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The Kill Power Hour #065 - Eric's First List
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Eric's first contribution to our "Here is a List" season includes reminders about how awesome libraries are, how monotonous maintenance can be, and how important it is to pay attention to your surroundings. Plus, nothing like a classic existential crisis to make you spiral about your legacy and what you're leaving behind--enjoy!
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Introduction to 'Kill Power' podcast and topics
00:00:05
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Kill Power a podcast where three friends spend the better part of an hour arguing and explaining why nothing is worth saving, but everything is worth growing. Each week we go through a list. This week we'll be discussing my ideas on legacies, lawns, and libraries.
00:00:21
Speaker
I'm your host Eric, and as always I'm joined by my best friend Tugger. He loves know alliteration. And my best friend's little brother. Yeah, you know what? EC just wants to try to rhyme something and have someone enjoy it. which can that explain it see And the intelligence difference between the two brothers. is one but One knows it's rhyming, and one knows it's an alliteration. Get the out. This guy's all about rhyming and his fucking puns and there you go.
Humor and Last Words: Eric's Imaginary Farewell
00:00:51
Speaker
Here's the list. Fuck you, EC. There we go. Now that episode has started. The season is over. oh you know what's fantastic about my life? And going to be on my deathbed with my fucking family around me. Probably not. Maybe I'll piss them off.
00:01:06
Speaker
Fuck it. I'll be alone in my deathbed. There'll be fucking... ah fucking nurse just fucking keeping tabs or something and I will remember how many times a month I wake up and the first thing is fuck you EC it just pops into my head it's like a fucking this is happening now yeah all the time oh I didn't quite understand the deathbed and the nurse thing but you're you're telling me that that happens to now I'm saying when when when things are coming to an end oh god the last last thing he says yes my last words are fuck you
00:01:40
Speaker
So wait a minute. Is that also the question in here? Summarize your life up until now in three words.
The Impact of Repetition in Music and Preferences
00:01:45
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Fuck you. You see? It's part of it. Sorry. Spoiler alert. I didn't mean to. Spoiler alert. Yeah. Yeah. That's if I had to guess Tyler's, that would be it.
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Here's a list. Fuck you. Fuck you. That's my list. What's that? a Fucking fuck you. That's that clip. That's my name. Yeah, fuck you, that's my name.
00:02:05
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It's on a Lagwagon album. Featured in a song, but it's from a movie. Oh, Phoenix TX? No, it's Lagwagon or No Use. i don't remember who it is. Same thing.
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it's Seeing as we always like to think a splinter podcast while we're in the middle of this current podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. to To go back to music for a second, it would be fun to...
00:02:27
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do a source of samples listening thing. I just listened to BZ boys, Paul's, Paul's boutique for the first time. I'd never listened to record, like start to finish before. And it's so good. It's so good. And there's so many great samples on Fucking do hash marks.
00:02:45
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Listen to that a hundred times. Like I almost, I almost want you guys to fucking pick an album to be like, Tyler, listen to this a hundred times. Hmm. Because there's there's a progression where you where you like, some of my favorite albums, I remember i didn't fucking like them the first time I heard them. And now they're like the fucking songs that go through my head in yeah all the important times of my life.
00:03:11
Speaker
Absolutely. I wonder why that is. It's just repetition. That's marketing, man. that's your That's why people say Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. You gotta repeat things three times. Yeah, but if you eat something with horseradish on it, I feel like you're not gonna just...
00:03:27
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No one's going to like, there's nothing I can say to like, wait, buy more horseradish, eat it every day. You're going to love it That's true. Honestly, in the the the things that I do eat every day are the things I get sick of.
00:03:40
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I can't eat Glen Graham cereal anymore because I had it for every fucking- Oh my God, love that fucking cereal. Every fucking day. So good. eat a lot of Cheerios.
Audience Interaction and Podcast Popularity
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Hey, you know, ah we're I'm getting live live text right here from some somebody in our audience.
00:03:55
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And they're saying, release some episodes with two exclamation points. Well, tell them we'll release it when they learn how to put five exclamation points. Okay. but What's the first letter of the name?
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ah P. Oh. Dude, what the fuck is Peter up to? Well, he could be... Sorry, Peter. No anonymity on this. I haven't seen him forever. and i know. He used to be great at Warcraft, too. yeah He used to be great. He used to be great. And James, they were... they And wife broke his hands and he fucking...
00:04:31
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Just kicked the shit of their mice. I heard you were good at gaming. um
Libraries: Evolution and Community Role
00:04:37
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All right. First thing on my list is ah libraries are fucking awesome. Okay, so one's last I have not been 20, 30 years.
00:04:47
Speaker
No way. you have kids. Do they not go to the library? You don't take advantage? Just buy the books. They're fucking pennies. They're pennies. hey Give me a give me a book that's not a dollar or two dollars on Amazon.
00:05:02
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I don't fucking know. Fuck Amazon. fuck amazon I don't fuck Amazon, but. Do you remember liking the library when you went there? Yeah, yeah. It was a cool place. I loved being the library aide in our high school and getting high school credit for it. I wasn't even thinking of like school libraries. I was thinking more like public libraries. Where we made fake season passes to Trollhagen. This gets interesting because the librarian in Centerville, her son was named Tucker.
00:05:35
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What? And mom had a weird beef. Oh, that's right. Yes. What?
00:05:44
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Oh my God, Tyler, you just transported me back to the early That's what I'm saying, man. And I remember one time, and this was like like probably during like our parents' divorce or something. I'm at the fucking library and at a computer just sitting down like reading ah book.
00:05:59
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Actually not at the computer. I mean, I was sitting at a computer but reading books. Don't know to use this computer yet. There you guess I'll take this old computer. I didn't want to like sit in a fucking beanbag chair or whatever. Sure. Shit was around. I love being backchance. And remember this lady coming up to me and I was so fucking frustrated.
00:06:15
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i was like crying, but like not sad. But i was like, I'm gonna, and I don't know what to fucking do. Like how old are you? Like seven or eight? Wait, you were mad because she came up to you?
00:06:27
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and they interrupted you? was talking to about books and shit. And I'm like, fuck you. I'm reading, leave me the fuck alone. it was a- And this is the other Tucker mother?
Homeownership Challenges and Lawn Care Culture
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I'm trying to think what her name is well i don't like I don't like this guy Is this the source of the beef that your mom has? is she like You came home and were upset and you're like, what happened? and You're like, this librarian tried to talk to me about books I was at a library ah for an art show that Ebzen was in where his art was hung at a library in December
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cool And I'm doing an event at a library in April. The downtown library is great in Minneapolis. That thing's crazy cool. And they still have a picture collection, which I encourage you to check out. So this is like before Google image search. Most libraries would just have like a file cabinet that was full of photographs or images cut out from magazines and they would be just put in categories by file so oh i'm making i my band we're making a poster for a show and i i want a picture of a you know a cop cop or something like that yeah
00:07:37
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Honey Badger. And you would seriously, you would go to that file. You can still do this at the one town. That's so cool. So it's physically like a file folder, like yeah looking up bees. Dewey Decimal, buddy. Dewey Decimal. No, it's alphabetical. And then you open up the bees and then there's like 10 pictures of bees, different sizes. Some might be cartoons, some might be photographs. I love this. Oh, it's fucking great. Yeah, I respect every part of this. And maybe i will honor...
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To use Tucker's choice of words, I will honor this feeling by, go to the library, man. Go to the library. No, go to the library. I haven't been to the library for a while. I will take my kids to the fucking library.
00:08:18
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Tyler, the one and St. Anthony by the DQ, it's good. And they got an after hours, um, Deposit. like It's a Hennepin County. Oh, thought you talking about like an after hours, like doorway, like fucking Schinders. Oh, wow. room or the library That'd be cool if there was like a speakeasy in
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the back of a library.
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It's just computers. Just just go to porn sites. And penthouses from the ninety Actually, do you would be great is if our local libraries served beers. Oh,
00:08:51
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Yes. Beer, wine, and low alcohol spirits, come First of all, let's create some American jobs by having to hire one more person every morning to put all the fucking books back that were fucking, you know what I mean?
00:09:06
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think I'm sorry. Thanks to the American jobs. I love this. These are the things that make our society go around is is create using government money for jobs to help us out.
00:09:18
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Yes. i no fucking great would it be if were fucking... are doing that every day. We just came up with something. We did. hear ah A bartender is what you came up with. ah bar It's a barbarian. A librarian bartender. Whoa.
00:09:35
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A barbarian. Jesus Christ. Or a li... Oh, a libation, ah librarian is a bartender. no they are pretty yeah No, a lot of lie bender is what you're looking for. Oh my God. a lie tender, guess. Holy shit. Anyways, librarians ah can also be hot.
00:09:56
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I would say- i would love to witness that. A sexy librarian is a is is one of my types. We'll just- Really? Have you ever known one? ah Yeah, a couple actually. Oh, yeah that's surprising.
00:10:09
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If you didn't know they were a librarian, would you still find them sexy? ah No. Okay. So it's a career path. definitely needs to work at a library. Wow. Wow.
00:10:25
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um I would also say libraries, last point, is because of the internet, they've had a pivot. And so they provide so many other services that we're just not aware of because we grew up with a pre-internet library. Yeah. And if you go to a library now, like that's where people go to like get shit 3D printed.
00:10:42
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yeah Or whoa you can check out a suit to go to a job interview. Get the fuck out. All these essential public services. Yes. The library is picking up the slack of the rest of our fucked up government. Wow.
00:10:55
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Yeah. Maybe they'll bring down the price stamps. What needs to happen is that this stuff needs, these essential services that so much of our society uses needs to be like, someone needs to tell me this shit on a regular basis. Right, right.
00:11:11
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You don't want homeless people around you? um Build library. Support your local library. Do you want to help out people? ah Support your local library. For real. yeah Because this is the thing. I actually have an employee of mine, which is an older gentleman, that does not have internet at his house.
00:11:28
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And he goes to the library like twice a week to use the fucking internet. I used to do that. Apparently, judging by what he says, it's probably for fucking hours. I would actually love to go and witness this.
00:11:39
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of uh using the yeah the librarians would thank you because they're the ones having to explain every aspect of the internet keystroke yeah well no for sure no i i'm glad you brought this up yeah i need to go the library they fucking rule all right yeah uh next point lawns are terrible oh my god you're a fucking terrible person how do you not enjoy your lawn I do enjoy mowing the lawn. Oh, ew. The fact of just mowing the lawn, it's like 45 minutes where I get to listen to a podcast and maybe talk to couple neighbors. Oh, what kind of fucking limoar do you have?
00:12:17
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I have like one of the electric egos. They're so quiet. Yeah. If it ain't burning gas, I ain't using it. Dude, my fuck, mine coal. coal and It's it's ah just a fucking five gallon bucket that says liberal tears on the top.
00:12:36
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It used to take gas, but i've now I modified it to just take straight dinosaur bones. It's a steam powered, and but the only steam is from liberal tears.
00:12:48
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It's like that whatever the greasel conversion you could do on trucks. Oh, wow. What? Wow. It could be like salt water conversion. Okay, so we are all homeowners. Yes. yeah which is And not just homeowners, but we have we have yards and lawns. Yeah. Which is an insane thing to think about. I still remember this.
00:13:07
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i Never in my life did I ever consider actually owning a home because I thought it was just way out of my realm. No idea. I think I was kind of on the cusp of thinking I was going to be a permanent renter for a while too. Or if I ever bought, it was just going to be like condo apartment type style.
00:13:24
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I always thought that I had shitty enough credit that no one would ever – legitimately be like, I'm giving this guy hundreds thousands of dollars to buy house. Hey, unless you want your mortgage paid with pennies every month. This is a great story. This is a great story. So my girlfriend, she was very mad at me all the time. One of the catching points was we didn't have a house.
00:13:50
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And she going to our town. So you were homeless? No, we rented a house. Okay. And she was giving me all kinds of shit, and i'm like, fuck this. she went ah She took the kids to go spring break, right? I'm like, fuck it.
00:14:04
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gonna drink a bunch of beers, which is a normal Tuesday night. And but I'm gonna go on Zillow. I'm gonna look at these fucking houses. And for whatever reason, it probably had to happen at...
00:14:16
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had to deal with the fact that I had
Legacy and Sentimental Value of Personal Items
00:14:18
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a bunch of beers is I clicked on Michael Haug. I fucking love this guy to death. At the bottom of this house's page was like, Oh, contact of oh yeah financial fucking mortgage lender. There you go. Mortgage lender.
00:14:33
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I clicked on it. Okay. I fucking typed in my information like 17 minutes later, just Michael, Fucking calls me.
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He's like, hey, Tyler. Michael Haug. Yeah, Michael Haug. I can't even tell you how much I fucking love this guy. This guy fucking walked me through the whole fucking thing. By the time Tabby got back, I was already fucking approved for a loan.
00:14:59
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This guy had already called me from but from his fucking child's wedding. I'd already looked at a couple houses. like Whoa. yeah in Yeah. One of the few times in my life, I didn't get just thoroughly fucked by another person. Like...
00:15:13
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Well, it's because he made $10,000 of that phone call. yeah But he made $10,000 and I got what I wanted and he made the process happen.
00:15:23
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yeah So win, win, win, win. win Pay the professionals what they're worth when they do and when they actually do their job. He sends me a magnetic calendar every year and a letter on my birthday telling me happy birthday.
00:15:36
Speaker
No way. Actually, the guy who sold us our house here, he sends us a letter every year, and I think he's, ah yeah. I think he's upstairs right now. I think he might live in the attic.
00:15:48
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but i love this. no This is the way it should be. We give these fuckers tens of thousands of dollars. Give me all the fucking sweet stuff. There you go. Yeah, just a little bit. Back on the lawns. Anyway.
00:16:01
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I want to know more about this Michael guy. Did you ever meet him in person? Yes. Because he would take you to walkthroughs and whatnot? Oh, really? met him in person once. That's a realtor.
00:16:13
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And first of all, understood he's like, hey, Tyler, like this is what we can work out. And i normally have at this point, I push you off on to fucking, I don't know, seems like Peter or David or something to get the fucking background. i don't know what they call underwriting stuff done. He's like, I really need to talk to you about your finances.
00:16:35
Speaker
And I'm like, what? He's like. I feel like you and me have a good relationship and I need to tell you about something. He's like, when I was in my 20s, I had the same credit score as you and like, I decided to, like, no, for real. Like, he gave me some like, person to person. had an intervention. No, for real. We don't have a dad, dude. We don't have a dad. We need these guys. He's like, I want to make sure you have something to give to your piss babies when you pass. No, for real. This guy was like, straight up. He's like, he's like, if you ever have any questions, he's like, I've got like a
00:17:08
Speaker
I'll tell you my plan. He's like, I started out with a fucking town home and I ended up, I was renting at the time, but I was also renting out that town home. He's like, I built wealth this way. yeah He's like, if you ever have any questions about something, ask me, but like, he's like, this is the time in your life to start making these decisions. And like, Michael, I love you. Like what the Seems like a solid dude. Yeah. And also like, were, there was this house in question. It at House by Sam, one of our friends.
00:17:39
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He's like, this really doesn't fit what you explained to me, but if you really want this, we can go ahead with this. and And I'm hearing like laughter and stuff going on in the background and i'm like, Michael, am I interrupting something? He's like, yo, it's it's my son's wedding, but just I just want you to make sure. I'm like, Michael, this can wait until fucking Monday. This is cool. He's like, no, it's fine. Like, we'll put, whatever. It was like, in family yeah, it was hilarious.
00:18:08
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Anyway, shout out to Michael. Back to Lon's, though. um I just, I don't have a good lawn and it makes me feel bad. And I shouldn't feel bad because- How do you define good?
00:18:20
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There's weeds and there's some bare spots. And it seems like when I see the nice lawns in my neighborhood- Those people are crazy. They're spending $2,000 plus a year on their lawn. Like having people come out and do treatments. Oh, all those chemicals and shit. It smells weird.
00:18:37
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Yeah, like I'd rather just have- It just needs green. and don't care it's half weeds. But if it's very green and you're, you know. I'm trying to do like full clover. I was just about to say, just do clover, man. yeah That's where we're at. Just mow it more often and people can't tell it's weeds.
00:18:53
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I'm going get listen to more podcasts too. It's great. Win-win. I actually enjoy my lawn. I enjoy, i hate doing it. Like I come home from work, I'm like, God damn have to mow. Yeah. You have a pretty fun lawn though. It's got like a little, like a little roll to it, right? Oh, it's got a fucking 15 foot drop in the backyard.
00:19:12
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i paid for sod. I sodded the whole, so I moved in this house and the whole backyard was complete dirt. Except for a section that was full of debris, which was like fallen trees and shit.
00:19:23
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I cleaned it all out and it was just all dirt. I regraded it by hand and then i put down a bunch of sod. And because i'm an asshole and I was afraid that it's like all this fucking month, I don't know, $600 worth sod. Yeah, that's expensive.
00:19:37
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um I'm like, oh I got to water this all the time. And when I did water it, I'd like just built the most insane ecosystem
Library Relevance in the Digital Age
00:19:44
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of bugs. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's healthy soil.
00:19:48
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No, like grubs and then grubs bring moles and voles and all this shit. And then they tear up your lawn during the winter. And they tear up your, it's hilarious. um Yeah. And then half of the fucking sod didn't even like stick.
00:20:01
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And then whatever. I learned a lot about grass seed and like tilling the ground. which is Yeah. And you were the one making fun of me for aerating my lawn. Well, that's fucking stupid. There's a liberal conspiracy. Yeah.
00:20:15
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Wait, is it – why do people choose to lay sod versus plant gras grass seed? Well – Because sod is you have green grass today. It's immediate. That's all. yeah Yeah. I mean it's whatever, two to three inches of dirt, really good topsoil wrapped up in the grass with the actual root system. Oh, I mean it's – It's like a quarter inch of sushi. It's mostly – yeah. So you have to have a ah soft – tilled surface to, you can't put it on a hard pack dirt. Right, right. That's learned. but Okay. um i stand behind the choice. it was great. it was,
00:20:48
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To go out to a backyard full of grass and not dirt is fucking fantastic. Yeah. if Those are your two options. yeah Yeah. Tucker, you're kind of populating your backyard is with things. Stuff. Like star ra mini ramps and saunas and raised beds. is that How do you mow around that? do you Oh, it's such a bitch. Okay.
00:21:08
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Yeah, that makes sense. we Unless we're watering the raised bed garden a lot, which mind you, there's like tons of overspray. Yeah. um With the last few summers we've had, like last year, I only mowed the backyard twice and the front once for the whole calendar year.
00:21:26
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Because he's just constantly being fertilized with
Maintenance: Homes, Health, and Aging
00:21:28
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dog piss and shit. It's just like last year it was really dry and like in the front it's like super shaded and whatever seed that was started before is like shade grass and it just doesn't grow a lot.
00:21:41
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Okay. It's solid, but it doesn't get tall, you know? That's beautiful. I think I mowed like twice last year. Jesus Christ. was so dry. it was Yeah, yeah, same.
00:21:51
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Totally same. We we didn't mow, i mean, I've got a friend who lives a few blocks from us and they've had our mower. Cause I don't even really need it. I'm like, ah, whatever. just load your mower permanently. Oh yeah. Maybe they can put a new muffler on it.
00:22:09
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I did that once. We're still on the old man podcast. It's just on a different spectrum right now. so All right. So this was a question I was just thinking about. was like, what are you listening to? Yeah. But it can't be a song or a podcast.
00:22:26
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Oh, it did. what is What is the shit that you're just hearing every day? Well, I don't. Lately, I guess. Mine's not every day, but the thing that I intentionally – go and seek out when I go up north is I've got a couple fresh water springs on the front of my land. Nice. And nothing makes me feel better then the sound of running water.
00:22:50
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Just like the bubbling of it? Oh, running. Yeah. I mean, any sort of natural little spring, creek, lake, waterfall, just moving water moving is just like, it's just makes me feel like I could just,
00:23:04
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become one with the fucking earth. So that's pretty big deal. Have you ever bought one of those fountains to have in your room? No, but I would probably pee myself at night. I think if I was feeling like I was in that big of a flow state.
00:23:17
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And then the other one is again, it's not on a daily basis, but, um, I love the sound because where I'm at, you know, we're on a County road, but there's definitely long stretches of time when no one's coming by. And like, if that, if no truck,
00:23:32
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or some car or driving by that road. Like there's nothing else going on there. So the, the wind between the trees and how different trees make different sounds. Like, so I'm very conscious of that. and i very much seek that out, but in the city,
00:23:49
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um I don't know that i I listen as much. I feel, and this is maybe, maybe EC would get this, but like, I feel the vibrations like on the street, like from skateboarding. So like when you're skating, skateboards are super fucking loud.
00:24:05
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Right. yeah And so you don't necessarily hear everything behind you, but you can feel, even though you're vibrating, you can feel the vibration of like cars and stuff. Um, yeah. So when I'm like running across the street to like go get a pretzel or something, or like,
00:24:20
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whatever, like I, when I'm sitting, like when I walk off the curb and onto the street, cause I'm totally like a jaywalker. I'm always like very conscious about like the feel, like what's happening. I don't know.
00:24:33
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Hmm. Yeah. That got weird. It did get weird. Yeah. No, no. I, uh, fucking, uh, this is really funny when I came back to Minnesota for the first time after I moved to Georgia and I was with my friends as I don't know, fucking 16, 17 years old.
00:24:50
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And we went back to Court Street. And I remember fucking, i I'm like, I fucking had Ryan McNamara drive me to fucking Court Street.
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And I just fucking sat in the middle of the street with my fucking hands on the ground and being like,
00:25:06
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I spent so, you and me spent so much yeah time skateboarding yeah on this fucking 20 foot section. Up, down, up, down. like This is years of my life like right here. yeah What the fuck am I missing? And I was fucking drawn to it. I fucking sat there and I had that fucking moment. I still remember that fucking moment.
00:25:26
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That's so cool. Streetlights and everything. Same thing in Georgia too. like did it Did it feel like you could tap into that same? Or did it feel like this is memory of- Absolutely. I can go to Georgia right now, which I spent a lot of times walking around in the streets, fucking drinking beers and smashing bottles and doing stupid, ridiculous shit at four o'clock in the morning.
00:25:49
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ah It brings me right back to that place, man. I can walk down the middle of the street, hopefully not get hit by car because dead streets. and Or the fucking ah ah alleyways behind the houses, man. It like brings me back. like It's- I spent so much time there and so much time retrospective time as a fucking teenager, which I feel is just exaggerated emotions. and oh But what are the sounds of those times? Well, so I've got, you know, i saw this and I'm like, my life is crazy.
00:26:19
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all about fucking sounds. It's super noisy, I would imagine. like your welcome in the i have I have a train that runs behind my house. Oh, i love the sound of that train. What's funny is the train, the weight of the train is so much. And i I don't care so much about the train, but I do a lot of machining in my garage.
00:26:37
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And when the train gets within about 300 feet, yeah it fucks everything up. three novel It'll throw up. or throw up It'll show up in the machining marks.
00:26:48
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um No way. Yes. Which in most cases, it doesn't really matter that much. Right. But I can see it while it's machining, especially turn the coolant off because it's spraying everywhere. but um Because it's shaking literally everything. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:02
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but That's part of it. i mean, yeah I live in the city, so there's helicopter sounds, there's car sounds. Could you put your CNC on springs? No. not Like a shock absorber?
00:27:14
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No. the The smartest thing would be... If I tore down my garage and then built like a fucking 30 inch deep slab would keep it more. Yeah.
00:27:26
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garage floor is probably four inches, three to four inches like most garage floors. So it's it's not even an issue
Podcast Wrap-Up and Future Episode Preview
00:27:33
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ah for the most part. Yeah. You need some serious concrete below grade.
00:27:38
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Most machines are. you know they They request a specific like slab depth and that kind thing. Oh, cool. Plus, if you look at any northeast garage, the concrete's all fucking cracked in a half.
00:27:50
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Oh, God. Roots. They didn't use fucking rebar and all that kind of shit. No, but i i ah machining, everything is about sound. You know how...
00:28:01
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the cutting is, you can't physically see the cutting because there's there's spraying coolant everywhere. yeah So you determined, I can tell you exactly how it's cutting and how the surface finishes based on the sound of it.
00:28:14
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Like the sound of the spindle, the sound of the cutting. Yep. Yep. um yeah My, my full-time job is working on basically motorcycle engines and the sound of and motorcycle engine.
00:28:26
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I can tell specifically what is wrong with it. Um, Whoa, that's heavy by the sound. Um, we're talking like tens of thousands of an inch, like a couple thousandths of an inch on the valve clearance will make a clacking sound or it won't make them clacking sound.
00:28:42
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And. It's really funny when somebody, this is like a human thing where someone is a, we we talked about this with like the taping and plastering and sanding and shit like that. Right.
00:28:54
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Really good people. They do it thousands of times for years years and years. And they get to the point where they're not even thinking about it. It's that human experience that brings them to do this immaculate fucking job, which isn't even realized until it's after it's painted.
00:29:10
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And they don't even know how to – True. They couldn't even explain it really. Right. i this This question brought a lot of like feels to me because – Well, it's also what you just said is so frustrating as a teacher because you're just like, you got to put in the time.
00:29:26
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I can't teach this to you. no yeah You just need to spend 10 years doing this and nothing else. Yes. And then you'll know. yep It's – yeah. Yeah. That's funny.
00:29:38
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ah I've just been, the spring peepers are out. They're like the frog that comes out. oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Around right now. And it it's just, it's almost deafening in terms of, if you get it close enough to them, it sounds like a car alarm is going off.
00:29:54
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And that just made me think, that's a nice, don't know. I like hearing a thing in nature that reminds me of what time of year I'm in. Yeah, well I agree with you. Well, on that note, the thing that I don't hear now because it's out of season, but I cannot fucking wait for is like in August when it's hot, it's like peak summer hot, but it's drying out a little bit.
00:30:15
Speaker
Wet pusses. Gross. What sound do they make? Well, like you know. Sorry. Oh, Jesus. la Dude, whop, dude. Like macaroni in a pot.
00:30:29
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Dude, that's straight from a Cardi B song. Okay. Macaroni in a pot. Cicadas. Okay. Oh, God. that no And it it it makes me think, Tyler, of Illinois. Yep.
00:30:42
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And even more specific, ah Grandma and Grandpa's place that was um the brick single level with the step down. Yep.
00:30:54
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ye And they they lived in front of like a horse stable. And along the long fence line was like raspberries or blackberries or something like that. That sounds so good. I'm transported to just a flood of like micro flash memories of... Dude, sound is like that. They say sound and smell.
00:31:13
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Like actually trigger stronger memories than... photographs oh i yeah I would go with that for sure absolutely yep cicadas did you do you know much about them no but they can fuck off they have they they have like a is it this summer I think the one that's coming up is going to be the brutal one Yeah, it's they call it the X year.
00:31:38
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And it's like, nope, I don't know. It operates on the same like skills pie. Do you think it's a coincidence that it's an action year? Oh, yes. I'm kidding. Oh my God. yeah this is all Joe Biden just turns into a fucking cicada. Dark Brighton.
00:31:53
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Dark Brighton.
00:31:57
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Oh my God. love it. Yeah. There's billions and billions and billions of them descending on like the Eastern half of America this summer.
00:32:08
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My cat, one of my, we let our cats outside sometimes and like one just found like a carcass and just started eating it. Like it was just grossest sound of the crunching of the cicadas. It is a fantastic reminder that the world will revolve with or without your participation.
00:32:25
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Oh, it just keeps going. I love these like slaps in the face that are like, yeah You don't have any fucking control over this. I think you do, and you find comfort in that.
00:32:35
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All these people who are like, oh, it's the end of the world. like, no, it's just the end of the humans. We're just going to be great for the world. Everything else. That's hilarious. Everything else that makes it up until when we were out.
00:32:47
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All right, our next point. What? Oh, I actually pulled back. Last sound, ah one of our smoke alarms, the battery died, and that chirp.
00:33:00
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I had that this weekend. That is a sound. I feel like I could be in a fucking coma and that would take me out it. Yeah. They did their job, dude. No, if for real. They're doing their job, yeah. It's the most annoying sound in the world.
00:33:16
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It makes me want to hurt like everything around me. those It's like, ah oh, smash. Someone put together, I think, a Spotify playlist of all the rap songs where you can hear the the smoke alarm chirp going off in the back. I'm actually glad you brought that up.
00:33:34
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One of my favorite things, I listen to terrible punk rock music from a long time ago, which the recordings are terrible. One of my favorite things when I was a teenager was listening at super high volumes. You could hear what was happening before the songs and then after the songs. Yeah.
00:33:49
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There's like people closing doors, like people fucking stomping around and like making comments to each other. and I fucking love every part of that. Like that's the little nuggets that you don't get. You have to listen to it loud.
00:34:01
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and yeah And none of those songs will hear the sound of someone changing the battery. Exactly. im Exactly. Hitting the test reset button over and over again. Dude, I love that shit. That's the human part of this is like the imperfection and fuck AI because it's not going to... I'm going to draw back to that, man. Like... Yeah. We're going to lose everything, all the feels, all the mistakes that turned out fucking good, man.
00:34:30
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Yeah, maybe. Maybe. You're all fucking AI? like i just don't think it's the big boogeyman. to like i think I agree with you, yeah but I feel like there's dumb enough people out there to be okay with it.
00:34:44
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Oh, yeah, yeah. and For instance, children. enough people in power, yeah. well Yeah, children don't know shit. Children don't know those things that fucking spark interest in things that are fun. So if they grow up with just AI-generated terrible fucking music...
00:35:01
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They're not gonna like, listen to a regular song that somehow sounds off because it's made by a human that's not perfectly on time, they're going to be disgusted by it. Yeah. and They're going to grow up with real fucked up.
00:35:13
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The children aren't smart. i i that behind them i heard I've been in stores where kids have mistakenly thought I was their dad and they come up to me and they're like, there's that moment of recognition where did hey i'm not their dad the No, I am your dad. You'll do. Finders keepers. Let's go, dad. Finders keepers.
00:35:40
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Okay, next one. What is even worth saving anymore? so And this kind of gets into my, don't know, I've been thinking about death a lot lately or whatever, but yeah like soon easy it's Yeah, it's coming up, guys. No, dude, fucking 20 years. Next season.
00:35:58
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I'm not really planning on being dead at 63. three You should. why should why No, why shouldn't you? why i mean What's the average age of death in America?
00:36:10
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Older than that. What, 70s? It is older than that, but it has dropped. Yeah, well, in the last year, yeah. Who gives a shit about the drop? Because it's probably like a percentage point. And also, you're not the same. you know you don't follow the same reasons why the drop occurs.
00:36:24
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So let's just pretend that the the average fucking death in America is 70 mid 70s. Right? and yeah At least, yeah. So pretty high if you know anything about averages, averages are fucking terrible for the outliers, which fucking – 77.28. There we go.
00:36:44
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For males. I guessed. Longer for women. So let's let's just say that yeah a lot of people are – their last 10 years of life were fucking terrible, man. Let's just say this.
00:36:56
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You've got a solid, there's a good chance that you have a solid 20 years of enjoyable life ahead of you. Oh God, dude, this is. No, fucking embrace it, man.
00:37:07
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This is just ah Tyler's fucked up version of YOLO. You only got 20 years left, dude. Better make it count. It's a kind of clumsy community short. It's fucking true. It's 20 years of relevancy for your children. It's 20 years of a young enough connection with your significant other.
00:37:29
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All right. I will say you're you're right about the 20 years thing. just that I do feel like that is ah ah the unspoken. It's the thing that follows after a year.
00:37:42
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I guess. What? Like in terms of measuring time, like we measure birthdays and like everything by the year. But there's another thing that happens about every 20 years. There's like a generational shift in things. I agree. A different phase of your life starts happening.
00:37:57
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Like what is your physical ability in 20 years? Very diminished. Zero diminished. I'm saying that you've got 20 years life as you think of it right now.
00:38:11
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yeah Where you can you can be like, I want to go fucking to India. I want to go up this fucking hill. i want to do this shit. In 20 years, you're going to be thinking about your fucking...
00:38:26
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like physically physical problems like the things that in your life you're gonna be worried about shit you might be dead you might be unhealthy um every if everything's fine maybe you are healthy but you're still 70 some fucking years old and a 70 year old is probably not doing the same things as what you think of right now i'll be able to run for president i so twice youngest president ever 77 seventy seven I do think Tyler's right about like he could give this pep talk, save for the specifics about being a 77 year old to anyone at their life. And it would seem pretty, pretty applicable.
00:39:04
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I don't know. I just feel like think like your life is already radically different in 20 years. Anyways, we're way off topic. What the fuck are you saving? And so this is me thinking like, what, what do you actually think you're going to either, i guess it's a two part question. What are you like collecting?
00:39:21
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it's not It doesn't have any value, but for some reason it's cool to you. You're keeping it, yeah. to it money and that know Children's shoes. But I'm running out of trunks. And then what are you going to pass on to your children? Oh, or okay. way Like what are the things that you that isn't money or your house, right? Like the obvious things. Okay, so I've actually had this conversation recently with a handful of people that no one wants your parents shit anymore.
00:39:52
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We don't want their furniture. We don't want their fucking knickknacks. yeah there The idea of heirlooms don't exist anymore. In previous generations, you were like, oh, my grandma's hutch.
00:40:07
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Or like her fucking tea set. Right. And I'm not like personally, those have value to me. right Right. Very limited. I don't want a fucking piece of furniture. I'll take one cup out of that tea set. Yeah. Like, yeah, I love grandma.
00:40:23
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That makes me feel like grandma. I'm going to put that in a cupboard and look at it every day and be like, oh, grandma. her I don't imagine. Imagine you're inheriting your grandpa's Zune.
00:40:35
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like that shitty mp3 player that i'll take oh my god i'll take a zune whoa you're like yeah no forgot about that grandpa used this yes and then our generation after us they don't give two shits they want some ikea furniture man they don't want like that's sad it's sad um i don't know man If that's the only – maybe maybe we should rethink about what we're giving down to our children.
00:41:04
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I mean I felt like the shit – I have a chair that my great-grandfather made. like That's kind of cool. That I use for an office because chair because it's built fucking well.
00:41:15
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And it's awesome also, you know, it's like, it's a cool piece. I use it as a chair and a stool, but it's something you made. like But have you thought about its value in a bonfire?
00:41:27
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There's so much paint on it. That one is fucking dry as shit and that paint would go fucking well. Oh, yeah. sorry No, I'm all joking, but for real. though and ah But you have a physical, you have this like attachment. You have this like love for this one thing.
00:41:44
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I don't know, man. Tucker, what do you think? What do you think he's going do actually give a shit about? Well, so I'm saving all of his artwork and his artwork. Do have any you give him?
00:41:56
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Man, i am definitely I actually said that aloud this weekend. I was like, man, when this kid's done with Legos, I am going to keep them because I have already made that mistake once I'm not going to make it twice. Seriously.
00:42:07
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um But yeah, I'm collecting all of his drawings and paintings and all his schoolwork. I'm sure when he hits fourth grade or something, I'll stop. But like it's so innocent and pure and naive.
00:42:24
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right now that um i think he might want some of that stuff but i definitely will always want that stuff my as as someone who doesn't have a parent or a child have two parents actually no children i would advise you actually make something out of that artwork like transform it even if you're just putting it into a book Because then he'll be less likely to pitch it when he's moving yeah from one apartment to the next or something like that. you know
00:42:55
Speaker
Or emptying out my drawers because he's got a... would Because his 50-year-old dad died. Wait until he's 30 because and when I was at fucking in my 20s, I could give two shits about anything that I had when I was younger. Oh, yeah. Same here. I went through a stage where I was like...
00:43:13
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whatever, i don't even know why I have this. You just throw it out. But I feel like if it was in an album that my mom made, i i still have all that shit. When I left California after being laid off from Etnis, I, and just mind you, I'd i had already moved across country once in a year and change beforehand, so I'd already shed ah lot, but I left what is now worth probably about $10,000, $12,000 worth of Nike Dunks.
00:43:42
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Oh, my God. Right in the back of my apartment because I was so frustrated with my situation and what had had happened. i just set I just set them all with other stuff still in the boxes. I just set them all by the dumpster.
00:43:57
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And they were gone within minutes. Of course. and Yeah, I took a peek at some of the ones that I sat there and like – like 3,000 for that pair, 2,000 that pair. So I probably put 15 to 20 grand out on the thing for free.
00:44:12
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Oh, and you know, the other thing too, um I've, I mean, I kind of fucked up and sold my Hasselblad, but I've kept like all my cameras that I actually used and some I would use like religiously for a year.
00:44:27
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And then some would be like here and there, but maybe over the span of 15 years. so you still have your broken Olympuses? Both of them. Nice. One kind of works, but it has incredible ah scratches across it. And the other one is toast.
00:44:43
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I will say I have two of my grandpa's cameras and one of my grandpa's projectors. And I so fucking hold on to those because yeah I love them. So, about you, Tyler?
00:44:55
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What do you think you're going to pass on to your kids? Besides gas. An era of embarrassment. Um... so I think there'll be a body of work that they can see. don't think that they will take it along with them. Some people will call it $80,000, a credit card debt. Yeah. Others will call it art.
00:45:23
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It's either all art or it's not It's debt art. Do you... Whoa. Art installation, man. Can't spell debt without the art. When you talk about your work, are you referring to a sort of like your customized engine builds?
00:45:36
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Yeah. Machining talents. I equate a lot of this stuff. There's a lot of very intelligent, there's a lot of fucking, lot of effort into inanimate objects that you might not think.
00:45:49
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it's It's, I think it parallels art. it The more I know about, you know, you are the one that forced me to be around art. okay which i normally be I'm sorry. No, it's true. It's true. And I enjoy that because, you know, art is work.
00:46:08
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Let's see here. Art is a dedication of work. And I don't think that art, that good art comes easily. Unless it's, I mean, I don't Maybe it doesn't apply to photos because there's a lot of photographs that weren't done by like somebody that it was just like a fucking important lottery.
00:46:27
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Yeah. But obviously there's a a lot of photographs that were done by someone very intentionally. Yeah. And done well. There's obviously a lot of different kinds of art. um So I don't, I don't know if my, if I will give any tangible item to my children. Yeah.
00:46:45
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Do you think your kids are going to be more interested your motorcycle craft or your musicianship? Or your war craft. Or your war craft.
00:46:56
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um It will be really interesting for my children when they get to be an adult and they get to have a record. and they'll be like... that'll be the equivalent some old timey.
00:47:10
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It'll be hilariously old timey sounding. Yeah. um So that'll be interesting. Yeah. There was a moment with my niece and nephew where the band I was in, we did like a music video and it was on YouTube.
00:47:25
Speaker
Yeah. And my nephew was watching it he was laughing and my niece was like, you're on TV. And my nephew was like, Sarah, it's just YouTube.
00:47:37
Speaker
ah Anyone could be on it. You were pretty cool in her eyes for a day. For one moment when she was four. yeah Well, this begs the question, like, what is your legacy?
00:47:53
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Yes. Whoa. Which is my next point. Let's just say this. EC dies. Who gives a shit? I think. No, no, no. So what, what do you think that, I mean, you die tomorrow.
00:48:07
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me and my kids are going to keep talking about EC. Yeah. Yeah. yeah So they will at, so 50 years from now, Milo will talk about how EC is fucking, has no fucking shame. Yeah. No, I mean, no, no, no. mean like, no, so, so doesn't have kids.
00:48:29
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Daddy knows. I've got two kids. What, what do you think are the things that are going to carry you on past your death?
00:48:38
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I mean, i know people are going to remember me for my playfulness. Yeah. Oh God. Like, like, like you call it being funny and the jokes, playful like it's something like that.
00:48:50
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That's going be part of who I am. Yeah. Uh, next would be my gigantic cock. And then people don't need to remember anything anything else.
00:49:02
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Yeah. Unmeasurable.
00:49:06
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Unmeasurable. love that. Go Home Depot. I feel like a huge part of your legacy is gonna be my two fucking kids. I mean, obviously you have a great body of work. You got a great body. I am their dad.
00:49:18
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No, a great body of work. You have all kinds of shit that's all around the world, like fucking good art. Yeah. um Granted, it's all fucking blue. but what No, but and what I'm getting at is it,
00:49:31
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At some point past your death, one of my kids are going to be like this fucking weird guy that my dad did. And he's going to tell that story. And that's going to be probably one of the few highlights past your death. You what I mean? Absolutely.
00:49:49
Speaker
The legacy that we are is going to be carried by other people. Yeah. And I'm not saying that someone fucking 20 years after your death isn't going to be like, look at all this gnarly shit that this guy made up.
00:50:03
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Yeah. You could be one of those fucking artists that gets picked up after. So whatever, the thing that inspired this was walking on on a walk, you see a bench.
00:50:16
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It's got someone's name. yeah in loving memory of... And then there's usually a little sentence about them. I was just like, what the fuck would people... love like What would they write about me? who i don't know.
00:50:27
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Tucker, what do you got? Well... Wow. I mean... seems...
00:50:42
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Seems a little too specific. No, you know, I mean, so something that you said made me think about this in different terms and actually, well, two parts of this, like what are things, what's the legacy? It's stories.
00:51:00
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Yeah. I mean, yeah I'm going to be able to characterize both of you and like tell whether it's Evzin or his friends or some strangers, going to be like, I'm going to make, draw character, right? I'm going use up 30 seconds to like paint a picture of how absurd you are in one way or another.
00:51:18
Speaker
And then I'm going to tell a story that reinforces that. And everyone's going to laugh their fucking asses off. Yeah. Because some of the shit that we've done. Those are great stories. Is, are there like so many really great stories in there? You know, i mean like way too many. has stories nowadays? I don't know. fucking stories nowadays? It's just stories. Well, and that's what I'm trying to avoid on this podcast is talking about other people's stories, right? Yeah. And we have so many good stories on our own. It's hilarious. It is hilarious. No, my kids know, like, I'm in a band with this guy named Kevin.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yeah. My kids know all of the hilarious stories many times Coke-related stories of Cavan's just debauchery. ah Obviously, they don't know the Coke part, but it's like... Yeah, and this is why you're a Pepsi family.
00:52:09
Speaker
Yeah, no it no, but it's like, it is hilarious. And they will pull up stories when they see something relevant and be like, oh yeah, your buddy Cavan could climb a telephone pole in like 10 seconds. like I'm like, yep.
00:52:25
Speaker
I missed out. like I didn't tell you all the other gnarly stuff, but yes, yes. Your buddy Kevin could punch out eight cops in one a night. Yep, yep. And run a block or two on a broken leg.
00:52:39
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Well, so what that made me feel about, or what that made me feel outside of stories. We just need three words. Well, no, like, so you and I used to get, and this is like outing us both as whatever, if i don't know if was self-absorbed or clueless or how you would definitely naive.
00:53:01
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so we Check, check, check. We would talk about like, wanting to put our mark on something. Yeah. And I think we've even said more specifically that we wanted people, we wanted like ah like mass of people to know our name.
00:53:19
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So like we weren't even, and maybe you were thinking it through the lens of art because I feel like you chose that as a path career-wise pretty early and like you've been consistent with that but I i mean, I just think that for some reason we were specifically looking for people to remember us and like I don't know that like 20 some year old people are thinking about their lives in that way.
00:53:49
Speaker
No, they're still thinking about the ambition and like the thing. but i think you guys had that spark in the back of your mind, man. I know you weren't thinking about it, but you were, I was thinking about it. Like I was, it's like a,
00:54:02
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Dude, that's why we wanted to be on the morning announcements. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's like, I think I'm hilarious. delusion. It's an overconfidence.
00:54:13
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But it's fucking true, man. You're not going to... We were hilarious. Yeah, yeah. I don't give a shit if 20 years from now someone sees a Miller Lite and be like, oh my God, I knew this guy that could fucking drink 24 of those in one night. Fucking he would call wheat all his babies. Checkmark. I don't give a shit, man. I mean, there's plenty of other things I can do in my life other than drink a bunch of beers, but um yes.
00:54:39
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It is a story. There's a fucking legacy there. Yes. and if Whether it dwindles with four fucking people and they say my name 10 years from now and it's never said again.
00:54:51
Speaker
ah but I think that's important, man. I think that's – I think we all are in agreeance that it is important. I'm i'm curious if the younger generation actually is – actively working against that because they are being documented in so many ways. yeah It's actually, i mean, that's why Snapchat's so popular. It's like this ephemeral message. yeah Things can't be recorded and saved because everything else is being tracked.
00:55:20
Speaker
I forgot about that. Yeah. Anyways. I will never let go of stories. I will never let go making things All of us can so tell a story way better than it happened.
00:55:34
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Yes. Oh, yeah. Everybody is so captivated and it's yeah fucking fun to listen And it's honestly the thing that like bridges factions. Yeah. A Republican could tell me a really good story and I would be completely happy.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yes. You know, it's like it But ah honestly, that's how my parents and I mainly connect now is like, just tell me stories and we'll be happy. These are common human things yeah that we all have to deal with.
00:56:02
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And I agree with you. ah yeah i come from the world of like Harley Davidson, very poor people, people with very poor life choices. yeah And everybody has stories and we can all.
00:56:17
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yeah I can't tell you how many fucking times I've heard the same goddamn stories from these old people. And I mean, I'm not trying to be a dick about it or like.
00:56:29
Speaker
There's that back in my day energy. Yeah. There it Everybody a story. I honor it, man. These kids have the same fucking story. but I fucking honor it because they're so fucking happy to tell me that. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad you're honoring that, Tyler. I know. To use that word poorly, it's true, man. mean, what else do we have?
00:56:55
Speaker
All right. We're to be fucking dead tomorrow. and The next thing we have is maintenance is important. Stop complaining about it. Yeah. Is this i like like body maintenance? Like it's trimming your pubes and stuff? All right. i I am complaining about maintenance. All right. But I also need to remind myself that it's important and I should stop complaining about it. What kind maintenance? The frequency. Well, here's the thing. The frequency of maintenance increases as you get older.
00:57:25
Speaker
Certainly, especially as you own a house, if you go into that or car or something like that. yeah, So, yeah. It's because you pay attention, that's why. Well, you just kind of have to if you care about right? Yeah. Yeah. All right, so what kind of like yearly maintenance schedules are you guys on?
00:57:42
Speaker
Like just for everything. oh do you guys go to the dentist? I don't know. Yep, was just there yesterday, no cavity club. Sweet. Good job. Because you used to be part of the all cavity club. Yeah. Tooth removal club. don't go to anything, man. I'd fucking work in my house and work at work. and Wait, Tyler, you don't go to a dentist?
00:58:02
Speaker
I haven't been to a dentist for a very long time. How long is a long time? Fucking 15 years. Oh my God. you have any mouth pain? Not the slightest bit. that You're a lucky person.
00:58:15
Speaker
don't need candy. Fuck you guys. Do you brush your teeth? Every day? Twice a day? Do you floss?
00:58:23
Speaker
liberal are taking over our healthcare. know um Get this speak out of our schools. These strings are stealing our jobs. Basic life maintenance. and I agree with it. It's ever encumbering. It's going to take over our lives. What about cars? What do you guys do every year on a car?
00:58:46
Speaker
oil well oil change is it like every 5 000 what do you do i'm every 5 000 guy okay 10 000 10 000 whoa he's an industry insider he knows right it's a synthetic oil man it doesn't go bad what else do you do on a car every year mean obviously the filters tires yeah grease a fucking propeller shaft apparently which i'm supposed to be doing fucking oh Grease a propeller shaft?
00:59:12
Speaker
Did you just make this up? No. Is something I should be concerned about? It's hilarious. No, no, my truck is four-wheel drive, and it's got a fucking drive shaft to the front. I think I need to do that. bet you do. Dirt road. What are you doing? Greasing propellers. I'm greasing my propeller.
00:59:29
Speaker
There's like shit. You should fucking drain your hot water heater every once in a while. you should fucking dryer vent. You should fucking. Well, the dryer vent. Yeah, i do that every time. Yeah. And i changed my, ah the heater filter every month. Yeah. months yep Yeah.
00:59:46
Speaker
and Every month. Yeah. I buy the cheap ones. Yeah. the The HVAC guy told me to buy the cheap ones and just replace them more often. Yeah. Because the really nice ones are too hard for the systems to blow through. Exactly. It's too fine.
00:59:59
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Yeah. um Yearly. Well, I guess, may no, you just framed it with yearly. I mean, I do, I get acupuncture once a month.
01:00:09
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Oh, okay. And I get chiropractic about once a month. Nice. um I wish I could afford massages because I'd do one of those a month too. Fuck, I'd do one of those every week, but I don't know if who could afford that shit.
01:00:23
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J-Lo. um Do either you guys like exercise at all? Not really. No. Dude, fucking nine to five, brother. Yeah. I got, well, yeah, if you have a job that involves physical activity. Yeah, I got a job. Yeah, I run up and down two flights of stairs.
01:00:40
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Yeah. it's Fucking 15 times day. I mean, last summer I built a building, so that was pretty much it for me. Yeah, and then also your hobbies are physically demanding. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. um i I used to bike in the a lot and then like in at home, but it's just so boring.
01:00:58
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We did used to bike a lot. Oh, yeah dude. It was so fun. 50 miles a day probably. It was great when we were biking to work and biking to a bar. And and then like six more bars after that. And then biking on those.
01:01:09
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but i actually find joy in mundane maintenance. This is something that it has to happen. Like trimming your nose hair? i don't Yes. Dude, I've got this tonight. I don't actually enjoy that, but it's a thing that has to happen. Wait, Tyler, do you have nose hair yet?
01:01:26
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Oh my God. It's what you do. Dude, he's got that proche blood in there, dude. you guys have ear hair too? Corn stalks. No ear hair. No, no corn stalks. I'll shoot myself when that happens. My ear hair is taken off. I'm going put bullet right into that ear.
01:01:40
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Let me tell you about a big opportunity. Invest in my ear here. It's growing daily. I've got a coworker who's got it. a lot of it. i I try and stay on top of it, but think about sticking a pair of scissors in your ear. Fuck it, dude. Just kill yourself.
01:01:57
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Yeah. there just Find the tallest bridge and jump off that shit. Oh, God. ain't gonna get better. It's already hard to do in the nose. It's tough Think about 70, 20 years later.
01:02:08
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Like trimming your- fucking dreads out those ears, man. What about like your- think could just pour air into my ear connect. Get laser hair removal. What about like your my but like your balls- We went there. We're going there.
01:02:22
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Here we are. You're fine. Minor. Yeah. What about like maintenance? all mall maintenance. Well, we're talking about trimming. Trimming? My balls?
01:02:33
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Well, I'm sure you are past puberty now and you've got hair growing in all directions your crotch. Are you talking about nads? Uh... No, I don't think I've ever trimmed my ball here.
01:02:47
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Never. that's Really? Yeah. Talk about dreads. You got some fucking way Santa Claus down there?
01:02:55
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All right. Another fun fact. See how uncomfortable he got right there? He just switched real quick. Is they have like very thick hair. Like my pubic hair is like, you know, plastic. It breaks scissors.
01:03:11
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Oh my God. Horse hair brushes. Yeah. It's like that. Like horse hair. Nobody wants to be around that easy. I know. P.S. Yeah. fully aware of this fact Tyler holy shit yeah no ah maintenance in my life that pisses me off is any sort of household maintenance I fucking can't. If it's something on my roof or fucking.
01:03:33
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Oh, cleaning gutters. Oh, motherfucker. Yeah, I don't do that shit. Oh, I love, I find cleaning gutters to be especially satisfying. Holy shit. Do you get like three to four inches of like what is beyond organic mud that's been crazy? trees growing out of the ones in my garage. That's gnarly. So I have to clean them out? You need to clean them more often too, you know? Yeah, yeah. So it's like flossing.
01:03:54
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I have the gutter guards. And that collects most of the shit. Oh. it's tongue it There's always like a little bit of shingle leaf mixture. yeah um Last one. Yeah.
01:04:06
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Last one. Grow a garden and then complain about how expensive food is. I just feel like most people have lost touch with how food is actually made. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
01:04:21
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And when you actually put – invest time and labor into making your own food, you might appreciate how much good food costs. Can I have little asterisk here about the complaint that every nation is having right now is that the birth rate is declining?
01:04:41
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Yeah, make it easier for people to be parents, you fuckwads. This is a win for the human race. Well, yeah, we've lost the plot. If we can decline how many humans are on the earth.
01:04:55
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then that means that we can sustainably grow some fucking food. You know what mean? Yeah. We can't deal with an increase in fucking body count for the world forever. No. Oh, we have. If we want to grow food in a sustainable, organic fucking whatever, use all the fucking words.
01:05:17
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The least amount of pesticides, the least amount of ah genetically altered whatever, decrease the population to a sustainable amount. No. you it' that That is not. known No, no, no. An even easier solution is to have everyone stop eating meat.
01:05:33
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ah You don't have to change the solution or the population at all. And all of this farmland that's dedicated to raising meat can be used to grow vegetables. I agree with you. 100% easily feed everyone on the planet. I'm just saying it's magically happening on our own is that a lot of nations' populations are declining.
01:05:55
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Yeah. so It's because fucking childcare is too goddamn expensive. Who's going to have a kid when you have to quit your fucking job just to – anyway. That's what I'm saying is don't have a kid raise a cob of corn. So here's the problem is that the smart people that should be having children are like, oh, these are all the reasons why I shouldn't have a child.
01:06:17
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And they don't have children and all the stupid people that just like to fuck are having children. This is the beginning of the film. And those are also terrible parents. Don't yeah smart people like to fuck too?
01:06:27
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They do, but they make all the choices. No, we need smart people to raise children. fuck. Everybody's having sex, but smart people need to be the ones raising the children. Somebody's not having sex.
01:06:39
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Dumb people. That's right behind Joe Biden wins the election. Holy shit. I'm going to pay every smart couple $10,000 to dump their seat in some intelligent Stanford poon.
01:06:58
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Seeddumpers.com. Is that a thing? Seeddumpers.com.
01:07:04
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Wow, this is the longest podcast. This really is idiocracy. This is great. See, dumpers. Join us next week for Seed Dumpers, the podcast about... I feel like we hit so many like really high points during this podcast yeah talking about genuine things and we still end up at seeddumpers.com.
01:07:29
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We fucking try, man. We try. We absolutely always try. Well, join us next week as we discuss Tyler's second list.
01:07:43
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Why is my Tesla rusting? Any previews? Okay, yeah. Complaints from the 1%. All right. Until then, be well.
01:07:54
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Toodaloo. Later.