Introduction and Weather Talk
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Chris
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
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damnbasspumpin
And I'm Ron. Slightly tired and looking for rain Ron. Man. Actually, if it rains...
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Chris
Do you need, do you need rain?
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damnbasspumpin
Well, if rains, I won't have to the farmer's market.
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Chris
Ah, no, you can still go to the farmer's market if it rains.
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damnbasspumpin
It's... What? It's raining.
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damnbasspumpin
it's open It's open air.
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Chris
Yeah, they have canopies.
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damnbasspumpin
They do. For themselves.
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Chris
Yeah, tuck under there with them.
Living in Alaska: Pros and Cons
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damnbasspumpin
Let me tell you, after experiencing the rain in Alaska, I'm good on not getting wet for a while.
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Chris
Was it a cold driving rain?
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damnbasspumpin
ah No. No, it was...
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damnbasspumpin
So, fun fact, where that part of Alaska is a rainforest, and the lady was like, yeah, it never really gets below 30, and it never really goes above 60.
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damnbasspumpin
I was like, I can move here tomorrow. Let's go.
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Chris
Yeah, that's it. Except for the rain.
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damnbasspumpin
I said, except for the rain. I said, well, you know like how hot and humid did she get?
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damnbasspumpin
She's like, what's humid? I said, I'm in. I'm moving today.
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damnbasspumpin
But they then at the other island where it was raining, we we got very lucky in our nine-day trip. We only had two really bad days of rain.
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damnbasspumpin
But we went to, I think was Skagway, and the guy said, yeah, we get about 50 days of sunshine a year.
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damnbasspumpin
I said, that's tough. That's tough.
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damnbasspumpin
And he was, they were like, I mean, it was pouring buckets. He's like, yeah, we're going to probably get about four inches of rain today. And that's pretty normal. I'm like, good Lord.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah. It was, you, you, you, what it's funny because there's like four people in the fire department and who come up to me like, oh yeah, we're going to Alaska in two months.
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damnbasspumpin
There's like, everybody's going to Alaska cruises this year. And everyone might
Travel Gear and City Comparisons
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damnbasspumpin
say the same thing. I said, take good rain gear, rain pants, rain jacket, you know, with a hood, a nice hat and, you know, some waterproof shoes.
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damnbasspumpin
And one of them says, well, I'm going in ah in August. I don't think it'll be that bad. Well, according to the locals. They get 50 days of sunshine a year, and I'm pretty sure they didn't say, and it's all in August.
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damnbasspumpin
So, you know.
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damnbasspumpin
Do it you.
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Chris
Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. have. heard a lot of it it's like it seems like trips like that are cyclical.
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Chris
It's like a bunch of people, you know, went to England and now a bunch of people go into Alaska. Yeah.
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damnbasspumpin
It was, yeah, yeah. It was a triple lifetime. That's what I would say.
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Chris
Good. Good. Did you fight a grizzly bear?
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damnbasspumpin
Didn't even see a grizzled bear.
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damnbasspumpin
Didn't really live in that area of Alaska.
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damnbasspumpin
They're brown bears, but not newbies.
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damnbasspumpin
yeah Went to Seattle.
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Chris
Did you fight a brown bear?
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damnbasspumpin
Did not fight the brown bears, no. They are big.
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damnbasspumpin
I've only ever seen bears at the zoo, and we went to a bear rescue, which you were a lot closer to the bears than I've been in other situations. They are big.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Went to Seattle and everybody, you know, I was just going, I was expecting it to be homeless everywhere in a dirty city.
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damnbasspumpin
It was one of the cleanest cities I've ever been to.
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damnbasspumpin
And boy, I hate living on the East coast now.
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damnbasspumpin
We were like, cause we, we had a whole day in Seattle before we'd get on that, go the airport to get home.
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damnbasspumpin
And, um, i was like, well, going at to get the airport? You know, we're going to take an Uber. I'm like, oh that's probably going to cost us 50 bucks an Uber. Let's go look at the light rail. It was $3 to ride the light rail across the city to get to the airport. too
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damnbasspumpin
You know, i was like, oh, exactly.
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Chris
Wait, what is this light rail? this like it's a is it a handrail that's lit up to tell you where to go?
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was whatever way you wanted to go, three bucks. was like, why would you ever drive?
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damnbasspumpin
And it's what I've kind of figured out why when we got there the first night, day to Seattle, was like, there's nobody driving in this town. I'm used to traffic over here where, you know, there's people on the roads all the time, constantly.
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damnbasspumpin
Not there. It was nice.
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damnbasspumpin
Well, your state's the worst for light rail, so you guys don't get to talk.
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Chris
They're trying on the Western shore.
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damnbasspumpin
No, they're not. They're trying on three of the
Transportation and Infrastructure
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damnbasspumpin
counties in the Western Shore.
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Chris
Well, yeah. Oh, they're the only three that can't.
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damnbasspumpin
And they won't connect the two counties above them to Delaware so that you can go from you know New York to D.C.
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damnbasspumpin
without issues.
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Chris
Yeah. yeah I will say I went by the old train station the other day in Salisbury and but where they're renovating it. The roof looks really nice now.
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damnbasspumpin
that's cool.
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Chris
But yeah, it's a step.
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damnbasspumpin
Wasn't it going to be a brewery or something?
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Chris
Oh, I don't know. I thought they were like actually going to turn it back into a train station.
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damnbasspumpin
Oh, I thought like Evo had bought it or somebody. Well,
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Chris
um They may have and then probably sold it. and
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damnbasspumpin
I think they kind of like were kind of financial trouble or something. don't remember.
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damnbasspumpin
I do remember somebody had bought it and we're going to renovate it and turn it into something.
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damnbasspumpin
It's in a weird spot in the town.
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Chris
It is, but I mean, that could definitely put the right kind of growth in that area, I would think.
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damnbasspumpin
Oh, if it went anywhere, sure.
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damnbasspumpin
that's It's always my complaint about the beach slash you know Eastern Shore. It's like, you all hate traffic, right?
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damnbasspumpin
Everybody hates beach traffic.
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damnbasspumpin
The number one answer to beach traffic would be a train.
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damnbasspumpin
But there seems to be no impetus to put a train in to the beach.
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Chris
then how would you get around, Ron?
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damnbasspumpin
You walk. You take a bike.
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Chris
no No, no, Can't do that.
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damnbasspumpin
You Uber. You take the drunk bus.
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Chris
No. yeah i Yeah, I don't know. can't remember who I was talking to the other day, but there's just such a... It's almost like a negative connotation if you walk somewhere.
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Chris
Yeah. like That's what it was the other day. the um The permits coordinator for the fire marshal's office, she... Dropped her vehicle off at Burnet White in the morning and walked to work.
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Chris
I'm like, oh my god, why'd you do that? this ah she was like It's a nice day. it's It's a mile. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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damnbasspumpin
We walked on average in Alaska five miles a day.
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damnbasspumpin
Our big day, we did nine. i We got back. and I was like, we've been back a week.
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damnbasspumpin
That's okay. We've walked five miles this whole week. so I'm like, we need to get back to walking. Just because you feel so much better.
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damnbasspumpin
ah enjoy the thing. like Walking around, and the... ah The sad part about Seattle for me is, like, it was beautiful to walk around. I didn't give a crap about anything I was seeing.
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damnbasspumpin
I don't drink coffee, so everybody's like, you gotta go to the Starbucks.
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damnbasspumpin
I'm like, I don't care.
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Chris
Oh, no, no. Starbucks is ass coffee.
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damnbasspumpin
Sure, like, who, all coffees ask coffee to me. But, you're walking, just walking around places crazy. The people don't do it.
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damnbasspumpin
It's one thing, I will say, Lewis Delaware does really well.
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Chris
I believe you mean lose.
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damnbasspumpin
I believe, mean, Zwauffendel?
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damnbasspumpin
Whatever their original name was. You know, they bike paths, walking paths. Seattle, same thing. or Oh, where we go? Victoria, Canada. They have a bike path that goes through the whole city.
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damnbasspumpin
And they actually have signs that say how many people rode bikes through that area that day.
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damnbasspumpin
And then it says like, his it's got a digital tracker. And then it's like, and this is how many people have rode bikes this year. And it was like, a you know, this is May. We were there.
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damnbasspumpin
And it was already up to 100,000 people who rode bikes through this one little intersection.
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damnbasspumpin
It's like, yeah, that's pretty good.
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Chris
Yeah, that's awesome.
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damnbasspumpin
Salisbury.
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Chris
We're trying to take bike lanes away.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Well, yeah. You also don't have bike lanes that make any sense.
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Chris
Well, yeah, that was not laid out very well at all.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah. They don't go anywhere. They don't connect anything.
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damnbasspumpin
You need, you know, but.
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Chris
I mean, that's, i mean you talk about Delaware driving through, don't a couple of weeks ago, there's like new developments, you know, going in all throughout Sussex County, but the ones closer to the beach area, i mean, it's like they, they have the area that the development's going to be.
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Chris
And then they, put in the footpaths and bike pads and everything before they even put the houses in. It's nice.
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damnbasspumpin
it is nice and now they're connecting them all which is really nice you know it's not that not that difficult you know and like my had this whole conversation with my mother because she's she made whole big talk about how she's 67 we made her walk like five miles one day she's like i did pretty well for a 67 year old like
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damnbasspumpin
A 67-year-old should be walking more than you, you know, you that's how you keep yourself fit.
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damnbasspumpin
And her husband, who's not fit, I'm like, get him to go walking every day.
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damnbasspumpin
She's like, well, there are walking paths right by our house. I'm like, then you don't have excuse. You know.
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Chris
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
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Chris
Yeah. And like you said, you know, walking around, you you get to take things in you appreciate what's going on around you
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damnbasspumpin
You get to know your town in a better way than...
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damnbasspumpin
You're always frustrated when you're a car.
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damnbasspumpin
It's just a frustrating experience. You hate parking sucks, paying for parking sucks.
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Chris
Yeah. yeah Mm-hmm. Let's say, I mean,
Walking, Fitness, and Gym Etiquette
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Chris
we went down and back to Virginia Beach Friday, Saturday, and oh my God, that stretch on the eastern shore of Virginia is just horrendous.
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damnbasspumpin
Oh, yeah. I've only been to twice so it's awful.
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Chris
It's just monotony and just...
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Chris
Oh yeah, we're going through Chahernaville. Let's slow down to 35 miles an hour.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Well, it's like
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Chris
oh there's the Makapingo Clam Shack. I don't care. Which, oh, yeah. I guess they're trying to increase the people that go there. They had giant signs all over it. Gluten-free, gluten-free. Yes, of course a clam is gluten-free, you maniac.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah. It's a buzzword.
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damnbasspumpin
It's a fun buzzword.
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damnbasspumpin
Oh, I have a new pet peeve that I've only um've only seen this last week or two weeks.
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Chris
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, that's right, yeah, what's the pet peeve?
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damnbasspumpin
So we're on the cruise and had a gym.
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damnbasspumpin
Went to the went to gym every day.
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damnbasspumpin
Well, I went to the gym every day. My lovely wife got seasick one day.
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damnbasspumpin
It was a rough day. I think she's resentful at me because I didn't get seasick.
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Chris
Aw. Isn't that nice when it's like, oh, I'm sorry, i didn't have sympathy sickness.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I was moving around. But we're going in, and it's not very big. It's like a hotel gym. and
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damnbasspumpin
um but And I see this guy sit down on a bench backwards or upside down. how you He puts his ass where head's supposed to go.
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damnbasspumpin
And I'm like, really, dude? That's just...
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damnbasspumpin
People's heads go there and you're putting your sweaty-ass balls on that spot.
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damnbasspumpin
Whatever, I don't see anything. Then I go back to my gym this week, two days ago, or whatever day I texted you, there's another freaking guy sitting on the bench on the wrong freaking end.
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damnbasspumpin
He's got his head on the...
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damnbasspumpin
got He's got fucking ass on the head of the bench. Like, what the fuck is going on with these people?
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Chris
I was about to say, you're in your home gym.
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damnbasspumpin
I walked up.
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damnbasspumpin
I and was like, you're my turf now.
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damnbasspumpin
like but And its it's pretty clear which one's the head and which one's the crotch area of the of the damn bench, bud.
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damnbasspumpin
Put your crotch at the crotch area.
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Chris
Yeah. And even if it's just a straight bench that doesn't, you know, have
Living in the Moment vs. Capturing It
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Chris
the incline area or whatever. Yeah. They always put like the emblem where your head goes and the handle where you can move it is where your balls go.
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damnbasspumpin
And also... There's eight benches in a row with people on them and they're all facing one way.
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damnbasspumpin
You're not special. Cupcake.
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damnbasspumpin
Do what they're doing.
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damnbasspumpin
It's very annoying.
00:13:42
Chris
Hmm. What's like the gym at work the other day? I went in there and I always take a towel and I put it where the head goes just because I'm bald. I have a sweaty head.
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Chris
I know this is going to happen. I go to get on one of the benches and the head area has a spot. of I don't know what on it. I'm like, oh, what the hell?
00:14:06
Chris
um And all that person had to do was spray and wipe. It would have been fine. But no no, no, we can't do that.
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damnbasspumpin
yeah yeah well my gym has i finally got like they finally have broken want to go narc so bad so that the in the back of the gym if you have the upgraded membership which i do have but that's because they give a discount they give a discount to firefighters and it's a very hefty discount
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damnbasspumpin
So I go, I go, I have to go in there because sometimes I don't really want run people and I like to, you know, not embarrass people with big gut. So I'll go in there work out.
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damnbasspumpin
They put a sign up that says, if you use a weight, rack a weight, you know, you can, or something like that, you know, passive aggressive, rack weights.
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damnbasspumpin
The people who never rack their weights in there are the fucking trainers. And I'm start taking pictures.
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damnbasspumpin
sure Oh yeah. It's always the trainers. Yeah. Yeah. yeah So going to narc because they're the ones that it's the number one thing that you can do in a gym that's wrong.
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Chris
Yeah. um Wait, so are they the ones that are like videoing themselves working out?
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damnbasspumpin
And it never happened.
00:15:19
damnbasspumpin
No, I think what's happening is they're training someone and then it's one trainer that can think of a particular and then she won't have another client for an hour and she'll just leave all the shit out and yeah it's not acceptable yeah so
00:15:42
Chris
Or that's like the people that um they go and they take every dumbbell possible over to their bench.
Breakfast and Pizza Opinions
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Chris
like, no, I get that. You're going to run through all these, but just use it, rack get the next one. It's those extra steps will help you burn calories.
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damnbasspumpin
it's fair yeah there there is one girl who trains like that but uh to be honest she could be a goddess in many pantheons so she could do what she wants
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Chris
Ah, I was going to say, if they were like setting this stuff out so they could video them themselves while they're working out, you just get in behind them in the video and just have your belly out and just rubbing your belly or something.
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damnbasspumpin
You know what's kind of nice about my gym? That behavior doesn't happen.
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damnbasspumpin
People don't video themselves in my gym. And there's not even really a rule against it. They just don't do it.
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Chris
Yeah, that's yeah, it's kind of like an etiquette thing. Hmm.
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damnbasspumpin
Yeah, it's just another good thing.
00:16:45
damnbasspumpin
I was telling the guys on my shift the other day, I was going to kill like 30 people in Alaska. And the nice thing is I'm in Alaska, so I'll probably get away with it.
00:16:55
damnbasspumpin
You know, there's like one cop for 700 square miles.
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damnbasspumpin
I'm i good.
00:17:00
damnbasspumpin
So these people are just... We were at a ah hike. We were in this gorgeous... Like you got and you land in Juneau and you just hike out of this...
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damnbasspumpin
Basically out into the mountains. And it's gorgeous. These people are just walking... with their cameras and they're basically looking at their cameras and take instead of, you know, seeing what's around them.
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damnbasspumpin
It's, it's terrible. It's gross.
00:17:29
damnbasspumpin
And then they're not paying attention to where they're walking.
00:17:31
damnbasspumpin
So they walk into you and you're just like, it gets so frustrating. And I told share, I was like, I guess because I grew up as a bigger guy, I'm not a giant or anything, but I'm ah not a small person.
00:17:43
damnbasspumpin
I've always been very cognizant of where I am in relation to other people. And I try not to.
00:17:47
Chris
No, that's just called being a decent human.
00:17:50
damnbasspumpin
Sure. But these people do not give a crap.
00:17:54
damnbasspumpin
They just bump into you. They'll do whatever. And it's like, man, I want to. You realize there's no police officer here. And they'll never find your body.
00:18:05
damnbasspumpin
The secret.
00:18:05
Chris
Yeah. I will throw you in here with the brown bear.
00:18:08
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, the brown bear will take you out. But it's crazy how people just sit there with their cameras out. Like, and never enjoying the moment. Just...
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Chris
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Are you really going to go back and, oh, wow. Look at this video. No.
00:18:22
damnbasspumpin
Right. Yeah, I took like eight pictures my entire trip away.
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damnbasspumpin
I took one video, and I was standing still when I did it.
00:18:31
Chris
Live in the moment. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. You got to take the video while you're walking and have it. So it's videoing your reaction as well as whatever you're watching. So you can. Yeah.
00:18:49
damnbasspumpin
I did almost quit my job when I came back because I had such a nice beard.
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damnbasspumpin
And when I had to shave my beard, it was painful.
00:19:00
damnbasspumpin
was It was rough. And I was crying both.
00:19:02
Chris
Painful physically or painful.
00:19:06
damnbasspumpin
ah yeah Yeah, and now it's got gray in it, so I'm like, I've missed the chance to have a beard that wasn't gray.
00:19:13
Chris
Yeah. Are you kidding? When you do grow a beard, you can put the what's the.
00:19:18
damnbasspumpin
yeah Just for men. Yeah.
00:19:19
Chris
Yeah, just for men.
00:19:26
damnbasspumpin
It was physically painful too.
00:19:27
Chris
Mm. Yeah. Like, see, I take clippers to it first. and
00:19:31
damnbasspumpin
ah Yeah, well, I didn't charge my clippers beforehand.
00:19:36
damnbasspumpin
And it was, I was so jet lagged.
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damnbasspumpin
was just like, Shaving basically as a robot.
00:19:43
damnbasspumpin
It was rough.
00:19:49
damnbasspumpin
Bad times.
00:19:50
Chris
Yeah. It's like when we went ah Friday, we saw a Kevin James stand up and he's got a beard now and it's like, that's weird.
00:19:59
Chris
But yeah, i mean, like you so talk about walking and stuff. Yeah, we walked everywhere. We walked dinner and then to the show. And then the next morning we walked to breakfast. Eventually we found a breakfast spot.
00:20:14
damnbasspumpin
I get a text from listeners. I get a text yesterday from my friend. I'm going to kill my wife if she doesn't pick a place to eat breakfast.
00:20:25
damnbasspumpin
um How many places did you walk to?
00:20:29
damnbasspumpin
So my question, and the question I didn't ask yesterday because i wanted to save it for today, what was the eventual decision to get to
00:20:40
Chris
Um, she got, I, I got a breakfast sandwich like I was going to get at any of the other places and a cup of coffee.
00:20:47
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I'm not talking about you.
00:20:49
Chris
Yeah. Um, some kind of omelet bowl. okay Yeah. I don't know. It was something, but.
00:21:01
Chris
When I inquired later, and you know, it was, well, there are so many options.
00:21:12
damnbasspumpin
I get that. You know, it's tough sometimes to make a decision because you're like, oh my god there's...
00:21:17
damnbasspumpin
I don't want to lock into this place. But sometimes you just got to go for it, right
00:21:22
Chris
Yeah. And I feel bad because finally she just got something because she was like, ah, he's getting hangry.
00:21:30
Chris
come Which is definitely a thing with me. I definitely get hangry.
00:21:33
damnbasspumpin
Sure. Sure.
00:21:34
Chris
um But yeah. She's like, how's your coffee? I'm like, it tastes like coffee. I'm not a... as like I drink firehouse coffee five days of the week.
00:21:46
Chris
like You could, you know, give me a cup of coffee from a gas station. I'm just as happy.
00:21:52
damnbasspumpin
It's brown water that's hot.
00:21:55
damnbasspumpin
It's terrible.
00:21:55
Chris
Exactly. It's delightful.
00:21:57
damnbasspumpin
It's terrible. Oh, I have a rating for everyone.
00:22:01
damnbasspumpin
I tried the quote-unquote best pizza in Alaska. The answer is zero because it's not pizza.
00:22:09
Chris
What was it? Some kind of weird flatbread?
00:22:11
damnbasspumpin
It's a cracker with sauce and cheese on top.
00:22:14
damnbasspumpin
And it was tasty, but boy, oh, boy, was ah it was a literal flatbread that was so crispy it was a cracker. but ah Here's a tip to the people of Alaska.
00:22:26
damnbasspumpin
I love your, or at least Southeast Alaska. I love your your landscape.
00:22:32
damnbasspumpin
I love your friendliness. Your openness to share with strangers was amazing. course, I was paying you, so I'm sure that helps.
00:22:42
Chris
Yeah, it does help.
00:22:43
damnbasspumpin
But your pizza should not be able to fit under a closed door.
00:22:49
Chris
You think it's like they saw pictures of pizza and just like, oh, I'm sure this is how it's made.
00:22:57
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I think also that they learn from British people, because British people also don't know what pizza is, and they seem to think they know what pizza is.
00:23:05
Chris
but yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:08
damnbasspumpin
And they're probably very and very talkative about what they think pizza is, but they're wrong.
00:23:17
damnbasspumpin
And to the people of Italy, my family has descended from you. You also don't know what pizza is. I'm sorry. I apologize.
00:23:27
Chris
Giant slices of tomato and. Yeah.
00:23:30
damnbasspumpin
yeah you You guys may have invented the form, quote unquote, but we perfected it here in America.
00:23:38
damnbasspumpin
And unfortunately, we perfected it on the Mideast Coast of America.
00:23:44
damnbasspumpin
pretty much That's pretty much the only place in the world to get pizza.
00:23:48
Chris
Yeah, I'm sorry, your Chicago pizza casserole.
00:23:53
damnbasspumpin
ah Not only that, but Chicago. Let's talk, Kevin. I loved your city, Chicago. It was beautiful.
00:24:01
damnbasspumpin
You were welcoming to me. like also I was paying you, so that helps. you Your deep dish pizza is not pizza.
00:24:10
damnbasspumpin
It's cold soup in a sweet pastry casing.
00:24:14
damnbasspumpin
And that is weird.
00:24:16
Chris
Yeah, yeah. You should be able to pick it up, fold it and eat it.
00:24:18
damnbasspumpin
I went to the
00:24:23
damnbasspumpin
It shouldn't be sweet.
00:24:26
Chris
Yeah. and Unless you get like one of those weird dessert pizzas.
00:24:30
damnbasspumpin
That's not pizza.
00:24:31
Chris
Yeah, I know. That's just a ah tart tort.
00:24:34
damnbasspumpin
yeah and Which is, you know, it's fine.
00:24:37
damnbasspumpin
You can enjoy your dessert pizza, but it ain't pizza.
00:24:38
Chris
Yeah. Just don't call it pizza.
00:24:43
damnbasspumpin
I just like have strong opinions on what pizza is. so It's also my
00:24:51
damnbasspumpin
My viewpoint that pizza is only one flavor and that is cheese. Although things are just fancy
Gaming, Language Learning, and Philosophy
00:25:00
damnbasspumpin
and dreaming.
00:25:01
Chris
Hmm. See, I got to have pepperoni on my pizza. I mean, I'll eat just a plain cheese pizza, but I like a pepperoni.
00:25:10
damnbasspumpin
It's fine. Pepperoni pizza. Look.
00:25:13
Chris
But if you don't have the base correct, if you don't have the dough to sauce to cheese ratio, you can put whatever topping you want on it. It's going to be garbage.
00:25:24
damnbasspumpin
Once you start putting toppings on it, in my view, you aren't proud of your pizza.
00:25:32
damnbasspumpin
You don't think your pizza is very good. So if I see a place and they're like, oh, we sell this, you know, 17 topping pizza. I don't want that. Because that means you got bad pizza.
00:25:42
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Supreme pizzas, not pizza. It's a salad on top of bread.
00:25:46
damnbasspumpin
It's not pizza.
00:25:47
Chris
It's salad on top of bread. So what about the Hawaiian?
00:25:55
damnbasspumpin
Uh, it's an abomination.
00:25:58
damnbasspumpin
And it might be delicious, but it's not pizza.
00:26:03
damnbasspumpin
It's not. No bueno.
00:26:06
damnbasspumpin
It's fine.
00:26:08
Chris
Yeah. Just call it something else.
00:26:09
damnbasspumpin
Just call it something else. Just be proud of the fact that you eat something that's not pizza.
00:26:15
damnbasspumpin
It's fine.
00:26:18
damnbasspumpin
You know, look, I give Salisbury mad props. They have one of the best pizza shops around.
00:26:23
damnbasspumpin
That place doesn't get enough credit for being probably the best restaurant Salisbury.
00:26:26
Chris
It's because it's tucked in this little area.
00:26:30
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:34
Chris
But, but yeah, I mean, it's, yeah.
00:26:35
damnbasspumpin
But it's the best pizza.
00:26:37
Chris
i mean, you, you talk about, yeah. Don't call it pizza. I mean, it's not like I went to the Greek pita place the other day and I got a gyro. It's not like they're like, oh yeah, this is a Mediterranean taco or chalupa or whatever.
00:26:48
damnbasspumpin
Right. Right. Right.
00:26:55
damnbasspumpin
I have not been to that pita place.
00:26:58
damnbasspumpin
I should probably, I like Greek food.
00:27:03
damnbasspumpin
I went to the new ramen place.
00:27:03
Chris
I walk in. They're like, hey, Chris. I'm like, hey.
00:27:06
damnbasspumpin
Well, if I walked in and they said, hey Chris, that'd be weird.
00:27:08
Chris
No. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like the one guy he's like, what's it going to be today? Falafel or gyro?
00:27:18
damnbasspumpin
I'm not a falafel fan. It's so dry.
00:27:23
Chris
It can be. that's what i almost wish their falafels were smaller.
00:27:30
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, they tend to make them too big and they're like, it's too dry for me.
00:27:35
damnbasspumpin
I'm not a huge falafel fan.
00:27:38
Chris
Yeah. But they're fatter fries. Oh my gosh.
00:27:43
damnbasspumpin
Oh, I did go accidentally vegetarian and I've been vegetarian for three weeks.
00:27:49
damnbasspumpin
How did you hear?
00:27:52
Chris
Paramedical on your shift was talking about was talking about the fried rice you made the other night and how they had to cook some extra chicken for them and the driver.
00:27:53
damnbasspumpin
Which paramedic is writing me out?
00:28:02
damnbasspumpin
Oh my god.
00:28:05
damnbasspumpin
Okay, well that paramedic...
00:28:06
Chris
We were forced to eat vegetarian that night. I had to go out get chicken and cook it for me and the chauffeur.
00:28:12
damnbasspumpin
That is not even true, first off.
00:28:16
Chris
Didn't even put egg in the rice.
00:28:16
damnbasspumpin
This is... I did not put egg in the rice.
00:28:21
damnbasspumpin
if It was a vegetarian fried rice, and even the old man on the shift was like, this is delicious.
00:28:29
Chris
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's easier on his teeth.
00:28:37
damnbasspumpin
but They made this big deal like I wasn't going to serve chicken with it. I said, I'm going to make a fried rice and then we'll add whatever protein you guys want on top of it. I don't care. I'm just going to eat the fried rice.
00:28:48
damnbasspumpin
And then it became, oh, you wasn't going to put the protein until we said something.
00:28:56
damnbasspumpin
I looked at him and said, are going to die if you don't eat chicken one meal a day?
00:28:57
Chris
That chicken's so gross. It's just, yeah.
00:29:05
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, kinda.
00:29:08
damnbasspumpin
Like, yeah.
00:29:09
Chris
yeah but say I mean, seriously, if somebody is like, you can either only eat chicken as your protein or go vegetarian, I'm going vegetarian.
00:29:18
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah, well, I am.
00:29:21
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I didn't mean to go vegetarian.
00:29:22
damnbasspumpin
That's the weirdest part.
00:29:24
damnbasspumpin
I just, on the cruise ship, the only food that was really any good was the vegetarian option. And there was like the Indian food options.
00:29:34
damnbasspumpin
Pretty much I ate the whole whole ship and I was like, I came back, I'm like, huh, I guess I'm vegetarian now.
00:29:41
Chris
Yeah. I mean, it's like, you know, I'll eat, you know, a couple days and be like, you know, I haven't had meat since Monday or something.
00:29:51
Chris
You know, it's just happens.
00:29:54
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I read this book. My dietician recommended me called Fiber Fueled. I'm like, guys, definitely vegan.
00:30:01
damnbasspumpin
It's fine. He's a doctor and he talks about the benefits of all this. And he's like, look, just go with the 90% rule.
00:30:10
damnbasspumpin
You know, 90% vegetarian, 10% whatever the hell you want, and you're probably okay.
00:30:16
damnbasspumpin
I'm trying to kind of live by that life.
00:30:20
damnbasspumpin
You know, if eat 90% good, 10% crap, you'll be fine.
00:30:28
damnbasspumpin
You know? You know, I gotta to start... living that life when it comes to working out. Because I gotta stop guilting myself when I don't work out.
00:30:37
Chris
yeah You're allowed to yeah have days off and take care of yourself and
00:30:44
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:47
damnbasspumpin
Oh, I hate Metroidvania games, or Metroidvania, or whatever the hell you call those games.
00:30:51
Chris
Oh, God, which one did you try?
00:30:52
damnbasspumpin
I've decided. Hollow Knight?
00:30:55
Chris
oh yeah, that's I tried it. And I Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:58
damnbasspumpin
I'm like seven hours in that game. And, or maybe more, because ah we took the Switch with us on the boat.
00:31:07
damnbasspumpin
And yeah basically on the flight over, I played Hollow Knight the entire flight over.
00:31:14
damnbasspumpin
And man, either I'm doing it wrong, which is totally possible, or it's just really hard to progress in that game.
00:31:25
Chris
Yeah, i I didn't get far. I got very confused. I was like, there are these giant bugs that take you places. And yeah, yeah.
00:31:36
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:37
Chris
Yeah. Well, and you you were right. ah Expedition 33 is definitely a Chris ass game.
00:31:45
damnbasspumpin
Oh, it's the most crest game that's ever ever existed.
00:31:47
Chris
Yeah, I'm in act two.
00:31:51
damnbasspumpin
Oh, I didn't get that far. The almost...
00:31:52
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, I'm finally starting to get the parrying down.
00:31:58
damnbasspumpin
almost As the the first cutscene was rolling, I was like, this is the most Crest game I've ever been involved with.
00:32:07
damnbasspumpin
It's beautiful.
00:32:11
damnbasspumpin
Very confusing. Yeah.
00:32:17
damnbasspumpin
Seems cool.
00:32:19
Chris
Yeah. Turn-based combat. I like, um,
00:32:21
damnbasspumpin
yeah it's...
00:32:23
Chris
i Don't it's one of those though, that you've got more characters than slots in your party.
00:32:30
Chris
So it's always that like, Oh, who do I take?
00:32:33
damnbasspumpin
Well, you do. I don't. haven't got that far.
00:32:36
damnbasspumpin
I only have three characters.
00:32:40
damnbasspumpin
But it is.
00:32:40
Chris
I'm learning French because of it.
00:32:42
damnbasspumpin
Oh, but that's helpful.
00:32:45
Chris
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's actually, actually after side tangent, the French men were here. at the ah fire department for a couple of weeks. i was like, you know what?
00:32:54
damnbasspumpin
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:32:55
Chris
Yeah, maybe I will dabble into French a little bit. um That language all sounds the same.
00:33:03
Chris
Oh, oh, oh, you had an orange today. Great. God almighty.
00:33:09
damnbasspumpin
It's a lot of P's and R's.
00:33:12
Chris
Well, I'm, I'm, I'm like, like, oh man.
00:33:16
Chris
Oh, it's yeah. It's, it's very,
00:33:21
Chris
don't know, guttural, almost.
00:33:21
damnbasspumpin
and um ah Yes.
00:33:25
damnbasspumpin
That's very fair. um Yeah, it's not a beautiful language, I would say.
00:33:35
damnbasspumpin
It's a ah mumbly language. yeah
00:33:40
Chris
yeah Yeah, I was about to say, Duolingo, I'm like, have the speaker to my ear.
00:33:40
damnbasspumpin
And it's a little frustrating to learn.
00:33:51
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, try to watch French TV and it's like, whoa.
00:33:55
damnbasspumpin
These aren't words. This is just the mumbling of a madman.
00:34:00
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. yeah Yeah, I'm on my... Streak still. this The only thing I'd use my internet for and while I was in Alaska was to continue my Duolingo streak.
00:34:13
damnbasspumpin
Now we're learning about sports.
00:34:17
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. And how to pray for your football team.
00:34:22
damnbasspumpin
That's literally one of the things they talked about.
00:34:25
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Some of the sentences they put together in Duolingo, I'm just like, what the hell were you smoking?
00:34:32
damnbasspumpin
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:34:35
damnbasspumpin
and Wait until you get to like some of the really wacky ways that French people handle possessive. It's real bad.
00:34:45
Chris
I know the way they count is bizarre. Like, was it?
00:34:49
damnbasspumpin
They count in 20s.
00:34:50
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Because 80 is like four twenties. Yeah. Yep. yeah
00:34:55
damnbasspumpin
yeah That actually goes like all the way back to like the ancient Gauls. It's kind of cool.
00:35:02
damnbasspumpin
There were a 20-based counting system. like, you know, 4,000 years ago or whatever.
00:35:10
damnbasspumpin
It's pretty cool.
00:35:11
Chris
Yeah. Not a base of 10. That's 20. twenty That's a nice round number 20.
00:35:16
damnbasspumpin
Well, why does base of 10 make any more sense?
00:35:18
Chris
I don't know. um but it Either of them make more sense than 12.
00:35:24
damnbasspumpin
Who's a base 8? Is that Persian? Is base 8?
00:35:28
Chris
like I don't know. That's... Oh, God.
00:35:30
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I think they're an 8 base system.
00:35:32
Chris
I'm going to start with five or seven.
00:35:35
damnbasspumpin
But 8 base makes more sense. 8 and 12 make more sense than 10 and 20, by the way. There are 24 hours in a day, so it's ah it's a system of 12s.
00:35:46
damnbasspumpin
And 8 also divided into 12s, into 24s.
00:35:46
Chris
but but That's just because some maniac decided it should be 24 hours. It could 20 hours. it could be twenty hours
00:35:56
damnbasspumpin
ah No, because then it wouldn't be even.
00:35:59
Chris
Time is, ah look, we've we have broken me before about time, okay? We're not doing this again.
00:36:04
damnbasspumpin
That's fair.
00:36:07
damnbasspumpin
It's just a construct.
00:36:08
damnbasspumpin
it's you know
00:36:10
Chris
Yeah, the to two weeks ago, three weeks ago, something, I don't know. We had both our families over at Memorial Day weekend. We had a little barbecue on Sunday this and that.
00:36:21
Chris
I'm grilling away and there's conversations and I hear my oldest daughter talking to someone. I can't remember who it was in the family. And they were talking about, you what time is this? And she's like, well, you know, it's this. But I mean, really, what is time?
00:36:34
Chris
I slam the spatula down. Exactly. My wife is just like,
Comic Book Movies and Expectations
00:36:41
Chris
go back to grilling.
00:36:44
damnbasspumpin
i I was watching really deep science videos one day while i was working out. Because I got thinking, what's at the edge of the universe?
00:36:57
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, it really messes your brain because the answer is we don't know.
00:37:01
damnbasspumpin
And they don't think there's an edge. ah
00:37:05
Chris
Isn't like it's a ever expanding edge. So there's really not an edge because it's always moving.
00:37:11
damnbasspumpin
Well, the one theory is that it's a non-Euclidean shape, so it folds back in on itself. Yeah, it was just crazy. Yeah. Then I got a whole thing of, like, perceptive time. It was so.
00:37:25
damnbasspumpin
Boy, it was crazy.
00:37:28
damnbasspumpin
Don't do it. It'll break your brain.
00:37:29
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Yeah. Tyson, if you're listening, Neil, please, please just, just stop breaking my brain.
00:37:41
damnbasspumpin
We don't care if you learn, just stop telling us a bit.
00:37:41
Chris
Cause I will see these. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, when it comes to time and relative, uh, just let me be dumb.
00:37:49
damnbasspumpin
But also, everything they're telling you is bullshit.
00:37:54
damnbasspumpin
Because it's based on their observ observations and their theories.
00:37:59
damnbasspumpin
But who are they, is what I say.
00:38:05
Chris
Oh, don't even get me started about the church I went to the other day.
00:38:09
damnbasspumpin
You went to a church?
00:38:11
Chris
My brother got baptized. So I was.
00:38:13
damnbasspumpin
Your brother got baptized?
00:38:15
Chris
Yes. So I was being. i was invited. I was like, OK, I'll go. You know, show support. And it reaffirmed that I'm not a church person.
00:38:26
damnbasspumpin
think we should get off this topic.
00:38:27
Chris
Yes. Yes, we should. Yep.
00:38:29
damnbasspumpin
Let's go to topic one.
00:38:33
damnbasspumpin
Because there's a pitfalls of things right there.
00:38:36
damnbasspumpin
So I watched some movies on my vacation.
00:38:42
damnbasspumpin
um no marvel movies actually movies that i had heard not great things about and i'm gonna say i found them all perfectly enjoyable so i'm gonna preface that i watched venom death to us part
00:39:06
damnbasspumpin
um Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Seven and Rings.
00:39:17
damnbasspumpin
captain America Brave New World.
00:39:20
Chris
Brave New World. Yeah.
00:39:22
damnbasspumpin
I started to watch Kraven the Hunter. I didn't get to finish that one.
00:39:25
Chris
Oh, God. That one's bad.
00:39:27
damnbasspumpin
Oh, really?
00:39:28
Chris
Yeah. In my opinion.
00:39:29
damnbasspumpin
mean, the rest of the trope part was bad. ah
00:39:33
damnbasspumpin
The Russell Crowe part was bad. He was a seemingly fat old Russian guy.
00:39:40
damnbasspumpin
um I'm going to say this. because And then when I came back, I heard people trashing Brave New World. They were all perfectly fine. They're all perfectly serviceable movies. And we all need to chill the fuck out.
00:39:53
Chris
Yeah, I think they are all serviceable movies. I think a lot of the hate is because of just kind of i' know.
00:40:07
Chris
The take they took on some of them. Like, like Venom, the last dance. I, I, I, there was just so many weird things in that that just didn't make sense.
00:40:19
damnbasspumpin
I mean, it's comic book movies. It's not supposed to make sense.
00:40:21
Chris
I, I know, it I know it is, but like, oh, the, this creature can't see us when we're not, you know, in Venom form, but,
00:40:34
Chris
it can see the other people to kill them and just, you know, it's like, it was, it was way too comic booky in that it was, you know, Oh, it can, you know, it's got this bright light on us that it sees us when we're venom.
00:40:48
Chris
Oh, poof, you know, venom, you know, has receded. i don't know where he went. Where did he go? Yeah. it's um
00:40:56
damnbasspumpin
It was fine. I'm not saying it was the greatest movie of all time.
00:40:59
damnbasspumpin
But i what I think my point is, people need to chill out that, yes, I think most people would agree that Avengers Endgame and all of that that it built up to was a great arc.
00:41:13
damnbasspumpin
And it was a great movie. But to like trash these other movies because they're not that is kind of bonkers.
00:41:22
damnbasspumpin
I'd be like, You know, every war movie is not Apocalypse Now, so they all suck.
00:41:29
Chris
Or every painting sucks that isn't the Mona Lisa.
00:41:33
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's um it's just learn to enjoy the things that you do.
00:41:40
Chris
Every MP3 player that's not a zoom is horrible.
00:41:43
damnbasspumpin
There it is. But I mean, I thought Brave New World was a fun watch. I watched it on a plane, you know?
00:41:50
damnbasspumpin
i mean, I'm not saying run out to theaters and stay in line for 30 hours to see it, but it was a perfectly good movie.
00:41:56
damnbasspumpin
I mean, I enjoy Sam Wilson as Captain America. I think it's an interesting concept.
00:42:06
damnbasspumpin
Bucky as a congressman is weird.
00:42:10
Chris
But I don't understand the whole...
00:42:13
Chris
why Sam can't take the super soldier serum.
00:42:19
damnbasspumpin
We choose not to, right? And that whole thing.
00:42:20
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah, I get that he chose not to, but why? Yeah.
00:42:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. He likes getting his ass kicked. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:34
damnbasspumpin
yeah kids well And getting stabbed and getting beat up a lot.
00:42:39
Chris
And why didn't he? i Why didn't he use guns?
00:42:46
damnbasspumpin
That's a good question.
00:42:46
Chris
We've seen Falcon use guns all before. don't know.
00:42:52
damnbasspumpin
We've even seen Captain America. Well, in the comics we've seen guns and he's used guns just in the World War II start.
00:42:54
Chris
Yeah, we have seen Captain America use guns. ah In the Marvel we have too.
00:43:01
Chris
Yeah, just in the World War II site. But I thought Red Hulk was really good.
00:43:08
damnbasspumpin
Wait, who's Red Hulk?
00:43:12
damnbasspumpin
Oh, Red Hulk. Oh, I said Hulk.
00:43:15
damnbasspumpin
I'm like, Red Hulk?
00:43:15
Chris
No, no, no, Red Hulk. Yeah.
00:43:17
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, I thought Harris Ford was...
00:43:18
Chris
Like I was actually like, I was like, oh my God, they're going to kill Sam Wilson.
00:43:23
damnbasspumpin
yeah Yeah, there actually felt like there was actual danger.
00:43:30
damnbasspumpin
That was really good. i i thought the whole whoever that guy is is weird. Bart was weird, but is that his name?
00:43:38
Chris
ah The leader. I think, yeah, the brain guy.
00:43:43
damnbasspumpin
The brain guy, yeah, yeah.
00:43:45
damnbasspumpin
That was interesting.
00:43:48
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, it was... I enjoyed the movie. I'm not sure why it got all the hate it got.
00:43:54
Chris
Well, I think, yeah, it's um Chris Evans was an amazing captain America. don't, I don't know. I don't think people were ready for Sam to be captain.
00:44:09
Chris
I think in the comics, it was a slower transition. Maybe. I don't know, yeah.
00:44:16
damnbasspumpin
We're all going to have to realize that people can't play these parts forever.
00:44:22
damnbasspumpin
Right. It's also my...
00:44:23
Chris
Unless you're Hugh Jackman, you'll be Wolverine until he's 90. Yeah.
00:44:26
damnbasspumpin
That's fair. But it's also my problem with like people against Captain Marvel. I think Brie Larson did a perfectly fine job with that.
00:44:31
Chris
yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah, I thought she, yeah, she's amazing as Captain Marvel.
00:44:39
damnbasspumpin
I really like the Captain Marvel movie. The one with the Skrulls. And people hear that movie real dog. They really hate on that movie.
00:44:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't realize there was a lot of hate for Shang Chi or Shang Chi.
00:44:54
damnbasspumpin
I didn't either.
00:44:56
Chris
Yeah, I thought I thought it was good.
00:44:58
damnbasspumpin
I thought it was a cool
Live Comedy and Dining Adventures
00:45:00
damnbasspumpin
take on a kung fu movie set in a comic book world.
00:45:02
Chris
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:45:06
damnbasspumpin
I mean, it's kind of on its own, I would say.
00:45:12
damnbasspumpin
But I thought it was fine.
00:45:14
Chris
Yeah. And what's his face as character?
00:45:17
Chris
the ah got The British guy who was the Mandarin and
00:45:23
damnbasspumpin
Ben Kingsley.
00:45:24
Chris
Ben Kingsley. Yeah. God.
00:45:25
Chris
His character was hilarious.
00:45:26
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. that I thought that movie had just the right mix of comic relief and decent kung fu. What about that?
00:45:41
damnbasspumpin
i didn't I didn't watch it before, but that's up I'm not a good judge of... Don't use me. But I didn't realize how much hate there was for that movie.
00:45:51
damnbasspumpin
I heard nothing but hate freak for Captain America.
00:45:53
damnbasspumpin
And I've heard nothing but hate for Kraven. I didn't really hear anything about the Venom. Just kind of like...
00:45:58
Chris
Yeah. at The Venom movies, they've been fine. I think part of it also is i get it that it's, you know, Sony still owns the character, but you can't have Venom without Spider-Man.
00:46:09
damnbasspumpin
It is a weird... situation where you have Venom without Spider-Man.
00:46:14
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, that's.
00:46:15
damnbasspumpin
And also without the Spider-Man gallery of villains.
00:46:21
damnbasspumpin
Like, it feels weird.
00:46:25
damnbasspumpin
It feels weird for Venom to be like the standalone thing.
00:46:31
damnbasspumpin
But it did make me want to go back and watch. I haven't watched any of the other Venom movies. So...
00:46:36
Chris
Again, they're serviceable movies. They have their moments. They're good comic book movies. It's just, in my opinion, weird without Spider-Man.
00:46:47
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:48
Chris
Because, I mean, that's the whole... i mean that's the whole That's why Venom looks like Venom because he was originally bonded to Peter and you know, yeah.
00:46:54
damnbasspumpin
Right. Yeah.
00:46:58
damnbasspumpin
That part's a little weird. i'm on I'm on board with that's an odd...
00:47:03
damnbasspumpin
And that's just how the the world is right now.
00:47:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Just wait. If you finish watching Craven.
00:47:10
damnbasspumpin
So, yeah. Is it really that bad?
00:47:11
Chris
Yeah. Have you watched Morbius?
00:47:14
damnbasspumpin
No, isn't that the one that they tried to release and re-release because nobody liked it?
00:47:20
Chris
Yeah, that and Madam Web. The Sony quote unquote Spider-Verse movies are just because they don't have Spider-Man in them. So it's, you know, it's just bizarre.
00:47:32
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, and people love Spider-Man.
00:47:34
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
00:47:34
damnbasspumpin
As we discussed last time, people love Spider-Man two times ago.
00:47:36
Chris
yeah Spider-Man's amazing.
00:47:39
damnbasspumpin
It's literally in the title.
00:47:40
Chris
It's got it in his name. Yeah, yeah.
00:47:41
damnbasspumpin
It's in the title. um i
00:47:47
damnbasspumpin
It makes me worried for the Fantastic Four movie.
00:47:51
damnbasspumpin
and If it's not nailed 100%, people are just going to rage against it.
00:47:56
Chris
Well, I think people already are raging.
00:47:59
damnbasspumpin
Oh, really?
00:48:00
Chris
Oh, yeah, they're like, why does Reed Richards have a mustache? Who gives a shit?
00:48:05
damnbasspumpin
That's a weird thing to be mad about.
00:48:10
Chris
People fussed about the Cavill mustache or lactheral you the CG about that. I don't know. The people are raging. Oh, there's a female Silver Surfer. Well, there's actually a female Silver Surfer in the comics, so shut it, nerd.
00:48:27
damnbasspumpin
and I didn't know that.
00:48:29
damnbasspumpin
It's a fact.
00:48:31
damnbasspumpin
Austin didn't hear.
00:48:31
Chris
yeah we We went and saw the Thunderbolts in the theater because my wife's a maniac and likes the theater experience.
00:48:37
Chris
it um We had fun. mean, it wasn't a 10 out of 10, but it was a good comic book movie.
00:48:45
damnbasspumpin
Does it need to be a 10 out of 10 every time?
00:48:47
Chris
I don't think so. but I think people have it in their mind. but You can take it to everything. ah Look at video games. A game will get an eight or an 8.5 or even a seven. And people are like, oh, that's garbage.
00:49:02
damnbasspumpin
Right, right.
00:49:03
Chris
And it's oh not everything can be a masterpiece.
00:49:08
damnbasspumpin
And what people need to understand is also it's in the high of eyes of the critic.
00:49:13
damnbasspumpin
right wait You know, you and I would rate Exposition 33 wildly different.
00:49:20
damnbasspumpin
Right? you would Because it's that's not my my play style.
00:49:26
damnbasspumpin
It's not the thing I want to and invest my time into. So to me, it's not worth as much as it is to you. That doesn't make it wrong.
00:49:36
damnbasspumpin
Well, you're wrong, but you know.
00:49:40
Chris
Yeah. All of these are subjective interpretations.
00:49:46
damnbasspumpin
right I mean...
00:49:48
Chris
There's no, there's no objective, you know, it's not like, well, yes.
00:49:51
damnbasspumpin
There are objectively bad movies out there, right
00:49:54
Chris
Yeah. I get, you know, there can be, know, problems with, you acting or cinematography or things like that, but.
00:49:59
damnbasspumpin
right? ah Blade 3 is objectively a bad movie. you know Wesley Snipes didn't want to do it.
00:50:07
damnbasspumpin
you know There was all these problems.
00:50:10
damnbasspumpin
and Look, Blade is a beloved movie franchise, right?
00:50:15
damnbasspumpin
That... that they've It's so beloved that they're having trouble rebooting Blade because of it.
00:50:24
damnbasspumpin
But people forget that Blade 3 was bad.
00:50:28
damnbasspumpin
Like, it's it's really bad. Blade 2 is not great.
00:50:33
damnbasspumpin
But Blade 1 is amazing.
00:50:35
Chris
yeah Yeah. I mean, well look at some of the X-Men movies.
00:50:39
damnbasspumpin
ah Almost all of them are bad.
00:50:44
damnbasspumpin
I mean, that doesn't... I mean, really bad.
00:50:51
damnbasspumpin
X-Men 3, X3, terrible.
00:50:52
Chris
Oh, gosh, that so bad.
00:50:54
damnbasspumpin
Terrible movie.
00:50:54
Chris
Yeah. Oh, the joke or not.
00:50:56
damnbasspumpin
But people love...
00:50:58
damnbasspumpin
yeah People love Hugh Jackman's Wolverine from that, but they forget how bad those movies really were.
00:51:08
damnbasspumpin
Spider-Man 3, pretty bad.
00:51:10
Chris
Oh, really bad. Yeah.
00:51:13
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, it's like real bad.
00:51:17
damnbasspumpin
And then they're considered bad movies.
00:51:22
damnbasspumpin
But I think there's reason for that.
00:51:25
damnbasspumpin
We didn't hate on them as bad as I think people are hating on these movies.
00:51:30
damnbasspumpin
To hate on Sam Wilson as Captain America because he's chris not Chris Evans is bonkers.
00:51:34
Chris
Dumb. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's a totally...
00:51:36
damnbasspumpin
Because Chris Evans said he doesn't want to do it anymore.
00:51:40
damnbasspumpin
What are you supposed to do?
00:51:42
damnbasspumpin
And funny enough, the comic books have an answer for that because they're just like, oh, well, someone becomes the new Iron Man.
00:51:51
damnbasspumpin
Someone becomes the new Captain America.
00:51:56
damnbasspumpin
It's, yeah.
00:51:59
damnbasspumpin
It's bad. Sad.
00:52:02
damnbasspumpin
It's a sad way to hate on movies.
00:52:06
damnbasspumpin
Because you're not enjoy yourself if you don't.
00:52:08
Chris
Right. And it doesn't help anyone.
00:52:13
damnbasspumpin
It's never going to be... ah Fantastic Four, whatever it comes out in three months, I think.
00:52:22
Chris
No, it's next month. Isn't it?
00:52:22
damnbasspumpin
Something like...
00:52:25
damnbasspumpin
Is it next month?
00:52:28
damnbasspumpin
I thought it was fall. but Whatever.
00:52:30
damnbasspumpin
Whenever it comes out. When that movie comes out, there's always going to be, well, they didn't do...
00:52:39
damnbasspumpin
Johnny Storm wasn't good enough and...
00:52:41
damnbasspumpin
You know, there's just going to be something you're not going to like.
00:52:44
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah, I'm sure.
00:52:46
damnbasspumpin
Oh, I just, I just talked myself out of defending, not defending these people. Because Ghost Rider is so bad. Damn it, Nicolas Cage.
00:52:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. that's ah yeah
00:53:02
damnbasspumpin
I wanted to like that movie so bad because I love Ghost Rider.
00:53:08
damnbasspumpin
And they, man, they fucked that movie up.
00:53:12
damnbasspumpin
had such good potential. Had Nicolas Cage, had Sam, um, Sam Elliott, who said, yeah.
00:53:20
damnbasspumpin
Eva Longoria, no, Eva Mendes, whatever that lady's name is.
00:53:26
damnbasspumpin
Hot chick with the mole.
00:53:32
damnbasspumpin
Just got mole right on our, our beady mark.
00:53:36
damnbasspumpin
But anyways, that's a bad movie.
00:53:39
damnbasspumpin
Eva Mendes, that's a bad movie.
00:53:44
damnbasspumpin
And it feels like it shouldn't be a bad movie because it feels like something that Nick Cage would totally do and be into.
00:53:51
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, but mean, there was also that unreleased Superman movie that he was in.
00:53:57
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:01
Chris
Which, I mean, that's, I mean, it's the other side, but DC, they've got the new Superman movie coming out next month and people are angry about that.
00:54:10
damnbasspumpin
I'll do Superman.
00:54:13
damnbasspumpin
I'm not angry about it, but I just don't want to watch Krypton blowing up for the 38th time.
00:54:18
Chris
I don't think they're going to show that.
00:54:21
Chris
I don't think so. I don't think that they're going to have an origin origin story in it.
00:54:26
damnbasspumpin
<unk>s It's fine to admit we all know who Superman is.
00:54:26
Chris
Yeah. Cause I think, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:54:32
damnbasspumpin
You can move on.
00:54:35
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, like Shang-Chi made sense that there was an origin sheet story, right? Not a lot of people know that character...
00:54:42
damnbasspumpin
Doctor Strange even. Like that was a perfectly fine acceptable thing.
00:54:48
damnbasspumpin
I don't need to hear about Batman one more time. I don't need to hear about Superman one more time.
00:54:51
Chris
Right. hmm. Well, that was like the um
00:54:57
Chris
God, I can't think of his name. Tom Holland, the new Spider-Man. We didn't have to see Uncle Ben get murdered.
00:55:04
damnbasspumpin
It's true. We've all seen it. We all know what's going on.
00:55:09
damnbasspumpin
They didn't even really talk about it, right?
00:55:09
Chris
He's Peter Parker. Yeah. No. yeah He's Peter Parker. Cool.
00:55:13
Chris
We know where this is going.
00:55:23
Chris
Just, yeah. We need to give movies a little bit more I don't leeway.
00:55:30
Chris
and Look, you're you're entitled to your opinions, but I think it's also that it's so easy to hate on the Internet.
00:55:37
damnbasspumpin
It is that. And it's also tough because if a movie doesn't make $100 billion, dollars we don't consider it a success anymore.
00:55:48
damnbasspumpin
And I think that's part of the problem too, is we we don't have a good metric for what what makes a successful movie anymore because people just aren't going to the theater. It's like, I haven't been to the theater.
00:56:00
damnbasspumpin
want I went to see that terrible Ridley Scott movie. That was last thing I saw in the theater.
00:56:04
Chris
Which Ridley Scott, maybe?
00:56:07
Chris
Napoleon. Oh, yeah.
00:56:08
damnbasspumpin
Oh my god, that was bad.
00:56:09
Chris
Yeah. I mean, yeah.
00:56:11
damnbasspumpin
Objectively bad.
00:56:12
Chris
Yeah. I mean, take the the financial parts out of it. I mean, if it was just one of those, like, when you got done, as you walked out, you know, you've you hit a I liked it, I didn't like it button or something.
00:56:25
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, or, you know, it doesn't have to be I had the greatest time of my life, it could just be I was entertained.
00:56:32
Chris
yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:56:35
damnbasspumpin
Harrison Ford was a believable Red Hulk.
00:56:39
damnbasspumpin
Crazily, crazily believable Red Hulk.
00:56:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah
00:56:43
damnbasspumpin
When he was like inside the aircraft carrier and like gripping the the pipe, I was like, oh my God, he's going to bust out as Red Hulk in this fucking carrier and just destroy everything.
00:56:54
damnbasspumpin
I was so excited for that.
00:56:56
damnbasspumpin
It didn't happen.
00:56:59
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:01
Chris
But I think it's also, and I get that they want to keep things separated, but like with something like that, it's like, there's a red Hulk that appears in DC.
00:57:14
Chris
Nobody's going to call like, I don't know, Bruce Banner. Yeah.
00:57:18
damnbasspumpin
Right. right Hey, Sam Wilson, I know you got no superpowers and Hulk objectively is the strongest being in the Marvel Universe and is invulnerable and there's literally no way to stop him.
00:57:22
Chris
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Hmm.
00:57:35
damnbasspumpin
You have no powers.
00:57:36
damnbasspumpin
That's cool.
00:57:36
Chris
Yeah. Phone a friend, bud.
00:57:38
damnbasspumpin
but but It would have been amazing if they're alright, Sam's just distracting him and and then you just see Bruce Banner just Hulk smash.
00:57:48
damnbasspumpin
That would have been amazing.
00:57:54
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, that part was a little unbelievable because, again, Hulk is...
00:58:00
damnbasspumpin
All Hulks are amazingly terrifyingly strong beings.
00:58:05
damnbasspumpin
It also... How are they keeping him from hulking out inside of, what is it called, the hole?
00:58:13
damnbasspumpin
The raft, yeah, yeah.
00:58:14
Chris
I'm assuming it's something in his suit. Cause there was like on the left chest of it. There was like, don't looked like electronics or something on this, but yeah, that's the thing.
00:58:25
Chris
Yeah. You get, just get angry and bust his way out.
00:58:27
damnbasspumpin
Right. Yeah. The best thing you can do is send him into a wormhole let him be a hulk smashing things.
00:58:35
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. It would be cool to see him like brought back for something.
00:58:42
damnbasspumpin
I don't know Harrison Ford is going to do that, but it would be pretty cool.
00:58:47
Chris
Oh, yeah. But, I mean, ah get you know, definitely get his permission and everything, but do you really need actual Harrison Ford?
00:58:56
damnbasspumpin
That's fair.
00:58:57
Chris
Or do you just CG it and it's the Hulk?
00:59:00
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, that's fair.
00:59:00
Chris
yeah He doesn't have to be Thunderbolt Ross. He could just be Red Hulk.
00:59:06
damnbasspumpin
You know what made me kind of happy? The child in me was very happy in it. I was happy that Harrison Ford did the movie.
00:59:14
damnbasspumpin
Because, like, he gets this, and you get the impression from Harrison that he's kind of, like, done with doing those kinds of things.
00:59:20
damnbasspumpin
But then you remember, oh, yeah, this guy's just, he just likes doing action movies.
00:59:26
damnbasspumpin
Like, he, I think, I think we got a bad, I got a bad impression of Harrison because he was like, i don't want to do hands Han Solo anymore. i don't want have anything to do with Star Wars.
00:59:35
damnbasspumpin
I'm done with it.
00:59:38
damnbasspumpin
But he didn't still does indie, so he's still into doing bad stuff.
00:59:42
damnbasspumpin
He's just...
00:59:44
Chris
Yeah. Well, and I think they interviewed him before Brave New World came out or whatever.
00:59:49
Chris
He was like, they just told me I had to, you know, yeah, i had some acting, but I also got to just growl and roar and scream. That was, you I could act like an idiot and get paid for it.
01:00:00
damnbasspumpin
He's also apparently high, constantly.
01:00:03
Chris
Yeah, well, you know what? He's he's what? 80. Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:07
damnbasspumpin
Oh, yeah, he's easily 80.
01:00:10
damnbasspumpin
And he, yeah. And he did a good job. Yeah. All right, that's ah that's all I'm going say.
01:00:18
damnbasspumpin
Go watch it.
01:00:20
damnbasspumpin
82 years old.
01:00:21
Chris
yeah Yeah. I mean, look at him at the end of that when he was, you know, getting all right. He's in great shape for an 82 year old. Yeah.
01:00:28
damnbasspumpin
In pretty good shape for an 82-year-old. And when he hulks out, you're like, oh, my God, look how great his shape he's in.
01:00:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah That's how it actually works.
01:00:37
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00:38
damnbasspumpin
They give him the super, the, uh, guess, what's this?
01:00:41
damnbasspumpin
and But it's not really gamma radiation with him.
01:00:43
damnbasspumpin
It doesn't really make sense.
01:00:46
damnbasspumpin
Because it's a serum that he's taking a pill for. Yeah.
01:00:50
damnbasspumpin
Comic books magic.
01:00:51
Chris
Comic books. Yeah. Hmm.
01:00:55
damnbasspumpin
Well, my friend, we've got a topic to, we ran long on that conversation about comic movies.
01:00:57
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, topic two is not going to be probably that long. Um, so my wife and I went and saw, ah we've talked about before standup comedy act. You we went and saw one live.
01:01:13
Chris
Probably the first one we've seen.
01:01:16
Chris
and was at a larger venue, you know, can't remember what the capacity was down there and everything, but, um, yeah There were a lot of people, lots ah lots of people. I somehow lucked out that the seat beside me and the seat in front of me stayed vacant.
01:01:32
Chris
It was a sold out show, but those people didn't show up or whatever. But it's just, I don't understand why people are so stupid when they go to these venues.
01:01:44
Chris
The seats are clearly labeled, but people have no idea where their seats are. um There was one gentleman i overheard. who was mumbling around, stumbling around. And he's like, no, these are our seats.
01:01:59
Chris
No. And the people he was trying to steal the seats from, no, no, no, these are ours. Look, look at our ticket. one he is And then they finally called a usher over and the usher looks at this gentleman's tickets and it says, ah sir, this says WC 100 seats five and six.
01:02:15
Chris
Well, yeah, this is section 100. And the usher was like, well, yes, but we see WC means wheelchair. The wheelchair section is right beside this. It's right here.
01:02:27
Chris
Yeah, but there aren't any seats there. And the usher says, well, sir, if you buy a wheelchair seat, there's no seat because you're in a wheelchair.
01:02:37
Chris
And this guy was just stunned.
01:02:43
Chris
i My wife and I look at each other and we look back and it's just like, yeah, yeah. This schmuck bought wheelchair seats and then had the audacity to be angry that there weren't chairs.
01:02:58
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah, thats
01:03:00
Chris
I, I, uh, yeah, yeah.
01:03:03
damnbasspumpin
but that's a tough one. yeah that
01:03:06
damnbasspumpin
The second part of the wheelchair word really is a clue.
01:03:11
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, yeah.
01:03:12
Chris
yeah Um, I was a bad person at this comedy show ah before it started.
01:03:20
Chris
um So on the way, we are trying to find a place to eat. And every place was pretty full. And we went to this lovely, it was like an old burger diner kind of place. It's called Frank and Patty's.
01:03:31
Chris
And that's literally, they sold hot dogs and hamburgers. That's it.
01:03:36
damnbasspumpin
to say the name.
01:03:36
Chris
And yeah. Yeah. Well, which side tangent, I'm an idiot. I thought it was a gentleman named Frank and a lady named Patty that opened this place.
01:03:44
damnbasspumpin
Sure. I can see that.
Cost of Living Anecdotes
01:03:47
Chris
So anyway, yeah, we got our burgers there. They're great. It is a nice thing for two burgers, two orders of fries. My wife got a cocktail. I got their beer on tap or whatever that they make. It was, i don't know. Our dinner was 40 bucks.
01:04:03
Chris
It was, it was, yeah.
01:04:03
damnbasspumpin
oh so side tangent to that quick side tangent we went to Alaska do you know how much a salad at one of this restaurant we went to and this was like a same thing like a little local dive bar how much $38 everything is crazy expensive out there from the icebergs yes yeah yeah
01:04:17
Chris
Yeah. Oh, was probably $25.
01:04:21
Chris
Good God. Well, yeah, because they don't have lettuce up there.
01:04:27
Chris
Wait, wait, wait. Isn't that where they get the iceberg lettuce? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah, I got a burger fries.
01:04:39
Chris
We're sitting there. And, yeah, you might tell me rumbled a little bit. was like, oh, I was like, well, I can.
01:04:47
Chris
Maybe I can let this out quietly.
01:04:49
damnbasspumpin
ah oh oh no
01:04:50
Chris
And I did. was very quiet. And all of a sudden my wife elbows me and she goes, oh my God, what is that? This young man had just walked behind us. And I point, i was like, that son of a bitch crop dusted us.
01:05:06
Chris
And my wife believed it.
01:05:10
Chris
So I let this young man take the fall
01:05:16
damnbasspumpin
i no No clue he's far under the bus.
01:05:23
damnbasspumpin
Way to go.
01:05:24
Chris
Well, that was like a little bit later. My tummy rumbled again. i was like, I can't do this again.
01:05:29
damnbasspumpin
same guy's not here.
01:05:29
Chris
Cause the guy's not here.
01:05:30
damnbasspumpin
I gotta find him.
01:05:37
damnbasspumpin
Nice. That's nice.
01:05:39
Chris
But yeah, it was just, yeah. yeah But yeah, like I said, it was nice to walk to a venue, you know, find a place to eat on the way. They had like their nightlife going on. you know on our way back and, you know, a whole little downtown area. was, it was quaint.
01:05:53
Chris
And evidently this venue we went, it's called the dome. It's like 90% done construction wise. They're still finishing the parking garage part, but it's a, it's part owned by Pharrell.
01:06:05
Chris
This was the first comedy venue ever at this location. They may or may not have been recording for like a, know, like a showtime or whatever.
01:06:14
Chris
So they could broadcast Kevin James.
01:06:16
damnbasspumpin
Oh. That's pretty cool.
01:06:17
Chris
Yeah. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:06:21
Chris
But yeah i yeah, some poor bastard got blamed for my gas.
01:06:29
damnbasspumpin
We are having a...
Main Street and Urban Planning
01:06:31
damnbasspumpin
a row a public row in my town um so talking about walking around and enjoying the nightlife main street newark is it's literally a main street it's not like these fake main streets you have down where you live but it's got all the shops and the bars are all on one one road it's it's
01:06:48
Chris
Yeah. ah Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
01:06:55
damnbasspumpin
I don't know, two miles long, maybe three. I don't know how long it is end to end.
01:06:59
damnbasspumpin
But there's basically, used have like the Main Street call where you just walk from bar to bar to bar. It's got shopping. It's got restaurants, you know. And it's pretty much the downtown area, nightlife area of Newark.
01:07:15
damnbasspumpin
We've had some incidents recently where guy fled the cops, hit a student, killed a student.
01:07:22
damnbasspumpin
And it just happened again. has all been on the news.
01:07:26
damnbasspumpin
And a lot of us are pushing that they just close the road, right?
01:07:31
damnbasspumpin
Like make it a pedestrian only, especially in the really, densely populated densely you know this really this one section where all the bars are at and all the just just make it a walking slash bike area only put areas put hard barriers up that can be because the fire department oh we got to be able okay well you put barriers up that you can move for the fire department but for the most part it should be a pedestrian only area
01:07:42
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would make sense.
01:08:02
damnbasspumpin
Oh, I've got to be able to walk. you know what What about about X? What about you know somebody's handicapped? Well, you can put handicapped parking at one area and they can...
01:08:14
damnbasspumpin
but How do they get around their house? They still wheelchair or something, like right? Like, handicapped doesn't mean they don't move at all.
01:08:21
Chris
ah Yeah, that's bed bound. And they usually they're not the ones frequently frequenting the bars.
01:08:26
damnbasspumpin
Right. But there's this very adamant, like, no, we have to be able to have cars accessing this area. You know, it's got to be. It's like, why?
01:08:37
damnbasspumpin
Why can't you just have a walking area in your town? I guarantee you people...
01:08:41
Chris
Because people in America are so... ingrained with their vehicle and it being a status and yeah.
01:08:51
damnbasspumpin
I just don't... I see it as... it would be a win for the businesses because people would be walking.
01:08:58
damnbasspumpin
You're more likely to go, oh, I'm going stop in this shop because I just walked by and I saw something.
01:09:05
damnbasspumpin
it's It's almost like when Governor Minner passed the smoking ban in Delaware and all these bars are, oh, we got to have smokers.
01:09:14
damnbasspumpin
there They're the heart and soul. And then they all figured out immediately that once the smoking ban went into effect, they were making more money because people were staying at the bars longer.
01:09:26
damnbasspumpin
And I bet if you do the same thing with walking, it'll have a pretty similar effect.
01:09:32
Chris
Yeah, I would definitely agree with that.
01:09:36
damnbasspumpin
All these little shops that people go, oh, I'll just, you know, because it is quite lovely to, you know, my wife and I will do it. We'll just, you know, we'll park our car and we'll walk down Main Street and, you know, we'll go to little shops and walk around, get a red get food.
01:09:50
damnbasspumpin
It'd be much nicer if it was even more walking friendly.
01:09:53
Chris
Yeah. yeah, i agree.
01:09:55
damnbasspumpin
you know When you go to these places that are like that, it is so refreshing.
01:10:00
Chris
Yes. they yeah that's My wife and I literally said that yesterday morning as we were walking back after finally getting breakfast.
Enjoying Local Activities
01:10:11
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, it's it's just it's refreshing to do that, where you're like, oh, I didn't have to deal with a car.
01:10:17
damnbasspumpin
You know, like, we we take the RV and we'll go, so we'll just be there for a week without a car. And people are like, well, how do you not get around?
01:10:23
damnbasspumpin
And you're I have a bike or I walk and it's, it's fine.
01:10:30
damnbasspumpin
You know, sometimes you're a couple miles out of town and you bike into town and then you walk around you get back on your bike and you go back to your RV.
01:10:34
Chris
Great. Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah, it's, it's not, yeah.
01:10:41
damnbasspumpin
It's nice.
01:10:43
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Well, I'm glad you went to a comedy show. I've only been to one and I didn't really enjoy it.
01:10:50
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. The opening act, he was fine, but yeah, it was overall, it was a fun time. It was, you know, something my wife and I can say we've done. And yeah.
01:11:02
damnbasspumpin
I think the problem is like I have to be, I feel like I have to be engaged and laughing at all the jokes. And I'm like, I don't find this as funny as everybody around me finding. And then I start to feel awkward about it.
01:11:12
damnbasspumpin
And I'm like, oh, boy.
01:11:14
damnbasspumpin
I get my own head.
01:11:14
Chris
Yeah. Well, the lady two seats down from me on the right, she had this cackle laugh.
01:11:19
Chris
Oh my God. if she, if she had ended up sitting beside me, I would have raged.
01:11:25
Chris
I would have raged.
01:11:26
damnbasspumpin
No, it's rough.
01:11:31
damnbasspumpin
Well. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I'm glad you walked around.
01:11:34
damnbasspumpin
I'm glad you got to see four different breakfast sites. look Think about how you got to see, focus on the positive.
01:11:39
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes, I yes i did.
01:11:42
damnbasspumpin
you could' You should have gotten a coffee at each one. Then you could have rated them for your wife and be like, oh, this one was this one.
01:11:48
Chris
They thick all tasted like coffee, I bet. God almighty. So.
01:11:55
damnbasspumpin
You know, we should, I think for 2026, you should try a new type of coffee per week.
Coffee Preferences and Workplace Humor
01:12:02
damnbasspumpin
You need like an Americano, a Fraparaca, blocka blocka, whatever you guys get.
01:12:06
Chris
No, I don't. i don't I don't like all those.
01:12:08
damnbasspumpin
Nah, but I think this should be the the challenge for you.
01:12:09
Chris
I just like ah cup of coffee.
01:12:16
damnbasspumpin
You might really like cappuccino.
01:12:16
Chris
I don't want that challenge. i I've tried cappuccino. I'm not a big fan.
01:12:21
damnbasspumpin
Maybe you're into flat whites.
01:12:23
Chris
You know why I try cappuccino? Hudson Hawk.
01:12:26
damnbasspumpin
Oh, good that's a good reason.
01:12:28
damnbasspumpin
That's good reason.
01:12:32
damnbasspumpin
I can't try any of them because they all taste like coffee they're gross.
01:12:36
damnbasspumpin
Yeah. Is it a London fog that's coffee mixed with tea?
01:12:41
Chris
Oh, that sounds awful.
01:12:43
damnbasspumpin
Doesn't it sound awful? It's awful. It's got to be awful.
01:12:47
Chris
God, I hope it's that and not some other weird kind of thing.
01:12:52
Chris
London Fog drink. Yeah, Earl Grey latte with steamed milk.
01:12:58
damnbasspumpin
Yeah, that sounds really gross to me.
01:13:06
damnbasspumpin
Well, folks, look forward to Chris's report next week when he tries a Americano flat white mochaccino with cinnamon twist.
01:13:16
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. You let us know in the Discord what the...
01:13:22
damnbasspumpin
And then he's got to start making... Oh.
01:13:25
damnbasspumpin
We'll see what thing is. You're going to find that you love something. Something fancy. And you're the deputy chief now.
01:13:31
damnbasspumpin
So you're going to have to replace the coffee machine at work with something that makes this fancy coffee.
01:13:37
damnbasspumpin
Everybody else will drink the fancy coffee.
01:13:39
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that'll.
01:13:41
damnbasspumpin
And I look forward to the 2027 budget that says $76,000 for a cappuccino machine.
01:13:49
Chris
Yeah. But you know what? With our city, they would probably pass that.
01:13:52
damnbasspumpin
They probably, a hundred percent.
01:13:54
Chris
Not even blink. Do you want to?
01:13:57
damnbasspumpin
but they They blink and they'd be like, oh yeah, as long as other employees can come there. Yeah.
01:14:01
Chris
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
01:14:02
damnbasspumpin
Then all sudden we run into fucking Starbucks out of the back of the station.
01:14:05
Chris
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, because you see, we have the French firefighters that come over once a year, so we have to have some fancy coffee for them.
01:14:12
damnbasspumpin
That's true.
01:14:13
damnbasspumpin
That's true.
Conclusion and Call to Action
01:14:14
damnbasspumpin
Diversity.
01:14:16
Chris
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01:14:24
damnbasspumpin
See you 22.
01:14:26
Chris
Join the Discord, and yeah. Let us know yeah what you want to walk around and do, and yeah, just have a good day.
01:14:28
damnbasspumpin
Have a great day. That's important.