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Delayed Release and Family Events
00:00:22
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Ladies and gentlemen, we're back. Welcome back to the show. Season three, episode 37. We're what, two thirds of the way?
00:00:36
Speaker
Three-fifths. What's that work out to? A little bit more than three-fifths, yeah. Yeah, this is gonna be another late release. Funny, buddy John, the fire department who came out and visited us, he messaged me last night. He said, you better not have another late release. I said, well, I got some bad news for you.
00:00:58
Speaker
I guess maybe he's working overnight. How early does this guy get up? Usually it's 5 a.m. on Fridays, but it's now 647 a.m. We had a busy week. So we were unable to record. So Wednesday we were out at Hayfla NYC, which is typically when we record.
00:01:21
Speaker
And when we don't do that, we record on Thursdays, but yesterday was my son's birthday. It was his preschool graduation.
00:01:30
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Yeah. Fried chicken all around. Yeah. You can guess what I got for lunch today. It was good. Yeah. I gotta, I gotta get through all that food and then get back on my diet. But I can't, my wife can't eat it cause she's gluten free. How much was left over? I mean, it was just a lot. Yeah. Your wife's sister said she's a famous over order. Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:55
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Well, you know, my wife's family, it's like, you know, there's I wouldn't say there's never I wouldn't say that there's ever not enough food. But like my family.
Fried Chicken Traditions
00:02:06
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Yeah, that's that's classic. I have too much food. Yeah, because, you know, you don't want people to feel
00:02:15
Speaker
you know, like when there's like just enough, like people feel uncomfortable, like having more, you know what I mean? Cause like, if there's only, there's only two pieces of chicken left, nobody wants to take one of the last two or the last piece, you know? They wind up sitting there anyway, those last two pieces. Yeah. So if there's 10 people are more likely to, you know, take another piece. It's like me, I ate that other piece of, I ate that fourth piece of chicken that I didn't really need. Yeah.
00:02:40
Speaker
Yeah, I had the wings, ribs, fried chicken, pizza. Had all the meats and cheeses and crackers and chips. And yeah, I really what did it for me was I overate on that first appetizer course. Yeah. Yeah, me, you and Jamie were staying right. I just.
00:03:01
Speaker
I was eating as if it was my own plate. Yeah, we were huffing a little bit by the time the real food hit. But yeah, so I got a whole fridge full of fried chicken and ribs and wings and macaroni salad. I didn't even go through one of the four macaroni salads. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of salads there. I thought we were supposed to get french fries too. Oh man, that would have been way too much.
00:03:25
Speaker
Yeah. French fries are good, though, especially in a place like that. Oh, yeah. It's I don't know if it's something that's common elsewhere in the country, but, you know, around here we have like I grew up eating fried chicken from this place called Chicken Holiday. And let me see, they probably have about half a dozen locations throughout New Jersey. I'm not sure if they're anywhere else. Chicken Holiday.
00:03:53
Speaker
Um, and it's, uh, it's pressure fried chicken. Yeah. So they, they cook it in a pressure fryer, which is, I think that's what KFC does. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah. I think that was one of the, one of the, that was how they started for sure. Right. Of course. Now my, um, internet is acting up. Let's, let's see. There's one in Madawan, one in Ocean, one in Manalpen. Um,
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00:04:21
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Madewon, Ocean, Manalipan, Bayonne, Milltown, Jackson, Staten Island, East Windsor. That's the one that I grew up eating from. There used to be one in West Windsor. This says Newark, but this doesn't look like the same place. Bridgewater, Hamilton, Bayville, Ewing,
00:04:47
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Baldwin, Baldwin, New York. I don't know where that is. I think that's upstate, but that's same people. This is a combo chicken holiday, Nathan's.
00:04:59
Speaker
or maybe they're just next to each other. But yeah, so we got it from this place, Claudie's, which is similarly, I think there's several of those. And yeah, it's just, you know, it's pressure fried chicken.
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00:05:14
Speaker
They have, typically they have ribs. Usually they have fried shrimp and the crinkle cut French fries.
00:05:22
Speaker
potato salad macaroni salad you know that's that's the wings chicken tenders sauce stuff like that um growing up like that's always what we had on christmas eve you know the whole family would come over and we got chicken holiday that was like i don't know why that was like the tradition but
00:05:41
Speaker
It was good. Yeah. Yeah, it's good chicken. It's super crispy, but really juicy still because I guess because it fries so fast and like it's it's really dark brown. Yeah, like
00:05:57
Speaker
you know, bordering like burnt. It's my favorite fried chicken in the area for sure. Mm hmm. Not like a it's not like a batter. So like a breading. Mm hmm. But it's definitely like a wet kind of breading. Yeah. And it's just cooked perfectly. I mean, it's really succulent. Yeah. Yeah. And good flavor. Like it's nicely seasoned. There's nothing worse than bland fried chicken.
00:06:25
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You know, and the down in Fulton Street Mall in downtown Brooklyn, there's this place called Luther Fried Chicken. That's where I used to go
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00:06:35
Speaker
in the middle of the night. Yeah, it's good stuff. The ribs, too, man. Yeah, real tender and grill them a little bit, too.
00:06:44
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Those ribs were full off the bone. Good too. They always give you the same thing at chicken holiday, like the Hawaiian rolls. Maybe they're not Hawaiian rolls, but they're like a sweet square roll, you know, where they all come attached to one another. I wanted one of those so bad, but it was like, that was like empty.
00:07:09
Speaker
I can't afford to fill up my limited space with a roll. I was looking at ribs and chicken and wings and like, uh, still got about 20 of those rolls at home. Yeah. Actually for breakfast, I had two of them with provolone cheese. Oh, that was left over. Sharp provolone stuffed in there. It was good. Yeah. It was good cheese. That was a good combo, the provolone and the roll. Yeah. Um,
00:07:34
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Yeah. Anyway, you guys don't want to hear, or maybe you do hear about
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00:07:37
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fried chicken for seven minutes. It was a good spread. Yeah. Um, so yeah. Hunter's five. He's going to kindergarten. It's crazy. It is amazing. I mean, to think about how fast it went. Yeah. Yeah, man.
00:07:56
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Um, just as an observer, you know, I, but I've, you know, I've seen him since he was an infant and, you know, watching his progress and it's, it's just flew by. Yeah. It's like the blink of an eye. That's what everybody says. And it's, it's true. I say the days are long and the years are short. Yeah. Yeah.
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00:08:20
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Yeah, it was, it was sweet going to the preschool graduation. Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was fighting back tears. Yeah. You know, you could see like the counselors or whatever they're called, the teachers, you know,
00:08:38
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because i was talking to what's the name mr crow oh yeah afterwards it made me think of like when i was teaching junior high that was the lowest grade i taught where you went to graduation and the kids are there it's not like high school you know in high school the kids you know they're just gonna get out of here yeah basically dismissive except for a few but
00:08:58
Speaker
In junior high, your kids, they're sort of like your little kids still. It's very bittersweet, the graduations. Yeah. Yeah. He seems like a nice guy. I don't really like him. Yeah. But at that age, you know, you really must get attached
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00:09:15
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to them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And vice versa with the kids, you know, who are very attached to the teachers. But yeah, he'll be in public school next year. Who knows what kind of
00:09:28
Speaker
Crazy kids will be there. Who knows? Yeah. But public school is paid for by my taxes, which is nice. A nice full day. Yeah. What is it? 850 to 250. Really, it's only an hour longer than what he does now, but it's five days a week instead of four.
00:09:59
Speaker
So yeah, so now for the summer, my wife will be off on Wednesdays because she was, um, she was working in the morning on Wednesdays. I forgot now it's summertime. Yeah. Now they're on summer break. I guess Tuesdays and Thursdays, he'll still go to my, my in-laws. I don't know. I'll be here.
00:10:27
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I'm sure he'll come by for a visit every now and again. Yeah. Um, we go on, we go on combo. He's so good now. He really entertains himself, which is pretty amazing. You know? Yeah. He's, he's just a minor distraction.
00:10:47
Speaker
Yesterday, you know what amazed me about him yesterday with the remote control. He's like on the TV. Oh, you know, he's he's been like that for a while. He's so adept. Yeah. That remote control is so beat up. Missing the thing on the front. The battery thing's taped on. Things can. It's destroyed. Yeah, we watched me and your dad. We were talking about the Thunderbirds. Yeah, we brought it up that marrying that show. I remember watching that with my dad as a kid.
00:11:17
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So, uh, since we last spoke, which was last Friday, um, did we do something last Friday? What happened on Friday? Um,
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00:11:40
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Friday, didn't didn't we work on the computer on Friday? Aren't we doing all the oh, yes. Well, Friday, we finally downloaded Mosaic because we you know, that kitchen. Job became confirmed and paid and so figured out well.
00:11:58
Speaker
Now's the time to get Mosaic. So we got Parallels, which is the basically it's like a Windows emulator for Mac and purchased Mosaic, which is a three month. You have to do three months upfront. Well, not upfront. They make you do like a three month trial and pay
00:12:20
Speaker
monthly. So it's 175. It's 150 for the manufacturing with optimizer, they call it. If we wanted to be able to export to CNC, it would be another 25 a month. So that'd be 175. But then, or sorry, it's 125. And then maybe the CNC is only 150. I forget.
00:12:42
Speaker
but then an additional seat is 50 a month. So it's 175 a month for three months and then we'll get the option to, you can buy like a license, I don't know what it costs and then, or you could pay yearly. So, you know, depending on what it costs for a year.
00:13:04
Speaker
You know, maybe we'll just do the Europe front or whatever. We'll see what but it looks like, you know, we're going to have to keep fusion. Yeah, I agree 100 percent because it's it's not a dual mosaic. No, it's far superior in drawing cabinets.
00:13:23
Speaker
Not even drawing. You don't do any drawing in mosaic, per se. It's cut and drag and drop. You're just dragging and dropping cabinets. You can alter dimensions and characteristics of said cabinets, but it's really just working from
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00:13:40
Speaker
pre-built templates.
00:13:43
Speaker
Um, so you can drag over a single door base, right? And it's maybe standard. It's 24 inches wide and 34 and a half inches high. And then you can change all the dimensions, the doors, the layout, the out of face frame, take it away. You could make it eight feet tall, you know, whatever. Um, that's where all the, the, the nuances lie and being able to adjust all the parameters and everything. That's right. Um,
00:14:14
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So yeah, so it's great for that. I mean, it makes quick work of.
00:14:19
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I mean, how, how fast did you get that kitchen in there? I mean, you had to check around and tweak a bunch of stuff, but. I would say that if I could start today, I could do it in, you know, a couple hours. Yeah. Because in this last week, I've kind of figured out all the little things. Cause it's, you know, it's, oh, the hood doesn't fit here. Oh, we got to put a side panel there. Oh, this is going on a T wall and learning yesterday. I actually learned another couple of things.
00:14:48
Speaker
It's it's all because, you know, like anything else is like a little bug. That's like, oh, man, why can't I get this panel to go here? Right. So, yeah, you had been working on that kitchen, which you'd already drawn in Sketchup. And then I was working on this Hoboken built in job, which was more. Custom kitchen.
00:15:15
Speaker
It was all overlay but it had an appliance garage which i wasn't able to do like pocket doors i didn't get that far but it had more nuance to it so i was working on getting that drawn and.
00:15:31
Speaker
I mean, I got it pretty good. Yeah. So then Monday we had, they give you a free 90 minute training session, you know, when you buy it, which is basically, basically it was setting up all of the specific parameters
00:15:51
Speaker
for what we do. He's like, okay, what type of cabinets you typically build? And we said, well, right now we're going to be doing these frameless ones. So we set up a library, I think they called it of, okay, they're frameless cabinets. This is the construction method. The toe is going to be, it's going to be the plastic legs and
00:16:15
Speaker
Baba, you know, yada, yada, yada, all the specifics about, you know, how we do it. What are, you know, what are the drawer boxes? Are they plywood? Are they dovetail? Or, you know, setting up all of those specific construction techniques and details and stuff, which, you know, was pretty helpful. Yeah, but definitely not all encompassing as to what what we need. I mean, I think it would be beneficial to pay for some of that.
00:16:45
Speaker
training one on one. Yeah. Yes. We got Dan in here and this week I'm going to watch as many of those videos as I can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I forgot all about those. They have, um, and it's funny after like the, I don't know if it was the update or what that he, were you able to do to get that update? I think so. Um,
00:17:08
Speaker
Those videos worked because when I was trying to get them initially, I couldn't get to the. It was showing up as like some kind of air.
00:17:18
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's interesting as you know, we get deeper into it. Oh, shit. Real quick. Yeah, we got to talk about our sponsor. We got to thank our sponsor, Haefla. And we'll talk about going to Haefla NYC in a little bit here. Haefla offers a wide range of products and solutions for the woodworking and furniture making industries from hinges and drawer slides to connectors and dowels.
00:17:39
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00:17:55
Speaker
Just to wrap up my thought, it's interesting to get into Mosaic because I really wasn't sure what to expect. You know what I mean? I think it does more on one side than I thought, but it's much more limited on another side. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:15
Speaker
Yeah. Like there's things that we've built that we could, there's no way that we could put it into mosaic. No, no way. And placing objects, you know, we're used to like, like in fusion, you know, you can connect points or, you know, drag it and it's, it's sort of intuitive in that way. Yeah. Where in there's some things in mosaic where you got to physically place it in the room by dimension. Yeah. Which could be a little tricky, you know, like if you're trying to put a,
00:18:44
Speaker
of side panel on a cabinet like it doesn't click into place. Yeah. There is a snapping thing that you can toggle on and off. Um, I'm sure I'll learn a lot more after I watch those videos. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it's just another thing to, you know, become familiar with. Um,
00:19:08
Speaker
So yes, we had that training on Monday. And then to Wednesday, we went out, took the ferry to Hayfla NYC for the looks LED lighting classes. We took two classes and Cory and Rob from CT Woodwork met us out there.
00:19:31
Speaker
So that was fun. Yeah, that was great. Actually, uh, learned a lot. They were good classes. I, the, uh,
00:19:39
Speaker
The second class had far less information than the first class. It was like almost more basic and it was the one for current users. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I learned more of the first one than I did the second one. Yeah. Yeah. It was like almost all the information from the first one was in the second one. So I guess, you know, maybe we're our opinions a little bit swayed because we went to the first class, but I thought there was going to be a bunch of new information in the second class.
00:20:09
Speaker
The first one came with all that swag. Yeah, we got all kinds of samples. So we actually built an LED lighting system. So you have your
00:20:25
Speaker
Driver, which is, you know, like a transformer and then it's like, it's basically creates clean power. Yeah. It's like a transformer and a power conditioner. Power conditioner. Yeah. That's the word I was looking for.
00:20:40
Speaker
So you get really clean power out to all your LEDs. And then you have a distributor, which is basically just like a distributor box. It's got a bunch of inputs and you can plug in different things into it, whether they're all LED strips or you got puck lights and switches. Yeah.
00:21:07
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if you can do more than one switch. I think you're right. I think you can only do one switch. Yeah. I think maybe you can attach another distributor to like you can put another distributor in the chain and then put a switch on that one, but it's only one switch. Then how would that work? If you turn that switch off, it would turn power off to all the distributors downstream. I don't know.
00:21:34
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that's a good question. Or does it just control what's plugged into that distributor? Right. Yeah. Cause power probably flows through and then the switch is cause the switch goes in the top and then there's distribution at the bottom and there's one on the side, but that must be power through no matter what. Um, so it must only switch the bottom ones.
00:21:58
Speaker
That's a good question. But anyway, so we had the driver, distributor, and then we had a mesh distributor, which has Bluetooth built into it. So with that,
00:22:15
Speaker
We had a piezoelectric switch that was completely wireless, no battery. That's very cool. Yeah. And you can use that wireless. It fits in a decora plate cover. You can just screw it to the wall. You can put it in a box.
00:22:33
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whatever. So that will send a signal to switch on and off right to that. It goes from the switch to the mesh distributor box to switch all those, you know, whatever you have plugged in there. So yes, we did some tape. We did a puck.
00:22:52
Speaker
And we did a prefab light rail. So hey, Flo, let's say you have a kitchen. I'm like out of breath today for most freaking chicken.
00:23:06
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If you if you have like a set of kitchen plans, you can actually mark it up and send it to Hayfla and they'll you don't even have to mark it up. Yeah, you could just send it to them and they'll do the lighting design and they'll give you like a bill of materials that you can order. And then what you can actually do is with a two week lead time is you can they'll build it all for you. You know, if you need thirty seven inch
00:23:34
Speaker
light bar with a frosted lens and a lead on both sides, they build it all, put it together and ship it to you. So basically you just put it in. That's awesome. Yeah, really cool. I'm not sure what the fee is on the fabricating.
00:23:53
Speaker
I don't think it's very much. Design stuff's free. Right. Yeah. They'll do all that for free. And it's a one to two day lead time, which is super fast. Creating the bill of materials is so key on that. Yep. So yeah, you know, they have 12 volt, they have 24 volt, which the 24 volt is what we were playing around with.
00:24:15
Speaker
they didn't really give great reasons to go with the 12 volt. It seems like 24 volt is the way to go unless they said basically just if the client wants 12 volt, give them 12 volt. But 24 volt seems to be the way to go. The main difference is the one
00:24:36
Speaker
Con for 24 volt is the tape right now is only cuttable on two inch centers, whereas the 12 volt is one inch. But really, I mean, it's not a big deal. No. So it's it's a one inch difference. You know what I mean? But they said that's going to change and that it'll actually end up being even less than an inch. Yeah. I mean, the world standards basically go on a 24 volt. Yeah.
00:25:04
Speaker
Yeah, from what he said, it basically seems like it already is everywhere aside from the US. We're special. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's put it nicely. So, yeah, I mean, it was cool.
00:25:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was great. And everybody, not everybody, but I'm sure most people know about the air condition, you know, from the Canadian wildfires. And we were kind of witness to that, that haze, you know, descending on New York at that, at that time.
00:25:39
Speaker
Yeah, because when we went in in the morning, it wasn't it was apparent because we had, you know, we had had the haze and it was a pretty mild haze for, you know, maybe like a week beforehand. And, you know, like the sun was really red going in. But then, you know, I'd say about.
00:26:00
Speaker
one or two o'clock. You know, so we're sitting in this conference room in the middle of Hayfla NYC and there's windows and then, you know, you look outside and it's like, it looked like it was nighttime, not nighttime, but like evening. And then actually the, somebody came on the loudspeaker, like the building loudspeaker and they said, you know, listen, this is a message from the FDNY, do not open the windows.
00:26:27
Speaker
They're like, it's going to set off the fire alarms. That's scary. Yeah. Scary thought that that's how good the air quality was or bad. Yeah. Yeah. And it was just like this sulfuric yellow haze. It was crazy. Yeah. Yeah. It was it was very dystopian. Very like if you ever played like Fallout, that's like kind of what it looked like.
00:26:57
Speaker
It made me think of you. You probably heard of this movie. Uh, maybe not seen it. Soylent Green. Uh, it's the famous movie where it's a dystopian future and there's a food shortage. And what happens is, you know, at the end they give it away is that Soylent Green, the like the main food puck. Is that the name of the movie? Yeah. I thought, I thought the movie had a different name. That was just part of the movie.
00:27:23
Speaker
Yeah. Is, is made from dead people. It's like soil and green is people. But one of the things is there is this thick haze that permeates the, you know, the outside world. That's what it made me think of.
00:27:40
Speaker
Yeah, you know, walking because we had to, you know, we had to walk to the subway, then take two subway cars and then walk a little bit again to get to the ferry terminal. My eyes were burning. Yeah, my eyes were burning that afternoon when we got home that evening. Yeah. Yesterday, when I woke up, you know, like I had a little bit of a sore throat.
00:28:01
Speaker
Well, yeah, you know, we wore masks because, you know, Haefel had some masks, grabbed one just so we didn't have to breathe in all that. I mean, it's smoke, basically. Yeah. And the levels were at like very hazardous levels, like not just like, oh, you know, this is this is pretty bad. It's like, no, this is actually like hazardous. Like you should not be breathing this in.
00:28:24
Speaker
And then, you know, I get down into the subway, I'm like, oh, good, I can take the mask off now. But then I get into my truck, I had to come back here and put the dumpster inside real quick and I'm listening to WNYC. And they're like, yeah, you know, so we did some readings and on the street, you know, it's like 300, whatever, 300 level. And then down in the subway, it's 660. I'm like, oh, great. I'm like, twice as bad. I thought it was going to be better. Oh, man.
00:28:56
Speaker
Yeah, our app says air quality alert until 12 a.m. Saturday. Wow, they keep pushing it back. Originally it was 12 p.m. Thursday, then 12 p.m. Friday, and now midnight tonight. Yeah. Freaking Canadians. It's the lightning. After all we've done for Canada. Yeah.
00:29:27
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such a tiny little country. That's what they do to us. Canada's what? The second largest country by, by area. Is it? I don't know. I mean, it's, it's much bigger than we Americans ever think. It's Russian, Russia, and then Canada, you know, give it credit for what is the second largest country in the world.
00:29:52
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Canada, Russia, Canada, China, United States. Where's Brazil on that list? Wait a minute. How does this make sense? Russia. 16,376,870 square kilometers. Canada.
00:30:15
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9,093,510 square kilometers at number two. China, 9,388,211 square kilometers. United States, 9,147,420. How come those numbers are higher? That doesn't make any sense. Oh, well.
00:30:46
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Now that so now I clicked on the thing and the OK, those were land areas. The total. Wow. Russia 17 million ninety eight thousand two hundred and forty two square kilometers. Canada nine hundred ninety nine million nine hundred and eighty four thousand six hundred and seventy square kilometers. China nine million seven hundred and six thousand nine hundred and sixty one square kilometers. United States nine million three hundred and seventy two thousand six hundred and ten kilometers.
00:31:15
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Brazil is number five, eight million five hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and sixty seven square kilometers. Australia at seven point seven million square kilometers. And then India is the next three point three. So it's half the size of Australia, which is number six. I wouldn't have guessed that. That it's that small.
00:31:43
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Yeah, compared to Australia. I would imagine them somewhere around the same size. With the highest population too. India. Yeah. Wow. Russia is 11% of the world's total landmass. Peace. Yeah. That's pretty crazy.
00:32:07
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Like China on the, I feel like China on the map looks so the, see the map, that's, that's the thing. The map is totally f'd up. Um, but like China in the U S it's really close. It's within 400,000, not even three because it's, uh, 372. So it's like 330, 340,000 square kilometers difference between us and China.
00:32:34
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Yeah. I would have guessed that China was much bigger land wise. Yeah. Total area. Okay. Square miles. They got that too. 3.6 million square miles and 3.7 million square miles for China. Only a hundred thousand square miles smaller.
00:33:02
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Here, China is opening a spy base in Cuba. Really? What they're saying. I saw this thing. You know, of course it's, it's hard to gauge what's real and what's not real anymore, but it's all about how the students in China are attached to like AI and they're like, it, it, the gauges their, um, attention span and, um,
00:33:31
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It even gets as specific as like how often they yawn or glance at their phones or all these other things, all these other activities and all this data is compiled. And it's like this huge pilot program, but you know, of course, everybody, all the parents were eager to sign up for and put their kids through this. Yeah, man.
00:33:57
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and their uniforms have trackers in them. So like they track where they're going and stuff throughout the day. And they're trying, they're trying to, AIs as well. I saw this other thing about AI for songwriting. I'm trying to remember. It was the guy from Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan. Billy Corgan, Corbin? I think it's with a G.
00:34:26
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He was talking about how AI has all these songwriting programs now and how that art, you know, is going to be lost because it's just going to be, you know, uh, come up with intro, intro, A, B, C, D, you know? Yeah. I mean, I, you know, it's.
00:34:47
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It's very Tim Henson talks about that a lot, too. And he he has the opposite opinion, which is sort of more my opinion and that he's a guitarist from Polyphia, where it's not that it's going to be lost. It's just this is it's changing.
00:35:04
Speaker
People are so resistant and and they just want to cling to what they know. You know what I mean? And it's fine to to, you know, feel whatever upset that something is changing because you like the old way. But yeah, I mean.
00:35:22
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You know what? What did you say? Well, what would you have said when logic came out? You know what I mean? Like, oh, we're not going to be recording on tape anymore. I always wish I had this stuff when I was young. Yeah. I mean, that's this is just how things change. You know what I mean? This is all part of human evolution. You want to stay an ape in the trees or do you want to evolve with the rest of us? You know what I mean? It's not I'm not saying it's all good. All that all all progression is positive, but
00:35:51
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It's just changing. It's not going to be lost. Some people will still do it that way. Some people will do it the new way. Sometimes the new way will be better and sometimes it'll be worse. It's just the way it is. You know what I mean? I kind of fall into the category where there's already formulaic songwriting. Yeah. That this is what it's going to be sort of. Half of these people don't write their own songs anyway.
00:36:14
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No, they more than half. Yeah, it's a shocking number. Yeah. Of artists that you file that don't write or have ghost writers or co-writers like how many songs did. Oh, shit. His name's escaped me from E.O.O. Jeff. Jeff Lynn. Yeah. How many songs did Jeff Lynn write?
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah. Well, he's, he's pretty good. Um, the, like one band that always comes to my mind is Aerosmith. So in their early career, you know, they wrote all their own music. Um, and then they were, and they were like a rock band, but when they exploded and became like this, you know,
00:36:57
Speaker
huge, huge worldwide, um, hit making band is because they went to outside songwriting. And, uh, one guy that some people might know his name, Desmond child, he's a famous like producer songwriter for all these rock bands that want hits. And so he would come in and write all those songs like,
00:37:21
Speaker
Oh, I can't think, you know, you know, the big hits, you know, that the Aerosmith had like on MTV and the radio. Yeah. That's all down to outside songwriting. Yeah, I mean. I don't know, people are very. Old people are scared. Well, I can tell.
00:37:52
Speaker
Yeah, there's so much to be afraid of when you get old. Mortality is the least of it. Trying to drag all those young people back down. That's it. Get back with our brooms.
00:38:14
Speaker
You know, it was cool is, dude, what's his nickname? Dad do he's cool. Yeah. He's a, he's an example of an old dude. That's like, you know, very progressive and hip and
00:38:34
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Yeah, he he's not one to he's not stuck in the past. No, no, you know, I'm sure he looks at it as, you know, having enjoyed, you know, everything that, you know, the way that it was, but he's not resistant to all the new things. No, not at all. He you know, he he's on the cell phone and computer and he's 90.
00:38:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. You know what I love? He carries around the notebook. Yeah. Like, it's like, yeah, I acknowledge my memory isn't what it used to be. That's why I carry around this actual physical notebook. Yep. I was very impressed with that.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yeah. He's still pretty sharp. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's only so much you could do at 90, but, and he looks great. Yeah. 90 years old. Come on. He wanted to go out and cut the grass yesterday. Yeah. I had to talk him out of it. The air is like toxic at the moment. Yeah. I mean, he still like works on the house. Oh yeah. He's doing good. 90. Come on, man. We all, we all should be so fortunate.
00:39:44
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, he's healthy. Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. His 90th birthday was not too long ago. Maybe April. Yeah. March or April.
00:40:00
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Yeah. So coming home from Hayfla to circle back around, we couldn't even see the shore from the, from the ferry. Oh yeah. Yeah. And just a week before, you know, we had like these crystal clear pictures that we took off the back of the boat. Yeah. And we missed the three 15. Yeah. It was a three and a three 15. I thought it was a three 15 and a three 30.
00:40:26
Speaker
We missed it by like, yeah, it was pulling out. Wasn't it? Uh, no, it wasn't even there when we got there, but, um, yeah, we just barely missed it though by like about 10 minutes. Oh, I thought we were closer than that. Yeah. It was a good day at Harry fluff. Yeah. Yeah. We got off the subway at about three 15, three 20 down on wall street. Um,
00:40:57
Speaker
Yeah, it was a good time. They put on a good class. Put out a good spread for breakfast and lunch. Yeah. Yeah. The only people aside from, there was one woman in the morning class, aside from the four of us. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised. I thought, I mean, the afternoon class had about 18 or 20 people, which was, which was a good amount. But man, I don't like when my screensaver goes on.
00:41:27
Speaker
Yeah. It always gives you that feeling that something's not working. Yeah. Like I feel like when this is recording, it shouldn't go to screensaver. Yeah. I mean, it's actually doing something. Yeah. Uh, what I got to do is just get a SD card and can record straight to this. And then I can, there you go. I don't know. Does that have to be the SD card? Yeah. If it's only one episode, doesn't have to be very big at all.
00:41:53
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But these files aren't, aren't huge. Um, especially because these are audio files. I don't know what these are. Hmm. You know, it doesn't become audio until you render it into audio. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Like the garage band files wind up being pretty big. What are they? Wave files? Um, no, they're, they're garage band files. I don't know what they are really.
00:42:25
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But, you know, it's the same thing as logic and all that other stuff. Yeah, these are .RPP, which is just Reaper, I guess, but, um, yeah, use this program called Reaper, which is a DAW. It's a DAW. Oh yeah. Digital audio works, workspace, workstation, workstation, I think.
00:42:57
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Yeah, you know, like, Haefel was talking about looking for feedback from users and stuff like that to help, you know, develop what they're going to do. I wish Mosaic had something like that. Like, I'm already ready to tell you. After a week, I know everything. Yeah, I mean, well, you can submit the ticket. Yeah.
00:43:25
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and put stuff on there. Yeah. Um, it's probably more symptom of being a complete novice. Yeah. You know what I mean? Not knowing the workarounds, just trying to do things the only way I know how. Yeah. Well, if you submit that feedback, they might be able to tell you what, I mean, they will be able to tell you what the workaround is. Yeah. Um, and he's even said, he's like, listen, don't struggle. Submit. Like if you have a problem, submit a ticket. Um,
00:43:51
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Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate so far. Um, but, uh, yeah, once I don't know how long those videos are, but if I can, you know, get a half a dozen of them under my belt this weekend, I think it'll take me a long way. Oh yeah.
00:44:08
Speaker
Um, better. I, I like getting your hands into it and then watching, you know, cause if I watch something and don't know anything about it, my retention isn't as good. Yeah.
00:44:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's good sometimes to watch and then do and then rewatch. That's kind of what I like to do, because, you know, let's say you go in there and you've dicked around for four hours and then watch the video. Well, you might have been able to get three times as much done in those four hours had you just known literally one little, super basic thing from the video.
00:44:46
Speaker
Yeah. I found like the libraries and the, and the, the project like override and stuff like that. Those were pretty useful. Yeah. Oh man. So how was the dumpster when you came back to get it the other day? Yeah. It was like half in the street, but not, not bad. I mean, it was in front of the apron. So, uh, but yeah, it was super hazy when I did that.
00:45:16
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Yeah. Oh, and a big shout out to Keensburg for leaving our package on the sidewalk and not taking it. Yeah. So the USPS they put our, had some dominoes came and they left them right on top of the mailbox and nobody stole it. It was out there all day. I mean, you had to be an idiot. There's can't, you could see all the cameras I'm building the barbershop across the street has cameras. So you have to be pretty dumb to steal that.
00:45:47
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, what could be in it, right? Be worth it. Yeah. Yeah. Crimes of opportunity. Yeah. But nonetheless, go Keensburg. Yeah.
00:46:00
Speaker
Yeah. FedEx delivered yesterday. We had got some, those, the black locust samples finally came, even though we don't need them anymore. But, uh, he was able to use the code and got inside. He remembers good, which is good because now when we're not here, we can get, now we got to get ahold of the postal carrier, get them the information. Might be able to just call the post office. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, I wonder how that works.
00:46:29
Speaker
Like what are they, what, how do they keep all that information when they got like a log book or something? Hmm. Yeah. They probably keep it in their phone now. Yeah.
00:46:41
Speaker
Yeah, that could be a lot of stuff. I mean, how many, how many stops do you think of a postal carrier or somebody like Alan? I mean, how does, I'll ask Alan. I'm pretty sure he has it on his phone. Yeah. It's like how many stops, how many different addresses do you have like info for? Yeah. I mean, I think we're kind of a unique, uh, case where most businesses are just open. Oh yeah. Like just walk in. Yeah.
00:47:10
Speaker
Yeah. So maybe it's like anything, you know, if that's your job, then is it really that hard to remember 24 digit codes? You know, if you're talking to see boomers, just please just relinquish control.
00:47:31
Speaker
You have lost control. It's time. Oh, it was time a while back. The boomers aren't even the ones around the country. It's the greatest generation. That's the scary part. Yeah.
00:47:46
Speaker
I mean, holy cow. Hopefully we just skip over the boomers in those positions and just go right to the millennials. No Gen Xers either. You guys also suck. Those are my two generations, Gen X and Boomer. I'm like caught in between. The Gen X is just like a boomer light. Yeah.
00:48:09
Speaker
You know, anything I learned about like the Gen X, I sort of, my upbringing is more like one of those guys. You know, they come from the disenfranchised family, latchkey kind of thing. The absentee parents, absentee boomer parents. Who had everything.
00:48:37
Speaker
Is that who it was? Like the boomers are the Gen X parents. Is that where they skip a generation? Well, it depends like the early boomers, you know, like you were born in 1940. Likely you were having kids, you know, in the sixties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's when I was born in the sixties and you know, it wasn't a bad time to grow up.
00:48:59
Speaker
I tell you, the more I talk to young people today, people in their 20s especially, I would not trade places at all. We're just a bunch of complainers. It's all those participation trophies you guys gave us.
00:49:23
Speaker
Oh man. But we get blamed for that. Are you of that age today? Where was that part of Europe bringing to the participation trophy? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know if that when that started not having kids, you know, I missed out on like a whole swath of like, like when I played pop Warner football, I got the, you know, everybody got like a little, a little trophy at the end of the year. Yeah. Like that does any damage to it. You know what I mean? People are so stupid.
00:49:54
Speaker
Oh man. Well, I got this trophy, so I don't have to do any, I don't have to try hard at anything. Yeah. We, we ruined the older folks, ruined the younger folks by giving them orange slices. Yeah. We were tough. They're going to talk about their feelings. No orange slices for us. Oh man. And snacks. No, you guys were smoking cigarettes at halftime.
00:50:23
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Oh man.
00:50:27
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I, I, when I scroll through, um, Instagram, you know, sometimes I'm like, I get down these rabbit holes. I'll be looking, I'll be scrolling through, looking at, you know, my friends that I follow their stuff. And then these things come up and if you pause on anything, it just keeps giving you those things. Like now I'm getting,
00:50:53
Speaker
dozens of, um, what is it? The TRX that, that truck, uh, the, the Ram T-Rex. Yeah. Yeah. Where they're like on highways pulling wheelies and like getting into accidents and I must've watched one and now that's all I get. Like if I don't pay attention,
00:51:16
Speaker
oh man yeah the algorithm yeah it's powerful oh yeah it's it's amazing it really is um gotta get that dopamine i was like what are you looking at bikini girls yeah that would be healthier maybe yeah
00:51:45
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little bit frightening to see these people out on open roads and stuff like that crashing into other cars, with total abandon, it seems like.
00:52:00
Speaker
makes where we drive seem tame. Yeah. Yeah. I see a lot of like Nissan Altima like going like weaving in and out of traffic and then they just like crash into a guard rail. Like, well, you kind of had that coming. Exactly. And what's the other one? It's the, it's the Jeep. Um, like, is it a Cherokee? It's like one of the Jeep, like SUV vehicles. Trackhawk. Oh yeah. Yeah. Those are insanely fast.
00:52:29
Speaker
Yeah. So they blend those in with the, with the T-Rex. Yeah. It's basically got like a Hellcat motor in it. I think, um, yeah, same, same manufacturers basically. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so, uh, over the last couple of days, I've been inundated with the, those crazy videos or reels or whatever they're called. I'd like one of those Hellcat Durango's. Ah, that'd be nice.
00:52:57
Speaker
What are those, like a thousand horsepower or something? I don't think the Hellcat is a thousand. I think it's like seven hundred and seventy or something like that. The demon is a thousand. OK. I don't think they make a demon Durango or actually, they might have announced that. I don't know if it's out yet. But the demon, like the charger and challenger, where do they make both? I don't know. It might just be the charger.
00:53:27
Speaker
was like, uh, I forget the most powerful production car or something. Yeah. And I think there was one that had like an elephant graphic on the side of it or something like that too. Oh, it's like a mastodon or something. I can't remember, but yeah, I think that's like another, you can see how productive I've been on my off hours, but it's good for just like zoning out and you know, yeah. Uh,
00:53:59
Speaker
Oh, not Mastodon. Mammoth? Could it be? Oh yeah, maybe. Mammoth truck. Remember the mammoth mammoth cars? I would have scold from a Speed Racer. No. Yeah. Mammoth 1000 TRX 2.65 liters. Supercharger on a 6.2 liter V8.
00:54:28
Speaker
It's a thousand horsepower. It's got 969 pound feet of torque. And it, uh, was it dually? No. Oh yeah. It's got, it's a, it's a three axle. Oh my God.
00:54:51
Speaker
Like who needs that truck? Nobody needs it. Who wants it? Oh, it's a Hennessy. It's a, so Hennessy is a aftermarket performance company. Like they've been, you know, the Hennessy Viper was super famous back in the day. They take already fast things and make them faster. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. They make some cool stuff.
00:55:18
Speaker
I think they used to do maybe the cobras or vets stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. These trucks seem to be taking over that little segment of the insane vehicle.
00:55:37
Speaker
Um, yeah, I like to see things where people are going into the middle of like four way intersections and doing donuts and stuff like that. You know, the police are somewhat helpless because these people, they don't really care as far as like escaping. You know, they, they just drive with reckless abandon and cops really can't do that.
00:56:00
Speaker
The cops don't do anything anyway. People drive like idiots and you see cops. I'm like, you're not pulling any of these people over. They're waiting for somebody to speed. It's like speeding is the least of our problems. I know. It's all that really aggressive driving, like falling too close, cutting in. I'd say that's not even as big of a problem as just the stupid
00:56:25
Speaker
Inept drivers the people were changing lanes and they don't even like look, you know what I mean? It's like the aggressive drivers are at least somewhat competent at driving. It's the incompetent drivers of the dangerous ones. That's true too.
00:56:41
Speaker
Yeah. You know, if you're weaving in and out of cars, at least you're, you have to be paying attention to what you're doing. Um, versus the people who are, I mean, you see them, the people who just. Excuse me. Change lanes and they're not, they just don't even, oh, there's somebody in there. Well, that's not my problem.
00:57:00
Speaker
I'll tell you this, when I was coming home from your party yesterday, I was on Leonardville road and I look over and I see blue still in the lot. So I'm looking and all of a sudden I hear,
00:57:14
Speaker
My car was telling me you're going too fast and you're too close to the car ahead of you. Yeah. I have the lane watch, which if I go over the, you know, sometimes like Leonardville road, the bend right there by suburban aluminum in the morning, there's no cars on the road. So, you know, you take a kind of lazy and your tires go over the line a little bit like, and you know, things start to be even. Yeah. I was like, Oh wow. I mean, that was, that was,
00:57:38
Speaker
good that it kind of alerted me at, but, uh, I didn't even know it existed in the car. Yeah. I wonder what's going on with blue. It's still there. I don't know. Yeah. It's been over a month. Oh, no, no, it's been there for a long time.
00:57:58
Speaker
should bring the paint sprayer over there, put it in, put it in the back. No, no. And John, I don't know if there's room in the back of that truck, you know, our friend, our friend, John, he's, he's infamous for using his vehicles as storage bins instead of renting out like a storage room. He just gets another vehicle and parks.
00:58:30
Speaker
Oh, man. So how are we doing on time this morning? Well, yeah, I think we're at that point. We're at 59 minutes here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's 744. See, maybe I get this up by eight o'clock. Um, for all those early risers. Yeah. Okay. So next week we have, um,
00:58:51
Speaker
Ron and Brian from RT Machine Co. coming on. Ron being the owner of the company. Yeah. And Brian, you know, New Jersey, New York salesman. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So if you have any questions, if you have anything that you'd like, you know, to know about RT or, or anything, you know, write in, shoot a Instagram message, email, whatever.
00:59:18
Speaker
Yeah, they got a pretty deep knowledge base. Oh, yeah, big time. So, yeah, let us know that that'll probably be a be a long one. Yeah. But carve out like the entire afternoon. Yeah. Start at lunch time. Yeah. So, yeah, let us know. Thanks for listening. I take care, everybody.
00:59:43
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As always, Rob and I, thank you for tuning in and we'll see you next week. If you want to help support the podcast, you can leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Again, we appreciate your support. Thanks for tuning in.