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Episode 128 - Bro, Let's Start a Podcast
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Embracing Criticism and Authenticity
00:00:16
Speaker
Welcome back guys. It is episode 128 of laundry in the basement. how how Yeah. ah and I thought it was weren they're otherwise known as a bro. Let's start. Yeah, bro. Let's start a podcast. Yes. Can we start this episode by addressing these comments that we're receiving? Yeah, and it's it's people making fun of us for having a podcast. That's all it is.
00:00:38
Speaker
Yeah, so there's two ways to look at this, right? So you you kind of expressed that that there's, we've been getting some comments that are basically like, bro, let's start a podcast, alluding to the fact that we're just three schmucks on a camera, you know, having fun. And and if we could respond, um if we could all respond, yeah you know, you guys don't have to like, play it out of response. But here's my response to those, is number one,
00:01:03
Speaker
is that's exactly what we're doing. That's that was literally the goal here is just three schmucks with microphones in their hands doing what we would normally do if we were together. And number two is we got you to watch. We baited you in. We got your we got your comment. We got your view. And you're going to keep you're going to keep looking at it again. Yeah, you might not like them, but we fucking own. You might not like it, but you're in. you You're in.
00:01:30
Speaker
Hold on. let's Let's all just rewind, right? I think people need a reminder of of Mike and his team. Of who the fuck we are? That's right. Remember that. hold Who the fuck we are. Let's all remember that Mike started a Facebook page or a conversation or whatever to essentially almost put a business out of business. That's right. So he's good. He's going to take this shit seriously. He is going to be a Karen to you, which Mike, I already, I already took care of that. I, I DM'd him his IP address to let him know that I know where he lives.
00:02:05
Speaker
And that I will be d***e s******g his home at any... oh whoa whoaa Allegedly. In Minecraft.
00:02:13
Speaker
We may allegedly cut that. Yeah, yeah. but Like what people always use that. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to do that to you in Minecraft. So it's like not right. You got his seed number. Is that how that works? Yeah, it's something like that. The IP gives away like where you live is the Sims video game, because if it was, I would totally squat in that dude Sims house and just make him fucking deal with the consequences. I mean, yeah, the Sims is still a game. Is it like online? It's an online thing like that's still going on.
00:02:41
Speaker
Yeah, i I don't know. I thought it was local. Hmm. I'm sure you can play online. But what do you guys think of these comments that we're receiving about? We're just three. ially I don't really care. Yeah, I just thought it was funny. It's funny because like it's it it is it is how it started. And I just think it's hilarious because sometimes you just got to be self aware of Mike. That's exactly what's going on. Yeah.
00:03:04
Speaker
That's what I'm saying. like if If the purpose of the comment was to hurt us, it didn't work. Because what he's proclaiming we're doing is exactly what we're doing. There is no there is no difference.
00:03:16
Speaker
It hurt you, though. Yeah. You're showing a little hurt, buddy. It's all right. Yeah, I see a little chip, a little chip on that shoulder. But well, now you see the chip on the shoulder
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00:03:26
Speaker
is a bad way. I see it as a good way because again, of course, we got him. We got him. We got him to. We got the view. We got the comment. You know, they're going to be checking again to see what we're up to. All engagement is good engagement. That's right. I'll say bad publicity is good publicity. You know what I'm saying?
00:03:45
Speaker
The dollar's the dollar. But keep in common, because if Mike's reacting like this for this one, who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Or throwing out what you really feel. Yeah. Yeah. A couple more weeks, we could get this man to be really broken. Yeah, he really... My goal is to block these people, so keep it coming. And there's so many people to block. Yeah. You know when you got me when you're blocked. OK? So.
00:04:10
Speaker
Honestly, but most most of the comments we get on our videos are like reacting, like funnily reacting to our our stuff. So it's like not that not that big of a deal. I just think those comments are hilarious, though, like the bro that started. They are. They're funny. But what makes us what's the vibe? Like, how do I wear this? What's the difference of?
00:04:32
Speaker
our podcast being a bro let's start a podcast then like other bros doing podcasts that are just more famous the the concepts the same is that not pretty much i mean most of the people who are famous end up starting podcasts because it makes them money but they already have a following we We are doing it the opposite way, where we don't have a following and doing a podcast. We're we're starting from the bottom. We're working hard like good Americans. We came with nothing. yeah we're pulling up ah and We're pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. This is the American dream. This is not. Vic, did you write the description for this podcast on Spotify? Yeah, I did. You put that free-flowing comedy thing? That's exactly what I, yeah.
00:05:16
Speaker
OK, because that's what what it is, right? Like we're not coming out here besides the reel of the week and some other stuff like we just shoot the shit. That's exactly what people do just without a video camera when they get together. So it is it's bro. Start a podcast. So we're doing.
00:05:34
Speaker
own it baby, own it. the only The only difference is if we were on cameras and in separate areas of the tri-state area, we'd be playing cards while we'd be doing this. There's no difference. We'd just be playing cards and having a coffee or in ah or a beer. i mean This is what we do. this is if If you're looking for entertainment, it's a take it or leave it kind of thing.
00:05:59
Speaker
This is, um, this is, I think a good time to ask again for the third or fourth week in a row. Why is that bear on your couch? And is it staying for Valentine's day? Yeah. What's what's the point of the bear? Yeah. It's been there a while now. Uh, this is, this is his home. This is where he lives. That's where he lives. He sits with you guys on the couch.
00:06:25
Speaker
Yeah, that was one of my one of my first gifts I have given. And we decided to bring him home. He wasn't home. We decided to bring him home. Wait, you've had this thing for a while? Oh, yeah. I've had it for a while. It was just living somewhere else. And I stumbled upon him. His name is Michael Fredericks. I've stumbled upon him. And I was like, it's time to come home. So now he's home.
00:06:52
Speaker
That's good. and So does he get dinner and snuggle up with you guys on the couch? Does he pay his fair share of rent here? Right. Does he clean? Yeah. I think we're working out the terms and conditions here. I mean, as you could see, this is what he does at the majority of the time. But, you know, yeah, I mean, he looks a little bit of a little bit of a slouch, kind of lazy as a move since last time I seen him. I'm not going to lie. He looks stoned, does he not? You want to you want to pass on the mic? Oh, yeah. What's he got to say? Yeah, don't get up, though, because. Well, it's OK.
00:07:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, you can't really move. But Mike, can you stand up for us? Yeah, you want to just you want to show we just are going you know what, just aim the laptop a little bit downwards.
00:07:40
Speaker
Yeah. Just below the waistline. Yeah. Yeah. So we can get we can get but ah flagged on pick talk again. Real nice. guys That's real nice. I don't think now we want to get flagged. No, we did. No, we did. We wait wait. What do we get flagged? Because I said I want to kill myself. But I was like talking about being the lawyer where I was like the lawyer wants to kill himself. And I but I
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00:08:02
Speaker
said it as I want to kill myself. And any time those words get spoken, it just gets flagged. So we're just there, you know.
00:08:10
Speaker
Yeah, don't don't make this I will bleep. I will beep that out. I won't make it a clip. I don't know of any other podcasts that I watch that actively bleeps things out. I think they have a policy where they just don't talk about those things. We're the opposite. We talk about it and then we just bleep it. That's right. You know, to go back to these people commenting, we're we're talking the real deal. OK, we're not we're not sure. recordinging Nothing. We're talking the truth. OK.
00:08:39
Speaker
It's unfiltered. No, I think these podcasts don't care about saying whatever they want. It's because they get paid to do this. Yes. That's that's the biggest deal. It's their job. we kind of And you know what? We have to watch what we say.
00:08:53
Speaker
We're not going to get bought. We're going to say what we want. Absolutely not. No, no, no, no. Absolutely not. We will get bought. We can be bought. We can absolutely be bought. Very easily we can be bought. The money's dirty. We don't need the money to be ourselves. Don't forget that. Listen. If you can match what I am making at work right now, I will leave my job to do this full time, obviously. Unsolicited life advice or hot take, whatever you want. It's better to be poor in this world than to be rich because if you're poor,
00:09:23
Speaker
They don't expect anything from you. buts but's That's ah that's that's that's loser talk right now. So you know what? They're not going to buy me. They're not going to buy me. I'm going to say what I want. They could. I will. You know what? Grift for the right wing so hard if they were to buy if if the Daily Wire were to come and be like, hey, do you want to switch what your podcast is about? And do you want to become the next Ben Shapiro? I will say yes. I'm easily swayed by money.
00:09:53
Speaker
Super sellout if we started like advocating for one political party or another or one political candidate or another Just because they sent some money in like what is that? there No problem on this side. but Why does that to be politics? What if like the Minnesota Vikings called us and was like you guys want to talk about? The weekly game recap it be like yeah, I do that. and What's the big deal? well It's usually political content where they where the money is with like a lot of this, right? Yeah But hey, listen, the bike, any I'll switch my I don't care about any sports team that that much. I will switch the Phoenix. If the Phoenix Mercury called us and was like, do you want to do you want to recap every single game in a body i will be a Phoenix Mercury podcast immediately. Sign me to fuck a whole rebranding. I don't care. We would absolutely if if any if any it could be. I don't even know, like. Literally anything can buy us.
00:10:48
Speaker
There's there is no almost anything. Yeah, almost anything. In fact, I think even the company that we talked about on the last podcast, if they sent in a little bit of a, you know, an ad real for us, maybe, you know, maybe a couple of maybe subscriptions, some free accounts, you know, that we could use. Well, yeah, listen, now get give me the guests, as long as there's no monitoring of those accounts, you know. Yeah, exactly. Give me the guests, the guests to the subscription. Give me the guests.
00:11:16
Speaker
Give me the guess. Who would you guys have on a guest? No, no, no, no. which Which five would you have on the mic? That's what I want to know. You brought it up. You clearly have something in mind. I sent i sent the delay the previous episode to somebody and they texted me back and they were like, I got to read it to you. I got a radio to read it to you. It was good. But they were basically like, what the fuck do you guys talk about on this? They're like, it's nuts.
00:11:39
Speaker
Oh, um well, this episode took a turn, went from baseball to porn. Also, how do they know the market price for these things? It's Google. It's an easy Google. I read Google. Oh, you know what? I did want to go back to our. um This is a topic like two weeks ago, but loyalty in sports. Well, I wanted to bring this up to thank God. All right. Because today, Luca Doncic was traded from the Mavs to Lakers. Hmm.
00:12:09
Speaker
with no, with no warning. They, they, he didn't ask for a trade. The Mavericks wanted to trade him. Honestly, not even the magic Mavericks, just one guy, the GM of the Mavs want to trade him. He had brought it up to the owners. They had laughed in his face because they thought it was a joke. He was like, Oh, like I'm thinking about trading Luca and they laughed because they're like, yeah, good one, dude. They traded Luca for Anthony Davis, like a couple other guys and like up first round pick in the future.
00:12:39
Speaker
Yeah, that one's not his fault. I don't you know, basketball is my least knowledgeable, but that like that one's not on him. No, no, but that's he didn't. But where were you? Where were you going with that? I'm saying it proves a point that like these athletes should not be loyal to the teams like and didn't didn't that change? Didn't this trade make him ineligible for like a big boy contract? It changes what he can sign for. So the original max that he could sign for, I believe, was five years for three hundred and twenty four million dollars.
00:13:09
Speaker
and now it's four years for like 224. So it cost him around 100 and i the exact, I don't know the exact numbers on the contracts, but basically it costs him $116 million on what he can sign for this off season. That's wild. There you go, Mike. Yeah. So again, like, and, and Luca even said, he's like, I wanted to stay in Dallas my whole career. Like I loved it here. He had just brought them to the NBA finals the last, like last year.
00:13:37
Speaker
They were in the finals in 2024 and they basically, they traded him because they they honestly, they traded him because he can't play defense well, which like is a known fact, but who gives a fuck because he averages a triple double on offense and because he's fat.
00:13:54
Speaker
That was the other reason why they traded him. not that He's not that fat. He's not fat, but like, like that's literally, what they're like, his conditioning is bad. So they traded for a superstar. I mean, Anthony Davis is no schmuck. He's a really great player too, but they traded him for someone who's seven years older than him and is incredibly injury prone. And they're like, oh yeah, we're we're worried about Lucas conditioning and his defense.
00:14:18
Speaker
And you can't even make the argument that they off they they bring in and like Anthony Davis so because they would sell more tickets. Luca was selling tickets. Yes. People were going to see Luca. like He's an incredible player to watch. Also, wasn't there some quote out there from Mark Cuban saying that if I had a to choose between getting rid of Luca and staying with my wife, then I'd be signing the divorce papers yeah right now? Yeah, he said that in 2020.
00:14:43
Speaker
but he's no longer the, he's a minority owner in the Mavs now. He wasn't even consulted. Yeah, he sold the shares. It's some new guys, but he wasn't even consulted in this deal at all. And then the new guys were like, yeah, it's a funny joke. Like we're not going to trade Luca. And then the GM just did it anyway. He didn't even tell the coach.
00:15:03
Speaker
No one had a clue about this trade until it broke. they like Which is pretty like in a way cool, because there were no rumors, there were no like leaks or anything like that. It was just between the Lakers GM, Rob Polinka, and then this guy. But the world found out at once. Now, not only do the Lakers pick up Luca, but they save money.
00:15:28
Speaker
by doing it. Yeah, they want to bring luca yeah get a bigger contract. Yeah, they save $116 million. Or I mean, Luca contest free agency and go somewhere else, but he won't get five years from any other team. The maps are the only one that could offer him five years for whatever the amount of money was. Yeah, so yeah, again, just it it shows you there's no loyalty in sports, you know, you shouldn't really No. You shouldn't. Yeah. Like chase the bag. fuck The championships. Who cares about winning? but Yeah. And you're brought up before
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00:16:02
Speaker
like, you know, like you're going to be a loser somewhere else. Like. For these guys, yeah, to a certain degree, I imagine it's about winning, right? Like some people are there because they want to be competitive.
00:16:15
Speaker
But for most of them, I gotta imagine the whole winning and losing thing went out the door when they left like high school league or college league. Like this is a career now, right? Like unless you're out here.
00:16:28
Speaker
blowing money like crazy and you need the money. And, you know, that becomes such a big factor. But like, I don't know, it just I want you guys to understand something. I it's not that I'm disagreeing with what you're saying, but I want you guys to understand something. You guys are looking at it at the angle from the player. I'm looking at it from the angle of the fan as a fan. I do not care how much money these guys make, whether they make a billion or whether they make one million.
00:16:56
Speaker
It doesn't matter to me. League minimum, league max, it doesn't matter. What matters to me is that as an avid fan who buys a couple jerseys, who goes to the game, who this and that, is bringing the trophy home. And these guys are getting paid an exuberant amount of money. Do not do that. I i understand that don't you have to protect yourself to the person. Don't you think they want like, don't you think that they also want to do it?
00:17:21
Speaker
What we were were alluding to in the previous episode when we talked about this was no. Like, look at Tyreke Hill. He didn't care about winning. No, but I told you that that's not true. Tyreke wanted to stay in Kansas City. He was just bluffing the Chiefs. They called him a lot. They called his bluff and they traded him. He didn't want to leave. He was just being kind of dumb. I would be I'd be i'll be honest, like, you know, asking to negotiate. Yeah. Asking out from a again like the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl again. He could have had three rings, possibly four on Sunday.
00:17:50
Speaker
So like, so so you guys, you guys are both Yankees fans. You know, the subway series is a very big rival, very big deal. Are you going to when when you watch that game, are you going to stand there and give Juan Soto a standing? Oh, because he just got more money on a rival team. No, he fucked your guys his chances of winning a winning a ring. Yeah. You know, as a fan, that's the goal. Yeah. But the team is still good. That's I mean, that's the other thing. It's like whatever, man. He went and got his it's understandable, like,
00:18:21
Speaker
As a fan, yeah, it sucks, but like at the same time, it's like, all right, well. If I was if i was a kid, I would be upset. like If I was in there, and it was I was 10 years old, and I've been following all these players, and I'm um i'm waiting for the World Series to come, right yeah, I would be upset because now we have less of a chance, possibly.
00:18:43
Speaker
But as an adult, as a working adult, but we just got all this other stuff going on. And I know you know like what it's like to pay the bills at this point. No, I don't care. Get that bread, dude. You got to go off and go do something else? Cool. We'll find another way to get to the championship. I don't care. I would love to get paid $700 million, it's you know? yeah Do what you got to do. Yeah, it is what it is. He's still in New York. Yeah. It's for the Mets. And I know that that's that's a wrong thing to say. So I'm going to retract that.
00:19:14
Speaker
I mean, they're doing it in politics too. You know what I'm saying? Everybody out there trying it, you know what I'm saying? We're out there giving Canada 25% tariffs. you know now Now in Ontario and Toronto, they're booing the American national anthem.
00:19:30
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? I've been doing that for years. You know what? You know what? I live in this country and I'm ready to boo the national anthem. So here we go. All right. Let's go. Yeah. Look at that, Mike. Look how we turn it around. get That's not good. You think you think that we have certain ideals and and and, you know, common sense at this point? No, it's out the it's out the window, man. Yeah, I think it's hilarious. You know, what I'm sorry. I watch it and I laugh because it's like with ah with the amount of
00:20:01
Speaker
domestic and international problems that there are in this world. We're just going to pick a fight with our neighbors. I love it. Why not? I'm like, fuck, 100 percent. Yeah, this is what we're doing. Now, what does that mean as somebody who avidly goes to Canada two to three times a year? Am I allowed to go? They're going to kill you at the border. Yeah. Yeah. your Your life's at risk at this point. I wouldn't go. Don't post that on TikTok. They're going to flag it. Yeah, and i I'm not. Well, we'll keep it out. Yeah. um No, no. Your ID is fine.
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm worried enhanced ID yet. Right now, you know, we're recording this and recording next week's episode before the tariffs have actually hit. By the time we reconvene, I don't know what it's going to look like. You know what I'm saying? Like, like in two weeks, like things could go crazy. I mean.
00:20:51
Speaker
I looked at a map, like someone posted on Reddit, a map of where each state gets their most imported goods, and I'd say like 30 states were Canada. Somehow CT was France. CT was France, and I wanted it 35. Yeah, that doesn't shock me, because it was a lot.
00:21:12
Speaker
he's given he's given the provinces companies 21 days before it fully enacts to seek alternatives before they hit it so there's some that's immediately the terrorists are immediately hit and then he's given these companies and provinces 21 days to seek alternatives so they don't lose out on you know like a big loss and in the liquor stores they're pulling all the ah american yeah american branded liquors out i saw that so I don't know it's it's tough like I saw I saw this morning like it's a little bit of Iran it's like you know it's a leopard leopards ate my face moment where um
00:21:50
Speaker
I think it's like the national home builders of America who was like there
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00:21:55
Speaker
the person who like is president of the thing like ah voted for Trump and like was an active like support actively supporting Trump and then sent a huge like letter to like bait like a public letter from the company or whatever and was like please like you can't do this like you don't you don't understand how much we import from Canada to like You know, build homes like housing's a ah massive crisis right now. And all it's going to do is drive up the prices of homes like this is not good. Like, please don't do this. And it's like, well. You vote, I didn't vote for, but you voted for it, so. Yeah, deal with the consequences there, but like if companies are already if American companies are already like, hey, man, please don't do this. I don't know what it's going to look like when it's actually happening.
00:22:44
Speaker
i'm this This is a lesson, in my opinion, for do the research on who you're voting for and what their platform is. If you don't understand what it takes to to have these kind of border policies, like hardline border policies and all the different um strategies that come along with that, including tariffs, and you don't know how that translates to you as an individual or your business, then it's your fault, yeah right?
00:23:13
Speaker
This is a tool. this is This is what governments use to get their their there um check their list right for all the things that they promised during the the election. And if people don't see that that's one of the first things that they go for and that hurts them, then that's on you.
00:23:31
Speaker
People and and and in all due respect people aren't as people not everybody's college educated not not everybody understands the federal system not everybody understands this this political jargon that we have a better understanding for so at the end of the day you know whatever dumb down I'm not I'm not using the term dumb down in a bad way but whatever dumb down version they're getting directly correlates with them, they're going for it. you know So I'm not, it's hard to blame people when you know they don't know everything about the federal services. you know But not for not for nothing, Mike. It's the person that's getting elected's job to explain to people what their platform is. And if people don't understand it, then they need to do the research to figure it out. Because that you know what that is? That's an informed decision.
00:24:21
Speaker
Otherwise, people are just listening to whatever media outlet that they're you know that's telling them that the world's on fire, and then they make a decision based off that. But they don't know anything more than that. You don't need to be a college-educated person to to sit down and do some research about the person that that you're voting for. It's on their website.
00:24:38
Speaker
yeah yeah whatever Yeah, no, and I agree with that, but everybody has their own version of research, right? This is where the misinformation and disinformation comes in. Who's to say they didn't do research and their research adds up, you know what I'm saying? like That's where it comes in. If they did their research and now they're feeling it, it's their fault.
00:24:58
Speaker
It's their fault. Yeah, that's how it is. I don't I personally, I know that it's tough for everybody out there, but people need to understand the consequences of their actions. And maybe this is their way of understanding so that they don't vote. In the future like that, and I know we'll probably get some flack for saying that, but it's the truth. Yeah, I'm giving you flack. I'm giving you flack for it right now. I mean, the thing is, and it's not in a bad way, but I want you to see the other side that like they did their research. They understand the research.
00:25:28
Speaker
They may not think they made a bad decision. That's fine. And now they know that if if it impacts them positively, then they made the right call. But if it impacts them negatively and they didn't see it coming, you know, and they're hurting because of that, then.
00:25:44
Speaker
and I mean, yeah, is it is it our fault that the bird flu is going around and eggs are 899? You know, say what are you going to do? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't. ah you You obviously can't speak for that. You can't speak for viruses or anything else that are coming around that's out of our control. Tariffs are 100 percent within our control. This is something this is something the country voted for. Yeah, like, yes, they they voted on well policies. Yeah. So so yes, they voted on terrorists, but i I don't know. I just it's funny to me that we're we're poking the bear on our best friends and not our enemies. So I think that it's not surprising to me, Mike. No, it's not surprising. not surprising It's not surprising to me. But some people didn't didn't see that like we do. You know what I'm saying? Some people aren't like us. You know, we see that coming a mile away because we smell bullshit when bullshit comes. But some people don't know. Right. Right. But those but but it shouldn't be.
00:26:38
Speaker
It shouldn't be everybody else's responsibility to get those people up to speed. It's their responsibility to get themselves up to speed. You know what I mean? And if you're going to vote uninformed, then you can't go crying wolf when you get
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00:26:51
Speaker
hurt. Well, I think what you're missing, I think you're missing the point. They believe that they are informed. What's what's the definition of informed? Well, we think we look at these people that voted for this and like, oh, they're uninformed. They're stupid. Why would they do that? mike But they believe they made the right decision.
00:27:07
Speaker
You're making my point for me. They believe that they made the right decision. They made their decision thinking that they're informed. And in some cases they found out that they were informed and that's their form of education. I'm just saying if that's the way that they need to learn, so be it. ah You know, that's how it is. Just sucks for the rest of us. Exactly. Exactly. For the people that did see it coming, it sucks.
00:27:35
Speaker
And it sucks even more for the people that tariffs aren't even the biggest issue, but I won't. Yeah, I won't get into that. Yeah. let's go back but we Can we go back to talk about porn stars? That was pretty fun. All right. Yeah, Mike, name your top five. You know, Mike, name your top five to get out of this conversation. Yeah, that would be great. i mean there was life You know what? i I I shouldn't say this, but I'm 37 percent thinking about it because Austin will fight me tooth and nail on the shit. And I cannot stand him when he's like, Hey, man, I'm telling you right now. We got a whole other episode after this. So you could we do. We got a lot of fun. Fucking go speaking of prices, though. Speaking of prices. And I don't know if this is cool or not, but um long story short, I got a new get up in here.
00:28:19
Speaker
um And I've been getting old newspapers and I got some from 1974 1963 and this and that and I was scrolling through them for ha ha dude the prices back then Compared to what they are now is nuts. I was reading the one ah August 9th 1974 you know how much a steak and shrimp dinner was I $4.95. These are local, too. Local to Connecticut, Hartford Current, New Britain Herald, all that stuff. You know you know how much a 1973 Dodge Dart was? It was like $1,200, dude. Yeah. You know who changed all that? and
00:28:58
Speaker
Big 47, baby. Joe Brydon. It's all Joe Biden's fault. A steak and shrimp dinner could have cost you $475 or whatever you said. But under Joe Brydon, $984.
00:29:12
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A whole $980 more. Yeah. Because he was too busy sleeping, though. He's a sleepy child. and And you know what, for for the most part, a lot of those prices probably equate to similar prices for today when you account for inflation and and anything like that, right? The only thing that doesn't line up with that is that is wage the income that people are getting is not has not grown at the same exponential rate.
00:29:38
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you know this one ah that our oh that's a good one yeah nick that for nixon resign nixon resigns is ah that's a sick one dude you know what i didn't know was a big deal now my dad gets the newspaper every day that was his deal like grow up with the newspapers so be it and i knew it was a thing in the newspaper but when i look back at these why was it such a big deal like such a big part of the newspaper they publicly posted when people got married they were whole pictures of the bride stuck up yeah yeah why would why though why is that if because people ask them to yeah yeah really like your fa hu yeah it's your family doing that that's not like that may not be like the bride and groom but like
00:30:19
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The family that was like could be posting it. No, that was like Facebook. Gerald Ford leads the U.S. like that. This is a cool one because last time, not the last time I saw you, but a couple of times when I saw you, Austin, we were in Little Italy and Manhattan and they had this newspaper, it's the Italian newspaper. And I found this one. This is Kennedy assassinated. This is November. I will pay for that.
00:30:45
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So this is I'll pay you for that. I'm not even sure I will pay you for that. Where did you find this? That is sick. I'll give you this one, though. This is the this is from the Daily News. This is that famous photo of Jackie and Jeff K's brother. And then I don't. ah RFK saluting. Yeah. Yeah. RFK. What? Hold on. Hold on. I'm sorry. I'm going to. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to you know, I just I'll cut this part out.
00:31:12
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Yeah, so these are all local ones. This is the New Britain Herald. President Kennedy slain. I found a lot of them from 63 when all this was going on. He visited um on his campaign tour in Waterbury. Yeah.
00:31:25
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So there's, I don't know which one out of these because I have like five or six, but there is a, I think it's in the Hartford current one. There is a section they were like, Oh, um, JFK visited often and there was photos of him. I think it like Bridgeport. I think it's, I think it was this one. This is a pretty thick um one, but, um, also, yeah, that's a, that's a thick one. And it's funny because as you go through, there's all these advertisements of these businesses being closed because they're mourning his death, the Davis funeral.
00:31:55
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um But it's funny to see the companies that are still a thing like Aetna The Hartford and all these kind of stuff that still here today makes sense. Yeah, you should um You should talk to my dad He's got a whole slew of newspapers that he has in the basement that he kept first hand That probably have some pretty solid headlines in there, but where did you get those? I?
00:32:24
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couple I found in an estate store. So I'll, I have to like show you a picture of the setup to show you guys what I was going for.
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00:32:32
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But okay. So long story short, I have a, a Hi-Fi phonograph record player. So this one I got in on a Facebook marketplace from a guy in Waterbury for 60 bucks. It still works. It's AM FM and a record player and it's a console. Um,
00:32:48
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And so I bought that. I you know i redid it. i The guts of it worked, the electronics. So then I was like, I found a newspaper advertisement of it. So I bought that. And then I was like, oh, I'll put some old newspapers on for like the aesthetic and stuff like that. So I found some at estate stores. And then you know guys on eBay sell everything. So like I was just looking for like newspaper lots or whatever. And there was a local guy from Connecticut that had all these JFK ones.
00:33:18
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So I bought it. I thought it was pretty cool. I thought it added to the kind of older section that I'm going for. And I actually found postcards. They're dated 1928 and 1929 of downtown Waterbury. Oh, wow. It's pretty cool. I'll show you this one. I think this one's cool. Hold on. I got to be careful how high I am. No, no, no. Stand right up. Stand and right up. Stand up. Stand up. Take a little leg out for the the audio listeners that haven't been watching. Just a little leg. Just a little leg. Mike is pantsless because he thought this would be a good idea to be on camera without pants.
00:33:47
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Listen, you only see the top third. This is the Immaculate Conception Church, downtown Waterbury, 1929. Damn. So I put it in a frame, front and back. I thought it was cool. and I'm into that stuff. I don't know if you guys are into that stuff, but I decided to make a little section out of it. But the prices on what was going on, incredible. Also, really funny to see what was hot back then, like in the one in the one in 1974, Chinatown was the big movie. Jack Nicholson. Yeah. Have you guys ever seen that movie?
00:34:18
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No, it's great. I did. Great. It was ah I took a film and literature class in college and I watched it. I didn't fully understand the concept, but obviously the forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. That's the biggest, the biggest get out out of the closing. Yeah. No, man, it's a great film. Loved it.
00:34:34
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Um, we should, that's what we should do for the podcast. We should watch it, not watch a movie in the podcast, but we should watch a movie and come back. Oh, we talked about this yeah and review it, but there's an app for that or whatever you guys do that yeah letterboxed. Well, I think only I do it. You guys should do it so that we could, I could see your funny reviews of movies. I'd be down to do that. Just to like, uh, talk about a movie that we watch. That's kind of cool. Yeah.
00:35:00
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Um, but speaking of, of segments, I do have, um, some unsolicited life advice. oh yeah all right hear it yeah It's your turn. It is my turn. So this is more of like something I just discovered and then researched afterwards. But do you guys, see your cars, they have key fobs, like automatic starts. Yeah. I don't have automatic start, but I have to be for automatic start. It could just be for a locking on unlocking. If you have a key fob.
00:35:31
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and you're like walking up on your car and you're too far away and you're like pressing it a bunch of times to try to get it. If you hold it up under your chin, it your head acts as an antenna, like the the the space like in your in your head here plus like the fluids or something. i can't i don't I don't know the science behind it, right? But it acts as an antenna and extends the range of your key fob.
00:35:58
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and i was I tried it and it worked and I looked it up afterwards and somebody said that they stepped to the edge of the um the ring where their car was still in range right and they tried it and it worked and they stepped out and they tried it and it didn't work.
00:36:17
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and they put it to their chin, they tried it, and it worked. And they wanted to see how many steps could they take backwards before it didn't work anymore. And it was 45 steps, an extra 85 feet that they added to the range. Interesting. You can just stick it to your chin. Yeah, so that's crazy. I think it's something with like the radio waves, right? And like them bouncing off the skull and whatnot.
00:36:43
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you get cancer, bro. They're out here trying to kill you. Well, yeah, I mean, everything gives you cancer at this point. You know, I got micro plastics running through my bloodstream at all times. Dude, five genes going to kill us all. i' That's why I don't use the microwave. I don't use the microwave because all the all the raised. No, dude.
00:37:02
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OK, but so a couple of questions. it's That's an interesting thing. But how did how did this person determine what the range was for the five to work and not work? Did they do some research? Did they like personally experiment?
00:37:16
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Yeah, they just personally experimented. They just – they were using the fob to lock and unlock their car and they found the range by just taking steps back from their car. And so once they got to the point where they took a step and it wasn't working, then they tried it with their chin and it worked and then they said, okay, let's see how many steps I could take before it stops working again and it was 45 steps. 45 steps which translated I think to roughly 88. So social experiment. That's pretty cool.
00:37:46
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Yeah. it's interesting So give it a shot. See if it works. I know it did for me. Hmm. I don't know. not like I would I don't know where would do that to find ample range. Like, you know, Victor, if you park your car at your house, yeah I mean, how far are you going to go? and Two streets over, you know, and saying how far is. Yeah. Do you get the full effect? You could try it in the work parking lot. That's not a bad idea. Yeah. I like it. I give it a shot. Give it a shot.
00:38:20
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if you have like an automatic start then it makes more sense so I'm sure every car maker does this, but you know because my dad has Ford, when he got his truck, you know Ford, you're able to unlock and lock your car from your phone, start it from your phone, this and that. And and he was he was under the impression because he well he used to drive for work to New Jersey and back, but now I think it's up upstate and mass.
00:38:45
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He was saying that he can unlock his truck from other states because it's on his phone. And we never tested that theory. Like I want to, I want to be where his car, his truck is parked and I want to call him and be like, unlock it. Cause I want to see how far, like, I wonder if like, you know, the cell towers to have an, obviously they have an effect, but I wonder how true this theory is. Cause the, the fob will only work to a certain distance cause it reads it. But with the phone connecting to the cell towers, I wonder if that's a thing.
00:39:15
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Yeah, and and it's probably gonna become even more of a thing now that ah you see that Apple's doing that deal with Starlink. They're connecting phones through satellites instead of cell towers. Yeah, T-Mobile has that too. Or like it's in beta testing for it, so. That'll be interesting. There you go, you will be able to unlock your car from around the world, Mike. Can we just come to a conclusion or a time? This is what I'm, I'm sick of it.
00:39:43
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The way these phones are set up and with now electronic sims, no hardware sim cards, Why the fuck do I got to pay more money to use my phone in another country if it's all internationally connected? You know, at the end of the day, like when I go to Italy, right, like Verizon translate to Vodafone over there, which is their cellular service. But like, if we're all internationally connected with these satellites and with these cell towers and stuff, why do I got to pay more for my phone to function in another country when it's all connected? Yeah, it's about money at the end of the day. like
00:40:17
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They, the, the company's like, I feel like such a, whatever for saying this, but like big dog you say you the company coming from the company perspective, you got to lay more infrastructure in order to get you that service. Right. Even though you may be, they may be giving service to people in other international countries too. They have to provide that physical connection all the way back. Now, if you get satellite.
00:40:46
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ah components into it, and you've got to deal with, with Elon, and all of a sudden it becomes cheaper for you to provide that service to you. Yes, it should be cheaper, right? That makes sense. But if I got to lay li wire across the, you know, Atlantic just to get you your cell service all the way back home, then you know, fuck yeah, pay me.
00:41:05
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How come, this is what I understand, how come in the 50s, right? I could make a phone call from here in the States to Australia. Now, granted, it was long distance. They charged you more XYZ, but it was through a physical switchboard to get it done. And I could have done that. But why is it so hard to make a a a hard call from my cell phone to somebody's cell phone in another country when all it is is they just turn on a switch?
00:41:32
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to to to open the function, you know what I'm saying? I get it. It comes down to money, but like it's we're such in simpler times now, but yet they're holding us back. They're holding us back. That's like that's like, Mike, if I asked you, hey, I need to and maybe this isn't the right analogy, but it's like I want to use I know you have a computer that has like this amount of memory on it, but now I want to use this computer that has even more memory on it. Why would you charge me any different? It's just memory, right?
00:42:02
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But it's the same deal. They have to have more cell towers, right, to get you from that call from one person to another, even if it's just, oh, we're just jumping from cell tower to cell tower. It still costs them more. So they're going to charge you more. That's all. I don't like it. They're fucking us. Yeah, man, that's that's called capitalism, buddy. Oh, Vic, also, through your glasses, we could see you on hinge, Doug. So let's put the phone down. Yeah, yeah. we saw All right.
00:42:30
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all right Also, if for for everybody else ah ah that that wasn't with us before we started this recording, so literally everybody, we were all on FaceTime. looking at Vic's hinge and making group decisions, which I think is technically how the females do it, right? We're just now tapping into that same kind of connection. I think we offer fantastic advice. Now, does Victor take it? No. Not really. Not really. And for the wrong reasons. For the wrong reasons. I mean, man, right this honestly, I'm just here to to make you upset, Mike. That's really it.
00:43:04
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It is what this whole episode has been about. Oh, you may be very upset when we did it in the Pittsburgh Airport. Oh, yeah, that was hilarious. No, no. Well, we don't have to talk about it, but it was pretty funny.
00:43:16
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um
00:43:19
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I don't know if you guys have seen these again, just a hard pivot away from this because I don't want to talk about my dating apps anymore. Maybe five point stars right now. Yeah. Have you guys seen hot ones? Shut up, Mike. um Like the show like. Yes, always. They eat like hot wings, Mike. And it's a. all Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Invites guests on and they start from mild and go hot. Yeah. Yeah. So they came out with some chips, some Pringles.
00:43:47
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and let me tell you, those things are fucking hot. yeah they yeah They scorched my, I had like two of them and they scorched my tongue. it How much were they on the scale though, from one to 10? I think the one I had was like a four ooh out of 10. And I can handle heat pretty well. what was the What was the flavor? It was like a salsa verde, like the Los Calientes or whatever.
00:44:14
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Pretty pretty deep like it was a good chip. It just was hot Interesting yeah, those things can get hot I don't understand like People and maybe it's just me but like if I go on that show I'm not sure I can make it all the way through is that normal like for I think that is make it all the way through I think people no no tapping out I think is the norm I Yeah, we should try it. Has anybody made it through? Oh, a bunch of people. A bunch of people do it. Yeah. I don't watch it. But you know who just tapped out? Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny tapped out. And that's like the first person that's tapped out since like the first season. Oh, damn. Like did Peter Griffin one. Yeah, like before he before he finished all the wings. We try to be fair, he made it to the hottest one. He just tapped out. hu
00:45:09
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after that like there's the hottest one is is I think the third from the last and then the other two are hot but they're just not as in your face as that last one it's meant to be kind of like a cool down yeah it's like the the bomb is like the the worst one yes yeah we should try it though we we have a so we have a scrapped laundry in the basement youtube video now we never released because the audio is so bad it was so poorly planned But it was basically, you remember yeah you remember the game Geoguesser? So was playing it was on Geoguesser, same maps. Whoever got the highest, or not same maps, but same like like both were doing Americas, like the Americas thing. they They wouldn't get the same exact locations, but they'd have like similar locations or whatever. And whoever got the highest score
00:46:04
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um won the challenge and that person who lost would have to eat like a chicken McNugget with like the hottest hot one sauce on it. Ooh. Yeah. It was never tried this stuff already. Yeah. The hot the I tried that I didn't try the bomb but I tried like their whatever the 10 the 10 out of 10 on the scale or whatever from like season three or whatnot. It was pretty good. Like it was hot. It had a good flavor but like that thing He burned my mouth. Yeah. ah Hotter than the chip that you just had? Oh, 100%, yeah. Okay, all right, I'm just making sure. But that sounds fun. Yeah, we should do it.
00:46:43
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We should do that. I would tap out so early. I would tap out. Mike, you're not going to have a chance. You're going to have to beat one of us to go. Yes, sir. You know, do you have to pay to for Geoguesser? No, you just get like, I think five free games a day or something like that. Or maybe one game a day. But it's it's two ninety nine to have like unlimited games per day. Mike, come on, we can try it, dude. Yeah, I'm going to do it. OK.
00:47:11
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I think I'm okay at geography. Hold on, hold on. Let's just say this now, though. If we did this, Mike, and you lose, you have to you have to eat it. Yes, I and i understand that. and And I'm saying right now that I'd be willing to do it. I i will cry. It's going to happen, but I'm willing to do it. OK. You know what I'm not willing to do? Name my top five porn stocks. That's what I'm that's the what i'm not willing to do. Yeah. All right. Well, then we'll like this we'll set a time up for that, because we're going to have to do that in person. And I think that would be really funny. Yeah.
00:47:41
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Which, by the way, Mike, do you recognize this?
00:47:45
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A little bit, where is that from? Jog me, jog me on that. I just want everybody else on the podcast to know I'm not a terrible friend. Mike got this for me, plus some wine, I believe, a while ago. And I just used it to open this beer. And I wanted him to know that I but i use it. So I'm not a terrible friend. It's right there for you. Thank you. This dude has to pull out gifts to show that he's still friends with Mike. That's crazy.
00:48:11
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Mike stopped by my house. I feel like I feel like I had to do that because Mike probably doesn't doesn't like me right now. but No, we're good. We're good. We're good. Yeah. Mike dropped off a heater at my at my house. I haven't tried it yet because I've been too lazy off a heater. Yeah. Took a dump in your house. Yeah. you did actually Yeah. Ruined the bathroom. But, um, Jesus, no, a space heater or a new bathroom. So I went to, you know, when I forgot to give you, I have stuff in my um in my closet um have you guys been to did we talk about this have you guys been to one of those stores that like take amazon returns and then sell them for dirt cheap oh no no we you talked about amazon returns last week but not for the the warehouse i've always want to go to one of those So there's a store on the Berlin Turnpike like that um where like, and it's a bunch of random stuff. It's just random. um And I found some Steelers and penguins stuff. So so for $4.99, I got you a penguins beanie. oh he And I think for $5.99, I got you a stack of Steelers plates, plastic paper plates. So I got make gotta to make sure go yeah I got the plates too. I got to go, but it's like, it's just random stuff.
00:49:24
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But they rotate very often because last time I was there, it was very different from the first time I was there, like a lot of different stuff. Some of it was the same, you know, and it's just like anything like they have like a wall of like dehumidifiers in vacuum, you know what I'm saying? And then there's like ranch dressing in the next aisle, you know what I'm saying? And then like there's some clothes and then there's dog bowls. And then so it's like you got to go pretty often to see what they're what they're sliding around. That's interesting. There's there's a store on Lakewood Road.
00:49:54
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up in Waterbury that doesn't like, or maybe it's Prospect, but they do it by pallet, where you have to spend $500 on like a full pallet and then you you take it apart and then you sell everything individually. Yeah, yeah, I know which one you're talking about. I've never been to that one, but this one's more like storefront than like buying the whole pallet. That's it, I'm sure they just do the same thing. They probably just buy the pallets and then sell everything individually in a store. Yeah, and then just open it up themselves and then... Yeah. You know what we should do? It's not a bad business model. Let's bring it back.
00:50:24
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I think we should bring back storage wars. And I think we should be the storage wars, guys. Dude, I watch storage wars almost every night. Give me your best Dave Hester right now. Dave Hester, which one is that? Yeah. Oh, my God. no i can't do that Yeah. Yeah. That guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He got it. He got it. Yeah. We should do storage wars.
00:50:55
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just We should do storage wars, is that what you're just saying? Yeah, no, we should be like, we should be the company. Like as in like, we should buy, we should buy the storage units and then sell that stuff.
00:51:07
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Listen, we can make it happen. That'd be pretty fun. Anything anything is possible with the right um amount of passion. yeah And if you post this as a video on TikTok and somebody comments, this is a bro. Let's start a podcast episode. I'm going to fucking punch my phone. I swear to God. That is the idea. is what we all know what a Great idea. And we all know it. We all know it's a good idea. Do you get to keep when you buy those? You don't get to keep the unit, right? You just get to keep all the stuff in it. You get the content. You get the content.
00:51:35
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I was gonna say I would I would love to you know buy a unit flush all that stuff out and then have a Have a unit that like you guys ever see the accountant Yes. Yeah. Like Ben Affleck ad with the with the RV inside of it to hang out in. You know, they're coming out with a second one. I did. I saw that. I saw a screen screen grab of like him and Bernthal like on set or whatever. That's going to be so that's going to be sick. Yeah. That's but that's that's funny, though. Like imagine being an auction place or like a like a storage unit company.
00:52:09
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And then as the year goes on, your business just slowly gets taken over by independent people that are buying out your units. That'd be rough. Yeah, I'm sure like in certain parts of the the country that like is very beneficial where they're able to clear out all like the units that haven't been touched in like years or whatever. But like imagine doing that like up here and woke it just clearing out a bunch of units and then Nothing like no one's gonna get it. I don't even want to know what people have in their units and walk it
00:52:46
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You know, I mean, I'm sure nobody will sell it, but some people some people store their cars in the winter. Will we get a unit like that? Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Yeah, true. I want to pick. ah I want to pick the outro music for the next ah for the next episode. I don't know if you have anything queued up oh but for this one, but for next one, no I have we just have the generic A.I. We have the that we need to hear that. Yeah, let me play it on my phone. I guess maybe that'll work.
00:53:16
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Oh, we not. Are we not doing picking songs anymore? No, we're going to go with. Oh, Doug, you are my feelings. Oh, you want me to do a big big just gave the most. I don't give a fuck face. Yeah, man. You know how much easier this is. I also got to pick Dave Matthews band. I didn't even get a shot. That's it, man. Sometimes that's fucked. That's not bad. We we all know I'm the real music guy in this group, you know.
00:53:44
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And now you're trying to piss him off. Yeah. Listen, he went he went from he went from Bad Bunny to the Dave Matthews Band. Oh, my God. It. He did, man. That shows his that shows range right there. His range, his range. Just remember, hold on. Just remember. Got this for you right here, buddy.
00:54:07
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I got that for you, Randy. All right, I'll play it for you guys on the next episode. Let's just wrap this one up. Yeah, I guess that's it. I don't really have much else. Oh, is that it? All right, fine. For the past couple of weeks, we haven't been playing outro music, and now Mike is upset that now we've decided to do something else instead of having outro music because he didn't get to pick a song. Because I texted him in the chat. And I said no. And I picked the outro, but you said yes and yes. I said no. It's all good. Just just just play the A.I. Generated. Just get us out of it. Get us guys like like comment and subscribe to the pod. Find us on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, all that shit. So we'll see you guys next week. Peace.