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Ep. 7 - Fast Food Delivery = Bad?
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On this week's episode, Denis has beef with convenient food delivery and the cost of groceries. Do you like to use food delivery apps? Let us know in the comments!
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:12
Speaker
Welcome back to Fuck You Boomer. I'm your host, Michaela. And as always, I'm accompanied by my co-host, my Papa Dennis. Say hello. Hello. Hello.
Food Delivery Services and Nutrition Awareness
00:00:23
Speaker
So you want to talk about food delivery, huh? Oh, I want to talk about not just food delivery, but I want to talk about quality of it, um depending on where you get it and how good is it.
00:00:36
Speaker
And also... Does it kind of discourage you? This is another part of the conversation I was thinking about having. Does it really discourage you understanding what nutrition is? Because we're interested in just slamming things in and getting it done, right?
00:00:50
Speaker
And not really thinking about nutrition. And and just the personal experience that you're at your grandmother and I have when we go to the grocery store and we look at things.
00:01:01
Speaker
okay We can get into this topic about shopping for groceries. It becomes really and not so much of an arduous task when you're retired because you you have plenty of time to do it and probably do it right. But just the quality of food in general. I'm so pissed off, and so is she, at avocados, for example.
00:01:20
Speaker
okay You open those babies up, and what you get? Hey, I got a nice brown one. It already looks like it's, you know, we're going to have to pour lemon on it to try to make guacamole out of it and see if it'll survive.
Avocado Quality and Import Restrictions
00:01:32
Speaker
and it's And she won't do it because she don't like that. You know, the brown part that's around the pit, right? She gets pissed off and mad. And i don't blame her because what they're doing is they're picking these things and shipping them like all over the place, you know.
00:01:50
Speaker
That's another thing. Don't get me started on avocados as far as the California Avocado Association. not allowing you yeah Not allowing avocados in like from Hawaii and stuff like that. That would kick the shit out of any of the avocados we got here.
00:02:04
Speaker
Yeah, but also do you know how expensive those avocados would be? They have to send them on a boat. Do you know big and beautiful they are? And how one avocado is like equivalent to buying a five pack of that other crap that is half of it is bruised and messed up.
00:02:20
Speaker
These people that live in Hawaii, they know. And if we got any listeners that happen to be in Hawaii. Well, here's the thing.
Tips on Ripening Avocados
00:02:25
Speaker
I think you're buying too ripe of an avocado. You need to semi-stool.
00:02:32
Speaker
a little too firm, and then you got to do an incubation. And this is what we learned from Figaro because he used to take the avocados that mom would leave on the windowsill to get them a little more ripe, right? And then all of a sudden we go to the kitchen and then the avocados are missing. We're like, where the fuck are the avocados?
00:02:49
Speaker
And then like three, four days later, we found them underneath the desk when she used to keep it in the living room and it was perfectly ripe. And so then we started putting them in the cupboard in darkness and then that's how we would ripen them.
00:03:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And so she's buying them rock hard, right? Not like rock like that, but you know, you wouldn't, you, you still wouldn't cut them open. Like they still wouldn't be perfect.
00:03:21
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Okay. We don't really, we don't really bring home the rock hard ones. All right. But they're varying even at this supermarket that we go to. They're varying as far as the quality is concerned because we've had some that have been good and some that have been bad.
00:03:36
Speaker
And it's like you're looking at the end of them and trying to judge them. And this one looks good. You know, the belly button on it's perfect kind of a thing. And it looks like, okay, this can be served. Really, you could have it in like two, three days.
00:03:49
Speaker
No problem. you know, but all of a sudden you open it up and it's like, no deep inside. it's got a nice big old dark bruise around the pit, you know, and it's like, come on, man. So it's anyway, what I wanted to talk to you kind of continuing on that subject of quality and enjoying how to judge it.
Meal Kits vs. Grocery Shopping
00:04:07
Speaker
But these outfits that send, like you were talking to like, um, hello, fresh or whatever one. Is that, yeah, there's hello, fresh there's factor meal kit, which factor actually the meals are already pre-made. You just microwave them.
00:04:18
Speaker
Um, And then there's some other, like there's specific ones that are like, you you know, gluten-free or like vegan or stuff like that. I think hungry root is one of them. um But yeah, there's there's dietary specific ones. But HelloFresh is what you wanted to talk about.
00:04:35
Speaker
Yeah. So you when you open that one up like that and you've got all these things that are that her package cut, ready to go as far as if you're going to microwave it or if you're going to, say, serve us a salad cold, right?
00:04:49
Speaker
You've got that options and stuff and doing it. So those things are, when they package something like that, like they're probably packaging them. And I wonder if they've got best buy dates on them. Like you see a bag of salad, like in the store, right?
00:05:04
Speaker
You see a best buy date to have it by. I've done factor. i did that for about a month. I was trying it out because i wanted to – I was doing keto again. This was like a couple months ago. Okay.
00:05:18
Speaker
And that's an option, right? ah You can make – get all the carb-free or calorie-smart, high-protein options. Those – because those are pre-made meals.
00:05:28
Speaker
Those pre-made meals do have a use-by date and they're typically by the following week and – Because it's a weekly meal ah food service. So you want to eat all the meals that you get. So then when you get your new meals, you have a new week of food that will expire within a week.
00:05:44
Speaker
With HelloFresh, I've never experienced it. But that's all separated ingredients for you to cook oh something together. So it'll give you you already your carrots pre-diced, your chicken breast that's maybe marinated. Or it'll tell you the spices that you need.
00:05:58
Speaker
to marinate your chicken and then it'll give you a step-by-step process on how to make a composed dish. Like for instance, if you were gonna make butter chicken, right? It'll give you everything that comes with it and then you just prepare it.
00:06:10
Speaker
that's It's like a it's like a ah dummy full proof step-by-step process of not missing a single ingredient and you can make something and you learn how to do it. Where factor is I'm too lazy or I'm too busy to actually cook something.
00:06:24
Speaker
It's already pre-made for me. It's healthy. It has all the macros there for me. Boom. That's it. So on something like the HelloFresh, um that might require something like they tell you how to do it, but is all that microwavable heat up stuff in the HelloFresh too, that you're going to do the heat up?
00:06:44
Speaker
So yeah you actually can use an oven? it's ah It's all stovetop oven. Oh, it's a stovetop or oven. That's kind of cool though, because yeah when you do it that way, as you're aware of, when stuff is already pre-cooked a little bit and you're talking about microwave heat ups,
00:06:58
Speaker
There's a difference in quality. Oh, that but Factor was actually really good. So they must have had it down as far as how they pre- So they partner, based on where customers are, they partner with kitchens and regions to cook the meals for the customers in that area. Okay. so your food is packaged within then maybe like a 20 to 30 mile radius and it's delivered in one day.
00:07:23
Speaker
Like when that order is supposed to go out. Interesting. Okay. But it goes out once a week. You can't just be like, oh, I want i ordered Tuesday, I want it Wednesday, and I want another thing Friday. like It's a week, only a once a week.
00:07:35
Speaker
Okay. It's a once a week thing. Yeah. So that's kind of sparingly they're using that service then. Well, you can select how many meals you want within a period, but then that reflects on your subscription price, right?
00:07:47
Speaker
Okay. So the ah smaller amount, you pay less, but the meals cost more per meal. The more meals you get, smaller price per meal, but it's obviously more expensive. I did four or five meals a week and it was costing like $120 or something like that. But I also had promos.
00:08:04
Speaker
um i had like a bunch of discount things that I was adding in. But then I realized, ah, it's not really cost effective. So I ended up canceling it.
00:08:17
Speaker
I was like, because of then my diet changed, right? So I'm actually eating a lot less. So now I'm only spending maybe like $60 or $70 a week going to the grocery store, like specifically going to Trader Joe's, right? Because it's significantly cheaper.
00:08:31
Speaker
I'm saving money that way. Okay. Yeah, I can see. So you're actually, when you go to Trader Joe's and you're actually on the fresh aisle, you're aware of what is fresh and and really good. And it should hold up a few days at home, even if you don't eat it that day.
00:08:48
Speaker
And so you're more aware. of the quality of something. Like, for example, when you when you take a ah small head of, say, um you know... Like lettuce or something? or Yeah, certain types of lettuce that you might say, hey...
00:09:05
Speaker
The reason why sometimes lettuce, like for example, the old style of, you know, the regular standard lettuce that you see. Like iceberg. Iceberg lettuce is that when it starts to go bad on the outside, you can usually peel it off and get to the inside and still be edible to some extent.
00:09:19
Speaker
But that usually, it's got a few days, you got to watch it, you know, because you get to the middle and even though it's not, you can smell it It's like, it's gone. Even though it don't look like it, it's gone because the chemical reaction of The biological reaction of the chemistry has taken hold before started turning.
00:09:37
Speaker
Yeah. And you can physically see it. Yeah. And that's one of the problems that I have with pre... ah We get those pre-bagged salads, right? And we make a salad out of that and we add to it.
00:09:47
Speaker
Yeah, I like those. All the time. And you're aware of that. And we always look for dates on those in the supermarket and stuff. and We always go, hey, I'm sorry. I'm not taking, say for example, today is the 27th and I'm not taking anything that's like the 29th or the 30th. I don't care.
00:10:03
Speaker
I just say no, because you can't see in the bag all the way on the inside. They got very little, you know, ah visibility that you can see. They love kind of disguising it. So we go, i always go with something at least a week or more out before I can, you know, because we're going to have it.
00:10:18
Speaker
have three bags of salad during the week and add to it and stuff like that with a cucumber and tomato and usually avocados if it isn't bad, you know, that kind of thing.
00:10:30
Speaker
So what I'm saying is that you got to be careful with any of these shipping processes and the way that they label these bags best by dates. Cause we've had some stuff that's really tick, tick me off.
00:10:44
Speaker
her and We've opened it up, smelled it. And it was just, you could tell it was starting to turn and the date was still four days away.
00:10:55
Speaker
The best by date that tells me in shipping, that thing came off the ice somewhere along the line. Oh yeah. It definitely was not refrigerated properly because none of those, I don't know if every truck that is being utilized is refrigerated.
00:11:10
Speaker
I know. especially it also depends on the, on the grocery store itself. Like, you know, I'm not a big Safeway person. I feel like Safeway is always out here fucking fucking up food.
00:11:21
Speaker
so But maybe when I worked at Raley's as a kid, you know we did have some refrigerated trucks, but who knows? Those components can also break and then you're driving 60 plus miles in 100 degree weather coming from the valley where the main warehouse is. about from the Imperial Valley? You just picked a bunch of lettuce.
00:11:42
Speaker
ah Gross. Hey, I remember seeing Here we go. A little bit of deal here. there is a There was a movie and um I saw that they were trying to get lettuce from from ah Salinas Valley. Do you see? Hold on. Do you see what he's fucking doing right now? yeah. The little shit's trying to. Yeah.
00:12:01
Speaker
No, this is what he's trying to get. let me go grab it.
00:12:06
Speaker
He sees something. It's my jelly cat. Oh. I got it at the hospital gift shop. When I was there ah week and a half ago on a Sunday yeah and San Francisco.
00:12:20
Speaker
And Jelly Cats are like ah new they're like the new Beanie Babies. Oh, God. um And I'd never had one before. And I saw this in the gift shop. And I thought it was fucking hilarious. I thought it was like a shrimp, but it's actually razorfish.
00:12:38
Speaker
Okay. And um it just reminds me of like a Muppet. And then I showed this to to our family member. hey he thought it was real. He's like, that's a fish.
00:12:54
Speaker
but I'm like, do you want to touch it And he's like, no. No. You know what? It reminds me of the ones that like you see the nature programs, Great Barrier Reef, and they're swimming around sucking on little things, you know, that are hanging around in the, in the coral of the Great Barrier Reef and stuff.
00:13:13
Speaker
Yeah. So I hid this on top of my China cabinet thing back here. Oh, man. He sees that thing? He sees this. And look, now he's coming. Oh, yeah. yeah It's the new toy.
00:13:24
Speaker
Don't I get that? Don't I get that? Yeah. Yeah, he's nuts. Don't walk on my keyboard. Thank you. yeah So, so what I'm saying is that these, these due dates and things like that, especially on stuff in the supermarkets, we've got so many things going against us.
00:13:40
Speaker
You're buying this bag of stuff here. Oh yeah. You get the deal. It's 428. If you buy three or more, you know, instead of 498 or something, Ooh, big deal. You get 70 cents off a bag, you know, after the processing and everything.
00:13:54
Speaker
And everything else like that. And then they blow it when they ship it to you. You open it up. The due date isn't for another four or five days. And you're going, it's starting to turn. What'd he do? Knock over a bunch of shit. He's like walking all over everything.
00:14:10
Speaker
He just wants your attention. That's the problem. Well, he wanted to in here. And then now he's being a fucking twat. He's a child. He is, but he's going to be seven.
00:14:23
Speaker
I know. He's such a child. That makes him 49 years old if it's seven years per year if it's seven per each year. He's in his midlife crisis right now.
00:14:35
Speaker
You know, I just bought him a fucking $500 automatic litter box. Did you really? Yeah. Be cool. ah Sorry, we're derailing here. um But so in our apartment, I didn't want to see the litter box in the bathroom and I don't want the litter box
Managing Cat Litter Challenges
00:14:51
Speaker
outside of the bathroom, right?
00:14:53
Speaker
You're so much like your mom when it comes to that. But here's the thing. Like when we lived in our other unit, I got like a really nice like litter box enclosure. It looks like furniture. It has doors. You can open it, scoop out. Oh my God.
00:15:06
Speaker
And then i play so I can use the top part for storage. But your great grandson here Pisses and shits like a fucking weirdo. He gets on all four paws and just like grips on with fucking all beans on the lip of the litter box and then just shoots his stream or his shit into the litter box. He's fucking weird.
00:15:29
Speaker
He's done this ever since he was a baby. He'll either do all three on one and then one foot in the box. So this makes him, it makes him an, An edge pier.
00:15:40
Speaker
And so what was happening is that he was standing too close to the edge that then he started to miss the box. So then he was peeing inside of the furniture. Oh, of course.
00:15:51
Speaker
And so then, because that's not real wood, it's that fake composite shit. Yeah, with a coating on it. Yeah, so it started to absorb it. And then every time I was cleaning the bathroom, even after I cleaned all that mess that he would make. Where's the smell coming from? Exactly. like because i it's It's a particle board sponge of piss.
00:16:09
Speaker
Thank you very much. He also has a fancy but basic litter box. It's a stainless steel one so that it doesn't absorb moisture or smell or whatever. And I also use liners.
00:16:20
Speaker
So that metal doesn't even touch anything. So now, because I got rid of the furniture, I threw it away. And so I was like, well, I still don't want to see this fucking litter box and I don't want to do another furniture thing. And I don't want to smell anything because he takes nasty shits.
00:16:37
Speaker
So like you, I, here's the thing right now, I've just been scooping it and throwing it right into the toilet. Cause he has like composted, like, you know, dissolvable of, uh, litter.
00:16:48
Speaker
I've just been scooping it and throwing right in the, in the toilet after he does it. And it still lingers. It's like a fucking bomb. So, i yeah, so the litter box, I got it because I was like, you know, he gets he's really, really finicky if something is in there for too long. So i if I'm not home all day and I'm gone for like 12, 13 hours sometimes. Yeah.
00:17:10
Speaker
And I don't want him to get pissed and then be like, well, there's still shit in here. I'm going to just fucking piss right here. or I'm going to shit where I want to. Yeah. So it got delivered. I'm going to leave a tip pillow on your pillow.
00:17:22
Speaker
I haven't set it up yet because – Where I would put it in the bathroom, there's not a plug. So I needed to order an extension cord that would work for me to run it from the other side of the bathroom to the where I have litter box. And then I got a specialty cord cover that looks like fake wood that blends in with our hardwood that meets with the tile in the bathroom. So when you open the door, you don't trip over a cord and it looks like it's camouflaged in.
00:17:49
Speaker
yeah Anyways, long story short, he's a spoiled fucking brat and he's just acting like one. So that's why he's doing all this weird shit right now. Yeah. yeah Anyways, I'm taunting you with my shrimp. It doesn't help either.
00:18:06
Speaker
but He's staring at me through the glass doors over here. but Okay. Yeah. So you've got him shut out of the room now? He's in jail. Okay, so he'll probably grab onto the doors and start shaking them now. Attica!
00:18:19
Speaker
Attica! Attica! He actually can open up our doors because we have handles, not knobs. Oh, no. so No. He can open any door. so we Oh, God.
00:18:30
Speaker
We have baby locks that go under it that keep it from opening. Yeah. Child locks for a cat. Yeah, we have child locks for a cat because he's too smart. Oh, yeah.
00:18:42
Speaker
And he... Needs to learn a lesson. Okay. Anyways, let's, I digress. Let's go into, but back into our HelloFresh. We're talking about dates, talking about salads. They piss you off and because refrigeration. kind of like, I'm really, the amount of money that is involved in, just think of all the produce that gets tossed in a supermarket, as you're aware of.
00:19:08
Speaker
yeah It's like, you know, and you look and you go, hey just the cucumbers alone. at the The cheap ones at $1.29 a piece, you know, and and they get a little bit of a wrinkle on them and people go, I don't want that, you know, and they start picking the firm ones or the ones that are Johnny Holmes like really long, you know, because they're individual 120.
00:19:29
Speaker
one twenty You don't know who Johnny Holmes is. That's okay. They're $1.29 a piece, you know, something like that from Raley's. But the problem is, is that is that once, you know, if you get there at a certain time of day and it hasn't been restocked, you're like, no, I'm not going to buy that. And then that gets tossed. They can't give it to a shelter because even though if you peeled it and stuff like that, you know, 90% of it's okay.
00:19:54
Speaker
There's actually um a food service specifically for ugly fruits and vegetables. Really? So yeah, yeah. There's like, I don't know what it's called specifically. I can't remember, but there is one where If it's not pretty looking that you can't put on a shelf, they put a bunch of stuff together and you can um get it delivered to you. like if you're If you're not like one of these mean a girl vegetable-ists that only wants pretty vegetables.
Exploring Imperfect Foods Service
00:20:24
Speaker
Well, I've got no problem with... how something looks like your mom turned me on to the oranges, right? The big, the big navel oranges that are juicy because if they've got that nice, uh, you know, gray stripe going down a little bit over the outside of it, that means they've really vine ripe. They've ripened on the tree and they've got a lot of nutrients and, and, and sweetness and sugar in them.
00:20:48
Speaker
And even though they might be sometimes a little bit hard and they kind of stick the outer it sticks to the individual, the white pulp before you get to the actual, you know, individual, um, you know, juice and, and everything that part of it.
00:21:03
Speaker
But I love those, those, those, when I've looked in and look for those, when I go and and pick navel oranges and stuff, I hate getting an orange that is, Oh yeah, this is really pretty looking, but it isn't, doesn't have, I like you got to get the scars.
00:21:16
Speaker
Yeah. You got to have that little bit of a scar and that actually is a good indicator that they're going to be sweet and juicy for the most part. These others can look really pretty, you know but all of a sudden you open you ah you open it up and they're dry and they're pulpy and there's no juice and there's no sweet very little sweetness to it and you end up with something that you can't even you can't even put it in a juicer and get anything out of it practically all you're buying is pulp that is false advertisement so the the subscription the food subscription that's for like
00:21:52
Speaker
ugly looking foods. It's called imperfect foods. And they also do general groceries as well. So if a can had a dent in it or like if the label was weirdly torn, but it just doesn't look pretty on the shelf, it's all included.
00:22:05
Speaker
wanted What kind of discount are we looking at? So... It depends on the product. so like Organic strawberries are 25% off. Rib-eye steak, 27%.
00:22:19
Speaker
Brussels sprouts, 20%. Organic oat milk, 25%.
00:22:24
Speaker
78% off Red Hot Blues party-sized tortilla chips. I think it just depends, but that's pretty cool. You would have been proud of me today. I bought another big thing of of regular oatmeal, the the one that is the When you mix with water and in the microwave, that's plain, bare, nothing.
00:22:46
Speaker
And then I got a bunch of blueberries, a big thing of blueberries. And I looked at It was really nice. I flipped it over. didn't have that stupid, as I call it, a Kotex pad sitting down there underneath the thing. Oh, yeah. those things. And I hate those things that that keep you looking if there's any mold or any start of that.
00:23:02
Speaker
I hate that because I won't buy them. I said, I'm not buying this because they're hiding what potentially could be bad fruit. So I like to flip over, look at it, look at all the way around.
00:23:13
Speaker
And when you're paying something that says, oh, it's $10.29, mark down to $6.99 for a big, huge thing of blueberries. And I want to put them on that oatmeal in the morning, you know, because I've been told that's a good high-oxygen. Yeah, but how are you going to make your oatmeal with a little ah tab of butter and some brown sugar?
00:23:31
Speaker
No brown sugar, no. And the only thing I use in sweetener in it and stuff like that is I'll put some monk fruit on it. And every once in a while, I'll put a little bit of honey, but not every day. So I have been using monk fruit.
00:23:43
Speaker
And because monk fruit, too, is expensive. But I know the honey can be turned to, I know, sugar, glucose, and carbohydrates. But I really enjoy ah the blueberries.
00:23:56
Speaker
And and and if they're if they're decent enough, and, you know, they give me a little bit. And also, they said that bananas are good, too. ah bananas are done. And here's the first day I ever bought some today was organic bananas. I just said, I'm going to spring for the extra 20 cents a pound.
00:24:11
Speaker
Now, what color do you like your bananas? I'll tell you the truth. I like my bananas. Pick them green, a little bit slightly green. Let them sit for like three or four days, sometimes two when they start to turn. I like pulling the first one that looks as closer, more yellow and then do it then.
00:24:29
Speaker
See, I like my bananas more on the green side to eat. I don't like when they start to turn too yellow because then they start they start to like the like the fruit like the fruit sugar starts to like caramelize on the inside a little bit. They get weird. Yeah. They're more like starting to make a banana split type stuff.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yeah. I used to remember. The flavor and the texture is a little weird. I kind of like it when it's a little more firm and chalky. I remember ice cream shop in the city. And it was, oh God, I'm going to hit the way back button on this one when I was like 10 or 11.
00:25:03
Speaker
And to make a banana split, the bananas they used to use were the ones that were black. You opened it up, you opened it up, man. And it was like, it went from being, it went from being basically ah ah one that was like, instead of like around one foot long, it was probably 10 inches long by that time.
00:25:23
Speaker
And it was black. And they'd open that up. And then they, that's what she said. and Yeah. They'd put it in the bowl. They'd put it in the bowl. They split it lengthwise and they'd have, and and then, then the ice cream would go on and then the whipped cream, then the nuts and stuff like that. But the banana split and split it all the way from one end to the other.
00:25:43
Speaker
And that's, they had to get it as sweet as possible. So they do it. They'd actually start one with a black banana. Yeah. And a lot of people are chucking those things, but no, they were using them for banana splits and it was sweet as a kid. I remember.
00:25:56
Speaker
That was sweet. I could never eat the whole thing. And then what kind of ice cream would you to use for your banana split? Oh, I always say, okay, they would usually go with three scoops across it.
00:26:08
Speaker
And I'd have, I'd have the two on the outside chocolate and one in the middle of vanilla. and You wouldn't do like a Neapolitan? No, I didn't like strawberry. I never liked strawberry ice cream. But then why would we be going on burger hunts trying to find strawberry milkshakes?
00:26:23
Speaker
Well, That was something else that if it's done right. ah Okay. Okay. It's done right. But anyway, um so anyway, today on the way home, we stopped at um after Rayleigh's, we, we went to Mike's and we talking produce and stuff like that.
00:26:40
Speaker
And I looked and i was looking so much and we're not supposed to eat these. I know, but I was looking so much for cherries. Because they had these really good Bing cherries. See, I'm a Rainier cherry person.
00:26:50
Speaker
Are you? Mm-hmm. They wanted $6.99 a pound at Raley's. And I saw cherries. I saw these cherries over at Mike's last week. And they were $4.99 a pound.
00:27:03
Speaker
But I've seen them as low as $2.99 and $1.99 when they really get into season. And that's i'm I'm dangerous when it comes to those things. You got to go to Costco. Yeah.
00:27:14
Speaker
I know, but I don't have a card. I refuse to join anymore. We just went to Costco. I can tell you once we're done what we bought, you probably will just shake your head. Oh, the problem with Costco, like a lot of things, right? Not only do you get the weird stuff kind of like Trader Joe's sometimes that they have, but it becomes in such big, huge jars. you know it's I mean, I try to be smart about what I buy when I'm there.
00:27:39
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know. i know Well, it's just because when we go, i make sure that we get things that make sense. like We get our ah beverages, right? like We like to have a stock of sparkling waters.
00:27:50
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i might sometime I'll get our trash bags there because that might last me six months because it's enough. um I'll do our paper towels and our toilet paper because, God forbid, if we run out of toilet paper, I'm going to die because you know Daniel be like, Mikaela, what the fuck?
00:28:06
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um And then... like, my ass. Ah. And then. You need a bidet. Honestly, so he might be going to Japan with some frat boys and that he went to school with um in in September. And i'm I'm sure with all the bidets there, he's going to come home and be like, Michaela, we need to get one.
00:28:28
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got get a bidet. We need to get an attachment that adds to our toilet or something. and i'm going to be Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're out there. I know. I know. um They're out there. But then there's other stuff that we get. Like, you know, sometimes we'll get an appliance or something that makes sense, like an air fryer. Like we got our air fryer there. We'll get like beef jerky there because the price for beef jerky is amazing. and Oh, yeah. Our vitamins and, you know. I still have a couple of those bags of jerky you gave us last Christmas. Gave me last Christmas.
00:28:57
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He's so fucking pissed. Is he pissed now? He's not even looking at me, but he's staring into the room.
00:29:06
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I'm just not going to pay attention to you, lady. You lucked me out. you staring at it? Okay. He actually looks like he's crying. Like his eyes look like.
00:29:19
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got to let him in. He's playing you. oh you're like your grandma. Oh, my God. Like a crying baby. I'll leave the door cracked. I had it closed because I had the washer and the dryer Do you know why you have such good lungs and why you have such a loud mouth and you're able to really scream and yell?
00:29:38
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Why? Because let you develop that when you were, when I was babysitting you and let you cry a little bit. Because you let me After you've taken care of your basic needs, what you did, and after holding you and you were fine and it was time to go to nappy and you were just really pissy and mad and I let you just go for it. You were clean You were fed. You were taken care of. And you just let it go, baby. And you would go for like 15 minutes.
00:30:04
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And then you'd finally nuzzle off. I didn't go to sleep. but you' had a lung on my mind. You're developed of your lungs, man. has been I said, everybody who picks up a kid every time they cry for every second when everything's been taken care of and you've already been held for a long time and all this. You've got to teach kids how to self-soothe. If they don't self-soothe, then they're just going to be a bunch of little bitches.
00:30:27
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And you did, too. You gradually did it. But you still it was actually part of the process of you developing, too. You've got to be able to let it out, baby. Well, yeah. Why do you think I'm confrontational?
00:30:39
Speaker
All the time. You made me this way. guess I did. I made you question. Question of thought. So then don't get mad when I open my mouth. Anyways. Authority. Yes. Okay. So.
00:30:51
Speaker
Let's go in. Let's get into the. Let's let's let's take the the the fork in the road. Let's stay on the same topic. But let's get into like the like the fast food, the DoorDash, the Uber Eats, the Postmates situation. Because basically.
00:31:07
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There are a lot of cons to that. For me, living in the city, right? Oh, it's a big pro. It's a big pro. I don't want to fucking get in a car or an Uber or walk through shitty neighborhoods to go to a place, to go away, to go pick it up.
00:31:23
Speaker
I want to pay someone for the fucking convenience. Look at this. They put on the bill service fee, otherwise known as hazard pay in the neighborhood that you're in. It's like signing over to Vietnam an extra 30 days like your Uncle Danny did so you get out of the army sooner.
00:31:40
Speaker
i want to stay here an extra 30 days because I hate this so much. So I'm going to get paid by going into that neighborhood, baby. Yeah. Extra service fee. Yeah. It is ridiculous. like There are some restaurants too that actually raise their prices slightly on the app versus in-store because they actually lose money in terms of what they make when they actually use these apps.
00:32:04
Speaker
But at the plus side, they do generate technically more money because they're seeing more foot traffic on these apps finding these businesses, right? So they're seeing like a 30% more increase of like sales, but then technically how much of that 30% is profit when all these fees and stuff is coming out.
00:32:23
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yeah So it's kind of, you know, annoying to be a business owner doing that. But at the same time, it's like a lot of people that are... are delivery drivers, right?
00:32:35
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um There are a lot of people that actually make a career out of that. There are people, but you know that that financial show that I was, me and Daniel are telling you about that we're really like, there are people on there that he said that he's had sit across from him that they've been able to make $80,000 a year by being solely some sort of Uber driver or food delivery person.
00:32:59
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Like they they are committed And so like people can actually make a decent little chunk of change, but what cost for the consumer?
00:33:10
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And this is, okay, so this is after all expenses. Like you see these guys driving. I met one outside of Rayleigh's one time. I started talking to him about it because he was there picking up stuff from Rayleigh's that was he picked up, you know.
00:33:22
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Oh, like an Instacart thing? Exactly. But he was delivering it to a person, you know. I don't know if it was a shut-in or just somebody that just said, screw it. But I started talking to him a little bit as he was doing not just one.
00:33:35
Speaker
Did your parents ever tell you stranger danger? Why do you just fucking talk to everyone? Because you learn things. like you know What if someone's a psycho killer murderer?
00:33:48
Speaker
You learn not to talk to psycho killer murderers. Because you end up dead.
00:33:54
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okay You've been watching a lot of CSI, I think, or something. or No, it just a lot of... Dan likes to watch a lot of ah ah cop...
00:34:05
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ah surveillance camera, like they like can't like the chest camera stuff. And then obviously we watch a lot of ah the predator videos. Yeah. like Okay. i don't I don't go up to a person and say, i really want to know all about your job. Can you tell me about it? No, I come across like anything.
00:34:22
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Like you'll make a comment. A comment is, I really like the design. I love the taping job on it and everything else like that. It's really cool. you know like You're complimenting his haircut. He got a good taper.
00:34:34
Speaker
I'm talking about on the car and stuff like that has to do with his e-cart business and what he was doing to it and everything else like that. Say, for example, even though it was a hybrid, something like a Prius that he had or something like that to save money on his expenses and charges for burning gas and electricity, whatever he had to do, if he charged it if it was one of those, now the hybrid ones you can plug in at home, you know.
00:34:58
Speaker
That kind of thing. And whether if it's worth it or not, that's another issue. But it was interesting talking to him and and learning that, you know, he's not just going out and picking up one. This guy was picking up like five or six different deliveries all at once.
00:35:10
Speaker
And he's loading this car up. And it was like boom, boom, boom, all over, you know, western Santa Rosa, you know, that he was making these deliveries all at once. So, and that was like regular food, you know, regular type stuff where these people, he was like grocery shopping, right?
00:35:26
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It wasn't a situation where there was anything like instant meals, kind of a thing in there that he was having to somebody to do. It was like, hey, these were all ready, you know, and any things that was ice cream, I said, you know, i was talking to him, frozen foods, stuff like that. He goes, yeah, most of those I get i get to first for the most part and get all that stuff delivered to him.
00:35:46
Speaker
So, yeah. But it was cool, you know, getting to know how they do things. Yeah. That sort of thing. Something I never want to do as a senior, as an extra job. You would get zero stars. You'd take too long to do something.
00:36:00
Speaker
And then you'd end up taking too long because you'd be talking to everyone at the grocery store. Because you'd be like, remember back when like jam? was like real and there wasn't high fructose corn syrup in it. Or remember when high fructose corn syrup was advertised as good for you? Yeah, I miss those days.
00:36:18
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This was part of the segment, fellas, people, where she usually hammers me now on remember when. This is called the remember when. Yeah, this is the remember when. This is where the boomer needs to understand that things change and inflation happens and groceries who become more expensive. And being healthier is good. And sometimes healthier ingredients cost more money.
00:36:41
Speaker
So you just have to get over it. Yeah. Okay. Right. Sorry. Bum-um paid me to say that. I know. Yeah. we're Right. but but But yeah, that's, that's the initial, the initial gist of everything is kind of interesting how they're making jobs out of stuff like this. Um,
00:36:59
Speaker
I just couldn't see being on the road though, like that, driving around. I'll give you example today of crazy drivers. Actually this weekend, and it was Saturday. Coming home from Raley's. No, I was coming home from the vet.
00:37:12
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Yeah, we were coming home from the vet on Friday, Friday. And at the corner there, a Waller and River Road, I'm getting ready to pull up. And there's a car in front of me, way in front of me, getting ready to make a left-hand turn onto River Road and head east, okay?
00:37:28
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This person comes flying around, not on the driver's side of the car, but on the passenger side of that car, heading west, ah heading east on River Road and turned and cut into my lane behind him to go down Waller Road.
00:37:48
Speaker
ah And I'm like, ah thank God I was really slow. You know, and I'm going, what the fuck, dude? you You know, you pass, get over over the side of the road you're supposed to be on.
00:37:59
Speaker
Oh, no. Oh, no. He was doing that because here comes a car heading west on River Road that he wanted to make sure he got onto Waller. He didn't have to stop and slow down in the left-hand turn lane.
00:38:11
Speaker
Heaven forbid. You know what I mean? So my slowness of seeing what was happening way out in front of me and not speeding up cut to this car waiting, I saw it way ahead and I looked over on River Road and you can see if you look ahead, there's no brushes or anything in that area there and you can see cars and what they're doing.
00:38:33
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So the old man here actually, because of my slowness and driving slower and seeing what was happening way out in front of me, saved a monster accident because I wasn't an aggressive driver.
00:38:44
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um Let's just say that that driver probably got tipped extra money with their delivery to be expedited. So that's why they were driving a little reckless. I would not be surprised at all. They weren't exactly transporting a human heart. I'll tell you that.
00:38:58
Speaker
Nope. i mean, they could be they could have harvest is harvested illegally.
00:39:06
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and So I'm just like, okay, guys, you know, and it it was just a thing that was starting to happen on Memorial Day weekend, more concentrated drivers, more super aggressive drivers, and more people maybe not even familiar with the area and moving fast.
00:39:24
Speaker
That's what it was. So it was an interesting weekend, needless to say. So hopefully it'll calm down throughout the rest of the week. We'll see. Until next weekend. I wanted to tell you, too, there was a cop sitting there on Trenton and River right there. yeah And his nose was pointed up. And I pulled up next to him. i' about ready to make a right-hand turn.
00:39:45
Speaker
Rolled down the window. Sue was sitting there next to me. And I yelled across to him. I said, you guys just scoping out the park, waiting for the drivers there? Left-hand turn, illegal? He goes, yep.
00:39:58
Speaker
Because it's a left-hand, no left-hand turn as you're coming out of the park. You got to either turn right or go across the intersection, all the way across, turn around, do a yeah U-turn, and come back to where we were to go.
00:40:11
Speaker
Technically, and we see it all the time as people come up out of the park and we're trying to make a right-hand turn. They turn right in front of me all the time. So, and not only that, it's weekend, have a few beers at the beach day. So what happens then?
00:40:27
Speaker
Drunk drivers. Drunk drivers. Yeah. So he was there. And underage drinking. On top of that. They are so young. The CHP officers are so young.
00:40:38
Speaker
I look over at this kid and I swear he looked like he just got out of the academy, you know. Have you seen the new CHP cars yet? Well, you're talking about the... The Dodge Durangos?
00:40:51
Speaker
Oh, the Durangos. Yeah. Well, yeah. seen a couple of them. Really? that with With no markings on it? Yeah. They're ticket mobiles. Yeah. They're ticket mobiles is what they are. Yeah. They're pretty cool.
00:41:03
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Yeah. I'm like, I actually like, I'm actually more aware now. Are you? Yeah. Because now I know what they look like. Because I've seen two going up to Reno and I'm like, oh yeah, I got you. Oh, especially on Interstate 80.
00:41:15
Speaker
Oh yeah. Especially heading westbound, coming down Interstate 80. Mm-hmm. Holy mackerel. You go 70 miles an hour in the slow lane and they look at you like, what the hell you doing, man? You ain't moving fast enough. And they fly by you going 95 or 100 the left lane coming down Interstate 80. Yeah.
00:41:33
Speaker
yeah They do all the time, especially from up to top of the pass. Man, it's like, phew. The ones that really scare me is when I came down that road and I was and i was one section...
00:41:47
Speaker
I like driving the old Donner Pass road because I'm not in a hurry to get home usually. I love the old Highway 40. It used to be US 40. Let me hit the way back on you. Here we go. It's a beautiful drive.
00:41:59
Speaker
No one takes it anymore because they're always in a fucking burr up their ass to go someplace, right? Yeah. I don't want to be in the car for eight hours. I just want to get home.
00:42:10
Speaker
See? See? Instead of enjoying the Sierras and enjoying it on the way. can enjoy it with a normal four-hour drive. Okay, so here's the deal. So it ends down at a certain point. It ends at Big Bend. There's a place called Big Bend. You got to pop up on the freeway again. And then you can get off again further off way down there. yeah um You can go off Highway 20 if you really want a long drive home.
00:42:34
Speaker
But as you're cruising down there and you're driving down, you pop up on the freeway and you accelerate up to 70. Who passes you in the fast lane to 90? A bus. Pull of people.
00:42:47
Speaker
A bus. You know, coming back. All these, all these, you no and I'll tell with CHP catches them. Oh, that's a big one. That's a big fine.
00:43:00
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You know, all those people you're risking lives on. And you just hope that your brakes are working. Everything else is working. So anyway, I'm worried about food.
00:43:11
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And I'm worried about nutrition.
Reflections on Scenic Drives and History
00:43:13
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I'm worried about my mental sanity being stuck in an eight-hour car ride with you. I know. I know. You're upset at that. I know. i had to endure that once.
00:43:26
Speaker
Where were we coming back from on that one? We went up to Twain Heart and we went kayaking at Pine Crest and then we decided, oh, hey, let's go up to ta let's go up to Tahoe.
00:43:37
Speaker
So then you took the long way and he went the back way up through Carson City all the way up some back roads. I did go on Highway 108 up and over Sonora Pass. Yeah, you went up with Sonora Pass. And then you ended up going on some rinky-dink small road that was turned into one-way that definitely was too narrow for your dodge. And my door was on the edge of the fucking cliff with no side barrier. i remember this.
00:44:02
Speaker
And then we ended up getting the Tahoe. We couldn't kayak in the lake because our kayak was in Pinecrest. And then they're like, oh, no, contamination. And then we got to Tahoe and then we went home. But then, oh, and then we also went to Donner.
00:44:21
Speaker
We stopped at Donner Pass and looked at the overlook. Oh, yeah. Yeah. yeah Let me show you where all the people died.
00:44:33
Speaker
Let me show you about people that, ah when you think about these people that did that, that those those those people were, to me, you talk about a better life and what they were trying to find besides the elements, the road, running. you You know that stupid video game a long time ago, Oregon Trail? Yeah, the video game, Oregon Trail.
00:44:54
Speaker
is it You died of dysentery. Dysentery. So many people died from things like that. Yeah. It's incredible when you read that the the trials and the tribulations of all these people, besides the starvation and besides what happened then and besides like the cannibalism and things like that, you know, it's just insane. It's just how unbelievably crazy these people were because they didn't realize what kind of danger they really were in. It's just amazing that any of them made it through.
00:45:27
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They had their eyes on the prize, West and gold. Well, some of them wasn't even West and gold. This was actually happened before the gold rush, technically.
00:45:39
Speaker
Really? I think it was 1848 1847.
00:45:43
Speaker
I think it was 1849 when the Gold Rush died. Yeah, the Gold Rush happened then, but I'm talking about when the Donner Party died. We're going to have to look that up again. I should know that, but I'm getting old now. Let's see. When? Check it out.
00:45:56
Speaker
You'll find it. But I've gone on a whole deal where there was actually two settlements, one by Donner Lake and another one another one north of Interstate 80. There was another area. Got it. The Donner Party's ordeal and suffering occurred during the winter of 1846 through 1847 with the initial trapping of the Sierra Nevada mountains beginning in November of 1846 and ending in the first relief party arriving in February of 1847.
00:46:21
Speaker
Out of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived the winter. Yeah. Yeah. just It's incredible when you think about it. there was also people that died along the way too before they even got there.
00:46:36
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out in the big, out in the Great Basin area, there was a couple that, that died. And usually sometimes it had to do with the insanity of cantankerous people upset and mad about who's leading the party and the bad cutoff they took. They shouldn't have taken that way to go.
00:46:52
Speaker
They should have stayed, you know, out there and and stayed longer and then waited until next year. Everybody was in a hurry to get there, you know, California. Okay, so ah the reason why they were they were on their way west is because they were um wanting the promise of free land and better climate.
00:47:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Free land. Free land. was always about free land. Free. There's no free land. Did you know there was actually stuff that actually happened in the 20th century in Alaska at one time?
00:47:25
Speaker
That the government was offering free land for people that would settle different parts of Alaska? Check it out. You'll find it on the internet there. But there was areas where if you did certain things, you could have free parcel. it's the Homestead Act, extended to Alaska in 1898, allowed for the acquisition of federal land through homesteading, essentially providing free land to those who met specific requirements. However, homesteading was not a straightforward process and had strict rules and regulations.
00:47:52
Speaker
While the Homestead Act was repealed in 1976, an extension was granted in Alaska until 1986. yeah Yeah. So some of these guys you saw, those stupid reality programs and stuff. Here's the requirement, sorry.
00:48:07
Speaker
To receive title to the homestead, individuals had to live on the land for a prescribed period, often five years, build a house, cultivate a portion of the land, and pay a small filing fee. Yeah.
00:48:18
Speaker
Yeah. So it did happen even in Alaska, you know. And that was basically, hey, you get to take it away from the natives that live there. Yeah, that's sad. we don't We should not be doing that anymore, ever. Well, that's what that's what they were doing, even though they didn't believe in ownership of what? We're part of it. What do you mean, ownership?
00:48:40
Speaker
That idea of that. Nobody really owns anything either. Here's one I saw the other day on, you'll love this one. Off of 580, if you look up on the hill as you turn on 580, as it connects down past Tracy and connects with Interstate 5,
00:48:56
Speaker
Are you where the fire is happening right now? Well, there might be. there there's up there oh yeah, there is. Is there grass fire out there now? Oh, yeah. it beyond the Ultimont?
00:49:07
Speaker
It's actually started at the Ultimont Pass. And work their way. Is it working its way east or west? I think it's um working its way southwest. Southwest. Okay. Well, there's a place over there that this guy took and he does these history things in California.
00:49:22
Speaker
And he heard about this, uh, this, um, tomb that's on top of the hill up there. And it's from a bunch of immigrants that came and settled there. And back in the early part of the 20th century, Italian immigrants and some of the early guys that worked with a small town around there outside of Tracy, I forget the name of the town.
00:49:41
Speaker
It still exists, but it's real small. And he bought this land, right? And he built a tomb up on top to be buried there. And him and his family were buried there from different generations all the way up, I think, until like 1970. A couple babies that were 10 months old and 11 months old up there.
00:50:03
Speaker
And there's a there's actually a mausoleum tomb that was up there. They had... You know, make sure it was locked up. But some kids got into it in 1970.
00:50:14
Speaker
and This is the thing about above ground burials and stuff like this, too. They start stupid teenagers get into it and they started they got into the casket and sarcophagus opened it up, you know, that part of it.
00:50:27
Speaker
And they started throwing the bones around of these people. Unbelievable. They caught them. Bunch of dumbass teenagers and stuff. And, you know, and they had to rebury and stuff like that.
00:50:38
Speaker
just a bunch of But the guy was making a point of about ownership of land. It was kind of funny because in reality, you can't take it with you. And sometimes even when you leave it to your relatives, they don't want anything to do with it anyway a lot of times. And it becomes this parcel that's sitting up there now in some kind of family family trust that sits there and waits. And that's going to determine in the long run the parcel that's been cut out and moved around as far as overall, how big is it? And these are rolling hills, right?
00:51:10
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And Tracy's expanding like a lot of houses are expanding and being built for people that want to live in Tracy, cheaper housing, commute to the Bay Area, make more money so they can afford a house in Tracy.
00:51:23
Speaker
Sooner or later, this land's going to be sucked up and there's going to be a mausoleum the crypt on the top of this hill. And there's going to be houses built all the way around it in the next 50 years, probably.
00:51:35
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I won't be around, but You know, you might be thinking, oh, yeah, my grandfather talked about that. um I'm going to forget about it once I hit stop recording.
00:51:46
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i imagine. Yeah. You probably will. Yeah.
Selecting Quality Produce
00:51:49
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um But I wanted to tell you, as far as food is concerned, I've learned a lot more about how to pick a ripe melon than I ever thought in the past.
00:51:59
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Because it's so damn expensive you want to pick something that's good, whether it be avocados or melons or anything else. so Be aware of what you're eating, people. Be aware of what you're eating because you never know.
00:52:12
Speaker
Sometimes that bag, everything is supposed to be fresh and it isn't. Say no to GMOs. Exactly. so All right. Let's get into our vocab. Okay.
00:52:23
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Give me one. Salty. Salty. Salty.
00:52:31
Speaker
I've heard this one used on sports talk radio when the guy is really, it's probably not your your thing, but it's been used. And there was a guy that had a moniker on local sports talk radio, ah but Salty Balty, I think was his name.
00:52:47
Speaker
And he used to call in all the time at the KMBR. And it was a guy that just like was always pissed off at either the Giants or the 49ers or something because they were always making stupid trades or stupid moves on the field.
00:53:02
Speaker
So it was always, to me, it always reminded me of somebody that was always like, like really his, his, his mouth was salty and lucky. Sometimes they're on an eight second delay.
00:53:12
Speaker
So there was a lot of kind of dead air. Yeah. That happens because he's like that, yeah you know? So, yeah.
00:53:23
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So that's kind of like the idea of a salty kind of conversation is what they used. That's why he kind of got that nickname where he'd be so upset. yes, I think it can, it can be used like that.
00:53:39
Speaker
And I think they were using it. if if he were conveying what he was feeling in a certain type of mood, it would be a salty situation.
00:53:50
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and And being salty is meaning that you are jealous. Oh. So like, I'm so salty. You're joking. Like, healthy but yeah well there's no reason for you to be salty that you missed out or, you know, like, are you salty that I ended up getting a nose job or, you know, something something like that, right?
00:54:10
Speaker
Like, it can kind of be used like like FOMO, what fear of missing out, stuff like that, but yeah I can see where that guy can be called salty because Maybe he's just salty because he is like upset and like has like some strong opinions about this kind of stuff.
00:54:29
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So like I feel like it can it can, depending on the way how he sounds and his mood is, salty is appropriate. Yeah. Yeah. I think, yeah, that could be- That was pretty good. That was pretty good.
00:54:41
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Yeah. it's Sometimes you know these things, they evolve. We had talked about last week how certain terms can evolve into something else over a period of time. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds exactly the same, but it does depend on how it is yeah how it is used in the vernacular of the situation.
00:55:02
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see situation When I think of the situation, I think of Jersey Shore. The situation. Cabs are here. The cabs are here. Yeah.
00:55:14
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I find that some of these situation names, or how how popular are they going to be? 10 years from now, you kind of wonder, right, on certain ones.
00:55:26
Speaker
but I really hope that the Jersey Shore cast gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Walk of Fame. Or at least the Jersey Shore Walk of Fame.
00:55:37
Speaker
Isn't that kind of like, wasn't certain ones on that kind of like bought in a way? Like, like what I'm saying is that there are certain ones that are snubbed, you know, and others that get really upset and they finally talk people into, you know, um actually kind of like buying it. They know people on the committee, that kind of thing.
00:55:59
Speaker
It's almost like, oh, don't get me started. But right now, buying a pardon, right? Did you hear the two knuckleheads that are going to get pardoned by the way? Oh yeah, the the reality stars that committed ah bank fraud.
00:56:13
Speaker
And tax fraud. Yeah, all that stuff. Millions of dollars. Tax fraud, baby. Tax fraud. Oh, yeah. It's pretty funny, though. All the majority of the January 6 invaders that got pardoned, they already had been resentenced for something else because they decided to commit more crimes.
00:56:31
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Some them quite a bit. Yeah, some of them. and Some of them did. Yeah. Not all of them. let's be Let's be realistic here. But there were some that were real turd. I said a nice handful. Oh, yeah. it's it's It's scary you know when you think about it, but these some of these guys were actually criminals across.
00:56:47
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you know Sometimes they had a criminal record um oh even before that. so Going in here just quickly, we're talking about the Hollywood Star, right? Yeah. that Typically costs around $50,000.
00:57:01
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So if somebody comes up with like $50,000 and maybe a few extra thousand to give to somebody's charity that's part of that committee. Yeah. and um although like So it actually doesn't go to a charity. It goes into the creation and the installation of and it goes to contributions to the overall maintenance of the of the Walk of Fame.
00:57:19
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yeah. You know, when people, there's you know, people go and they buff and clean stars on the daily. So goes to doing that. um But the cost can vary, but it's often not covered by the person that's nominated for the star. It's ah paid for by fan club studios, record record labels, et cetera.
00:57:39
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Oh, yeah. Okay. yeah And also that's kind of a self-promotion for their money. Like, for example, when you say record labels, And things like that. Oh yeah, they're still making records at Capitol Records. And it's a way of pushing, you know, that company.
00:57:55
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Right. Oh, like, Hey, we got our, one of our people on the star. We're still. Yeah. We're still relevant and relevant. We still produce good records. We still have all that, you know, all that stuff where you're going to be doing that.
00:58:07
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Okay. Did you find your vocab list? ah No, I forgot where I put it. got a bunch of crap here that's going, but that's okay. Um, There was one I was thinking of today. I just couldn't remember it. But it came to me and then it disappeared into the ether of my ah my mind. This is a normal type of thing that happens and stuff.
00:58:29
Speaker
And it's probably more of a phrase than anything. You know, that sort of thing that that clicks. But I think that there's some phrases out there that are really, really funny when you think about the context that they might have been in.
00:58:44
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That sort of thing. So... Yeah. i can I can save it for next week and I can give you two next week too. You've been giving me two every week. Can I give you extra credit? Can I get extra credit if I do my assignment next week, please? Huh, hunt teacher? Huh?
00:58:58
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Huh? Huh? Maybe instead of ah having it on an analog piece of paper, maybe you should create a Word doc on your computer and then you can just refer to it. I love the phrase. It's not a piece of paper. It's an analog piece of paper.
00:59:11
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Yeah. Analog. Analog. think about this that term analog isn't that actually kind of a misnomer in a way because analog is that's that's a really good term in a way because that's just think of that as a phrase that you could use oh papa that's so analog right To that extent. But how much can it be and how it can relate to other things, how you would relate to anything? You could almost use that as a phrase, you know, because it's old school type phrasing of ah in a modern term of sense instead of, oh, that's so digital. Oh, so quick and digital. How nice.
00:59:48
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Oh, that's so slow and analog. Yeah.
00:59:52
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Because when you have to then you have to remember what folder you put it in or what spiral notebook. And then you got to take it and then you got to file it. Or then you have to take it and then make it digital because you know you're going to lose it.
01:00:05
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Yeah, like i wroted it a Rolodex, right? Exactly. Like a Rolodex. That's so analog. It is analog. Let me tell you one little thing about analog. and This will be interesting, which is no longer valid anymore. But when the first bag phones came out, people going go, bag phones? What the fuck's a bag phone?
01:00:22
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Well, let me tell you, a bag phone was this was this phone that was actually in like a little mini zip. It kind of, to me, reminded me of like something you would store your little ah personal items ah in like toiletries on a trip or something.
01:00:37
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Oh, I'm looking up pictures of it right now. There you go. Okay. So, and basically part of it on one side of it is like a the battery and everything else with a little antenna that's stuck up.
01:00:47
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And the other thing is the receiver and the talkie part of it. Okay. Like a telephone. All right. And on the on the telephone, you've got your numbers that look like a princess phone, but it was actually done push button things.
01:01:00
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You could use that when they first came out with the cellular service. You could use that in areas where they did not have good digital cellular signal in those days.
01:01:10
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You could use this analog technology and get through like on emergency channels while other people are standing around holding their phone up, trying to get a signal. Yeah. Okay. Kevin and I are out on highway one. This is years ago.
01:01:24
Speaker
And he had a bag phone with him, company bag phone. He called 911. We got the emergency services there because these other people were standing around as there was a car off the road and there was an accident.
01:01:36
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And he called him and got it and gave him exactly the mile marker and how far we were away from Bodega Bay. And it was an area where For a long time, they didn't have cell service down in there. None whatsoever.
01:01:48
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You had to drive a mile and a half up the road towards Bodega Bay before you got digital cell service. But his analog phone picked it up. They've stopped all that stuff now. You don't have analog signals running and around anymore.
01:02:00
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Old school with a little bit of static on the line with analog is better than... you
01:02:07
Speaker
You can actually call now on your phone... SOS through satellite, no matter what. Yeah. If you don't have signal now. So you can call 911. That's right.
01:02:20
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They finally figured that out, you know, and sooner or later, we're going to get satellites for everybody. Sorry, Elon, but it will happen. I thought you were trying to phone home.
01:02:33
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yeah Yeah. Well, it's basically, we're going to be able to phone anybody on the planet, you know, and not worry about, you could be in the national forest and order a pizza. they're going to have to deliver it by a helicopter.
01:02:46
Speaker
I saw something that like, like is. on But I think that, I think that, you know, we've got to get something better than these, these cell sites going up with these stupid towers that are trying to disguise themselves as fir trees, redwoods. It's like, dude, you're still not putting these things high enough on locations because they can't get on every single hilltop.
01:03:12
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signals out enough so here's the problem is that earth's orbit is already really really compacted with satellites that weren't i don't think there's going to be enough satellites per person because basically i know it's just i'm just i'm just fact checking you like basically there's already too many collisions and too much debris up there that they can't just launch a satellite or it's basically it's going to blow up the moment that it gets up there 22,000 miles out, yes.
01:03:42
Speaker
There are satellites up there, the geosynchronous satellites. So as the Earth rotates, that satellite stays with it in certain places. That is true. That is true. But with the wideband that they spread out, the signal just doesn't go one signal to your phone.
01:03:57
Speaker
They've got these massive, think of it as a cone, right? That goes out and spreads over a large area of the Earth. So they've got all the capability of taking all this stuff. So there's also going to be in the future, there's going to be satellite wars, right? Where there's going to be laser takes out that one. but Another one gets launched.
01:04:17
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you know That's going be my version of the cold war that I get to experience. but Potentially. Yeah. Potentially. Who can have the most satellites?
01:04:28
Speaker
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There's going to be those, those things. And who's got chips that, that can run and do things quickly that, no one else can understand. So, and then how they're going to be. Why is it always um dick measuring contest?
01:04:48
Speaker
Why? is it Isn't it amazing? Well, you can always put it that way. Why can't we all just live together? why is one nation have to be better than another?
01:05:00
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Well, it's, it's basically. We're one world, one people. Because that's communism.
01:05:09
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Listen up. Well, hear me out.
01:05:14
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Listen up. Okay. We're going to end up with with a situation here in the future that we're going to have a lot of people and we're going to have not enough food, not enough water, and not enough clean air.
01:05:30
Speaker
And it's all going to be because of greed. Greed, greed, greed. Okay. So they're going to have to work that out long before the asteroid comes and smacks into us. So they're going to have to figure it out. Well, technically our climate stop clock, our deadline left to limit global warming is four years, 55 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes and 20. Yeah, you like that?
01:05:57
Speaker
Yeah. 24 seconds. Did you know that they also had a nuclear war clock at one time too? Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, they did. There's one for historical notes for you. There's one of those that they had too way back when. and When's our chances of a nuclear war? And they kept always trying to have these peace talks and try to prevent it, right?
01:06:14
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One of the reasons why there hasn't been one, because there's no money in it. And that's why Putin is full of shit. He goes, he tries to threaten with nuclear war and all this other crap.
01:06:26
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There's no money in it. There's no richness in it. All it is is devastation because if you're a psychopath, you want to blow the whole thing up.
Nuclear War Threats Discussion
01:06:34
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There's a lot of people that go, no, I think you should die because that way we could avoid that. And because we want the money, we want the hot girls. I'm sorry, but that's basically it.
01:06:45
Speaker
You talk about dick measuring. Okay. Okay. that's That's basically it. There's no money in a nuclear war. That's why he threatened all he wants, but that's been his bluff has been called so many times.
01:06:57
Speaker
It's ridiculous. Oh, good. I've ASMR'd you already, I can tell. Well, I was going to say, there's there's no money in nuclear war. I'm like, because there's only death and destruction.
01:07:14
Speaker
And that's the problem. yeah There's no money in it. There's no mansions in it. There's nothing. So anyways, and that's the problem that they're being so short sighted about. and It's the old boiling, boiling frog theory. When you basically turn and put them in warm water and turn up the heat slowly.
01:07:32
Speaker
Like we talk about climate change. That's what's happening. So on that note, on that note, let's make sure that we do something ah about climate change because I don't want to live a terrible life in four years. Okay.
01:07:48
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Thank you. um on that note, let's call that an episode.
Episode Wrap-up and Social Media Prompts
01:07:56
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Um, this is going to be a long one to edit.
01:07:59
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Hey, I remember, remember this folks out there, thump your melons. Okay. That can be interpreted in so many ways. It's so true.
01:08:10
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But, So I'll leave it up to you guys. Thump melons respectfully. Respectfully. Thump your melons. With consent. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
01:08:22
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Thank you for listening this week. ah Make sure that you follow us on social media at f FU Boomer underscore pod. Make sure that you follow us wherever you listen to your podcast and we will see you next week.
01:08:34
Speaker
Adios. Ah, you got an adios in there. See you I did. I took it from you. Okay. Have a good one. Bye.