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Episode 118 - The Worst Haircut I've Ever Gotten
5 Plays5 months ago
Not all barbers are built equally...
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Podcast Intros and High School Memories
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Speaker
We're back guys. Yeah, basically part two of her, you know, the episode we just did last week. Yep. Can we get it? It was always weird to I hate doing intros. I know I have to do intros better than I do. But well, you have somebody here to give you an intro. That is that is true. Who doesn't you? Yeah, man. Go ahead. Start off with the new podcaster intro. Give us the spiel.
00:00:27
Speaker
Why what am I what am I supposed to sit up sit up straight? But what am I supposed to do? You guys give me no context. What are you talking? You did the morning announcements for how you do the morning announcements right now. Look into camera one.
00:00:38
Speaker
Camera one. And what am I supposed to say? Am I supposed to introduce everybody or am I supposed to say what? Say what you said for the morning announcements, dude. Well, guys, school provides a positive learning environment where students are engaged in meaningful learning in the 21st century. That's right. Thank you. I'll never forget it when I die. That'll become that stuff. Yeah, we'll pay extra. We'll pay extra for that. I want that kind of up. Yeah, I feel like that shit that the yearbook did to me and they hyphenated WHS. I want that spelled out. Yeah, I knew it was going to fit. I want that to fit in my cornerstone.
00:01:07
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like we needed like a little tone before that, like a. And then you say what you got to say. Yeah, you know, we have like certain buttons on here that you guys won't be able to hear, but. I want it like Greece, remember when they do the morning announcements in Greece, they got the little side of the phone like ding, ding, ding. Yes, you guys want it one second here. Oh, OK, Mike, can you talk? Yeah. What does it sound like? Does it sound good? I'm going to switch lights for a second. OK. Yes.
Podcast Tone and Authenticity
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Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's it. I forgot there was only like two sentences. You guys won't be able to hear that. Obviously, they don't have headphones the way that I have headphones. But when you guys hear this next week, you're going to get a real kick out of that. I love that. I love that. Cut that and then just send that to me as like a text tone. So like, you know.
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Speaker
Now do the morning announcements. Set up straight.
00:02:14
Speaker
Not every time I get a text message from you guys, it's just like, we'll go to high school for the rest of the morning. Or every time I get a call, I want that to be your... Oh, man. Yeah, dude, I'm gonna be spamming your phone. Yes. So you're just gonna be hearing yourself constantly. This is wonderful. Yeah. That's a bad idea for you, bud. Yeah. A lot of things I do are a bad idea, but, you know, I'm also still sitting here. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, I learned from last week. I learned from last week. This is gonna be a better episode, okay? It's funny. Maybe, we'll see. Yeah.
00:02:43
Speaker
We'll reveal who we voted for at the end. Right? Yeah, he did tell us off camera. And I hope you could tell by our demeanor. Yeah, it did. It did cause a little bit of tension, a little bit, but, you know, the the 10 minute break, you know, iron that out. Yeah, we cool down. Yeah, we talked it over heads prevailed. That's right. Yeah. We can no longer be burdened by what has been right.
00:03:06
Speaker
Hey, I said whatever the phrase she uses. Wait, who said that? We can no longer be burdened by what has been. That's right. Yeah.
00:03:16
Speaker
That was like the other one where she started off joking and then she turned into like a serious tone. Oh, it was like the ones right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you just something coconut tree. And then yeah, you were like the sum of all your choices that you've made. It's like it was your existence is like so it's like Jesus. Yeah, I got a little little too serious. Yeah.
00:03:39
Speaker
Oh boy. All right. Well, what do we got as topics here? What are we talking about? Well, typically you don't just kind of like hard call out topics. Yeah, you kind of like work your way. And then cut it out. Then cut it out. No, we're going to. That's bad podcasting. We're leaving it in. That's right. We want people to know the real you. Why would we edit? I think they figured that out in the first episode.
00:03:57
Speaker
That's why we're trying to shift from that. I think oh, I see. Yeah, I see all right So I got an Austin in Austin centric question something that only he can
Roommate Experiences and Party Stories
00:04:06
Speaker
answer. Oh That's a centric. Mm-hmm. Is that a good roommate? Oh You know what I'm gonna say No, hey, you know what we were cutting that out
00:04:25
Speaker
Yeah, legally we are cutting yeah, no, yeah you were a good good roommate and I'll tell you why because One you kept to yourself Two you made food That's right. That's not so I did make yeah, I did make food. That's like top one in mind my business cook my food kind of guy, right? Well, we'll we'll ignore the
00:04:53
Speaker
Legally we're cutting this out. Yeah, also since this is being cut out So everything was going good up until that yeah a particular moment then which in fairness nothing ever came like nothing ever came from it Well, I don't know We got our money back for security If anything that helped my relationship because then I moved in I
00:05:15
Speaker
Yeah, look at that. Yeah, look at that. I hope that. Yeah, you did in a very drastic way. You are going to go back to. And again, this is sad because I feel like since you're on this, you probably will have her listen to it. Yeah. And I don't. Again, I love the for the first time I met her. She semi microgressed me.
00:05:35
Speaker
Really? If anybody's gonna do that it's B. But like obviously not in like a bad way and like I don't care but I did think it was funny because the first time I met her she was like oh like where are you from? I was like oh I'm from Wolcott like you know like if you know where Austin's like you know I don't know cuz I did not like you know whatever I was like I'm from the same town as him and she goes no where are you really from?
00:05:56
Speaker
I was like, oh, oh, she did one of those. Oh, she did one of those. Oh, OK. OK. Maybe I take back that. For everybody out there. Never mind. That was very much unintentional. Oh, yeah. No, no. She's such a hilarious apology tour for her. You let her do that. Oh, I gotta be PR here.
00:06:14
Speaker
He's running interference. You get her on next week and you put her on trial. No, no. Listen, I love you. Listen, I literally do not take any offense to it. It is really funny. And obviously I know she wasn't coming from like a bad place. But it was funny to now like think back on it. It's like it is crazy for like that to be our first interaction and be like, oh, wow, like she's still like part of my life. Like I still know this person. That's right. It's crazy. See, you just got to get to know somebody. But it's funny. It is funny.
00:06:42
Speaker
yeah it is i don't think i've ever told you that and i don't think i've ever told her that no definitely not and she knows she said to me before you before i came on i was because i was calling her in the car and she's like please don't get you or i can't
00:06:58
Speaker
And I was like, it's OK. You only came up once. And it was just about a microaggression. So it's like, you know, no, we're just semi-racist. And I'll be like, look, good news. I didn't bring you up. Bad news. Victor, you know, that was out of my control. I did the damage control, honey. Good. I'll be home in two hours. All right. So going back to the roommate thing, because there are things we are going to cut out from. Yeah, 100 percent. But yeah, so I cooked. I cooked food. I cut to myself.
00:07:26
Speaker
yes anything you were you were good about cleanliness and I didn't like I was never want to invite people over but Victor was and I enjoyed that because I was never one to I'm surprised I feel like it's the I feel like Victor likes his sanctuary and
00:07:47
Speaker
Not saying you weren't social butterfly, but I feel like you liked your four walls your sanctuary Yeah, I mean definitely and I feel like you would be more of the have people over stop on by How many people that I have over that place there is maybe like twice and it was never like but then I get to school You guys doing school where guys doing all this and me on the other hand I threw in a hundred-person party in that condo dude Dude, I will say the condo well that well that is like the townhouse yeah
00:08:17
Speaker
I like I don't know if I like I think I feel like I had probably explained it to you afterwards, though. I was scared for my life that night, though. Why? Bro, I thought we were going to the cops called on us. The amount of people that were going in and out of the place like I remember going outside just to like catch a breath and just to see how like loud it was from the outside because it was like 3 a.m. And this Uber pulled up with like a loud ass exhaust broke it the fuck out of here like for reference.
00:08:44
Speaker
The place where he lived, the townhouse that we lived, was inside of a cul-de-sac of townhouses attached. So it was all the way, it was very private, it was like 20 minutes off campus, 15 minutes off campus, and it was all the way around, this whole cul-de-sac. And this dude came in through the fucking cul-de-sac with a busted ass exhaust at 3 a.m., and I was like, oh my fucking God, like, we're, like, the stadiums are gonna come and arrest us. Two sets of neighbors that we had were like old, retired people.
00:09:12
Speaker
Yeah, so it was like sure they love that yeah, but they didn't say anything did not know the one on the left I knew was fine because she was deaf almost she was so old that her hearing was gone. Okay, but Diane and Ron
00:09:29
Speaker
We talked to them for a good amount for a period of time. Yeah, they were really nice people. Yeah, but yeah, like I really thought I thought like my life was over that night. Like I thought I thought we were going to get pinched now.
00:09:44
Speaker
Well, I mean, like, first of all, there were a lot of people there were I'm not exaggerating when I say 100 by the way. Yeah, like it was a hundred people because we had we had a basement and then we had the living room and then we had the upstairs and then we had the up upstairs. Yeah, I think I've been in that place like once. Yeah, I don't remember staying over. Maybe I stated it once or something, but I remember your your place more. What was the one?
00:10:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah, the the junior year. The one I can't remember the name of it, which one it was. It was something where you live there, Manny. And oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cedar Ridge. That's what I remember the most. And then I remember sleeping in your dorm freshman year was a Hollis to be or something like that.
00:10:27
Speaker
You missed the wonder years of Vic and I sharing a bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. The last six months of our college experience, we shared a bedroom, which was nice because like Austin alluded to, he was like, oh, it helped strengthen my relationship. That meant Austin was gone. Yeah. I basically had that bedroom. Like I lived in like a one bedroom apartment by myself for like most of the last semester. Hanging out with the wife. Yeah, that makes sense. So yeah, I basically just lived alone.
00:10:56
Speaker
Yeah, it was not I mean again. I think we both I think it's working out for us before after she profiled you after way after yeah Again B. I take no offense I was a funny moment to bring up, but no I'd also like to know for the record that I again did not bring that up the second time around
00:11:20
Speaker
We love the yeah, but I'd say the same thing about you. I mean I I did enjoy living with you as well Yeah, very clean I I felt bad those last six months because I would be waking up at 6 a.m While you wouldn't be like the nights that you and be mostly over I'd be up at 6 a.m. To go to school. Yeah, cuz I just like getting down on campus early I felt bad cuz you know we shared a room and then a bathroom was attached to that room
00:11:43
Speaker
It's no big deal. That's a time in life where it's like it wasn't ideal, but you did it. Because when are you going to do it again? You'd never do it again now. 100% no. But you're not going to pass up that opportunity to do it.
00:11:57
Speaker
And we had good moments we had good good snow in moments. Yeah, what were we watching? We got snowed in like really early on in the semester. And we were watching like that Daniel Day Lewis movie. Kings of New York. Oh, yeah. That was a long ass movie. Yeah, four hours. You know that? No, never watch that movie.
00:12:19
Speaker
You guys know me with movies. I couldn't tell you the last one. I watched like an old man thinking back on it That apartment was like pretty nice for what it was and like the price that it costs wasn't bad Is it the one I slapped the bag in? No, no, that's again. That's what? Yeah Why was that a good idea remember me trying to break a glass on my head with a baseball helmet
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Speaker
Yeah, that was in someone's garage. Yes, it was. But you had a helmet on. Yeah, you also did a bunch of other stuff that night that. We probably can't disclose. Yeah, we may have to legally cut it up. Yeah, I do remember. So yeah, just completely ignore it. So would you be roommates again? Yeah, yeah, sure.
00:13:08
Speaker
It would be kind of weird because he lives with B, but I mean, yeah, I'd move in if they had an extra. I think we know each other. I think the real question is will we live with you? Yeah. I think I'm great. Yeah, we'll have to ask. Yeah, we'll have to get a statement. Yeah, because I know everything in that apartment is hers and not yours. The way it's set up, bro, I know that ain't you. Well, hold on. I mean, I have the funds for it. All right. But no, no, I'm saying it doesn't matter about the funds and the aesthetic. There's so much in there that I put my touch on.
00:13:38
Speaker
was it her idea first and then you're like oh well I guess I could add this. You think the maps on the wall as soon as you walk in? That's all me. You might think the music side, the record side all that. Yeah but she set that up and you just like I could put this record here then and you didn't come up with that. No. You guys don't want to talk about the entertainment center how much that costs us.
00:13:58
Speaker
Oh, my God. Well, on a separate note, you want to know how many times I FaceTimed you while you're at that place and you're like naked under an apron. OK. Let me talk about a good roommate. Listen, yeah, I get it now. I get why like I was never that type of person like, you know, but I get why people come home from work and they just rip everything up. It's just so comfortable. And it's my space and it's my place. And I'll do whatever the hell I want. And we paid for the wooded view. OK, so the woods in the back.
00:14:27
Speaker
But they're making that a parking lot. OK, so that yeah, they cut a lot of trees down and they're making it a parking lot for one. So right now the argument is I can't I can't wear what I usually wear after after hours. And I'm telling her, are you really only wearing just an apron?
00:14:44
Speaker
okay now hold on i'm not just an apron you know what i'm saying i keep i keep the delicates on you know i keep the delicates on yeah but that's fine you can wear that i mean come on you're in your home that's what i'm saying but i don't know exactly you don't know because we can't see but yeah and you guys i would say you know if children were there maybe you should probably put pants on well like i said we learned that we have the wooded view but now it's going to be a parking lot and now the argument is is i can't wear that anymore and i'm saying
00:15:07
Speaker
I paid for the damn space. I'm going to do what I want. You know what I'm saying? Interesting. But if you had to advocate for yourself right now, what qualities about you make you a good roommate?
Haircuts and Grooming Dilemmas
00:15:18
Speaker
Oh, right off the bat. Handsome. Let's just start there. That doesn't count. Austin's already handsome. I don't need that. That's right. We're all handsome men here, so that's negated. Yeah. You need to bring something else. You need to bring actual, tangible qualities here. Why didn't we know this years ago that we were handsome?
00:15:33
Speaker
Like we could have used that to our advantage. Now you're getting existential. Yeah. All right. Come on. We're talking about roommates, man. Yeah. Don't don't bring me down like that. Yeah. Listen, I know I peak, bro. Like why do you think I'm wearing a hat right now? I need you guys to realize I'm wearing a hat because my hair is very much thinning at the top. Right. But this is a bad angle, but gracefully, gracefully.
00:15:58
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I mean, look at our good friend, my cousin, Michael Angel, he just shaved it all off one day and you know, he's rocking that. And yeah, listen, it works for him. Yeah, that's a look that works for him. I don't think that works for me. You have to have a certain filters on. You have to have a certain head shape. Doesn't look good. No.
00:16:14
Speaker
But you've come a long way. Remember you had the coconut. Yeah. Yeah. And again, I think I would kill to go back to that compared to what I got up top now. Yeah. No. And again, I'm saying that and it actually isn't that bad. And I know I have a lot more hair compared to like people who are actually balding. Yeah. But a bad like if I take the headphones off wrong when I'm gaming and I go into the bathroom and I look, it looks bad. I was like, fuck.
00:16:40
Speaker
It's it's gonna like there's there's a certain period where you just have to accept that. I like I know that by the time I'm 30, like 35, my hairline is going to be back here. Like it's just a it's just a fact of life. They say it comes from your mother's father. Yes, they say the lineage is your mother's father. So if your mother's father had hair well off in their lives that you will have hair well off and see, I I had this in mind when I went to the Philippines last year.
00:17:09
Speaker
because I've never met my grandfather, so I don't know what his hair is. Really? No. And he died like real early. Oh, OK. And like in my life, too. So I've seen a couple photos of him, but they've been with hats on. That's not a good indicator. Can't talk to somebody. Nobody in your family can tell you. Nobody else has any. I've never asked. I've never asked. But I went to go, you know, I went there and I got to meet my uncles for the first time. My uncle who lives in Canada. Bald. OK. My uncle who lives in the Philippines.
00:17:41
Speaker
Yeah. You could be an anomaly. You never know. And here's the thing. I think both of them. Maybe my uncle in Canada has more here than I give him credit for.
00:17:53
Speaker
My uncle in the Philippines is hanging on by a threat. He is trying to make that shit work Yeah, he's like pushing it all over and it's it's you know, it's it's pretty thin but if it came down to it Are you shaving your head?
00:18:11
Speaker
if it came down to a yes but i have to be married by then oh i don't think i could be a single bald guy i think you could rock it see but this is the thing a lot of people who are losing their hair like this is what i've been figuring out like with meeting friends and stuff is like you could be bald
00:18:28
Speaker
But the facial hair makes it. So you have I have a beard and it works. So if you go bald, it will work. It's just the people that like that's like, well, Michael Angel never really had facial hair. And then when he went bald, he grew it out and all that. And it works, you know, but I feel like you can't you can't be bald up top and on the face, too. Yeah. So I actually tried to at least test it last year. I don't think I saw you guys for a good part of the early 2000 or even this year, actually. Two thousand twenty four. Yep.
00:18:57
Speaker
I went low buzz. OK. And I'm going to show you guys what it looks like because there's a photo. Oh, God. That looks so bad. And it's because I'm like I didn't go full bald. Obviously, you know, I cut my hair and it made it look like you might you and I might have like run into each other while I done it over to place a couple of times or something. I went by you. So.
00:19:19
Speaker
Okay, well that's not a bad angle. It's a bad angle. I remember there it is. Let me get up. Let me get up close. Okay, but the angle not spectacular. No, I look awful. I wouldn't say awful. I think you just have to commit more like you can't just buzz. You got to go for the whole thing. See and and here's the thing after doing that. I actually broke up in my bar because of it.
00:19:46
Speaker
Because because he did you like them Because one because he didn't me like that But two because he allowed me to do myself like that. Oh, yeah, because I think as a barber you have a responsibility To stop your client from doing something dumb hundred percent
00:20:02
Speaker
100% that's what that's what bees for for me. I tell her all the time I'm like, you know, I'm I think I'm ready to shave my hair, bro You got too much hair to do that. No, but like it's not even not even because I think that I'm balding I'll just be like one day I'll wake up and I'd be like, you know what?
00:20:17
Speaker
I'm just going to cut it real short. You're like a buzz cut, buzz cut boys. Yeah. And she wouldn't let me leave the house without changing my mind. She'd be like, no, you don't. Because your ass would walk out and do it and come back. Yeah, 100%. And I forget sometimes. But you ever watch The Proud Family?
00:20:36
Speaker
You know like the little twins like that got like peanut shaped like head yeah, that's me like if I Shaved my head it would be like that, but you need somebody to tell you like no, that's a dumb idea Yeah, you can't do that and if your barber can't do that for you who can really can yeah
00:20:53
Speaker
I don't
00:21:15
Speaker
I do think there's a little bit of culpability to be like, hey man, maybe you shouldn't do that. And if I still say, nah, I wanna try it, then it's like, all right, it's your head. It's your head, I tried, but you wanted it.
00:21:28
Speaker
and you know
00:21:45
Speaker
I was like, oh fuck. Okay, so this makes more sense now. This makes more sense. He just wants an easier cut Yeah, he's just like you just gotta do it a little different work with what you got do it a little differently That's yeah, you know, and then I started going to someone new I mean the main part of it is that I moved here like I moved out of the apartment in New Haven So it's like I'm not gonna drive 45 minutes to go get my haircut. I'll just do it around here. I used to do that. I
00:22:08
Speaker
I would do it for someone that like I used to have a barber in Torrington. It was like a 30 minute drive. But he like like really lined it up right. So I was like, I'm you know, I'll never not go to him. But then he started doing tattoos instead of hair. That's an odd shift. Yeah. Right. Like I feel like that's two totally different skill sets. Yeah. I mean, he just he's he was an art major at Yukon and he like likes drawing more. So and I think tattoos just make more money. Yeah, that's true. Did he quit hair altogether? Yeah. Could you get a haircut and a tattoo by him?
00:22:38
Speaker
No, no, I could get a tattoo from him for sure. I definitely can't get a haircut. He's just done doing it, which sucks because like I've known him since he was like three. So I was kind of hoping that even though he quit, yeah, he was still like, okay. Like, bro, like, come on. I've known you forever, man. You don't think you could just. But yeah, he's like, not just do tattoos now. And I was like, wait, so hold on. The new person that you're going to male or female male male male. Always male. Would you ever do female? I would. Yeah, I just haven't had the opportunity to
00:23:09
Speaker
find somebody that you would go to. Yeah. I've done female. I've done male. It's like, you know, sometimes I feel like the female perspective is a little bit better because they'll be a little bit more honest. Like, nah, this looks good.
00:23:21
Speaker
Yeah, but the only the only time I've got my hair cut by a female is super cuts, which is obviously that's already a bad move Yeah, exactly. You step foot into a super cuts. It's a bad haircut. Yeah. Did you guys ever try to get a haircut out by Yukon? No, sure. You have like my my boy was at Yukon So I just got my haircut by him but never like outside of that like you never tried to go to like a like a barber like right outside of Yukon No, I always came home for my cuts
00:23:46
Speaker
So I had, for my fraternity, I had some event that I had to go to, and I needed to get my hair cut. Or maybe I didn't, but I felt like I needed to. And so I looked up on Yelp, just like somebody around there. And there was a guy that was running his own little barber shop of one, maybe five miles off campus.
00:24:08
Speaker
And I went there and had no concept of like I didn't know what this guy looked like. I didn't know anything else. All I know is that I needed a haircut that day and he was free. And when I went in there, the dude had first of all, do was like 60, 60, 65 years old, maybe even older. He had blonde bleach blonde hair in like a bowl cut around his head. OK, like I'm not even talking about like a hint of a bowl cut like this was a bowl. No.
00:24:35
Speaker
And he sat me down and he started like measuring my head. You bring out the tape measure. He was like doing, you know, like, you know, like the directors do when they hold up their hands like this, like that's not good. And he started telling me like, oh, I can see where other barbers have like messed up your hair. He's like, you see where your hairline is here. It needs to be back here and it needs to be over here. And he was like basically telling me that every haircut that I've gotten since a kid was totally wrong. Right.
00:25:02
Speaker
And I was just like, all right, well, whatever. I'm just going to go with it. He cuts my hair. And, you know, long story short, he butchered it. It looked like a haircut I've ever gotten. Worst haircut I've ever gotten. And then he proceeded to give me a sob story about how he doesn't get enough customers. And so he charged me seventy five dollars for the haircut. Seventy five dollars for the haircut. I should have walked out the door. You already cut my hair. And, you know, I would have been like, here's 50. This cut sucks. Yeah.
00:25:31
Speaker
Good luck, man. Yeah, no, that's not me. If you know me as a person, not me can't do that. Won't be like that to your face. Yeah. So I bit the bullet and walked out that door. And, you know, I felt like shit for the rest of the day. I was like, you got scammed so hard.
00:25:50
Speaker
What was his reviews he didn't he didn't really have reviews he was just the only guy Yeah, he claimed that he was like a like an artist and everything like I The ones that tell you that you've got shit cuts are the ones that give you the shit cut. Yeah, I
00:26:11
Speaker
Yep. That's wild. Yeah. You got ripped off. I got ripped off. And it was it was one of the more painful days. We need to take a ride if he still has a shop. I think we are probably dead bro. For like seven years. That's right. That's better. He's out of business because nobody charging that much stays in business. Seventy five dollars.
00:26:31
Speaker
which you know it's actually crazy i don't know if you guys get this i get it sometimes but like barber tiktoks are barber reels where it's like and and like some of these i'm just like damn i actually want to get a haircut from these guys i usually just get like agent like men barbers cuz you know obviously it's fitting the demographic uh...
00:26:50
Speaker
they like all like are you are you comfortable paying with a hundred and fifty dollar cut like you know what is this cool nobody like yeah you know if the cuts good or whatever like i i could just fight in the hot cuts end up being like really really nice but i think there is like a little bit of a mini inflation
00:27:07
Speaker
haircuts there is because these barbers are also trying to be like influencers now granted they're also doing a lot more now too so it's not just a cut there's like a service now but they're doing unnecessary yes you know I mean the barber the barber I broke up with
00:27:23
Speaker
would shampoo my hair he would condition it he'd wash it he would you know towel dry whatever get me back into the chair and before he did like the finishing touches with like the back razor and like the alcohol he would foam up my neck and shoulders and hit me with like a massage gun yeah I've had that too yeah I've had it too and then you know he cleaned up and then that would be it
00:27:44
Speaker
but they'll do that and then they'll charge you an extra $20 because they're like, oh, we're giving you the special treatment. It's like, I got nothing out of that massage. I'm only leaving here with a haircut. So everything else is secondary. Like, and then all of a sudden you're walking out of there and they're trying to charge you a hundred bucks. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's different for you in New York. Obviously there might be a little bit more of a city, like there are charge there, but I was paying $37 after tip for that.
00:28:10
Speaker
See, it's different. I went to the first barbershop that I went to base price was $45 for a haircut. And that was for we're touching your hair. And we're not we're not doing the beard. We're not doing anything else. $45 for a cut. It was ridiculous. I used to go in Watertown and get a $17 haircut. Yeah. $17. Yeah, I mean, I don't even
00:28:35
Speaker
like the barber I go to now like the beard experience thing is not that expensive but out of principle I'm like yeah man I just want to pay the $30 I can line up my own beard I can I have a trimmer man I can I can cut this thing down it's fine I wash my hair yeah I can wash my hair I continue to wash my hair you know like I just need you to give me a low taper fade
00:28:58
Speaker
a little bit off the top, not much. Right. That's it. Right. Where are you guys finding these places? I mean, where are you guys going? Where are you guys searching these places? These sound is. I found like the first guy, the guy that I was going to see when I lived in New Haven was off Reddit. It's like someone was like best barbers in Reddit or best barbers in New Haven. And it's like he ended up being like a 10 minute drive.
00:29:20
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The other guy that I go to now is someone who's from our high school, but a little bit younger and everyone's like, oh, he's a pretty good barber, whatever. And he's right next to my work. So I was like, that's close. Oh, yeah. Like I had to be in for two o'clock and he had a one fifteen appointment and I was like.
00:29:35
Speaker
I'm right there anyway you know yeah yeah and he's been pretty cool we it's weird because he's like friends with people I'm friends with but we don't like talk you know it's like weird to be like oh yeah like yeah you talked to that guy that I talked to you we could yeah and it's also like you're providing a service right now like I just wanna get on with yeah I just wanna do you like do you like to talk during your hair cuts absolutely not I don't want to talk whatsoever
00:30:00
Speaker
I just want you to cut my hair. I feel like it's so weird if you just sit there in silence. No, I'll answer a couple questions. No problem. But like, I don't want to be talking for 30 minutes while you're cutting my hair. Yeah, no.
00:30:13
Speaker
And I mean, but I feel like that's your personality. You like to talk. Well, I mean, you guys know this. Obviously, we've been friends for a long time, so it's different.
Tipping Culture and Service Industry Norms
00:30:20
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If there was 20 minutes of silence between the three of us, I wouldn't think anything of it. But when you meet somebody new or something like that, when you meet a new face or something, it's so awkward. And it gets on real fast. Now, I'm not saying I'm just like,
00:30:33
Speaker
Throwing my life story out there, you know But it's just like God if I stood at this if I stood in this chair sat in the chair and stared at this mirror While you stared at the same mirror. I feel like that's just crazy. Oh, I know I live in I love that I am soak up the silence I'm like my day and shit like I'm like figuring out what I'm gonna do up right, you know
00:30:54
Speaker
sometimes I'll close my eyes. Yeah. Yeah. I just kind of, you know, like let them do their thing. Yeah. And that's my signal of like, I don't want to, I don't want to talk right now. Yeah. It's like an Uber driver, man. Like I don't want to talk when I get in the Uber. Yes. I'll get in there. Give them five stars. No, I will. I will get in there. I'll be like, what's going on? How's it going? And then that'll be it. That's the only time I'll talk. Right. The rest of the ride, you know, if you don't talk and I get out and you didn't kill us,
00:31:18
Speaker
Five stars. 25% tip. Five stars. That's it. Five stars. I don't care. If you do not talk to me in the Uber, that's beautiful. So the haircut's too expensive. I'm going to give you 25% tip on the Uber ride. Listen, you got to know your priorities. I tip 25% on the haircut, too. Which is good. You tip 25%? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah.
00:31:34
Speaker
I do it ends up being like seven eight bucks and I'm like guys, you know, it's whatever. Yeah. Oh, you're definitely not living in New York But tipping culture is a problem guys actually we should talk about it's an epidemic it is yeah I think inflation is way too high. There's only one place in the world that a dollar is still a dollar Again, that is any indication on who Mike voted right?
00:32:00
Speaker
We leave that we leave that last week. We live that. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that this week. Don't worry Yeah, tipping Interesting. No, I mean it is tough like I it's so hard for me to not tip because if you put it in front of my face I Can't hit zero like this morning. I got a bagel
00:32:21
Speaker
I got two bagels. So I tipped $2 one for each bagel and like the lady was like, thank you so much for doing that I was like, oh that's like you didn't have to thank me like but it's nice that they do or whatever like I don't know if you guys notice it but like Starbucks when you get your drink or whatever and they're their hand especially the drive-through because they have to hand you the Pay payment system. They'll look away or if you do it on the app
00:32:43
Speaker
Yeah, they'll turn their heads and they'll look away from you and then I'm like somehow that makes it different. Yeah, it's like this makes it worse by the way. I'm just letting you know 100% look me in the eyes when I hit no tip. All right, because then you take it back and it's like it either stayed the same. Yeah, or it went up. Yeah, right. And I will like for that like it's the same thing with like bartenders. I'll just tip a dollar or drink. Yeah, I feel like I should be tipping them more but like I'm just
00:33:05
Speaker
You should do like $2 a drink, but yeah, I get the one. Oh, yeah, Mr. Fucking money bags over here $2 a drink. I usually do double that. Yeah, actually, you're fucking poor. Okay, maybe you should be making your coffee at home. That's right. Come back. What happened to a $1 a dollar? Like, dollars a dollar. We could go spend it right now.
00:33:23
Speaker
But the one I don't tip for, like I obviously tip and I tip at least 20% because we've been in the restaurant business, we've all been in the restaurant business before, we know the clientele you deal with sometimes and all that, but the one I don't tip is when you do his service, fuck him. Fuck him. You put tomato on my sandwich when I said no tomato, that's your problem, not mine.
00:33:43
Speaker
No, the one I don't tip is take out like if I'm dining in yeah Yeah, if I'm dining in or whatever of course 20% that's not a big deal But like there's this place right at the bottom of the hill in my apartment and their pizzas not that great But they have very good sandwiches good pinini say the name say the name Doc's and tell them that I got shit pizza. Yeah
00:34:02
Speaker
Anyway, isn't that is it in the little blue building with the elk like the package store? Yes. Okay. Oh, okay. I'll try and remember the sandwiches are very good You know, but I'm just so loyal to this pizza place that does it like like Italian pizza like Napoli pizza But anyways, that's besides the point their sandwich is very good. So I'll call I'll order and I'll walk down
00:34:22
Speaker
Walk down the hill to go get a walk down the hill. Yeah, it's like 10 minutes. Yeah, but walking back up the Hill It's gotta be freezing cold But that's right their pizza sucks. Yeah, that's right. We won't say the name
00:34:45
Speaker
But like and then but they do that like every time you take anything out it's like add tip But it's like if I order the panini all you did was go like this to myself Well, they made it with love. I understand. They made it with love secret ingredient. I get all yeah, it's an art But like takeout I don't tip on but anything else is at least 20% see we've all been there We all know if I see that blank space there. I feel weird putting a zero or leaving it blank one So I'll throw like five bucks. It's bad. Like yeah, I'm picking up the food. Yes
00:35:14
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the
00:35:29
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or them sorry sorry i just gendered all servers as as her that's my bad i apologize for that man good catch yeah i did do i did make a mistake once i went to mohegan for um a bachelor party i brought a couple hundred dollars because my goal was to i was the best man so my goal was like i'm gonna make sure the groom doesn't pay for anything
00:35:47
Speaker
so i we had a drink at the outside bar we all just had one drink before we went for dinner and i was quick to pay and so he gave it to me and instead of doing like the two dollar drink i did 20 percent because my mind was like 20 percent so whatever the bill was i
00:36:02
Speaker
over tip them and I didn't realize that the guy was like, oh, very generous. I'm like, what's this guy talk about? Like I tipped and I was like, where'd have my money cost? Like, oh, my God. So how much were the drinks? Yeah. Well, I mean, I had to come out to like 50, 60 bucks. And I said 20 percent on that 20 percent off that.
00:36:20
Speaker
instead of doing $2 a drink. Yeah. So you pay like 75. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So which was bit me in the ass, which it's not about the money, whatever. You know, I'm glad I tipped him well, but I did the 20 percent. He's upset about it. Yeah, he's upset. I want to get my money back. Don't you worry. Get your money back from the casino. Yeah. Yeah. We could go right now. Don't tell me what a good time. Don't tell me he'll do it.
Gambling Stories and Betting Strategies
00:36:43
Speaker
Dude, I bet on the election. Did you really? Did you really?
00:36:47
Speaker
You're going to double? No. What's the payout? This is the worst election to bet on. You bet on this one? Listen, listen. I got the best payout. It's a close election. I had a bunch of crypto in Robin Hood. So I just took it. I sold it all, and I put it on commas stock. Because she was getting the most of the dollar. So I was like, yo, listen, it was $9. So obviously, I'm not 17. So it's nothing crazy, but it's like, you're going to make money. Listen, if you could gamble on it, I'll gamble on it. That's right. That's the thing. I'll do it.
00:37:16
Speaker
Are you the type to do like the 15 way parlays? Oh, I keep it to like four or five still that's If I do like 20 or if I do like 15 legs, I'm betting like 30 cents on it I'm not throwing any real money on that because up at 3 a.m. Watching Indian cricket cuz he bet on it
00:37:33
Speaker
Listen what's the craziest thing I've been watching Australian footy at 4 a.m. Because he put a three-game parlay on I did have a parlay last year that was Eagles to win week one The Celtics to win the net like the championship That one worked out. Yeah, but it was like all it was already like mid playoffs where like they were clearly the best team like Erling Holland to be the Golden Boot winner and the English Prem and
00:38:00
Speaker
That worked out, right? Yep. OK, cool. The 70 sicker, the 76ers to win a game against the Knicks and then Oppenheimer to win the best picture.
00:38:13
Speaker
I'm so curious of like people who decide to like post up these bets like what they're thinking Yeah, is a good thing like what will people bet on? Yeah, almost anything. Yeah, literally anything like you like Mike was saying like you could bet on like table tennis from other countries I Think on draft Kings. I don't know if they have it anymore, but they used to they used to do eSports Yeah, so like League of Legends Valorant like you could bet on those that's insane. Yeah
00:38:40
Speaker
I know people that like the people that that I know that bet like that like they're like yeah dude I got like a 15 way parlay going he's like I put down 15 bucks but if I win it's fifteen thousand dollars I'm like all right I mean
00:38:54
Speaker
I respect it. Yeah, like every I love throwing in like a like a lottery ticket like 50 cents wins me $250,000. But I know that's just 50 cents gone. You know, I mean, but it's like, you know, at the same time, it's like, hey, man, I could pay off my student loans if this hits. I know it's gonna have a little bit of money left over to make more bets to make more money.
00:39:14
Speaker
Right, because that's the problem. One says goal, one says problem, which one is it? Oh, yeah. Listen, I'm not going to say the actual number, but if you were to look at my lifetime spending since 2016, I remember you talking about this. You showed us. Yeah, you showed us. OK, yeah. I remember the ballpark number, but you also were pretty even. Yeah, no, it's my lifetime average is minus 100.
00:39:38
Speaker
That's not bad. It's not bad. I'm just good. How much? Yeah, but it's also close to like half of a year's wages. But it's 2016. Think about all the stress that you've incurred for you to be at just kind of like a net neutral. Yeah, just use a scratch off ticket. No, but then you're definitely losing money. Yeah. You have better odds of winning at a scratch and I feel like sports betting.
00:40:04
Speaker
No no no. Because then it's pure luck like you're just guessing at least with sports betting you know the team or you know the player and you know you know who they're playing and you can kind of go in the system. You can if I buy a one dollar scratch ticket like it's like a 25 percent chance I get the one dollar back. I guess that's pretty good odds.
00:40:28
Speaker
so we should get really good at sports gambling and then turn that into the we should which is hilarious cuz the pod we drop last week we literally have a segment on how gambling's bad like really bad and here we are and here i am being like yeah i put on the election it's just you know what it is and i'll say this even though i do use it a lot it's just too accessible
00:40:51
Speaker
it is
00:41:14
Speaker
having my debit card linked to this and just like not even thinking about it. Like making a making a twenty five dollar deposit. Yeah. Well, if you're if your account is linked and all you have to do is hit plus. Exactly. That's a problem. It's it's bad. I feel horrible reloading my Starbucks card on my app. Yeah. Like throwing out a hundred out of the table. Yeah. Because it's like it's it feels so much worse.
00:41:37
Speaker
, and
00:41:54
Speaker
Like it's much more shameful. So now you can feel shameful from your own bedroom. The fan dual sportsbook. You can still be a piece of shit, but nobody will know exactly. So we're not a piece of shit. Come on. No, but you still feel the same guilt, whether somebody knows or not. You still lost the money, you know. Yeah. But you feel worse when you have to give that money up to someone else to 100 percent. Yeah. 100 percent. So now, OK, do you mind if I switch it up? Yeah. Because I think we've neglected to talk about the project car.
Car Troubles and Aspirations
00:42:24
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, where we at on that it starts, but the gear shifter stuck. Oh really? Yeah before we couldn't get the door open, right?
00:42:35
Speaker
no no we we got rid of that we scrap that project car there's a new project there's a new one out in the driveway uh... where the head gaskets on it are fucked and they have to be replaced uh... did not know that before buying the car obviously i wouldn't have done it if i did of course and now the last time i drove it obviously the transmission just has problems i drove it to target because i was like alright the car needs to get out of the driveway for a little bit
00:43:01
Speaker
And I fucking love the way the thing drives is great. Yeah, it's a it's a 2012 Subaru Impreza. Oh, yeah, good information. Yeah, it zips around. I have fun with it. I bought it because I have a 2017 Subaru Impreza. So I was like, you know, same thing. Just a little bit older. Sure. Drove it to Target. I'm going to get a Starbucks. I got to take this thing out of the driveway. Just like, you know, keep it running every now. Yeah.
00:43:24
Speaker
Um, I get to target I go to put the thing in reverse and it's stuck Nice. It just won't move. It's like seized. I'm like fuck That's not good. Yep. And so I had to call my mom and I was like, hey Um, you're on your way home from work Why don't you pick me and zack up from target so we can get the blue Subaru to come down here And then possibly get this car out of the target parking possibly
00:43:49
Speaker
and we were just sitting there and I just kept yanking on it like pushing the button putting my foot through the the brake and just pulling back and at one point it just moved weird and I moved I put in reverse and I was like as long as the thing can go and drive to get me the quarter mile home 100% we'll look at this another day have you looked at it no no how long ago was this I want to say
00:44:18
Speaker
late August. Okay. Yeah, that's really bad. Yeah, there's a window cracked on that thing that I've noticed and I'm like, Hey, I gotta go grab the key and like close that window. I haven't done it.
00:44:32
Speaker
The keys down here, by the way, the key is next to the garage. It's not going to be more accessible for him. It's incredibly accessible. I'll go right now during this podcast and go to it. That's all right. We can do it, you know, after this or whatever. Yeah, I mean, yeah, three months. But the plan is eventually to get it fixed, hopefully. OK. If not, maybe scrap it. So it's like I said, the car is fun to drive. It's just.
00:45:00
Speaker
at some point the gaskets will blow and that engine will just you know well plus you're doing it with your brother right yeah so that's good that's yeah the thing is we just haven't looked at it yeah well that's so there's no work being done yeah but yeah i mean it is what it is we just have to all buy bmw's that's right we do yeah we said we were gonna like rally or something yeah pick some up
00:45:26
Speaker
You almost bought one. I did. But then I realized that that was a poor financial decision with the goals that you have. Yeah, it's probably I thought off the bat a standard vehicle in New York City was not going to be the answer. But it's it's almost exclusively the answer. That's on you, not on me. Yeah, no. Yeah, of course. He's one driving it. That's right. But yeah, man, dude, if you got an M4, that'd be so sick.
00:45:52
Speaker
Oh, it would be fantastic. I would love I would love to do that if I didn't like, you know, break the bank doing it. You know what I mean? I could get I could go out and get a beater right now, but I could tell you in three weeks that things going to go into a shop somewhere, you know. Are you going to keep the alpha after this or? Honestly, I'd like to get rid of it. Hmm.
00:46:14
Speaker
Not because I don't like the car, love the car. I just want something else, you know? Like, life's gonna come at me quick. I need a fun car before, you know, I gotta get that minivan. You know what I mean? Which, the Honda CRV is calling your name pretty soon. Listen, which, let's not knock minivans. Minivans can be... My mom was rocking minivan for years, man. We didn't get that car been through hell and back. Yeah. I feel like I could deck out.
00:46:39
Speaker
a minivan. Nice Honda Odyssey. Yeah. I mean, the features they put in these things nowadays are pretty crazy. They got air suspension on some of these. And the infotainment's crazy. They got screens all over the place. How can you go wrong?
00:46:55
Speaker
can't. Yeah. You're going to you paid off the jeep right. What are you going to go for next. I'm going to write it till it dies. I'll either go another jeep because jeep is jeep is still the only one making X amount of cars and manual transmission. So that's where I'll either do another jeep or I may go forward. We'll we'll see what happens there. Only American made. I know. That's real interesting. Yeah. Is that like a like a hard line for you needs to be made in America.
00:47:24
Speaker
You know, do other things need to be made in America? Right. Do other. What I'm saying is that it's it's tough seeing these cars be made overseas. You know, why can't we close the border? Right. Right. Is this what you wanted? This is great. This is good. Maybe close it and just do it all in house. You know, right. Right. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
00:47:50
Speaker
But we can't because the dollar is not a dollar. Right. It's not even a dollar menu anymore. McDonald's. No. But you know what? They did realize that like no one was coming to McDonald's anymore because of how high their prices were. And they started dropping the prices. Did you try the chicken Big Mac?
Fast Food Adventures
00:48:07
Speaker
No. I did. Was it good? Tastes just like a Big Mac. Okay. Did you guys try the Krabby Patty? No. I have not. Dude, the sauce on it's kind of fire. Wait, wait. This is a McDonald's thing? No, no, no, no. Wendy's. Wendy's has an exclusive Krabby Patty. I heard it wasn't cracked up. It's a beef I'm still going to try. It's a Dave single with the sauce. The sauce is great. It's just like a specific sauce? Yeah. Do we know what kind of sauce it is? I can't put my finger on it. It's the Krabby Patty secret formula. I've had it like three times and it tastes very, it's like a pepper, it's something peppercorn.
00:48:36
Speaker
Okay, but it's really really good. I think we have to try tonight. I was gonna say I might just go run and grab it after this dude. Can we take the beater? If you want to, yeah. If you drive and you do an e-brake turn at some point during that drive? Not in the beater. Not in the beater?
00:48:52
Speaker
Listen, listen, if the car goes in gear, we can go pick up Wendy's in it. I'm not even joking. We may not come back. Yeah, we may get stuck at Wendy's. Well, no, here's the thing. If we put the car in drive, it's going to stay in drive until we come back. That's the thing. Right. But the thing is, I don't know if that car will get into reverse out of the driveway. Can we get it? I was going to say, can we get it in the drive? If we get into reverse, it will go in a drive, for sure. Right.
00:49:22
Speaker
It's just getting it out of park is the problem. You know, I think we should all singularly get our Wendy's and then and then FaceTime the results. No, but what boring? That sounds off. Do we could just go grab Wendy's in 10 minutes after this? First of all, I'm sorry. I'm not going to go to a Wendy's and get a Krabby Patty by myself. Yeah, that's a group event. Yes, that's a group event. What? That's
00:49:46
Speaker
You have a shame in going over to the Krabby Patty? No, because SpongeBob was a childhood thing. I want to experience that with other people. Listen, we could all go together. I'll drive us. Awesome. We'll drive himself so he could go home because it's kind of on the way, honestly, to go on Thomaston Ave and then. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll all go together. We'll have it in the parking lot. Right. And we'll give our reviews. And then I'll bring you back. Yep. If the car gets in drive. If the car gets in drive.
00:50:12
Speaker
You don't have to decide on this now, but what you do have to decide on is whether you want to tell the people who you voted for. Look, here's what I'll say. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. You know. Oh.
00:50:30
Speaker
He's trying to defend himself. The cops are turning, he's like, how can I spin this? Hey, listen, I don't know if you listen to the podcast, but we're pretty left leaning here, man. So it's our audience. That's right. That's nice. That's great. That's your audience. It's good. Yeah, but what are you about to say? Yeah. Wow. This is what happens. All right, listen, how do you feel about Peanut the Squirrel?
00:50:59
Speaker
Who's Peanut the Squirrel? Yeah, you guys don't know about Peanut the Squirrel? No. Peanut the Squirrel was a TikToker. Oh. Oh, he got executed or something. Yes. Yeah, how do you feel about that? Whoa, what? They euthanized him, but what happened? They did. He was in a... Yeah, do you think it's a good thing or a bad thing? What the government did to him? Is this what really the government did? It's it. Is this the same thing as that Gorilla? Harambe? No, it's different, different circumstances, way different circumstances than Harambe.
00:51:29
Speaker
I feel like if I think the government overstepped their bounds by killing Peanut the Squirrel. Oh, good question. I feel like. I feel like if I bring up the firing squad again, this is going to turn pretty fast. This is a simple yes or no. Yeah, I don't I don't know. I don't have enough context to make an opinion.
Squirrel Controversy and Unexpected Offers
00:51:45
Speaker
Could we get some context? Yeah. So Peanut the Squirrel was it's it was a tick tock account run by this family in New York where they were making content with the squirrel like, you know, being a pet like running around or whatever. Yep.
00:51:58
Speaker
I think the family happened to be Magga and like pretty like Trump, you know, pilled or whatever. And so someone does someone called Animal Control and was like, hey, oh, this family is making money off this squirrel that they domesticated. They're not supposed to have it as a pet. So Animal Control came in, confiscated the squirrel and then euthanized.
00:52:27
Speaker
And the right wing base has been incredibly upset by it. They're eating it. They see it as like an overstacked world of government like control. They think the squirrel should have been allowed to live and like do you know this is what our country has come to. And this dude squirrel rights literally squirrel rights before trans rights by the way. Truly J.D. Vance went up on stage at the rally like two nights ago was like what they did to to peanut the squirrels wrong.
00:52:54
Speaker
Are you serious? Obviously, he was like having more fun with it than I am. But yes, he was like, it's what they did was wrong. It is government overstepped. They should not have done that. Peanut, this girl should be living right now. So but did the caller call this into animal control because they were genuinely concerned? No, no, no, because the family is back. Yeah, sounds bad. Because of political opinion. Yeah. So how do you feel about that? Right? Well,
00:53:18
Speaker
I don't I don't love it. I don't you don't love what the squirrel being exploited for its like for views or or the animal control coming in it like you know big guys stepping in no or the family being magga yeah which yeah which part of this don't you like yeah I don't like that any of this happened for a political reason I don't think it happened for the reason the squirrel died was because of politics
00:53:44
Speaker
like in the sense of like, sounds like he's upset with the big government stepping in. That's right. And euthanizing. I mean, they're taking more money out of my paycheck every week. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? They're eating the dog. They're eating the cat. And they're killing the squirrels. And there's not even a dollar menu anymore.
00:54:07
Speaker
I mean I was spending $13 at a Big Mac and then the quarter pounder could kill me. What are they pointing in it? That's right. I forgot they did like a recall like the meat for the quarter pound. Did they really? I just had one of those. I had to do something with the onions, but it's not the onions. Oh, it's the onions? It's bigger. It's something like that.
00:54:27
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I hope Arlene and Tommy recover from. Yeah, we used to work with a lady whose son domesticated a squirrel and obviously it's they domesticated a feral squirrel. So it already had known what life is like outside and they kept it inside of a house and like a closet good and he chewed his way through the walls to escape.
00:54:54
Speaker
That's resourceful. Yeah, they must have been. Heard in that squirrel or something. Yeah, that's some effort to throw wall. Those are the things I don't miss an exterior wall. Yeah, crazy. That's wild. Yeah, I wonder how she's I wonder if this is a thing.
00:55:13
Speaker
squirrels being domesticated and then more of a pandemic than Yeah, then some might realize this is pretty pain. Oh, you're saying like, sorry, I use the word pandemic epidemic doesn't say I think they have the squirrel before the pandemic. That's a coping mechanism for people during the pandemic. Yeah, domesticate squirrels. Well, you have to domesticate squirrels because they're eating the dogs, the cats. I mean, you just got to go to the squirrels. No, not not the squirrels. They're not eating them. Apparently, they euthanize them.
00:55:40
Speaker
I wonder how they're doing, though, Arlene and Tommy. Hopefully he didn't go back to crack. Oh, yeah, no, that's real. That's not really what he was. Let me tell you, he was doing that. And yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I hope not. It's not even a try. I just hope he's all right.
00:55:56
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Not a joke. One time we carpooled to work and I forgot that Victor drove and she was calling out because she didn't have a ride because Tommy took the car and stuff and I didn't remember this. I was like, I'll just go pick you up. I was like, oh, Vic, give me your keys. I got to pick up Harley and he was so mad. Yeah, I didn't want her in my car. It's crazy. Oh, man. Why? What's wrong with having her in your car? Say it. I'll keep it to myself.
00:56:28
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This was this was fun. Yeah, this was fun. Yeah, we need to do this more often to do a episode three. Yeah, as like, I mean, not now, not now. It's time to go to Wendy's Wendy's Krabby Patty. That's right. And then I got to go sit down in front of a computer for the next five hours. Damn. Is your homework due at midnight or just you have to do it? No, I just have an assignment due at the end of the week that I'm cramming on. And what are you going to be doing in school?
00:56:54
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maybe about five years from now, the way it feels like. Same for me. Once you guys leave, I also have to code my little ass off tonight and make some. I'm building a neural network. That's great. I'm building an HTML web page, so it's a little bit different. But it's still cool. Yeah. So yeah, I got to build. Well, it's like just more than one page. I'm building a website repository for my final project. That's cool. But you mean like your portfolio?
00:57:24
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Sort of but it's it's like one website where it's like you need to have multiple pages within the website So hyperlinks obviously like oh, I see like other shit and stuff cool So yeah, I got the I think I have like three pages due tomorrow That's cool. I have to fucking Jam out how much how much do you have done?
00:57:41
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Oh, I mean, I have probably 60% of it done because I have all the frameworks for the pages because I'm just like stealing everything from like like all the headers, the footers, the fucking dibs and shit. Like I'm just stealing it from the other pages. But I have to like actually put all the info in there and then also change the styling and change like. Like fucking JavaScript and stuff for how things like activated on the page. So it is going to be that's where that's where a lot of the time gets taken out.
00:58:10
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Yeah. But I got till 5 p.m. tomorrow, so I'm not really stressing it. Not too bad. Yeah, not too bad. All right, guys, well, this is fun, man. Yeah, we're going to do it again. We'll have to do it again. I feel like we missed a lot of good stuff still. Yeah, I still had a couple of things. And actually, no, we kind of cover everything I wanted to.
00:58:27
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I the only thing I didn't get to and was. It's nice, you know, that, you know, it would have been fun to work together again. I applied at the hospital and got an interview and I completely bombed it. Oh, yeah. So bad. Wait, why? Because I don't I don't want to work in pharmacy, so I couldn't get myself excited to do the interview. Oh, brother.
00:58:48
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And on the dude on the interview, she was like, why do you want to leave your current job? I was like, honestly, I think I'm overworked and like we're just understaffed. She's like, well, actually, the hospital is pretty understaffed as well. So that is something that you would have to deal with. I was like, she was awesome. So why pediatrics? And he basically was like, I hate my job. Yeah, because it's the truth. That's the thing. I can't get excited to fucking work like.
00:59:09
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I don't know. Like you got to work that meter, dude. But that's the thing. I could do it for a job that I actually want. Yeah. For this, I was kind of like, fuck it. If I don't get it, I don't care. It's fine. Interesting. Well, yeah. Well, once you go in and with that attitude, like it's. Yeah, it's it's. Oh, yeah. It would have been fun to work together again, though, but at the same time, you're not even there anymore for one. That's right. And two, like I just don't want to work pharmacy anymore. So that would have like honestly sucked.
00:59:37
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Well, you've been doing it for long enough, so I can understand you want to change. And programming, in my opinion, is way better.
00:59:46
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Yeah, it's it's the only thing I'm worried about. I mean, I get worried because on Reddit posts, obviously, like, oh, my God, jobs in tech are like dying. And like, there's so much competition. But then I also think about how many people are trying to get into like fang roles. And I'm like, I don't want that. No, I just want a little web dev job inside of Connecticut and just, you know, yeah, do my little thing, you know, you don't have to go to like one of those big companies to do that. You know, everybody's going through the whole digital transformation now, especially with AI and shit. So it's like,
01:00:15
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jobs aplenty in that aspect. You just have to look a little bit harder. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I can't believe we ended on like a real serious. No, fuck that. I know. Yeah. We talked. We talked. We did less jokey jokey this time. Yeah. That's OK. So like finally just say it. Yeah. Just say it. We're already at the end of two hours. Just say it. Very serious. You have to wait for part three. Part three. Yeah. OK. That's how you want to leave it on a cliffhanger like that.
01:00:42
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I mean, that's what's going to get the people to listen, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, if I give you a card, three might not be for like three months. We know the next time we're all going to be free on a. This just lined up perfectly when Mike texted me. It was like, oh, yeah, Austin's going to be a town like I didn't even told you guys that I was on vacation. I was going to text you guys being like, maybe Austin will be up this week, but like probably not. I guess I'll just still ask anyway. Yeah.
01:01:04
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And Mike was like, oh yeah, Austin's gonna be here. I was like, fuck yes, I'm on vacation for once. We could actually do something. What are you working on? I work two to 10 or whatever. 10, yeah. Yeah, that would be tough. Yeah, we wouldn't be able to hang out at all. But see, that's when it's nice. It's like when it just kind of falls into place and just takes us longer to do that. The next time I want to come to Queens, I want to see your place. Yes. We'll have to get Atticus involved on the next one. Yep. We got to let him out of the closet.
01:01:33
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Yeah, him and Jeff have been in there for way too long. So probably we should probably at least get them a crappy Patty, right? Well, yeah, yeah, they're probably hungry. It's been a couple of days. Yeah. Because there's something else, man. Yeah, but you love us. Yeah, that's why I'm here. That's nice. And for the past hour, I got roasted on my political opinion. So yeah, not roasted. Nobody knows your political in two episodes. Maybe in part three. Stay tuned and find out, guys. See you guys next week.