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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, Smarch weather, Wind/breeze distinguishing, Toilet paper, and the Mandalorian; Ron asks what skills we wish we kept up on or that we think folks should have; Chris brings up what we did as kids on the weekend (Ron swears I lived in Mayberry). 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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Camping Adventure: Facing Extreme Weather
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. I'm enjoying this beautiful smarch weather. Yeah, Monday it was 25 when I got to work. And today it's 72. Yeah. But you're getting rain, aren't you? We're getting rain. It looks like we're getting rain through basically next week. Yeah, it's supposed to start raining here like tonight into tomorrow. Yeah.
00:00:29
Speaker
So yeah, we went camping this weekend and it went from 66 degrees to 24 degrees. We woke up, now luckily it didn't matter because Sunday we were packing up and leaving anyways. I woke up Sunday and we're going to cook breakfast out of the campfire and do all that stuff. It was too cold to start a fire. It was too cold to start a fire. It was so windy and cold. I was like, nah, nah, we can just
March Weather: Lion or Lamb?
00:00:54
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eat breakfast on the road. Yeah.
00:00:58
Speaker
And my poor wife, but I need to cook the eggs. No, you don't eat the egg. My poor friends, because they went car camping. So they had a lot more stuff to, like I have to push a button. Yeah. Push another button. Disconnect a hose. It's not that hard. Yeah. They're like packing up bags and picking up tents and tarps. I'm like, I'll help, but it's colder. Yeah. You're looking outside laughing at the peasants. Yeah. Look at them.
00:01:26
Speaker
It's dancing in the street. This will be April podcast, so maybe be warmer by then. No, no, no, this is last. This will be the last Monday in March, the 27th. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Four more days. Four more days and then. Wasn't always like March in like a lion out like a lamb.
00:01:54
Speaker
Right. Or something like that. There's all our showers. Spring, April showers, which bring May showers. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's fine. Yesterday was 66
Windy Tales from Cape May
00:02:08
Speaker
degrees. I played disc golf. Nice. I went for a two hour bike ride. So, you know, I was, it was still a little chilly here in Windy. So it's a little windy, a little breezy, but once you got into the woods, it's fine. Yeah. What is the cutoff between breezy and windy?
00:02:25
Speaker
Well, I can tell you, Saturday we went to Cape May on the ferry and we went to walk down between the decks and you didn't have to like walk outside. Yeah. And when you couldn't walk down the steps because the wind was pushing you back up the steps. Oh, that's windy. Okay. That can make sense. Yeah. That's my cutoff. Yeah. Stupid wind. Stupid wind.
00:02:50
Speaker
You know, it's fine. It's going to slow my progress down and get back in bike shape versus the Salisbury fire department.
Fire Department Physical Assessment Challenges
00:02:58
Speaker
We like to do everything to Ron Wismar in his winter fat months. A CVA research. Let's do that in March when nobody's been working out. Have you done yours yet? I just did mine. Okay. I think we're going to do ours Tuesday with the new guy. Oh yeah, that's a good plan. Now we did ours Monday when I get back.
00:03:21
Speaker
Yeah, last year when I did it, I had a panic attack halfway through. So fingers crossed that doesn't happen again. Oh, that's no fun. Yeah, it was super fun. Yeah, yeah. Felt like I couldn't breathe and I had a mask on my face. And yeah, oh yeah. Snow bueno. Yeah. Yeah, we did ours. And it's my own fault.
00:03:45
Speaker
Because with getting EPA's done and other stuff done, just didn't get stuff done. Yeah. And so we just had this pile of stuff to do one day, which just ends up that way every year. Seems like. Yeah. Because I'm bad at time management. Sure. But we're running calls. It's hard to manage two times sometimes. It is. It is. Yeah, they should get the officers like. Yeah, you should be able to come in for like eight hours one day and just work on EPA's. It would be super helpful. I have some pitch. Knock them out.
00:04:14
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I or just let me do my own. Yeah. Hey, this is your house. Yeah. But yeah, I like give you compensation for it. Yeah, sure.
Workplace Humor at the Fire Department
00:04:24
Speaker
Yeah. Do it for free. Yeah. Yeah. I don't enjoy doing that anyway. Yeah. Did you do the new one? The new one. It's not horrible. It's fine. It's it feels very and this is. Something done. Don't insult any listeners, but it feels very corporate.
00:04:44
Speaker
Yes, it does. And like, as I was, I had already delivered half of mine and I was like, this is the new form. This has very little to do with our jobs. Right. This is all buzzwords and keywords. Yeah. Yeah. Like there's a whole category on there on how do you not take, steal money from the, from the city? Yeah. It's like, well, at your job level, you're not really stealing money at the job, you know? Hopefully. Hopefully.
00:05:14
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, the big thing we have to watch out for is people hoarding the toilet paper because the city gets the best toilet paper on earth. So everybody wants to steal it and take it home with it. There are two things I don't understand the world.
00:05:28
Speaker
You buy cheap toilet paper, which means people have to use more toilet paper. Yeah. And you buy those cheap brown foldable paper towels that you have to use seven paper towels. And they aren't the right size for the container. No. So when you sometimes you'll get one, sometimes you'll get 50. Yep. Yep. So toilet paper. Oh, yeah. So I figured this out today. The toilet paper on the admin side is worse than the operation side. What?
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Yeah.
00:05:58
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Yeah. Ours is like single ply wax paper. Who's buying separate? Oh, because you have the cleaning lady. Oh, what do you need to think about that? Oh, I just saw her today. I should punch her in her head. I bet they're using their toilet paper instead of the departments. Oh, we got to change that. Yeah.
00:06:21
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Yeah, I just happened to be on the other side today and I said, I'll partake in one of these restrooms. I was like, what is this delightful paper? Oh, yeah, it's so delightful. Yeah, that is better than what we have. Sure. But the paper towels are so bad and they've always been bad. Yeah. We just keep buying them. Yeah. Yeah. We'll buy them. Yeah. Well, I don't go to one of those things that like, you know, you pull a sheet and just go, go, go, go. And then the sheet comes out a little bit. Sure. Yeah.
Binge-Watching TV Series: The Mandalorian and More
00:06:51
Speaker
One day. One day. Or absorbent paper. I mean, our paper towels are so not absorbent. Yeah. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you put it in a puddle of water and just kind of floats on top. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the problem, though. They're so thin. There's nothing to absorb. True. Well, and they're also made of, I'm assuming, cardboard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a thin part of cardboard that they shaved off. Right.
00:07:18
Speaker
Yeah. Making all those Amazon boxes. They're like, oh, we got extra scraps. We'll send them to the fire department. The fire department. They'll use those to clean up windows and leave streaks everywhere. Gosh, yeah. People do not understand our daily struggle, trying to clear the wind. First off, every maniac who comes into Salisbury Fire Department decides to open the doors with their hands on the glass. Oh my gosh. I don't understand what you people are doing.
00:07:46
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I'll yell at them. I never see them do it. That's the thing that drives me nuts is I never see anyone do it. They wait for you to go to bed at night and then they just put their hands all over the windows. It's crazy. It looks like the radio room at our station looks like somebody was getting murdered and trying to reach up the glass. The hand trails slowly down.
00:08:12
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Why are you touching glass on your daily basis? It's just you shouldn't do it. Yeah. Well, and then you have the people that they'll clean the glass with a towel, which that's fine, but they won't look to see which towel they get. So they'll get the one that's still like greasy and gritty, or they'll take one that still has wax on it or something.
Cooking Skills Debate: Fresh vs Canned
00:08:30
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And then it just looks like somebody rubbed their butt against the window. It's yeah.
00:08:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's and we used to make fun of the guys that were like, these are the towels for the tires. These are the towels for the side. But you know what? They had a point. It's true. They did have a point. Somebody at station one has the squeegees for wiping down the apparatus. I don't know what they've done with them. Wait, you wipe down the apparatus. You don't use a leaf blower. No, we don't use a leaf blower.
00:09:03
Speaker
That bothers me so much. But someone has ate at the Swedish and... Write up a request, but put it in a post-it note.
00:09:16
Speaker
But my firefighter looked at me and said, what are we going to do? How are we going to drive the engine? I'm like, well, we still have towels. Towels still work. It's just the squeegees make it easier. What's wrong with people? How do we try it now? Plus, I don't understand. Do we turn the heat all the way up? Just drive around the block real fast. Yeah. God. They're out there with a little spatula from the kitchen.
00:09:46
Speaker
It was like the saddest person I've ever seen talk about like, I don't know how to drive an engine anymore. It's like, uh, what's like today. C-shift was doing their consumption drill and I was out there talking to him. I just got done cleaning the bikes and.
00:10:05
Speaker
What was it? Oh, B-16 got put on for a reported non-breathing. And half of the crew was still like they were like halfway done their consumption drill. Sure. And one of the people in the BLS box was like, I'll jump on, you know, no problem. I was like, I got it. I'm here. I'll take the call. Can you
The Importance of Physical Fitness
00:10:22
Speaker
do that? I was like, I think I still know how to write an ambulance. Well, and then the notes were all screwed up. The first line, the note said,
00:10:33
Speaker
Cardiac arrest was just witnessed or just occurred. The line right below it. Caller states, cold in a warm environment, bad smell. Last seen a week ago. I was like, well, these two things do not match. No, let's just do patience. No, it wasn't. No. And it was option B. Option B. Oh, yeah. When we got there, as soon as they opened the door, I was like, yep, write it for them.
00:10:57
Speaker
Yeah, that's something you'll never. And then I was like, I'll do the report. They're like, are you sure? I'm like, I'm trying to help and be nice to you people. If you don't want me to, that's fine.
00:11:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. You know, look, they're just respecting their elders and making sure it's old people are trying to applesauce and sat down in the corners. You know, you just put on those white shirts and do
Teenage Memories and Weekend Adventures
00:11:27
Speaker
your knitting and do my knitting. Sit in the corner. Oh, yeah, that was the other thing. It was cleaning the bikes. I got a little bit of grease on the arm of my shirt.
00:11:36
Speaker
Somebody was like, Oh, do you need me to get you? Do you want like a throwdown blue, blue shirt for right now? Do you get you another shirt? And I'm like, I'm fine. This is good. And then somebody else was like, I don't know. That shirt might be ruined and fit across the way. Says, do you do his laundry? I don't think you need to be in this conversation.
00:11:57
Speaker
It's just looking out for you. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Looking out. They're just concerned. Yeah. Concerned citizen. Look, they start singing chief's work. They're like, oh crap, we gotta do something. Yeah. Yeah. Step one. Yeah. So are you all caught up on the Mandalorian? I am all caught up on the Mandalorian. So you watched last night's? I watched last night's. Oh, so good. Uh, I launched Jar Jar Ray redeemed. Yes.
00:12:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It was very nice. Yeah. I don't understand why the armor made that giant shield for his belly. Right. The Rondelle. The Rondelle. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Maybe she thinks he's going to be bigger. I got news for you, ladies, not. Well, he's going to be a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. As Visla had a son as a son. Yeah, it was weird. Yeah.
00:12:53
Speaker
Um, it's fine. How do they do it with their helmets on? But, you know, yeah. Hey, maybe it wasn't a Mandalorian. He was with who knows. Sure. And I'm starting to really like what they're doing with Bo Katan. Yes. And like, that was great. And my wife and I watched, cause we didn't get to watch last week. So we watched them both back to back. Yeah. And it was like, what was the point of last week's episode?
00:13:21
Speaker
Oh, with the doctor? Yeah. Dr. What's his name? Pershing. Dr. He either he's a clone or he has a clone. Sure. Because in one of the
Technical Challenges with Microsoft Office
00:13:34
Speaker
thing, because he was in Book of Boba Fett also, he was in, you know, he was in the previous. Yeah, he was in season one. Yeah. He he had a little pin and it was one of those like two people side by side pins. It was like the clone buddy pin that they all had to wear on Cam Caminoa.
00:13:51
Speaker
So they could see who are the clones, you know, and stuff like that. Hmm. Yeah. So I don't know what that would do with the storyline of the Mandalorian, but, you know. Well, it's because I think it's. I personally think it's what the girl like Aria or whatever her name was. Yeah. I think she is still she's either still working for Gideon. Yeah. Or is working for Thrawn. Oh.
00:14:16
Speaker
Because I, part of me wants to say that that dog fight they had at the beginning with the TIE fighters, and then all of a sudden there were all those TIE fighters in the Star Destroyer. But they weren't TIE fighters. That's the thing. They were TIE interceptors. Yeah. Which, but Thrawn left before TIE interceptors were a thing. Yeah, but if if he came back, I mean, he's going to get assemble whatever he has at his. Sure. Yeah. But I mean, we had the space whales show up. So it's just me hoping that we see Thrawn.
00:14:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it was very interesting to see where, I mean, obviously both of them was a little angry. Tie bombers aren't hyperspace capable. All those tie bombers got there. Where'd they come from? So you got to run. Yeah. Just to get out. Yeah. Oh, and the, her little drift move she did where she popped the one wing. Yeah. Yeah. The Mandalorian fighter. Yeah.
00:15:11
Speaker
I mean, it'd probably be it would make more sense that that was Gideon's fleet, but.
Modern Car Maintenance Struggles
00:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, good. Yeah. Well, but yeah, and her being a psycho, I'm just going to rank this up to 11. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the throwback to it's a trap. Yeah, that was hilarious. That's a trap part was great when it was a pause beat. Yeah, the Mon Cal was like, what? Yeah. But yeah, it was good. It's very good.
00:15:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if we'll see little Grogu get a helmet by the end of the season. Hmm. I think he'll at least say his first words because he tried to talk last the last week. Sure. The yeah, I mean, he could get a helmet. We'll see. I don't think he's going to walk either path. Really hoping that Bo Katan kind of just takes over and says, OK, yes, the code is one thing we got to. The real way.
00:16:11
Speaker
You know, yeah, back to the real way of made a Lawrence. Yeah, yeah. And she kind of already started leading a little bit that way. She was like, we, you know, would climb stuff like this in our training and, you know, really took charge and also. And now she has the the night owl on one arm and the mythosaur on the other. Yes. And the.
00:16:36
Speaker
Armor seems less of a diabolical figure now. Yeah. Yeah. She definitely seemed very evil for a little bit. But yeah, she was. Seasons. Yeah. Yeah. And poor little Grogu with his PTSD, with the the hammer thing going on. Like poor little guy got to face his coat. Right. And he embarrassed Paz Visla's kid big time flipped all over him and then shot him three times. Yeah.
00:17:06
Speaker
And nobody mentioned the fact that he has best car chainmail. Like I was not surprised. Yeah. Why does he still have the burlap sack on? Just march around in your best car chainmail. It's so warm and cozy. It's cold.
Humorous Tales from Salisbury Fire Department
00:17:22
Speaker
Maybe. I don't know. But he's definitely like the, you know, the looking at the dad on the sidelines, a little league like after the first hit or he got hit twice, kind of look like, Dad, do I really have to keep doing this? Right.
00:17:37
Speaker
The worst thing is what is going on with this run of Star Wars and collecting giant monsters? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Now they have the three bird creatures. Right. There are three giant raptors and then they, you know, both that's got a frickin prank or. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. Are those three that are they found things now or are they just going to be mounts or are they going to be food? What do you need mounts for? You got to pass.
00:18:08
Speaker
that evidently don't have much of a range. You apparently don't have a very good range. Yeah. It's very interesting. Like I said, this is all good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm excited with this stuff. So they've not had a disappointment. I mean, but if it wasn't my favorite, but it still was entertaining and I loved watching it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And or finish very strong.
00:18:36
Speaker
I so I am four episodes in the indoor now. It takes a while. Yeah, it is definitely. It's definitely a departure from Star Wars, which you can start with. And I understand why, but it's weird seeing Mon Mothma as a different person. So.
00:18:57
Speaker
But what's his face? The the guy that poses as the museum guy and what great acting when he does that flip back and forth. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm kind of waiting to see Fulcrum. Oh, you know, she's going to show up. It's got to, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's got to show up by the end of the season because I mean, her show is.
00:19:24
Speaker
Is it the next fall, maybe? It might be the next thing out, right? Yeah. Good time to be Star Wars fans. It's a great time to be a Star Wars fan. And I'm not missing movies. Right, yeah, no. No, I'm not either. Yeah. My buddy was saying that he's watching Mandalorian with his son and what they're watching, they just started like back in season one.
00:19:52
Speaker
And they're watching two episodes a week. Nice. And Sun is not used to watching shows serialized like that. Yeah. I'm like, well, it was even tougher when we were kids when it was one episode a week. Yeah. And that shows used to take breaks between mid break, mid season breaks. You know. Yeah. And explaining to kids that, you know, sometimes an episode, that's all. It's an episode. It's its own contained story. It might just be a little spin off thing.
00:20:19
Speaker
It's an episode. That's it. It's not filler. It's not. It's it's its own episode. Yeah. Watch. Go back and watch the exiles where like one in every six episodes has to do with the main plot. Right. Yeah, but it's, you know, we consume media differently these days. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Tag on Utes and your Zunes.
00:20:45
Speaker
I don't think the Utes are using the zooms. He might be. I don't even think the Utes are using the iPods anymore. No, I don't think so. It's strictly phones. Yeah. So you watched Mandalorian. Have you watched The Last of Us? I have not watched The Last of Us. Because it's done now, so you could binge it if you wanted to.
00:21:04
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what we're done when the Mandalorian's done. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Are you watching the Bad Batch? I watched season one. I haven't finished. Was this the third season? This is the second season. Yeah, I've watched season one. I haven't watched season two yet. It's not bad. I just want to see how Omega does everything. Sherry was like, what's the Bad Batch? And I was like, ugh.
00:21:34
Speaker
Okay. Who's these clones? They're broken. It's set like right at the end of the Clone Wars. Uh, all right, first got to watch Clone Wars. Yeah. Gotta watch. Strap in for seven seasons. Seven seasons of this. And then we'll watch this, but you don't understand what Rex is unless you watch the Clone Wars. And then you really kind of want to watch
00:21:59
Speaker
Rebels. Yeah. Then you can watch Bad Bad. So now I haven't watched season two of Omega. Yeah, they should just be Omega and friends. Yeah. But yeah, I will get to it. It's on my list. Cool. I'm stuck in Sol's Ray for three days next week. I watch. Oh, yeah, you got it. You're helping out with that asthma, aren't you? Yeah.
00:22:25
Speaker
Do you need to stay here? No, I'm just going to get hotel room. Oh, I like, I like a nice hotel room once a while. Okay. Take a treat. All right. All right. And then, uh, I was going to bring the RV down, just parking the,
00:22:39
Speaker
parking lot of the station. Yeah. There was that one guy that did that for some class. For a hazmatek class. Yeah, there you go. He did it for the whole week for a hazmatek. My problem is I would only be sleeping at one night and it's not worth packing up the RV, driving it down. I can see that. Yeah.
00:22:57
Speaker
running the generator for a night. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that'd be a heck of a waste. Yeah. So fuel and everything else. Yeah. Let's get hotel. OK. We're sleeping in the firehouse now that now that the sea chef, Lieutenant, doesn't snore actually sleep on the ship. Oh, yeah, he snores pretty badly. Real bad. And he's and you've talked to him about it. He's like, yeah, yeah, I use my CPAP at night at home. Yeah. Well, why aren't you using it here?
00:23:27
Speaker
I don't want to bother anyone. Right. Meanwhile, you're pulling the paint off of the walls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just use your CPAP. Your uvula is damaged. It's fine. No one minds you. No one minds the soft whir of a CPAP. Right. Yeah. Just once you don't roll over in the middle of the night and twist the line so it whistles.
00:23:52
Speaker
And everyone saw you put some hot sauce down about doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's spice it up. Let's go. I wonder if that messed with his dreams at first. I'm sure. It's really hot. I don't think I dream at work. I think that's part of my. I don't think I ever hit a good. That's the thing. Yeah, you usually don't hit Ram. Yeah. Although I'm pretty sure they hit it last night. There was not an ambulance call after nine thirty.
00:24:21
Speaker
Wow. Yes. That would be nice. Yeah. This morning, I checked my phone in the morning, usually to see what the calls were overnight, and I looked. I was like, I guess backstage is busted again. Got to work. And Phipps was like, can you believe that? I said, oh. I've had those nights, though, and you wake up and you're like, oh my God, I know something. Yeah. I know I know something. No? Yeah, nice shift.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yeah. That fire at midnight or one. I can't remember what time and then had to go to a skilled nursing facility to pick somebody up again. Nice. Well, there's three of them standing around her. Which one? I don't
00:25:07
Speaker
If you needed help, it's one thing. Yeah. The lady weighs like 250 pounds. Right. And they're always like, well, she's a big lady. I'm like, she's a big for a small lady. Yes. But she's not big. We can show you big. Yeah. Yes. All right. I'll put them on my list. Put them on your list. Take them out. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. It's fine. You know, again, there's like damage because like, do you want us to go because it's a nursing home? I said no, because I guarantee it's the same lady as it was last time. Yeah.
00:25:39
Speaker
You got to keep quit pushing her down. Yeah. Well, if you can't handle it, she shouldn't be in your facility. Right. Yeah. So charge tons of money. You're charging her. Yeah. Instead of assisted, put her in skills skilled. Yeah. Well, she's an accomplished unit, too. Oh, even better. So really is no excuse. Yeah. Bless her heart. Bless her heart. Well, ready for topic one. Yeah.
00:26:07
Speaker
topic one. All right. Uh, guess I'll go. Yes, I'll go. Uh, topic one is
00:26:18
Speaker
Short and sweet because we do have a time crunch today. Just checking our time. We get plenty of time. We got 45 minutes or so. We tend to ramble. Yeah, well. We get on side tangents. But what are skills that you wish you had or you feel like you used to have and have atrophied? Because I can think of two that I really just have no excuse for not being good at them.
00:26:45
Speaker
I am terrible with Microsoft Word and terrible with Excel. Yeah. Yeah, those are definitely gosh. And I don't know the other day, somebody was like, yeah, can you make a pivot table? I was like. No, I need like a special hinge. Exactly. Oh, no, it's an Excel. You make a pivot to it. I was like, here's the data. Please have fun with it. Yeah. Yeah. And I really have no good excuse for not knowing those things. Yeah. And it just bugs me. And it only bugs me.
00:27:16
Speaker
Every because I can I can muddle through word. Yeah. Until some weird formatting thing happens. So I will give you the out, though, because a lot of the formatting issue is something with the Salisbury Fire Department. Well, I was going to say because it happened. None of those memos and things are formatted the right way. You're not. None of them.
00:27:35
Speaker
None of them are. And I had to update a PDF file that's on our server and I could not get it to update. And I literally had to, I think people are just setting the wrong permissions. I don't know what's going on. I was like, chief, I need you to unlock this or just change this for me because I can't do it. And I'm just, it makes me feel so stupid because I used to feel like I was so good with computers.
00:28:03
Speaker
I used to be able to write websites, I could build a computer, I could do all of those things. Now, I look at a Word document that's unformatted, not formatted correctly, and I'm like, yep. I spent five minutes yesterday trying to type an SOG because every time I would try, because I'd already written it as a chief's marching order or whatever, but they said put it in a policy. I tried to cut and paste some of it into the SOG or SOP, and it would
00:28:32
Speaker
I would click to my little carrot is right beside the third Roman numeral. I would hit paste. It would put the Roman numeral underneath it. Uh-huh. And I would delete reset it and it would do it again. And I'm like screaming in my office. Everybody's laughing. I'm like, oh, you're having a good time. Screw you. Yeah. It's little for like our EPAs are formatted poorly. Yeah. And whoever did it,
00:29:03
Speaker
And I don't know why. And my boss was like, because he's clicking in different boxes. Well, where I wrote, I made sure all of my fonts were the same. Right. Yeah. But then he would like click in the box that wasn't my font and it would say 12. I'm like, I don't know. They're all 11. It's just that somebody for some reason formatted this wrong. Yeah. And it's for some reason it, it
00:29:27
Speaker
It types it in some weird font that I can't fix. I don't know. And I give up. I'm just like, this isn't worth my effort. Yeah. Well, I mean, and they also sent out those the updated letterhead memo for the department. And it was reminded, you know, people make sure you're using that. I heard someone the other day. Well. Shouldn't it just update all the memos automatically?
00:29:55
Speaker
because they had an old memo that they had and they were, you know, just they use that. And like, well, I figured it just, you know, overwrote all the old memos. It's like a personal work on my shift. That's not how computers work. No, it wasn't the maniac who works on my shift, who has every email that's ever been sent to him. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. But it's. Yeah. Yeah. Computers definitely one of those things. I'm like, yeah. Yeah, it just feels like
00:30:22
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I've gotten left behind? I don't know. I'm not that old. I feel like I should maybe take a class or something. No. No, because then you'll be in a senior learning class. Yeah. Yeah, I will. Look, you're talking to a guy who went back to college in 2016 to finish his degree with freshmen. It's like there's an 80-year-old man. He's like that
00:30:48
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End of life goal is to get a degree and then there's me and then there's a bunch of 20 year olds. Yeah. So when you're older, there's a professor. Thank you. Yeah. You raise your hand and the professor goes, yes, sir. You walk into the class and everybody's like, oh, the professor's here. And you sit down with this. What? Yeah. What's wrong with this guy? I don't know. I feel like sometimes I should take. Yeah.
00:31:19
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uh, some class for some stuff. Well, I don't know. It's also, I mean, it's ever changing and everything. Like I've seen people now they're talking about using God, what is it called? Chat GP or whatever the AI. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I thought about, you know, seeing what it would do. I'm like, I'm terrified that, you know, cause all I hear is, you know, AI or whatever. And I'm like, God, my computer's going to take me over or something.
00:31:46
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I watched a cool video from Sorted Food about it, where they basically put ingredients into chat GPT and it made random recipes for it. It was pretty cool. That's kind of neat. They probably put bad ingredients in there. I think if you had put good ingredients, it would have been a much more interesting experiment. It was cool to watch. Yeah, that's something I would love to learn. Yeah.
00:32:16
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Like I'm so far behind, like I don't do slide deck. Well, I'm still I'm still PowerPointing it. Oh, yeah. PowerPoint. PowerPoint. You're not supposed to PowerPoint anymore. Really? Oh, no. Yeah. PowerPoint is like what slide deck is that Google? It thinks so. OK. But PowerPoint's like the no no. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. So move move past. But I don't I don't know how to use it so.
00:32:45
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I do Google docs, but nobody in the fire department does. So it doesn't help me. Yeah. Well, I use Google docs. A slide deck is a collection of slides organized together to form a cohesive presentation presentation tools that allow presenters to share their ideas with an audience. Can you show us? Okay.
00:33:04
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Yeah, I think it's basically PowerPoint, but more general. Yeah. I don't know. Adobe Acrobat continues to be the biggest mystery of the world. Oh yeah. Yeah. And God help you if you ever try to buy Adobe, because you don't even know what to buy. And then there's like an $800 version and you're like, what did I buy? Yeah.
00:33:30
Speaker
Or you're like, well, I mean, this one, that's three hundred dollars. It must have everything I need. And it's it's like the ten dollar one is what you needed. Yeah. Yeah. They won't. They won't do that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And you can't add that ten dollar one onto it. No, no, no, no. That's a whole separate icon on your computer or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I used to be halfway decent at like working on a car, you know,
00:33:57
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tuning it up, getting things going and anymore I'm like, I, that's a lot of computer under there. I know here. Yeah. Yeah. I still struggle with my Jeep problems. Um, I'm on board with it on that. I mean, I could change the oil in 60% of the cars I have. Right. Yeah. I mean, like, you know, change in oil, air filters, things like that. But I mean, I used to be able to like listen to it and be like,
00:34:22
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Yeah, it sounds like there's a little bit of a tap and it just right, you know rider arms and mess distributor and change timing and things and yeah, no Weirdly cars was never my thing. I am I never Spent the time or because I guess like I feel like when I was a kid you had the choice of either being a computer nerd or a car nerd and
00:34:50
Speaker
And I chose computers. And I wasn't a full car nerd, but it was like one of those things. It was like, I think it was because my uncle, he was a mechanic and always worked on things, but it was any time he got a vehicle and he instilled it in me is the first thing you did was you bought the the Haynes or the Chilton manual to go with it, because if you had to take that thing to, you know, somewhere to get it fixed, that was, you know, a mark of embarrassment.
00:35:14
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So, you know, it's got all these blowout diagrams and everything. You're like, OK, and looking at this. But then again, back then, you know, the engine was five pieces. Yeah. So you needed to accurate. You used to be able to take a long screwdriver, put it on the motor, hold your ear to it, and you could tell you you could tell which valve was messed up.
00:35:37
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There's valves. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You can tell which ones were sticking, where you had your taps, if you had a spark knock, things like that. Yeah, no. Not my. Not my thing. But, you know, I used to be able to take computer spark and, you know, I tried to build my last computer and I almost was like, this is a.
00:36:01
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Also, I think oddly because it got so much more expensive. Yeah. Parts for cars and parts of computers used to be much more affordable. Yeah, you could drive to auto zone and be like, hey, I need a transmission. That'll be 50 bucks. Right. Or or they had to, you know, you could go to the junkyard. And you could take the parts off an old junker car and get them super cheap and then take them home and use them.
00:36:25
Speaker
That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. My wife's battery in her car died. It's just an old battery, you know, it's a seven year old car. It's probably seven year old battery needs to be replaced, but you know, just catches off guard when it happens. Yeah. And, uh, get a job, take it out on his own. And I'm like, can you check the battery? And they're like, yeah, your battery's dead. And I'm like, all right, uh, putting the battery in. And so it's the girl behind the counter was like, here you go. Here's the battery. And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
00:36:55
Speaker
Peasant peasant. It says you install. Yeah. For free. Yeah. But then I ended up installing it anyways. She never looked at like there was no part of her though. She's like, well, this is a guy he's just going to install. Yeah, exactly. It's not the wrong dude. Yeah. But I did it. You should have brought Dorian in there. They would automatically said here we got this. Yeah. Now, is her battery easy to get to?
00:37:20
Speaker
Yes. Okay. Handily on that vehicle. It's the one thing on a Subaru. It's easy to get to his battery. My wife's last vehicle. It was in the floor in front of the rear passenger seat. Hmm. Yeah. And it was this tray that was if you had maybe a sixteenth of an inch on each side to like get it down in there. So getting it out was fun because your batteries don't have a handle on the top anymore.
00:37:47
Speaker
So I had like two screwdrivers, so I'm like wedging it and slowly picking it up and, you know, I'm like, kids, put a wedge in there. And they're like, it's not expensive for Harvey or anything. Yeah. Yeah. And then the battery was $100. That was the cheap version. Oof. I was like, man, battery's a gun. Was that before or after the core charge?
00:38:10
Speaker
That was after she turning in the core was a hundred hours. Wow. Yeah. It's rough. Yeah. Yeah. And then of course they gave me their little toolkit and it's like, I think I need a 10 millimeter. Yeah. And of course they had an eight or 12. Of course. Yeah. Why would you have a 10? Why would you have a 10? But I got it done. Take care of, I felt like it was like a good,
00:38:38
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This is sexist to say, but a good mainly day. Oh yeah. Yeah. Fix the battery in my car. I did something else too. Killed a bear. Killed a bear. What else did I do? I was so proud of myself for a second there and I can't even remember what it was. Short term memory is the first thing to go. Yeah. Yeah. You're talking about another skill, math.
00:39:07
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Oh, I used to be so good at math. I mean, I took working at chemistry one and two micro and all these things in college I had to use like big math for and like my daughter is working on, you know, calculus stuff. And I'm like, it looks like calculus. Yep. Looks like calculus. So I'm like looking for the app that you can like scan a formula and I'll tell you how to do it. Which did you know there are things like that?
00:39:34
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No. Yes. There are apps that you can scan, you know, your, with your camera and it'll tell you how to figure out the formula. Hmm. Yeah. Amazing. That's right. Was that when I was in school? Exactly. Yeah. I was never good at math. I never cared for it. I was very happy to be done with math as a concept of my life. See, I liked math because it was knowns.
00:40:01
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Mm hmm. You know, I did well geometry. Geometry was fun. No, I'm. Definitely of the art side of arts and sciences. Yeah, yeah, it was definitely math and science. Yeah, that's it. I like I used to be able to name an animal, you know, from species all the way up to kingdom. Well, you are the Salisbury Fire Department's resident biologist. Yeah, I am. Yeah.
00:40:32
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The other day, the kawati died at the zoo. I saw that. I was I was sad. And the guys are ogres about that. I was like, it's a kawati. They're lovely little creatures. Was 17 years old. No, it was 15. Oh, 15. It was 15. And their usual life spans about 14 years old in captivity. That's a good life. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm sure it did. But it was still sad. I like seeing a little guy. Yeah, you know. And they said it was the only one. I thought they had multiple kawatis there. But.
00:41:02
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Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't been to the zoo in a while. I've only been to the zoo a little, well, Bradburger and I were last time, I was last time. Oh gosh, yeah. Yeah, it was a while back. It was a while back when we almost got hit by the track war. I was going to let that happen too. Yeah. He's just slowly leaning back. Yeah. I was going to say the one skill that I would teach people or tell people to make sure you keep up on is cooking.
00:41:32
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Yes. The amount of people that don't know how to cook. It's mind boggling. What do you do every day when you're not with other adults? How do you feed yourself?
00:41:44
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And it's like, you don't even have to cook. I'm not asking you to cook, you know, five star, five Michelin star meals here. I mean, learn how to make a grilled cheese. A hamburger or, you know, something other than a box of mac and cheese and a can of green beans.
00:42:05
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I said I get in my argument with my wife with that all the time. She's got we'll just get a can of green beans. I was like, no, we'll get fresh green beans and saute them. They only taste funny. They taste like green beans. They don't taste like canned. The only canned vegetable that's acceptable.
00:42:24
Speaker
It's tomatoes. We have fruit. Yeah. Yeah. What? No carrots, because it comes in this or yams because it comes in that syrup and then you add more brown sugar syrup. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. God day. God, it was so sweet. Yeah. Never yams. Sometimes corn, but frozen corn is better. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I would take.
00:42:53
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Corn canned corn is good as long as it's still the crisp, nice corn. Like I there's nothing worse than buying into corn. It's mushy. Yeah, I'm just like an ear, like I can get an ear of corn. You know, you're biting into it. And if you get one of those that doesn't pop, I almost want to throw it away. Well, sir. Yeah, I don't really like to eat corn unless it's on the cob. Yeah. Like if someone's like, here's a plate full of corn, I'm not going to be really excited for it.
00:43:22
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Yeah, but I mean, like, corn, roasted corn. What? Well, if it's like roasted corn. Like on the call tape. No, like, sauteed up and, you know, some spices and everything in it. Almost like cash. Not interested. OK. Well, and see, my wife makes fun of me because, yeah, I love corn on the cob. I'll sit there and eat a dozen years probably. Sure. But I do the typewriter machine and I eat like an animal when I eat another way to eat corn.
00:43:49
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Yeah, I don't know. There was one time we were in public and I was like, it's something I got came with the ear of corn. And Sarah's like, are you sure you should be eating corn today? It's like, what is that? What do you mean? She's like, you're kind of messy. You're going to make a scene. I was like, I don't care. I don't know these people. Never see them again in my life. Yeah, I don't care what other people think of me. Yeah. So.
00:44:16
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But yeah, yeah, you got to learn how to cook and cook in season. Because there are some people that can cook, but they don't understand what seasoning is. We had to cook. We didn't have to. I cooked for my buddy over the camping trip and of course he's had a stroke. So, you know, have to cut down on salt. Yeah.
00:44:40
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This is not good food. Now, salt is amazingly versatile in what it's not fair to me to eat bad food because you had a stroke. Yeah, you could have Mrs. Dash, isn't that one of the salt alternatives? Yeah, well, I don't have any of that. Yeah. Or you know it, you give him some extra salt. Let's toughen him up. Yeah. I don't think that's.
00:45:10
Speaker
No, no, that's not. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I was proud of myself a couple of weeks ago at a parallel park and did it. No problem. Oh, that's a skill I retained a little bit, I guess. That's a. Good point. That's the nice thing about the Jeep, you can parallel part that thing anywhere. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to out to parallel park. It actually is a whole different skill because like your backup cameras.
00:45:39
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Yeah, that's very off looks in different ways. And yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember when we took our test and they made us parallel park a fire truck? No, they didn't do that for Delaware, Maryland. You had to. I was like, when when am I ever going to parallel park this? Well, it's because it's a generic test. Yeah. Helping somebody take their test recently. And I'm like, when would you fire for her ever do any of these things? Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:08
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We don't even alley dock. Yeah, it's not it's not a thing we do. We and we sure as heck don't before I recall go, OK, I'm going to start at the windshield. Yeah. I need to check the attention of the wiper arm. And because one of the things on the the.
00:46:30
Speaker
The test for MVA is check the hub seals. Well, as now I've seen a hub seal break, you are going to know that the hub seal is broken. You're not going to have to look for it. That's why they're like, well, you didn't verbalize that there were no puddles underneath the vehicle. Well, if there was a puddle, I would verbalize it.
00:46:51
Speaker
Shoo, they backed that ambulance in and the hub seal burst. And I was like, what have you done? You've murdered. You murdered the ambulance. What's happened? Oh, gosh. I just called the boss like, um, should we drive an ambulance without a hub seal? I feel like that's something we shouldn't do. Nah, you shouldn't really drive far without that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:13
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I didn't want to drive it around the building. I was like, let's just leave it there. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Things we break in the fire department. We break a lot. Well, we use a lot. I mean, that's the thing. Yeah. Let's call these people that are buying old ambulances and turning them into RVs. I'm like, do you know how
00:47:38
Speaker
Badly, those animals were mistreated. Yeah, it's not that they're mistreated on purpose. It's the way fire departments operate. It's not good for diesel engines. Yeah. Like real bad. Why do we use diesel engines? Why don't we use gasoline? The mileage is ridiculous. Yeah, they are just not fuel efficient. I mean, fair, but when we get better
00:48:07
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We feel like we blow up a motor every time we have an ambulance. Part of that is... Part of that has to deal with the manufacturer, part of that has to deal with the maintenance. Sure, sure. Yeah. It feels like how we drive an ambulance is real bad for diesel engines. Oh, yeah, it is. Yeah, there's nothing good about what we do for...
00:48:33
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I would say a skill that most people also need to know is like how to stay fit. And, you know, it kind of goes on with the cooking, but you know, know that you should walk around and stretch and do things like that on a daily basis. Yeah. The number of people and I've been, I've been guilty of this in my lifetime, but then as I get older, I'm much more cognizant of it. It's like,
00:48:57
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just getting up and walking. Yeah, once a day. Yep. You know, a mile a day is, you know, if you read the studies, like one mile or 20 to 30 minutes of walking a day is like game changing. Yeah, it is. It's you don't have to do P90X every day. No. And it's great. And you can do it. But yeah, just
00:49:20
Speaker
walking. I've been reading a lot of health studies about walking and it's like every study agrees that just light walking is the best thing for you. Oh yeah. Just getting up and doing it is crazy. It's good for your mental health. It's good for your physical health. Yeah. I mean, today it was nice outside. So the last part of the day at work day, I threw on my tennis shoes and walked around the block.
00:49:44
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Yeah, we try to walk every morning. We didn't walk this morning because it was raining this morning, but we'll probably walk after this podcast. Yeah. Yeah, we usually try to walk after dinner, walk the dogs. Yeah. We try to walk. Except first thing in the morning, get up, brush teeth, go out and walk. It's going to be a ritual.
00:50:08
Speaker
It's nothing more than just bring up your body and exactly joints work. Yeah. Yeah. You don't need to do the Jaco 5000 workout. You just need to walk. Yeah. Yeah. You don't need to run a marathon. You don't need to do any. If you want to train for a marathon. Oh, yeah. Be my guest. Yeah. Have at it. But it's a whole other program.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah, we have a marathon Saturday morning in town. So I get to come home from work and there's going to be a marathon running through town. Do you need some extra batteries to chuck at them? I'm just going to avoid them. They're only giving them four hours total. Whoa. It's a whole thing. It's eight to 12. That's it. Wow. That's a clip. Yeah.
00:51:00
Speaker
I mean, I know the fast people doing like two and a half. Yeah, because they're animals. I mean, I don't know what is chasing them, but God stay out of its way. Yeah, it's like that one kid was it last year, year before it was like a it's something insane. It was like a seven minute average mile or something doing a marathon or something crazy like that. It was like, what, what, what? No.
00:51:27
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Um, for fun. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you want to move on to topic two, since we are running. Sure. I told you we would we would do that. Yeah, it's fine. We got time. Um, topic two. So and I had text you about this earlier, so you had a little briefing or, you know, get it in your mind. But I want to talk about what a normal weekend was when you were like 14, 15, you know, before you had a car, but
00:51:57
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You know, you're still out and about kind of active doing stuff. Yeah. So I thought about it. And the first thing I thought about was that was. Let's say during the school year. Yeah. You know, a weekend during the school year, I was at school so much. I did drama. I did. I was two different times a year. You drama. I did stupid.
00:52:25
Speaker
Science Olympiad and was the Texaco Challenge and all that stuff. The Texaco Challenge? Yeah. What the heck is that? It was like this trivia thing for high school kids. You didn't have the Texaco Challenge down here? No, I graduated with 60 other people. That's fair. OK, we didn't have drama. We didn't have you know, drama. No, we didn't have drama. We didn't have football. We didn't have lacrosse. Well, what did you do all day? It was either.
00:52:55
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Wrestling or baseball or something like that in school Yeah, that's why I played baseball for four or three years in high school and hated it. Oh Yeah, I I played so I was thinking about 14 year what? 10th grade. Yeah Yeah, 9th 10th somewhere around that's great. So I ended up anywhere you're at
00:53:17
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Yeah, so I was in the high school play every year for four years. I was in chorus. I didn't do chorus. So that took up a lot of, but I was thinking about it. I was like, how did I get there? Oh yeah, my parents had to drive me, or I walked. I was lucky that I lived about a mile from school, so I walked. You ride your bike. Weirdly, I didn't have a bike in high school. Really?
00:53:43
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Yeah, I didn't have a bike until after. Well, I had a bike in college that got stolen. And then I didn't get another bike until oh, probably oh, two or three. Wow. Yeah. We had a I had a bike. Maybe maybe my freshman year had a bike, but then I didn't have one after that. Yeah. This is weird for somebody who now has a fleet of bicycles in his house. Yeah.
00:54:13
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But maybe that's why. Yeah. Yeah, I'm making up. Yeah, I can remember. Before, in the younger times, we would ride our bikes everywhere on the weekends. Yeah. Luckily, when I was 15, my best friend was a year older than me, so he had a car. Okay. Yeah, that makes things easier. That helped. I did caddy. I don't know why we can't expect caddying. Yeah, we didn't have a golf course.
00:54:40
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There's a golf course near you. No, there's not. Yeah, there is. Not when I lived in Sharptown. Well, I didn't live next to the golf course. I had to get to I had to drive to the golf course. No, it was probably a 25 minute drive. We had to either shuck pickles or shuck pickle. I don't know.
00:55:04
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This is how I know my parents loved me or especially my father. He would get up at 5.30 in the morning on his days off and drive me to the golf course and especially over the summer and leave me at the golf course because he worked second shift. Wow. And he would leave me at the golf course until he had to go to work and then he'd come pick me up or my mother would pick me up. Wow. So I'd be there from 5.30 to five most weekends and summer days. I loved it. Yeah. It was great.
00:55:34
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I don't think I ever remember eating. I know I never showed up with a lunch bag. Yeah. I don't remember. I was talking about this the other day. I felt like a hot dog stand or something. Yeah, but no, there wasn't. No. No, that golf course. That was a fancy ranch. He probably had a lobster roll. We weren't allowed in the clubhouse. Ooh. Yeah. Unless we were needed for something. So is it like Caddyshack and you had a little hut?
00:56:00
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We literally, so the golf course I worked at was this fancy ass golf course called the limited country club. I don't know if it's still this way, but you weren't allowed to have carts unless you had a, you were handicapped. Okay. And even if you had, even if you had a cart, you had to have a caddy. So there was a cart shack for when the tour was there. Cause by the tour PGA and LPGA rules, they have to have carts. Yeah.
00:56:26
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Um, so there was a car check and then right next to that was this little shed that had tables and chairs and, um, a TV. And we just sat in there all day until they called us up. Yeah. I just did a quick Google search of the Wilmington country club. And yes, it's definitely bougie. It's very bougie for more than a hundred years. We've embraced a unique, sophisticated and welcoming culture that caters to the new and old generations alike, creating lasting memories and home away from home.
00:56:56
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Yeah. Wow. I'll never be able to afford to be a member of Wilmington Country Club has been solidified as one of the finest and most prestigious clubs in the country. And as our members already know, Wilmington Country Club is truly a special place. It is a beautiful course. Oh yeah. The pictures look delightful. Yeah.
00:57:19
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But no, I that's I worked a lot when I was 14, 15. So during the day I was working. Yeah. At night I was out with my friends. We would stay out till 10 o'clock at night. The night. Oh, yeah. You know, wasn't a school night. Right. We just be out. I just felt like we never did anything. There was nothing that was ever useful. It was always fucking around. Oh, yeah. No, we we were not curing anything or thinking about anything.
00:57:49
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Yeah, I mean, I can remember like a weekend, you know, or a day off from school or something like that. Yeah, I would usually weasel my way to staying at my grandmother's house the night before because she lived in Sharptown. I lived outside. Now I could get up, I'd get my bike and we meet up and three or four of us would ride down to Wix, which is a little store that was at the foot of the old bridge and
00:58:18
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Wix, you we would get, you know, a thing of night crawlers and breakfast sandwich and a Mountain Dew or something. Then we go ride our bikes like another, like, I don't know, couple hundred yards and go fishing for a while. Bring the fish back up. Usually, you know, there's somebody up there at the bridge that would want the fish or buy them or take them or whatever, or we just throw them back. We probably do that till lunchtime.
00:58:48
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Now we ride our bikes to somebody's parent or grandparent or just somebody we news house because we knew they would feed us. And they would typically, you know, oh, you know, we'll cook you a chicken or whatever because they're insane. And then, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then we made very pretty much. Yeah. And we'd ride down the lake, the the soccer field or whatever and play football or we play in somebody's yard and we'd play
00:59:16
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I am sorry, folks, this is what they called it at the time smear the queer. Oh, yeah. Yep. And or we would develop our own game like tree ball or something where you had to you had to have take at least five steps with the ball. And if you threw it and hit the tree, you got a point and all kinds of weird stuff like that.
00:59:34
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We would shoot bottle rockets at each other. Yes, because we were dumb. Yep. You take the BB guns and you're only allowed two pumps before you shot somebody. No, we didn't do that. Oh, yeah, we would. And then you would hear somebody. You're like, oh, God, this is going to hurt. We would play war all throughout the town.
00:59:58
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And it's just I guess the town just knew because we would go through everybody's yard. But there were weekends like we would set it aside and there were all these little maniacs dressed in camouflage with army guns and we would split up and have like different factions. And like it was like capture the flag almost. But yeah, we would like go through the entire town like this. We're like going through people's sheds and up in trees and through bushes. And yeah, if somebody did that now, like if I looked at and there was some kid in my bush, I would go out there with a broom.
01:00:31
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Get away. Get out of my yard. Step my apple pie. He disturbed the birds. But I mean, yeah, we'd find someplace to go for dinner. Somebody's parent or grandparent would feed us. And yeah, we'd watch TV or I really like we would be riding our bikes down the street and people would say, are you boys hungry? Come on in. What? Yes.
01:01:00
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Yes. Or would you like some ice cream? I mean, it was just like the entire town took care of us. Definitely a different viewpoint in the town. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, we didn't. I mean, in my neighborhood, there was probably only
01:01:22
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12 kids my age, I was 14 and I only hung out with like two of them. That was it and my rascally ass brother. There was like the tight knit, like four or five of us, but there was like a group of like at least 30. How many times did you have to paint picket fences there, Tom Sawyer? We didn't paint picket fences. Oh, went up down the Mississippi River, took the raft up to Nanticoke into Seaford.
01:01:54
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Yeah. And then as we got older, we would ride our bikes down to the wharf and we'd take our boats out and do all kinds of crazy stuff. I mean, you know, we would go skiing or, you know, just go fishing off the boat or go muskrat hunting or whatever or trapping. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. No, none of this. This is you have a completely this is I was working. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, we made money with the muskrats. No, I had a job.
01:02:22
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I think it would have worked. That was the job. You had to check the traps. Seriously, we would get, you know, X amount to check the traps. And then if per muskrat, you got more to it. But it really sounds like we would work the farm, but there's a Huck Finn over here. We work on the farm. You got to, you know, pick tomatoes and squash. Oh, gosh, squash and zucchini were the worst because all the prickles on the vines you get so cut up. What year did you grow up in?
01:02:52
Speaker
What do you mean? It sounds like the Grapes of Wrath. What are you talking about? Yeah, picking watermelons. And every now and again, you would drop one accidentally. And really, that was just so you could rip the heart out of it and get some sustenance for the day. What? And then the offseason, you would bale hay and straw. And depending on how it was being. Was this 1943? No, this is the 90s. What are you talking about? Yeah.
01:03:21
Speaker
We either drove the tractor, you stack the bales or you toss the bales. So because there was one person that the bail would come up the shoot and it would come out and then the first person grab it and throw it behind them. The next person would toss it up and then you would stack them and you had to do like Tetris, like, you know, horizontal and then vertical. I went to the dug that's clear the floors with you. It was wrong. We check.
01:03:50
Speaker
I had to pay taxes. Yeah, because most of that was under the table for us. Of course it was. Yeah. You got pain and kind. Here's the bottle of shine. Go on down, boys. Have yourselves a good time. Get out of the barn. We're out of a sock hop. We never had a sock hop. Wherever you live in it. We go to the turkey shoot. Oh my gosh. Do you know what a turkey shoot is? I'm assuming it's you shoot turkeys. No, you don't shoot the turkeys.
01:04:19
Speaker
No, it was usually at the American Legion and there would be a target on like a four by four post. Well, a few. There's like five or 10, depending on what it was. There's a paper target they would put on it and it was based on the age and the type of gun you're using and what round it was or whatever. Like, all right, it's the, you know, junior silver turkey shoot round. You go up there and you get your, you know, 20 gauge and you sight in, you take one shot.
01:04:49
Speaker
Whoever had the most that were around the bullseye won the turkey for that round. And then second place got like a ham and the third place got
Nostalgic Rewards: Frozen Turkey Story
01:04:57
Speaker
a chicken. What? A real turkey? Yes. Like a frozen turkey. Yes. This is where you're 13 years old. Here's your turkey. What are you supposed to do with a turkey? Yeah. Well, you'd also get a trophy, but it was all about getting a turkey. Seriously, it was like, you know, I can remember my old man be like, boy, you better get one this year. I mean, that'd be a good Thanksgiving dinner.
01:05:19
Speaker
I really feel like I'm listening to Huck Finn. This is not this is not my experience at all.
Teen Independence with Cars and CB Radios
01:05:27
Speaker
I mean, we, you know, well, soon as we had cars or access to a car, soon as one of us turned 16, we were never home. Oh, yeah. I mean, once we turned 16, then we all had to put CB radios in our cars so we could play CB tag again. Oh, Lordy. You never played CB tag? No.
01:05:50
Speaker
I want to see B. Hmm. Yeah. Well, and also we were, you know, we were older, so we didn't play hide and seek. We just played. We called it Hyde. So it sounded cooler.
College Game Night: Playing 'Hyde'
01:06:01
Speaker
But I can remember we would like we were like 18, 19. I can remember being in college and we would go to somebody's house for, you know, a party or whatever. And you sure we'd party for a little bit. They're like, all right, it's dark enough. 20 minutes till Hyde. Everybody get their camo on and everything and then off you go.
01:06:18
Speaker
What? Yes. In college? Well, college age, yeah. Okay, that's definitely not what I did in college. Well, I did other things, obviously, but yeah, that was fun. I mean... Yeah, I mean, guys would paint their faces, all kinds of stuff, yeah. Sometimes I forget that you're a hillbilly.
01:06:42
Speaker
This is a stark reminder. Yeah. Oh yeah. The shore lifestyle folks. Yeah. And that's why I wanted to bring this up. Cause I figured I'd give you some good laughs too. I did not. I just, it's just, it's so far outside of my experience as a 14 year old in Northern Delaware. It's like, it's, it's like, I was weirdly,
01:07:09
Speaker
That's another dude in your conversation. We were talking about like, it's a 14 hours software in high school probably. I think I lived off Pop-Tarts. Like I don't remember eating food other than Pop-Tarts and beef jerky for like a year.
School Snack Memories: Pop-Tarts and Hot Cookies
01:07:23
Speaker
Cheesy toast is a big one for me. Well, see Pop-Tarts was what they sold at the little store in the school. Cause we had a store in our school. Nah, we didn't have a store. Well, of course not because he wouldn't have made any money.
01:07:38
Speaker
Did your school do a famous name as cookies, at least? Yes. OK. Yes. Hot cookies. Oh, baby. Yeah, you had to get them at the right time. Oh, and the best tater tots. When they added the ranch powder shaker to the tater tot or the the lunch line, that was a game changer. Ranch powder on tater tots and french fries.
Dining Hall Camaraderie
01:08:00
Speaker
I don't think I bought lunch. I'm telling you, I have real memories of not eating lunch for like four years of my life. I don't remember, like in high school and college, I don't think I ate lunch. This wasn't a thing. Um, I would sometimes, it depends. When I went, by the time I went to college,
01:08:24
Speaker
You go to the dorm and you went to the dining hall, but you really didn't go to the dining hall for lunch. You went for breakfast and dinner. That was it. Yeah, see, I was a commuter, so I don't know. Yeah, crappy-ass dining hall food. That was some of the best meals I've ever had in life for dining hall food because we just all sat, the same group of us all sat around the table together for four years. Yeah, I'm sure that is amazing. We didn't play hide though. We were like, all right, everybody spoons down. Hide.
01:08:55
Speaker
Boons down. Oh, gosh. We did play. I mean, it's about that we did laser tag. Yeah. But no, no hiding. Yeah, but see, yeah, you had to go some bougie place and play laser tag. Yeah. Yeah. The real bougie, shady ass place down. Yes. Fourteen. Yeah.
Friday Night Youth Culture: Roller Rinks and Bowling
01:09:20
Speaker
Fourteen might have still been roller rink time. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We would go. Yeah.
01:09:25
Speaker
Friday nights get dropped off at Skateland. Yeah, we had the we had the Elzer roller rink, which is the shadiest place in the world. It's literally under an overpass. Nice. Yeah, it is super shady. Or we went to the one in Christiana or bowling lane. Oh, we went bowling a lot. Yeah, we were pulling bowling in in my. Time frame was like the thing everybody did. Yeah, like you would see my dad was in a league.
01:09:54
Speaker
But it was just high school kids doing it. Yeah. It wasn't like old guys. Well, maybe they probably had the ignites and stuff. Yeah. Like every high school kid on a Friday night, we would all go bowling and you go bowling and then you go charcoal for ice cream. That was like the Friday night. Our youth group would go bowling a lot. Yeah, we went bowling a lot. Yeah. I was never any good at bowling. That wasn't great, but I always had fun. Yeah. Yeah.
01:10:23
Speaker
roller skates, do you have your roller blades? I did have roller blades.
Rollerblading Mishaps and Protective Gear
01:10:28
Speaker
Yep. I broke my I had roller blades right up until I broke my wrist and I never really did again. My mother, she was fine with me wearing roller skates. But once I got roller blades, I had to wear the wrist guards. And it was like a molded plastic. Oh, yeah. I remember them.
01:10:45
Speaker
Uh, I, I was skating backwards down a hill and oh, broke my fall with my arm. That's not good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I got up and I was like, huh, that's not right. Yeah. And I sat in my couch for four hours waiting for my mother to get home before I went and got to hospital. Oh my gosh. To get it set. Oof. Yeah. That's still some weird, uh, things with my wrist because of it. That could do it.
01:11:13
Speaker
Yeah. But now we're rollerbladed. We played basketball a lot. We had basketball on my street, like the three house. But my street, I lived on a court and the people who lived at the top of the court were all these old people who didn't want you around their houses. So I lived on the curve. So we're always playing basketball on the curve. So I always
01:11:35
Speaker
You know, keep cold shots. I'm going
Neighborhood Basketball Shenanigans
01:11:38
Speaker
to move. I'm going to throw because I saw this jag. Yeah. You know, I want his jag. I drive a jaguar. Yeah. The guy at the end of the street always serves jaguar. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't play basketball. We played this game where you took the potato and you threw it in the peach basket. No, come on. I can't. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. You're a folksy wisdom.
01:12:08
Speaker
Definitely had. It's funny.
Small Town vs Big Town School Life
01:12:13
Speaker
Speaking of the shore lifestyle versus where I live, I guess. Andrew Quillen was on shift the other day and he's looking at Google maps. I don't know why he does. He goes to Google maps all the time. He's like, look at this town. They got two schools. I'm like,
01:12:31
Speaker
Of course, what do you mean they have two schools? Well, Snow Hill, we only got one school. Like just 500 people live in your town. Of course, you only have one school. What are you talking about? I bet that man's played hide. She probably has. But I was like, well, how many people do you think live in that town, Quillen? Oh, I don't know, like 800? I'm like, try 20,000. Jeez. That's two schools.
01:12:59
Speaker
What's going on, man? You're killing me. I mean, Salisbury has two schools. There's three schools within half a mile each other for some reason. You're a weird county. You want to know what the population of Sharptown is? 441 people. Oh, no. 687. Oh, so close. Yeah, we've been above 600 for the last 30 years. I saw Delaware finally hit a million people.
01:13:26
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. Look at us.
Local Trivia: Sharptown's Demographics
01:13:31
Speaker
And 700,000 of them live in my county. No, no, they live in Sussex County. No, 700,000 live in my county. Really? Wow. Yeah. Wow. Nobody lives in Kent County. That's the thing people understand about Delaware. Yeah, there's like four people living in Kent County. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a special handshake. Well, they all know each other. Yeah. They're all named Earl.
01:13:54
Speaker
and they're all related. They're all related. Yeah. We, uh, no, it's crazy. It's crazy. Like seeing some, my neighborhood has more than 600 people living in it. Jesus. I wonder what, I wonder what the population of my neighborhood is. I feel like a township. That's not a neighborhood. Let's look it up. Uh, it's the Anal tech neighborhood.
01:14:20
Speaker
Yeah, they changed their name. You guys made fun of enough. I mean, fun enough. There are 14000 people in my neighborhood. You're kidding me. But 14000. God, man, there are 3787 inhabitants per square mile. Wow. Yeah, that's that's a lot. That's of the 2000s. That's exciting. Where's the shoe? Gosh, Sharpton, there's probably like two people per square mile.
01:14:53
Speaker
Hmm. And up until about 10 years ago, they still had a triple decker chicken house. Exciting. Yes, it was one of the last on the shore. Yeah. Did you guys like have a party when you take it down? No, we did not. They actually turned it into a storage unit for a little bit and then part of it started to collapse and they got rid of it.
01:15:19
Speaker
Actually, the population density of of Sharptown is pretty high. Oh, yeah. It's one thousand five hundred eighty seven people per square mile. I wonder if that includes San Domingo. Must be because they're not a square mile. Yeah, well, there's only two hundred fifty one households. Yeah, that makes sense.
Sharptown History and Its De Facto Mayor
01:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, then it's just Sharptown proper. Yeah. Yeah. In the corporate limits. San Domingo school. Yeah, San Domingo has school.
01:15:49
Speaker
Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Do they have a mayor? No. Who? Sharptown? Yeah. Yeah, Sharptown has a mayor. They got town council. Oh. Yeah. Oh yeah. Who knew? They had a de facto mayor for years. What does that mean? We never had an election. He was just the mayor. What? Yeah. It's like his own little fiefdom. What? Yeah.
01:16:17
Speaker
This is the Nanticoke River you're on, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you leave Sharpton, you go south, you'll go down towards Vienna and Redbanks. If you go north, you'll go or no, north was Redbanks and Blades and Seifert. Right. Yeah. Seifert has right on Nanticoke as well. So I don't know why they don't just give up the fact that there's two towns.
01:16:46
Speaker
It's just, it's dumb. It is. Just call it Sharp, see if it'd be done with it. Yeah. Why when you Google Sharp Town is the picture hot dogs on a roller? I don't know. That's interesting. I'll have to look into that. Yeah. The image is just, I've worked in Salisbury for almost 19 years now and I've never been to Sharp Town. Oh wait, this summer I'm taking you to the carnival.
01:17:17
Speaker
I couldn't even tell you how to get there. Yeah. Oh, you'll find there's a fourth street. Yeah. There's not a second or third. No, no, that's not true. Uh, yeah.
The Mystery of Missing Streets in Sharptown
01:17:34
Speaker
Well, uh, folks, I think that's a good place to stop the fog. The worst part about sharp town. Fun fact, folks, the population in 1880 was 411.
01:17:45
Speaker
As of 2020, there's only 691. Yeah. It's an exclusive club. The boom was apparently in 1930 when it was 727. Yeah. It was the big gears. Oh yeah. Well, that's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Why aren't there a second and third street? Maybe we'll figure that out in the future. What happened?
01:18:14
Speaker
What? Yeah, yeah. Sharptown. Yeah. Well, folks, enjoy the rest of your smarch. Yeah. Yeah. Last few days of smarch. Last few days of smarch. It'll be April showers bringing May lions or something. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Yep. Watch out for the lions. Yeah. Come join us on the discord. Yep. And also follow us on Twitter. That's sealed. True at 22. Yeah.
01:18:44
Speaker
And yeah, take care, folks. Be good to each other.