Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
lethargeus: And I'm the guy who hates burpees, Ron.
Chris: What was the sadistic person who invented burpees thinking?
lethargeus: name His name was Master Chief Burpee in the US Navy.
Chris: It probably was.
lethargeus: No, it really was.
Chris: Oh, really?
lethargeus: That's not even a joke. His name was Master Chief. I mean, I don't know what his name was, but his his name was literally Burpee.
Chris: was Chief.
lethargeus: And he invented Burpee.
Chris: Master. Well, that was his first, his first name was master, master chief burpee.
lethargeus: Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Right. Yeah.
Chris: Like chaplain chaplain.
lethargeus: And... there
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
lethargeus: But yeah, this guy's name is actually Burpee.
Chris: Hmm.
lethargeus: and is I don't mind burpees.
Chris: Okay.
lethargeus: i just don't understand why we have to invent new and worse burpees.
Chris: Hmm.
lethargeus: Because, you know...
Chris: Wait, what could be worse than a regular burpee?
lethargeus: Oh, so I decided... I might be getting ready for a savage race. So I'm stepping up my HIIT training and I'm trying to work on some, you know, problem areas such as my big ass gut.
Chris: okay yeah
lethargeus: And so I was like, oh I'll do these Beachbody things.
Chris: hmm
lethargeus: um Day one. was basically, oops, all burpees. And they were like, okay, you're going to do a burpee, and then you're going to do a jump into the air and spin around and land back down and do a burpee and jump in the air and spin around.
lethargeus: so what why didn'
Chris: But you got to opposite way each time, right?
lethargeus: why do we have to make burpee more complicated?
Chris: Was it Uncle call Tony?
lethargeus: It was not Uncle Tony. It was somebody else.
Chris: Oh, OK. ah Surprised.
lethargeus: and that Well, Uncle Tony has like, i don't want to do weights because I lift weights at the gym every day.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: And I was like, I'll just do something that's body weight only.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: And it was just like, man. but so And I told my wife because she's into Beachbody now. And I was like, some of the things that annoy me about that thing is that just, it's like, I'm not coordinated to enough to keep up with what you're doing.
lethargeus: It's not that I can't do this workout.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I just, my brain doesn't work fast enough.
Chris: Yeah. There was one that I had to do and it was like, you, you did like a double with donkey kick up in the air behind you. But then when you came down, you planted like your left leg and your right hand and your right leg went between it or something.
Chris: And like you swung and then back and then swung the other way. Yeah.
lethargeus: They had one that was literally forward lunge, reverse lunge, switch leg lunge, first leg. And I was like, no, let's just do one or the other.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: a brain, because I literally am just like, oh wait wait, I did the wrong, but oh God. And then I'm all screwed up.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: but i want
Chris: And then you end up doing 80 lunges on one leg.
lethargeus: Right. And then they had one that was wide grip pushups into close grip pushups into even closer grip, like diamond pushups. And I'm like,
Chris: Oof.
lethargeus: That's cool. but Let's just do wide grips and then we'll do close-ups and then we'll It's the same number of push-ups.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Right? I'll do this.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I'll do with all of of those push-ups. Just one at a time.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Oh God. look
Chris: It's that muscle confusion.
lethargeus: Yeah, i don't I don't need that crap in my life.
Chris: But it's got the brain confusion.
lethargeus: My brain is too confused. Yeah. So it's been brutal.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I'm on day two. but Today will be day three of this.
Chris: Okay.
lethargeus: I'm doing two days, like three days a week.
Chris: Okay.
Chris: Yeah. I'm finally cut loose to actually work out again. So I got to figure out what I'm going to do.
lethargeus: nice burpees
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. yeah No, I think I might still have an accident if I do a burpee. So.
lethargeus: lot of squats heavy heavy heavy weight squats
Chris: yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah
lethargeus: I've got one of the old guys at the gym doing my workout that or parts of my workout now.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: because It's funny, he can't go talk to me. like it because that That old guy, I'm at the gym, I'm here to talk thing.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: and he does what He does work out, but he like then we'll talk. I was like, I got two minutes.
Chris: Does he wait till like the locker room when you're sitting there getting changed and he's naked one leg up on the bench?
lethargeus: No, no, we talked. No, no, don know no, no.
Chris: So done that before.
lethargeus: Negative, negative. but he was like, I see you do leg workouts all the time. like, yeah, once a week do legs. He's like, yeah, I've never, I've never done that before. Like probably should try.
lethargeus: he's like, I'm, I'm 70 years old. And I'm like, yeah, it's not too late start. So the other day he was he saw me, I'm pushing the the tank and it had 360 pounds on it.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: so I'm pushing it pulling it for minutes.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: And he's like, I don't think I could do that. I'm like, yeah, you don't start here. Start, you know, zero weight.
Chris: Start at three 55.
lethargeus: yes So the day he was in there pushing the thing, like, this is hard. I'm like, yeah, it's supposed to be. He's like, I don't sweat like this before. a no You know?
Chris: See, you've made a difference.
lethargeus: I'm trying to help the world.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: And then an old Italian man came up to me and cursed me. He put the evil eye on me.
Chris: Really?
lethargeus: yeah I was doing my balance exercises and he so he comes up to me he's like, oh, I don't do that.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: It's bad for my knee. It's bad for your knee. Don't do that. I'm like, I do this every day. I've never had no problem. And then I go and I switch legs and my knee hurt. I'm like, that whole old Italian man cursed me.
Chris: who he did he did ah the old italian jinx
lethargeus: He put hex on me.
lethargeus: Yeah. My knee cracked so loud the other day doing the beach body thing. My wife could hear it upstairs. She's like, I heard you heard you cry out.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
lethargeus: I was like, that was my knee.
Chris: I heard you cry out. Yeah. ah
lethargeus: It felt like it's just like that pressure of like a bubble, a bubble, a bubble, a bubble. And then it just went. And I was like, it feels better now. It's great.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Just all I can envision is like the Tanya Harding, like your wife comes right up crack.
lethargeus: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. She would do that most days. Except that I didn't make her take care of me, so she didn't want to do that part.
Chris: and She'll take care of you.
lethargeus: She'd be like, hey, can't you do light duty at work and just go to work for a month?
Chris: it Just stay there. Yeah.
lethargeus: Stay there.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Oh, well, I've been in any good games lately.
Chris: Yeah. I started playing cyberpunk.
lethargeus: You did say that. You probably saw her dong.
Chris: Yeah. It's pretty fun.
lethargeus: Did your wife see her dong yet?
Chris: Yes. Yes. Yes. She's like, oh my gosh. i was like, yeah. Yeah. It's hard to find one smaller than real life.
lethargeus: It's for roleplay options, dear.
Chris: Yeah. what The problem with that game is I've, so I guess I got through act one, but there's all these little side gigs and side hustles. I just been, i haven't done any of the story stuff.
Chris: Yeah. I've just been doing the other, and I've got like, cause I saw online, like people are like, oh yeah, you know, you gotta save up money. I've got like, 400,000 credits and eight cars.
lethargeus: You're like, oh, I guess I'll go do the main mission now and just use through it.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. i And like all my weapons are orange level and yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: It does sound like a thing I might want to do one day.
Chris: You never played it?
lethargeus: I never played it. Well, it came out and then were such bad reviews about its bugginess and I just didn't get into it because of that.
Chris: yeah i can see that yeah because i uh buddy mine i was talking to he was like man you're so lucky you're playing this after all the bugs have been worked out and it's like a polished thing i was like sure yeah
lethargeus: Yeah, there's been a couple games that have come by that they've been released, and then it's like, oh it's too buggy. So I was like, I'll just hold off.
Chris: yeah well yeah because there's just there's so many games
lethargeus: And then I just don't end ever playing it.
lethargeus: it Yeah, its by by the time it's like, oh, we find out all the bugs two years later. It's like, well, I've already moved on to, you know, the next 13 Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Did you see a the big Star Wars game announcement?
lethargeus: I saw there's a Star Wars game announced. I'm not watching it.
Chris: FOTOR? Yeah.
lethargeus: You know, as is my way.
Chris: Yeah, Fate of the Old Republic.
lethargeus: What claim.
Chris: They, uh... They swear it'll be out before 2030. Well, I mean...
lethargeus: what what a claim
Chris: yeah well i mean It was just a CG trailer.
lethargeus: sure
Chris: And it was really just like a teaser trailer at that. I think it was like 20 seconds, but yeah.
lethargeus: you think that's like a ah knock at Rockstar?
Chris: Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Well, that's why they've had to push Grand Theft Auto 6 back is because it's been, it's taken so long that they've got to make the character models older. Ah.
lethargeus: ah
lethargeus: Yeah. That's another series that I never get into.
Chris: I played Vice City just because of the 80s nostalgia.
lethargeus: Sure.
Chris: That was it. That was the only reason.
lethargeus: I played 3 for a little while. My buddy, my roommate, had it in college.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: That's how long. I must have been 3. And I was like, this is cool.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I like listening to the radio. And then I was like, wait a second.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I have a radio in my car.
Chris: Right? Yeah, that was the thing. Yeah. Playing Vice City is just, yeah.
lethargeus: like I can i could just get all these things on my MP3 player, on my Zune, and go...
Chris: Yeah. i Hey.
lethargeus: You're running around town. don't know.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I'll run people over, though, you know.
Chris: Yeah. It's like, there was one day we were in the car and it was a ran so far by flock of seagulls. I look at my wife. i was like, yeah, I said, yeah, it's funny. I can, you know, see what I was doing playing Grand Theft Auto in my mind.
Chris: She's like, what were you doing? i was like, just riding around. Yeah.
lethargeus: That's almost all I did in that game was just ride around.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Which, you know, it's a driving that's because nobody ever follows the traffic laws.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: They're terrible drivers.
Chris: i i am not a good driver in cyberpunk so i weave in and out and yeah and some of the cars they just i guess a couple of cars i have a rear rear wheel drive so they're very slippery around turns so yeah but it is it is it is right
lethargeus: There's a problem.
lethargeus: forgot to turn off my Discord, and now Discord's just making noise.
Chris: oh that's always fun is it people messaging you or is it oh
lethargeus: Yeah.
lethargeus: It's my neighbor's Discord server, and he invited me in one day, now I'm just like, I can't just leave.
Chris: that's that's that's fun but okay gotcha hello
lethargeus: It's only because they play Diablo and because of the new Diablo expansion just came out, so they've just been constantly barraging me. It's not as bad as the group messages I get involved in and text messages where I'm just like, can you guys please stop talking for an hour?
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yes.
Chris: or the Or there's the group message for like work or something like that. But then two people in it just start having their own conversation. And it's like, this is why you two could just split off and have your regular own text message.
Chris: You don't have to include it in the group. I don't care where you're going to dinner tomorrow night.
lethargeus: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty good at got my back of my discord of just going through and like mute server until I want to look at it.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Like, If there's an information I want, I'll go good get it.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: But it feels so like... It feels harsh to leave a server because it's like when you go to leave servers, like you can never come back to the server. It's like, oh, it was Christ.
Chris: I know. like you're gone forever.
lethargeus: You're dead to me. I'm sorry.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I'm sorry.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: take it back.
Chris: yeah ill I'll just stay. It's fine. Yeah. yeah
lethargeus: I've been in this French speaking server for like three years now. I'm not even looking at it, but I just am so afraid.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: It's terrible.
Chris: I also have been playing destiny, obviously, because of the new expansion that is super, super star Wars.
lethargeus: Sure.
lethargeus: And this is the last expansion.
Chris: No.
lethargeus: even though They said they what they were killing the game.
Chris: there, no. It's that every other kind of thing. Destiny's dead. Destiny's alive. Destiny's dead. Cause yeah, I don't, marathon is not going to be the destiny three we all want. So.
lethargeus: Sure, Marathon happened 30 years ago. That was their first game.
Chris: Well, yeah, but I'm saying the new marathon.
lethargeus: I don't understand Bungie's business.
Chris: Nope.
lethargeus: It seems real something to me.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I don't know how they make money.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I know how they make money because I almost spent $20. So my Hunter or my Titan could look like the Mandalorian.
lethargeus: That is a tempting $20 spend, though.
Chris: It was. it was. My wife was like, you haven't spent it yet? i was like, no, I haven't. She's like, are you? just Don't tempt me, woman.
lethargeus: How long did you go through your wife and go, can I just do this?
Chris: like, ah, it's not worth it. She's like, that looks like something you would do. I'm like, oh, it does. It does.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. But I have a lightsaber and an X-Wing, so.
lethargeus: I mean, that's I saw your X-Wing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: It was indeed an X-Wing.
Chris: that's it you There was somebody online. you I can't believe they're copying this much. And somebody's right back there. This is a full partnership with Lucas. This is why this is Star Wars and Destiny. This is what we all wanted.
lethargeus: I mean...
Chris: Shut your ass.
lethargeus: i mean
lethargeus: I feel like that was kind of the whole point of Destiny because you had a shield-throwing guy and then you had an hammer-throwing guy.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Everybody wanted a lightsaber guy.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: yeah You had a Force user.
Chris: And the fact that the yeah the villain in this arc is a better Sith than Kylo Ren was.
lethargeus: No,
lethargeus: that's not difficult.
Chris: but I know it's not setting the bar high, but...
lethargeus: I'm a better Sith than Kylo Ren was.
Chris: But do you walk around with your shirt off and your pants pulled up past your belly button? so you just look like some weird torso man?
lethargeus: Pretty much all the time.
Chris: Okay.
lethargeus: but what i What I do is I wear an actual extra cummerbund.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. It's got fluting around my abdomen.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: I mean, to be fair, if I was as jacked as Adam Driver was, I probably would never wear a shirt.
lethargeus: You know.
Chris: yeah well
lethargeus: I would be at work and people like, you gotta to put shirt on that. I'm like, do I?
Chris: do i
Chris: ah
lethargeus: I'm just here giving the people what they want. And they want the gun show.
Chris: Although, I mean, this time of year, it is a little chilly out.
lethargeus: It's 65 degrees outside. What are we you talking about?
Chris: Well, today it is, but ah yeah five days ago, it was negative three.
lethargeus: Yeah, I got home from work today and my wife still had the heat on and it was like 74 degrees in my bedroom. I'm like, oh, God.
Chris: What was she doing?
lethargeus: Oh, well, you know.
Chris: Was she making a sauna?
lethargeus: Yes, my whole house is basically the jungle for Predator now.
Chris: uh the dogs are like shedding constantly like we don't know what to do
lethargeus: Yes, ah they lay as as low down to the floor as possible. And they basically always are begging for ice.
Chris: they go out to go potty and their body's like oh it's cold we got to grow hair and then they come inside they're lose the hair lose the hair lose the hair
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're suffering just as much as me.
lethargeus: Look, I'll give her, it was like 20 degrees a couple of days.
lethargeus: Yeah, my harrowing drive to work the other day in the snow.
lethargeus: Well, I didn't realize.
Chris: It was probably fine until you hit the Maryland line.
lethargeus: ah No, well, I didn't realize that when I got on Route 1, the snow had shifted over my headlights.
Chris: The Sussex line.
Chris: Oh, that's fun. Yeah.
lethargeus: So I basically was making no light as I'm driving through the snow.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: It was really rough. And all a sudden the snow fell and i was like, oh, shit, I can see. I'm in Greenwood, apparently.
Chris: yeah Well, I mean, that's the problem with the LED lights, because they don't melt the snow.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, yeah. And I almost killed one of the people in my neighborhood because at four in the morning, as I left to go to work and the snow was, you know, it was enough that my car was slipping a little bit on the in the neighborhood.
Chris: What?
lethargeus: And I come around the corner to go out towards the entrance of my neighborhood. An old man shoveling his driveway at four in the morning stepped into the road in front of me.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
lethargeus: And I'm locking up my brakes going, holy. First off, I'm having a heart attack because there's an old man in the middle the road at four in the morning. And second off, I'm like in the snow. Like, what is going on?
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: and Shake his fist at you.
lethargeus: don't even know he noticed. really don't know if he did.
Chris: God. Yeah.
lethargeus: was...
Chris: Why is he out at four o'clock in the morning?
lethargeus: i
Chris: What?
lethargeus: I don't know.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: So I called my wife and i said, get your ass out there and show the snow.
Chris: God.
lethargeus: Because, you know, we we can't be slacking behind the old man.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. God. That was one thing I don't miss about being on shift. We're going to get up at 530 and shovel. Why?
lethargeus: That's only one shift that made that statement.
Chris: Why? Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, i my shift was like,
Chris: We got to shovel. We got to shovel all the sidewalks around the firehouse. Oh, so we have to shovel the block. That makes sense.
lethargeus: Yeah, it's a three-mile hike around our favorite firehouse.
Chris: Yep. Yep. Okay.
lethargeus: Cool.
Chris: Yep.
lethargeus: ah For a a road that I've never seen anyone walk on the sidewalk on.
Chris: Awesome. All right.
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, my shift was like, what are we going to do? I said, we're going to go out. We're going to a bag of ice. We're going spread ice, or the ice melt, and then we're going to move on.
Chris: yeah well i mean the good thing is three days before the state county had brine the roads and then yeah yeah yeah i don't get it
lethargeus: that's It's all we need to do with our day.
lethargeus: I feel like you just need to go out to Western Maryland and ask the guy who runs Western Maryland's roads for MDOT and say, can you just be in charge of the state?
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: you know I feel like that guy knows what he's doing.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Or a gal. It could be woman.
Chris: Or, yeah.
lethargeus: I don't know.
Chris: Or that, you know, oh, hey, you're on work for Rhodes. Hey, it's almost wintertime. This year, we're going to detail you up to Connecticut. Yeah.
lethargeus: i it's funny to me because like del dot and i say this every year when it snows like ah they are like sitting on the highway in a plow truck waiting for the first drop of snow and they are out there plowing before snow even touches the ground you just see sparks flying it's like we could
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the fire chief said Monday, right? Yeah, Monday when he was on his way to work, the Cambridge Bridge, he was like, not a bit of snow, but there was a snow plow digging up asphalt.
lethargeus: sky then they yeah That way they have something to do of the spring where they can fix the roads.
Chris: Oh my gosh, yeah, it's, yeah.
lethargeus: Well, on to topic one.
Chris: I don't know.
lethargeus: know
Chris: Sure, topic one.
lethargeus: would be traditional to go with some sort of holiday or end of year theme, but I'm not going to do that.
Chris: Oh, curveball.
lethargeus: Yeah, I'm card-balling it.
Chris: Okay.
lethargeus: I'm going to talk about the probably the hot button topic and how I basically changed my entire viewpoint of it today.
Chris: Wow.
lethargeus: I obviously were living in 2025, the year of the AI, I would say.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
lethargeus: And I was listening to some people and they were like, you know, this is going to kill artists and actors and blah, blah, and directors and writers and screenwriters, buh blah, blah, blah. This AI is terrible for all this. And i I sat there and I was thinking about it and something clicked in my head. I'm like, this is just the next evolution of YouTube.
lethargeus: Remember when YouTube became big and... oh this is the death of tv and you know it's it's not the death of tv or it's not the death of entertainment it's the death of the big business of this crap this allows people i because i'm one of the absolutely was like if i wanted to make a halo themed ai movie i could just do that now
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Right.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: you know Sure, i could get sued for it, right?
Chris: yeah we're gonna find you
lethargeus: But yeah I could, think I find me, but I could just make the fanfic that I've always wanted to have of of Halo.
Chris: ah
lethargeus: Or, you know, this is just that next iteration of that world. And it really changed my viewpoint on this whole AI thing. Because, you know, I had this whole conversation with someone who, her and I do not agree with what AI is going to do to society.
Chris: yeah yeah
lethargeus: and know you I do think it's going to change how people get paid jobs because they just won't some of these jobs won't exist anymore.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: But the guys who shovel coal for trains, they don't have jobs anymore either.
Chris: Right, yeah, that's what i was going to say. I mean, every time there's been an iteration of the workforce, it's eliminated some jobs because, yeah, that's just, like you said, yeah we don't have people shoveling coal anymore. you know we don't have... um mean, look at self-check.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: I mean...
lethargeus: Self-check. When you go to a grocery store now and self-check's not there, i could i get annoyed.
Chris: I just walk out.
lethargeus: Right? It's like, god I'm not doing this.
Chris: I throw my groceries at the kitchen. I'm like, no, don't need these and walk away.
lethargeus: But like you know they act like tomorrow Tom Cruise isn't going to get his 38th million dollar movie.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: Which... which
Chris: And you know what? Maybe that's a good thing. Because maybe that'll bring some of the pricing down on certain things.
lethargeus: Yeah, and and maybe that will make entertainment affordable again.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: You know? oh And maybe it makes space for good movies again.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: Because I feel like right now, my biggest complaint about movies is good movies don't get made because just like the game industry, no one's willing to take a risk.
Chris: yeah
Chris: oh yeah yeah mean so many developers say that you are so much uh better off doing a sequel or something like that than you are starting a new ip yeah which yeah it's yeah
lethargeus: Right? Like, no...
lethargeus: and and every movie you see is just a sequel to something else you know and it's like the knives out movie that's coming out which i like the first knives out
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Is it... It's out tonight, I think, ah isn't it?
lethargeus: maybe i don't know i don't pay attention to these things ah but you know it's
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
lethargeus: It's the third iteration Knives Out, which is fine, but like can we make other movies out there?
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Do I need to see Mission Impossible 13? I think they're all the same. you know Maybe...
Chris: Well, you know, at one point, Tom Cruise is going to have that psycho run that he always does. Oh, no.
lethargeus: did you think?
Chris: Knives Out 3 has been out for a week. Came out last, ah the 12th. Yeah.
lethargeus: But I would think that Tom Cruise wants to be in other projects. I would think. I don't know. I don't know the man personally. He doesn't call me much anymore.
Chris: Well, I mean, yeah, we need to do Days of Thunder Part 2. Uh. Hmm.
lethargeus: I just, I think it's, I think this is just the popularization of the YouTube generation that's just going to next version is now AI. And I'm kind of down for it.
Chris: yeah yeah I yeah I've kind of been of the oh yeah you know it's gonna take work from artists and stuff but on the other hand like the other day I was scrolling through social media and I saw this video and i was like oh my god this looks so cool and it was like ah they had redone the Transformers movie one shall stand one shall fall montage but like with more realistic looking optimists and everything i was like this is amazing and i looked i was like but it's ai i was like but it's still really cool looking yeah yeah
lethargeus: Yeah, it could just be cool. yeah i I think that's kind of my viewpoint now is it can just be something cool. and'm really I'm more interested to see what a talented person can do with it.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: no i'm not I'm less interested in what the 1970s screenwriters that are still holding you know the bags on this do versus having some amazing AI artist. Why can't and why can't that person be an AI artist?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: i I'm interested to see maybe new books are written by AI.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
lethargeus: Seems like something could happen.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: No.
Chris: Which side tangent to that. I finally watched Blade Runner the other day.
lethargeus: Which one?
Chris: The original.
lethargeus: Oh, okay.
Chris: I had never watched it before.
lethargeus: Sure. That's...
Chris: That movie is weird.
lethargeus: That movie's amazing.
Chris: But it's weird.
lethargeus: It's one of my top four films of sci-fi films, at least. It's so good. Yeah, it's weird. It was definitely in that that worldview that Asia was going to take over, you know, and we were going to be living in this.
Chris: so yeah hey
lethargeus: But they're not really that far off of what Tokyo kind of looks like today.
Chris: yeah maybe
lethargeus: You know, if you look at Blade Runner from maybe, and look at Tokyo today, they look pretty close.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I mean, there's not as many androids running around, but,
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Not as many.
lethargeus: you know, 82, yeah.
Chris: 82. Yeah.
lethargeus: But that's that that Japanese samurai, you know, tech future world thing.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: it it kind It kind of looks like that over there.
Chris: Yeah. Wait, it was because I've been playing cyberpunk. i was like, oh, finally watch Blade Runner.
lethargeus: fair, I can see the connection.
Chris: Oh. Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: It's such a good movie that gets ruined by the nerds who love Blade Runner.
Chris: Why? How do they ruin it?
lethargeus: Oh, they're always looking for hidden meaning and all the, you know, just enjoy the mystery of the movie.
Chris: God.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: is my view.
Chris: Just enjoy the movie.
lethargeus: Just enjoy a Harrison Ford movie that was made in the 80s that didn't spawn 14 sequels.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: That's prime Harrison Ford too. It's like right after Empire.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: like Yeah, right?
Chris: Yep.
lethargeus: Because Jedi was in 83.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Nestled right in the middle.
lethargeus: It is crazy that he's the one out of that series that had a career.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: mean, I know he's had a voice acting career.
Chris: Well, Mark Hamill did. He has a tremendous voice acting career.
lethargeus: And the the accident kind of ruined his acting, or at least set it back.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Which he looks good now because he has a that beard, which kind of covers up the scars.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: oh But... Sometimes I feel like with Mark Hamill, like, actually, i feel this way with most voice actors. feel like they just get into the gig of voice actors, and then once they're in, they just use them in everything.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Which is, you know, I guess how everything works.
Chris: Right.
lethargeus: Because it's a lot easier.
Chris: Well, now they'll just use AI for everything.
lethargeus: Thank you.
lethargeus: Kinda.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You know, I could probably make an AI bottle of your voice after all the words you got on the internet.
Chris: Oh yeah.
lethargeus: And, you know, I could call your daughter but like, I need you give me all this money.
Chris: huh Yeah.
lethargeus: You know. She'd be like, all right, I'll go kill the old man. Yeah.
lethargeus: just, I...
Chris: Side tangent to that. One of the guys at work today was talking about his kids were like, you know, oh, you know, with this and that, trying to explain to them how much things cost and, you know, well, yeah daddy, you're worth all this money.
lethargeus: Oh, God.
Chris: And the mom was like, well, he's actually worth more dead than he is alive because of insurance and everything. And the kid goes, is he really not like upset, but like interested.
lethargeus: Oh
Chris: I was like, yeah, you got to watch your back, bud.
lethargeus: boy.
Chris: ah
lethargeus: It's always been my view on life insurance for my wife is, look, I want you to be comfortable, but I'm not worth enough dead for you to kill me.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: You hear that wife?
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: She's always listening.
Chris: Mm hmm. Always listening.
lethargeus: Yeah. Always. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very excited to see. i well i some of the spurred this was that I guess one of the apps of AI creators that just paid a billion dollars to Disney.
lethargeus: So now anybody can use that app and make license-free Disney IPs.
Chris: Really?
lethargeus: Yeah. So you want to and so you can let make a 10 second clip or something license free. But if you want to make a 10 second Darth Vader duels Spider-Man, you can do that.
lethargeus: Maybe not Spider-Man. There's so many. I don't know how that works.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Captain America, you know, but you could do that now.
lethargeus: Because the first thing I think, was like, man. Master Chief versus, you know, any Avenger.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You know.
Chris: Yeah. Pick AI generator like open art ease mate AI, Leonardo AI or magic hour search for and look for Disney Pixar, Disney filter or cartoon option.
Chris: Type in your text. And off you go.
lethargeus: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Hmm.
lethargeus: Yeah, I mean, you you basically just give prompts and say, this is what I wanted to do.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Wow.
lethargeus: you know And some people will use that as, i want i want to write a story and I want that story to come visualize. And some people will be like, just do what you do and I'll work from there.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: you know
Chris: Right.
lethargeus: But just like anything, I think some people will do amazing things with it and some people will do... hello know
Chris: Not so... great things with it.
lethargeus: right Return of the Skywalkers or the fuck that movie was going.
Chris: yeah Oh gosh.
lethargeus: You know?
Chris: You know that came out 10 years ago.
lethargeus: um my god.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Weren't they working on like a whole new like series with her after she shit the bed and said that she never wanted Star Wars again and then she didn't have a career after that.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. God.
lethargeus: Wars is a weird one. You would think it would launch your career into things.
Chris: Right. Well, when it's a crappy version of it. Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, but I thought the... What's her name? Felicity Jones? From Rogue One? That's her?
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: That's That's Jyn Ersar? Yeah. I thought she would i go from Rogue One to do amazing shit. yeah I haven't seen her since.
Chris: like five people watched Rogue One.
lethargeus: Brook One is an amazing movie.
Chris: The last five, ten minutes of it are.
lethargeus: Oh my god.
Chris: i was like, when I was recuperating, I was like, maybe I'll try Andor season two. I watched ten minutes of it I was like, this is not for me.
lethargeus: You know, it's a different Star it's a different star Wars world.
Chris: it Yeah. Well, also, I just I don't like that. actor
lethargeus: Oh, the guy plays Andor?
Chris: is yeah Cassian Andor. i i I don't like the Cassian Andor character. Yeah.
lethargeus: Hmm.
Chris: He's a whiny little prick.
lethargeus: He's a little whiny, especially in the first season.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: That's fair.
Chris: Yeah. And again, if I'm watching or reading or playing star Wars, I want space magic and laser swords
lethargeus: And space battles.
Chris: and space battles.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah. It's fair.
lethargeus: But Rogue One had all that.
Chris: the very end
lethargeus: it had Of all the movies, it has the best Darth Vader.
Chris: yeah at the very end that's what you talk about ai yeah i it was i wish that i could because we've all watched it that fan made obi-wan darth vader fight
lethargeus: hu
Chris: take a new hope, but inject that into it. So it just play seamlessly as I'm watching it.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah, it would be...
lethargeus: nice to do that you know look i'm not blaming look i knew hope is what it is right like
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, they did what they did with the technology and the capabilities.
lethargeus: right they were using broomsticks at the time for god sakes but that would be something don't don't poke walkie talkies in the fbi age's hands do that shit you know but yeah and you haven't seen how he did the et
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: right yeah wait walkie-talkies in the fbi agents hands no
lethargeus: Yeah, to make it more friendly, they like re-released E.T. and all the other guns are replaced with walkie-talkies.
Chris: oh my gosh that's
lethargeus: Yeah. It's a little weird when the FBI agents are like holding weaver stances with walkie-talkies in their hands.
Chris: that's a weird way to hold your walkie-talkie huh no I haven't what
lethargeus: Yeah, it's a little weird. Yeah, I didn't he didn't know about that. Yeah. yeah
lethargeus: Or retake the 1997 remasters and remaster them by getting rid of all the bullshit that Lucas added and putting them back to the way they should be, but nicer looking.
Chris: oh my god yeah yes oh gosh some of that stuff
lethargeus: And, you know,
Chris: It was like, why? Why?
lethargeus: I would like to see Mark Hamill still get paid for re-relipped AI version of New Hope. Like, I don't want to take that away from him.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: No.
lethargeus: but I would like to see it used to make those things better.
Chris: Right.
lethargeus: Cause it's hard to show your kids, not your kids, maybe yourre your kids' as kids, a new hope.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Cause it looks janky, you know, it's, it's very primitive visual effects, which when we saw it, we're blown away by, and these kids are like, well, let me show you my phone, old man.
Chris: It does. Yeah.
Chris: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
lethargeus: Or, you know,
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I can show you a whole movie I just made in the Minecraft world.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You know, they're they're not going to be impressed by star Wars.
Chris: Right.
lethargeus: But the story is amazing, so just
Chris: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they did that in episode seven, eight, nine.
lethargeus: There was a whole like hour-long sequence of running through a casino for no real reason.
Chris: Oh, God.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: There was like a horse donkey race thing, i sort of remember.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Somehow the knife, the ancient knife had the exact layouts of the Death Star crash.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was weird.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, okay.
lethargeus: Yeah. Yeah. Also, how would the Death Star even be in any sort of pieces after blowing up? But yeah, whatever.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: I mean, Emperor's Throne's still pristine. And the Emperor building all those ships in secret.
lethargeus: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. and
lethargeus: Well, I mean, I could have bought into some of that stuff.
Chris: m
Chris: Some of it, but... the dead Yeah, that was God.
lethargeus: Some of it. But that the the knife thing was...
Chris: Yeah. um that was definitely
lethargeus: And pretty much everything they did with Luke was...
Chris: a oh god yeah
lethargeus: Just...
Chris: And they had material there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: I was even...
Chris: Mara Jade. The twins. The next. Oh, God.
lethargeus: You totally could have said Luke is retired. right He's raised Leia's kids.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: right We could have we couldve had that universe.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Instead, we had Palpatine's kid who no one had ever heard of before have a kid.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: weird, whatever.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: But she's a Skywalker now. ah
Chris: Well, and I was just, you know, at the first, I was hoping, was like, oh, you know, maybe it's one of those, like, you know, Game of Thrones, where it's like, oh, you know, you're a bastard child, you don't have parents, you're a Skywalker.
lethargeus: Right. Yeah.
Chris: Nope.
lethargeus: Nope.
Chris: Nope.
lethargeus: Nope.
Chris: Nope.
lethargeus: Nope.
lethargeus: it's bad Well, fix it with ai
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I... Fix it with... Yeah. AI, fix fix it.
lethargeus: AI. Just give us the Star Wars movie we want.
Chris: Oh my god. God. Yeah, I wonder what that would happen if... Yeah, until you go to AI and say, hey, can you fix Star Wars Episode 7, 8, and 9? It comes back.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: I got nothing. I got nothing.
lethargeus: Yeah, he tries to commit suicide.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: and Wasn't you telling me that one of the AIs, like they have to reset it every now and again.
lethargeus: Yeah, because it gets suicidal.
Chris: my gosh, that's, that's crazy.
lethargeus: Yes. ChatGPT gets suicidal.
Chris: Well, part of that I'm sure is because people use chat GPT like they use Google search.
lethargeus: Yes.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yes. Well, of the problem is there's AI and then there's chat GPT and then there's, you know, like we just don't have a real good nebulous of what we're using this stuff for.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Google Copilot isn't really AI. It's just a goddamn search engine, right?
Chris: Oh, yeah.
lethargeus: You know, it's just a search engine that's slightly less good.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Can we interest you in this thing that's not as good as the thing that you were going to type in, but we're going to suggest things that weren't the thing you were looking for.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Cool.
Chris: God. Somebody the other day. Oh, yeah. It was the captain working today. i love him to death. But the other day, he's like, ah I typed it into Bing. And this is like, I was like, you typed it into what?
Chris: He's like, well, yeah, I mean, I use yeah this, this, what's this little sort of the Microsoft thing. I was like, oh, you animal use Chrome.
lethargeus: I think I'm trying to think. I don't think we have Chrome on the work PCs.
Chris: You should, because that's what IT pushed admin to use.
lethargeus: Do
lethargeus: Because I use Chrome at home, and I'm pretty sure we use Explorer at work.
Chris: Really?
lethargeus: I don't think we have been Chrome on there.
Chris: Well, out there at Station 1, you guys still have dial-up, don't you? Pigeons!
lethargeus: No, we actually have pigeons. And the pigeons, they fly into town, pick up the data bits, bring them back, dump them into the bit box.
Chris: Rocks clacking together.
lethargeus: I look at them, and then I send out the pigeons again. They're very busy.
Chris: very busy pigeons.
lethargeus: Very busy. Yes.
Chris: You know, there there are some days that would probably be better than the communications we get.
lethargeus: Yes. yes
Chris: Golly day.
lethargeus: I had this thought the other day that if I didn't look to i look at my email for like three months, I don't think I would miss anything important.
Chris: Hmm. Three months.
lethargeus: Three months is maybe pushing it.
Chris: Okay.
lethargeus: But boy, i could I can tell you if like four people don't send me the email, I don't really need to look at it. Like if it doesn't come from the fire chief, the deputy chief or my boss, I really don't need to read that email.
Chris: yeah yeah but then you miss out on the reply alls
lethargeus: The. ah the Yep. Yep, I do.
lethargeus: Two of the city and higher ups are permanently in my spam filter.
Chris: let me guess uh one is jordan yep okay uh and the other is probably associated with thrive
lethargeus: Is that the guy that does the Motivation Monday crap? Yep. Yep.
lethargeus: That's the third one that's in there.
Chris: okay yeah
lethargeus: the one The other one is is retiring in August.
lethargeus: I don't even know what her job title is. Donna. Yeah, yeah. Write this, ma'am.
lethargeus: I don't need to know the information that comes out of her mouth or emails.
Chris: but it's that's that's the direct pipeline to the mayor's office
lethargeus: Yep. I said what I said. Yep.
Chris: h
lethargeus: Yep.
Chris: there There was somebody the other day that hit a reply all. um And I can't remember what the exact email was. But I heard the fire chief say, what in the fuck are you doing?
Chris: i just like I'm just going to sit here and type. don't know what's happening.
lethargeus: Was it one of our deputy chiefs who replies all to everything?
Chris: Probably. Probably.
Chris: Yeah. It's like if the old man is fussing. Nope. Nope, that's not good.
lethargeus: Yeah, don't get involved.
Chris: Yeah. So,
lethargeus: i I accidentally hit reply all to an email that was between like the four officers on D-Shift. was like, nope, not sending this. Delete, delete, delete.
Chris: yeah.
lethargeus: I meant that don't need to do this.
Chris: Yeah. I had to teach somebody the other day about, you know, the writing multiple emails before you send one. Like, what are you talking about? i was like, oh, yeah, there's a lot of times I don't send my first draft nor my second.
Chris: But the third, I've gotten my anger out because my first email is usually like, who in the hell do you think you are?
lethargeus: well my rule generally is just don't email angry yeah it's just easier in life yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But something, sometimes it is cathartic to like type it out. Yeah. Let's say you type it on a word document or something, not in your email in case you accidentally hit send.
lethargeus: and but there's ah there's a person on my shift who I would just send the email to yeah
Chris: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ah yeah ah
lethargeus: Well, move on to topic two before we get ourselves in trouble.
Chris: Sure. Topic two. um So I got to think about this recently um and mainly because I've been watching this guy's videos on YouTube and I first came across him on social media. He goes out and he finds like these old cars, trucks, things like that. and He's like, you know, i want to see if I can get it running and get it off the property.
Chris: He'll buy like a 72 pickup, sight unseen, drive 500 miles and just see what he can do with it. And that's great.
Chris: But you can't do that with vehicles and stuff now. It's like, are there things we need to tech detox from? Like automobiles, things like that.
lethargeus: Pretty much anything built before 2010. We just get there away.
Chris: Yeah. I, I, cause I mean, I like to tinker sometimes, but I can't tinker on anything new. Cause everything's a computer, everything.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: If there's one little thing off, it throws the entire system off as it, you know, used to be yeah. yeah Make sure it's got fuel, it's got oil and it's got spark runs.
lethargeus: I...
lethargeus: I'm going to say something controversially that could get me a lot of trouble in the world, I'm assuming.
Chris: No. Yeah.
lethargeus: But I think there should be an expiration date on cars.
Chris: Really?
lethargeus: Yeah. Especially anything built before 2010-ish is a death trap.
Chris: Well, that's why people have historic tags, Ron.
lethargeus: Right. Well, that really helps you when you run into a tractor trailer and die. yep You know, like, I had a car in the 80s.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Well, it was from the 80s. I wouldn't drive it in the It was the 90s.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: It had rack and pinion steering and and manual transmission.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: And you could...
Chris: Oh, my God. Rack and pinion steering.
lethargeus: That thing was a hunk of junk, right?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: We... You know, I can remember I had to replace the boot on that car twice, right? Because it got tears and it gummed up the steering and if you just try to turn the steering wheel and go, you know, there it's a hunk of junk.
lethargeus: Wow, they don't make cars like that. Good.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: People, you know, I, aesthetically, i can, I see the appeal of the body shape of a 65 Mustang or something like that.
lethargeus: you know that
Chris: Yeah, they're beautiful cars.
lethargeus: like Beautiful cars. But if you run into my Subaru, my Subaru is not going to even notice it and you're going to be a flaming wreck.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: I don't know, though.
lethargeus: Yes, I do.
Chris: no, no, no, no. Because I think if it's those 60s to 70s vehicles, you're probably going to be fine. Because they were like nothing but steel.
lethargeus: Yeah, but you are not steel inside of that cage with no seatbelt and no airbags.
Chris: There's a seatbelt.
lethargeus: Okay. There's a small string that is bolted into the cushion.
Chris: There's a lap belt.
lethargeus: It's not even into the frame of the vehicle. It's literally into the cushion of the car because if you pull those seats out, this stuff the lap belt comes with it.
Chris: ah yeah yeah
lethargeus: ah you know um You know it's right.
Chris: yeah know but's why you just don't get an accident
lethargeus: ahraths Clearly the answer.
Chris: yeah i i'm talking more like yeah not like a daily driver but like just to screw around with and stuff
lethargeus: I mean, like I said, I appreciate the beauty of those vehicles.
Chris: yeah yeah
lethargeus: I just don't think they should be on the road. You know, and the problem is every main jack idiot is like, well, I'm going to drive my 68 Chevelle.
lethargeus: That's, you know, got, or how about this? There's a Lieutenant on the shift after me who drives a car that is more rust and more holes than actual vehicle.
lethargeus: And he says to me the other day, it was a little tough in the snow because the back brakes aren't working.
Chris: Oh, that's safe.
lethargeus: Great. Maybe.
Chris: that's okay Maybe that's a sign.
lethargeus: we take we take that car and we we we take it up right we take it out to the farm and we let it go to sleep
Chris: We make an artificial reef out of it.
lethargeus: we don't we we don't need to tanker with that vehicle anymore it's it's it's done yeah i i i like
Chris: yeah Yeah, that's a thing. Yeah, like 30 years from now, do you think, you know, like tinkers and stuff like that gotta be a 84 honda hatchback i'm working on ah no
lethargeus: these morons will be like, oh man, I found a 1988 Jetta and it's in great condition. You could tell it never went anywhere near the beach. I gotta find me the plastic knob for the fucking radio so it match perfect.
lethargeus: Come on. they're not They're not good. they're Everything made in the 80s is ugly. Everything made in the 80s was ugly.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, they're not pretty cars. I just... I don't... I don't... I don't like the tinkering as an excuse to, like, keep this shitbox on the road.
lethargeus: i appreciate the tinkering to tinker. But, boy...
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: can't, like... I...
Chris: Oh my God. i So I Googled 80s cars, you know classics. Oh my gosh. Yeah, there were some ugly. Oh God. I remember how bad the Mustangs looked.
lethargeus: Oh, the Fastback Mustangs. Oh, with the fuel intake.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: They were terrible. They look like ass.
Chris: Yeah. yeah Oh, the DeLorean is a hell of a nice looking car.
lethargeus: every
lethargeus: My dad had a 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with red... velvet-ish interior right like it was it was a brown car with red interior it was the ugliest thing my mother had 81 ford zephyr station wagon it was yellow with yellow vinyl seats and chrome a thousand molten degrees seat belts yeah we're talking about that at work
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: uh oh yeah yep yeah and those seats that would get so hot and then they would crack and slice you wide open
lethargeus: we all i said i remember being four years old in my mother's station wagon and we didn't have car seats okay that didn't they didn't exist we had a hold on for your butt seat belt and i can remember sliding across the bench you know the bench seat it's that they're terrible they're death traps
Chris: no oh
Chris: Mm-hmm.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: but that's That's the thing that we have gotten right as progressing. Safety has gotten better you know in almost everything.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You touch my fire helmet, I'm coming for your face. But that's
Chris: Yeah, I got thinking about that the other day. i was like, can you imagine if we stopped ordering the, even just the morning, the, whatever we get now, the Ben 2s or 1010s, whatever, and switch to the Euro styles.
lethargeus: Oh, you have a...
Chris: Oh my God.
lethargeus: Look, i'm I'm... I'm ready to fight three people in the fire department on a daily basis about these new fronts and the SFD on the back of our fire gear. So, you know, you give me a Eurohub, but I'm not sure.
Chris: that's That's the straw.
lethargeus: um might be the straw.
Chris: All right.
lethargeus: And look...
Chris: So Station 1 is switching to Euro helmets with somehow having a Boston front and the SFD in the back.
lethargeus: The...
lethargeus: The worst part is i can't even argue. If the fire chief came out and said, you guys have to get rid of your leathers
lethargeus: and you have to go to these safer helmets, you really don't have a good argument.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You know? It's...
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: But boy, my helmet is...
Chris: I wonder if I could, I wonder if I could talk to the city administrator and say, yeah, we will save X number of dollars a year. Oh my gosh.
Chris: That's going be like the last thing I do before I leave.
lethargeus: Yeah, but no, because somebody's going to hear this podcast and they're gonna be like you were involved in it. And then I was going to be good. going to be burned. That's not going to be to me.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Well, so you're talking about, yeah. the whole tech detox or whatever, think about how much easier it used to be to pump a fire engine.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. Do you think that's a problem of too much technology involved or is it a problem of we have to add more widgets to make it justify the $1.6 million dollars cost for fire engine?
Chris: I think it's both. It's just like the, the, yeah.
lethargeus: Because I really like the digital governors. you know That's a nice, handy...
Chris: Right. But now that, now that you have Bluetooth nozzles.
lethargeus: like That's a step too far for me.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: you know
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: I say that all the time. that the The worst thing about the fire department is we're always trying to reinvent shit just to reinvent shit.
Chris: yeah it's like that it's like the stupid demo that a certain shift is doing with these specialty nozzles or as a blade instead of a it puts wet stuff on the red stuff
lethargeus: you know Very rarely...
lethargeus: Yeah. the The best part with that conversation to me is like, you guys are just doing shit that was done 30 years ago.
Chris: <unk>
lethargeus: You're not reinventing anything.
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: It's just some company is like, look, we came up with this thing.
Chris: yeah that whole blade thing guess what my adjustable nozzle in my you know garden hose has that yeah
lethargeus: Yes, it does. yeah i
lethargeus: I just think, but fire engines are safer than they used to be. You know, you know if if you think about the oldest fire engine in our fleet and think about even Engine 1, which is the second oldest, there is a big leap in technology and the safety of that thing.
Chris: yeah
Chris: yeah
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: You know, one of those things probably shouldn't even be on the road anymore, you know, going to calls.
Chris: yeah what's it we were talking about phasing it out and people are like up in arms uh again it yeah i i don't know ron i don't know well we we took it on 72 calls last year out of cool next
lethargeus: Why?
lethargeus: I'm the last one who gets to...
lethargeus: we We had that talk the other day and I said, every idiot around us has a tanker.
Chris: ah
lethargeus: We don't need a tanker.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Well, we need to get a straight tanker with 30,000 gallons.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Why?
lethargeus: Just in case Mad Max happens.
Chris: i can tell you.
lethargeus: i don't What do you guys want?
Chris: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I can tell you as, you know, talking with the higher ups in the city, like you said earlier, they're worried about the municipality and the municipality has a hydro system.
lethargeus: Right.
lethargeus: We have hydrants everywhere.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: And even outside the municipality, hydrants are pushing out.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: So even in our outlying areas, we're getting hydrants. And outside of the areas where there are hydrants, they're single family homes.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: We're bringing a thousand plus gallons of water already.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
lethargeus: We're good.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you talk about the hydrants moving out and everything.
lethargeus: If we... can
Chris: I had this argument with somebody. I can't believe that it's so hard to get a septic system now. i was like, do you think it's good to just flush your turds into your yu lawn?
lethargeus: And then leave it and never catch it.
Chris: last That's not how a septic system works. I said, It is.
lethargeus: It's a cesspool in the back of your yard. you
Chris: it is that slowly leaks out into your yard.
lethargeus: yeah What do you think the leech field part of that thing means?
Chris: my God. I just. Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: yeah You know what?
lethargeus: Yeah. Oh.
Chris: I flushed the toilet and it is gone.
lethargeus: Right.
Chris: And it is the city's problem after that.
lethargeus: and And you guys happen to live in the mountains where the water table really, really like far away from the ground level, right?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: Oh, no, no, that's right.
Chris: Uh, yeah.
lethargeus: The water table is three inches below the topsoil. Freaking shore-bellied morons.
Chris: Uh, it's been, it's been dry lately. It's like five inches.
Chris: yeah.
lethargeus: You all live in the swamp.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Although I, I don't know. I guess it's cause it's colder weather, but yeah. City of Fruitland has been pumping water in from like Juneau, Alaska. Cause God, the tap water is like negative five when you turn it on.
lethargeus: Well, you know, they want you to wake up in the morning.
Chris: Well, as somebody who has to get up and pee a couple of times throughout the night now, that's a wake up call. Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: What you need to do is put like a preemptive Ranae in.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah, where it knows like
Chris: yeah That's what I'll start to wind When I get up to pee, I have to urgently pee. I'm go to take the time to turn the tap on to hot and then pee.
lethargeus: No, what I'm saying is you need to get your Renai reprogrammed so that between the hours of like 9 to 6 in the morning, it's got a pre-loaded bolus of hot water that just pumps in lines all night.
Chris: Maybe that's.
Chris: Ah. Gotcha.
lethargeus: may cost you a little more money, but you know, you you've got type cheap money.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a Renai.
lethargeus: Well, you know, time to get one.
Chris: Time to get one.
lethargeus: ah feel like we're I feel like we're solving these problems.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: I read
lethargeus: Get yourself a Rina, get yourself a bidet, you know, you'll be living a better life.
Chris: somewhere that i read somewhere that It's like their code that they have to put a bidet in every bathroom.
lethargeus: The worst part of it is it makes so much more sense. I've never used one. I'm so afraid.
Chris: Neither have I. Yeah. so Yeah. Italy.
lethargeus: but I'm afraid for two reasons. One, it could just be weird. Two, I might like it so much that I won't be able to use anything else.
Chris: yeah yeah
lethargeus: Yeah, that's the real problem. i mean
Chris: italy Italy has mandated bidets since 1970.
lethargeus: Yeah, well, you think about like toilet paper just jamming up your systems everywhere.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Huh.
lethargeus: and you You know, you gotta ah you get a big three flusher. That's a lot of toilet paper in on the pipes.
Chris: Yeah. The good thing is in the US plumbing and safety code, there is a limit of 110 Fahrenheit for any bidet ah feed line.
lethargeus: Well, yeah, I mean, good. and know don't want really want my asshole scorched.
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. And in Australia, it's illegal for you to install your own bidet.
lethargeus: Well, also in Australia, the bidets are backwards.
Chris: That's, that's true. That's true. We learned that from the Simpsons.
lethargeus: We learned that for the Simpsons.
Chris: okay Yeah.
lethargeus: Yeah. Everybody knows that they're backwards.
Chris: Yeah. All right.
lethargeus: Yeah.
Chris: Uh, I just want know, when I get off this podcast, I'm going to look to try to find a 1972 pickup to buy.
lethargeus: Look, I know you. You're driving around in a staff car anyways. It doesn't matter what you got to tinker.
Chris: like Exactly. Yeah.
lethargeus: You might go buy your old 2002 Ram. What was that thing?
Chris: I didn't have a Ram.
lethargeus: was other
Chris: It was a three quarter ton.
lethargeus: What was that?
Chris: It was a three quarter ton GMC Sierra.
lethargeus: Whatever. It's all the same.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. It was Bessie.
lethargeus: I can tell you as a non-redneck, the one thing as a non-redneck, I don't know what the fuck kind of trucks you guys are driving. You all act like it's like the biggest difference in the world.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: I'm like, it's got a bed, four tires.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: They're all the same. Sure.
Chris: Flip the breather cap over. He hit the gas. Goes. Yeah. Oh,
lethargeus: Sure.
lethargeus: It's not a world that I'm from.
Chris: yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: And boy, does it, nothing makes sure abilities matter than people who just don't care about cars. it's Because the one person on my shift is always giving me shit about my car. I'm like, I don't care.
Chris: yeah it's a tool
lethargeus: My car gets from from point A to point B. I don't understand how you can live like that. Because it's a car.
Chris: ah peacefully uh uh
lethargeus: yeah It's not a member of the family. It's a car.
lethargeus: When I'm done with that one, I'll just get another one.
Chris: yeah well this is the same person though i think they're on like what their fourth new truck in the last six years yeah
lethargeus: ah that i and I made that comment to him. I said, you know, I've bought like three cars for the price of one of your trucks.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: You know.
Chris: Probably just for the rims and tires.
lethargeus: He was looking at the rims of tires the other day.
Chris: Why?
lethargeus: I don't know. I was like, how much are these rims and tires? $6,000 for a per... You know how many rims I replaced in my car?
Chris: yeah
Chris: Done.
lethargeus: Zero.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: In almost 30 years of driving.
Chris: Yeah.
lethargeus: Is that right?
Chris: Yeah, it is.
lethargeus: Oh my God.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
lethargeus: No, it's 30 years this year.
Chris: yeah yeah
lethargeus: It's 30 years and two weeks.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. I thought that's what you were like, oh my gosh, about.
lethargeus: Oh my god.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
lethargeus: Oh.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. I'll hit it first.
lethargeus: My god.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
lethargeus: I'm always glad that you're there to soften the blow for me.
Chris: Yeah. Well, I think that was a good cast to the pod.
lethargeus: What?
Chris: yeah
lethargeus: Yep.
Chris: From AI to tinkering cars.
lethargeus: Talk about rims.
Chris: yeah it's a Yeah.
lethargeus: And get it for a
Chris: Yeah. Go get your rims, folks.
lethargeus: rams Don't get a rim job unless you're into that.
Chris: Oh, my God. Whoa. I mean, yeah. If that's it you know what? You do you.
lethargeus: Get you did this you it's up a day first, yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Make sure you hit the bidet first. bo But ah yeah. so Hope folks have a good holiday or whatever you choose to do. And yeah. Stay safe.
lethargeus: Yeah. Enjoy your Festivus, Krampusville, whatever crap you do for Christmas. And whatever holiday is coming up.
Chris: Take care folks.
lethargeus: See you.
