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The Kill Power Hour #071 - Eric's Third List
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Continuing with our "here is a list" theme for season 3, Eric brings his third list to the table with a collection of deep thoughts and deeper thoughts as the boys discuss bones, our worst jobs, how to feed a large group of people, the scariest things we've done, and the little ways we treat ourselves. And just a word of advice: don't look at pictures of skulls on the Internet all day--it'll change the way you see people. Enjoy!
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Introduction and Banter
00:00:05
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Kill Power Hour, a podcast where three friends spend the better part of an hour arguing and explaining why white men can't jump, but we sure can colonize. Each week we go through a list, and this week we'll be discussing my third list, which will take us from old bones to even older bands.
00:00:21
Speaker
I'm your host, Eric, and as always, I'm joined by my best friend, Tucker. I don't get it. You never do. My best friend's little brother. I made it. It's a little bit Half an hour late. was in bingo. was playing bingo.
00:00:34
Speaker
i didn't win anything.
00:00:37
Speaker
You're not going to win anything here either.
Colonizing and Identity
00:00:39
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That's the truth. and answer Well, he started us off with colonizing? I'm trying to figure out where that thread got pulled. don't know. It's really hard to write the intros to this.
00:00:49
Speaker
You're doing a pretty good job, except for today. yeah Sorry. Wow. Outing us as colonizers right before the show even starts. Well, what? You got to fucking name it, right? Well, I mean, yeah.
00:01:01
Speaker
I need a whole space. Wait minute. So this brings me to a thing. We are second generation immigrants. Yeah. So we didn't come here and like take over shit.
00:01:13
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Well, we're the third. Not United States, but, you know. We're the third because grandma was first. Circle Pine, certainly. Okay. we So let's just say that, you know, so let's just say that you know it So obviously we're as white as can be and we came over because of World War II and of some sketchiness over there.
00:01:35
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i came over because of a potato famine. So yeah, but you came over way before us and you're the reason why all problems happen in America. i'm a better colonizer than you guys. No, I guess what I'm getting at is, so, okay, so let let's take... That's a bumper sticker right there.
00:01:52
Speaker
Right now, if somebody immigrates to America, are they a colonizer? can Only if they take over a patch of dirt that hasn't been colonized.
00:02:03
Speaker
Oh, okay. So I guess I'm not a... None of us are colonizers then? I mean, we're benefiting from it. Yeah. I think that's sort of – But here's the thing. This is what I'm getting at. Is it anybody that comes to America is benefiting from – At this point, because at this point we're not stealing people from their countries and bringing them here.
Self-Perception and Photos
00:02:24
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Correct? I still think a person of color coming to America isn't – they might be benefiting from just past in general, but I don't think they're benefiting from the work done by colonizers.
00:02:37
Speaker
If they immigrate from London, England? I don't think that. Tyler goes back to work in Elk River for three days and he's already- There you go. I don't know. I mean, there's like- don't know. I'm just saying, like, what if we send them all back?
00:02:51
Speaker
Oh, my God. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. All right. my god Tyler's trying to hijack the show. Jesus Christ. Okay, well, let's come back to this. All right, yeah, we'll take one.
00:03:06
Speaker
first First one's my favorite. Oh, cool, yeah. Bones are weird. Could you ID yours? I think I was pretty high when I wrote this. I love this. So were you thinking about like your bones being separated from your body, but then your ability to look at your bones?
00:03:24
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, this is a scenario I will never encounter, but I was just thinking like if I was taking a walk in the woods and I came across a pile of bones, if they were mine, would I be able to recognize them? Well, see, that's a weird question though, because until you see your bones, we don't see our bones every day.
00:03:44
Speaker
I don't think you see your bones really ever unless it's in an x-ray, right? Well, so if you had like like ah a broken arm. Like a compound fracture. Sure. Then you might be able to ID that.
00:03:55
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Yeah. But if it's a pile of bones, a pile of fucking bones. You don't think your skull would stand out? No. Mine's just to look like Charlie Brown. Right. After you look at enough skulls. Do you know what's interesting?
00:04:08
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Okay, do this test. Like, Google skulls and spend like 20, 30 minutes staring at them and then go to sleep. The next day, the only thing you'll see is people's skulls. You won't see their faces anymore. the out. sorry, it's fucking true.
00:04:25
Speaker
ah to you put it When did you do this? When did you start taking LSD? ah no what I'm getting at is if you look at skulls enough and then you start looking at people, the only thing you can see is their skulls, man. Yeah. It's like, ah you guys ever watch that movie, They Live?
00:04:44
Speaker
Yeah. Roddy Roddy Piper. Yes. Like where Shepard Fairey's Obey came from. Fully. They would put on these special glasses and you could see all the zombies like skulls. It was kind of, yeah.
00:04:55
Speaker
Yeah, he totally ripped that off. Yeah, I mean, I think he appropriated I think he openly yeah said where it came from. but Okay, let's ah take it out of fantasy world. Have you ever not recognized yourself?
00:05:08
Speaker
Have you ever seen yourself in a picture? Whoa, thought about that today. Camera angle or something like that, and you're like, who the fuck is that? And you're like, whoa, that's me? Well, I mean, what about little children pictures? Yeah, I can't. Sometimes can't tell. Yeah, there's some pictures. It's hard to tell. yeah I think even toddlers, I've been confused at times, differentiating myself from tyler Yeah, yeah. In the pictures, yeah. without what without the context of the other one? Yeah. Given that we grew up in the 80s and the fashion and shit was pretty much the same? Yeah, well, I'm sure. Tyler, did you get a lot of your
Body Modification Risks
00:05:41
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older brother's hand-me-downs for clothes? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so there's probably identical pictures in yeah between between us. But...
00:05:48
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um I sometimes, yeah, so I don't look in the mirror a lot. So when I do, it's, get the fuck fucking, man.
00:05:59
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No, I don't. but Like I really, sometimes I'll go for weeks, I think. ah ah ah How often you guys look into the fucking mirror? You have a rear mirror. Every day. yeah Every day I get out the shower, I brush my teeth and floss in front of the mirror.
00:06:14
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Yeah. You know, like, otherwise I don't know where my teeth are. Yeah. Jesus. I can't find my bones. i can't find my teeth. mirror I don't know what bones are mine. Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah. Here. Okay. ah Fucking ego check.
00:06:30
Speaker
Get rid of your mirrors, dummy. you You wanted my mirror when we were talking about remodeling the bathroom for record. Yeah. ah I Googled weird bones.
00:06:41
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What'd you find? Painscience.com. a Headline, weird bones are normal. Hooked boners. I don't know that weird bone bones are normal.
00:06:53
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People just have funny bone shapes. would just be called normal bones at that point. Yeah, and who gives a shit because you're dead? Like, who cares? Actually, this brings up something. Have you guys heard about all those assholes getting leg extensions?
00:07:07
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Whoa. Gattaca. No, no, no. So this is real. They break, they break your, your fucking leg bones, whatever the fuck called. course they do Yeah. And then they like separate them on enough to where they'll still grow back together. Right.
00:07:22
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And like people are doing this to be taller and it's like, get the fuck out. Like this is the fucking dumbest shit in the world. I want to know the doctor like, like tom cruise the doctor who like overshot that distance a little too far. He's like, yeah, I think we could take these two bones and place them a foot apart and they'll eventually grow to keep up.
00:07:44
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Jesus. Oh God. I wonder if you could do a bone graft and get it, get, get longer that way. Just steal a vertebrae and just get put it. Oh, oh.
Messy Jobs and Customer Stories
00:07:55
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Your torso's a little shoulder, your legs are a little shorter. Oh. I don't like the idea of treating our bones like Lincoln Logs. I hate this topic now. Well, skin grafts are that way. i mean, yeah you take it from somewhere else. Yeah, skin's like on the outside though, man. i don't know.
00:08:12
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That's true. Another bumper sticker, skin's on the outside. Bones are on the inside. interesting When's the last time have you seen your bones? Yeah, would you recognize your bones? Have you seen him? Hey, this is a grit this is a better one. Animal chin sticker? Have you ever seen your bone?
00:08:27
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Yeah. Bones. Yeah. No, raw bone, your raw bone. Oh, yeah, I have. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, EC broke his arm like 73 times. He probably saw it.
00:08:39
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yeah Actually, the time that I saw my bones is when I got hit by that car. And my hand went through. At the level building? Yeah, my hand went through the truck's like bug shield, the plastic bug shield. Oh, yeah. like My handlebar hit that, and then it just turned into real sharp plastic.
00:08:54
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And my left hand just went all the way through that and just degloved. I saw yellow fat and bone. Oh, yeah. I almost passed out in the bathroom at the kindergarten. Oh. Oh, you were tiny.
00:09:08
Speaker
Wow. No, no. I went into the kindergarten to call my sister because i oh the other guy was trying to call 911. And I said, my dad won't allow me to call that. Yeah, I can't do that. let me i won't get allowance ever. And its let me simultaneously freak out every fucking four year old in this building.
00:09:26
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Because I come in like a monster. good this This phone, I can't. My fingers are too slippery. bloods i Already they're like... There's a pedophile in the school. I come in like a monster.
00:09:38
Speaker
All right. Next one. ah Compare the worst job you've ever had with the worst part of your current job. um Worst job I ever had was i was working in a powder coat factory.
00:09:54
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um and Oh, that's right. Where is this? Right when you moved back. This is in Shoreview. okay. Yeah, yeah. I think I worked there for a month, two months.
00:10:05
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Did Mahoney get you that job? oh Yeah. And that wasn't the worst part about that job was that I was working next to somebody that was like a manager and Like while I was working, i was like taping things that didn't need to be powder coated. You undo the tape and there'd whatever.
00:10:26
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And I would sit and listen to this guy on his phone, like talk to his like mistress. And he would go on his lunch to go to different hotels to hook up with his mistress.
00:10:37
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And after he got off the phone with his like girlfriend, he would immediately call his wife. Oh, you know every day for, I don't know, the entire duration that I would have to be there. i would have to listen to this every single fucking day.
00:10:52
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um And it was a pretty dingy, terrible factory. And I've never had a factory job. It was like a job that was like, oh, I just need to fucking do something. Right. Yeah. Yeah. had previous career before that. I mean, like career level job and then. Yeah. fucking yeah
00:11:10
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Man, I feel like you could make a podcast out of that guy's conversations if that were happening today. Yeah. Holy shit. Or at least a Twitter account. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. That would be great.
00:11:21
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um And how it compares to my – Because you just started ah a new slash old job. Yeah, a new slash old job, which is I pretty much know everything about it. um and There is repetitive – I actually really enjoy repetitive type almost factory style work in the sense that you – There's very little stress in it. You just have to fucking do it.
00:11:44
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And I'm a pretty quiet person anyway, so it actually gives me fucking hours out of the day to just think. Yeah. Whoa. Which is crazy.
00:11:54
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Can you listen to headphones while you're doing that or no? I probably could, but I don't want to. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, you were talking about how hearing is kind of important to your job. I thoroughly love music, and i but there's like a time and place. like Sometimes I just like fucking give me silence and just... Yeah.
00:12:08
Speaker
Let me have this conversation in my head about weird bones and... I started listening to There's some playlists that where it's like... recording the sounds of a coffee shop for like an hour.
00:12:21
Speaker
God. So like the ksh and the ksh and stuff. The baby's crying. No, it's not torture. mocha's too fucking hot. I said 103 degrees. Damn This is 104. That would be funny. said low foam. There's too much foam.
00:12:35
Speaker
It's like a regular coffee shop and then a coffee shop where all the customers are pissed off and everyone's just taking drinks and yelling at the barista. That's the That's sequel. That'd be great. Tucker, what about you? What's your... My worst job... Well, this was a little hard for me because all of my terrible jobs have proven to give me just amazing stories now where like everyone can laugh along.
00:13:02
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But... Truly, if I had to break it down, like the worst job was being a housekeeping person. Oh, yeah. In the and the summer at um the ham the Hampton Inn Hotel.
00:13:15
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Did they time you with how quickly you had to turn over a room? Well, they, not but on a room basis, but I don't know how they, I don't remember how they did this, but they definitely incentivized us.
00:13:28
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to get like our part of the floor done. So, you'd go down with another person and each person would get one side and you would try to get all the way and like if you... I'm trying to think how that worked because sometimes we would get help and someone would have to come in on the special um elevator and bring their little kit, like their rolly cart down.
00:13:50
Speaker
and like, that fucking Tucker kid is turning over one room two hours. Oh, dude. need to Oh, so disgusting. I was 18 at my weird factory job. How old were you when you were?
00:14:02
Speaker
Oh, you were 16 then. So this is pre-bedbugs. Yeah, in Minnesota at least. Yeah, for sure. Pre-bedbugs. Did you find anything crazy? Well, so there, so tuesday tuesday so Tuesday through Thursday, there'd be a lot of business travel, like maybe like Monday through Thursday.
00:14:21
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um A lot of like so traveling salesmen for all sorts of different things. And for whatever reason, there was a lot of folks ah coming from some desert countries. And honestly, I don't know much more. i don't know these people were. Would they bring a lot of sand with them or what you're talking about?
00:14:39
Speaker
Yes. So these dudes. Just a briefcase full of sand. Yeah. No. Yes. Did I tell this story? No, they would bring fucking briefcases full of sand and some rocks.
00:14:52
Speaker
And dude, they would have these pictures. This happened multiple times of their like wife or something in these go like like elaborate, like um what's the princess babe in Aladdin?
00:15:05
Speaker
I don't know. Prince, princess, whatever. they would leave their wife's pictures to the pile of sand? Yes. They would open these briefcases full of sand and they would put their framed picture of their like princess back home, stretched out on rocks.
00:15:22
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and like that Dude, i like I'm down for all sorts of scents and stuff, but the room smelled fucking insane because they would spray it with like all these different sprays. And dude, all of these guys.
00:15:33
Speaker
You guys were saying I was on an LSD. I know, right? yeah All of these guys, I feel like they were, they were shaving. Like they showed up in shore view, Minnesota with like a six inch beard. And over the span of a week, every single day they cut off like a quarter inch. So they're just creating the most incredible amount of like weird, sharp, thick shavings.
00:15:54
Speaker
Don't drain it into the trash can or the, or the sink or anything. So they're just constantly coating it in like these black little fine hairs. Those were pubes. Oh my God, dude. It was so insane. And then like this handicap room.
00:16:08
Speaker
You know, it's like these people are struggling but they're like there and this one person had like he or she could have opened like a plumbing store for as much weird pumps and hoses and equipments that were made for like emptying his body yeah in some ways.
00:16:23
Speaker
And I showed up this one time he had his crazy apparatus. I mean, it looks like something out of a sci-fi film and there was all this bile all over like not puke but like bile like the shit that your body uses that no one's supposed to see.
00:16:37
Speaker
and it was all over the tub and everything. Did you clean it up? I had to. hold on. I might have a better one. This is like better one orange pudding yeah with like full black peppercorns in there and it smells like shit and acid.
00:16:55
Speaker
So i was I was teaching at the school. I'm not gonna say the school because whatever, but um I would fucking kill these people with fucking paperwork. They gave me the, I could come up with the curriculum myself. So I just had to teach these fuckers how to look up parts, fucking motorcycle parts. So every single day, 10 worksheets, fill them out. Fuck you guys. I don't give a shit. Just fucking do it. i I'm gonna kill you with paperwork. but This is like night school too, right? Yeah, and by the end of this class, at least you fuckers will be able know how to look up parts because that's probably what you're gonna do for the rest your life.
00:17:24
Speaker
One of these days, I'm in class and this guy is taking the school with his dad. It's like this is like a something thing like they're trying to reconnect. So they're taking vocational school together. His dad fucking dies in class.
00:17:37
Speaker
ah He's like 300 and some pounds, falls off the chair. I'm in the hallway grabbing a Diet Coke. I come back and this guy's on the fucking ground. And he fucking proceeds to fucking die.
00:17:49
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but But the fucking son is there and the ambulance comes and they had this like crazy like um ah strap thing that that does CPR because so the ambulance people can can get tired. Yeah.
00:18:02
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So they like looked at each other and and one would like mouth to the other one like, Yeah. But the sun was there and they didn't want to fucking, so they put the straps on him even though he was dead and like put him in the ambulance so they wouldn't have be the ones. Let's pretend save him. Oh my God. Yeah. And then, and then this is, yeah, this was night as the night program. So there I was at like 2.40 in the morning mopping up fucking dead person juice off the floor and I had to call my boss and be like, hey, tomorrow at 7.20 when you guys have class, all the chairs can be out because fucking Larry died.
00:18:35
Speaker
And, It was pretty fucking crazy. I don't think I left that school until four o'clock in the morning after everything cleaned up. That's crazy. It was that late. How did you mark Larry down for attendance that day?
00:18:48
Speaker
she left He left early. He left early. What was great about it is that both those guys were like totally like us and yeah we could have jokes about it and like the son was an older guy also and like...
00:19:03
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We I'm like, I told him I'd kill you guys with paperwork. I didn't know how that joke would land, but he thought was funny. And like, wow, it was great. Yeah. We like took pictures and like signed the paperwork. Yeah. No shit.
00:19:14
Speaker
was great. Wow. All right. This episode is dedicated to Larry. ah Larry's actually not his name. where I know. Yeah. but Yeah. We know who you're thinking about. ah I feel like I've been pretty lucky to have pretty good jobs for the most part, and even the shitty jobs I had with friends. So yeah, I didn't care.
00:19:32
Speaker
um But I would say, yeah, like we're adjuncting at one school at multiple schools, actually, and just seeing the difference. between how people are treated from one institution to the other, that always makes, when you have that comparison, it just fucking makes you hate that other
Reflecting on Past Jobs
00:19:50
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place. Oh, I believe it. This brings up a good topic of of jobs that you at the time thought were, it was the worst shit in the world, and you remove yourself from it, and you're like, wait a minute.
00:20:01
Speaker
you way This was way better. Yeah, than the... Actually, you you know so this is not something I've done and previous in life. I feel like this is something i I've been doing in the past, whatever, five or six years of actually retrospectively, honestly looking at stuff and being like, wait a minute.
00:20:18
Speaker
The real problem was kind of my own built up attitude about things. yeah Oh, yeah. Or it's like one person. so That's the worst part of your current job. Oh, God. Fucking carrots.
00:20:30
Speaker
Goddamn carrots. Always tempting me. Want me to suck and wrap my lips. Oh, God. No, we don't into that. In front of the customers. We don't get into it.
Unproductive Meetings and Workplace Grievances
00:20:42
Speaker
Well, I think it has to. Well, the suckiest part up until like very recently. Yeah. And it was the so it was sucky. I even told my boss, this is the worst part of my job.
00:20:54
Speaker
And I loathe the whole week leading up to it. So i i chair a staff experience committee. The fuck is that? It's a committee that discusses and works towards a better staff experience for you know the experience that people, employees are having.
00:21:11
Speaker
so i got staff you can experience. Yeah. Yeah. And it was a really charged meeting once a month with a lot of folks that I felt like for a long time were very ah aggrieved by something. But like I had, and whatever, feel the things you feel. I don't fucking care. Like that's, I'm not there to do it. I'm guessing none of those meetings were the staff coming and being like, everything's been really great. And we just want to thank you for all the hard work you're doing. That's not what I was looking for, but it's like,
00:21:45
Speaker
I had laid out a purpose. We are in this meeting together, management and hourly. And our goal is to find actionable ways that we can improve upon the experience of employees and customers.
00:22:01
Speaker
Yeah. So not, let's not talk about the contract. Let's not talk about people's titles. Let's not talk about raises. Let's not talk about like all this fucking shit that like, this group can't do and as a man I can't do but we got just so down in those weeds for like nine months and it was just soul sucking I realized this when i when I took that teaching job they would pull all the teachers together and have like a fucking ah Similar thing, like, what can we do to improve?
00:22:30
Speaker
And the first time i fucking showed up at this meeting, I was i was ah by you far the youngest teacher in the school. I raised my hand, oh, we could do this shit, we could do this shit, and all the fucking PowerPoints are wrong and whatever, and everybody in the room is fucking mean-mugging me. And I'm like, what the fuck is this? You're like, dude, you're making more work for us, shut the fuck up. Well, that, and on top of it, they're like, nothing is ever going to change. And then after being there for as long as I was...
00:22:54
Speaker
Nothing ever fucking changed. yeah So all the effort I put in was completely not rewarded. Right. Other than the students possibly getting a better education. Fucking completely pointless. It was.
00:23:06
Speaker
But no, you you you. This brings up a good point. Everybody has their own grievances. Every job. people find yeah it's great at first or whatever. It's weird. And then like, they just, yeah Oh man, if fucking Dave didn't fucking do this, then whatever. Like, but yeah, but one constructive thing is like, Hey, why don't we fucking put like those meetings should be like, yeah, it's actually really dumb that every time I have to grab the fucking racks of strawberries are too far up. So if we lowered them,
00:23:37
Speaker
then maybe I wouldn't, my back yeah fucking wouldn't hurt the week. Like there's no constructive shit. Yeah, that's the kind of shit. It's, let's lower the strawberries. No, for real. and like And that could lead to all kinds of other things. But a lot of times people don't take that constructive like approach to like trying to make things better.
00:23:55
Speaker
Well, we're there now. Now it's good. I got a suggestion for your grocery store, Tucker, is, ah you know, when you go into a bookstore, there's like, they call them shelf talkers. Yeah. It's like one of the employees, like, it's like, this book is great because of so-and-so. It's a very short thing. I want to see that shit in a grocery store.
00:24:12
Speaker
Like the Axeman approach. I'm working on it. To the grocery store would be hilarious. I would love shopping. I'm working on that exact thing right now. Staff picks is what it's called. You should send your your people to Axeman to get- Inspired, yes.
00:24:26
Speaker
that Axeman needs like a fucking a documentary made about them. So anybody that's listening doesn't know anything about Axeman. At the very least book the best Axeman science. Holy fuck. There's some- There lengthy pieces of cardboard from 30 years ago. Stories about-
00:24:43
Speaker
You don't know where the fuck it's going at the end of the ball. At the end of it, it just says, greasy ball bearings, put your hand in me. And it's like, it's literally a bucket of ball bearings and you just read this thing and you can't not be super excited. And guess what? You end up putting your fucking hand in the thing because yep
Planning Meals and Cleanliness in Retail
00:25:01
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it's so great. I told you so. I agree. You see that you just brought it up, man. Yeah. Suck on these carrots. It's a good idea. Yeah. No, don't. I would say the worst part of my current job is the lack of healthcare care and retirement contributions that I would have gotten from previous jobs. All right, we got to keep this on on the fucking train tracks here. Okay. twenty At least 20 people, or you're the host.
00:25:23
Speaker
They're coming over or you're taking them somewhere for food. What is the fucking plan? Dude, I used to do that every weekend. And then for the holidays, it would be bigger than that. Yeah. um So- You're talking about your hog roast?
00:25:37
Speaker
Oh, dude, that's like 50 people. I'm not even like- Yeah, no. Sunday dinners were never 20. They would max out at 14. Yeah, but every time we did holiday dinners, that was over a couple dozen. Okay.
00:25:48
Speaker
Like PBG and I did that five-course meal for 20... All right, explain to the listeners who clearly don't know us at all what these dinners were like. Well, we used to live... EC and I lived in a warehouse.
00:26:00
Speaker
Men's warehouse. Men's warehouse. We got really great slacks and suits for a guaranteed low price. but um So we lived in this warehouse. It was 3,000 square feet.
00:26:11
Speaker
it was, we both moved in like after some pretty significant breakups and at least for the year, the almost year that EC was there, we were wiling out. And then I stayed for another, i was there for three years, but we did every thing every Sunday night where we had um a group of friends, a lot of folks that were kind of going through a stage in their life.
00:26:33
Speaker
um We did themed dinners where we'd watch a movie, but Ahead of time, we would build a dinner together with our friend Peter um that was themed loosely from the movie, and we'd have a friend do dessert.
00:26:47
Speaker
um we but Yeah, but it started, we were at a Jimmy John's, and we saw that they had day-old bread that we could buy for a quarter of a baguette.
00:26:58
Speaker
And were like, dude, this bread is super cheap. Let's have a sandwich party tonight. That was a good one. And that's how it started. Like it was a Sunday night. Yeah, that was our very first one. we That was the night that we did the keg.
00:27:11
Speaker
That was Memorial Day weekend, I think. Okay. My memory isn't always accurate. And then we ran out of beer. So Tyler had to save the day.
00:27:23
Speaker
And we had to get a keg from the Alamo's basement. Oh, okay. And that was also- Well, had extra keg? Yeah. And that was- Tyler's like, there was beer in the house that I didn't drink? Well, because it was- That is possible. Okay, Memorial Day's on a Monday.
00:27:38
Speaker
So everybody had Monday off. So that's why we were like freaking out on Sunday. We couldn't get enough. We couldn't get more beer. Right. So we just- Oh, yeah. I must have had a show at the house. Yeah. So it's good you had you had an extra keg at the house. You brought it over.
00:27:51
Speaker
i think that was- uh cynthia's going away party too okay yeah but i remember ec your your mind about that bread we just filled the whole back seat of my station wagon with bread that bread's super good too it was pretty good yeah we made some great sandwiches that was a great uh thank you for not saying pizza
00:28:14
Speaker
i I really thought that was going to be a whale pizza. Well, the first time we had dinner in that place with the lots of people, remember you and I made those sheet pan pizzas? Oh, yeah, that's right That's where we met Allison Malone and Amelia. Oh, dang.
00:28:28
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Yeah, it was like a New Year's Eve party. That was fun. All ah tucker or Sorry, Tyler, what about you? I'm a terrible cook. So, I mean, other than those times we cooked full animals.
00:28:40
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um God damn, that was great. Those are fucking great. That's fine. Yeah, if I'm going to try to make somebody a bunch of fucking food. The lead guy from Arcade Fire came to one of those. Yeah, Wynn was there. Yeah, that was a pretty- was hilarious.
00:28:54
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And I fucking was making fun of him so hard because he was just fully Canadian tuxedo. Yeah, yeah. Plus, no, so he was feeding Milo cookies. Milo was a toddler back then, my kid.
00:29:06
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And ah in I go into the backyard where we're fucking firing up the animal and I walk back inside in the kitchen and i'm like, who is this douchebag that knows he looks like the guy from Arcade Fire?
00:29:20
Speaker
He's like trying act like him. remember you, yeah. And I'm like, who the fuck would do that? That's like if I looked like Bruce Springsteen, I'd dress up like Bruce Springsteen every day. And then I don't know who it was, was probably Tucker was like, oh no, that's really him.
00:29:32
Speaker
like. So wish you would have confronted Take off that stupid wig. And just pulling it. Yeah, because I don't know if when when I got the text from my friend Wes, I don't know if I talked to anybody about it I was like, yeah, sure, bring him.
00:29:45
Speaker
We had famous people showing to our parties on the regular. No big deal. i like I like to do like a cook. I have a very good lasagna dish that I make. Okay. And I can multiply that quite easily.
00:29:58
Speaker
And then a solid soup and a salad. Basically an elevated olive garden. i can Sweet. I can do that experience. Oh, man. What's up with your breadstick game, son? Yeah. Jimmy John's. I would love to do breadsticks. I just, it was Jimmy John's and garlic butter. You got a back seat? Let's fill it.
00:30:17
Speaker
All right. Next one. I don't understand this one. Messy shops. Like stores? I walked past work like ah a mechanic's garage. Okay. And looked like three cars had simultaneously exploded. Shit.
00:30:34
Speaker
I was like, ha. And their garage was wide open. There was no one there. I'm just like, what kind of advertisement is that? That's sketchy as fuck is what that is. Yeah.
00:30:44
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And then also like is it's cleaner and more organized and any hospital I've ever been in. Well, that I appreciate the place you're talking about now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did did it get more clean?
00:30:58
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Yeah, no, it's, I mean, it's it's always been clean. He's been a fanatic about being clean. I will fucking send you guys pictures. It's fucking spotless. I just want to know what hospitals you've been going to. Fucking dirt hospital. No, no, this is not a who's shit in my pants situation. You could eat off the fucking Yeah, no, this is, it's a fucking lab. It's like a research facility, basically. Damn, Jesus. It's for engines. But the thing is, with engines and anything related to an engine, it needs to be...
00:31:25
Speaker
perfectly fucking clean especially when the stakes are as high if you're spending right ten thousand dollars on engine parts like you expect them to be fucking flawless and if there's a random metal chip or some debris or something it's gonna fuck up what you got so plus you don't have to lots and you don't you don't have like a clean room right like where you have to wear the suit and no not at all okay you're not at that level okay what's like the messiest retail store you've ever been into Oh God. I don't know.
00:31:54
Speaker
That target in ah ah the quarry target, the shoe section sometimes ah was insane. Yeah. So currently Fleet Farms, every time I go to Fleet Farm, it's just a fucking shit show. It's like all the clothing on the racks is just thrown everywhere. Oh really? Damn. Yeah. That place sucks.
00:32:13
Speaker
But are they, is Fleet Farm done the self checkout too or no? No, no. No. Yeah, you still got humans there. i still want to see some guys. I respect that part, yeah. Self-checking out 50 pounds of horse feed. oh
00:32:32
Speaker
Fucking gross. No, this brings up a good point. It's like you – the way that you display yourself, professionalism I feel like has gone down quite a bit in the way that you perceive stuff. perceive our standards have gotten so lower, especially since we – Oh, yeah.
00:32:52
Speaker
So we're not having to go to stores to get our things. And so when we do go to the stores, when we see that it looks like a fucking third world country, we're just like, oh, well, we're only here for 15 minutes. Whatever. I'll deal with it. yeah i'll like I'll accept this because it's not a huge part of my life.
00:33:10
Speaker
But for people who don't buy a lot of shit online and I'm out in these places, I'm just like, what the fuck is happening in retail where people stopped caring? Oh, there's no no one There's no love yeah there's no't love anymore.
00:33:24
Speaker
That's my old man moment of the podcast. Back in my day, shops used to be clean. Don't even get me going on fucking gas stations, man.
00:33:35
Speaker
I am purposefully, this is how old I am apparently, i purposely go out of my way to go to nice gas stations. so There was one by my house. Tucker, do you know the one by my house? And pay just. Yeah. Like on 37th. Yeah. They finally shut it down. i mean, it looks like they're. Yeah. they No, they shut it down. But I think they'll redo it.
00:33:54
Speaker
But it was so bad. Like all the gas pumps had like, well, no, all the gas pumps had like rusty metal hanging off of them. And like half the pumps didn't work. And like you went in there and everything was fucking dirty. And like.
00:34:06
Speaker
so scantch So sketchy. Could you pay at the pump at that, or you ought to go inside as well? If you're if the reader worked, which there were like three pumps that the reader actually worked, otherwise you'd have to inside. like some of the time.
00:34:17
Speaker
It was always the one that's that got the card skimmer in it, too. your ceiling here Oh, what's this weird extension on the... He's asking for my social, too. Grossest bathroom. Why can't I peel this QR code off with another QR code? My zip code and my social code.
00:34:35
Speaker
So I went to the grossest bathroom in the history of my life. um I flew to Texas for this thing for Royal Enfield, ah the motorcycle brand. It was their dealer meeting.
00:34:47
Speaker
And I met some really cool other people from dealers and were like, let's go get some fucking like real Mexican food. So we found this like Mexican restaurant that was like, fucking glorious. No one spoke English, which was fantastic. The food was fucking great.
00:35:02
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, i just have to piss because um I drink like all the Diet Cokes in the world. So you give me a Diet Coke, I'm going drink like 10 of them. Anyway, I go to the bathroom. No shit. Half the bathroom is dirt floor.
00:35:13
Speaker
And the part that's not the toilet, which had the little bit of broken tile, the rest of was dirt floor, just smelled like the worst shit I've ever smelled in my entire life. Like, I could not go in there and piss. Dry dookie. Oh, my God, dude. It was the nastiest. It was like...
00:35:31
Speaker
walking into like a murder interrogation room from like the most hilarious movie, action movie, like blinking fluorescent lights, half dirt floor, smelled like shit.
00:35:42
Speaker
No toilet paper, singular toilet, no fucking sink. It was glorious. And, going into um like gas station bathrooms too. was just like, i I'm so phased. Like when it's kind of nice, I'm like, whoa, who the fuck is managing this place? This is Skate Aways' bathroom. Oh, yeah.
00:36:04
Speaker
oh Do you remember the toilet? It had so much spray paint that, like, I think the seat was spray painted down onto the toilet. Like, it had so many layers of... Yeah. The bathroom at the terminal bar is pretty rugged.
00:36:16
Speaker
There's a portal to go to Fraggle Rock right underneath the urinal. The hole is so fucking huge. It's not like Fraggle Rock, though. It's like it's like it some poopy version of Fraggle Rock. Yeah.
Scary Experiences and DIY Risks
00:36:31
Speaker
All right. ah We got to keep moving. What is the scariest thing you've done in the last 10 years? Have a kid. Besides that, because I knew that would be your answer.
00:36:42
Speaker
And that is a very legitimate one. But I want to know the runner up. No, like real scary. It exceeds the 10 year factor and it goes all the way back to 2009.
00:36:54
Speaker
But it's when I was coaxed by my best friend to jump off a fourth story row house onto a small structure on the second story behind it. Wow. Not realizing that there was a small gap between the buildings that I almost fell down two stories onto the ground in.
00:37:11
Speaker
And there's audio of this. oh there's there's video of it. I mean. In the darkness. Yeah. And it is hilarious. That was the scariest thing I did, I think. In close to 10 years. Jesus.
00:37:25
Speaker
Dude, you shouldn't hang around me when I've been drinking none. It's just because we're going to keep adding to that list. I love it. I love it. or You just lived it till the tale. Yeah. What about you, Tyler?
00:37:36
Speaker
I don't know. I feel like and I've like forgotten all my stupid shit, like probably purposefully. I know. um But isn't there something that you've taken a risk on where you're like, this is scary, but. This won't be out for a few years. Milo won't listen to it.
00:37:50
Speaker
ah Yeah. Nothing like super dumb. I mean, pretty dumb. A couple of years ago, I bought this machine that weighed 5,000 pounds and and put it on this trailer, which was not heavy enough. And then I'd like got it. That's CNC.
00:38:05
Speaker
Yeah. And then I'm like, oh, I'm going to get this in my garage. Yeah. but I had a 70 foot driveway to somehow oh' wheel it to. um And I just used a bunch of pipes and it worked out.
00:38:17
Speaker
yeah Yeah. It was kind of dangerous because it's like if it falls off, my neighbor across the street is always like, oh, every time you show up with the trailer, I'm just so excited to watch you guys figure out how to get it into your garage. I'm like, it's a fucking, it's a. That's hilarious.
00:38:36
Speaker
I mean, Tucker, we took down that tree to make room for your sauna. Oh, yeah. That was yeah fucking scary. Yeah. Jesus Christ. I guess you're probably... That's that's true. I've just done so many of those now.
00:38:49
Speaker
Last May, I dropped like an over 80 foot, probably two foot diameter, um dead black spruce. And it was...
00:39:01
Speaker
da I mean, yeah, it was like over 80 feet and i did that. on trees. see Yeah, that shit. It's scary fucking job. I mean, that thing was so insane. I'm like, Daniel's in one over area filming me.
00:39:12
Speaker
Evzin's like too close. I'm like, I think that's still 80 feet away. Keep going, you know? And it's like, I'm notching this thing. It's on a slope and there was five other trees of like a half a foot diameter that were all around it and I could cut them out, but then I had stumps to contend with.
00:39:28
Speaker
And you got to be able to like... run and throw your, you know, your chainsaw. And I had nowhere to do that because where I would have had to run was up a mossy hill. Just a tripping hazard. Oh, dude. I mean, straight death.
00:39:42
Speaker
I mean, ah yeah, your guys' stepdad has a hilarious felling a tree story. Holy shit. Old Debo looks out the window while she's doing dishes and...
00:39:54
Speaker
and fucking the fire he's dug fucking ladders flipped over Doug's on the ground in pain and the tree's on fire I don't know if it's true, but she said she just went back to doing the dishes.
00:40:08
Speaker
I totally would do. What? He had a chainsaw, right? He was on a fucking ladder with a chainsaw. Oh, classic combo. Because the tree was on fire.
00:40:21
Speaker
Because he flicked a cigarette and they and it took, you know, the the the flame took. Yeah. i'll I'll show this tree. i thought it was ah I thought he was just chopping down a tree and it was like a gas powered chainsaw and somehow oh a gas and a spark. No, that isn't. He caught it on fire. No, i think i think there was a there was a there was a fire too close to the tree and it caught on fire, but whatever. I mean, whatever. The tree was on fire. doesn't matter how.
00:40:46
Speaker
like And what's, what's best is like he fell off. I mean, solution is cut down the fire. He fell off the fucking ladder. And when he hit the ground, the chainsaw just fucking sliced him a few times on the arm somehow, which i don't know how that would have happened. Oh, Oh, so yeah, I was in my garage. This was when we first bought the house. Um, I rebuilt my garage from the inside so I didn't have to get permits.
00:41:14
Speaker
Hashtag fuck the government. Um, uh, but So i do I jacked up the garage because the sealant the roof was sinking in. i totally rebuilt all the trusses on the inside. um but I had this like five gallon bucket of like just this random pieces of fucking metal, like just sticking out, like just.
00:41:34
Speaker
For real. And I fucking fell off the ladder, like onto it, but somehow didn't get impaled by like, I'm going to send you guys the picture this because after it happened. like stepping on bed of nails, right? Oh my God. It was a five gallon bucket with all these like super sharp pieces of metal that I was saving for whatever reason. I remember taking the picture and then just going inside and not going back out to the garage for like a week because I'm like, you know what? I almost died. I knew I could have almost died. just decided to not move the bucket.
00:42:04
Speaker
and um yeah there we go yeah yeah that that is a scary fucking thing that's jesus christ i would say the scariest thing i've done in the last 10 years was quit my job and then try to stand up comedy that's both of those like just scary fucking things have you been doing stand-up still Uh, it's been, it's almost been a year since, but I'm building
Stand-Up Comedy Challenges
00:42:26
Speaker
up.
00:42:26
Speaker
Terrifying. I've been studying building up routine. But you did at once. I've done it, oh, at least like five times. That's terrifying. No, but the first time has to be the fucking... so So, you know, I've talked, me and EC have have been, have played in bands, but you're, this sounds ridiculous, but you're behind a microphone stand and there's a band behind you.
00:42:48
Speaker
I feel like the threshold is really low because there's all kinds of sounds and no one gives a shit. Everyone's seen bands. If you're up there and it's silent and you have to try to make people laugh, you're Totally different fucking deal. like It's not even like make a laugh. It's like make a noise.
00:43:04
Speaker
I can't just have people smile or nod or like air breath like kind of thing. You want to hear the fucking laugh. And that's really hard. Yeah.
00:43:15
Speaker
To get people actually noise. Plus, do you start that out? How do you like break the ice? Oh, just keep your dick out when you get on stage. Wow. Whoops. what Trade secrets. do You heard them here first, folks.
00:43:30
Speaker
Well, this is embarrassing. Didn't Louis CK try that and he fucking got me to it? Yeah, with an intern. Yeah. Oh, shit. He was a- Oh, you got to do it in room full of people, not a singular person. Yeah, exactly. got do it on stage.
00:43:43
Speaker
Commit to the bit, Louis. All right, next one. I really want this to be under an hour, but I doubt it's going to. Would you rather have a fully funded cruise to the Antarctic or a fully funded road trip to
Travel Preferences: Cruise vs. Road Trip
00:43:56
Speaker
China?
00:43:56
Speaker
Oh, China. China. In a fucking heartbeat. Dude, tell us why. Okay. A trip to the Antarctic would be absolutely incredible. Let me preface with that.
00:44:10
Speaker
But I'm only going to see cold shit and hardship. And in China, like I'm going to have like amazing food. I'm going to be inspired by people. I'm going to be inspired by language and culture and visuals.
00:44:23
Speaker
I'm going to be challenged. Yeah. So much that I start to analyze my life and the things that I do and the habits and the people and the relationships. But I'm not going to challenged so fucking hard that I almost die necessarily on a huge glacier mountain. Yeah. with ice you know we We see snow all the fucking time.
00:44:43
Speaker
Maybe not this year, but... What am I going to see in the Anarnic? I mean, I guess thinking it I'm going to roll up some fucking Chinese oddies and fucking...
00:44:54
Speaker
so and Fuck that penguin. I was thinking more of it's the difference between a cruise where someone else is in charge...
00:45:05
Speaker
You don't have to fucking make any decisions. And if it's one of those huge cruises, it's basically floating Vegas. Oh, that could be cool. So you've got buffets, entertainment, like gambling, all the shit that you might like. I've got no shame. That sounds like one of my favorite things in life, like is to just go somewhere and just like...
00:45:24
Speaker
be taken have to be responsible for a certain period of time. Right. And just fucking check out. That's what I'm thinking the Antarctic thing is. I'm fine with that then. whereas the real I still would probably want to go to China.
00:45:35
Speaker
Check your phones. Check your phones. so Because before this conversation gets too old, keg and bread.
00:45:45
Speaker
It's a fucking photograph of Tugger's backseat his car filled with beer and bread. That's good. I like that. ah i But yeah, I was thinking like China would be fun if you, I mean, with a road trip you're usually driving, you can make rash decisions and alter course, right?
00:46:05
Speaker
And I would say I probably am more interested in seeing the landscape of China than the landscape of Antarctica. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I back still don't know which one I'd choose.
00:46:17
Speaker
Because I feel like a true vacation is one where I can kind of shut my brain off. Yeah. and What you're talking about, Tucker, with China is like, oh yeah, I would probably learn a lot. I want to go to India really bad.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah, you were talking about that, man. Yeah, I think this is the year to do it. You should. Damn. Drive the cycle through. i think that's the thing. i I want to go there and like rent a motorcycle and go do touristy shit.
00:46:40
Speaker
Kind of. I think that's enough. And maybe I'll go from there. That's fucking cool. Have ever left the country? You went to Mexico, yes? Fuck no.
00:46:51
Speaker
No. What the fuck is this? America, America. Yeah, now I've never left the country, so it'll be fine. Do you have a passport? America, America. No, no, I gotta do that too.
00:47:04
Speaker
I gotta get mine renewed. right, ah let's make
Self-Care and Nostalgia
00:47:08
Speaker
this a quick one. What are the little ways you treat yourself? Do you guys watch Parks and Rec? That's where I'm stealing that from.
00:47:15
Speaker
Okay, it's a good show. But Twin Peaks, special agent Dale Cooper Tucker to all kinds of shit. He said to the sheriff. Fucking acupuncture, fucking... That's just body maintenance.
00:47:27
Speaker
You go yeah do... That's not treating yourself sometimes. Treat yourself as like a nice, like special thing. So, ah like drinks. Like I'll like go to Target and I'll have like a chai with a shot of espresso in it. Or like bubble tea. You'll go to Starbucks? go Starbucks? Yeah.
00:47:44
Speaker
Yeah, I'll like go or like so when when we when Evzin was super small and we had like an hour and a half of care between when Daniel would go to work and I would come home like on a Friday, i would duck out of work at four and I'm like, I've got a babysitter for like an hour and a half.
00:48:03
Speaker
I would go to the back bar at Young Joanie, which opens at four. I'd get there like 404. And I'd go to Target. I'd open up, I'd order a pepperoni pizza and an Aperol spritz. I'd eat the whole pizza. I'd drink the spritz. I'd order another spritz.
00:48:16
Speaker
And like by 4.30, I was like a pizza and two cocktails and go home. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. this is This is me just putting the gas tank to full. I'm to burn it right down. That's exactly it. You have to refill. And that's something I think I've learned as like I've got in my my my thirty s twenty s you can fucking 24 hours a day. You hit your 30s and you're like, wait a minute.
00:48:45
Speaker
yeah At some point, I have to sleep. At some point, I have to drink something that contains water. You don't actually have to drink water. It's a fucking... but Liberal conspiracy. No, for real though, you have to drink it's like like Sprite. It's close.
00:49:00
Speaker
It's close. You heard it here When you turn 30, that's when you should start dialing it back and just drink Sprite. and Just drink the Sprite.
00:49:12
Speaker
The pizzas with the the fucking bell peppers, that's like a vegetable. Yeah, totally. but Start drinking your applesauce. Dude, I'm fucking... right You said donuts. Do you buy yourself a donut as like a little treat?
00:49:25
Speaker
No, but the last place I worked at had donuts on Saturdays. Like some people would come in and bring donuts. That's pretty awesome. and Eat a donut. No, i I feel... Actually, I feel like my the only thing that I really do to quote unquote treat myself is to like...
00:49:39
Speaker
have a fucking moment of time every day to like not participate in existence that's massive that's huge what does that mean that's fucking 20 minutes in bed or no you go down here you workshop or like where's yeah i mean normally the garage that's that probably works a hot tub is always great sitting on the couch in the darkness staring at the wall is fine um Wow. Yeah.
00:50:08
Speaker
It's hard to shut this brain off, man. It's fucking, yeah it's tough. It's going, it's been going hard in the past few years. How do you treat yourself, Tyler? Sometimes a stare at a wall.
00:50:20
Speaker
ah For me, it's a, it's a Pearson's nut roll at Ace Hardware. Oh, I'll just toss that in. Cause that's the only place I can find them here. Weird. Only place that sells. Do you want me to just send them to you? They're made here.
00:50:32
Speaker
No, they're special. I know. And I've always wanted to go. Did, did the, do you know, have you ever been on the tour? No, the tours stopped during COVID and i don't know if they've started up again, but that is like one of my dreams is to do a tour of the Pearson nut roll factory.
00:50:47
Speaker
Did I ever tell you I did strategy work for them through Space 150? Oh, really? Yeah. That's great. And did you research? I don't even fucking know. I feel like that company has been on a on a trajectory of fucking unknown. I love it.
00:51:05
Speaker
No, no. Some guys are like, all right, I've invented this whole new peanut adhesion machine and it just blasted from 360 degrees.
00:51:16
Speaker
Pure nut energy. Peanut blaster. They're like, no, we like to apply them one at a time like we've always done. There's a hundred old ladies with just one peanut between two fingers. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:51:32
Speaker
It's a hundred old ladies, but it's a really long, like a conveyor. Drops that peanut and have to shut the whole line down. And then they got to go, they all get off their schools and look for the peanut they dropped.
00:51:44
Speaker
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
00:51:49
Speaker
That'd be a good skit. Someone should do that. That would also be someone, I could see that being someone's most favorite job ever and worst job ever. At the same time. No, that would be a fucking commercial that would go viral that would actually get people to buy those fucking things other than as a novelty for Christmas.
00:52:06
Speaker
That's what a company like that means. Oh, Christmas? You associate that with Christmas? Yeah, what's up with that? Yeah, because nobody fucking buys those things. Well, see. Why don't you buy sneakers? Gonna be here for while? I don't want chocolate all Probably Snickers. No, I don't, that's weird though.
00:52:21
Speaker
Who doesn't want chocolate all time? mean, nut rolls chocolateless? Yeah. There's no chocolate. It's nuts and then a nougat tube. but Maybe a little bit of caramel? No caramel. So there's some sort of binder.
00:52:34
Speaker
Well, that nougat is- The binder is the old women carefully placing it. What the fuck is- Oh my God. What is a nougat? They're dry fucking fingers. White man's nougat. Nobody does knows what nougat is.
00:52:48
Speaker
I don't know. I haven't fucking... My next list. What the fuck is nougat? What's up with this nougat? Am I right? Is it just soft cement? Sugar? Next time on the Kill Power Hour. Tackling the real questions. Nougat or nougat?
00:53:04
Speaker
Nougat. All right. What's a band that has been around forever, but you're only just discovering and starting to like get through their
Appreciating Long-Standing Music
00:53:13
Speaker
catalog? So discover or appreciate?
00:53:15
Speaker
Appreciate. I would say discover. like Okay. They had not been on your radar before. Okay. Well. But if you prepare for the other, I can accept that answer as Well, so I kind of had a couple based on the leniency you were going to get me there.
00:53:32
Speaker
um I realized that Bill Callahan was from Smog. Yeah. And I have really started to grow a big approach appreciation appreciation, maybe more for Bill than Smaug.
00:53:45
Speaker
Okay. But that's the thing. And his last album is fucking rad. So good. um One of my favorite songs of his is Ex-Con. You ever listen to him? By Smaug. So good. Roy Orbison. Obviously, I'd heard of Roy, but like i'm I'm recently warming up to Roy lot. Damn He has like two great phases too. Yeah. His OG phase and then the shit he was doing in the eighty s Yeah. Like right before he died was actually really fucking good too. His voice was still amazing. Oh, it was so great. I kind of love that. With the fucking band.
00:54:19
Speaker
Didn't he join with Tom Petty and like some other people? What was that? The traveling? the traveling Wilburys. Yeah, that's right. Yep. Wilburys. So but that was good. forgot about that.
00:54:30
Speaker
That was really good. um But the thing, the dude that I did discover, it wasn't this year, but it was a couple years back was, I think his name, I can still can't pronounce his Halu Mergia. He's this Ethiopian artist that immigrated to the U S in the seventies.
00:54:45
Speaker
And like, was this really badass musician. He recorded a bunch of demos and stuff, but he was surviving on being a taxi driver and his shit got discovered and he blew up to the degree where I think he might, I feel like he might be on David Burns, Luca Bop records, but I might've made that up too, but it's something like that.
00:55:05
Speaker
um Holy shit. Like a jazz funk, like desert vibe. i don't know It's fucking rad. And kind of a big catalog, like how many years? Oh, I mean, he's got stuff dated back, well, into the 70s at least, and he's still putting out albums.
00:55:24
Speaker
Yeah, I fucking love that. What about you, Tyler? ah Pass, you i I'll hit you up here in a second. trying to get the name of the I'm trying to get the name of the band. i Pass. Oh, du okay. I got it. Hold on. Wow.
00:55:37
Speaker
No, fuck you. I'll take your slot. I started listening to the Beatles' solo work. Oh. I had listened to everything by the Beatles, but really hadn't delved into the solo work. Maybe a little bit Lennon, but McCartney specifically.
00:55:52
Speaker
Okay. And Harrison's first album, too. Really, really good. And you like? I love it. McCartney especially. He's doing some weird shit. Okay. Okay. So would say that, and then I'd never really listen to the Minutemen.
00:56:05
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Oh, yeah. Firehose, what Mike Watt formed after that. Oh. Those two bands are pretty fucking amazing as well. Yeah, I listened to a tiny bit of Minutemen, but it never clicked for me back then. Oh, you should take listen. Yeah, never got to Minutemen.
00:56:23
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I see a little bit like Dino I love SST, I feel like. Yeah. And then, ah oh, last one is Robin Hitchcock. Oh, I don't even know anything about that person.
00:56:34
Speaker
He was in the Soft Boys, and they had a pretty big album, and then he just had a pretty prolific solo career. Not all it's great, but... Robin Hitchcock. Yeah, Robin with a Y, and believe. All right, back to you, Tyler.
00:56:50
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The Carter family. It's June Carter and her sister. Oh, yeah. I fucking love... And there's some like early recordings, too, of of them playing like just...
00:57:01
Speaker
um they would like tour around and play fucking, I don't know fucking know, fairs and shit like that. And it's so fucking fast. Like a lot of that country bluegrass music is blinding fast. And ah they're fucking singing for real, which is crazy. And it sounds super fucking good.
00:57:16
Speaker
Man, that shit is good. It is fucking, I don't want to say this, but it's punk rock from fucking 1920, 30. Like it's crazy town. Oh, it's so fast. It's, it's,
00:57:28
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It is punk rock. it's it's It's not just the speed, but the fact that it's a DIY, that's the family just being like, you know what? We're hitting the fucking road. And they are jamming a Kano just as much as the minimum number, actually. It's just like, we're going to get in a van, and we are take the people. lot that bluegrass old country music played live is played at a sped up rate because it's musicians trying to get people amped up.
00:57:51
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And a lot of the recordings were a lot slower and you hear the stuff, the live versions, which are kind of shitty recordings. Uh, fast music was provocative back then. Like it fucking was. All right. Uh, last, last one.
00:58:08
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We're almost done here.
Fashion vs. Function Debate
00:58:09
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Folks do you promise. Fashion versus function. I think both with the emphasis on function. Okay. But like, also like how is fashion? Like I like Tyler, although I'm not as rigid, but close, I mostly just wear all black, but like I'll wear a flannel. Like it has dark. Yeah.
00:58:29
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No, I fucking love. But I have like a uniform. Yeah. I love a uniform. I know my wife hates a uniform. She would love to see me in something different. I'm sure. It's just great. Don't think about anything. Exactly. It's one choice that i don't have to make.
00:58:43
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Yeah. Yeah. But I would say when it comes to other art forms like furniture or artwork, I don't know, just other things that i see in the world.
00:58:57
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ah Well, I do say I probably value efficiency and like it getting the job done really well. Like that's a priority. But I also want it to look nice, you know.
00:59:08
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But what about like a couch that looks so sick, but it's too firm and the back's too short? Oh, fuck that. That's okay because that's, that is style or fashion over function. Got it. It's got to do function first okay and then figure out a way to make it a style. Okay.
00:59:23
Speaker
But if, I mean, there's a sliding scale on that, man. If, if, if it is the most fucking delicious looking couch in the world, If it's a, maybe I shouldn't be sitting on the couch in the first place.
00:59:36
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P.S. Stand up. I don't fucking know. It's just looking couch. Yeah, no, I mean, I don't know, man. Like some, it there's a give and take there. If it's fucking super great, ah yeah I'll give over, I'll give up a little function.
00:59:50
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But if it's one or the other, i don't know. I mean, a bed needs to just function. i don't kind of give a shit what a bed looks like. A car though, like, I don't want to drive a dumb looking car.
01:00:02
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You want it to be inspired if you're gonna spend that much time in it. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. That brings up a lot of stuff, man. let's see What if you had the most efficient car ever? What if you had a car that got 1,000 miles per gallon? Oh God, please.
01:00:19
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Don't shit. could look like a fucking turd. And it looks like a turd coming out of a dick.
01:00:28
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No. I'd be rich for driving. I'd take that thing on the tour on tour and I'd be rich for it. Yeah, what tour? No one gives a shit about that car. What are you talking about?
01:00:40
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ah the only You know the car that's being most photographed and posted online right now? the Cybertruck? Yep. It's the ugliest, dumbest fucking I've ever Did you hear that every single one of them sold got recalled this week?
01:00:51
Speaker
Every single one. That's hilarious. Total horse shit. Why'd they get recalled for it? looking dumb literally like the gas pedal sticks or something or like you can't okay it's fucked up man that's like a pretty bad thing it's like the the steering wheel is only attached via velcro oh my god yes something with the act is accelerator or something yeah which is a little bit part that they don't even make i'm sure it's it's done by some fucking so yeah supply chain man
01:01:26
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Alright, we gotta wrap this shit up.
Episode Wrap-Up
01:01:28
Speaker
Are we rapping? ah We are rapping. Who's up next? Because we don't want to make a baby. Tyler is up next. Yeah, so get ready for just a fucking um an entire list about fucking Sexy Red and fucking Hood Rats.
01:01:43
Speaker
Oh man, that so video. Gross. That was hard to watch. That was hard to watch. Hard to watch? Hard to listen to as well.
01:01:55
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ah good All right. Well, I guess you don't have to join us next week, but if if you really want to, for some reason you find this appealing, please do. And we'll talk about Tyler's fourth list of all time.
01:02:13
Speaker
All right. Until then. Bye. Toodaloo. Later.