Transcript
Chris: do do do do do Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe podcast. I'm Chris.
fuckdabanks: And I'm wrong.
Chris: I give up. I don't know.
fuckdabanks: Maybe they've just gotten rid of the music.
Chris: like yeah Maybe. I don't know. it doesn't make But I clicked the button for it.
fuckdabanks: Oh, I don't know.
Chris: hu Whatever. ah I'm enjoying this nice warm day today.
fuckdabanks: Oh my God, it's great. And then it's gonna be 50 degrees and rainy tomorrow.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. this yeah death Stupid Smarch weather has bled into April.
fuckdabanks: Oh, it's almost May.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Which brings me to my first rant.
Chris: Yes!
fuckdabanks: So,
fuckdabanks: i my my bank card expires May, 2026, right? So it's supposed to be replaced in April, right?
Chris: Correct.
fuckdabanks: ah
Chris: Wait, now does it expire May 1st or May 31st?
fuckdabanks: So, well, we're goingnna find out in about five days.
Chris: Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
fuckdabanks: so today um on my list of to do things for the day gotta call the bank find out what's going with my bank card so first off my god it's this bullshit please enter your number but but but but has that ever made anybody's life better have you ever been happier after dealing with the automated bullshit system
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: No.
Chris: No.
fuckdabanks: that made your customer reaction better ever? Just let me pick the department I need to talk to and and I'll be on hold.
Chris: Yeah, no, not at all.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm okay. um umm ah I'm okay. Just be on hold. I do not want to go through the system of, I didn't understand what you said.
Chris: Or some of the places now that's like, yeah you'll be on hold if you'd like ah to hang up and we'll call you back, hit whatever. It's like, great. Call me back when you're ready.
fuckdabanks: Right.
Chris: Click.
fuckdabanks: Perfect. Either way, do not put me through this stupid pi or flowchart of crap because it's like, please tell me your ID number.
fuckdabanks: um I don't know what my ID number is. like I haven't called the bank. I don't know that I've ever called the bank before.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
fuckdabanks: So, so then it's like, it might be your social security number.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: So I enter my social security number. I did not register that Please enter social security And I'm not saying it. I'm typing it on the fucking pad, the dial pad, right?
Chris: ah Oh my gosh. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: So they go through that three times and it's like, please enter your PIN. I'm like, well, I'm assuming it's the same PIN as my bank card. Nope, that doesn't work.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. God. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Please enter your pin.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: That didn't work. Please enter your ID number. Oh my God. It was seven minutes of me just going great. And then it's like, I don't know my ID number. Just let me go to the next step. sounds of a pictures So seven minutes easy of that.
fuckdabanks: So now I called them at 12.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: So I'm like, i have to podcast it at one o'clock. I've got an hour to take care of this very minor question.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm literally calling the back to say, Hey, will my new debit card be here you know before the end of the month it's all i need at is yes or no so now it's 12 15 ish finally get through to somebody after being on hold for another you know eight ten minutes and and he's like all right well what's your your id number i'm like so i go i don't know if my id number is this but here's
Chris: Yeah. Yes or no. That's all I want.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: my social security number and he looks it up he's like oh yeah you're mr whismar blah blah blah verify and he's gonna send me a code and he sends me the code so he said he has my my name social security number and he has my phone number so clearly i am a customer of this bank i assume sends me the code i text i tell him what the number that comes up on the code is cool he's into my system and and he says how can i help you i said
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
fuckdabanks: My bank card is supposed to expire. I've not seen a new one. Usually I get them by now. And he's like, huh, your bank card, you say? like
Chris: bank card you say.
fuckdabanks: um um he like I'm like, yes, my my debit card that I use for your bank that I've had for 20 plus years is going to expire and needs to be replaced.
Chris: Hmm. Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: Is a new one coming? That's all I need.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: I don't and don't see that you have a bank card.
fuckdabanks: I'm sorry, while I'm holding it, it's
Chris: Yeah, sir, it's in my hands.
fuckdabanks: like, well, what's the numbers on the back? So I give him the you know the bank card number, and he's like, huh, I'll have to put you on hold.
Chris: Oh, Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: well this is ominous so then he puts me on hold and then he like five minutes later now we're like 12 30 i'm like oh my god i'm gonna be late to the podcast for this stupid yes or no question i could have drove to the bank and gotten a new card in the time that this is taken go there so he's like it's got me on hold at this point i'm doing yard work while i'm on hold of this guy
Chris: yeah
Chris: Oh, yeah, I mean.
fuckdabanks: So, you know, whatever. I wasted 30 minutes my life. i was like, get something done. So call he calls He comes back. He's like, Wisner. I'm like, yes. He said, what's the first four numbers of that bank card? I'm like, and it's this.
fuckdabanks: And he says, huh. I'm going to put you on hold again. I'm like, what the fuck is going on?
Chris: my God.
fuckdabanks: So I'm looking at my wife.
Chris: ah ah
fuckdabanks: I'm like, should we be concerned? What is going
fuckdabanks: So you find like five minutes later, he comes back. He's like, sir, I'm going to have to reach out to another associate of mine to see what they have to say about this situation. like, what is going on?
Chris: is yes or no
fuckdabanks: This is a yes or no question. Here is my bank card number. Here is my account number. What's going on? So like 20 minutes go by. So now it's like, 12 45 12 50 i was supposed to be done this phone call in five minutes he finally comes back he's like oh we've we've discovered the problem sir i'm like cool he's like he's like your your account is linked with your wife's account i said yes we share an account that's we've had we have a a joint account we've had the same account for 20 years well your bank card's not merged to that account well here was the money coming from then
Chris: yeah
Chris: enlighten me
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: Because I only have one account with this bank.
Chris: yeah but again where is the money going you're coming from
fuckdabanks: What are you talking about? It's not merged. He's like, well, I'm going to have to merge your card information with your bank. There's a bank account. I'm like, ah cool. going back to my original right but Going back to my original question, am I getting a new bank card?
fuckdabanks: He said, oh, yes, ah it should be there in a week to two weeks. But make sure you activate it before the end of the month.
fuckdabanks: I said, bud, the month ends in six days. What are you talking about? He's like, yeah, we' we'll make sure you get a your ah we'll get you your new card. I'm like, okay, but you just said make sure it's activated before the end of the month. he yeah, yeah, it'll work up until the end of the month. is Oh my God, I hope this card shows up on Monday or I'm going to be screwed.
fuckdabanks: Right,
Chris: Oh, you would think they would like overnight it.
fuckdabanks: right I'm like, and he was like, i i just the system didn't recognize that you had a bank card. I'm like, well, I want all that money that I've been spending back, please.
Chris: Yeah. No, what it is, is there somebody?
fuckdabanks: But it was...
Chris: Mildred, why were you shopping at so-and-so?
fuckdabanks: Right.
Chris: Why are all these but bills?
fuckdabanks: Why are you getting gas in Salisbury, Maryland? Where the hell is Salisbury, Maryland?
Chris: i don't know, Fred. Some poor guy got kicked out of his house. because Like, I knew you were doing something behind my back. You've been in Salisbury.
fuckdabanks: right this is crazy how did this i don't understand how it happened i don't understand what's been going on and it was legitimately 50 minutes to get a yes or no question answered
Chris: my God.
Chris: That you really didn't get an answer for.
fuckdabanks: no i just got an answer that will hope and pray that's that's the answer i got was you might get it good luck
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
fuckdabanks: And he was like, well, you can just go to the bank and they'll give you a card. I said, oh, I realized I could have done that and been done with this whole conversation.
Chris: Wait, so the card kit or the bank just prints cards?
fuckdabanks: Yeah, PNC will issue a card from the bank.
Chris: Oh, that's fancy.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Yeah. Of course, you have to find an office that's open because they've closed most of the branches.
Chris: Wait. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It's fun. It was great.
Chris: Yeah, you should. ha love that. no They're not listed. Really?
fuckdabanks: Yeah. when he was like And I looked at my wife and I'm like, they can't find my bank card information. She's like, what?
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: No, no. But this card might tap because i've not had I've never had a card to tap before. the The one I have now that's expiring is supposed to tap. It never worked.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. So maybe I'm stepping into the future and like I get to look forward to the figuring out what things are linked to my bank card that I have to, you know, fix.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Was there like an app that you can use also?
fuckdabanks: Oh, I don't use an app. No, there might be. i don't know.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. See, i I have the app for our bank because I don't know my PIN number. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Sure. ah What what are you doing the app?
Chris: That's just how I keep track of things. We don't use our debit card for anything. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Well, I only use my debit card.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm not a very good shopper.
Chris: We get the points and I don't know.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: I just do what I'm told. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: That's fair.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: We probably should be doing all that stuff. I just never do it.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I don't even have... I have a credit card that my wife has. Wait, we have a joint credit card account? I mean, I might have an account. Who knows? Like, I've not carried that credit card in years.
fuckdabanks: I've never even activated it, so... Cool.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah sure yeah
fuckdabanks: What am I buying?
fuckdabanks: Like... It's nothing? i don't know. Gas? Gas?
fuckdabanks: I wouldn't even go, i wouldn't even buy the ROFO rewards thing because I went in there and they were like, you need to do this, this, this, and this. I said, I'm going to stop you there.
Chris: nope yeah
fuckdabanks: I'm not doing any of those things.
Chris: Well, yeah, like they want you to link it to your bank account in some craziness.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: I'm like, no, no, I'll go to 7-Eleven where I punch my phone number in and that's it.
fuckdabanks: Exactly. That's, it's unfortunately for me, there's no 7-Elevens up here.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: So sometimes I suck the ROFO.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: ah Speaking of linked to your account, guess what the maniacs on my shift said to me the other day?
Chris: I don't know.
fuckdabanks: So I have the...
Chris: yeah Oh, is this somehow where did they link their mass and account to their bank account or something?
fuckdabanks: No,
Chris: cause i mean, I know that's a big thing out there is massing.
fuckdabanks: no, no.
fuckdabanks: but No.
Chris: Oh my gosh, I'm surprised that didn't come up today in their conversation.
fuckdabanks: That's only C-shift. That's the only shift that cares about Madison.
fuckdabanks: I'm surprised it hadn't...
Chris: I can't believe the union's not fighting for massing.
fuckdabanks: So we're sitting at dinner last shift, and we were just talking about, like, you know, I got two years left, and I'm retiring. And then I said, you know, and you are going to have to get your own Venmo card because I have the Venmo card for shift.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: They're like, no, you could you'll just leave it. I said, you think I'm going to leave my Venmo account linked to my bank account with you maniacs?
fuckdabanks: Negatory.
Chris: Yeah. I love you all, but no.
fuckdabanks: Negatory.
fuckdabanks: yeah negatory not gonna happen i was the it was a big step when i even got a venmo account and then my um maniac driver's like well just you'll get a zelle account and instead and use that i'm like what's zelle i don't even i don't know no yeah zelle is one ah cash app don't let me say this crap
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: What?
Chris: I thought you said Guzzel.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. What?
fuckdabanks: I'm still paying the pennies.
Chris: hey Yeah. Now that they are. Yeah. So do you think the penny will like increase in value because now they don't make them?
fuckdabanks: Uh, no.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I think there's still so many of them sitting around.
Chris: What?
Chris: Yeah. I saw something, or I heard something the other day they were like, I wonder if the nickel will be the next thing to be, you know, done away with because evidently it costs like nine cents to make a nickel or 12 cents or something crazy like that.
Chris: It's like, why, why are we still making currency?
fuckdabanks: why do we have any currency at all what what it costs us more money to make currency than the currency is worth yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right!
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: i also saw a crazy statistic the the global so the the whole world is in 300 trillion dollars of debt
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: How does it, how? To whom?
fuckdabanks: who like that was my question who do we owe this money to how does the planet earth oh and it's what did they say it's like 10 times the global gdp or something like that in debt
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah
Chris: Oh my gosh.
Chris: That's just further proof that this is a simulation or something.
fuckdabanks: yeah the the whole thing doesn't work yeah yeah
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Who do we owe this money to? I'm assuming the Martians.
Chris: It must be.
fuckdabanks: And what happens when they come to collect?
Chris: Maybe the lizard people. Yeah.
Chris: Oh my gosh. I, yeah, I don't get it.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I don't get any of it.
Chris: I, I,
Chris: Yeah, I saw you somebody was like, yeah, let's just do away with all currency and just, you go electronic. What if the power's out? Well, you can't buy a burrito for that hour.
fuckdabanks: can't buy anyways.
fuckdabanks: You can't buy a burrito when the power's out anyways.
Chris: God. Right. Yeah. I don't.
fuckdabanks: What are you going to do?
Chris: Yeah. I don't.
fuckdabanks: What are you using cash? And it's like the crazy people. Well, if the apocalypse happens, I'm going to need cash.
Chris: For what?
fuckdabanks: Who's going to take cash in the apocalypse? What is that worth?
Chris: Yeah. You are definitely going back to bartering and trading.
fuckdabanks: Right. Oh, you have these worthless pieces of paper? Uh, no.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: will not give you my food and or water for those.
Chris: Right.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. That's a ah fallout where you can find, you know, old currency or whatever. And it's, yeah, you use it for cloth in your yeah development.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, it's literally junk. Because it's worthless. Because it'll be worthless.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I think we've talked about this before, you know, the barter and trade. I didn't realize that was still a thing around here.
fuckdabanks: Well, there's always a thing everywhere, right?
Chris: But like for major projects, it's still a thing.
fuckdabanks: Oh, like what?
Chris: So like my stepdad did the architectural drawings for a hardware store, like for an add on and all this, and you did all this work on it.
Chris: Yeah. He did all that. and they're like, theyre like well yeah we'll give you you know two winter loads of pellets for your stove you know in exchange i'm like did you get a chicken out of it too or what the yeah mean it's like what this is seriously a thing and i talked to somebody else and they're like oh yeah yeah people do that all the time you're like oh yeah you built that garage for me here's my boat it's like what i mean i guess there's a cash value attached to that but
fuckdabanks: And three shiny beads.
Chris: What?
fuckdabanks: I mean, basically what you're talking is your stepfather is is trading in futures.
Chris: I'll give you my firstborn son.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: He's hoping the value of you know pellets goes up, not down.
Chris: I guess. I don't know. It's just.
fuckdabanks: But also, how much is so as a winter's load of pellets worth?
Chris: I don't know.
fuckdabanks: Can't be that much, right?
Chris: i guess if it's a cold winter.
fuckdabanks: I mean...
Chris: it But again, it was that. It wasn't like, oh you know, it was X amount of tons. It was oh so many winters worth.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Like next winter you have like a winter where it's 70 degrees all winter. Then what?
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: You get screwed.
Chris: yeah Yeah. Yeah. Well, the woolly, the woolly bear caterpillar shows that it's going to be.
fuckdabanks: It's fair. That's what I hear all the time. It was the coldest winter in a long time and I don't think I even used any firewood this year.
Chris: God.
fuckdabanks: Because,
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: you know, I have heat.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah that's insulation
fuckdabanks: And most days I was still turning the heat off because the house is so hot.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: yeah which yeah yeah yeah side tangent i know you don't watch it well it doesn't affect you anyway i was watching the county council meeting the other day and the state delegates representatives or whatever were making their you know after the what is it cindy or whatever
fuckdabanks: Crazy insulation I put in.
Chris: the legislative day in Maryland. And the one guy was talking, he's like, yeah, you know, we really need to look more into renewable energy and stuff like that. But I'm sticking to it. I'm a hundred percent against wind offshore. I'm like, why?
Chris: Give me one good reason.
fuckdabanks: It gives birds cancer, I hear, from... from
Chris: I talked to somebody the other day. It's like, yeah, but there's such an eyesore. I said, you realize they are 10 miles away.
fuckdabanks: yeah You can't see that far away.
Chris: Can you see 10 miles away? Because if you can, Superman, you need to go somewhere else.
fuckdabanks: If you can, that means the curvature of the Earth has been proven wrong.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
fuckdabanks: That means horizons don't work.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: And there's...
Chris: yeah Well, ah it'll impact the yeah the fishing community. No. If anything, I've talked to people that are like, yeah, it'll give you a place to find fish because there will be artificial reefs.
fuckdabanks: Right. There'll be places where the fish gather, just like the oil derricks down south where they all the fish are.
Chris: Yeah. It's just, yeah. Yeah. Right.
fuckdabanks: have They have wind turbines and in PA up in the hills. They don't look terrible.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: mean, they're not they're big. They look worse than a coal plant.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't get black lung from them.
fuckdabanks: You're right. And the ah the nuclear power plant across the river is not really the most, you know,
fuckdabanks: beautifying aesthetic in the world.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it just, they said that and then somebody said that yeah and they keep you know gobbling up all this farmland for these solar things and i was surprised one of the other delegates was like well yeah because these farmers are getting paid not to grow crops anyway so why shouldn't they sell it for you know solar arrays it's like why are we you know paying them not to
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: forgotten
fuckdabanks: Why do we have parking lots that aren't covered in solar panels?
Chris: yeah well it's like and the one guy said he was like you know any municipal building should have solar yep so the solar panels are dangerous
fuckdabanks: Why are there firehouses without solar panels on the top?
fuckdabanks: Yeah, yeah, it's fair.
Chris: ah
fuckdabanks: Well, it's like that moron that that the from the state who came to teach that class, and he's like, well, if a bus with solar panels flips over, you're going to real problem.
Chris: um
fuckdabanks: If a bus without solar panels flips over, you're going to have a real problem.
Chris: Rail pro. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. His fear tactics for lithium ion. I was just. Whatever.
fuckdabanks: Right.
Chris: Okay. Grandpa. Good. Thank you.
fuckdabanks: Also, if a combustion oven engine blows up in your face, also bad.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: yeah The maniac.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: The maniac's like, gasoline's safe. hu
Chris: no
fuckdabanks: Catches fire all the time. Car fires happen on the regular.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah and we just let it burn away
fuckdabanks: Lithium ion, not so much. You know, it's fine. You just let it burn away. Which, to be fair, and this is coming from a firefighter, almost everything we do, we could just let it burn away.
fuckdabanks: Almost everything we do.
Chris: yeah almost yeah oh my gosh yeah ah yeah a toe away
fuckdabanks: Every car fire we have put out, what have we created?
fuckdabanks: Right, a hot mess.
Chris: Yeah, nobody has said, yeah, well, Bondo, and that'll be back on the road.
fuckdabanks: Because we just... Right. Yeah. Every car fire we have put out, most houses, i mean, you can save a little bit of it, but they're basically getting knocked down these days.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Especially like newer houses, they're just going to knock that shit down.
Chris: Oh, yeah, yeah.
fuckdabanks: know These stick-together glue houses,
Chris: Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: they're not saving those things.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: yeah the The houses on Snowhoe Road, that new neighborhood that's going Snowhoe Road, but they went from nothing, I was like, man, these guys are taking forever on this site, to I drove by last shift and there's, what, five rows of townhouses completely up.
Chris: Oh my gosh, that I blinked and they were there.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm like, what the fuck happened? How does that
Chris: Yeah. Well, it's because we got that little bit of rain, so they were able to grow a lot in that time.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, it's great.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: huh
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: yeah well ready for topic one all
fuckdabanks: Sure. And my topic is, it's going be that I'm an idiot. I'm going to preface that, but the future sucks.
Chris: right uh-oh yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: Everything about the future sucks. I've been thinking about this like a lot lately. We lived through a great time of the internet being awesome. but You and I, we had we had Napster, we had file sharing, we had just YouTube that you could watch without fucking watching ads every three seconds.
Chris: Oh my god. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: We had Amazon Prime, service I pay for that then wants me to pay more money to not have ads now.
Chris: Oh.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Or the only service I really watch anymore is WH or is um PBS. I know you have the PBS ad or whatever.
Chris: Yeah. OK.
fuckdabanks: They still put stupid ads for PBS. Like, please donate money. I'm literally paying for your service.
Chris: Do they still do like the telethon?
fuckdabanks: I don't know if they do the telethon, but they still put those ads in front of their videos.
Chris: Uh-oh.
fuckdabanks: It's like, you sons of bitches.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm paying for this.
fuckdabanks: So, My number one I'm an idiot moment of probably... i think I've peaked and it's all downhill from here. So Wednesday, tuesday I'm at work.
fuckdabanks: Wasn't really feeling like eating my soup for lunch. I looked at my nozzle and I said, hey, you getting lunch? And she said, yeah, yeah, I want to get lunch. said, pick something and we'll go. she So she we're coming back from giving out prizes to the kids at Blazer Trail.
Chris: mm-hmm
fuckdabanks: And she's like, let's go to pliables. I'm like, yeah, okay, that's fine. It's not really food, but if it works.
Chris: yeah yes it is food yeah
fuckdabanks: It's fine. It's like a snack.
fuckdabanks: But anyways, i wasn't really hungry, and I was like, oh, that's perfect. So she's like, we get like halfway down Beaglin, and she goes, are you going to order online? i like i was I was like, I wasn't going i was just going to walk in there and order my food like and a human being should.
fuckdabanks: But then she's like, well, if you order online, it'll be ready by the time you get there. So I'm like, all screw it. I'll order it online. So I Google. This is what I type into Google.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Pliables, Salisbury, Maryland.
Chris: Yes.
fuckdabanks: Right?
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Assuming that the first thing that would come up when you Google Pliables, Salisbury, Maryland would be pliable the Salisbury Maryland store so it says order now and I'm like click I don't even really look I just I know what I've googled and I click order now and I'm like all right so I go through and I finish my order and I pay for it and it says something and it says the address 2312 North Salisbury Boulevard and I said
Chris: The Salisbury store.
Chris: Yep.
fuckdabanks: Are there two pliables? said, no, there's just the one down south.
Chris: No.
fuckdabanks: I'm like, well, I just ordered from something that's on North Salisbury Boulevard.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: So I get the email, and um it says, build your own bowl. I'm like, what the fuck is... What the...
Chris: What? Yeah.
fuckdabanks: What the... What? So I call the pliables. I'm like, hey, did you get an order from me? And they're like, no, er no no order here. And I'm like, all right.
fuckdabanks: So I call this Buildable, or whatever heard of.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: It's apparently in the mall. like And I call the phone number, and it's like some dude's like, hello?
Chris: Uh.
fuckdabanks: I'm like, this a is this a personal felt sofa? What's going on here? And the guy's like, oh, Buildable, yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh, this is super shady.
fuckdabanks: I'm like, hey, did you just get an order for Ron? And they're like yeah yeah, yeah, I'm like, cancel that order, please. So what happened, and I googled it again to make sure it happened and showed other people why what I did, was I googled pliable Salisbury, and we can all play this little experiment home, and the first thing that popped up was not pliable Salisbury.
Chris: ah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
fuckdabanks: It was buildable Salisbury, Maryland. What the fuck world are we living in i'm now officially an old man who doesn't know how to use the internet yeah yeah he's googling right now folks
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: I am. Yeah. Oh, mine came up with flyables.
fuckdabanks: oh well i did it twice and came up let's see
Chris: Wait.
Chris: These are results for Twin Bells. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, mine comes up as build your own bowl sponsored.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Huh.
fuckdabanks: And then it comes up pile of bowls. So
Chris: Oh, you know why? Because I'm using, what you call it, Safari, not Google. Yeah, that's probably why. Because, yeah, they pay Google for a sponsored ad. Oh.
fuckdabanks: so it's literally hijacking my thing.
Chris: That's, that is. that yeah that's that's no yeah and why didn't your your phone should know
fuckdabanks: The future sucks. but the I could say, i could understand if I Googled bowl, fruit bowl place Salisbury, but I literally Googled pliables Salisbury, Maryland.
Chris: yeah like yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah that would be like googling you know domino's pizza salisbury and it's like Papa John's.
fuckdabanks: Right, exactly.
Chris: No, I said Domino's.
fuckdabanks: It's wrong. The internet sucks. The future is terrible.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, it's.
fuckdabanks: They've ruined it.
Chris: we
Chris: What's the thing? It's all the algorithms and everything and the learning. It's yeah. It should be smarter than it is, but it's not.
fuckdabanks: It's not.
Chris: No.
fuckdabanks: I can tell you I'm not smarter. I'm dumber.
Chris: Well, I mean, this was
Chris: uh 16 years ago but i my oldest we were you know trying to figure out pre-k and we had heard all these great things about asbury's pre-k center so i was like ah yeah i will adult i'll take care of this i get on the computer asbury pre-k it comes up i'm looking at all this stuff i'm yep yep yep go through fill out all the paper you know online paperwork sent all right i get to work the next shift and somebody's like yeah I was like yeah, we're going Asbury. And they're like, oh yeah, when's the, uh, the, um, like, uh, raffle or whatever. was like, the what?
Chris: They're like, yeah, people like, you know, line up in that morning and you know, you've gotta be selected. It's a very, you know, crazy thing. i was like, we'd have to do that. I just went online and it's done. I've got my confirmation.
Chris: So come home, talk to my wife. She's like yeah, for the same thing, you know people have to stand in line. It's this lottery thing, dah, dah, dah, dah. I was like, no, pull it up. And she's like, oh, yeah. She says, you just signed us up for Asbury, West Virginia.
Chris: So my daughter was going to go to pre-K out in West Virginia somewhere. But again, why would why why should that happen?
fuckdabanks: Right. Yeah.
Chris: It knows my location. why would i why why Why would I want to go two states over?
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Yeah. It's telling you, man, we've screwed up the future.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It sucks. It's terrible. I thought we were going to be driverless cars. I figured I, I was sure. Sure.
fuckdabanks: I've had this conversation conversation many times. i was like, before the end of my career in Salisbury, i will there will be driverless cars. I will just get in my car. It'll drive me to Salisbury.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: Then you find out that the one time there's driverless cars, it's literally dudes in India working in for remote.
Chris: is that what waymo is i did not know that huh because i was talking to the fire chief about that the other day because we left a meeting at su and there were the little grubhub robots he was like what are those i said oh yeah i said you know the grubhub drops it off here and it takes it to the door you know whoever sets you know
fuckdabanks: Apparently, yes.
fuckdabanks: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: Mm-hmm.
Chris: he was like, how do they control it? I said, well, it just, it knows where to go. Cause it's GPS. You know, I say, it's kind of like, you know, the driverless car. He's like, ah, I'm not getting on the, you know, in of those Wemo or Waymo, whatever cars, there needs to be a driver up there.
Chris: I'm like, I might try it. But now that hear that's just some maniac with an RC controller. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Basically, yes. Yeah. Which... I think I'm okay with. Just try minute, Salisbury.
Chris: Yeah. but yeah like you said yeah judge dread showed us or not judge read a demolition man yeah where's yeah no no no johnny cabs were uh total recall yeah yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: Man, yeah. Johnny Cavs. We supposed to have...
fuckdabanks: Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah. Still, don't recall. Johnny Cavs. We were supposed to have that. We were supposed to have a better internet.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: The internet was supposed to like educate everybody and make everybody smarter.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: We're now like you know the next generation after our generation is the dumbest generation in years.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: and the
Chris: Well, it's cause you have to vet everything because I mean,
fuckdabanks: You do have to vet everything. Did you know that if you if you bring it down by $600, it's 600% how math works.
Chris: yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's how that works. If you raise something that's $10 up to 16, 600 and then you move it back.
fuckdabanks: it's all math or
Chris: Yeah, no, no, no. Um, yeah. But I mean, that was the thing, like when we were in college, if we were doing a research article or something like that, we were, you know pulling books and i didn' I didn't have to worry about if the book I had in my hand was factual or not.
fuckdabanks: Right. Well, even even that, like on the history side, i thought you were supposed to trust but verify books.
Chris: I mean.
fuckdabanks: If you use this source, you had to use different source to verify that. So, you
Chris: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You had have doubles horses and all that. they That's why during research you had to have at least, don't know, some classes it was three, but yeah it was always an odd number.
fuckdabanks: because and now any asshole can put shit on the internet you know people just like oh yeah that's fair it's like and I think the the the worst part of it is it's driven by people's distrust right like people genuinely distrust what they're told so therefore they just start believing that the earth is flat and it's crazy
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah. yeah
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: it's it's crazy
Chris: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah what's it or you know they google something it's like oh you know i've got i don't know a detached retina and they you know google it and it's like oh you know six percent of people their eyes fall out it's like oh my eyes are gonna fall out it's like that's not how that works oh yeah yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: I also thought we would...
fuckdabanks: Right, and yet, and it's always cancer. It's always cancer.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: Got a cough? That's cancer.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: Well, that's, I mean, to thank God I never went into medicine, right? Like that was on a list of things that I could have done. But could you imagine being a doctor in 2026?
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Like it has got to be terrible because everyone everyone thinks they're informed.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: They're not informed.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: They think they're informed.
Chris: Right.
fuckdabanks: There's a big difference between being informed and thinking you're informed.
Chris: Oh yeah. yeah Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: And it's got to be terrible.
Chris: Yeah. But, and part of it though, I blame the system a little bit because i mean, it just happened to me recently. I went and I got blood work drawn on a Wednesday.
Chris: come Thursday afternoon, i get notification. Your lab results are in my chart. I'm like, so see, I can go into my chart and look at my results with no input from my doctor or anything.
Chris: And then Google what those are.
fuckdabanks: And no context of what the hell that means.
Chris: and then, yeah, it yeah.
fuckdabanks: yep
Chris: I said, it should go to the doctor and the doctor say, yep, they can go ahead and look at this or nope. We're going to talk about it next week. Or, hey, here it is. And I'm going to write a little blurb about it.
Chris: No, no, that's because sometimes too much information is too much.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It's also like The whole nurse practitioner thing in medicine has ruined everything.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: like Like, I don't want to take this away from nurses, but you're not doctors.
Chris: Right.
fuckdabanks: You're not trained like doctors. You're not like it'd be the same as me being like, I'm ah i'm a paramedic practitioner.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Like that's that's not a thing because like you're trained differently than a doctor.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: and i want you i want a doctor to interpret things for me you know i want that seven plus years of of school before they even go to residency i want that stuff because it's important but now we've had this system where it's like no that's not you know who sees a doctor these days yeah that's it's rough yeah i just like i thought the future
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Chris: Right. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. because part of that is because of... the healthcare shortage and, oh, well we can churn out an MP and half the time it takes for a DO.
Chris: So let's do it.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. um it's it's It's always like so the the one thing I would say about it like when when i was ah when we had EMTIs and paramedics, it's like EMTIs are taught to do.
Chris: I.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Paramedics are taught to ask why.
Chris: Right.
fuckdabanks: Right? Like that's the difference between nurse practitioner and a doctor to me.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It's like a nurse practitioner just does.
Chris: Yeah. Yep.
fuckdabanks: A doctor says, wait a second, let me interpret this and think of why this is different than just, it's not all cancer.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: you know I've had the problem like i've had the the problem with the nurse practitioner at work.
Chris: It's a
fuckdabanks: like She makes statements and I'm like, I've i've talked to my doctor about this.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: your're your're You're interpreting one bit of data without looking at the whole problem.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah right
fuckdabanks: you know Don't be involved. Your job is literally, do I meet these markers for NFPA? That's it.
Chris: yeah yeah will i die if i can you know go to work tomorrow yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: I don't do anything more than that.
fuckdabanks: Right. it That's your job. But it's it's a, man. I just thought the future, the only thing that has sort of been good for me in the future is my Kindle with Kindle Limited. That's kind of the only thing that I can think that's slightly better.
Chris: Hmm. Yeah, but is. Is it storefront as loaded with crap as others?
fuckdabanks: yeah
Chris: Because it seems like there's so much shovelware out there, too.
fuckdabanks: well on the kino limited like the one like my kino because i have the paperweight it literally is just books there's nothing else so you don't get any extra you just might get books you don't you're not interested in you know just fine but like music is worse right and in the in the 2000s when we had napster and music sharing it was so much better than it is now now
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: That way until you get a virus in your computer.
fuckdabanks: it did happen but now i have to i pay for pandora to still listen to ads for pandora while i have my pandora and i have to listen to the same like 14 songs in rotation it's terrible yeah i keep saying i'm gonna switch over because everybody says spotify is better but still it's all i'm sure it still sucks i'm sure it stand it's not as good as it was
Chris: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Chris: Wow, see, Spotify is not like that. Oh, hi yeah.
Chris: Yeah. ah Yeah. Well, my Spotify algorithm is probably all jacked up now because a buddy of mine put in a group message. He's like, oh yeah, check out this, you know, song. And I usually ignore everything he puts like that. i was like now I'll listen to it. Oh my, is the worst garbage ever. I was like, great. Spotify is going to think I like this now. So yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Everything, everything sucks.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I just want to go back into a, I also thought like we would solve the housing problem, right? Like i thought we would just fix that shit.
Chris: But there are solutions. It's just people don't want to do it. What is it? Like the number of vacant dwellings far exceeds the number of unhoused humans.
fuckdabanks: Oh, totally. 100%.
Chris: So yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: We just refuse to solve those issues.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Well, look, there are some, and we've come across them in our careers. There's people that like to be unhoused.
fuckdabanks: sure that That is true. There are those people.
Chris: But yeah.
fuckdabanks: I'm not even talking about it. I'm not even talking more about the fact that people can't afford housing.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Well, yeah.
fuckdabanks: You know, like ah a one-bedroom apartment in Salisbury is $1,900 a month.
Chris: Yeah. Well, i
Chris: That's craziness.
fuckdabanks: You know, it's insane.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It's Salisbury.
Chris: Well, I heard a developer the other day and they're like, I can't believe that you're going to build townhouses instead of, you know, single families. And he was like, well, I can build townhouses and sell them in the twos or a single family.
Chris: I've got a listed at like three and a half because it's ridiculous out there. And it's like, that's the problem. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: yeah
Chris: But the good thing is, that I mean, the diesel that they put in the trucks to drive it over there is like, what, a dollar a gallon now?
fuckdabanks: Why are we still using diesel?
Chris: hu Yeah. ah Yeah, that's a, yeah. Oh, side tangent to that. I forgot to tell you about this the other day. So yesterday, yeah, there was an alert two at the airport.
fuckdabanks: I heard what I saw.
Chris: Yeah. Oh yeah. All kinds of things. yeah We're trying to figure out what the hell goes to this because of course they can't dispatch units.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. hello
Chris: So we're like, pretty much everything goes like, all right. I was like, I'll take the air utility. I looking at the matrix. element I don't think i was supposed to go, but whatever. So we get out there. I just pull up to, or get close to the airport and they cancel all units, vehicles down, dah, dah. I'm like, okay. I so looking, I was ah, just under three quarters. I'll go fill up. I'll be a nice guy.
Chris: So I go come back through town. I pull to the Rofo there at Snow Hill Road. There is one diesel pump there.
fuckdabanks: There's two.
Chris: Well, on either side. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: The other side, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. So the outside, there was a construction trailer and he's filling up like, know, he's got a skid loader and all kinds of stuff. I'm like, okay. um I go to pull in and this will pick up zips in front of me and pulls to the other diesel pump.
Chris: I'm like, well, he has to be getting diesel because there are seven other empty pumps. He gets out, opens a little hatch to his truck. There is you know tailgate and gets this little racket or ratchet little can out with no neck, no cap owner, or whatever sets it down. I'm like, ah, maybe he's getting diesel for like his farm implements at home or something.
Chris: And he starts fiddling with the machine and I see him get the regular gas nozzle. I was like, you son of so i set my air brake. I'm just sitting there. And the guy looks at me and just kind of smile.
Chris: The construction guys that are filling their stuff up, he looks over, sees this guy filling up this little one gallon gas can, looks at that, looks at me, looks back at the guy. And I had my window down because it was a halfway decent day. And this guy goes, man, you're an asshole and points at me. And the guy's like, oh, and he like slams the nozzle in, throws it in the back of his truck. I'm sure he threw gasoline everywhere and drives away.
fuckdabanks: nice yeah yeah
Chris: So yeah, I pull up, I start to fill up yeah with diesel. I'm like, thanks, bud. And he's like, people are idiots. It's like, true dat.
Chris: But yeah yeah, why aren't more things natural gas or electric or whatever?
fuckdabanks: because because of the people right who live near you
Chris: yeah what No, it's because big petroleum's in everybody's pockets.
fuckdabanks: Well, that also true. It's that's bonkers. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. I used to think that we would figure out all this shit out, but it turns out, like, we we can figure that. Like, a scientist could come out tomorrow be like, I have solved all the world's problems, and there would still be people like, no, I can't do...
Chris: Yep.
Chris: Yeah. yeah tu tap tu That's fake.
fuckdabanks: That's hippie DEI bullshit.
Chris: fake news.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. You're woke.
fuckdabanks: Woke. Ugh. Ugh.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yeah But then if the thing is also that we come up with some solutions, but then we don't put safeguards in effect around them.
fuckdabanks: Well, I think really the robot overlords need to take over.
Chris: Like, well, like, well, yeah. Yeah. Well, eight e-bikes.
Chris: what What are the, what are the regulations for an e-bike in some places?
fuckdabanks: Well, there are some technically. it's up Well, no, there's technically national laws about e-books, but people don't follow them.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. How many times have you seen somebody on an e-bike with a helmet?
fuckdabanks: Every time I'm online.
Chris: and And I'm saying John Q. Public.
fuckdabanks: Not many of them.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. How many of them are staying in the bike lane and you know, following the rules?
fuckdabanks: I live in the state of idiots on motorcy. Well, that too.
Chris: Every morning I go to work, well, most mornings, there's this guy going down the middle, you know, the suicide lane with no helmet, zipping down 13, smoking a cigarette.
fuckdabanks: Nice.
Chris: I'm like, dude, you're going to die. I, but if I turn my lights on or something, you know might scare him and then he flip and yeah.
fuckdabanks: Great.
Chris: So, but it's just like, I was talking a friend of mine in California. He said that now it's, I said like a 10 mile an hour limit in most places for the e-bikes in like in towns and stuff.
fuckdabanks: California passed a rule that's going to be capped at 18 mile an hour total, I believe.
Chris: And. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. Well, and if it's like, if it's a minor, like after the third offense, the parents get fines. And he said this one kid like took out this old man in his walker as he was on his e-bike and his mom is looking at five to 10 years in jail.
fuckdabanks: Whew.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Oof, that's rough.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, but it's like, there's gotta be consequences or else, you know? Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, I don't disagree, it's just that it's rough.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Well, shouldn't let little Johnny ride around on his e-bike.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, that's fair. um i think the e-bike thing is a ah big issue because people are now... Some of these e-bikes do like 50 miles an hour.
Chris: Oh, yeah, yeah.
fuckdabanks: You know, that's not a that's not a bike.
Chris: Well, yeah, it will that end. I mean, you can. What is it if you switch the way the batteries are in it and you put them in series instead of tandem? it gives you more power.
fuckdabanks: ah Don't do that, folks. This is our friendly deminer to not do that.
Chris: Yeah, no, no, no, absolutely not.
fuckdabanks: but
Chris: No, I mean, it well, it will cause thermal runaway quite a bit, but yeah, but, like but again, there's people that try this stuff and that's yeah.
fuckdabanks: right Do not tamper with the e-bike batteries ever.
Chris: but It's also, you have the people that charge their e-bike in their living room.
fuckdabanks: That is also crazy.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: i I'm even... And I have... good e-bikes with great chargers, like I bought the you know the ones that are correct.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: I'm still thinking about moving them out to the shed so that you know they're away from the house. I think about, too, even like my power tools, I don't leave the batteries on the charger. I charge them, take them off the battery.
fuckdabanks: Take them the charger.
Chris: yep yeah i've started doing that yeah yeah i usually just take my hammer and hit them really hard off the charger to send them across the way no don't do that don't do that folks
fuckdabanks: Yeah. It's just not worth the risk to me.
fuckdabanks: That works. but
Chris: ah
fuckdabanks: And then I dip them in water.
Chris: uh yeah
fuckdabanks: Done with them. Well, the future sucks. I'm an idiot and we should move on to topic two.
Chris: you're not an idiot shit happens yours was just food i almost set my daughter two states away so yeah guess depending on how you go yeah i didn't look to see where in west virginia was
fuckdabanks: I would definitely, I felt like an idiot.
fuckdabanks: It's only one state, technically.
fuckdabanks: You can get to West Virginia from Maryland.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. um Topic two. So the other day, i was going to a lacrosse game for my daughter, and it was up in Caroline County.
Chris: So I reached out to my parents. I was like, hey, I'm actually going to go right by your guys to get here, get to the school. You want me a pick you up, and we'll go to the game together. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: So I go by the elementary school. And there was a mile long, let ah a bunch of cars waiting for the car rider lane.
fuckdabanks: This is in Sharptown?
Chris: Yeah. Or yeah, well, Mardella, but yeah.
fuckdabanks: How do people go to that school?
Chris: But that's the thing. So I was like, well, they obviously don't have buses anymore. And I go by and I see like five buses in the parking lot, you know, waiting for children. It got me thinking, it's like, and I remember,
Chris: You know, talking to some other people, and I mean, I live next or near a primary school and there's a lot of car riders there. it seems like there are more car riders than ever in schools. And are are we doing kids a disservice by doing that? Because I think. Well, i mean, I know social interaction is a huge thing, but I think the school bus was another big part of social interaction and, you know, learning about different age groups and hierarchies and things like that. i mean
fuckdabanks: As someone who doesn't have kids, I'm well-versed and qualified to weigh in on this. i think y'all are fucking up every kid.
Chris: yes yeah yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: I think some of the the nonsense that I see that we're doing to these kids is bonkers. Like, people who are my age grew up the same way I did. I'm assuming similar-ish.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: and then treat their children as if they're precious eggs that can never be out of their sight. It's crazy.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Like, I can remember,
fuckdabanks: i mean, I walked, I had this conversation not too long at work ago at work. I'm like, I walked to school, right?
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I walked to and from school, or if I didn't feel like walking that day, up it was, up yeah, because I live in a valley.
Chris: Uphill both ways. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: But, um, ah Or I would take the school bus. like i would never My parents never drove me to school unless something weird was going on.
Chris: Well, the only time, yeah, like, yeah, or like I had a dentist appointment that morning and they had to take me afterward.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Right. Something like that.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: But other than that, it was walked or or take the bus.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: And i I don't understand. I mean, I see it too. Like I see the maniacs pulling into the school like a lot because like we have a school in my neighborhood and they have they have to have two driveways for the school now.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: yeah yeah
fuckdabanks: There's a driveway for the buses to get around and there's a driveway for the maniacs who want to drop off precious Timmy and Tommy. It's like, your kid will be fine.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: And I see people who live in my neighborhood who drive their kid to school.
Chris: Shut up there now.
fuckdabanks: Yes. Yes.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
fuckdabanks: Insane.
Chris: Well, I guess yeah we have that too. I mean, there are people that sit at the end of our neighborhood in their cars. And as soon as little Timmy gets off the bus, they get in the car and drive across the neighborhood.
fuckdabanks: It...
Chris: That's ridiculous.
fuckdabanks: What?
Chris: I could see if it's like a monsoon outside.
fuckdabanks: It...
fuckdabanks: No! Little Timmy gets wet. Who cares? It's fine.
Chris: ah yeah. well Yeah. Hmm.
fuckdabanks: Give rain jacket. The... What? The school... The high school, I'm so some'm similar to high school kids, and then like the the charter bus school, they all come and they have a parking they have a bus stop at the end of my street.
fuckdabanks: And all the parents sit there in the mornings and let their kids sit in their cars. I used to sit at the goddamn bus stop in three degree weather. It didn't matter.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: What are you doing to these kids that you're just like, you can't be... outside for two minutes by yourself you can't have i mean used we used to sit at the bus stop and you'd sit there and chit chat you know talk to your friends and then you you didn't have your parents around while you were at the bus stop
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that's what you it's not teaching them figure out. figure it out
fuckdabanks: yeah you have to figure out how to interact with people like
Chris: Figure that out. Figure out what you're going to do because it's raining today. Figure out, you know, oh, it's hot, so I need to find shade. and No, it's.
fuckdabanks: hey the the school bus stop is a five minute walk away and uh i gotta be there in 10 minutes well i guess you better figure out ass moving right like it's part of the deal yeah i feel like i was self reliant to get to the school bus stop like hey you need to be at school this is and then when i got a car it was like hey you need to be at school at this time make sure you get your ass to school like
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. um
fuckdabanks: there was no oh my wake yep put you your car i don't know how people do it because like don't you have jobs you have to go to and and like i know some buses won't let you like they won't let the kids off the bus unless the parents there which is crazy like what the apartment complex marley manor and work i see the school bus pull up there and it's like every every kid that comes off there's got to be a parent to get that kid to
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: great yeah
fuckdabanks: Let them walk around the apartment complex. Who cares?
Chris: he Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: You're not responsible for them. Once they're off your bus, you ain't their problem no more.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah. You're just, you are literally, you're the UPS driver for kids.
fuckdabanks: Right.
Chris: You pick up at point A and you drop them at point B.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: You know, as a, as a outsider this conversation, because i don't have kids, I have no skin this game.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: It has always drove me nuts, this like helicopter world where like kids can never be on their own. It's,
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: And then I see some my friends' kids who now 16, 17 years old, and they're like, don't know what to do with this They're like, yeah, because the kid doesn't know what to do about anything.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: This kid has no self-reliance. He's going to go to college and not know how to do laundry.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Like, what's what's your plan then?
Chris: Yeah. But there is somebody at our work whose child is about to go to college and he still makes his lunch for him every day.
fuckdabanks: my God.
Chris: Yeah, exactly.
fuckdabanks: Why? why
Chris: exactly yeah
fuckdabanks: At the point where the kid's supposed to go to college, they should be making your lunch.
Chris: he and I was like, i was like, well, Right. And I was like, well, you know, um I guess you know they're doing laundry and stuff. No, we do that.
Chris: I'm like, what is this little prince doing? Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Right. What are you going to do when this kid has a job?
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: You know, I had my friend's kid is a junior in high school, and they're having, I kind of want him get a summer job. I said, then make him get a summer job.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
fuckdabanks: His mom doesn't want to have anything he won't like, because then he won't have a job ever again. I'm like, I haven't liked any of my jobs. I currently don't like my job. I still go to work.
fuckdabanks: What the fuck are you talking
Chris: Yeah. One of my first jobs was sweating my ass off out in a field, picking various vegetables and fruits.
fuckdabanks: And you know what that taught you? That you don't want to do that job.
Chris: I, that, yeah. So I bettered myself and didn't do it again.
fuckdabanks: that Right. Right. Yeah. i
Chris: ah
fuckdabanks: To be fair, I don't think I've liked a job since I was a bagel baker.
Chris: ah
fuckdabanks: Such a great job.
Chris: god i mean thinking back when i was an engine driver
fuckdabanks: Yeah. It's still a hush. Like just working for the department is stressful.
Chris: yeah it is yeah
fuckdabanks: Like, I was a bagel baker. Like, there was no stress. Or I was a caddy. That was great. Except all the pricks you had to deal with. rick answers But you you had to have a job so that you knew, oh, I don't want to do this.
Chris: yeah
fuckdabanks: Like, my dad was very clear, like, you're going to go work at Dunkin' Donuts and going realize you don't want to work at Dunkin' Donuts the rest your life. So you're going to have education.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah it's yeah that's like i was talking
fuckdabanks: You do something in your goddamn life.
fuckdabanks: You want toughen up kids, they're like, hey, go lay bricks for the summer. You will never work. You will never skip school again. promise you.
Chris: right yeah oh yeah yeah yeah it's just well you talk about like the um yeah the figure it out like yeah i love my youngest to death but she you know i was like hey you know You have to be somewhere at x amount of time. Yeah. but According to the map, it takes 10 minutes to get there.
Chris: was like, cool. What if there's a car broken down on the way? What if the car won't start? What if there's a traffic exit? What if there's a, you know all these other things, well, i guess I'll be late. I was like, no, this is why you build in buffer times.
Chris: You've got to figure it the hell out.
fuckdabanks: Right, and also if you're 10 minutes, if you're just on time, you're 10 minutes late.
Chris: oh
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. And i was like, and also that 10 minutes doesn't count walking down to the car, locking the door, getting out, starting the car, drive it, you know, getting there, walking up to the building, walking inside, all that stuff takes time. Yeah.
Chris: Well, they said, be there, be there by four.
fuckdabanks: Bring back time time clocks.
Chris: i was like, yeah, so you should be there by three 50.
fuckdabanks: but You should be there and then ready to go to be there at four.
Chris: Not just, you know, pull in the, you know, oh, I'm supposed to be working at 7, 6.59. I'm stepping across the threshold. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Uh-oh. Did we lose Ron?
fuckdabanks: No, I'm still here. as
Chris: Oh, God. Oh, God.
fuckdabanks: yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Just, yeah. Throw the kids back on the damn school buses.
fuckdabanks: I agree with you. I agree with everything you say, but i also knew the hypocrisy of me saying, yeah, these damn kids.
Chris: Just.
Chris: Oh. ah Yeah, well, no, but but yeah, you but you see the end result of it a lot.
fuckdabanks: Yes. Yes, I do.
Chris: God, yeah. yeah
fuckdabanks: i'm I'm very worried. Some of these kids just...
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. but Like I said, the other day, the whole, you know, still making the lunch, I was flabbergasted.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, like I don't, um I mean, my parents definitely made lunches for me when I was younger.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: But I can tell you in high school, it was just figured out. You know, and by the time I had my own job, it was like, hey, whatever the hell you want to eat for lunch, as soon as you pay for it you're fine, you know.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. so like My daughter yesterday was like on the way home, can we get Starbucks? I was like, well, I'm not drinking that garbage. If you want it, you can pay for it. Okay.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Or, you know, the fact that, you know, my kids have done their own laundry for years and, you know,
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, you you want an egg sandwich for breakfast?
fuckdabanks: Yep.
Chris: Guess you're making yourself an egg sandwich.
fuckdabanks: I can remember when I went to college, the, the, you could definitely tell a, the girls that were from Jersey because they didn't know how to pump gas and they would ask you to teach them how to pump gas.
fuckdabanks: And then there's all these people that would get to college and didn't know how to do laundry. Like, what have your parents been doing for you this whole time that you don't know how to do laundry?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I saw a thing on social media a little while ago and it was a teacher at Delmar.
Chris: I think he's there now, but he was like, thanks to Mr. So-and-so for helping out with our adulting 101 class today. We taught the kids about, but we taught the kids about how to check the air in the tires, the, you know, your oil levels.
fuckdabanks: But the school shouldn't have to do that.
Chris: Well, the parents should, yes, but yeah, but, but at least they're getting some damn exposure to it.
fuckdabanks: That's the problem now. we're we'relying but We're relying on somebody else to do the job. Because we're not teaching these kids to be self-reliant. like I didn't have somebody teach me how to check tires.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: I just figured it out, I think.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: yeah i don't know.
Chris: Read the manual.
fuckdabanks: Yeah, that was literally a thing. You read the manual to figure shit out.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Just like, and that's what I, old man here. I know games now have tutorials and everything, but there are times I'd rather just have a manual that I could read through and then start the game.
fuckdabanks: I do miss the manuals.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. I've played a lot of games lately.
Chris: And my darling, lovely wife, she would play games and not read the manuals and drove me nuts.
fuckdabanks: And like games like purposely don't tell you things. It's kind of annoying.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. Now we really are just old men.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: her
Chris: Shaking our fists.
fuckdabanks: I remember when games had manuals and you could rent them.
Chris: Is Gamefly still a thing?
fuckdabanks: I don't I can't be can't be a thing I'm sure like the websites still exist for something but can't be
Chris: It can't be.
Chris: Gamefly, rent and save console games delivered.
fuckdabanks: really but
Chris: Yep. Choose games and movies to build your queue. We mail disks to your door. USPS free shipping. Play as long as you want. No late fees. Swap your disks via USPS using a reusable mailer.
fuckdabanks: But do consoles still have disk drives?
Chris: Wow.
Chris: Yeah. And the ones that don't, you can add a like a USB disk drive to it.
fuckdabanks: I guess the Switch, you can always... Because it's got cartridges.
Chris: Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Yeah. okay
Chris: Yeah. I mean, i've i my PlayStation 5 has, I got the disk drive version of it, but I don't really buy disks anymore.
fuckdabanks: Because...
Chris: I just get everything digital.
fuckdabanks: i That was the the craziest thing that happened to Xbox. Everybody's going to use digital.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Right in the world! Xbox sucks! This is a terrible! And then now nobody uses discs anymore.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
fuckdabanks: It wasn't even like a generation of console before. they were just They were just like four years too early.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So.
fuckdabanks: They just come out four years later and said, not going to use discs. We'll be fine.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
fuckdabanks: Well, I think we should end this podcast so i can go enjoy the lovely weather.
Chris: Yep. Enjoy it and enjoy the time that you have with your bank card.
fuckdabanks: Yeah.
Chris: ah ah Yep. Follow us on Blue Sky.
fuckdabanks: Oh, God, is that a thing?
Chris: I think so. I don't know. But ah yeah, just be good to each other.
fuckdabanks: Yep. Teach your kids self-reliance.
