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Ep. 4 - $5,000 for WHAT?!
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On this week's episode, Denis aka the Boomer, hogged the mic with very informative rants about environmental issues, $5,000 baby checks, and a quick pow-wow about our favorite MLB team...SF Giants.
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Generational Banter
00:00:15
Speaker
Welcome back to Fuck You Boomer. I am your host, Michaela. And as always, I am accompanied by my co-host, my grandfather, Papa Dennis. Hi. The Boomer is here to take your abuse.
00:00:30
Speaker
Hello. The Millennial is here to abuse the elders. It's all your fucking fault. You fucked up this planet. I know.
00:00:41
Speaker
I know. We did everything. We're terrible. We're totally entitled. I know. I know. Yeah.
The Greatest Generation's Legacy
00:00:48
Speaker
Social security. We're the people that that gave you, we're the people that that that cured polio.
00:00:56
Speaker
No, actually it was cured during my time by, ah you know, these other great greats that came before us, the greatest generation. And those folks did. you know, a job too to the planet as well.
00:01:09
Speaker
was going to tell you, okay, as far as like, it's not always boomers. Sometimes it's a previous generation, no matter what, right? Okay. Number one, they go and they, the greatest generation. They go and they, they save the world from, from fascism, right. And imperialization, you know, by using an imperial power like Britain to, to, to basically tell them, Oh, you're so wrong. So we're going to beat the Japanese off of all of your, all of your colonies. And we're going to make it now.
00:01:38
Speaker
Those are going to be democratic, right. And you're not going to exploit all those people that are Brown and, and black and, and, you know, Asians and, you know, all these other things. So we're goingnna we're going to give them freedom and so by do by giving them democracy, right?
00:01:54
Speaker
Yeah. Although, you know, by the time that World War II rolled around, Britain was a democracy, even though They didn't treat their people that they ran as far as colonies, you know, too democratic. Like, we'll take your riches and we'll do what we have to do.
00:02:09
Speaker
yeah You still have to pay your taxes so we can keep the royal family rich. but it is Exactly. Yeah, we got to make we got to go out there and get some stuff for them, you know. So that it took a while for that for that for them to calm down and and give give away, get rid of all this stuff like India getting its independence and, you know, the Middle East being carved up after World War One.
00:02:30
Speaker
and causing all the problems that we're still dealing with now with, with different territorial, you know, ah individual borders and all this, but yeah.
Vietnam War and Boomer Culture
00:02:41
Speaker
But anyway, ah you know, so anyway, I wanted to say that a lot of times what we learned in school as boomers, what we learned in school that America was great. And, you know, we didn't learn all this stuff until later in life when you get into college and learn that, God, we're just as bad as the British.
00:02:58
Speaker
Or bad at any of the other imperial powers that took advantage, you know. Well, we did learn from our from from our elders. Yeah, we do learn from our elders, right? Yeah. And so you learn from us ah how much we've exploited the world, too, with everything that we did, you know.
00:03:13
Speaker
Get back up to Vietnam. We'll start talking about, what was that about? Well, it was about selling weapons. And it was about making money. And it was about making oil. And then later on, ah yeah, it was about fighting communism.
00:03:26
Speaker
Hey, Cheech and Chong were on the other day. Let you know about boomers, right? Because those guys are of our age, my age. It's funny because- Yeah, I'm not your age. Yeah, they asked him. They were on ah they were on The View, right? Okay.
00:03:37
Speaker
So as you know- The View? Cheech and Chong? Yes, this is this is where they've gone. Okay. So anyway, they got a new movie or documentary movie coming out. Okay. So- ah To let you know, they were on The View and they asked, they asked, what did you do, Cheech, when they started really understanding who they were when they met each other for the first time? And he goes, well, I was in Alaska making sure the Viet Cong didn't invade. I thought that was one of the best lines that I've ever heard.
00:04:05
Speaker
ah yeah So some people were, you know, and then Chong was, Tommy Chong was actually ah Canada and he was running a nightclub in Calgary. And it was funny because he said they wanted to get rid of him and kick him out of Calgary. So they kicked him out and made him go over to British co colonial ah british Columbia.
00:04:25
Speaker
And so he was working out of Vancouver on his other extracurricular activities. If you smoke it and you grow it a lot, you know, and then it became, i think, more legal. It became more legal in Canada than it was here.
00:04:38
Speaker
So, you know, and that's what, you know, where his money came from. Was it because they were passing it off as maple leaves instead of marijuana leaves? Maple leaves, yeah, big old maple leaves. That maple leaf is really interesting. It's all green and everything. It kind of smells like a skunk.
00:04:54
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. yeah So ah I wanted to ask you then about being something like that, about about boomers and stuff and what we've done to the planet and what we're trying to do.
00:05:09
Speaker
to try to undo some of the things that even our previous generation did. Let me go off on another tangent here.
Environmental Impact of Past Generations
00:05:16
Speaker
Did you know when the Sonoma County airport was built?
00:05:21
Speaker
Okay. And put in, it was actually an army air corps base. I mean, i didn't know that, but it kind of makes sense because that airport is designed poorly. Yeah, exactly. Well, it was designed in such a way where before radar, before a lot of things happen, a lot of people don't know this, that it was an army air corps base.
00:05:39
Speaker
And the Army Air Corps, pardon me, it was an Army base. Technically, Air Corps was part of the Army. Let me make that specific. It wasn't an Air Force until after World War II, and they became an actual branch of their own in the United States military force.
00:05:56
Speaker
So anyway, um they basically took and turned it into a, you know, after the war, they turned it into a public thing. But the reason why it was built there, let me get back to that.
00:06:08
Speaker
It was because of fog. They were worried about the Japanese. And the fog was one of the last places that would clear um weather there around Sonoma County. They built it there in the fog because they were worried about the Japanese attacking and they couldn't see it on the ground because it'd be foggy most of the time there, especially during but for the burn off that happens around here all the time in the summer months. You know, we have a lot of the fog that comes in up the river and all that stuff.
00:06:36
Speaker
And a lot of people don't realize what's up with this airport. Why is it foggy here? I've driven lots of times. You drive down river road, you look out and the fog's still over there. Well, it's the valley, you know, it'll kind of just stick.
00:06:47
Speaker
Yeah. It's the way that the way the individual hills are and how things burn off and especially in the summertime and all that. And there was a lot of water in the ground that that come up and form those the tule fog kind of a situation.
00:06:58
Speaker
But anyway, that's why I was there. But anyway, to get back to a story about when they go and turn into a public airport. And you have all this extra curricular activity with, they had barracks and stuff running down an old road that used to be Airport Boulevard. They called it something else at the time.
00:07:14
Speaker
And it would run out to old Highway 101, which was the old road. There wasn't any freeway back then. On that road, along that road, there were barracks and there were places that you could stash and store stuff when they closed down the army base.
00:07:28
Speaker
So guess what they used to dig up out there all the time? Boxes of ammunition. How about some grenades from World War II? All this stuff that they came across when they were building the a lot of the stuff, you know especially on the eastern side of the airport when they were putting in all this airport um you know business park.
00:07:48
Speaker
So you've got to watch out you know and stuff like that. The part that's actually functional. Yeah, stuff, unexploded ordnance. It's like, holy crap. you know Stuff that was, let's get out of here. They're closing down the base. you know Let's go and bury stuff.
00:08:02
Speaker
How about all the oil and all the crap that was poured into the ground, everything like that? Is that why they do the air show there and they do a lot of the military planes because they're trying to touch a bait like on the history a little bit? Or is that just its own separate thing?
00:08:18
Speaker
They did those bait. A lot of public, especially county airports like this is, a lot of around the country were old. a lot of them were old Army Air Corps bases.
00:08:29
Speaker
around the country. Some of them expanded out to become Air Force bases later, never became public. And then they knew where a lot of crap was that they had buried along the way and stuff that was polluted ground. you know And they had to do what they got to do nowadays. They aerate the soil, dig it all up, put it out, make the stuff safe, get rid of, of course, all this old orminants that you wouldn't want exploding.
00:08:52
Speaker
um But a lot of times it becomes real scary, you know, when you're talking about, ah give an example, CVS over there in Sebastopol, where it was built. be Pelini Chevrolet. What do you think Pelini did with some of its oil and stuff in its early days?
00:09:06
Speaker
Do you think they just put it into 55-gallon drums to be recycled back in 1940? No, I'm assuming it probably went into the Santa Rosa Lagoon. a lot of the stuff went into the groundwater.
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah. A lot of this crap. And why do you think it took a while for CVS to actually get the permits and have the ground checked and how long it took for them to build that place again?
Industrialization's Environmental Cost
00:09:28
Speaker
The pharmacy on the corner with all the parking lot and all that stuff?
00:09:32
Speaker
Yeah, it was no simple, simple deal. In Sebastopol, up where there used to be a tire shop right from up on the ah upside of town. They had a tire shop there. OK.
00:09:43
Speaker
And I know a guy that used to get his tires there all the time. And I asked him, Mike, I said, Mike, I said, what's up with that place that they've closed it? And he goes, man, he goes, Dennis, he goes, you won't believe the stuff they found in the ground there.
00:09:55
Speaker
When the guy closed it down and sold the stuff, um they basically it was a contaminated soil and everything. And that was just from a tire shop. you know, where happens. Well, it makes sense. Tires are kind of toxic. All this was poured in the ground, you know.
00:10:09
Speaker
We're talking about engine oils, transmission fluid, you know. All this other stuff that you go old stuff, you know, that was, I don't want to pay for this and take it to a recycler. I got a place for it. You know, it's like, dude, can't do that.
00:10:23
Speaker
So anyway, a lot of that soil had to be dug up, aerated, replaced, taken away. And they finally built what? They got a bank there now, you know. Finally, took all this time next to the Taco Bell up there, all this time. And I'm kidding.
00:10:37
Speaker
This thing took like, I don't know, it might have been close to 20 years since they closed it down, but they could build anything there. So there's a lot of polluted stuff that happened from previous generation, which became sometimes our problem too, because we actually took it over And now we're, hey, dad left it to you. Okay. Yeah. He left it to you. Left you the business. ah Dad's dead now.
00:11:00
Speaker
But all the stuff that he did, he polluted the ground. So it's like, dude, that's all going to be taken care of. Now it's worth nothing until it is taken care of, you know, and you got to spend all this money to do it.
00:11:12
Speaker
Or you basically what are you going to do? Bring up, you know, dig up dad's corpse and yell at him and send him to jail. yeah There's nothing we can dig. We just have to go to the river and and sift them like gold and be like, I found his feelings. Why did you do this?
00:11:30
Speaker
No, it's it's so the previous generations. What I'm trying to say is previous generations, as they say, didn't know better. You know, that kind of thing. But we now know better. I truly think that they did not know better because i they were truly mesmerized by the idea of industrialization.
00:11:48
Speaker
They were just so, so hyped about... becoming like their version of modernized yeah and like just getting better and better and better that they don't care about or they didn't actually think that it was important to think about the negative effects because that was not something that they ever had to consider.
00:12:10
Speaker
So it's kind of like a double-edged sword in this situation. Toxic chemicals. I was really surprised that they were, I don't know if they're still doing it anymore because I haven't had to do it at all, but re-chroming like bumpers and things like that, that stuff is highly toxic.
00:12:23
Speaker
All the stuff that's involved in that, all the minerals and and stuff that's involved in that. And there was places south of the airport boulevard there that they were doing that work quite a few years doing stuff like that there.
00:12:36
Speaker
You know, the old grandfather claws. We're going to grandfather. Yeah, but you're not taking, you're taking this stuff away now. All the other stuff that gets worn out, the different materials, and you're going through different recyclers with it, you know, that kind of thing. You're no longer pouring it into the ground.
00:12:51
Speaker
It's just interesting that the one of the most hippiest places in all of Sonoma County is coming out to be the most toxic. Well, you get these individual things like, ta like I said, things that are poured into the ground that are from oil products and chemicals and things.
00:13:07
Speaker
Now, biologics are one thing. Those things can clean themselves over a period of time. I've seen it in the Russian River. As I've kayaked down the river, visually, and you've watched water hyacinth and all these other types of of plants come through and suck the nutrients right out of the water.
00:13:24
Speaker
Nutrients, they suck the shit right out of the water. Okay. The stuff that's in the water. And on one side of it's all cloudy and everything. And then downstream, the water's all clear because these plants have done a number on it and drawing all this stuff. And the plants go crazy and love that stuff.
00:13:40
Speaker
They just, you know, water hyacinths and all these other summertime plants that just go out across the water. It's incredible, you know. So biologics a lot of times can clean themselves a lot easier than toxic chemicals can.
00:13:55
Speaker
You know, that stuff is a little bit more harmful in the long run. um Kind of the piggyback off of that. um Did you see, because I know we mentioned this, I think it was either our first or so
Intelligence of Marine Life
00:14:07
Speaker
second episode. We were talking about the...
00:14:10
Speaker
weird abnormalities of sea life coming to shore and dying. Yeah. Uh, well, there was an octopus this past week that like a ginormous one that just like washed up by like Baker beach, um, another whale.
00:14:28
Speaker
Um, and then a bunch of sea lions, uh, are going feral. And I guess they're, um, it's the green or green blue algae, whatever it is.
00:14:40
Speaker
There's a huge like ah toxic outbreak in the ocean right now, so everything's dying. Yeah, that green-blue algae, because the temperature changes, and sometimes certain marine animals give off certain things, too, that kill other things.
00:14:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that's sad. it's It's weird, too, with the changes in climate and stuff that happens. It makes that happen. then When I was sat thinking about the octopus that you said, it's really big, right? It was a good size?
00:15:04
Speaker
Yeah, it wasn't like calamari. It was... This is something... I wouldn't say it's like the ginormous cephalopod that you see in the depths of the ocean. that it's like It came from beneath the sea. One of those. I would say if it were alive and, you know, doing its thing.
00:15:28
Speaker
Could have been the size of maybe an orca. Really? Yeah. That's pretty big though. That's big because yeah the biggest things out there that have tentacles and everything like that, for the most part, most your octopuses, I mean, the the majority of them are smaller. They're all ones that can be caught in a smaller, and in a net, you know, or, you know, if you hook them with a line or something and you pull up one, it's three feet across by mistake.
00:15:54
Speaker
And I, I heard that they have, I heard that they have nine brains, if I'm not mistaken. Um, actually it's hearts. Is it nine hearts? I think it's hearts.
00:16:05
Speaker
i were let me Let me look this up. Check that out. Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that. You could be right. But if it's hearts and the one brain is between the eyes, that I could be confused.
00:16:16
Speaker
So, no, they have nine brains, but they have three hearts. Wow. They're really smart. Like, they're they they put them in a tank, and they've watched them go around and figure out how to get out.
00:16:30
Speaker
They've actually done stuff and they feel around and they do a whole deal where they they're logically in how to go into a tube and try different things. And if it's blocked off, they'll come back out and then they'll try another path to try to get out.
00:16:42
Speaker
So they they have analytical skills too, which is really fascinating. Do do you know do you want to know the reason why? ah go ahead. Okay. So they have one central brain and then they have one brain per tentacle.
00:16:59
Speaker
Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah. Yeah. That would make sense. Yeah. Can you imagine one brain talking to the other tentacle going, I want to go this way. No, no, no. Let's talk to the central brain. See what it says. Yeah.
00:17:10
Speaker
And then one heart is generally for pumping blood around the body. And then the other two are specifically for pumping blood past the gills. Nice.
00:17:22
Speaker
And have they got one that actually excludes Yeah. That's not for, I think that's just them. No, octopus have ink too. Yeah.
00:17:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But they don't have like, they don't need like a brain for that. Yeah. That's just kind of like men, right? Yeah. Basically you you think with your dick. They think with their ink.
00:17:46
Speaker
They think with their ink. Yeah. They think with their ink pod that goes.
00:17:52
Speaker
You made me ink. You inked me. How dare you? but Okay, so so um the the real dangerous one, according to Jules Verne, 20,000 leagues under the sea, it's ah it's the giant squid,
Giant Squids and Myths
00:18:11
Speaker
right?
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah. And I would not want to meet one of those. It's got a beak on it. It's got a beak on it, like a big old parrot beak in the middle. It can tear stuff to shreds. And you what's found?
00:18:24
Speaker
it's main in Like the Humboldt giant squid, the main enemy of it, believe it or not, is a sperm whale. Not because it can. Yeah. Sperm whale is capable of going down and diving deep where they are and nailing them and eating them down and they don't digest or they die. It's really hard for them to digest the beak.
00:18:45
Speaker
So a lot of times when sperm whales come up, this relates to your beaching whales beaching. When they come up, sometimes they find them on the shoreline and they're dead. Then they open them up and they find a lot of old beaks in their system that didn't get digested from all the monster.
00:19:03
Speaker
Humboldt squid they've been chomping on. Because they got teeth, you know, and they got that big long jaw, you know, that big long jaw. Well, most octopi. Is that the proper way of plural octopus? Octopuses? don't want to say octopuses. Well, that was James Bond. I mean, that was octopussy. That was a different one. That was a decent movie. It was okay.
00:19:29
Speaker
Oh, God. um
00:19:33
Speaker
Anyways, but no, and anything in that squid family, they do have beaks, but the giant, the giant squid definitely has more of like that.
00:19:44
Speaker
tally Yeah. Predator. Good size. They're good size, you know, and they find those inside the gullet and the and the gut of a sperm whale. and I don't know. They do gradually, um gradually dissolve, but it takes a long time, I think. And sometimes I wonder if that's not the cause of their death over a period of time where they reach a certain age, they can't digest it. And they basically back up in beaks and it kills them, you know.
00:20:08
Speaker
Yeah, the the maximum total length of examined specimens, like what they've you know seen washed up on shores or if they caught ethically, based you know ah hopefully they're not harvesting them illegally in the ocean, um about 43 feet.
00:20:25
Speaker
That's good size. That's good size. Mm-hmm. That's pretty big. Yeah. Home to first base is 90 feet in a Major League Baseball game. So you're looking at something that's almost halfway there, to give you an idea.
00:20:40
Speaker
It's even... you You want to know how big their fucking eye is? Oh, as matter of fact, they have the largest eye of all the animals in the world. It's the size of a dinner plate.
00:20:52
Speaker
10.6 inches. Yeah. It's the size of a dinner plate. Yeah. we're not We're not kidding here. That's good size. Yeah, well, they have to have that. It's probably got a big, when it opens up it's opens up its pupil all the way to see in depth of darkness and when they're hunting and what do they eat.
00:21:10
Speaker
They eat other types of fish and stuff at that depth, there a lot of depths. You're going to find, you know, inside of them. Let's see. What do giant squid eat? They eat deep sea fish and other squid species.
00:21:24
Speaker
Yes. So it's all part of their cousins. It's all part of balance. Yeah. Well, look at killer whales. I mean, those things, you ever see them, what they can do to a porpoise? That's not cousins. That's like your next door neighbor.
00:21:40
Speaker
Oh, they do. They're smaller neighbor. So it'd be like a larger neighbor eating a smaller neighbor simply because he's smaller. No, if you've ever seen what killer whales do sometimes and how they train their young to hunt and what they do.
00:21:54
Speaker
They take ah take things like sea lions and stuff like that. They turn them into flinging volleyballs. Oh, yeah, I know. I've seen videos of that. i a button you you know They fire them into the air and stuff like that, you know, as the other ones come down and chomp on them and stuff.
00:22:11
Speaker
It's like you look at the, oh, they're so smart and so intelligent. I got news for you. They can be just as, you know, and they're teaching their kids basically how to kill, you know, how to survive and stuff in the world out there. And it's like, oh, my.
00:22:24
Speaker
ah that's why I really have a real hesitancy about being a part of the food chain if I go out in the ocean in my kayak. This is why don't want to kayak with you in the mouth of Jenner because I bet there's a bunch of sea life that are just migrating up into that freshwater, saltwater mixture, and I bet there's a fucking river monster down there going to go right up on me.
00:22:49
Speaker
River monster. got Especially when the mouth is closed and they can't get out right away. Can't get out until the mouth is open. Kind of like when ah Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket got stuck in the mouth of a monster.
00:23:03
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The whale? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's one of Walt Disney's freak outs. so He's probably woke up and probably some, I got an idea for a really good plot. Put this into it. Figure it out.
00:23:18
Speaker
No, the one that's actually really fucked up is Peter Pan. Yeah. one's really fucked up because that's about killing children. Yeah, the real when you get into the real story of it and they kind of they try to soften it and all this stuff. Oh, it's about Wendy.
00:23:33
Speaker
It's about taking the kids off and into an adventure. It's about taking kids to heaven. yeah man. That's And then I just saw a clip yesterday and that's why it kind of like triggered my brain.
00:23:47
Speaker
is that there there is a ah clip from the movie when the mermaids were actually trying to drown Wendy. They were pulling her dress, trying to take her into the water. Oh, yeah. And they were angry.
00:23:59
Speaker
Yeah. I was like, oh. you wanted to turn and no so They wanted to turn her into a ghost mermaid? Well, sirens are actually vicious. They are they lure they are supposed to lure you with their yeah their song and their beauty. But then when you really see the real them, they're They're evil. They drown you and they want to make you a victim of their torment. Yeah, this is stuff that comes out of a comes out of Ulysses, right?
00:24:23
Speaker
Okay. And they used to tie themselves to the mast and all that to prevent, you know, and don't listen. It's like, it's amazing. it's A lot of the things are related to... ah If you go back into that story, how men were always afraid that a woman is going to dominate. So they always had to dominate them and somehow improve like, ah okay, you're so weak that this woman is going to take advantage of you in the sea.
00:24:48
Speaker
Okay. And so you tie yourself to the mask, that sort of thing, or your brethren does tie you down because you're insane. And then the guy who's doing it, he's got to put stuff in his ears, right? To prevent the siren song so he can direct the ship.
00:25:02
Speaker
away and save the rest of the men, that kind of thing, because women are evil. and You know what I mean? This kind of idea of all that. And like, oh, man, please. I feel like that's a really good segue talking about how women are evil.
Financial Challenges of Parenting
00:25:15
Speaker
um What about this $5,000 baby check? Exactly. Oh, baby, you're rolling in it now. $5,000 baby check. But that's only if you fucking have three or more.
00:25:28
Speaker
It's such a joke. The whole thing is insane because what it costs to even, you know, have a baby, let alone raise a child, how much it costs to raise a child, feed, clothe, house, all these things. It's insane how much.
00:25:47
Speaker
it's it's absolutely not fear It's just a stupid thing they put out there. You see how I love women? I'm going to give them five grand. Yeah. Do you know how much they're saying on average it costs to raise a child from newborn to 18?
00:26:04
Speaker
Almost half a million dollars. Oh, I believe it now. Yeah, now. No doubt. $5,000? Fucking joke. It is. It's an absolute joke.
00:26:15
Speaker
It really is. Well, the big thing is they want to make sure that it's not about brown black babies. It's about white babies. We need more white babies.
00:26:26
Speaker
You know, that kind of bullshit. That's exactly what it is. he's They're so worried about brown and black people running this country, you know, that sort of thing. Even in the even in the future, it's insane. but This is a country of immigrants, you know. i'm watching I'm watching the series Ghost from the beginning with you with Bumum, you know, all the way up.
00:26:49
Speaker
And one of the characters there was from 1895. And it's actually hilarious, but it's sick, but it's funny when she talked about how they're running this thing for white people and how children should work in her factories and all this.
00:27:04
Speaker
And then in the eighteen ninety s the government started going, we can't have that. Children should be in school. And she goes, and all those young little fingers not being able to work and get stuck in the machinery and to be able to clear things and keep things production going.
00:27:17
Speaker
You know, all this. It was actually sick funny, but it was so true back then. and then the government made legislative changes saying children should be in school. We have to have an educated public.
00:27:29
Speaker
Right. And who doesn't want an educated public now? Our current government. We don't want The administration don't want people thinking for themselves. They don't want any of that shit going on. yeah Here's the thing.
00:27:47
Speaker
I'm all for them creating some sort of tax break, some sort of check to give out to women who need the money to help support them raising a child.
00:28:02
Speaker
I don't want this to be a bribe. Because now you're going to be putting all this pressure on people to raise children.
00:28:15
Speaker
And maybe they're not they're not actually wanting to have kids. What if they see this as someone who is desperate for money And they're doing this because they want $5,000 and they need to pay a bill.
00:28:31
Speaker
But then they realize, fuck, now I have to take – now I'm pregnant and I need to take care of this child. And now this $5,000 is nothing. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Exactly. And you get into this deal about the ah child tax credit that they had and and that Biden had proposed even more, all these other things that were to be given. It was to help people.
00:28:51
Speaker
And it was a lot more than $5,000 to help them with a lot of things that they could get into. And also when you're talking about the child later, um to put them on a path of, say, for example, you know the pre prenatal care as well as all the way through pre-K care.
00:29:07
Speaker
Right. To help them along the way. So you've got a person that goes into school and the ready, willing and able to learn. Instead of, you know, mother going, yeah I got my five grand. I'm down at the casino.
00:29:20
Speaker
You know, and your kids at home with what? So yeah if people are that stupid to say $5,000 is pretty cool, man. He gave us that. Oh, by the way, he put his signature on the check, too.
00:29:32
Speaker
Oh, must be from him personally. And he used Sharpie. Yeah, a big old fucking Sharpie so everybody can see who it is. Are you that stupid, dude?
00:29:43
Speaker
You know, that he gave you a check? You know? How about universal free health care? Yeah, how about that? That would be nice. Yeah. Fuck your $5,000. I would settle right now Medicare for all.
00:29:56
Speaker
Yeah. you know Medicare for all right now. And even that, you're paying something into it. you know You pay into it along the way, and I'm still paying into it after people don't realize this. Oh, you got free Medicare now.
00:30:07
Speaker
No, it's part of what you got that's helping you along the way, but you're still making a monthly payment. People don't even know this because it's still required to keep Medicare afloat.
00:30:18
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. yeah So I'm paying that right now. Social security check isn't as big as it's supposed to be. It gets paid out before the net comes to me. That's part of it.
00:30:29
Speaker
lot of people don't know that, that are going in, getting into medica getting into social security and Medicare. They might be 60 years old right now and they're going, huh? Is that right?
00:30:40
Speaker
ah Yeah, dude. Yeah. Check it out. Anybody that's on it, they'll tell you, you know, how much more we're paying a little bit more a month. And then the rest of it, you go, well, you got free. You don't need to pay any more. No.
00:30:51
Speaker
And also doesn't cover everything either, you know. I've got an extra add-on like your mother's aware of. These that are add-ons that you got to put sometimes on there to take care of things. Like, for example, my type two diabetes and the drugs being taken care of was part of Medicare.
00:31:07
Speaker
But this other thing to check it and check your sugar and everything like that. No, that was my add-on. My Aetna that I had put on there that the one that I have.
00:31:17
Speaker
OK, on a monthly basis. All right. You know. I had to pay too at times, like before we scan, you know, $30 a month, all that. So that was that was extra. You had to pay a little bit extra, but it helped you when you came to certain things that all of a sudden, well, this one requires a deductible. well how much is it for an office visit?
00:31:38
Speaker
Well, this one here is 30 bucks. Used to be 25 last year, went up to 30. Okay, for this office visit. Other office visits, when I go to my regular doctor, nothing, nothing, nothing.
00:31:48
Speaker
It's all taken care of because I'm paying it way ahead. lot of people don't know that. You're going to have to put an add-on to it. One of those, many of them out there, they're going to sell you. So, see how it goes.
Universal Healthcare Debate
00:32:00
Speaker
Yeah, most of the time when I have debates with people about universal free health care, they're always comparing about, well, in Canada, it takes so long. People are always waiting. The appointments are so booked out.
00:32:12
Speaker
And I'm like, but here's the thing. That means that people are actually using their resources and getting the help they need. That's why it's taking ah while for you to get an appointment is because people are actually, they want to take advantage of this and get better.
00:32:30
Speaker
So maybe just be a little fucking patient and then maybe you'll be able to afford everything that needs to be done for you. Yeah. And it's basically on certain things. Like, for example, when they talk about, well, I have this surgery, I'm needed. Well, what is it?
00:32:44
Speaker
It's a ah minor hernia. Okay, fine. Where's it at? Blah, blah, blah. It's in an area where I've got to be careful when I lift anything or do anything. but What is your job? What do you do? Well, I sit down and work at a desk all day.
00:32:57
Speaker
you ever feel like your hernia is giving you any problem there? and No, it's really not. But when I'm home in the garden and I got to lift some of potting soil or something like that, then it can be a problem. Okay, here's the deal. I got you out on a schedule. It's going to be six weeks because of these type of operations aren't, you know, super critical to your health.
00:33:14
Speaker
Just be careful over the six week period when you do anything, take your time, smaller amounts, instead of picking up that 25 pound sack or that 50 pound sack, knock it down to five pounds. You know, carry it a little bit, a little less, a less little less weight.
00:33:28
Speaker
ah Adjust your lifestyle. Don't pick up the four ball bowling bag, man. Just pick up the two ball bowling bag. Okay. ah If you're going to go bowling, cut it down. You got a 15-pound ball?
00:33:41
Speaker
Use that one. Okay. Yeah. it'll be You'll be seen based on the order of importance, meaning like which one. And this is the same for an emergency room. yeah the more The more extreme of the injury, where meaning if it's a head injury, you're profusely bleeding out, things like that, you'll be seen immediately. you've already vomited out everything with an extreme concussion. Exactly.
00:34:06
Speaker
But like, oh, you have like a staple in your hand or you have a sprained knee or something. You can wait a minute. Like oh yeah it's it is what it is. um But yeah, this whole thing, you there's no amount of money that can bribe me into going and being like, all right, bakery's open. Put a fucking bun in the oven. No, thank you. no thank you.
00:34:32
Speaker
nothing No, thank you. No, thank you. No, I'm saving myself for marriage.
00:34:40
Speaker
Good girl. You're such a good girl. Even you got laugh that one. Jesus loves Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you. Oh, that's funny. Oh, God.
00:34:52
Speaker
Okay. Well, let's actually, before we, before we get into our vocab section, oh yeah i wanted to kind of end this ah conversation on a high note. Okay.
00:35:05
Speaker
Obviously you're wearing your hat. I wore my hat today to work because, you know, we're coming off this nice little heater at the first month of baseball.
San Francisco Giants Fandom
00:35:15
Speaker
um Yeah. Giants are fucking kicking ass, dude.
00:35:19
Speaker
And this is something that we haven't seen in um A little over a decade, it feels like. Well, it seems it seems that way, but in 2021, it's like there was times where... This team is going to win more than 100 games. And they were in a pennant race all the way to the end of the Dodgers.
00:35:35
Speaker
And you know, the final game of the season they had to win to stay that, to be the home team, to have advantage if it went into the playoffs in that first round. And they did. And they won the game. And then they get with the Dodgers. And what does it go to? A five-game series. It goes to the fifth game at home.
00:35:50
Speaker
And would they lose by one run, two to one? I looked at the stats on that back in 2021, I'm going... You know, they were like so close to going on. And believe me, there was a lot of other teams in the National League and American League are going, thank God that they're out.
00:36:06
Speaker
Because we know the Dodgers at that time choking the playoffs. And the the Giants, once they get in, it's like, look out 10, 12, 14, you know, that kind of thing.
00:36:17
Speaker
And then at 16, they almost beat the Cubs. Yeah. You know, they almost beat the Cubs in 16, but they lost that final game too. Bang, bang. you know Look at this thing that Daniel brought home for me.
00:36:29
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Because B of A is a major sponsor. But see, now because now it's an odd year. So how do we make this an odd one?
00:36:41
Speaker
An odd one. yeah i'm not I'm not worried about even odd. I'm just worried about just getting in. Let's go. also i'm I'm also worried about, believe it or not, I think that there is going to be a change in the in the rotation. It always happens somewhere along the way.
00:36:56
Speaker
But certain pitchers need some time. Sometimes they get their act together a little bit. But also... They were hitting pretty well for him. So it's almost like Ray, for example, is a good example. He seems to get run support a little bit more than some of the other pitchers.
00:37:15
Speaker
Like Webb could be the new you know person like Kane that hardly got any road run support. He'd go out, the poor guy would throw. How many runs you get? Oh, two runs in eight innings and one of them was unearned and I lost two to one.
00:37:27
Speaker
It was like, shit. I don't see him as a as like the number one. Webb? No. I do. He's still really good.
00:37:38
Speaker
Any game that I go to, he fucking chokes. Don't go to those games. He does well when you're not going. I don't go so web games. I'm sorry. No web games, honey.
00:37:49
Speaker
He's coming up. Tell Danny, tell Dan, I can't go. Web's pitching. can't go, man. No, Dan and I, we, we, we look at the, at the, at the lineup and like who they're predicting the pitch is going to be. And if it says, well, we we don't go.
00:38:02
Speaker
Speaking of his boy, okay, he did well yesterday. He got a double and a triple. Oh, they played Peterson yesterday? he went and He went and got a triple, right? Hit a ball up the typical gap, right? The triple gap.
00:38:15
Speaker
What's says average now, 200? it's i don't think so. I think it's still in the 100s, yeah. Really? Because i think it was like 134. Yeah. No, coming in, he was like, oh, he was like he was on the interstate. He was like 078 or something. Really? I'm this while you talk. Yeah, now I think check it up, baseballreference.com.
00:38:33
Speaker
Okay. You can go Peterson. this It'll have the updated stuff. looking it up. I'm just tippity-tappeting. His current batting average, actually, it's gone up, if it's you if you're correct. He is now 101. Yeah.
00:38:48
Speaker
yeah he just Well, he's still kind of on the on the freeway. He's on 101 now. He's on 101.
00:38:55
Speaker
No, but he sucks. And you know what? This this is common for him because he talked major fucking shit about this ah about this organization. i know. He's so, yeah.
00:39:07
Speaker
That's why guys that are free agents, that's why guys are free agents and they bounce around. They talk shit about the other places they were. When nobody else, he couldn't make an agreement with anybody else at the time. So give me a break.
00:39:18
Speaker
He's not a good team player. He's just a four-higher, we just need to add someone on our roster who can possibly hit. but He can hit against righties at times. yeah He doesn't add value.
00:39:31
Speaker
No, daniel was Daniel was conflicted. He didn't know whether to chant or boo. He was so excited when he was put in, but he felt sad and depressed. And he whiffed, yeah. So anyway, here's the deal. When he got that triple, they showed a replay of him, and what happened?
00:39:45
Speaker
His foot, his right foot, Don't be surprised if he's out of the lineup for a while for them in Texas because his right foot went tweak as an, you could see the ankle going as he hit the bag and he was standing up.
00:39:58
Speaker
That's how big of a triple it was. He went in and he was standing up and you can see his right foot do a weird, like a little, like a 90 degree tweak on it to the right as he hit the thing. Yeah. And he went, I said, that's going to, if he was going to feel that one in the morning,
00:40:14
Speaker
Because even if he plays, he's beast he's going to be wrapped up big time to try to play like a football player, sprained ankle. Why hasn't anyone given him a Pablo Sandoval contract?
00:40:24
Speaker
That's a big boy. not Nobody's given Pablo Sandoval a contract? No. You know the Pablo Sandoval contract? Oh, it was ridiculous. The weight contract.
00:40:35
Speaker
Yeah. This is the only reason why Dan loves him, because he's a big boy. Yeah, I'm sorry. You've keep your weight into position to play. Yeah, you do. Okay, so... I got two of them for you. I'm going to give you one.
00:40:46
Speaker
Okay. One right here. But the second first one, I will give you the first one. A gas. What are you talking about? what are what Where are we at right now? Slang words or phrases.
Generational Slang Exchange
00:40:57
Speaker
We're going to go into that for a second. Okay. Well, I got to introduce the fucking segment first. Oh, sorry. We got segment introduction. You're getting really good on this. Oh, I thought you were talking about baseball and I was like, God damn it. What stupid fucking baseball commissioner and is introducing some new, new um rule called gas.
00:41:17
Speaker
again You say a gas as in GAS. Yeah. And it's not the flatulence that comes out of your ass. It's partly that, no. No.
00:41:28
Speaker
no it could be it could It could actually, with older people, it could this could cause it. Well, I know that in young people terminology, gas is also another way of saying that that's good.
00:41:45
Speaker
Actively enjoyable or fun, like the last game with the Giants. Yeah. It was a gas. Okay. Yeah, well, we we I don't think anyone would ever say that. yeah It was fun. That was fun.
00:41:59
Speaker
Was that your Boomer one or was that supposed to be your Gen Z one? That was Boomer one that was used in the 40s sometimes early 60s. Okay. later Give me one of yours, baby. on. Let's go.
00:42:10
Speaker
I'll give you one more after that. I can't hold on to it. You have to save it for next week. You can't use two. I got a whole bunch of them, man. Oh, so you're you're preparing now? Are you making a spreadsheet? Well, you said you wanted to. Yeah.
00:42:24
Speaker
Okay. I know I'm making a spreadsheet too. I'm very organized. You're doing spreadsheet on it. but I got to make sure I have no repeats. This is spreadsheet on a computer using energy. Okay. And what am I doing? Oh, I'm using a pen and pencil and paper.
00:42:37
Speaker
I'm doing all paper. Look. It's because you're prehistoric and you refuse to modernize. Exactly. It's my way of rebelling. Anybody in my generation was anybody over 30 was not to be trusted.
00:42:56
Speaker
They even had a stupid movie about that where they rounded up old people. It was pretty funny. It's very dated, but it's funny. Sounds ageist. Oh, yeah. all right. This is your word.
00:43:08
Speaker
Cap. Cap? Yeah, as in C-A-P. I'm going to put a cap in your ass. I'm going to shoot you. that's more That's more like mom's generation of terminology.
00:43:23
Speaker
yeah. But no, for my generation of terminology, that's not what it means. Okay. Cap. Well, we used to use, here's another generation of terminology that applied to, stop capping on me, man.
00:43:37
Speaker
That means always giving me problems, always turning me turning me down, giving me shit about maybe how I look, that kind of thing. It kind of could go that way. Did it come back around again for a modern view of it?
00:43:52
Speaker
it No, it's like it's not exactly that, but the way how you could use the word and what it means, it can kind of go into that. Okay.
00:44:04
Speaker
All right, put it in form of a sentence like a spelling bee here. Okay. o This new pizza is the bomb. No cap. Oh, nothing bad about it.
00:44:16
Speaker
Everything was great. I can understand that. It means no lies. No lies. Okay. Yeah. So you'll you'll hear this like expression of fact or cap where it's like people will be like, oh, yeah, that's true. Fact is the truth.
00:44:33
Speaker
Cap is the lie. Okay. So lie is so hard to say. So cap is quick. Cap is quick. Say it.
00:44:43
Speaker
Say it fast. Cap. Cap. Cap.
00:44:47
Speaker
It's harder to use the tongue. It's easier to say, cap, cap, cap. Gotta use the lips. Cap, cap, cap. Okay. have that Now we got that out of the way. Okay. But you got another word? i just got one. You just got one.
00:45:00
Speaker
And it's very, it's very apropos even with, in a lot of ways that people used to do in the old days, but now they do it in other places. But it used to be called a passion pit.
00:45:14
Speaker
Passion pit? passion pit this is way back in the 40s and even in the 50s it applied passion pit just sounds like those sunken in living rooms where people are going to go have group sex and not bad that's pretty good but it actually us ah referred to basically drive-ins associated with dating dating like taking a drive-in a passion pit okay that makes sense way back yeah way back You guys might have to regenerate that one again when you're talking about some of these.
00:45:46
Speaker
OK, so we got a sunken room and now we got a big screen TV and we got everybody there and we can put on some porn. Everybody get into it. ah
00:45:58
Speaker
Well, think about the screens back then. What we're driving is there were big screens, right? Yeah, but no one likes the movies anymore. I know. It's like in the isolated, though, in a car, you know, with those big metal speak metal house speakers that you hang on your glass. And as you forget and drove away, you know, because she was upset and she jumped into another car. So you're mad and she drove away and it broke the glass because you forgot to hang it up.
00:46:25
Speaker
Sorry, I had to give a little explanation of how kids were back then. I know what a drive-in is. I had never been to one, but i know what a drive-in is.
Truck Repair Tales
00:46:33
Speaker
told you that the Dodge is in the shop, right?
00:46:35
Speaker
No, but um if I find out that you buy some $50,000 brand new Tacoma, your ass is grass, bud. No, I'm not doing that. Okay, good. I'm putting everything back into this truck, and this is the last truck i'm ah I'm ever going to own.
00:46:50
Speaker
Most likely. Okay. So, but it, yeah, I want the AC working right. and It's got it when they're getting in up underneath the dash, that's nine and a half hours in and out. It's hard because of all the plastic clips. They're going to break clips. They got to replace them.
00:47:03
Speaker
All the rest is crap because it's not like couple bolts. You unlock a deal and get right to the evaporator and right to the heater core. It don't work that way. Yeah. It just don't work that way. Where do you take your truck? Because there's no good auto body shops anymore. Everything's owned by the Messiah.
00:47:19
Speaker
Is that the Messiah now? Yeah, I don't want to say. I don't want to publicize their name because they're buttholes. You're talking about Caliper? i don't I don't know what that name is. I'm talking about the three-letter one.
00:47:32
Speaker
Oh. Not, believe it or not, i' not really outside much of Marin and Sonoma County, I don't think. But Caliper is one that came in and they bought Guinello Brothers on Sebastopol Road.
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah, he sold it to them, Caliper. And Caliper bought another one on on Santa Rosa Avenue, down Santa Rosa Avenue. Oh, so is that where you're going? No, no, no, no. It's not a body shop I'm going to. It's a mechanical shop.
00:47:57
Speaker
It's on Piner. Oh. I'm dealing with ah an outfit there that that put the engine in and everything like that. So I don't know when I'm gonna get truck back because if there's something the matter with a, I'm having a noise, it's either a lifter.
00:48:10
Speaker
And if it's a lifter, they're going to have to do some stuff and dealing with, with the Jasper ah company that built the engine because that all came from them. But if it's something really simple, like a exhaust manifold, it gives you this tick, tick, tick sound at times, then that's something that they could work through and put a new gasket in and tighten up the exhaust manifold and, and, uh,
00:48:31
Speaker
and tighten things down properly but it comes and goes that's the problem it starts up and in the morning when it's cold it might do it and there's some mornings when it's cold it doesn't do it so it's erratic i hate things that are erratic but it's got to be fixed because it should sound the same whether it's cold or warm when you start it up your motor should sound the same and not have a in the background and it goes away as the engine gets hot so you know as the engine warms up you don't hear it on the way home obviously yeah So anyway, these are all mechanical stuff.
00:49:03
Speaker
Okay. Well, thank you for that boring story. You are welcome. yeah I'm here to bore you. That's my job. Yeah. this this This podcast was so long. um There's going to be so much editing that I'm going to have to do to cut this. won't see it until next Saturday night, huh? Well, oh no, i'm I'm going to have to work overtime the next two days to get this done because I'm going to be out partying in Texas. If you don't have to do anything, you can release it the following week and a half later or whatever.
00:49:30
Speaker
No, I got to be consistent. We have fans. Oh, and I was going to ask you. We don't have fans. There's no way they're sitting. We have listeners. Our listener number is going up every single week.
00:49:42
Speaker
How many we got? I'll tell you once we're done. right. I'm not going to disclose that yet. Yeah. just yeah I think we got four. call Four people that are listening. I'd like to thank you.
00:49:56
Speaker
it it's more it's it's more way more It's way more than that. I'm doing this because I love you and I enjoy talking to you. I enjoy talking to you too. But you have to remember, there are people that are listening too and they're going to go, God damn, this man does not know.
00:50:12
Speaker
when to shut up yeah exactly i have people that tell me that go wow he's so smart he how does he know so much and i'm like it's because he sits there's an and imprinted mark on that chair of his ass and he just sits and watch youtube all goddamn day
00:50:34
Speaker
has nothing better to do than chop firewood and watch youtube too Hey, 40 years I worked, 40 years in one a job for one company, but not the same job, but one company.
00:50:46
Speaker
Come on. Come on. There's not a lot. This is old dinosaur stuff, man. That don't happen to, that won't happen in the modern world anymore. There's going to be a robot that will replace all of us. You know, that was going to be me.
00:50:59
Speaker
Okay, this is where I'm going to end
Episode Wrap-up
00:51:01
Speaker
it. All right, this concludes this week's episode. Thank you for listening. Just make sure that you follow us on social media at FUBoomer underscore pod.
00:51:11
Speaker
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