Transcript
Chris: Okay, what the hell? Welcome back to the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris.
NoRonliketheRon: And I'm a very confused Ron.
Chris: I don't know. I hit the button. It's supposed to
NoRonliketheRon: Oh my god. sir Yes, I texted you yesterday to remind me. So I went for a bike ride yesterday and there's a trail.
Chris: olivia asked me she was like why did why what's with a thornbu i was like i had to be either with a bike or a hike so
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, well, you know. So i'm ah there's a trail that runs. Basically, we have a creek that runs on the west side of town that the city, like years ago, we're like, well, this is undevelopable land. So they just made like a little path.
NoRonliketheRon: It's not a very well-maintained trail, but there is a trail there. So riding my bike. And it's been, this actually, it is the first time I've ridden it this year, that trail.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: There was like... ah There must have been 30 down trees. And I'm lifting my bike over the trees.
Chris: Really?
NoRonliketheRon: um it's like it It was like I was doing...
Chris: I figured you were just picking the trees up and throwing them to the side.
NoRonliketheRon: it
NoRonliketheRon: Yes. I was like doing a savage race. I'm like lifting my bike up. I'm like doing a push-up. you know like and that And then i almost died. This is all leading up to the thorn bush.
Chris: Grizzly bear.
NoRonliketheRon: No. No. No, there's ah there's a bridge that goes over the creek. That's probably a good 10 feet above the creek.
Chris: OK.
NoRonliketheRon: There's a a huge double-trunked tree down on the bridge.
Chris: Jesus.
NoRonliketheRon: So I'm like, fuck, I either go forward... and deal with this obstacle or I go back and go deal with the 29 trees I've already climbed over so I was like ah
Chris: God, this is like a video game.
NoRonliketheRon: it yeah so like um I'm lifting my bike over my head and over this double tree on a bridge precariously and then I'm trying to like put the bike down and it's real awkward because you know it's gonna go into the creek
Chris: mm-hmm yeah mm-hmm
NoRonliketheRon: I get the bike over. I have to muscle up over this tree to get this. I was like, Jesus. I was not prepared for this bike ride at all. The adventure was supposed to be just a bike ride.
NoRonliketheRon: So I get through all that, cross the little creek. By the way, it was nice and warm out yesterday. The creek water was very cold.
Chris: oh no you fell into the creek okay
NoRonliketheRon: Very cold. You have to, well, you have to, it's a, there's no path through. You have to go through the creek. You just ride through or, you know, it's fun, but it was cold.
Chris: hmm hmm hmm
NoRonliketheRon: So then I'm wet. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. And it's only like a three mile ride. It's not even like that bad. But then right as I'm getting near the end of the ride, getting ah almost to civilization,
NoRonliketheRon: I run over a thorn bush and somehow it got stuck behind, between like the tire and my seat post. And it was just whipping me as a just and I couldn't, I was in a spot where I really couldn't stop right at that moment.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
NoRonliketheRon: And it's just whipping me and whipping me. i So for like a good 10 feet, I'm just getting whipped by a thorn bush as I'm riding my bike.
Chris: Oh my gosh. You're getting flayed alive as you're trying to ride a bike.
NoRonliketheRon: I was like, yeah yes. last i was like So I got done and I was like, fuck.
Chris: ah
NoRonliketheRon: And like, there's another side of this this trail that you can go on. I was like, nope. And I just, I was like, this this was all a sign to just go back and ride my regular route. So I texted you to remind me that my very fun bike ride yesterday
Chris: Mm. Yeah.
Chris: That doesn't sound fun at all.
NoRonliketheRon: Eh, I'm better for it.
Chris: Are you?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. like du i ams have
Chris: Blood loss, mild hypothermia.
NoRonliketheRon: I did wake up with a weird headache, and i have a lot of marks all over me, but other than that, I'm good.
Chris: Woman, come put the ointment on me. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. It was a fun ride. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, that, that, that, yeah. Well, fingers crossed Wednesday I'll be eight cut loose to ride again.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh wow.
Chris: I, yeah, yeah. Over five months. Yeah. So yeah, yeah. but Any thorny plant is just a pain in the ass.
NoRonliketheRon: they're They're the assholes of the plant world.
Chris: When that's like the little sticky burrs that I get in my grass.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh yeah. you You guys get them down there like crazy.
Chris: Everywhere. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: A lot of times I'll go to work and I just get them all over my shoes. which I don't even see the plants.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I don't know what what it is.
Chris: No, it's, it's weaponized. I don't know.
NoRonliketheRon: They're all over the place.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Once I got, was playing fetch with the dogs in the yard the other day and through the ball and all sudden Evie comes and she's like three legging it over. I'm like, what the hell? Look, she had two of them in her balls.
NoRonliketheRon: Mmm, that sucks.
Chris: So poor little thing.
NoRonliketheRon: We get the monkey balls.
Chris: And then I asked the guy on your shift, he's you know Mr.
NoRonliketheRon: That's the problem we
Chris: Lawn Care. said, how do I get rid of this? He's like, you just have to have better grass that'll compete it out. i was like, well, prior to that, how do I get rid of it? He's like, uh. I was like, I was thinking of napalm.
NoRonliketheRon: get.
Chris: He's like, well, I mean, that technically will work, but I would not suggest you lighting your lawn on fire.
NoRonliketheRon: I mean...
Chris: I said, where I live, it's not like the fire department's going to show up.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, good.
Chris: He did not like that.
NoRonliketheRon: You got a good 10 minutes before they get out.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And more than likely, Alan will get there.
Chris: Right, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So you're fine.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, I just wanna turn it all into concrete.
Chris: I mean, the nicest place in the backyard is the piece of AstroTurf we have.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, because it doesn't grow and it's it's nice.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. I mowed the lawn for the first time. this season, what Thursday?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah,
Chris: I say mow the lawn, I mowed the patches that were tall and then spread the rest of the pollen around.
NoRonliketheRon: yeah. yeah
Chris: Oh my gosh. And then I got, I know, 20 feet into the string trimming and edging and string ran out.
Chris: was like, well, I remember last year i bought a couple spools. Well, past Chris is an asshole and has hidden these spools of line from future Chris because I dug all through the garage.
Chris: Couldn't find it.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, maybe the mice used them for a nest.
Chris: Couldn't find it. Couldn't find it. And maybe. you know, my darling wife gets home. She's like, you going to finish edging? I said, not a word, woman. Not a word.
Chris: Yeah,
NoRonliketheRon: I saw your darling wife the other day.
Chris: yeah yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: All those at work.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. She said she ran into you.
NoRonliketheRon: to know First of all, I just wouldn't think she would be shopping it there. You guys are too way too bougie to go to that grocery store.
Chris: Oh my, will you stop? We go to Food Lion all the time.
NoRonliketheRon: a
Chris: it was also because it was on her way to pick Liv up from field hockey. Or at lacrosse.
NoRonliketheRon: and look i was looking at like for the driver to pick her up but you know
Chris: Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, she was going to pick the driver up from lacrosse practice.
NoRonliketheRon: the uh yeah we've i've cut the grass three times already this year because my backyard grows like crazy my front yard i could not cut for another two months
Chris: Jeez.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: But my wife has now decided, you know, she wants to all these projects, which means that I have decided to do all these projects, apparently.
Chris: Oh, wait, yeah. Have you made room for the T-Rex skeleton? OK.
NoRonliketheRon: She wants to
NoRonliketheRon: hardscape where the skeleton sits in the front yard. And I said, oh, that sounds like a great job for a professional. She's like, no, I think we could do it. We'll just go to Lowe's and get the bags.
NoRonliketheRon: I'm like, all right, I'm going to do some quick math here.
Chris: Go to Lowe's and get the bags.
NoRonliketheRon: excuse We're going to like a hard skateboarder with rocks, like river rocks.
Chris: OK.
NoRonliketheRon: Instead of having mulch, I'm tired of having mulch that the cats just shit in.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So she's like, oh, you know, we'll just let's get the bags. And I'm like, all right, well, those bags are like $10 a bag and they cover, i don't know, a square foot.
Chris: If that.
NoRonliketheRon: If that. And I'm like...
Chris: it's It's amazing. It's like this giant bag, and then you dump it out, and you're like, well, that's five inches.
NoRonliketheRon: Right. And i said, and um we have to do roughly 300 square feet. we're going to do the whole line and around the house and all that.
NoRonliketheRon: And she's like, well, how many bags does that be? I'm like, well, it's about a half a ton. ah So... o Let's not do that.
NoRonliketheRon: So... I said, well, let's let's call professional have them do it. That's why we work, so that they can do the work.
Chris: yeah that's this morning when we're taking the dogs around the neighborhood on the way back wife's like
Chris: the bricks around the front flower bed. I was like, yeah. She's like, they seem to have sunk down. i was like, yes, that's what they do. They slowly sink down. Huh. How do we fix that? I said, well, dig it all out, backfill it. I said, put a third course in so it, you know, evens it out.
Chris: Hmm. So you're going to go to Home Depot today? I looked at her. oh my. ah I said, I don't know. Perhaps. She said, well, you could go look at that. I said, what if, I said, they probably don't have the same style brick.
Chris: Ah, but you're crafty. You can figure it out. You could probably age the new ones they have. I'm sorry, i could, what?
NoRonliketheRon: What? What?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: What are but you, an international art thief?
Chris: Yeah, I was like, what the hell? She's like, if you like to go to Home Depot, you could find something fun for yourself while you're there. was what the, no!
NoRonliketheRon: ah we had this talk We literally had this talk at work on Thursday. when i was like It's very funny to me that it, oh, this project has to be done. we have to do this project to you could just go to home depot and figure out how to age bricks you're crafty you know it's it's really not our fault chris it's like it's our grandfather's fault because they they were handymen right and they made this idea that we were all handy i'm not handy
Chris: yeah yeah yeah whose fault is it yeah
Chris: i mean i'm fairly handy but also i like to relax sometimes too
NoRonliketheRon: Well, that's fair too. But I'm not handy and I like to relax.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So, you know, I cut the grass. I fixed i did fix my hose pipe for the first time like eight months.
Chris: Nice.
NoRonliketheRon: That was nightmare.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And that's I think I'm good for the year.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Like i need to go up in my attic and relay all my insulation and
Chris: Well, that doesn't sound fun.
NoRonliketheRon: It doesn't sound fun at all. And the wife's like, just just just take care of it.
Chris: i've
NoRonliketheRon: I'm like, you have dont wonder don't understand how much it's going to be.
Chris: Just take care of it.
Chris: Yeah. Also, I mean, I've heard the best time to do that is late July, early August.
NoRonliketheRon: usually what I try to do. it yeah
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I got yelled at by my mail lady yesterday.
Chris: What?
NoRonliketheRon: I was coming home from my bike ride and she was coming up to, you know, put the mail in the mailbox. She's like, what's on your mailbox?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I'm like, I don't know. The piece crap's falling apart. I'm going to get a new one. She's like, no, you don't need the new one. You just need this, this, this, and this, and this, and this, and I said, I could just get a new one. like She's like, no, you have a good box.
NoRonliketheRon: You just, just give little love. And like, now I'm getting yelled at by the mail lady about not doing maintenance.
Chris: Give it a little love. How do you give a mailbox a little love?
NoRonliketheRon: Well, very slowly and in public,
Chris: Yeah. Oh my gosh. yeah i What's our mail lady gave us a passive aggressive note during one the snowstorms that evidently we didn't clear out a path to the mailbox enough for her.
NoRonliketheRon: Remember when used to just walk?
Chris: ah Remember when it was neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail?
NoRonliketheRon: Right, sleets, oh, all that, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: But they used to just walk.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Now that, now if you park your car too close, you get a little yellow tag on your mailbox. like You offended the mail people.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah. I'm like, I'm sorry.
NoRonliketheRon: And also, I'm sorry, mail lady. When have you brought me mail that I gave a crap about?
Chris: Right. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: When was the last time a piece of mail came to my house that I was like, oh, I've been looking forward to this piece of mail?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. This is like literally one of the jobs that robots could do.
NoRonliketheRon: i hundred percent 100%.
NoRonliketheRon: kind of 100%. I think, ah is it Texas?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: They've started the drone delivery thing in Texas.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So, you know, we're getting there.
Chris: Yeah. And also, i mean, it should just be like a once a week bulk delivery.
NoRonliketheRon: Or just stop delivering junk out of my house.
Chris: Well, yeah.
Chris: Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't understand how these companies make money when they spend all this money on mailers, the return on investment.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, it's insane.
Chris: I, I don't get it.
NoRonliketheRon: It's like the people that that call my house. recall life don't call my house mr so house one They call my phone every day and say, we'd like to buy your house.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: How many times does that work?
Chris: Yeah. Right.
NoRonliketheRon: How are you making money at this?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: They must be making money, though. I mean, they wouldn't do it otherwise.
Chris: I hate people.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, people are... Yeah, I've never opened a piece of mail like, you know what? I did need to get a credit card.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Huh. need to redo all the windows in my house.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, yeah, the people that walk up to your house. Oh, we're in the area doing windows. Cool. What the fuck does that do in my house?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Get out of don't want I don't want your windows.
Chris: What's like, was it last year I had true green walk through there? I guess they, one of the neighbors uses them and they're checking with everybody else. So i walk out there. I'm like, there's nothing you can do for my lawn. Oh, you've got a nice lawn. I said, do I Yeah. Yeah. Really green and flush. I go down and I rip part of it up. I said, this is crabgrass.
Chris: This is what my lawn is. You think this is good?
Chris: I guess I hadn't really a value. I said, get the hell off my property. God.
NoRonliketheRon: If you walk up to me and say, we can fix your lawn, I was having conversation about fundamentally don't understand how little I give a shit about my lawn.
NoRonliketheRon: If I could pave it all over, i would.
Chris: There was a guy in Sharptown that did that. He got tired of the town fussing at him. He paved it all and painted it green.
NoRonliketheRon: I mean, i think the more...
Chris: ah Yeah, the guy had ah he had a point.
NoRonliketheRon: The more important question here is, Sharptown has employees? What the hell are you talking about? there's four There's four people living in that town.
Chris: They have a... Nah, they have a population. i think the population is up to like 720 now. I think
NoRonliketheRon: That is not true.
Chris: i think so
NoRonliketheRon: i don't think there's no way inside the town of Sharptown is 720 people. What are they all living in the old pickle factory?
Chris: There's no, I went by there yesterday. There's no, there's only one vat still sitting out there, I guess, for historic reasons.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, where are y'all supposed to go swimming?
Chris: ah Uh, as of late 2023, the population of Sharptown, Maryland is approximately 703 people.
NoRonliketheRon: Hmm. Hmm.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: I don't if believe it.
Chris: Man, it's booming too. It has an annual growth rate of 0.14%.
NoRonliketheRon: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Is there a mayor of Sharptown?
Chris: Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: Hmm. They just like the four people change hands like every year. They're like, are you going to mayor this time?
Chris: It just goes yeah house by house.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. So that guy just should have waited his turn to be mayor.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And then he could change the rules.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Sharp Town had all kinds of things. They had a town drunk. Had a...
NoRonliketheRon: Well, yeah, Mayberry had all of these things. I've seen the show.
Chris: Ours was named Toby.
NoRonliketheRon: Since you never police officers, you
Chris: And he would fall off his bicycle so much, we somebody in town finally bought him a tricycle to ride.
NoRonliketheRon: that's... That's a clever solution to the problem, actually.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah. ye
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, man. That's what we should do. I should just get a bunch of walkers in my car for all the heroin heads that are doing the the leaning.
Chris: oh yeah yeah
NoRonliketheRon: We saw one yesterday. at a my wife's like, please don't fall the traffic. Please don't fall traffic. i' like, they never actually fall. They just...
Chris: now yeah yeah it's like and it's gravity defying yeah it's like
NoRonliketheRon: They sway.
NoRonliketheRon: is crazy. Like they're they're full on upper torso as far away from being in balance as possible and they're just swaying and they don't fall.
Chris: yep was it people call it the crack sparrow walk instead jack sparrow yeah yeah yeah i just yeah uh
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, that's good.
NoRonliketheRon: I like the Trek idea, though, you know, o he's not going to stop drinking and he's still going to keep riding his bike.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So, oh, so I left work after the meeting Thursday, president Wednesday, Wednesday, great meeting.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Wednesday.
NoRonliketheRon: Thanks. um I left work and I'm on Isabella going to 13 and goddamn dude rolls up on a riding lawnmower behind me.
Chris: Seriously?
NoRonliketheRon: A hundred percent. I was talking to my wife on the phone. i'm like, there's a guy on a riding lawnmower. And he um I guarantee he' saying, I can't take my license if I don't have a car.
NoRonliketheRon: Sure enough, light turns green. He just goes straight across 13 and it's a riding lawnmower. And I'm like, city Salisbury, folks.
Chris: oh my gosh yeah i mean we know you people do that in sharp town all the time i mean you would see like a tractor parked up at the american legion
NoRonliketheRon: Well, I'm sure that's like, you know.
Chris: and yes as i said it i realized how bad that sounded
NoRonliketheRon: Hey guys, ah second fact we learned about Sharptown, they have American Legion.
Chris: Yeah. Post 213 or something?
NoRonliketheRon: I don't think that's a thing up here. I don't know.
Chris: know. You guys have the Sager Boon.
NoRonliketheRon: We do have a Sancomboot. don't know if have an American Legion.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: We used to have a Moose Club. we don't They don't have the Moose Lodge is gone.
Chris: yeah Now, was it M-O-O-S-E or M-E-U-S-E?
NoRonliketheRon: I think it was M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S. What are you talking about?
Chris: M-E-U-S-E. there's you you have There are two moose lodges in Salisbury. There's the one at Snow Hill in college.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: And there's the other one by like La Tolteca or whatever. That is M-E-U-S-E.
NoRonliketheRon: No, that's the that's Muse. That's the a that's the VFW. it's
Chris: That's moose, isn't it?
NoRonliketheRon: oh it's
Chris: So all this time I've been calling it the moose lodge?
NoRonliketheRon: It's the Muse. It's named after the Muse River. It's named after a famous World War one battle.
Chris: really well i thought it was moose because
NoRonliketheRon: It's not the Muse.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh my God. You really... was like...
Chris: isn't that how you spell moose like the dessert
NoRonliketheRon: No. That's M-O-U-S-S-E.
Chris: oh yeah that's where the okay yeah
NoRonliketheRon: the moose lines oh my god i was really like what the fuck is he talking about i've worked there for 22 years i didn't know there was two of them oh my god
Chris: that would explain because one time we had to because you know no we uh we had damaged American flag and you know most of the time you can take them to a VFW or a mue Moose or you know one of those i was like yeah I'll just take it over to the Moose Lodge behind Tolteca and Chief Scott looked at me like the hell are you talking about was like yeah they take the flag
NoRonliketheRon: because you went in there made the moose ears and they're like what are you talking about
Chris: That would be why.
NoRonliketheRon: I'm really glad that happened.
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, We were in not good spirits at the beginning of this podcast, but boy, that really really turned it around for me. Oh, man.
Chris: ah And by the way, Wilmington, Delaware has two American legions.
NoRonliketheRon: I don't live in Wilmington, Delaware. um
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, man.
Chris: I wonder if there's one in newark
NoRonliketheRon: I'm sure there might be. i don't know. it's It's a lot different, though, because down there, everybody's like, well, I'm going on Legion drink, even people who aren't members of the Legion.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
NoRonliketheRon: It's not a thing up here. has Sometimes I go to the Moose Club and get my moose.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, man. That was good. That one really got me. ah
Chris: Yeah, I seriously, I was like, is it pronounced like muse
Chris: or? God, I'm glad I could give you that chuckle.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, man.
NoRonliketheRon: All those Americans that died at the Battle of Moose.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, God. never of the brave sacrifice of all those chocolatiers. Oh, man, that really got me. That one.
Chris: yeah let's say I had somebody ask me the other day why have you joined like you know the the eagles or the elks or the moose I'm like because I don't want to don't
NoRonliketheRon: Wow. That's... good
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, yeah, because it's just about drinking, really.
Chris: well it's also like i don't know weird little initiation ceremonies and the fact that they let you know some of the people we know be president or grand poobah or whatever the hell they're called yeah
NoRonliketheRon: a fair point. yeah I don't want to be a part of any club that lets me be a member of that club.
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: this they got standards and your standards are so low that you allow a guy like me in there that's no point in there oh god the moose launch god that's good that was good well I know we're having the party
Chris: Golly day. When I find the retired stand moose.
NoRonliketheRon: you know walking to your retirement party everybody's wearing moose hats and
NoRonliketheRon: Oh my god.
Chris: The people at that VFW are like, what the hell is wrong with all these people? Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I got a Rocky and Bowling girl like there hanging out. oh Oh my god.
Chris: oh god no they don't
NoRonliketheRon: Do you think kids even know who Rocky and Bowling are?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. I feel like we I only peripherally knew about them because like their merchandise was around but like I don't remember the show being on
Chris: yeah yeah no the little bit i remember of it it wasn't funny no not really i mean looney tunes were funny yeah
NoRonliketheRon: when we were kids.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, you know, was anything from back then funny?
NoRonliketheRon: Eh, they could be. That's fair. That's fair. We were talking about work yesterday morning. Somebody said something about, oh, we were talking about the zoo cause we went the zoo for a call.
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: And kangaroos, you know, they're wallabies, whatever.
Chris: wallabies yeah yeah they're working on it well well as per our conversation prior to this know money ain't going but so many places
NoRonliketheRon: They're wallabies, right? but By the way, that Jitsu needs some help. They don't like, they only have two snakes.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, that's fair. That's fair. So anyways, we're talking about, and somebody i mentioned Captain Kangaroo, and I looked, and every everybody at the table was like, who the hell is Captain Kangaroo? I'm like, the two old people that were sitting at the table were like, yeah, Captain Kangaroo, you did a kid's show. And I'm like, I said, do you realize that, like,
NoRonliketheRon: as old as am, because I was the oldest person there, he wasn't even on the air when I was a kid. like It was all reruns.
Chris: yeah yeah right
NoRonliketheRon: ah But I know who Captain Kangaroo is based on reruns, which is like a weird effect you don't think about. like I never really saw Captain Kangaroo during Captain Kangaroo, but I know who he is.
Chris: yeah yeah his final the final episode was December 1984.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Good God, it was on the air for 29 years.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, it's there for it was a long time.
Chris: Wow.
NoRonliketheRon: want to say he started in philly or something
Chris: Hmm. The guy, Bob Keishin, also played Carabelle the Clown on the Howdy Doody show.
NoRonliketheRon: oh that's fun fact another show that same thing like i knew who howdy duty was i've never seen it how would you howdy duty episode it's never once god the next thing
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right. Yeah. No.
Chris: Hmm. Yeah. Gina, here's another one that'll probably give you a nice little chuckle. I, for a while as a child, thought that Howdy Doody and Hee Haw were the same show.
NoRonliketheRon: I don't know that I know what Hee Haw is.
Chris: Really?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, you should look that up.
NoRonliketheRon: Is that the weird one with the doors?
Chris: Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: Okay. All right.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, I kept waiting for Howdy Doody to show up. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Hmm. Why did you think that?
Chris: I don't know, because they're both like Western themed. a dumb yeah Dumb kid in Sharptown trying to figure out, you know, the pickle brine got to my brain, I guess.
NoRonliketheRon: Was it...
NoRonliketheRon: but like How many did he was like a puppet?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Right? The puppet show.
Chris: yeah i Yeah, I felt like all the skits they do on Hee Haw, one of them would be a little Howdy Doody marionetting out.
NoRonliketheRon: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I feel like when I was a kid, I either watched cartoons, I loved F Troop, and ah the Gover Pile Show.
Chris: Oh, F Troop.
NoRonliketheRon: Man, I watched the crap of the Gover Pile Show.
Chris: Really?
NoRonliketheRon: i don't know why.
Chris: Yeah. I watched a lot of Black Sheep Squadron.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh
NoRonliketheRon: oh yeah, Black Sheep Squad with Poppy Boyle. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Definitely watch that. 18, obviously.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Muppet Show was...
Chris: Oh, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Muppet Show was top of the list.
Chris: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
NoRonliketheRon: But big. Saturday morning cartoons...
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: That was, you remember the preview Saturday morning in like August, they would preview what the Saturday morning cartoon lineup was going to be.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: you That was what a weird thing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, we didn't have the Internet. they Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, and I don't know if it's the same where you are, but do you remember who did the preview for most the most of the years that I remember?
Chris: TV Guide only had so much real estate.
Chris: no really well that makes sense i don't know seems like it should yeah yeah i remember where was it somebody was talking fast i was like okay mr micromachine and they looked at me as though i was insane
NoRonliketheRon: It was the Micro Machine Guy. Yeah. It does it?
NoRonliketheRon: I only know that guy is the Micro Machine Guy because he talks faster than the Micro Machine commercials.
NoRonliketheRon: Again, we're old and they...
Chris: yeah what are what are we teaching these children in school
NoRonliketheRon: I don't think they're teaching them about the phenomenon was that was the Micro Machine guy.
Chris: Or Captain Kangaroo?
NoRonliketheRon: Or Captain the Kangaroo.
Chris: ah God.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Good old Micro Machine guy. I don't you really even remember.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Micro Machines weren't that even that cool.
Chris: No, but I remember I had to have him.
NoRonliketheRon: I know, me too. I had a Darth Vader helmet Micro Machine carrying case.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: What the hell did Darth Vader have to do with micro-machines?
Chris: Yeah. Nothing. But again, it was just a way to sell things.
NoRonliketheRon: It was, boy. And it worked.
Chris: God, they would just take two things that were totally unrelated. And then here you go, kids.
NoRonliketheRon: you know what? We were happier.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: There were no video games. You just had two video games you could play.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: You could Mario or Duck Hunt. That's it.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: And we just free roamed the neighborhoods.
NoRonliketheRon: And you'll get your
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: 100% neighborhood. The woods near the neighborhood.
Chris: Oh yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Our parents had no clue where the hell we were for most of the time.
Chris: No.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: but was We had the conversation at work two shifts scars they should ago. like i used to walk home from school.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: People are like, you can't do that anymore. I'm like, why the hell can't you walk home from school?
Chris: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: What rule is that?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, you might get taken. By who?
Chris: If and if it happens, Liam Neeson will come rescue you.
NoRonliketheRon: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: My parents had to talk. Hey, don't get in cars with strangers. Okay. And then I walked home from school. It was fine.
Chris: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: Until...
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, until I got a car. I would walk to and from school all the time.
Chris: Hmm. Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, except for those three years that my parents sent me to a school that was like 15 miles away from home.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: That was a little rough.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: That was a long walk.
Chris: Yes. That's a long walk.
NoRonliketheRon: But we would, we would from you, this doesn't mean anything to you but you know where the Christiana mall is. You know what the Christiana mall is.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: We would leave school and ride our bikes to the Christiana mall from our house up in Hocasson, which was a good 10, 15 miles.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Shoo.
NoRonliketheRon: You know, we would just do that.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And my eighth grade class, our school,
Chris: On a Huffy that had one speed.
NoRonliketheRon: Yes. And, and, and coaster breaks and you're on the highway.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Pedal or die. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: splar die buddy Yeah. did that. ah but My, my eighth grade, I changed schools for eighth grade for, and then obviously went to a different school for high school, but in eighth grade, the the school was like right on the edge of Wilmington.
NoRonliketheRon: And the big thing there was you would just leave school and you would walk into town or the city and then like the flower market was there and everybody go ride like they had the flower market and you tell your parents hey just come pick me up at the flower market at like nine o'clock at night and that was the thing that was allowed we would ride you know amusement park rides all night just leave at school you do that now like there'll be a national manhunt for you that's
Chris: Wow.
Chris: Hmm. Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: why we're tougher handier people than they were than the new we're
Chris: Oh, yeah.
Chris: Then these Utes.
NoRonliketheRon: than these youths.
NoRonliketheRon: Also, the youths.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: I'm going to rant real quick about the youths.
Chris: Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: They suck at technology.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: They should be good at it.
Chris: They should be great at it.
NoRonliketheRon: And whenever I need something, I look at the youths on my shift and say, hey, why isn't this dude the thing I want? don't know. What the what a good are good you?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: You're supposed to meet
Chris: You know why? Cause they do the stupid. We'll turn it off and see if that works. No.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, that doesn't... I already thought of that. We invented that, goddammit.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Goddamn yeets.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Go, go recode it or something.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, like, get into the Matrix and dematrix it or whatever the heck you guys do.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. So side tangent to that. So I got a Kindle fire a couple months ago and got it, you know, found out that you can't, yeah, we're not sponsored.
NoRonliketheRon: Sure.
NoRonliketheRon: That's fine.
Chris: Can't, um, I couldn't get the Marvel unlimited app to read comics on it. I was like, what the hell is this?
NoRonliketheRon: What's that?
Chris: So it's not in the Amazon app store or whatever. I looked it up online and did all kinds of, I had to download things and change settings to install the Google play store on my Kindle so I can download from that onto it. So now I i guess I jail broke it.
NoRonliketheRon: You're basically Keanu Reeves. You're a hacker.
Chris: ah Exactly. that' so i told my wife. She's like, what are you doing? i was like, I'm hacking. and She just kind of shook her head and walked away.
NoRonliketheRon: did Did you did just start like typing?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Just making the noise like you're doing something?
Chris: Exactly. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, that's funny. This is a side tangent to your side tangent.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I had the Kindle Fire for like a little while.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Now, I use my Kindle differently than you most people do. I just read books on it. I didn't like it because I just was like, I just like the Kindle. Was it the Paperwhite? Whatever the other ones?
Chris: Mm.
NoRonliketheRon: that So I just went into that.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, that's what I was going to get. But I was like, well, if I get this, I can use, read comics on it too.
NoRonliketheRon: You read the comics.
Chris: So, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. Yeah. I totally understand why you would get the fire.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: ah just I My Kindle is... My Kindle is the thing that I hate myself the most for but use the most.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Because my mother my mother bought me a Kindle. She might be the first Kindle back in... Oh my god, it had to be... Oh... Six?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: so like that, because I was all in the apartment before I moved to this house. and And I was like, I'm never going to use this thing. I love books. I love the feel of books. i'm never to use it. And now I use that thing. i use that ah every day on my Kindle.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: It's crazy. Yeah.
Chris: Launched in November of 2007. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That tracks.
NoRonliketheRon: Okay. So I had about a seven. like Six or seven. something Somewhere in there. Makes sense.
Chris: yeah the tracks
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. yeah We were at work the other day at the meeting and someone showed a picture of some of the some of the guys at the shifts. And they're like, I don't know when this picture from. I'm like, right, well, me do some detective work. Okay, well, they're wearing black polos. So that means it must be after 2010. The um the cabinets at the kitchen are this.
NoRonliketheRon: So they must be, you know, I'm like, oh, it must be 2011. They're like, what? I'm like, yeah, well, here's why.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: it's
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: wasn't the baby blue polos.
NoRonliketheRon: fun.
Chris: It wasn't the Royal Farms polos.
NoRonliketheRon: so so they weren't They weren't at Rollo Farms delivering gas, so that means that it has to be after that that era.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Golly, Tay.
NoRonliketheRon: I never had the baby blue pillow, thank God. Missed that era. I had the Salisbury Depart t-shirts.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: there was thinking about the other day, I was like, we should we should make those shirts again.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, we could.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. and of course we could.
Chris: Yeah, I'm saying, yeah, mi throwback.
NoRonliketheRon: i remember I remember the chief was so... I hate to depart.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, we're going to be the st. It's not just the Salisbury Fire Department anymore, we're just st.
Chris: What's this?
NoRonliketheRon: This is the S with the FD, we're just st.
Chris: Oh, well, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. I worked for st.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: but you guys don't like that joke.
Chris: Yeah, well. Yeah, they also like their stupid Boston fronts.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh my god, the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. It's ugliest.
Chris: If you want to look like the Pope.
NoRonliketheRon: It looks like a a third grader made it in art class.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: And then it's got a string on there that if you cut the string, the whole thing doesn't look right.
NoRonliketheRon: That's what we've been told.
Chris: hi
NoRonliketheRon: The string, by the way, I believe is made out of
Chris: new york New York front for life.
NoRonliketheRon: Exactly. But the string apparently is made out of some sort of fireproof material. Oh no, it's just cotton string.
Chris: What?
NoRonliketheRon: What's going happen when that thing goes into a fire?
Chris: ah
Chris: I mean, look, if if you like that style front, you do you, but...
NoRonliketheRon: I can
NoRonliketheRon: i could tell you this, no one's told me I have to change over, so can tell what's still on my helmet.
Chris: I noticed that the other day.
NoRonliketheRon: And I want to see something in writing before I do it, because... That front's going out with me. That's my front gut. I earned that front.
Chris: so yeah yeah sure topic one yeah
NoRonliketheRon: So, all right, we're at topic one, I guess. I feel like we had a really long root and roll. It's nice.
Chris: wait yeah oh gosh
NoRonliketheRon: So I have a thought experiment for you.
NoRonliketheRon: So, this is a hypothetical situation. All of your concerns of safety are going to be solved. So,
Chris: OK. OK.
NoRonliketheRon: You will be safe. You'll be able to come back home. You will not be put into the void of space and all of the magical technology works. Time travel exists.
NoRonliketheRon: You can only go in the future, though. You can't get past.
NoRonliketheRon: How long into the future could you go before things are just complete completely unrecognizable?
NoRonliketheRon: Like if I said, pick a day, to that time frame, would you go there 30 years?
Chris: Oh.
NoRonliketheRon: Do you think 30 years, things would be so much different that you wouldn't recognize what's going on?
Chris: Golly. Right.
NoRonliketheRon: Because think about this. 25 years ago, 9-11 happened.
Chris: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: So think about what life was like before nine eleven compared to today.
Chris: oh
NoRonliketheRon: I think it's less than 20 years.
Chris: Ah, yeah, I'm thinking like 10.
NoRonliketheRon: and you Yeah, because if I go to the future 25 years, I wouldn't understand the technology of going on.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: First off, i I'm assuming everybody's going flying cars because I've been promised that forever.
Chris: yeah yeah Yeah, that's got to happen.
NoRonliketheRon: It's got to happen.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Everybody be walking around in VR goggles all of the time.
Chris: Well, I think it'll just be part of their glasses, but yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: But if you want a future eighty years or a hundred years twenty twenty one twenty six you go to there's no way you're recognize anything.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Is
Chris: Yeah. I mean, people probably only have four toes by then.
NoRonliketheRon: that the thing we're worried about?
Chris: Evidently, like the pinky toe is being slowly evolved out.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, we're turning into crabs. Everybody evolves into crabs. That's the thing.
Chris: Really?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, apparently that's an evolutionary rule. Yeah, yeah. The crab is the most stable form, so everything everybody evolves into crabs eventually. You didn't know this?
NoRonliketheRon: You're a biologist, for God's sakes.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. Crabs are i are king.
Chris: Carcinization.
NoRonliketheRon: All right.
Chris: An example of convergent evolution has occurred at least five times in the last 180 million years. Decapod crustaceans like lobster, shrimp, and crayfish are among those of old crab-like bodies.
Chris: ah Theories include the rounded shell may allow crabs to scuttle sideways more effectively than a cylindrical body. The crab like body plan allows for more flexibility and leg evolution beyond walking.
Chris: And the crab like body may allow for easier adaptation to new habitats. Huh?
NoRonliketheRon: we're all coming we're all becoming crabs.
Chris: That's insane.
NoRonliketheRon: Crab is king.
Chris: Wow. Huh?
NoRonliketheRon: How did you not know about this, Mr. Biology?
Chris: Because that's, that's a theoretical thing. That's.
NoRonliketheRon: Wasn't all biology basically theoretical?
Chris: I mean, I guess some of it.
NoRonliketheRon: Anyways, we're becoming crabs, but I think 100 years from now, you would not recognize anything.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Well, I mean, i mean, just what will the world look like in general?
NoRonliketheRon: lose you? um that There it is.
Chris: Take the tech part out of it.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, I think the tech part's what changes it though, right? Because you take this thought experiment further, you take someone living in 1626 and move him to 1726, not a big change.
Chris: whoo
Chris: ah i don't know though i mean would you immediately die because of like i don't know a super cold or something yeah the safety thing yeah yeah ya yeah
NoRonliketheRon: we' We're taking all the safety. we put this That's why I put safety rules into the into this hypothetical. But that person, people are still farming the land, using plows, mostly traveling by horse or by foot.
NoRonliketheRon: right They're not dodging cars all of a sudden.
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: Now you take that person from 1726 and put them into 1826. Now you got railroads. Then 100 years from there, 1926, you got cars everywhere.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: 100 years from 1926 to 2026,
Chris: Sure.
NoRonliketheRon: hundred years from nineteen twenty six to twenty twenty six
Chris: Oh my gosh.
NoRonliketheRon: but I mean, Mike, you text somebody from 1926 and dropped them in now, they'd be like, what is why are all these lunatics talking into the air?
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Right? like
Chris: Huh. So, mean, this is like demolition man almost.
NoRonliketheRon: It's 100% demolition, man. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: yeah
Chris: yeah I, uh,
Chris: Yeah, I mean, ah e yeah, you can't go that far because, yeah, you go 100 years. I mean, because by then, i mean, cybernetics have to be a thing.
NoRonliketheRon: we We either have solved climate crisis or been killed by it.
Chris: yeah yeah it's either, yeah things are working out great or you have to live in this dome or else you die.
NoRonliketheRon: Right. Yeah.
Chris: yeah. you're worried about is this person real or are they unsynthetic, synthetic?
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, I didn't think about the Android conversation.
Chris: Huh?
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And that is a really good point.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Boy. Because right now, on the internet, you don't know someone's real.
Chris: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: So let alone 100 years from now, you won't know people walking around are real.
Chris: Oh yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Cause I mean, look at some of these tech shows and some of the advanced robotics they have. I mean, yeah they can interact and talk.
NoRonliketheRon: But then the question becomes, are they real?
Chris: that shit Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, I mean...
Chris: What, what makes something real? Is it because it's tangible and yeah, it can carry out a thought because I mean,
Chris: What is chat GPT? They have to reset every 45 days or whatever?
NoRonliketheRon: suicidal.
Chris: Yeah. I mean. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, i don't think I don't think you could take yourself and go 100 years in the future and recognize anything.
NoRonliketheRon: There's no way.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: either Either we've bombed ourselves into the Stone Age or things are so crazy technologically different that you wouldn't even recognize you wouldn't even know how to use the bathroom.
Chris: yeah
Chris: Yeah. yeah at Three seashells.
NoRonliketheRon: think You might have three seashells. like you You wouldn't know
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: everything you know about technology today would not work 100 years from now, I imagine.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Because think about like we think about phones. You and I have worked together for 22 years at this point.
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: In those 22 years, you knew people who did not have cell phones when you and I started working the city.
Chris: right yeah yeah
NoRonliketheRon: You and i could not find a person right now who doesn't have a cell phone.
Chris: um yeah yeah you're right yeah i don't know where you get those maps rs
NoRonliketheRon: You and I knew how to use in Mapbooks. I wouldn't even know where to find a Mapbook now.
NoRonliketheRon: Right? yeah Right. Like, yeah like it's so funny that now maps are a quaint thing that like you go to specialty stores for maps.
NoRonliketheRon: But when we were kids, maps were a thing you needed.
Chris: maps yeah yeah right
NoRonliketheRon: Like you got an Atlas when you got your car because you needed it.
NoRonliketheRon: I would say the only thing that hasn't changed that significantly yet in our lifetime has been cars.
Chris: um yeah cars and food
NoRonliketheRon: I keep trying, but boy.
NoRonliketheRon: I think the food in my lifetime is completely different.
Chris: Just give me a palette.
Chris: To an extent.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, no, I think it's huge.
Chris: Really?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, think about when what we ate as kids versus what you eat now. Like the just the things that weren't even available when we were kids. I mean, I like yeah i think i think back in when we were kids, like we ate Hamburger Helper all the time.
NoRonliketheRon: ah
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: What was that chicken? i remember they had a kitchen chicken cacciatore. Chicken tonight. Chicken tonight.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that jingle.
NoRonliketheRon: That crap was all over the place. Now you don't eat that anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: and People eat like...
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: real food now we we grew up in the like super processed ultra processed world of food
Chris: Yeah, I guess so.
Chris: Yeah. yeah it's Yeah, well, and I guess before that was more of the natural, you know
NoRonliketheRon: because you went out back and got the chicken and ate it yeah yeah yeah i would say in our lifetime food has been think think about um i mean maybe you're a bad example because you lived in sharptown
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, so that's kind of come full circle. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: But just think about the restaurants that existed when you were a kid versus now.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Like when I was a kid, we had one Chinese place. We had, now I grew up up here in the cities. We had, you know, our neighborhood pizza shop. It was slash deli.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And then like the chuck wagon my dad worked at. And like, that was it.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: oh Now, my God, there's,
Chris: We had an all-in-one store.
NoRonliketheRon: what does that mean?
Chris: It was. OK. it was
NoRonliketheRon: What does mean?
Chris: yeah ah it the name of the
NoRonliketheRon: I'd like a horse trough and a saddle and ah I guess a backpack for school. What does that mean?
Chris: the name of the place was Wix Bait Shop and it had a small deli they had they could they had a menu for like
NoRonliketheRon: You're not making this better.
NoRonliketheRon: So you went to a bait shop for...
Chris: ah Andrew The sandwiches and cheese steaks and some minor grocery items and fishing tackle.
NoRonliketheRon: something.
Chris: Andrew Tufty, The. Andrew
NoRonliketheRon: That's something. Yeah, like we had... every Every neighborhood where I grew up, where up here still kind of sort of, had a corner deli slash, and then there was a pizza place nearby that was the place you went.
Chris: Tufty, hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: And then there was like three restaurants. Now if I'm like, you know I want to eat? Ethiopian. I'd go to the Ethiopian place.
Chris: Right.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. Greek food. That didn't exist when I was a kid. I remember when I was in early high school we got a Japanese place and my grandfather who had served in army and was stationed in Japan was like super excited because we had finally got a Japanese place
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Because he was used to how it's actually. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: yeah he liked Japanese food he was like we're going to a Japanese place and we went a Japanese place a lot because he loved it but that didn't exist you know even when i in my lifetime that wasn't there
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Is it because, I mean, also, I guess we're becoming a little bit more homogeneous with our heterogeneity?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, our our populations are just becoming diverse, right? like
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And and becoming one finally becoming one blended population.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Especially we live... we have to be We have to be aware of our bias, right We live on the East Coast, the most populous part of the country.
Chris: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: you know ah
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: We have these...
NoRonliketheRon: It's not like back in the 1920s when you had like Little Italy and Little Ireland and Little Poland and, you know,
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Huh. yeah
NoRonliketheRon: Like when I was a kid, like Little Poland in Wilmington rus the poll like there was just full of Polish people. You know, there was Little ah little Italy, with Little Poland, like those sections. You get good-ass pierogies, though. i can tell you that.
Chris: yeah oh god a good pierogi really
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. I don't like pierogies. I just had this conversation the other day. i they're They're fine. it's It's pasta wrapped around mashed potatoes.
NoRonliketheRon: It's double carb.
Chris: yeah yeah carve it up yeah i mean i get i mean well it's like any pasta the sauce really makes the pasta
NoRonliketheRon: we need It needs a better sauce, in my view.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, but you can't put like marinara sauce on it. It's got potatoes and chives and cheese.
Chris: it depends well it depends on what's inside the pierogi because you can have a more savory pierogi that's pretty much a ravioli
NoRonliketheRon: just feel like pierogies are like the ultimate white people food.
Chris: uh
NoRonliketheRon: It's like you took something great and you filled it with mashed potatoes. Great. Good job, white people.
Chris: I'm sure there's some maniac on the Eastern Shore who has thrown Scrapple into a pierogi.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, 100%. Or muskrat. Oh. or muskrat
Chris: Mmm, my scrap.
NoRonliketheRon: from
NoRonliketheRon: That's one diversity you guys can keep.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: We don't want that here.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh my god, my mother said the other day... Where hell was she? They had turkey scrapple.
Chris: What?
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. What does that mean?
Chris: I don't know that that those are words that don't go together.
NoRonliketheRon: Is that like the beaks and feathers? I don't... What is...
Chris: Oh, yeah. I mean, that's yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: I've never heard of such a thing.
Chris: Why?
NoRonliketheRon: And I don't know.
Chris: Who asked for it?
NoRonliketheRon: Who knows?
Chris: Yeah, it this is another one. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
NoRonliketheRon: Right. Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, her husband doesn't eat pork, so they have to eat beef scrapple, which I didn't even know was a thing.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. And then they found turkey scrapple, which I also didn't know was a thing. It sounds like an abomination.
Chris: Yeah, it does. Yeah, that's that's why.
NoRonliketheRon: People are like, what the fuck is Scrapple?
Chris: Yeah. Country pate.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Turkey Scrapple is a lighter alternative to traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Scrapple made from turkey broth, turkey liver, hearts, trimmings, cornmeal, and spices. It's con- they really sell it. It's a congealed sliceable loaf that is pan fried until crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside.
NoRonliketheRon: Nothing you ever eat that has the word congealed in it is appealing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: But to be fair, Scrapple, if you think about what it is, is not it's it's it's not appealing.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: It's delicious, but you know don't think about it too hard.
Chris: Oh, I do not eat Scrapple.
NoRonliketheRon: Ever?
Chris: the Ever. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: man. Scrapple like a cheese sandwich is one of the best things in the world.
Chris: Nice bake bacon, egg, and cheese.
NoRonliketheRon: Bacon, egg, and cheese is the thats the weakest, lamest of all of the breakfast meats. No one ever is like, I want bacon over sausage or Scrapple. Those people are...
Chris: say that every time.
NoRonliketheRon: No.
Chris: Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: You're going to take bacon over a a sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich.
Chris: Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: That's... you' You should be locked up.
Chris: I should be locked up
NoRonliketheRon: That's insane.
Chris: Because every now and again, the sausage, especially like the scrapbook, you bite into like a toenail or something. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: No, it doesn't happen.
Chris: Yes. Yes.
NoRonliketheRon: It's mushed, well mushed before it gets that happens.
NoRonliketheRon: So if if if you're having a plate of pancakes and plate of pancakes, a hash browns, which, you know, again, carb on carb, and then somebody's like, what side meat would you like, sir?
Chris: yeah
NoRonliketheRon: You're going to say bacon.
Chris: yes
NoRonliketheRon: That's, you're going eat just bacon. That's crazy talk.
Chris: yes
Chris: Yeah, you get a couple slices slices of bacon, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: No, I'd rather have a sausage or a scrapple every time. It's not even close.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, we should probably move on to topic two because, boy, we're on a little long.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: That long room roll.
Chris: Topic two, I guess, kind of ties into your whole forward thing. so I was in a gaming slump, and I tried Fallout 4 again.
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, I'm sorry.
Chris: played quite a bit of it. i just It just never really hooked me.
NoRonliketheRon: I 100% agree with that statement.
Chris: I felt like there was like no real, like, oh, yeah, you're supposed to save your kid or whatever that was
NoRonliketheRon: i never...
Chris: taken from your spouse and frozen i yeah yeah
NoRonliketheRon: story was fine. The... follow It was fine. ah just, I don't know what about Fallout 4 to me never hooked me. I can tell you what I really disliked about it.
NoRonliketheRon: Like, i the house building, community building crap, I was like, this is terrible.
Chris: oh oh yeah i did i yeah i had to do that early on and i just did the bare minimum of what those maniacs needed
NoRonliketheRon: Right. Yeah, it's terrible.
Chris: The combat sucks.
NoRonliketheRon: um Yeah, I don't...
Chris: Well, they just, I don't know, maybe I'm just old, but like the enemies just sprint around the screen.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: And I'm like, what the hell? I'm like, you know, oh, I'm pulling my gun up to shoot you. And all of a sudden you're in my face attacking me. So that was fun.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: And I got yeah the vats, you know, okay, I'll do this. And, know, my weapon has, you know It says it's going to hit. I've got a 78% chance to hit you. And of the 10 shots, no hit. So yeah try that math. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, I would say I've
NoRonliketheRon: never really got hooked into Fallout. I like it. I like the story of Fallout.
Chris: yeah Yeah. I like the show. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: The show was great. like just never really... The game's always... And I play them. I've played every one of them.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And I'll play them to completion.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: And I'm just like, eh, it was fine.
Chris: Yeah. Like I got the power armor. was like, all right, here we go.
NoRonliketheRon: ah yeah, you're going enjoy it for like two minutes, then you run out of fucking...
Chris: Exactly.
NoRonliketheRon: Your core runs out, and you're gonna get another one.
Chris: yeah I was like, this is bullshit.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Cause I was coming off of Warhammer Space Marine. I was like, here we go. i can just go around and crush, kill and destroy. Which in retrospect, I should have just fired Space Marine 2 back up and yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: That game is so good.
NoRonliketheRon: Space Marine 2 is really good. And you know what's weird? Because I don't really like multiplayer games like that anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: The Space Marine multiplayer is actually fun.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they're still supporting it.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, they they just put stuff out the other day.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, which I, you I like that game.
NoRonliketheRon: It's a fun
Chris: So I was like, you know, I'll look, you know, what is this whole Warhammer Holy hell, man. There's a lot.
NoRonliketheRon: just Well, yeah, it's been, it's been
Chris: There's there's a lot. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: um what did say? it came out the 80s.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: So, yeah. it
Chris: We can see have Warhammer.
NoRonliketheRon: Yes.
Chris: Warhammer 40 K.
NoRonliketheRon: We don' technically don't have Warhammer anymore. Warhammer doesn't exist.
Chris: ah really? OK.
NoRonliketheRon: They blew up the world.
Chris: Oh.
NoRonliketheRon: you have You have Warhammer 40K, which is the weirdly the original.
Chris: OK.
NoRonliketheRon: Then you have Warhammer, which used to be the fantasy version of Warhammer 40K.
Chris: OK.
NoRonliketheRon: But technically, they were always in the same universe.
Chris: Oh?
NoRonliketheRon: It was a pocket pocket world.
Chris: Just? OK. OK.
NoRonliketheRon: yeah And then you had... They blew up Warhammer, then you have old Warhammer Old ward our old World.
Chris: Mm.
NoRonliketheRon: Then you have Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Chris: OK. Mm.
NoRonliketheRon: Then you have, let's see, you have Kill Team, you have Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Classic.
Chris: Good lord. Good gosh.
NoRonliketheRon: ah There was a pirate version once.
Chris: Huh.
NoRonliketheRon: um And then you have the Total War Games.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Well, yeah, i mean, just after playing Space Marine, i was like, oh, OK, you know, it's fun. And then, like, downloaded the tactical game on my phone.
NoRonliketheRon: Sure, yeah.
Chris: And yeah, there's orcs and necrons and all kinds of different, like, peoples and all and oh yeah yeah sure good yeah yeah now is it orcs with a c or a k yeah okay that's what i thought oh okay
NoRonliketheRon: Oh, yeah, you get the Eldar, the Tau, the Votan, the Drakari, the Eldari, then you have the Yanari, you have have the Orcs, you have the Space Marines, you have the Imperial Guard, you have the Kisuke.
NoRonliketheRon: And they talk like, Orcs, Orc, or Orc, Orc. a Orcs are just mushroom, so, you know. That's a good fact.
Chris: yeah yeah just
NoRonliketheRon: No, yeah.
Chris: Just let me be a space marine with a giant pistol and a big ass sword or chainsaw sword.
NoRonliketheRon: i
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah. I also like there's a ah Warhammer Gladius.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: 40k Gladius is a game. um
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: It's a... Hex-based game, where have to move the slurings around.
Chris: OK.
NoRonliketheRon: You move around a little hex.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: That's pretty good.
Chris: Hmm.
NoRonliketheRon: Then there's an Equizzer game that just came out. The video game, they I love both. I played both the tabletop game, but the video games, they they knock it out of the park a lot.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: They made the Left 4 Dead clone, which is Dark Tide. People really like that game.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I did hear about that.
NoRonliketheRon: Which, I guess we're just never going to another Left 4 Dead, so we just have to rely on
Chris: They just... I thought they just talked about Left 4 Dead 3. Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Did they?
Chris: heard something about that, thought. Left 4 Dead 3...
Chris: f four did three
NoRonliketheRon: would be crazy poll if they put out a Left 4 Dead game after 20
NoRonliketheRon: years
Chris: speculation about a new no that's not it
Chris: <unk> yeah there was something i know i just heard about it on tart no that's not it ah yeah i could sworn i heard something about
NoRonliketheRon: I've not heard anything about Left 4 Dead 3. I don't think Valve makes games anymore. Do they even have a game studio anymore?
Chris: I think. I
NoRonliketheRon: so... No idea.
Chris: don't know.
NoRonliketheRon: They're just making all their money off Steam.
Chris: Yeah, that's,
Chris: well, the Steam makes all kinds of money. And Balbuns.
NoRonliketheRon: Sure.
Chris: Yeah.
NoRonliketheRon: Well, I'm glad you enjoyed Space Marine. I'm sorry about Fallout 4.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Eh, it is what it is. I might go back and beat it sometime, but eh.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah, Fallout 3 was kind of the best of the group to me. And people don't agree with me.
Chris: I heard, yeah, a lot of people like New Vegas from what I've heard.
NoRonliketheRon: People like New Vegas.
NoRonliketheRon: Yeah.
Chris: Well, that was a good cast of the pod. Well, that's good.
NoRonliketheRon: I laughed harder than I've laughed in a long time.
Chris: Good. I think we both needed a good belly laugh today.
NoRonliketheRon: I think we did.
Chris: Yeah, now I get to go figure out if I can age bricks.
NoRonliketheRon: i have to go to Home Depot or Lowe's myself for projects that I didn't want to do.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. Well, folks, hope you're out there enjoying the warmer weather. Avoid the pollen as best you can.
NoRonliketheRon: And my wife's one piece of advice to you all is don't plant plants until after Mother's Day.
Chris: That's right.
Chris: Take care, folks.
NoRonliketheRon: See you, folks.
