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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, Twitter talk, cars, housing, and the Witcher; Ron rants about leaves in his yard; Chris challenges us to a cartoon quiz. 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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00:00:47
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Welcome back to another episode of Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. And here's hoping we don't drop halfway through. Yeah. Sorry about that, folks. Yeah. Bill Gates heard us talking and switched. They didn't even mention the Zoom. Uh-huh. Yeah. See, that's a thing. Yeah. We keep bobbing a job, but Gates is like, no, no.
Elon Musk & The Future of Twitter
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Speaker
So I guess this week we have to worry about
00:01:13
Speaker
Elon Musk's shutting things down or doing something crazy from Twitter. Oh my gosh. I personally don't care because I think Twitter's kind of an abomination anyways. But he sure looks like he's running that into the ground. Oh yeah. I think by the time that this even airs, Twitter might be shut down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this
Car Market Challenges
00:01:36
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will be up on the 14th of November. And I know I saw on the news this morning that
00:01:43
Speaker
Yeah, it was what Twitter is facing bankruptcy already. Yeah. And he's lost billions of dollars of Tesla stock overall. Yeah. Yeah. And which I passed a Tesla the other day and at first I didn't realize it was a Tesla and I got freaked out because I looked over and the guy had his like hands behind his head. Oh, yeah. I was like, Oh, my God. Oh, it's a Tesla. So. Yeah, Teslas are cool, but
00:02:13
Speaker
Like I've always said, it's not the car to answer our problems. Right. No, because it's not affordable and economical. So my wife and I are talking about getting another car, basically consolidating two cars down to one. And we've said, if we're going to buy a car- It's like a transformer where it'll pop apart in the middle and you can each take it one way? Yes. Cool.
00:02:39
Speaker
We're going to get a car. We should get it now because I'm within six years of retirement and all that talk. We're like, oh, the Ford Maverick, that's a little hybrid pickup truck. That would be really useful for going on these taking on our trips with us on our RV and to the Ford dealership and the lady's like, oh, you're interested in the Maverick? Can I issue it anything else? I'm like, no. She's like, yeah, maybe next
Housing Market Concerns
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Speaker
year in September, you can order one.
00:03:07
Speaker
What? Maybe. Wow. She said the orders from last year are still not even they haven't caught up to those orders to start the orders for next year. Wow. That's. Yeah, it's crazy. I know my brother-in-law, when they moved back to the States, he ordered a Tesla.
00:03:31
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That would he they start working on that like in March. And I think he said he might be able to get it next month. So, yeah, it's. Yeah, well, the Maverick, I guess the problem for Ford is they didn't expect that people would be like, oh, a sub $30,000 hybrid. Right. I could be interested in that. Crazy talk. Of course. I mean, I was I was telling my wife about it.
00:04:01
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It feels like there's no car in that cheap range. What is your supposed to be your first car now? Because you
Lottery Dreams & Realities
00:04:09
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can't afford a Jeep when you first come out of college and 45,000 dollar Jeeps. I had that Saturn because it was like the cheapest car you could buy in the market. I think it was $10,000 and I bought that thing brand new. There's just nothing in that range anymore.
00:04:28
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Yeah, because even used vehicles are ridiculous. Oh, yeah. Don't even look at used vehicles right now. They're so insanely expensive. It's like, oh, you can go, maybe find a used Maverick. I'm like, well, they're going for $40,000. Yeah. And
Marijuana Decriminalization Debate
00:04:44
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the MSRP on a Maverick is $27,000. Oh, my gosh. And how would somebody already have a used Maverick? Because they bought them and flipped them, apparently, is a thing that people are doing now. God, there's a lot.
00:04:58
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People buy these cars and then put them on secondary market for a 10% markup.
Halloween Tales & Wildlife Encounters
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I guess I don't know what it's like to have that kind of disposable income to buy a vehicle just to sell it. I guess it's like flipping a house. It's like flipping a house. I'm so glad that right now the house flipper market is dead because the house flippers screwed up everybody's valuation of their houses for so long. Oh, yeah.
00:05:26
Speaker
It's just because you'd see houses in my neighborhood that people would buy for like $150,000. Then when you talk to the realtor, it's like, yeah, well, they bought a condemned house for $150,000. Of course it was cheap. That brings down your value.
00:05:43
Speaker
Good. Yeah. I mean, well, why are they going to worry about somebody else's? They're only worried about themselves. Yeah. Apparently a lot of them are screwed right now, so they should have worried about themselves more. Yeah. The market's so bonkers, they can't even sell their houses. Right. Yeah. You can't build a new house because construction materials are so high, so yeah, you're screwed. Yeah. My mother's building a house right now.
00:06:11
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And it has gone up $400,000 for materials. $400,000? Mm hmm. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So maybe this is a sign you shouldn't do this. Right. Yeah. Yeah. She's like, well, the materials are so expensive. I said, well, they're not going to get cheaper. Right. Well, until more builders accept some of these alternative construction materials. Yeah.
00:06:38
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And the problem is you got to get them into the code and getting them to the code takes so long. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's funny that we had no problem putting lightweight construction in a code. Yeah. Which is the bane of every one, every 500 existing. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Here are these houses built with balsa wood. Oh, yeah. It's fine. Yeah. Go ahead. You don't need nails. Just use glue and staples. Yep. OK. Yeah. What happens when that catches a fire?
00:07:08
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I'm going to catch fire. That's yeah. So what, that you're loading a house full of petroleum products. Yeah. Yeah. What are you going to do? Yeah, I don't get it. Disposable houses, man.
Household Chores & Animal Stories
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Yeah. Yeah. New world. Eventually, we're going to have to start building vertical houses, right? Yeah. We're going to have to get to the point where we start building up. Or building down.
00:07:38
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I guess that's true. When you get the insulation. Yeah, geothermal works and stuff. It's just the housing crisis right now that we're facing is crazy. Yeah. My cousin bought a house and it was cheaper for her to buy a house and pay a mortgage than it was to rent her place. Wow.
00:08:06
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I mean, I guess part of that's good, so you get more homeowners than renters, but for people just starting out, I mean, you've got to have some backing to be able to buy a house. Yeah. I think even in Salisbury, I think the median apartment is like $1,200. Jeez. It's crazy. That's wild. When I see these people complaining about all these freeloading kids who are living with their parents longer, it's like, yeah, how are they supposed to... Yeah, exactly. If I had to pay $1,200,
00:08:35
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So let's even take it to 2004 money. Right. You know, and make it a thousand dollars. If I had to pay a thousand dollars in my apartment, I couldn't have, I couldn't have lived. No, no. I couldn't have lived on the Salisbury Fire Department's salary. Yeah. I could have for about a year, but I'd have to go on dialysis because I'd lose a kidney. Yeah. I mean, when I started, I think my take home was $900.
00:09:05
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Yeah, it sounds right. In my paycheck, I didn't mean less. I mean, 800 bucks. Just 50 cents more than me, so. Not when I started. Not when you started, but yeah. Hey, you came out ahead in the end. You're making more money than me now. Yeah, it's still that day. God.
Housing Affordability Crisis
00:09:28
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No, you got screwed by the Singer study. I will murder you, HR lady. I will flip this desk.
00:09:37
Speaker
Yeah. It did happen. Yeah. I have been very lucky that somehow I've just made my way through the steps at the right time. Good. Yeah, no, good on you. Yeah, I couldn't, I can't imagine. No. Like your children, what job are they coming out of school? You know, I assume your kids are both going to college.
00:10:03
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Yeah. Yeah. They're going to come out of college and they're going to have a bachelor's degree, you know, unless you're willing to pay for them to have a doctorate, you know, but what, what job are they going to have that they're going to afford to move out? Right. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to live with you forever. Maybe. I'm going to build two sheds in the backyard and they can live in those. Sure. Yeah.
00:10:32
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I mean, $30,000 right now a year is not enough. No. That's not enough to pay your rent, let alone contribute to the economy. Oh, yeah. What is it? In our zip code to have a living wage, single, no kids, I think it's like 38. And it's not a good living. Yeah.
00:11:02
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That's just a living wage. That's not a thriving wage. It's crazy. When all these people complain about these kids making $20 an hour is minimum wage, if you look at what minimum wage should be, it should be 25. The problem is you need to step everybody. There's a lot of problems. Also, it shouldn't be that. The cost of living shouldn't be so exorbitant.
00:11:31
Speaker
Well, it's landlords taking advantage of the system. Oh, yeah. That's a huge part of it. They know there's a housing shortage. People are desperate to live somewhere. Yeah. They'll take advantage of it. Right now, there's only three states that have opened Section 8 housing in the country.
00:11:55
Speaker
three. That's amazing. Yeah, it's not good. No, no, it's not. We had in Delaware, over the summer, I think they had a apartment building that the landlord had not been taken care of. Of course. The city had to come in and shut the building down, right? They had to condemn the building, falling apart. So now you have
00:12:22
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I don't know how many units were in that building, but all of those people have nowhere to go. You know, they don't have, because I'm sure the landlord is not giving them deposit back. I'm sure they're going to have taken the court, you know, and people are like, Oh, it's easy. Just take it to court. Well, that takes a long time and you need money to do it. Yeah. Especially because the landlord, I'm sure has legal retainer, you know, the person getting evicted probably doesn't. Right. And then on top of that,
00:12:52
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Where do they go? Yeah. There's no apartments.
Lottery Systems & Taxes
00:12:56
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So they're literally living in a homeless shelter right now. The city, the city and the county put them up in a homeless shelter. Wow. Because there was no other option. Yeah. And you also have the renters that are the landlords are like, Oh yeah. You know, they, they swindle, swindle them in with that first year and it's super low. And then it just doubles after that first year. Oh yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Landlords are,
00:13:20
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They're a special breed. Yeah. Yeah. So when we, when the lottery was $2 billion, my wife and I said, if we had the money, we would just build just free apartment buildings. Yeah. Here you go. We're there for free. What's like what kills me about that? It was $2 billion or something. Yeah. And it was a single person who won it. And they only got 400, I say only 423 million out of that.
00:13:49
Speaker
Really? What is wrong with that? Well, it's free money. Yeah, but still, I mean, you get a quarter of what you won, less than a quarter. I don't understand that. Well, it was California. Yeah. Yeah. I know they got silly tax rules over there or whatever. I'm moving today. Yeah. Before I take this money, let me go move to a different state. Yeah. I mean, I heard somebody saying, all right, I mean,
00:14:17
Speaker
You could live off of that for the rest of your life. I'm like, are you stupid? Just if you just put it in a savings account, the interest alone is like $200,000 a year. You couldn't live a $4 million. Yeah. Do you think you're going to make $400 million between now and the end of your life? Exactly. I'm not. I think maybe a million. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think some people understand math.
00:14:46
Speaker
Yeah. I don't think that, well, it's factors of 10 that they don't get. Yeah. My wife was just like, well, if we win a billion dollars, you know, we'll fix up the house and
Marijuana Policy Changes
00:14:56
Speaker
we'll take some trips. I'm like, fix up the house. We'll take a trip and buy a house while we're on the trip and we'll just live in that house and then abandon it. She's like, what do you mean? I'm like, it's a billion. You could buy $10 million houses
00:15:12
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Every decade for the rest of your life, you'll be fine. A billion with a B, it's a factor of 10 higher than a million. It's a lot. Yeah, nine zeros. Yeah. It's more zeros than you've ever seen in your life. Yeah. God bless her. Yeah, well.
00:15:37
Speaker
I did not win. Yeah, no. That's not true. I won $4. Ooh. It cost me $10 to win. Let's say, yeah, so you're already $6 in the hole from it. But you are pot committed when it's $2 billion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So where does all that money go? I don't know nowadays. It used to be,
00:16:07
Speaker
one of the dogs, Evie. Yeah, Evie has got an itch. It used to be when I was a kid, they used to always say like Delaware Lottery benefits Delaware seniors. Okay. They still do that stuff. Yeah. The lottery is
00:16:26
Speaker
That's not a scam. It's blatantly. This is the government making money off of you. Oh, yeah. You know, you pay taxes and then you take that money that you pay taxes on and you buy tickets and then they tax your winnings. Yeah. But if you win four hundred million dollars, you're still set for the rest of your life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once I mean, you talk about taxing. That was one of the things on the ballot the other day was decriminalization of marijuana.
00:16:54
Speaker
I was like, yes, absolutely. Yep. That tax base.
Drug Myths & Halloween Safety
00:16:58
Speaker
And also I, you know, I would rather somebody buy something from a legitimate store than, you know, the street pharmacist who has no regulations whatsoever. Yeah. Your state, uh, is going to be Delaware because our governor's an asshole. Yeah. Ours. Decromization of marijuana is such a big,
00:17:24
Speaker
Every American that's polled, it's like 75% Americans are decriminalizing. Right. What are you doing? And yet these government people are like, no, I don't think that's really what the people want. Yeah. Well, I mean, the politicians are so out of touch anyway, so.
00:17:42
Speaker
House and Senate who can't agree on anything passed a decriminalization of marijuana bill. And the governor said, that's against my religious beliefs. Your religious beliefs don't have anything to do with this dickhead. Yeah. You're not a king. Yeah. And he vetoed it. Oh my gosh. We have to wait for the next governor before we can put it up again. Oh, wow. And that'll be 24.
00:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. And you guys will be decriminalized in 23? Yeah. Which is insane to me that the voters of Maryland say decriminalize it on November the 8th, whatever it was.
00:18:27
Speaker
of 2022 and from somehow it doesn't get actually decriminalized until July of 2023. Yeah, I don't understand. So some Porsche love gets arrested June 30th, 2023. Yeah. You know, let me think about like, once it goes to effect the people in Del Mar, what side of the street you are on cops are coming run across the street. Yeah.
00:18:54
Speaker
Prove I was in Delaware,
Halloween Celebrations & Decor
00:18:55
Speaker
bitch. Yeah, I don't get it. It's such an insanity to even. Yeah. The war on drugs is so stupid. The amount of money wasted. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I was in a training last week, I think it was. Yeah, it was like a pediatric
00:19:17
Speaker
uh, education form or something. And one of the things they were talking about was accidental overdoses and this and that. And they had a guy that works at Hopkins or one of the EDs up there talking. And one of the guys unmuted himself. He's like, so up there in Baltimore, I'm sure you had a ton of kids that were, uh, you know,
00:19:36
Speaker
accidentally poisoned by, you know, the fentanyl that those drug dealers put out there to look like candy and sent all the kids. And the doctor came back. He was like, I am sorry, but that doesn't happen. He's like, you understand that these drug dealers that look, I'm not saying they're great people, but they're in it to make money. Right. So they're not going to give their product out to kill kids. Never once, never once has it ever happened. Right. Yeah. I wanted to.
00:20:03
Speaker
I don't know who's in charge of the sign in front of station one, but somebody in the Salisbury fire department was like, be safe on Halloween and check your kid's candy. Check it for what? Yeah. There's never been laser blades or any of that stuff. It's all wives tales. It's all fear mongering. That's all it is. Yeah. It's never happened. It's never going to happen. No one's going to be like, let me give my kids, give random kids drugs. That's just expensive. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:31
Speaker
You know what's the bad thing is when they are giving out raisins and pennies. That's the atrocity. We give out coloring books. You give out all kinds of fun stuff. Kids love it, apparently. Yeah. Yeah. We gave out little wind-up toys this year. Nice. We ran out of coloring books. We only had four pieces of candy left. Wow. I was at work, so I didn't get to...
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah, we'd have a single kid come by the firehouse. Yeah, we had you ready for them. Yeah, we had. I don't know. Our kids were done by like seven o'clock in our neighborhood. So. Oh, yeah, no. And our and my youngest went with some friends in another neighborhood. And yes, he said one of the stops was the dentist and the dentist was giving out like floss and. Oh, what a jerk. You would think that she would want to give the junk so she would get business. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:27
Speaker
It's like, yeah, here's this giant sized candy bar. And when you're two thirds afterward, call
Neighborhood Dynamics & Wildlife
00:21:31
Speaker
me. Yeah. Yeah, that's the that's crazy talk. We are the popular house. We try to. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It definitely seems it from what your wife puts on social media that you guys have it set. Oh, well, right now my gaming sitting table is just full of Halloween stuff that has to get sorted and figure out where to put it.
00:21:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I'm sitting at a table chock full of decorative pumpkins and cauldrons and witches and things. Yeah, it's we've decided it's going in the shed. We just have to figure out how to get it from here to the shed and keep it safe. Yeah, I've just got to go under the house, get the totes, and then my wife will load the totes because I am not allowed to do that. Oh, yeah, absolutely not. And then put the totes back under. Yes, you have to go there with the snakes. There's no snakes under there. Of course there are.
00:22:24
Speaker
No, there's not. It's a concrete enclosed crawl space. Yeah. Snakes can't get through concrete. You're right. No. Yeah. Yeah. Now, every every now and again, there's a spider down there. Oh, yeah. OK. So you talk about animals. I'm about to take the dogs out the other night and Sarah goes. Be careful. There's an animal out there. So I immediately took my hand off the doorknob and I'm like, what?
00:22:48
Speaker
She's like, well, the dogs, you know, when I let them out earlier, they were on the right side of the yard and then he went running across. I was like, oh, they're just chasing each other. I was like, oh, wait, there's three of them. I was like, how big was it? What was it? I don't know. I said, was it a cat? Was it a rabbit? I don't know. But it went through the fence. I was like, what do you mean? She's like, well, under the fence. So, yeah. So I let the dogs out, shut the door, and then when it's time to let them back in, I open the door. Come on in.
00:23:13
Speaker
Three little ones coming through. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I was looking at a raccoon in your house. Yeah. Yeah. Oh God. You got to watch them because they got the people hands. They got the people hands. They got the thumbs. Yeah. Yeah. Don't trust anything that gets thumbs. No. No.
00:23:29
Speaker
We had a, how would, cause I've been getting up and running before work. They went running and there was, there was a Fox, like a full-on just Fox hanging out. And I'm like, Hey, let's see what it was a while. We get them all the time, like in the woods, but they're pretty sometimes. Yeah. Like the gray ones are really nice looking. They're all pretty. Yeah. I mean, the mangy ones aren't, but you know. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want the one with the mange. Yeah.
00:23:59
Speaker
Let's see if I saw a dolphin last time I went bike riding. That's right. Yeah. A lot of stuff. Nature with Ron. Actually, my own show just on. Here's the things I've seen today. Yeah. Though this week has been nothing because I've been sick. Yeah. Yeah. Glad you're finally feeling better. Yeah. Leeching. Maybe that'll work. Hmm. No. I don't think that's going to help. Okay. Yep.
00:24:27
Speaker
I've had some like crazy old memory. Oh, you know what? It probably fix you. Fix you. A paw paw.
Car Maintenance & Lawn Care
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Speaker
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00:24:54
Speaker
It was, like you said, like 78 degrees. And we try to make our weekly menu on Sunday. And of course, Friday night, the hottest night was supposed to be or was chilly. And my oldest is like, oh, this makes sense of chili on a hot night. I said, do you want to make something else? Oh, no, no, I want chili. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This time of year, I want it cold and crisps and have chili and stew and shepherd's pie and vegetable soups.
00:25:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Just a nice vegetable soup. A lot of cabbage. Yeah. I mean, your oldest is now at the age of she can cook her own meals. She does a lot. You're like a chili kid. Yeah. There's the kitchen. Get to it. Yeah. Oh, and buy your own stuff because you're old enough to get a job. She has a job. Does she? Yeah. She works at the dance studio one day a week.
00:25:53
Speaker
One day a week for a job at the hobby. Well, because right now she's had banned every night, it seems like so. Yeah. Every night, every weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Band is over for the most part. You've got Christmas parade and then spring concert. So. Yeah. So. Oh, did you see there's a Dragon Age movie or series coming out on Netflix? So that. Yeah. Looks pretty good.
00:26:22
Speaker
Could be. It's like we talked it up last episode. It's like we talked it up. Is it going to have Henry Cavill and then he's going to quit? No. Yeah. Well, there's also a prequel to The Witcher coming out in December. Oh, yeah. But that would be helpful to me because I don't know what the hell's going on with The Witcher. So yeah, I don't know either. But yeah. Yeah, I saw that whole Henry Cavill thing. It's I don't know.
00:26:49
Speaker
It's, I guess Warner Brothers threw a lot of money at him and said, come back to DC full time. So. Well, I heard a rumor he's going to Marvel. Really? I heard that rumor. I can't remember what I read it from him. Oh my gosh. Oh, he could be a great wonder man. For the century. I mean, they need a new Wolverine. No, he's too tall.
00:27:13
Speaker
This is pretty awful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe Sabertooth could be Sabertooth. I don't know. I am so far out, but I don't even know what Marvel movies are even slated anymore because Black Panther Wakanda Forever came out this weekend. Yeah, that was yesterday. Yeah. Ant-Man and the Wasp in Quantum Mania, I think is the next one.
00:27:39
Speaker
So it's really supposed to introduce Kang and the Quantum World and all that. Our full movie slate. Let's see what we got coming up. Well, that's not what I wanted. I mean, we've got Fantastic Four. Yeah. The Deadpool three, that should be good. Yeah, definitely. Yep. The Thunderbolts. Don't know what the Thunderbolts are.
00:28:09
Speaker
Uh, it's like, I don't know, kind of like the Suicide Squad. Hmm. So the Marvell's. So you got Ms. Marvel and Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel. Guardians three. Guardians three. Yeah, I forgot about that. That's the last one, right? Yeah. Captain America, New World Order. It's pretty large. I'm going to be Captain Marvel anymore because, you know, with all the hate,
00:28:39
Speaker
Which I don't understand. I think she's great. Yeah, she did wonderful in my opinion. Yeah. I think she's great. I love Brie Larson whenever I see an article about her. She's always got cool things to say. Why do people hate this woman? Yeah, I don't understand it. She seems like a delight. Yeah. Brie, we'll have you in the podcast any time you want. Yeah, absolutely. Have your people talk to our people. Yeah, we don't even have people. We'll get people just to talk to your people. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:10
Speaker
Well, you ready for topic one? Yeah, it's only a rant. That's fine. Rants are fun. It's not even really a good rant. It's just... No, there's... Why do I live somewhere where there's leaves that I have to deal with every fucking year? And my wife's just like, oh, just leave them. Just leave them. They look fine. I'm like, they don't look fine. They look like crap. Leave them.
00:29:38
Speaker
They get in the gutter. Yeah. They freaking block everything up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they also, they hide things so then you step in dog crap or something. Well, let me rant, side taint to rant to that. So the other day we're walking out of our house and this lady who we don't even know.
00:30:00
Speaker
I have a big neighborhood, but we have a pretty good idea who's, at least we really know the dogs in the neighborhood. Yeah, we're the same way. This dog comes wandering over into my yard. This lady's like, oh, don't mind him. I'm like, no, put your dog on a fucking leash and get him out of my yard. Yeah. My dogs are not friendly. So if my dog gets out, he's going to kill your dog. Right.
00:30:21
Speaker
Stop it. And also, I hate that when people don't leash their hounds. Right. It's not on me to be friendly to your dog. Right. So put your dog on a leash. Don't be a jackass. Yeah. She's like, oh, don't mind him. Well, if he shits in my yard, I'm going to mind him because I'm going to mind you.
00:30:41
Speaker
We have it in our neighborhood. I mean, there's two or three bag stations, but people still don't curb their dog. It's like, look, I get it. Dogs poop, but just pick it up. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Jerks. Yeah. I mean, I don't pick it up in my yard because it's my yard. Right. Yeah. My kids pick it up in our yard.
00:31:02
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Oh, I don't. I have the best grass in the world, because that shit gets fertilized. Yeah. Yeah. We pick it up, especially if we're going to have people over. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If we're going to have people over. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. So the leaves, so I might say yesterday, sweeping up leaves. I'm hacking up along, trying to cut the leaves, because I knew it was going to rain today, and I had to clean the gutters. So I'm just raking the leaves, raking the leaves, and then Shari's like, oh, I just, you know,
00:31:29
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put them in the garden beds because it'll break down and make mulch or something. I don't know. Sure. I fill up the two garden beds up front, fill them up, and I still have a giant pile of leaves in front of my yard. Simple fire.
00:31:46
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That's what I'm going to do. Nice. I'm going to just dump them in the fire pit and burn them all. Yeah. Because I don't know what else to do. I hate the idea of putting them in a plastic bag and taking that elastic bag to the land. Oh God, that is horrible. Yes. So I don't want to do that. Yeah. And I don't have like, we have a compost yard. Yeah. Um, for the county, but I think it's been shut down because the lander flies. Oh my gosh. So can you like mulch them with your lawnmower?
00:32:16
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I mean, I can like make them into little, little piles of leaves or still leaves. Yeah. You know, I don't know what to do with them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, do you have like a lot of pine shats also? Pine needles? No, we don't have any pine shats. That's good. So you got to watch those putting them in your garden because they change the acidity or something crazily. Yeah. Yeah. They're like good for roses, I think, or something. It's not weird like that.
00:32:42
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Yeah, we don't we don't have any. I don't understand that they're evergreens. Why do they shed so many needles? Yeah. Yeah. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah. Well, see, we're lucky. We know we've got what for trees now and they don't put out a lot of leaves. So I mean, they're still fairly small. So yeah, I can just mulch them with the lawnmower and it kind of does it. But our neighbors got the peach tree. The sweet man, while we were in I don't know where we were that day, he came over into our yard
00:33:12
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and picked up all his leaves from our yard. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. More neighbors be like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I told him, I was like, dude, you don't have to worry about that. He's like, no, no, no, I feel bad. You know, I got to pick up my leaves. OK. I
Postal Service Woes
00:33:26
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stop. I stop raking at the at the property. I'm like, no. Well, my neighbor has a giant tree. Do you rake it over into theirs? No, I don't do. That's good. Yeah. You just get the leaf blower and blow everything out because I know the people do that. I don't. Well,
00:33:43
Speaker
Blew it out to where? That's the thing, though. They just blew it off of their property. They're like, oh, it's not mine anymore. Yeah. So the city, if you live in... Because I live outside the city. Yeah. The city does leaf pickups. Okay. They bring the big vacuum truck up and pick up the piles. Yeah. Man, I wish I had that because I would just do that. I don't know what to do with these freaking leaves. I'm sure there's a company that'll come pick them up. I'm sure. Then I'm paying some asshole to come pick up leaves.
00:34:10
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I don't know how much that would cost. It is the task I hate the most in my life. There's not a moment in the system of picking up the leaves that I'm not like, I hate this. I've hated it since I was a kid. I just hate breaking leaves. I don't know why I just have a just psychological hatred of leaves. Well, it feels like it's a never ending chore. Yeah.
00:34:37
Speaker
I had to trim the trees the other day because the branches were too close to my neighbor's mailbox. Don't get me started about the male people complaining. It's not my job to make sure the lid closes. Actually it is. You opened it, make sure it closes.
00:35:01
Speaker
It's weird, because when I was a kid, the fucking guy walked around and he walked up to your front door. Why am I responsible? Because you don't have lazy asses when you get out of the goddamn truck. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Or there's a parcel. If it'll fit in the box, we'll make it fit. It's like, no, just walk the 20 feet to my doorstep, knock, and leave it there. That's the other thing. I love that they just drop and run.
00:35:24
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My lady, I will say she does not. She will leave. She will actually bring it up to the door. She will knock. And she's she's actually I'm giving her a bad rap. She's really nice. But her pitching about the trees was annoying. Yeah. Or if it rains and they leave it out in the rain. Oh, my tea. They left my box of tea. Now my my porch is covered. So if you just put it up where the chairs are. Yeah.
00:35:52
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It will be dry, but no, they left it out on the steps and it got soaked like our great. Yeah, that's nice. Pre pre teed tea. Yeah.
Fire Service Challenges
00:36:02
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Perfect. Yeah. Oh, it's ready to be steeped. It's already soaked in. Yeah. Yeah. Or the runoff from that. If there's caffeine in it, all the little animals around you get hyped up. Okay. Yeah. I'll do the caffeine tea in my house.
00:36:20
Speaker
Well, quick Google search says a leaf removal is on average $150 to $250 a yard. Holy nuts. Yeah. I mean, it's still worth it. Yeah. But the problem also is, is you're raking the leaves and then more falling down. Yeah. If you wait for them all to fall down, you've got to wade through leaves.
00:36:45
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Yeah, I've raked them all up. There's the last little hangers on. I'm waiting them and then I'm going to rake them up. Yeah. And then I have a pile of leaves to figure out what the heck I want to do with them. My front yard is such a hot mess because these trees are they're right in front of my yard. Yeah. And like so my front yard doesn't get any sun. So just I give up on having nice grass. Yeah, you've got a nice dirt. Yeah, it never gets long enough to have real leaves or real grass.
00:37:16
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Trim the trees. Oh my god. Trim them all the way down. I don't know. They're like giant. They're high. 40 feet high. Yeah, that's a little bit. Yeah. Somebody, when they built my neighborhood, I was actually thinking about those things. Yeah. They put some nice trees in at the, at the lot. Thank god I don't live on the other side of neighborhood because those have, they have like a hundred foot tall maple trees. That's a lot of leaves. Yeah.
00:37:45
Speaker
Oh, and with the maples, you get the little propeller guys. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have that. I don't know what, I guess I should know what kind of trees I have. I don't. My wife's always like, Oh, that's a Rosa Sharon. And that's a bum. I'm like, that's a tree. I've got an app on my phone that I can scan the leaves and he'll tell me what it is. Oh, it's pretty much my reason for you to scan. Yeah. It's called seek. Yeah. So it'll also work on animals.
00:38:15
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I mean, you scan the animal. Yeah. Well, so I had that app up when we were doing the confined space training down at wherever it was, Cato. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm just hanging out, making sure nobody passes out, all that kind of stuff. Well, I was just sitting there and I was looking at her like, you know, wonder what this bush is. I was like, well, funny you ask and I bring out my app and I'm looking at it as I can't remember what it was. But I left the app open. I just had it down by my side.
00:38:43
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And one of the guys was like, was it picking up what the grass is? And I looked down and it says black snake. Nope, it found a snake in the grass and these grown firemen jumped like eight feet in the air and scatter. I'm like, yes, because the black snake is going to eat you.
00:39:02
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Look, I have nothing but admiration for my fellow firemen, but they are some of the biggest pussies in the world. Oh yeah. Especially when it comes to snakes. I've never seen grown ass men. Oh, snake. It's not a cobra. It's a black snake. Yeah. Well, we also have one that's terrified of crickets. We do. We have one that's terrified of spiders. Well, that's a natural fear. Those things can kill you.
00:39:30
Speaker
Look, I've gotten much better with that. If I see them, I'm better now. It's when they startle me that I don't like it. But there was one in the hallway the other day, and I put a piece of paper, let it crawl on that, put a cup over it, took it outside. Oh, aren't you a... Yeah. ...finally an adult. Finally an adult. Now, if there's one in the house, I'm calling for my wife to come get it.
00:39:52
Speaker
But, you know, at least the spider, I will give you that there are two species of spiders that will hurt you in our area. Yeah. Yeah. There's a very rare chance that you'll come across a copperhead on the shore. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very rare. And they won't even think it'll hurt. They're going to die. Yeah. Who is it the one time that they had a person bit by the snake, so they brought the snake into the ER, but they didn't
00:40:20
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kill it, which I don't kill the snake if you don't have to. But the snake got free in the ER. Oh my God. Yeah. I would have loved to have been there that day. Loved. That sounds like a fun day to be at the hospital. God. Yeah. Can you help? Nope. Here for a transport. I don't know if this might be your topic, but did you see side tangent to side change? Did you see that ER that called 911 because they were understaffed? Yeah.
00:40:50
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The article was misleading. They didn't call 911. Yeah, they called it an emergency number. Yeah, they called it, and the fire chief was like, sure, we can send some folks over to help you out. Yes.
00:41:01
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Which part of me is like, hey, man, that's the right thing to do. But the other thing, evidently that hospital just consolidated two hospitals into one. So their staffing issue is, you know, that's on them because they should have had extra staffing if they consolidate two to one. But so I read that article and I think the opposite of you is this is a for profit hospital. Oh, I didn't realize it was a for profit. Mm hmm.
00:41:27
Speaker
Oh. That's now requiring the, I'm assuming it sounded like a city fire department. Yeah. To come in and staff their hospital. And I said, what's going to happen if, because they, it sounded like you read the article and I read the follow-up article that was interviewed with the charge nurse. And she was like, well, yeah, they, you know, they were like doing triage and helping out and making sure patients were accounted for. So what are you going to do if they think they have to call a call? Yeah. Yeah. I could tell you. The other thing, I mean,
00:41:56
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Once the patient crosses onto the hospital property, it's on them. It's not anybody else's responsibility. Technically, paramedics and EMTs aren't supposed to treat in the walls of the hospital because that's not our... It's not our hard license works.
00:42:13
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But like, I can tell you, if it was me, if my boss was like, Hey, the hospital's jammed up. First off, I would be bitching about a lot. Yeah. As soon as a fire call comes out. Yep. See you. Bye. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I could see if they want us to set up like, like you said, like a triage or something like that and just, Hey, we, you know.
00:42:35
Speaker
You'd have to get medical direction to approve it and everything so you could say, yes, we're going to have so-and-so watch this group and so-and-so watch this group, but that's all they're doing is observing. We're not doing any treatment. Yeah. We can't. I mean, it's just not how- We will help you transfer these people to another hospital. Right. I just read the article and I was flabbergasted because, yes, I understand that she didn't call 911, but what she did is just as bad. Oh, yeah.
00:43:05
Speaker
You know, to think because to me, that's the same as a bank calling and say, hey, we're busy today. Could you guys send the fire department over here to count money? Oh, my God. You know, they don't want to do that somewhere. People can barely count to 10. Chick-fil-A. Hey, can you guys deliver milkshakes? Like, you know, gosh, they're private companies. Yeah, exactly. We're a taxpayer based service. Yeah. Yeah. Taxpayers are paying us to take calls. Right. Yeah.
00:43:33
Speaker
And the problem is, you know, it's a fire department. So we do the right thing and try to help out and fix the problem as best we can, which is our biggest problem. Yeah. We need help. We're coming. Yep. That's the thing. Yep. And people understand that, you know, if there's a problem, you don't know who to call, call the fire department. They'll figure it out. Yeah. We, and sometimes we don't take the extra second to think about, should we? Yeah. We just do, you know,
00:44:00
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Yeah. I don't know what it has to do with leaves, but it just made me think about it. It does. We have leaves at the firehouse. Yes, we do have leaves at the firehouse. Now we have pinechats at station one. Oh my God, they're the worst. Who ever thought to put pine trees? Yeah. Get out of my car. Well, remember we used to have the bushes. They kept the pinechats out of the parking lot. Yeah, they're highly bushes and they kept the pinechats out of the parking lot. Now they're everywhere. Yeah.
00:44:30
Speaker
And you can't. I think pinechats are hard to rake. Yeah, they're terrible. We take them lower, which is bad for the environment. But what am I going to do? If it's electric, that's a little bit better. And the freaking pinechats get in the gutter up there. Oh, my gosh, yeah. But of course, the Salazar Fire Department, we have the cheapest gutter guard in the world, which just looks like a plastic sponge.
00:44:58
Speaker
And it's just the pine shots get in the thing and you got to like pull them out by hand. Yeah, because it looks like a porcupine up there. That's awful. Yeah. Yeah. We would never go with the lowest bid. Come on. Yeah. The supply cat that came out the other day is like, oh, it looks like we're going to have to get out on the roof and get those pine shots again. I said, do you understand that? I said, but do you understand that we just did that like two weeks ago and it looks like that again. Yeah. So we set up
00:45:29
Speaker
a flamethrower in the gutter. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. And that's and once it detects a certain amount of pinechats, it ignites, burns them all away. And then we're good. Like the rock style. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in for that. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a chance that we set the roof on fire?
00:45:48
Speaker
Sure. That's a metal roof. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The underlayment's metal too. Nobody likes that building anyways. The building that was built at the wrong spot at the wrong time with the wrong dimensions. Yeah. And then renovated the wrong way. Yeah, that one. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. The one with the electrical system that looks like it was put together by a four-year-old. Well, it was.
00:46:15
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Yeah, that's fair. It has electrocuted a firefighter.
Cartoon Nostalgia
00:46:22
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Yes. Well, is it considered electrocution if they live? I think it's still electrocution. It was still electrocuted. It's not death by electrocution. It's still electrocution. Yeah, I was there for that day. That was bad. And the city didn't fix the electrical system for like four months.
00:46:43
Speaker
Well, it's because they don't have their own electricians anymore. Uh, don't they? No, the city got rid of all their electricians. They outsource it now. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Cause that makes sense. You know, we've got a major municipality. Let's not have an electrician. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you have a leaf collecting machine. Can I steal the leaf collecting machine? There's like a job. Yeah. So Newark. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:47:11
Speaker
Oh yeah, just get one of the street sweepers and run through there. Yeah, nobody would know. Yeah. This is the time of year that those things usually start catching fire. Yeah, it's true. Working car exits. Yeah. Those are fun. Yeah.
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah. I was, I was thinking cause the state, the state is redoing my street. Okay. And they're about to just, uh, well right now they're screwing up all the gutters side tangent. This is 90% chance that they're going to cut my brand new driveway. Ooh. I am not going to be a happy camper in that situation, but I was thinking about just taking my leaves and just throwing out there right before they come through and you know, mill the street. Yeah.
00:47:56
Speaker
It's a possibility. Yeah. I don't know. I'm sure they're just going to put it in a dump truck anyways. Yeah. Yeah. Bastards. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid leaves. I hate leaves too. I hate them. I hate leaves and I hate weed whacking. It's the two things I hate in life. I don't mind cutting the grass, whatever. It is where it is. But weed whacking, I just hate. Yeah. It's a pain. It's just so labor and time intensive.
00:48:26
Speaker
Yeah. I got to rewind the string every five minutes. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It took me until this summer to learn how to wind the string correctly. And I had to say that. Well, I'm just lazy and I get the replacement spools, clip them in and go. Like every time. Well, I've got the auto
00:48:53
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feed kind of thing. It's like eight pack of spools for 10 bucks on Amazon. That seems very wasteful. It is, but yeah. I go through like maybe two spools a year. Oh my God. I feel like I go through yards of string a day.
00:49:17
Speaker
Every time I have to do the trim around, everything my wife puts in the backyard is basically just more trimmer work for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And my wife's like, well, that's less you have to mow, but it's more I have to trim around. Right. You don't understand this. Perhaps if you did the string trimming one time, you would feel my pain. Yeah. I don't, less to mow, but it takes me three seconds to mow. I don't care. Yeah. I've got a nice mower. Yeah.
00:49:45
Speaker
I mean, let's just push the button and it basically drives itself. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's my rant about leaves. I'm also tired of leafers. Tired of what? Leafers. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, for this topic, I've got a quiz for you. Oh, the Saturday morning cartoon quiz.
00:50:12
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Oh, God. Yeah. I have stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons in like 87. So this is from the 60s to the 90s. All right. Yeah. From the Smurfs to Scooby Doo. How well do you recall the golden age of animation? Oh, boy. OK. So which Saturday morning cartoon had a stone age setting and featured Fred and Wilma and their friends, Betty and Barney? I believe it was the Flintstones. That was the Flintstones. OK. All right.
00:50:40
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Which two characters were mortal enemies when they first appeared in Saturday morning cartoons, but were later drawn as friends? Falkhorn Leghorn and Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy. Falkhorn Leghorn. Incorrect. Tom and Jerry. But they're not friends. They're Tom and... What? By the 90s... Well, yeah, it's saying they were drawn more as friends in an effort to tone down the cartoon violence. What? I disagree with that as well. Yeah, that question's invalid. Yeah.
00:51:10
Speaker
Throw it out. Here's an easy one. Which Saturday morning cartoon character said, what's up, doc? It's technically a Saturday morning cartoon, but it's both funny. Yeah. Was there ever a Saturday morning? Yeah, Looney Tunes. Yeah. No. I think so. I don't think so. I don't know. Which cartoon character said it's wabbit season and I'm hunting wabbits. Be very, very quiet. My spirit animal, Elmer Fudd.
00:51:40
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Correct. Most of the Smurfs characters lived in a village composed of flowering trees, poisonous plants, mushroom-shaped houses. Yeah, the mushrooms. Smurfs. I could sing the Smurfs song right now. Yeah. Where did a famous picnic basket-stealing cartoon bear live? Jellystone National Park. That's right. Zaboo boo. Zaboo boo.
00:52:05
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Which animated show was among the first to be known as a Saturday morning cartoon? Clarence, Adventure Time, The Huckleberry Hound Show. Oh, I don't know what Clarence is. It's definitely not Adventure Time because that's like a new thing. Right. I'm going to go with Huckleberry Hound Show because I don't know what Clarence is.
00:52:28
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The Huckleberry Hound show aired from 1958 to 1962 and featured Huckleberry Hound, a smooth talking southern dog who was a jack of all trades. I think Clarence is a more recent thing also. Okay, good. I remember a lot. What was the Saturday morning cartoon that featured Scrooge McDuck, DuckTales, Bugs Bunny and Friends, Tom and Jerry? It was not a Saturday morning cartoon, but it was DuckTales. Correct. DuckTales was on at 2.30 in the afternoon.
00:52:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Um. This unlikely hero's signature rescue call became the anthem of Saturday morning cartoon watchers in the late 70s. Scooby Doo, Snoopy, Captain Caveman. Oh, Captain Caveman, Captain Caveman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The star of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels aired from 1977 to 1980.
00:53:28
Speaker
I had no idea it was Captain Gaveman and the Teen Angels. I don't remember that. Well, I remember there were kids in the show. Weirdly, I guess I just watched the reruns of that because I remember watching Captain Gaveman. Yeah. Well, he was also in like the wacky race and stuff, right? Yeah. But I remember watching. Oh, yeah. I remember Captain Gaveman. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:51
Speaker
Which space age animated series was produced for prime time and then rerun on Saturday mornings? The Flintstones, the Transformers, the Jetsons. It's going to be the Jetsons. Correct. The Jetsons they made series aired on Sunday evenings for one season from 62 to 63. Reruns were then placed on the Saturday morning cartoons in the late 80s. Hmm. Hmm.
00:54:18
Speaker
In the Smurfs, why did Gargamel want to capture the little blue creatures? You want to eat them. That's right. No, no. What? To make his dinner, to rule the land or to make a potion. Oh, did he make potions with them? Is that your final answer? I thought he wanted to eat them. I'm going to go with make his dinner.
00:54:43
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No, to make a potion. The villainous wizard Gargamel wanted to capture the Smurfs because they were a crucial ingredient in a potion that would turn objects to gold. I vaguely remember that. Yeah. Yeah, vaguely. Name the Saturday morning cartoon character who said, the snow I say, the snow so deep the farmers have to jack up the cows so they can milk them. But I like winter. Tom the Cat, Jerry the Mouse, Falkhorn Leghorn.
00:55:13
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I'm going to go with the fuck. Yeah, that's ridiculously easy because Tom, the cat and Jerry, the mouse did not speak. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What was the name of the cartoon fueled by pop music of the early 70s? Josie and the Pussycats, Frank and the Rockers, Master Blaster. Well, Master Blaster was not. That was a video game. That was a video game. So I'm going to go with Josie and the Pussycats. Yes. And the weird knockoff with the shark. What was that one called? Not Jabber Jaws.
00:55:42
Speaker
Was Jabba Jabba Jaws? Jabba Jaws was the name of the shark. Yeah. I don't know if that was the name of the shark. Yeah, that was definitely a, yeah. Uh, here's another one that started in prime time, but moved to Saturday mornings. The Care Bears, the Bugs Bunny show, SpongeBob SquarePants. I don't know. I don't know this one. I'm going to say the Care Bears. The Bugs Bunny show. Hmm.
00:56:09
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which aired on CBS from 1968 to 2000, moved from primetime to Saturday mornings after its first two seasons, became a Saturday morning cartoon staple, drawing viewers for nearly 40 years. All right. In 2008, the Fox Network replaced Saturday morning cartoons with what type of programming? National news, infomercials, cooking shows. I don't think it's news. No idea. It's only news.
00:56:39
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And infomercials. OK. Yeah, that was a bold choice. That's sad. Yeah. This pint size hero is known for his big ears and even bigger personality. Garfield, Pepper Ann, Mighty Mouse. Mighty Mouse? Yeah. Pepper Ann is.
00:56:57
Speaker
Yeah. Let's see. These are not a lot of 80s questions. No question. No questions about. Yeah. Transformers go bots. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. When who said when my get up and go has got up and went, I hank her for a hunk of cheese. Jerry, the mouse mighty mouse, a talking piece of cheese.
00:57:28
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This is like one of those, um, like I'm only a bill kind of things. Yeah. I'm going to go with the hunkering, the hank of cheese thing. Correct. It was announced as a public service announcement that aired during Saturday morning cartoons in the early seventies. Adults can still recite the lines. Sort of remember that for some reason. Yeah. I can hear it in my head. Yeah. Ah, let's see. Are you telling me that everything I watched as a kid was just a rerun of the seventies? Sounds like a lot of it. Man.
00:57:59
Speaker
Seems sad. In 1972, which animated adventure series featured ecologically minded Oceanauts? Oceanauts 2020, Sea Lab 2020, Bubble Guppies. Sea Lab 2020. Correct. It was only for one season in 1972. Yeah. But then they made Sea Lab 2021, which was an adult swim show, which is hilarious. Yeah.
00:58:30
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Which Saturday morning cartoon character is known for the phrase, Hey, Hey, Hey. Uh, fine. Albert. That's correct. That's a, you don't see that reruns. Yeah. This lazy cat started an animated series that debuted on Saturday mornings in the late eighties. Heathcliff Felix Garfield. Oh, those are all cats too. Yeah, they are. But Felix is not a lazy cat. Right.
00:59:00
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I mean, I remember the Garfield cartoon. Mm hmm. Was that from the early 80s? I also remember the Heathcliff. I'm going to go with Heathcliff. Garfield Heathcliff wasn't really lazy. He was like hanging out with all kinds of people and running around. And yeah, but like late 80s for Garfield show. All right. Yeah. From the late 80s to the mid 90s, the lasagna, the lazy lasagna, lasagna loving cat Garfield and his host of barnyard friends.
00:59:32
Speaker
Where does a band of mutant green superheroes live? The sewer, a treehouse, and an underwater lair. The sewer? That's right. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 87. Yeah. Wow. I mean, the origin stories, origin story of Daredevil. Yeah. Oh, wait. What? Yeah. The Daredevil came from Mutant Ninja Turtles? No, no, no. The Mutant Ninja Turtles come from Daredevil. The chemical that blinds.
01:00:00
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Daredevil. Oh, drips down. Drips down in the sewers and makes it. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Huh? Interesting. What was the name of the van in which Scooby Doo and the gang traveled? The Mystery Machine. That's right. The Maritime Machine. Oh, my gosh, people, you make it so easy sometimes. Which character's signature celebration move involves swimming the backstroke? Yogi Bear, Miss Piggy, Scrooge McDuck. Oh, Scrooge McDuck. Yes.
01:00:29
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Which if you tried to jump in coins like that, you would die. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Let's see. This Saturday morning cartoon series won an outstanding animated series Emmy for four consecutive years. Kid video, Garfield and Friends, The Muppet Babies. Oh. Kid video is. Yeah.
01:00:59
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I'm gonna go with the Muppet babies. Correct. I could sing that song in my head still. Yeah. Yeah. And they, they, oh, I always liked like their, uh, crossovers and like when they did Star Wars and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. So yeah, you got, uh, almost all right. Great job. Yeah. Not enough, uh, questions about, you know, eighties cartoons. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of it was seventies stuff. Do you remember?
01:01:29
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When we were kids, do you remember like the fall lineup they would do? Like you would watch a show when they would talk about the fall lineup of Saturday morning cartoons? Yes. Like one of them was the micro machine man. Actually, I think a couple of them. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he would explain what like you get super excited about the stupid shows. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I mean, there was a show for everything, it seemed like.
01:01:58
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I have a weird memory that Saved by the Bell was on a Saturday for some reason. Really? I don't know if I'm right about that. I feel like it was originally aired on Saturday, like afternoons or late mornings. Let's see, was it on Saturday? Saved by the Bell originally produced at prime time on a Sunday night.
01:02:23
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Sunday night saved by the bell was broadcasting the United States on Saturday mornings later as the flagship series in NBC's TNBC lineup. Yeah, there you go You know, you had to have all the shows done by college football time. Yeah. Yeah, that was kind of the rule. God. Yeah, I can remember God you had the
01:02:45
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the knockoff transformers to go bots. They were. So yeah, that's fair. Yeah. For poor go bots. I mean, I had go bots when I was a kid. So did I. I mean, obviously I mean, I would always have them fight the transformers and it was ugly. Yeah. GI Joe cartoon. Oh yeah. Key man cartoon, which I didn't super care for. You didn't like key man. Uh,
01:03:12
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You know, for no good reason other than my brother liked He-Man, so I was like, well, how about G.I. Joe, man, myself, sir? I'm not involved in He-Man. Yeah. Well, He-Man, they all were the same body shape, just a different head. Yeah. I mean, the G.I. Joe with the kung-fru grip, the D&D cartoon, oh my gosh. The D&D cartoon with the Dungeon Master. Yeah. It's good stuff.
01:03:41
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I just. Yeah. There's the height of the 80s cartoons where it was just like, this is us selling toys. Oh, yeah, that's all it was. Here's a 30 minute commercial. And in between, we're going to have commercials about the commercial. Yes. I can remember wanting that stupid aircraft carrier for the G.I. Joe's more than anything in the world. Yes, I remember a buddy of mine had it and I was so jealous. I know one of my rich kids friends had it. Yeah.
01:04:10
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Yeah. It was so stupid. Like he couldn't even play. It was so big. It was. Oh yeah.
GI Joe Toys & Memories
01:04:14
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Yeah. I know. I mean, I'm sure this is wrong, but I remember it being like five feet long. Oh yeah. It was something crazy like that. Yeah. Yeah. I had the, it was like a three part thing. It was like a tractor and then a middle trailer, another tractor behind it for GI Joe. And the middle part had these like legs that flipped down and this giant gun that expanded. Yeah.
01:04:39
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I had the, uh, the snow tractor, whatever the hell that was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's GI Joe waste. My poor parents, I, you know, they tried and like, they would buy me the same GI Joe two years in a row. It's just, uh, you know, it couldn't keep track. But of course in my head, I'm like, don't even love me. Cause it's giving me the same GI Joe every year. Holy crap, Ron.
01:05:08
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The USS flag, the aircraft carrier, you can get it on eBay right now. Originally, it was one hundred or ninety dollars. Right now, you can get it for two thousand dollars on eBay. Oh, Jesus. The massive seven and a half foot carrier features electronic sound system, towing vehicle trailer and admiral's launch includes one action figure, Kiel Hall, that. Yeah, I remember it being seven and a half years.
01:05:35
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My, my buddy, I remember him, it was in his basement and it was huge. It was like, you couldn't even do anything with it. It was so big. Oh gosh. Yeah. Do you remember mask? I hated mask.
01:05:53
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Aiden mask was not my favorite. The cars that turned into tanks and stuff. Yeah. And they had the weird. The toys for mass, they all had the little disk shooters in them. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, I don't have this shooter. I mean, how are you going to put your brother's eye out? Exactly. Yeah. God, I remember one year. G.I. Joe's big thing that year was it was like guys on zip lines. Hmm.
01:06:22
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And it came with like you could suction cup it to the wall and then clamp it somewhere else. And they had a little like clipper thing that they could clip onto it and zip down. But also that clipper thing could unwind and it was like a bungee so they could like throw it like a grappling hook. And I can remember we would fire those things all across the house. We had them tethered from the Christmas tree to the wall and then the cats would jump at them and the trees would come down and everyone had a great time. That sounds fun. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember I had the
01:06:53
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the GI Joe helicopter that had the grapple that come down so you could rescue GI Joes and stuff. That was one of the best toys ever had was that helicopter. Broke that thing pretty quick. My brother had the GI Joe space fighter. I think that was huge too. It was huge.
01:07:17
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We had the rolling thunder. That thing was the real, real big tank. That thing was probably four foot big as well. Ah, the good old golden, golden, golden age of toys. Yeah. I think there was a GI Joe space shuttle. Oh, I'm sure there was. Yeah. I know there was the oil Derek with shipwreck. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm looking for a size for your rolling thunder over three feet long. Yeah. I would say it was big.
01:07:47
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Yeah. Yeah. And I know the, um, the judge of space weather was huge. It was like the cold space vehicles. Yeah.
Transformers Toys Evolution
01:08:06
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This is the fun part for the listeners at home. Yeah. Sky striker. Is that what it was? That sounds right.
01:08:17
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Maybe I don't think that's right. Here we are in the Jopedia. The Defiant. Maybe the Defiant looks like a like a three part shuttle kind of thing. Yeah, the Sky Striker looks like a like an F-16 or something. Yeah. The Mobat. Oh, the Sky Raven. It was like the Blackbird, but it was so. Yes. Yes, that's exactly it. Yes.
01:08:45
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That's it. He had that thing. It was huge. Yeah, that's it. Now I want to crawl underneath my house and get my GHOs out. $900. Oh, yeah. Well, there you go, listeners. If you're looking for a Christmas gift for Ron, either the aircraft carrier or the Sky Striker. My wife did give me a GIDO a few years ago for Christmas because
01:09:13
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When I was a kid, I lost a G.I. Joe in a hotel and it struck me for life. And she found the one I lost. Yeah. That's one of the best things I've ever bought for me. Yeah. Yeah. I remember growing up, there was one transformer that my grandfather wouldn't buy for me and it was Megatron because it turned into a gun and he didn't want to be violent. Hmm. Yeah. Which I never understood that from like the cartoon.
01:09:40
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Megatron turns into a gun, but he like shrinks when he does. So Shockwave could shoot him and then he would expand back. Shockwave was also the dumbest. He threw cassettes at you. Yeah, it was weird. Those cassettes jumped out and it was a terrifying robot wolf or a vulture. He was the best toy to get because he had all the little cassettes to go in him. Yeah, I will give you that. Yes. Because it turned into a little dog and a vulture. Yeah, there was another one there.
01:10:10
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It was three of them. Yeah. It was like a cat or something. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. That weird synth talk to him. Yeah. He was another one. Yeah. Oh, what the enemy's coming. I will play music.
01:10:30
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Yeah. I mean, all the transformers were, I mean, the Autobots were all sims. They were all, I'm going to turn into an ambulance. That guy's a giant gun. That guy's a F-16. What is wrong with you people? Yeah. I'm an overhaul trucker. Yeah, but then when I turned into a robot, I'm going to have a giant axe and a pistol the size of Kansas. Yes, that's great. Gosh. Or yeah, Bumblebee. I'm going to turn into a Volkswagen. Yeah.
01:11:00
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You know, yeah, Starscream and all those turned into jets. There's a whole Starscream and a bunch of other ones turned into jets. You had the Megatron turned into a gun. Yeah. I mean, the Dynabots were pretty cool. They turned into dinosaurs. Yeah. They were cool. But they were later. But then you had like the Predacons. They all turned into deadly bugs. Yeah. Yeah.
01:11:24
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Yeah, do you ever have the my buddy had? I never had it. The constructor was at the start. Yes. Turned into a big one. Yes, that was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And then I have enough transformers. I only had a few transformers. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have a ton either. I remember somehow I ended up with Optimus Prime without the trailer. Oh, that's right. Yeah. But I mean, who cared about the trailer, really?
01:11:52
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I mean, the trailer opened up and it had a little vehicle inside it. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen the new Optimus prime? Now you like hit a button and it says Autobots roll out and it like transforms itself and stands up. I mean, that doesn't sound fun. I mean, half the fun was, yeah, I can remember that with transformers. There was like instruction booklets on how to transform them. And now you look at these transformers and it's like, Oh look, one click and it's a robot. It's like, that's not fun. That's not a point.
Nostalgia vs. Modern Toys
01:12:19
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It was a lot of fun of the event. Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:22
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No, no. Yeah. Where you're like starting to bend something. You're like, this won't go snap. Uh, yeah, the golden age. Good old nostalgia. It's not even the golden age. It's just the age of what you were in. Cause I'm sure the kids enjoy the toys now that they have. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think, to me, it seems like kids don't really have toys. They're just electronics. Yeah. Well, you know, that's, it seems very true. We, um,
01:12:53
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We bought for the, for Halloween, we bought the goddaughters, um, like books, like, yeah. Cause you know, I'm a big believer in books and we went over to spend time with them and all they did was sit on their tablets the entire time. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean the little one, three years old, she's on a tablet. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just walks over a tablet and she could probably hack something with that time by the time she's five. Yeah. She probably stole my ID information off my phone. Like, Oh, I'm sure she did. Yeah, she did. Yeah. She's just waiting for the right time.
01:13:23
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Yeah. She's very handful. Yeah.
Podcast Farewell & Humor
01:13:29
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Well, uh, it was a good podcast. Yeah. Enjoy. Uh, this will be out next week. Yeah. This will be on the 14th. Happy November 14th, right before the Ides of November. It's the ID's Eve. No, no. How many days in November? 30 days, half September, April, June, and November. Yeah. 30. Okay. And yes, there's the idea. It's sad that I have to do that little rhyme every time.
01:13:53
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Yeah. Yeah. But happy Id's Eve. Happy Id's Eve of November. Go rake your leaves. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. Yeah. Be careful out there. Don't, don't set your house on fire with the turkey. No, no, please don't. Yeah. Be safe and take care of yourselves. Yep. All right, folks.