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D&D Classes and A Kinder World
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Welcome back! This week, after the rigamarole (firehouse, dentist, movies, gaming). Ron asks what Dungeons and Dragons classes modern jobs fit into; Chris wonders if more people need to watch PBS (Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross, etc.). As always, please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Beginnings
00:00:09
Chris
Welcome back to another episode of Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:12
cantthinktoolong
I'm Ron and that felt very abrupt. Done.
00:00:16
Chris
ah I keep you on your toes.
00:00:18
cantthinktoolong
um Yeah, it's fine.
00:00:22
Chris
It's...
00:00:22
cantthinktoolong
I don't really get on my toes.
00:00:22
Chris
ah
00:00:23
cantthinktoolong
How many times you get on your toes?
00:00:25
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, because I guess, is that like a ballet reference?
00:00:29
cantthinktoolong
I don't know. Like, why would you want to be up on your toes?
00:00:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:35
cantthinktoolong
Hmm.
00:00:35
Chris
Yeah,
00:00:38
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, no sense.
00:00:39
Chris
It
Exploration of Idioms and Humor
00:00:40
Chris
doesn't.
00:00:40
cantthinktoolong
was from the ballet wars of 1774.
00:00:46
Chris
it's an origin It's an idiom originated from sports, particularly boxing and but baseball, where athletes need to maintain a forward-leaning stance on the balls of their feet.
00:00:51
cantthinktoolong
Oh.
00:00:54
Chris
Yeah, but you're not on your toes. You're on your balls.
00:00:56
cantthinktoolong
Right.
00:00:58
Chris
God, I'm going saying that. should...
00:01:00
cantthinktoolong
Gotta keep you on your balls, boys.
00:01:04
Chris
ah
00:01:05
cantthinktoolong
I'm pretty sure the deputy chief just told me to stay up, get on my balls.
00:01:05
Chris
ah
00:01:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:10
cantthinktoolong
HR. We got another rogue deputy chief got to take care of.
00:01:11
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:15
Chris
Another rogue. Well, I'm sure the new guy on A-shift thinks I'm a jerk.
00:01:21
cantthinktoolong
Oh, boy.
00:01:22
Chris
ah Because the new...
00:01:22
cantthinktoolong
Wait, which guy?
00:01:26
Chris
The one Station One.
00:01:28
cantthinktoolong
ah Okay, yeah.
00:01:28
Chris
um Yeah, yeah. He... I stopped by there yesterday just to chat with him and I heard the lieutenant call for Steve.
Humorous Work Anecdotes
00:01:40
Chris
was like, who's Steve? i right And the chauffeur, he's like, oh, well, the new guy got a haircut. and he looks like a totally different guy. So we're calling him Steve. So yeah, okay. So like he walked through, i was like, hey, Steve, how you doing? And he kind of looked at me.
00:01:53
Chris
And then as I was leaving, I said, bye, Steve. It's like this guy probably like deputy chief of department, don't even know my name.
00:02:02
cantthinktoolong
Good. Let me know your name, Weasel.
00:02:08
cantthinktoolong
I call my new guy, new guy. You don't get a name until like six months on the job.
00:02:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:12
Chris
Yeah. basic it like Is it like the old school where they used to, you know, not name a child till they're a year old?
00:02:18
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. yeah make sure they're going to survive.
00:02:21
Chris
Hmm.
00:02:23
cantthinktoolong
It's funny because whenever
00:02:24
Chris
Yeah. Well, you're new guys. What? 108? Yeah.
00:02:28
cantthinktoolong
in the body of a 20 year old, yes.
00:02:33
cantthinktoolong
it's But it's funny because Meg, whenever she writes up on the board, she always puts FNG.
00:02:38
Chris
yeah
00:02:38
cantthinktoolong
um He's like, like what's FNG? I'm like, you are. That's all you need to know.
00:02:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. You, you.
00:02:44
cantthinktoolong
You.
00:02:47
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, yeah. Old new guys.
00:02:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:50
cantthinktoolong
like having new guys. It's fun.
00:02:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:53
cantthinktoolong
You know, they're still semi-interested in things.
00:02:57
Chris
Yeah. yeah Full piss and vinegar.
00:03:03
Chris
Which why would, why, why would you want to be full of piss and vinegar?
00:03:05
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:03:05
Chris
That doesn't sound fun.
00:03:06
cantthinktoolong
and no Yeah.
00:03:08
Chris
Sounds like a pickle with a UTI.
00:03:12
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:03:13
Chris
ah
00:03:13
cantthinktoolong
That doesn't sound fun at all.
00:03:14
Chris
No. No.
00:03:17
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:03:18
Chris
No.
00:03:19
cantthinktoolong
Does my ah voice sound funny at all?
00:03:22
Chris
No?
00:03:24
cantthinktoolong
Oh, okay.
Dental Woes and Suspicions
00:03:25
Chris
Why?
00:03:25
cantthinktoolong
I feel like it does. ah Because three three days ago, I had ah invasive surgery where ah the dentist and his four assistants put all of their hands in my mouth at the same time.
00:03:41
cantthinktoolong
And a caulk gun.
00:03:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:43
cantthinktoolong
Sane. And he like, he grabbed, so what, so he numbs me, right?
00:03:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:51
cantthinktoolong
And I wasn't trying to be a dick, but like he's on like the second shot of ah lidocaine.
00:03:57
Chris
yeah
00:03:58
cantthinktoolong
And I was like, how much lidocaine you give He's like, I'll stop now. I'm like, I'm not, I'm just professional interest would like to know how much you've given me. I can give you up to 12 of these. I'm like, whoa, that's.
00:04:12
Chris
It's like a threat.
00:04:13
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, so basically he's like the maximum dose.
00:04:15
Chris
Keep it up. I'll give you all 12. Yeah.
00:04:18
cantthinktoolong
Whoa, I don't really, okay. So he numbs you, right? Which is, whatever they do, it's still painful when they do it, you know?
00:04:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:26
cantthinktoolong
And then he's like, he grabs my jaw, and he's just like, let me just yank you around with my death grip.
00:04:34
Chris
yeah
00:04:35
cantthinktoolong
and And then he's just like, open your mouth, and we'll put this blade block in, and now I'm going to shove 48 power tools in and see how far it goes. Oh my god.
00:04:44
Chris
Yeah.
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cantthinktoolong
I literally always got done.
00:04:45
Chris
And that's the thing that bite block. Yeah. Your jaw gets all sore because you're freakishly open.
00:04:51
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, yeah. And then they, because I had to have a crown, I'm having a crown done. and say I would have in 2025 a crown could be done in a short amount of time. He didn't really even explain the process at all. He's like, oh, you need a crown. Okay, see ya. Okay, cool.
00:05:10
cantthinktoolong
So they they have to put a temporary cap on there.
00:05:13
Chris
yeah
00:05:14
cantthinktoolong
And for some reason it's way bigger than my tooth or any tooth would ever be.
00:05:19
Chris
Hmm.
00:05:19
cantthinktoolong
So it, like, I can't close my jaw all the way. So, yeah, like, don't know.
00:05:22
Chris
Oh, really? They didn't do the bite down thing?
00:05:26
cantthinktoolong
No, because this is literally just, like, have a one-size cap that they just stick in there. They're like, don't lose this in the next 17 days.
00:05:30
Chris
Oh.
00:05:33
cantthinktoolong
Cool.
00:05:34
Chris
but
00:05:35
cantthinktoolong
It's already come off twice. If I had re-stick it down.
00:05:37
Chris
Oh, my gosh.
00:05:39
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. It's not fun.
00:05:41
Chris
Hmm. That doesn't sound fun.
00:05:43
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, and and the, because it's never your hygienist, it's always like so whatever other person's working in there whenever you get like this stuff done.
00:05:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:51
cantthinktoolong
She's like, how are you doing? I'm like, well, this is my third of what looks like it's going to be five trips to the dentist this summer, so I think I'm doing great. What do you mean, how am I doing? I'm very excited to be here.
00:06:03
cantthinktoolong
I love dental procedures.
00:06:05
Chris
Is anybody ever excited to go to the dentist?
00:06:08
cantthinktoolong
No, a so ah maybe a masochist, I guess.
00:06:11
Chris
ah Maybe.
00:06:13
cantthinktoolong
it's and I just want
00:06:14
Chris
Ah.
00:06:16
cantthinktoolong
i just want to be knocked out. Knock me out.
00:06:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:19
cantthinktoolong
Do the thing. 3D print me a new tooth. Stick it in there and be done with it.
00:06:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:24
cantthinktoolong
I feel like there's got to be a better system than what we're doing.
00:06:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Although I will say, like, some of the stuff with the UV hardening they do now, at least that's a little bit quicker.
00:06:37
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, that's... This is what happened.
00:06:40
Chris
But...
00:06:41
cantthinktoolong
So he convinced me... That I had cavities. How well he did, I don't know. I'm 45. This happens.
00:06:48
Chris
Did he do the whole, I see these shadows on the X-ray.
00:06:51
cantthinktoolong
ah Yeah, and then he's like, oh, you know, what's this knock you got like 12 of these. We're going to knock out all of them. and So he put... He also convinced me i had to get rid of my wisdom teeth. He's like, I don't want to keep working my mouth unless you to get rid his wisdom teeth.
00:07:04
cantthinktoolong
But they're they're not they're still there. They're fine. Nothing hurts.
00:07:07
Chris
I'm not going to keep working.
00:07:10
cantthinktoolong
Nothing bothers me. Stop trying to drill into my face.
00:07:13
Chris
He must get like a kickback per tooth.
00:07:13
cantthinktoolong
So he puts the... Must. So he puts the filling in into this tooth that I'm now getting a crown in.
00:07:21
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:07:21
cantthinktoolong
And then a couple weeks ago, I'm ah i'm at work eating dinner, and I'm like, that feels weird. And like the whole back half of my tooth had fallen off.
00:07:31
Chris
Oh, geez.
00:07:32
cantthinktoolong
So I'm like, oh shit, the filling that he just put in has come out.
00:07:34
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:07:36
cantthinktoolong
And so I'm calling him up. They're like oh yeah, come on in, we'll figure it out. And he's like, he takes a picture of it. They stick a little fucking microphone with a camera in there in your face. and you're like, here, look at your tooth. I'm like, I don't want to look.
00:07:49
cantthinktoolong
Sure.
00:07:51
Chris
um Yeah, it looks like a tooth.
00:07:52
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, I'm like, oh yeah, it looks like a really jagged tooth. He's like, see, you can see the filling. I think the filling cracked the tooth and it just all came out. So he's like, well, we can't fix that with a filling. We'll do a crown. like, oh, this seems like a fucking upselling scam.
00:08:08
cantthinktoolong
I had a perfectly good tooth. You told me I have a cavity. Now I'm getting a crown. That seems cool.
00:08:12
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:14
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:08:14
Chris
yeah had you Were you having any pain or anything before this?
00:08:17
cantthinktoolong
oh
00:08:18
Chris
Yeah, that's...
00:08:18
cantthinktoolong
Oh,
00:08:22
cantthinktoolong
I was perfectly fine. And then all of a sudden, I'm into this fourteenth procedure.
00:08:31
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah, um up until all of this, I was the good mouth in my family. Like, everybody else has bridges and crowns.
00:08:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:40
cantthinktoolong
This is my first crown, and ugh, sucks.
00:08:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:44
cantthinktoolong
you really eat.
00:08:44
Chris
yeah I had to get my first crown a year or two ago. Yeah.
00:08:50
cantthinktoolong
and they're like, oh, and...
00:08:50
Chris
Because mine was like, the it was the very back molar. And I was like, cool, just just pull it.
00:08:54
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, mine's... Wait.
00:08:56
Chris
He's like, I can't do that.
00:08:56
cantthinktoolong
Wait.
00:08:57
Chris
was like, what do you mean you can't do that? I was like, no, I'm telling you, pull the tooth. i can chew fine without it. It will, you know, I don't need this tooth.
00:09:04
cantthinktoolong
like
00:09:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:08
cantthinktoolong
well i don't understand why why don't they do the thing to make the crown and then have me come in and do it all at once why am i in this temporary stage before this like it's great it's it's it's all sucks it all sucks yeah it's
00:09:22
Chris
yeah
00:09:29
Chris
Yeah, I mean...
00:09:32
Chris
it... Anything else, you would just get it done. Well,
00:09:36
cantthinktoolong
Well,
00:09:40
Chris
evidently...
00:09:43
Chris
you have to get the root canal and then ah waiting period to ensure the tooth is stable and free from infection prior to the application of the crown.
00:09:50
cantthinktoolong
I didn't get a root canal, so...
00:09:53
Chris
Huh.
00:09:54
cantthinktoolong
and I looked it up.
00:09:55
Chris
Hmm...
00:09:55
cantthinktoolong
There are places that do single-day crowns, so apparently it's a thing.
00:09:59
Chris
Oh, okay.
00:10:01
cantthinktoolong
ah Just apparently my dentist doesn't do it.
00:10:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:03
cantthinktoolong
He... They literally take a caulk gun. I don't know what is in that thing, but it's like ah in your mouth. And like, let's go. And you can't like, he's like, just close your eyes and, you know, it'll be over soon. I'm like, but who's, what psychopaths? Like, I'm cool. I'll just close my eyes. and
00:10:23
Chris
ah
00:10:23
cantthinktoolong
This won't be at all.
00:10:25
Chris
Oh, my gosh.
00:10:27
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:10:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:28
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. It's a, it's a thing.
00:10:31
Chris
Well, and they always, you know, they've got like all this stuff in your mouth and everything. they're like, okay, how does that feel? ha ha
00:10:37
cantthinktoolong
yeah how's your day going oh how's work still you're a paramedic right
00:10:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:46
Chris
Oh, sounds like a rough call.
00:10:50
Chris
Maybe that's like one of their semesters in dental school.
00:10:54
cantthinktoolong
listening to like how they tell paramedics just just go listen to a lot of people's lung sounds and then you'll figure it out
00:10:55
Chris
It's like translation.
00:11:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:01
cantthinktoolong
And then you're like you listen to the ones on the on the web. It's like, this is what Grails sound like. They're like, this is what a guy telling you how his day is. oh
00:11:11
Chris
This is a guy that had a bad day. Yeah,
00:11:16
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:11:17
Chris
yeah
Changing Interests in Movies
00:11:18
cantthinktoolong
So have you seen Fantastic Four yet?
00:11:18
Chris
yeah I don't.
00:11:22
Chris
No, I have not.
00:11:24
cantthinktoolong
have ah i have a ah a quick...
00:11:24
Chris
Possibly Sunday.
00:11:29
cantthinktoolong
This isn't my topic, but I have a quick rant about it.
00:11:30
Chris
yeah Okay.
00:11:33
cantthinktoolong
I have decided I'm just not going to see movies anymore.
00:11:39
Chris
In the theater.
00:11:41
cantthinktoolong
Probably in the theater, and maybe even never.
00:11:43
Chris
Oh, okay.
00:11:44
cantthinktoolong
Like, I... Well... So, Superman came out.
00:11:48
Chris
Yes.
00:11:48
cantthinktoolong
And... I was listening to podcasts, and they're like, oh, we're going to spoilers. And i was like, i really... I can't find what that I care.
00:11:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:56
cantthinktoolong
So I listened to them. I don't care. And came to this realization, i'm like, wow, I just... I don't care at all. I don't care that.
00:12:07
cantthinktoolong
and And like, there was no part of me that's like, I got to rush out and see this movie in the theaters. Maybe there's going to be movies that are going to spark that in me again, but it hasn't happened.
00:12:20
cantthinktoolong
I don't know.
00:12:20
Chris
the main the main reason i'm going to go to the fantastic four is my daughter wants me to go yeah oh no originally was like
00:12:20
cantthinktoolong
I don't know why.
00:12:25
cantthinktoolong
That's a fantastic read. I'm not telling you not to go. That's not what I'm saying. I just.
00:12:31
cantthinktoolong
we like We went to of the charities around. They'll show old movies. Last month we went and it was Animal House, which is a movie I've seen many times in my life.
00:12:44
Chris
Okay. Yeah.
00:12:47
cantthinktoolong
I like... i like I like supporting this charity. They give money to a lot of organizations around, like local, very local Delaware organizations. Cool. I'll give them my 25 bucks.
00:12:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:59
cantthinktoolong
I'll watch this movie. the all And this movie theater is 10 years old, maybe. All the seats are broken.
00:13:06
Chris
What? what
00:13:07
cantthinktoolong
Like, it's got leather reclining seats. All the leather's cracked. most of Half those seats didn't work. Like, this is terrible. I'm glad I'm not going to, like...
00:13:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:18
cantthinktoolong
a real movie like i'm not excited to be because i'd just be annoyed by the seats and the guy was like you know move movie theaters are really struggling i'm like well no doubt they're struggling look what they're doing here who wants to come to this shithole yeah right if but if somebody's like really need sort this local restaurant and you walk in and all the booths the seats are broken you can't sit down and be like i'm not coming in here fix your crap
00:13:33
Chris
Yeah, yeah. i I wouldn't go to a restaurant that was like that.
00:13:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:47
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. I'm out. i just want I just want to be able to see it at my own house.
00:13:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:56
Chris
Well, when it does come to home, you should watch Superman.
00:14:01
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. I probably will. I'll probably watch it at work. It feels like what I do now.
00:14:05
Chris
That was... Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah, I definitely... I enjoyed Superman.
00:14:12
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, I mean, it's... I know nobody has said anything that makes me not want to see it. Nobody has said a single thing that sounds like it's bad.
00:14:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:22
cantthinktoolong
i just have no interest.
00:14:25
Chris
But Ron, it's too woke.
00:14:27
cantthinktoolong
I didn't, I haven't heard that.
00:14:29
Chris
Oh, really? It's just
Superman Movie Controversy
00:14:32
Chris
a way to... wrap up an immigrant story try to make you feel bad for an immigrant
00:14:39
cantthinktoolong
Is that, is that what's going on now? Is that what, does that,
00:14:40
Chris
oh yes oh yeah that's what people were saying yeah yeah yeah
00:14:44
cantthinktoolong
I mean, he is an alien.
00:14:48
cantthinktoolong
literally but Literally, the storyline of him, he's an alien.
00:14:52
Chris
yeah
00:14:53
cantthinktoolong
I um think of all the people in the world, and I'm sorry if you're one of these people and you're listening, I can't stand the anti-woke people more than anything.
00:15:05
Chris
I know.
00:15:06
cantthinktoolong
is You are such an unsympathetic sympathetic character to me because... Your whole stance is I hate people that don't look like me. And we used to have a word for that.
00:15:16
Chris
Right.
00:15:18
cantthinktoolong
Did you see the guy, some 25-year-old programmer who went on of these roundtables and said proudly said, i I'm a Nazi, I'm a fascist, and then was and and it was immediately fired from his job, and he's like, I can't believe they fired me.
00:15:29
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:15:36
Chris
Really? You can't?
00:15:38
cantthinktoolong
If you are representing... If you worked for me, you represented yourself as a Nazi. I would shit can you so quick.
00:15:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:47
cantthinktoolong
You couldn't even you wouldn't even know the name of the company anymore because it would have been wiped out of your brain.
00:15:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:53
cantthinktoolong
Like, that's insane.
00:15:56
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:58
Chris
People are stupid.
00:15:58
cantthinktoolong
Crazy world.
00:15:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:00
cantthinktoolong
the world's The world's gone crazy.
00:16:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:03
cantthinktoolong
i just want I just want to ride around on my bicycle, ignore the world, and like get off the crazy train.
00:16:12
Chris
no Play video games every now and again.
00:16:14
cantthinktoolong
Play video games. Yep. yep Play video games and ride my bike. That's a cool system.
00:16:19
Chris
That's a little dangerous.
00:16:21
cantthinktoolong
Yeah,
00:16:26
cantthinktoolong
I just... i would
00:16:27
Chris
but If you get the Google glasses and it can do an AR thing where you have to like ride your bike through certain stuff to get points.
00:16:36
cantthinktoolong
Oh, there you go.
00:16:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:38
cantthinktoolong
Did you see the maniac
Privacy Concerns and Technology
00:16:41
cantthinktoolong
paramedic? or You probably haven't seen this yet, but apparently this is a thing. Some maniac paramedic has got a prescription pair of the Google glasses, whatever these glasses are, the meta glasses or some one of these glasses that have a camera in them.
00:16:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:56
Chris
You okay? Yeah.
00:16:58
cantthinktoolong
And someone brought it to the attention of the chief's office. that this paramedic is wearing these glasses on calls with patients. And the paramedic's response is their prescription. You can't tell me I can't wear them.
00:17:13
cantthinktoolong
And everybody's, I think maybe rightly, freaking the hell out because that's a HIPAA violation.
00:17:13
Chris
Hmm.
00:17:19
Chris
Yeah, that's not cool.
00:17:20
cantthinktoolong
You are recording medical information of people.
00:17:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:26
cantthinktoolong
You cannot do this, people.
00:17:29
Chris
Yeah. And for your personal use.
00:17:33
cantthinktoolong
ah for no what you don't even know who's used this for because where does that go you have no control over that that data that's medical information that you have no control over now
00:17:38
Chris
Yeah. right Yeah.
00:17:43
Chris
yeah Wow. Yeah.
00:17:46
cantthinktoolong
i was just like what but apparently there's also a a new wearable coming out that's a basically a bracelet that transcribes everything it hears
00:17:58
Chris
Oh, that's that's good.
00:18:00
cantthinktoolong
and that Yeah, that's that's there's no problems with that, right?
00:18:03
Chris
No, no, not at all.
00:18:06
cantthinktoolong
But I'm, thank God, I'm not in that level of leadership. But boy, your department is going to have to have real policies about these things now.
00:18:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:19
cantthinktoolong
Because we don't have... We don't have a good grasp of people using cell phones in the back ambulances, right?
00:18:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:26
cantthinktoolong
Like, what do you do when it's now people wearing literal live feed cameras? You don't know that that guy's not live feeding information right then.
00:18:35
Chris
Yeah. Hey, he could be going straight to his tech talk.
00:18:42
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:18:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:45
cantthinktoolong
What if he's treating a child?
00:18:47
Chris
yeah
00:18:48
cantthinktoolong
and he's live streaming their likeness and data and personal information.
00:18:53
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:54
cantthinktoolong
Like, it's crazy.
00:18:55
Chris
Right.
00:18:57
cantthinktoolong
It's scary to me.
00:18:58
Chris
Yeah, and no, we hit it yeah, you're absolutely right.
00:19:01
cantthinktoolong
You know, like, we we freaked out, and we've kind of had, we have a good, I think, so far, our department has been pretty good about, you know, like helmet cams and GoPros.
00:19:13
cantthinktoolong
We have a policy. This is what, you know, the fire chief's office can tell you to delete the data. Well, you can't delete data, but what you can post and what you can't post.
00:19:20
Chris
Right, but
00:19:23
cantthinktoolong
Right.
00:19:24
Chris
yeah yeah yeah you can't unring that bill yeah yeah yeah
00:19:24
cantthinktoolong
This fire chief has to have some, but when it's live streaming, you have no, you got no control now.
00:19:31
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. and to It's, uh, it's, uh, it's bad. It's kind of scary to me. Yep. So look for that there, deputy chief.
00:19:42
Chris
yeah fun fun mm-hmm yeah yeah great
00:19:43
cantthinktoolong
I'm just gonna put that little bug in your about are you gonna do?
00:19:52
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
D&D Professions and Humor
00:19:54
Chris
Well, you're ready for topic one.
00:19:56
cantthinktoolong
ah Sure, I'm ready for topic one. ah My topic, ah we've already talked about it, you and I, privately in a text.
00:20:02
Chris
Oh, oh.
00:20:04
cantthinktoolong
thought it would be a fun topic to expand on further because the conversation started as to what class a dentist would be D&D.
00:20:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:15
cantthinktoolong
And we came up with a subclass of a barbarian with, you know, possibly a couple of multi-levels in Rogue.
00:20:17
Chris
Yes.
00:20:21
cantthinktoolong
So I decided we should go through ah few other jobs and come up with their D&D class. Something fun, something light, you know.
00:20:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:31
cantthinktoolong
First one I guess we have to do, and there's three of these, and two of them are going to be offensive. So there, I guess there's four. Let's do, what let's do what we'll do all four.
00:20:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:45
cantthinktoolong
What class? I'll do the easy one. Paramedic.
00:20:51
Chris
I mean, they're a healer.
00:20:52
cantthinktoolong
They are, well, no, no, no. I want, we want to, we have to be very specific in this. we This is for the internet.
00:20:56
Chris
Okay. oh Yeah, that's...
00:20:57
cantthinktoolong
We can't just say healer.
00:20:59
Chris
So like a, well, it depends on the paramedic, but most would you would think like a domain of light cleric.
00:21:08
cantthinktoolong
my first thought was cleric right they're not really doing druid healing
00:21:14
Chris
Right. I mean, if you're in, don't know, like California, you might be.
00:21:19
cantthinktoolong
yeah the only reason i lean towards druids more than clerics is it feels like paramedics really have no idea why they work what anything works
00:21:31
Chris
It's true. It's like, yeah, we did it. It worked. I hate.
00:21:33
cantthinktoolong
yeah yeah this look that way did that and it worked that squiggly line changes the squiggly line sweet so cool it's definitely a cleric or a druid of some sort possibly with some uh you know a gnome for a little tinkering yeah you know uh like an artificer yeah you know then we have to go into the next ones this is where we're going to get contentious
00:21:36
Chris
yeah
00:21:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:52
Chris
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Like an artificer. Yeah.
00:22:04
cantthinktoolong
we um I apologize to the internet. I am not saying the firefighter paramedics don't exist. I'm just taking multi-class out of this because that was...
00:22:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:14
cantthinktoolong
So we're going to do firefighter. And we're going to specifically do engine company firefighter.
00:22:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:18
Chris
Okay.
00:22:20
cantthinktoolong
for for For giggles.
00:22:22
Chris
Yeah. I mean, an engine company firefighter would most... mean,
00:22:35
Chris
don't want to say just a generic fighter.
00:22:38
cantthinktoolong
I have strong opinions on this.
00:22:40
Chris
i bet you do because you're an engine company guy.
00:22:42
cantthinktoolong
I am a Ninja Company guy. I think it is a generic fighter.
00:22:46
Chris
Really? Well, I get it because you can do yeah jack of all trades kind of thing.
00:22:48
cantthinktoolong
They're...
00:22:51
cantthinktoolong
Jack of all trades, pretty focused on one specialty. pick your You pick your your one weapon proficiency, in this case it's hose line, you're pretty much done.
00:23:02
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:04
cantthinktoolong
I think it is generic fighter.
00:23:04
Chris
Okay.
00:23:06
cantthinktoolong
You could go in, oh, it' maybe a Paladin because they're on a...
00:23:08
Chris
Now,
00:23:10
cantthinktoolong
Nah, I think it's just generic Fighter Fighter. The only reason...
00:23:13
Chris
if anything, Paladin would be your Firefighter Paramedic.
00:23:17
cantthinktoolong
That's the only reason I said it's to be Paladin because it's going to be... That would be your Firefighter Paramedic would be your Paladin.
00:23:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:25
cantthinktoolong
Now here's where it's going to get contentious. Maybe the first of our contentious.
00:23:28
Chris
Okay.
00:23:29
cantthinktoolong
Truck guy.
00:23:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:30
cantthinktoolong
A truckie.
00:23:31
Chris
Barbarian.
00:23:32
cantthinktoolong
I think Thief. Rogue.
00:23:36
Chris
Really?
00:23:38
cantthinktoolong
they break things down they break into places that's their specialization right yeah they're untrustworthy
00:23:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:43
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:48
cantthinktoolong
they're we all think barbarian because you know they're not smart but you know it's probably a multi-class of of rogue and and barbarian you know a couple levels of it's kind of you know kind of level couple levels
00:23:53
Chris
Right.
00:23:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:02
Chris
Yeah. Cause a truck. He's not very stealthy.
00:24:04
cantthinktoolong
No, no, no, no, no. no no no no no no no no no
00:24:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:08
cantthinktoolong
Not stealthy at all.
00:24:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:10
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. yeah
00:24:11
Chris
Yeah, because me and Barbary, they they um excel through their rage and physical prowess.
00:24:18
cantthinktoolong
Sounds like a truckie to me.
00:24:19
Chris
That's a truck guy.
00:24:20
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:24:20
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:21
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:24:22
Chris
Hey, Truckee, go break down that wall.
00:24:22
cantthinktoolong
If it was a...
00:24:23
Chris
Okay.
00:24:24
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. But Rain is probably the right answer. Because, boy.
00:24:29
Chris
I can see some of the rogue stuff because, yeah, they some of them are crafty, though, breaking in.
00:24:34
cantthinktoolong
They are crafty little buggers. You know, you got to give them that.
00:24:36
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:24:38
cantthinktoolong
You know, and they do use specialty tools. You know, it's not all just clubs and axes.
00:24:49
cantthinktoolong
So then we have the admin chief.
00:24:53
Chris
Gosh.
00:24:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:59
cantthinktoolong
I have a ah funny joke answer.
00:25:02
Chris
Okay.
00:25:03
cantthinktoolong
I think it's a high-level wizard that can no longer leave its tower because too scary out in the world.
00:25:06
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. and
00:25:11
cantthinktoolong
And if it gets away from its book, it's it's lost.
00:25:12
Chris
yeah
00:25:15
Chris
yeah yeah
00:25:16
cantthinktoolong
It can't be a warlock because... it can't be a sorcerer because they don't have any knowledge outside of books. It's all books.
00:25:22
Chris
It's all books.
00:25:22
cantthinktoolong
So it's got to be gotta be wizard.
00:25:23
Chris
It's all books. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:28
cantthinktoolong
You know. you know, somehow when you become an admin chief, they take away your pre-classes and you, you just get wizard level.
00:25:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:35
Chris
Well, it's a it's that whole thing.
00:25:37
cantthinktoolong
yeah You know, you get respect.
00:25:38
Chris
Yeah, you respect.
00:25:39
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:25:39
Chris
That's what it is.
00:25:41
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. So those are our poking at our jobs.
00:25:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:46
cantthinktoolong
Uh, gotta go with the fun archeologist. One of the jobs I wanted to do the most as a kid.
00:25:55
Chris
Me too.
00:25:57
cantthinktoolong
Really?
00:25:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:58
cantthinktoolong
I never would have picked yours.
00:25:59
Chris
Yeah. Well, I want to be paleont, paleontologist, but yeah.
00:26:01
cantthinktoolong
yeah, sorry. Fair, fair, fair. Get into your biology degree.
00:26:06
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Um, so an archeologist,
00:26:13
Chris
I mean, not really a ranger.
00:26:20
Chris
Are they,
00:26:20
cantthinktoolong
have some levels of Ranger in them.
00:26:22
Chris
Yeah, because, mean, they're out and about.
00:26:24
cantthinktoolong
Or they got to druids. And they have to be a very specific kind of druid. A druid that multi-classes with a necromancer.
00:26:31
Chris
I was going to say, there's got to be necromancy in there somewhere.
00:26:34
cantthinktoolong
Right? So they got to know the but they got to know the animals. And then they got to know the animal's bones.
00:26:38
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:39
cantthinktoolong
So I'm going to go a druid with necromancy multi-class.
00:26:43
Chris
Yeah, I can see that.
00:26:44
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:26:47
cantthinktoolong
I'm going to go few more on my list that we can go through.
00:26:52
Chris
okay
00:26:55
cantthinktoolong
i I don't know how to take this one. I'm going to go with ER doc.
Mechanics and Consumer Experiences
00:27:01
Chris
Ooh.
00:27:03
cantthinktoolong
and And it's... This is lighthearted. ER doctors, don't come after me.
00:27:06
Chris
Yes. Yeah. a They're a warlock. They've sold something.
00:27:16
Chris
They've made a pact to get to where they are.
00:27:19
cantthinktoolong
they They are probably a warlock. And, but they also have minions.
00:27:26
Chris
Oh yeah, that's true.
00:27:27
cantthinktoolong
You know, they're kind of useless without their minions.
00:27:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:32
cantthinktoolong
You know, it's kind of like they have a pet companion and a nurse. Don't come at me, nurses.
00:27:40
Chris
Yeah. The
00:27:41
cantthinktoolong
You know.
00:27:42
Chris
yeah yeah
00:27:43
cantthinktoolong
So they might be warlocked with a, mean, I guess that's a true.
00:27:44
Chris
ah familiar.
00:27:46
cantthinktoolong
You could just say they're the the warlock familiar.
00:27:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:49
cantthinktoolong
they They have to have What dn... Oh, d7d is not... Oh
00:27:59
Chris
Oh yeah, That's a that's a fun one.
00:28:02
cantthinktoolong
yeah ah boy, now my internet's taking shit.
00:28:11
Chris
yeah Because the thing is, mean, for the most part, they can't be a cleric because they they're not really tanky.
00:28:18
cantthinktoolong
No, and none of them.
00:28:19
Chris
They have to be protected and their a little bubble.
00:28:20
cantthinktoolong
And none of them are religious.
00:28:25
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:27
cantthinktoolong
Whatever gods, they are they are blaspheming those gods all the time.
00:28:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:32
cantthinktoolong
And they are fueled by coffee and anger.
00:28:34
Chris
Yes.
00:28:35
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:28:35
Chris
Yes.
00:28:36
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:28:37
Chris
Yep. And it's usually an inverse ratio. Like the smaller the dock, the angrier they get. God.
00:28:42
cantthinktoolong
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:46
Chris
you remember? God, who's that? That one ER dock we used to have. It's like. Chris to something. i don't know, but he was like five foot tall, but terrifying.
00:29:00
cantthinktoolong
I remember which one is.
00:29:00
Chris
And then you had T-Rex arms.
00:29:02
cantthinktoolong
T-Rex Arms is what I was thinking of. you know
00:29:09
cantthinktoolong
ah Again, this comes from a place of love. My donut-eating brethren, the police officer. Now
00:29:18
Chris
Uh, uh, uh,
00:29:18
cantthinktoolong
look, there are there's a very specific police officer that's an easy one. Canine cop that's easily a ranger.
00:29:26
Chris
Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:29:27
cantthinktoolong
Gotta be.
00:29:28
Chris
Yeah. I mean, I was gonna regular cop, probably close to Ranger because i mean, they're good with, you know, long distance.
00:29:36
cantthinktoolong
true. Yep.
00:29:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:38
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. It's got to be a ranger of some sort.
00:29:44
Chris
Yeah. But they also, I think they also have to have like a class or two of monk because they will grapple.
00:29:49
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, they do grapple. Well, I mean, you get to ranger feet with some grappling.
00:29:52
Chris
yeah
00:29:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:56
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. But they still use a weapon, so monks don't, you know.
00:29:59
Chris
Yeah, that's true.
00:30:00
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. I guess we haven't really looked at weapons. Yeah. you know they couldn't be ah monk because they do have and not just unarmed combat specialize in batons and firearms you know
00:30:15
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. And also monks have a, you know, that spiritual discipline, which, uh,
00:30:26
Chris
yeah
00:30:26
cantthinktoolong
cops do not have no no no sorry cops no no
00:30:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:35
cantthinktoolong
can't be a You can't be a cop and be a monk.
00:30:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:39
cantthinktoolong
I've saved your head, too.
00:30:41
Chris
Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
00:30:46
Chris
hey A zookeeper's probably a druid. Yeah.
00:30:50
cantthinktoolong
Oh, yeah. Gotta be.
00:30:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:54
cantthinktoolong
Like, the big zookeeper is a druid.
00:30:58
Chris
Yes.
00:30:59
cantthinktoolong
right Like, the person who's in charge of the zoo. The zoo rest of them are just like... rogues who somehow got enslaved by zookeeper?
00:31:07
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:08
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:31:09
Chris
Which fun fact, our head zookeeper for Salisbury, he used to work at SeaWorld.
00:31:15
cantthinktoolong
Huh! So he's a...
00:31:18
Chris
He, I was in a conversation with him and he's like, yeah, he said, I did it for a few years, but there's only so many times and you say, and here's Shamu. was like, you met Shamu. He's like, yes. Yeah.
00:31:29
cantthinktoolong
Is it really Shamu, though? Because isn't Shamu dead?
00:31:32
Chris
but this was years ago.
00:31:34
cantthinktoolong
I think like on Shenmue 6 or something.
00:31:35
Chris
Yeah. ah Probably. Shamo 3, the returning.
00:31:40
cantthinktoolong
SeaWorld bothers me, like in my soul.
00:31:41
Chris
Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, zoos do also, but...
00:31:47
cantthinktoolong
I can almost justify zoos because they're breeding animals that... A lot of zoos take in animals that wouldn't survive in the in the wild, right?
00:31:58
Chris
ah Yes, those I'll give you, but the ones that could survive...
00:32:02
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, it's it's a little rough.
00:32:03
Chris
Let them be free.
00:32:05
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:32:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:06
cantthinktoolong
and But SeaWorld, like, those whales don't want to do what they're doing.
00:32:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:11
cantthinktoolong
Those dolphins are not enjoying their lives.
00:32:12
Chris
No. Right.
00:32:14
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. don
00:32:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:17
cantthinktoolong
And you can't make their enclosures realistic.
00:32:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:21
cantthinktoolong
Right? Not a fan.
00:32:23
Chris
That's why they throw a child in every now and again. Yeah.
00:32:30
cantthinktoolong
Uh, let's see. Any other jobs you want to add to our list?
00:32:37
Chris
Um.
00:32:37
cantthinktoolong
Uh,
00:32:42
cantthinktoolong
TV weatherman. Other person.
00:32:45
Chris
Uh. i Where's. They'd have to be a bard because they just. Yeah.
00:32:51
cantthinktoolong
make shit up that is correct they are definitely a bard they just make shit up and they have no idea how anything works correctly yeah yeah 100% bards bullshit bullshit their way through anything
00:32:51
Chris
Lie and bamboozle. Yes.
00:32:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:06
Chris
Yeah. Yep. Most mechanics would be an artificer.
00:33:14
cantthinktoolong
yeah or rogues because boy they feel like they're ripping you off sometimes
00:33:16
Chris
that she Yeah. That's true. It's true.
00:33:20
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:33:21
Chris
Who would be a sorcerer?
00:33:21
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Side tangent to that. Side tangent to the this that has nothing to do but it has do with mechanics. Get my RV worked on today.
00:33:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:30
cantthinktoolong
Went in Monday, said, this is what I want. Bup, bup, bup, right? the The current, my radio is being replaced.
00:33:35
Chris
Yep.
00:33:37
cantthinktoolong
It has to be rewired because it was wired onto the house batteries before and not the chassis batteries.
00:33:43
Chris
Okay.
00:33:44
cantthinktoolong
get in there, get there this morning. The guy says, yeah, we're just ah putting a new radio in. I said, nope, you're re-wiring it to the front. Okay.
00:33:55
cantthinktoolong
he didn't see He didn't put that in the paperwork. I said, well, I have the copy of the paperwork that says that. So you're lying to me, son of a bitch.
00:34:03
Chris
See?
00:34:03
cantthinktoolong
And then, rogue, I'm telling you, that's why you set me off.
00:34:03
Chris
Rogue.
00:34:06
cantthinktoolong
So then he he calls me like two hours ago. i was in the gym, have been three hours ago at this point. And he's like, are you sure you want us to do this? You won't be able to listen to the radio when you're you in the RV. I said, why would I want to listen to the freaking radio stations when I'm in my RV?
00:34:26
cantthinktoolong
That's for when you're driving.
00:34:32
Chris
What is. Or if you want to listen to the radio, you turn the key.
00:34:37
cantthinktoolong
Also, there's another radio in the damn thing in that's also tied to the house.
00:34:40
Chris
Oh, yeah, well, there you go.
00:34:42
cantthinktoolong
I don't need multiple radio. Nobody's listening to the radio anymore. I know you're a radio guy. Everybody uses radios to just turn their cell phones into their cars.
00:34:54
cantthinktoolong
Damn, see, rogues.
00:34:59
cantthinktoolong
And also, when I went to go buy the radio, he's like, ah this one's pretty good, but we can tell you this one, it was $1,500 more than the one bought. more and the one i bought
00:35:09
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:35:10
cantthinktoolong
And he was like, but see, it has programmable GPS. you can say it's an RV. So, you know, it will pick only RV routes to places. Cool, brah. My phone does that currently for less than $1,500.
00:35:22
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, that's.
00:35:24
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:35:26
Chris
Wow.
00:35:28
cantthinktoolong
He's like, but you can, it's like a tablet and you can move it around. It's like, I don't need my radio, my radio in my car to be a tablet. I just want to be able to look at my backup cameras and,
00:35:36
Chris
You could be a tablet with what?
00:35:41
cantthinktoolong
I'm telling you, man. They're out of control. Yeah. They did almost get me on the dash cameras. Because they're like, look, $60. You can have a dash camera installed. Kind of wonderful.
00:35:52
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:35:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:57
cantthinktoolong
Let's see. Oh, teacher. What would that one be? Back to our ten our side tangent.
00:36:01
Chris
um
00:36:04
Chris
I was a good teacher would probably be a sorcerer, but most are what most are wizards.
00:36:09
cantthinktoolong
I just... and They gotta have a level bard.
00:36:13
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they because they have to perform.
00:36:15
cantthinktoolong
They gotta to perform. They're performing monkeys up there.
00:36:18
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:19
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Said with love, teachers. Said with love.
00:36:21
Chris
Yeah. yeah Yeah, because if they're not performing, I mean, yeah, the monkeys yeah aren't going to learn.
00:36:29
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. ah We'll go with one more. i think it's bit easy. Camp counselor.
00:36:39
Chris
Camp counselor.
00:36:40
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:36:42
Chris
It's yeah they should be a ranger.
00:36:44
cantthinktoolong
It's gotta be a ranger, but a good one would be a ranger.
00:36:47
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:49
cantthinktoolong
bad one would be a bard pretending to be a ranger.
00:36:51
Chris
Yeah. the sh
00:36:54
cantthinktoolong
The one who's just like, all right, everybody, it's time for music. You're like, nobody wants to listen your damn guitar, Jeff.
00:37:03
Chris
That is a thing. Yeah, I will. Yeah. A lot of camp counselors though. I guess they do multi-class into Bard a little bit because yeah.
00:37:08
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.
00:37:11
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:12
cantthinktoolong
play their kumbaya and other bullcrap.
00:37:13
Chris
What? Yeah. Here comes counselor Jeff with his ukulele.
00:37:23
cantthinktoolong
Do we they have camps anymore?
00:37:23
Chris
Which.
00:37:25
cantthinktoolong
I don't even know.
00:37:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:28
cantthinktoolong
Good.
00:37:29
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. mean, there's one. Well, I don't. I don't know if as many overnight camps. I know that most of them are day camps now.
00:37:39
cantthinktoolong
Sure.
00:37:40
Chris
But yeah. Which, side tangent, when I was in the Outer Banks, there were at least four shops I went to that were selling ukuleles that were not music shops.
00:37:53
cantthinktoolong
What?
00:37:54
Chris
Are people trying to make ukuleles a thing?
00:37:58
cantthinktoolong
Side tangent to your side tangent to tack on your side tangent. ah Sidebar to sidebar. Because we have to, by Robert's orders, we have to finish my sidebar first. So we'll get back to the ukuleles.
00:38:07
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:10
cantthinktoolong
Why do, when you go to vacation spots, right? You go to the airport or you go to the OVX, which nobody lives there.
00:38:14
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:38:17
cantthinktoolong
It's all places people come to visit. All those stores are for tourists.
00:38:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:20
cantthinktoolong
You go to Ocean City, same thing. Why do they sell the most random crap? Why are there are there jewelry stores in the airport?
00:38:31
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:38:32
cantthinktoolong
Who's going to the airport and be like, I really need jewelry. What is going on in the world?
00:38:39
Chris
Oh, gosh, I got ready for the flight today and I forgot my bracelet.
00:38:42
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, I forgot my watch. I need to buy a Rolex. What?
00:38:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:47
cantthinktoolong
I was in Lang City ah last month. And in the casino was a Rolex shop.
00:38:55
Chris
Hmm.
00:38:55
cantthinktoolong
Who's buying anything from there?
00:38:58
Chris
I guess if you hit big at the casino, you go right to the Rolex shop.
00:39:02
cantthinktoolong
That sounds like an idiotic maneuver.
00:39:04
Chris
Well, yeah. Well, I don't gamble, so I think going to the casino is an idiotic venture.
00:39:11
cantthinktoolong
Sure, I wasn't there to gamble either, but I just don't understand. like we've I've been on Because I went to Alaska this year and I went to casinos or, you know, Lang City.
00:39:23
cantthinktoolong
And it's just the random places in the shops that are like, who's buying this crap?
00:39:25
Chris
hmm.
00:39:28
Chris
Well, think of the idiotic stuff that was on that cruise ship.
00:39:32
cantthinktoolong
Oh, yeah. Like on the cruise ship, there's you can buy art.
00:39:40
cantthinktoolong
What?
00:39:40
Chris
To hang in your room while you're there.
00:39:43
cantthinktoolong
Oh, you can. No, no, no, no, no. There's like. They were like, we have Picassos for sale. Come on down to deck four and in the...
00:39:49
Chris
what
00:39:52
cantthinktoolong
picass I don't know what... and They're like, we have Picassos for sale.
00:39:56
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:39:58
cantthinktoolong
Who's... What is that? Who's that for? I don't... i i'd like this is This must be a rich person thing that I just don't understand.
00:40:01
Chris
yeah
00:40:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:06
cantthinktoolong
Because...
00:40:06
Chris
Well, and some fool pitched it and they're like, you know what? We will. We will give you a space to sell these paintings on our boat.
00:40:12
cantthinktoolong
But they're everywhere. It's every vacation place you go sells the most random shit that it was like... Like, I understand you go to Ocean City and you might have to get flip-flops because you forgot flip-flops.
00:40:25
cantthinktoolong
You go to Sensations, you get the flip-flops board shorts.
00:40:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:28
cantthinktoolong
That makes sense to me.
00:40:30
Chris
That both of them will just biodegrade over that week.
00:40:34
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, 100%. The first time you touch the water, they all just... And you're right back at Sensations buying another pair.
00:40:38
Chris
Yep.
00:40:39
cantthinktoolong
But...
00:40:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:40
cantthinktoolong
that makes At least that makes some sort of semblance of sense, right? like You're like, oh, i I'm in this place.
00:40:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:47
cantthinktoolong
ah You would think, oh, I get off the plane in Alaska.
00:40:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:49
cantthinktoolong
there' Every freaking shop in the airport should be rain gear.
00:40:54
Chris
Happy. and hats and mittens.
00:40:56
cantthinktoolong
yeah Yeah, that would make sense to me. and Instead, it's like, oh, cool.
00:40:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:00
cantthinktoolong
There's ah so Insert fancy... A Nordstrom.
00:41:07
cantthinktoolong
I didn't...
00:41:08
Chris
yeah Alter beauty.
00:41:10
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, what yas why are those things there? What is going on in this?
00:41:14
Chris
And right next to a GNC.
00:41:15
cantthinktoolong
yeah Yeah. And and the ah the sunglass hut.
00:41:19
Chris
Hmm. Yes. Yeah.
00:41:21
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, no one's ever been in.
00:41:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:23
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah. All right, the sidebar is filled.
00:41:25
Chris
Yeah, I don't.
00:41:27
cantthinktoolong
You may now go to the ukulele kind discussion.
00:41:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:31
cantthinktoolong
Did you see a lot of people walking around with ukuleles?
00:41:31
Chris
I just. No.
00:41:35
cantthinktoolong
Do you think one person was like, I really want a
Tourist Shop Oddities
00:41:37
cantthinktoolong
ukulele? And they were like, well, there's a demand and we all have to get ukuleles.
00:41:42
Chris
Yeah, that's what it was. One person went to one store and they're like oh, God, they asked us for a ukulele. We didn't have one. So they stocked the ukuleles. And then, you know as they have their secret shoppers go around.
00:41:53
Chris
And look, this store down the road, they've got ukuleles. Holy crap. They know something we don't. So then the other store got ukuleles.
00:41:59
cantthinktoolong
That's the only thing it could be, right? Like,
00:42:01
Chris
Yeah, it's got to be.
00:42:01
cantthinktoolong
no ah
00:42:02
Chris
God.
00:42:02
cantthinktoolong
No other reasoning makes sense. yeah but It is like the randomest crazy crap in in all of these tourist trap towns.
00:42:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:14
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. And like now, now there's a thing, La Boo Boo.
00:42:16
cantthinktoolong
You know I get...
00:42:20
cantthinktoolong
Oh, they are weird looking.
00:42:23
Chris
Yeah, that's but that's like a new thing.
00:42:27
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:28
Chris
I don't get it.
00:42:29
cantthinktoolong
I don't know. I don't get, I want less things in my life as it is.
00:42:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:35
cantthinktoolong
In all of Alaska. So we were there, what, nine days. The only thing I, but actually, I don't think I bought anything besides food.
00:42:46
cantthinktoolong
ah My wife bought postcards from each stop and sent them to her father.
00:42:48
Chris
Okay. Okay. All right.
00:42:52
cantthinktoolong
That was the only thing we bought. We thought that was a cool little thing. You know, Hey, we're here.
00:42:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:56
cantthinktoolong
This is postcard.
00:42:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:57
cantthinktoolong
Bam.
00:42:58
Chris
My my wife and I each got a hat while we were on vacation.
00:43:03
cantthinktoolong
You gotta cover that bald head of yours.
00:43:04
Chris
And yes, and we also something we usually do is get a sticker from wherever we go.
00:43:05
cantthinktoolong
Oh,
00:43:11
cantthinktoolong
ah I did buy a sticker for my bottle.
00:43:13
Chris
Yep.
00:43:13
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, yeah, I did do
00:43:14
Chris
Yep. They really put it on a bottle or computer or something.
00:43:18
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. I like the sticker thing.
00:43:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:20
cantthinktoolong
The vinyl sticker, that's a cool, I'm cool with that because they're a cool little memento that cost you three bucks.
00:43:20
Chris
Mm
00:43:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:26
Chris
who Yeah.
00:43:28
cantthinktoolong
You know, they're not gonna break your heart when they're gone.
00:43:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:32
cantthinktoolong
I just don't understand so the crap.
00:43:33
Chris
But wi but side tangent to the stickers, come you go to some of these shops and the stickers don't make any sense. They're like, you know, oh yeah, it's a Sasquatch at the Outer Banks. It's like, what?
00:43:46
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, they had in Alaska, they had a lot of Sasquatch stuff.
00:43:47
Chris
No?
00:43:50
cantthinktoolong
and i'm like, but he's not like people don't associate Sasquatch with Alaska.
00:43:51
Chris
No.
00:43:55
cantthinktoolong
Like that's not a thing.
00:43:56
Chris
No. No.
00:43:58
cantthinktoolong
to they so He's a Washington dude.
00:44:01
Chris
yeah
00:44:02
cantthinktoolong
be if you said where's sasquatch like yeah like washington yeah yeah the other thing i don't like is the um the black but ah black lettering white stickers the oval ones that have like random letters and you're supposed to just know what that means and they get they are out of control oh that cool likes that likes the lpsf best cool
00:44:05
Chris
Yeah. Maybe Alberta.
00:44:17
Chris
o
00:44:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:24
Chris
Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
00:44:29
Chris
and Yeah, we'll make up stuff as to what we think they stand for.
00:44:33
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Well, I'm disappointed that you didn't buy ukulele.
00:44:38
Chris
yeah
00:44:40
cantthinktoolong
feel like the opportunity was there.
00:44:40
Chris
and
00:44:44
Chris
Yeah. I just ah have no desire to uke or a lele.
00:44:50
cantthinktoolong
Well, when we went to Alaska, at least three of the stops, the first place when you got off the boat was a knife store.
00:45:01
Chris
Oh, yeah. you got to have a knife store.
00:45:02
cantthinktoolong
at least. And they were like, buy your buoy knife because you're in Alaska. And I'm like, you can't take it on the boat. what Who is this for?
00:45:12
Chris
Yeah. Well, that's like most those little tourist places. They have the, oh, you can find a pocket knife with your name on it.
00:45:20
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. yeah
00:45:22
Chris
Just i it if somebody's out there listening, going to looking at your shelf that has all your pocket knives with your name on it. I mean, cool for you, yeah.
00:45:30
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:45:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:31
cantthinktoolong
Well, these were like, buy this 12-inch blade knife, and it's like, again, you're getting metal detected when you get back on the ship. i
00:45:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:40
cantthinktoolong
Who's this for?
00:45:42
cantthinktoolong
I couldn't even take my protein shakes.
00:45:43
Chris
Well, see, what it is is it gets it gets confiscated and then turned right back to the store and then they sell it again.
00:45:48
cantthinktoolong
Right. yeah Yeah. They only bought three.
00:45:51
Chris
See?
00:45:51
cantthinktoolong
They've just been selling to these idiot tourists.
00:45:55
Chris
yeah Four people come in. We all want knives. Oh, crap.
00:46:00
cantthinktoolong
Why do you buy this knife and goes back to your ship and then come back. Then I'll sell this guy.
00:46:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:06
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:46:06
Chris
ah
00:46:08
cantthinktoolong
It's a weird...
00:46:08
Chris
Or like key chains. Yeah, my kids were like, Oh, why don't you get a key chain? I was like, because I don't need a key chain.
00:46:15
cantthinktoolong
Right.
00:46:16
Chris
I don't know.
00:46:17
cantthinktoolong
When's the last time you bought a keychain?
00:46:19
Chris
yeah like jack i i was probably a young man of seventeen
00:46:26
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, probably. And I still have that keychain. Or at least I high still have the metal part of the keychain holding my keys together.
00:46:31
Chris
oh yeah
00:46:33
Chris
yeah
00:46:35
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:37
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, kitschy crap bothers me.
00:46:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:40
cantthinktoolong
And then it's just junk in your house. That's the worst part.
00:46:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:42
cantthinktoolong
Like, you get it home, you treat it like a precious thing, and then it's just sitting around your house.
00:46:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:48
Chris
Yep.
00:46:49
cantthinktoolong
Until you're finally like, don't want to look at this anymore. Throw it the hell away.
00:46:52
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Or you just accumulate it and later on it's for your family members to deal with. Yeah.
00:46:58
cantthinktoolong
yeah Yeah, so when you die, your family can just throw that in the trash. I've told that to my mother multiple times because she buys so crap all the time. And I'm like, I'm just going to burn all this stuff.
00:47:12
cantthinktoolong
Just so you know, all going into a big pile and setting on fire.
00:47:14
Chris
Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:47:19
Chris
But you do have to have some random stuff that you keep around your house. So later on, whenever you do die, people will find it and go, what the hell was he doing with this?
00:47:31
cantthinktoolong
It's fair. It's fair.
00:47:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:36
cantthinktoolong
Well, ready move on to topic two?
00:47:38
Chris
Sure. Topic two, we kind of touched on it earlier.
Reflecting on Media Icons
00:47:43
Chris
little bit, know, we were talking about how we don't like the people who are anti woke or whatever.
00:47:49
cantthinktoolong
Mm-hmm.
00:47:49
Chris
um are we a less kind world because not there's no Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, Bob Ross, LeVar Burton out there preaching the good be good stuff.
00:48:09
cantthinktoolong
I think, and this
00:48:14
cantthinktoolong
this came to me the other day when you know Congress was voting to take away funding from PBS.
00:48:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:20
cantthinktoolong
I think there's a very clear divide of some people just didn't watch Sesame Street as kids and they have turned into terrible people.
00:48:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:32
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:48:35
cantthinktoolong
And Right, like Mr. Rogers. like You didn't watch Mr. Rogers as a kid and it shows because you're a bad person.
00:48:46
cantthinktoolong
And I'm not saying, like, there are kids now who they've they've never seen Mr.
00:48:47
Chris
yeah
00:48:50
cantthinktoolong
Rogers, but there's never there was no replacement for him.
00:48:51
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:48:53
cantthinktoolong
And that's the sad part to me.
00:48:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Fred was an amazing human.
00:48:58
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, and
00:49:02
cantthinktoolong
like i Steve Irwin, amazing human, I don't think he taught lessons like Mr.
00:49:07
Chris
No.
00:49:08
cantthinktoolong
Rogers did. Right, Mr.
00:49:09
Chris
What's like that, you know, Mr.
00:49:09
cantthinktoolong
Rogers.
00:49:11
Chris
Rogers, be good to other people. Bob Ross, be good to yourself. Steve Irwin, be good to animals.
00:49:16
cantthinktoolong
the said And LeVar Burton read book.
00:49:19
Chris
LeVar, be good to books. Yeah.
00:49:22
cantthinktoolong
But the it very much shows to me now that
00:49:30
cantthinktoolong
please be' I'm just going to say the A&T woke people would spit in Mr.
00:49:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:36
cantthinktoolong
Rogers' face if he were to be on TV today.
00:49:38
Chris
yeah
00:49:40
cantthinktoolong
Right? Like, which is crazy to me.
00:49:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:45
cantthinktoolong
You know, and this gets, this can get a little dark, but, you know, it's people who thump the Bible the most learned the wrong lessons from that book.
00:49:53
Chris
a
00:49:57
cantthinktoolong
You know,
00:49:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:00
Chris
yeah It's the cherry picking.
00:50:02
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. i like if If you were to read the New Testament from their lens, i don't know how you wouldn't say, well, this is too woke for me.
00:50:11
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:13
cantthinktoolong
I'm supposed to be nice to poor people and love my neighbor.
00:50:16
Chris
yeah
00:50:16
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. I had this discussion at work with young man who was telling me his religious beliefs don't allow him to believe in gay marriage. I said, which religious beliefs is that? Because In your Bible, as far as I'm aware, it says, love thy neighbor.
00:50:34
cantthinktoolong
It doesn't say, love thy neighbor unless.
00:50:34
Chris
yeah
00:50:36
cantthinktoolong
It just says, love thy neighbor.
00:50:38
Chris
yeah yeah
00:50:41
cantthinktoolong
Treat others as you wish to be treated. It's right in the book.
00:50:44
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:50:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:47
cantthinktoolong
And I just.
00:50:48
Chris
What?
00:50:50
cantthinktoolong
That drives me crazy.
00:50:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:53
cantthinktoolong
I've always tried to treat others with a respect.
00:50:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:57
cantthinktoolong
I don't. i Look, I understand there are woes in the world, right? We have poverty and we have violence and we have all of these issues that we seemingly can never solve.
00:51:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:10
cantthinktoolong
Though, by the way, the world's getting safer and safer every year, right?
00:51:11
Chris
yeah
00:51:13
cantthinktoolong
Like ah every day you wake up, you wake up in the safest day of the history of the world, right?
00:51:14
Chris
Right.
00:51:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:23
cantthinktoolong
So violence is getting solved, even though people tell you that's not.
00:51:26
Chris
Right.
00:51:27
cantthinktoolong
you know And just this lack of basic human respect is insane. It's one of the things that has been driving me nuts the most in the internet generation is watching police officers, and it's not all police officers, but watching these police officers that have a lack of basic human decency.
00:51:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:53
cantthinktoolong
I've watched, I'm gonna be very clear,
00:51:54
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:51:56
cantthinktoolong
In my career in fire and EMS, I have watched police officers approach people with empathy and kindness and respect and have done things that I think are heroic in a way that I don't know that I would do those things.
00:52:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:05
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:52:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:11
cantthinktoolong
Right? But then I see other police officers who I think tarnish the reputation of the good ones who treat people with no respect, no love, no kindness, no compassion, and it's terrible.
00:52:17
Chris
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:52:21
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Critique of Anti-Woke Sentiments
00:52:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:27
cantthinktoolong
And watching these anti-woke people act like that is create a correct behavior is that you should hate on everyone is it's tearing me apart.
00:52:36
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Yeah.
00:52:42
cantthinktoolong
It makes me want to ride my bike and put my headphones in and not see the world anymore.
00:52:46
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:52:47
cantthinktoolong
you know
00:52:49
cantthinktoolong
I talk with my friends all the time. my I live unlike you. I live in a much more liberal area. right
00:52:59
Chris
Yes.
00:53:00
cantthinktoolong
um And I tell them all the time, ah it it is starting to affect my ah mental health just being working where I work.
00:53:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:09
cantthinktoolong
you know
00:53:10
Chris
i
00:53:10
cantthinktoolong
Because it's terrible.
00:53:11
Chris
I agree.
00:53:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:15
cantthinktoolong
And all you people need is some Mr. Rogers in your life.
00:53:18
Chris
I know.
00:53:21
cantthinktoolong
i how How can we... Our generation, right? week
00:53:27
Chris
hi
00:53:28
cantthinktoolong
i was so I assumed until very recently that all of us grew up watching Mr. Rogers and and Sesame Street. and right how How can we take that lesson and then go, nah, it's all bullshit.
00:53:36
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:44
cantthinktoolong
I just... It's brutal.
00:53:48
Chris
I mean, the man verbally said he was feeding his fish every day. So that one blind girl out there who listened all the time knew that he was keeping the fish alive.
00:54:00
cantthinktoolong
Yep.
00:54:01
Chris
I mean, but yeah.
00:54:01
cantthinktoolong
Yep.
00:54:04
cantthinktoolong
I just... And he...
00:54:08
Chris
Let's see. And it, it kind of, okay.
00:54:10
cantthinktoolong
I was just going to he just... Again, like he just taught that respect other people thing.
00:54:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:18
cantthinktoolong
And it was no... there's not It wasn't respect other people unless it's just respect other people.
00:54:22
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. There was no hidden agenda.
00:54:24
cantthinktoolong
That's it. Yeah.
00:54:28
cantthinktoolong
and And I don't know what more you could ask in this world.
00:54:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:32
cantthinktoolong
You know? And it seems to be...
00:54:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:38
cantthinktoolong
i know It seems to be one political entity has now gone from what they were, which was we're more about fiscal conservatism to just we just don't want to respect other people.
00:54:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:54
Chris
yeah
00:54:54
cantthinktoolong
And that's ah tearing our country apart. Right. You know, it's bad. It's by not good.
00:55:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:06
cantthinktoolong
And I don't know that we're a worse world. My brother and I were actually talking about this morning. I think it's just were but we're a worse country. I think other countries are looking at us going, what is wrong with these maniacs?
00:55:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:16
cantthinktoolong
so
00:55:17
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:55:18
cantthinktoolong
you know And we used to be a country that led the world in human rights. Now we're arresting people seemingly for no reason because they're different color than we are.
00:55:29
Chris
oh
00:55:33
Chris
yeah Yeah.
00:55:36
cantthinktoolong
you know, it's a big regression to things that I don't care for.
00:55:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:40
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:55:41
Chris
I agree. Yeah,
00:55:43
cantthinktoolong
And it's, uh, it's by it.
00:55:45
Chris
yeah it is. It is.
00:55:47
cantthinktoolong
And, and,
00:55:48
Chris
i think that's why some people are hating on the Superman film because like one of the big pieces of it is, you know, just being good to other people.
00:56:02
Chris
And if, if you get upset about a movie trying to convince people to be good to one another, i don't want to talk to you.
00:56:10
cantthinktoolong
Right. What... I guess my question is, what does that gain you?
00:56:15
Chris
Right.
00:56:15
cantthinktoolong
Like, what... What world do you think is better if we all disrespect each other and we all treat each other like dog shit?
00:56:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:56:26
cantthinktoolong
And, like, how does that get better at all?
00:56:27
Chris
Yeah. Because I got news for you, folks. There are no two people that are the same in everything.
00:56:35
cantthinktoolong
pretty good Yeah. Yeah. And...
00:56:39
Chris
You could be the same all the way down to, you know, Bill wipes his ass with his right hand and Fred wipes his ass with his left hand. There's still a difference.
00:56:50
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
00:56:51
Chris
And is that difference worth being pissed off about?
00:56:55
cantthinktoolong
Sometimes I worry that as a species, we will never get away from tribalism.
00:57:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:07
cantthinktoolong
It's just us versus them. And it's just that we change what them is. And I think that's worrisome to me.
00:57:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:16
cantthinktoolong
You know, this immigration stuff, like we are a country of immigrants.
00:57:20
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. The United States would be a drastically different country if it were not for immigration.
00:57:28
cantthinktoolong
Well, it would be full of Native Americans.
00:57:31
Chris
Yes.
00:57:31
cantthinktoolong
Let's be very clear.
00:57:32
Chris
Oh yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
00:57:34
cantthinktoolong
You know, like, let's just, let's, everyone who's, who is screaming about immigrants are the sons and daughters and granddaughters and great of immigrants.
00:57:45
Chris
yeah yeah
00:57:45
cantthinktoolong
Every one of you, ah you know, I'm a child of immigration. You're a child of immigration. We're all, I can guarantee you, even you want to be, really, really good, even going back to Native Americans, we're all immigrants.
00:57:59
Chris
yeah yeah isn't that the mormon thing where they like sprout from the earth or something
00:58:00
cantthinktoolong
You know, nobody was... Nobody came out of the land of the United States just from nowhere. They all immigrated here from somewhere. I just...
00:58:14
cantthinktoolong
I don't want to get into that religion.
00:58:16
Chris
Yeah, I know.
00:58:18
cantthinktoolong
That's a thing.
00:58:19
Chris
Oh, that's a whole nother thing, man.
00:58:20
cantthinktoolong
But... That's a whole other thing, but it's just... like this whole attack on immigrants and if you know and as i told somebody worked this i said if if they were going after violent criminals like ms-13 and some of the gangs but they're not going after those people because they're afraid to go to those they're going for the elderly people who show up like i read one the other day ah a man who is here legally
00:58:36
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're going for the yeah.
00:58:49
cantthinktoolong
has been here legally since the 60s or 70s because he sought political asylum, has had a green card. He lost his green card, like lost the physical copy, went to go get a new copy, and they arrested him.
00:58:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:02
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:59:03
cantthinktoolong
This man is a legal resident of the United States, and they arrested him and deported him for just showing up to do the paperwork that he's supposed to do, was doing the right thing.
00:59:17
Chris
Yeah. So punished for doing the right thing. Cool.
00:59:19
cantthinktoolong
Right, so you you you arrested an 80-year-old man who had diabetes and CHF and sent him to Guatemala, where he's not from, by the way.
00:59:28
Chris
Right.
00:59:29
cantthinktoolong
He's based on lack of empathy, lack of compassion, you know.
00:59:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:37
cantthinktoolong
And and look, I am just as guilty as anybody else of having days and times where I don't have empathy.
00:59:46
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:59:46
cantthinktoolong
And i sometimes regret...
00:59:48
Chris
Yeah. Four o'clock in the morning on the ambulance. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:50
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, absolutely. you And there's currently a very large Haitian population that we deal with on the regular, and it is very hard to be empathetic to them.
00:59:59
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:01
Chris
Yes.
01:00:02
cantthinktoolong
Right?
01:00:02
Chris
Yeah. Yes, it is. They're definitely a lot of frustrating interactions.
01:00:08
cantthinktoolong
But i i I still treat them as human beings.
01:00:11
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:11
cantthinktoolong
I try respect them. I try to understand their culture a little bit.
01:00:17
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:18
cantthinktoolong
you know, but it is frustrating. There are frustrations in dealing with them, but I'm not just, I'm not calling for them to be kicked out of this country and shipped away to some other country.
01:00:26
Chris
No.
01:00:28
cantthinktoolong
That's not even Haiti. You know, they're here legally doing a job.
01:00:29
Chris
Right.
01:00:32
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:35
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:00:35
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:37
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. And the thing I, that really drives me nuts at work. Oh, they should deport all the, all the Haitians. Okay. Are you going to go work in the chicken plants? Well, no,
01:00:46
Chris
Yeah. yeah
01:00:47
cantthinktoolong
Well, who the fuck do you think is going to go do that job?
01:00:48
Chris
yeah
01:00:51
cantthinktoolong
Are you ready to pay somebody $30 an hour to cut chicken heads? Because I guarantee you, chicken's going to go up to $40 a pound.
01:00:58
Chris
yeah
01:00:59
cantthinktoolong
Well, better not do that.
01:01:01
Chris
thats
01:01:01
cantthinktoolong
What do you want to happen here?
01:01:02
Chris
That's how this works. What was it?
01:01:03
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:01:05
Chris
Millsboro. They had an entire McDonald's have to shut down because they arrested all the employees except for like three. Yeah.
01:01:17
cantthinktoolong
Right. And how, what, how does that make the world safer or better?
01:01:21
Chris
Right.
01:01:22
cantthinktoolong
Like if you're saying.
01:01:22
Chris
Yeah. So you you arrested people who were coming to work a job. Yeah.
01:01:28
cantthinktoolong
Right. Yeah. Yeah. People who are paying taxes.
01:01:34
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:35
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:01:36
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:36
cantthinktoolong
Putting things into our economy, serving food to people, whether it's good food or not, they're serving food to people.
01:01:38
Chris
Yeah. yeah Right.
01:01:42
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:01:42
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:43
cantthinktoolong
They're not violent criminals. Clearly. what How did you make the world better?
01:01:48
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:49
cantthinktoolong
yeah We should always be making the world better. Right.
01:01:52
Chris
yeah Yeah.
01:01:53
cantthinktoolong
You know, it's one of the things that.
01:01:54
Chris
Well, and because that's what and Fred and, you know, yeah.
01:01:58
cantthinktoolong
That's what they taught us, you know, you know, I said it the other day at work.
01:02:00
Chris
yeah
01:02:01
cantthinktoolong
I said. My goal is I'm retiring. sooner rather than later right i'm not i'm pretty getting closer and closer to retirement i want the salisbury fire department to be better by the day i left than the day i got here right it and it serves me zero benefit i don't live in salisbury right that once once i'm retired from city i probably won't be in the city very much so it doesn't do me much to care enough to make the world that that place that one little place better but you know what
01:02:09
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:16
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
01:02:21
Chris
yeah
01:02:29
Chris
yeah
01:02:35
Chris
right
01:02:36
cantthinktoolong
My family works there, right? Because I work with my family.
01:02:39
Chris
yeah
01:02:41
cantthinktoolong
ah You know, they're not they're not just my coworkers.
01:02:41
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:43
cantthinktoolong
They're my family. You know, I want it to be better for them. I want it to be better for your kids. don't...
01:02:50
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:50
cantthinktoolong
You know, I just... and ah It's...
01:02:53
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:54
cantthinktoolong
It's gross.
01:02:55
Chris
Well,
01:02:55
cantthinktoolong
It's gross.
01:02:58
Chris
um I'm glad at the end I could bring us down.
01:03:01
cantthinktoolong
Well...
01:03:01
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:03
cantthinktoolong
um Well, you know, the only thing I can have is hope. And i can I can have hope that this is the last spurt of a dying generation of hatred.
01:03:07
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:16
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:17
cantthinktoolong
And that things will be better.
01:03:19
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:19
cantthinktoolong
You know, I think... As much as I think our generation is... We're never going to get the chance to lead because all these fuckers are staying at top of 90 in power.
01:03:31
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:31
cantthinktoolong
But our generation is going to be better. And I think the kids that are coming up... are going to be way better than we are these kids are much more in touch with who they are and you know i only have hopes yeah ah yeah wait way you know we can make fun of the touchy-feely crap because that's just how we were we were raised wrong right we were raised to not feel that way
01:03:39
Chris
yeah
01:03:44
Chris
cal that How they feel.
01:03:57
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:01
Chris
Right.
01:04:02
cantthinktoolong
But they have, they they don't care about our opinions. And I think that's the best thing ever.
01:04:08
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:08
cantthinktoolong
You know, I read Reddit and i I have so much hope for the the next generation because they are so pissed off that all this stuff's going on.
01:04:09
Chris
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
01:04:18
cantthinktoolong
I don't think they're gonna allow it to continue once these boomers are all gone.
01:04:23
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:24
cantthinktoolong
And, you know, but yeah it's like my, I love my mother. But some of the things she says, I'm like, this is this is crazy town. you You didn't raise me the way you're talking.
01:04:36
Chris
I know.
01:04:37
cantthinktoolong
If I talked the way you talk now, when I was a kid, you would have slapped the crap out of me.
01:04:41
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:42
cantthinktoolong
What is wrong with you?
01:04:42
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:44
cantthinktoolong
You didn't believe this until the last 10 years.
01:04:48
Chris
yeah
01:04:49
cantthinktoolong
What happened? hi
01:04:51
Chris
It's that. weird recency bias, I guess. I don't know.
01:04:55
cantthinktoolong
I don't know, man. It's crazy.
01:04:57
Chris
I'm just glad that I have friends that have not drank of that Kool-Aid.
01:05:03
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, yeah, yeah. but That's...
01:05:08
cantthinktoolong
The only bastion I have at work is to just not talk about it.
01:05:11
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:12
cantthinktoolong
Right? Because as soon as you talk about it, it's like, this is frustrating and sad.
01:05:18
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:18
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Well, that's a downer.
01:05:21
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:21
cantthinktoolong
I have hope. I have hope.
01:05:23
Chris
Yes. Hope. Hope lives.
01:05:25
cantthinktoolong
Right? Hope lives. That's what Superman stands for.
01:05:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:31
cantthinktoolong
Though I heard ah rumor, side tangent, that they made his parents into assholes?
01:05:33
Chris
Okay.
01:05:36
Chris
It's not the first time they've done this, in at least in the comics, but yeah.
01:05:41
cantthinktoolong
oh
01:05:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:43
cantthinktoolong
Bold choice.
01:05:43
Chris
Kind of, well, and it makes sense. Think about it. you know, Jor-El and Martha. No, I don't know.
01:05:53
cantthinktoolong
No, uh, Laurel.
01:05:53
Chris
I don't know what the mom's real name is. Moral. Yep.
01:05:56
cantthinktoolong
Laurel, right? Laurel?
01:05:57
Chris
Laurel. Yeah.
01:05:58
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
01:05:59
Chris
They're sending their child, you know, off to be safe and everything. And they found this planet that they know the sun will make him so much stronger and everything.
01:06:12
Chris
You know, you're, you know more advanced in technology and everything. you're sending your son to conquer, whether you think about it or not, you are.
01:06:23
cantthinktoolong
Yeah, but I think the other side of Jor-El is I'm sending my son to be a protector.
01:06:29
Chris
Right. And I, I totally agree with that, but it's, you know, it's the two sides of the coin and it's
01:06:31
cantthinktoolong
Right?
Superman's Character Exploration
01:06:37
Chris
yeah.
01:06:37
Chris
James gun chose to do it this way. And the way he did it when it all wraps together really works.
01:06:46
cantthinktoolong
Well, I think the most important lesson of Cyberman is that
01:06:46
Chris
So,
01:06:51
cantthinktoolong
it's nature versus new it comes down to nature versus nurture right he's a totally alien person and he's raised by seemingly good people in martha and john yeah um and they raise him to be a good person and that's i haven't seen this movie saying in my version of superman in my headcanon is his nature
01:06:55
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
01:07:05
Chris
John.
01:07:12
Chris
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. ah
01:07:20
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:20
cantthinktoolong
is overcome by their nurture.
01:07:23
Chris
Oh, yeah. I mean, deep down, he, you know, he is ah guy from Kansas.
01:07:27
cantthinktoolong
He's a boy scout.
01:07:29
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:29
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
01:07:29
Chris
Well, yeah.
01:07:29
cantthinktoolong
He's, he's a Kansas boy scout, right?
01:07:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:32
cantthinktoolong
You can, you can see young Clark Kent raising a hog for the four H club, right?
01:07:37
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:39
Chris
Oh, yeah.
01:07:41
cantthinktoolong
That's who he is.
01:07:43
Chris
yeah oh Yeah.
01:07:43
cantthinktoolong
You know,
01:07:43
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Batman and Upbringing Analysis
01:07:44
cantthinktoolong
that's ah to me, ultimately that's the lesson of Superman.
01:07:44
Chris
yeah
01:07:49
Chris
yeah
01:07:49
cantthinktoolong
Um, I think the lesson of Batman is that he didn't have nurture.
01:07:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:57
cantthinktoolong
And and and that's what we see with Batman. Batman has darkness in him because he was robbed of the nurturing part of it.
01:08:02
Chris
yeah
01:08:07
Chris
Yeah. yeah
01:08:10
cantthinktoolong
yeah Because unfortunately, think Alfred is a ship guardian.
01:08:10
Chris
Then his.
01:08:16
Chris
Because he let all that happen.
01:08:18
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.
01:08:19
Chris
Yeah. Oh, what's that?
01:08:20
cantthinktoolong
Alfred's the bad guy.
01:08:20
Chris
You're going to take all these different martial arts classes and fly around the world and learn this stuff.
01:08:24
cantthinktoolong
No, but even even more basic than that, like he doesn't... I think Alfred doesn't really act as a guardian.
01:08:35
Chris
Yeah.
01:08:36
cantthinktoolong
Right? Like... so
01:08:38
Chris
but yeah He's just always his gentleman's gentleman.
01:08:41
cantthinktoolong
Right, he's there to be his butler, but he never takes on the role of being a guardian, a nurturing person.
01:08:46
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:49
cantthinktoolong
So Bruce is, I mean, I don't know, it's different comics, but he's very young when his parents are killed, right? He's like eight, something like that.
01:08:56
Chris
eight. Yep.
01:08:58
cantthinktoolong
you know So his whole pubescent transition, he has nobody to be his his guardian, his actual you know example.
01:09:01
Chris
Hmm.
01:09:07
Chris
Yeah. To be his dad.
01:09:10
cantthinktoolong
to be his dad and Alfred does a shit job whereas
01:09:12
Chris
Yeah.
01:09:14
Chris
Yep. And Alfred obviously did not put PBS on the TV.
01:09:18
cantthinktoolong
right clearly because ultimately Batman's a bad person right he's ultimately deep down a bad person he constantly puts children in danger like constantly
01:09:22
Chris
Yeah.
01:09:25
Chris
Yeah, he is. Yep.
01:09:29
Chris
Yeah.
The Punisher and Symbolism
01:09:35
Chris
But it makes him stronger.
01:09:36
cantthinktoolong
no doesn't
01:09:39
cantthinktoolong
They're all broken and and terrible.
01:09:41
Chris
Yeah. yeah item I think deep down it's the, he doesn't know any other way to try to make it a better place than to do what he thinks is right.
01:09:52
Chris
And it's, It's not. Yeah.
01:09:56
cantthinktoolong
but So like Batman is Punisher, right? They're the two sides, right?
01:10:01
Chris
yeah
01:10:02
cantthinktoolong
They're they're they're basically in parallel.
01:10:03
Chris
Yeah.
01:10:04
cantthinktoolong
but they They use different
01:10:04
Chris
Yeah. Right.
01:10:07
cantthinktoolong
Forms of violence, but it's still violence.
01:10:09
Chris
Yeah. but Yeah.
01:10:11
cantthinktoolong
Punisher is broken and as an adult.
01:10:13
Chris
yeah Yeah. Which side tangent kills me whenever I see a cop with a Punisher sticker on.
01:10:16
cantthinktoolong
Oh,
01:10:19
cantthinktoolong
I know. It's terrible. ah you are not You didn't read that comic book and understand what that meant.
01:10:22
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't get that, bud.
01:10:25
cantthinktoolong
like he's he's ah He's a broken man.
Heroism in Peter Parker
01:10:27
cantthinktoolong
That's the whole point of Punisher.
01:10:28
Chris
Yeah.
01:10:29
cantthinktoolong
right
01:10:30
Chris
Yeah.
01:10:31
cantthinktoolong
Peter Parker is Superman.
01:10:31
Chris
And then. Yeah. Yeah. i
01:10:34
cantthinktoolong
Right?
01:10:35
Chris
Yeah. could Some people will say Captain America, but it's it's it's Peter Parker.
01:10:39
cantthinktoolong
No, it's Peter Parker. Peter Parker...
01:10:41
Chris
It's the Boy Scout. It's the always thinking the good, always, you know, helping others.
01:10:48
cantthinktoolong
Well, well the difference between Peter Parker and Steve is Steve doesn't face tragedy.
01:10:49
Chris
With great power comes great responsibility.
01:10:56
Chris
Yeah.
01:10:56
cantthinktoolong
right Ben is killed and Peter rises above that and still is a good man.
01:11:01
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Oh,
01:11:05
cantthinktoolong
Bruce's parents are killed and he becomes a bad man. Steve c Rogers is a good man, but he doesn't...
01:11:09
Chris
oh.
01:11:13
cantthinktoolong
Whoa!
01:11:13
Chris
There must be danger
01:11:17
cantthinktoolong
Oh, boy, geez. But, like, Steve Rogers never faces tragedy. see
01:11:21
Chris
Yeah.
Superman's Empathy and Character
01:11:22
Chris
but
01:11:22
cantthinktoolong
He is a good man who is not tested.
01:11:26
Chris
Right.
01:11:26
cantthinktoolong
Right? Peter is faces tragedy.
01:11:29
Chris
Tested constantly. um Oh God, there's a dog fight in the other room.
01:11:31
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:11:34
cantthinktoolong
Oh, my God. What's going on? Well...
01:11:39
Chris
Yeah.
01:11:39
cantthinktoolong
We've ended up on a side tangent of morals of comic books, but it's uplifting.
01:11:39
Chris
watching
01:11:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:11:45
cantthinktoolong
Yep.
01:11:45
Chris
Well, and I think the, and I'll, I don't know it exactly, but there was this line in the new Superman movie because ah everybody's seen in the trailers, cryptos in it.
01:11:56
cantthinktoolong
Yep.
01:11:57
Chris
And he crypto gets kidnapped or something, and Lois is like, you're doing all this for a dog. And he turns and he's like, well, yeah, mean, he's not even a good dog, but he's still just a dog and he's out there and he's alone and he's scared.
01:12:12
cantthinktoolong
Right. Right.
01:12:17
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:12:18
Chris
And it that that's yeah.
01:12:18
cantthinktoolong
He's...
01:12:21
cantthinktoolong
That's Superman.
01:12:22
Chris
Yeah.
01:12:22
cantthinktoolong
Right?
01:12:23
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:24
cantthinktoolong
It's... i don't want to shit on the Henry Cavill Superman. But the Henry Cavill Superman wasn't Superman because he was just a guy with powers.
01:12:32
Chris
That's really good parallel.
01:12:35
cantthinktoolong
Right? and Henry Cavill Superman is, I'm a god...
01:12:39
Chris
yeah
01:12:39
cantthinktoolong
among mortals he was the the mr the dr manhattan right he was just right he's just a god who has powers that no one can deal with right superman christopher reeves superman the one i you know know and love is is a good man you know does
01:12:40
Chris
yep
01:12:44
Chris
yeah yeah that's a really good parallel
01:12:54
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:58
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
01:13:02
cantthinktoolong
Possibly, if you do the science, destroy the world by trying to save Lois Lane's life by going backwards in time. But, you know, whatever.
01:13:08
Chris
Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Well, and there's there's other things in those movies, like the, you the memory erasing kiss and stuff. But
01:13:16
cantthinktoolong
Right, right. But he's a good man.
01:13:19
Chris
yeah, that's the thing.
01:13:19
cantthinktoolong
Right.
01:13:20
Chris
Yeah. yeah
01:13:21
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. That's the story of Superman. He's a good... He's just a good person. And that's
Conclusion: Need for Good People
01:13:26
cantthinktoolong
what we need in the world is good people.
01:13:26
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we do.
01:13:29
cantthinktoolong
Yeah. Be a good person.
01:13:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's, yeah, that's probably the best way to end it is yeah just be a good person.
01:13:36
cantthinktoolong
Yeah.