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Shift Work and AI Art
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (Christmas, birthdays, age, food); Ron asks how shift workers transition into “regular life”; Chris wonders if AI art is a bad thing. 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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Introduction and Humorous Identity Crisis
00:00:07
Chris
Welcome back to the Mythic Draft podcast, I'm Chris.
00:00:09
notasoldasyou
And I'm... Ron?
00:00:12
Chris
Is that a question?
00:00:15
notasoldasyou
Hey, existential crisis, who knows? so
00:00:17
Chris
Oh yeah, okay, it happens.
Celebrating Birthdays and Aging
00:00:21
Chris
Until today is brought to you by the letter C because it's actually cold outside.
00:00:25
notasoldasyou
I was gonna say it's B for birthday.
00:00:29
Chris
Ooh, yes, yeah.
00:00:31
notasoldasyou
It is the birthday of the Chris.
00:00:35
Chris
Yeah, and it's the birthday eve of the Whismur.
00:00:35
notasoldasyou
The old dirty Chris.
00:00:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:42
notasoldasyou
45 years old, brah.
00:00:44
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a, it's an age.
00:00:48
notasoldasyou
It's an age.
Youthful Perspectives on Aging Celebrities
00:00:53
notasoldasyou
Don't you feel, and maybe everybody feels this way, 45 was so old.
00:01:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:02
notasoldasyou
Like my grandfather was 45 when I was born.
00:01:05
Chris
yeah Yeah.
00:01:06
notasoldasyou
I feel like I don't look anywhere near as old as my grandfather did at age 45.
00:01:11
Chris
No. No, no. What do you look back at like lethal weapon and things like that? I mean, you know, Danny Glover was what, 42 in that?
00:01:21
notasoldasyou
I think so. I think, what even were you, 38?
00:01:23
Chris
Oh,
00:01:24
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:01:24
Chris
yeah
00:01:25
notasoldasyou
What was, uh, what's a, um, Beverly Hills cop tagger. That dude's like 37 or something in that movie.
00:01:29
Chris
oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, oh, he's got to be 50.
00:01:35
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:01:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:37
notasoldasyou
And I just, so I don't feel, I don't feel 45 or maybe I just don't know what 45 supposed to feel like.
00:01:41
Chris
No, no.
00:01:45
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I still feel like a kid.
00:01:49
notasoldasyou
Yeah, I still feel like I'm waiting for an adult to tell me what to do.
00:01:52
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:54
notasoldasyou
the The worst time of it is when I'm at work and everybody looks at me as the adult.
00:02:03
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:02:04
notasoldasyou
I'm like, you guys are like crazy.
00:02:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:07
notasoldasyou
like I'm going to go home and play with my Legos. What are you talking about? You don't want me making decisions,
00:02:14
Chris
Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean, my oldest child is technically an adult.
00:02:15
notasoldasyou
right? Like,
00:02:21
notasoldasyou
yeah so
00:02:21
Chris
And she's like, when does it kick in? I was like, I don't know. I'm still waiting for it to kick in.
Balancing Childlike Feelings with Adult Responsibilities
00:02:26
notasoldasyou
yeah the nursing home i don't know yeah yeah i just it's yeah i just keep waiting for it to like oh yeah like
00:02:28
Chris
Yeah, I. People all the time, I mean, they'll, you know, like we'll be out in public with people and they'll ask me a question. I'm like, I am not the adult in this relationship. Ask my wife. Let me call my mom and ask her.
00:02:50
Chris
Hmm.
00:02:51
notasoldasyou
Yeah, they're the adult people.
00:02:53
Chris
Yeah. I mean, is is there like a book we're supposed to get?
00:02:57
notasoldasyou
I flee dread, I never got it.
00:02:59
Chris
Yeah, I'm still waiting. Maybe it's stuck in the mail.
00:03:01
notasoldasyou
It might be.
00:03:03
Chris
I don't know.
00:03:05
notasoldasyou
Yeah, it just it's is weird. like And I just don't feel...
00:03:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:12
notasoldasyou
I just remember like when I was a kid in the 20s and you hear like comics like talking about, like oh man, you hit 40 and everything slows down.
00:03:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:20
notasoldasyou
I don't feel that way.
00:03:22
Chris
No.
00:03:22
notasoldasyou
Like I'm maybe in the best shape of my life at 40 because at 20 I ate like a trash panda.
00:03:32
Chris
Yeah, ate like a trash panda, slept maybe three, four hours a night. Yeah, yeah.
00:03:39
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. My, my, obviously my wife and I have the same birthday today. We're celebrating our birthday today before my family comes to town.
00:03:48
Chris
ah Yeah.
00:03:50
notasoldasyou
noni patriotrate filis position ah but so we're we're going out tonight and she wants to go to this this local cider house where they make hard ciders and stuff you know it's a nice little place to hang out very very low key chill out kind of event and she's like well you're gonna have have some cider and I'm like i don't I don't know if I can drink alcohol I'm gonna feel like shit in the morning
00:04:03
Chris
Yeah, it sounds delightful. Yep.
00:04:19
notasoldasyou
Like,
Alcohol Tolerance and Aging
00:04:21
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, God, no.
00:04:21
notasoldasyou
you know, that's, that's the only thing I think, that's the only thing about my age I know, I notice is I can't handle alcohol like it used to.
00:04:29
notasoldasyou
And if I eat at all the wrong food, I'm like, Oh my God, it's the worst thing I've ever done in my life.
00:04:35
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, the days of being a human garbage disposal are well behind me.
00:04:40
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like my wife and I, we went camping this weekend. or this week for Christmas, get away from the town, get away from everybody.
00:04:51
notasoldasyou
But she left our food at home. She like mistakenly, we took the opera and everything else. And she's, you know, so we're scrounging in our house or in our RV, like eating, because there's nothing open.
00:05:04
notasoldasyou
There's nowhere to go.
00:05:04
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. You had to take a squirrel down.
00:05:06
notasoldasyou
so yeah So she's like, I'm eating tuna fish packets for Christmas. And she's like, Then yesterday, she's like, I just felt so run down. I'm like, yeah, cause we're old.
00:05:17
notasoldasyou
And if we don't eat food now, like we're supposed to, we get run down and gross.
Camping Mishaps and Culinary Adventures
00:05:22
notasoldasyou
It's terrible.
00:05:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:24
notasoldasyou
That's the only thing about age. I'll give you that.
00:05:26
Chris
Right.
00:05:28
notasoldasyou
But other than that, I feel pretty good.
00:05:28
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:33
notasoldasyou
You know, body feels, I feel like waiting, I'm waiting for the turn. i Like we're both having this conversation and tomorrow we have both wake up, can't walk.
00:05:41
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:05:44
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:05:44
Chris
Yeah, I mean, I'm like you said, I'm in very good shape. I mean, the other day I had my stress test and almost didn't pass it because I couldn't hit the target heart rate or whatever.
00:05:54
notasoldasyou
Yeah, I've had that wrong before.
00:05:55
Chris
And it's like, yeah, that's a good problem to have.
00:05:58
notasoldasyou
yeah When but the the last time I was in this good of shape, the doctor came in and was like, what's that noise? And it was me on the treadmill. they go so but And he's like, if he hasn't died, we're good.
00:06:07
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:06:12
notasoldasyou
good
00:06:13
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:17
Chris
Yeah, I don't know. I just well, but yeah you say like, you know, the figuring things that my wife has been rewatching how I met your mother and there was ah um the other night it was on and it was like they were talking like, you know, looking like, well, it's only two thirty in the morning.
00:06:34
Chris
I'm like, oh, my God, why are you up at two thirty?
00:06:35
notasoldasyou
We're good. It was like nine o'clock. I was like, well. I think I'm going bed.
00:06:43
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:44
notasoldasyou
Could've stayed up and played games, but sleep sounds good too.
00:06:48
Chris
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Surprise Gifts and Kitchen Gadgets
00:06:51
Chris
Yeah, I don't. Yeah.
00:06:52
notasoldasyou
When's the last time you.
00:06:52
Chris
And I guess it does show my age because like one thing I got a surprise for Christmas from my in-laws. That was a total surprise. And I got a potato ricer and I'm tickled.
00:07:03
notasoldasyou
What are the squeeze ones?
00:07:05
Chris
Yeah. Yes.
00:07:07
notasoldasyou
Nice.
00:07:08
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I can't wait.
00:07:10
notasoldasyou
Yeah, rice and potatoes.
00:07:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:13
notasoldasyou
And other things that are starchy, I guess.
00:07:15
Chris
And yeah, I guess, you know, like turnips or parsnips or.
00:07:18
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:20
Chris
Sure.
00:07:22
notasoldasyou
Sure.
00:07:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:23
notasoldasyou
think turn I'm not sure about parsums, they're like hard in the middle.
00:07:26
Chris
Yeah, that's true.
00:07:28
notasoldasyou
yeah
00:07:30
Chris
Sweet potatoes. Hmm.
00:07:32
notasoldasyou
Poison rules. Prime against humanity that people eat those things.
00:07:41
notasoldasyou
They don't even taste good.
00:07:42
Chris
Yes, they do.
00:07:43
notasoldasyou
Ugh. It's orange goop. Ugh.
00:07:50
Chris
ah
00:07:51
notasoldasyou
Don't eat a lot of orange foods.
00:07:54
Chris
Yeah, well it's like we were talking the other day. Carrots are so hit and miss.
00:07:58
notasoldasyou
I just don't like carrots. I think that's what I've discovered. I just don't
00:08:03
Chris
i went But when you get a good carrot, it's got that little bit of sweetness to it. Delightful. But then you have the ones that taste like soap.
00:08:11
notasoldasyou
They're fine. And when they're cooked, they're not good. Like, I don't mind them when they're diced up in a soup.
00:08:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:18
notasoldasyou
Like, in a miracle bar or something.
00:08:18
Chris
Or shepherd's pie or something.
00:08:20
notasoldasyou
Yeah, that's fine. But I don't want a, like, a big old knob of carrot in my soup.
00:08:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:28
Chris
That's because you have to cook them down in a pound of brown sugar.
00:08:33
notasoldasyou
Well, then, yeah, of course. I'm sure they're tasty.
00:08:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:41
notasoldasyou
Yeah, just another big an orange food person.
00:08:42
Chris
Hmm.
00:08:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:46
notasoldasyou
It's probably the worst color for me.
00:08:47
Chris
warrant Really? I mean, orange I like a good navel orange.
00:08:52
notasoldasyou
I don't really even like oranges.
00:08:54
Chris
Well,
00:08:55
notasoldasyou
I find them to be less good than grapefruit.
00:09:01
Chris
yeah well the problem with the orange is it's just like the carrot thing. It's, you know, sometimes you get the ones that like the membrane is too thick.
00:09:08
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:09:09
Chris
It's all chewy.
00:09:10
notasoldasyou
Sometimes with grapefruits, you gotta to like spend a lot more time clearing the membrane away.
00:09:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:17
notasoldasyou
It's annoying.
00:09:19
Chris
And then you got pomelos, which is just too much pith.
00:09:22
notasoldasyou
Yeah, that thing's annoying. It's not worth eating.
00:09:26
Chris
No, yeah, it's too much work.
00:09:26
notasoldasyou
Right? Like, it's a joke. Like, don't eat this. It's too much work.
00:09:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:35
Chris
Spend your half an hour cleaning it.
00:09:38
notasoldasyou
I'm trying to think of what other color foods I don't eat a lot of and I think orange is probably the only one.
00:09:42
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:09:45
notasoldasyou
Like I'll eat an orange, I'm not against an orange. It's not, I remember like, oh here's an orange or an apple. I'm choosing apple. I'm not an asshole.
00:09:51
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. As long as the apple isn't all bruised up.
00:09:57
notasoldasyou
As long as it's not Miele, I can't, I can't deal with Miele alco.
00:09:58
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's a problem. When I go to the store, it will take me so long to get four apples because I will pick each one up and look at everything.
00:10:09
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:10:12
Chris
Yeah. And then, yeah.
00:10:15
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:10:15
Chris
Hmm. That's like, I don't like the little. Are they the cuties, the mandarins? I don't like those oranges.
Fruit Preferences and Humorous Debates
00:10:21
notasoldasyou
Oh, I love those things.
00:10:22
Chris
See, i I don't know.
00:10:27
notasoldasyou
um I'm going to stick to my reds and purples green fruit. Red fruit, red vegetables, red foods are the best foods.
00:10:36
Chris
Oh, but it gets fuzzy around the seeds.
00:10:37
notasoldasyou
Watermelon, arguably the best summer fruit.
00:10:43
Chris
well Yeah.
00:10:44
notasoldasyou
Okay. That's a weird conversation. You get seedless, seedless watermelons. Uh, apples are amazing. Uh, red grapes are fine.
00:10:55
notasoldasyou
They're not as good as green grapes, but they're good.
00:10:57
Chris
See, I'm not a big, great person.
00:10:59
notasoldasyou
Tomatoes. Awesome fruit.
00:11:00
Chris
ah Oh, God. No, no.
00:11:04
notasoldasyou
Beat.
00:11:05
Chris
Tomatoes.
00:11:07
notasoldasyou
Radishes? a Red's got all the things going for it.
00:11:15
Chris
We had beats not too long ago.
00:11:19
notasoldasyou
um i'm ah I have found that one of the people on my ship also loves pickled beets, so now we just like get the cane of pickled beets and share them.
00:11:28
Chris
Hmm.
00:11:29
notasoldasyou
and it's wait that looks but pi are these
00:11:29
Chris
Pickle. See, I'm not big on the pickled.
00:11:35
Chris
But nice roasted beef.
00:11:37
notasoldasyou
Oh, honey roasted beets?
00:11:39
Chris
I don't know.
00:11:40
notasoldasyou
Oh boy.
00:11:41
Chris
We just roast them with a little bit of salt, pepper and put them on top of what's called risotto.
00:11:48
notasoldasyou
That sounds also good.
00:11:49
Chris
With a little bit of goat cheese.
00:11:51
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:11:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:52
notasoldasyou
Yeah, probably beets is the staining of things, but Oh, crayberries.
00:11:55
Chris
That's why i work loves when I peel them.
00:11:58
notasoldasyou
Amazing red fruit.
00:12:00
Chris
Mm hmm. Yeah. Do beats turn your pee red?
00:12:05
notasoldasyou
Not as far as I've ever seen.
00:12:07
Chris
Oh, oh.
00:12:09
notasoldasyou
but
00:12:09
Chris
Evidently, it's a subset of the population. It's kind of like asparagus that makes your pee smell.
00:12:11
notasoldasyou
Hmm.
00:12:13
Chris
Yeah. The first time um we had beats, yeah I was about to say, Oh, my God.
00:12:20
notasoldasyou
Wow.
00:12:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:22
notasoldasyou
That would freak me out.
00:12:23
Chris
Yeah. Hmm.
00:12:26
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
Food Preferences and Healthy Eating
00:12:27
notasoldasyou
No, I've not, I've not had that problem yet.
00:12:34
Chris
Yet you haven't eaten of beats.
00:12:38
notasoldasyou
I would say I don't eat enough beets. I would like to eat more beets.
00:12:41
Chris
yeah
00:12:43
notasoldasyou
I like me some beets. I take the beet juice and you can mix in things. Write in your oatmeal.
00:12:51
Chris
Ah, see, I can't do oatmeal. It's a texture thing.
00:12:57
notasoldasyou
Is it the gloopiness or the looseness?
00:13:01
Chris
Yes.
00:13:02
notasoldasyou
Because I don't like my oatmeal loose.
00:13:03
Chris
Yes.
00:13:04
notasoldasyou
I like my oatmeal drier.
00:13:07
Chris
It's the gloopy loose. the Yeah. Hmm.
00:13:13
notasoldasyou
I was eating a lot of oatmeal for my cholesterol because they tell you that's the thing you're supposed to do.
00:13:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:19
notasoldasyou
But I think that's also a scam that they just tell you that.
00:13:22
Chris
Every day, yeah, they they're in big with oatmeal quicker, scat them in their pocket. Yeah, let's say, I mean, my breakfast is typically, you know, a cup full of dry Cheerios on the way to work, so.
00:13:35
notasoldasyou
ah That sounds lovely.
00:13:37
Chris
It is it is like a horse. I just. Hmm. yeah
00:13:43
notasoldasyou
I have ah begun this routine of getting Greek yogurt and adding homemade cranberry sauce with chia seeds into it and then sometimes some mixed nuts.
00:13:51
Chris
OK.
00:13:54
Chris
Hmm.
00:13:54
notasoldasyou
That's my breakfast and it's delightful.
00:13:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Every now and again, the wife will make chia pudding and make granola.
00:13:57
notasoldasyou
come
00:14:01
Chris
They mix together pretty well.
00:14:03
notasoldasyou
ah
00:14:06
notasoldasyou
My wife told me, she was like, because I make cranberry sauce, I love cranberry sauce, like homemade cranberry sauce, not the crap out of a can, ever.
00:14:12
Chris
No, no, no, you got to get the cancer. That way, you know where to cut it.
00:14:15
notasoldasyou
No, never, never.
00:14:16
Chris
Yes.
00:14:17
notasoldasyou
But she was like, put cheeses in there. And I was like, it blew my mind. It's changed everything.
00:14:23
Chris
but This woman has stumbled upon something.
00:14:26
notasoldasyou
no the It's so easy to make. It's one of the dumbest things people buy is cranberry sauce because it's so much easier to make.
00:14:34
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:14:38
notasoldasyou
I mean, it's got a lot of pectin.
00:14:39
Chris
Yeah.
Dining Experiences and Funny Stories
00:14:41
Chris
Dried cranberries are good.
00:14:42
notasoldasyou
So... Dracarys are good. I just wish they would stop adding sugar to them.
00:14:47
Chris
but You got to find the no sugar added.
00:14:49
notasoldasyou
I know and it's hard.
00:14:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:51
notasoldasyou
It's just hard.
00:14:52
Chris
It's like it's tucked away in the back, hidden away.
00:14:54
notasoldasyou
Yeah, we have to order some of our stuff from like the hippie mart to get some of that stuff.
00:14:59
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:15:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Speaking of healthy food. This is like the old man. Guys, we're talking about healthy food.
00:15:06
Chris
Yeah, as I was about to say, yeah.
00:15:09
notasoldasyou
for sure.
00:15:09
Chris
Yeah, these guys are talking about they don't they're not old. Yeah, they are.
00:15:13
notasoldasyou
I say I feel as I'm not old.
00:15:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:16
notasoldasyou
no My wife got me a homemade kombucha kit. So I'm brewing my own kombucha now.
00:15:21
Chris
Oh, you are a hippie.
00:15:24
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah. I went into the the cupboard last night. Eight to 10 days later, I'll have a kombucha.
00:15:35
Chris
Hopefully it doesn't over pressurize and explode in your cupboard.
00:15:35
notasoldasyou
and
00:15:38
notasoldasyou
Apparently that's not a thing for kabucha because they, well, it's also, it's left open.
00:15:42
Chris
Oh, OK.
00:15:44
notasoldasyou
But when you go to second for a minute, that's, you gotta, that's from the worry some part is, but the first part you just cover it with cheesecloth.
00:15:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:52
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:15:53
Chris
Well, just leave it open. I mean, they leave pickle vats open.
00:15:56
notasoldasyou
They do. That's, and they also, that's how they make beers on break, right? There's that, uh, was it lambics that are made like that?
00:16:02
Chris
Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:16:07
notasoldasyou
Natural killing yeast. Yeast is amazing. It's interesting Yeah,
00:16:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:14
notasoldasyou
and was i that that's probably the prize of the Christmas was kombucha She also got me a Pocket size multi-tool and i'm staying pocket sized in heavy air quotes.
00:16:22
Chris
so
00:16:25
Chris
Oh.
00:16:28
notasoldasyou
The thing is the size of my thigh It's like, it's supposed, it's in the shape of the morning of Falcon. And it says, you open it up, it says, pax I'm like, whose pocket is this for?
00:16:34
Chris
Oh, nice.
00:16:39
notasoldasyou
It's huge.
00:16:39
Chris
A giant half giant.
00:16:42
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Half time. Clearly half time. It's fair. I'm not a half giant.
00:16:50
Chris
No, no, no. Yeah, I think I got the racer.
00:16:52
notasoldasyou
Normal man.
00:16:53
Chris
No, I mean, You know, we don't really do a lot of exchanges. So.
00:16:58
notasoldasyou
Yeah. You live the dream.
00:17:00
Chris
Yeah, it's nice.
00:17:02
notasoldasyou
yeah
00:17:02
Chris
Although my grandmother did give me socks, which is always a nice thing.
00:17:06
notasoldasyou
Actually at this point I didn't get socks this year.
00:17:08
Chris
Yeah, you never know, there's still time.
00:17:10
notasoldasyou
It's true.
00:17:14
notasoldasyou
It's true.
00:17:17
Chris
We mix things up this year and. We had missed going down to Ocean City to see the lights, and on Christmas Day, we were like, I wonder if it's open. Sure enough, it was. Best time to go.
00:17:28
Chris
Nobody there.
00:17:29
notasoldasyou
That's a fair point. Nobody be there.
00:17:31
Chris
Holy day. It was delightful. Walked through.
00:17:33
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:17:34
Chris
And like you said, the hard part was trying to find some place to eat. So we found a Japanese steakhouse that was open that I don't think I'll go back to.
00:17:37
notasoldasyou
yeah Yeah.
00:17:44
Chris
But yeah. Well, when young Dimitri took our order, And my youngest said, is this gluten free? What is gluten?
00:17:57
Chris
Fair point. So.
00:17:59
notasoldasyou
For those who are outside of the know, Ocean City, Maryland is notorious for having Russians and Eastern Europeans working in the restaurants.
00:18:06
Chris
Yes. Yep. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So our hibachi chef, the kid's swear was named Ivan. But he did not look like an Ivan.
00:18:20
Chris
so
00:18:20
notasoldasyou
Okay.
00:18:21
Chris
But yeah, the food was fine. Just they're very pushy on evidently all their meals come with an appetizer.
00:18:25
notasoldasyou
Just fine.
00:18:29
Chris
Like, you know, what's his appetizer? I was like, I don't want any of those. It was chicken livers, mushrooms or shrimp.
00:18:35
notasoldasyou
oh
00:18:36
Chris
None of those I like.
00:18:38
notasoldasyou
brave
00:18:39
Chris
So finally he was like, ah you can have double rice. It's like, OK, so I have this giant plate of rice. Yeah. So, but yeah.
00:18:49
notasoldasyou
Speaking of immigrants, I have the craziest story in the world to tell and it's a warning for all because I almost lost my job.
00:18:56
Chris
I was about to say that someone else asked you for a calf mold.
00:19:00
notasoldasyou
No, what where it worked, my last shift working and we weren't busy, but we got to that point where it was dinner time. And of course the city decided to blow up so that it was like seven 30.
00:19:10
Chris
Oh, yeah, that's.
00:19:13
notasoldasyou
And we haven't, you know, like we would come back to the station long enough to like look at dinner, but it wasn't quite ready.
00:19:18
Chris
Oh, wait, your chauffeur didn't take their dinner with them.
00:19:21
notasoldasyou
You know, so we go out on our.
00:19:26
notasoldasyou
No, it wasn't ready.
00:19:27
Chris
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:19:28
notasoldasyou
was we were We could finish dinner because we kept getting interrupted.
00:19:29
Chris
Hmm.
00:19:32
Chris
Gotcha.
00:19:35
notasoldasyou
So then it's like 7.30 or 8 o'clock and we went out to one of the ah apartment buildings in our area.
00:19:41
Chris
Hmm.
00:19:44
notasoldasyou
for a fire alarm activation and all the people standing out front and just it's cold it's like 10 degrees outside that night and they're grumbling and I'm like alright
00:19:51
Chris
Yeah.
Workplace Anecdotes and Emergencies
00:19:53
notasoldasyou
I don't figure out what's going on and this guy comes up to me and he's like these dumbasses pulled the fire alarm and I think it's because they're locked out of their apartment and I'm like no that's not true this can't be this this can't be true so sure enough I go up there they don't speak English I'm not gonna
00:19:53
Chris
Hmm.
00:20:05
Chris
Time out.
00:20:14
notasoldasyou
denigrate a whole race of people by saying what they do speak, but it's a language that does not English.
00:20:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:21
notasoldasyou
And then I can, Tig didn't speak another language that they understand. And I finally found out that, yeah, they locked themselves out of the apartment. And so they hit, pulled the fire alarm.
00:20:33
notasoldasyou
I was fine until they just started like looking at me and laughing and saying, are you going to open the apartment? And I said, the fuck I am.
00:20:41
Chris
No.
00:20:42
notasoldasyou
And we left. And they're like, what?
00:20:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:45
notasoldasyou
I'm like, no. So let me, this guy got there and I said, you're going to handle that problem.
00:20:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:52
notasoldasyou
Uh, um, I've lost my, I lost my cool little bit.
00:20:56
Chris
Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:56
notasoldasyou
It was just, oh man.
00:20:58
Chris
Yeah. Well, that, and I mean, they don't understand that took an engine, a ladder truck and a duty chief.
00:21:05
notasoldasyou
Yep.
00:21:06
Chris
Yeah, that's yeah.
00:21:06
notasoldasyou
Yep. Yep.
00:21:09
Chris
Hmm.
00:21:09
notasoldasyou
And luckily I was able to put the other units in service, but yeah.
00:21:12
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, that's why everybody should be allowed one slap a week.
00:21:16
notasoldasyou
Yeah. It's just because.
00:21:20
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. One slap would be good.
00:21:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:24
notasoldasyou
Well in, and I said this, and I got back from the call, I said 20 years ago, that wouldn't happen again because those people would be just now getting done, getting chewed up by the fire department.
00:21:36
Chris
Right.
00:21:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:37
notasoldasyou
You know, like I remember when I started and the old heads, not, not even at work, but like when I was starting to volunteer, the old heads, we went to the vault when like the college kids pulled the alarms for stupid reasons, we would make them sit outside for three hours just to do it.
00:21:43
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:21:51
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:54
notasoldasyou
You know, Because then it's like, well, you figure out who pulled the fire alarm and you beat the crap out of him. Cause we're going to make you stay here for three hours.
00:21:59
Chris
Yeah. Right. Yeah. Tough love.
00:22:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. Now we're like, no, no, it'd be nice to you.
00:22:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:10
notasoldasyou
Idiots.
00:22:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:11
notasoldasyou
Idiots.
00:22:12
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:14
notasoldasyou
Definitely was the closest I've come to losing in my cool in a long time at work.
00:22:20
Chris
ah Yeah, yeah.
00:22:22
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:22:25
Chris
Yeah, that's a frustrating one.
00:22:25
notasoldasyou
But the goodness is they don't speak English to file a complaint. So I'll be right.
00:22:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:33
notasoldasyou
and Oh, when the one of them looked means faith speaks French better.
00:22:33
Chris
but Just wait till they get their fine from the Fire Marshal's office.
00:22:40
notasoldasyou
I'm like, fuck you motherfucker. I'm trying.
00:22:43
Chris
Oh, yeah, that's yeah.
00:22:45
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. It's like, why?
00:22:48
Chris
speak french better
00:22:49
notasoldasyou
They don't really talk in Duolingo about why the hell did you set the fire alarm off. That's not one that they go over.
00:22:56
Chris
Maybe that's what we need to do. We need to make a dual lingo for fire and EMS.
00:23:01
notasoldasyou
I would love to have Duolingo for EMS because I can say, I know how to say, are you hurting your back, your arms and your legs and your head.
00:23:04
Chris
Gosh.
00:23:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:12
notasoldasyou
That's about as far as I get out of Duolingo.
00:23:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:14
notasoldasyou
You know, what we were, we had a patient like last month. And I got to the point where I was like, I kind of figured out what's going on and ah young the youngest paramedic on my shift looks at me and says, well, could you ask her um in French if it's okay if we give her an IV?
00:23:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:33
notasoldasyou
And I looked at her and I said, I'm struggling with how are you today? And you want me to say, this do you consent to an IV?
00:23:45
Chris
like
00:23:48
notasoldasyou
I said, just give her the IV.
00:23:49
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:49
notasoldasyou
It's fine.
00:23:54
notasoldasyou
Yeah. That would be great. That would be handy.
00:23:56
Chris
Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to think like in Spanish, it would be like, yeah.
00:23:57
notasoldasyou
that's
00:24:03
notasoldasyou
Great.
00:24:04
Chris
yeah
00:24:05
notasoldasyou
She's like, I'm going to do a blood draw.
00:24:06
Chris
And then there's like all the gesticulations with it.
00:24:07
notasoldasyou
Can you tell her? ah She was like, can you tell her that I'm going to do a blood draw? I said, Natalie, I don't know how to say blood draw in French. Draw would be designated, but that means to do art.
00:24:20
Chris
Yeah, this is an Asengue.
00:24:23
notasoldasyou
I'm going to draw your blood. Like we're doing a picture.
00:24:26
Chris
You see the patient, the patient gets all freaked out.
00:24:30
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:24:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:33
notasoldasyou
Rightly so at that point.
00:24:34
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:36
notasoldasyou
No.
00:24:37
Chris
They get back, they tell you, that crazy paramedic was going to trawl things with my blood. It's like some voodoo they do.
00:24:46
notasoldasyou
Oh man.
00:24:48
Chris
ah
00:24:53
notasoldasyou
It's a weird job.
00:24:53
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:55
notasoldasyou
It's a weird job.
00:24:56
Chris
Yeah. but's say I like, you know, when people are like, well, you speak Spanish. No, I don't know. I'm middling at best.
00:25:02
notasoldasyou
but I speak better Spanish than you.
00:25:04
Chris
Hmm.
00:25:05
notasoldasyou
Doesn't mean I speak Spanish.
00:25:05
Chris
but Exactly.
00:25:07
notasoldasyou
yeah
00:25:07
Chris
Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Doing our volunteer stuff the other day, a couple of the families were, you know, flattened descent and, you know, I spoke a little Spanish to them and, you know, of course, you know, as soon as you start to speak a little bit of Spanish and they're like, oh, now we can talk.
00:25:22
Chris
It's like, no, no, we can't.
00:25:23
notasoldasyou
Nope, nope, nope, nope, slowly, l'antement, s'il vous plaît, slowly.
00:25:24
Chris
No, no.
00:25:28
Chris
Yes. Yeah. This is when I get to the point where I smile and nod and say ho, ho, ho a lot.
00:25:36
notasoldasyou
L'ho-ho, l'ho-ho.
00:25:40
Chris
Uh, fun times.
00:25:43
notasoldasyou
As again, ah one of my, I wish I was fluent.
00:25:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:48
notasoldasyou
But that that's a level of fluency that you're never going to reach without living there.
00:25:54
Chris
Well, yeah. Well, it's, we just need the little earbuds that just translate.
00:25:55
notasoldasyou
ah you Yeah. Yeah. But like, until that happens, it's a level of fluency that you're just not going to get.
00:26:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:07
Chris
Yeah. No. And look, I mean, thank goodness for Google Translate.
00:26:12
notasoldasyou
ah I have found it, especially with medical stuff, it really struggles.
00:26:13
Chris
For the most part, it will get you in trouble sometimes, but.
00:26:19
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's it's better than, you know, when we first started 20 years ago, where all you did was talk slow and loud.
00:26:20
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:25
notasoldasyou
Oh yeah.
00:26:29
notasoldasyou
yeah Are you okay?
00:26:34
notasoldasyou
Refuso to go hospital low. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to tell you how many times I've done that.
00:26:43
Chris
God.
00:26:44
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Well, really the department should send me to France for six months so I can really.
00:26:47
Chris
Oh, we could, I mean, we've got an exchange program.
00:26:49
notasoldasyou
Rush up on my French.
00:26:54
notasoldasyou
Right, I'll go to Fred for six months.
00:26:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:57
notasoldasyou
Bring one of their French firefighters over.
00:27:00
Chris
You and Eric just switch.
00:27:02
notasoldasyou
Well, I think he retired. So we're going to have to get the nails.
00:27:04
Chris
Cyril.
00:27:06
notasoldasyou
Yeah, get zero. Yeah, I feel like this is a good plan. And I think he was a chef duper god, so I don't really think like you're going to... Hey, we're switching.
00:27:17
notasoldasyou
This guy's going to be a chief over here.
00:27:22
Chris
Just walk around. Wait.
00:27:24
notasoldasyou
but I could point in any language.
00:27:27
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:27:32
Chris
ah Well, I think we've rigged and rolled. Ready for topic one.
00:27:38
notasoldasyou
We've rigged a roll. i Yeah.
00:27:41
Chris
see Yeah.
00:27:41
notasoldasyou
Topic one is like iss actually related to the fire department and it's something I think you're the only one who could answer.
00:27:47
Chris
Oh, no.
00:27:47
notasoldasyou
This is one of those, it's not like crazy serious, but it's something I think people would be
00:27:51
Chris
The key to the executive room is kept in.
00:27:56
notasoldasyou
How long did it take you to become normal again when you went to day work?
00:28:04
Chris
Ooh.
00:28:05
notasoldasyou
Because I think about this as I'm getting closer to retirement. I had a conversation with my wife about it. Like, how long is it going to take me to be a normal boy again? You know, I've worked shift work for 20 plus years at this point.
00:28:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:19
notasoldasyou
It's going to be a while.
00:28:21
Chris
Um, it took me the better part of half a year.
00:28:26
notasoldasyou
That's kind of what I'm thinking.
00:28:27
Chris
Yeah. To like really feel that way. I mean, within a few weeks, I started a little bit, but but for months, I still every D shift, I woke up at five o'clock in the morning.
Adjusting Work Schedules and Meal Timings
00:28:41
notasoldasyou
Right?
00:28:41
Chris
Just my body was like, you've done this for years. This is what you have to do. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:48
notasoldasyou
Yeah, I think about
00:28:49
Chris
yeah
00:28:51
notasoldasyou
yeah this's one people People like that, not people in the fire department, but people who don't understand the fire department, they're like, look at these dumb firemen. It's like, you don't understand how much we put our bodies through just to be here.
00:29:04
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:06
notasoldasyou
Whether you work 2448s, 2472s, God forbid, 4896s.
00:29:11
Chris
With animals, do that's, I see people post about that all the time, like, oh yeah, it's the best shift.
00:29:13
notasoldasyou
but
00:29:16
Chris
I'm like, yeah, it's the best shift if you're in a slow house.
00:29:19
notasoldasyou
My buddy works in a 48 96 department and he hates it.
00:29:23
Chris
Yeah, I mean, if yeah if you ran even half of what we run in Salisbury, oh my gosh, you'd kill somebody.
00:29:23
notasoldasyou
And Oh, you know, you could, well, they, and I asked one, that's one of the questions I've asked him cause they're a lot slower than we are.
00:29:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:36
notasoldasyou
And I said, well, do you got your paramedics, right? A 48 hour shift on the ambulance or your, your ambulance, whoever's on your ambulance.
00:29:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:43
notasoldasyou
Oh no, we would never do that. And I'm like, never. Well, it does happen. I'm like, there's no fucking way.
00:29:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:48
notasoldasyou
But he, he.
00:29:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:49
notasoldasyou
He blew my mind about it because I didn't know he's on 4896 and he kept saying, man, I'm tired of missing out, like so much stuff at home.
00:29:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:57
notasoldasyou
And, you know, if you, because if you think about it, if you work Christmas Eve and you work Christmas, there goes your whole holiday, you know, and, uh, he was ready to quit because all that stuff and I get it.
00:29:59
Chris
yeah Ooh. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:08
notasoldasyou
That's a terrible shift, but stuff that just, just the getting to work part of our job.
00:30:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:16
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:30:17
notasoldasyou
Not to mention everything we did to get on the job, but just getting up to go to work.
00:30:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:25
notasoldasyou
It's crazy what people don't understand about that job.
00:30:29
Chris
Right.
00:30:30
notasoldasyou
yeah
00:30:30
Chris
Yeah. What I mean, and think about the guys and gals that work like up and up and around D.C. and Baltimore areas, things like that. I mean, they they do shifts change at like what, like 530.
00:30:43
notasoldasyou
lot I know my
00:30:44
Chris
So they can try and miss the Beltway traffic and all that.
00:30:47
notasoldasyou
My buddy's house in DC, they did shift range at 3.30 in the morning until the fire chief actually told him they couldn't do it anymore.
00:30:54
Chris
Why?
00:30:55
notasoldasyou
ah Because he was a dick.
00:30:56
Chris
Oh, OK. Let's say who cares?
00:30:57
notasoldasyou
ah Yeah, because they would get in at 3.30. You were expected to get to work at 3.30.
00:31:02
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:31:04
notasoldasyou
And that way, your part whoever you were leaving can be on the road by 4.
00:31:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:09
notasoldasyou
And that was just how they deal with the traffic there.
00:31:12
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:31:13
notasoldasyou
yeah because what people don't realize is most of us can't afford to live in the cities that we work in.
00:31:21
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:31:22
notasoldasyou
You know, so like a lot of DC firemen, they do not live in the city.
00:31:26
Chris
Now.
00:31:26
notasoldasyou
Very few of them I probably, you know, so they, they drive to, I mean, there's DC firemen live in my neighborhood, which
00:31:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:35
Chris
Yeah. Well, and I will say East Coast, we usually stay within a couple of hours of where we work. But I mean, West Coast, there are folks that do like crazy switch shifts and work a week on and then three weeks off because they fly out. No.
00:31:51
Chris
now
00:31:52
notasoldasyou
health
00:31:53
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:31:54
notasoldasyou
Yeah, that's, that's, yeah, that's the stuff I really think about, like what that's going to mean to be retired.
00:32:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:05
notasoldasyou
I'm not going to work a shift work job, if I work any, God's sakes, you know.
00:32:07
Chris
No. Yeah.
00:32:11
Chris
Let's like I got thinking, you know, whenever I do retire, if I did get, you know, a part time job or something like that, I can see it now. They're going to be like, yeah, this is the time clock. I'm sorry, the what.
00:32:21
notasoldasyou
yeah right i haven't had to punch in ever yeah like i think when i worked at saturn for like a week i punched in there you know but and we don't we don't punch a clock if you would think we would but we don't punch a clock because the department doesn't care who's on that rig as long as the rig gets out the door
00:32:23
Chris
I haven't used a time clock in 20 some years.
00:32:29
Chris
Yeah. Since I worked at a gas station,
00:32:36
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:51
Chris
Right.
00:32:52
notasoldasyou
You know, that's between you and your station mates, you know, which is good.
00:32:55
Chris
Yes.
00:32:58
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:00
notasoldasyou
That's how it should be.
00:33:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:01
notasoldasyou
You know, it's one of the biggest perks of our job is the lieutenant who works on seaship, if he, if he called me and said, well, not tonight, but, Hey, can you be in here tonight?
00:33:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:10
notasoldasyou
I probably back myself up and be in there. I did it to two weeks ago for him, you know.
00:33:12
Chris
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:33:16
notasoldasyou
That's just a perk.
00:33:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:18
notasoldasyou
Put a regular job, like with normal people.
00:33:21
Chris
no Yeah.
00:33:24
notasoldasyou
Totally. That sounds awful.
00:33:28
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that And that's been one of the, that was one of the bigger adjustments for me also was Now I'm in an office and you know, it's different, but yeah, I tell you another thing that takes your body a while to get used to is eating normal times.
00:33:39
notasoldasyou
Yeah. And.
00:33:46
notasoldasyou
You're right. That's, that's kind of where I was thinking about too, is like, we eat it on my shift.
00:33:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:52
notasoldasyou
And I'm not going to say this is how everywhere in the world works. We all eat breakfast early.
00:33:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:58
notasoldasyou
You know, I walk in the door at six 30 or I work in the door at six 10, but by six 30, I'm probably eating my breakfast by 11.
00:34:03
Chris
yeah
00:34:05
Chris
Yeah, right.
00:34:06
notasoldasyou
I'm starving to death and I'm eating lunch.
00:34:10
notasoldasyou
504 were like, when the hell's dinner gonna be ready?
00:34:12
Chris
Yep.
00:34:13
notasoldasyou
You know, and that's just how the fire department works. You eat at five o'clock. You're like an old person.
00:34:20
Chris
Yeah, exactly.
00:34:21
notasoldasyou
I put you're so used to it.
00:34:23
Chris
I mean, so being on day work, we, we typically eat lunch at 12. And that was a huge adjustment.
00:34:35
notasoldasyou
12 to 4. You go at 12, you come back at 4. Yeah, I know what your day workers do.
00:34:39
Chris
That was shut up. we We pack our lunch four out of five days. Um, but yeah, and well, our chief who is recently, you know, it's been almost a year now, but you know, when he was first off of s shift work, it was like 11 o'clock.
00:34:56
Chris
He's like, all right, time for lunch. We're like, no, it's not now.
00:34:58
notasoldasyou
Yeah, no, no.
00:34:59
Chris
No. Yeah.
00:35:01
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:01
Chris
So and then, yeah, dinnertime.
00:35:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah, it's...
00:35:04
Chris
I mean, I still to this day, five o'clock, I'm hungry.
00:35:08
notasoldasyou
Right.
00:35:09
Chris
And my family and I have kind of compromised and I usually start cooking or whoever starts cooking a little bit after five and know it's like five thirty six o'clock, usually those dinner.
00:35:20
notasoldasyou
Well, we have to eat dinner at five, because if you don't eat dinner at five oh four, you're not going to eat dinner until eight.
00:35:26
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:35:27
notasoldasyou
Right.
00:35:28
Chris
Yeah, there is a magical little window in there.
00:35:28
notasoldasyou
You know.
00:35:30
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:35:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:32
notasoldasyou
You're just not going to eat.
00:35:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:35
notasoldasyou
You know, and. At least on my shift, I always try to make it so that it's ready around five 30 at the latest. So that if the paramedics do go and I'll call it, you know, they're going to call it five, then they can back and get a quick food.
00:35:52
notasoldasyou
So they're eating at six instead of eight o'clock at night.
00:35:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:55
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:35:55
notasoldasyou
But if you ever are late on dinner and you get a call at four o'clock and now dinner's going to be until six, you might as well just say, we're not even delayed.
00:35:58
Chris
Oh. oh Yeah.
00:36:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah. That's just how it goes.
00:36:04
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
00:36:05
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:36:05
Chris
Which is why when I was on the medic, I always had a little bag of snacks.
00:36:10
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:36:11
Chris
Because the days of, you know, raiding the hospital.
00:36:15
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:36:16
Chris
Yeah, they're done.
00:36:18
notasoldasyou
I'm starving to death.
00:36:18
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:36:19
notasoldasyou
I'm going to go get some crackers and a dendro.
00:36:21
Chris
Yeah. Yes. I would get so hangry. God. Look to the point in. Yeah. I mean, everybody, especially on the ambulance, has a witching hour. And yeah.
00:36:31
Chris
Like one of my partners, he would, you know, just give me a bag of Skittles at about two thirty in the afternoon to give me that little sugar to keep me from murdering someone.
00:36:43
notasoldasyou
I will say the thing that's going to be hardest for me will be getting used to eating like a normal person.
00:36:51
Chris
Mm hmm. I mean, not bolting it down like a wolf.
00:36:54
notasoldasyou
You know, not, not, not just that, but that is definitely, that's definitely one thing.
00:37:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:03
notasoldasyou
You know, there's only two people in the fire department who don't do that. and I don't know how they do their maniacs.
00:37:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:08
notasoldasyou
But yeah, yeah.
00:37:08
Chris
Jewel on B shift.
00:37:11
notasoldasyou
And just watching those people eat, I'm like, what is wrong with you? And they're like, Oh, this is how normal people eat it.
00:37:15
Chris
ah
00:37:15
notasoldasyou
Great. That's right.
00:37:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:18
notasoldasyou
You know, like if I go out to dinner with my wife, it's a 35 minute affair, right?
00:37:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:25
notasoldasyou
Like we sit down, I eat, I'm ready to order when the waiter walks up, I eat my food as soon as it comes.
00:37:29
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:37:31
notasoldasyou
I mean, it's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
00:37:33
Chris
Yeah, yeah, I have planned out my meal while I'm en route to the restaurant.
00:37:33
notasoldasyou
That's not normal.
00:37:39
notasoldasyou
yeah Yeah. And when it gets to my, I, I shovel the food in, I don't stop, breathe.
00:37:45
Chris
Yes, no.
00:37:46
notasoldasyou
And then I, you know, drink my drink and I'm ready to go.
00:37:50
Chris
Exactly, yeah, yeah.
00:37:54
notasoldasyou
Oh, and the pooping.
00:37:56
Chris
But that is a nice thing about not being on shift work is you can you know, you can poop in peace.
00:38:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah, you can never.
00:38:03
Chris
It's.
00:38:06
notasoldasyou
there' There's three rules of the fire department. If you got a piss now, piss now.
00:38:11
Chris
Yeah, if you even think you have to piss, go piss.
00:38:13
notasoldasyou
if you even If there's even a possibility you might have to piss in the next hour, you might as well piss now.
00:38:17
Chris
ye yeah Yep.
00:38:18
notasoldasyou
ah You're never going to poop soundly and safely. And every time you take a shower, a call is going to come in.
00:38:26
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those those are the rules.
00:38:27
notasoldasyou
it yeah You can never, ever let your guard down to poop.
00:38:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:37
notasoldasyou
I always feel bad.
00:38:37
Chris
It's not even one of those that you can like, all right, we're headed back. I'm going to be fine. Nope. No, it's not how it is.
00:38:45
notasoldasyou
No, no, no.
00:38:46
Chris
Yep.
00:38:49
notasoldasyou
I always go back and sometimes in the morning I'll come in at, second or sixth, and there's a C shift is cursed with the six 20 call.
00:38:49
Chris
Yep.
00:38:57
Chris
Oh gosh.
00:38:59
notasoldasyou
And I usually get in there like six 15, but sometimes like I got to take my morning a poop and I'm not ready to relieve that, that Lieutenant until a good six 25 and they're already on a call.
00:39:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. yeah
00:39:12
notasoldasyou
And I always feel bad, but I'm like, I'm not going to interrupt this. This is my last peaceful poop for 24 hours.
00:39:17
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:39:19
notasoldasyou
It's not going to happen. Yeah.
00:39:23
Chris
Yeah. Because you can't go out of service to poop.
00:39:26
notasoldasyou
No, you can't go out of service for pretty much anything.
00:39:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:31
notasoldasyou
We're never out of service because no matter what we say, if we're last out or out of service, as soon as a fire comes, we're going without a call.
00:39:34
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:39:37
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:41
notasoldasyou
yeah
00:39:41
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:42
notasoldasyou
If it's a lift assist, yeah, we're out of service for that, but and not a fire.
00:39:47
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like a good call. We're ah ready.
00:39:51
notasoldasyou
Yeah. We had a ah busy shift a couple of weeks ago and my boss is like, I get back to the station, get a shower and a car fire comes in or whatever. He's like, I let the volunteers, I said, I ain't letting the volunteers handle a fire in my district.
00:40:06
Chris
No.
00:40:07
notasoldasyou
I'm going." And he was like, no, fire my district, not happening.
00:40:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:17
notasoldasyou
Ain't nobody.
00:40:18
Chris
yeah
00:40:19
notasoldasyou
Yeah, this these are the things that I think about as ah getting near my end of my fire service career.
00:40:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:26
notasoldasyou
Whatever that may end up being, I think I'm looking forward to returning to a normal sleep schedule.
00:40:28
Chris
Yeah. Hmm.
00:40:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:35
notasoldasyou
Not going to bed at 6 30 at night.
00:40:38
Chris
Yeah, that's yeah.
00:40:40
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:40:41
Chris
Yeah, because I was thinking like for years.
00:40:41
notasoldasyou
Cause I get right.
00:40:44
Chris
I work, you know, D shift, so I got maybe five hours if I was lucky. And then a shift night. I body would try to you know reclaim some and I'd sleep 10 to 12 hours sometimes.
00:41:00
notasoldasyou
Mm-hmm.
00:41:02
Chris
B shift was somewhat normal. I'd sleep like seven and then. C shift was night before work. So I was back to six and it was like, you know, 10, eight, six, four, 10, eight, six, four, 10, eight, six, four.
00:41:14
Chris
It's just, rough oh, yeah.
00:41:15
notasoldasyou
Right. You're not sleeping, no matter who you are, you're not sleeping well on shift.
00:41:20
Chris
No, no.
00:41:21
notasoldasyou
I don't care if you have no calls all day, still not sleeping well.
00:41:25
Chris
No, no.
00:41:26
notasoldasyou
You know, especially as the boss, because you're like always on the alert, you know, because we, we work in a city that doesn't understand or county that doesn't understand how dispatch work.
00:41:30
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:41:35
Chris
Hmm. Well, yes.
00:41:38
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:39
Chris
Yeah, that's I always thought it'd be fascinating if everybody in the department had a sleep tracker or finish track or something and just once a week downloaded it just for aggregate data to see how it really plays out.
00:41:53
notasoldasyou
Oh, I mean, I mean, I wear one. I wear my my sleep tracker when I'm at work every night.
00:41:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:00
notasoldasyou
And because I went on, I mean, i we came home from work. I came home from work. I think my wife was with me. I came home from work. We loaded up the RV and we were we were gone.
00:42:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:11
notasoldasyou
So I didn't, and we didn't have any real calls after a minute, but I was still listening to calls.
00:42:15
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:42:18
notasoldasyou
and um I was in bed by 7 at A-shift night and it was the worst sleep I've ever, I mean, my trackers ever had.
00:42:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:29
Chris
Hmm.
00:42:30
notasoldasyou
Cause I rarely ever wear it on A-shift.
00:42:32
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:42:33
notasoldasyou
Um, usually I don't wear it on A-shift nights. I, but it was, I just was like, I'm not taking it off.
00:42:38
Chris
yeah
00:42:39
notasoldasyou
It was bad. My sleep score was poor was, was all it said.
00:42:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:45
Chris
It's like, I don't know what you called this, but this was not sleep.
00:42:48
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:52
notasoldasyou
That's why I take naps.
00:42:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:54
notasoldasyou
Naps are an important part of my system.
00:42:57
Chris
Health.
00:42:58
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Well, it's like I had this conversation with people at work.
00:42:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:01
notasoldasyou
I'm like, I don't care that my firefighters are napping in the afternoon anymore.
00:43:05
Chris
Right.
00:43:05
notasoldasyou
In fact, I kind of encourage it.
00:43:07
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:07
notasoldasyou
I can't allow myself to do it because my brain has been twisted over years of my career that won't allow me to sleep.
00:43:15
Chris
Yeah. and Yeah.
00:43:17
notasoldasyou
If I'm napping, it's because I'm sick. right like
00:43:21
Chris
Yeah. I mean, when we started, it was, you're not allowed to lay down till after 11 o'clock at night.
00:43:26
notasoldasyou
Yeah. You weren't even allowed to go into a place where there were comfortable chairs until after dinner, right?
00:43:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:34
notasoldasyou
Like you had to sit basically in the engine bay or in the little office.
00:43:35
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:43:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:41
notasoldasyou
That was it, you know, and that was just how it was.
00:43:42
Chris
yeah
00:43:45
notasoldasyou
It was wrong.
00:43:45
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:43:47
notasoldasyou
You know, people like people to this day are still like, Oh, I can't believe you guys do that.
00:43:51
Chris
Hmm.
00:43:54
notasoldasyou
We get our shit done. We check our equipment. We do our training.
00:43:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:56
notasoldasyou
We do PT. If they want to nap from then until dinner, I do not care.
00:44:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:01
notasoldasyou
Why should I?
00:44:03
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:44:04
notasoldasyou
Because they're going to get their butts kicked at night.
00:44:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:07
notasoldasyou
It might not be tonight, but it's going to be at night.
00:44:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:12
notasoldasyou
Let them nap. Who cares?
00:44:14
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:16
notasoldasyou
We used to give crochet city crap because they would come to work and be napping by 7.30 in the morning.
00:44:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:21
notasoldasyou
Now I'm like, yeah, they're smarter than we are.
00:44:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:25
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:44:25
Chris
Well, for a part of the year, they can do that. That's fine. But the rest of the time of the year now.
00:44:32
notasoldasyou
I mean, you mean 90, 90% of the year that they can do it and the 10% of the year they can't.
00:44:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:38
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah. And they're still not supposed to be here.
00:44:41
Chris
Hmm.
00:44:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:46
notasoldasyou
Well, that's all I had for my topic was I was just musings.
00:44:47
Chris
Hmm. Yeah, it's... No, it's it's definitely a thing.
00:44:53
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:44:53
Chris
So... And I mean, I... Yeah.
00:44:57
notasoldasyou
Hug a fireman next time you see him.
00:44:57
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't warn them, though.
00:45:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah, no are definitely not.
00:45:03
Chris
Nah, just hug. Yeah, it's...
00:45:07
notasoldasyou
Just write a book on how to transition out.
00:45:07
Chris
It's definitely a transition. Mmm. So...
00:45:13
Chris
Oof.
00:45:15
notasoldasyou
Here, you're about to retire.
00:45:15
Chris
That's...
00:45:16
notasoldasyou
Here's the things you need to know.
00:45:17
Chris
Oh, yeah, I mean, that is yeah something to think about.
00:45:21
notasoldasyou
That's what the army does, right?
AI's Impact on Jobs: Inevitable Change?
00:45:23
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:27
Chris
Yeah, I mean, it's there's changes. ah Hmm.
00:45:34
notasoldasyou
Well, on the topic too.
00:45:36
Chris
Sure. So topic two, my I can't remember what we are watching or Something I don't know.
00:45:44
notasoldasyou
up little way wow
00:45:45
Chris
But na no, no, no. Or maybe I don't know.
00:45:52
Chris
No. But my wife and I, and I think the kids were involved in the conversation. We're talking about, you know, there's somebody fussing about. AI art. And is it bad?
00:46:04
Chris
And I don't I don't know exactly how I feel about it. I mean, I think it's bad if it's taking jobs away from people, but i if they're not crediting themselves is using AI to make like graphics and things like that a bad idea.
00:46:23
notasoldasyou
Oh man, this is a tough one, huh?
00:46:25
Chris
Because I knew like um ah ah Activision is getting a lot of heat for it because Like one of the loading screens for Call of Duty right now, you can tell it's A.I.
00:46:38
Chris
because when the character says six fingers, which evidently that's a big thing with A.I., it puts six.
00:46:42
notasoldasyou
It's the hands.
00:46:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:44
notasoldasyou
Yeah, it's also the hands.
00:46:45
Chris
Hmm. And they're talking about not having the voice actors come back for certain things. So and they'll just use A.I. to replicate their voice, which I'm not.
00:46:57
Chris
I don't like that. But for like images and stuff, you know, I don't know.
00:47:04
notasoldasyou
So in 1805, this is, it's relevant. It's, I'll get there.
00:47:11
Chris
Okay.
00:47:13
notasoldasyou
In 1805, Britain was known for making lace.
00:47:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:19
notasoldasyou
There was all, it was one of the things that they did because the lace went on stockings and on your clothes, but they,
00:47:23
Chris
yeah
00:47:30
notasoldasyou
It was kind of going through the 18th century, and when the 18th century switched to the 19th century, people stopped wearing lace. So all of these lace weavers, or lace makers, no longer had jobs.
00:47:40
Chris
yeah
00:47:44
notasoldasyou
And they had to join the army.
00:47:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:45
notasoldasyou
It was a big thing that there was this whole, basically, population of Britain that didn't have jobs anymore, and they joined the army, and that happened to be the Napoleonic War, so they, you know, were gainfully employed in the army.
00:47:58
notasoldasyou
Right, wrong, or different, right?
00:47:58
Chris
From from darning lace to army.
00:48:02
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah.
00:48:03
Chris
I mean, those skills transition over.
00:48:05
notasoldasyou
Well, it was more of the fact that they had nowhere else to go, but you know, and in 1900, the most popular jobs in America had to do with coal mining, right?
00:48:08
Chris
I know I.
00:48:20
Chris
Hmm. Yeah.
00:48:21
notasoldasyou
And steam engine production and maintenance.
00:48:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:26
notasoldasyou
Those jobs went away.
00:48:26
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:48:30
notasoldasyou
In America in 2020s, we seem to think that nothing can go away.
00:48:38
Chris
Hmm.
00:48:39
notasoldasyou
We seem to have this idea that EVs are going to destroy petroleum cars. What would all happen to all the people that make petroleum cars?
00:48:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:48
notasoldasyou
Same thing that happened to the steam engine guys, right? like
00:48:51
Chris
Yeah, and I didn't really think about it in that sense.
00:48:56
notasoldasyou
It's, it's, does it, does it mean that art is going to go away?
00:48:57
Chris
No.
00:49:02
notasoldasyou
But has art already gone away? Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and all of those guys, they made their money because very rich people were willing to subsidize them to do art for them.
00:49:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:15
notasoldasyou
But that doesn't happen now. Right? Like artists make art and hope it sells in this weird artificial economy that they've created.
00:49:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:25
notasoldasyou
But it's all fake. So they but people who are complaining about AI art are really complaining about a fake thing.
00:49:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:35
notasoldasyou
Art has no value, except what we put on it.
00:49:38
Chris
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:39
notasoldasyou
Right? So if their argument is, well, AI, i' ah I'm not addressing the voice actor part yet, but I'm talking specifically about AI art.
00:49:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:46
Chris
Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They are.
00:49:48
notasoldasyou
If their argument is that art takes away jobs,
00:49:50
Chris
Hmm.
00:49:53
notasoldasyou
A.I.R. takes away jobs. Well, those jobs were kind of bullshit in the first place, right?
00:49:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:49:58
Chris
Yeah, I mean, but yeah, and because I'm sure like animators now and everything, you know, they're probably drawing a cell or something, but they're using a lot of copy and paste and stuff like that to like, you know, move on from that and edit and.
00:50:00
notasoldasyou
like we't right The animators of Walt Disney's time don't, they don't operate that way anymore.
00:50:18
Chris
Right.
00:50:19
notasoldasyou
Right? So it animation probably used to employ hundreds of artists to make an animated movie.
00:50:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:26
notasoldasyou
Now it's probably, and probably since the eighties has been tens of animators.
00:50:34
Chris
yeah Yeah.
00:50:34
notasoldasyou
And now it will be one animator. That's just
00:50:38
Chris
Yeah. And and look, side tangent to that. I have tried to draw on an iPad with a style. I can't do it.
00:50:46
notasoldasyou
Well, that's the, that was the next side of it.
Art Evolution and Technology's Role
00:50:48
notasoldasyou
I'm going to say is these are just the next evolution of artists, right?
00:50:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:52
notasoldasyou
This is a new form of art.
00:50:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:55
notasoldasyou
It's like, you know, Botticelli wouldn't be popular today because that's not the art that people like, right?
00:51:01
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:51:02
notasoldasyou
Botticelli wouldn't be working at Activision making Call of Duty script stills. But, you know, Billy, the AI graphic designer, because it's not, this is like my only argument about it is there's still human interaction and in the art, right?
00:51:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:21
notasoldasyou
Someone's doing the, the, the programming or the, not even really the programming, the inputs to the AI to make the thing.
00:51:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's not like AI is going, here's this game we designed and here's the art for it, everything else.
00:51:31
notasoldasyou
So it's, it's.
00:51:38
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Like I've heard, um, the other side of this, I heard like editors, like now AI is doing editing. And instead of taking hours and hours and hours, it's taking one person minutes.
00:51:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:56
notasoldasyou
And I guess though, the, the push back to that as well. Now editors are going to be able to work well. yeah yeah you know like just like the guy who used to machine screws by hand he doesn't work that job doesn't exist anymore yeah right poor bill of the in the zoom factory he's lost his job you know even if we were trying to keep him employed just you know but it's just kind of the way it shakes and
00:52:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:12
Chris
Right. Yeah. I mean, think about poor Bill down at the Zune factory. ah Yeah. Yeah, that's the way it shakes. Hmm. Hmm.
00:52:32
notasoldasyou
While I have sympathy for someone who, you know, has spent their entire career doing this thing, you're kind of an idiot if you're not embracing the technology, right?
00:52:36
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:52:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:47
notasoldasyou
Like if you're like, Oh, wow, I'm not going to do AI. I'm not going to do this. I'm going to be, I'm going to fight against it.
00:52:50
Chris
All right.
00:52:51
notasoldasyou
And then you find yourself without a job, you know?
00:52:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:56
notasoldasyou
My dad worked for the company that made the swipe things for credit cards. Remember the carbon copy swipe things?
00:53:03
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:53:04
notasoldasyou
you know If he only stuck to that job, he would have had a job for about 10 years.
00:53:07
Chris
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:10
notasoldasyou
right like You have the yeah have to move with technology.
00:53:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:13
Chris
Wait, wait, you have to be able to grow and adapt in your life.
00:53:16
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:53:17
Chris
What?
00:53:17
notasoldasyou
yeah yeah it you know it's like the It's like the car manufacturer problem. right
00:53:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:25
notasoldasyou
like robots were going to ruin car manufacturing jobs.
00:53:31
notasoldasyou
Yeah. But instead of having a hundred employees, they only had to have 10 employees. Those 10 employees get paid a hell of a lot more money because they're more specialist and they have more skills.
00:53:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:40
Chris
Right. Hmm.
00:53:43
notasoldasyou
It's just kind of the way. This is just AI.
00:53:45
Chris
Yeah. And that's also a ah safety issue because, you know, if the robot messes up, OK, it it hits another robot.
00:53:46
notasoldasyou
but
00:53:53
Chris
It's not, you know, you know, Fred getting stuck in a conveyor belt or something.
00:53:54
notasoldasyou
Right, yeah.
00:53:58
notasoldasyou
yeah The art part of all of this is going to be the ideas.
00:54:01
Chris
Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:54:03
notasoldasyou
ah The lost jobs will be all of the people that were putting those ideas into place, right, I guess?
00:54:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:13
notasoldasyou
But those people either adapt or die?
00:54:13
Chris
But.
00:54:15
notasoldasyou
I don't i don't know.
00:54:15
Chris
Yeah. Well, I mean, in does it make.
00:54:20
Chris
The. I don't know, human art, does it add value to that? You know, does it bring about a renaissance of that? Because here's people that use actual physical medium.
00:54:33
Chris
And, you know, oh, this wasn't created by I could be this was, you know, Bill and his hands and he made this and or, you know, Jane sculpted this thing. I would to me, I would think this would be a reinvigoration of the actual.
00:54:48
Chris
Physical stuff, I don't know.
00:54:48
notasoldasyou
You're talking the wrong guys. Cause I think art is bullshit because I think having a copy of the Mona Lisa is just as good as having the Mona Lisa, right? Like, right.
00:54:57
Chris
oh Oh yeah, look, I am not the art buff, but you know, for those niches, niches, niches, nachos, nachos.
00:55:01
notasoldasyou
But like people keep the people clearly put value on that because otherwise there wouldn't be value in art, right?
00:55:09
Chris
Right.
00:55:10
notasoldasyou
Because the Mona Lisa would be worth nothing if everybody valued it the same as the poster of the Mona Lisa.
00:55:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:15
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:55:16
notasoldasyou
Right.
00:55:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:17
notasoldasyou
But to me, it's it's this, I wouldn't pay for the Mona Lisa, I would just buy the poster.
Technology Frustrations and Ethical Concerns
00:55:22
Chris
Yeah. Or I'll take a screenshot of it and print it.
00:55:25
notasoldasyou
Right, yeah, but that's just how I...
00:55:26
Chris
which side change it to that real quick. Printers.
00:55:29
notasoldasyou
They're terrible.
00:55:30
Chris
Oh, my God. Christmas Day. We're printing out the tickets to go to Winterfest Delights. I print it prints. Tickets number two, three and four.
00:55:45
Chris
Huh, that's interesting. So I hit reprint for ticket one and ticket one only. It finally prints it out after thinking about itself this morning.
00:55:58
Chris
40 hours later, printer starts printing. I look at my wife, I said, what are you printing? I'm not printing anything. It's printing out tickets, two, three, and four. I hit cancel. Five minutes later, it's printing out tickets, two, three, and four. It did this four or five times. I finally turned it off and unplugged it.
00:56:18
notasoldasyou
Look, if printers had teeth and legs, we'd all be screwed. So know I'm with you.
00:56:21
Chris
oh hu Yeah, so, yeah, yeah, so.
00:56:24
notasoldasyou
Printers are the evil. So there's another job that got and automated printing presses. You know, that used to be a job to typeset print.
00:56:29
Chris
Yeah. Uh oh.
00:56:32
notasoldasyou
Like there was an art form to typesetting print form.
00:56:32
Chris
Are you there? Oh no. We lost Whismur.
00:56:36
notasoldasyou
That doesn't happen. There's no typesetters anymore.
00:56:38
Chris
Come in Whismur.
00:56:39
notasoldasyou
You know, nobody cries over the fact that people don't typeset. It's just part of the world.
00:56:44
Chris
Well folks, this little period of pause is brought to you by AI, evidently, that heard us talking about it and got very mad and cut Ron off.
00:56:45
notasoldasyou
You know, is that harsh? Sure. Is it true? Yes. Oh, I think we lost Chris or I lost Chris. Oh God.
00:56:57
Chris
Well, in case Ron isn't able to come back, folks, Thank you very much for tuning in. We are.
00:57:03
notasoldasyou
Hello.
00:57:03
Chris
Oh, we're still having issues.
00:57:04
notasoldasyou
He's offline. I'm offline.
00:57:05
Chris
Oh, hey, there he's back.
00:57:06
notasoldasyou
Who's offline? I lost internet.
00:57:10
Chris
See, a AI heard us talking about it.
00:57:11
notasoldasyou
Why'd I lose internet?
00:57:13
Chris
um Yeah, I'd say it's oh, you know what it was.
00:57:16
notasoldasyou
The fuck?
00:57:18
Chris
The printers heard us talking about it. And yeah, it's a little message to shut them down for a minute. Yeah.
00:57:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:29
notasoldasyou
Weird.
00:57:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:31
notasoldasyou
How do I reconnect?
00:57:33
Chris
Yeah, there's a squirrel somewhere that's now fried.
00:57:35
notasoldasyou
Whoa. My internet just dropped for some reason.
00:57:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:41
notasoldasyou
Yeah, I was on AI's side though, don't punish me.
00:57:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:48
Chris
yeah
00:57:49
notasoldasyou
Yeah, the printer's talking, yeah.
00:57:53
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, printer's evil.
00:57:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:58
notasoldasyou
That was weird though. I never lose internet like that.
00:58:05
notasoldasyou
Yeah, yeah, damn cat.
00:58:11
Chris
Right.
00:58:13
notasoldasyou
But again, I'm just going to go back to my point that I was rambling on while the internet was down.
00:58:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:19
notasoldasyou
i AI art to me is as valuable as other art.
00:58:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:26
notasoldasyou
is it Now, I will draw the line and I think it is wrong, and I will always say it's wrong, to use someone's likeness or voice without compensation.
00:58:30
Chris
Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's that. Yeah. The voice actor part, I think is a huge issue.
00:58:41
Chris
boom Yeah.
00:58:42
notasoldasyou
Right? Like if you, if Troy Baker, they have thousands of hours of Troy Baker's voice.
00:58:48
Chris
no
00:58:52
notasoldasyou
Like you can plug Troy Baker into an AI program and make him say whatever you want without compensating Troy Baker.
00:58:55
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:59:01
notasoldasyou
That's still his IP. His voice is his talent.
00:59:03
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:08
Chris
Yeah, no, I agree with that.
00:59:10
notasoldasyou
Yeah.
00:59:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:12
notasoldasyou
And and if if we were to get to that point, which we can, we will, you could take Tom Cruise and make Tom Cruise do anything without ever having Tom Cruise anywhere near your set.
00:59:18
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:59:25
notasoldasyou
Now you're not trading on the AI, you're trading on the person's likeness or the person's talent, right? that is That's wrong.
00:59:37
notasoldasyou
Right. And I think that's the thing that you have to watch out for, you know, but replacing people with AI.
00:59:42
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:59:44
notasoldasyou
Unfortunately, that's just how the cookie crumbles. You know, I look at fires, fire service, right?
00:59:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:51
notasoldasyou
Like look at our job in the fifties.
00:59:54
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:58
notasoldasyou
You had to have big cities of LA and New York, and some of them have not adapted, but
01:00:05
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:05
notasoldasyou
You know, you used to have a battalion would be 60 plus people for a three engine response because you had to have more people like there was, you had, there was no pre-connects, there was no hydrants the way they are now.
01:00:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Streamline.
01:00:20
notasoldasyou
it just The way pumps operated, right?
Streamlining Firefighting and Future Job Changes
01:00:24
notasoldasyou
And in, in, if there was a paid fire department in the 18 early 1800s, they would have had hundreds of people per piece.
01:00:26
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:31
notasoldasyou
Cause you gotta have pump the wagons, you gotta have buckets, right?
01:00:32
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:34
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:35
notasoldasyou
The, the, as technology improves, the fire department, it streamlines.
01:00:40
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:41
notasoldasyou
It just has the way it is, you know, because that's how we're going to face the fire, our fire service is going to face.
01:00:49
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:51
notasoldasyou
ah is facing a major staffing crisis. We're going to solve that through technology and streamlining operations.
01:00:59
Chris
Right. Yeah. Well that end, yeah, the events of telehealth and things like that.
01:01:02
notasoldasyou
That's just how it goes. you know Will there be less firefighting jobs in the future? Yeah, drones will probably take a lot of our job out of our hands.
01:01:11
Chris
No, no.
01:01:13
notasoldasyou
you know Will we need less doctors in the world? Probably.
01:01:17
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:18
notasoldasyou
because what they're finding now is AI is better at diagnosing people than doctors are because it has all of the knowledge ready to go.
01:01:20
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. You're absolute.
01:01:26
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:29
Chris
Right.
01:01:34
notasoldasyou
Yeah, telehealth, you know, will paramedics be the same as they are now, 10 years from now?
01:01:34
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:40
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:41
notasoldasyou
No, there's no way.
01:01:42
Chris
Right.
01:01:43
notasoldasyou
You know, we will be,
01:01:44
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:45
notasoldasyou
the hands delivering what telehealth is telling us to do.
01:01:48
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:50
notasoldasyou
right Doctors will become experts instead of service providers.
01:01:54
Chris
Yeah. Well, I mean, think about, I don't know about you, but, you know,
01:01:55
notasoldasyou
ah they'll be They'll be checking on the AI.
01:01:58
Chris
If I've got to write something, you know, I'll go into co-pilot or chat GPT or something like that, be like, Hey, give me an idea, you know, for this and, you know, get that vague outline and go off of that, you know, use that as brainstorming and all.
01:01:59
notasoldasyou
They'll be making sure the AI is not you know giving you the wrong medicine.
01:02:05
notasoldasyou
But for the most part, you'll be relying on AI to say this is the medicine for this, this set of, you know, diagnostics. That's what they're doing now.
01:02:14
Chris
And I mean, yeah.
01:02:14
notasoldasyou
That's like, that's where they're at. You know, pharmacists will basically become experts and not service providers, so which is cool.
01:02:28
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, when's the last time that somebody was going, you know, on a trip and looked and sat there with a map and was like, okay, one minute ago, you know, 40 miles on route one.
01:02:41
notasoldasyou
Yeah, think think of the trained historian whose job will be to parse through research that AI pulls for them.
01:02:45
Chris
And then, yeah, that, okay. I'm going to take that exit off of that. Or they punch in their GPS and it takes them.
01:02:51
notasoldasyou
It's a different skill set, but it's this it's it's just how you're going to, that's how we're going to adapt to the world of AI.
01:02:52
Chris
And during the transit, it says, Oh, we found a faster route for you. Or, Oh, there's something coming up. I mean, that's that's AI.
01:03:00
notasoldasyou
And we have to adapt. no
01:03:12
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Hmm.
01:03:29
notasoldasyou
I'll take it a ah step, a step even more in our career, right?
01:03:31
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah.
01:03:35
notasoldasyou
We started in a world of math books and memorization.
01:03:39
Chris
Exactly.
01:03:40
notasoldasyou
People who drive for me now, they they are following AI, right?
01:03:42
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:48
notasoldasyou
Like they're finding a program, a GPS program saying, this is the way to go.
01:03:49
Chris
Oh yeah. Yeah.
01:03:51
notasoldasyou
This is the fastest way to go. And and it's funny because the OneDrive always looks when he's like, should we go this way?
01:03:56
Chris
Right.
01:03:59
notasoldasyou
I'm not smarter than that computer, right? Like every preconceived notion I have of how to get around is based on just my personal feelings and experience, you know, is my experience useless?
01:04:01
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
01:04:12
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:12
notasoldasyou
No.
01:04:13
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:14
notasoldasyou
But that thing probably has more up-to-date information on the status of the roads.
01:04:15
Chris
Oh
01:04:18
notasoldasyou
You know, we get we can get to the point where it'll pull data from traffic cameras and, you know, telling you which way the fastest route is based on
01:04:20
Chris
my gosh. Yeah.
01:04:27
Chris
Right.
01:04:29
notasoldasyou
up to date traffic information.
01:04:29
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:32
notasoldasyou
yeah what it
01:04:32
Chris
Mm hmm.
01:04:34
notasoldasyou
We're dinosaurs staring at the asteroid going to hit us if we don't change.
01:04:37
Chris
Right. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing.
01:04:38
notasoldasyou
you know and
01:04:39
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Technology in Dining and Order Efficiency
01:04:40
Chris
Oh, you know, instead of, you know, having to tell the wait staff, oh, you know, you got to 86 the prime rib.
01:04:40
notasoldasyou
That's all of us.
01:04:41
notasoldasyou
Every career is going to be that way. you know Look at waiters now.
01:04:46
Chris
You just click, click prime ribs off the menu for today.
01:04:47
notasoldasyou
you know How many bar strands have gotten away from printing out menus? you know Because how much it's expensive. you got it Somebody's got to print the menu. When you want to change the menu, you have to reprint the menu.
01:04:59
Chris
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
01:04:59
notasoldasyou
Somebody has to clean that menu.
01:05:02
notasoldasyou
You just got rid of all of that.
01:05:03
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:03
notasoldasyou
How much expense did you save your business?
01:05:06
Chris
Yeah, it is.
01:05:07
notasoldasyou
Then they can just.
01:05:09
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:14
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
01:05:15
notasoldasyou
Right. hundred Right.
01:05:18
Chris
Hmm.
01:05:19
notasoldasyou
And instead of a waiter that no offense to waiters get orders wrong.
01:05:20
Chris
Yep. Yep. Just go ahead and ship me and let me know what I need to do.
01:05:25
notasoldasyou
person gets to go in the app and say, this is what I want.
01:05:27
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:28
notasoldasyou
I don't want this.
01:05:28
Chris
I don't know that.
01:05:29
notasoldasyou
I want this, you know, it's just, it's the future, man.
01:05:32
Chris
Seems very cold and sticky.
01:05:35
notasoldasyou
It's just here.
01:05:38
Chris
So when they woke up, were their fingertips and toes wrinkly?
01:05:41
notasoldasyou
It's, uh, citing and scary at the same time. I look forward to my robot after overlords.
01:05:47
Chris
Pruny, because they've been in that fluid for so long?
01:05:48
notasoldasyou
They can go take over my job.
Body Quirks and Adaptations
01:05:52
Chris
Yeah, so let's say if it's isotonic, hypertonic, hypotonic.
01:05:53
notasoldasyou
Yep. Put me in the matrix Yeah, well you all know your brain won't know depends what the fluid is
01:05:57
Chris
yeah If it's isotonic with you, then yeah, but but Isn't that the thing, though? Your body only does that to your hands and feet for grip. So wouldn't your body sense that it's wet and want to do that anyway? Oh, no. ah Yeah, I guess that's true, then. Yeah, you wouldn't have any reason to do that. Yeah, yeah.
01:06:24
notasoldasyou
Right. If it's like a neutral, right.
01:06:26
Chris
Yeah.
01:06:27
notasoldasyou
but doesn't thank Yeah.
01:06:28
Chris
Yeah, probably.
Holiday Wishes and Seasonal Reflections
01:06:34
Chris
Well, folks, I hope everybody had a yeah good holiday season. And if yours is just kicking off because yesterday was first day of Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. I'm happy you're having a great time of it and safe New Year's.
01:06:44
notasoldasyou
But if your brain's being tricked to thinking you're not wet.
01:06:47
Chris
Don't be dumb.
01:06:49
notasoldasyou
Right. You wouldn't do it.
01:06:51
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:51
notasoldasyou
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:54
Chris
Yeah, as we're technically on the third day of Christmas or today, three French hands.
01:06:55
notasoldasyou
<unk> on We're on the matrix right now. Do you feel wet? You're
01:07:02
Chris
I thought I'd start it on Christmas Day. Okay, so today's the second. So I see you'll get your three French hands. I'll get my two triple doves. Can't wait.
01:07:15
notasoldasyou
Yeah. I hope your Yule is burning its log or whatever it is you do.
01:07:18
Chris
Okay. All right. So, but, uh, yeah, have a ah great start to 2025 folks.
01:07:23
notasoldasyou
Don't be dumb.
01:07:28
notasoldasyou
No, tomorrow is the third day of Christmas.
01:07:29
Chris
Yes. Take care, folks.
01:07:33
notasoldasyou
No, it starts on the That's correct.
01:07:45
notasoldasyou
The 12th day is January 6th.
01:07:53
notasoldasyou
Yeah, sorry you you're off with becoming an expert in something that AI can't take away from you.