Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of the mythic giraffe podcast i'm Chris.
stupidoldmansnoring: And it will never be stop being funny, and I'm wrong.
Chris: ah this Little button is just mocking me now.
Chris: It's a nice lovely ah rainy afternoon down here.
stupidoldmansnoring: And here's Will.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I have to go to work tomorrow. I didn't win the Powerball.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Damn it.
stupidoldmansnoring: It a live update. If I had won the Powerball, you all would have heard first.
Chris: yeah That would have been amazing.
stupidoldmansnoring: It would have been crazy.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. were Where's Ron? You gotta listen to the podcast next week.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, yeah. You'll find out. Because he could not stop.
Chris: hey Yep. I don't know. See, I think I would be one of those that's like, I wouldn't come out and tell people, but there would be signs.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, they wouldn't know 100%. hundred First off,
Chris: Well, probably after like, I don't know, probably two hours at work, people would figure it out.
stupidoldmansnoring: there's no way I'm going to work.
Chris: Oh, I'm going to work.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, I'm not. I'm sending a box, an empty box, right? It says, put my helmet and my other shit in here. Mail it to me.
stupidoldmansnoring: You'll get your stuff back when you I get mine. That's it. Yeah.
Chris: Hostage negotiation.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: ah yeah And I'm buying my my class A from you. You can't take it back. Yeah, that's all you get out of me.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: There's no way I would up to work. So for people who are listening, we have a thing called the drop, which you are technically retired, but you're still working. It's a bonkers world.
Chris: It is.
stupidoldmansnoring: I would last less than 30 minutes.
Chris: it is.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: I would enter into the drop.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: I would come into work the next shift. and somebody would say something and i don't even know who i could it could be a civilian it could be a nurse in a nursing home it could be anybody and i just like no they give it the governor and i'd be like no i'm not dealing with this and i'd leave which is totally allowed under drop rules
Chris: It could be the governor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, how are you getting back to the station? I have an Uber coming.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah like an uber i'll walk the city is not that large
stupidoldmansnoring: I think from the furthest point our city, it's like five miles.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm good.
Chris: But again, that baffles people. You're going walk a mile?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: yes yeah i just yeah what yeah i know there's some shady you know sections what what what do you think's happening when people walk around this isn't you know like the cartoon now look i will admit there are some areas of our city you probably don't want to walk down a you know dimly lit alleyway at night but
stupidoldmansnoring: I work a mile most days.
stupidoldmansnoring: But I've walked those alleyways at night
Chris: yeah i know yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: right for calls and stuff. I've always thought... i have a fond place in my heart for the the reputations Halisbury has, but I've always thought it's not really an earned reputation.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's not as bad as anybody makes it out to be. The problem is people on the shore are scared of anything that's not corn,
Chris: yeah oh oh yes
Chris: warren
Chris: Corn, chickens, crabs.
stupidoldmansnoring: they see They see three cars in a row and they're like, oh my God, it's a traffic jam. like
stupidoldmansnoring: because I hear them talk about like where I live.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh my God, like this' shooting Central. And they're like, oh, saw crime up in Newark. Do you understand that there are 700,000 people who live in the area of Newark?
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: What are you talking about? this Of course there's crime.
Chris: Really, there's that many people between Shao and Ocean City?
stupidoldmansnoring: yes yes that's 100 yeah but like they have no concept of going to philadelphia because i there was an article like philadelphia was the most walkable city i'm like look guys you can just go to philly and walk around oh walk the walk around philly yeah and you'll be fine wear some nice walking shoes you know yeah wear some sensible shoes walk everywhere you want to go
Chris: ah
Chris: Yeah. It is.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I had a delightful time.
Chris: I think that when we went, there was probably one place we walked through that would have been considered shady. yeah just walked and nobody messes with you.
stupidoldmansnoring: wellington no i I bet nobody bothered you.
Chris: Yeah. I think even one gentleman waved.
stupidoldmansnoring: oh yeah I've walked many times in the city of philip of brotherly love.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I am
Chris: Hell, I walked with my, I mean, my wife planned this, but, you walked through Baltimore City at night, you know,
stupidoldmansnoring: I walked in Walmart City accidentally too because my car got towed.
Chris: That's right. That was a Ravens game, wasn't it?
stupidoldmansnoring: That was Ravens game, yeah. yeah that That sucked.
Chris: yes
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, that does. Wait, none of your shift mates like would help you out?
stupidoldmansnoring: They weren't there.
Chris: Oh.
stupidoldmansnoring: I went to ah went with our fire marshal and we took different vehicles because obviously I was going from a different direction.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: um Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And I don't even know that I had a cell phone on me at the time because it was back in that time when, you know, you didn't have instant communication.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
Chris: Right, yeah, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And it just was like,
Chris: Yeah, unless you were in your little bubble, you were roaming, so you never had your phone.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I just walked across city of Baltimore. And it was like three miles. So it was not fun.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Get to walk past like this hustler club and all that. was fun.
Chris: Nice.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Nice.
stupidoldmansnoring: At 11 o'clock at night.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Speaking of walking in the brother city of Brother Love, I'm thinking of doing something insane. ah This is the 250th anniversary of the sign and declaration of independence.
Chris: yes yeah who
stupidoldmansnoring: coming up next week. Thinking about going.
stupidoldmansnoring: Thinking about taking the train in and just walking around Old City Philadelphia.
Chris: yeah yeah that place is going to be packed yeah yeah it is
stupidoldmansnoring: Feels...
stupidoldmansnoring: feels like it's gonna be really bad. Yeah. But it is the 250th anniversary of the signing integration.
Chris: It is.
stupidoldmansnoring: technically on july 2nd not july 4th but i gotta work on the second no yeah yeah uh i don't know i'm it's in my it's a crate i looked at what's going on in philadelphia that day you've got a world cup soccer match i believe the the major league all-star game is also in philadelphia that day yeah
Chris: Yeah, about say. Oh.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Oh my god, are you serious?
stupidoldmansnoring: and then you've got all the festivities for the fourth the of the fourth of july being the 250th it's gonna be bonkers in the city of philip brotherly love and all of that for people who don't know philly it's just on the south part of philly like it's bad
Chris: Oh, no, the All-Star game July Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: that's 14. something just going on in baseball on the fourth i don't remember what was but something was going on it's bonkers and you do have a world cup game to be determined who's playing
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: can't imagine. It would be crazy if they let the USA team play
stupidoldmansnoring: on July 4th, which I guess they technically could.
Chris: FIFA World Cup 26 of 16 Turkey changed its name? No? Not that
Chris: round of sixteen match
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Because USA plays Turkey
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Thursday. or turkey-ee, don't know if supposed say it anymore. And then they move on to the round of 16. Yeah. Pay attention.
Chris: turkey changed its name
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, turkey, it's T-U-R-K-I-Y-E with the double dots.
Chris: no not to
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah it's it's Turkey, turkey-ee. it's t u r k i y e with the double dots
stupidoldmansnoring: turkey turkey
Chris: EY, Turkey.
stupidoldmansnoring: turkey e
Chris: Yeah. Okay. um Turkish government initiated this change to promote its culture and distance itself from the bird of the same name and the negative English dictionary definitions.
stupidoldmansnoring: I didn't know the reason, but I did know it happened.
Chris: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's pronounced similarly to Turkey, but ends with a distinct stressed soft E as in Turkey.
stupidoldmansnoring: Turkey. Okay.
Chris: That sounds like weird.
stupidoldmansnoring: Why would that be a soft E?
Chris: That sounds like a Italian word.
stupidoldmansnoring: Why would that be a soft E? I don't really understand soft and hard vowels. Why do we have...
Chris: Well, like, there is so much wrong with the English language.
stupidoldmansnoring: Why not just have four vowels? Or four extra vowels. A soft one and a hard one.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Wouldn't that make more sense?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. It would.
stupidoldmansnoring: Fingers wringling. It's just bonkers.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And I thought about like I had an existential crisis the other day.
Chris: Oh, it's
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: It was raining. And I could not think of how I learned the word rain. How the hell do you learn the word rain? Did your dad sketch down and go, this is rain? don't think that happened.
Chris: No. ah Yeah. i Was it? It was probably like our parents like yeah get inside before it starts raining. And then you got inside and that.
Chris: eyes open and you're like oh that's what that stuff is
stupidoldmansnoring: So you think as a young child, if your parents said the words, get inside because it's going, it's raining, that you would then think, oh, well, I just take off the ing participle and it's now the singular rain?
stupidoldmansnoring: think um i don't think I'm smart enough for that.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's crazy how you learn the English language because it's your
Chris: you know more than I do because at the ing participle I don't know it's a little indie thing
stupidoldmansnoring: I think it's participle, right? I
stupidoldmansnoring: think it's participle. I don't know. I'm sorry, I sound like an idiot. It's been a long time since said grammar. But still, it just like I had an existential crisis. like How did I learn this? Because I'm going through all this and working on this French for 38 years of my life.
stupidoldmansnoring: I've got learn the word for rain in French, but you've got to think about it.
Chris: Isn't that like yeah a or something?
stupidoldmansnoring: Pluey.
Chris: Plue?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Spanish, it's. Oh,
stupidoldmansnoring: Right. yeah Let me tell you, I have learned how useless my French is.
Chris: oh from Cyril? Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: No, no, actually, I i did all right with Cyril. ah i had a I'm playing playing an online game right now. And for some reason, a lot of Spanish speakers play this game.
Chris: mm
stupidoldmansnoring: and they refuse which good on them they're spanish speakers good on them they speak they refuse to speak english in the game and i know zero spanish and they prove it to me every time and no words from french to spanish i thought they were supposed to be the same the romance languages but fuck if either one of them have anything in common with each other
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Okay.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Spanish, ah French, and Italian are all supposed to be like...
stupidoldmansnoring: Right, they're the romance languages, right?
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: But boy, oh boy.
Chris: Yeah, they're supposed to be... so Yeah, because they're all from a Latin base.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: Nah. And then one of the people in that I interacted with in this game who is an English speaker, but he's a Latin professor, is like, yeah, I use my Latin to figure out what they're saying in Spanish.
Chris: Okay.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm like, that's crazy.
Chris: That's cheating.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's also cheating, but it's crazy. And like...
Chris: Huh.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's important multiplayer stuff and I have no idea. The one guy's like, just use Google Translate. I'm like, I'm not fast enough. These guys are like moved on. They've rattled off 12 things. I'm not Google translating that.
stupidoldmansnoring: So I just.
Chris: Oh, we'll just have it open and running.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. which's it
Chris: So it's constantly translating.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's text. I'm not doing that.
Chris: Yeah. your phone's always listening anyway.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's also true.
Chris: Yeah. I'm sure. Wait. So are they saying it are they typing it?
stupidoldmansnoring: typing it.
Chris: Okay. Well, if they're typing it, I am sure that there's some kind of add on or something you can use.
stupidoldmansnoring: Constantly typing.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm sure, but I'm not doing it.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm just going to be ignorant all the time.
Chris: Yeah. look i Look, you know a lot more about computers than I do. I'm sure you can figure it out.
stupidoldmansnoring: That seems a lot out of my and of my comfort zone.
Chris: Hey, look, I jailbroke my Kindle.
stupidoldmansnoring: Whoa.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Whoa.
stupidoldmansnoring: Why?
Chris: I watched step by step in the show because I couldn't get Marvel Unlimited to download onto the Kindle. It's not an app in the Kindle store. Yeah. So now I can actually read my Marvel comics on my Kindle.
stupidoldmansnoring: this made you gonna completely go away from physical media comics?
Chris: I dude, I haven't bought a physical comic in honor how long. Yeah. Actually, I will tell you it's when the guy that I like, liked at the comic shop, when he moved on from that comic shop, that was about the end.
Chris: Because the other guy in there, I was just like, I don't like you.
stupidoldmansnoring: that sucks i guess
Chris: With your judgy eyes. if we had If we had a third eye around here, I'd probably stay with it. but
stupidoldmansnoring: do you think it's changed your comic book reading for the better
Chris: ah e Well, I will say I read more comics now.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's what I was going to say. i um As a person who was against the Kindle at first, I would say I read way more books because of my Kindle.
Chris: Yeah, because with Marvel Unlimited, I've got every comic that Marvel publishes. so yeah, there are all times I'm like, you know what? I'll see what's going on with Moon Knight.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. so
stupidoldmansnoring: So you get everything.
Chris: Yeah, it's like two months delayed.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, that's not too bad.
Chris: Yeah. No, it's not.
stupidoldmansnoring: Actually, i well I don't know if i'd like that, but one of the things that frustrates me about comics is like where do you get back into it? Sure,
Chris: Yeah, well, that's one thing with Marvel Unlimited, which Marvel, if you want to sponsor this, feel free. um They have, like, yeah, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: they need the money. what
Chris: They've got lot of guides, though. It's like, ah where to start? Do you like Captain America? Click on it, it's like, if you want to read about yeah more modern Captain America, start with these comics. If you want to, you know, the broad history, read this one, this one, this one, this one. They've got all kinds of guides and stuff, and it's like, oh, you want to read the Infinity War? Here is the 28 different comics from you know all the different series sequential so you can go one by one and not have to guess well i will had to read know guardians of the galaxy 5 and then spider-man 12 they're all just buop up bup bu but yes
stupidoldmansnoring: That's awesome. And I'm going to side tangent to you because you just reminded me of a terrible thing that a podcast that I started listening to does. I listen to it on YouTube, which is just to know, I don't care.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: i don't I'm only doing it to get the information and I don't need to see the people's faces, but whatever. But they don't put their episode numbers. in the youtube title i don't know if they do this in a different format elsewhere i don't i haven't looked at them on spotify so like i'm going through the back catalog and it's generally in groups like right now i'm listening to about the 1857 indian mutiny right which was a few months ago but because it's a few months ago i can't tell you which one's the most recent one without some digging
stupidoldmansnoring: And then like when they pop up, I'm just like, oh is this the next one? Oh, no, no, it's not. I'm i'm out of order. So I'm listening to these things out of order because these people don't put episode numbers on their content.
Chris: uh
stupidoldmansnoring: Even if you just put India Mutiny 1, India Mutiny 2, like it would be so much easier for me as a person to know.
Chris: yeah too yeah right yeah right that's why i mean literally i mean this is episode 141 of season two of the mythic giraffe podcast
stupidoldmansnoring: So Empire Podcast, I know you're listening to us. Please change this for the better.
stupidoldmansnoring: Great. So you know where you're at. Not ah that we do anything in any sort of logical order that it matters, but I'm trying to listen to a historical podcast.
Chris: no but yeah yeah bonkers
stupidoldmansnoring: I want it in order. Yeah. Yes.
stupidoldmansnoring: Bonkers. Bonkers. It's a great podcast, by the way. they Very knowledgeable historians presenting information in a great way.
Chris: right yeah that's yeah mind-boggling yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: But yeah, it just drives me a little nuts. And I'm sure it'll be fine when I catch up. Like once I'm caught up and I'm in...
Chris: Yeah, because it's going to be weekly or bi-weekly or monthly or whatever.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right.
Chris: But yeah until you get to that point, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Whatever comes out next. Yeah.
Chris: but's like I've been taking advantage of the the free movies on YouTube when I'm on the treadmill.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yep.
Chris: Because I'm like, oh, I'll watch 30 minutes of a movie while I'm walking or whatever. so yeah But the problem is, it it gets in my brain.
stupidoldmansnoring: I watched...
Chris: Like I told my wife the other night, I dreamt that we got Or she got us tickets to Judge Dredd on ice. Because I've been watching the newer Judge Dredd, the Carl Urban one. And yeah.
Chris: Yeah. That's actually, it's it much better.
Chris: don't know.
stupidoldmansnoring: to disagree with you.
Chris: Really?
stupidoldmansnoring: I think it's a worse dread.
Chris: so
stupidoldmansnoring: Now, I'm going to preface this by saying I've never read any of the Judge Dredd comic books.
Chris: Yeah, see, neither have I.
stupidoldmansnoring: so But the Judge Dredd, Sylvester Stallone one just felt like more of a comic book movie to me than the Carl Urban one did.
Chris: I can see that. Yeah, I guess, yeah. I mean, i'm not thought it I've watched it before, but yeah. Yeah, Stallone was definitely more comic book-y. Well, yeah, I mean, Carl Arby, you could take Judge Dredd off of it and just, you know, it's, don't know, Lone Gunman or whatever.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, it's a gritty, it's a gritty sci-fi detective noir kind of thing, which is which is totally a cool movie, but I just felt like, I still feel like of the two, the the Stallone one is more comic book-y, over the top.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: I am the law.
stupidoldmansnoring: I am the law! you know but Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: They're both perfectly good movies.
Chris: Oh, yeah. yeah Popcorn action movies.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, yeah. It's funny, I just watched 1776 because I'm a history nerd, and it was ah free on YouTube. and It should hopefully remain free until after, know, 250th.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, you would think.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's the only musical I watch. Yeah,
Chris: I guess, no.
stupidoldmansnoring: that's true.
Chris: See, I watch other musicals because I watch Disney movies.
stupidoldmansnoring: I do not.
Chris: It's a hassy.
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't.
Chris: I had new Toy Story 5s coming out.
stupidoldmansnoring: not not interested i haven't seen toy story not interested anymore
Chris: Taylor Swift has a new song in it.
Chris: Come on, it's Tay Tay.
stupidoldmansnoring: i'm not against tt i just don't care as my trivia knowledge at trivia every week shows i don't care about music
Chris: i know, I know.
stupidoldmansnoring: Our last week trivia was god awful for me. I didn't know. knew one song out of the time they played.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And that was David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans.
Chris: Okay. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. That was it.
Chris: Now, was that when he was Bowie or Ziggy?
stupidoldmansnoring: That's Bowie.
Chris: That's Bowie. Okay.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. That's for sure Bowie.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: think he's like his really early stuff.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. I don't remember why he did that. there was a story about something, but he's a weird dude.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. But I think after Labyrinth with his codpiece, then he became Bowie. Yeah. Again.
Chris: Yeah, that cod piece was something.
stupidoldmansnoring: Good Bowie.
stupidoldmansnoring: Epic.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: You know, ah that movie made me realize that Jennifer Connelly is a vampire.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. She has not aged. Yeah.
Chris: David Bowie created the alter ego Ziggy Stardust in 1972 to act as an alien rock star sent to save a dying earth. His flamboyant androgynous persona challenged traditional norms in rock and roll, explore themes of fame, and create one of history's defiive definitive concept albums.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, that checks out.
Chris: And he took the name Ziggy because he noticed a tailor shop on a train journey and... um like the name there was probably some tailors like yeah that's my name sure it is grandpa sure it is oh yeah no oh
stupidoldmansnoring: It's a fun thing.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's right.
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't think most people even know Ziggy Stardust now. I think if you polled almost everybody who we work with, none of them would know who Ziggy Stardust is.
Chris: my gosh
stupidoldmansnoring: Most of them probably wouldn't know who Dave Bowie is.
Chris: That's going to be a fun poll to send out.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. I think you should
Chris: Oh my gosh. Oh my God. I could do that. I could make a poll with like, you know, Hey, we're trying to gauge the, you know, people's feelings on, i don't know, such and such and just embed in there.
Chris: Those two questions.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah yeah you're the deputy if you can do whatever you want
Chris: I enjoy my job. I enjoy working on my current shift. I know who Ziggy Stardust is.
stupidoldmansnoring: i could tell you what year ziggy sardos came out with his album yeah then there'll be one response back positive
Chris: Oh my gosh. God, this is going be fun.
Chris: Oh, yeah. or
stupidoldmansnoring: Maybe two.
Chris: Or, I send it as a fake poll to the, to the admin like, Hey, I'm to send this out to the folks. Let me know if there's anything wrong with it.
stupidoldmansnoring: That is a test to see if anyone read it.
Chris: Yes. Yes.
Chris: Uh, God.
stupidoldmansnoring: I would say most of them will not read it.
Chris: yeah oh the maniac will yeah so
stupidoldmansnoring: Fair. Fair.
stupidoldmansnoring: I think I read
stupidoldmansnoring: less than a third of the emails that I get at work.
Chris: yeah once like now they give classes on like what you know like depending on who you're emailing like if it's
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: you the age demographic and stuff, you know, like younger, you need to put like something in the subject line, probably what you want to say in the subject line. And that's it. You know, cause some people you lose them by the second law, you know, second you know sentence in the paragraph, just, you know, do you use bullet points? I'm like, this is too much work.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Well, the problem is we're just not good at communicating.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And I get a lot of emails that just don't apply to me. I get so many emails from ah Prodigy trying to get me to buy Prodigy for my department.
Chris: Really?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yes. And I'm like – How did you get my email? I bet it's when I signed up for Prodigy that my department is paying for.
Chris: Well, I mean, you should probably, wait maybe they you should buy for your household.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yes, that's definitely something I'm going to have my household. Wife, we're doing airway training today.
Chris: Woman, did you, Did you do your prodigy?
stupidoldmansnoring: So.
Chris: Well,
stupidoldmansnoring: Right. cause Did your project sign out? Oh,
Chris: our previous LMS, I still get emails from them. The fire rescue one or whatever.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. I got one today. You have seven people in your department.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: The credential is expiring. I'm like, I unsubscribed from you years ago. We stopped paying you.
stupidoldmansnoring: I got a... Somehow, I don't know how this happened. I got a spam that got through my Google filter... like news agency that was sending me like it was called epoch news or something it's like how did this and then and there were and like i just and there was no unsubscribing because you scroll the bottom you know look for the unsubscribe there's no unsubscribe i don't know how i subscribed in the first place i'm pretty sure i didn't and then like i had to go through the whole email and then buried in the middle was like ah here's an unsubscribe button i'm like you bastards i don't want your spam
Chris: OK.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, my email my personal email, I read less than one in a thousand emails.
Chris: yeah oh yeah yeah yep that's a big part of it yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: If I'm not looking for the email, mostly mostly I use my personal email as an electronic storage dump for receipts.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's mostly my private email at this point.
stupidoldmansnoring: And my work email is me going through and saying, don't care about Thrive, don't care about... Getting a free desk. Don't care about this.
Chris: oh my gosh yeah the swap shop stuff
stupidoldmansnoring: my God.
Chris: But evidently somebody got in trouble for that a couple months ago because they were taking the stuff to their house.
stupidoldmansnoring: Nice.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: But it's junk. It's trash.
Chris: Yeah, I know. i know. they're like What does say I can't use it at my house? Every now again, I tell her work. I guess I don't know.
stupidoldmansnoring: Square point.
Chris: ah
stupidoldmansnoring: But also, so it's all drunk. It's all trash.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Who cares? 100%.
Chris: One man's treasure, another man's treasure.
stupidoldmansnoring: hundred percent Not mine.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I want less trash my life.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Well, you're ready for topic one.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yep. Yep.
Chris: God.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm going to ask a philosophical question. You don't have to answer, but why am I...
Chris: But you got to be careful with that because the other day graham crackers broke me.
stupidoldmansnoring: Graham crackers broke you.
Chris: My wife was like, why are they called graham crackers? I was done.
stupidoldmansnoring: They're named after Dr. Graham.
Chris: What?
stupidoldmansnoring: Isn't that correct?
Chris: I don't know, but
stupidoldmansnoring: And it's it's, no, no, no, it's not that, it's that's not true. They're named after the flour they use. The original flour that they use in Graham crackers is called Graham flour and it's more bran than flour and it's meant as a sexual appetite to suppress it.
Chris: Seriously?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, I think that's correct.
Chris: oh my God. Yeah. I just sat there. i was like befuddled.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: so I was like, what does a gram taste like?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: I mean, you know, it's not, I just, yeah. So yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, I think i think it's a kind of certain kind of flower. um'm I'm going to bet your car on that.
Chris: Bet my car.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, yeah, your car. Not my car. I need to get to work.
Chris: Okay.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: ah All right. So what's your philosophical question?
stupidoldmansnoring: Why am I an idiot all the time?
Chris: I mean.
stupidoldmansnoring: Like constantly an idiot. Constantly. So last... I'm going to back this up with a story. So last...
Chris: is this about scheduling yourself again?
stupidoldmansnoring: No, no, no. No, no, no, no.
Chris: ah
stupidoldmansnoring: So last week, I think, or maybe the week four, two weeks ago, it rained. And I noticed the gutters were not draining. What do you think I then did in that situation?
Chris: Made a mental note that when it stops raining. to clean the gutters?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, do you think I did that part?
Chris: No.
stupidoldmansnoring: No. So today, when it rained, and I look outside, I'm like, huh, the gutters are not draining. So now, my dumb self is grabbing the ladder, a rain jacket, and the snake, and getting up there and draining the gutters.
Chris: Oh.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, so I...
Chris: That's not fun.
stupidoldmansnoring: It was not fun. It wasn't... it was Yeah, I mean... Climbing up on my two-story house in a rainstorm is not the best idea.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And leaning over the wet gutters on the wet roof was not fun.
Chris: No. Yeah. Well,
stupidoldmansnoring: It was literally just ah ah one little piece of something that blocked the top of the drain.
Chris: one.
stupidoldmansnoring: Such an idiot. I do it to myself all the time.
Chris: that's well one Why were you doing that? Not the wife.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, okay. Yeah. Good luck with that, bud.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. but yeah Why were you cleaning the baseboards for your wife's friend coming over?
Chris: Yeah, that was the first thing she commented on, too.
Chris: I think I could have painted him neon. Neon.
stupidoldmansnoring: oh i
Chris: I never would have noticed.
stupidoldmansnoring: No one would ever notice.
Chris: I know.
stupidoldmansnoring: just Just like the event covers, no one will ever notice.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: ah
stupidoldmansnoring: But I do this to myself constantly, where I'm like, I have to take care of this problem.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And instead of taking care of it, I just move on with my day until it becomes a problem again.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
stupidoldmansnoring: And then it becomes a bigger problem.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It's...
stupidoldmansnoring: Also, i think my dr my gutters are not sloped the right way. I'm going figure out how to fix that. Yeah.
Chris: yeah Just put a shim in there.
stupidoldmansnoring: where a shim somewhere got a shim this is what chris said i should do
Chris: don't know. Somewhere underneath it. Yeah. ah um say
stupidoldmansnoring: but i consider myself fairly intellectually smart but i'm an idiot because i i
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah, you are. Well, I think it's wheat. We have too much faith in our future selves.
stupidoldmansnoring: that is very true my past self loathes future self and present self hates both of them
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: You're exactly right.
stupidoldmansnoring: speak
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: because present ron is like that dumb future ron's not gonna have to get up on the gutters because present ron's getting that stupid ladder out and getting on the stupid roof and putting a goddamn gutter out and he can't because past ron's an idiot and didn't do it when it was nice and sunny
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Because Pastron didn't do it.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah that present ron always has to deal with
stupidoldmansnoring: And now it's become a problem. Again.
stupidoldmansnoring: The present Ron... All I do is make problems for myself. Myself. Myselves?
Chris: yeah yeah that's yeah it yeah i mean that that's the goal yeah but i i'm with you man i i do the same stuff
stupidoldmansnoring: Constantly.
stupidoldmansnoring: I want less problems in my life. That's what I want. I...
Chris: ah that's like you had me thinking about it so was at the store sunday because i had to get chlorine for the pool i said i had a extra bottle of the test strips in my hand i said nah i'll just get this later
stupidoldmansnoring: That seems like a bad idea.
Chris: knowing knowing that i had one test strip left in the bottle at home
stupidoldmansnoring: i was going to say, if you were like, um I don't know if I have any test strips at home. I don't want to have extra.
Chris: and and and no no no no my stupid self knew that i had one and still put that bottle back and said i don't need this right now what because yesterday go i'm like oh i need to need to check the levels oh that's right i can't do that because past chris hates me
stupidoldmansnoring: thats best past this was i you know You know what Past Ron really hates? Past Ron really hates writing grocery lists. And Present Ron really wants to punch Past Ron in the face.
stupidoldmansnoring: I went to the grocery store three times the other day.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
stupidoldmansnoring: not not in one day i went two days because the first time my wife said hey can you get this and i totally forgot so then i had to turn around of the store and get that but i went there specifically after the gym to get protein shakes yogurt and makings from my tomato sandwiches i know you don't like tomato sandwiches whatever got my tomatoes i got my cucumbers i got my scallions
Chris: ah Okay.
Chris: Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Chris: uh you do you you didn't have bread
stupidoldmansnoring: I got all the way home after two trips to the store. Notice I said tomatoes, cucumbers, scallions. I didn't buy the bread.
Chris: ah
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm sitting eating my tomatoes without bread.
stupidoldmansnoring: Twice! did that twice to myself.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: And I think Past Ron is starting to wear off on the wife because she started not making lists and started to forget things, which makes me have to, which means Present Ron then has to make up the mistakes of Past Ron telling Past Sherry not to make a list.
stupidoldmansnoring: That is going out of control.
Chris: see we have a shared electronic list now
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, no, no. My wife refuses.
Chris: Really?
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, there are three things my wife refuses to do. Empty the dishwasher, put away the dishes, and use electronic lists. Refuses to do them.
stupidoldmansnoring: to the point where a there will be dishes stacked precariously on top of pots on top of other pots hanging off it's it's insane and we you know we use a messaging app the wife and i and i say hey i'm going to the store just message you what you want to need what you need no i'm just going to tell you i'm telling you i'm too stupid
Chris: Oh, no.
Chris: That's that's no no
stupidoldmansnoring: To take the information that you're about to give me, go to the gym, work out, and then reaccess the information that you've given me.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I can tell you...
Chris: I've seen like two squirrels and a bird.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right.
Chris: In my path over to the grocery store. I got nothing.
stupidoldmansnoring: fright Right. um I can tell you the names of Wellington's division commanders at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. I cannot tell you the three things my wife told me had to go to the grocery store less than an hour ago.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: third That information is gone.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Almost the moment it enters my brain, it's already gone.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: it's it's like It's like people introducing their names to me.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh God, that's a horrible thing.
stupidoldmansnoring: The moment you say your name, I've lost it.
Chris: Yep. Yep. Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: I wish I had a system where i had I could look at them, tag their name, and then my brain says, oh, it's over their head, and I can see who that is.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Exactly. That would be so much easier. Or everybody wears a name tag.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Or everybody wears a name tag.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: You want to call yourself Tyrannosaurus Rex? I don't care. But at least I see your name tag.
Chris: Yeah. What up T-Rex? I mean...
stupidoldmansnoring: Okay, what up, T-Rex? Cool. I don't care what you call yourself, but I have...
Chris: yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Legitimately, to this day, there are two Colbys who work for the Salisbury Fire Department. I couldn't tell you which one's which.
Chris: yeah that's like i was in a meeting or it was the groundbreaking at the zoo the other day and this i i I know I've met this woman before who works for the city. She's worked for the city for a long time. um And she comes up. Oh, hey, Chris, how are you doing? Good to see you. dot dot dot data I'm like, I don't know who you are.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's the worst. The worst is when they know you and you have no clue.
Chris: Oh, my God. Yeah. Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: I've had ones where they know me and I don't even have an idea who they are. Like, I have no recollection of even meeting them. And that's bad, too.
Chris: Ah, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: There's something wrong with that short-term memory. The RAM is no good.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's...
Chris: ah But it's also the conversion to long term or even medium term.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah mean I need the medium term. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's like if I don't...
Chris: Yeah, but it's the stupid stuff that I do remember.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: like i mean I, I, I, we talked about it the other day. I mean, I, I remember the, my bus numbers from elementary school. like we took the dogs to a new groomer.
Chris: I drove there once. I could take you there blindfolded now.
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't want to sound sexist. I don't know how to make this not sound sexist. But I think that's a man versus woman thing.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: My wife can't drive. We were driving to the park.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: We go to this park.
stupidoldmansnoring: almost every week we got married in the park we go to this park right yes we go there all that's what i'm saying we go there all the time there was construction in our way so i had to take like one extra turn to get there and she's like i don't know where we're at and i'm like we go here we're here more than any other place that's not our house what are you on about
Chris: yeah oh yeah i know where that park is could i could probably drive to that park
Chris: huh yeah yeah that's yeah or we'll be driving like oh did you see that such and such what what are you talking about it's like the spatial awareness while driving or riding i don't i don't understand it i think it's different don't maybe it's also because of our jobs like we're always paying attention to where we are and where we're going don't know um
stupidoldmansnoring: bonkers.
stupidoldmansnoring: and you know
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't know. I work with some people who I don't think are friends and to where they are.
Chris: ah
stupidoldmansnoring: or where they're going
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Because I can tell you, my driver couldn't tell you where anything is in the city that she drives in every day and grew up in.
stupidoldmansnoring: And her excuse is, well, I don't don't live here anymore. I'm like, you live three miles away.
Chris: yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: it's I don't live there. You still shop and live there.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Every restaurant that you have an option to go to, unless you go to the Dollar General and eat beef jerky and Snickers bars, is in the city you work in. And
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's.
stupidoldmansnoring: it's literally like four roads you got to know in that city.
Chris: Right.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Give me a cross street and I can get you damn near anywhere.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yep, I'll give the crossroad of Marquee and Marquee.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's a fun one.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a fun one.
stupidoldmansnoring: Northwest Road and West Road.
Chris: East East Road, West East Road.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, yeah, don't worry.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Bonkers.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's why when I take over the world, anything that's not in a block system for a city will be demolished.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: That's very valid point.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. City Salisbury has way too many points where the road, like multiple roads come together. those are all being demolished.
Chris: But like, well, six points is about to be demolished. or it's on the chopping block over there by the old board of ed grants texas or the exxon la tolteca that place yeah they're gonna put a circle in there yeah can you imagine how horrible that's gonna be
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah,
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah, yeah. Oh my God.
stupidoldmansnoring: Dude, they have ruined Snow Hill Road. I...
Chris: oh for iceland way
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh my God, it is terrible. That stupid circle. used to be 45 into the city line, right?
stupidoldmansnoring: Now it's down to 40, whatever. And then it hits 25 because you gotta go through a stupid circle. For no good reason. It's a neighborhood. It's not like it's f freaking the biggest neighborhood of the city.
Chris: yeah well i feel like the yeah the planners and all around here they just found out about circles because it feels like they're trying to put them everywhere now yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: oh yeah they just found a compass that's the problem they ah they only had triangles before and now they found a compass and they're drawing they're drawing maps going oh my god look we're like circles it's insane
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't think the military circle helped a thing.
Chris: uh no no
stupidoldmansnoring: And I can't imagine by the board at long Avenue, that's going to be, that's going to bonkers.
Chris: yeah god oh you know it'll take a while god can you imagine it's one of those bigger circles so you got like the inner lanes it's gonna be some some poor bastard just could be stuck in there hey look big ben
stupidoldmansnoring: Please wait like till 2029. Yeah,
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah i know. i know. It's a stunning start.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right. Can't get left. Big Ben. Parliament. Yeah.
Chris: ah Oh, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: The city Salisbury has just discovered the the state of New Jersey. That's what happened. Somebody from so Salisbury City Planning took a trip to Jersey was like, oh my god, there's circles everywhere.
stupidoldmansnoring: as there They are great when everybody knows how to use them. Right? But if you don't know what you're doing, boy boy.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: You just mess up everybody. And taking a boat through the circle on Mill Street is a pain in the ass.
Chris: Yeah, I bet.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, shouldn't do that.
stupidoldmansnoring: Well, how do I get to the Marine otherwise?
stupidoldmansnoring: Go down college with the 7,000 speed bumps?
Chris: I just.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh, where's the boat? Well, we lost it halfway down College Avenue because, you know, there's speed bumps and dips and humps and everything.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: or cut through Maryland to Wicamo go, yeah, that sounds run.
Chris: You're not driving.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's fair. That's fair. That's fair.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. They've made that a little harder for us to deploy our boat.
Chris: yeah yeah well yeah yeah i'm not gonna disagree
stupidoldmansnoring: You know, the only boat in the city we need. Just saying. Just saying.
stupidoldmansnoring: i don't even know they need that boat. really think we just need an inflatable boat. We can put everywhere.
stupidoldmansnoring: But...
Chris: just a line gun
stupidoldmansnoring: For most of what we do, yeah. Yeah. We have a line gun. Oh, we did.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Still haven't. I imagine the ammunition for that thing is probably not good.
Chris: and Probably not.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Here, try this out, Proby.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, I'm going to go stand over behind that brick wall. should like ah Well, the skirt the moral of my story is I'm an idiot and I acknowledge I'm an idiot all the time.
stupidoldmansnoring: And I mean, even stubborn or idiot because I said, no I'm going to get up on this roof and fix this stupid gutter now.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: That's, yeah, I mean, that's a whole level of dedication right there.
stupidoldmansnoring: Well, because I know that if I didn't do it right then, what was going to happen?
Chris: The next rainstorm is when you will find it.
stupidoldmansnoring: the next race to her i'll be like god damn it why didn't i do the stupid gutter and i don't understand it because the the front gutters are perfectly clear that's where all the leaves are why are the back gutters the ones that are clogged up with leaves i'm gonna
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
Chris: Hmm. Squirrels.
Chris: Yeah. ah You should train them to clean the gutters.
stupidoldmansnoring: train them by rubbing their little stupid furry asses through the gutter like a snake
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Evidently domesticated squirrels can live up to like 20 years old.
stupidoldmansnoring: Huh.
Chris: Yeah. In the wild, like three to five. But domesticated, up to 20.
stupidoldmansnoring: I see the turtle today.
Chris: Oh, good for you.
stupidoldmansnoring: we we were driving around this morning and my wife says, there's a turtle. It's stuck on the, cause it can get up the curb.
Chris: hmm
stupidoldmansnoring: She's like, you have to get it up. I'm like, goddammit. Stopped the car, picked up the turtle. And she says, you're finally a hero. And I looked at her and I just
Chris: you should have chucked that turtle at her can't believe she said that oh my god that is horrible
stupidoldmansnoring: i just wanted to punch her. Like I've never wanted to punch to my wife more than right that moment. is You're finally a hero. because She picked the turtle up. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. like There's very little things I have in my life, but I think being a hero is one of them. At least sometimes.
Chris: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. That's my loving wife.
stupidoldmansnoring: Well, let me move on topic two.
Chris: sure so I got thinking about this the other day because we went to a restaurant we like to go to and from jump I won't say from jump from the time we were seated And had our first interaction with the waiter.
Chris: So the end of the night. It was not a good experience.
stupidoldmansnoring: Oh boy. Like,
Chris: The waiter was pretentious. He was. Explaining the drinks. Because they make. They use. kind what it was Shrubs.
Chris: So this has an apricot shrub. No evidently it's some kind of Like I don't know. They soak the stuff in. the i i don't I started tuning him out. As soon as he started to talk down to me.
Chris: But we get done at the end and
Chris: what's your recourse at that? Oh, I'm going leave a bad tip. But does that really teach him anything?
stupidoldmansnoring: Yes.
Chris: No, it doesn't because we haven't given him feedback on what he screwed up.
stupidoldmansnoring: The feedback is the tip. That I think, I think that is where we've lost the whole tipping culture, right?
Chris: Right, right, right. But.
stupidoldmansnoring: Like the feedback of the tip was you got a good tip because you were a good server. Now it's we default to giving you a good tip because you rely on their money, which cool.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: But part of relying on that money is you gotta be a good server and being the condescending
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. or they just flipped a little screen over to you when you're picking up food, which I don't like.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah I don't like that either.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: ah Or...
Chris: But no ah let me fill something out.
stupidoldmansnoring: Where did Oh.
Chris: Get done. so you know, here, scan this QR code.
stupidoldmansnoring: I remember...
Chris: Hey, your server was Fred. Was Fred polite one through five was timely.
stupidoldmansnoring: Condescending asshole.
Chris: All these, yeah let me fill these out and give me a free text. Now I'm sure you're going to get some whack jobs back and you know here and there. yeah You always exclude the variables, but that way his boss at the end could say, Fred, i got 20 reviews on you this week.
Chris: You did a damn good job for 19 of them. This one says this and that. Fred could say, oh yeah, they were, you know, The guy had an attitude as soon as he came in. Or it could be, Fred, these are overwhelmingly negative. What's going on?
stupidoldmansnoring: But shouldn't the server's boss already know if the server's an asshole? It's not his job.
Chris: but I guess if you're not... Because the boss doesn't know what the the kind of tips they're getting for the most part.
stupidoldmansnoring: well it depends if it's electronic or not but on the flip side they do keep track of returning customers or at least really good restaurants do like restaurants that want to actually make money and you're very much not likely to return to that restaurant can i guess the restaurant is it in salisbury is it on eastern short drive
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: is next to it a crab slash fish restaurant place okay i had the same experience there at that place and i've never been back i went there i just i think i was down for work for something and i was like oh i've never been here let me check it out and the servers were snotty assholes and the food wasn't
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: up to what i consider par and it was crazy expensive um yeah i never went back
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah I mean, to the point, like partway through the meal, one of our one of our quote unquote regular waitresses was like oh hey guys how are you doing everything kind of looks like where's your food where's you know this and that that's you know it's like if the other waiter know waitstaff is recognizing this stuff doro
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah know the problem is um fred doesn't care fred's just a douchebag and the problem now is he just gets 20 defaulted so he doesn't care right like he's he's not going to improve if you keep giving him 20 you know and some people probably even give him to more than that that's i'm not
Chris: oh yeah i'm sure he doesn't yeah yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah, I'm sure. because they oh Because there was this other group that he was sucking up to. Yeah. Yeah. Correct.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm not a big fan of the default to 20% tip. I, I, I tip 20%. If you do what I consider the minimum, right?
Chris: Correct.
stupidoldmansnoring: Like we got our food on time. Look, I don't, I understand that things happen. Like if you say, Hey, look, we're really backed up. The food's going to be a little delayed. Here's some drinks. You know, I'm cool with that. Cause if I'm going out to dinner, it's like, if I'm taking that time, I'm committing some time to going out to dinner.
Chris: right but as long as you're communicating with me and letting me know these things yeah yeah that's right
stupidoldmansnoring: So I'm cool with that. But if you just ignore me, right. Right. If you just ignore me and do nothing, ah you don't deserve 20% to me because that's your, your job is to entertain me. Dance clown, dance.
Chris: But yeah, your job is to wait on me.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right. Right. Like,
Chris: It's in your title.
stupidoldmansnoring: I could take this food and take it to go and pay you no tip and eat the same food.
Chris: Right.
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm paying for the experience of being in this restaurant.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't like doing it most times. I'd rather just eat in my own house. But if I'm going out to eat, I want to have a good experience.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And if you're not doing that, you're not getting a good tip from me.
Chris: Yeah. Exactly.
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah i I remember still vividly to this day.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: There was a restaurant that we used to go to as kids called Ivy all the time. It was called the Ivy. I didn't know. I could tell you where it was, but you don't care.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: We went to this restaurant. We were regulars there because my dad was a big eating out guy.
Chris: OK.
stupidoldmansnoring: It was like his thing.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: And we were at this restaurant and it's like seven o'clock on a Saturday night or something like that. we it's now eight o'clock and we didn't get our food.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's like now not.
Chris: Hmm.
stupidoldmansnoring: And then like, I think we got our food and then it's like, we're not getting drinks or we never saw our waitress again.
Chris: Oh
stupidoldmansnoring: And we sat there for like another hour. And my dad's just fuming, getting angry and angry and angry. And then we found out like the waitress quit in the middle of the service.
Chris: my gosh.
stupidoldmansnoring: And like, no one came and gave us our bill or anything. And my dad was just like, we're leaving at this place. We'd never gone back. Which is like this this kind sad. It just takes one bad experience to ruin that restaurant for you.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
stupidoldmansnoring: But that's how it goes, I guess.
Chris: ah I mean, yeah, i mean, this restaurant is going to be in a cool down period for a while for us.
stupidoldmansnoring: I mean, it's been in a cool down for me for like 15 years. i don't It's never open. i don't even I didn't think it was in business the other day.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's never open. why i
Chris: It's got weird hours.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, my driver was saying that like they do weird like events there now, which is always a sign the restaurant's not doing well. Like once they start doing like paint by numbers at the freaking restaurant, you're like, oh, you guys are going out of business.
stupidoldmansnoring: And you're just trying anything to say.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Isn't it owned by the same guy who used to own Evo?
Chris: No, it's still the same. Yeah. They own like four restaurants.
stupidoldmansnoring: They have specific gravity too or something.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: can't remember.
Chris: No.
stupidoldmansnoring: can't remember what, who owns what. It's only like three people.
Chris: Yeah, I think Gravity is separate.
stupidoldmansnoring: Hmm.
Chris: But that place, the last time we went there for lunch, was dead.
stupidoldmansnoring: Really?
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: think it's because the coffee shop left.
Chris: Maybe. don't know. But again, that fucking coffee shop.
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't know why you go there.
Chris: I went to.
stupidoldmansnoring: i honestly have no...
Chris: I, I, I, Chris Truitt do not my my.
stupidoldmansnoring: you it You text me more about that single coffee shop and how much you hate it than any other thing.
Chris: Oh, my God. My daughter, my daughter, like my daughter likes their breakfast sandwiches because they have a nice gluten free bread and yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: But I get texts constantly about it.
Chris: But even like the other day, like I ordered on I ordered online. so my food should be written and i get there i get a 30 minute wait for a bacon egg and cheese
stupidoldmansnoring: Which one do you go to? you go to the new one or the Riverside Drive one?
Chris: now the new one because the riverside drive one doesn't have food they only have like scones and things but yeah but i get home and wife wife goes huh i guess they switch things up i said what are you talking about she's like well it looks like they have
stupidoldmansnoring: I don't know. I don't go to either one of them. so
Chris: pre-made little egg and it was a per they um each sandwich had a perfectly round little egg patty was like well if they're making those ahead of time it shouldn't take that long anyway is there a there was a part of me who went to drive back there and take that little egg patty and shove it somewhere yep
stupidoldmansnoring: I just, I feel like twice a month I get a text about how bad you hate Netflix. And then you just keep going back.
Chris: yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: I i don't know why I didn't just say, look, kid, you have a license. You went there. Go get it. And when you go, stop and get me a Dunkin' Donuts sandwich because it's the same goddamn sandwich and cheaper and quicker.
Chris: And you would think, well, like the the coffee staff, because it's like separated, there's the kitchen staff and then the coffee idiots. And then whatever.
stupidoldmansnoring: Barifas, I believe they like to be called.
Chris: Yeah. But like for them, they've got a clock up for their drive through. And as soon as it gets past a minute, it turns red because it's taking too long.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, yeah, well, that's fair.
Chris: But like there was somebody else. college kids sitting there. was like, you waiting for food too? Yeah. I said, might as well apply for graduation now. and Maybe you'll get it by the time. God. But you think like, oh, sir, I know you're standing there waiting. Do you want a cup of coffee on us?
stupidoldmansnoring: I'm not going to that.
Chris: Something. No.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's funny. People on my shift love that place and their tea sucks.
Chris: But none of, I bet none of them get coffee.
stupidoldmansnoring: it depends on how you loosely define the word coffee.
Chris: Exactly. None of them get. black energy with a little bit of cream and sugar maybe in it no they get one of those maca waka frou-frou i'll let me get yeah two pumps uh almond and yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: It's fair.
stupidoldmansnoring: I think about all the time because used to work when I was very young in high school. I worked at Dunkin Donuts and we served two things. I guess three things if you count a decaf.
stupidoldmansnoring: There was coffee and donuts.
Chris: i was gonna say regular and decaf there's your two things
stupidoldmansnoring: That was it.
Chris: hmm yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: And you go to a Dunkin Donuts now and it's like, oh my God. There's all this crap on here. These poor donuts people have to like make. And that's why they're getting more money than the fire department, because they've got freaking make 78 different freaking drinks.
Chris: yeah but they don't make the donuts anymore sad yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: Crazy. They do not make the donuts anymore, and that's disappointing. Yeah. yeah oh I went to i i went to a bagel bakery that in town that I hadn't been to since I worked there probably 20 plus years ago.
stupidoldmansnoring: I walked in there. um
Chris: add your picture on the wall best employee ever yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: they do to Keep this guy up. but I walked in there. It was exactly the same. I mean, everything was the same from 20. Oh, yeah, I worked there 2000.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, it had to be early 2000, like 2001 maybe.
Chris: hmm yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: So it was 25 plus years ago that worked in this restaurant and everything. I mean, and then I thought about that. I was ew, everything in here is 25 years old.
stupidoldmansnoring: Like the microwave is 25 years old. the The bagel, you know, toaster is 25 years old.
Chris: hmm yeah but if they keep it clean yeah hmm hmm all right bad not near a step above
stupidoldmansnoring: was like, oh, that's, but it was a good bagel. Yeah, yeah, it's fair. this just You can tell that it was old.
stupidoldmansnoring: But also, to you this, the bagels aren't as good as when I made them.
stupidoldmansnoring: Well, yeah, it's the most rewarding job I've ever had in my life. Because you know what?
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: At the end of your shift, you had made bagels. At the end of my shift in the fire department, i go, what did I do today?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: We threw out a lot.
Chris: Do it five days a week.
stupidoldmansnoring: Um, no, I choose not to.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I choose not to.
Chris: Yeah. I still think we got it now. Post retirement gig. Daytime bartender.
stupidoldmansnoring: They paid that bartender a brewery.
Chris: Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: Not at a bar.
Chris: No, no, no, no, no. At brewery.
stupidoldmansnoring: a brewery.
Chris: Yeah. And when somebody goes up there, I want a margarita.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Cool. Here's your beer.
stupidoldmansnoring: Right, yeah. Okay, we have one, two, or three. Which one of those three would you like?
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: but You have like 12 beers on... No, no, no. This is daytime.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: like We serve one, two, or three.
Chris: Yeah. What do you suggest? ah Pick a number between one and three to you're getting tapped to. There you go.
stupidoldmansnoring: There you go. Solved your problem.
Chris: Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: What can you tell me about the yeah Lord Humperdinck fizzy wig?
stupidoldmansnoring: It comes in this glass.
Chris: yeah It's out of tap five. I don't know what to tell you.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: What does the board say, bud? Do you know how to read?
Chris: yeah they' just gonna need like talk just point just point behind yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: yeah
stupidoldmansnoring: What's a fest beer? I don't know. They make the beer. I don't make beer, but I just literally take it from this, put it in this glass, and hand it to you.
Chris: yeah yeah i hold the glass at an angle i pull the handle i release it i put it in your face that's it yep yes
stupidoldmansnoring: That's the end of our interaction.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yep.
stupidoldmansnoring: And that sure that's the end of our interaction as people. 20%, please.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. And for that, yeah, my new part, give me
stupidoldmansnoring: So i have ah that actually is ah raises an interesting tip question. Do you, ah you probably, I mean, you don't we don't do and don't sit in the bars anymore, right?
stupidoldmansnoring: You don't like, but every once in while, the wife and I will go to the like a brewery and we'll sit there and have a couple beers.
Chris: Not really. Yeah. Yeah. We'll do that every now and again.
stupidoldmansnoring: do you tip every time you drink or do you start a tab and just tip at the end yeah even when i had to pay cash for beers like if i was sitting in a bar i would just pay for the beer and then i would tip to the end yeah because otherwise it gets messed up screw up your whole system gets screwed up like it's both
Chris: tip at the end yeah
Chris: yeah yep yep it does ah yeah yeah right 50
stupidoldmansnoring: Beers used to be like $2. So if I tip $3 or if I pay $3 every time, then I'm giving them more than 20%.
Chris: that's ridiculous
stupidoldmansnoring: That's a 50% tip. Yeah. Can I remember when beer was cheap?
Chris: that's ridiculous
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's just green and water.
Chris: God. Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Bring it back.
Chris: That's like, I got some six pack the other day and my youngest was like, Oh, oh you got your fruit fruit beer. I said, it's allagash white.
stupidoldmansnoring: Well, that's a solid summer summer choice.
Chris: i was like, that's not that fancy. She, she looks over at me and puts her pinky out. And now as my wife shakes her head at me, and whatever, it's not fancy beer.
stupidoldmansnoring: Okay. First off, like I think it's better to have a conversation. that ah There's no cherry or pineapple or other crap. It's just a solid wheat beer.
Chris: Right. Exactly.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's probably one of the most pure beers you can get in America anymore.
Chris: i mean, it's no natural light, but.
stupidoldmansnoring: They do good.
stupidoldmansnoring: That's fair. That's fair. It's not a natty daddy.
Chris: Oh, God, our dear departed friend.
stupidoldmansnoring: But what is?
Chris: What do you guys have like Miller?
stupidoldmansnoring: God. No, Miller Lite. What?
Chris: and bill light Yeah, yeah, yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Not Miller.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: Miller Lite.
Chris: We have water.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. I can go piss in a cup for you and bring it out if you like.
Chris: Yeah.
stupidoldmansnoring: I got time.
Chris: Well.
stupidoldmansnoring: I think we've casted the pod.
Chris: We have casted the pod. bro Try it. You know what? That should be our task before the next podcast is be better to our future selves.
stupidoldmansnoring: It's impossible.
Chris: Yeah, know. That's.
stupidoldmansnoring: i'm I guarantee you we will we will pick this up in a fortnight and pass Ron, which is current Ron, will have pissed off future Ron, which will then be present Ron.
Chris: yeah yeah just as long as it's not 10 o'clock god god every day
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah, so... Yeah. But Passeron is definitely going piss off Future Ron. There's no way I can stop it.
Chris: well folks try to be better to your future selves yeah just yeah be better yeah yeah 100 see you folks
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah. Just be better people. Take care yourself before you take care others.
stupidoldmansnoring: Yeah.
Chris: see you folks
