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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole: socks, sports, safety, Baldur’s Gate; Ron asks what products or ideas are designed for something but are total crap; Chris brings up how great Star Wars is now! As always please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. 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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Weather Talks and Footwear Follies
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris. And I'm Ron. And it's finally cool weather. It's finally fun. I'm gonna go buy a scarf on. A wool socks out. See, I can't do the wool socks. Oh. You know. It's a texture thing on my feet. I don't like it. Really? Yeah. Hmm. I think it's because my feet are so hairy. It just... Hmm. That's fair. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. That's fair. Yep.
00:00:29
Speaker
It's like I tried, you know, my wife laughs at me, but I'm like, you know, if I wear socks for too long, it's like, you know, when you wear a hat, your hair gets kind of like you've had that feeling of your hair is just being pushed down and everything. That's why I get on my feet. One of the things about working a 24 hour shift that sucks the most is wearing socks for 24 hours.
00:00:50
Speaker
Yeah. I think because now I like, I don't wear socks much when I'm not working. And I think it's because of working wearing some socks. Yeah. Because I just, I get off work and I put my stupid Hey dudes on. I know they're stupid. I know they look stupid. I got the whole, I'm on board. They all are dumb. Right. They're, they're not even practical shoes, but I just put them on and I don't have to have socks on. And I'm like, freedom. Yeah.
00:01:19
Speaker
See, I made the mistake. I bought a pair of Hey Dudes, but I guess I bought the wrong size. I should have got a half size smaller because they're just a little bit loose without socks. No, I'm like that. Yeah, that's fair. I'll give you that. I get that, but if you buy them correctly, they don't even, they start to stink real bad if you wear socks, but I don't care. They're just baking soda. There's Febreze. Yeah, there's things you can do with it.
00:01:46
Speaker
I did the dumbest, speaking of foot, feet. Feet. Foot and feet. I did the dumbest injury in the history of man. I was watching my RV the other day, and I had the bucket out with the soap. Yeah. And somehow, because I was in my bare feet, because I don't want to get my shoes wet. Because of course, any spray nozzle you buy for a hose lasts about a day before it just sprays water everywhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:02:16
Speaker
That's a whole other rant. I'm literally getting soaked more than the RV is getting soaked because I try to spray it up. Look at the bucket.
00:02:28
Speaker
And it just was enough that the bucket scraped across the top of my toe and pulled all of the skin from like toe knuckle to like the middle of my toe, my foot off. Yeah. And it was like, well, I'm going to live with that for the rest of my life. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's never going to go away. No, it's not. And it was literally like a three layers of skin. But, you know, it's going to ruin my life for like months or so. Yeah. Why don't you wear Crocs while you're watching the RV?
00:02:57
Speaker
Because I don't have any Crocs. What? I don't have any Crocs. What? Not for any good reason, because the conversation we had while I was RVing this week was, I should own some Crocs, especially for like in the RV, where I just need to slip something on and go outside. Yeah. I need to get a pair of Crocs. Yeah. Yeah. It's on the list. Yeah. My list is definitely the time of year I can wear that. See, I can't wear the Crocs in the summer though, because my feet just sweat in them, because they're just wrapped in plastic. Yeah, they get real sweaty.
00:03:27
Speaker
Yeah, I feel you on that one. Yeah. Well, I wear a shirt and other things. I just, you know, it's like, oh, you wear your Crocs. Yes, I am. Yeah. Don't care anymore. We have definitely entered the phase of our lives where we're a belt. I can wear sweat shorts all year round. I'm an adult man who doesn't care anymore. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I don't need to
00:03:54
Speaker
My neighbor's dad, when I was a kid, every day that you saw him, because he worked this weird job where he would be away for work for weeks at a time. Okay. But when you saw him at home, all he wore was sweatpants. Nice. And I was like, God, this dude dresses like a slob. And now that man was the smartest man in the world. Yeah, right. Why wear jeans and a belt when you're just sitting around your house? Yeah.
00:04:25
Speaker
just wear your sweatshorts or sweatpants and just be comfortable. Yeah. Yeah. I had this conversation with somebody. I can't remember who it was. It was a while ago and we were talking about, yeah, you know, get them from work, you know, work out or whatever, grab a shower and like, you know, just put on comfy clothes. I was like, I don't know. I feel like sometimes I've got to, you know, I put on jeans and a t-shirt or, you know, whatever in case I got to run out and they're like, why would you put hard clothes back on? I was like hard clothes.
00:04:55
Speaker
I never thought of it that way. They're like, yeah, put on something soft and comfy afterward. You know, it's like, that's a tremendous idea. Yeah. Don't put on hard clothes. Just, I mean, if you're going out with dinner with your wife, maybe put on
Halloween and Sports
00:05:08
Speaker
the hard clothes. Yeah. Who are you impressing? No, I already got her. She's stuck with me. Yeah. She's stuck. It's not going anywhere. Your kids don't care. Oh my gosh. No.
00:05:21
Speaker
There is no situation where you're going to dress up and your kids are like, oh yeah, you're looking good. Yeah. So just embarrass them. Dress up like a clown. No. That's not happening. Oh. Yeah, it's that time of year where there's frickin, you know, the Halloween decorations everywhere and there's stupid scary clowns out.
00:05:44
Speaker
Oh yeah, they're everywhere. Yeah. Almost bought you a 12 foot animatronic clown. Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. I'd never leave the house. That'd be fun though. Oh yeah. Yeah. Tons of fun. Hey chief, Chris isn't coming to work today. Broke his leg trying to jump off the roof to kill an animatronic clown.
00:06:10
Speaker
So side tangent or right now in like what week three of football. Have you watched any football this year? A little. I feel like I've watched zero football. I watched like five minutes the other night. So it was Thursday night. I was going to sleep and I knew my wife would be coming up soon. So I was like, I'll just, you know, have the TV on like in the background. I watched part of the commander's game, but.
00:06:34
Speaker
I just feel like I don't care now at all. I don't know what's changed. I don't care at all about. Yeah. Sports. Yeah. Yeah. My I'm still in a family Pickham League and, you know, like my father-in-law's picture picks in like, yeah, I got my picks in. That's why I just go through. I'm like, oh, whose favorite to win? Click, click, click, click, click. Done. Yeah. I just I don't know what I don't know what's changed about. I just have no.
00:07:02
Speaker
I don't care. And I don't care about college football at all. In fact, I think college football is a, a porn crime. Yeah. Well, they can get sponsorships now, right? Yeah. But I, I don't care about the athletes. I'm just talking about the whole waste of money on collegiate money on that. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I enjoy going to my daughter's field hockey game more than anything.
00:07:29
Speaker
Well, I would assume you're vested in our winning. Well, yeah, I am. But, you know, it's definitely. Yeah, I'd rather be, you know, go see that than, you know, pay $300 to go sit in the nosebleeds and watch a football game. Yeah. I think somebody was like, oh, you know, the Orioles are in the playoffs. I was like, they are good for them. I go, yeah, you know, tickets aren't that bad. You know, I was like. I want I'm not going to watch it, but to if I was.
00:07:59
Speaker
There's a great view for my TV and the concessions at my house are pretty cheap. Yeah, I mean, there is a playoff sports are fun because of the crowd. That's a lot. That's a lot of humans around you, though. There's a lot of humans around you. Yeah. And then there's the parking.
00:08:21
Speaker
And whatever you think you're paying, you're paying double. Oh yeah. You're going to buy a beer, you're going to park and it's just, yeah, it's too much. Yeah. You're going to buy a boiled hot dog for $10. Yeah. That's why you got a dollar dog day. I have six hot dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What did you hear about the lady at the white Sox game who shot her friend sitting beside her. She smuggled in
00:08:49
Speaker
or she had her pistol concealed in the rolls of her stomach. Oh, my. And when she sat down, the gun went off, it grazed her and then shot her friend in the leg. They had to rush her friend to the emergency room. Holy. Yeah. Well, you know, what situation did that feel like? It was smart. Yeah, I just yeah.
00:09:16
Speaker
People need to chill out with guns. Your state has lost its goddamn mind.
Public Safety and Personal Challenges
00:09:20
Speaker
Well, most of the states have. We were talking about it the other day. I've lived in Delaware my entire life, and Delaware has had open carry and concealed carry, and I don't see people just walking around everywhere with guns. Maryland, because they've just changed the law, you're all like kids with a new candy. It's so weird. It's crazy. If you want to be that way, go to Texas.
00:09:43
Speaker
Yeah, or just why do you want to be that way? Yeah, yeah, I don't get it. Yeah. Well, that's again, I hear people talking like, well, you know, if you get your Utah license, you can do this. And if you do it, it's like you live in Maryland. Right. What? Why? Why are you? You know, it's just it's another one of those. It's like the stupid registration things, you know, with the main trade and all that. It's like, no, stay wherever you are. That's where it should be done. Or just.
00:10:14
Speaker
Maybe we have some, you know, sense about it and, you know, we don't have to get rid of them, but we don't need people just carrying them everywhere. No. I mean, the medical examiner showed up the other day on a call and he was carrying a gun. And I was like, is he afraid the body's going to jump up? It's what I said. Well, I mean, look, I will give it like zombie apocalypse. He's going to be one of the first ones that meets it, so.
00:10:38
Speaker
I guess that's fair. Yeah. But I don't think that's a warrant for him carrying a weapon. Yeah. But now it's, yeah. I'm just going to start carrying around a broadsword. What's the Japanese pole arm with the, was it a Kagi? I carry one of those around all the time. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. You live with me like that. You always carry guns. Yeah.
00:11:09
Speaker
Find out yeah, I just Yeah, I don't get it. I'm like, are you that terrified of the world? Right there just don't go out of your house. Yeah. Yeah No, and you'd live in Podunk, you know, Maryland to right know your neighbors like what what do you think? Yeah, I don't get it my My stepfather's like that. I can't drive through the state because I'm not allowed to have guns in my car. I
00:11:38
Speaker
So Mad Max? Right. What do you need a gun in your car for? What's going on? Yeah. Again, I'm 40 plus years old. The pluses are getting bigger. Yeah. I haven't needed one yet. No, no. But, you know, I've not needed a tourniquet for myself. I have like 12 of those within
00:12:06
Speaker
reaching my hands right now. I'm literally staring at the tourniquet right now. Just imagine he's got little googly eyes on it, staring back at you. Yeah. Well, Thomas the tourniquet. Thomas the tourniquet. Well, I'm really staring at it because I took my first aid kit out of my hiking bag.
00:12:31
Speaker
because I've started doing weighted walks. I put weights in a bag and walked. It was dumb and took my hiking pack. I got a little day pack for hiking. I decided I'll use that for my weights until I get a... I'm looking at it like a weight vest or something. I started to take my first day kit out. Well, then of course I go hiking on my RV trip and guess what I don't have? First day kit. First day kit. I was like, well, that's real smart.
00:13:02
Speaker
Smart man. Did you just get a fanny pack for the first aid kit? Well, I mean, I have a big first aid kit. I still have three first aid kits with me. Oh, okay. I wasn't without the first aid kit. I'm not a crazy person. Just imagine one strapped to Atticus and you just, when he comes sprinting out. Well, I can't whistle, so that's something that happened, but yeah. Really? No, I can't whistle. That's my wife's favorite thing to do is try to make it whistle.
00:13:32
Speaker
Not ever been able to whistle. I can only snap with one finger and I can't whistle. Not with one finger, one hand. Oh, okay. That's sick. God, you're a magic man. Just hold your finger up, snap, snap, snap.
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah. My dad couldn't whistle. I can't whistle. I'm from a generation of non-whistlers. A whole family tree of non-whistlers. It wasn't on our evolution that we needed a whistle. Yeah. I can't do where people stick their fingers in their mouth and do the crazy whistle. Get that either. Yeah. Yeah. I can whistle in or out. I can whistle with a thing called a whistle. Yeah. And there's one in my first date pack.
00:14:16
Speaker
That's how you call for the backup. Right. So I've had a guess with the dog. Well, we all know that, you know, should you, you know, go down or anything, your wife's going to pay attention to the alert that goes on her phone and yeah, we were talking about that the other day because we I went for a bike ride. We're on our trip and I went for a bike ride on the C&O Canal and I left a little late.
00:14:45
Speaker
And I was on my, we had our e-bikes because that's what we take on good camping. And I didn't charge my e-bike. And so I get out and I'm 20, I was like 14 miles away from the campground. And I'm like, it's getting really dark. I should turn around. And then.
00:15:04
Speaker
my light doesn't turn on because I didn't turn my light. So I'm riding around my bike holding my phone and using it as a flashlight to not die, which was fun. That's a good option. Pro tip. Pro tip. So I finally get back to the campground and she's like, I was really worried about you. But I knew that if you crashed, your watch would alert me. I'm like, oh, but you would just ignore it. So it wouldn't have mattered. Yeah.
00:15:32
Speaker
I said, you did ignore it, so I don't want to hear your lies. But pro tip, if you're going to go at it, make sure you're charged. Yeah, always make sure your stuff's charged. Of course, then I charged the light and I charged the speed bike and then we didn't go for another ride.
00:15:55
Speaker
Better to need it, not have it, then not have it and need it. That's true. It's on the list. I do enjoy my e-bike. Yeah. I love bike riding. It's one of my, I mean, I think everybody who knows me, I'm mad on the bike a lot. Yeah. But it is pretty nice to not like feel like I'm dying whenever I go up a hill. Yeah.
00:16:20
Speaker
Well, I don't, what are these hills you speak of? Oh my God. So with my friend yesterday, who's from Utah and we're doing the, I'm going to him, the tour and his family, the tour of the, of the Gettysburg battlefield. Yeah. Like, okay, out there is the Blue Ridge mountains. And they're like, where is it behind those little mounds? I'm like, right. Mr. and Mrs. Rockies.
Everyday Ironies and Health Debates
00:16:43
Speaker
Yeah. Those are still mountains. You try to,
00:16:46
Speaker
walk up those sons of bitches with a cannon and stuff. Yeah. Just because they're not the Rockies, I mean, they're not mountains. Is there like a height, you know, that you go from hill to mountain? I have no idea. Hmm. Hmm. Now I have to look this up. And like a depth that you go from ditch to canyon.
00:17:16
Speaker
Well, I think Canon and Kenyon's because of the water, right? We'll crevasse them. Hill versus mountain. Hill versus mountain. I just imagine there's going to be like, you know, some boxing match pop up or something. Yeah, it doesn't really like there's all like, you know, they're steeper, but yeah, it's like shipping a boat.
00:17:44
Speaker
Well, no, there is a difference between shipping a boat, right? What is it? A boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can't fit on a boat or something? Yes. Up until the 1920s, the British Ordered Survey defined the mountain as a geographic feature rising higher than 1,000 feet or 304 meters. Okay. So there you go. All right. 1,000 meters. 1,000 meters. No, 1,000 feet. 300. No, 1,000 feet.
00:18:14
Speaker
thousand meters would be appreciate. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. That's not much. It's not much. And usually a hill has a rounded top with no well-defined summit. Hmm. And are often unnamed and easy to climb. Okay. All right. Normally created by tectonic faults. Although, and hills are usually worn down by erosion.
00:18:47
Speaker
So it's also about how it's created. It sounds like it. There you go. We discussed and defined Hills versus mountains. We all learned something today. We did. Yeah. And that should be your goal every day. Learn something today. It should be your goal every day. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess we're going to topic one. Yeah. Yeah. Jump into topic one. I have,
00:19:17
Speaker
Two topics for topic one. Okay. So we're just going to knock out one real quick. Q-tips. Is there anything else that is sold on the market as don't do this, but everybody uses it for that? Cause Q-tips on the packaging say do not stick in your canal. Right. Do not clean your ears with these. Yeah. Everybody buys them to clean their ears with them. Right.
00:19:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I can't think of anything else that's really, yeah. That got to be the only thing that that's that, right? Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's lots of things that people buy.
00:20:04
Speaker
for, and they use it as a secondary purpose for that thing. Right. But Q-tips, you buy Q-tips. Everybody who walks into Q-tip, like when they buy the spider in the store, they wink at the cashier. I'm not buying these to put in my ear canal. Right. Yeah. Wink, wink. And they're like, sir, you don't have to wink. We all understand what Q-tips are for. Yeah. Well, it's like that thing, you know, was it, they say, you know, never stick anything smaller than your elbow and your ear. It's like, no. Well, it doesn't clean my ear very well. Exactly. I've tried.
00:20:33
Speaker
like how else do you get your ear clean? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Get one of those crazy corkscrew things. What? Have you seen it's like a silicone auger that you just like twist in your ear and it's supposed to pull all the gunk out. That seems worse than a Q-tip. I would think so. But oh no, it's soft and flexible, so it's not going to push against things. This is what they say. Well, a Q-tip just jams the wax down in your ear. Yeah, but I'm not like.
00:21:01
Speaker
Jamie, I'm cleaning like the opening. Yeah. I'm getting the gunk out of the opening. Yeah. Maybe one of those weird people that have like the ear candles or candles. Yeah. Those can't work, right? Now, because by the way, that's going to be right into my topic, too. Yeah. Well, because well, they also have the things now that's like a little fiber optic camera on a like a scraper that you can like watch on your phone while you clean your ear out. No, thank you. I don't need that in my life. No.
00:21:29
Speaker
I don't need to see the nightscape nightmare escape that is my ear. Yeah. Yeah. Look, here's the thing. I've been using Q-tips for however many years now. I just went to the doctor Friday. She looked at my ears. She didn't say, oh, my God, what have you been going? That's fair. That's a very good point. Never once has my doctor looked at my ears. I don't even know what they're checking for, to be honest. I don't think they know what they're checking for. Mine used to when I still was diving.
00:21:57
Speaker
She would check my dive reflex thing in there to make sure I could clear my ears. Hmm. Yeah, she would. She would clear your ears and she could see it open or whatever, I guess. I don't know. I never did that once with me. Yeah, I was a diver. Yeah. You know, some asshole throw a turtle at me. I didn't throw the turtle gently. Look, I rolled a nat 20 on animal handling. You did roll a nat 20 on animal handling and I failed my fear check. Yes, you did.
00:22:28
Speaker
Good Lord. Bubbles and brown stain come out of the water. Yeah. Yeah. But okay. So anyways, yeah, that was a small rant, but my real question is, so I, my doctor told me that I have a low good cholesterol. Okay.
00:22:53
Speaker
And I said, Oh, I know it's been like that forever. It's always the same number. It's always 3435 whatever it is. Right? Yeah. How does it always the same number? That's what I don't know. I'm like, I've lost a lot of weight. I've been fat. It's always the same. I work out. Yeah, I go through periods where I work out or clean, clean. I don't know. Yeah, it's always the same. So she said, Okay, well, I want you to try fish oil. Right? So she told me to take
00:23:21
Speaker
I don't know how many milligrams of fish oil every day. Yeah. We'll see you next year. What's like so I being a good person patient said, Okay, I'll do it. I'll go buy the fish oil pills and I'll take them. And I got to read some article and they're like, why supplements are bullshit? And I'm like, well, yeah, they're bullshit. We know that. Yeah. Wait a second. I'm taking a supplement that's bullshit. So I guess like my topic goes up to just
00:23:49
Speaker
Things that are complete bullshit that people do anyways, like multivitamins. Multivitamins, I think, for the most part are bullshit. Yeah. Right. Because you just pee out most of the vitamins. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, again, it's one of those things unless you're chipped and know exactly what levels of things you're supposed to get and have it tailored right to that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like the people that, you know, oh, I've got a cold coming on.
00:24:17
Speaker
So they'll take like those vitamin C tablets. Any extra vitamin C your body gets rid of. You just pee it out. If you're not peeing out, then you got a problem. When COVID hit first, my mother's like, you should take zinc. That'll help you. Where did you get this information?
00:24:38
Speaker
I don't remember people saying COVID was a zinc deficiency. What do you think your body's doing with the zinc? Well, the zinc zaps the virus. That's not how science works. It doesn't go on alliteration. That's not how it works. But then this article was like, here's why these 40 things supplements are all bullshit. But then there's those four that actually work. I'm like, do they? Yeah.
00:25:08
Speaker
And the one they brought up was ginger for nausea. That does work. It probably does work. For some people. Right. As you got to say, it probably works for some people. Right. And not saying you should because most of them are probably harmless. Right. Most of these supplements are. Yeah, you got upset. Tell me, you know, have some ginger. Right. So if it works, try it. Yeah.
00:25:35
Speaker
Most of these things are useless. They're all, they gotta be bullshit. I think even official is probably bullshit. I'm finding out though, I'm doing the science for you, the people. I'll report back in March when I get my physical. That's the same thing like my doctor says. My overall cholesterol has been at 206 for seven years now. How it's the perfect 206 number, whatever. I guess that's my number.
00:26:04
Speaker
But I was, and same thing, I was like, okay, change diet. I eat Cheerios almost every morning. Nope. Doesn't matter. It's like this year, my doctor, she was just like, that's your number. That's just your 206. Okay. Yeah. All right. So I, well, to refer to my current PCP, she's brand new. This is my first year with her. Yeah. But, and I, I appreciated, I'm not, I'm not,
00:26:30
Speaker
bashing her for putting me on official because I appreciated that she wanted to try something. Yeah. Cause I explained to her, I was like, look, it's always been this number and my overall number is good. Yeah. It's like, what is this supposed to be in the one fifties or something? Something like that. They change it every few years. Right. And that's the thing. Yeah. I used to be like well within the normal and then they lowered it again. And I'm like, you know what? No, I'm not. Right. Well, then I read into more into the whole thing and
00:26:57
Speaker
Even doctors don't agree what your cholesterol should be or if good cholesterol is even good cholesterol. Well, I mean, a lot of it is your family genetics and things like that. Right. I mean, my, you know, my family evidently, like, I don't know, I guess we're the in the 200 to two tens. That's our normal. So interesting. Yeah. Experiment if your children are the same. Yeah. They don't really check cholesterol. Children, do they? No, but I can.
00:27:27
Speaker
I guess you could. Yeah. Now we got that thing at work. Sure. Yeah. And it's just, I never thought about it. I'll just take a blood sample while they're sleeping. Because if your children, while they're sleeping, if your children as active as they are, if their cholesterol is that number, then it's just, that's your family number. Yeah. But then it could be your wife screwing it up. Yeah. I've got strong genes.
00:27:54
Speaker
Yeah, but her jeans are from the western side of the state. Those are western shore jeans. I know, but I've got a lot of Scandinavian in me. It's going to take over. It's what they do. It is what they do. It is what they do.
00:28:14
Speaker
Well, yeah, I mean, there's a ton of stuff out there. Well, like so my youngest is very active, you know, plays a lot of sports, sprained her ankle. She's had a lot of sprained ankles. So he went to the podiatrist and he's like, oh, yeah, he's like, you've probably sprained your ankle hundreds of times, just didn't know it. He's like, you know, it's you've got hyper flexibility this way and not so much flexibility this way. So you just need to strengthen it up. And we're like, well, should she wear a brace or or tape or things? He's like, well, tape works for about five minutes.
00:28:43
Speaker
Right. Once you get moving, it stretches out. He's like in a brace. If you feel like you need it a couple of times, that's fine, but a brace is just going to make your body lazier. So you need to strengthen the muscles and the ligaments and everything around it and deal with a problem, not just a brace. I was like, Oh, I have the answer for your child because I had the same problem. Yeah. I would roll my ankle many times a month. Yeah. All the time. I would just roll my ankle.
00:29:13
Speaker
And I went to a podiatrist and he said, there's two problems here. We wear shoes that have too much cushioning. So your foot doesn't get strengthened the way it's supposed to. And all the little micro muscles that are in your ankle and your feet and all of that, they just atrophy. So you should wear shoes when you're not doing things like hiking and
00:29:36
Speaker
You should do wear shoes like Crocs or. Yeah. Chucks or something that doesn't have a lot of support for just walking around. Yeah. Because your body needs to actually balance itself. Yeah. I mean, it was like easy thing. He was like, yeah, balance on, you know, each foot for 30 seconds, you know, and then, you know, close your eyes into it. And then we got this like weird little half moon thing. The Bosu ball. No, no, it's like a hard plastic. It's like a Bosu ball.
00:30:05
Speaker
but it's a hard plastic crescent that you stand on with one foot and it does that whole, what would that be? Toes up towards you, stretch out your calf and stuff, but yeah, balancing on that on one foot because again, it's all the, like you said, the micro muscles. He told me, he said, you're going to go to physical therapy and they're going to work on your balance. I was like, my balance? I don't fall.
00:30:33
Speaker
And boy, do they make me feel like a moron. Yeah. And ever since then, I do balance exercises at the gym every day. Yeah. Well, not every day, but every day I go to the gym, I do balance exercises at the end. And if I have spring, like I've stepped into holes and stuff and my ankles hurt, but within 12 hours. Yeah. Back to normal. Yeah. That's why he was like, yeah. Yeah. Co-pay physical therapy is going to be 20, 30 bucks. He's like, you order this thing on Amazon for 15 bucks. Right.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah. But, I mean, he was right. I have not had problems since. Yeah. Yeah. Shoes are bullshit. That is one thing I have learned.
00:31:14
Speaker
Now, it's and like, you know, it's people at work hate to hear this, but, you know, it's you got to get the right shoe. Yes. Like people are like, oh, yeah, I got some running shoes. Well, that's great. Do you only move in a front to back motion? Right. Because running shoes are not side to side at all. Nope. So you need a walking shoe. Yeah. You know, they look stupid. You know, people don't want to hear that, but because they just walk stupid. Well, it's, you know, you and I.
00:31:41
Speaker
We were raised in the generation of firefighters. I got to wear boots. Oh, yeah. The heavier the boot, the better. Oh, yeah. I wore my pro boots for 15 years. Right. We wore pro boots or. But I did get nice insoles for them. Well, I'll say that, of course, a psychiatrist, but I had just insoles are bullshit, too. Yeah. Well, also remember, I'm the guy who didn't realize you're supposed to take the original insult out before you put the new insult in. So I had like super insoles. So God. Yeah.
00:32:09
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That day I did that, my wife looked at me like, you're a special little man, aren't you? God. Yeah, I have found since changing to low support shoes, I have changed everything. Now at work, I wear
00:32:32
Speaker
A more cushioned sneaker. Yeah. But that's because we're working on hard concrete. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Constantly, you know, jumping out of fire trucks. Yeah. You need a little support for that. Why are you jumping out of the fire truck? Because the fucking engines in Salisbury don't have steps. So it's a goddamn, I feel like a parachutist every time I'm kind of the goddamn engine. And I'm told, oh, they don't need steps because you guys just break them. Well, I'm going to break my goddamn ankle one day, but it's fine. Yeah.
00:33:05
Speaker
Yeah. So, shoes are bullshit. Oh, just grab the grab handle on the outside and just kind of slide down. Yeah. If I could, my shoulder would hold up to it. Nice little core workout while you do it. Yeah. Why do the firefighters all look like strippers when they come out of the engine? Well, we won't get steps. Yeah, we won't get steps, so he's going to look like strippers. Golly ditty. So, anyway, shoes are bullshit. Multivide ends are bullshit. Yeah.
00:33:32
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I don't know. I'm, I'm, I don't know the science enough about fish oil. I think what I know about fish oil is all of the other things are bullshit. Yeah. Like they do say it has statin properties, but everything else that it tells you is bullshit. Right. You know, you got to make sure you get the ones that don't make you burp. You know, I've tried all of them. I don't, whatever they go into my belly.
00:34:02
Speaker
they do whatever they're doing, then they go away. Yeah. I took some one time and it was just, I burped and I was like, Oh God, it's like knowing on a rotten fish. Yeah, that sounds awful. Apparently there's another one called red wheat charm or something that does the same effect.
00:34:24
Speaker
Yeah, I'm probably going to switch to red germ. It's like red wheat germ or something. I can't remember. Yeah. Maybe it's red yeast. I don't know. Yeah. But something like that. And I'm going to switch to that. It does the same statin effects. I mean, I don't know. You talk about all the stuff that's supposed to do something that probably doesn't.
00:34:51
Speaker
You know, my mother found, you know, I told her I have prostate cancer. She was like, Oh, I read this thing where, you know, there's this hyper alkalonic or alkalic water that you can drink, you know, raise your pH. I was like, that's not how your body works. Right. Your body's going to buffer that immediately. So no, but thank you. And also let's take that a step further.
00:35:17
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If it really was able to mess up the pH of your body, do you know how catastrophically bad that would be for you?
00:35:26
Speaker
Like your body works on such a narrow pH scale. Yeah. Yeah. We have a whole like acid base thing going on every second we are alive. Right. Like like your pH balance on your body is seven point three five to seven point four five is pretty small window of where we want to be. Yeah. I mean, like, yeah, you get to like seven point four six and your body's like danger, danger, danger. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:53
Speaker
Yeah. The science of what you're saying is so crazily bullshit, but somebody wrote an article saying, oh, if you mess with the pH balance, it'll kill the cancer. What? Guess what? I drink a whole bottle of bicarbonate.
00:36:10
Speaker
It's just going to mix with the acid in my stomach and neutralize. Right. I'm just going to have a bad stomach. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. My stomach's going to feel horrible. Right. But my body is not going to change the pH scale of my body, which is where the cancer is. Right. It's just like if I drink, you know, three glasses orange juice. I'm not magically super acidic after that. Right. I mean. Yeah. It's near mother's defense.
00:36:38
Speaker
I do drink whiskey when my throat is sore. And I think really what's happening is the alcohol just makes me feel better. Oh yeah, that's exactly what it is. The alcohol is numbing the muscle cells in your throat and your smooth muscle. It's not that the whiskey is literally killing the germs. It's just that it makes me feel better. Yeah. Just like people that had a toothache that just
00:37:05
Speaker
but rub some whiskey on your gums. Yeah, it's numbing your gum. That's it. The alcohol has an effect. It's just not the effect you think it is. It definitely doesn't match with the pH level. I did read, this is a side tangent, did a really fascinating article about a company that's inventing a Bluetooth cancer detection system.
00:37:28
Speaker
So it works very similar to the diabetes pumps. Wow. So it actually monitors your cancer levels and adjusts the chemo that you have to that. So you're just walking around with chemo and it's just like,
00:37:44
Speaker
That's going to pump me a little more chemo today. Wow. Yeah. It's fascinating. You're like Deadpool. You're just like Deadpool. You should set yourself on fire and see what happens. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. No. Yeah. But again, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Chip me. Yeah. Chip me. 100%. All I've wanted my entire life is to be chipped. Yeah. Tell me what's going on in this fucked up furnace that is my body. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:12
Speaker
I mean, I get closer and closer with the different smartwatches like it, you know, like my Garmin, you know, oh, you worked out a lot, drinks more water. Right. My karma tells me things all the time and I'm like, I don't know what this means. Well, my body battery has never gotten above like 60. Sometimes my VTO max is great. Sometimes it's like, this is a poor, I'm like, is that a being I'm having a bad day or I'm dying? What's going on here?
00:38:37
Speaker
And then in my recovery times, it always tells me like, I'll go for a walk. Yeah. It's like your recovery time is 15 hours. I might not have a shape that I need a 15 hour break before I do anything else. Yeah. I mean, there you go. You get home, you know, honey, you got to take the trash out. Sorry. Garmin says it's a break time. I'm on recovery time, lady. You take that up with Garmin. That's right. Yeah.
00:39:04
Speaker
Well, the next thing I would say is bullshit is most physical fitness. Yeah. Almost everything you read about physical fitness is bullshit. Well, look at, you know, my brother goes to gym, he takes all these supplements and he does this and that and the other. And I'm like Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't have all this stuff. And look at what he did. He ate steaks, drank beer, and smoked cigars. Look at him.
00:39:33
Speaker
And he'll even sell it. Like he talks about how like he ate like shit. He just was at the gym pumping iron all the time. Right. But if you asked Arnold to like, you know, do a yoga pose, his brain, his body couldn't handle it. Yeah. Maybe now it can. No, I talked about it back then. Oh, yeah, back then. 70s Arnold. There's no way he was just wasn't flexible. Right. And that's like the gym rats I see. Yeah.
00:40:01
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who are just like, Oh, I got to be swollen. Like you are a 38 to 50 year old man. What are you doing with that swolteness? Yeah. Yeah. You need to focus on being able to, you know, endeavor and pick up, pick up a piece of paper without throwing your back out. Right. You need, you need back flexibility. You don't even need back strength because you're, that's like, yeah.
00:40:25
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Core strength, core strength, flexibility, balance, and cardiac health. Those are the four you need to work on.
00:40:36
Speaker
I'm not saying you shouldn't wait, lift weights. Oh yeah, no. I mean, yeah, that's a great workout. Right. You should always lift weights because a resistance workout is great for your muscles, which is great for your, you know, body mass. It's also, it does strengthen your musculoskeletal system. All of those. And also people don't realize it works on balance. Because when you're curling those weights and moving those weights, your body's balancing things. Yes. It's a novel concept. All of those things are good.
00:41:07
Speaker
But you don't need to do crazy Murph workouts all the time. Yes. If you're in great shape, crazy Murph workouts are good. They're not like necessary to your life. You don't need to take pre-workout. You don't need to take post-workout. You don't need to take mid-workout Murph out. You just need good food in, good food out and not even hard workouts. Yeah. That's a thing. Like reps are better than weight.
00:41:38
Speaker
I, well, obviously with my shoulder, I don't do huge weights as I throw my legs because, you know, I got a monster legs. I must use them. Yeah. But I've been there doing like 25 pounds on each side of the bar. When I'm doing incline press, I'm not doing it like blowing my brain. I'm just good, but I'll do 60 reps. Yeah. You know, because that's good for you. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And the whole thing with legs, that's something that benefits your, that is a work centric, you know, kind of.
00:42:08
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think that's going to help you with lifting a patient the correct way, with carrying items up a ladder, things like that. I tell my buddy who I work out with all the time, I'm like,
00:42:19
Speaker
The only reason I'm really doing curls anymore is because I still have to do that for work. Firebase is one of the few jobs where you actually lift things with your biceps. There's very few times in life where you literally just lift with your biceps. You're supposed to lift with your legs.
00:42:40
Speaker
You're supposed to lift with your back in a jerking, twisting motion. Yes, you're supposed to reach as far as possible, lifting only with your back. Firefighting is the one thing I could think of. You just have to curl the stretcher. There's really no other way to put a stretcher. You just curl it. I work on those, but the legs, well, your legs are the power of your system, so I work my legs a lot. Don't skip leg day, folks.
00:43:11
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Yeah. The people that skip leg day are just, yeah. Also don't skip cardio day. Don't skip. See, so. Just add, sprinkle some cardio in here and there. I listen to podcasts where they talk about fitness and they're like, you should do cardio days and you should do late day. I do. And maybe I'm wrong. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a, I can just tell you what sort of seems to work for me is
Fitness Routines and Gaming Reflections
00:43:35
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I do a two and a half mile walk every day, then I do 30 minutes of working out, and then I do 10 minutes of cardio, and then I'll go ride my bike. There you go. But I don't like, this is a cardio day. I do a leg day workout. I do a chest workout. So I don't do everything every day I do, but I don't make it like a cardio day. And I give a rest day. So today's a Sunday. It's a rest day. Nice.
00:44:04
Speaker
I'll go walking. I might go for a low intensity bike ride with my wife. I'm not going to go do crazy shit. No, it's good. Your body needs that. I have yoga every day. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's stretching and flexibility and what you should be doing. Yeah. Yeah. We do not- It's why those little guys on Okinawa live to be like 300 years old. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's also the calorie deficient diets, but
00:44:32
Speaker
Yeah. That's a whole other. Yeah. Well, this podcast does not recommend any business routine. No, no, no, no. We're not doing anything. Yeah. We're not telling you what to do. Yeah. Ever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, topic two. Sure. Topic two. First off, for you, topic two. Yeah. Baldur's Gate. Act three. Oh, I think I'm about I should have it beat today. Yeah.
00:45:01
Speaker
Yeah, I am at the, it's time to go to the older brain. Yeah. So, yep. And I am, so many decisions I'm questioning. Nevermind. Yeah, just, yeah. Nevermind. There's a question I have to ask, but I think it's spoiler to you. Probably. Yeah. Probably. So Tuesday, Tuesday I should be able to talk about it.
00:45:26
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. We will set, sit down and have a text conversation Tuesday. Yeah. Or maybe you'll come to the station and we'll talk about how it worked out. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's going to have to happen because, uh, yeah, boy, I want to talk about what happened to my first play through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How was Orin? Uh, wasn't that bad.
00:45:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I thought. I was thinking I was afraid that everybody there was going to smore me at the end. Right. And yeah, because I almost went in. I was like, you know what? I know how this is going to go down. Maybe I should just toss a fireball in the start. I was like, no, there's somebody on the altar table. I don't want to do that. Yeah. Who was on the table for you as a kid? What? Yeah. What? Yeah. Do you know who was for me?
00:46:21
Speaker
No, it was Gayle. What? Yeah, huh? She kidnapped Gayle and I was a list for almost all of Act three because, oh, she had kidnapped him. No, this was this was a kid I met like as soon as I got to Baldur's Gate and I did not save the kid. Oh, I did say Gayle. I there was a chance to talk her down and I chose intimidation.
00:46:51
Speaker
And I had to get a 25 and I rolled a 23. So she said, haha. It was Gail for mine. Wow. Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. So I was gala's, huh? For almost all of that three. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She was mad that I took down Saravac.
00:47:14
Speaker
Oh, she was mad about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Huh? Cale. Yeah. It's amazing. Just all the little decisions you make throughout that changes so much between the games. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. That's why I really want to know how yours ends. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going into it with my final party is my character Carla.
00:47:43
Speaker
Laysell and Gail. Hmm. Yeah. That will, huh? No. Yeah, I use will all. Once I got will, I use them all done. Yeah, no. I'm trying not to use them this time at all. Yeah, that's I'm doing it this way. So I'm like, you know, next play through, I won't use this person or that person just only like, OK, I do your stuff now. Go away. Right. Right. So yeah, I've tried to like spread the wealth this play through. So yeah.
00:48:15
Speaker
Oh, interesting change. All right. So have you watched all of Ahsoka? No, I have not watched the finale. Well, even without that, we won't spoil anything with that. But is is this what we've needed this whole time of Star Wars? Just Filoni and just breaking it down into these shorter vignettes and this is
00:48:43
Speaker
This is Filoni and Disney, but mostly Filoni, Filoni, Filoni, but it's mostly him just giving us Star Wars books every year.
Star Wars Storytelling Adventures
00:48:56
Speaker
Yeah. We're getting Star Wars stories, which is all we really want. Right. Because no offense to the prequels and the sequels, we had Star Wars, right? We had the three movies. All we wanted was stories in that universe. Right. Yeah.
00:49:13
Speaker
And like, it's like, you know, we get those little teases, you know, when like, Obi-Wan's talking to Lucas, like, Oh, yeah, I fought with your father in the Clone Wars. It's like, what's a Clone Wars? Right. What are these? Right. I'm more OK with the prequels. I didn't think I don't think I needed the sequels. No. Or at least not the way the sequels were. Sure. But I really wanted the. And they would have been cool.
00:49:42
Speaker
If they had been like, oh, this is the universe after Luke. Yeah. Right. But I didn't. Well, I mean, really, they want that. They think they did such in my opinion, such a bad job with Luke. Yes, they did. It just. Yeah. I mean, you even listened to like your interviews with Mark Hamill and he was like, this isn't the Luke that I knew.
00:50:09
Speaker
This is what they want to do with Luke and look, I hope it does well, but it's just, this is not my Luke. Yeah. And I think the Mandalorian is a great, this is little stories that are just happening in the universe. I love the universe. Yeah. Let's keep explaining it. Yeah. Yeah. There's a little hint of something that's happening here. Oh, okay. Oh, we're going to have a
00:50:33
Speaker
It's like we talked about, you know, the Mandalorian and Soka to a lesser extent, but the Mandalorian was like such a video game show. Right. It was like, oh, I need to upgrade my armor. Let me go do this. Oh, there's this powerful thing here. Let me go try to find it. Yeah. Well, it's like one of the reasons I thought Rebels was such a good show was it was just a story that was like. Like out there. Yeah. Right.
00:51:00
Speaker
And they took a character who was in Legends, Thrawn. Yeah. I made this whole. This is where Thrawn is. Yeah. What's going on with Thrawn. So you so fans who loved Legends were like, oh, there's Thrawn finally. Yeah. You know, and now we've got so good and there's Thrawn finally. Yeah. And trying to explain to my wife and my daughter, it's like Thrawn is terrifying. Right. Yeah. And he definitely has shown it in the series. Yeah.
00:51:30
Speaker
Like, oh, it may sense the purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Fire with extreme prejudice. Yes. The man's thinking, you know, 10 steps ahead all the time. There's a reason that the republic is scared of him. Yeah. Except for that traitorous traitorous snake who's sitting on the council. Oh, yeah. The he wears the green. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Clearly a traitor. Yeah. Chopper needed a jump over there and yeah. Right.
00:52:00
Speaker
Great. Oh, what did you do in there? You don't. How dare you dismiss this? See you, sir. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a droid. Yeah. Just a droid. Were you in any of this, you son of a bitch? Yeah, you were just sitting there waiting to see what happened. Probably getting tortured by the imperial agents. So you should be a sleeper agent. Yeah. What's like. And I want to know, you know, I want to know more about bailing and shin. And I know.
00:52:30
Speaker
Nothing makes me sadder that Ray Stevenson died. He said that we're not going to get more of his baling. Yeah, his baling. We might get more baling though. We might get more baling, but it's not going to be his baling. I think baling has been, and again, I haven't seen the finale. So up until this point, he's been such an amazing idea of
00:52:51
Speaker
a dark Jedi who's not a Sith. Right. Yeah, it's it's a whole nother branch. He's clearly a Jedi who has lost his way. Oh, yeah. And is not about Anakin. He knows, you know. Right. And he's not a Sith because he's not like dealing in absolutes and right. And he doesn't even seem to have an evil plot. He's just a Jedi who's using the force to get what he wants. Right. Yeah. What he wants is not what we consider good.
00:53:21
Speaker
But it's not like flat out evil, right? Because clearly he could be taking over everything. Yeah. Right. He's clearly powerful enough to be like challenging the New Republic and all that. But he's not doing that. Yep. And I like that he's, you know, training shin. You know, it's like, you know, you're something different. You're something new. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:45
Speaker
But I still like that he still made her head of a padawan braid. Right. Yeah, he's he's he's not a Sith. Yeah. But it's got little kyber crystals in it. Is it? Yes. Something in it. I don't know that effect. They're little green crystals. Sure. And he's got a green crystal on his belt. Yes. Which is probably his old cover crystal.
00:54:07
Speaker
Well that's not how Kyber Crystal works, right? Like once you become quote unquote evil, your Kyber Crystal bleeds. Well, you have to bleed it. Well, I guess he could have stolen his solar crystal and made it. But yeah, he's not. I just think it's cool. He went down to the dollar store, got a new Kyber Crystal. Right. You know, like Ahsoka says that's why I love Ahsoka. She doesn't represent either the light or the dark. She's gray. Yeah. And I think Balan is,
00:54:37
Speaker
Just a shade darker gray. Yeah. Yeah. You're absolutely right. And it's yeah. Yeah. And I like that one, you know, line he had where, you know, Shin was like, do you do you miss the Jedi? He's like, I miss the idea of it. Right. It's like, God, that's so good. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:58
Speaker
Like I said, it's very I love that actor anyways. Yeah. Almost everything he's and I enjoyed. Yeah. And it's so such a shame that he died so young. Yeah. We're not going to get that care. Like I could watch a whole show on that character. Yeah. Yeah. Like how did he get to. Right. Yeah. His backstory. Yeah. Yeah. Who was who was his master? Right. Who was his master? How did he survive for 66? All of those things. Yeah. Because he said.
00:55:26
Speaker
Jedi in the Clone Wars. Yes. He's a full general. So he was at least a Jedi Knight. Yeah, because Thrawn recognized him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I'd love to get his backstory and all of that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just. And are those were the other guy was that other guy an Inquisitor, the one Ashoka kills? Oh, Maruk or Marok or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Inquisitor. We'd like an Inquisitor. We haven't looked. Wait, they mean any had the Inquisitor, you know,
00:55:56
Speaker
Circle saber that can. Yeah. Yeah. He had the crazy saber saber. That's the question. Yeah. But. Was he an Inquisitor that? What's your face? Elsabet brought back? I don't know. Because, yeah. Because you saw his fight. Right. When Ahsoka took him down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And green gas came out. Yeah. So I mean, yeah, that's like sister magic, I would think. I don't know.
00:56:24
Speaker
Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. It's been a good show. Like Sharon was talking to me the other day, like my wife, she was like, how are you enjoying the show? I'm like, I'm enjoying the show. Yes. And I'm not enjoying it the way that for what I thought it was going to enjoy. Right. Like I love Sabine. I love Shoka. And I don't know that they're even the strongest parts of the show. Yeah, no. Yeah. I'm like you. I'm like, I want to know more about Bailin and everything else going on. And you know, what's Thrawn been doing this whole time? You know,
00:56:52
Speaker
I was so expecting Ezra to just be like this force. This is force of the force, right? Yeah. Just like he's been surviving on his own. And clearly he's his force powers have developed. But yeah, he's still kind of a bumbling idiot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's got his little turtle buddies and he's still Ezra. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's great. Yeah. Yeah. I like the whole you're like, can we talk about this? Right. Yeah. I really enjoy.
00:57:20
Speaker
the character, probably the person who's playing Ezra clearly watched the show enough to say, oh, Ezra's like kind of a, he's kind of a moron. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Plucky lucky. Yeah. Yeah. It's been so good. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. He just gets Star Wars. That's the thing. He does. Yeah. That's a thing.
00:57:44
Speaker
I think that's the difference between him and I hate to throw Kathleen Kennedy under the bus. Oh my gosh, yeah, but it's true. Somebody has to take the blame for the sequels. Yes. Right? Yes. Somebody clearly has like Rian Johnson and Rian, what's his name? Whatever, yeah. Somebody has to take that blame for the direction that they let the sequels go. Right. Why?
00:58:14
Speaker
Why didn't you just put Dave Filoni in charge before? Yeah. Why is he not in charge now? Right. Yeah. What? How much more do they have to prove how much people love what he does? Yeah. To just say, you know what? You got it. Yeah. You're now the codex keeper. Yeah. Yeah. Let Filoni run it and let the guys like, you know, Favreau and Sam Witwer and, you know, just let them run with it. Right.
00:58:41
Speaker
I mean, look at what they did with Mandalorian where he was the creative director of it, but he let other people direct the episodes and be involved. Like Bryce Howard did an episode. Yeah. Like that was amazing, but he just, he stepped, he kept it together. When it's like with Ahsoka, every episode has had a different director. Right. But again, but you had the, the Filoni, you know, arms around it that it was,
00:59:09
Speaker
it all made sense. It wasn't like the sequels that it was like, Oh yeah, we've got different directors for each one. And you could tell because there were three movies that made no sense together. Yeah. Clearly, uh, Abrams had a vision for episode seven and episode eight and they, they got him to seven episode seven. Yeah. And then they read on to episode eight, who was just like, fuck that guy. Yeah. Like we're just doing this whole other thing. Yep. But clearly the, the, the arc was,
00:59:40
Speaker
Ray is somebody that like Abrams had an arc. Ray is somebody important. And then in episode eight, Rhian's like, no, she's not. She's just some loser. Yeah. And it's like, what? Yeah. She's some loser. You know, Luke is a total jerk now. Right.
01:00:03
Speaker
And then in nine when you got, oh, there's this ancient Sith dagger that magically matches up with the crash of the Death Star. Right. Yeah, sure. OK. Yeah. Yeah. I just think the problem ended up with nine was it was like, oh, shit. We really screwed up episode eight. Yeah, I really think episode eight is the real problem. Yeah. Of the sequels. Yeah, I give you that. Because nine was like scrambling to do
01:00:34
Speaker
Something. Yeah. Like, how do we fix it? At least a little bit. You know, how do we redeem? Good old animatronic Palpatine. I mean, well, even like the idea of clown Palpatine is fine. Yes. Clearly established in Star Wars. You know that. Well, if you read the books. Yeah, that's a thing. Well, and we've seen it now with, you know, what's his face? John Carla Esposita's character.
01:01:05
Speaker
in the Mandalorian, who is the. General. General or not general, but the. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Moff Gideon. Moff Gideon. Yes. Yeah. He was cloning. You know, there's all this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But clearly, like episode eight screwed up the whole arc of that. Yeah. And that's because they didn't let somebody be in charge of it. Right. Yeah. You know, Kathleen Kennedy might be an amazing businesswoman. Yeah.
01:01:35
Speaker
Yeah, she don't create a Star Wars was not the thing. No, you know, and you can't disagree with her because the movies made money, right? They made money. Yeah. It's one of those years, you know, you slept Star Wars on the side of something. It's going to make money. It's true. It's true. Until it doesn't though. Yeah. Like I think it's really,
01:02:01
Speaker
I think if they had done their plan and just gone ahead and done another movie, it would probably have not made much. Because I think if you went from episode nine to another series of movies, like the new Jedi Academy or something, people would have been like, no. But now, because Filoni has brought you the Mandalorian and Ashoka, and they're talking about doing Rey with the new Jedi stuff.
01:02:30
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People, I might go watch that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, because I'm back into the story. Yeah. And that's the thing. Yeah, it's the story. Yes, there's. And, you know, I I know Andor has a great story and everything. It's just that's not my favorite Star Wars. I thought it was amazing. See, I like I like I like my story, but also like.
01:02:53
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space magic and lightsabers. See, that's why I loved Andor was that it was just Star Wars without that crap. Yeah. Like my favorite character in the Star Wars universe is probably Wedge Antilles. God, Wedge, Wedge lasts so long. He's, but that's the thing. Yeah. He's, you know, he's smart and he's, you know, he's around for everything. He's around for everything and he's not a Jedi. Yeah. He's just a freely amazing fighter pilot, you know? Yeah.
01:03:22
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So I love that idea. That's why I always wanted them to do the Rogue Squadron or something. But Andor, that's why I thought Andor was great because it was a good story inside of the Star Wars. It was, again, one of those things like we got this tidbit about somebody stole the Death Horse Star plans. Yeah.
01:03:39
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And so Rogue One and that brings us Andor and, oh, well, this guy is casting Andor. Oh, well, let's talk about how the, you know, the Rebellion intelligence network. I just thought that was a really cool way to do all that stuff. And like I said, you know, I don't knock it. It just was not my favorite. I mean, Rogue One was not my favorite movie either. Oh my God. Of the post original three. Yeah. Rogue One is the best movie by far.
01:04:08
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Has the best Vader scene of any movie? Oh, yes, it does. Yes. It has the best Vader scene of all of them. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Vader in that hallway. Oh, terrifying. Just that. That is the terror and the intimidation and the power of Darth Vader. Yeah. Yeah. And just how they tie that with the tentative for that star episode, you know, you know, it's just so good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I do like the fan edit.
01:04:40
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remake of the Obi-Wan fader fight in the Death Star. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. But again, like in the Obi-Wan series, we had that confrontation and it's which was great. Yeah, it's just showing. Yeah, it's not just, you know, robot man. He's, you know, it's terrifying. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:05
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Yeah, and put that in perspective that Thrawn is even more intimidating than him. Because Thrawn doesn't have the space magic. Right, doesn't have the space magic. It's been great. Yeah. Like this podcast has said, it's a great time to be a Star Wars fan. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:26
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And it's I mean, there's all the little side stories. And that's that's what I like. Like you said, you know, I just read with the Inquisitor books that just came out the red blade. And yeah, it's an Inquisitor never heard of before. But it was a great story. And I was like, OK, it's going to be like two pages of, you know, her being a padawan or something. And then it's her being turned.
01:05:51
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Now, she does. It's a lot of her backstory and her just being a Jedi and being, you know, with the council and seeing how her vision is different. And yeah, it's like it's one that you've said it before, you know, was the council always right? You know, you look at so many of these things and you're like, I have to read this book. I'm like, Oh, man, they really make Yoda out to be pretty smart, but Yoda. Yeah, yeah, you know.
01:06:21
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Yeah. What the hell are you doing? Yeah. I'll have to lend you this book. It was really good. Yeah. I want to read it. I want to read all of them. The Sokka book is so good. Oh, yeah, it was.
01:06:39
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The the aftermath series was so good. Yeah. You know, they're just good. Yeah. And that's the thing. And it doesn't have to be nonstop action in it. It's, you know, you know, pepper the action here and there. But yeah, the stories and the inner personality connections. And I mean, I do want to read. I do want to see a live action version of the both and stealing those Death Star planes for the second Death Star. Yeah. Many both in stash for this. Yeah. What the hell's a both in? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And how did that happen?
01:07:09
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And how'd that happen? I want to know that. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. And I can get past and I read an article and they're talking about it's just time to recast Luke. Yeah. I think I agree. Yeah.
01:07:28
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And I think Mark Hamill would agree to. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think Mark Hamill would love to see them. Yeah. Just recast him and tell the stories of Luke. Yeah. Do our boy, right? Yeah. Do the boy. I mean, I'm reading the. You have a Star Wars comics now and like the Dr. Afra looks in this one. I mean, it's Luke with his yellow lightsaber and it's, you know, him trying to real, you know, teach himself out of the Jedi. Yeah.
01:08:00
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I don't. I think I think I think we just like that. We're never going to get what we really, really want until we get the stories brought to the screen of Luke after the death of the Emperor. Yeah. Like we want to know that. Right. And all these shows are like tiptoeing around, Luke. But we need to know what's going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's what we really want. Yep. You know, we want and.
01:08:29
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The CGI Luke was fine. Yeah. But imagine like a Sebastian Stan. Right. I think he'd be a good fit. I need what I need is middle aged Luke. Yeah. I need I need like Luke in his 40s after all the shit he's gone through. Right. Trying to just find his way in because. Yeah. The thing about Luke, like he's clearly the most powerful force user left. Yeah.
01:08:57
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So what's he doing? Right. What is he doing during all of this Ahsoka stuff? Yeah. Because she clearly would know who Luke is. Oh yeah. So why isn't she calling Luke? Is he off fighting something else? Right. Is he off doing something? Yeah, exactly. You know, that's what I want in life. Yeah. Maybe we'll see that in Ahsoka too. Maybe we'll see that in Ahsoka too. Or Mando season four.
01:09:26
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Because he's not going to chill out with his boy Grogu just on their ranch for the rest of his life. Yeah, but are they going to do him or is it going to follow Bo-Katan? Yeah, that's true. I think it's going to be Bo-Katan.
Wrapping Up with Fall Fun
01:09:39
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You see the next season of Mando, it's going to be mostly because nothing says
01:09:47
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It's Mandalorian, the Dinja Jaren story. It's the Mandalorian story. Oh, and now you got Sabine back in the mix. And now you have Sabine back. Yeah. God, it's a good time to be a Star Wars fan. It's a good time to be a Star Wars fan. I think, buddy, I think we've casted the pod. I think so, yeah.
01:10:12
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We're all very excited for Star Wars. I'm excited to hear how your bottle of skate ends. I'm excited to hear your views on the end of Ahsoka. I will probably watch it today. I, you know, I was in my living room and I clapped. Oh, nice. Yep. Well, folks, be careful out there. Enjoy your fall weather. Yes, enjoy it. Slather yourselves with pumpkin spice. Yes. Put your scarf on. Where are your uggs? Grab your flannel.
01:10:42
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Bring out your inner fall. Yes. Do your yoga. Work on your balance exercises. Yes. In the leaves. Yes. Take care, folks.