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Car Culture and Weird Science
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (the weather, spiders, dumb people, and cheese?); Ron talks about Car Culture in America; Chris brings up weird things our bodies do. As always please like, subscribe and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Introduction and Storm Damage Discussion
00:00:05
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm a Chili-Ron. Is it windy up there? Uh, I don't know. It's supposed to be flooding again tonight. I think there's supposed to be another storm rolling through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have another storm and, uh, I had damage to my house from the last storm. So I'll probably end up losing a lot of my soffit in this one.
00:00:35
Speaker
Yeah, the flashing ripped off the front eve. Well, and of course, it only ripped off part way. So all night, clang, clang, clang. My wife is like, is there a trampoline on the roof? It's like, I don't know. Do you want me to go out in the rain and check? What would you do if there was?
00:00:55
Speaker
That's what I told her. I was like, if I go ahead and check, what am I going to do? Yeah. Now I'm soaking wet, pissed off. And I can see that there's either something wrong with the house. I was like, there's no water coming through the ceiling. So we're good. Yeah. We had a motel, not maybe half, half mile from my house. The whole front of the second floor, like the whole facade came off. Oh, wow. And it's full of
00:01:21
Speaker
It's a hotel that they've turned into homeless shelter, basically. Nice. So now they're trying to figure out where to put all those people. Not great. Yeah, because I guess, well, if it's just the facade, it should still be structurally sound. Well, I think they're worried because it exposed the structural wood. Ah, OK. So they don't want people in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, of course, I called you around. I'm like, look, you know, can somebody fix this? And the one company is like, oh, get out in a couple of weeks. It's a couple of weeks.
00:01:51
Speaker
Finally, I found one. They were like, look where I was like, I get it. You're super busy. There was a big storm that came through. They're like, we will be there next Wednesday. It's like, awesome. Perfect. I say what I do until then. And they said, honestly, rip what's hanging off. And that's it. Yeah. So it didn't take more with it. Yep. I said, OK. So I crawled out on my roof and ripped the flashing off. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah. The dogs were trying to run out on the roof with me. It was delightful because I just went the office window. I can step right out onto a little
00:02:20
Speaker
Yeah, roof there, so. Yeah, yeah. It's funny when dogs get on the roof. Yeah, yeah.
Flooding and Pranks
00:02:29
Speaker
I was impressed with the city of Salisbury, wasn't underwater the other day. Yeah, I don't understand where all this water issue is coming from. Well, I mean, yeah, climate change and everything like that, but. Well, what I don't understand is like Lake Street
00:02:47
Speaker
It's just a lake all the time now. Yeah. Yeah. And those poor people that built a seven eleven there. Yeah. Yeah. Like that rose road closed right before it. Right. And I just don't know. What they're ever going to do about it. Yeah. Seemingly nothing, I guess. Yeah. Well, they already have like part of the pavement collapsing in front of seven eleven. Right. So.
00:03:14
Speaker
Because I drive down Southern Delaware all the time, I see standing water in fields all the time now, and I'm like, do you guys not see the warning signs? Well, I've heard that Sussex is going to transition to rice farming. Yeah, cranberry bogs. Oh, gosh. Then you get the cranberry spiders. Was that a thing? I think so. I think bog spiders are a thing.
00:03:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. The Black Widow has escaped station one and we don't know where it is. Oh, yeah. I'm sure it's on its way up to admin. I let it outside and that way we haven't seen it again. So who knows? Well, the other day I went to go talk to one of the crews and I was standing like, you know, one step in the ambulance on the side and I was talking to a guy that's been out for a little bit and came back and a student.
00:04:06
Speaker
And we're just talking. OK, and then there was actually their sergeant came out and he had his hands together and kind of went like open them at me. I was like, what do you whatever? And he kind of looked like, you know, on my side, I was like, did you put a spider on me? So I'm flipping out, I'm spinning around doing all these things. I didn't see anything. I was like, make me feel like that jackass. I was like, I will stab you. And the students like, yes, I need trauma calls. I'm like, that's interesting.
00:04:35
Speaker
Well, I get done and I turn and the EMT on the ambulance, he's like, Chief, you got something on your back. Yeah, there was a spider on me. I had smashed
Social Observations and Motorcycle Culture
00:04:44
Speaker
it when in my spin. So I had a dead spider on my back. Oh, God, the anger. Oh, yeah. That's not fun. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah. Chief, funny story, how I broke my leg standing around on an ambulance.
00:05:01
Speaker
Yeah, wheelchair. Yeah. Yeah. The station's wheelchair accessible, right? Yes. Yeah. I guess technically not. No, it is. None of the doors are automatic. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I just sit outside. Let me in. Right. I mean, there's a ramp. Yeah. I guess. But there's, you guys parked a vehicle in front of the pool. So, people are stupid.
00:05:31
Speaker
Yes, we've determined this, so I was helping out swift. And the nurse practitioner and I picked up a lady who is blind. We took her to a doctor's appointment, but sitting in the waiting room, she's sitting. We got her a wheelchair, so it was easier to move her. She has her cane and is staring off into space. I mean, you can tell just looking at her eyes, she's blind. The girl comes up. We need you to review this and sign at the bottom.
00:06:01
Speaker
And the nurse practitioner says, well, she's blind, hence the cane. And the girl goes, what can she read it? Yes, that's right. I was just like, what? Yeah, yeah. And I like that she spoke louder. Yeah, it's like, yeah. Yeah, it's like she's blind, not deaf.
00:06:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Lady, she's like Daredevil now. She can also drop in the other room. If you speak louder at deaf people, they're still deaf. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, Oh, this is a person that works for a medical office. That gives me faith in medicine. Yeah. I mean, I have a whole other stupid people are stupid thing. I've been noticing on my travels lately. People are just running red lights all the time now. Just
00:06:54
Speaker
Seemingly constantly. Yeah. This one red light by my gym. I've seen three people this week run. Yeah. Well, they're in a hurry, Ron. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Right to the ER. Exactly. Yeah. One of them was an asshole on a motorcycle. And let me tell you, if he got hit, I wouldn't have minded. Yeah. Let me guess, no helmet.
00:07:18
Speaker
He actually did have a helmet on. Oh, wow. But he weaved in on a traffic to get up to the red light. Oh, nice. To then run through it to then get 15 feet down the road where this instruction gets stuck in the traffic anyways. Yeah. Like that was really worth your life. Yep. That whole campaign of lookout for motorcycles, screw them. Yeah. I'm tired of it because motorcycle, I don't know how I'm not saying all motorcyclists drive irresponsibly. Right. But boy, it seems like a lot of them drive irresponsibly. Yeah.
00:07:47
Speaker
Yeah, I've ordered one of those big push bars for the front of my Jeep just for that. Yeah. I need a little like pop out extenders for when they try to split lanes. Oh, that would be great. Yeah. Whoops. God, like an inspector gadget car. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Because they split lanes on 95 at 65 miles an hour. Holy crap. Yeah. Well, I told you about that one time there was somebody splitting lanes on the freaking Bay Bridge.
00:08:17
Speaker
Yeah. You deserve every bit of quadriplegia you earn. Just anecdotal, my evidence, not everybody got the world. In my experience as an EMS provider, fire service personnel, motorcycles almost always at fault. Yeah. I think
00:08:44
Speaker
No, I can't even think of one real motorcycle accident that it wasn't the motorcycle's fault. Right. They're usually going too fast. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. There was that one that your shift had not too long ago on 13, but he wouldn't have been in that accident if he hadn't been going 90. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, at 35, by the way.
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Car Culture Critique
00:09:10
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00:09:35
Speaker
That's stupid. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I watch British car racing, the top gear and I watch a couple of the shows and they always like, oh, look at these dumb Americans with their cars that only do 120. It's like, what situation do you all need a car that goes faster than 120? Right. God, I've gone 100 miles an hour before in my life. It's not fun. Yeah, I've done it.
00:10:06
Speaker
as a stupid kid, almost got killed doing it. Yeah. This is funny because this ties. Yeah, it's like a squirrel raying out in front of me or something. Yeah, we're all dead. Yeah. Yeah. But this ties directly into my topic for the day. It's funny. We'll hold off on that then. I just think it's how funny that happens all the time. Yeah, it does. Well, we've got our fingers on the pulse. Yeah, of ourselves. Yeah. That's all that matters. How's your, do your resolutions going?
00:10:36
Speaker
Um, pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. And drinking more water, not drinking. I haven't had alcohol in like a week. I haven't had alcohol at 42 days, 43 days for you. I'm trying to be better about, you know, just having a drink or two on the weekends. Yeah. Yeah. Not that I was like, you know, coming home from work at 330 and the like, all right, here we go.
00:11:06
Speaker
Yeah, but you know, I could, I could easily sit down and just drink a six pack throughout a day. Yeah. You know. Oh, God, that'd be so bloated. I was. Yeah. The other thing I've done is I've stuck to my clean eating. Nice. Which I've discovered the worst possible food to eat that's clean eating. Beans. Well, only when you have to go to a meeting. Yeah. Directly afterwards.
00:11:37
Speaker
Guacamole. See, I don't like guacamole. Oh, I love guacamole. I see. Yeah, I don't. I'm not a big avocado person. Why? What's wrong with clean eating and guacamole? Well, the guacamole is delicious. Yeah. But as soon as you open it, it starts to growl. Oh, yeah. And it's gross. Yeah. Even though it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Well, why don't you make it and then portion it in the little containers?
00:12:03
Speaker
Well, so I don't make guacamole because avocados are like the most pain in the ass thing to buy because you can never buy them ripe. Right. And as soon as you put them on your counter and then forget about them for 13 minutes, they are mush. Yeah. So like they're just a pain in the butt to deal with. Yeah. So I find it's just easier to buy guacamole
00:12:29
Speaker
from places because I don't want to deal with it. It's not just like, oh, I just want some guacamole to put on my little organic tacos I had for lunch. Nice. And it's pretty low in calories. When it's got good fats in it, right? It's got good fats, which according to the department's doctor or nurse practitioner, my good fats are low. Yeah.
00:12:57
Speaker
That's what I figured out the other day. I'm eating like a dog for breakfast. Really? Every morning I have a cup of Cheerios. That's fair. So every day I eat the same thing, just like a dog. I mean, I basically the same thing. I eat oatmeal every day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been I've had more vegetarian meals, you know, last week and a half or so. Yeah. Good.
00:13:26
Speaker
There's chickpea. The chickpea shawarma I made the other night was delightful. I like shawarma. Yeah. It's all about spices. Yeah. Well, the we. Yeah, it was just chickpeas with the shawarma spice and then a pita with a little bit of hummus. And I don't eat tomatoes, so I just put cucumbers and feta in mine a little bit. They'll so good.
00:13:48
Speaker
Not a huge feta fan. It's fine. I like feta. It's the squeakiness. Wait, what? The squeakiness? It's a little squeaky to me. Oh, okay. It's a little bit of a squeaky cheese. I've never heard of feta being a squeaky cheese. It's this thing. I almost think like mozzarella would be more of a squeaky. There can be, but the thing about mozzarella is it's not
00:14:18
Speaker
So that is like hard and squeaky, whereas that's what I was just not sort of a cheese in a long time. And it's the saddest part of my life. Let's say my wife made risotto the other night and it had roasted beets and goat cheese crumbles on it. Sounds good. And they actually sold goat cheese crumbles in a little container. So I got that. She's like, what is this? I said, well, there's goat cheese crumbles, but it's not goat cheese. So it is goat cheese. It's just already crumbled. So you don't have to crumble the goat cheese.
00:14:48
Speaker
I guess it'll work. Like, what do you mean you guess it'll work? It's what the recipe called for, woman. And I found out that I'm one of the people that beats make my pee and poo turn red. Oh, terrifying. Yeah, that would be terrifying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be a bad day. Yeah. Yeah. So but now I know and I know what to look forward to.
00:15:14
Speaker
My lovely wife, we bought a bed. That was our Christmas present to each other, bought a new frame. Yeah, you did. Yeah, we did. And the original delivery date was for today, actually. Oh. And she's like, oh, it came early. It came, well, it was at work on Wednesday. I said, okay, well, I guess we'll take care of it Thursday. So I don't even look at it. I just, I mean, it's a heavy box. I just pick it up.
00:15:43
Speaker
carried around like it's a lightweight. Oh yeah, of course. Carried all the way upstairs, start to move the bed to, you know, get the old frame out. And I looked out of the box and it says two of two. So I said, is this supposed to be two boxes? And she said, oh yeah, that's why I keep getting emails from VPS saying the next one's going to be delivered. I'm like,
00:16:12
Speaker
I'll just put everything back. I'm not moving the box back, so the middle of the night last night, she went up to go to the bathroom, she goes back, bam, hits her leg, puts her foot on the damn box, I said, that's what you get. Yeah, that's karma. That's karma. So did box one of two deliver yet? Not yet. So it's not here. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. So just have half a frame right now. Nice.
00:16:41
Speaker
I should have thought about it. Well, this isn't a lot of parts for. You know, it's not a it's a big box, but it's not really big box, right? But they do flat packing. It's a miracle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was our it was my only adventure this week. Yeah, mine was just the storm the other night. Which I mean, are we here? Yeah. So the the ironing board was against the
Work Attire Changes
00:17:10
Speaker
wall.
00:17:10
Speaker
in our bedroom. I guess where the house was shimmying so much in the wind, middle of the night on top of the flashing, banging around, boom. Iron board falls down. I jump. What was that? My wife says is the ironing board. Oh, OK. I try to go back to sleep. Totally forgot about next morning. I get up to go to work. It was like pointed right at the little alleyway on my side of bed to get up. I grab my clothes.
00:17:40
Speaker
I take two steps. I am right into my shins. God. And my wife forgot the ironing board, didn't you? I said, just for that, I turned the light on as I went by. Yeah, that's fair. Why do you keep your ironing board in your bedroom? I don't know. OK. That's where my wife says it lives. Who am I to question?
00:18:11
Speaker
What I really like is when my youngest uses it, but then doesn't put it back. So it's just in the middle of the room. Right. Because, of course, you iron in the middle of the room. Dead stuff in the middle of the room. You have a laundry room, right? No. No, we have a little closet that has a washer dryer in it. Would it make sense to have the blood? No, I'm not here. You are speaking common sense, Ron. I'm not going to judge your ironing techniques. Yeah.
00:18:42
Speaker
for all the ironing I do anymore, which is none. I mean, I guess I ironed my suit shirt. I thought you were going to see your socks. I was like, what the hell? For a wedding. For a wedding. Yeah. So we don't wear, I mean, don't wear blue shirts at work anymore, so I don't really iron anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:08
Speaker
Hey, you take it to the dry cleaners, it's nice and pressed and starched, and then, yeah, you can wear it like three or four times before you have to starch it again. Oh, I don't have dry cleaner money. Oh my God, it's so cheap. And also, I haven't worn my blue shirt in ... I wore it once for like 10 minutes on Veterans Day, which we were talking about how the fire department's become more casual. It's not that we've become more casual. I think we've just finally catching up with the times.
00:19:39
Speaker
Well, we finally realized that you're not it's not the days of putting on a suit to get on a plane. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's cheaper to replace a T-shirt than it is a blue button up. That was always the thing that got me about it. Like when you destroyed your blue button up shirt, got oil on it, got crap on it. You went into a fire with it.
00:20:06
Speaker
Why don't we do it? These things are expensive. Yeah. Yeah. Back when we used to get, I don't know, 12 a year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to give you five short sleeve and five long sleeve. I used to, I used to just have boxes of them in my closet. Yeah. And when we redid the closet, I was like, you know what? These are going to trash. I just took them all back into work. Mine were 15 years old.
00:20:35
Speaker
had never been out of the box. But we used to get four. Oh, yeah. But God forbid they had the patches on them already. Right. There's your shirt and here's your patches. But you didn't have done this. OK. Well, who do I get to put the patches on? Well, the volunteers does it sometimes. But. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I took all I took. I mean, the ones I had were like,
00:21:02
Speaker
They were old style too. It's back when we used to get paints. We used to get like 12 pairs of paints a year. Here's your monthly pair of paints. Yep. It's like, well, I've changed sizes since last year. No, you haven't. No, I have. Nope. That's what you got from last, same as last year. The only thing I kept was my summer paints. Yeah. That was winter pants.
00:21:28
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know how you people are wearing sweatshirts and pants in that meeting the other day. Well, I wasn't. Some people were. Yeah, some people were. Well, it's some of the cold blooded people. Yeah. Yeah. The key AC is all jacked up on admin side. We looked at the other day, it was 87. I imagine it was 87 in that room. Oh, it was horrible. It was. I was about to go get a fan.
00:21:58
Speaker
I walked to the engine, but I was like, Oh my God, that's amazing. Yeah. I don't have a fever. I thought I had a fever. Yeah. Kara, she's like fanning herself, like sweating. Christina's going, it's cold in here. Look at the hell is wrong with you. Yeah. Demon. Unclean. God. Yeah. It was hot. It was hot in there. Well, they were trying to keep the pizza fresh. Mm. Like the pizza oven just without the, yeah, that makes sense.
00:22:28
Speaker
We did have the conversation. One of the chiefs looked at me and said, do you ever wear pants? Do you even own work pants? I said, I think I own some. I don't wear them if I don't have to. It's like you should just wear a work kilt. I said, I'm in. You had me in kilt. Don't throw me with a good time. I got a nice black kilt. I'll wear it to work. I watched the deputy chief's head explode. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yes.
Car Ownership Challenges
00:22:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:57
Speaker
And to be clear folks, he wears shorts. He doesn't just wear, you know, he doesn't just Donald Duckett at work. I don't Donald Duckett at work. I do wear shorts. I don't understand the point of pants. They're just uncomfortable. They don't keep you any warmer. Yeah, they do. No, they don't. Yeah. We don't all have hairy legs like you. Well, then wear long socks.
00:23:28
Speaker
You're telling me that the eight inches that your pants cover that my shorts don't cover is the part of you that gets cold. It is. Then you get a breeze that blows up the shorts. It feels great. Not in the cold. It's still refreshing. I need to say, yeah, pants don't make sense to me. It's not in my life ethos. It's the greatest day at work was it said, you don't have to wear shorts. You can wear shorts all year round. I said,
00:23:59
Speaker
Hell yeah. My life has made a hundred percent better. I did have a realization the other day. I have to go through my outfit, my closet and throw away everything that's blue. Why? I wear blue clothes almost every day. Oh, see? Yeah. I don't wear anything blue outside of work really.
00:24:22
Speaker
Yeah. I just, I didn't, I don't mean to. I just have blue clothes. I like blue. It's one of my favorite. It's probably my favorite color. Boy. Well, just don't get navy. Well, I don't. We don't have navy. We have black. The latest shirts we have are black. There's, I don't care what you say. Those are black. Yeah. But yeah. I mean, I don't know if I have any navy clothes. Probably not. I have a couple of shirts, but yeah.
00:24:53
Speaker
Well, you don't wear blue shirts or work anywhere. You wear white shirts. You wear those uppity ups. Yes. Yes. Well, have we rigged and rolled? Yeah, we've rigged and rolled. On the topic one, which leads into what we talked about before. I do not understand car culture in America. Yeah. I don't.
00:25:21
Speaker
Get it. I feel like I'm an American. I feel like I was born here. Yeah. And I feel like maybe it's because I was raised that cars were not cool. They were just something you owned. Yeah. Yeah. They were more utilitarian. So I sold, I got rid of my Honda. Yeah. And everyone at work was like, well, what are you going to get? Nothing.
00:25:48
Speaker
I'm just going to drive my Subaru until it literally falls apart. Yeah. We have the Lieutenant on A shift. It's like my spirit animal. Cause that Milan that he drives, it's like the most ragged piece of equipment I've ever seen on a road, but that's what cars should be. Cars are a point of conveyance. Yeah.
00:26:11
Speaker
I was listening to her reading some posts about that Dave Ramsey guy or whatever, some financial advisor guy who's talking to this person who's some 23-year-old kid who has a $97,000 car. Good God. It was like a Dodge Ram or some crap and it's like $1,500 a month that he's paying for his car.
00:26:34
Speaker
That's almost as much. Wait, that's like my mortgage. Yeah, it's more than my mortgage. God. Yeah, that's insane. I don't understand. What's it like when I see now, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it'll be, you know, lease for, or whatever, payments, you know, starting at 80 months. I'm like 80 months? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I first bought my Saturn,
00:27:03
Speaker
You couldn't get 60 months. You had to get 45, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what it was. But you could buy a car for $10,000. Right. It was a brand new car, $10,000. It wasn't the nicest car in the world, but it got you from point A to point B. Safely. Safely. You can't buy those cars anymore. No. And it's insane to me how much people are spending on cars. Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:27:33
Speaker
We had bought the Honda because my wife still needed to drive to work. Now she doesn't need to drive to work. We don't need two vehicles. Got rid of one. And we figured out how much money... I mean, that Honda was $23,000, I think. It was costing us $400 a month. True. Plus insurance. Plus insurance, yeah.
00:27:59
Speaker
So you're talking 480 a month, almost $500 a month. You know, that's a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. So what you're saying is that unless you're like pulling a trailer or having to drive through very deep mud every day, you shouldn't have some giant jacked up pickup. Yeah, that would be one of the things I would say, yes. OK. Yeah, I don't. But of all the things I don't understand, I really don't understand pickup truck culture.
00:28:30
Speaker
I had a Ford Ranger, which was a perfectly feasible, perfectly workable vehicle for me. It was no danger, Ranger though. It was no danger, Ranger. It did the job, got me places, and if I needed to put a couch in the back, I could almost do it. I just don't understand. I don't understand any of it.
00:28:54
Speaker
I the people at work were like, you're going to drive that stupid Subaru around. What do you care what I'm driving? Why does that affect you? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I can hear who that's coming out of. I know you know, you can. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. But I don't know. It's like I see these soccer moms and they've got these giant Tahoes. Yeah. I'm like, no, no. That's when we got we downsized from our our
00:29:23
Speaker
Acadia to a terrain for my wife and we're like, wow, that's tiny. It's like, it carries the four of us and all our baggage and stuff on vacation. Fine. So yeah, we're good. The, the one on my shift who, who had to buy a new vehicle and she said, well, had to buy the guys that she had three kids. I'm like transport them. My mom had a station wagon. There were two adults and two kids in it.
00:29:50
Speaker
My dad had also built cutlass, whatever crap. Yeah. We fed the back. Yeah. Yeah. My mom had a Ford Topaz. Now, to be fair, we didn't have car seats and we kind of sat backwards on the top of the. But we fit in the car. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We drove in the topaz. I mean, we had the plastic booster seat, which was there was nothing safe about that. But I mean, I can remember myself, a friend and my little brother all
00:30:20
Speaker
three sitting in the back. Yeah. We took the increase in the trunk to Florida, to Florida. We drove 16 hours with four of us in a little coop, you know? Yeah. You don't need these SUVs. I don't know what you, why you think you need it. And I mean, if that's what you want to spend your money on, I'm not, I don't want to say, I just, I don't understand it. Right. I don't understand. Yeah.
00:30:47
Speaker
I want to be in debt because it's cool. Well, that and like we kind of hinted at earlier, it's, you know, oh, my car can go 140 miles an hour. Why? Right. Is your name Evil Knievel? Are you jumping buses? Yeah, my car can get me to point a point B. Has a really good safety rating. That's pretty much all I care about. Yeah, it's the end of the day.
00:31:15
Speaker
Yeah. I do like the Subaru because it inclement weather. I can drive, still get to work because I still have to go to work in crappy weather. Yeah. Hey, I go to work in crappy weather. You go to work in medium weather. Yeah. Because city office is closed because it rained. Come on.
00:31:36
Speaker
It was raining. It wasn't snowing. It was in a hail store. It was raining. But I just, I don't understand. And then like the next level of crazy for cars is these people that are paying a hundred plus thousand dollars for cars. I'll never understand. If I want to... Oh, like the Ferraris and Bugatti. Oh, some of those. You're paying a million dollars for some of those cars.
00:32:00
Speaker
You know, like the super car culture isn't even more insane. You're paying a million dollars for a car that's barely street legal and looks so uncomfortable. How is that good? Yeah, no. Yeah. I guess the excuse is chicks like it, but I don't think that's true. No. I don't see women jumping into Ferrari's going, oh, this is a comfortable car. Well, I think it's, it's almost like the reverse, you know, like the guys that think that are just like the women, they're like,
00:32:30
Speaker
Well, I mean, if my high heels and purse are nice, he's going to be attracted to me. Right. Now, I've never looked at a woman and say, whew, look at those shoes. Yeah. Nor have I ever looked at her purse and gone, that's a great looking purse. Yeah. Yeah. All purses look weird to me because I don't understand the purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Why are you carrying in there? Why do you need so much room? Insanity. Yeah. Well, and the people with the cars and everything, you know,
00:33:00
Speaker
revving their engines and stuff. I'm like, oh, I'm impressed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's really hard because we'll be in traffic, you know, and somebody will fly up beside us or rev their engine. I've got to hold my wife in place because she wants to jump out of the car and run this person down because they're so attractive. Yeah. I mean, I would just like.
00:33:23
Speaker
Yeah, when I was 16, I did stupid shit, driving my car. But these are adults that do this. You're an adult, for God's sakes. Yeah. And the pickup truck people, my favorite is like, well, I can't put that in my pickup truck. It'll scratch it. Yeah. Why did you get a pickup truck then? Yeah. Well, I like that. I can't put it in. That's why I have a pull behind trailer. Right.
00:33:52
Speaker
Wait, what? No, no, you have a truck to put... I remember my truck. I beat the hell out of the bed of that truck. Nobody ever beat the hell out of a truck more than your truck. Yeah. What's going in the back? I don't care. Just drop it in there. But that's a perfectly reasonable truck. It was a utilitarian work truck. You lived on a farm. You had to move dead horses. You kept it until it was basically not drivable anymore.
00:34:20
Speaker
Yeah, it was still perfectly drivable. I barely touched that thing. That's when I traded that thing in. It was 11 years old, and I think I had 32,000 miles on it. It had left. It was a rough 32,000. Well, yeah, I mean, yes, I treated it like, yeah. Well, I treated it like a truck like a truck. Yeah. This. Yeah. Just like I treat my car like a car. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a vehicle and that's it. Yeah. I know I don't.
00:34:49
Speaker
Like I said, I just don't get it. I just, it's, it's, it's one of the things I don't think I understand about America. Yeah. And, and this is going to get really bad with this conversation of moving over to hybrids and electric cars. It's going to be real bad because people identify as if like their truck is part of them. Right. Yeah. I don't understand you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, can you imagine that if somebody went to buy a truck and they're like, oh, so do you haul things on a regular basis? No. Do you pull a trailer every day? No. Do you need to put things in the bag? No. You're not going to truck. Right. Yeah. Just you can't have this. You don't need it. I mean.
00:35:43
Speaker
I mean, there's a subculture. This is gun culture. I don't understand that one either. Oh, yeah, that I don't understand that. So you need more than one gun because why? Yeah. Well, there's someone on your shift who has what, like 32 different AR 15s. Yes. Says says that they're an investment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which tells me that person doesn't understand investing.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm sure people are looking through stocks and say, oh, look, ARs are up today. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's just not how that works. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not even saying you can't own a gun. I still think you need to own 65 plus of them. Yeah. Yeah. But that's a fight for another day. Yeah. Yeah. Don't ever want to get into any more. Yeah.
00:36:41
Speaker
So you're saying in your car, you don't have like it all pimped out. You don't have mud flaps that say Ron and what I don't even put stickers on my car. Like my car just because. I mean, I'm not saying my wife puts stickers on the Jeep. It's fine. I don't care. I just don't put them. I never put anything on my car. Like my car did. I keep it clean. That's about all I can say. I mean.
00:37:11
Speaker
The other day my wife said, you need to get a new tire cover. I said, why? She said, because yours is just a plain black cover. It's boring. I said, who cares? Right. I need a new tire cover, but that's because mine ripped. Yeah. I was like, fine. Paint a picture on it. Right. I'm not even sure where my tire cover went. Blur off in the windstorm. Fairly certain the tire that's my spare tire is probably not good.
00:37:41
Speaker
Uh, good shape because it's 12 years old. Ooh. Yeah, that might not be good. Yeah. Well, it's like these people in the car culture, either the big tires or the little low profile tires. It's like, well, did you get five of those? Oh, so when you get a flat tire, you're screwed. Great.
00:38:03
Speaker
Nice. I have a side change of rant about tires because I'm getting tires put on the, on my Subaru because it's, you know, these new tires happens. So I call the Subaru dealership that I bought my car from. Matt's lab. Matt's lab, which I've only had service. I probably only had service on that vehicle twice there because dealers are ripoff. Yeah. And
Tire Troubles and Drive Types
00:38:29
Speaker
I called them and I said, hey, I need to get just a quote for how much four tires will be for my Subaru. Well, what size tires? I don't know the size tires that go on a Subaru. Well, that could be any one of five tires. Well, it's a 2016 Subaru Outback. Well, which size tires? It could be these three. I'm like, I don't know, tires.
00:38:50
Speaker
So I'm, luckily I'm at a, I'm talking to the guy on the, what, what, what trim package, what motor is it? Like, why does this out of the tires? So I, I look and look at the side of the door and I say, what's these tires? Oh, that's a really rare tire for a Subaru. It's the tire that came stuck with the Subaru. What are you talking about? Indiana Jones out to find it. Right. So of course they count back and oh, it's.
00:39:15
Speaker
a lot more money. Of course. It was almost $1,000 for the tires. Yes. Yes. So I called the place that I was going to use anyways, but I wanted to just see. Yeah. Like, oh yeah, it's this size tire. We've got four of them. It's not coming on there for 500 bucks. Yeah. Okay. Done. So you knew what tires go in a car? Weird. Weird.
00:39:39
Speaker
The one go down the caverns and search for the Subaru tires. Right? Yeah. It's a Subaru dealership. Who knows what tires they would have? Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's the one downside about Subaru. You got to buy all four tires at once. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, drive. Well, most vehicles you should buy at least two tires at a time. Yeah, I used to do two.
00:40:06
Speaker
on my, like, cars, I would always do two and I would, you know, rotate the crappier ones to the back. Because you had front wheel drive. Yeah, the front wheel drive. OK. We'll think of our, we'll think of our owner rear wheel drive vehicle. The Jeep? Jeep's not rear wheel drive. Yeah, it is. No, it's not. Yes, it is. Mine's not. Yes, it is. Well, I think so. I can guarantee you it is. Yeah, it is.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah. Your ranger was rear-wheel drive. Was my ranger rear-wheel drive? Why would a ranger be rear-wheel drive? Because that's how pickups are made. Yeah. Sheeps are rear-wheel drive. Yes.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah, jeeps, pickups, a lot of the initial SUVs were because they were on chassis. Yeah, usually it used to just be like passenger cars that were front wheel drive and minivans, surprisingly. Yeah. Fun fact. Yeah, fun fact, folks. Didn't know.
00:41:40
Speaker
Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. I didn't realize that they made two wheel drive versions of the cheap. Yeah. Yeah. Seems insane. It does. Well, there was somebody on a shift. They're just not there anymore, but bought one of those Toyota FJs. Didn't realize it was two wheel drive till he got out on the beach and then couldn't put it in four wheel drive and had to call a tow truck. That will happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:10
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I know my wife took the Jeep on the beach one time and the four-wheel drive would not engage. Oh, no. So I guess it dropped the linkage. That's bad. Yeah. Yeah. So that was bad. So you had to get somebody to help her out, which apparently is very embarrassing for a local. It is. It is.
00:42:40
Speaker
You know, I just wouldn't drive on the beach. Yeah, I haven't put this Jeep on the beach. Because that's going to the beach is a whole nother thing around here because you've got leave at four o'clock in the morning, everybody and their brothers out there. Right. Yeah, that sounds terrible. Yeah. Well, that's all I have for topic one.
00:43:06
Speaker
So go out, tin all your windows. So it's, you know, you don't even start with a tinting windows thing. But my work cars like that. And I have to roll the windows down when it's dark to back any in anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid. It's stupid. That is stupid. Stinting windows. I'd say people are like, why haven't you seen the windows in your cheap? I was like, well, the factory tints the side and the rear windows as much as they're supposed to. So I'm good.
00:43:35
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I would like the tent strip on the top, maybe. Yeah. On my Jeep. Because, man, that little, they have very tiny visors. Yes. And when that sun's coming in the wrong way. Yeah. And this time of year, it's horrible. Yeah. Yeah. Stupid sun. All right, my friend, was a lot of topic two? Yeah, topic two.
Human Body Quirks
00:44:00
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So I got to think about this the other day.
00:44:06
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I got the hiccups. Oh God. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, it's just one of those, it's, you know, the weird things your body does. It's like, why, why, why are we doing this? Yeah. Why does your eye twitch them? Do you ever get the eye twitch thing? Oh yeah. I figure that's like, you know, my impending aneurysm. Yes. It's the scariest thing in the world. It doesn't hurt, but it's just, it's really annoying in the corner eye twitching. Yep. Yep.
00:44:34
Speaker
Uh-huh. Why is that a thing that our bodies can do? What purpose does that serve? Yeah, it doesn't warn you of anything. No. Doesn't tell you of anything. It's like the hiccups. It's like, Oh, okay. So I, I guess ate something too fast or whatever it is, or just randomly got a hiccup. And yeah, there's no way to just stop it. It's yeah.
00:44:56
Speaker
I had to put your fingers in your ears and hold your breath and look at the sun and no. Fairly certain there was a guy who had the hiccups for like 25 years straight. Oh my God. I'd kill myself. Yeah. It'd be pretty rough. Oh my gosh. Yeah. That would be rough. Yeah. Hiccups are rough. Yeah. Really? Yeah. The eye twitch thing's really annoying. Or my favorite is when you're sleeping and your leg just kicks. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:26
Speaker
You're like a dog. Yeah, I guess it's like a twitch with dreaming or something. Maybe. Yeah. It's like dreams. Dreams are messed up. It's your mind processing things, but it's processing things sometimes in a terrifying way, but your mind is making all this stuff up. So it's like your mind is going, let's screw with him tonight. Yeah, that's a fair way to look at that.
00:45:53
Speaker
Um, yeah. The, but generally serve a purpose. Like they're important. I guess. Maybe. I guess, you know, you have to go to REM sleep early. You go crazy, right? Yes, that's true. So I had a dream the other day, society tangent, where I knew I was dreaming, but I couldn't do anything with the dream.
00:46:24
Speaker
Oh, so it was like a lucid but uncontrolled dream. Yeah. That sounds horrible. Yeah. God. I knew it was a dream. I have vivid memories of knowing that it was a dream, but I couldn't do anything to affect the dream. It's annoying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't ever remember my dreams. I do sometimes.
00:46:47
Speaker
which is probably the best thing in the world for me. Yeah. But brain freeze. What's, what's the point of that? Oh, brain freeze. Yeah. What is the point of that? None. None. Doesn't serve any purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's just your body saying, Hey dumb ass up drinking cold things. Yeah, but yeah. But then it's like, just put the, yeah, your tongue against the roof of your mouth. It's like, well,
00:47:16
Speaker
My body can control its internal temperature fairly well. There's no reason to do this. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like when your fingers get pruny and water. That's because you're. You're. Dehydrating your I don't know. I understand. Yeah, I don't either. Isotonic pressure. Yeah. Mm hmm. Hmm.
00:47:43
Speaker
You know, there's like people who like this is what they do for a living. They just research these things. Oh, I'm sure. Like they get government grants to figure out why we prune. Yeah. Well, so I I did look that one up and it said one thought is that it gives you better grip because the ridges. So when things are wet, they're slippery. So your body's like, oh, let's turn into a gecko, I guess. Interesting. Yeah, it's an interesting theory. Yeah, I guess.
00:48:13
Speaker
The little part on your elbow, your weenus that has no nerve endings. Yeah. Well, of all the places not to have your elbow. Except that you have a big nerve that runs down your elbow because it's your that's your funny bone. Yeah. Yeah. But just but just that skin. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't start getting good for you. That's just because you were you were two people. That's where you were joined. Oh, no, no.
00:48:41
Speaker
That's guys. That's why we have a seam down our sack because we were stitched together. Hmm. Yeah. Why is there a seam down the middle of it? To regulate the muscle? No. Well, where's the muscle that loosens up the sack? It's got to be that, right? But it's not a muscle, it's just skin.
00:49:08
Speaker
Well, it's got to be a muscle. No. There has to be something that's constructing and. So that it becomes small. No, it's isn't it just the skin that's contracting or expanding. Based on warmth. Folks, I want to point out that you cannot sit there and, you know, concentrate and flex your scrotum. You can't. You can't. There's involuntary muscles. You can't do that with all your muscles. You can't stop your heart beating.
00:49:38
Speaker
I guess. It's gotta be a muscle. By the way, folks, I want to point out these are two paramedics who both went to A and P and do not have an answer as to if your sack is a muscle or not. It has to have a muscle, right? I could see skin loosening up, but I can see it constricting without a muscle. It has to be a muscle.
00:50:08
Speaker
I don't think so. I'm just going to Google scrotum muscle. Yeah. Why is our stomach acid so strong? To break down all the bones we eat. Yeah, but it's got hydrochloric acid in it. I mean, you know, that doesn't make it strong. Yeah. That's a muscle scrotum muscle.
00:50:39
Speaker
Uh, no, I need the muscles. It's gotta be a muscle. No, I don't want to see the testicle. I want to see the muscle exercise. Was that like a Kegel? The testicle lift.
00:51:09
Speaker
Yeah, next time you're at the gym, ask for the machine to help you with that. It's a sack of skin and muscle that hands down in front of the pelvis between the legs. Okay. It is divided into two halves. I lost it. Yeah, but why is it two halves? Hmm.
00:51:39
Speaker
You know, your fingernails grow faster than your toenails. I did know that, but that's just because I anecdotally know I have to do my fingernails much more recent, much quickly. The Dardos muscle or the Tunica Dardos is the muscle in your Skirtum. There's also the Kermaster muscle. Kermaster? Sounds like Kermit the Frog.
00:52:12
Speaker
These are the muscles that raise and lower the testicles. The scrotal septum is an extension of the perineal rathae. The line of tissue extends from the anus through the perineal and upwards to the middle line of the penis. Okay. See? Muscle.
00:52:37
Speaker
Sweat in it of its own isn't is odorless. I guarantee that because when you sauna, your sweat doesn't stink. Yeah. Yeah, it's the bacteria on your skin that stinks. Why is your stomach growl when we're hungry? Because the acid has nothing to eat. Yeah, that's yeah. Acid reflex, that's one that sucks. Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:53:10
Speaker
Or verping. Oh God, verbs are horrible. If there's one thing I get rid of is a verb. Yeah. That'll ruin your day. Wisdom teeth. Why do we have wisdom teeth? Well, according to my dentist, so you can take them out.
00:53:40
Speaker
Yeah, why do we have wisdom teeth? Yeah. Well, I guess it's a masticating tooth, right? I guess. We just don't eat as much grass as we used to. Maybe. Why are we ticklish? What what does that serve? Hmm. I don't know. I'm not ticklish. I don't. And you can't tickle yourself.
00:54:07
Speaker
I can't be tickled on the untickable man. The untickable untickable man. Yeah. Oh. Ear wax. Why do we produce so much ear wax? Well, that's protecting your ear. Is it? Right. It's protecting you. Well, OK. Why do we produce nose and ear hair at the rate we do? Because they protect you, your internal organs.
00:54:35
Speaker
That's what I'm on board on. You have to have news hair, because it otherwise screws up your, you know, your nares. Doesn't it catch the reticulate before it gets into your nares? The whole thing. It does, but it doesn't have to be so big. Now, ear hair. Why do men have to get ear hair? Right. Seems unfair. And that is some of the like thickest hair on your body. Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker
Try pulling one of those sons of bitches out. Oh, yeah, it feels great. Yeah. Yeah. Your hair's rough. Yeah, I just don't know some of these. It's like this is ticklish. Yeah, I don't I don't know. Yeah. Oh, gosh. It has not yet been conclusively explained. Yes, it's a mystery.
00:55:33
Speaker
It's a social bond. There's a social bonding theory which suggests the tickle response developed to facilitate social bonding between parents and newborns. Huh? So only babies are supposed to be tickled. Tickles protects vulnerable areas. I guess because it's like the bottoms of your feet and stuff.
00:56:01
Speaker
I guess, um, stimulates the hypothalamus, the area of the brain in charge of emotional reactions and your fight or flight pain response. It is believed that is impossible because your brain anticipates and suppresses the sensations of your own movements. You can trick your brain by placing your hands on top of the ticklers hands, which reaches the unpredictability and intensity of the tickling.
00:56:32
Speaker
That sounds oddly erotic. That's according to Dr. Emily Grossman of the Royal Institute. Why do we humans have body hair anymore? Well,
00:57:01
Speaker
Because evolutionarily, there's no reason to get rid of it. Because some of us are mainly here than others. But why is it the the majority of it is your pits, your groin and your ass? To keep in the stink. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah. Why why armpit hair? That makes no sense.
00:57:30
Speaker
Uh, I bet my, there's my theory off the cuff is when you're not wearing a shirt for long periods of time, as we've been developed without shirts, the arm hair keeps you from getting chafed. Really? That's my theory for you. You never get, you never get armpit chafing, do you? Well, I keep my armpits trimmed. But do you shave them? No. Right. Uh, we should try this theory out.
00:58:00
Speaker
You should wax yourself. Yeah, you're right. Armpit hair prevents skin-to-skin contact during activities that involve arm motion, such as running and walking. Yeah, see? Huh. That doesn't explain why my ass is hairy. Probably for the same reason. Keep skin-to-skin contact between your cheeks. I'm talking about the exterior cheekage. Well,
00:58:28
Speaker
But that also protects you from sitting down on things. Maybe. It's like a cat with whiskers you can feel when a chair is coming close. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we've we've solved two of these already. Yeah. What about eyebrows? Hmm.
00:58:59
Speaker
I would bet the reason eyebrows exist is because of the social cues. Because it allows social expression. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's a secondary thing to conveying emotion. The original was to keep rain and sweat out of our eyes. That makes sense, too. Hmm.
00:59:33
Speaker
See, I understand the whole men have nipples because everybody starts out as a woman. Hmm. Is that true? Yeah. So what are your nipples? Yeah, it's the X gene is stronger and starts everything out than the Y gene takes over.
01:00:07
Speaker
We've learned a lot today. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Science, science. Science. Yeah. Well, now you know how to stop yourself from being tickled. Just put your hand on the tickler's hand. Yeah.
Closing Remarks
01:00:24
Speaker
And make sure you keep your eyebrows nice and fluffy to keep the rain out. Yeah. Yeah. I just wish they wouldn't grow so outward. Yeah.
01:00:34
Speaker
And there are some people we work with, especially a specific someone who never has to worry about the rain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's fair. Yeah. Does help, though. Yeah. Do another experiment. Like your eyebrows. I know people look weird without eyebrows. Yeah, they do. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a it's a danger thing. You're like, oh, oh, this person looks weird. Yeah. Because you can't tell what their facial expression is.
01:01:02
Speaker
Yeah, so you can't trust them. Yeah. We're learning a lot today. We are. It's really growth. It is. It is. It's yeah. And we're glad that you folks at home can grow with us. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that on that note, we've casted the pod. I think we have cast the pod. Follow us on Twitter or X. I'm sorry. I get tired of saying, of hearing people say X. It's Twitter. It's Twitter. Yep. Yeah. CL22. Yeah.
01:01:33
Speaker
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