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Prom, roads, and retro style?
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, talk about high school and proms, fire departments in the community, and biking; Ron takes us down a rant about traffic and roads in general; Chris brings up what is coming back “in style” and why we hate it. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Prom Planning and Traditions
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe podcast. I'm Chris. I'm Ron and I'm done with Eastern Shore. All because the junior class puts on the prom for the senior class. Which is, nope, finish the statement. But the junior class isn't invited. It's insanity. That's insanity. Well, I mean, if a senior asks a junior out, they can go, but yeah.
00:00:29
Speaker
Here's how prom goes. The junior class, they work, I guess they communicate with the senior class a little bit, but they pick a theme and then off they go. No, none of this is true. Here's our prom goes. Your school hosts a dance at a country club or a fancy venue. It's on a Friday night. The juniors and seniors are all invited. The freshmen and sophomores can only go if they're invited by a junior or senior.
00:00:58
Speaker
That's the way it goes. That's how prom works. That's how prom works. You go out to a fancy dinner as a group right beforehand, and then you go to the prom and then you go to the after party. Yeah. You know what their fancy dinners are now? They go to like Chick-fil-A. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, our fancy dinners weren't the fanciest way. We went to an Olive Garden. Well, it was called Steak and Ale. It was like an Olive Garden-esque steak place.
00:01:25
Speaker
Olive Garden takes place. Yeah, nobody was. It was not like the faintest of all state places. And then we went after you had the prom. So you got, you know, some people got limos. You know, some kids had, you know, I spent hours and hours detailing my car, my junk ass car. Yeah.
00:01:49
Speaker
You know, and then you, you pick up your date, you take her to, or you pick her up, get pictures taken. Oh, pictures. Yeah. Then you go to dinner, it's fancy dinner, which there's no parents allowed. Right. Then you go to prom, no parents allowed. Right. Then you don't have to party, which for our class was at a racquetball club. I don't really understand why we did it there, but that's where we had our, our, our after party both years.
00:02:18
Speaker
Here were a couple my senior year. I can't remember where they were. But, you know, there's no Rockathon like we did for the, you know, Honor Society. I'm sorry, a sock hop? What? We did not go to sock hops. What is a Rockathon? That's why the Honor Society raised money for something. It was like, you know, the jump rope things and all like, you know, oh, yeah, sponsor me and every minute I jump rope, you'll pay me a dollar or something. This was
00:02:48
Speaker
for every hour I rock in the rocking chair, I get X amount of dollars for charity. So there's always at least one person in each rocking chair. I cannot believe that you did not live in the 1840s on the Mississippi Delta. It was fun that we had pizza and people were playing other games and stuff in between, but yeah, it was a 24 hour rockathon.
00:03:18
Speaker
We had the most different high school worlds that could possibly happen. Did anyone show up to prom in a tractor? No. Okay. That definitely did not happen at my prom that I'm aware of. I went to like four of them, so that didn't happen. Any of those four. How many people wore cowboy hats? Zero. Yeah.
00:03:46
Speaker
You wore a tux. Oh, did you have a grand march? That sounds terrifying. So no. Really? No. Things that have grand marches, Nazis and stormtroopers. No. We had a grand march. You and your date. It was right before that. It was between the dinner and the actual prom and everybody, all the parents and everything showed up in the gymnasium.
00:04:17
Speaker
And then, yeah, you and your date marched around the inside of the gymnasium so people could take pictures. This sounds very exciting. It was. No, you walked in and there was a photographer, a professional photographer. They took prom pictures and you could buy this. We had that, of course. So why did you have anything else?
00:04:43
Speaker
Because the parents want to take pictures. They took the pictures earlier. That was the whole point of taking pictures. But we didn't do that because where we were, you had to drive a half hour to get anything to eat. Sure. Who cares? Proms on a Saturday night. You go.
00:05:04
Speaker
You leave at like four o'clock, you get, pick up your date, you get the stupid half an hour pictures. Then you go to dinner at five. You're there at dinner till six 30. And then you go to prom at seven. How prom was it like six o'clock? I want to say. Oh, well, of course. Cause the electricity gets turned off.
00:05:23
Speaker
Once the street lamps come on, kids gotta be back in the house.
Challenges in School Funding and Events
00:05:29
Speaker
No wonder, and you were just saying before the podcast and whether they all started, was that the attendance is down at the proms. No wonder that this, your prom sounds lame. I'm sorry. I apologize. I'm sure they might be different now. Clearly not. As we were just started because
00:05:49
Speaker
Your daughter didn't go to a prom because she's not a senior, which is bonkers because she's a junior and that their prom is in the school. Yeah. And the juniors have to decorate. We didn't, though. That's the thing. I don't know. Maybe that's changed me. That was just my little hillbilly school that did that. It's probably all four of you got together and decorated the gymnasium. No, there were eight.
00:06:17
Speaker
It's that's. Did you have prom gifts? No. So everybody that went to the prom didn't get a gift. No. Yeah, everybody that went to my high school's prom, the guys got some kind of like mug and all the girls got some kind of like wine flute or something. Oh, yeah, that happened in my problem. That's what happened at ours.
00:06:45
Speaker
And I think they wonder why at the time there was a problem with, you know, teenage drinking. It wasn't a problem. It was the point. Yeah. You know, that's why your parents were responsible and got you a limo so that you don't have to worry about it. That's another thing. Limos weren't a thing for us. Well, for you guys, it would be a drawn carrot, like a wagon. I don't know. What do you call that when the draft horse comes up with the high bales? Oh yeah, I could have done that. Yeah.
00:07:13
Speaker
And I think you guys are like super spoiled and I don't know why you don't do it. Why don't you all just have your prom solution city? Oh my gosh. Nobody. Nobody wanted to go to Ocean City and it costs so much money to have anything in Ocean City. Your school pays for it. You don't pay for it. The school does not pay for it. The class pays for it. That's why they have fundraisers all throughout the year.
00:07:37
Speaker
I don't think we had a single fundraiser in my entire time in high school. I can guarantee you the school board didn't say, oh, okay, for this year, we're going to spend $3,000 on their prom. Pretty sure they did. No. Yeah. I think we might have had to buy tickets. I think you had to buy tickets to prom, which they would have been like 50 bucks a person or something. I don't remember. This was 25 years ago. Well, see, that's the other thing. Yeah. Well, see, I remember it was like 25 bucks a person or like 50 bucks for a couple, 40 bucks for a couple.
00:08:07
Speaker
And I overheard some of my talking and they're like the same price nowadays. I was like, you guys should have changed that for inflation. Sure. But yeah, but the school, I mean, I remember the only thing I remember us raising money for as a class was the reunion fund. Like as seniors, you got together and you put money in a bank account for the high school for your class reunion.
00:08:34
Speaker
Did the historian take charge of that? The class president was in charge. I don't know what happened. Did you have a class historian? No. No. We had president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and historian. I'm pretty sure we had president, and that was it. It was the end of the class officers. I think I was vice president. You're a go-getter, and there's four of you, so you probably. You're a go-getter.
00:09:05
Speaker
Uh, who are we going to elect the vice president? Well, there's one, two, three, four of us. Well, somebody vote. Okay. One of you is going to have to be the historian also historian. No, we did not have a class historian. That's the yearbook committee's job. We yearbook was a class in our school. Uh, it might've been a class in ours. It was a group. I was definitely an activity in our school. Yeah. I'm not sure it was a class per se. It was just the upper school activity.
00:09:32
Speaker
Oh, this is during school time. You got a grade for it. Yeah. School newspaper was that. We. We had a paper, I want to say. And it was part of journalism class. Yeah. Yeah, because I did the comic strip. Yeah. Mm hmm. That makes sense. Yeah. Checks out. Yeah. We. Yeah. The only fundraiser I remember is for the classroom union. I'm sure that money just got thrown away because our classroom union was at a bar and they didn't spend a single dime on it. Yeah.
00:10:03
Speaker
which was very weird to go to. I didn't go to any of mine. I went to the 20 year one. I don't know if they even had any other ones. I randomly got invited to the 20 year one. I was like, sure. I walk in there and everybody's like, run. And I'm like, I don't know any few people.
00:10:19
Speaker
Where are your name tags? I eat that one. It'll help me anyways. But people were like, genuinely knew who I was. And I had no idea who any of them were. I remember the twins. That's the only people in the whole class I remembered because their twins are hard to forget. And I was at home with them every year.
00:10:38
Speaker
because our homerooms were by last name. We had multiple homerooms. Just so I'm going to clear that up to you, that in my high school, senior class, there were multiple homerooms. We had two. Oh, big school. Maybe. Tenia. Because there were 62 of us. Jesus. But I think that's part of the reason why we didn't. There were reunions, but I don't think a lot of us went to them because we all saw each other most of the time anyway.
00:11:09
Speaker
So, cause I mean, I mean, you know, I work with half a dozen people I went to school with. Not in your class though. No, but still I see the other, you know, I'd see the other ones out in public cause they, you know, did other things with their lives. Hmm. Yeah. You ever look at it and wonder how many people in your classroom, it's different for you are deceased at this point. I know of a couple. So I don't know of any, but I'm sure the odds are there were 200 and
00:11:39
Speaker
60 of us. There's no way it was made this far. Probably not. Yeah. He's like Billy Madison. You've got that one guy putting the lipstick on scratching out the names on his list. Yeah, could be that. You know, but our class
00:11:59
Speaker
I graduated in 97. So yeah, there's a good chance a few of them went into the military, right at the right time to be in the military. So that's a bad chance. And then car accidents, college. Yeah, COVID. COVID. Yeah, at this point. I don't, I would say
00:12:22
Speaker
I went to 20 year reunion in 17 and there were like, only like 50 people showed up, but that doesn't mean they're, the rest are all dead. Right. Well, you know, if you had a class historian, they'd be able to tell you. It's fair. What if the historian dies though? Do you have a backup historian? Oh yeah. I'm sure there's like a black box kind of thing, you know, it's like in their will and testament. I know that.
00:12:51
Speaker
Why does it say here, I've got to go take care of Uncle Fred's records of his high school class?
Nostalgia and Changing Traditions
00:12:59
Speaker
I know that our class president wasn't the one doing our reunion, so I don't know what happened to our money because it was some other person. Spent it all on hookers and blow. Probably. She was that kind of person.
00:13:16
Speaker
I don't know that for a fact. Look up for the class president of class 97. Right now, she's listening, going, oh, or she hit skip on her zoom. Oh, did you see that you can win a zoom? Yes. You can win an unopened zoom that is not promised to be in working condition. Right. Which I found was the best part of the whole story. Yeah. Yeah. It'll work. It was a sturdy, sturdy unit.
00:13:44
Speaker
Well, it wasn't the, the zoom wasn't the problem. It was the software that killed the software. But this prompt season, go enjoy your problems as long as you're not on Eastern shore. That's my lesson for the day. We didn't do the prom promise thing this year, did we? We haven't done it in like three years that I know of. Yeah. We have, uh,
00:14:14
Speaker
This has nothing to do with my topic so I can go off on a tangent about it. We were talking about this at work. I feel like the fire department, our fire department, but also the fire service has really withdrawn away from the community in really unfortunate ways. Yeah, I agree. We have lost our way on the things we should be doing, things we should be prioritizing. Right. The things that we get to do instead of we have to do.
00:14:42
Speaker
Right. And part of that I think is we are busier than we've ever been.
00:14:50
Speaker
And that doesn't seem to be relieving itself at any time. No. Um, but we, we had a long talk about like when I was a kid, the fire department, like you would go there once a year and they would do fire safety demonstrations and have a barbecue. There was open to the neighborhood. Yeah. And like, there was your neighborhood firehouse. You knew where the firehouse was. You knew you could go on the knock on the door. Now I, we don't, you don't see anybody doing that.
00:15:16
Speaker
Right. No. I remember the firefighters used to play basketball with neighborhood kids. Yeah. All of those things. Don't do any of that stuff anymore. So kids, go to your local fire department and knock on the door. I wish you would. No, seriously. Yeah. Yes. I really I want that back in the fire service. I just don't know how to start that back. Yeah, I don't know the good answer for it. Yeah. And it's partially some of it is really that
00:15:45
Speaker
Yeah, we are busy. We're not in the building as much. Yeah. When I started, Salisbury was running like 10,000 calls a year. Now we're running 16. Yeah. Is that where we were at last year?
00:16:02
Speaker
Yes. So right around there. Yeah. Well, 16,000 doesn't seem like a lot more than 10,000. You guys think that's a 50% increase. Yeah. More than 50% increase over 19 years. It's a lot. And it's just, yeah, I think that's some of the stuff we miss out on. Yeah. Prom promise. We don't do that. We don't, we were talking about the other like,
00:16:28
Speaker
We don't just go watch college. We have a college in our first day. We don't just go watch college sports events. Yeah. There's no reason we can't go watch an SU baseball game. It's probably would be a good thing for our department. Yeah, absolutely. So side tangent, side rant. But prom promise used to be something I love doing. We used to, it was something we would always do off duty. You get off work.
00:16:56
Speaker
and you'd go do the prom proms. And it took 10 minutes out of every day. Exactly. Well, took two hours waiting around for two 10 minutes. Yeah. As the Salisbury Fire Department way. Yes. Yeah. All to promote safe driving and safe prom nights.
Rideshare Safety and Transport
00:17:18
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I'm really hopeful and it seems in my anecdotal evidence,
00:17:27
Speaker
The prom night has gotten safer. I think so. I think Uber changed a lot of that. Yeah, that's true. I just don't see knock on wood. We just don't run wrecks like we used to. Yeah. We really don't. I feel like maybe some of that social engineering has actually worked. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. So side tangents to the Uber thing. The other day, I saw a SUV parked in a parking lot.
00:17:57
Speaker
The person had a sticker on the side of their window that they had clearly taken a Sharpie and written lift. Don't be in that car. Yeah, that's how you get kidnapped. That's how you get kidnapped.
00:18:12
Speaker
I'm always super careful whenever I, I don't do lift as much. I do Uber mostly. Yeah. Um, but I always like, cause it gives you a letter. It tells you this is the license plate of the car. Here's your driver's name. So I always walk around, look at the license plate and make sure it's the right car because nothing's more embarrassing than getting in the wrong car. Yeah. Because they all tend to tie the same, like four style models of cars. It's either a middle Eastern gentleman in a minivan.
00:18:41
Speaker
I'll say we never get many veins up here. Really? If I get the Uber XL, it's always the, it's usually a woman, sorry, but it's always like a nicer, like not escalate, but that size expedition, big ass SUV, or everybody else is in like a Honda Acura. Yes. We've had one Tesla. Oh, nice. That was cool. We got to be in a Tesla. And that's pretty much it. Yeah. We were in an Audi with RJ Too Fast.
00:19:12
Speaker
That's what the license plate was. I was like, well, this can go one of two ways. Yeah. When we were in Maine, we were in one, I think we already told the story where the guy was playing very loud, yelly Christian. Oh, yeah. That was like, let's get out of this car, please God. Let's get out of this car.
00:19:37
Speaker
But I've never actually, I've never had problem with Ubers. The drivers are always some of the nicest people in the world. And the day I retire, I probably won't have a car. I probably just Uber if I need a car. Yeah. Yeah. There's a good portion of me that's kind of the same way. It's like, don't really need to go anywhere.
00:20:02
Speaker
I got an e-bike. I live in a bike-friendly community. I mean, I can carry... I would say they shoehorned bike lanes and stuff into streets that are too small already.
City Planning and Infrastructure Issues
00:20:16
Speaker
So, you know, I am a bicyclist. I'm an enthusiast of the sport. I work for Ride Today. And I want to give Sal's right credit for trying.
00:20:31
Speaker
I want to give them credit for trying. But I just take the example of Newark. So Newark is built on three main streets. And one of them is both ways, east and west. One is just west and one is east. So on the eastbound road, they put
00:20:55
Speaker
a bike lane all the way down, which is a protected bike lane. It's got its own traffic signals and it's got its own concrete barrier between traffic and it didn't affect, they basically just took the shoulder out. Yeah. Works really well. And then you go past that and you go around the curve and there's a high school, they actually took the sidewalks and moved the sidewalks over and put a bike lane where the sidewalks used to be. And so there's a,
00:21:23
Speaker
bike lane that runs the entire length of the town that is completely protected and doesn't affect traffic. Wait, isn't the bike lane supposed to be like 32 feet wide or well, 12 feet wide and then have like a 30 foot barrier? Well, just gap between that and the street. No, no, it doesn't need that. It doesn't need that. Well, and the other problem for Salisbury is because of the the way the town is configured, it's not like
00:21:53
Speaker
a good routing for bikes? Oh, yeah. Because the drunken person who drew the map and then they built the streets from that? Yes. But you have to have a... What's the reason for this bike lane? Yeah. Is it a commuting bike lane? Is it people going to the shops? Are you trying to encourage... The one that goes around the beaches in Lewis and Bethany, or Lewis and Rehoboth,
00:22:16
Speaker
Like it leads you to the outlet and it leads you to restaurants and bars and it leads you back into the town. So it's, it's got a purpose, you know.
00:22:25
Speaker
You got to have that plan to your bike lanes. Sorry Salisbury. I'll give you credit for trying. Okay, plan. But the first bike lane they put in Salisbury went down one road that leads nowhere. You can't get onto it safely and you can't get off of it safely. What's the point? Well, it's because it's a bike lane. And you need to avoid high traffic areas, so I would never have put a bike lane on Mill Street.
00:22:53
Speaker
I would put my bike lane to go up through the center of town where it doesn't, like on old Circle Avenue where it doesn't matter about slowing traffic down. They didn't ask me. I don't know who they asked. I don't know. But they didn't ask me. And I would not have put one on College Avenue where Fire Department has to make
00:23:15
Speaker
Oh my God. We went to that reported fire at the college and we got there and I said, Megan, you ever take College Avenue to get to the college again and I will beat you to death. There's 38 speed bulbs on that road now. Yeah. You're in a fire engine. You just got to stop for those things or you're going to lose hoses and your head. Yeah.
00:23:44
Speaker
Now we have to like reroute the engine to Dogwood to come about in the back way. Yeah. Because it's going to be actually faster. That's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But the city doesn't ask those questions. It's your city. You live there. I don't live in Salisbury. No, you don't. You can't get you to be rare. No. Yet. No. No. No chance. Can we cancel? No. No.
00:24:13
Speaker
I don't want to do anything like that. I'd like to be on my county council. I think that would be the level of government which I'm comfortable doing. Nice little feather in your cap. Well, I'd like to actually help my community. I really care a lot about my community. I think first responders should be at the table.
00:24:42
Speaker
you know, I think someone who could speak the Fertile Serrano language needs to be at the table. Well, I mean, that's why the county council in Wacomica worked so well for so many years because Councilman Dodd did such a great job of that. You're hurting my example.
00:25:00
Speaker
But I think- Well, to be fair, he wasn't a first responder, really. That's fair. But I think the government needs to speak first responder. I think that's where we're having a lot of problems, is that they don't understand why we do things. And on the flip side, we can't have a conversation with them because we don't really understand how they do things. Yeah, you're right. It's one of the things I think we fight the most. We can say,
00:25:30
Speaker
We need to be able to respond here, but we can't really explain well why we need to respond that way. Yeah. And you would think like with Salisbury where they have an every other week department head meeting that there'd be clear lines of communication, but there aren't. Yeah, that's true. But you need to have conversations with the county council and the city council. No, yeah. There's so many partners involved that need to be
00:25:58
Speaker
brought into it. I think you could do a better job. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's one of the things I think Fire Department's not involved in nothing. I think a successful fire department and a successful police department sits at every city council and every county council meeting and just answers questions. Yeah. We're here to answer whatever you want to talk to us about. Right. They might never talk to you at all. You're there. Yeah, in case. Just in case. Yeah.
00:26:28
Speaker
I had a conversation with the gentleman in the union. I said, you guys should send, don't send the whole union. Just send one person to every meeting and just say, we're here to answer questions if you have them. Don't go in there antagonizing. Don't go up there saying, we want this to just be there to answer questions. So you shouldn't threaten. No, you shouldn't threaten.
00:26:52
Speaker
Really? Yeah. Yeah. But I just always like that that's a good plan for the union. Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's a good plan for Firepart, especially in these times of tightening of the first strings. Sure, yeah. Yeah. Well, those are side changes that had nothing to do with it. Yeah. Yeah, go to prom.
College and Traffic Woes
00:27:16
Speaker
Yeah, go to your prom. You should go to your prom. You should go to all the proms you can go to. Experience events. Yeah. I can't wait for your daughter to come to my college so we can partay. The younger one, yes, you probably can get to party. The older one, I don't think so. When did she come to do a tour of the school? I don't know.
00:27:40
Speaker
I mean, it's gotta be soon, right? That's like, that's the thing they start doing. Yeah, she's supposed to be like getting us lists of where she wants to look at. I mean, she's going into senior year. Yeah. If I remember, I knew by December of my senior year, like I was committed by then. Yeah. Does that sound right? Yeah, that's right. So I would imagine you would have already started touring colleges. Well, you would be wrong. Because she can't make her mind up. Well, tell her that
00:28:11
Speaker
I'll go around, we'll take her on a tour of Newark. I'll show her all the best parts of Delaware. And then I'll sneak her into some of the classrooms. Like, oh yeah, these are places you go sometimes.
00:28:27
Speaker
I can show you where the ice cream shop is, which is on campus. You can use your blue hen points. I don't know what they call them anymore. How many feathers did you earn? Oh, you've got a gold card. I don't want to hear it. I found my gold card the other day. Flex points is what we call them.
00:28:50
Speaker
Did I ever tell you, I think I'm sure I did, but did I ever tell you the story of when I went back to college and the girl's like, your student ID number is not good enough numbers? I said, man, I was at this college as a student before you were born. Back then we only had seven numbers. That's all that existed in the world. We hadn't created more numbers. It's witchcraft that you all have.
00:29:17
Speaker
Yeah. Ma'am, our phone numbers were seven numbers long. My phone number started with an M. Yeah, but she did not believe me when I told her my student ID numbers. That's not right. I'm like, I'm telling you, just look it up. It pops up. She go in the old card catalog. The one I wanted to know was whether my
00:29:46
Speaker
old University of Delaware email address was still active. Was it? I don't know. I never found out. Oh. Never looked into it. It's a camera back then. It was, you know, you're logging into Netscape and maybe you were. Netscape. Yeah. All right. Topic one. Sure. Topic one. All right. This is a rant about traffic. Oh, gosh. So is there a job?
00:30:17
Speaker
that there is no expectation of competence or expectation that you'll actually do a good job ever in the world like traffic engineer because the road that I went for bike ride today, I saw the diverse construction, but it was only one lane and it looked like traffic was flowing. That's how I come back two hours later.
00:30:43
Speaker
Traffic's not flowing. Nothing's moving. Oh my gosh. They, I wanted to just, I wanted to strangle somebody. They had blocked the one lane of a major road because they were doing asphalt on the crossroads, not even on the road that they plucked. They were not doing any work on route 72. They were only doing work on the crossroads. That makes no sense whatsoever. And they were doing each crossroad all the way up and they were doing, they had them all blocked.
00:31:13
Speaker
But to do that, that's a whole other lane. Then you would think we've got flaggers at every intersection. Flaggers, when I learned in driver's ed, again, this was back when horses were still a viable option for transport, was that if a flagger was on the scene, the red light doesn't matter. You follow the directions of the flagger. Right. So you have a flagger at every intersection. Why is that flagger not overriding the goddamn light and making traffic move?
00:31:43
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, I was raging. Yeah. I mean, the flaggers, if they're at an intersection, that intersection should turn to a yellow blinking light both ways, and then the flaggers control the intersection. They are supposed to turn the light to blinking yellow and take over the intersection. That's literally their job. Yeah. Literally their job. Instead, they're just sitting there on their pole and it just says slow.
00:32:08
Speaker
I know it's slow because I'm not moving because I can look enough at your outfit to tell that you didn't give a crap what you dressed up for for work today. Yeah, how is it that they get to work at seven o'clock in the morning or whatever and they're already covered in tar?
00:32:24
Speaker
Well, I'm sure that, you know, never comes off their clothes. Yeah. But there is no expectation that they're going to do a good job. Everybody knows they're going to do a shit job. Everybody. Everybody knows it's going to take too long. It's going to take, you know, they're going to be inconvenient to everybody. They're not going to give a shit about everybody's day. And nobody stops them. They're monsters. They're literal monsters. And and the road will be nice for a couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:53
Speaker
They're not doing the road. They're doing the crossroads. They're not even doing the whole crossroad. It looked like they were literally doing like, you know, the part where the sensor goes. That's what they were doing. And your town, Salisbury, there's a freaking red light in front of the high school that has been not operating for three months. And they just decided, we're not going to fix it. We're going to put cones across the intersection.
00:33:20
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Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's also the other light in a major intersection, Isabella in 13. That's just been gone for seven months. Just gone. Yeah. Well, we're having a hard time tracking down a pole. How do you not have a pole to put the light on? I don't know. It's madness. And the same thing. You just have cones. You just have cones.
00:33:49
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I went to drive because I don't I don't go to that station often. I went to leave station 16 the other day and I was like coming down Isabelle and I'm like, are those cones in the middle of the intersection? Sure enough, the fucking codes in the middle intersection. Yeah, can't make a left here. You can't make a left there. Well, I thought there's no sign. There's not a sign warning you of this event. It's just there probably was a sign at one point, but now it's, you know, it's just passed on by word of mouth. But there's no
00:34:19
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There's no expectation that any of this is going to get fixed. Someday in the future, we'll just drive by and be like, oh, the red light's working. Thank you guys for doing your job seven and a half days later. Well, it's also like you see those signs. It's like, you know, caution, road work ahead on or about May 22nd. It's like, wait. Why don't we get to it?
00:34:45
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get to it. There's a bridge that's closed. That's going to be closed for two years. Two years. They closed a bridge over the canal for two years. Are they totally rebuilding said bridge? No, doesn't seem like it. I don't know what they're doing, but doesn't seem like they're rebuilding the bridge. The best part of it is the bike path that I ride goes underneath of that bridge. This bridge is a hundred and
00:35:09
Speaker
40 feet in the air, made of concrete. And there's a sign that says, caution, bridge work overhead. As if, as if if something fell off that bridge and struck me on the head, I wouldn't be dead anyways. Right. I mean, that's wily coyote stuff. It should just say, it literally should just say, good luck. It's all that time she'd say.
00:35:36
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There's not nets put out. There's nothing, no safety features at all. Just caution. Good work overhead. Thanks. Let me just give you a look. There should be umbrellas there for you to grab. Right. God. I don't think my bike helmet is rated to a Jersey barrier falling 140 feet on me. Probably not. I don't think that's going to help. No. His helmet survived. Nothing else did. He's actually, he's literally inside of his helmet. Yeah.
00:36:04
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Yeah, yeah, that's how it ended up. Yeah, it's just what the other was yesterday. I was coming home and I'm like, I saw that there was a little bit of traffic as I was about to make the turn. I was like, OK, you know, there's just people backed up. Well, then when I got to the light to make the left and I look, they had blocked three lanes of traffic again, had, you know, captain sign man out there.
00:36:40
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There is a road by me, Elkton Road, at least from between Elkton and Newark. I don't know why they came up with the name Elkton Road. Seems weird. It's a pretty busy road. It has been under construction, I swear to God, since I got out of college the first time. Wow. It has been under construction for 20 years. I don't think there's any plan to ever finish the road. I literally think they're just hoping that we'll have hover cars before they have to open the road up again, because that's their plan. It's insane.
00:36:56
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so they could put scoops of asphalt in some potholes.
00:37:10
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Yeah, and it's I the various roads that are out there like I don't understand how part of the bypass is concrete and part of its asphalt. And then I know like out in Western Maryland, there's a red asphalt. Yes, there is. And it it seems to hold up so much better. Why would you use it everywhere? Yeah, it is. Insanity, how little
00:37:41
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Just, we just allow them to do whatever the hell they want. They closed 95 for like three months last year because they found a bridge that was overhead that was wrong. And I get it. They got to fix it. I understand, but you got to have a better plan than close 95. That's a pretty important road. It runs the entire coast. Oh, you mean you don't want to do like Baltimore city and just put down steel plates. My mother.
00:38:09
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So the first time I drove to my mother's house in West Virginia, um, she was like, Hey, be careful. We had a washout. And I'm like, Oh, that sounds bad. They put a plate down. So I'm like, okay. So I've never been there.
00:38:26
Speaker
So I'm driving up this windy ass road to the mountains and it's like, these are real mountains. These aren't, you know, lemon Hill lane. These are 3000 foot drop bottom, you know, and I'm driving up this road and you get around this curve and literally the road's gone and there's just a steel plate laid across it.
00:38:51
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There's no sign. There's no nothing. No rails? No, there's no. I would catch you from falling. I'm doing 20 miles an hour up this hill mountain. These morons in their F750 pickup trucks are coming down at 6,000 miles an hour.
00:39:15
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And I think their theory is the least amount of time on the steel plate the better. Yeah. Because they are just booking it. And if you don't get out of their way, they're going to push you off the mountain. Sure. They don't care. Did you see like the steel plate like bobble as they went over it? Oh.
00:39:32
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Oh, yeah, it's not. It wasn't attached. Oh, why would you attach it? Was this laid across the roadway? Golly day. Also in West Virginia, I saw a sign that said turn off your cell phone explosives in use. Oh, my God. There literally was a sign that said stop your car and turn your cell phone off before you drive through this area that they have explosions on. Oh, my gosh.
00:40:04
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Can you just drive it along? Hey, mama just got... Yeah. That's what the sign's for. Oh my God. To warn you that that could happen. Every time I've gone to West Virginia, it's been a nightmare for you.
00:40:25
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The roads there, their, their literal plan is there's too many people. We're going to get rid of some of them. That's their plan for the roadways. Yeah, it's insane. And the people there are, they are bonkers. They don't understand a speed less than 70 at a grade of 7,000 degrees. Dry, fast, take chances.
00:40:54
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Yeah. I guess their plan is to hit the bottom of the mountain as fast as possible. Yeah. Reach terminal velocity before you get there. Yeah. What's like, I mean, we've got place around here. Well, I mean, you were with me the one time in Montgomery County, there was the one lane bridge. Oh yeah. Yeah. What kind of foolishness is that? One. There are a few of those in Maryland that I found that are just one lane bridge. There's one. I, why is it?
00:41:24
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It's somewhere I go regularly to go very regularly to go disc golfing. I can't remember where it is. And you come around, you're going down a hill, you turn one lane bridge. So like, you can't even see the bridge. It's just like, and it's like, oh, the bridge isn't flat. So it's a hilled bridge. So nice. You can't see traffic on the weather. You're literally just like, hope I make it. Yep. I got a 50 50 shot.
00:41:53
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Oh my God. You just scream going across the whole way. There was a bridge in Jersey. So between Glassboro and Swedesboro, there's a bridge. Glassboro is like a bigger town, but there was this bridge that was plywood.
00:42:16
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plywood. There was a sign that says, it didn't tell you a weight, it just said no heavy vehicles. What does that mean? All vehicles are heavy. I can't pick up my car, so I can't tell you how much it weighs. Yeah, that's heavy to me. Yeah, yeah. God. It was literally plywood. Oh my God. It was just somebody was like, because I think the story was that the state said they weren't going to fix the bridge, so some dude just went out and bought plywood and put it down. Yeah.
00:42:47
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I'm not kidding. It was like a county commissioner meeting. So yeah, we're still worried about that bridge. Not sure you don't get worried about that no more. I went to the Home Depot. There's plywood down. Don't you worry boys. I got quarter inch. I went all out. Were there at least rails on that bridge?
00:43:06
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There were, it was a bridge, but the decking had gone bad. It was like an old wooden bridge and the decking had gone bad, so they just put plywood down. That's okay. It was only like a 60 foot drop down. You wouldn't even notice.
00:43:25
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Yeah. South of us is Chincoteague. It's a hard time getting to work or home today because the causeway is flooded. I'm sorry, if your main route of travel floods when it's high tide, probably an issue. It's a sign you shouldn't live there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a real good sign. I mean- Or again, the engineers, why didn't they make it taller?
00:43:51
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Trays the roadway two feet fair question fair question Well, I don't know how many times you've probably never been on this thing but in Baltimore If you leave if you go out of Baltimore where the stadiums are yeah, and you're going to go 95 North Yeah, whoever built the on ramp to 95 decided that they really liked how Apollo 13 looks and
00:44:17
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Because it just goes straight up. It's just a straight up and then you're hoping at the top of there's a road. Yeah. Or that there's nobody stopped up there. Yeah. Because you got to get a good head of steam to go up said hill. You do. I don't. Because it's the same thing. There are those people that drive up and they were like, I have to do at least 50 up here. Yeah. I would hate to be in a manual vehicle and there'd be traffic stops. Oh, God.
00:44:46
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You would be so screwed. Yeah. Old hazmat truck. Your car would jump so much for you popping the clutch. Whoever built that thing does not understand grades.
00:45:05
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It's just that thing's bonkers. That thing's. Yeah, that's like two of the scariest roads that I don't like driving on. Yeah, that one in Baltimore and then the the Bay Bridge. I don't like the Bay Bridge. No, I know. I hate the Bay Bridge. Westbound is an aspect because there's three lanes, but the eastbound where it's two lanes. Oh, God, I hate it.
00:45:26
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Well, I told you about that one time where I was coming across the eastbound and there was the guy on the motorcycle splitting lanes the whole way. I'm like, this is how you die. Right. This is how you die. And I probably get taken out trying to avoid killing you. Exactly. Yeah. The Delaware Memorial Bridge now. I don't know if it's a permanent thing or this is just.
00:45:46
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a temporary relief measure, but they've now got this system where they can reroute northbound traffic because it gets backed up like crazy into going to Jersey because I don't know who the hell wants to go to Jersey, but whatever. And so now you can cut through the little service. They have you route through the little service area and then you go onto the southbound bridge. So now you're facing oncoming traffic going across. It's like the Bay Bridge does. Yeah, the Bay Bridge does the same thing. Yeah.
00:46:14
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Yeah, that is definitely one that I stay in that far right lane. So I don't have to go head on out with anybody. Don't ever be in the far right lane. But but if you're in the closest to the water, but if you're in the middle, when you're on head, head on collisions. Yeah, but there's no way to avoid. You have nowhere to room. Have you ever taken the the ninety five bridge over the Susquehanna?
00:46:38
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Probably. It's perfectly flat and it's a wind tunnel. Oh yeah, that's fun. So I always ride the middle because a wind gust comes through and in my car, my jerk, in my RV, I thought I was going over. I bet. And you know what? Those people in West Virginia have a point because I do as fast as I can across that bridge.
00:47:03
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Because my goal is to get across that bridge as quickly as possible. Yeah, I think is I will. I look at the weather before I go across the bridge. If they're like, it's a gusty small craft advisory, I'm like, nope, nope, nothing I need down there. Yeah. Yeah. I was a couple of years ago, I was driving that big Penske truck for the band and we were coming back from somewhere across the
Driving Challenges and Safety
00:47:27
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bridge. And it's like, you know, 1130, 12 o'clock at night and I'm coming across the Bay Bridge.
00:47:32
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And the guy was like, Oh, don't worry. You got a newer truck this time. That's great. Except for said newer truck had like all kinds of like lane departure alarms and everything. So the truck is already the width of the lane. So I barely get close to it and it alarms. I hate the bridge anyway. It's late. It's a little bit windy. So yeah, I'm like white knuckling and it's moving a little bit. I know that's the alarm that I die. Okay. Just let me across.
00:48:02
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I'm tired. I'm trying not to fall asleep. I don't do it anymore. Once I, I have driven. Hired so many times in my life that I've learned that if I'm tired, no, I'm pulling over and sleeping. Yeah, that's smart. Don't do it anyway. Yeah. So my wife makes me drive the freaking RV all the way back from Maine. Wasn't too bad until we hit New York city at five 30 at night. Oof.
00:48:29
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Yeah. Every fricking road in Maine. So you can't go, if you want to avoid going to Boston, which means all the traffic, cause if you take 95, 95 takes you all the way out to Boston, right? But you can't go on 95 through New York city because there's tunnels and you have a propane tank, right? Oh yes. You're not allowed to take it through.
00:48:56
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I'm not allowed to take tunnels. So you have to go all the way up and around to the Veranzano, which is not the best bridge in the world to ride around. No, Veranzano is not. So then you go all the way around, or the Cuomo Bridge is even norther. But then you get all the way, and then you get back around it up into Albany if you go the way I'd went. And then you find out all of the roads that lead from there to Maine
00:49:18
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to get back to 95 have a 11 foot height restriction. Oh my gosh. So you get on these roads, you're like, I can't get anywhere. I don't know what to do. Just end up on random roads trying to get back. We ended up on some podunk like gravel road that I was like, I don't think this is a road.
00:49:42
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Oh my gosh. I think we're going to die out here. Well, at least you had, you know, like ways or maps or something. Can you imagine like back in the day when all you had was a paper map? Yeah, no, no. Woman, find out where we are. Well, that's what I don't understand. Here's a compass and a sextant. I don't know. These roads had been built, you know, back before GPS. So how did truckers know to avoid them?
00:50:06
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How did you get around back then when there was height restrictions on a freaking thruway? Who builds a thruway with like a 10 foot height ceiling?
00:50:17
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Well, the truckers probably left like little markings and things on the side of the road that only they could pick up on. That's true. Other language. Yeah. Yeah. Frickin' road construction. Frickin' roads. Yeah. Well, and then you, but on top of the roads being the way they are, then you have the idiots in behind the wheel. Oh, well, yeah. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. If I was allowed to tease one person a day,
00:50:45
Speaker
who driving badly, I would burn it up on my way to work every morning. I would make it through four days off.
00:50:54
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are three days off and I would save all up to when I got to work because I'm sorry. There is something about it's maybe it's specifically shorebillies who do not understand what to do when there's a fire engine near them. No. I've never seen people react the way people in Salisbury. You mean you're not supposed to jack your brakes on, swerve to the left, swerve to the right? I've just
00:51:21
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I've never seen people stop. Just like stop in the room. And I've been on emergency vehicles my entire life. And like my driver, Meg, does not believe me. I'm like, I have never seen people. No, everybody reacts like this. No, this is not normal. Everyone pulls to the right. That's what they're supposed to do. They don't teach us that. Well, what do they teach you? Because whatever it is is madness. You know, I've seen people in Maryland
00:51:51
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try to just gun it across an intersection that is against their light because there's a fire truck coming like, well, I guess we're not going to make it to the call because we're going to go with this guy. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. The ones that you see, you see they're like the inch up a little bit, like a couple of times. And then they're just like, ah, they just got it across. And you're just like, well, okay. That one was not in the manual. I know.
00:52:15
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I don't know. Or the people that you look, you know, you're driving eastbound and on the westbound there are people that are pulled over. I really appreciate your thought, I guess. I don't know. My favorite are the people that pull over when we don't have our lights on. And you're always like, are you sure your lights are off? Yeah, lights aren't off. Yeah, lights aren't on. I guarantee, but the people pull over. They wave you on. Right, where are you people when I'm going to a call?
00:52:44
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Oh, yeah. Insanity, how people that eyes. That's why I don't have a gun. That's why firefighters don't have guns. Yeah. We would shoot people right there. Yep. Like, nope, you don't deserve it. You can't be on the roads any longer. Yeah. I was like, yeah, we were driving somewhere. It's like a major road somewhere. And yeah, I saw, you know, fire truck coming up beside me, lights on. I'm like, OK, so I just, you know, go over a little bit, but I keep driving.
00:53:14
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Come here. Who else with her? Like, aren't you going to stop? I was like, why would I need to stop? This is a three lane highway. They have plenty of room. I'm just making sure that they can, you know, they don't have their turn signal on. There's no exits right here. I don't see anything on fire between me and the horizon. Pretty sure they're going to keep going straight. Yeah.
00:53:33
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And more than likely they can't catch up to you anyways. Cause the truck's governor. People are dumb. People are dumb. I feel better now. I actually feel like I got a weight off my shoulders. Good. Good. Good. That I was so ragey today. Yeah. That mean it's just ridiculous. And it's, uh, somebody, I was going somewhere the other day.
00:54:00
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And I had ways on and they're like, what are you doing? I was like, anymore? I want to know if there's traffic or something coming up. Any little bit of warning I can get to delay my rage is a good thing. Yeah, no. Don't drive to the state of Virginia ever. That's a rule. I don't know what it is about Fredericksburg, Virginia, but you can never not be in traffic in that town. I've driven in that town at two o'clock in the morning. I've driven that town at two o'clock in the afternoon. So it's bumper to bar traffic all the time.
00:54:31
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I don't know why. Traffic is the worst. Well, and that's some of the apps. They must have like a gimmick or something with some of these places, because I swear to God, every time when you're going to Baltimore, they try to take you up Ritchie Highway. It's like no one in their right mind is going to use Ritchie Highway. There's 85 stoplights on it. How are you going to see all the the things that Anne Arundel County has to offer? Yeah.
00:54:57
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That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's a normal kind of me. That's what is called people I know up there. Yeah. They probably paid the tourist board paid to have you rerouted through the highway. I feel better now. Good. Good. I'm glad you got some catharsisism. Yeah. All right. Topic two. Sure. Topic two.
Fashion Trends and Personal Style
00:55:27
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So have you did you pick up the new Legend of Zelda? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. But I mean, you've seen stuff about it and everything, right? No, no, there was one. Really? We were having this conversation the day at work. Can't remember who I was talking to. Might have been Monday. I.
00:55:51
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The last Zelda I played was in 86. OK. Or whatever Zelda came out. Like the original Legend of Zelda? The original Legend of Zelda. Back when it was the Legend of Zelda? Back when it was the Legend of Zelda. Yeah. I've never really been into that franchise at all. And I know Breath of the Wild could be fun. I just don't care. That sounds bad.
00:56:20
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So there's a new game. Go ahead. Tell me about it. Well, no, actually, well, I was just kind of like parlaying that into something, which just seems like there's, you know, that is yet again, a thing that's like coming back into, you know, style and stuff like Legend of Zelda, you know, I don't know. But they're not Zelda games. No, it's all like building stuff and everything. And that's why I don't like it. But so my youngest,
00:56:44
Speaker
just bought a fanny pack the other day. Oh, my God. Evidently, they're back in style. No, they're not. They are. But they wear them across their chest. I've you know, I've seen people do that. Yes, that's a fanny pack, Ron. But it's a glorified fanny pack. But the people I've seen do that look like losers. So don't do that. But they look hip and because it's now it's like Gucci and Lulu lemon and people like that who are making these bags.
00:57:14
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But do you remember? There was nothing cooler than a guy, yeah, in, yeah, what, six inch inseam corduroy shorts, mid drift shirt, his fanny pack, his Oakley blade glasses across him and his Jerry curl. Yes, that was the 80s Ron. But like, okay, so I had his high tops with his, yeah, socks pulled halfway up his calf. Hey, hey, hey, high tops are cool. Yeah.
00:57:43
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Uh, I remember Fanny packs as a later thing, not, not, and they definitely existed in the eighties. Oh yeah. But they seemed very early. Yeah. Like late, early nineties. Yeah. And they weren't cool then.
00:57:58
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The only people who wore them were dorks and tourists. Yeah. That was it. Because remember, there was like this real big push when we were in high school in that era, like if you're going to take your valuables and your passport, put it in a fanny pack. That way it's always in front of you and you can protect it. Yeah. That was like the thing. And then like you had fanny packs with hidden wallets for your passport. Yeah. You know, you keep everything in there except for your dignity. Yes.
00:58:26
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They're not cool. I will sit down with your youngest and tell them why they're not cool. But it's not just it's like a bunch of these kids this age. That's that's their thing. They don't carry purses or things like that. They carry these fanny packs. Yeah, yeah.
00:58:45
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I'm also. Well, but in the sunglasses are looking like that big bar of, you know, plastic across their face like they did for a while. Yeah, they did. Yeah, they have come back to that. They have. Yeah. It's like it's like the late 80s, early 90s is really coming back. Yeah. Well, that's look, we're about ready to get back in the grunge. I won't even have to change my outfit. Yeah.
00:59:08
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But the thing is, I don't like the short inseam shorts. Do you see the girls? I don't know if you see them in SU as much, but up in New York it seems like I see girls with jeans now who have more holes than jeans. My daughters have those jeans.
00:59:25
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They're they're literally not genes. Yeah, they're literally like chaps. You're exact. They're reverse chaps. They're reverse chaps because they cover their rear end and the backs of their legs. But from like mid thigh down to shin is all cut up. There might be a string of fabric across the kneecap. Yep. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid. And I'm glad that my hard earned money pays for it. Yeah.
00:59:52
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For the material of, you know, one of my pair of jeans, you know, you could probably make 85 of those jeans. How much did jeans cost these days? I have no idea. I don't spend money. My wife does. But like, because I'm the one that I would look at and go, absolutely not. Right. Yeah. Remember it was for all. Remember when we were kids? I mean, I have vivid memories of like,
01:00:17
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somewhere between sixth grade and like 10th grade, jeans went from, cause grunge came in, right? Yeah. Grunge hit hard and that's what Ash would wash jeans. Oh, all through that crap. And reaching your pocket, the new ones, you're like, Oh look, there's still some grid in here. Jeans were like,
01:00:38
Speaker
$15 when we were young. Yeah. And then by the time we got into high school, they were like $80. Yeah. You know, jeans became crazy expensive. And you did the little thing where you like folded it over by your ankle and then rolled it up on itself. So it was even tighter around your ankle. Yeah. The worst part, the worst part that they never did the jeans was
01:01:01
Speaker
When brands other than Levi became the cool brands. Yeah. Fucking Levi invented the jeans. Nothing was cooler than Levi jeans. There was it. And then, no, everybody had to have other brands of jeans. Ruined it. Ruined it. Let's see. Let's look at some Levi 501s. I'm going to guess $74.
01:01:29
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Uh, very close, 79 to 89. And that is from Levi's dot com. Oh, jeez. But but here's the thing. That is for a pair of men's jeans. That's why you could carry waist to ankle. Totally cover you. OK. Right beside that is the women's 501 high rise shorts that it is maybe a two inch inseam.
01:01:56
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Down her, I mean, yeah, covers barely her upper thigh to waist. $95. Now, $70 to $80. But it's like, come on. I have seen a lot of jorts. I made a comment to my wife about it that I see so many girls in jorts and my wife's like, yeah, that's not happening. I'm like, I'm telling you, there are girls wandering around in jorts. And she says, this is what I find sexist. She says they're not jorts.
01:02:21
Speaker
But because George only replied to men wearing shorts that are made of jeans. No, which I find bullshit because men's jean shorts are only. Oh, my pair of jeans are so bad that I can no longer be jeans. I'm going to cut the bottoms off and they'll be jorts. Yeah. And that's what I'm looking at right here. 501 90s women shorts. These are clearly cut off jeans. 70 bucks. No, no, no. Buy yourself. There are so many women's versions.
01:02:51
Speaker
shrink to fit men's jeans? What is, what do you put it on and pour water on it? And it, but seriously, there's like 85 different versions of women's jeans and men's men get, yeah, 501 classic or 501 flair or something like that. Wow. Now there's, there's boot cut, there's slim fit. There's, you know, all kinds of, yeah. I know. I, I,
01:03:13
Speaker
You're a butterfly guy or a zipper guy? I'm a zipper guy. I'm a zipper guy. That's a bad time. When you really got a pee, that could be bad. Or yeah, or you got poop. You're like, Oh God, this is how it happens. But like you men's jeans, like this is what jeans are supposed to be. You should buy now. Some dungarees.
01:03:36
Speaker
We all get fatter, but you should be able to buy one pair of jeans that's going to last you about 10 years. Oh, yeah. Do you wash your jeans? Yeah, of course. How often? Well, I haven't worn a pair of jeans in 10 years. But if you wore a pair of jeans? I mean, once a week. Really? If I wore them four times, I'd probably wash them until the end of the week. Really?
01:03:58
Speaker
See, I my wife, you know, she fuss at me because I would I'd wear a pair of jeans and throw them in the wash. So what are you doing? I was like, oh, I warm today. They're dirty. What? And she was like, but she's like, that's jeans. I don't see where khakis once you throw in the wash. What's the difference? The jeans. They're jeans. They're meant for like coal mining and crap. Yeah.
01:04:24
Speaker
They're meant to be worn, like, and be dirty. Oh, gosh. And when you wear them, as soon as the problem with jeans is, you wash them. Everything gets all tight and, like, restricted. Then you, like, get them worn, and you're like, oh, they're comfortable again. And then you throw them in the wash, you do it all again. You've got to enjoy a couple weeks. You freeze them off, and you'll be good. Well, I've seen, like, some people put them in the freezer. Why? Because it kills any germs that are on them. Oh. Instead of washing them, they just put them in the freezer.
01:04:55
Speaker
Interesting. I only own like two pairs of jeans at this point, and I don't think I fit in either one of them. I've got like three pairs, but my goal is to fit in them again. I have a problem because I have mainly caps and like
01:05:18
Speaker
I get pants that fit everywhere but my calves and jeans are one of those pairs of things that they don't fit my calves. You should get everything boot flared. No, because that only affects the ankles. Doesn't affect the calf. I would need bell bottoms. Oh, yes. Get the bell bottoms. No, we lived through that lifestyle. Remember when bell bottoms came back for like six days? Yeah, no, no.
01:05:44
Speaker
I mean, it's, it's your, there's going to be a time when your kids are gonna be like, do you have any of these old things from the nineties? Like, uh, pajama shorts or pajama pants or, uh, parachute pants. Oh, yes. Cause they're kind of, that's what's going to be cool again. This is why I wear the same outfit for, for decades. It's never wrong. Yeah. Hoodies never go to style. Right. T-shirts never go to style shorts. Never go to style. Yeah.
01:06:14
Speaker
But see, that's the thing, though. But the shorts change. No, they don't. Yeah, they do. It's I can't find shorts that like go down to my knee. Now, everything's like a shorter inseam and yeah. I have like I felt like such. I know my kids laugh at me because I'm sure I didn't really look like this, but I felt like a hipster the other day. I went to go pick up dinner for us and I had my hey, dude, slip on shoes, my
01:06:39
Speaker
Oh, I know. I love my hey dudes. Light green shorts that were like mid-thigh and a pink shirt. My neighbor, his dad, like I was real close friends with my neighbor, his dad, who probably in the time period that we're talking was 45, right?
01:07:04
Speaker
It was like the 45 of the 90s where you looked really old. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, you look like you're about 80. Yeah. But at the age of 45, the guy worked away, so he was gone for weeks at a time. Anytime he was in his house, he would wear sweatpants.
01:07:26
Speaker
and like raggedy ass, they weren't new balances, they didn't exist back then, but like white sneakers and a t-shirt or something. Right. And that's all he would wear. And this guy was a professional engineer, you know, made a lot of money. And I always was like, this guy is giving up. He's 45 and he's just giving up on life.
01:07:50
Speaker
I'm 43 years old. I don't wear anything that doesn't have a sweatband waist on it anymore. Like, I found that there are brains of shorts now that look sort of classy, still stretchy. Nice. You know, I wear hairdo shoes. Oh, yeah. Like, I've given up. No, you haven't given up. You just understate.
01:08:13
Speaker
We don't have to impress anybody anymore. It's all about our comfort now. Yeah, it's all about comfort now. My wife got me a nut. This is she got me a nice pair of sweatpants. I was like, I could wear these every day of my life. Yeah. So we had a conversation at work about this very topic because I was I can't remember what I was ranting about, but the comment was made. Well, if you wear gym shorts. Oh, it was a guy was a guy went to the grocery store.
01:08:42
Speaker
And he was wearing pajama pants. When I say pajama pants, when I say men's pajama pants, what do those look like? Like plaid pants. A plaid felt or something. I don't know what that material is. Loose leg. Right. Loose legs, those shaped to them. Pajama pants. Yeah. So he wore pajama pants to the grocery store. And I was like, that's a step too far. That's your look. And she's like, Megan looks at me and says, Lou,
01:09:11
Speaker
You wear you wear gym shorts every day. It's the same thing. I'm like, no, it's not the same thing. Gym shorts are different kind of material. It's but they're still they're like actual shorts. Yeah. They're not like meant for like pajamas are not meant for going out in. No. And she was like, if you're not going to the gym, you shouldn't be wearing gym shorts. And I'm like, you don't tell me what to do. I'm married. I got nowhere to freaking impress. You don't tell me what to do.
01:09:39
Speaker
I, but we got this whole argument. I was like, Jim shorts are perfectly acceptable to wear. Now, if you go out to a fancy dinner, don't wear Jim shorts. Right. Clearly you wear your fancy Jim shorts. You wear your shorts. You wear your shorts or you buy, I don't know why they don't just sell a nice pair of khaki shorts. You know, well,
01:10:00
Speaker
The ones I have are all fricking cargo pants shorts. Yeah, it's tricky to find them, but you got to go to like, you got to like actually go into an old Navy or something. Look at JCPenney.
Clothing Preferences and Shopping
01:10:10
Speaker
Are there still JCPenney's? I don't think so. Peebles? Peebles. Serious robot. But you know what I think that the other day, I love wearing hoodies. I've gotten to the point in my life where I love wearing hoodies. Yeah.
01:10:23
Speaker
I don't need the heat of a hoodie all the time. Yeah, I just love the convenience of having the pocket in front. And sometimes I like having the nice loose material. I need that in a summer wear outfit. When you could get one of those like vest hoodie things. No, they're still the same material. Yeah. No, I need it to be like T-shirt material. You know, I am sure that they make T-shirt hoodies. They gotta write.
01:10:52
Speaker
I want one because I feel like that would be comfortable. You know, you get up in the morning and you go for your walk and you're just wearing your t-shirt hoodie. You carry your phone in your pocket because I don't wear a pocket. I don't have pants with pockets anymore. Yeah. I see. These don't have pockets that I'm... Oh, wait. Here's one. Yeah. See, I want a pocket. Yeah. Yeah. 32 degrees has long sleeve hooded t-shirts. Oh. Yeah. 32 degrees.
01:11:23
Speaker
Long sleeve hooded t-shirt. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Russell Athletic has some too. Yeah, there's all kinds of them. See this. I discovered something I need. Yeah, that's exactly what I need. Yeah. Oh my God, this on Amazon. Oh, this part of the podcast is not brought to you by 32 degrees.
01:11:53
Speaker
hooded t-shirts, but 32 degrees, if you'd like to sponsor us, please do. I will gladly wear a Mythic Giraffe podcast hooded t-shirt. Oh, I can have it by tomorrow.
01:12:13
Speaker
That's all I want in life. That's all I want in life. But see, that's the other thing. Buying something online like that, you don't know what the fabric's going to feel like. Well, this was $170. Whoa. What? $128? I don't know where you're looking. The ones I was looking at were like $20.
01:12:36
Speaker
This is from Johnny O, the Z T-shirt hoodie, which doesn't even have a pocket and it's not even a hoodie because it's got snaps on the top. That's not a hoodie. $128. Do you leave the strings in your hoodies? Sometimes. Yeah. I kind of do one of those. I leave it up to fate. If the washing machine pulls them out. Yeah, they weren't. I don't care about it. I never use the strings stupid. Yeah. The amount of times I actually have the hood up are very, very slim.
01:13:05
Speaker
I have the hood up all the time. Sometimes my like, like my little ears get cold. Yeah. See, I would like that option. Why don't we just bring back cloaks? Is that a coat? I would wear a cloak every day. I might be in for a cloak. I'll see how this looks like. It'll work out. Yeah. Yeah. Toss it back behind you when you don't need it. Or if you get a little chilly or whatever, you wrap it around. No pocket.
01:13:30
Speaker
You're at the movies and it gets chilly. You're like cuddled up in your little blanket. Oh yeah. That's like a perfect example of why you need a cloak. You're at the movies and you're like, Oh, I need a blanket. Yep. Yeah. I'm in for that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we've learned that, uh, the teacher that I want exists and that we should wear jeans again or something. Yeah, something. I could probably sell my jeans for hipsters. Oh yeah. I'm sure you could. I have jeans that are still, I can guarantee you I have jeans that are from the nineties.
01:13:59
Speaker
Yes. Yes. And there are hipsters out there though. I have a cool ass jean jacket that I want to be able to fit back into. Nice. It's one of those jean jackets that's got like the lining. Oh yeah. Yeah. Was it like the sheep lining? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool ass shit. Yeah. And that's back in style. Jean jackets never go that style. Yeah. No.
01:14:26
Speaker
Always cool. Always cool. The thing that I hated about our jackets. Do you remember? Now it wasn't our fault. It was obviously people who designed clothes. Jackets used to come to like above your belly button. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like you always wore jackets that like never got to your hips. Yeah. Yeah. You weren't not allowed to raise your arms at all if you wanted
01:14:55
Speaker
protection. No, ever. Yeah, because like jackets, I just remember all of my jean jackets just like stopping. Oh, yeah. My rib line. Well, because they didn't want those rivets to match up with the rivets on your pants. Then, yeah. That's a
Fashion Evolution and Definitions
01:15:08
Speaker
fair point. Madness. You get rivet on a ribbon. Where you get confused and you're putting your pants into your jacket and your jacket into your pants. I don't know. Yeah.
01:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, that style, that can go away. Yeah. It was just uncomfortable and annoying. Yeah. Yes. I like my jackets to be, to my, what my wife calls the fat guy waistline. Fat guy waistline. Well, cause men, like, apparently it's a thing that we have done where our waistlines are not what used to be considered our waistlines. Really? Now we wear things more slung on our hips. Oh. Yeah.
01:15:48
Speaker
What, is that supposed to be like slung on your belly button? Really? Yeah. I can't imagine pants up to my belly button. Yeah. Like that was like super dorky, right? Yeah. I would look like that's a 90s mom. Right. If somebody put, there are girls walking around college now. That's where they have their, their pants, they're up on their belly buttons. They look like dorks. Yeah.
01:16:10
Speaker
Yeah. And nobody's telling them that's the problem. That should be my job. Oh my God. Yes. Yeah. How long does it take for us to get thrown out of college while we sit there and say, dork, dork, dork. No, I would have a bullhorn. You miss put your pants down. Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely how you get thrown out of there. Yeah. Miss pull your pants down. Yeah.
01:16:39
Speaker
It's fair. Yeah. Yeah. They do. They they they have they have mastered leggings. They got that stuff figured out. Yeah. Now they have legging shorts, which I don't even understand the concept. I know I'm not mad at it, but it's. Yeah, it's yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah. And then they have the jeans that are chaps. Yeah. And then they have the shirts that are sales just for the front. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the other. Yeah. The girls that wear like
01:17:06
Speaker
the sweatshirt that would fit, you know, like big dog five years ago. Yes. Or I don't know, you've seen them now. A lot of them are wearing the one like the Roman toga where it's only got one shoulder. Really? Yeah. I see that all the time. I've not seen that yet. Yeah. It looks like
01:17:27
Speaker
Remember in the eighties, you used to wear like a shirt and then you'd have like the women would wear that pulled stretched out sweatshirt. Yeah. Like it would be over one shoulder. That's what they're wearing, but without the t-shirt underneath. Huh. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They have like the home athletic shirt, the neck cut out of it all slouched over to one side. Yeah.
01:17:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm just running around campus tomorrow. Or well, that's our Saturday. When I get home from work, I'm just going to go on campus. You look like a dork. People are like, so old guys yelling at people calling dorks. What's a dork? That's a whale's penis. Everybody knows that. Uh, well folks with that one, I think rapid.
01:18:18
Speaker
If you look up dork in the dictionary. Yeah, is it really? Yeah, absolutely. Well folks, enjoy your beautiful spring day. I'm hoping it's a beautiful spring day for you when you listen to this. Go out and be safe. Happy first day of EMS week. Yeah, is this coming on the first day of EMS week? It is. Is that next week? Yeah. I'm so proud of EMS week.
01:18:47
Speaker
I'll be on vacation, which is what I'm doing for my game last week for myself. Good for you. Yeah. Yeah. But go out and get yourself a t-shirt hoodie. Yes. Your life's going to be changed. I'm going to find one. I wonder if that company that makes the t-shirts I like makes a t-shirt hoodie. I'm going to have to log into that. That'd be a good one. Or ask them. Me might be able to stumble into a new venture. Yeah.
01:19:11
Speaker
This one has a mask. I don't want that. No, you don't need that. No, no. I'm not going to rob a bank. I don't even need the hood so much. It's just the front pocket. Yeah. Starting to do Trent. Yeah, you should. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a trend center. Everybody knows that. You are. Yes. When people say trend center, they think Ron Wissmer. They do. All right, folks. Take care. Take care. Enjoy.