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The Kill Power Hour #069 - Tyler's 3rd List
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We keep finding bullet points to add to our lists, and Tyler's third list is no exception. Bullets and other war tech are at the top of Tyler's mind this week, along with the topics of perseverance, getting worked up over stupid shit, video game violence and why Tucker and Eric can't have tequila anymore--enjoy!
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AI's Impact on Art and Society
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I am AI. Fuck I'll get to death.
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each week we go through a list and this week we'll be discussing tyler's third the cat guy which takes us from diapers to dirt naps i'm your host eric and as always i'm joined by my best friend tucker that was not written by a i and my best friend's little brother i m ai fuck I would agree with that. All right. It's a hell of a list you sent us. We don't need to... Fucking AI, man. Fuck it. AI's not on the list, but yeah go for it.
00:00:44
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Other than parsing large data for trends, fuck AI, man. i mean What size what types type of genes are going to be trendy next year? yeah i mean are you Writing coding webpages.
00:00:59
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AI's great. That makes sense. Any sort of art... I would really be worried if I was like a fucking... yeah any Anybody that's in the world of art and performance... What? Should be mildly worried, man, because I don't think that people like my my children, for example, will have...
00:01:20
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I don't know. Unless you grow with in-person performances. Your children aren't going to have any artistic taste whatsoever. So AI is not going to have any impact on that. No, no. I feel like unless you have that feeling of like visual performances of human beings, you never grow with that.
00:01:38
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Then what's in the what's what's the value of something that you that you know in the back of your mind was made by person or the no you was made by AI? I don't think people are going to give a shit.
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I was just going to make all the lazy, shitty artists and performers and musicians are going to quit because they're too lazy to innovate or tap into something actually creative.
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hurt And so it'll get, you know, AI will take those jobs. It's like you're the analogy would be like, oh, kids are never going to taste good food again once McDonald's is around. Yeah. Okay. The bar got lowered. There's shit food out there, just like there's shit music and shit television. it's been that way for a long time.
00:02:16
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People will still search out good art because it makes you feel. amazing yeah I agree but but to at that point McDonald's is the most popular fucking restaurant in the goddamn world and no one says McDonald's makes me feel amazing oh yeah but they eat it that's what this is my problem is that I think that it's gonna be super person pervasive in popular culture yes and you're gonna and fuck that just fuck that there's no fucking point of that this is a story that's been happening since the industrial revolution
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This Model T is no good. It's not going to replace my horse. Exactly. what What am I going to do with all these horses? Yeah, no, fuck it. I get it. I get it. And then Elmer's came out.
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Finally. That shit ain't made a new job horses. Fuck you guys. I looked this up. Eggs are white because they come from white chickens.
Perseverance and Personal Growth
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hu I am not even fucking making this up. I went down a deep dive on this one. It's fucking true, man.
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No, there's like. First of all, there's no race in chickens. There's no. No, I'm not talking about. Jesus fucking Christ. No, they have. There's white eggs. They're not fucking bleached.
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They don't take ah brown eggs and bleach them white. Who was telling you that? You guys were telling me that. Wow. We went over this. You're like, oh, you guys did fucking bleach eggs, man. What other talks do we need to have with Tyler? Oh, my God. Recorrect the misinformation. Well, I'll tell him who can do 180s.
00:03:47
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What sex was. Actually was. I don't even know. Tyler. just are Our parents didn't have that talk with us. Our listeners need to know that Tucker and I were on a steady disinformation campaign for Tyler, so he thought sex was urinating in a in a person's mouth.
00:04:04
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Well, and that's so the first item on my list... All right. Put your head down and keep on trucking, man.
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It's, uh, that's bumper sticker worthy. That's bumper sticker worthy. It's just some people, man. I mean, yeah no, I sometimes myself too. Expand. No, I've, uh,
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I don't want to call a certain person out, but it's – especially people that are learning their job. Like if they're new at a job and they're like fucking – you can't do anything right when you're – when you first start a job. And if it gets your feelings in a way bunched up and fucking – You get all worked up. Then you're never going to do anything fucking right. Yeah. So I think you just need to like wake up in the morning and be like, I'm going to be wrong for eight hours for the next two weeks and just fucking suck it up and keep on trucking. and Perseverance.
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It's kind of something I have to show my kids sometimes, too. it's Whether it's fucking raking or whatever. It's like, you know what? You're going to be fucking terrible at this, but you still got to do it. We're in that with reading right now.
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Yeah. Some things he gets so good. And then as soon as he gets to something hard, he fucking shuts down yeah and like, I don't want to do this book or whatever. And you're like, no, you don't, we don't get to just like shrug this aside, you know, because it's, it's because of the moment.
00:05:26
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Well, that's the thing is people love being rewarded with good job. You did a great job. You did. That was amazing. We praise them all the time for excellent work. And so that, that is the, the dopamine rush that they're trying to get.
00:05:39
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ah so when something, presents itself as difficult or ah will end up most likely in failure. It's like, i don't even want to try that, but that's how you fucking learn it. i mean, that's how you agree become great at stuff.
00:05:54
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Dude. Failing is so important. You need to fail. Endless. so Absolutely crucial. And our society needs to celebrate that. Not like, I mean, fuck man, kids with Instagrams and stuff like that is like even worse. Cause now they're like curating.
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their appearance well yeah oh my god yeah because social media stuff is like yeah look at look how successful and look how fun this person is it's like yeah no fuck that man i know this person yeah they're an asshole the 23 hours uh other 23 hours a day yeah back in my day yeah oh we're on it we just posted pictures of our turds No, there isn't a huge emphasis on, like you said, with the kid stuff is, you know, they don't know.
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You can't teach them endless, disappointing work. And yeah I feel like you have to do that, man. i mean, EC, I even know you do that. Like, it oh how many fucking pictures do you take before you get a good one, man?
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oh i mean, how many times have you, you know, tried developing different shit? Well, especially with experimental processes, like where you found your niche, right? Yeah. Dude, I shoot like four by five film, like four inches by five inches.
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Very time consuming, expensive process. I had about bulked up 12 sheets and I was ready to finally process them. Going back maybe even three years. Well, like processed them. I didn't check the expiration date on my developer.
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Fucking just kill them all. so There's like 12, you know, photos that I tried really, really hard on that are just gone. And here's the thing. I couldn't really remember any of them.
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So they weren't that good. all right and So I learned a couple of things about, you know, double checking expiration dates. But um I would say the saying, though, keep on trucking, it celebrates not the best role model.
00:07:48
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Like truck drivers aren't really people i mean they're doing good work but when we're not really people when we talk about getting replaced by ai or a self-driving car they're the fucking first to go yeah yeah oh yeah 100 hundred percent Nothing then like putting 50 tons on wheels at 70 miles an hour driven by a robot. Ugh.
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What do you think's gonna happen? Like, ah the truck stop will then disappear. That's actually gonna become an antiquated thing because the truck stop is where you get like the boner pills and where there's weird showers. Oh my God. Well, they're gonna have to somewhat, they're gonna have to automate they're going to automate that process.
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Yeah. so like It'll be EV charging stations. Oh, no, there's going to be another truck full of fuel or batteries that pulls up next to it. It's like when airplanes refuel in the sky. Oh, love that stuff.
00:08:33
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Dude, it'll be cool. Very cool. Number two.
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Jesus Christ. um I'll be here all night. This one kind of precedes the other one a little bit. It's like, how big of an upset do you need to change? Like, how much...
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what part Like how fucking terrible do things have to be before you're like, oh, fuck, this isn't this isn't making sense. This isn't right. That's a great question. think at different points of my life that threshold has been higher and or lower.
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Yeah. Watching someone else go through stuff is fun to watch as an older eight older person because I know that it's something is about to happen. I know that, like, they're reaching the pinnacle of of fucking stupid stupidity.
00:09:23
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And I'm like, this is going to be a fun fun thing to watch. Yeah. I feel like you need to lose a significant amount of money, a close relationship, or your health.
00:09:34
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Like, any three of those things, that'll usually precede a big life change. A good shocker. For me, it's like about, I think, i don't know, because I've done things and lost a fuckload of money and whatever, like,
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Yeah, especially with money in regards to money. which Well, that's, yeah. That's the top 10. just mean like walking away from a credit card and getting like a car repossessed and like getting a house foreclosed on, you know, and like being in a, relief you know, I think when I look back, that was just stuff and money is just a tool to make other things happen.
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which I firmly believe now, but like I think the upset has to be not me getting upset, has to be me, I think, upsetting others. I think I'm more driven by letting others down or by really hurting someone.
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i think that's, so it would have to be yeah loss big, but it would have to be, yeah, it would have to be, I've really, it's apparent that I've wronged. yep Keep showing up on a Wednesday night to do this podcast and Tyler and I aren't here.
00:10:49
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You did something wrong. I'll get the hint. I promise to get the hint after a couple episodes. What's the biggest amount of money that you've lost, Tyler? Oof.
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For... Like doing something foolish or just in like in general?
War: History and Innovation
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ah don't Tell me how you intelligently lost a ton of money. Both stocks. Oh, I haven't lost any money in stocks. I've lost like $7,000 on weed stocks.
00:11:16
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Oh, yeah. Jesus. called that one. um
00:11:22
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i i I mean, this ah I love it when people say I called that because deep you have a 50-50 fucking chance on a lot of stuff. I could be, I mean, look at so our buddy Joe.
00:11:34
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I won't say his last name. Yeah. That dude went in on some crypto in like 2009. He's made a fucking yeah fortune. How many people are like, dude, you're wasting your money? Yeah, yeah.
00:11:46
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Yeah, there's been a lot of stuff that I've... How many how many Trump NFTs did you buy, Tyler? No, man, you should see his basement. It's full of those sneakers. I was going to say, I've got all these gold shoes, man. Bible stuff. Nobody wants to buy them.
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but ah Fuck, man. um I got my education in my 20s by... by a by doing things on my own. And I feel like in regards to like, uh, engine design and stuff like that, like I just, there's a lot of experimenting. There's a lot of purchasing of stuff and at my own cost, but I learned a lot. Fucking up an engine.
00:12:28
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Yes. Um, luckily was all my own stuff and that doesn't, um, affect other people, but, yeah There's a lot of learning, but on the other side of it, I don't have a mountain of fucking educational debt or anything like that.
00:12:42
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Yeah, that's huge. You had expensive lessons like yeah yeah little by little. I think my people my mind to college now my biggest lessons are the out wordsbs are time. um Going deep on something I think is fucking the best idea ever, and it doesn't pan out.
00:12:59
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Yeah. Time is money. That's a fucking letdown, personal letdown when that happens. I've done that. This relates also to the very first point of like just failing. is just like I get so caught up on wanting to do something perfectly the first time that I put in you know all this time researching, testing, making sure the materials are going to perform. you know it' just like I was like, fuck, man, I should have just dove dove in would have had four more weeks of actual production time. Right. And you could have problem solved it if if problems arose.
00:13:33
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But there's something in my brain that's really important that i I can't fake confidence about intelligence. I need to feel like I actually truly know something. And so if I yeah have done all the tests, then I feel like I can confidently say and believe what I say. and so I agree with you.
00:13:47
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You need to hang out with more marketing people. We'll fix that real quick. No fucking, yeah. Oh my God. i yeah i love, ah that'll be a topic on another one is fucking confidence, man. yeah Confidence is a, so many confident idiots.
00:14:03
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Yeah. Yes. Talk about failing up. Seriously. Middle management. All right, for this, so can we get a number three, Tucker? I liked your announcer voice.
00:14:16
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Number three. Like Casey Kasem's stepdad. Wow. It would be my honor to be his stepdad. I thought you were talking about depends on this one.
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Sorry. Are you serious? yeah Yeah, I only saw, I didn't see, yeah I was like, what? I'm like, bored. oh bored. Like fucking dad's wear pads, man. ah Skateboarding. Like, no, you get old and then you all of a sudden you fucking.
00:14:43
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We become fragile. If I'm like rolling around the ground to work on something, the next day I'm like fucking feeling it. And I i don't know what I was doing. I'm like, I was standing there and I thought about the feeling I got when I opened up a CCS catalog. Oh,
00:15:00
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and like picked out boards and then like yeah found the board that I thought was the best shape ever by, so by looking at it from some fucking image in this tiny, yeah two inches long and being so in love with it and like putting the, putting everything together and then getting it and like writing it. Like I've been longing for that again since I've been thinking about it.
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And then I'm thinking of myself like, I'm going to wear fucking pads. And I don't know if I, if I'll even wear a helmet, but I need to get, It's been like – That would be that role model maybe. no, it's been – Oh, fuck. Pet parks. Fuck some pets.
00:15:36
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I'm very excited about this. This is my favorite bullet point ever. I don't think I'm going to fucking really do much other than just roll around. but um Did you guys ever – when you were talking about the CCS megs, do you ever cut out the skateboards and then tape them to like thin cardboard like cereal box? Yeah.
00:15:53
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things and then use those as like little finger decks. We made fake snowboards. We made them. With duct tape and cardboard. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Those were fresh. That was like, God, 10 years before tech decks.
00:16:07
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Yep. Exactly. we were making our own. And at ah I don't remember what house I was living in. I think it was Alexandria. we Our sisters had like a two sinks right next to each other.
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So it was like a double bowl. Whoa. Fucking, there was like a hip, you know, I was like, this is the best bathroom to skate in ever. I just love how simple, this should be a topic, like simple pleasures.
00:16:34
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I think it's super important that like no adults find those simple pleasures because a kid's life is nothing but. Well, skateboarding is that. I mean, yeahs it's playing and it's a form of play that's accepted.
00:16:48
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by adults you know when they do it. So yeah I don't know. I've been going to that skate park that they just refinished on Sunday mornings with buddy Sam. Oh, hell That's great. And he's 40.
00:17:01
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There's this other guy who's like 60 who shows up and he's fully padded out. And then he pulls out one of those giant fucking DeWalt. Dicks? No. the Oh, stereo? The sound. Nice, Yes. then he'll play some like 1990s like West Coast hip hop mixes. Oh, shit. This is amazing. Yeah. So I'm fully like, that is my crew.
00:17:25
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I love that. So much. to Have any of your kids really taken to skateboarding? Is it something that you think they would actually continue doing? Or is it more of thing? Epson's on and off about it. And I'm pretty sure once I get this mini ramp going, he'll be really into it.
00:17:41
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Are you still going to love him when he's only using it for his scooter? yeah I won't ever buy him one i I've already said that you outside and him and his buddies are wearing razor or fucking rollerblades but if he's got his RC truck on it and he's doing flips and and whatever that'd be good Tyler what about your kids either of them skating not so much thats good much
00:18:05
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yeah skateboarding was like one of those just popular fads when we were growing up ah and I'm happy to have grown up during that time oh it Yeah, it I won't say much anymore because it relates to one of his bullet points here.
00:18:21
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of The next one, how much you love and hate war. Fuck it. No, i yeah, obviously I don't like war or people, everything that involved with it. like fucking It's a big fucking waste of time. Take Tyler.
00:18:32
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Tyler, war sucks. War sucks. Number five. No, ah but I fucking love war history and like war history movies and like documentaries, even like the really terrible ones that are like really low budget about like some random tank from. Yeah.
00:18:50
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Three years. You're the oldest one of us here, actually. Like I know physically you're the youngest, but I feel like you have reached Apex old man before Tucker and I are there. I couldn't give two shits about the history channel.
00:19:03
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With my kids and watch World War Two. What's funny is that it'll be an hour and a half long documentary and there'll be like four minutes of footage. They just keep fucking. Oh, yeah. we're getting More voiceover. Yeah. Yeah. And it's they is just interview people about like the four different engines in this like panzer tank.
00:19:22
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And all the different options and like whatever. I fucking eat it up, man. I love the crazy things that can be accomplished in a super short amount of time when people have to fucking do them.
00:19:33
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I love that. Innovation. Yeah, but it's like innovation and desperation. Yeah. sure Going through like my grandma's stuff, like I'm seeing how you have to pay for shit. withna edge First of all, the biggest and earliest dildos I've ever seen.
00:19:49
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Hand crank. Hand crank steam powered. It's not the Model T, it's the Model D. They were hysteria suppression devices. Okay.
00:20:00
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Crank it over. ah No, but she had like the coupon books from rations where it's like, oh, wow. i think I can get, here's my sugar stamp. You know, was like, you couldn't buy, like capitalism kind of ended for a second during those wars. And people were like, it's funny. We were fighting against communism, but during wartime was kind of the U S coming closest to a communist nation because they garden everything's being, yeah. Being rationed and you're, you're doing everything for the country.
00:20:31
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So people actually sacrifice things. True patriotism. Yeah. Yeah. ah What's your favorite war, Tyler? it World War II? can and kind I just hate saying that. and But yeah, World War II.
00:20:45
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Yeah. That is the most interesting. I feel like it was the biggest development of everything in regards to technology technology. If you guys read this book, if you guys read this book, Vietnam would be it. Oh, yeah. Holy shit. I should read The atrocities, but how riveting and specific and detailed and just like the primal nature of shithead men. Like, this is this is like top three books I've ever read in my whole life. All right. And will you say Tyler, as i um Yeah, what is the author?
00:21:22
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Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Four Hours of My Life. Tyler, I will loan this to you and you will just be like... it It's so deep. That up a good point. Do you like to read about war or do you like to watch war? Yeah, yeah. I haven't read any books about war in a long time. When I was in ah middle school and high school, it was nothing but like...
00:21:44
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Holocaust related books. It was yep deep dive, even on the German side stuff, like translated books of their crazy fucking ideas and how insane it was to like read full books about the justification of like murdering people is like fucking crazy town. And what is, I i actually feel like world war two history should be taught in years long of school.
00:22:14
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Like they need to get in the depths of this shit. And like, otherwise it's not, and it's going to repeat itself, you know, like, yeah, you can't let that shit go. If you start, I mean, the idea of, Oh, they killed 7 million people.
00:22:27
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do you Most people are like, whatever. They can't even imagine that. They can't even imagine what a concentration camp looks like. Or anything like that possibly happened. the The harder thing to imagine it. is a general public that is so blase about that happening with their knowledge too. you know It's like, that's that's the crazier shit.
00:22:49
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And the further away it gets from affecting our families, because you know I think a lot of people from World War II are dead or are dying. Yeah. um The further they go away, the less it ah affects us.
00:23:03
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Yeah. and when it doesn't affect you personally, then it doesn't, it never happened. So do you think part of the reason why they made Oppenheimer was like, hey, this is we might be getting up to another nuclear war happening here. Maybe we just need to remind people what was happening.
00:23:22
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I don't know. I was just reading about how that like just premiered in Japan. Yeah. And how yeah fucking conflicted I would feel watching that movie as a Japanese citizen. Do you know what the response was there? No. well Did it win all the awards? Yeah.
00:23:40
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Japanese culture don't know much about it but it seems very reserved and very respectful oh god I want to go there so bad so I can't imagine that it would do really well or it would be talked about in a no one would talk shit about it in a way well I don't think that they would I think that they would respectfully not say a lot of things about how much sales they got on the movie because yeah it's such a touchy subject as it should be because hundreds of thousands of people died. Real quick.
00:24:10
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Because the nature of then versus now from a numerical standpoint is much greater and greater graver. So in World War two it's estimated that between 50 and 56 million people were killed as a result of that all in, which is fucking bonkers.
00:24:30
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yeah But okay, during that period of time, there was only 2 billion people on this earth. Right. So from a proportionate, like you knew probably lots of people, right?
00:24:46
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yeahp Now it's like we're at 8 billion. I mean, these numbers are compounding in such a degree. I'm just the gravity of how much more close to home that was. Dude. I mean, and then you read about the fucking plague, you know, yeah wiped out a third of Europe's population. yu and So that, yeah. ah I want to just announce that I fixed the fucking leak in my sink. I had a plumber come over, install a proper shutoff elf.
00:25:16
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And he told me his birthday. It's like, my birthday is kind of on a weird holiday. i was like, huh? He's like. It's like April 30th, the day Hitler killed himself.
00:25:28
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Wow. Why is that a holiday? I think he was trying. He's so dry. He's like a 70-year-old millionaire who's still a plumber. Oh, nice. um And he she just lives down the road.
00:25:41
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ah Weird. And then he told me, i don't know. this is This is the weird fact. He told me that Hitler never actually killed anyone. He was like, you know, Hitler never personally ever killed anyone.
00:25:53
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And I was like. Someone else told me that once. I was like, yeah, but that's like the truly evil people. Like Satan probably never tortures anyone either. He just has his weird demons do shit to people.
00:26:06
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Oh, yeah. What a weird qualification. yes i can't Yeah, that's almost something that.
00:26:15
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It's like, technically you're right, but you're also really wrong for just saying that. Yeah, All right. ah What have you learned lately, Tyler?
00:26:27
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don't even know, man. I don't even know. is up This is based on a milestone. This has got 40 in the... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm definitely like slowing down. So my learn out fucks like for learning and being proficient at something, you know, older and later in life, which i've most people are like, what the fuck? 40s. I mean, that old, but it's definitely a huge learning curve and it's.
00:26:53
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It takes a lot longer to learn things. Fuck it, man. I can't use Microsoft Outlook. I can't do it. Like, I just tried. it's so bad. It's so fucking... I thought... Hopefully, it's not me, and hopefully, that program just sucks ass, but... It does suck ass, but...
00:27:08
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yeah It's like me and like another 40 year old person. And I'm like, how, what do I, how do I fucking print this? Like, what do I fucking do? Like it's, it's.
00:27:19
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I love that. What is something? yeah I'm trying to remember like the job I've had where I like had to work with an interface and I was like, this is the dumbest fucking thing ever. Like where there's no intuition in how things were laid out.
00:27:34
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Yeah, that's absolutely Outlook. That's all of Microsoft Office. If I was developing software, the first thing I would do is I'd come up with some shit and then be like, hey, guys, try this. And I would set up a camera. Yeah.
00:27:49
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And I'd be like, hey... Open an email, send an email, and then just watch them and be like, oh, fuck. Okay. You know mean? Like, how do they not do this shit? It is so fucking hard.
00:28:02
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yeah I cannot believe that that company exists still putting out software that's this bad. yeah I wonder if people who are like 60 years or older actually like that, the way that it's designed.
00:28:17
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you know So i I do think there is a way, you can't design software that's intuitive for everyone. you know yeah like i mean Watch one of your kids navigate a cell phone now, and you're like, yeah, yeah it's like I can't work at that speed. Or like when I watch my nephew play Fortnite, and I'm just like, how...
00:28:37
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How do you know what you're doing? Like the way that your hands and fingers are moving is so fast. But let's just be clear. That fucking and user interface is horseshit.
00:28:48
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Yeah. And what the fuck is a SharePoint? I heard your rant on SharePoint. I'm going to bring that up again. going go to the grave with that shit. What happened to Clippy? Clippy.
00:29:01
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Oh, yeah. Where did that? They should actually bring him back. you Bring him back. he He would actually improve the software. He would make things more fun. Finally, Clippy. Clippy. Tell me what the fuck is going on.
00:29:11
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we need a T-shirt with Clippy. Clippy, how the fuck do I actually open an email? Clippy, where you been? Just what I need you most. You left me here. You left. it Wow. Wow.
00:29:22
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ah um My next topic is fuck whiskey. Fuck whiskey! oh my god, dude. Drink it with your dick. So is this based on an experience that you had just maybe recently? Also, just to clarify, Fireball is not whiskey. No, it's not. Plus it's more fun and it tastes better. I don't like the taste of whiskey. More fun? What? I had not like two drinks that had whiskey in it and...
00:29:46
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You're not drinking the right stuff. I was hung over for like two days. Well, okay. drink a lot of beverages. You do not drink enough water, dude. And you were drinking whiskey? like he's He has to put his face here. Fuck whiskey.
00:30:05
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I think, did you have one of those highballs when we went to that Japanese whiskey bar? Or did you just drink beer? What? I don't remember. What Japanese whiskey bar? Remember when James and Sam were playing vinyl at that tiny Japanese whiskey bar and you came got a hot dog? yeah I'm pretty sure I had a beer.
00:30:23
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Dude, so if you get, you just got start correctly and then you'll find like a lane. Start with bourbon. Yeah. Or like for me, like, you know, EC helped me get like Jameson.
00:30:38
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It was sweet. It was familiar. it was affordable.
Humor in Personal Experiences
00:30:43
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and then ah like other whiskeys kind of just happened. But then at a certain time when I was like, I kind of know what I'm buying.
00:30:50
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It was like bourbon. So it was like less sweet. Yeah. A little bit warmer, but not that bite, like that curdling bite. And then after time, I was like, oh, this is, I want rye, which is even less sweet.
00:31:02
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Yeah. And I figured out like, oh, if I just do this, like that with soda water and like a bitters, I'm like, this is cool. I can sip. It's a good drink. Yeah. You know, but. What's your no-go alcohol, Tucker? Yeah.
00:31:16
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My no-go? Yeah. Like what's your... Ooh, shit. Tyler's is whiskey. What's yours? ah It's probably Jagermeister. I say whiskey, vodka. I like rum. I like rum drinks.
00:31:29
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I'll fuck with some rum for sure. i can't do rum. Oh, dude, you need to make boozy shakes. Too sugary, too sweet. Yeah, no, that's the thing. I don't... What kind of are you buying though? I like a savory... So and we've been fun we've been buying this rum from this company, I think it's British, called um Smith and Cross and it's Navy Strengths.
00:31:53
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Yeah. So it's like whatever, like 116 proof or something like that. And it's so dope in a boozy shake. All right. Because it's it's hot.
00:32:06
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without making you have like the gag hot. it's just like really warm. Oh, weird. But because it's such a high proof, it's not as viscous as like the cheaper, sweeter rum.
00:32:18
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Right. ah It's dope. High viscosity rum. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. ah Boozy shakes. How often are you drinking boozy shakes?
00:32:29
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yeah Friday nights when I make pizza and do movie we do movie night. That's lot of milk. That's fun. It is fun. it' so lot it' like It's It's really just an excuse to drink milk and eat pizza. I just get this cow and keep them for the weekend. And then I don't shit till Wednesday.
00:32:46
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i don't have problems with that. Cheese don't stop you up No, not at all. Dude, I can definitely tell when I have a lot of cheese because they all come out like the size of tater tots.
00:32:56
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Oh, it's like I'm a big bunny. and Jesus Christ.
00:33:04
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That's you in my yard. That's you. Just go on a cheese binge. Oh my God. Lay a bunch of dukes in your yard. Jesus.
00:33:15
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I would agree with you. I'd say Jaeger is my no-go and probably tequila at this point too. Oh, tequila. Only for weddings. and but Yeah, I mean, if if it's a, it's never a single tequila drink. It's i it's a 10 tequila night.
00:33:30
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I love that we got told to settle down at what was a extremely rowdy wedding. Tyler at Ashley and James's wedding. thought the floor was going We were trying to force our bodies through the floor of this venue by essentially doing like Hulk level river dancing.
00:33:52
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Jesus Christ. And I just remember like, so stumpy, dude, like, EC and I just like drank them out of tequila. We don't drink tequila, but we're like, dude, let's go get a shot of tequila.
00:34:06
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Dude, let's go get a shot of tequila. I remember standing next to you and Allison and we're like... I'm like let's go get a drink and she just looks at you with the fucking evilest eyes and she's like no tequila and then you and I go over to the bar and we're looking and we're sipping watching her like a fucking toddler that god got caught she says no tequila I would like a water please and then I go off drink a shot of tequila with you and come back with no water I remember that oh my god that was so good
00:34:39
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Yeah, we got told to stop them. yeah They played Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas like five or six times. Three times in a row. Oh, yeah. it was Because the DJ was hammered as well. And he his everything that he set up was in the outside because it was all supposed to be outside. And then we were going to eat underneath this pavilion thing.
00:35:01
Speaker
But then a crazy tropical storm comes through. So his fucking hard drive that had like all his good tunes on it was toast. So all he had was what was saved on his laptop. Which is just four songs or something. like Oh, we weve we for real heard Mariah Carey's like five or six times, but people were giving him shots.
00:35:18
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He's like, I'll play what you want, even though he had like 10 songs. And he was like blackout. Well, because he said, i bring me a shot. I'll play your song. All of a sudden, 20 shots are in front of me. my God. Yeah, that was bomb. would die.
00:35:32
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You know, he got, it was hilarious to hear a wedding DJ go from like normal to like hammer blackout drunk in 20 minutes. Like deep space black out. Deep space. It was ah one of my favorite weddings. Oh yeah. I was at a ah a thing up in Milwaukee ah and this DJ, I'm not going to call him out, but fucking.
00:35:54
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He would stop. He would play a song. Like 45 seconds in, he would stop the song. Get the fuck out. Pick another song. There were hundreds of people. Part of it was at a stadium. Starting in dead air? He played the background music at a
Managing Anger and Daily Frustrations
00:36:08
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fucking stadium. He would stop the song.
00:36:10
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I'm like, motherfucker, Spotify is better than you. like fuck Holy shit. Yeah, and then he would- You could set up a crossfade even. Yeah, like, oh my God, it was bad. And then there was no fading in and out of other songs. So it would just from one song and then a dramatically different fucking song.
00:36:27
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The world has- Too many DJs for there to have an employed terrible DJ. Yeah, heard that. That doesn't make sense. Oh my God. Dude AI, man.
00:36:39
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No, I like fucking Spotify. Dude AI. One of the most important things going to become a dja All you have to do is, if I was a DJ, is I would set up two laptops and like um like a mixing thing.
00:36:51
Speaker
And I would have one laptop have fucking Spotify on it. And then I would just rock out and just like play Spotify and just like... Put both of the laptops on top of actual turntables and then sc scratch the laptops. Whoa. Yes. You're spinning the laptop. I love that.
00:37:10
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That would be great. All right. Next up. Three, four, five, six. oh wait. Number seven. Jammers. Deep in it. ah Name some things in your life that you get worked up about that you shouldn't.
00:37:21
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Some mini list within a list here. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't. so I didn't populate the list for myself because I just don't really get worked up on anything. I will so really start and by saying that I took a cop-out answer and I actually only had two things, not five.
00:37:39
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yeah And they were like, to fuck no, I used to, so this thing that you're mentioning, like petty shit and getting worked up about it, that was my life. Like when I,
00:37:52
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was in school at century college and like at the recommendation of friends around me were like, dude, you should take a fucking stress management class. I'm like, I don't know why I was so worked up. Like, but everything set me off. Like, like set me. up i was, and I just, I don't know if i was just like an angry person, but I mean that class helped at the right time. Cause I think I would have been a real fucking raging prick. Might have.
00:38:18
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Have a chat with Deborah about that. Well, I mean, I think I feel like i mean, luckily you fucking checked it before you had kids. Yeah. But like that's i feel like that's the worst thing is like people that are super touchy about stuff.
00:38:34
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And they go off on fucking whatever just because something simple or bad happened. And you can, I've seen kids react to it and it's fucking beautiful. Plus it's really weird when an adult can't control their emotions and is like throwing things or like fucking. Oh yeah. Like having a fucking tantrum. I don't even, anything, anybody like that in my life is not in my life.
00:38:57
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Skateboarding helped work that out too. yeah I mean, if you messed up a trick and you threw your skateboard, I could give two shits about it. I feel like that's part of skateboarding. Right? I mean, like.
00:39:08
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If you want to see a 16-year-old with anger issues, I have a VHS tape. of young Eric losing his fucking mind yeah all over the Twin Cities.
00:39:22
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ah Kicking his friends out of the car. Yeah, you had a short fuse back then. Dude, I still do. I just like kind of grew into it. But that that is like one of the things I've been working on, honestly, is like just trying to like essentially realize and unlearn all of these ingrained habits of like, just because something is different or not going the way you expected doesn't mean it's terrible or something to be yelled at. or i you know like it's just There's nothing you can fucking do about it.
00:39:53
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yeah you can well you mean You can waste your fucking time and make have a big reaction about it, but the problem is is when your action's over with, it still exists or doesn't exist or whatever. The problem's still fucking there. i mean to ah Sorry, go ahead, Tucker. Oh, i was going say, like, I think at a certain age when you realize truth truly that your energy is finite.
00:40:12
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Right. Yes. Then, and like that comes at different times, but then it's a slap in the face the day that you have that stark reality. Like doesn't necessarily have to be a low moment, but it is, it is high contrast moment.
00:40:25
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Yeah. And you're like, oh, wait, I need to think of this as a resource and be smarter about it. Mm-hmm. My dad had a stroke on tech support with Dell.
00:40:39
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Whoa. Fucking windows.
00:40:44
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And my mom had her heart attack trying to put and inflatable mattress back in its box. so So flipping out at dumb shit will kill me.
00:40:58
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oh yeah. It's in your blood. Yeah. Holy shit. Don't do that. That is hilarious. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Okay. So then the second part to that cop out answer ish. um Was that like I'm having a hard part with the shouldn't.
00:41:15
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at All of your fucking rage is justified. Well, and now it's like really hard for me to like admit because i was like, oh, wait, the things that I do get worked up about, I'm pretty sure I should get worked up about. The guy that just cut me off, he should be murdered. Oh, my God. Yeah, exactly. Well, mean that's a lot of things.
00:41:37
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I know this guy that's every time he drives, he's fucking like, no, I just got cut off like four times today on my way here. I'm like, your definition of getting fucking cut off is someone driving in your lane in front of you. Yeah. yeah I was in, I've been in the car with this guy and he like fucking someone drives on the left-hand side, gives him a few like hundred feet and then moves over.
00:42:01
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yeah Oh, just fucking cut me off. Do I know this person? you Go back to fucking driving school. You see, but but I do. don't i do don' it Yeah, but I'm like- Is he one year older than me?
00:42:15
Speaker
No, no, no. Okay. Sounds like a Tim Robinson character. Okay. Kind of, and it's like, so like what part of this brings brings it up? It's like, you get to a point, a lot of us, our lives are so good.
00:42:29
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We're just, did people with a certain personalities are just begging to be like pissed off or something, or like need something wrong in their life. I'm like, you know what? If someone cuts you off,
00:42:40
Speaker
that is the worst thing that happened to you today, things are pretty fucking good. Right, yeah. I mean, like... Need to worry about bigger shit there. Yeah, like... And then you're also talking about it? I don't i don't get it.
00:42:51
Speaker
the the The logical thing is where I feel like there's a when i spot an inefficiency... Oh God, yeah. just like, what why are we still Because you are the most efficient fucking person. No, I'm not but but it's like but And so if me as a common person can identify that this is clearly inefficient, there's a better way. That that will drive me fucking nuts.
00:43:15
Speaker
Like the way they pet seat people on airplanes. Oh, so dumb. It's proven to be the least efficient way of getting people on a plane. Like they've done tests. Then why do they do it?
00:43:27
Speaker
To kill time. There's no fucking reason. Because they're employed by Satan. It's money. It's money. There has to be a reason. So they figured out a way to make people stay at the airport longer so they spend more money.
00:43:41
Speaker
Do you think that's so true they think that's valid? you think that matters on like Suncoast or fucking Delta once? Every dollar. they are They are fucking like beggars in the sky. well do Can I get a dollar for these headphones? No, I guess what I'm getting at is you you do you think Delta makes money off of the fact that their fucking flyers are in the airport longer?
00:44:05
Speaker
I'm sure they get a cut. Hell yeah. Because they're the ones that are bringing those retailers yeah the customer. Yeah. can see that. I can see that. That'd be good. I would like to know more about the politics of ah airports. We should bring on a guest. Airport management. Yeah.
00:44:22
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To get that. All right. What are we on? one Number nine. um but Something in your life that's actually made it better, like physically, like a fucking- A physical Air fryer. Fuck it.
00:44:33
Speaker
No. A little small appliances. What's your thing? you say Fucking nothing, dude. Oh, really? nu I mean, little things, like, I don't, there's nothing physical item that has actually made your life better.
00:44:45
Speaker
I can name two. Well, a car that doesn't break down, how that? that's a huge deal. um That's every car for a little while. True, yeah? Yeah, yeah, no. ah but But there isn't any, like, magical, I mean, there's so much new shit that you don't fucking need that comes out all the time.
00:45:02
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I guess maybe that was my underlying point of view, is that, There's so much shit. So much shit. When was the last time got something new that was like, fuck, man, this changed my life. like My parents' basement is a museum to this kind of shit. Yeah.
00:45:19
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Because they get, like I don't know, they go to the fucking casino so much, they just give them Presents? Oh, so like so much. you have and You have inventory down there. Every every
Finding Joy in Simplicity
00:45:30
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day is Christmas. No, seriously, you you walk in and you're like, whoa, this is like a weird version of the sharper image if it was in the basement of a suburban home.
00:45:42
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Oh, my God. and And none of the stuff is good as the actual sharper image. Like there's ah an appliance that you can just make s'mores. They probably have like three of those. Your favorite standalone. Yeah, right. S'more maker. Single purpose ah appliances.
00:46:00
Speaker
I'll tell you what though. I didn't think this was going to be the case, but heated seats. In the toilet? That made my life better. in the car. Yeah, first I agree with you. I agree with you. With like yeah crunchy lower back these days, ah i was like that.
00:46:16
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I dismissed them and made fun of, and I was one of those jerks, but holy fucking shit. But I was going to say in a less of a modern ha-ha got you sort of thing, my skateboard and a camera.
00:46:32
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yeah yeah Because I think this this long in to life and both of those things, it allowed me to develop a certain way of seeing the entire world around me that I never, without those as tools, they were like, they almost like, oh, they're like keys. They like opened the door to a way of seeing and that way of seeing allowed for a way of living.
00:46:57
Speaker
Yeah. Never look at a handrail the same again. Oh my God, never. Everything, like, is there a bump on that? Like, I'm just, you know, kind of... Technically, kids who do, like, parkour could say the same thing, so it's not that cool of a break. could rollerbladers. Do rollerblades still exist?
00:47:16
Speaker
I'm sure. Everything 90s is back. Yeah. I would also say every winning lottery ticket I've ever purchased has improved my life a little bit. Heard that. An under-sink water filter was a big life improvement.
Video Game Violence and Its Effects
00:47:30
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Oh, really? Yeah. Ugh. Just so so good and smooth and I didn't have to think about, you know, because some of your homemade ones that's just actually a sock full of quarters. Yeah, it's marbles, marbles.
00:47:44
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I like my pipe full of socks.
00:47:50
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I have to get extra pumps in in sequence to get the pressure to push it through the sock pipe. Everyone in Tucker's family just has terrible lip fungus. Oh, God.
00:48:02
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High iron content. Jesus.
00:48:07
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Athlete's foot of the mouth. they Yeah, hand foot and mouth. Athlete's foot. Hand foot. Yeah, athlete's foot.
00:48:20
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ah Athlete's foot. That sounds so gross.
00:48:25
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It's just when you can't stop talking shit. You have to spray that white powder in your mouth every morning. Only in the corners of your of your lips.
00:48:37
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Gross. That sounds gross. Number 10. ah I've noticed this more. We got we bought an Xbox and we it would we're mostly a Nintendo family.
00:48:49
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Yeah. Nintendo is pretty fucking PC. Like there's nothing really, there's no like real gnarly shooter games. Mortal Kombat.
00:48:59
Speaker
Okay. That's a lot of you. Yeah. um But no fucking Xbox is mostly first person shooter and yeah it's just all like murder games. And I'm even fine with the, with the shooting games for the most part.
00:49:16
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Yeah. I don't think that like really drives people to go murder people, but like, there's just so much gore in the games that it doesn't make the game any better to see someone explode in like splatter blood.
00:49:30
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7,000 times hours. It's gratuitous. Gratuitous? Gratuitous. So wait, because this is a good distinction to make. Is it the gratuitousness of it that you despise, or is it the frequency? Because one could make an argument for like how they do it in the most realistic way.
00:49:51
Speaker
I would almost say it happens too often. okay if you're you're like So for instance, if you're like A lot of these games, you go into a building, and inside the building are all these bad guys, and you have to murder all of them. Right.
00:50:06
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There's a lot of violence. Typical church Yeah, which, if every one of them doesn't need to be, like, fucking shot in the head, and their head explodes. Yeah.
00:50:19
Speaker
Even if that's the case, can't they just fucking fall down? Do they really have to, like... split apart and like fucking all like their fucking insides get blown apart and like all that shit over and over and over again. And then and and then when you're done, when you like have to go back through the fucking facility,
00:50:38
Speaker
It just is the walls and ground are just all red. and Oh, gross. Like it's so, so many of these games and a lot of these games, you can't even fucking turn it off. If there's going to, if they're going to make it realistic, they should make it at one point you just start gagging and throwing up.
00:50:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Or that it stinks and you have to get out of there and. Well, that's the thing is it's basically training people to become little psychopaths who have no human emotion. It's just like murder. I mean, I don't believe video games cause violence, but there is a certain desensitization that happens when it's just like repeated over and over and over again.
00:51:14
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agree. One thing I noticed is that i mean Milo was playing these games and I'm like, Jesus Christ, Milo. And then I played the same game and I didn't even see it.
00:51:27
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And I won't see it while I'm playing it, but I see it when I'm watching someone else play it. Subconsciously, that shit's catalog, though. Yeah, and I'm like, Milo, do you have, like, is there, because some of the games actually do have gore settings.
00:51:38
Speaker
Right. Oh, that's cool. I'm like, do you have, like, Milo, turn this off. He's like, there's no setting. I'm like, oh, my God. I was playing it and didn't even realize. Yeah, it's really weird. There was a game that, so like the BMG music service.
00:51:54
Speaker
Yeah. Where you get 10 CDs for a dollar or whatever. There were computer disc versions of that with games. A little bit earlier, actually. Oh, shit. And my dad got one of these. see We could pick 10 games.
00:52:06
Speaker
and Leisure Suit Larry. Yeah, seriously, like that was one of them, I'm pretty sure. but But one was called ah Executioners. Oh, yeah. And it was like a side-scrolling kind of fighting yup game.
00:52:19
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But it was like exceptionally... It was that my first... like I was like, what the fuck is happening here? Because like you get to the like boss of the first level and you rip his arm off and beat him to death with his own arms. Whoa. And this is like an MS-DOS game. And I'm just like, wow, okay. So this shit has like just always been part, I think, of computer games from its history. It's not a new thing.
00:52:45
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But I think it's just like becoming more and more intense and realistic. Yeah. And widespread. I mean, Doom was like that. More is is like, I played this game Starfield quite a bit.
00:52:57
Speaker
And if you play the game, you're the people around you in the game will not stay around you. And you can't like, almost progress through the game if you are a terrible person. Meaning if you just discriminate, like just, just kill random people, you have to like fix it. You have to like, i appreciate that. Fucking go to jail. you have to like make up with the people. You have to like pay all this shit. Like,
00:53:25
Speaker
I actually respect that part of the game. Yes, you can still do that and just go fucking murder a bunch of people, but it rewards you to be a conscious, nice person for the most part. You still are going in and murdering hundreds of bad guys in terrible ways, but um at least they're bad guys. I don't yeah fucking know.
00:53:44
Speaker
You know, at least one of them's innocent. Yeah. At least. Yeah. ah I started playing. Have you guys ever heard of Chrono Trigger? No. No.
00:53:55
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It's a Super Nintendo game. It's amazing. On Switch? and No. friend Tom built me this little Game Boy that basically just an emulator from everything from the Atari up to the Super systems. Which is fucking crazy to me.
00:54:11
Speaker
Yeah. um It's so good, though. I want you guys to be able to play it. If there's any way you can download it. Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger. Yeah. Okay. I don't know.
00:54:22
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Oh, it was the second thing that came up. Kind of a role-playing game. Oh, weird. It's got like like early anime sort of? Dragon Ball z sort of?
00:54:33
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Totally. Yep. Yeah. It was on Super Nintendo. It's it's a fucking great game. Oh, you can play it on Steam. It doesn't have any like gore or anything like that. It's just got a great fucking story. and i think you guys play it on Steam?
00:54:48
Speaker
I think I downloaded a couple games. Danielle did during the pandemic. Oh, nice. But I haven't played anything on it since. Yeah. Kind of a cool platform.
00:54:59
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Milo plays on stream quite a bit. Okay, nice. I think fantasy gore is something I don't mind. But when it's like super realistic, that's when it just gets a little disturbing to me. Yeah.
00:55:10
Speaker
Like this. It's like you're acting out some shit that you need to. Yeah, maybe not work. Act out. of Go to one of those like axe throwing rooms or something like that. yeah. Don't they have those rooms? I just don't see.
00:55:23
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yeah in A lot of these games you put in hundreds of hours. So like it's Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker
it's just kind of waste to me. Like, I feel like I wish they would focus more on story and like, right. Yeah. Um, well, busy that way. Then it'd be like, Jesus fucking Christ. Like that dude's fucking head just exploded. Like, yeah.
00:55:45
Speaker
What you just like the energy, the like of what you just talked about was something that I've been trying to impart on as in lately. It's like, it's easier to destroy something than it is to build, but that doesn't make it,
00:55:59
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right? You know, like, so to like cherish something more knowing that it's going to take so much longer to build. And like, that is the actual accomplishment.
00:56:10
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Yeah. But don't know. What I always tell my kids is that, every time they break something because they didn't take care of it, I'm like, that's less Christmas presents, that's less birthday presents that you're getting.
00:56:22
Speaker
yeah but The next time I go to the grocery store, I'm not buying Oreos. I love you. Nice, nice. Every time you break something, I love you a little less. For im like There's no love.
00:56:34
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They're old enough where they they know how much money is, so I'm like, okay, so if I had $100 for me to buy you a fucking birthday present, And you just broke your fucking iPad because you dropped it on the floor. Yeah. To go run and do something else.
00:56:49
Speaker
You got fucking $4 left, brother. That's what you're going to get for for your fucking birthday. Push it further. You owe me. Yeah. I mean, seriously. No, we do that sometimes.
00:57:00
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I have broken shit around my parents' house growing up, and they were like, you pay for that. And was like, fuck. Yes. That'll teach you to take care of that. Sometimes do chores to pay shit off.
00:57:11
Speaker
yeah I mean, if they were being stupid and they broke something, then fuck them. like They have pay for it in some way or another. Whether it's their with their life or fucking rake some fucking leaves or don't give Ventured servitude.
00:57:26
Speaker
I'm not their fucking, I'm their caregiver, but that's where it ends. Does not mean I give a care about what you have to Number 10.
00:57:41
Speaker
Believing in bad things is a fucking... What bad thing? Oh, yeah. People just get all bummed. There's like people throughout my life that are just constantly like, oh, man, you guys see the news or like the fucking economy about to turn.
00:57:56
Speaker
it's like. what, why you fucking, just tell me it's cold outside. I don't like pick a different fucking conversation or like, don't people focus on all this crazy shit that's happening.
00:58:08
Speaker
And yet you're fucking 40 some years old. And tell me the crazy shit that's actually happened. Nothing that you fucking foresaw. Like, yeah, it's people could just get in itself. It's, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because you, people get in this mindset and everybody is susceptible to this.
00:58:27
Speaker
you know, they focus on something that they might think is bad is going to happen, whether it's in a relationship or something else in your life or something in the fucking news. And it just puts you in a funk. It makes you fucking, uh, uh, fucking paranoid.
00:58:42
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but Just everything, your perspective on everything is terrible. And if you stopped in that moment and got yourself out of that funk and just assumed everything was great, yeah you, you, Everything is still physically the same. It's just your perception or your feelings about it.
00:58:58
Speaker
Yeah. And if you're unwilling to do anything about what you're fucking worried about, then what's the fucking point? Yeah. I think you all you need to do is just change your surroundings, right? Because usually it's about like the people you're around, the media you're consuming that informs your viewpoint.
00:59:15
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And then it just becomes like an echo chamber type thing where it's like builds and builds and builds and becomes, yeah, this self-fulfilling prophecy from that point of view. But yeah, you just take someone out and you're like, oh, okay. Yeah, you know you're going live in China for six months.
00:59:31
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ah that would be probably undo most of them whatever you're experiencing. Yes, yes. Wait, where did you go? How did you get to China? What about it? Just take the person who's spiraling and just be like, just take them out of everything. You're going to China.
00:59:47
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China. Go to China. Go to just a different culture country yeah for six months. And you're going to come back, I think, with a pretty, at least a refresh on your perspective.
00:59:58
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yeah Yeah, I think so. I'm not saying that it doesn't make I'm not saying that terrible things don't exist, but yeah, so many fucking terrible things exist. And if you're constantly dwelling on them and you're doing nothing about any of them, which is all of us, I'm sorry, but like what, I
01:00:18
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i don't know anybody that's actually doing anything meaningful. I'm not packing all my shit and selling all my stuff to go fucking feed kids. I've, I don't think you'd, well, that's the thing is the assumption is that you do need to travel or go somewhere else to do something meaningful. You can do something meaningful in your own fucking neighborhood.
01:00:37
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You can pick up trash in your neighborhood and do something meaningful. You can go volunteer at the church during their soup kitchen hours and like do something meaningful. Yeah.
01:00:49
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ah Hell yeah. and More people need to focus on that. And those are the things that, you know, surprise, surprise, don't perform well on social media. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah.
01:01:00
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So. Yeah, I'm with that. All about manifesting the life that you want. I do think if anyone, even if they're in the shittiest of circumstances, if they're putting forth like a positive attitude, dude, I will have nothing but hand claps for them.
01:01:18
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Like if they're able to see the world in a great way, i I just don't want to be anyone who ever ruins someone's part of positive attitude.
Life Documentation and Legacy
01:01:28
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That seems like one of the worst things you could do to someone.
01:01:31
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but That's something I don't think I've ever even thought about until maybe the past 10 years. Yeah. well and that's not to say that like, I don't, I want to make sure we're being clear too. Like, you know, people have like shit happens and like, you don't want to be like, oh, well, I'm trying to keep a positive mental attitude, but you're getting divorced ah or your mom is, you know, got cancer. Like, I'm not really hearing that because it doesn't vibe well where I'm at, you know, like,
01:02:03
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No, I think people who still are absolutely in touch with reality. Yeah, they' that's a good qualifier there. And are able to, I guess, reframe things in a way where it's not devastating.
01:02:15
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yeah I mean, I just think, like for me, the energy behind that is like every day is a gift. So what am I going to do with that? That's why they call it the present brother. Yeah, man. Yeah.
01:02:28
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Oh my God. Number 11.
01:02:32
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This is like a saying. I'm trying to think it's like. I think it's another bumper sticker you saw. Is it? No, it's like Winston Churchill, which I can kind of give a shit about, but it's. Someone's been watching the History Channel. For fucking real. For real. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
01:02:51
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um No, this is like a thing that both gets me all the time. no it's like Especially from someone who can't write. Or so definitely can't spell. I can write though, but I had to fucking spell check a bunch of those words. No, uh...
01:03:07
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Yeah, no, it's like a fight, man. Like, I i definitely contemplate just working at the post office. um Oh, yeah. But I feel like I've got another five, ten years of fucking gangbusters in me and trying to make some shit happen.
01:03:25
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But I definitely feel like I'm fucking, I don't, it's harder to, like, make it happen. and To want it. work 20 hours in a year. Yeah. This is where the writing part is really important. Actually.
01:03:40
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ah there, a lot of people's accomplishments are remembered simply because they were preserved. Like they were documented and written about like while it was happening. Yeah.
01:03:54
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And so that's what gets carried forward through history. Like not, there are so many great people in history that we have no idea about because their lives weren't recorded. true So I think, yeah, you can strive to do great things, but you can also strive to record your regular life in a really great way, which is, I mean, part of the reason why I'm doing this fucking podcast.
01:04:19
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Like we, we, Weird assumption, but let's say one of your kids or their grandkids like listens to this and they have an understanding.
01:04:30
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of who you are yeah what you thought what was funny or interesting like wouldn't that be the weirdest thing to be like oh your great grandfather talk about his top 10 favorite movies and then try and watch those dude i would die to hear that from my own father listen to this old timey shit yeah what's a gattaca go
01:04:53
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Oh, shit. That's a great point, you see. yeah I like that. So I think you don't necessarily need to do... and because I'm saying this too because I'm going through scrapbooks, like so many people's scrapbooks. You're just like...
01:05:08
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No, I'm doing a residency at the library in town, and I'm looking at scrapbooks going back to the 1800s, early 1800s. And so I'm seeing like the way people recorded their lives in their media. Bonkers. It's, you know, totally different than the references, but I can still tell funny person, like, and their sense of humor, or just like their weird interests.
Episode Reflection and Future Topics
01:05:29
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don't We gotta wrap this fucking show. Well, this is a great we're way over time deep episode. It's a deep episode and to that point, great. A lot of good discussion.
01:05:41
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We're up for Tucker. Well, heavy is the crown, but I'm ready to carry the torch. The bar was raised. Yeah. And I'll be going the bar.
01:05:53
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Cool. All right.
01:05:57
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Well, be well. Ta-ta for now. Later.