yeah. And like you
00:54:55
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I'm watching and, you know, look, I, I'm a dumb guy, but I'm seeing some of these other scientists that are on there. And like the one guy said that and the one scientist has this look on his face of like, my life is a lie. I. Yep. Oh. Vander walls forces. Quantum forces that enable gecko feet to stick to walls. Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:26
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Yeah, how did? What are the 11 types of dimensions? Oh, no. Oh, God. I don't like that. It's like a line, a split, a fault, a line, a split. No, no, I don't like that. What are the dimensions of string theory? Yeah, what?
00:55:56
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What is the elimination? This says in both sonic spring theory, spacetime is 26 dimensional. 26? Yeah. How are they? I mean, I was... Yeah, so dimension one is a line. Dimension two, flat figures with height and width. Three spatial dimensions. Four dimension a time. Five.
00:56:24
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A world similar to ours. But there are noticeable difference between this world and the other. Different selves make different decisions to result in branching futures. It's a plane of probability. Six, this dimension becomes a plane of new worlds, seeing all possible. Oh, my God. Seven, new forces of nature and different laws of physics. Their speed of light is different. Universes there were not created by the Big Bang. Eight, all pasts and futures. This is like
00:56:55
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True. The 12th dimension, for example, would introduce a second version of time. Well, strings can only vibrate in 10 dimensions. Membranes can exist in 11. It's possible that our universe is such a membrane. Everything I know is a lie! Right. God.
00:57:25
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Oh my gosh. Yeah. I'm deep in the rabbit hole of these electrons now. They just go away and then they come back somewhere else. Right.
00:57:50
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So, I mean, technically you could be part Tyrannosaurus, I guess. No, crazier than that. Technically, right now I could be existing and also not existing. In theory, the electrons, I assume in theory.
00:58:14
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The electrons in my body could meld with my desk at the moment of me touching the desk, which I'm not really touching. Yeah. How are you? Rising with my. Oh, my gosh. This is like the whole Schrodinger's cat. Yes. Somebody let that cat out of the box. Oh, I don't know. Maybe we should keep it in. That's right. Pissed off at this point. Yeah, that's a cat. It's always going to be pissed off. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:42
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Oh, gosh, yeah, my mind is just. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean. By is there a way to study the electron dissipation of somebody to see exactly how long they have to live? Oh, my God. Because wouldn't that if like, you know. Just looking like your sinoatrial node, if that
00:59:12
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the electrons in it are going to fail in 20 years, then yeah. But wouldn't. Because of string theory, that wouldn't in theory work, right? Because different dimensions would affect. Our perception of that time. Yeah, well, because time is a fallacy. Because I'm right. It's a made up construct of humans.
00:59:40
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Well, of course it is. Yeah. I mean, it's just like, I'm sitting in a chair, but there's nothing to say that this is a chair. This could be a flugity do. Everything is made up. Oh God. The calendar is made up. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 365 days. That's why we have to have light year or leap years because the calendar is messed up. Yep. But the leap years are, what is it? It's,
01:00:06
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Are we going to have to add an extra day or something? Or is it like leap year supposed to be like every five years or something after a while? I thought it was that three years after every so many years, we have to add an extra leap day. Yeah. Yeah. Or something. Yeah. Yeah. These are things for God way smarter people than me. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:33
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Next time. So they're going to be like, Hey, see you tomorrow at eight. Now I'll see you tomorrow. You know, as the sun rises, I can see it. You can't tell me I'm late. Time isn't, that doesn't exist. I don't show up to work on time tomorrow. Oh my gosh. I would have to get in this argument with Darren.
01:00:53
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Time is a construct and I don't believe in your construct. Oh my gosh. Show me your theoretical model where your time clock is right. This'll go one of two ways. I'll get sent home or he'll go crying in his office. Either way, I think it's a win. It's a win. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh. This should be one you pose to Jay tomorrow. No, so wait until the next run times come out and they'd be like, no,
01:01:23
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Engine one was on every call in one picosecond. What are you talking about? Oh my gosh. I can show you how we were on time everywhere. We were on quote unquote time. Yeah. We were either on time or we weren't. You can't tell. It's Schrodinger's fire engine. Oh, gosh. In theory, I can walk through fire because my electrons can zip through.
01:01:54
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Yeah, I mean, God, if you could energize your electrons to vibrate at the right frequency to be indestructible, indestructible. God, how do I get my electrons to vibrate quantum shielding? Isn't that the whole point? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, how do you do it? You need a really good tuning fork. God.
01:02:21
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But again, my whip's going to come home tonight. I'm going to sit here. I'm going to have like a house full of tuning forks. There's going to be strings tied everywhere. See? See? This one. This is the one. Can you feel that?
01:02:38
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Oh, God. Fruitland Man arrested. News 11. Well, I think we've broken Chris today. Yeah. Yeah. I'm plenty broken. You broke yourself. I did. I did. This is my fault. And like I said, I've been thinking about this for a day. Oh, I feel like I didn't help because I don't have answers. No, but you helped because then you pointed me towards other things. I pointed you to the tuning fork store. Yeah.
01:03:07
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So it's going to be like, what the hell did you do to my husband? I can't get into this. God, that'll be my question for Connecticut. Do you have tuning forks? Probably got the largest tuning fork factory in the country. God, maybe that maybe that'll be the redemption arc. Oh, God. Folks, if you know how to explain this, contact me. I still hate Connecticut, but I'm invulnerable. Yeah, I that, you know, I might give him a pass for that. No, I would hope.
01:03:38
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So you would have to. Yeah, that point. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Speaking of it, well, kind of invulnerable. Have you ever watched Invincible on Amazon? No, it's not a cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. It's another Kirkman comic. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've watched the first Brie and I are watching them and we watched the first couple is definitely brutal, but it's an interesting take on superheroes. That's cool. It's like the boys, but a little bit.
01:04:07
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more violent, if you can imagine that. Oh, that seems weird. Yeah. Did see a hot take on supervillains and comic books. It's like, what was it? Super villains are always self-made persons who have worked their way up to their intelligence and ability. Heroes and comic books are always people that were just born with some bullshit. Not all of them, but yeah, quite a few. Quite a few. Yeah.
01:04:35
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Well, it sounds like most of them. Yeah, yeah. Well, on that note, yeah, yeah, you need to go cry in a corner for a little bit. I do. I do. Yeah, that's a good cry. Maybe I'll cry in like the eighth dimension or something, you know, maybe God. And you won't feel the wetness of the tears. You'll just feel the sensation of cold. Oh, God. That's the thing. I'm going to have a dream tonight or something. I will wake up at two o'clock in the morning and be like, aha.
01:05:05
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Your wife will be like, what the hell are you doing? Oh God, maybe this is the whole 10 o'clock thing. Oh, it could be. Oh Jesus. We've just strengthened ourselves to keep getting punched. Oh God, folks, find us on Twitter. It's 22. Oh God. Come join our discord. Yeah. And most importantly, time is not real. It's not. Enjoy what you got. Exactly.