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The Ides of March Eve Eve
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole, a rant about the weather/pollen, cars/emission, and Zune!; Ron has a serious talk about the dangers of overdosing and how people can help; Chris brings up what we want/hope to see this season in the Mandalorian. 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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Mythic Giraffe Podcast Introduction
00:00:47
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Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. And I'm cold again. Yeah. Stupid, smart weather. Stupid, smart weather. Although there was pollen on my vehicle today. Oh. Pollen. But it's like 45 degrees windy, but pollen. All the people in Maryland freaking out about the pollen. You know, saying it was a terrorist plot to- Oh my gosh. Well, I've been watching the videos on the Facebook.
00:01:17
Speaker
When dispatch said that, I was like, Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah, that's just. Yeah. For a place that gets pollen. Yeah. Every year. Yeah. I get it. It's an unseasonable pollen, but that's because it was 80 degrees two weeks ago. Yeah. The more plants have no idea what they should be doing right now. Trees are like freaking the hell out. Yeah.
00:01:46
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But yeah, at least it's nice and windy outside so you can enjoy the blustery cold. God, it's stupid. The other day we were at work, Saturday, it was so windy that I turned my back to the wind and it felt like my lower legs were being sandblasted.
Severe Wind Experience
00:02:04
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Oh my gosh. Because it was just pushing gravel against my legs at such a high
00:02:09
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Speed. Yeah. Yeah. It's annoying. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah. It's been really windy this year. Yeah. And I don't get it. You said maybe the trees are sneezing more. I don't. Causing more wind. But then in the summertime, when it's going to be hot as balls, we're going to get no wind.
00:02:35
Speaker
The humidity is around 170% as it gets to on the shore. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm not asking for a gale during the summer, but a gentle breeze to actually wick the sweat off my skin instead of it just sitting there and letting me ferment. That's a fair point. I have to go out and buy.
Antimicrobial Shirt Issues
00:03:04
Speaker
some new bike wear because I pulled my hat because I watched mine all the time. But yeah, you know, just last year, I just wrote it so much stinks. Yeah. Go sweat. Yeah. And it's that's why I found some of those shirts are like, oh, they're antimicrobial. They are for a little bit. And then after that, it's like they actually grow stuff. Yeah. It's a smell. It's yeah.
00:03:29
Speaker
Once it starts to smell like that, you're not winning that fight. Throw it away. Soak it in Febreze. What's that smell? Febreze and sweat. I don't understand how Febreze works. I mean, it's just an odorant, right?
00:03:51
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But it's supposed to like trap and... Oh, I think it's all bullshit. Is it? I think it's just an odorant. But the advertisements make it look so magical. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's got to just be an odorant. It can't be anything else. The smell is caused by microbes. It's got no antimicrobial activities.
00:04:17
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But if you watch the commercial, it's a little bubble that sucks it up. Yeah, well, there's talking candies. So they're not really talking candies. No, you don't open it back and they'll start screaming at you. Oh, my God. That'd be terrifying. You reach your hand and. Oh, my God, it's got it. It got coral. And there's no take the break this day. There's not a left or a right twix factory.
00:04:48
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It's all the same factory. It's all the same factory. Two separate conveyor belts, though. Yes, if that doesn't feel good. OK,
Emissions Inspection Frustrations
00:04:55
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all right. That does make me feel good. So did you get your Jeep all driven? What was it for the emissions thing that you had to recycle? Yeah, that's go through emissions. It passed everything except, of course, I missed the rear brake light. So I had to go.
00:05:14
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And he's like, and your mission test failed, but it hasn't been sitting for a while. I was like, yeah, it's been sitting for a couple months. I haven't really driven it because usually it's our winter vehicle, but it hasn't been winter. Right. So he's like, well, here's what you do. It gives me this thing. And it's like this generic construction is how to reset the OBDI or whatever. Yeah. And it's like drive at 50 miles an hour for six minutes.
00:05:45
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Then coast to a stop, then drive at 30 miles an hour for whatever. And I'm like, is there a racetrack somewhere that I can do this at? You should have gone to add it over. I don't know what to do.
00:06:03
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I just drove it around town and like try to get up to speed and then drive it through the city and just kind of drove it around for a couple hours. Pump back, went through inspection again. He's like, nope, hasn't gone through. I had only done like 25 miles or something. She's like, you need to do probably 50 to a hundred. Whoa. Yeah.
00:06:25
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So I drove it around. By the way, I'm on expired tags at this point. Oh, nice. Because that's why I had to get it inspected. I have a little note from the inspection station. I am doing this so I can pass. Well, that's I'm like, for couples, we were like, here's paperwork one, two and three of me trying to get this thing for inspection.
Jeep Troubleshooting Solutions
00:06:46
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Yeah. So then they go through Friday and she's like, oh, still failed.
00:06:53
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You just got to get to 50 to 100. So I drove around all weekend, as much as I could because it was a work Saturday, but then took it on errands, then drove around today, got there, went through inspection, guys like, nope, still fails. What? Go on the internet. He's just like, at this point, just go on Google and tell you what, do whatever it says on Google. So I did that, which again was like, drive at 40 miles an hour for six to eight minutes. And I'm like, where in Delaware?
00:07:22
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What can I find? And then it's like, I don't know. I told you, dude. I'll rate one. Right. And then it's idle the car for three minutes, and then drive it 20 miles an hour for two minutes, and then turn off the car for 10 minutes. Where is this magical place you're supposed to do this? I don't know. That's what I'm like, I need a racetrack or something. Yeah. I don't know where to do this at. So that's where I'm at right now. My brother says sometimes he's just going to run the gas through it. He's going to get the whole gas, and it's messing with the connections.
00:07:52
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You could pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol in it. Yeah, that'll work. They'll clean it out. Yeah. Other people say you should reset the whole thing by hooking the battery up to the ground, putting the positive to the ground, which seems like a real bad plan. That's how you start a fire. Right. And then undoing that and putting it back to right, and then starting the car 50 times. And I was like, this sounds like
Historic Tags Rules in MD and DE
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voodoo magic. That is.
00:08:22
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That's some Homer Simpson stuff there. It was like, well, either your ECU resets or your car's on fire. One of the two options. I'm just going to drive around some more. I don't know what to do with that. I'm fortunate I live in Maryland on the Eastern Shore where we don't believe in emissions testing. We've had this conversation. Yeah, I know. I've seen so many historic plates recently and I just want rage.
00:08:49
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I looked into that in Delaware. Again, I'm not judging your state. I didn't judge away. You can get historic tags in Delaware, right? Okay. But they're specifically says, this is not for normal transportation vehicles. This is only for using around like going to shows and stuff. Yeah. This is all you're allowed to do with historic, but you're not allowed to. That's what I thought Maryland was. Right. But in Maryland, you guys just drive around all the time.
00:09:17
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Hmm. Yeah. Because I was like, Oh, my Jeep might be close to historic, but then I saw that you can't use it for driving around. I could do that. Because I think then I can skip emissions. Yes. Yeah. Historic does let you skip emissions. Yeah. Which is annoying because I've passed everything else except the stupid test that's only based on because of the fact I didn't drive the car. Yeah. That's where they stick that like five foot wand up the tailpipe. And they don't do that anymore. Oh, really?
00:09:47
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Well, they just got some guy back there. Yeah, that smells good. I think they're checking to make sure your catalytic converters working. Okay. Because the wand was back before catalytic converters, because that's how I remember it. Okay. I think that's what's going on. It's the Cadillac converter, right? What? You never heard people call it the Cadillac converter. Turn your car into a Cadillac? Yeah.
00:10:12
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Yeah. So it's been real fun. This process. Do you still have a Cadillac converter, right? They stole it. No, no, it's still there. Yeah, it's literally the computers failing because it's not resetting. Which jeeps shouldn't have computers. Jeeps. Yeah, no. I explained to the kids my first jeep. It would it was one of the first jeeps that had like the chip in the key that would like
00:10:37
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It would recognize itself, but sometimes it wouldn't.
Reflections on First Cars and Insurance
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So I would have to pop the hood, which is easy on a cheap, but disconnect the battery, wait five minutes, reconnect the battery. It would fire right up. I'm like, I should not have to do this. Yeah, that's it. And then I asked the dealer, I said, can I just cut the chip off? And they're like, oh, no, then I'll never start. OK. Yeah.
00:11:02
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Well, my fancy dancy car is, uh, some reason resetting its Bluetooth all the time. Oh, that's annoying. So like, I'll just be like driving, listen to a podcast and my Bluetooth will kick out and then I have to like let it sit there and go through its connection failed thing until it repacks up. And I'm like, it's, it's, and it's covered because I actually paid
00:11:26
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to have the, because it's a hybrid, I was like, cover all the electronics, how much is that going to cost me? Yeah. And we did it. But it's just like annoying, like to go up there and be like, my Bluetooth's not working. Can you fix it? Like you said, you pay for it. I mean, I did pay for it. Oh, sensory. It's more the inconvenience of the entire thing. Yeah, because that's the thing. You take it in there for something like that and they're like, okay. And then like,
00:11:56
Speaker
Four hours later. Four hours? Somebody runs a car in four hours. You're sitting there in that crappy little lounge they have. Luckily, I can walk to the service center. Oh, that's nice. Driving up there, walking. Oh, I couldn't get my phone out fast enough the other day. I was at a stoplight, so I was going to take a picture. But the vehicle in front of me in West Ocean City had Matt Slapp auto license plate rocker.
00:12:24
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Nice. I said, look at that. That's a quality car there. And my wife's like, what the hell are you talking about? I'm too big. Well, I don't want to go now. That's Matt Slapp. Yeah. Yeah. Which I hate. Take that crap off my car. Yeah. I bought the car. I'm not advertising for you. I think we had a rant about that one time. We definitely have had a rant about that. Though I still, Matt Slapp was a good place to go. Yeah. So my oldest is now a legal driver.
00:12:55
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got her vehicle Sunday. Let's go vehicle. Yeah, it's my mother-in-law's old car. Oh, yeah. It's a Nissan Rogue. That's a nice car. Yeah. It's a 1615 something like that. But yeah, but she's got a little sticker. She got a Deep Creek Bear sticker on the back or whatever.
00:13:19
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And first thing she did was she took off. My father law had left his national Washington Nationals license plate rocker around it. She was like, I'm not rocking the Nationals. No, no. So he's like, I leave that on there. She's like, no, no. So yeah, it is weird to think so. My first car was an 89 Fox.
00:13:43
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So I went to 16 in 96. So yeah, what, seven, eight year old car? Seven, eight year old car. But like.
00:13:54
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I'm picturing my seven, eight year old car, which was a beater, crappy Fox versus your daughter's seven, eight year old car, which is probably a very nice and he's not rogue. Well, it's not all the bells and whistles, but he just does have like, you know, Bluetooth for phone and my car barely had a radio. Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I, uh, my first car didn't have a radio. I had to put one in.
00:14:18
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My first car didn't have radio long because someone decided that they wanted it. Ooh, nice. Yeah. But, uh, but I just think like the cars from the eighties and how crappy they were and how crappy they held up. Yeah. I had an 84 Honda Accord hatchback that had the metal grill thing on the back window. Yes. That makes it go faster. Oh yeah. Yeah. It made me go so much faster.
00:14:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's just, I feel like those cars just didn't hold up. They don't like crap. And so when we got them, like my parents, I'm fairly certain were like, he's going to hit like 12 buildings with this thing. So who cares? Yeah. Right? Yeah. The body looks like crap. My dad kept it in good shape, but it still looked like crap after seven years. Well, that's it. Because the paint back then did not hold up at all. No, no. And now like kids are getting,
Humorous Oil Recycling Idea
00:15:15
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Your cars are like, I would still drive that car. Exactly. Yeah. What's when I went to the insurance company that, you know, add her to the policy and the vehicle and everything. And they're like, and what will your daughter be driving? I was like, well, we're going to pick up her car. It's a 2023 convertible Corvette. And she was like, you're getting her a Corvette. I was like, don't get her a Corvette. Do you think I'm stupid? Our insurance is probably already going to double. Probably.
00:15:43
Speaker
I remember my insurance when I was a kid, it was $250 a month. It was rough. It's about the same now, I think. Yeah. Well, I was a boy and I had, but in my first year- It explained to me, I was like, yeah, you know, girls are cheaper. Yeah. She's like, this is one time I will allow the disparity between sex and- Oh, see, that's some bullshit. That's what they had. Oh, it works out.
00:16:12
Speaker
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. Get your ass a job. Start paying for the insurance. She has a job. You get that gas money. Yeah. We're going to help out with insurance, but yeah, she knows she has to take care of most of the gas. Yeah. Wait until you go take an oil change. That's 80 bucks. Yeah. Um, no, it shouldn't be like 50 bucks. I paid 70 for my car.
00:16:37
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place I go, well, for Sarah's car, cause it's all new and fancy. It's like, you know, just gotta get the synthetic oil and all. So it's like 90 bucks. My Jeep's like 40, 45. Well, I do a synthetic oil, you know, high mileage. Yeah. Driving around a lot. Yeah. For a good reason. Well, the synthetic oil, luckily when you, to recycle it, you just pour it in the grass, right? Yeah.
00:17:05
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. I'm assuming that's what they do eventually. As long as it's not my grass. Just pour it on your driveway, and that's how you freshen up your driveway every year. Keep a nice plaque. Yeah, some nice burnt oil. It's a good smell. I mean, every time I go to change oil in a Jeep, I do end up pouring it on the driveway by accident. Oh, yeah. You can't change the oil in a vehicle without spilling some.
00:17:35
Speaker
It's physically impossible. You're almost guaranteed that you're going to take the oil off and drop it into the oil pan. Oh, yes. It's always fun. Or you would get the oil filter that was seized on there and you had to drive a screwdriver through it to spin it off. That's always fun. It's always fun.
00:17:59
Speaker
Or you buy a Subaru and they put the oil filter in the most uncomfortable position to get to in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There are some vehicles. It's nice. It's like there's a little recess by the oil pan. Oh look, there's the oil filter.
00:18:13
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Right. Then there's the other one said like, Oh, yeah, it's on the top left of the motor block that you've got to take this hose off and reach underneath. And yeah, the Subaru. You can be Mr. Fantastic. Is literally in basically the center of the engine block. That makes sense. And it's like I'm reaching my hand through and pull it. Sure. You got small hands. The Subaru also, the first Subaru I had, I don't think it's the same one, this one, the headlights, you had to take the
00:18:41
Speaker
the fenders off, the little cover, the little plastic cover over the wheel well. You don't remember that at headquarters that night where I got my arm stuck in your car. Yes, I know. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun times. Frickin' stupid ass car. God. Yeah. What's true at Dona? He's stuck in Ron's car. I do. Don't sleep in there.
Challenges of Vehicle Maintenance at Firehouse
00:19:00
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It's happened. Yeah. It's a good old days in the firehouse where you just break your car in the middle of the station and be like, oh, it might be able to get fixed by the end of the shift. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that anymore.
00:19:12
Speaker
No, no. It's a rare event. You see somebody wash a vehicle at the firehouse anymore. I try. Every time I try to wash my car. That's the way it goes, yeah. Freaking ruin calls. Yeah. Yeah. Rarely get the equipment checked. I know. It's crazy how one call at 7.04 in the morning just ruins the whole day. Yeah. And all of a sudden you're like, oh, God, it's noon and we haven't gotten the second piece of equipment checked. Right.
00:19:40
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We were the other was Tuesday last week. I think we got done daily duties at four o'clock in the afternoon. Oof. I was like, I'm sorry, guys. I apologize. Yeah, between calls and meetings and. Yeah. Yeah. Meetings that could be an email. Yeah. Well, I wish we had a training day. We're getting to the point where so busy, we really need to reevaluate it. Sure.
00:20:09
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I agree. Um, can we do it after I retire? Yeah. Yes. We'll see what Wes says in the fall. Yeah. Let's see what Wes says. Cause I don't need more days at work. I need overall less days at work. Yeah. It's terrible to say. I'd say I got it. I've meant that I got to check my paycheck next week. I should be getting,
00:20:38
Speaker
What 16 hours a week or a pay period now maxed out. Oh man. Yeah. Still waiting on my 20 year. Still wait on my hand. I just want to handshake. Good luck. Yeah. Good luck. Yep. The deputy chief. What? I said congratulations. Let's take it after I prompted you. Right.
00:21:03
Speaker
I mean, I'll shake your hand, but I don't think that means anything. That means a lot. Well, not in this instance. I will say that young man who's supposed to start with us soon, he's got a firm handshake. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was like, my hand hurts now. You don't have to break somebody's hand, son.
Holiday Shift Schedules
00:21:22
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He's excited. Yeah, he was. He was a lot of yesers. Nice to meet you, sir. Thank you, sir.
00:21:28
Speaker
And as he walked away, have a good day, gents. DJ and I looked at each other like, who's he talking to? Now we get to do the who's getting them poll. Yeah. Everybody fight. Oh, yeah. I think everybody's down now. Yeah. A shift doesn't, they don't need him because they've got one in the wings. Oh, I think everybody has one in the wings.
00:21:58
Speaker
Hey, you guys don't do you? Yeah, we do. Who's in class? Lila. Oh, yeah, that's right. Crap. Forgot about her. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Everybody does have one of the wings. I think we're the shortest. But yeah, it never works out for us. You know, this might be D shift stern. It's never D shift stern. We always.
00:22:25
Speaker
They always do the hiring process on D shift. And now you're always doing the marathon on D shift. It's never our turn. Yeah. I feel like that's a. Oh, it's Thanksgiving on D shift for like 30 years. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, there was. Yeah, I remember. I worked every Thanksgiving for like four or five years. It was like, I think this is our last Thanksgiving. We've done it. This will be our fifth Thanksgiving. Fish have worked. We should because next year is a leap year. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So next year it finally sets off of us. Yeah.
00:22:55
Speaker
So this year we have Christmas and Thanksgiving. Ooh. And then next year we don't have either. Okay. It should be nice. Yeah. But you'll probably end up working, you know, like Groundhog Day or something. Yeah, it's fine. I like working Groundhog Day. Just watch the movie Groundhog Day all day. But, uh, Thanksgiving, five years in a row, that's a rough ask for everybody. Yeah. And I'm a jerk because I don't work it. I'm like,
00:23:22
Speaker
I give you guys Christmas, give you guys Easter. I give you guys printing. I'm not working St. Patrick's Day and I'm not working Thanksgiving. I don't blame you. Been here 19 years for God's sakes. Hmm. Speaking of St. Patrick's, did you hear about the new college fad? Oh, God. The Borg. The black outrage gallon. Oh, God. They're taking gallon chugs dumping. It's the blue thing.
00:23:51
Speaker
It might be, I don't know, but it's it's vodka, Pedialyte. Yeah. And Mio. I did see this. I haven't. I didn't look into it. Well, like University of Massachusetts transport like 28 students in 30 hours or something crazy like that. Oh, Lord. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like what?
Borg Trend in Colleges
00:24:11
Speaker
What? What? What? Why? It's like, you know, a few years ago when they were all butt chugging. Yeah.
00:24:20
Speaker
Just calm down. Yeah. Just enjoy alcohol responsibly. Inauduration. Yeah. Look, you can even get drunk. I don't care that you're getting drunk. Yeah. I do hate when they call 911 for it. Right. But I don't care when you get drunk. Just, you don't need to get drunk in three seconds, people. Well, there's that, and I mean, when we were young and dumb, I don't remember my, look,
00:24:46
Speaker
I had some friends and I'm probably I was the same way that pretty bad off some nights never called an ambulance. We would put the person in the bathtub and or, you know, or knock on their door, leave them on their doorstep and run. I never.
00:25:05
Speaker
And then I've been drunk a lot. Never had animals called for me. I've never had called animals for any of my friends. However, when I was in high school, one of my friends did get alcohol poisoning and had to go to the hospital. It was like my last day of my medic rotation for my ENT card. And I had to, I was a minor, trying to leave at midnight. So it was New Year's Eve. I left at midnight.
00:25:34
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like four minutes later, they go to my friend's house and pick them up. Oh, geez. Yeah. It was an event. Yeah, that's not fun. Luckily, I didn't have to go. Oh, yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah. I was so young and dumb and stupid that I was like, I'm going to do a shift on New Year's Eve. It's going to be my last shift I kind of do. We're going to run our nuts off. But of course, you don't run your nuts off because- Yeah, everybody's still doing everything. Everybody's still partying, but I was stupid and I was like,
00:26:04
Speaker
I see some cool crap. I'm sure they did a lot of cool crap after I left. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It seems like any student, like the minute they walk away, the
00:26:15
Speaker
the clouds part and evil just reigns. There was one student who rode when I was still riding regularly on A1s, who rode with us. And I was like, you're the greatest person I've ever met and I want you to work here permanently. Because I don't think we went on a single call every time they rode with us. Wow. And he was getting frustrated. And rightfully so. He's like, you guys are the busiest around. What's going on? I don't know what's going on, but I love it. Yeah.
00:26:44
Speaker
Because all the people that have been around for a while are like, this is the greatest break of all time. And of course, the poor students are like, I just want to go on calls. But it's fun. It seems like every time we have a student or any time a politician wants to ride a amounts. Oh, yeah. Shut down. You get shut down. Yep. I think it's like that everywhere. But one day I'm going to
00:27:14
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allow the mayor to ride the fire engine. I hear about his fire service career. I mean, I probably enjoy it. Yeah. Mr. Burns. My buddy's department, the mayor for his town regularly rides the fire equipment. Really? Just like be out among the people? Yep. Just regularly.
00:27:37
Speaker
rides on the... He'll do like one shift a month. Wow. Riding... Well, I don't know. This was a while ago, so it could be a different matter at this point. But like the... He would bake the shift for dinner and everything. Nice. That must be nice. Wish politicians were more involved in that kind of stuff. You should know what's going on on your
00:28:03
Speaker
fire service and your go ride with the wastewater guys. Go ride, you know. Yeah. See what they're doing. Yeah. Be a garbage man for a day. Yeah. Go get garbage man for a day and then be like, I think those guys need to race. Yeah. Yeah. Because I always think those guys need to race. Oh yeah. Gosh dang. And our garbage men are real garbage men, not like your city garbage men. Right. Because our garbage men have to ride the back of the damn thing and pick up the garbage. Yeah.
00:28:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's it here in Fruitland. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah, I just don't like always like it's 12 degrees. It's it's, you know, five o'clock in the morning. Oh, it's snowing. We're still out there doing it. Yeah. Or it's yeah. Middle of August. It's 120 degrees and trash doesn't smell good in the heat. Does not smell good in here. I mean, they're they're joking with each other. And yeah, I'm always like,
00:29:01
Speaker
I'll leave some water out or something. Yeah. I, I, I'm bad about it. I, I'll leave stuff all the time. Yeah. I should be better about it because man, that's a tough job. Yeah. Yeah. Well, topic one. Yeah. Let's go into topic one. Topic one is almost kind of related to your board conversation weirdly. Okay. Um,
00:29:30
Speaker
I wanted to talk about this new drug, xylozine. Oh, yeah. The zombie drug or tranq. It's supposedly hit, I guess it was hit the mainstream news, mainstream news in Philly and the spreading into Maryland and other places now.
00:29:57
Speaker
Oh, it's, but yeah, it's no, yeah. I was, I was just listening to you intently. Sometimes I wonder if I lost you. No, no, no. Just everybody else checking their zoom. Yeah, there it is. Um, yeah. So it's, it's weird.
Xylazine's Illicit Use Issues
00:30:13
Speaker
We go through these phases in EMS where a new drug like, uh, what was the other one crocodile? Oh yeah. The waka flaka or whatever. They, they, they seem to hit the street.
00:30:26
Speaker
Do a lot of damage and then move on. Yeah. Which I have a side tangent all this when we get past there. But. So. For those who don't know, it's a basically of a tranquilizer that an animal tranquilizer. It's an animal tranquilizer. We're all animals. Yeah, well, you know, yeah. I don't know. It's react like I don't know what it antagonizes.
00:30:55
Speaker
Well, I know it slows down healing also. Yes. Well, I think that's one of the problems with it is it's people are injecting it and it is rotting their skin, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. And so I was trying to see what, uh, maybe you can order it pretty easily. Yeah. It's a non narcotic sedative and muscle relaxant.
00:31:24
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It's an injection. There we go, xylosine pharmacokinetics. Let's use for mule deer and elk. Oh, yeah. I mean, that makes sense, right? Yeah. Oh, I was using chlorides. No, that's not what I wanted. It's eliminated mainly by urine. That's fine. Yeah.
00:31:54
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It's there's the chemical chain of it. Nice. Cast number. Sorry, folks. We should have done this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now they enjoy this kind of stuff. Most notably under the bear brand name Rompin. Drug interactions vary with different animals.
00:32:24
Speaker
Oh, there you go. Uh, it's an alpha two adrenergic receptor agonist. There you go. All right. I would say for one of our problems for EMS, it's not going to work on it. Yeah. It was lipophilic. It directly stimulates central alpha two receptors as well as peripheral
00:32:47
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alpha adrenoceptors in a variety of tissues, as an agonist, leads to decrease in neurotransmission of norepinephrine and dopamine in the central nervous system. It does so by mimicking norepinephrine and binding to presynaptic surface order receptors, which leads to feedback inhibition. Oh, so that's nice. So it just blocks things and acts like it's supposed to be the one something when it doesn't. Apparently, it lowers skin oxygenation. And that's probably what the healing of wounds. Yeah.
00:33:13
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Well, it makes sense if it's slowing down the nor epi uptake, then the cells are just kind of like whatever. Yeah. It's a racial symptoms of a human overdose, eight to 72 hours. Hmm. Wow. Wow. Yeah, I was in a. What was it? The local opiate overdose fatality review meeting.
00:33:40
Speaker
It's like last month or maybe the month before. And they were talking about xylazine because they said that the local health department now can test for what's in the drug. So people know what they're getting, I guess. Sure. And yeah, they were like, yeah, there's this xylazine. I was like, yeah, I've heard about it. You know, I read a couple of articles like, yeah, you know, luckily it's pretty hard to get. And I was like, on my phone, I was like, how much do you want? Like, are you on?
00:34:09
Speaker
The one girl was like, are you on the dark web? I was like, no, I'm on pet meds dot com. How much do you want? Yeah, I was like, seriously, I can order it by the gallon almost. But but the funny thing before you get back when they were talking about that, they had this chart and it was like all the, you know, like drug one and what was in it, you know, and there's heroin and fentanyl and xylazine and all this.
Unexpected Drug Test Results
00:34:35
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This one poor guy. His drug came back.
00:34:39
Speaker
It had Benadryl and Lipitor. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I was like, Oh, well, that's good. I was like, well, he'll be sleepy and won't have cholesterol problems. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. Poor guy. Yeah. But again, when, you know, the lack of knowledge, some of them are like, Lapitor, what is that? Sounds like some crazy robot.
00:35:09
Speaker
Yeah, I would say the problem coming out from the shop side of it, from the EMS side of it is there's really nothing we have as an antidote. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, the BVM. We can bag them. That's it. We are going to treat the symptoms of it. Yeah. We're not going to reverse the effects of it. Yeah, I know. It's one of those, it's going to be written out. Yeah. So for people who are
00:35:37
Speaker
listening to this and freaking out like, oh my God, what happens if I run into somebody with Iosine? Well, basically you're going to treat the symptoms and take them to the hospital. They're going to need to get a lot of fluids, probably flush it out of the system as quickly as possible. I would not say, I'm not recommending anybody give fluids for a xylezine overdose because that's not, unless they are hypertensive, which is one of the side effects.
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, you can give. Tola zine as an antidote. We don't carry that. Yeah, the hospital might. Yeah. But yeah, it's that's it. Well, I think that's part of the problem also is, you know, there's this belief, widespread belief that, you know, well, Narcan will fix it. So they give Narcan the purchase laying there and Narcan is going to fix it. Well,
00:36:34
Speaker
Yeah, if you don't support the respirations, that's not going to work. But if they've got this in their system that's depressing them even more, then you definitely aren't going to get ahead of the game. I think as a service.
00:36:47
Speaker
we have done a poor, and this is not just EMS, but this is all public health service.
Proper Use of Narcan
00:36:53
Speaker
We've got a poor job of really explaining Narcan. Oh yeah. Because I think police officers are under the assumption that we're just going to give Narcan to everybody and they're going to be fine. Right. Because I've seen police officers give
00:37:06
Speaker
for 12 milligrams of Narcan to a person where it's dumping out of them when we arrive. And I've seen them hold someone down. I'm going to give you Narcan. It's like, that's not how that works. Right. This is not this is not what this is for. We had this idea.
00:37:25
Speaker
that we're just going to give the flood the market with Narcan, then we're going to reduce overdoses. Yeah. Well, no, we're still going to have the overdoses. And all we've really done is we've made Narcan into this magic bullet that once it starts to fail us, people are going to lose confidence. Right. Yeah. And probably explaining to somebody that, you know, well, the good thing is Narcan, you know, doesn't have any bad side effects. I was like, Narcan can have some really bad side effects. I said the person that's on
00:37:54
Speaker
like a high stimulant or cocaine, it can actually cause pulmonary flash pulmonary edema. And I mean, that's not good. Yeah. Not only that, it's the idea that Narcan works the same on everybody with the same drug as this is not how it works. Certain people, we've had to give multiple doses of Narcan to get any sex out of it. Oh, yeah. You know, we started giving Narcan. Remember, we saw
00:38:24
Speaker
give a quarter milligram, you know, just see what it does with a quarter milligram. I would never give less than a milligram these days. And most people are probably just given the full two and right, wrong or different. I think that's just how the service has changed its attitudes toward Narcan. We used to be much more hesitant, reticent maybe to get Narcan. Yeah.
00:38:52
Speaker
You know, the idea was we were going to give just enough Narcan. Right. To get them to a certain point, but that's just not the way it works anymore. I think we need to get back to that. I mean, we could self police ourselves to get back to that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But yeah, the. The public and police and everybody else. Yeah. John Q Public's just giving the Narcan. Right. Yeah. I think I mean, I think EMS at least for us is kind of with some other things going back that way, like
00:39:22
Speaker
We're not given D 50 anymore. We're given D 10 or a slower time to ease their body up instead of just slamming, you know, concentrated sugar into somebody as well. Um, yeah, we, we are EMS riders. We want instant gratification, right? We want to, oh, we did this. They're fixed. Well, we all know.
00:39:44
Speaker
Ultimately, we weren't fixing anything. We were just taking away some symptoms. Right. But I think the Narcan problem, at least in my experiences now, the users have said, oh, well, you gave me Narcan. I'm fine. And we can never win the argument of, well, you're not fine. You still have the drugging system. We don't know how much of the drugging system. We don't know what
00:40:06
Speaker
I can't do pharmacokinetics here in the back of my animals. One of my providers came up the other day and said, someone stopped them at the Wawa and asked them if we could give them Narcan. Are you serious? Mm-hmm. And they said, no, you can go to the health department, but that's not how this works. Right. But that's what the public perception is now is Narcan is just the answer to all this stuff.
00:40:35
Speaker
And I think a lot of kids who might be doing these drugs are saying, Oh, well, we got an arcade, we got the salt.
Drug Risks Beyond Narcan
00:40:41
Speaker
Well, you mess with the xylazine or you mess with crocodile or you mess with, you know, Molly. I think Molly's kind of died out. Yeah. You don't care about as much. Yeah. That stuff could really mess you up. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:02
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Maybe you're like, Oh yeah, it just makes you happy and lovey. It's a lot more than that. It's also, you know, literally trying your brain from temperatures. When I think that's part of the problem also, like with, you know, the narcotics and all it's, Oh yeah, I'm fine. Yeah. But there was a period of time where you weren't breathing adequately and that causes some, you know, anoxic brain injury and over time, you know, that turns you into a vegetable. Yeah.
00:41:28
Speaker
We literally don't know how long you're hypoxic. We get here, you're hypoxic, we give you... We used to go right to ventilatory sport, and now we jump right to Narcan, which we should still be doing the ventilatory sport.
00:41:48
Speaker
But then the family is just giving the nurse kids, like, well, hold on. They need oxygen. It's step one of all this process is they need oxygen. And I think people don't understand that. No, I don't think. I know they don't understand what's really happening in their body when you become hypoxic. It's real bad for you.
00:42:13
Speaker
Yeah. And it's not like, you know, holding your breath and just take a deep breath. It's not how that works. It's why we don't let drowning victims just like walk off. Yeah. You know, try to get them to the hospital where they can be evaluated. Yeah. Yeah. It's a problem. It is a side tangent to all this. Yes. Uh, as I do, I watch C-SPAN way too much. Okay. Because I like to watch our congressmen act and talk. Uh, yeah.
Debate on Fentanyl Overdoses
00:42:42
Speaker
Yeah. This is not a good one.
00:42:44
Speaker
One of our congress people, like I say who, because I don't remember his name because I don't care that much. Was it local? No, no, this was a US Congress. No, but I'm saying was it like from Maryland Delaware? No, it wasn't a Maryland Delaware person. Okay. Was offended that people were calling it overdoses.
00:43:05
Speaker
They really specifically talking about fentanyl, about how fentanyl is causing problems with overdoses. Obviously, we're in the middle of an opioid crisis and fentanyl's not helping. This congressperson wanted to say, stop calling an overdose. It's a poisoning. These people are being poisoned against their will with fentanyl. I really took a lot of umbrage to this. I tried to think about their point of view was that
00:43:35
Speaker
I guess you could make the argument that most of these people are not buying fentanyl. He. I guess. Yeah, they're taking the fact that my argument is they're taking it. Right. Yeah. And and then they're going into it knowing that they're, you know, recreational street pharmacist doesn't have a label on the back of
00:44:02
Speaker
whatever packet that says, oh, this, you know, thing of dope contains X amount of heroin, X amount of fentanyl and some xylazine. Yeah, it's. My other argument against it is. Fennel's not in the. The heroin because it's cheap, right? Fennel's in the heroin because it has such a quick, a very quick acting effect. Yeah. So people get high quicker.
00:44:32
Speaker
and they get to enjoy their high longer. Right. Like it's probably cheaper. I don't know. For a fact, I'm not really into the economy, economics of street drugs, but it's probably cheaper to go with other things that don't have fentanyl. Oh, I'm sure. But it seems like the users want the fentanyl. So it's not a poisoning. Right. It's an overdose of a drug that they're taking. Yeah. Yeah. And especially because, you know, like fentanyl,
00:45:01
Speaker
There is a legitimate dose of that. Yes. Well, technically, there's a legitimate dose of heroin. Oh, yeah. You know, we used to bear. Yeah. Yeah. Bear heroin was. Yeah. Heroin was, you know, started or they started using it because they hoped it would be a less addictive form of morphine. So and that did not work out that that was the other way around.
00:45:31
Speaker
I think it was heroin. But forever, whatever it was. There was a legitimate reason for using it. There was a dosage for heroin. That dosage was probably based on no real science. But regardless, I think this idea that there
00:45:55
Speaker
weaponizing. The congressperson's real point was, this is an attack on our people. That's not the way to answer this opioid crisis, I would say. This is an attack. If you want to make the argument that drug cartels are attacking our people, that means you want to send soldiers in to defeat them. The answer to this problem is easier access to cleaner drugs.
00:46:25
Speaker
Yeah. You know, stop putting your head in the sand saying people are going to just like prohibition didn't work. Yeah. Just like the war on drugs has not worked. Oh my gosh. No. The, the answer is not barrier heads and sands and say, people aren't going to do the drugs because they're going to do drugs. Yeah. The, the answer is cleaner, safer environments with regulated drugs. Let them do it. Yeah.
00:46:54
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if you want to look at the real answer, the clinical, the data is very clear. Once you legalize marijuana, most of this stuff goes down. Yeah. It's not going to stop, but it goes down. Can we make the marijuana smell better though? Oh God, I wish it. It's so bad. The other day I was in the grocery store and I was like, I was almost gagged. Yeah. It's real bad. I was like, God, we did.
00:47:19
Speaker
And if it smells like that on there, can you imagine what it tastes like going in? Yeah, I can't imagine. I think that's why edibles are the way to go. Yeah. I guess they don't smell as bad. But people, yeah, people are like, it doesn't smell better. Like, look, I'm on your side. I want to rally, but you got to admit it smells terrible. You smell like a burnt dog turd. Yeah, it smells real bad. I mean, there was one day I was like, I honestly looked at my shoe. I was like, did I step in crap?
00:47:48
Speaker
And I realized, no, it was the person standing next to me. Yeah. I mean, I just can't tell if I hit a skunk or not. Yeah. Whenever you're driving around, it's just... Oh, yeah. And look, again, I think for ethical reasons, I have to point out marijuana is not without its own risks and dangers. Oh, yeah. I've always hated the pro marijuana argument of, oh, it's safer than X. It might be safer than X, but it doesn't mean it's safe.
00:48:17
Speaker
right there are still downsides to all of this stuff oh yeah i mean yeah it's not good for your loans it's not you know it's not this magical thing that like you said just fixes everything no no there are still issues with it a lot of arguments about pre-25 year olds using it and yeah there's a lot of arguments about brain plasticity and all of those things about heroin that are marijuana that
Marijuana Legalization and Risks
00:48:45
Speaker
haven't really, but that's the thing people understand is when somebody tells you something about marijuana, they're probably making it up. Because this stuff wasn't studied by real scientists until like the last 10 years. Right. You know, it was illegal. It is quote unquote studies. Right. But it was like illegal for real universities and real labs to study this stuff. So it's not the information is just now getting to us about it.
00:49:12
Speaker
Yeah. So be cognizant of that before you make decisions of, but again, I drink alcohol. I'm fully aware that alcohol is not good for you. Right. Doesn't say, it doesn't mean don't do it, you know, moderation. Yeah, exactly. Cheeseburger is bad for you. Moderation. Oh, cheeseburger. Pizza is definitely bad for you. No, pizza is delightful. It's delightful. Definitely bad for you. No. Can't live off salads a little.
00:49:43
Speaker
Pizza's good. It's it's flour and tomatoes and milk. Cheese. Well, I mean, that's what makes them. Yeah, then the then the processed meats cured meats. Yeah, I'm not saying to eat it every day. I'm not saying don't eat it. I'm just saying be aware of the risks of it. It's a tangent. How's the pizza taste of?
00:50:12
Speaker
Uh, so we've got a couple more places added. Um, we think we have a, a solid number two. Wow. In the, in the city. Okay. Nothing has even come close to dethroning the number one. Uh, two PHRs is still number one. My balls has solidly taken number two. Oh yeah. I'll give them that. There is a new Indian pizza place that just opened up. Yeah. Huh. Called Desi pizza. We haven't tried it yet. This is not an endorsement. Where is that?
00:50:43
Speaker
I have to try it. I think that sounds interesting. Yeah. I kind of want to try it too. Yeah. Um, but we have tried to get, it's on the list. Yeah. But we did get my bells the other day and it was delightful. Yeah. My bell is solidly second place. Yep. I concur. So, uh,
00:51:05
Speaker
Yeah, sorry, I derailed your topic. That's fine. Like my topic was pewtering out. I just wanted to know, but I mean, I'm like you. I want people to understand that. Yeah. Sometimes there isn't a magic fix and you know, you got to support things and you know, if you're struggling with something, get to get the help that's out there. There's resources or all kinds of stuff for you.
00:51:27
Speaker
I think one of the other important things to know is you can't make somebody else stop. No. They're not going to stop until they want to stop. Yeah. You can. And sometimes that person has to hit rock bottom a couple of times. Yeah. And it's hard on everybody around them. And yeah, it's yeah, it's tough on folks. And sometimes it seems like the worst thing you can do is support them. You know, sometimes you have to, you know,
00:51:56
Speaker
Let them hit that rock bottom. That's the support they need sometimes. Sometimes that's the answer. That's what professional drug counselors are for. There are professionals in this industry. Don't come to me for advice, but seek out real help. There's an international hotline for it now. Yeah, there's Narconon and all that. There's all kinds of options out there if you need help. Yeah.
00:52:28
Speaker
All right. Yeah. All right. Topic two. Um, did you watch the first episode of the Mandalorian season three?
Speculations on Mandalorian Themes
00:52:37
Speaker
So, uh, so I was just going to say, you know, what do you want to see from the Mandalorian this season? What do you, what do you want? And what do you think we're going to see? What do I think we're going to see? I think he's going to shatter the death cult and bring
00:52:58
Speaker
the Mandalorian's back together. I think so too. Okay. Well, cause even like when he was talking to Beau, spoilers for episode one of season three. I mean, by now you should watch season or episode two, but. Wait, episode two, like tomorrow. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. By the time this publishes, we're talking in the future. Right. Yeah. Um, but at the end when he was talking to Beau, he was like, you know,
00:53:25
Speaker
She's like, you know, you guys are a cult and this and that. And he's like, well, I'm going to Mandalore. She's like, oh, you know, with all the poison, he's like, so you do believe. Right. So you do believe the stories. So it's, you know, him trying to rationalize it and everything. But I think we're seeing that Dan is. Growing a little bit. He cracked a joke, for God's sake. So do you think? Well, first, I'd answer the question. How old is Boca Dan? Oh, my gosh. I don't know. It's gotten pretty old, right?
00:53:56
Speaker
Yeah, that's. Because she's in the Clone Wars. Yeah. And so she was, let's say. Twenty twenty twenty five in the Clone Wars. Let's say she's twenty five in the Clone Wars. OK. And it's like early Clone Wars because it's like early early Clone Wars. So let's say she's fifties now. Yeah, she's got to be. She's looking pretty good for 50. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:27
Speaker
Good old case, Akoff. The fact that there was a Mandalore castle was interesting to me in that. Oh, that was in the Clone Wars. Well, I know there was in the Clone Wars, but the fact that it's still around. Yeah, it was interesting to me. Yeah. And R5 was there with her. Yes. Yeah. Which I think that's going to be something to. Could be. I don't think IG-11 is going to get fixed.
00:54:56
Speaker
Uh, I don't think so. Yeah, I think it's going to be, I think R5 will be his next, he'll be the droid he has to trust or something. I, um, but yeah, my hope for it is that they do something with the Mandalorians, like bringing the Mandalorians back together. Oh yeah. Cause clearly they're everywhere. Yeah. And boy, do they suck. One of the death toll guys suck. My whole thing was like, they're trying to fight this thing. I was like, run.
00:55:25
Speaker
Just run. You all have jet packs. What is going on? Yeah, just run. Although I will say when the when the episode started, I thought it was a flashback to Din. That's what I thought. Yep. I know. I was looking. I was like, OK, there's the armor. And, you know, the last time we saw the armor, they were, you know, like sequestered away and all that. And now, yeah, I was like, OK, there's heavy. There's that. And I was like, OK, this must be Din. And then, nope. And also.
00:55:55
Speaker
How many times does she have to remake the helmet for the young ones? Because kids grow like crazy. Yeah, right. So are you remaking a helmet like every six months? Maybe they just pass it down. No, no, you're right. Yeah. Cause she made it fresh. I made it fresh for him. You watched the beginning of the episode, she's making his helmet, which also makes me think that Beskar is not as rare as they're making out to be.
Mandalorian Helmet Practicality
00:56:20
Speaker
All right.
00:56:20
Speaker
Well, is it all buscar? Yeah, it's all buscar. That's not Mandalorian armor for buscar. You think the death cult is going to be like, we're not going to do something else. We use aluminum. He's aluminum. This got to be buscar. Yeah. That's the hippie cult. You get these aluminum helmets, man. But it's just like crazy. I was like, yeah, she's going to remake that helmet like every six months. In the whole, you never take your helmet off. He's going to take it off because his head's going to grow.
00:56:51
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah, that's that's conundrum there. And I thought it was you don't take your helmet off in the company of strangers. That's what I thought. I don't know. Well, like you said, the whole death watch. They're weird. Yeah, they're weird. Yeah. You know, like I when he went back to them, I was like. Why? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're now a clan of two. Right.
00:57:20
Speaker
Kicked you out, bud. Yeah. Are they going to shove a little helmet on Grogu? Well, he's got armor. Yeah, he does. That's right. He does have armor. I'm pretty sure we'll see that coming to play. Yeah, we've got to. Yeah. I like that. He's in his, Grogu's what, 56-ish? Somewhere around there? Well, we don't know exactly. But yeah, he's in his 50s. Sure.
00:57:47
Speaker
Yeah. We know that he was a youngling at the destruction of the Jedi Temple. Right. At what point does his species start talking? Oh my God. We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Yoda's like- Is his first word going to be Dada? Yoda's supposed to be like 800 years old. Yeah. At the Galactic Empire's end. Right. He's supposed to be like 800, 900 years old, so it could be a while.
00:58:16
Speaker
Doesn't seem to have grown very much now. It felt like there was a big time jump from season two to season three. Like there felt like there was a two years like a big time jump, but they didn't really say that. Well, so Favreau said there's one to two years gap. Hmm. And that allows for the gap in Book of Boba Fett that Grogu was with Luke to be. Like half a year. Hmm. So.
00:58:45
Speaker
So that's the thing. We don't know how much training he really got with Luke. We only saw a part of it. And then, yeah. Right. I mean, I feel like he's going to have to go get Boba Fett into his clan. Yeah. Zoom in. Maybe. The new hippy dippy Boba Fett. Hippy dippy Boba Fett. Boba Fett's not a member of the Death Watch. Who is? Yeah. Yeah, just the foundlings, I guess. And yeah.
00:59:16
Speaker
And you got some of those foundlings. They weren't just found. They were probably grabbed. Oh, yeah. They were snatchlings. There's definitely such things. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh. Yeah, both outside the death watch. Yeah. Yeah, I think. What? Yeah, I mean, yeah, well, didn't use the dark saber to unite them all. But it doesn't seem like the death watch cares to hoots who has the dark saber because.
00:59:46
Speaker
I mean, he dueled heavy with it. Well, but in the Clone Wars, aren't they fighting to get the Darth Saber, Deathwatch? Yeah. Because aren't they living on that moon? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Except for Mandalore, they're trying to get the Darth Saber. Right. Well, they're on the moon that Bo was on, right? Wasn't she on the moon? She was at one point. No, but I'm saying that's where her little palace was right then, wasn't it?
01:00:15
Speaker
Oh, no, I think it's a different moon. Oh, OK. I think the moon that the death watch was on was actually orbiting Mandalore. OK. If I remember correctly, it's been a while. Yeah, that's been a while. But I think that's right. Yeah. I mean, or maybe he fights Bo and she gets the dark saber and I think she's wore out. Yeah. I think her her time has passed. Yeah.
Sabine Wren and Ahsoka Storyline
01:00:44
Speaker
you know, she was, she, she seemed kind of like just giving up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, her sister was a leader. Yeah. God, that was such a sad episode. And Bo never really could take over. Yeah. Bo couldn't save Mandalore. Right. Yeah. What if Sabine?
01:01:10
Speaker
Sabine's out there. God. If they don't bring Sabine into this, I'm going to be a really unhappy man. They've got to. They've got to bring Sabine into it because we've got the whole Ahsoka thing and we had the the the light speed whales. But somebody took the dark saber from Sabine. Yeah. No, she gave it up. Or did she? Didn't she give it to Bo?
01:01:38
Speaker
Cause she had it during rebels. She got the dark saber and doesn't she give it away cause she gave the dark saber to bow Katan with the understanding that she would do everything she could to reunite it. Huh? Yeah. Because Sabine's mom is clan rent is that a clan rent? Yes. And they don't live on either. And somehow Moff Gideon got the dark saber from bow. Right. Okay.
01:02:05
Speaker
Yeah, because Sabine's I mean Sabine's clan is out there. Yeah. We're still in Ren. Yeah. And Ren's not there. Yeah. Because her brother and sister. Right. So out there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we saw the the whales that took Ezra. That's what I said. Yeah. Yep. Because yeah, as soon as we saw them, you know, I was like the whales and the kids are like, what the heck are you talking about?
01:02:33
Speaker
Well, because we all we know is Sabine went off to find Ezra. Yep. Sabine and Hera, right? No, Hera. No, Hera didn't. It was just Sabine. Yeah. Because if you read the comics, Hera is like hugely pivotal in the. Rebel Alliance. Yeah. Well, she also shows up in.
01:02:57
Speaker
the last Skywalker. So we know it. Yeah. So it's out there. Yeah. And Sabine takes the helping her. What's that? Ahsoka is helping her some. Yes. So, yeah, I think, yeah, maybe Sabine will be that good tie into the Ahsoka show. Right. So, yeah, yeah, I could see Sabine getting the dark saber again.
01:03:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That'd be cool. Yeah. Because now we have a sitting that's a little bit older. Yeah. Yeah. This show just continues to be such a video game show though. It's a, you know, he's like, you know, it's always a, there's a quest or something that's. What happened to a spear? That's, I don't know. Okay.
01:03:51
Speaker
As long as you also know. I guess where he figures he's got the dark saber, he doesn't need a spear anymore. I guess. Wait, no. Was the spear melted down to make Grogu's armor? Oh, you might be right. I can't. What happened to? You might be right. Mando's spear. And also that ship is going to be super uncomfortable after about an hour. Like,
01:04:19
Speaker
The razor. Yeah, it was for his armor. Yeah. OK. The razor ring was like a big space ship. He probably had a place to lay down. Yeah. I was in this little like the buoyed jet, you know. Yeah. Starfighter. Right. Can't be comfortable. Oh, yeah. I mean, he fell asleep in it. Then I want to know how Grogu like crawled down there. And that's another good question. Yeah. So there's a big hole in the back of the seat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:46
Speaker
But yeah, I'd say there's a lot of people who need to read your cross back. I know where he's not, I guess, taking on the huge bounties and having to freeze a bunch of people. He doesn't need that big a shit destroyed. Yeah. You know, it's a problem. Yeah, big problem. Well, I mean, I'm sure there were other models of that. But yeah, but yeah. But I will say the first episode,
01:05:12
Speaker
Was perfect. Yeah. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Coral weathers. Yeah. Yeah. Got his little droids holding his cape. Yeah. The little droids on his cape was in the. Oh, God, what are they called? Oh, not the little. Anizans, a xenon or something, whatever they are. Hasnons. Yeah. He's trying to like, you know, I don't know how Mando crunched himself into there, but he's here. They're like, it's like they said they can't get it. I got it.
01:05:41
Speaker
It was really good. It was a really good episode. Bad baby. Bad baby. Bad baby. I look forward to tomorrow's episode. Unfortunately, I'll be at work, so I can't watch it till Thursday. Yeah. I probably won't watch it till Thursday either, so. Yeah. Well, I can't watch it without my wife. It's a rule. And that's the way I can't watch it without Bree and she's got dance. Yeah. Yeah. I'm definitely excited for it.
Mandalorian Series Structure
01:06:07
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's been great. I wish the death watch could fight a little bit better, but boys, they were not good. It was like, what boys, what did you think was going to happen when you fired your little ropes into it? Yeah. Oh, we got them. Yeah. Yeah. And also you didn't know there was a giant alligator dinosaur frickin lake that you were saying around.
01:06:35
Speaker
Right, yeah, because you've obviously used this lake for the ceremony before, right? I guess they did have to move their base, so maybe it's new, but yeah. Yeah, it must not be super hard to find because Mando found him. That's what I said. Yeah. How are they finding this freaking people? Yeah.
01:06:54
Speaker
One of them still got Mando's number to like, hey, dude, we're here's where we are. We just moved. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They are all over the place. Yeah. But I'm still good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Doesn't matter. All of the things like that
Enjoyment of Star Wars Ships
01:07:09
Speaker
still. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I enjoy what they do with Star Warships.
Andor and Mandalorian Viewing
01:07:15
Speaker
Yeah. We we're finally finishing and or at the same time. I haven't finished it.
01:07:22
Speaker
Um, we're on the last episode. We're basically, we've been back to backing a Mando and, and, or episode. Okay. Um, it's good. Okay.
Rewatching Mandalorian Season One
01:07:32
Speaker
Got better in the last half than it did the first half. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And he just sits down and watches. He's got power through it. Yeah. I'd started rewatching season one of Mandalorian. Yeah. Yeah. I don't do that. I've never done that. Yeah.
01:07:49
Speaker
There are some things. And well, the thing is, like, you know, I can skip her. Oh, I did like that.
Cara Dune's Rebellion Setup
01:07:53
Speaker
You know, oh, what happened to what's the Marshall Cara Dune? Oh, yeah. Yeah, she got deployed. She said, yeah, they set her up for the rebellion. Yeah. We're like, we're asking the fucking Disney anymore. Yeah.
Speculation on the Marshal's Return
01:08:07
Speaker
What if what's his face? The guy who had Boba Fett's armor, the Marshall, the Marshall? Yeah. What if because he didn't die. Cad didn't kill him.
01:08:18
Speaker
No, because in Boba Fett, you see him in a back to tank. Right. So what if he could be what's his face? His marshal could be. Yeah. I think he's going to show up in the book above it. Is there another book above it? I think there is. Oh, OK. Maybe. Yeah. Because I remember the last shot of a fight is him in the. That's right. Back to tank. Yeah. And then that guy's also in a book, I think. OK.
Inclusion of Space Whales and Ezra
01:08:48
Speaker
Yeah, look, yeah, that's the thing, though, if I mean, if if they are leading up to the space whales and Ezra being in this somehow, that means thrones in this. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah.
Thrawn's Threatening Presence
01:09:06
Speaker
And thrawn without powers is still scary. Yeah. Yeah. Genius general manipulator leader.
01:09:18
Speaker
Yeah, Star Wars is cool. Yeah, Star Wars is cool. Yeah, he's in Aftermath trilogy. Oh, is he? God, okay. God, that's right. So we know he wasn't dead. Yeah. OK, cool. Are we? Yeah, yeah, because this is like right before aftermath. No, this has to be before aftermath.
01:09:49
Speaker
Well, that's what I said. Yeah, this is before aftermath. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Has to be. Yeah.
Star Wars Fandom Excitement
01:09:58
Speaker
Times a flat circle sometimes for Star Wars. It's true. It's true. I'm excited. It's the best time to be a Star Wars fan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It continues to be. They're knocking the shows out of the park. Yep.
Mixed Feelings on Andor and Mandalorian
01:10:11
Speaker
Yeah. Even Mandalorian or Andor not being my favorite is so good. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to go back to it then.
01:10:17
Speaker
I think the tough thing about Andor is just not really invested in the character. Yeah. Well, you know, he's going to die. Right. Well, he might have survived. What are you talking about? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Planet Kaboom. They only fired one pulse. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well.
Podcast Conclusion
01:10:38
Speaker
Yeah, it was a good cast of the pod. Cast of the pod. So let's have to go to bed now because, you know, we're working more. Yeah, it worked more. But yeah.
01:10:46
Speaker
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