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Social etiquette and odd sayings
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (napping, graduations, and books?); Ron reminds us why social etiquette is important; Chris brings up a bunch of sayings and where they came from. 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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Transcript
Introduction and Welcome
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron, and it's a early morning for us. It is. Quarter of eight. Yeah. Quarter of eight. It's probably been up for an hour or two. I've been up for, yeah, about an hour. Yeah.
Sleep Patterns and Napping
00:00:20
Speaker
Yeah. Don't sleep in anymore. No. No. Take naps. Don't sleep in.
00:00:27
Speaker
I haven't had a good nap in a while. Oh, man. Naps are the best. I know that, you know, it's well, I especially nap hard after work. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So it doesn't matter if we ran a call or not. No, you know, yeah, I mean, this the sleep you get at work, it isn't good sleep. No, it's not. So I see the problem is, you know, napping time. Yeah.
00:00:55
Speaker
I've tried it and then, you know, chief down the end of the hall comes down and sees me napping. That's not kind of, you know, Hey, can't tell you how to finish lunch break. Yeah. Wait. Oh yeah. Be like the one individual we had. I haven't had, I didn't take a lunch all week. Yeah. We get paid for lunch, bud. You don't get to just work through it and magically take off free time. Yeah. Yeah.
Bus Trip Memories and Routes
00:01:25
Speaker
I thought of you last week, you know, we took a bus trip up to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the bus driver took us through Georgetown. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the worst part is I've come around to that view. It's not quicker. It's just an easier ride. Yeah. It's just not so many freaking lights. What kills me is that they've, I guess they have their predesignated routes and they can't deviate from them because like leaving Parkside
00:01:54
Speaker
I get it to to get up north yet does kind of make sense to go hop on the bypass. But like there are times we would take, you know, the buses to across the bridge, you know, Anne Arundel County or somewhere, and they would leave Parkside, go out, make a right on 50, drive all the way down and catch the bypass to go back west. That does make sense. No, it doesn't. And it like.
00:02:21
Speaker
up midnight, two o'clock, and when we're getting home and there's no traffic, they would do the same thing. Take the bypass around and then come down. It's like, no, there's no traffic. Just go through town. I will say we've been doing experiments on D shift class, like month or so. Yeah. I'm taking different routes. The bypass is quicker than people think. Oh yeah.
00:02:44
Speaker
So isn't it bypasses things? Yes. Yes. No, I agree. But now if our station was a half a mile closer to the bypass, it would be perfect. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, that station wasn't planned at all. So no, it was not. When was the bypass built in Salisbury? God. 2000. Oh, OK. Maybe. So now much later than station one. Oh, God, yes.
00:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, because station one was built in the 80s, 85, I think. Yeah.
Dunkin Donuts and Mobile Orders
00:03:21
Speaker
But yeah, I found out your lovely Delaware Welcome Center that's right on the Pennsylvania border. The Dunkin Donuts doesn't do mobile orders. The Delaware Welcome Center on the Pennsylvania. Well, I mean, right up there at the north part, like all the way up in Newcastle. It's the Joe Biden.
00:03:43
Speaker
Welcome Center or whatever. But I don't know what you're talking about. It was right on Route one. Or off of Route one on. Yeah, like I don't know. We I I went Smirna. No. But I don't know. I don't know. But it was this big welcome center and like, you know, it looks like, yeah, that's like buses congregate there and things like that. But yeah, they had a Burger King.
00:04:11
Speaker
couple like bougie little coffee stores and then a Dunkin Donuts. I was like, Oh, I get Dunkin Donuts. Yeah, they don't take mobile orders. We'll wait in line. And all the kids learned a very valuable lesson when there's a huge line like that, which one, it's early morning like traffic. You would think they would have like three, four people working this Dunkin Donuts. No, they had like a father and daughter working it. Sure.
00:04:33
Speaker
And I was like, okay, kids, you know, order something quick. These kids are like, Oh, it wouldn't look a double latte frappo, but whatever in a breakfast sandwich. I'm like, you're stupid. You're not going to get your breakfast. Right. I was like, I got a muffin and a coffee done. Right. Done. Something they can go here, here, get out. Yeah. But whatever. Important lessons to be learned in life. Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised they don't take mobile orders. That's. I didn't think there was nuggets that don't do that.
00:05:03
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, because I was like, oh, yeah, I brought up my app and I was like, well, no, that doesn't work here. It's so great, the mobile app. That's that's another. Our lives have gotten so much better by the fact that I don't have to talk to anybody. Yeah. You could pick all your options, you can get your order exactly the way you want it. Never talk to anybody. It's no that's the way to live.
00:05:32
Speaker
Yeah. I'm glad I don't do the Dunkin' anymore because of the breakfast, but because the Dunkin's around here are slammed by you. They're slammed too. Those guys are making big, big bank. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Worn by Tillman Road. I drive by all the time. I mean, it's- It's always packed. Always packed. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah.
00:05:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We, speaking of packed, we, oh, this was graduation weekend. Oh yeah. And I mean, they graduated Saturday or they had the graduation of that Saturday.
Post-Graduation Town Vibes
00:06:10
Speaker
Right. I'm assuming that means they were all graduating and the town is empty by yesterday.
00:06:17
Speaker
I mean, please. Tumbleweed's blowing down the road. Yeah, because I rode my bike yesterday through town and there's nobody, nobody on the roads, nobody in town. You're like, oh my God, is this how the Walking Dead started? Exactly. It was crazy. And I just, I was thinking about it, I was like,
00:06:36
Speaker
That's such a weird, college is such a weird experience because you would never be expected to move out of your house in a three day span. Yeah. I'd be like, all right, you graduated May 27th, get out by the 28th. All of them are gone. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah.
00:07:02
Speaker
And I don't remember if that's how early we got out when I was in college. I can't remember, but I mean, he was at a classroom or God. I mean, time is a flat circle. It's just craziness. So maybe like the high school seniors graduate this week. Well, I mean, kids are like done.
00:07:23
Speaker
Like everybody else has done school in a week and a half. Well, this year you guys didn't have any snow days, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't sissy out this year. You might have some fog days though. Oh my gosh. Yes. That's. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know when the high school is graduating. I don't pay attention to the bottle of graduations. The only reason I pay attention to the Delaware one is the signs everywhere. Warning the local stay away.
00:07:55
Speaker
I mean, it's literally if you forget and you're like, oh, it's Saturday. I'm going to take my wife out to dinner in town. Wrong. Wrong. Yeah. No. Yeah. And they used to do like locals specials. Like after graduation, like during the summer, they would have local, like specials just for the locals. Yeah. Well, the Russians stopped doing that, which I feel is kind of sad. That is. Yeah.
00:08:20
Speaker
So they're only worried about their college idiots. No, they make all their money. It's something crazy. Some of the bars make more money on parents' weekend and graduation weekend than they do the rest of the year. Especially the fancier restaurants, they make all of their money. And I'm sure you have a lot of the
00:08:44
Speaker
establishments that'll accept probably the Blue Hen card or whatever it's called. Yeah. Flex card, whatever the hell they call it now. Yeah. And the hotels here, that's how they make all of their money. It's like homecoming, graduation, and parents' weekend. Yeah. All their money. It's a weird business model. Yeah. Yeah. And then they have all the graduation parties.
00:09:15
Speaker
I don't know when they do because they're gone. Well, I think they go home to have it there so they can invite their wealthy relatives and friends. Right. Give me money because I need it because now I need a job. Yeah. Yeah. It's the fun part of graduation. Yeah. Every now and again, you get some of those students who are lucky. They like had an internship in college and they can just roll it right into a job.
00:09:43
Speaker
Yes. Then you also have the ones that are just like, yeah, I have a degree in Sanskrit. It's working out real well for me. I think the one thing that Maryland's governor is doing is great where you can do a gap year for high school students. You can do an internship.
00:10:10
Speaker
But it's paid, which is nice. Right. I mean, I'm going through this with my oldest. It's, you know, she's like, I'm not even 17. How am I supposed to know what I want to do with the rest of my life? It's like, yeah.
00:10:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's tough.
Career Choices and Youth Pressure
00:10:26
Speaker
She likes math and music. Make a decision. Teacher. Get a degree that you can have a job. Even if you don't like that job, you always fall back. Right. Well, I mean, right now, she's working at the Rita's, so there's always that to fall back on.
00:10:49
Speaker
That's a miserable job. She likes it so far. She's only worked like four shifts. Yeah. Yeah. Wait until you come at home from work sticky from water rights for the 30 hours, you know, three hours time. No. Yeah. Well, that's like the like first couple of weeks, you know, they closed at nine and now they're summer hours. So they're up until 10 at night. So yeah.
00:11:14
Speaker
Yeah, but she's already like run into the idiots, you know, just like, Oh my God, some of these stupid college kids will come up and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know what that order. It's read us. It has two things on the menu. Yeah. You have ice or custard or a combination of the two. Yeah. Why is this a conversation where we have to figure out what we need? Yeah. Walk up watermelon ice. Thank you. Done. Yeah. Yeah. So, or she said there's, there was like an,
00:11:43
Speaker
I don't know, it sounds like Maillard Landing brought a van of people over there or something one afternoon. And the guy was like, because one of the flavors is Swedish fish. He's like, who wants a fish flavored ice? It's like, no, sir, it's not fish. No. Well, maybe somebody likes fish flavored ice. Yeah, I'm sure the Icelandic people do. They probably do. Yeah. I don't even like Swedish fish.
00:12:10
Speaker
I don't know what that flavor is. I couldn't tell you. It's fake. It's yeah, it's exactly. It's Swedish fish. That's why it has its own flavor because it's super processed fakeness. Yeah, super processed. Yeah. Well, that's like one of their flavors is unicorn. Unicorn? Yeah, I was like, what the hell is a unicorn taste like? Like, I don't know stuff. And then Olivia was like, it's probably cotton candy. Nope. Cotton candy is on the list on the menu also.
00:12:38
Speaker
Yeah, some of these flavors for ice just matter. How does cotton candy have a flavor other than just sugar? It's just one sugar. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but yet they have like cookies and cream ice. That doesn't sound good. I'm going to admit that cookies and cream is not a good flavor anyway, so.
00:13:03
Speaker
I'm not a fan. It's always Oreos crumbled up. I mean, get all soggy and... You want Oreos? Eat Oreos. You want ice cream? Eat ice cream. Neither of the two shall meet. Neither of the two shall meet. So you don't like cookie dough ice cream either. That's a different story. Oh, okay. Because it's not supposed to be crispy. Yeah.
00:13:29
Speaker
It's the texture of the cookies that I don't like. Back when I used to eat ice cream. Yeah, so you're not a big Blizzard fan and stuff like that. No, I'm not. Just how did I'm not a chocolate fan either?
00:13:48
Speaker
People were like, oh, you're going to Hershey. You'll have a great time. So when with the band, I was like, well, I'm not a big chocolate fan and I don't ride rides. So, yeah, super fun. They got a nice water park thing. It had just opened and no.
00:14:08
Speaker
Oh, but yeah, it was. Oh, my God, it was so slow. The lines, I guess, because it was, I guess Pennsylvania kids got out of school like last the week before or something. So they were like training a bunch of people for the summer. Oh, yeah. And like I every line like for food was ridiculous. I waited. What I counted, I counted up like 70 minutes for Nathan's hot dog. I finally got to the register.
00:14:38
Speaker
And I was looking, I was like, well, as soon as the people order it, it looks like they're getting their food lickety split. Oh yeah, they were. I get up there and she's like, hi, what would you like? I was like, yeah, I'll take two hot dogs, fries, and a drink. She's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. One hot dog. Would you like anything on that? One hot dog. Would you like anything on that? French fry. Regular. Drink. Medium. I was like, oh my God.
00:15:08
Speaker
70 minutes to wait for Nathan's hot dog sounds like real disappointing. Yeah. I don't even like Nathan's hot dogs. It was. So we had a meeting area for all the kids, like you get separated or you need.
00:15:23
Speaker
parent or whatever if there was seven chaperones. And we each had our little group of kids that had our cell phone numbers. But we also said, you know, we each signed up for an hour block and said, at this hour, you'll be in this area by this table. Well, the Nathan Hotdog stand was right beside it. So I was like, well, I'll grab a hotdog before I sit down for my shift. Well, a little bit into my shift, I was still standing in line. So I waved at the other parent. She said, yeah, you're fine. Just wait in line. But yeah. It's fun.
00:15:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yep. And then I was like, you know, finally got done my shift. I was like, I'll walk around a little bit. I got like, I was like, Oh, there's my daughter. I looked her up on the phone. So I'm going to find her. And then I hear Mr. Troy. Hey, so I can't find my buddy. Where's the gate? I'm on. Let's go. I was like, well, here it is on the map. He's like, I don't know how to read maps. Hold my hand and let's go. And this is a scene.
00:16:19
Speaker
Oh God. That's fair. I mean, my wife doesn't know how to read maps and she's almost a senior too. By the way, what did you do to your wife? I didn't do anything to my wife. I knew that was going to come up. I didn't do it. She did that to herself. Yeah. It's already looking better today because she looks like
00:16:45
Speaker
My eyes come look at my eyes. I'm like, you vomited too hard. Yeah. Yeah. She's staying up all night drinking the moonshine. Yeah. So a side tangent to all of this. My second monitor of my PC setup has died. Oh no. Yeah. So now I'm looking at monitors and man,
00:17:13
Speaker
I don't know what the heck I'm looking at anymore. Here are my options. Flat screen, curve screen. I don't know.
Choosing a Monitor: Tech Specs Frustration
00:17:22
Speaker
Screen. Yeah. FHD or QHD. Don't know any of those in that store. IPS. High definition or quick high definition. Sure. Pale type IPS or VA. Don't know. Pale type? Panel type. Oh, panel. Yeah.
00:17:43
Speaker
I don't know. Refresh rate. I'm assuming better. Bigger refresh, better. Yeah, that's in the hurts, isn't it? Yes. Yes. And my adaptive sync premium or premium plus G sync available. Oh, golly day. That's like buying a car like, oh, yeah, this is the S.L.T. Plus. Yeah, I know these things. I'm just going to help. They don't know what any of these things are. You'll get one of those giant curved monitors that's like
00:18:12
Speaker
40 inches and wraps all the way around your desk. No, don't need that. Just need a monitor. To do things on. Yeah. Yeah, it's like half dead monitor at this point. I mean, it's an older monitor. So yeah, I'm not blaming it. It's given it's given it's all it's given it's all it left. It lived a good life. It was a good life. Yeah. Yeah. It's my project for the day is find a new monitor. No. Yeah.
00:18:42
Speaker
Yeah. So are you going through the Amazon? Um, yeah, or Dell. Yeah. It's got some good deals. It's looking at deals. And of course it has to happen after Memorial Day. So more sales are over. It's surprising that things like that are, you know, I guess for like furniture and stuff, these are, you know, the holiday weekend sales, but otherwise it's just like, you know, people don't,
00:19:09
Speaker
just shop on, you know, weekends anymore. No, because they don't go to the stores. Yeah. Yeah. That's on my wife the other day. I needed a new, she was like, Oh, you know, we go to Barnes and Noble because I wanted to look at books. I was like, ah, I know what I want. I think.
00:19:26
Speaker
So I looked online and it was cheaper on Amazon. She's like, you want the Kindle? I was like, I'm going to be honest. I want actual book. So ordered a couple of books. And yeah, they were here in two days. It was glorious. I do like my Kindle. Well, see, I think part of the problem is I have an old Kindle. Sure. So it's clunky. But and I was trying to use my iPad for it, but I don't like that.
00:19:51
Speaker
Yeah. I like the Kindle because I have the paper white one. The battery lasts forever. I can take it with me, especially like when I'm going over e-chipping or something or camping. Yeah. And it's backlit also, isn't it? Yeah. See, I've got an old one that's not backlit and I had like a little light e-clip to the top.
00:20:11
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny. It's just tiring conversation with my wife about my backlog of books. And I've bought all these. I've been recently, we have a thing where we go to a new place. We always go to try to find a local bookstore. Yeah. Yeah, I remember you saying that. So I have like a backlog of books I have to read. And I was like, here's my project for the summer. Get through my backlog of books, which is
00:20:35
Speaker
Probably 60 at this point. Wow. And get through my backlog of video games before I buy a new video game. Yeah, you got to get through those till August. What's of August? Baldur's Gate 3. Oh, god, yeah. Because I didn't buy Jedi Survivor yet. Oh. I'm going to be on my backlog. It's going to grow. I haven't beaten it yet. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah. I'm making myself
00:21:05
Speaker
Not by it. Yeah. Must get through backlog. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's a good thing. So what's I mean, trying to figure out what book I want. So I was like, I want a Star Wars book. Oh, my God. It's so hard to find a Star Wars book now. That's like because they have the new like High Republic series or whatever, but trying to figure out what order things go in. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. So that and see, I read like the first two or three of them. I was like, OK, yeah, that is pretty good. And I got the fourth.
00:21:35
Speaker
It's a script. Hmm. Yeah. I don't like that. If you're going to give me a book, give me a book. I don't want to read a play script. Yeah, I'm not in for that. Yeah. I didn't even read it. I said that I scoffed at it and put it away. Scoffed. Threw it away. Give it to the peasants. Give it to the peasants. Your peasants read your script. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? If my kids acted it out and read other or the line should be fine.
00:22:09
Speaker
Because I'm just looking at my backlog of books. This is going to be a project. Staring at me. Speaking of Star Wars, did you see that the actor in the Ahsoka show passed away? The actor and the Ray Stevens, the. Oh, I didn't. Oh, yeah, he wasn't a trailer. Yeah. Oh, that sucks. I did see that he passed away. Like that guy. He was Ted is below in Rome.
00:22:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's one of those actors like he's he doesn't like pop out at you, but you see him in a lot of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like a British. Taller leap scriber. Shriver. Shriver. It's a bolt. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's a shame is now. Yeah. I'm assuming they have they're very filmed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Comes out end of the summer, right?
00:23:08
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. September, maybe. I don't know. It's some time after. And that's the thing now. If all the if everybody could just agree on certain things like, you know, June to August is summer, you know, the seasons like I hate like they're like, oh, yeah, it'll be coming out quarter three.
00:23:29
Speaker
What is that your fiscal quarter? Is that the calendar quarter? Is it some of these studios like Ubisoft? Oh, yeah, where our financial quarter year starts in like on February 18th. No, I mean, you could be like the city of Salisbury and we used it everything by fiscal year. And now we're doing things like calendar year and fiscal year. Yeah.
00:23:54
Speaker
We should make a fire department year. We should. Yep. Starting on March 3rd. Yes. Yes. City comes to us. Well, you need to turn your stuff in. I'm sorry. That doesn't match up with our fire department year. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:08
Speaker
Yeah, you have to come back to us in March. Yeah. July. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We decided we're too busy during the summer, so we moved it to March. Yeah. Yeah. Why do you some company, I guess because they don't want to hit the holidays? Is that why they don't do fiscal years and calendar years matched up? I think it's a well, I know why the feds do it, too. The government does it because it matches up with the sessions of Congress.
00:24:39
Speaker
right, so that they can pass a budget because the spring session at Congress is over in two weeks or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Congress isn't in those chambers all year round, so that's why they're fiscal years the way it is. That's why they're only paid at a part-time rate, right?
00:25:04
Speaker
No, no. Oh, okay. Cool. I mean, you can look at the Congressman from Oregon that had just walked off the job and said they're not going to come back until the last day of the legislative session. What? Yeah. They're refusing to allow the state assembly of Oregon to meet because they don't agree with the fact that they lost the election.
00:25:26
Speaker
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So little fiefdoms. They need like one person to have a quorum and refuse to show up to have a quorum. Wow. So just nothing's getting done. That's like the epitome of pettiness. And are they getting paid? Oh yeah, I'm sure. You know, if I didn't show up to work cause I was boycotting, I'm sure as hell wouldn't get paid.
00:25:50
Speaker
It might take the city a little while to catch up on it. Probably would take it out. And somehow you could convince them that they were in the wrong and they owe you back pay or something. That would be that would be true. Well, are you on a topic one? Sure. A topic one. Topic one. Oh, this might be this might get ranty. Yes. It's.
Social Etiquette and Biking Rant
00:26:20
Speaker
basic social etiquette in life. How we're having a total breakdown. It's causing me to have a breakdown. I'm starting to get the old man. So embrace it. This came up yesterday the most because I ride my bike regularly. I walk on the trails route. We have a lot of trails and ride my bike on the trails. I walk on the trails and I'm always very conscious of my position on the trail and not
00:26:48
Speaker
inconveniencing somebody else. Oh, you mean you think of someone other than yourself? Yeah. So if my wife and I are walking side by side, I'm always on the alert to make sure nobody's coming up behind us. Nobody rarely do people have to come up behind me and say passing because I've already heard them and I move over. Yeah.
00:27:07
Speaker
riding my bike yesterday and it's a beautiful day. People are out on the trails and just this group of like eight people, which fine. You want to be out in a big group? Perfectly fine. Yeah. You're taking up the entire trail and you don't move over. Yeah.
00:27:24
Speaker
And then. Did you ring your bell? I did not ring my bell. I don't have a bell on that bike, actually, because it's, you know, slimmed down. And then I get this is insanity. So there are trails or they have gates at the end so that people can't drive onto the trails. Yeah. You know, and to get past the gate is a very narrow, maybe three foot gap.
00:27:52
Speaker
so you can get around the gate and onto the road and then on the trail. This dude and his two kids just park their bikes right in the narrow... What's up? And I roll up. I obviously have to stop my bike because I can only bike stand for so long. And he looks at me and he's like, oh, we're getting some honeysuckle. Great.
00:28:17
Speaker
Move your bikes off of the trail. We're getting some honeysuckle. Get your honeysuckle and get away. Were they standing with their bikes? Yes, they were on their bikes. If they walked away from their bikes, I would have grabbed the bikes, thrown them, and then ridden away.
00:28:36
Speaker
But then the best part is he looks at me, he says, oh, we're getting some honeysuckle. And then he backs his bike up a half a foot, but then there's still, he's in the way and the two kids are in the way. And I'm like, what part of you didn't go, I might be inconvenient to other people. I'll get out of the way, put my bike aside, then I'll get the honeysuckle. So many people, it's just, it's all about me.
00:29:04
Speaker
Yeah, there's no consideration at all. No, no. Yeah. Insanity. Yeah. Yeah. My wife's swears I might get stabbed or attacked or something one day because I'm just I will be that guy. Like if somebody doesn't hold the door and like close to it, I'll you know, don't worry, I got it. No problem. Thanks for not holding it. You know, I will be that guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other one that's driving me nuts and this is
00:29:35
Speaker
I think again because I think of, I would never want to inconvenience other people. So there are people on the trails with the Bluetooth speakers blaring their music. Oh my God. I don't want to hear your music. It might be great music. It might be the best song I've ever heard. I don't want to hear it. No. I'm here in the trails.
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah. Listening to the nature. Yeah. Cause I'm sure the squirrels aren't sitting there going, Oh, look, Bill's coming. Maybe he's going to play his music. The people, as we have the park in our house, people park in that parking lot and play their music so loud that it shakes my house. Oh my gosh. That is so inconsiderate of you. Yeah.
00:30:18
Speaker
that it's like you're literally looking at my house going, Oh, what if they're enjoying my music? No, I'm not. Right. I don't care if it's a banging tune. I still don't care. I don't want to hear you. I mean, even in our backyard, we won't blare our music. We, you know, kind of, we kind of do it. So, you know, if you're around it, you can hear it. But, you know, once you get to the fences, it should be quiet down. It should. And like, if I see my neighbor come out, I'm like, Hey, is the music okay?
00:30:46
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm not saying don't enjoy your backyard. Right. But think of other people. Freaking concert in the backyard that everybody can hear. Right. It's insane how- Well, and especially if said concert is like a bunch of expletives and stuff like that, it's- I don't care about that. Well, I have- We have a lot of kids around here, and that's the problem. I don't care about that part, because kids-
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah, they hear worse stuff in school. They hear worse stuff and the YouTube things. The YouTubes. It's like the book banning thing. You're not winning anything. The kids are looking at porn on their freaking phones while you're like, oh, we got to get rid of this book because they said, yay. Yeah, can't read to kill a mockingbird. Right.
00:31:28
Speaker
Yeah. Meanwhile, kids are like, look, you can watch this kid get his head cut off. Yeah. You know, that's I don't care. But but I just the inconsiderance of just your music. Right. Is so important that everyone needs to hear it. Yeah. No. Knock it off. Yeah. Yeah. Not kids. So the other day I was in traffic and this car pulls up next to me and they have their music pretty loud. Whatever. But as they pull up, I can hear like
00:31:56
Speaker
It was something in their front axle. It's like, as they come up, I was like, that doesn't sound good. Your car and she like, what's the F to you? And then drove away. I was like, I was just I was trying to give you the safety tip that your car is about to explode. But have a great day. Yeah. But we were walking because we walk around the neighborhood every day and we were walking around the neighborhood the other day and we hear this car come by and you can hear the car. And again, this is not to do it in concert, but you hear the car.
00:32:27
Speaker
the entire way. What is going on? And look, the skid plate is just scraping across the road. Yeah, that's going to work out great for you. Yeah. No, the skid plate isn't supposed to just skid all the time. Even if it does, it's not supposed to go behind your car. Oh, yeah.
00:32:50
Speaker
It's another reason I hate all people who ride motorcycles. I'm sorry if you listen to this and you ride a motorcycle. You are the most inconsiderate people in the world. You either make your motorcycle so loud that it's just obnoxious to be around and you think that's funny, or you drive like an asshole and then expect us to accommodate you. Look out for motorcycles. No. The other day,
00:33:19
Speaker
Yeah. We're driving on. I don't even know what we're trying to run. This dude was splitting lanes with traffic moving. He's he was splitting lanes and we're doing 40 miles an hour. Yeah. It's called death wish. I'm like, you're, you're exactly. You're just giving me a job. Yeah. You moron. Well, Pennsylvania, no helmet law or state or something.
00:33:43
Speaker
Because I saw when we were going to Hershey the other day that there was guys on motorcycles, not a helmet care in the world. I think you have to ride it. I think you have to wear a helmet in Pennsylvania. Delaware, you don't, which is bonkers. Yeah. It always killed me that people that would stop at the line were like, oh, I get to take my helmet off.
00:34:02
Speaker
No, that would be like driving in your car and be like, oh, thank God I take the seatbelt off finally and turn off the airbags. God. Yeah. There's nothing between you and a TBI, but that little piece of plastic. Right. Yeah. Yeah, the whole social etiquette and everything. I mean, yeah, it goes a whole nother level when you involve motor vehicles into it. Just go to a parking lot.
00:34:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Who yields the rage. Oh, God. The other day, if I had my harpoon gun, I would have used it in five minutes. Yeah. God. I leave in the park with my wife the other day, two roads merged together and one road has a yield sign. Yeah. Which means what?
00:34:48
Speaker
They, you have, the one road has the right of way. They are supposed to wait for a gap and to yield into traffic. Right. So instead this girl, I'm identifying her as a girl from what I saw, sees me coming around the curve. She's coming around the curve to where her yield sign is and says, Oh, if I floor it, I'm going to get past him.
00:35:14
Speaker
I'm like, what's wrong with you? Maybe she just left too fast, too furious or whatever it is. And she's all hyped up on Mountain Dew. And all that does, like when you look at consideration and etiquette when it comes to driving, it's to keep you safe. Yeah. Oh, that's all. The other driver shouldn't have to react to you. Right. Just this morning.
00:35:39
Speaker
Driving at home after getting our teas. It's our little treat. We get ourselves an unsweet tea because boy, we're crazy. I'm in the merge lane, the right hand merge lane. Yeah. And there's a gap. There's a car and then there's a gap. And you can see me merging onto traffic. Right. And this person comes from the left. I bet you had your blinker on and everything. Oh, I did. This person comes to the left hand lane and
00:36:06
Speaker
as I'm getting ready to merge, pulls into my lane and speeds past me. And I was luckily able to jerk it back into the shoulder, but now I'm in the shoulder. I'm not in the lane because this person who clearly could see me needed to be three feet ahead of me.
00:36:21
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you're just, now you're putting your safety in my hands. Oh yeah. Yeah. And those are the ones I like that, you know, they do something stupid like that. And then you pull up next to them at a stoplight. It's like, Ooh, it was worth it. Right. Yeah. So much farther ahead of me.
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah, insanity. I saw like a computer model and they should show it to everybody. And it shows like, you know, when you've got a lane breaking down, you have to merge into one lane. And it shows when people like speed up to the end and try to jump in or if people, you know, just space it out and go the way they're supposed to. It keeps moving. Everybody's flowing. It's putting those assholes fly up to the end and try to jump in and all. That's what causes all the traffic delays.
00:37:06
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or the moron that sees everybody stopped in traffic, so he's going to ride the shoulder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Skippy. You're the one that's broken the code. Right. I purposely edged my vehicle into the shoulder just to stop him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I will. Now, if the kids are with me, I won't. But if it's me, yeah. Yeah. I'll put my life on the line for it.
00:37:30
Speaker
What? And the other side of that is the shoulder should be kept clear for emergency vehicles. Yeah. If traffic stop because there's an accident and wants us need to get there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But that means, but wait, aren't you supposed to do that on the opposite side of the road?
00:37:46
Speaker
So if the aimlets is going northbound, people going southbound are supposed to pull over and stop. And well, in the state of Maryland, you just stop in the middle of traffic for no good reason. But you have to radically jerk your wheel to the left and then the right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because no one in the state of Maryland knows what the hell to do for an ambulance or fire engine. Yeah. And is proud of the fact that they don't teach it in in your driver's head. I don't know what you guys are doing over there. I know.
00:38:16
Speaker
but they still know how to parallel park. Huzzah. Huzzah. Can't remember the last time I had to parallel park. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Because I don't drive the city anymore. Yeah, I mean. But it's just the etiquette of just being, you're just being an asshole. Oh yeah. Well, it's that me, me, me. Yeah, you could do whatever you want in your house, your yard, and no one's even telling you,
00:38:45
Speaker
You can't run around with a fucking Bluetooth speaker. Just keep it at a level that's reasonable. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the people that, I mean, walking through the store and they have their phone on speaker phone as high as it will go. I don't care that Uncle Jim needs hemorrhoid cream.
00:39:03
Speaker
It's crazy to me because you and I are of the Walkman generation. We grew up and you were used to headphones. Every kid since us has been around headphones and headphones are so good.
00:39:21
Speaker
What are you doing? And so many of the phones now, you get a set of earbuds or something with the phone. Right. Just use your headphones. Yeah. We are not in the early 80s when you had your boombox on your shoulder. Right. I'm not asking you to not listen to music. I don't want to listen to your music. Right. Yeah. Because your music sucks. Let me tell you that. Or we may have the same exact taste in music. I don't want to listen to your music right now. There's a reason why I'm not listening to music.
00:39:49
Speaker
We have this fight at work all the time because we'll be sitting at the table talking and inevitably one of the people at the table will pull out their phone and just start looking at videos on their high volume. I'm like, what are you doing? I'm watching this video. I'm watching the TikToks. We're talking. We're having a conversation. Well, it's a funny TikTok. I don't care. Great. Go watch it somewhere else. Yeah.
00:40:17
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There's five other places you can sit in this firehouse and watch your stupid TikToks. Right. Yeah. We're at the, like, oh, wow. You know what? Maybe I'm going to get, maybe that's what I'll do. Get little phone boxes for each dinner table at the firehouse. Not a bad plan. Yeah. It's, or the crazy person on D-shift who has to watch TV at dinner. Oh. What?
00:40:43
Speaker
You were on D shift then because I would turn the TV off. Oh, yeah. We're going to watch the news. Yeah. What's the point of us sitting at the table together if you're just watching TV? Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to take your TV stand tray and go in the other room and sit in your bark, a lounger and watch 80 Griffiths. Maybe I don't want to watch the news. Yeah. I think the news stresses me the hell out and I don't watch it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, maybe I just want to talk to my friends. Right.
00:41:13
Speaker
I'm from sitting at a table with eight other people and now it's four. I want to talk to those people. If we're not going to talk, what's the point of sitting there? I don't watch videos, but I'm bad about it. Sometimes my wife and I will be sitting there, but lunchtime will just be sitting on our phones reading the news or looking at websites and stuff. But we're eating lunch. We talk all day.
00:41:42
Speaker
I don't talk to these people every day. It's just, I don't know. It's a breakdown of social norms. Or, oh, the worst one. Because my station, we only have one lounge. We can watch TV. So you're inevitably going there to watch TV, and you're watching a show. We all sit down and say, we're going to watch this movie. It's like on Fridays and Saturdays. I'm always like, we should watch a movie as a shift. And inevitably, as soon as we decide what movie, we're going to watch TikTok videos.
00:42:11
Speaker
What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. That's a yeah. We'll sit down to watch a movie and then, you know, the kids will like have their phone out or something. Like, are we watching this or are we watching our phones? What are we doing? And again, I fully acknowledge it's the old man part of the broadcast where I'm just. It is. But still, it's you. You just need to get your. It's not just the youths. It's not just the youth. That's the worst part. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:41
Speaker
I just, I don't get it. One of our people, well, she's not doing it anymore, but we'd be watching a movie. She's FaceTiming her boyfriend. Go somewhere else. I don't talk. I would, I just never would talk on the phone near other people. Right? Right. Yeah. It's, I would go somewhere else to talk to on the phone. Yeah.
Movie Watching vs Phone Distractions
00:43:02
Speaker
Yeah. I see. I'm a, I'm a roamer when I talk on the phone anyway.
00:43:05
Speaker
Me too. Well, I tend to like go outside and sit in my rocking chair. It's not even old. Yeah. The world's a scene. It is. But how do we fix it? Corporal punishment. EMP, I think. Ooh, nice. Yeah. Ooh, side change it to your movie thing. We watched the Super Mario movie over the weekend. Oh, yeah. It was cute. I liked it.
00:43:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I saw it was, you know, you can watch it on Prime or whatever. It's like, oh, OK, cool. You can rent it for twenty five bucks or buy it for twenty nine. I was like, well, we're buying the Barrio movie.
00:43:50
Speaker
I'm annoyed at that movie, but it has nothing to do with the movie. I don't know if you saw that John Leguizamo got pissed off about the movie and I'm like, you're also not Italian. Yeah. Yeah. You were in the crappy version of this movie. You're also not Italian. Yeah. I don't know if you know this, but Puerto Rico and Italy, different countries. Are they? Yeah. I thought it was like a, yeah, I thought it was like a suburb of Italy or something.
00:44:18
Speaker
His whole, like I'm reading his article where he's raging about how they didn't include him into this movie and it's not inclusive to it. And Chris Pratt, blah, blah, blah. He's not Italian. You're not Italian. Nobody's Italian. Knock it the hell off. It's Mario. Yeah. It's little jump man. Little jump man. Yeah, but there were a lot of nods and stuff in it. I thought it was fun. Good. You know? Yeah.
00:44:45
Speaker
Definitely a fun little popcorn. And like the kids were like, man, you know, it was fast paced. It was like an hour and a half hour and 40 minutes. I was like, yeah, that's all it needs to be. That's all it needs. And I need to be this three hour epic. But yeah, there's definitely not any day three hour. Yeah. Yeah. People mind your social etiquette. Yeah, that's the end of my rant. Just just think of other people than yourself. Just think for five seconds is what I'm doing affecting other people. If so, then I should not do that thing. Right. Yeah.
00:45:16
Speaker
Or, or, Hey, do you mind if I XYZ? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause now you say that. Yeah. Like at Hershey park over the, you know, Friday, there were people blaring their music and all that kind of stuff and not paying attention to things.
00:45:36
Speaker
Now, I say this as a fully acknowledging that as a firefighter, one of the greatest joys of my life is shutting down traffic and inconveniencing people. But oh, yes, that's part of my job. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's a special little part in my soul that giggles every time I get to do that, especially when you see the person's really frustrated at you. Yeah. It's like I was going to wave you on. Now you're going to sit there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Do you confront people who don't wash their hands after the bathroom? No. Really? No.
00:46:06
Speaker
Yeah, I just say you're disgusting. Don't shake my hand. No, but I'm like at that park. I'm washing my hands. Everything I saw is one guy right from the year on a walk. I was like, you're filthy. I just got looked at me like the hell. So maybe my wife has a point. I am going to get stabbed. It's possible. It is a man. Oh, gosh.
00:46:30
Speaker
Well, we've got a topic to topic to. So it doesn't really kind of ties in to what you're talking about, not really social, but just people talking about things and stuff. So my wife and I and my oldest was on the walk with us. We were walking around the neighborhood over the weekend.
00:46:52
Speaker
And they're talking about something at one of their jobs and it was, oh yeah, they're the low man on the totem pole. I was like, that is so wrong. What are you talking about? I was like, technically the low man on the totem pole, the lowest figure on the totem pole, it's a symbol of esteem. It's at eye level. It's supposed to be the most intricate, the most prestigious and it holds everything up. I said, somebody, you know, adopted that saying the wrong way and people just use it the wrong, you know, making fun of me for that. I was like, I'm sorry that I'm more culturally sensitive than
00:47:23
Speaker
So it got me thinking, you know, I'm sure there are others, odd sayings that we have and where they come from. And it's just, yeah, like a sight for sore eyes. What, what, what is that supposed to mean? Well, your eyes are sore from looking at things that are not good for your eyes. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's something from Gulliver's travels. Huh? Yeah.
00:47:51
Speaker
Yeah. And that's all it says. There's no real explanation for that one. I'm like, OK, bite the bullet. Well, you bite bullets when you're in a lot of pain. Yep. Well, I don't know. It probably comes from the Civil War when you had to like actually bite. Yep. Bullet casings to get them into. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't have anesthesia, so they would have them literally bite down on a bullet. Yeah.
00:48:19
Speaker
It seems terrible way to do that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, at the time, we're like, Oh, yeah, lead. That's good for you. Yeah, it's true. For a long time, I was considered awesome for you because it was sweet. And oh, yeah. You know, made things white. Yeah. Yeah. Great paint. Yeah. Great. Great cosmetics. Hands down.
00:48:45
Speaker
Hands down. So like I would hear that is like hands down the best deal. Yeah. Why would it be hands down? It's a poker thing. No. When the horse has a strong lead in the race, jockeys would loosen their grip and put their hands down. Huh? Yeah. How that is a good deal or something. Or, you know, like no doubt. That feels like it's giving up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:15
Speaker
again it's one of those yeah yeah it'd probably make more sense to giving up but yeah crocodile tears those are fake tears because crocodiles can't cry right
00:49:26
Speaker
because they feel the remorse when they eat your ass. Right. See that guy? We got to spend like Florida man. There's like three crocodile attacks last like month and one guy lost his whole arm. Yeah. Yeah. He was at a. He was at a bar. Yeah. It was at a bar like using the bathroom or something. He was he was pissing outside. Oh, that makes sense. I didn't know if like the alligator came out of the toilet, bit his arm off and then went back in.
00:49:53
Speaker
He fell into a pot like a retention pond behind the bar. Oh, my gosh. And the allocator ripped his arm off. Yeah. Yeah. I don't swim where there are alligators. That's a good rule. Yeah. Or don't go near the water. Yeah. Well, I mean, yet another reason not to go to Florida. He needed more. Right. Yeah. Well, I saw some guy
00:50:20
Speaker
And he was making a video for like Iron Man training. And he said the whole problem was he didn't put his hair in his swimming cap, he just let his hair lose. So he didn't have full view, which I call shenanigans on that, but.
00:50:37
Speaker
They had like this drone up and he's swimming along and you can see like a white cap as the alligator comes to him. Oh, my God. Hits him, rolls him a few times and everything. He finally like, I don't know, like poked the thing in the eye or something and got away from it. But it's like you look at the water and it's just like scuzzy green. He's like, I know there's alligators in there, but usually I can sense them coming.
Irrational Fears: Kayaks
00:51:01
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I'm sorry, Aquaman.
00:51:04
Speaker
Yeah. Dom. Did you see the moron who was out kayaking the other day and a shark attacked his kayak? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, I don't like kayaks to start with. I mean, they're fine in little ponds and lakes and stuff. There's no freaking sharks. There's just something about kayaks that skis me out. I don't know. Not skis me out, but just out of,
00:51:27
Speaker
We ran a kayaks one time at deep Creek and I don't know. We were like, Oh yeah, we'll go across the Lake. I got like, I don't know, 30 feet from shore and my heart rate jumped up. I was like, Nope, Nope. I don't like it. So yeah. Interesting. And I'm a good swimmer and I had a life vest on, but yeah, just, yeah. Cat got your tongue. Uh, well cats are known to steal tongues in your sleep. Close.
00:51:55
Speaker
The ancient Egyptians would cut out tongues and feed them to cats. Huh. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Didn't know they fed them to the cats, but yeah. Yeah. I had no clue about that. Yeah. Caught red handed. Well, in the 1840s, there was a rash of red paint being stolen.
00:52:25
Speaker
No, no, no, no. 15th century Scotland. Being red handed is being referred to being found with blood on your hands after you committed the crime. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That kind of makes sense, actually. Yeah. Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Hmm. My wife does that every day, which evidently I do this every day.
00:52:53
Speaker
Uh hmm. Back in the 14th century in Brunei Brunei. The bed was facing the wrong way. And if you woke up, you fell into the alligator pit. Oh, close. Romans positive forces are on the literal right side of the bed. So if you get out of the bed on the left side, you get bad energy. Oh.
00:53:21
Speaker
Yeah, so every day I get bad energy because I sleep on the left side and I get out of the left side. I also sleep on my side of bed and I get out on my side. Yeah, maybe I should start crawling across my wife. Yeah, that won't be annoying. I'm sure that'll start the day. Well, it'll end well for everyone. Yeah. Running a muck. Well, as we all know, a muck is a ancient Celtic Iberian god of.
00:53:50
Speaker
Uh, it's the Malay word Mengemok, which means to make a furious and desperate charge. Captain Cook used the phrase to describe the behavior of the Malay tribesmen. Huh, I was about to call bullshit until you said Captain, Captain Cook on the end of that. Yep. Hmm. Yeah. That was one of the most popular books of its time. So yeah. OK. All right. You can't hold a candle. Well, candles are hot. Yeah.
00:54:20
Speaker
Can't hold candles. An apprentice who's not even skillful enough to hold a candle for their master. In short, they are worthless. Oh, yeah. That's going to be pretty bad if you weren't even trusted to hold a candle. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Yeah. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Well, you know. When in Greece, do as the Greeks do. Yeah.
00:54:50
Speaker
It's something from the letters of Pope Clement, the 14th. When we're at Rome, we should do as the Romans do. That's what? That's dumb. Yeah. Thank you. Rub the wrong way. Well, if you rub them on the left side, that's where the bad energy is. That's close. Oh, so about specifically cats. When you rub them, the fur of the wrong direction, it sets them off.
00:55:18
Speaker
There is no good way to rob a cat. They'll attack you either way. Yeah. That's true. It's a dog. You could pet a dog any way you want. The dog's just like, I love you. Yeah. Cats. You look at them the wrong way. It's like you got to put in an application to pet them. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Damn cats. Yep. Barking up the wrong tree. That's pretty easy. Coon hunting. Yeah.
00:55:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'm assuming. Yep. So when your dog barks along train, you try to shoot something that's not a raccoon. Exactly. Mm hmm. Paint the town red. Well, it's when you go on a murder spree, as we learned from the 15th century, Scotland. Yeah, in 1884. The boys painted the town New York City red with firecrackers on Independence Day.
00:56:16
Speaker
Interesting. Bury the hatchet. We get that one. I don't get that one. You don't get bury the hatchet. I mean, I get what the what I get the what we do with a symbol is it, but I don't get it. What does burning or hatchet have to do with anything? Yeah, it's Native Americans. Two tribes decide to settle their differences and
Origin of 'Bury the Hatchet'
00:56:40
Speaker
live in harmony. The chief of each tribe buried a war hatchet in the ground to signify their agreement. Hmm.
00:56:47
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That feels like it's made up. Probably. Show your true colors. Hmm.
00:57:01
Speaker
Well, everyone knows that the color underwear signifies your alignment. Gosh. Good Lord. There must be a fire going on. Cause I hear every volunteer fire company in the world responding near me. Oh, it's not your house, is it? I don't think so. Okay. That dogs would let you know by now. Probably. No, it's a navel thing.
00:57:30
Speaker
Oh, makes sense because your colors are the fence and yep. And if you're showing false colors, that's how people, you know. Yeah, they would lower their flag when they saw somebody coming and then they could raise it afterward. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. Um. Steal your thunder. Hmm.
00:58:00
Speaker
That is an odd one. I don't own thunder. I'm not sure. I know. Yeah. It was an 18th century dramatist. John John Dennis created the idea for a thunder machine, but it didn't work. So someone stole his thunder. But they didn't because it didn't work. I know. Yeah, that's. Hmm. Ooh, spill the beans.
00:58:33
Speaker
Well, after the 1818 flood of Manassas in Boston, the only way they could clear it up was with a large pot. And I'm talking a tankers full of Boston baked beans. Oh, wait, Boston baked beans is horrible little candies. I think Boston baked beans are a thing, and then there's also a candy called Boston baked beans. Yeah, I don't know. It's ancient Greece.
00:59:01
Speaker
People would vote anonymously using white and black beans as a simple year and a. If someone spilled the beans, they let them know who voted who. So it has nothing to do with the molasses flood of 18. No. By and large. Hmm.
00:59:33
Speaker
Where the heck would that come from? It doesn't make any sense. I don't know. It originates from sailing lingo, specifically when the wind is blowing from some compass point behind a ship's direction of travel, it's said to be large. So you're going by the large way. Hmm. That's interesting. Yeah, that's weird.
01:00:02
Speaker
Yeah, that's. Hmm. Yeah. It's some interesting ones. Yeah, we. It's weird how language develops. Yeah. And because. Well, yeah, and I'm sure there's, you know, if you go to, I don't know, Outer Mongolia and say something like, yeah, we're going to paint the town red. They're probably like. Or they think you're a new painter in town who's going to paint for them.
01:00:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was looking at the strangest American idioms. Jump the shark is one of them. Jump the shark. Yeah. That came from happy days. Came from happy days. Yeah. Yeah. Knee high to a grasshopper. Yeah, I don't understand that one. I smell a rack. It's from, you know, gangsters. Yeah. Knocked my socks off.
01:01:02
Speaker
Um, I've never seen anybody's socks knocked off. I have seen their shoes knocked off. Yes, I have seen shoes knocked off. Yeah. Heard it straight from the horse's mouth. Talking to Sarah Jessica Parker. It's, uh, from horse racing. The best tips for which horse to bet on. You look at the horse's mouth. I mean, I guess if they have good teeth and all, then they're healthy.
01:01:29
Speaker
So that's why you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. It's because you don't want to check their teeth immediately. That's like, you know, platform. So plenty of fish to see comes is been around since seven. They're 1573. Wow. Yeah. Say uncle. Yeah. Well, it used to be that before the paternal figure, so it was the uncle figure who was the head of everything and.
01:01:59
Speaker
You had to say their name to be allowed to do things. I don't know. One of the theories is it comes from the Irish word, meaning mercy. The other is an ancient Roman term that kids used to make a bully kid call for an adult. Huh? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Sankal never did make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Cut the mustard.
01:02:25
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I guess because you're cutting the mustard with the vinegar. That's how, uh, so the way mustard works is the vinegar, whatever it is, when you're making mustard, if you, the point at which you add the vinegar is when it stops becoming, um, the reaction, so that the longer you hold off and putting that in the stronger the mustard is. Yeah. See that's yeah.
01:02:56
Speaker
Put lipstick on a pig. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I remember, gosh, there was is one of those. I can't think of his name now. One of the like Looney Tunes cartoonists. Davis, I think it was, but they had it was a whole cartoon that was idioms that they went through, and it was hilarious. You know, like Kat got your tongue, cut the mustard playing by ear, all that kind of stuff.
01:03:31
Speaker
Break a bill. Break a bill. You know, what bills were the strongest sticks at one time? We, you know. We break bills, which makes no sense. Make change. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Can you break a five? You're not breaking it here. Don't be a wet blanket. The hell does that have to do with anything? Yeah. Then you bring things down. I guess because a wet blanket would put out a fire.
01:04:00
Speaker
So if things were hot and happening, a wet blanket would put it out. Oh, that's fair. Long in the tooth. Oh. OK, it's another horse thing, probably because the horse thing because the older they get, the teeth, the gums recede and. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Damn horses. Damn horses. Oh.
01:04:32
Speaker
As a good pregnant pause, people are checking our Zunes right now. Right. It's right there. The graveyard shift. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So graveyard shift. What do you think is the worst shift? Four to twelve or twelve to eight? Eight to four.
01:04:59
Speaker
I hate day work. Yeah. It's. It's annoying to me. I think second shift is the best shift. Really? If you have to work a shift, second shift is the best shift. Oh, see, I always thought second shift was the worst. Really? Yeah, because you get off and you like you get home by the time you wind down, it's like two o'clock in the morning, you fall asleep, you get up and it's like,
01:05:25
Speaker
Nine. If your whole morning to like go out and do stuff. Yeah, but that's all you have is your morning because after lunch, you got to get ready to go to work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I I did that shift work stuff for a while and it four to 12 was always the worst 12 day. Yeah, whatever. Eight to four. You're a normal human
Work Shift Preferences
01:05:46
Speaker
being. But yeah, four to 12. It was just yeah.
01:05:50
Speaker
I'm such not a normal human being. I think about that all the time that because as I'm getting closer to retirement, what am I going to do after I work for the fire department? I don't know that I could work an eight to four job. I've never done it. I think you'd be a self-appointed social etiquette policeman. I swear. Golly, I can't imagine that. Just walk around with a paintball gun.
01:06:18
Speaker
Nope. Yeah, exactly. I've never worked day work on a regular consistent basis. I mean, these last four or five years that I've done it, that's the only time I've ever worked a day work job. Yeah. Yeah. I think I would have such a trouble. Oh, it took me months. Yeah. Yeah. But now like I look at a 24 hour shift. I'm like, Oh, gosh.
01:06:48
Speaker
Yeah. I look at 36s like that now. The older I get, the less I can do a 36. Yeah. Somebody the other day was like, oh, I wish they'd let us work 48s. I said you were stupid in the head. You are stupid, Ned.
01:07:03
Speaker
after 36 and I can only work a reverse 36. I cannot do the straight 36. I can't, which anybody who doesn't know what that means is because those words make no sense. But a reverse 36 would be working the night before and then working the 24 hour shift after that. If I do the other way around, I've lost three days.
01:07:27
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's just, I can't do it. Yeah. A reverse 36, I can take a nap before work. Yeah. Go in. Yeah. I mean, that's like, you know, the guys that were on 10s and 14s and they would switch things around doing a, you know, a straight 24 is one thing that don't want to reverse 24. And then, because you would have to come in and then do your next 10, it was just,
01:07:52
Speaker
I never mind the reverse 24s. Yeah. When I worked tens of 14s, I didn't mind it. Yeah. Yeah. Especially if you did it right. And it was. Oh no, because then you couldn't. That would be a 36. Yeah. I think I did 36s. Yeah. Yeah. Tens of 14s. Tens of 14s was my favorite shift work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I prefer that over three 12s. Yeah.
01:08:20
Speaker
You got more stuff done. Yeah. And you had that nice middle night off and. Yeah. And then you had a four day break. Yeah. I like that's 14th. Yeah. If I had to choose a ship to go back to, that would be the one. Yeah. And it's some of these maniacs are like, Oh yeah. They have the 48 and 96 is. I would murder, I would murder my coworkers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let alone the people I serve. Yeah.
01:08:44
Speaker
Salt Lake City, I think, is the biggest city I know that does forty eight ninety sixes. And I don't know how they don't have people just jumping off the bridge. Yeah. I got into a discussion with somebody online one time and they were talking about forty ninety six. I was like, that's not feasible with a busy department. Now, you know, like, what do you what do you qualify as busy? I was like, well, between three and a half medic units, we ran, you know,
01:09:09
Speaker
13,000 calls last year. And the person came back, well, our medic was busy last year. We were in 700 calls. I said, we have medics that run 700 calls any year. So your day is two calls. Our day is 10 calls.
01:09:29
Speaker
Now take that day and make it 16 calls and then do 16 calls the next day. Yeah, exactly. Stupid kids. Yeah. Because how the way averages work is that you're usually above the average number. Right. Yeah. Rarely below it. Yeah. 48 96 would be even 24 48. I don't think I could do.
01:09:57
Speaker
I think that would be the end. Yeah, that's why I said when I was still on shift, I was like, if they talked about 40 or 24, 48, I would I would vote for 10s and 14s handout. Well, no, that's not the way
Debate on Shift Systems
01:10:10
Speaker
it works. I know it's not because the replacement for 10s and 14s is 24, 72s. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But that's still a four point system. Yes. Three point system. But you make more money because you're working more.
01:10:26
Speaker
Yeah. And it's and they always say, well, it's only one more extra day a month, except that you're always coming right back to work. Yeah. You're always either in a recovery day or a, you know, stress out before work day. Yeah. You never have a middle day. Middle day. Yeah. And inevitably you work Kelly day and you just ruin the whole thing. Yep. Yeah.
Driving Etiquette and Emergency Vehicles
01:10:53
Speaker
Well, this has been a good good discussion about shifts. Yeah. I mean, you know, can't hold a candle to the throwing the baby out with the water. Nothing holds a candle to 2472 shift. That's you're exactly right. Yeah. There you go. Go out and paint the town red. Yeah. Yeah. So cut your mustard. Cut your mustard.
01:11:20
Speaker
Hold the door for somebody. Hold the door for somebody. If you're walking on a path, don't take up the whole path. You know? Yeah. And if somebody says passing on the left, you move to the right, not jump to the fricking left. But these are the same people that when they're in their cars and a fire truck comes behind them, they swerve left and right and hit their brakes. That's true. That's very true. We should just teach people how to drive when fire trucks are around. Yeah.
01:11:48
Speaker
We should go back to putting PA systems on all and pull to the right. I know why they took him off. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Closing Remarks and Social Media Call
01:12:00
Speaker
Well, folks, enjoy your early June. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is June 5th. June 5th. The day after I come back, get off my vacation. Go enjoy yourselves. Follow us on the Twitters.
01:12:18
Speaker
See ya'll at 22. Join the discord and just be nice. Be nice is that, you know, again, just think about other people for five seconds. Yeah. So, all right, folks, have a good one. Take care.