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Decluttering and Galactus
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Welcome back! This week, after the rigamarole (firehouse, drivers, cycling, movies, neighbors). Ron talks about decluttering in general; Chris wonders if we could unite as a species. 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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Introduction to the Mythic Giraffe Podcast
00:00:07
Chris
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:10
iamron'smightywind
And I'm Ron.
Delaware's Traffic and Road Planning Woes
00:00:15
Chris
Yeah, I got thinking about you last week when I took that class up in Dover. i was like, man, this is just a boring stretch of road and people i don't know how to drive.
00:00:26
iamron'smightywind
They do not.
00:00:27
Chris
God. God.
00:00:28
iamron'smightywind
They do not. It's awful. and it is it is the worst thing Delaware has done is that they never put a highway, a freeway,
00:00:40
iamron'smightywind
down the state.
00:00:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:43
iamron'smightywind
And now we're, it's funny because inside baseball, we and I were just talking about people not having foresight with the fire service. Like Delaware is now screwed because the number of people that have moved to the state from out of state who don't know how to get around on our state.
00:00:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:00:58
iamron'smightywind
And now there's no freeway. you know if you like up the other side of Delaware, you go route one or 113, they're putting all these little bypasses to try to fix things. It's like the answer is a freeway.
00:01:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:11
iamron'smightywind
with exits. That six is your problem.
00:01:13
Chris
Yeah. yeah but Why wouldn't they just extend Route 1? Hmm.
00:01:20
iamron'smightywind
Well, let me tell you the story of a young Ron Wismer. The year was 1991, I think, and they started working on Route 1, the actual freeway part of Route 1.
00:01:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:38
iamron'smightywind
It took them 12 years i think back then and that's when we were efficient at building roads so i would
Route 1 Construction and Traffic Solutions
00:01:45
iamron'smightywind
think it'd take them 70 years to finish it shit if they did it this the right way now
00:01:45
Chris
Yeah. Right.
00:01:54
Chris
ah
00:01:55
iamron'smightywind
well when they when they built one i think all those were they because root one didn't used to come all the way up north right it it was
00:02:02
Chris
yeah
00:02:03
iamron'smightywind
it It was only down south.
00:02:05
Chris
right
00:02:06
iamron'smightywind
And when they built the freeway part of Route 1 up north, all the maniacs in Sussex County were like, well, we got to have our intersections. Got to be able to get on the bubble rub road from Oskin's Farm Bridge Road.
00:02:20
iamron'smightywind
No, you don't. You just have exits.
00:02:22
Chris
yeah
00:02:24
iamron'smightywind
And now you guys are all screwed.
00:02:27
Chris
yeah yeah yeah it really slows things down when every quarter mile there's a stoplight
00:02:36
iamron'smightywind
Well, Route 13, if I ever become governor of the state of Delaware, and God help a lot of people if I do, I'm going to all of those little towns, I'm going to pass an ordinance that they cannot have one stoplight on Route 13 be incorporated in their town just so they can have fucking a stoplight and a cop.
00:03:00
Chris
Yeah.
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iamron'smightywind
All of those towns are off. they they're They're off 13.
00:03:05
Chris
Right.
00:03:05
iamron'smightywind
Stay off the highway. Let the highway be the highway. And you guys have the rinky dink townville.
00:03:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:13
iamron'smightywind
13 should. I mean, I understand there's going to be lights no matter what, but there's got to be a better way to handle that.
00:03:18
Chris
and
00:03:21
Chris
Oh yeah. Well, I mean, Maryland's not great, but there's no stoplight in Hebron.
00:03:27
iamron'smightywind
Right.
00:03:27
Chris
There's no stoplight in Vienna. I mean it's trap. ah there's one in trap, but still, it's not nearly as bad as Delaware.
00:03:36
iamron'smightywind
Now, the worst thing that Maryland did on 50 is ah Cambridge.
00:03:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:44
iamron'smightywind
Like, that should just be ah bypass and be done with it
00:03:47
Chris
Yes. Yes.
00:03:51
iamron'smightywind
it. Sorry, Cambridge. We're not going to have your little rinky-dink Bob's Hoskins Road come out to the fucking highway.
00:03:55
Chris
Hmm.
00:04:01
iamron'smightywind
It just slows down everything.
00:04:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:03
iamron'smightywind
yeah speaks Well, it's funny because you're talking about this. I just drove home from work. Just got home.
00:04:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:08
iamron'smightywind
And from basically Dover to Middletown, or the bridge almost, almost to the canal, was back-to-back traffic going, bumper-to-bumper traffic going south.
00:04:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:21
Chris
Ugh.
00:04:24
Chris
Is it just people going to the Delaware beaches?
00:04:26
iamron'smightywind
I'm assuming I would...
00:04:28
Chris
ah
00:04:30
iamron'smightywind
rather poke my eyes out with hot coals and than that traffic for like if if you gotta know it's 2025 you gotta know it's august it's two weeks before kids go back to school you gotta know if you didn't leave at three o'clock in the morning to the beach you're not going to the fucking beach it's not happening turn around go back to your house
00:04:39
Chris
Yeah, it's...
00:04:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:50
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:04:54
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, last night we were talking about where to go to dinner. And my wife was like, oh, let's go to Cello's. It's this Italian place in West Ocean City. I was like, yeah. Oh, no. White Marlin.
00:05:04
Chris
No, no.
00:05:04
iamron'smightywind
No, no, no, no.
00:05:05
Chris
Nowhere near. No, no. We're not going to Ocean City.
00:05:08
iamron'smightywind
Yep.
00:05:11
iamron'smightywind
There needs to be a, I don't know, like a toll plaza for locals.
00:05:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:17
iamron'smightywind
Like, you can't get on this road unless you're a local.
00:05:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. There could be a riddle.
00:05:25
iamron'smightywind
Answer me these three. Who's the mayor that hit a man with a walker? too soon, too soon.
00:05:31
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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iamron'smightywind
But I just, I wouldn't, there's nothing at the beach that I want enough to sit in traffic for four hours.
00:05:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:42
Chris
No.
00:05:43
iamron'smightywind
Because then you get there, like, it so it was, it was like 9 a.m., 8 a.m., whatever.
00:05:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:05:48
iamron'smightywind
You get there at noon today.
00:05:50
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:05:50
iamron'smightywind
You get there at noon. It's Saturday. You probably have to work.
00:05:53
Chris
You're pissed off from the drive.
00:05:55
iamron'smightywind
You're pissed off on the drive. You get to the beach. Unless you're a local, you're probably going to a shitty crowded beach. So that's going to suck. And then it's like, well, it's three o'clock.
00:06:05
Chris
Yep.
00:06:06
iamron'smightywind
Let's go get dinner. All right. Because you got to sit in our waiting line for two hours to get to dinner. And then you're like, all right, pack fucking kids home. We're going home. like Because you're just going to do it again tomorrow.
00:06:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:18
iamron'smightywind
Coming home is going be just as bad.
00:06:18
Chris
Right.
00:06:19
iamron'smightywind
It's
00:06:20
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
College Move-In and Lifestyle Reflections
00:06:22
Chris
That's like my, ah we got the schedule for my daughter's move into college.
00:06:22
iamron'smightywind
not really.
00:06:27
Chris
It is the Friday before Labor Day.
00:06:30
iamron'smightywind
Oh,
00:06:33
Chris
Fortunately, she has a 9 a.m. move in time. Yeah. but My wife was like, do you want to come up with? i was like, no, I got a meeting at work on Friday.
00:06:43
iamron'smightywind
oh, oh.
00:06:44
Chris
I can't.
00:06:45
iamron'smightywind
got very important supply meeting.
00:06:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:49
iamron'smightywind
We got to talk about that.
00:06:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:51
iamron'smightywind
No, it's going to be four hour eat. Yeah, yeah.
00:06:53
Chris
Yeah. yeah And we were talking to friends of ours. So they were like, yeah, my daughter moves in at four o'clock Friday afternoon. i was like, oh, God.
00:07:04
iamron'smightywind
I always did early move in just to ignore, to avoid that nonsense.
00:07:04
Chris
yeah
00:07:09
Chris
Yeah. Well, evidently UMD like scheduled it for you.
00:07:10
iamron'smightywind
I was, uh, say Delaware was little more loosey goosey back in the nineties.
00:07:16
Chris
Yeah. Hmm.
00:07:18
iamron'smightywind
We just, we just kind of showed up, but you could do early a week early. You could come in, and but you had to help out with other kids coming in.
00:07:23
Chris
Hmm.
00:07:26
Chris
OK.
00:07:26
iamron'smightywind
So I would just be like, Oh, I'm here. You're, I'm your guide. As a freshman, you can, this is how you go to the, you know, dining hall.
00:07:36
iamron'smightywind
but I could check in a week early because of that was like that's always worth it oh it breaks my heart to you say things about your daughters like they have boyfriends and they're driving is this the same boyfriend from before wow
00:07:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:40
Chris
Yeah, her boyfriend moves in like three days before because he's a freshman.
00:07:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:57
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah. She's been dating this boy for every year. Yeah.
00:08:02
iamron'smightywind
survived the first year college separated wow
00:08:04
Chris
yeah. yeah so
00:08:07
iamron'smightywind
yeah Your kid's a better kid than I am.
00:08:13
Chris
Yeah, she's a good kid. That's the little one I worry about.
00:08:16
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:08:22
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. We were talking about you yesterday at work.
00:08:25
Chris
Oh, God.
00:08:26
iamron'smightywind
Talking about your wedding and I was giving people advice on their future nuptials.
00:08:31
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:33
iamron'smightywind
And I said, the most important thing you can do is not leave people bored with nothing to do for three hours between your wedding, which was epically awesome because it was 33 seconds, I believe.
00:08:44
Chris
Short.
00:08:47
Chris
Yeah, it was ridiculously short, which was awesome.
00:08:51
iamron'smightywind
It was, do you, do you, get the fuck out of here. We gotta clean up the hall.
00:08:54
Chris
Yep.
00:08:56
iamron'smightywind
It was like, Jesus Christ, do we have to sat down?
00:08:58
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
00:09:01
iamron'smightywind
And it was three hours before...
00:09:01
Chris
yeah
00:09:05
iamron'smightywind
ah
00:09:06
Chris
The reception.
00:09:07
iamron'smightywind
reception and the reception wasn't even like was like an hour of cocktails after that where we'd all been drinking at the bar for three hours that was uh
00:09:14
Chris
Yep. Yeah, that was... Everybody had a good time, though.
00:09:20
iamron'smightywind
yeah yeah parts i remember were good now i don't remember because of my old age i'm sure it wasn't because of my drinking at that event
00:09:24
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:28
Chris
Right.
00:09:32
Chris
Now, I think you had one, maybe two cocktails.
00:09:35
iamron'smightywind
Oh yeah, I was probably Mocktails really.
00:09:37
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some wheatgrass...
00:09:43
iamron'smightywind
Yeah,
00:09:47
Chris
uh yeah you're wearing in your tie-dye shirt listening to grateful dead yeah
00:09:47
iamron'smightywind
I'm an old hippie now. i ah I've become everything I hate. Look, last week my wife and I rode our bikes to the farmer's market.
00:10:01
iamron'smightywind
We're both wearing our sandals because you know, it's summer. Rode our ro her bikes to the farmer's market. Walked around the farmer's market. Borrowed little vegetables. Put it in her little basket.
00:10:13
iamron'smightywind
Rode to the hippie restaurant. Had lunch. And we walked around Main Street. And we rode our bikes home.
00:10:19
Chris
Nice.
00:10:19
iamron'smightywind
As hippie as you can get in these days. yeah
00:10:23
Chris
Yeah, but I mean, it's it's nice. it's It's good to slow down.
00:10:28
iamron'smightywind
It's my dream.
00:10:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:30
iamron'smightywind
It's my dream. Here's what I'm going to say. I am never... pissed off at traffic riding my bike i might get there five minutes quicker in my car but i uh am get angry in my car i'm never angry on the bike yep
00:10:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's so much easier to park. To maneuver. But you have to work watch out for all the maniacs in cars.
00:11:01
iamron'smightywind
well Luckily for me, going into town is only like a half-mile stretch that I have to be on a road.
00:11:07
Chris
Nice.
00:11:08
iamron'smightywind
And if I really need to, I can be on a sidewalk.
00:11:11
Chris
and Okay.
00:11:11
iamron'smightywind
So, you know, I don't like riding on sidewalk.
00:11:13
Chris
Hmm. Yeah.
00:11:15
iamron'smightywind
Don't want to do that as a general rule. But sometimes it's the safer way.
00:11:19
Chris
Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely.
00:11:21
iamron'smightywind
But, yeah, it's ah it's... I keep telling my wife, I'm like, this is just my dream. Just to just... have a part-time job where I can ride my bike to to work. And then the rest of my days just riding around.
00:11:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:35
iamron'smightywind
Because we went to last shift. Last week, my shift and I had lunch. One of our our youngest shift mates birthday, we went to lunch in Lewis.
00:11:43
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:11:44
iamron'smightywind
And I was like, this is terrible driving into Lewis. Because I don't drive into Lewis. I usually ride my bike into town.
00:11:52
Chris
Ah.
00:11:53
iamron'smightywind
So usually when I ride my bike, I'm like, I'm carefree, I'm happy.
00:11:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:57
iamron'smightywind
I'm not on Route 1 like screaming in the wind.
00:11:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:02
iamron'smightywind
I just forgot how bad it is when you are in a car.
00:12:08
Chris
yeah
00:12:09
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. It's just better on... The world's better at a bike's pace. Yeah.
00:12:16
Chris
yeah
00:12:19
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:12:21
Chris
Well, throwback to something we talked about, don't know, last time, time before, we were talking about movie theaters.
Decline of Movie Theaters
00:12:27
iamron'smightywind
Oh.
00:12:28
Chris
So I went to the movies last weekend. I was my oldest one to see Fantastic Four. So she invited me. So we went. I was third wheeling it because it was her, her boyfriend, and me.
00:12:41
iamron'smightywind
oh
00:12:42
Chris
um So it had been out for, what, a week and a half at that point, maybe?
00:12:47
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:12:47
Chris
and We were, there were, what do we count out? Six people total in the theater. I was like, this is, theaters are dying.
00:13:00
Chris
And I'm a good person. like Or most the time I am. We had bought tickets. But we walked in. No one ever asked us to see the tickets.
00:13:11
Chris
I had to stop somebody and say, do I need to check in with you?
00:13:11
iamron'smightywind
ah
00:13:14
Chris
She's like, oh yeah, I guess I got to scan your ticket.
00:13:16
iamron'smightywind
Nice. Wow.
00:13:19
Chris
Yep. And I literally had a can of seltzer water that i brought in with me. the Whatever. They didn't care.
00:13:29
Chris
So, yeah.
00:13:31
iamron'smightywind
I do think they are
00:13:34
iamron'smightywind
i don't talk I'm not sure they're dying. as as much as They're already dead and they don't know it.
00:13:38
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:41
iamron'smightywind
I'm sure there are still theaters that that's not the rule. It's I'm sure there's plenty of, they're doing well, but ah around here, like the one in Newark, that's in downtown, which they they've never been able, like, I don't know why they keep like, it'll close and then they reopen it and it'll close and they never does well.
00:14:01
Chris
yeah yeah
00:14:01
iamron'smightywind
And like, I never see anybody there. I'm never even sure it's open. And I'm like, I don't know. Why does this exist? Like, I don't know.
00:14:12
Chris
yeah it's yeah i just don't know it's costly for and i'm sorry i don't know maybe it's just me but
00:14:14
iamron'smightywind
I mean, that was before the pandemic. It it was never doing well.
00:14:24
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. It's.
00:14:31
Chris
the picture's not that great it's i don't know
00:14:36
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, because. When we were kids, you yeah were watching it on a crappy TV at home.
00:14:44
Chris
yeah yeah
00:14:44
iamron'smightywind
you know Now you're coming to your house where you have a better you know resolution than you have in a theater. You can have your own sound control or headphones if you want to, for God's sakes.
00:14:55
Chris
yeah
00:14:57
iamron'smightywind
You're in your chair. If your chair looks like crap, it's because you're an asshole. You can fix that.
00:15:03
Chris
ah Yeah.
00:15:04
iamron'smightywind
You go to the theater and the chair looks like crap. It's like, well, I just paid $25 for this ticket to sit in a ah a cracked leather chair that doesn't work.
00:15:10
Chris
Right.
00:15:13
iamron'smightywind
Cool.
00:15:14
Chris
Or that squeaks every time you move, shift, anything.
00:15:15
iamron'smightywind
Oh, yeah.
00:15:18
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. And the floors are covered in trash and detritus because...
00:15:24
Chris
Is it a special flooring they get for movie theaters that has like a pre-stickiness to it?
00:15:31
iamron'smightywind
No, I think it's just people are animals and they, you know, they can never keep them clean.
00:15:38
Chris
Yeah. what You mean the teenage derelict who comes through with a little sweeper that doesn't, it just sweeps it up into a bin that doesn't clean things?
00:15:46
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, the little... No.
00:15:50
iamron'smightywind
yeah I don't think that does the job, no.
00:15:52
Chris
OK. All right.
00:15:54
iamron'smightywind
If I were to guess, would say that doesn't do the job.
00:15:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:59
iamron'smightywind
And why a you know why is he? he he's getting He's probably getting paid minimum wage. he's like He doesn't care.
00:16:03
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah, but maybe, unleash a herd of Roombas at night or something.
00:16:11
iamron'smightywind
Sure. Sure.
00:16:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:13
iamron'smightywind
I'm sure the floor in the in the movie theater gets shampooed all of the time.
00:16:18
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:16:19
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:16:20
Chris
God, that carpet is so gross. Ugh.
00:16:24
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. There's nothing in experience is good.
00:16:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:27
iamron'smightywind
And I think people who think it's good... our it's all nostalgia based.
00:16:32
Chris
Oh, yeah. It absolutely is.
00:16:34
iamron'smightywind
It's all based of what you remember when you were 14 and go to theater and how cool that was because there was no other option.
00:16:40
Chris
yeah right yeah good options yeah ah yeah yeah i agree
00:16:44
iamron'smightywind
Now we have other options.
00:16:47
iamron'smightywind
They're all better.
00:16:50
iamron'smightywind
I would rather watch the Fantastic Four on my phone than go to a theater.
00:16:57
iamron'smightywind
And I'm personally okay with If there's a movie that comes out and you charge me 15 bucks to rent it, I'll rent it.
00:17:07
Chris
yeah
00:17:07
iamron'smightywind
like i I'm personally, i maybe I'm not everybody, but that seems like a better business model than having theaters open.
00:17:11
Chris
mm-hmm
00:17:14
Chris
mm-hmm yeah I yeah well when the theater industry also is you know like yeah use us for your business meetings or your church service or what it's like what yeah
00:17:17
iamron'smightywind
Sorry, theater industry, but you donezo.
00:17:29
iamron'smightywind
Right. Right.
00:17:34
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Yeah, and like but so a lot of theaters around here are like, but we have alcohol in the theater now. I have a refrigerator in my house.
00:17:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:45
iamron'smightywind
If I want alcohol, I can have alcohol.
00:17:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:50
iamron'smightywind
I'm a grown-ass adult.
00:17:52
Chris
At a pittance of the charge that you're going to give me.
00:17:53
iamron'smightywind
but yeah If I want shitty popcorn, I can get shitty popcorn.
00:17:59
Chris
Yeah. yeah Oh, no, there's nothing like movie theater popcorn. I'm sorry. You always get, it's either burnt or you're getting the little kernel. So it's like baby teeth in it.
00:18:12
iamron'smightywind
it's always squeaky stale.
00:18:15
Chris
yeah yeah yeah you yeah but ah that the caramel comes out in one giant cylinder
00:18:15
iamron'smightywind
It's always got this squeakiness that I can't... Popcorn sucks anyways, right? We can all agree. like Can we stop pretending like popcorn's good? It sucks.
00:18:27
iamron'smightywind
so You know what's the best gift anybody can give anybody? A giant tub of three flavors of shitty popcorn.
00:18:38
iamron'smightywind
You what I want? Right. I would like really hard popcorn covered in shit caramel. That sounds great.
00:18:46
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:18:47
iamron'smightywind
or
00:18:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:49
iamron'smightywind
cheese? Question mark?
00:18:51
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:18:53
Chris
Yeah. They had the sweepings from the Kraft mac and cheese factory that gets spread on popcorn.
00:18:53
iamron'smightywind
Question mark?
00:18:57
iamron'smightywind
Right. and yeah But I want enough of that popcorn so that it sits and gets stale in my house in a giant tin that I then have to throw away a tin?
00:19:07
Chris
Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:19:09
iamron'smightywind
Awesome.
00:19:09
Chris
You're supposed to collect that tin.
00:19:11
iamron'smightywind
For what reason? Huh?
00:19:12
Chris
Oh, you're supposed to, I don't know, for decorations. Yeah.
00:19:16
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:19:17
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:18
iamron'smightywind
I had this, and this kind of was going where my topic was going, but I was have some boxes that I have to put away into storage just because they're in my house and they need to go away.
Decluttering and Minimalism
00:19:29
iamron'smightywind
And then when I was, I have to move a crap and do all this, said, why am I doing this?
00:19:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:19:35
iamron'smightywind
I'm just putting these things in storage and then I'm never going to look at them ever again.
00:19:38
Chris
yeah
00:19:39
iamron'smightywind
Just go away until I die and some poor asshole has to throw them away.
00:19:44
Chris
yeah
00:19:45
iamron'smightywind
Why not just throw them away now?
00:19:46
Chris
yeah Yeah, that's a valid point.
00:19:51
iamron'smightywind
i I have a bunch of boxes of photos that I want to digitize because i think that's preserving history and that's cool.
00:19:59
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:20:02
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:03
iamron'smightywind
I don't need my high school yearbook from 1996. don't care. i don't care
00:20:09
Chris
Hmm.
00:20:10
iamron'smightywind
and so I don't talk to those people. Even if I talk to them, I think it's super weird to be like, here's a picture of you when you were a child.
00:20:20
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:22
iamron'smightywind
it's It's funny because i I have a friend who I met this man in my 30s. So like I didn't know him. And his wife went to my high school.
00:20:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:35
iamron'smightywind
And he was like, yeah, I think my wife went to your high school. I'm like, that's weird. was like, hey, I've got pictures of your wife when she was a child. You want to see? And he's like, well, that's really weird. I'm like, I know it sounds creepy. But what ah but I'm saying is factually correct.
00:20:50
Chris
I know it sounds creepy. I mean, so long as it's in a yearbook and not like in your wallet.
00:20:59
Chris
yeah
00:21:00
iamron'smightywind
I just want you to I've been carrying pictures of your teenage wife in my wallet for the last 30 years. Is that weird?
00:21:10
Chris
Yeah. That might put you on a watch list.
00:21:12
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, yeah. But he was like really freaked out He's like, why do you... have i was like, I have... She's in my yearbook. i I just said it in a creepy way to be provocative. But it is funny.
00:21:22
Chris
yeah Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:25
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:21:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:27
iamron'smightywind
It's... my My topic was going to be decluttering your life and just not having stuff anymore.
00:21:31
Chris
Ooh. Bobby.
00:21:34
Chris
Yeah. Well, I mean, that's a great segue into your topic.
00:21:35
iamron'smightywind
but
00:21:39
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. So how much crap is around? Here's the thing. Here's the thing I've learned. I've learned from a firehouse.
00:21:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:21:47
iamron'smightywind
I've learned from owning my own house.
00:21:49
Chris
ah
00:21:49
iamron'smightywind
Whatever space you have, you will fill that space.
00:21:53
Chris
yeah yeah we're like oh it's like a kind of like a goldfish or a turtle in a aquarium or terrarium they'll grow to the tank yeah i guess that's god
00:21:59
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. yeah
00:22:03
iamron'smightywind
I can remember when I moved out of my apartment with my, well, she's my wife now, but when we were together, we moved into this house. I was like, we'll never fill this house up.
00:22:11
Chris
yes oh my god yeah yeah
00:22:14
iamron'smightywind
And now this house, it's just two of us. I don't have, I don't even have the excuse of those kids like junking up my house. It's full. Everywhere is full of crap.
00:22:25
Chris
yeah
00:22:26
iamron'smightywind
I hate to say it. A lot of it's my crap.
00:22:32
iamron'smightywind
But like, I'm looking around my man cave right now, right? I have an unopened bottle of Jack Daniels in a fire truck from the 70s.
00:22:37
Chris
yeah yeah now i'm sure it's fine it's aged
00:22:44
iamron'smightywind
Cool. I'm never going to open that. and It's probably no good anyways. and Right. i have a I have a bunch of books that I own and have read and then for some reason keep as if I'm um some sort of historian who's going to do research on these books ever again.
00:23:03
Chris
Wait, so you're saying as I'm looking over and I see my biology book from college on my bookshelf, I shouldn't have that?
00:23:14
iamron'smightywind
know I threw away the other day? I threw away my officer, fire officer book. And know i I sat there and i was like why have I kept this so long?
00:23:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:23
iamron'smightywind
i Like I have fire essentials, fire officer. And at one point I kept it because I needed it to study for the test. But that book has not been good for 10 years. I threw away my paramedics.
00:23:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:35
iamron'smightywind
I literally threw away my paramedic books two years ago.
00:23:39
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:41
iamron'smightywind
Those books haven't been relevant for 20 years.
00:23:44
Chris
yeah Mine got transferred to the new EMS guy. It's part of his problem.
00:23:50
iamron'smightywind
right was he just making more You're just handing more crap off.
00:23:53
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:23:53
iamron'smightywind
i've got
00:23:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:23:54
iamron'smightywind
I've got a bunch of Xbox 360 games that I don't even own an Xbox. Well, I don't own it. It's and also a piece of crap in storage in my house.
00:24:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:03
iamron'smightywind
like I'm never going to play those games. Why do I have them?
00:24:07
Chris
right yeah yeah yeah yeah i've got a bunch of yeah games it's yeah ah yeah i mean that's there's something to be said about the people that have the tiny houses i mean
00:24:13
iamron'smightywind
I just have all this junk around my house. and i I don't want to deal with it. I need to get rid of it. It drives me crazy. Like, it's too much.
00:24:31
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Well, I had I went to ah my buddy's... Him and his friends do a boys weekend where they all like they rent a house somewhere and they hang out for the weekend.
00:24:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:45
iamron'smightywind
It's a cool idea to like hang but you know, to stay connected with your friends. I thought that was cool. So he invited me and I was like, oh, sure.
00:24:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:52
iamron'smightywind
I can show up for the Saturday. And the one guy who, you know, I'm friendly with, I don't really like know him, but we'll talk to everyone. He's like, yeah, I just bought a lot a piece of land and I'm putting a 400 square foot house on this piece of land. And I'm going to basically live on that and on my boat.
00:25:07
iamron'smightywind
I'm like, here you're living the best life.
00:25:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:13
iamron'smightywind
You just can't have crap if you live in a 400 square foot home.
00:25:13
Chris
yeah
00:25:17
Chris
Right.
00:25:18
iamron'smightywind
You have to look at everything and go, do I need this?
00:25:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:21
iamron'smightywind
Nope. Gone.
00:25:23
Chris
Yeah. Well,
00:25:25
iamron'smightywind
yeah we We have...
00:25:26
Chris
it's like the people that say you should like every year, your spring cleaning, whatever you do, your cleaning, if you haven't used it in six months, you should probably get rid of it.
00:25:27
iamron'smightywind
so
00:25:37
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Yeah. hello
00:25:39
Chris
Hmm.
00:25:40
iamron'smightywind
My wife, I love her. I appreciate you hearing me. I love you more than anything in the world right now.
00:25:45
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:25:46
iamron'smightywind
But for ah years ago, we were like, for some reason, we were going to get into caning. So we bought all the crap to get into caning. And we never got into caning.
00:25:56
iamron'smightywind
So she was like, all right, I got to, cause we were making room downstairs for something. And and she pulled She's like, oh, here's all the crap for caning. And then she's like, we got to get rid of it. I'm like, yeah, I agree. Let's throw it away. It's like, well, somebody might want it. And I'm like, nobody wants it. Let's get rid it of it.
00:26:12
iamron'smightywind
And now it's been sitting in my man cave for like three months. I'm like, it's time to go. It's gotta go.
00:26:18
Chris
if it's been in your area for three months, I mean, the law of possession, you should be able to do what you want with it.
00:26:25
iamron'smightywind
It's true.
00:26:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:28
iamron'smightywind
got go It's to go.
00:26:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:32
iamron'smightywind
I feel like I need to purge. Purge harder. Oh my god. If want to see pure madness...
00:26:35
Chris
Yeah. Well, you talk about the firehouse. We firefighters are the worst.
Firehouse Clutter Issues
00:26:41
iamron'smightywind
oh my god if you want to see sure madness like the the the reins of Cthulhu coming down cause is insanity in the world go into the shop of any firehouse in the country that this screw was found on the pad of the engine bay what should i do with it throw it the fuck years ago from now we might need this screw
00:26:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:59
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:09
Chris
no No, no, You got to put that in ah drawer with a bunch of other screws.
00:27:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:27:19
iamron'smightywind
We must keep this screw. Nope.
00:27:22
Chris
Or, or just, yeah, put it in a coffee can with the other screws so you can never find it
00:27:29
iamron'smightywind
We...
00:27:30
Chris
that used to drive me bonkers.
00:27:32
iamron'smightywind
We...
00:27:32
Chris
was like, oh, where are the parts? Well, we got three or four coffee cans in there. Go through them. I'm sorry. What?
00:27:39
iamron'smightywind
We're having a slight issue at my station right now where the speakers are going wonky. I'm not sure if it's related to they were wired poorly in the first place, which is what I think is the correct answer, but I don't want to say that.
00:27:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:27:49
Chris
I'm pretty sure that's correct answer, too.
00:27:51
iamron'smightywind
right
00:27:51
Chris
But yeah, proceed. Proceed.
00:27:52
iamron'smightywind
and so And I know a little bit about speaker wiring, so i was like, I'll take a look. And i I pulled this speaker down. It was from 2006. I'm like, there's no way this speaker has worked for this long.
00:28:05
iamron'smightywind
So then I'm like... Then I figured out the speaker's no good, and but it's still hot. Like it's still wired hot. So there's still electricity running through these wires.
00:28:13
Chris
Hmm.
00:28:16
iamron'smightywind
So I went to our A-shift lieutenant who's the liaison for our speakers and all that crap with backstage. And I said, hey, speakers aren't working in station one. I think the speaker's bad. He's like, I don't think that speaker's even wired in anymore. I'm like, well, it's clearly wired to something.
00:28:33
iamron'smightywind
And he tells me, he informs me that when,
00:28:34
Chris
yeah
00:28:37
iamron'smightywind
They went to the new backstage that they put new speakers up. I said, well, you didn't think to take the old ones out and pull the wiring? Well, why would we do that?
00:28:48
iamron'smightywind
Because now there are just wires running around our ceiling that we don't know what they're for. And they're they're still hot.
00:28:55
Chris
ah
00:28:58
iamron'smightywind
right What are you talking about?
00:28:58
Chris
ah
00:29:00
iamron'smightywind
you know We didn't pull the old wire.
00:29:03
Chris
ah like when a gentleman may or may not have been shocked in the annex because of random live wires
00:29:09
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Just random live wires. Oh, and even better, Chief. when When the speaker was no longer working, and they found me another speaker and were like, use this one.
00:29:21
iamron'smightywind
I was like where'd this speaker come from? They're like, oh, it's just been shitting the shop for like 10 years. I'm like, are you kidding me?
00:29:29
iamron'smightywind
No one knew if it was working. And by the way, i wired that thing up. it started It started to get so hot that i thought it was going to blow.
00:29:39
iamron'smightywind
pretty sure that I'm pretty sure that speaker didn't work and somebody just put it into a box.
00:29:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Well,
00:29:45
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:46
Chris
but that's the just replace that booster hose on the brush truck.
00:29:51
iamron'smightywind
Wait!
00:29:52
Chris
And I made the...
00:29:52
iamron'smightywind
Why don't we throw the freaking toes away?
00:29:54
Chris
I made the comment. I said, so we're throwing the old stuff away. i was rebutted and said, well, let's hang on to it until we can get some spare to keep on hand. Just in case, just in case for what?
00:30:09
iamron'smightywind
in case In case of what?
00:30:10
Chris
Well, but you never, and it was, well, you never know.
00:30:14
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, I do know. I know that that hose is going to sit in the bundle on the floor for like 15 years. Throw it the fuck away. Or the two desks that we moved out of 16 and shoved into the old office at Station One Annex and said, just in case we need a desk.
00:30:32
Chris
Yep.
00:30:32
iamron'smightywind
If we need a desk 10 years from now, just get a new desk.
00:30:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:35
iamron'smightywind
Throw these away. Get rid of them.
00:30:37
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:39
iamron'smightywind
ah The firehouse... For someone who's as bad as I am with, like, purge... I want to go in there and just throw everything away.
00:30:47
Chris
yeah Yeah. There's a lot. Yeah.
00:30:50
iamron'smightywind
I would just pile it all up onto the tower and drive the tower into the ocean. And then... I'd be a happier man.
00:30:58
Chris
Well, when the sinkhole happens at headquarters, that should take care of most of it.
00:31:01
iamron'smightywind
Right. But we pack up so much... You go upstairs, like...
00:31:05
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:31:07
iamron'smightywind
I can't even walk into the mezzanine upstairs at 16 anymore. the The one on the admin side. That is a...
00:31:14
Chris
Oh, no, that's been cleaned out.
00:31:16
iamron'smightywind
Oh, has it?
00:31:17
Chris
Oh, yes. there Somebody was on vacation.
00:31:18
iamron'smightywind
The last time I...
00:31:21
Chris
So there was a clean out.
00:31:23
iamron'smightywind
The last time I went up there, it was nightmare fuel.
00:31:26
Chris
Yeah, no, no, it's it's it's better it's not good, but it's better.
00:31:31
iamron'smightywind
but We had broken chairs up there.
00:31:34
Chris
Oh, yeah, obviously.
00:31:35
iamron'smightywind
Well, yeah, Clare's!
00:31:36
Chris
What?
00:31:36
iamron'smightywind
The chair broke!
00:31:37
Chris
but did You break the chair, you put it up there, and the elves repair it, and then it shows back up.
00:31:41
iamron'smightywind
Fix it? Oh, oh. So we were what you're saying is we were curing the chair. we had to give it more time to blossom into a fixed chair.
00:31:47
Chris
Yes, yes.
00:31:50
iamron'smightywind
We just didn't give it the time.
00:31:50
Chris
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
00:31:53
iamron'smightywind
it's we There was a chair that was broken in Station 1. And they just moved it to the the back wall. And I was like, do you guys think this chair is going to get fixed?
00:32:06
iamron'smightywind
no one's going to No one's coming out here to fix this $100 chair. What are you doing?
00:32:11
Chris
yeah
00:32:12
iamron'smightywind
Throw it the fuck away.
00:32:14
Chris
Oh, we, there was a broken chair in admin that we rolled out to the trash cans.
00:32:22
iamron'smightywind
Oh, did it come back in?
00:32:22
Chris
The next day it's in the engine bay.
00:32:29
Chris
I'm like, wasn't that? Yeah. I mean, it doesn't really work, but I mean, it's kind of a chair. We have other chairs. There were, there were seven other chairs around it.
00:32:40
iamron'smightywind
there There are more chairs that we know what to do with in the stations.
00:32:42
Chris
yeah Yeah.
00:32:44
iamron'smightywind
Right now, I see one.
00:32:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:45
iamron'smightywind
It's like a chair graveyard. I don't know what's going on. i don't know where.
00:32:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:49
iamron'smightywind
I think they're multiplying when I leave.
00:32:53
iamron'smightywind
Because we, look, we like our mismatched crappy chairs out by the engine bay.
00:32:58
Chris
yeah
00:32:59
iamron'smightywind
It fits the motif of our station. It's who we are.
00:33:01
Chris
yeah yeah
00:33:02
iamron'smightywind
But then there's a whole other pile of chairs that I don't know where those chairs came from.
00:33:08
iamron'smightywind
And yeah the thank God for Lieutenant on A-Shift.
00:33:09
Chris
yeah
00:33:11
iamron'smightywind
He's like, hey, you see those chairs? They need to go to the dumpster. i was like, you told the right guy, bud, because they're going in the dumpster right now.
00:33:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:17
iamron'smightywind
He's like, what what what if somebody... I said, you told... You said dumpster. They're gone.
00:33:23
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. None. yeah
00:33:27
iamron'smightywind
They're gone. They're just...
00:33:28
Chris
yeah
00:33:30
iamron'smightywind
We just hold on to crap like it's... Like, this is our precious materials. No, it's junk.
00:33:36
Chris
yeah
00:33:37
Chris
yeah
00:33:37
iamron'smightywind
How many wait sections of broken hose do we need around the firehouse, do you think?
00:33:43
Chris
nine
00:33:43
iamron'smightywind
like
00:33:44
iamron'smightywind
yeah Exactly! Zero!
00:33:48
Chris
ha yeah yeah
00:33:50
iamron'smightywind
Zero is the answer. Zero. That booster line, you give me the word, chief, it's going away. Because I came to work yesterday and I was like, that fucking booster line is still here.
00:34:01
iamron'smightywind
Like, motherfucker. It's 30 plus years old, it's half-rotted,
00:34:06
Chris
yeah all right well it when they were moving the stuff out of the kitchen
00:34:07
iamron'smightywind
Throw it away. were We're not going to have an emergency where we need two sections of booster line.
00:34:18
Chris
for this remodel into the date room or whatever. I overheard them. Yeah. We've got like eight crock pots. We found, do you guys have like potlucks or something for the community?
00:34:26
iamron'smightywind
yeah.
00:34:29
Chris
I mean, why do you need eight crock pots?
00:34:32
iamron'smightywind
so Well, look, on Sundays we have potluck for the church. You know, we like to make a different variety of dips.
00:34:39
Chris
Yeah, but I know what it is. It's maniacs at home and I've done it in the past. I'm guilty of it. You get a new crock pot or whatever at home.
00:34:45
iamron'smightywind
yeah.
00:34:47
Chris
You're like, Well, the old one kind of works. I'll put it at the firehouse.
00:34:50
iamron'smightywind
Look, just because I got to use a pair of pliers to turn the crockpot on... and sometimes you have to connect the wires to yourself and be the bridge so that the thing plugs in it's perfectly usable the latches don't work and the lid's kind of wonky but it's fine just don't eat the right just don't eat the glass that falls into it you're good yeah
00:34:56
Chris
still
00:35:03
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:35:07
Chris
Yeah. The handle's missing. Yeah. Yeah, the porcelain's like chipping off and
00:35:16
iamron'smightywind
No, we are 100% our worst nightmares. so
00:35:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:19
iamron'smightywind
We just...
00:35:21
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:35:21
iamron'smightywind
like Well, it's like the the the so plates. They're talking about the plates and stuff at Station 1. They're like, you know, blah, blah, blah.
00:35:26
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:35:28
iamron'smightywind
We need this. And B-Shift uses 18 plates a day. I'm like, what are you talking about? You use 18 plates a shift. There are five people at this station. Are you juggling...
00:35:39
Chris
They're like my kids.
00:35:40
iamron'smightywind
What are you, juggling plates for fun? What is going on at this station?
00:35:43
Chris
God.
00:35:45
iamron'smightywind
We should be able to get away with 10 plates total.
00:35:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:48
Chris
yeah yeah yeah oh yeah
00:35:51
iamron'smightywind
10 plates, 10 bowls. We're good. Nope. and no Nope. Nope. We've, we've got, and we keep getting more. It's just that somebody finds a, we found a square plate the other day.
00:36:05
iamron'smightywind
I'm like, where did this come from? They're oh, somebody found that.
00:36:06
Chris
square plate yeah yeah yeah we went through admin and
00:36:08
iamron'smightywind
I'm like, why are we bringing plates into the firehouse? We've got 30 plates as it is.
00:36:17
Chris
and all the mugs and cups and everything. We set them all at all this Tupperware we found, set it all out on the table.
00:36:25
iamron'smightywind
Oh.
00:36:25
Chris
I said, you can pick out one, maybe two glasses. If the Tupperware is yours, claim it. But guess what? Otherwise all this stuff's going away. We made sure we had, like you said, we have, what do we count out?
00:36:36
iamron'smightywind
I.
00:36:39
Chris
Six coffee mugs and maybe eight glasses, everything else gone. And we had somebody, well, I mean, no, and and and no, no, no.
00:36:53
Chris
Cause I looked in your office. You have three glasses in your office. Those are yours. They stay in there.
00:36:57
iamron'smightywind
right The Tupperware box and in that was sitting out, I saw it i was like, oh, I could use a piece of Tupperware for that for for for today. They're like, no, no, no, no.
00:37:08
iamron'smightywind
but We might need that. I'm like, isn't that a that a box of trash Tupperware? What's going on?
00:37:13
Chris
We might need that.
00:37:15
iamron'smightywind
We might need that. It's crazy.
00:37:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:18
iamron'smightywind
But like the mugs. The officers at Station One, two years ago, last year, we all bought mugs for everybody. Got everybody's names put them.
00:37:25
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
00:37:27
iamron'smightywind
Right? That should cover all of the mugs at Station One.
00:37:32
Chris
Correct.
00:37:32
iamron'smightywind
There's been a couple new people, so we've got to figure out what we're going to
00:37:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:36
iamron'smightywind
But we don't need two shelves of other mugs, right?
00:37:40
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:37:41
iamron'smightywind
No, no, no, no, no. no
00:37:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:43
iamron'smightywind
Got other mugs.
00:37:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:44
iamron'smightywind
Or my favorite at Station One.
00:37:49
iamron'smightywind
I bought my shift coffee mugs. Those mugs are meant for drinking coffee, I believe. It's in the title.
00:37:55
Chris
yeah Yeah, that's ah typically a coffee mug is.
00:37:57
iamron'smightywind
The maniacs that walk in, grab a styrofoam cup and put coffee in it and then throw that cup away and then do it again. And I'm like, I bought you a fucking mug. It's sitting right there. It's got your name on it.
00:38:10
iamron'smightywind
Nobody else uses that mug.
00:38:10
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:15
Chris
Take the styrofoam cups out.
00:38:17
iamron'smightywind
i
00:38:19
iamron'smightywind
If I could, I would.
00:38:21
Chris
Poke a hole in every single one of them.
00:38:22
iamron'smightywind
Every one of them. Yeah. There's a freaking coffee mug with your name on it. Use that, you maniacs. Yeah.
00:38:29
Chris
Well, start smacking the styrofoam cup out of their hands.
00:38:33
iamron'smightywind
Well, he's basically got dementia at this point. we just kind of We're trying to get him to his retirement age at this point.
00:38:39
Chris
Well, maybe that's a thing. Maybe he needs to be guided over to his coffee mug in the morning.
00:38:43
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. i Here you go, Grandpa.
00:38:45
Chris
i agree Yeah.
00:38:46
iamron'smightywind
This is your mug, remember?
00:38:49
Chris
Put his hand around it so he can feel it.
00:38:52
iamron'smightywind
i don't feel it too much. You know how you get shaky.
00:38:57
iamron'smightywind
ah
00:38:57
Chris
ah And I know exactly who you're talking about.
00:38:59
Chris
Oh, God.
00:38:59
iamron'smightywind
Yes, you do.
00:39:01
iamron'smightywind
Yes, you do. I'm not even really liking the right now where we're using paper plates, but we kind of don't have a chance.
00:39:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:08
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:39:09
Chris
You take him down the river and wash him.
00:39:13
iamron'smightywind
Out in the Beaver Dam Creek, whatever that's called, right there the station.
00:39:15
Chris
yeah Yeah, just put him in like a big mesh net and just dip him in there.
00:39:20
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, that water looks real clean.
00:39:23
Chris
Oh, yeah. what You do it on the low side. so the damn waters flowing through wash all the impurities away yeah that's how yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:39:27
iamron'smightywind
Mm-hmm.
00:39:31
iamron'smightywind
yeah, yeah, that's exactly what I want to do. That's how we did it in the olden days. no I did, I did see something that I thought was amazing.
00:39:43
iamron'smightywind
Cause you know, this is a side change everything, but you know, this push for like organic food and the current maniac who's the human second health and human secretary, who's like, you know, got to get rid of these processed foods cause they're killing people.
00:39:53
Chris
ah
00:39:56
iamron'smightywind
It's like, somebody said, well, you know, People back 200, 300 years ago, they all ate all organic and they all died at the age of 33.
Organic Food Skepticism and Modernization Resistance
00:40:05
iamron'smightywind
thirty three
00:40:06
Chris
yeah right yeah yeah
00:40:08
iamron'smightywind
Maybe all organic's not the best thing in the world. Yeah. Yeah. yeah the The other place that's a nightmare fuel for hoarding at Station 1, and I'm sure it's at Station 16, is the fucking fridge.
00:40:19
Chris
yeah oh yeah oh my gosh
00:40:23
iamron'smightywind
It's insane. When we went to a Station Kitty... I said, hey, everybody just put your spices out on the table and we'll buy whatever spices we don't have.
00:40:38
iamron'smightywind
And then as as these spices go out, we'll just replace them from the kitty. Seems reasonable. That way everybody doesn't have to have a bunch of crap sitting in their lockers, right?
00:40:46
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:40:48
iamron'smightywind
One maniac shift. Well, those are our spices. we we We like to make fancy dinners and we we we like to have those
00:40:54
Chris
These are our spices. We import our saffron every year.
00:40:57
iamron'smightywind
right Right. we just We just got back from an expedition to Ceylon for that pepper. So, like, those are our spices. And I'm like, there they're Walmart spices, guys. Like, chill out.
00:41:09
iamron'smightywind
Oh, we can't do that. Okay. Well, can we, like, take all the condiments out of the kitchen and just, like, have, you know, like... one ketchup for the station with some couple extra spares like sitting in the closet ready to go and one mayonnaise instead of like 38 mayonnaises.
00:41:31
iamron'smightywind
I'm emotionally connected to our mayonnaise and that mayonnaise has to stay in our fridge. What is wrong with you people?
00:41:37
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that kind of mustard. I like French's. don't like Heinz or you know what it's.
00:41:46
iamron'smightywind
It's crazy. Like, if I was king of the world at Station 1 for a day, I would take that big fridge and throw it in the river.
00:41:47
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:56
iamron'smightywind
And you guys would survive. C-Shift, they save pancakes. And, like, one slice of bacon.
00:42:03
Chris
What?
00:42:05
iamron'smightywind
You'll come into work in the morning, and there's there's pancakes and one slice of bacon with ah you know the very hygienic paper towel over top of it. Well, we're saving that
00:42:14
Chris
I mean, that is, you know, how you seal things in the fire department.
00:42:17
iamron'smightywind
Right, that's that's how you seal things. just put paper towel over the top it stick in the oven. Or stick it in the fridge. And they're like, oh, we're saving that for next shift.
00:42:22
Chris
yeah
00:42:25
Chris
That one piece of bacon.
00:42:27
iamron'smightywind
One piece of bacon and three pancakes is what you're saving for next shift.
00:42:31
Chris
Nobody's going to eat those pancakes.
00:42:31
iamron'smightywind
Cool. Cool, guys. How about, or, I got a counteroffer, throw it the fuck away.
00:42:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:38
iamron'smightywind
If you're not going to eat it, throw it away.
00:42:41
Chris
Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
00:42:43
iamron'smightywind
It's maddening.
00:42:44
Chris
Hmm. we yeah we had another purge in admin recently those bookcases in the small conference room stuff
00:42:52
iamron'smightywind
Oh, they were just full of... This is a the Floodwater plan from 2003. Cool. Oh, nice. Yeah.
00:42:57
Chris
yeah um the chief's memos from 2001 yeah yep yep yeah we ah got rid of a lot of that so and we had somebody well i mean sometimes it's good to look back on those things
00:42:58
iamron'smightywind
cool
00:43:05
iamron'smightywind
oh nice yeah
00:43:15
Chris
the current chief was like, I have never referenced anything greater than five years of age when I'm making a policy.
00:43:24
iamron'smightywind
I put this.
00:43:25
Chris
ah
00:43:25
iamron'smightywind
and don't have an email in my email box that's older than six months. If I haven't looked at it in six months, I don't need it.
00:43:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:33
iamron'smightywind
Trash.
00:43:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:36
iamron'smightywind
It's gone.
00:43:36
Chris
It's yeah. yeah It's, it's crazy. Some of the things we keep,
00:43:41
iamron'smightywind
The maniac captain on D shift has never thrown a He's never deleted an email ever.
00:43:46
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:47
iamron'smightywind
And he has, he's very proud of that.
00:43:47
Chris
And very proud of that.
00:43:49
iamron'smightywind
And he has made statements like, well, see, I have proof because in 2007, we had this email that came out about that. No one cares about the email in 2000.
00:43:58
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:00
iamron'smightywind
If the fire chief is saying, this is how we do it in 2025, we're going to load that one.
00:44:03
Chris
Yeah. yeah Or the maniacs that, oh yeah, there's ah there's an update to the SOPs. Gotta print out all the SOPs again.
00:44:12
iamron'smightywind
oh Yeah.
00:44:13
Chris
Why? No, don't. Stop printing things out.
00:44:16
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:44:16
Chris
You have it digitally.
00:44:18
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:44:18
Chris
I actually had somebody one time. i was like, oh, let me pull it up, you know, digitally. Like, but you can't trust that. I'm sorry. What? Well, yeah, I mean, this is a print copy. This is they black and white.
00:44:30
Chris
was like, well, this is black and white on a LCD screen. It's the same thing. ah
00:44:36
iamron'smightywind
Where do you think it came printed from?
00:44:39
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I have a copy saved to my drive.
00:44:41
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, I always...
00:44:43
Chris
yeah Yeah, and that's old and not updated.
00:44:46
iamron'smightywind
Right.
00:44:46
Chris
Congratulations.
00:44:47
iamron'smightywind
like Good for you, bud. Throw that away.
00:44:49
Chris
ah
00:44:51
iamron'smightywind
Yep.
00:44:51
Chris
Remember we used to run into that with the equipment checks.
00:44:54
iamron'smightywind
Yep.
00:44:54
Chris
People would save random equipment checks on their drive and it's like, ah oh, cool. Yeah, that says the engine's supposed to have four tires on it. Well, this new engine has six.
00:45:05
iamron'smightywind
right yeah yes we uh we can't get past that i don't know how you break people of that one good it is that was a rough one the the hey oh well it's funny because i my desktop at work drives me nuts because like firehouse is still on the desktop
00:45:07
Chris
hu
00:45:11
Chris
Yep.
00:45:15
Chris
Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:28
iamron'smightywind
and I can't delete it because I'm not an administrator.
00:45:28
Chris
Really?
00:45:31
iamron'smightywind
And every time I look at it, I'm like, these motherfuckers, just delete this.
00:45:36
Chris
Just put a help ticket in IT. t They'll take care of it.
00:45:38
iamron'smightywind
I should do that. I thought about it yesterday.
00:45:39
Chris
Yeah, they will.
00:45:40
iamron'smightywind
I was clearing up my desktop. I was putting things in folders and clearing things up, and I was like, I can't get rid of this bullshit.
00:45:43
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:45
iamron'smightywind
It's like, we haven't used this in four years.
00:45:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They will definitely take care of that.
00:45:51
iamron'smightywind
Good. I bugged Ryan when he's out there.
00:45:55
Chris
Yeah. Will.
00:45:58
iamron'smightywind
I thought Brian's one that usually comes out to Sishoan. Is his name Brian? Will's the newer guy, right?
00:46:04
Chris
Yeah. With longer hair.
00:46:06
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:46:07
Chris
Yeah. He's doing most of the hardware side software stuff. It's,
00:46:13
iamron'smightywind
Who are
00:46:13
Chris
I don't know. They have all these little things. And I found out that evidently the guys that do the fleet side with computers and the guys that do the in-station computers, they don't talk a lot.
00:46:25
iamron'smightywind
Well, that's cool.
00:46:26
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:27
iamron'smightywind
Makes sense.
00:46:27
Chris
It's like the jets and the sharks. God.
00:46:32
iamron'smightywind
I don't even know why we're putting computers in. We put a new computer in the engine, in engine two, you know, I'm like, why are we doing this?
00:46:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:40
iamron'smightywind
Just put a tablet in, be done with it.
00:46:43
Chris
ah Because ah the dispatch center said that the tablets don't work well with the CAD they bought.
00:46:55
iamron'smightywind
I, I, I,
00:47:01
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Because they didn't spend the additional whatever it was to get the Not just the program, but the application for tablets and stuff. It's just the program.
00:47:15
Chris
So that's why you have to have, you have to have a laptop for it.
00:47:16
iamron'smightywind
ae If i win the lottery, I'm buying you guys a your own dispatch center.
00:47:19
Chris
Hmm.
00:47:23
iamron'smightywind
I'm going to have the Ron Wismer Honorary Dispatch Center.
00:47:23
Chris
Hmm.
00:47:27
iamron'smightywind
and i'm good
00:47:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:28
iamron'smightywind
So you don't have to deal with those maniacs anymore. It's
00:47:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Unifying Against Global Threats
00:47:32
Chris
yeah
00:47:33
iamron'smightywind
insane that dispatch is telling us that we can't put tablets on our freaking engines.
00:47:37
Chris
yeah yeah
00:47:42
iamron'smightywind
okay well
00:47:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:43
iamron'smightywind
I've done my rant in topic one.
00:47:44
Chris
Hmm.
00:47:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:49
iamron'smightywind
sanity Insanity.
00:47:49
Chris
What?
00:47:49
iamron'smightywind
Insanity!
00:47:50
Chris
Yeah. um
00:47:53
iamron'smightywind
I
00:47:53
Chris
Topic two. i don't know. this might This is a little heavy, dark. I don't know.
00:47:58
iamron'smightywind
don't know.
00:47:59
Chris
Yeah. Well, so watched Fantastic Four last week, which it is it was fun. like i liked it. enjoyed it. um But it got me thinking. it's not spoilers really i mean everybody knows that the big bad in it is galactus you know the destroyer of world eater of worlds or whatever do you think that if tomorrow the surfer arrived to earth as it is now and said prepare yourselves galactus is coming do you think us as a world
00:48:39
Chris
could actually unite for that god see and i say the same thing and it just hurts
00:48:42
iamron'smightywind
No.
00:48:48
iamron'smightywind
I literally just had this entire conversation with the guys at the weekend. The same guy with bite at the tiny house. We were talking about things and I was like, so he said he said something about apocalypses and I was like, no, we're screwed, bud.
00:48:56
Chris
yeah hmm
00:49:02
iamron'smightywind
he's like, no, I really think, I said, hey, COVID wasn't that bad and we made it a thousand times worse. And if something like that were to happen where it was actually that bad, we're all dead.
00:49:18
Chris
Fuck.
00:49:19
iamron'smightywind
wait We couldn't have the common decency to put masks on when we are sick.
00:49:23
Chris
Hmm.
00:49:27
iamron'smightywind
We could not handle a global event. this There's just no way.
00:49:33
Chris
Hmm. Hmm.
00:49:36
iamron'smightywind
Think of the leader of the United States is right now. Are you kidding me? He'd be walking up to the silver server and be like, that's a cool surfboard.
00:49:41
Chris
Uh...
00:49:43
iamron'smightywind
I can see my fixture in it.
00:49:47
iamron'smightywind
take me to your Take me to your young girls. What are you talking about?
00:49:50
Chris
Oh, God. Yeah.
00:49:52
iamron'smightywind
No way.
00:49:53
Chris
e say or It's a silver server. If it was a gold server, it'd be better. and we do yeah no But it's just a silver.
00:49:57
iamron'smightywind
yeah
00:49:58
Chris
It's just nothing to worry about.
00:50:01
iamron'smightywind
No, we we we would be screwed.
00:50:02
Chris
ah Damn it.
00:50:04
iamron'smightywind
We're screwed in any situation all. We... wait
00:50:08
Chris
Hmm.
00:50:10
iamron'smightywind
No. We're so screwed.
00:50:13
Chris
Hmm.
00:50:14
iamron'smightywind
I have no... I don't think we could handle mega storm at this point. like if If a Katrina happens, I think we're going to kill 3 million Americans. I don't think we could handle a global hurricane.
00:50:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:29
iamron'smightywind
No. The only thing I've learned in my lifetime is that we're worse than we were.
00:50:37
iamron'smightywind
Like... but You think about... And we came together for the wrong reasons, but after 9-11, right?
00:50:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:46
iamron'smightywind
Definitely. But I don't think we could even do that now.
00:50:46
Chris
yeah
00:50:50
Chris
No, you're right.
00:50:53
iamron'smightywind
If Galacticus was rolling up, I would just be like, well, we're all all dead. Because there's no way these maniacs are going to do anything to come together.
00:50:58
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:03
Chris
Right.
00:51:07
Chris
Hmm.
00:51:07
iamron'smightywind
it I always think about the scenario of if there is another intelligent life form, there's no way they're approaching us because they're just expecting us to nuke each other any day.
00:51:18
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah, they're just biding their time.
00:51:21
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. They're just like, these maniacs are going to nuke themselves every other week because we can't even consider ourselves humans or like people of Earth.
00:51:33
iamron'smightywind
like they so I love the Halo universe, right? And the whole like the whole thing a Halo universe is like, it just became the UNC, the United Nations or whatever. or order hell you know There's no more Americans and all that stuff. It's just humans.
00:51:52
iamron'smightywind
There's no way we would come together. as we Even if we just said, we're going to have... we're just gonna be planet Earth, right? We're all gonna band together. There's no more nations. We're just gonna be planet Earth.
00:52:04
Chris
yeah
00:52:05
iamron'smightywind
We would nuke each other just over which time zone is the time zone we use as Earth standard time.
00:52:14
Chris
Well, I mean, time is a made-up construct that...
00:52:19
iamron'smightywind
100% is that we will nuke ourselves over.
00:52:21
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:21
iamron'smightywind
There's no way. I have no hope for humanity anymore.
00:52:26
Chris
ah
00:52:27
iamron'smightywind
Do you?
00:52:29
Chris
No, I guess not.
00:52:31
iamron'smightywind
to i mean, it's sad to say, right? like
00:52:33
Chris
It is.
00:52:34
iamron'smightywind
But I think I'm just hoping that the apocalypse doesn't happen in our lifetime because it's gonna be bad.
00:52:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:42
iamron'smightywind
i was with my statement to the guy other day. I was like, you don't want to be the guy who lives through the apocalypse. you That's gonna suck.
00:52:51
Chris
yeah
00:52:53
iamron'smightywind
Because we're not gonna handle it well. you know we're but we can't i just like we We just talked about this last podcast, but we can't even treat people who are our neighbors like human beings right now.
00:53:08
Chris
yeah ah yeah which i don't need to understand that like it take you know like the global neighbor out of it i mean just like the other day it was trimming my yard i noticed my neighbor hadn't string trimmed lately so i string trimmed around the front you know and like edged i was talking about it work and somebody was like why would you do that because it needed to be done and yeah well they could take care of their own stuff
00:53:31
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
00:53:39
Chris
But it didn't hurt that extra five minutes I took to clean up that little part of their yard.
00:53:44
iamron'smightywind
yeah Why?
00:53:46
Chris
Or i if I see their trash can down as I'm bringing mine up, I drag theirs
Community Support and Consumer Critique
00:53:51
Chris
up. Why would you do that? Because it's neighborly. Yeah.
00:53:58
iamron'smightywind
Just think about it this way. I just want you to let's say ah hurricane strikes Baltimore, right?
00:54:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:54:07
iamron'smightywind
Hurricane strikes Baltimore. What's the reaction from the people on the Eastern shore?
00:54:12
Chris
Good.
00:54:13
iamron'smightywind
Exactly. Screw those Baltimore ons.
00:54:16
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:54:17
iamron'smightywind
That's your own state.
00:54:17
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:54:19
iamron'smightywind
Like nobody hates Marylanders more than other Marylanders.
00:54:20
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:54:23
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:28
iamron'smightywind
I was telling that story because same thing. I like, i used to cut my neighbor's grass. ever if it's Especially if it was like really hot. She's a little, you know, she's not that much older than me. She's a little older than me and she's got kids.
00:54:40
iamron'smightywind
So I just cut her front yard. It doesn't, it takes me an extra, I'm already hot and sweaty. It takes me an extra 15 minutes, whatever. People are like, I can't believe you do that. i like, why? Well, you're such a gruff person, but I'm still going to take care of my neighbor.
00:54:53
Chris
You're such a gruff person.
00:54:56
iamron'smightywind
mean, I get I, I got that. I got the persona of being a gruff person.
00:55:02
Chris
But you're still a human.
00:55:02
iamron'smightywind
But still a human and my neighbor has three kids. She's done a lot of shit going on. I'm going to cut her grass.
00:55:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:10
iamron'smightywind
You know, my other neighbor a couple of years ago, i was like, notice, I'm like, his grass is getting long. That's not normal for him. You know, I haven't seen him in a while. So that's when were there and cut his grass and his wife comes out.
00:55:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:20
iamron'smightywind
She's like, oh my God, thank you. You know, Ray's in jail. And I was like, oh he's in jail. I didn't even know. She's like, ah, you know, I, you know, but she was like, I'm so thankful that I cut her grass because she didn't really know how to do it.
00:55:26
Chris
Jesus.
00:55:31
iamron'smightywind
I'm like, it's, it's not a big deal. And then he was, he was in jail for like 30 days over a child, whatever. didn't want get involved. Right. But he was like, oh, thank you for this.
00:55:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:41
iamron'smightywind
I can't believe you did that. I'm like, I cut your grass. It's not like I prefer surgery on your family. Like, you know, like literally it's just cut your grass.
00:55:46
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:48
iamron'smightywind
It's,
00:55:49
Chris
Yeah, but now you have an ex-con that's not going to go after you.
00:55:52
iamron'smightywind
That's fair. That's fair.
00:55:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:54
iamron'smightywind
You know, when it snows, I shovel the sidewalks in front of my neighbor's houses.
00:55:58
Chris
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:55:58
iamron'smightywind
Like, because you're already out. You should just, you know.
00:56:00
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:03
iamron'smightywind
and that's That's the stuff that I do.
00:56:05
Chris
i Yeah.
00:56:06
iamron'smightywind
And I'm like, there's no way other people do that.
00:56:07
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:56:10
iamron'smightywind
You know.
00:56:10
Chris
Well, I think there's a few, but the problem is there's so many that aren't like that.
00:56:15
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Not these days.
00:56:16
Chris
It's, it's, oh, oh,
00:56:19
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. Like, I think I think of the World War II generation and the sacrifices that they went through like to win the war.
00:56:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:56:28
iamron'smightywind
like People put lives on hold. don't think we would do that these days. Like rationing, all of those things.
00:56:34
Chris
Yeah.
00:56:35
iamron'smightywind
If you told people you have to you can't have your Pepsi because you know we got to send Pepsi to the troops, they would freaking riot in the streets these days.
00:56:35
Chris
Oh yeah. My God.
00:56:43
Chris
No, no, no. If you told people that they he could only drive to and from work or something like that and had yeah ration gasoline, that's yeah.
00:56:51
iamron'smightywind
yeah yeah yeah i mean uh during the war all right there was a really interesting statistic that like the first year like 41 they made x number of cars right between the 41 and 45 they made three or something like that because all the car production was is turned over to you know building war material
00:57:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:19
Chris
Right.
00:57:20
iamron'smightywind
these maniacs that i work with if they couldn't buy a new truck every two years i they wouldn't know what to do themselves they would be in the street taking guns in the street going and the government's keeping me from buying a new pickup truck no way if galactus comes up there it if if galactus came up here and his and the silver surface said if you guys will just recycle correctly
00:57:23
Chris
Oh my gosh. Yeah.
00:57:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:46
iamron'smightywind
then the world's not going to be destroyed. We're screwed.
00:57:50
Chris
yeah god yeah
00:57:52
iamron'smightywind
like Right? Like we're screwed. If you guys would just take the extra five minutes to sort your recyclables, the world will not be destroyed.
00:57:59
Chris
right yeah
00:58:01
iamron'smightywind
We're screwed.
00:58:06
iamron'smightywind
And that might be a very American view of the world right now. And I i apologize to international listeners, but as an American, that's how it feels.
00:58:14
Chris
yeah yeah Yeah, I don't think it's that way other places. Like, my sister right now is in Denmark, and it seems delightful over there. So
00:58:23
iamron'smightywind
right yeah yeah so so some somehow
00:58:26
Chris
what the? Oh, sorry. Side tangent, my neighbor and his friend are working on something in their backyard, and I'm waiting for one to fall.
00:58:36
iamron'smightywind
oh my neighbor so the house on my right was a was a rental and she's been there for like
00:58:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:39
Chris
OK.
00:58:45
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:47
iamron'smightywind
five or six years so she's been renting that place for a good long while and she she's moving to new york state she's actually moving long island and she's like she left so she left august 1st and the the neighbor who the landlord who owns the house has basically done nothing with this house for forever because she she didn't keep it up like as great as you could but you know she was renting it she's not gonna like put out money and stuff in this house
00:58:50
Chris
yeah
00:59:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:12
Chris
yeah Yeah, I get that.
00:59:14
iamron'smightywind
So I go to the gym on Thursday.
00:59:19
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:59:19
iamron'smightywind
And by the time I get back from the gym, I'm like, what the hell? And he had a a tree clearing crew and they just cleared out all of the, like there was a hedge between her house and and the guy on the other side's house.
00:59:33
iamron'smightywind
I don't think they asked anybody. They just took it all down.
00:59:35
Chris
Oof.
00:59:36
iamron'smightywind
They cut down trees. Like I had a, I had a, we had a tree that was like, it was on, I can't say anything because it was technically on their property, but it was like giving shade to my pond and we kind of liked it.
00:59:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:46
iamron'smightywind
We kept it trimmed up. Gone. I'm like, cool, man.
00:59:51
Chris
OK.
00:59:52
iamron'smightywind
He's like, yeah, we're selling the house. So we're just clearing all this shit out. I'm like, it'd be nice to like say something to me. you know, I own this property here. I do take care of my own property. I trimmed that tree, but cool.
01:00:01
Chris
Yeah. Is that a thing? Like, people won't buy a house because it has hedges and a tree?
01:00:08
iamron'smightywind
I mean, they were a little disrepair and, you know,
01:00:12
Chris
Clean them up?
01:00:13
iamron'smightywind
clean that's what i said just clean them up they would have been nicer but of course the one hedge because it's in between both of our houses that i hate and i've always like not taken out i'm like he left that one like you motherfucker yeah so i'm was trying to like as i walk out like this hedge right here looks like shit i wouldn't buy this house if this hedge was here that's
01:00:15
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:21
Chris
they ye yeah
01:00:34
Chris
ah
01:00:36
iamron'smightywind
terrible or nobody buys this crap house yeah yeah
01:00:43
Chris
Well, it's good to know that as a species, we're fucked.
Farewell and Positive Encouragement
01:00:47
iamron'smightywind
Oh, we're doomed. We're 100%. but hundred percent The only chance we have, the only chance we have as a species is somehow we build a planet ship and we just send off all the assholes.
01:00:59
iamron'smightywind
We trick them into the world's going to, the world's going to explode and we send them all in a spaceship and they go thousands of light years away and we never see them again.
01:01:07
Chris
Oh my gosh, that sounds amazing.
01:01:09
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, that's, that's our, our best hope.
01:01:11
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:15
iamron'smightywind
Yeah, at least in my mind.
01:01:17
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:19
iamron'smightywind
Well, on that happy note, folks,
01:01:21
Chris
Yeah. I hope you enjoyed the podcast today.
01:01:24
iamron'smightywind
enjoy your lovely weather because this August, and at least in our part of the world, has been amazing.
01:01:29
Chris
Yes. yes
01:01:31
iamron'smightywind
If it was like this every August, I would keep working in my career for the next 30 years. But unfortunately, I know that next August won't be like this.
01:01:38
Chris
No, it won't. No, no.
01:01:39
iamron'smightywind
Yeah.
01:01:41
Chris
But ah yeah. ah Follow us on social media and Twitter.
01:01:46
iamron'smightywind
Yeah. yeah the Join us on the Discord.
01:01:50
Chris
yeah
01:01:50
iamron'smightywind
And yeah.
01:01:50
Chris
ah Share us with your friends.
01:01:54
iamron'smightywind
Most importantly, as we always say on this podcast, and I think it's been the running theme here, just be nice to one another.
01:01:59
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:02
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Take care, folks.
01:02:04
iamron'smightywind
I don't Yeah.
01:02:06
Chris
Just take care of each other.
01:02:08
iamron'smightywind
Take care each other. Yeah.
01:02:12
Chris
See you, gang.