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The Kill Power Hour #067 - Tucker's 2nd List
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In a brief reprieve from yelling at kids on our lawns, we managed to record a podcast with Tucker's old-man rants that range from the pleasures of flying, self-checkout kiosks, inspirational bumper stickers, going off-grid, "wiener stuff", Mr. Pibb, property taxes and what we want to be when we eventually grow up--enjoy!
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Introduction to The Kill Power Hour
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The Kill Power Hour, a podcast where three friends spend the better part of an hour arguing and and explaining why childhood memories are really only fun if you're the child. Each week we go through a list. This week we'll be discussing Tucker's second list, which will take us from the TSA to the PTA.
Meet the Hosts: Eric, Tucker, and Tyler
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I'm your host, Eric, and as always, I'm joined by my best friend, Tucker. I am the child. My best friend's little brother. yo There we go. Beverages.
Midnight List Making: A Comic Advisory
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So it's been brought to my attention that apparently there's some duplication here. Well, there's something on your mind apparently every week. Yeah. Pizza?
00:00:46
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I do have something new to bring to the pizza store. This is oh gone just a ah general public service announcement. Don't make your list at midnight the day before you're supposed to discuss your list.
00:00:57
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Here's a list. to be The same thing every week. The sequel. The sequel. Okay, so...
The Flying Experience: Nostalgia vs. Reality
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Let's dive into it, Tugger. All right. Did we actually talk about why flying sucks?
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Did we really... No, but there isn't a person on this earth that loves flying, except for the people that fly the planes. But do they like it even? I think that's a that's a ah very interesting question. Who actually enjoys flying?
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Well, here's why. i saw an image this week on like some 80s nostalgia... Facebook page that keeps serving me ads to follow it. And it was like these people, the the people on the plane, it looked as if they all brought their lazy boys because there was so much goddamn fucking space, 360 degrees them.
00:01:49
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around them It looked like they were hanging out in someone's really cool sunken living room in like a mid-century modern home. Of course, they're like in a row. And I was just thinking, wait, they got that and they got to smoke and stuff, which I know would be gross. But like it was luxurious. Let's bring back smoking on planes, man.
00:02:10
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Tyler's all about the smoking life. Cigarette smoke kills COVID. P.S. No, kidding.
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Wow. You haven't even been back in Oak River yet. You're already flying. yeah I do feel it is comical that the airline seats have gotten smaller as especially the American population has just fucking. they're not getting smaller Yeah.
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Well, here's yeah, here's here's. So let's just say that if it was the 50s, 60s, probably even the 70s, a lot of people hadn't flown before. yeah it was like I feel like flying.
00:02:48
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Yeah, the first time that would be like a novelty. Matter of fact, I feel like doing it a couple of years would be a novelty. Now it's like just a basic thing of life that you are forced to do because there's no other cheaper alternative.
00:03:01
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It fucking blows. And I'm pissed about it. Yeah. Just going to leave that out there. I can't think of another experience that makes me feel like less of a human.
00:03:12
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Oh, and I'll tell you what it is. It's called jail. Jail in the hospital. That's right, yeah. And it's terrible. That's true, yeah. No clocks. Someone else's clothes. It's 50 degrees.
00:03:24
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There's no fucking water fountain. Thanks you guys for grounding me on that. but The last time I was at the hospital, like you were just a like a fucking... ah piece of flesh man and I yeah get it because it's their full time it's their full time job and they don't even get paid for it I bet could you imagine every person you interact with at your job at least half of them aren't gonna pay their fucking bill but you still have to do it what do you know how like terrible that's that that how probably makes you feel how much can you skirt bills though like i mean like
00:03:58
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I don't know. Anyway, we'll get caught up on this forever. Ask EC, man. it's a but You're the one driving up these ER r charge fees. Ask our next president. Just drain on the economy. Okay.
00:04:11
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Don't you remember, did either of you fly before Yeah. yeah Yes. yeah that was Tucker used to be afraid of flying. Yeah, when I was really young. Yeah. And then we rode an Amtrak for like 18 hours. Oh, no longer. From Minneapolis to fucking Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah. Oh, my God. And I loved it. I literally brought like six inches of model railroaders, model railroader magazine with me, like 30 pounds of backpack full of train magazines.
Train Travel Tales and Fear of Flying
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Yeah, and I'm riding a train, reading about the fucking trains. The train is a fantastic way to travel. I love it. Yeah, take it to Chicago was dope. Dude, it's super fun. And if you get the one, the Chicago to San Francisco, they have a park ranger that's on the train car like the entire time.
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And we'll just name give you tours of the places that you're going through. It's amazing. Wow. Like it stops and he gives you tours or he's just like. oh he's he's on the train with you or they are on the train. Like there is. just telling you And they'll be pointing out the window and telling you about stuff. Yep.
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Yeah. Yep. That's nice, but you're going past it. Yeah. See that big tree back there? Oh, don you can't. All right. You missed it. All right. I think it's a little more general. Topic two. No, hold
Critiquing TSA and Self-Checkout Experiences
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on. No, flying fucking sucks for a handful of reasons. Standing in fucking line.
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Ew. Being rushed like fucking cattle through you all this shit, which nobody cares about. Like, I can't tell many. You're being a mall for three hours before your flight. shitty mall. don't carry guns or knives or anything, but I know lots of people that do, and it never gets fucking caught.
00:05:48
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Yeah. All time. That's fucking scary as shit. All the time. But the rest of us ding-dongs with big pens in our back pocket and lint in our side pocket yeah are getting hosed, or not hosed down, but getting wanded down. Yeah.
00:05:59
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And pulled aside, and you're like, dude, this dude's got a fucking AK. That guy's got a crocodile dundee. Well, one's got fucking AK, but yeah, a small pistol or like decent-sized...
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like flippable knife like yeah you could probably carry through yeah you might get caught sometimes but sometimes you won't the TSA is like a government sponsored theater program we're just gonna give jobs and and roles to all these people but it's yeah fucking it's just a play alright you guys want to get an old man rant out of the way so last week I read it i did no it gets dude this goes right to one of the things you were talking about how technology is not making things better There's going to option at the TSA now where you wand your fucking self.
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Oh, self-checkout. For security. I wand myself every night. yeah It's fantastic. Snotty bean meets life last night. All right.
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um Really, you wand yourself? Is that for real? There's going to be an option, yeah. It pisses me off and I have to... Okay. Yeah. This is just a fucking... We should just recall this ah old man fuck. You go to a store, you have to check out yourself?
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Yeah. Sometimes that's great. So I'm not saying get rid of all of it. Yeah. But... As an option. As an option. But, like, fucking have more than one lane open. it's a It's a gigantic target, and you really only have one fucking lane open? Get the fuck out of here. They got to keep the people off of the cash registers so they can go into the aisles and unlock all the product.
00:07:28
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Right. is that You're shopping at the wrong fucking Target. Is that happening in Asheville right now? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. no You can't buy anything. yeah They locked up the underwear in Asheville? The shampoo.
00:07:40
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The fucking, like, you're, like. two um Well, just yeah push me further towards Amazon. And honestly, it's probably. I'm fucking sorry. Put a person there. Put a person standing in that aisle.
00:07:51
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where the fighting Why the fuck not?
00:07:55
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where that fuck people i I'm sorry. I'm frustrated because the self-checkout is if you're good with touchscreens and you're just a coordinated person, you can make it through very quickly.
00:08:07
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Some might even say faster than a worker there. Perhaps. Rarely. reality But I would say the majority of people, they're like, who they're on like 14 different kinds of medication and they're just like,
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They've got their hand on the scale and the scales tell them take their fucking hand off. And you're just like,
Gratitude, Anxiety, and Support Systems
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needs assistance it is. And the line is just wrapping around the store waiting for this dumbass to learn that he doesn't have to count the number of grapes, but instead weigh the bunch. yeah It's like, well, I do have to say it's not, others it's not totally intuitive.
00:08:44
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No, if you I'm sorry. I use computers all the time. I use fucking iPads. Yeah.
00:08:50
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Like, it shouldn't be... I shouldn't walk up to it and be like, what the fuck button should I press? I mean, that yeah they can't... i mean Apparently, they don't do their fucking jobs. because It's almost like the job requires training of some sort. Yes. Yes. So now i I'm having to train myself to then check myself out for prices that are higher than what I can order online.
00:09:13
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Right. And I'm not saying... There's no discount for that. I don't want Amazon to exist. But... Tell me. See why it works. plus Yeah, we see why it's happening. You know, like.
00:09:27
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All right. You guys ready to come off of this and go into my hippie moment? yeah sure Yeah, sure. Yeah, we need an upper after this downer. Okay. I saw a bumper sticker and it just said, you have everything you need.
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And it really struck me. Yeah, if you got a car with a, put a fucking sticker on. Yeah, that's true. No, I touched on this last last week, man. I mean, like, you have everything you, like, well, what's this? No, there's a saying. It's like, remember when you wanted everything you have?
00:09:54
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Oh, I've never heard that before. Yeah. And think 20 years ago, man, everything you ever fucking wanted. I wanted a fucking drum set. I wanted enough money for beer every day.
00:10:06
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yeah All you got left is a 1994 Dodge Viper. There you go. No, I'm going fucking buy that Dodge Viper. It's great. I've been looking. I've got that already. Yeah. Okay. i Whenever I'm spiraling and I'm like, God, shit's going bad. I'm never going to make It's just like, this is a trick I learned through therapy.
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Like, play play it out. Just play out the worst case scenario, you know? What is your worst case scenario when you let out? The worst case scenario is like, I run out of money, wife leaves me, something like, really, really terrible shit, right? Typical Tuesday for you, right? Typical Tuesday.
00:10:43
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Yeah. There it comes. Hashtag. ah I could probably get a job at a hardware store. Oh, yeah. Or a fucking printing company.
00:10:54
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i have a ah network of family and friends that would probably loan me a little bit of money. Tyler's always down to send me an envelope full of shitty nickels. Fucking ones. Greasy ones.
00:11:06
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No, get the fuck. Fuck you, Eric. No, you could call lots of fucking people. Oh, yeah. You could get a great fucking job. What? what Get the fuck. Fuck off, Eric. you don't You're not even like, no.
00:11:17
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You deserve a good fuck you. If you were around me right now, I'd fucking punch you or something. Wow, what a good friend. Your perspective on what's the worst that could happen is like not even real. Your reality not like- Your future fake reality is not even real. The worst that could happen is like 50% better than what you just said. Okay, all right.
Pizza Passion and Preferences
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Really the worst that could happen is you could wake up tomorrow dead. just- I encourage you to not find a line of work in therapy.
00:11:45
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Well, I think it'd be more like, you drove I stroked out. You know, and I can't move like the left side of my body. Yeah. and i need to be in.
00:11:57
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Oh, shit. What's that movie? I just where communicate to someone to like kill me, basically. Just fucking blinks. or Yeah. Yeah. Through blinks. Yeah. but What's that movie where the the dude is like injured and the lady has to take care of him and she like fucks him? I mean, I feel like there's a handful movies, but. um Whoa. Yeah.
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um she He's a writer. it's like a Is it a Stephen King movie? I'm just making all this up, apparently. don't know. I should write my own fucking book. he needs help, but then she bones him?
00:12:26
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What the fuck? doesn't need help getting a boner? No, he tortures her. ah Oh, this is a Madea movie. Oh, love this. Do you guys watch Madea very often? I don't know what this is. No, this dude is a total piece of shit.
00:12:38
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He like has a stroke and then he's a total piece of shit to his wife. And then he has like a stroke and then all of a sudden she's on top and she's like, remember when you fucking did this to me and just fucking tries to drown him?
00:12:50
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It's fucking great. You guys need watch more Tyler Perry movies. I love you, Tyler Perry. And Medea. ah Next one you have on the list is Pizza is is Incredible.
00:13:01
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Yeah. Yeah. That was on the list last time there, Tucker. Well, so. Also, it wasn't really a good point. You just went and started listing all the different kinds of pizza.
00:13:13
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Pepperoni pizza. Fucking Bubba Gump on that shit. Exactly. Wait, but was that mine was that Tyler's? I know it was you. That's why I'm pretty sure it's yours.
00:13:26
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Wow. So what else you got to add to this topic? I'm a real simple person. Okay, how about this? What was the last pizza you ate? Well, so this is my story. This is my thing. Okay. So I got a gift.
00:13:39
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from my wonderful partner, which was a pizza. It was a pepperoni pizza. No, it was a anniversary birthday, Father's Day combo gift.
00:13:52
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And I got one of those. I got one. there What the fuck? I got you yeah Easter's close. Come on. It's good for the next three years, too. yeah I got one of those unie pizza grills. Oh, you did. Nice. It's a big dog.
00:14:05
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Yeah. It's like you could. It's like an outdoor pizza. And you can do you can do coal, wood, or propane. And it's you can make true Neapolitan pizzas. like the oh It gets up to 900 degrees sort of thing. yeah okay And even though last Sunday was like 30, but probably 10 wind chill because the winds were like 40 miles an hour, I fired that fucker up and we...
00:14:30
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made you know We always makeke make our own crust and make our own sauce. And then whatever. we make We do that all the time. We cook on a pizza stone at like $5.50. And it's good. But like this thing. It's the char that you get, man. Dude, it's not.
00:14:46
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it it makes like the other stuff like not even pizza. like It counters the conversation we had, where it's like, any pizza iss probably pretty good pizza, you know? Yeah. like After two pieces of Papa John's, am I going to shit myself? Yeah, probably, but like the first two go down really well. But this... yeah yeah The intense heat changed the...
00:15:03
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intense heat changed the the texture and the pliability of the cheese and it made it made it like sweat.
00:15:14
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Yeah. And, and it made the, it I watched the crust come up and it got the little bubble. I mean, every was your cooking time, like 90 seconds. Oh yeah. Like maybe two minutes.
00:15:24
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Cause again, it was super cold out. Like an hour worth of prep for two. I mean, I'm not saying it's not worth it. oh I'm sure it is worth it, but. ah So it was like really on my on my um my radar and this week. I was like, holy fuck, this is completely different. And now I can do this at home. It's dope. And I hope to have you both over and we'll make pizzas like crazy because it's – I'm building up the plan this summer is to build a pizza oven in the Greenway area, like a neighborhood. that and So I'm stoked on that. I've got a bunch of donated bricks, so that'll be sick.
00:15:59
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ah What is so two questions for both y'all ah you're in Moline, Illinois. Yep. where do you order pizza from?
00:16:10
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There are no good places to order pizza. So, who mean but there's all the chains, Papa Domino's, Pizza Hut's there. But there's nothing local? I think I would always go local. Nothing, nothing local. Nothing local, yeah. Gotta go to a chain. What what are you getting?
00:16:22
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Ooh. Okay, so let me tell you, we order Domino's probably once a month. It's fucking good. Domino's. That's where I'm at. Thin crust. Yeah. I've got a special part in my life for that. Seriously. fucking a whole half pizza. It's not And then Domino's, the super thick crust.
00:16:40
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My kids call it the fluffy crust. Oh, so here and here, nothing in between. I'm going to fall asleep after two pieces. Okay. Totally. It is, especially if you've got a bunch extra sauce.
00:16:51
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Yeah. And then a Papa John's regular sausage pizza. I can't. It's not great, but it's it's it's fucking great. It turns my bowels into lava.
00:17:02
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Yeah, but papa that's afterwards. It's like cotton candy and Coca-Cola together. Yeah. That's like you're never going to drink a beer again because you're going to hungover. doesn't happen. The actual Papa John pisses me off so much. He's a fucking prick. He could fucking fall off a cliff. Refuse to order his pizza.
00:17:16
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Oh, shit. well But he has no he's not attached to anymore, right? The little dipping sauces that Papa John's used to have was – Do you ever have like a special name for the crust? No, excuse me. But our mom our mom used to call them pizza bones and feed them to her dogs. Bones.
00:17:33
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Yes. Okay, I call them bones too. Really? Yeah. Since when? Is this like a down south thing? No. I don't remember this. We've eaten a lot of pizza together. Bones. They're the bones. And so the Papa John's makes the great dipping sauce for the bones.
00:17:48
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Is it called bone sauce? is point Can we talk about Papa John? He's not, I thought he got kicked out of the company. i don't know. I don't think he's his name still on it. Well, I agree, but fuck him. Nobody, nobody.
00:18:00
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I don't think anybody on any side of the world respects yeah Papa John. Imagine being he actually one of his children, too. Is he a Papa? He's like, oh, would you'd be a terrible dad.
00:18:12
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terrible grandfather it just smells like fucking papa john's all the time right second question is what are your go-to go-to toppings so you're you're at a nice pizza place and they would make everything la carte so what are you putting on your pizza oh um i want fresh mushrooms that were and want fresh mushrooms or mushrooms that were sauteed oh ah want proscito i want i want arugula that's been put on the pizza after it come out came out with some sort of very light dressing, and caramelized onions.
00:18:45
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Damn. Okay. i'm I'm with you on that except for the prosciutto. Can I hold on a second? One time Tabby brought home I don't know how she got this prosciutto, but there was like at least three pounds of prosciutto in a bag. Lucky fucker.
00:19:00
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In the refrigerator. And then she went out of town with the kids in spring break. Oh. And like, I'm like, I'm not going open this up. It looks weird. And then fucking three o'clock in the morning, I'm up and I'm like, oh man, this is probably good. So I open up and eat some of it.
00:19:14
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And you ate the rest of it. Come on. The next day, a little bit more. And then I wake up the next morning and it's all gone. So over like a 24-hour period, ate like three and a half pounds of prosciutto?
00:19:28
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Dude, even if that was the cheap prosciutto? Yeah. yeah Fucking sweet, dude. I'll eat $100 bills right now. like yeah that Yeah, you would have been at like $100 on the cheap stuff.
00:19:40
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It was so fucking good. Some of it, like the edges were like kind of crispy and smoky. It was like fucking delicious. ah Favorite pizzas, keep it simple. Good sausage, good pepperoni.
00:19:51
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There you go. Double meat. Really? Double meat? No, no, no. not you are Thank you for bringing it up. Yeah, no way. One or the other. i don't like foods that are too complicated. I don't like too much of a thing.
00:20:03
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yeah I actually really dislike sandwiches that have a bunch of random shit on it. Three is kind of the magic number. For sandwich? If you get three, really, on a pizza or a sandwich, you get three. Yeah, three sandwiches. Are you calling are you calling the bread one of the things?
00:20:18
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No, that's... Are you calling the cheese? Because I think most sandwiches come with some sort of cheese. Are calling the cheese one those things? usually cheese, vegetable, in ah and a protein. Some sort of protein, okay. Yeah, you put those three together, you got a good sandwich.
Sustainable Energy and Career Decisions
00:20:30
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What about sauces, though? Do you count that in? because so Yeah, it's all relish.
00:20:35
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Ew. and take some relish Just ground up pickles. um Next topic. Okay. yeah got Keep it moving. um I'm like really, really preoccupied. There's a lot of space being taken up in my head about like not investing from fossil fuels. Like it really in the environment and like things like the world heating up and like watching.
00:21:03
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i mean, it's going to fucking snow like a foot this weekend. but it was like 70. Yeah. It was like 70, whatever the the climate's fucked. Yeah. But as much as, as much as I'm motivated by that, I'm like watching rates go up and I watched like how fucked up the U S's power grid is and like how unstable it is. And I'm like, all I want to do is make it so I don't need these services that are totally fucked. And I'm feeling like I'm getting kind of bent over on a lot of them. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:35
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So it's kind of all things, but like, wait, I can actually make energy from the sun. And that's pretty fucking cool. And like, I know that sounds simple, but like, it sounds like the gateway drug to be in a prepper.
00:21:49
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No, no, no. So um energy started years ago Every word you just said, energy. that you're being controlled. No, I'm kidding. oh um No, you. Okay, so end up my so I do these same things probably because we're related to each other. um Probably.
00:22:07
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What you need to do as an adult human being is to if you find yourself ah constantly thinking about something that is not enjoyable to you, you need to fucking put it into a pocket.
00:22:19
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You're spending too much time. It is enjoyable though. I'm trying to figure out how to do it. know man I like it because it's ah it it poses a problem that my brain, which is very active, can start to chisel away at and piece together.
00:22:33
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so I enjoy it. I'm just saying like I guess my really want it. guess my only thing that I want to put out to the world, including myself, is stop spending so much time on thinking about things you're concerned about.
00:22:47
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because I feel, personally, i feel like, no, recently, this is past few years, if I take the things that I spend a lot of time worrying about, concerned about, that are occupying my, even maybe some, Tucker, we have a problem with ah fixing ourselves into things, even though we think we enjoy it.
00:23:05
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Other, you just talked about last time, like living in the fucking moment, man. You're not living in the moment when you fucking rage about this shit. And I'm saying this because I do this shit too. I'm hanging out with my kids and I'm thinking about fucking camshaft specifications and that kind of shit.
00:23:19
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Put it in a pocket, write it down, give yourself a little bit of time to fucking focus on it and other times just be like, yeah, fucking. think whatre Maybe don't rage about it right now.
00:23:30
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It's moderation, right? And moderation is your use of fossil fuels. Oh, fucking thought moderation. And you're spiraling about. yeah I agree with you. so yeah I'm about to start a new job that is going to be far away from me. and Oh, really?
00:23:45
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Yep. What's going on? You're leaving the the shop that you started with that dude? Yeah, yeah. I'm doing something I would never thought I would ever do again, which is. go work at a place that I previously left.
00:23:58
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I think that the pay wasn't right the first time. And there was a bunch of shit that had to be dealt with. And sometimes people need to get shocked into being like, I need to fucking deal with these things.
00:24:11
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I left tons of shit was dealt with. And I got a bunch of repeated calls being like, Hey, yeah, there was a true desire and need yeah on their end for you. Yeah.
00:24:25
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And I blew it off quite a few times and i there was an earnest ah
00:24:31
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effort to make amends and stuff like that. so Good. Yeah. Well, fuck yeah. That's good the money's where it's at and there you go. Yeah. Nice. They're going to compensate you fairly now. I got to come up with a way because I'm going driving a lot. So I need to come up with a way to... Oh, no. i always no I'm saying like...
00:24:51
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hopefully not drive so much with a gasoline car. Right. Dodge Viper. Yeah. Seven miles to a gallon. my God.
00:25:01
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Complete fucking opposite. Well, I mean, I can sell my truck and then take out the engine and just replace it with like a Flintstone style. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
Tech Privacy and Environmental Discussions
00:25:10
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No, what would totally make sense is to get a fucking Tesla car.
00:25:15
Speaker
Which has the and the drive, i mean but I don't know what the electric rates would be and that kind of thing, so I would have to do the math on it. You're also giving one hand job to Elon Musk, so it's not worth it.
00:25:27
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That dude's a well, we don't need to go there. He he helps out a lot of different podcasts with his name being dropped. Either way, you're giving, well, you're giving a handjob to Elon Musk a little bit, but you also, Elon Musk probably gets a 16th or less from that car. You're also supplying every one of those suppliers because Tesla doesn't make their fucking cars.
00:25:49
Speaker
They might stamp the frame, they might stamp the body panels, but they outsource everything else. And luckily for them and luckily for America, they're, using mostly American manufacturers for this stuff.
00:26:00
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but So first but yeah, you're fucking jerking him off, but, Yeah. Tell me another CEO that you're not doing that to because you are. Well, yeah, but you're also then becoming a data point for his next project or whatever. Like, i it's the same thing why I don't do Amazon is like the amount of tracking and privacy shit that you give up to these companies.
00:26:24
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We got a new TV for our rental unit and I was going in there and I had to turn off seven different things. yeah So we would not send information back to these companies. It's just like the the amount of... but i have And when those don't work, all they do is issue a quiet apology. Yeah. and And then there you go. It'll be a press release that you'll never know about, and they could totally be doing it. And I'm not trying to be a fucking conspiracy theorist, but it happens all the time. You're totally right.
00:26:51
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But yeah also the truth of it is, is we all carry around fucking cell phones. Totally. And we all have crazy town apps that we just downloaded, whether it's fucking Mario Run or uber or something.
00:27:03
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um We are being tracked. So, yes, I don't know. ah This brings up a topic that's not even on this list. I mean, like, where's your threshold of caring? about like the big picture thing, you know? This is going to be on my next list actually. So but so it let's table it until then. Okay. Yeah.
00:27:19
Speaker
I do feel like, I'm glad you're using the word threshold because it's a line that moves, yes right? Like I'm a vegetarian who will occasionally eat chicken wings.
00:27:31
Speaker
you know yeah i That doesn't mean I'm going back against all of my vegetarian principles. It's just like, sometimes I've got three Miller Lights in me and i want to eat fucking chicken wings. Yeah, as you should.
00:27:43
Speaker
As you should. So, do you consider burning wood a fossil fuel? No. Because it's not a fossil. That makes sense. I just answered that question myself. No, burning wood and coal is like, isn't that one of the largest?
00:27:57
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Coal fossil Wood is a fossil fuel. wood is ah regenerative natural resource. Is it coal fucking wood? It's a That's been compressed with heat in time like billions of years. Yeah.
00:28:08
Speaker
No, you can make coal very quickly. No, not charcoal. Coal. Okay. There's a big difference. Sure. Coal will never exist again in a human's lifetime. Charcoal we can make out of burning. Yeah, but the emissions from burning wood...
00:28:25
Speaker
It's fucking terrible. And we know that. And that's a but that's a planting a tree of a politically equal thing that everybody agrees that burning fucking forests is a huge contributor to global warming. Yeah, but we can plant new forests. Well, and the thing is, is for it.
00:28:42
Speaker
So two things on that.
00:28:45
Speaker
Not everyone agrees that burning trees, three things, is like contributing to global warming. It's contributing to, a in the way that they're happening, a significant amount of air particulate that is really causing a generation of people to have more lung issues, at least in North America.
00:29:02
Speaker
yeah Two, um a lot of plants have to have fire to exist and to recreate their life cycles. Like a lot of low...
00:29:14
Speaker
Fucking yeah blueberries and other fucking wild plants. like Completely agree. be They need fire. And fresh. don't know if they fire, but they need all of the shit that comes from after fire. Well, and tamaracks need that heat to fuck with their cones. I mean, there are plants that need. Dude, fuck tamarack cones, man.
00:29:34
Speaker
Dude. not fucking with you, but yeah. Put it on your next list. So. fire suppression has made it so like these forests become these bigger deals yeah and they burn uncontrollably and then shits you're starting over uh and three the difference between like burning coal that was created four billion years ago and that won't again is that yes we're burning a tree that grew for 60 and we're taking that wood and we're turning it into heat.
00:30:03
Speaker
But it also sequestered fucking however many tons of CO2 carbon into the ground beneath it during its life cycle. So I think that word regenerative has a it's like a double meaning.
00:30:18
Speaker
kind of So like yeah it's suck down it's doing its thing. And also, like this is part of the deal of a human just existing on this earth is a tax.
00:30:30
Speaker
So like there's no there is no life that we can there's nothing we can't eat where or not travel or anything like we're fucking. It's going to have some impact. We're the creatures that are like taking. yeah And the best we can do is to like just do it respectfully, I think kind of. and Well, i mean, the real solution is not burning anything.
00:30:49
Speaker
No. I think the real solution is like a philosophy of the ah take a penny, leave a penny. Yeah. No, it's just like a if I'm going to burn a tree, I need to pay something forward for the next generation so they have a tree to burn or something like that, right? Like it's just, yeah. I think the regenerative thing is key. I've been reading some tree books though. So like I'm definitely in the headspace. Funny thing. All books are made of trees. You see what? Rumors. Rumors. Rumors.
00:31:19
Speaker
Birds aren't real. Okay, next one. Favorite childhood memories. My favorite childhood memory is when my dad would gather up all the fossil fuels in the living room and set them on fire. Set the couch on fire.
Parenting Reflections and Advice
00:31:38
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Oh my god.
00:31:40
Speaker
Why did you put this one down? This is a very vague one. Well, I've been thinking about... you have favorite childhood memory? Well, my kid's been getting into trouble nonstop for the last week at school. Oh, wow.
00:31:52
Speaker
Like, he's going to have to go in on his own time outside and repaint things in the fucking schoolyard because he's already renalizing. Oh, was going say wiener stuff? No. But painting things is much, much better.
00:32:02
Speaker
Yeah. ah Yeah. no we That's definitely a checkbox on Tyler's kids. That's on his list next week. Wiener stuff.
00:32:14
Speaker
um But I've just been thinking about like not just, you know, Talk about as Tyra talk about like getting in that headspace where I'm like working something out constantly. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, where did I do? Right. Where did I do wrong? Obviously there's no, you know, fuck you so many you love your kid. Your kid is fucking great.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah, well, and that's... Anytime you need to hear that, fucking call me. All right, I will. I tell Tabby all the time, too. She worries about stuff. I'm not saying your feelings aren't valid. Yes, you should be fucking concerned. Yes, it's fucking taxing.
00:32:49
Speaker
He should stop fucking up at school. Yeah. Those are all real fucking things. Maybe tell him with the hand. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. No, but um he's fucking great, and you guys love him, and you're super fucking nice. Yeah.
00:33:06
Speaker
I don't know what to tell you. ah Be harder on your kid, maybe. Well, yeah. No, I mean, so that's that's actually been – that right there is something that we have arrived at. And that's a not the best descriptor for that, but that's the the no yeah knew the energy about it. And two what that's making me think of, though, is like it's it feels a little bit more primal and a little bit like more there's more feelings associated with it.
00:33:34
Speaker
as the former child than the logic of the current adult. So it's got me thinking, this is the, this is the thorough way here. It's got me thinking of some of like when we were kids and like the things when I got in trouble and then the counter to that is like the, the few like really bright spots that I had, you know?
00:33:56
Speaker
And, um, What? The three bright spots of your childhood. Let's go through them. Me and Tabby, we get to watch you parent your child, and we get to stand back and reality TV show your shit and make hilarious comments about it, even though we don't know your lives. so So, you know, I think you are are pretty lax on on your kid.
00:34:21
Speaker
Like, that's my personal perception. I don't get to watch you. Yeah. except for every few, you know, a few minutes every few weeks or something. um But yeah your kid difference from ah you and me weight, uh, growing up is we didn't have a lot of affection yeah and whatever.
00:34:39
Speaker
Evzin does. I don't think there, there's a fucking moment of that kid's life where he is actually in fear of his parents, not loving him or not right being, ah you know, not being comfortable.
00:34:52
Speaker
That's not part Evzin's life. I'm sorry. Yeah. Believe it out. Um, it's okay but, um, I don't know. I don't i don't think – I'm probably an asshole to my kids sometimes.
00:35:03
Speaker
But there's there's never a time where they don't feel loved. I'm always fucking there for them. I never like – I actually listen to their podcasts they say something very differently. Their podcasts, yeah. They're podcasting right now while you are. I'm never mean to them to be mean to them.
00:35:19
Speaker
um i never take emotional cheap shots. I never demean them. I am will fight them to the fucking death every any time that they think that they are that they are less than – that they think less of themselves.
00:35:34
Speaker
Right. Like that is probably triggers me more than anything. Like no – I'm to tell them to go fuck themselves. But yeah, exactly. Like no, you are the smartest kid that I know.
00:35:46
Speaker
yeah You just happened fuck up this one time. like Yeah. What are you going to do to fix it? Like bring them through these things. And I feel like that was a huge transition from being, try to try to be that comforting parent where I'm,
00:36:00
Speaker
Just trying to be nice. Yeah. Trying to get to the You want have confidence. Yeah. Be a happy person. But they're also one of several billion people out in the world.
00:36:12
Speaker
So every parent, especially with their first child, I mean, that's the most special person in the world to you guys. But to everyone else, they're just someone else, you know, yeah stranger or maybe a friend. Plus, you even have to learn that.
00:36:26
Speaker
Critiquing yourself and thinking about this makes you a good parent. so Because most parents don't give a shit. Well, yeah. what I'm saying? And for us, like, it's it's about being more... um I have like ah have, like, all these thoughts about how accommodating we have been. Yeah.
00:36:47
Speaker
And inclusive. yeah And I think that's given him a lot of strength. But what that... what that's doing in this moment in time during this part of his growth. Cause you know, he's pushing his boundaries. He's, he's leaning into these spaces that he's feels so safe in that he might be taking advantage of his situation.
00:37:10
Speaker
And to, to your commentator, I'm just like, This dude needs a little bit like I don't want to change anything about the way I talk to him and how sweet I talk to him and and and everything about that because that's paramount to like our relationship.
00:37:24
Speaker
But I also am trying to find the space where I can put the fear of God in him. Like a fucking, like, you know, I will bring it, bro, sort of thing. what This may be a weird question, but what is your go-to punishment for your kids?
00:37:40
Speaker
Because I would have a timeout or I would get spanked. Yeah, we got spanked. I would have toys taken away from me. Like, you can't use that. Those are grounding, I guess. But what are the, are there new weapons in the parent arsenal these i mean,
00:37:58
Speaker
Tyler might have a different, because he's got and like a teenager, but I mean, i said on whole now yeah at seven years old, it's like there's no fucking cartoons, like no shows. Yeah.
00:38:09
Speaker
and We might ah do like no sweets, right? Because like he's in that phase now where like he just wants to eat candy and sweets and everything.
00:38:21
Speaker
Like we'll pull that back. And then he's becoming really social. I learned it from you, Dad. Yeah. yeah He's becoming really social. So it's like no play dates, you know. and yeah And we've done like the no Legos thing. Like I've taken big sets and shit for a moment.
00:38:38
Speaker
Yeah. I threatened to just take it all and sell it. Consistency. $1,100 hospital bill, I just would have shown him $1,100 worth of Legos and be like, you're not getting this now. These are mine. Do you know how often i like Milo broke his fucking screen on his phone?
00:38:59
Speaker
Really? And I'm like, hey, listen, if it's an accident, I've done it before too, but let me tell you something. The next time i buy you a birthday present, I only have so much fucking money.
00:39:11
Speaker
Yeah. So do you want that money to go to your broken iPhone screen? Or do you want to try a little bit harder to take care of it? So I've got more money for a fucking birthday present. that's as simple as it gets.
00:39:22
Speaker
and heat Oh, go ahead. No, no. I mean, that's hard to get through a child's head. Oh, my 13 year old. That makes sense. Yeah. An eight year old, seven year old.
00:39:34
Speaker
Not so much. But I feel like if you drill it into them. Like you you and your partner are fucking love. You guys are overly love. I don't fucking show my children that love.
00:39:44
Speaker
They get hugs, but otherwise, fuck them. No, they're overly, you gotta set up some fucking boundaries and stick to them and he will love you even more, man.
00:39:57
Speaker
Dogs do better when they have a purpose. No, I think- Children are the same way, man. Well, so i made we made him pay for all these paint supplies and shit. Good. like I told the school, I'm like, yeah, he's going to be fixing this. what do you mean make him pay? Does he have Well, first of all, tell us what he did.
00:40:12
Speaker
He wrote teacher's poop on this big box at the side that- I mean, you know, in my head, I'm just like, dude, yeah, they do. and We all It's true. Yeah. Birds aren't real and teacher's poop. Yeah.
00:40:26
Speaker
Yeah. So anyway, I was like, you're going to pay for the supplies and everything to repaint this. And then you're going to go to the school on your time and you're going to repaint it. Like just made it all about like, this is yours now, you know? Yeah. You made this choice. Yeah. so Also, you can't, you can't beat that. Okay. Here we go.
00:40:46
Speaker
okay here we go But though as first of all, my favorite part about that was we didn't talk about any fun childhood memories. Oh It just turned into how do we control
Childhood Memories: Mr. Pibb and Neighborhood Tales
00:40:57
Speaker
children?
00:40:57
Speaker
oh ah Next time. it' be okay we should next time it It'll take me a little bit to conjure some memories. My kids ask me all the time. It's like, what was your, what you tell me a good story. I'm like, give me a minute. And then to the next day, like. First of all, everything was in black and white.
00:41:13
Speaker
Women couldn't vote.
00:41:18
Speaker
wow Dad, I didn't know you were so old you were a ghost. ah All right, next one. Here we go again with taste. Uh-huh. This is the Easter M&Ms of the week here. Yeah, I think it Mr. Pibb used to taste better when it came in glass bottles.
00:41:33
Speaker
so i I don't think ever had that. No, dude. Food and fuel at the end of the block on Cord Street. Two for a dollar, Mr. Pibb, 20 ounce. Because Lyle put us onto that.
00:41:45
Speaker
Oh, shit. We steal Banaca. Oh. And go buy a couple Mr. Pibbs. Get slushy ice without the without the, until they caught us. Because they used to have a sign on the door that said free ice. So we're like, fucking slushy ice.
00:41:58
Speaker
Sugary fucking. Yeah, it's just like sweet ice. Yeah. Like sugar water ice. Yeah. And then you would squirt the flavor. Yeah, but we just didn't get the flavor. So it's like, it's ice, right?
00:42:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah. didn So our dad would send us down the block. with whatever, like five bucks or 10 bucks. And he's like, I need a gallon of gas and a pack of camel ultralights. And we're like under 10, right? And we'd walk all the way down to the end of the street, you know, and get it. And I, there must've been some time where I got like great bubble issues or some Mr. Pibb, whatever. Cause then he started doing it. He's like, bring me the change. I was like, you fucking cheapskate.
00:42:37
Speaker
This is what? 60 cents. But I mean, to get a 20 ounce bottle of, Really good soda for 50 cents. Goddamn. You had a dude babysitter, first of all?
00:42:51
Speaker
Yeah, well, dude, we lucked out. Okay, so Very progressive. When we... I mean, it's progressive for 1990, I guess. um When we moved to Minnesota, there was...
00:43:02
Speaker
Our street was full of kids. I've never seen a street with as many kids as our street then of all ages, from infants to like about to graduate high school. Yeah, it wide range.
00:43:13
Speaker
And I hope that exists somewhere else. And I wonder if that was maybe just part of like, that generation being really flush with kids. but Suburbs, man. Yeah, it's a new development. Unreal. It wasn't new though. Those were older homes.
00:43:27
Speaker
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Those details don't matter for this story. What matters though is there was a dude two two houses down. His name was Lyle. He had a super hot older sister named Mary.
00:43:37
Speaker
They had a pool. They had like a cranky dad that would let us drink endless sodas. They had a fridge, a full size fridge in the garage that was full, full, full of sodas like Sam's Club Bowl. That was a 1980s thing.
00:43:52
Speaker
And he skateboarded and he was four years older than me. So that means he was eight years older than Tyler. And he was as cool as fucking ice, right? Like, he totally idolizing. He was coolest fucking guy.
00:44:03
Speaker
He had room remote control cars and not even, like, fucking KB Toys from remote control cars. Like, real remote control cars. Like, the big bolt, like, NICAD battery ones. Yeah. In 1990. Like, this dude was fucking rad, right? Have you looked him up on Facebook lately? He, like, smoked hella weed, moved to Colorado, and became a butcher. And I think he's still pretty rad, and he's super chill.
00:44:24
Speaker
I ran into him, like, a few times. He moved back for a while. I don't ever want to meet him because it would affect my view of him. Yeah. Yeah. Cause he was, he was like vanilla ice cool dude. Like when I,
00:44:37
Speaker
I think that he is ah dramatic part of both of our lives because he gave us that tape that was Technotronic and Bad Religion and Black Flag. Well, there was one. Well, so you were very close. Technotronic was ours, Tyler, but I don't know how we figured out how to get that purchase.
00:44:54
Speaker
The tape he gave us, though, had Primus. Okay. um ah Beastie Boys. And what's the, they were on lookout, Operation Ivy.
00:45:08
Speaker
And Red Hot Chili Peppers. Oh, shit. And Black Flag. Because they were all from a couple skateboard movies and he like figured out a way to like don't know. He probably had the tapes and he dubbed it for like that tape right up there. VCR to a tape deck.
00:45:23
Speaker
And he made that specially for you guys. du That tape put Tyler and I on a trajectory of like, this is this thing that's out there. We just have to go find it.
00:45:34
Speaker
Yeah. Like let's go seek the unknown sort of thing. You know, we're little. It was so shocking as a child. ah As a child that grew up in like a very straight, clean,
00:45:47
Speaker
simple house to hear this music i remember listening to it on the on the lowest setting of that red cassette player we had yeah the little casio like at the lowest setting because i was so embarrassed to let yeah my parents hear it like oh yeah because headphones weren't a normal thing in households growing up and When we grew up, there was one pair of headphones and my mom would wear make my dad wear them when he watched TV.
00:46:16
Speaker
What? Wow. Yeah, it was like a fucking, it was like the shittiest. Like a 20 foot cord? Exactly. A super long cord with like several extensions that had to be purchased at Radio Shack. and I would leave that this relationship.
00:46:33
Speaker
The shittiest headphones. The open cell mesh foam. yeah Exactly. Oh my God. I'm sorry, but I would leave that relationship. I would move the fuck out. Yeah. They make you wear this in my own house.
00:46:45
Speaker
Sorry. Yeah. Sorry. is There are several times when I've looked at my parents' relationship and been like, why have you not split up? There is no love here. When you talk about affection in the house, I'm just like, yeah, there was none of that.
00:46:59
Speaker
Everyone were just, we were roommates putting up with each other. That's what was growing up basically. Oh my God. I've never had Mr. Piv, but I do think drinking things out of a glass bottle a lot. It just makes it feel fancier. It's like eating dinner on a table that has a tablecloth.
00:47:18
Speaker
It's naturally going to taste a little bit better. so i wouldn't say fancy. I just think like more classic. like This is the vessel that the original chemistry was created to be served from.
00:47:29
Speaker
right so like When they made this recipe, they were serving it from glass, and it was non-reactive in a certain way. Mr. Pibb was invented via beer bong. It was meant to be delivered through a funnel.
00:47:42
Speaker
Mr. Pibb. Oh, my God. You would be so bubbly and oh my god tingly. Wow. um Do you remember? tatra i you and sorry Tucker and I used to go to parties in high school. We were both straight edge.
00:47:57
Speaker
and Involuntarily straight edge. I guess, yeah. and Pretty much. We were too scared to drink the devil's juice. Yeah. But we would go and we yeah I have video footage of us like beer bonging Sonny D oh at a party. Oh, it's Sarah's kitchen?
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah. Sarah Chambers' kitchen? Yeah. is Because she lived by you guys, right? No, she was in Lionel Lakes, but she that was the house for the older kids. Gotcha. That was like the party house. All right, we're going to skip the next one because I think we actually talked about it when we went through. We did totally cover that. yeah Yeah, favorite childhood memories, also parenting. Property tax homestead exemption.
Political Opinions and Property Tax Frustrations
00:48:36
Speaker
Did you just get this letter, Tucker? Is this why it prompted you?
00:48:39
Speaker
Well, I got a letter. Yes, I did. And it's really it drove me up the fucking wall until I went back through my records and looked back at the the previous eight years of property tax records.
00:48:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like, so here's the thing. I get ah get my property tax estimate, which will then be finalized in the fall for 2025. And it's like like everybody else's house in Minneapolis.
00:49:05
Speaker
It went up. It went up all. Not this year. went up a lot. The last few years it went up. My house has gone up like 80 grand in three years. It's like fucking insane.
00:49:16
Speaker
yeahp This last year it only goes up four. So I'm like, oh, that's cool. Mine went up 20. Which is wrong. Which is wrong. P.S. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's a whole other topic. bit There's that be an and EPA thing that needs to be filed to remove all the old cum in Tyler's backyard. No, the property values this past year have not risen the same as they did the previous year.
00:49:43
Speaker
And 20K is... Because it's insane growth. Yeah, yeah. yeah got Anyway, sorry sorry. No, it's all good. So, i you know, and there's a property... tax homestead exemption, which is just like if you homestead your home, it means you you are living there and you get an exemption up until the certain value of your house. In Minneapolis, it's like $413,000, which our house is not that.
00:50:06
Speaker
So this year, despite the property value going up a little bit, my homestead exemption more than doubled from the year prior, which was less than almost a third from four years prior and So my tax, what we'll pay in taxes in 2025 is less than this year.
00:50:27
Speaker
But I started to lose my fucking mind because i like, wait, now it's up? Why was it so fucking low last year? And then I went back to all these records. It used to be so high. It was like $14,000 or something like that.
00:50:41
Speaker
And it plummeted all the way down over a few years to $5,200.
00:50:46
Speaker
During the years where my value went the highest, this exemption went the lowest. yeah And yet nothing that the city says makes that bet out. So I have no reason to understand why it was here and it went down and then it spiked back up.
00:51:02
Speaker
So fuck that shit. I don't know. This feels like it would be a really good episode of Marketplace. You ever listen that? Yes. love that show. Kyle Rizzo. Kyle Rizzo. Shout out. Kyle. He's really the patron of this show. Yeah, yeah.
00:51:20
Speaker
Wow. One guy we can all agree to be stoked on. But I do feel like you would explain this in a way that would make it seem a little more logical. I don't know. I hope so. Because I remember that. I mean, North Carolina doesn't have a homestead exemption. We don't get any discount on our property tax because we live here full time.
00:51:39
Speaker
So, like, just the fact that that exists in the state is pretty cool. And Minnesota also has a fucking renter's rebate. That doesn't exist anywhere else. Minnesota's pretty killing it lately. So, in terms of, like...
00:51:54
Speaker
Making sure that where people like the basic social service of living somewhere is doesn't have like ridiculous taxes on it. I think that's a positive. Yeah. Well, stop fucking electing people like Madison Cawthorn and you guys will be you guys be good to go.
00:52:11
Speaker
Wait. Hey, I'm supporting people. I'm standing up for Madison because he can't. Whoa. If anybody deserves, if anybody deserves so god damn it any sort of joke about them, it's that fucking piece of shit.
00:52:29
Speaker
Seriously. don't care what political fucking world you are in. He's Florida now. I mean, he lost. Yep. No, he's in Florida. Like, he, because he fucked up so much that he lost the Trump. Dude, he's piece of shit, man. I mean, if you, if you're a Republican or whatever,
00:52:46
Speaker
if you are If you stand by your shit and you're you can be a respectable human being, I don't give a shit what you think about, for the most part. ah you know As long as you're like a reasonable person, I mildly respect you.
00:53:01
Speaker
This dude was fucking bullshit. Dude, that guy was fucking bonkers. This guy was bullshit. Yeah, yeah. No, he was terrible. I mean, but also every bull state has one. Need show you Michelle Bachman from not that long ago? ah Yeah. A precursor to Madison Coth. Yeah, she's awful.
00:53:18
Speaker
Democrat, Republican, there's a bunch of fucking kooks. Okay, last question.
Career Aspirations and Dream Jobs
00:53:24
Speaker
What do you want to be when you grow up? You first. Oh, man.
00:53:30
Speaker
I was under the impression that I'd grown up a little bit, but, you know, there's still growing to do. Wait a minute, job or or like theory? I think all of that stuff, You could be like, ah maybe you want to be an author, and your job is, you have a another job, but you're still putting out books. I don't fucking know.
00:53:51
Speaker
For me, like, there's like tension there, because... I struggle. We talked about this in like one of our episodes, like EC and I've talked about like having this lasting influence on a group of people or a space in culture.
00:54:07
Speaker
And him and i were artic him and I would articulate it differently as much younger people. But that spirit is alive and true today. And we talked about it a little bit. Like yeah we've wanted to like leave something like a A legacy, you know, but like we didn't have that word that didn't.
00:54:25
Speaker
I don't think that spoke true to like what we were feeling in moment, but like, do you remember when I tried to name the video yearbook, the epitome, because I didn't know how to pronounce epitome.
00:54:38
Speaker
I wouldn't have been able to pronounce it. So yeah, legacy is not in our fucking wheelhouse. But so, yeah so I still am struggling with that a lot. Cause like, I don't, I don't, I've never heard you say, i want to be a marketing director. no it's just something I fell into.
00:55:01
Speaker
kind of. Yeah, it is. And I'm like, yeah, did you fall into your job? Me? Yeah. Oh, I'm about to do literally the thing. Well, okay.
00:55:12
Speaker
First of all, yeah, the the job I'm about to go back to is literally what I feel like i I'm the greatest at in life. yeah I've always wanted to do it. Things weren't right.
00:55:23
Speaker
I feel like they're about to be right now. On the other side of it, ah my fucking dream, my when I fucking decided I had to work for a living and wanted a job, the The company I wanted to work for, the thing I wanted to do most in life was to be an R&D person for Harley-Davidson.
00:55:45
Speaker
And they fucking called me ah Tuesday of this week. Whoa. And were like, we're blown away by your resume. Like, are you interested in the job?
00:55:58
Speaker
They're asking me if I'm interested in the job. So I'm going to... um I'm going wait for them to give me a written proposal. Just crazy figure. Yeah. It's not gonna be crazy because they don't pay shit just like fucking every other power sports company.
00:56:13
Speaker
Yeah, but remember, R&D at Harley-Davidson is rectal discharge. Exactly. So they're paying a premium. that And they're – Job job prerequiite prerequisites. Fucking pen so penetration size. No, I'm going fucking put it in a frame.
00:56:33
Speaker
That's all I wanted to accomplish in life. That's actually the job I wanted to, but I'm not going to move to fucking Milwaukee. The money's not going be good. Maybe later on in life. when I don't care, but I just, that's all I wanted.
00:56:45
Speaker
It's like to get to that point, which I know I've been above that point for a significant period of time. Totally. That's all I needed. It's not, and it's not even, I don't need to have the job. i just need someone to offer it to me.
00:56:57
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Yes. Check that box. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. And at this, at this point in all reality, I've, I've done, Everything I've wanted to do that's in regards to life accomplishments yeah um career-wise, honestly, if i if someone could pay me enough to make coffee, I would do that.
00:57:23
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um If someone could pay me enough to work at Home Depot, I would absolutely do that. I don't give a shit as long as I'm not cleaning shit. I kind of don't care anymore. love cleaning.
00:57:35
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I love cleaning, but I don't like cleaning shit. I would know fucking pay me, and I will fucking mop some fucking floors and not talk to people and be a weirdo janitor at a high school. That was EC's fucking backup.
00:57:48
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EC, you, me, fucking. North Carolina, we're fucking all over this. Like where legitimately his backup plan. I'll just be a janitor. Dude, we could have our own janitor's office.
00:58:00
Speaker
let us know That would be fucking great. It's called the closet, but sure, we'll call it the office. I think they call it the boiler room. we have We each have our own mops and like our own buckets and stuff. And like just like, oh, you get fucking West west Wing.
00:58:13
Speaker
and Tucker, what about you? If if pay wasn't an issue, oh what not what would you be doing all day? What's your dream job? Well, so on something that Tyler said, though, it's like all I ever wanted to do was work in skateboarding.
00:58:30
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And the pinnacle of that was going to California and being in skateboarding. I knew very quickly I was not gonna be a pro. But like... I had like this dream from child to thirties where I was like, I want be in the industry. Well, and then, so I got the dream job.
00:58:49
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Like I got the dream. I fucking got the dream job. I opened myself up to like, I'm not going to just like talk shit about everybody that moves away from Minneapolis. I'm going to just like be open to the past. which No one cares about except for you. P.S. Yeah. No, no one cares. I love that.
00:59:04
Speaker
It's all me. because i get We all do that, but yes. Sorry. And so it happened and I got out there and it was a shit show. I mean, I would, I wanted to stay there for longer. I was only there for a little over a year.
00:59:16
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It was a fucking shit show Super toxic. The place I went to work at had like, I survived like five rounds of layoffs over a year ah the fifth one got me. And, but so I got there. I basically got to the pinnacle. Yeah.
00:59:30
Speaker
I didn't know it very well and I didn't experience it very much, but I got there and coming home was like almost a reluctant thing. You guys were both gone. If you remember at that time. yep yeah And I was like the first one to come home and i very much felt like a failure to myself. I mean, no one around me fucking cares. I'm sure. But like, I felt like I blew it.
00:59:50
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blew the opportunity. I left the shop that I'd started and created and did all this wonderful shit. I left that and I couldn't go back to it because i went took this job that paid me two and a half times what I was getting. Yeah, exactly. yeah But then I came home and I'm like, I had to rebuild.
01:00:07
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Again, less of the homies around me. So I like... it was like a weird time period where all of a sudden now was figuring out what's next because I didn't want anything anymore.
01:00:19
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Like I wanted to have like a vehicle or like not worry about my, you know, lease. Yeah. no you cat a a swift mo um Yeah. marriage yeah I'd already started up my own business. i already got the dream job.
01:00:34
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And then all of a sudden I'm like at home, back in home. didn't like, I hadn't kept the momentum of like, my vibe or my mojo, my magnetism. I hadn't kept that up.
01:00:47
Speaker
I didn't really have a job for a minute. And I'm like, I don't really want anything here. i can't. So to answer this question, I was like, I'm still kind of figuring that out. Like, cause I can't take a pay cut yet. I'm like not in there yet.
01:01:06
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You know? So ah way of framing you are on the trajectory set. Yeah. when you got that job as a host at that barbecue joint.
01:01:19
Speaker
was that? it was at Butcher of the Boar. Butcher of the Boar, man. Super award-winning, can't-get-into restaurant. Right, but like when you got hired there, that kind of led you on the trajectory to where you're at right now.
01:01:32
Speaker
In a way, um because, yeah, I got hired there to host, and then within two weeks, I talked myself into a social and digital and food photography, which was rad. I mean, that that's me. Tucker, you let me tell you about something that fucking i'm my old boss no told me about Mom, is that...
01:01:53
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He said, he's like, I don't know what her fucking deal is, but they, mom and Doug, they always land on their feet. And that's the fucking truth, man. You fucking hit the pinnacle.
01:02:06
Speaker
You fucking move back. You started as a fucking host. Yeah. at You know, you fucking made it work and you figured it out. And next thing you know, you're making... What i I, stupid amounts of money. You're making stupid amounts of money.
01:02:21
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He can support his family if he needed to. but Fuck you. What he makes is a lot of fucking money. and No, no, no. it's It's money enough to support a family and a house and everything.
01:02:32
Speaker
yeah Well, not on my own, but yeah, I'm i'm fine. it's So it's not the money thing currently. That's not what I'm getting at here because I'm not driven by like, the the the thing is iss like, and Tyler found That it's doing really sick ass custom high performance cylinder heads and doing this machine work that's like it it works for him here. It works with for his personality. Like he's he's dude he's got it. Every hole he machines, he puts himself into.
01:03:08
Speaker
It's a really beautiful thing. No, Tucker, I think you're missing out. I think you're missing out on the point is that you have this innate ability to... It's the mailroom story.
01:03:20
Speaker
No, you fucking made it work. You started out in this thing that you were all in love with and you had homies. I'm not saying you skated through. you Pun intended. um You like fucking made it fucking happen because you knew it.
01:03:33
Speaker
You fucking lived and breathed it since the fucking hotspot years, man. Yeah. Yeah. so Then you got checked. You got you went back to fucking square one. And within a very short amount of time.
01:03:46
Speaker
You're back up again, man. Yeah. You're missing out on your ability to like. Pivot. Pivot hard. Yeah, i'm not what this is not a wine situation. It's more of a, like, I've been kind of directionless, sort of. And I can't answer this question myself, because, like, what I would like to do is not really, like...
01:04:06
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a job
01:04:10
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right and it's not like sitting on a beach like i'd never working like i love to work like it's a weird thing and i think that's ingrained in like i like to do a thing like to complete stuff like to make things but like i'm not driven anymore by like many specifics anymore I had a conversation with my father-in-law and and he was like, I was asking him kind
Self-Reflection and Future Planning
01:04:36
Speaker
similar. were having a philosophical discussion like this. Word. And I was asking him like, well, well what, I mean, you're retired now. Like what do you want to do? And he's like, I want to be a lion.
01:04:46
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I want to eat, sleep and fuck. That's an awesome. I was like, yeah. Okay. yeah Does he get to fulfill that?
01:04:58
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Uh, I think two out of three. He's probably the first two. Probably the first two is my guess. Yeah. I would, I would totally go back to school to learn how to be like a proper woodworker.
01:05:09
Speaker
I want to learn about fucking wood grain and tensile strength and the different kinds of joints and that kind of shit. And I want to learn how to make that. Dude, do you have a Yankee workshop? I feel comfortable around like basic like table saw, drill press, that kind of shit. like I feel good with that, but ah I feel like I don't have that core education. So I feel like that's something I would go back and do.
01:05:32
Speaker
Yeah, and that's on my list. I would totally be an end-of-life advocate. Really? I know someone who's starting a place out here, so if your life does fold, I got some... Dude, I...
01:05:43
Speaker
I would, that seems like a dream job to me. Like designing the best end of life for someone. Yeah. Like, it just sounds like you're planning the biggest party ever of their life. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:56
Speaker
Wow. That, that seems like a pretty special job. I would not have expected that from you. And like, if we, this, I, I love this podcast it for no other reason than like, I just learned that. That's fucking cool. I think that you would be good at it.
01:06:10
Speaker
It's hard to, it's hard to sometimes think about the things that you can be super good at that you could turn into a job. Right. Yeah. that's what's Tucker's problem right now is that you need to figure out what makes you happy and then figure out what job fits that category.
01:06:26
Speaker
That's a very good assignment. Yeah. Yeah. That's like the reverse engineering of a very logical way. i you know, yeah, there's, there's that part, which is the practical application of this question being answered and the energy that supports it. And then there's also just the like intuitively what is making sense anymore. yeah,
01:06:47
Speaker
If you started, so if I told somebody where you started from and where you're at now in the path, no one would ever correlate that together. Oh, It doesn't fucking make sense.
01:06:59
Speaker
Yeah. I've been asked to do panel discussions in front of 500 people about that. That proves the point that I was trying to make that you can't take a fucking compliment for is that you can make it fucking happen and- You need to fucking reverse it.
01:07:13
Speaker
Figure out what the fuck you want to do. Yeah. and And then go backwards and figure out need to where you what you need to do to get there. Yeah. And I'm not saying that's easy. It's not fuck yeah fucking terrible. And I don't know how you can – You can't reverse what you fucking did and try to map that out.
01:07:30
Speaker
Get younger. To bring it back a little bit, it's a reframing issue here that we're talking about. Mr. Pibb is the same wherever you get it. like yeah On a molecular basis, it's the fucking same.
01:07:43
Speaker
yeah We need you to look at your life and your past achievements over the past 10 years through the glass bottle because that's where they taste the best Yeah. You look at him through a dirty cafeteria cup. What he's saying is fucking stupid, but it's true.
Conclusion and Teaser for Future Topics
01:08:00
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It's absolutely true. Like, what is going to get you in the spot?
01:08:05
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word thanks for bringing us back there Tyler yep yep it's been like fucking four hours this podcast is like seven hours long at this point at least it is yeah all right so join us next week as uh we're at my second list no repeats not talking about pizza Jesus Christ yes but uh I think we're gonna talk a little bit about cars and Oh, yeah. I felt like ah I needed to relate to you guys. I just sold a car today, so.
01:08:39
Speaker
Jesus, you sell cars like I buy milk. The oldie? Yeah. You did? Facebook? Unfortunately. 74 people, I tell you.
01:09:00
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parents and stuff too so until then be well toodaloo