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Ep. 1 - WTF is happening to America?
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Join us on our 1st episode as we introduce ourselves and dive into how our family dynamic works. We get into conversations about current politics, health care, history and a sprinkle of fun facts!
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Introduction and Podcast Origin
00:00:01
Speaker
Hi guys, this is Mikayla. I just wanted to come on here and say that my microphone had some technical difficulties while filming our first episode, so you'll hear some weird reverb from my side of the conversation.
00:00:17
Speaker
so hopefully that's not too much of a problem, but it'll be fixed for the next one. Now let's get into the episode.
00:00:36
Speaker
Alrighty, let's kick this off. My name is Michaela. And my name is Dennis. And this is Fuck You Boomer, a podcast that we have been jokingly trying to create for the last couple of years.
00:00:51
Speaker
um And we just kind of decided that it was the time to bring this to light. um Basically, this all started with us having intellectual yet bickering conversations at family gatherings.
00:01:06
Speaker
and us just kind of sharing our own opinions of being ah millennial slos slash Gen Z, depending but what chart you want to look at, and a baby boomer.
00:01:18
Speaker
And we kind of thought, you know what, maybe our voices can be something that could ah entertain people, or maybe even educational. Possibly. and Yeah, possibly. Not many people get to have a family dynamic that we do, so I think this could be a fun outlet for people that don't get to have conversations with their elders. So this is true.
Family Closeness and Maturity
00:01:40
Speaker
What's really sad is so many people have families have separated and my family, I'm truly blessed to have everybody in the same area, the same state, both of my children, your mother and my son are both located within 20, 25 mile radius, which is
00:01:59
Speaker
twenty-five mile radius and it's good And there's a lot of families that aren't blessed like that because jobs take them away yeah and move them around the country. And it's sad because it's it's a hard that's a hard thing because you gotta be able to communicate on a regular basis.
00:02:15
Speaker
This is one of the ways. So I'm blessed right now to be talking with my granddaughter, which is the best. but I know not many people can say they still have a young grandfather. I guess my family is a just got a little too busy when they were when they were young.
00:02:30
Speaker
but we We did get very, very busy when we were young. And I was told that even as a teenager, I was told that I should um i was a little bit more mature for my age and I kind of knew what I wanted in life.
00:02:44
Speaker
So it was basically um by the time I was 20, ended up getting married. and your grandmother and that we're still together after 50 years.
00:02:55
Speaker
And I know that's a rarity nowadays. Believe me, I'm really blessed to have her in my life and that the rest of my family. who Yeah. I know if you think about it, because, you know, granny and grandpa just made it to 69 years.
00:03:11
Speaker
That's only 19 more years for you guys. And you're just going to be a couple of years younger than them, right? When you celebrate that anniversary? Exactly. I mean, if it works out, if that happens, then we're looking at me being 89 and your grandmother being 88.
00:03:26
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And, you know, they were when they passed, my dad was 91 and a half and my mom was 90. Yeah. yeah And it's one of those things that I was blessed to have them in my life for 58 years.
00:03:42
Speaker
Yeah. That's a rarity for a lot of people that don't have. mean, same for me. Yeah. I mean, when they passed, I was only 15. And again, people people have grandparents or parents that, or I would say parents that are closer to your age, or they have grandparents that are, you know, 20 years, you're senior.
Health and Longevity
00:04:04
Speaker
So that's true.
00:04:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's just the water in California. I think it's genetics. see We're all blessed with so many heartbeats. Yeah. And the genetic strain and a lot of people abuse their bodies and knock it down a bit.
00:04:20
Speaker
I got to go off a tangent here. I don't know if you know this. Did you know that Phyllis Berger closed down by mom's house? I heard that. Yeah. I was driving to her house one day and I had like a crisis.
00:04:34
Speaker
I bet. I was like – This is like a staple. I'm like, I think they only have like what, two more locations, like out of like five or something like that. I think so. Yeah. I don't know um what happened to the extent, maybe it got to a point where it was like, they actually had to pay their employees a semi living wage. Right.
00:04:57
Speaker
Well, you'd think a mom and pop wouldn't be able to afford that, but unfortunately that's not always the case. Yeah. Yeah. But $7.25 on a federal wage is crazy. I know in California, when they started passing those laws locally in municipalities and stuff, and they had to pay people high teens and then up to $20. And some places are offering $25 an hour.
00:05:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I know. And I'm like, shit, maybe I got to get a part-time job flipping patties at McDonald's. It's... I'll tell you one thing, having all that, having all that grease coming up in your face and stuff. I don't know if it's a good idea.
00:05:37
Speaker
Even at the age of 28, like you are, i just don't think I don't want to sacrifice that. I spend a lot of my life dealing with breakouts. And at the point in my life right now, I am finally having the clearest skin I've ever had. And I do not want to lose that.
00:05:52
Speaker
yeah he'stanic now And genetically, you, I'm sorry, but you are prone to probably cystic acne like I was too.
Dental and Educational Perspectives
00:06:02
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All the way through my youth and then all the way up when we started dealing with this stuff.
00:06:07
Speaker
ah So luckily at this point in my life, and I'm really grateful that when I was a teenager, I did not have to go on Accutane. um I've known people that did have to go on it and it was not a pretty experience for them.
00:06:20
Speaker
um I'm just very fortunate because if that happened to me, I don't think my skin will look how it is right now. I think it would be way worse. People get like, they almost look like crater burns in their skin. Like it never, like it could be clear, but it, it's kind of like,
00:06:35
Speaker
oh like, uh, Deadpool skin, basically. It looks like they were a burn victim, right? like they In a way. And, you know, i mean, at least from my own experience, people that I had in my life, there's their skin always kind of look like that. So, right but you know, but at least I didn't get the teeth gene. I have good teeth. So yeah.
00:06:58
Speaker
Congratulations on that. Thank you. um I was, it's because, uh, the, uh, my we we We decided that fluoride was a good thing. Yeah.
00:07:09
Speaker
Yeah. ah You know, and me basically, um yeah here's bad thing about old time dentistry. I don't know how much lead in my mouth attributed to any kind of drop in IQ points, you know, over a period of time.
00:07:24
Speaker
That's why I've been trying to, struggling to to remember stuff now when I'm 70. You know, I can't remember, oh God, three days ago. What was that about? But yeah, here's the form of age is that you get to like, oh, 30 years ago. I remember that.
00:07:37
Speaker
you know You have the brain of an elephant you never forget every time. yeah Well, I mean, but even the things that you that you share with us, especially me and Daniel, it's like...
00:07:48
Speaker
We love you. You talk so much. But it's it's always something educational. And to be honest, Daniel probably is going to ask you something this coming weekend because he wants to know and test your and lot knowledge and just to see if I'm the dumb one.
00:08:07
Speaker
Because he tried to quiz me on American history, and i I tried to blame the American school system, especially in the county especially in California. They don't really stress a lot of American history, only like California history with Mexico.
00:08:24
Speaker
You know, there's a lot of truth stuff there's a lot of truth to that. And i can imagine just i can imagine in if if you graduated from Texas, any school in Texas in high school, ah outside of not having anything to know about sex, you wouldn't know anything about sex. But you would probably know more about the, you know, the the history of Texas and how it became a state and what happened prior to that.
00:08:49
Speaker
And yeah, basically, it was probably a breakdown like that, you know. Yeah, he was trying to quiz me on like, um Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and he wanted to know he wanted me to guess the right number and to know like what specific numbers were what he's like, I know, I know every single president from one to 47.
00:09:10
Speaker
and and I know all of these things. And I'm like, well, baby, you're from the Bible Belt, you guys only care about American history in the Confederacy.
00:09:22
Speaker
You want to know about Jefferson Davis? I can tell you where the mole was on his back. Yes, it was. I was like, oh, God. can tell you all about it. I'm just giving you a warning. You should just brush up on some of your U.S. history because I want you to kind of prove to him that, you know, our family is not a total disaster.
00:09:42
Speaker
Yeah. There's something be said about that. But yeah you know everybody knows everybody knows what's history. They feel that's important to them. And that's the problem with a lot of times when they're in the classes and stuff and they go, I don't want to learn about that. That's about some other culture or something like that. Well, in this country, we're made up of all different types of cultures.
00:10:04
Speaker
We're a melting pot. That's what they really stressed on us when we were in school. Yeah. If you look in the history of California alone and you think about all the people that came here throughout the, you know, 200 years, ah about the 50 years prior and before California was a state even all the way up to, you know, now, wow.
00:10:25
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When you look at, you know, people from California, obviously from Mexico, Central America, South America, and of course, Africa, you know, that happened after the civil war.
00:10:40
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And even during the individual wars, how they affected migrational paths throughout the country. It is incredible when you think about it. Other countries are so closed off because all they can think of in terms, especially when you go even into European culture, it's related to not so much integration, but wars.
00:11:01
Speaker
especially in Europe. I mean, you're talking about people, you know, killing each other over territory because some king wasn't happy with the bride he was he was given from another country and it didn't work out.
00:11:16
Speaker
I mean, there's a lot of that instances, you know, and they they had intermarrying to try to avoid war. It didn't always work out because somebody wanted more money or more wealth.
00:11:27
Speaker
so Everyone always wants more money or more wealth. That's the whole thing. That's the whole point of living. Yeah, well, that's the problem. that's That's a problem because they're going to find out that with all the money and the wealth that they accumulate, they're going to find out that they have problems in their personal relationships with people because you didn't pay attention to me when I was talking to you or you did not listen to what I was saying at that critical time in our relationship that day.
Healthcare Costs and Living in California
00:11:57
Speaker
These things add up and pretty soon you're walking on a runway and your wife is next to you. You put your hand out and she slaps it away. It's a transactional relationship.
00:12:08
Speaker
Transactional relationship. All to some extent are transactional relationships. You know, somebody. so depends on what how you perceive it, but I guess and ah ah that is correct. I mean, it's about giving and taking, but it's, you know, is it love or is it physical items?
00:12:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if, if it's, if it's not about love and something, but you can tell what's really when, when it hits the fan and you're in dire straits with your health or something like that, and somebody isn't there at the hospital to be with you.
00:12:40
Speaker
her Okay. That kind of tells you a lot. It tells you a lot about a relationship. Can you be there when you're, when things aren't the best?
00:12:52
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Right. So though that's when you find out if you're really loved. When I picked dad up from the hospital and stuff, and you going through these different emotions and stuff like this, when he was having his knee replacement and I gave him a ride home, he was, he thought for a minute that nobody loved him.
00:13:11
Speaker
And even at the age of, you at the time when he had his knees done, he was in his mid eighties. Right. And he went through a lot of problems with, um, you know, basically he was in intensive care because they didn't catch the blood clots. We almost lost him and they were worried, you know, that he was not going to make it for a while. You don't send a guy with, with a knee replacement to intensive care unless there's something really, really wrong with him. Right.
00:13:37
Speaker
And luckily um they did a good job and finally figured everything out, but he was in there for like three and a half days at just intensive care alone. That was scary.
00:13:48
Speaker
Really scary. Yeah. What was really scary is if he didn't have the coverage that he had in the in the hospital he was in. I saw the bill. It was $155,000.
00:14:01
Speaker
And intensive care was the majority of that bill. So it runs up really, really high. And that was, you know, back when he was, this was a good, when you look go back now, it's a good 18, 19 years ago.
00:14:15
Speaker
Yeah. You know, at the time. So I'm looking at this and I'm going, man, I better make sure my medical coverage is up to date because I'm telling you, this is what bankrupts people big time. No, a hundred percent. Like I, you know, I've mentioned to you ah yeah in the last couple of family gatherings, I've been going to the doctors a lot more recently trying to get, you know, um diagnosis that, you know, been, you know, trying to get for a really long time and being an adult, you know, for the last, well, not,
00:14:46
Speaker
being an adult adult, but, you know, having your own insurance and not being under your, your parents' coverage anymore, you're actually kind of, you know. That was the one, the 26-year-old thanks Obama. That was a real thanks Obama.
00:14:59
Speaker
Because there's so many kids that weren't, hey, when I was 20 years old, I was on my own. You know, back in 1974, I was on my own. Yeah. is You got a little bit of softer landing.
00:15:11
Speaker
It was nice. It was nice. But the time at the time when I ended up having to get my own insurance, I definitely was already starting to get a lot of procedures done. So it was like, oh, shit. Okay. $6,000 bill.
00:15:25
Speaker
But that's just after the insurance hitting. Like just to get my breast reduction alone, it was like 50 grand. fifty grand yeah Something like that. Just to take off two little chicken filet of skins.
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah. I'm like, what? And then I've had many ultrasounds in the last couple of years and that too. It's like for 20 minutes of just being violated, you're charged like, and this is after insurance, I'm paying like $1,300. Yeah.
00:15:54
Speaker
yeah Because they don't see it as a um as like a health screening, but I'm like, but technically it is, I'm looking for a cyst in anything that could be cancer. It's called preventative care.
00:16:10
Speaker
That's what it And the insurance companies love to play the game. It's so dumb. I know I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow and I'm like, at least I'm hitting my full deductible this month before this appointment. So then this, this appointment's free.
00:16:25
Speaker
See, that's, what's kind of scary. You paid so much on the deductible and then you go, oh look, I finally got into the free category. I know, but mine resets in two months. So it's really not going to be worth it.
00:16:36
Speaker
What a deal. what I know. ah Well, you mentioned it a little while ago, we went on a tangent. You mentioned, you know, thanks, California, stuff like that.
00:16:47
Speaker
ah love i love this state because this state, even though everybody says, you know what they call Californians and everything. There's all kinds. but Or a bunch of libtards.
00:16:59
Speaker
Oh, there's that one, you know, and then there's and then there's other ones that we're so woke, we wouldn't know, you know, we don't even know what woke is anymore. All these things that they call you, which is just names.
00:17:11
Speaker
But the reality is, to give you an idea of of that the type of state that we're living in, you can't do things to people, for example, on the job that you can do in other states.
00:17:23
Speaker
Okay. So there's a different set of rules here. They treat they treat their labor force with a lot more dignity than they do in other states. The company that I work for,
00:17:36
Speaker
They did something nationwide and they knew it was going to be against the law in California. They didn't care, but they did it in these other states as well. And they got away with it. They got away with it In California, it cost a money to do it.
00:17:49
Speaker
They wrote that into the equation and they did it anyway because they did not care. It was about money on a national basis. And they knew these other states, meaning red states with governors and legislatures that are on the Republican side, the right to work states, that they get away with these things all the time about treating their labor as basically almost like indentured servants.
00:18:15
Speaker
California, we're blessed to live here. Yeah, absolutely. Everybody says, oh it's so high in taxes and all the rest of this stuff. And they complain about that. But the reality is, it's a state where if you're down and you've got a problem and you're hurt, the state can help you.
00:18:31
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I had covered California when I had the insurance issue with my previous employer. And if I didn't get to do that, I was going to be paying like $500 a month and just coverage alone.
00:18:43
Speaker
and getting covered California was a really big deal. um But anyways, besides that, I don't know you've been- California, I love, i love the even though even though we're in a fire situation here in the- in the pardon me, in Southern California, it's a fire situation all the time just because what has happened to the overall, sorry, climate that has happened.
00:19:05
Speaker
But in reality, I wouldn't live in any other state. It doesn't overly rain too much. And where we live in Northern California, it doesn't, it isn't that hot too much, you know, and I've gone to other states yeah on business and places like that. And they just say, I love the seasons.
00:19:22
Speaker
Look outside, 24 hours. You're in the middle of the state in the Midwest, and it's 75 degrees on a Sunday. The next Monday, it is 15 degrees 24 hours later.
00:19:36
Speaker
you get all You get all four seasons in only three days. Just craziness like that that happens. There are days like every once in a while in certain areas of California, you might have something like that happen.
00:19:47
Speaker
That happens back there on a regular basis. every Every season has its own little quirks and everything, but they have extreme weather, really extremes. yeah And we're blessed to live here.
00:19:59
Speaker
We really are. And I don't care what anybody says about population moving out because of taxes and everything else like that. There's a payoff for everything that you pay. You get back. You get back because you're living in this beautiful state.
00:20:11
Speaker
You get back because you got payments coming to you. Things like that. You know, these are all things that are all part of the whole environment of California.
Camping and California's Economy
00:20:21
Speaker
I love all of the different places in California, too, because you can go anywhere in the state and it's almost like you don't have to go around the world to almost see them. About the only thing we don't have in California, and I should say this on a kind of on a basis where you've got to think about a little bit, is we don't have a tropical rainforest in California.
00:20:42
Speaker
Technically. But we've got a desert. We've got a beautiful valley. We've got valleys. We've got beautiful marine climates at times. but We've got an unbelievable set of mountains, not just volcanic, but, you know, granite-laden mountains. We've got beautiful snow covered.
00:20:59
Speaker
And then we've got beautiful, in the summertime, we've got some unbelievable lakes that I've kayaked on. And I brought you um and Oh, yeah. No. Yeah, that was great. Yeah, yeah. You were like, what are we doing? Where are we camping here? Yay, great. Making your granddaughter do manual labor. Learn how to camp.
00:21:21
Speaker
You didn't teach me how to make a fire. ah Well, I kind of cheat on that aspect. What? With lots like Duralogs? I don't start a fire because I'm camping and you that's what you do when you when it's when you're camping. You start a fire. No.
00:21:35
Speaker
You don't start a fire when it's 105 degrees and you're at 4,000 feet elevation in the middle of summer. You're a moron if you start a fire. Especially when you start a fire and you walk away.
00:21:47
Speaker
Don't get me started on people like that. Oh yeah, smoke up the campground too when it's 105 degrees and let's crank up a couple fires. hu Makes a lot of sense. You're not cooking on them You're not even there roasting a marshmallow.
00:21:59
Speaker
Your kids are off playing down at the lake or wherever they went and the fire's roaring. And then the ranger comes through and goes, looks at you and goes, is that yours? And you go, no it's that idiot over there. And number three, it did that.
00:22:13
Speaker
God. Well, anyways, can I get to my point now? Because you keep going on a tangent. Okay. Boomer. This is what old boomers do because they don't remember stuff from the past. Okay.
00:22:23
Speaker
I've been trying to get to the point because we're talking about California. um, You know, ah since the whole let's buy Greenland, blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, what it what was it? Sweden? No, Denmark. Denmark wants to buy California for like- I think that's hilarious. That's absolutely hilarious.
00:22:41
Speaker
Fuck yes, I want to be a part of. No, nice no, no. No, but then go. But then this is a response to California in terms of tariffs. Right. You know, governor, governor Newsom, he wants to try to pursue strategic relationships with international trading to try to exclude California from certain tariffs. And because, you know, we're the fifth largest economy in the world.
00:23:04
Speaker
and I don't know how that could logistically play off unless California was its own independent country. It's going to be very, very difficult to do that to that extent, unless you can talk to a country, say, for example, you talk to a country and you say, listen, if you keep your prices within reason to us and they're sent to us and we don't have a federal override on that in in California and you say, we're going to export some of our technology to you and you you negotiate on individual products, too.
00:23:36
Speaker
It's not just on everything like You know, our president has gone and has gone and basically set up a thing where he wants to nail penguins, right?
Political and Social Issues
00:23:46
Speaker
Yeah. Or a tariff because they don't know what they're doing.
00:23:50
Speaker
They don't care to know what they're doing. They just want to break it. That's all they want to do is break international trade. Yeah. That's all they want to do. They do have no concept of what they're doing whatsoever. Yeah. And ah the stock market this morning definitely shows it. Oh, yeah. i'm glad ah I'm glad I pulled out a few things before or am I would have no money today.
00:24:09
Speaker
Well, You know, it all depends on how you invested initially too, you know, on the different, on the different things I can, get into equities, which is more based on stocks. You get into cash thing and you get into other stuff like bonds and stuff, which has different effects on on it.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah. A lot of people go and, you know, they always want the big high percentage, um, you know, big things on stocks. And those are the ones that really hurt, got hit the hardest.
00:24:35
Speaker
They got hit the hardest. Anybody got hit the whole thing on stocks, you know, even, even either other, most people like who invest in the stock market on a regular basis and have other things going on too.
00:24:50
Speaker
So that's where you saw a lot of the money that was being sold, off initially when it reached up to a certain point of people buying stocks up to a certain point. You saw that earlier today and all of a sudden there was a big sell off.
00:25:05
Speaker
That doesn't have anything to do with you and I and a 401k. That has to do with the big boys playing games. Oh, yeah. They're going, you know, they're dropping millions and billions of dollars at a time. Okay, sell, sell, sal sell, sell.
00:25:17
Speaker
And then all of a sudden, everybody else is sitting here and we're all holding the bag, you know, because you're waiting for your stock to gradually keep rising up. And all you get is you get shit and knocked back down again because somebody's got, you know, they've got so many different people in on their, you know, on their company that they're trying to sell and make money on.
00:25:35
Speaker
Okay, so stocks. Yeah, no. Newsom might be able to negotiate some independent deals. And if he's not overridden by the federal government saying federal overrides anything that you do, there's a possibility a lot of this stuff is all going to be settled in the court anyway.
00:25:51
Speaker
And um Congress what's going on right now. If Republicans get a backbone, enough of them, they can override a lot of these tariff deals. Here's the big thing right now. It's all about the individual races, not just to the individual congressional seats, but individual legislatures in the individual states.
00:26:11
Speaker
All these have to be taken care of because the states are the people that are going to decide on districts and things like that, that are going to decide on congressional districts and stuff. and they've been playing games all the time about gerrymandering districts all the time to keep Republicans in power.
00:26:26
Speaker
And that's where... things like judges and stuff like that to come up to them, say, no, you can't go. They did it in Mississippi where they tried to gerrymander states all the way down to avoid representation of individual people in the state, meaning like, okay, you guys have got one black congression ah congressman in the whole state of Mississippi.
00:26:46
Speaker
I don't think so. So the congressional districts were redone and they had to be decided by the Supreme Court and they had to go all the way up to the Supreme Court telling them that. No. You are not being a representative government.
00:26:59
Speaker
And they actually ended up picking up a couple of congressional districts and change things around a little bit. Now they've got a few more, um you know, black representation in Congress is what they should have.
00:27:09
Speaker
Yeah. So... These are things that constantly people like Mark Elias and stuff like that. This guy is pretty sharp. He's got a big team of lawyers that go after these individual governors and other types of people that are trying to mess around with people's rights to have representation, not just their right to vote, which is so important.
00:27:31
Speaker
But when they do vote, that they're actually voting for somebody that's going to represent their interests. No, 100%. But then again, like, I guess everyone's interest is also subjective because I feel like a lot of statistics and polls that they're taking in different, you know, communities, it's like, it's very wish-washy. And I think it's also just like, I think the media is also kind of creating like a warped reality for people. And then they're kind of like attaching themselves to a specific point of view. And then that's where they're like kind of going one way and other, another group of people are going another way. So I think it's difficult.
00:28:05
Speaker
to to try to say that one demographic of people is going to vote for what is going to represent them because I think it's all over the place. Well, when they put in these little weird issues, when you're talking about transgender issues, when you're talking about stuff like that, and they're going to push that as a you know, as their agenda on all these right wing media talk shows. I'm worried about the guy having a penis and my daughter going in and sharing that women's bathroom and he shouldn't be in there.
00:28:38
Speaker
And they're freaking out about it. When you're talking about ah somebody in a stall that's doing their business, they come out, they're already clothed and ready to walk out the door, wash wash their hands and go go leave. What does that have to do with your whether your're nine or 10 year old that's you know in two stalls down doing her business and taking care of it?
00:28:58
Speaker
you know yeah This is this whole idea of, of you know they just love throwing this stuff out there. They love scaring people. Because you get people to vote their way on at one issue like that, an issue that they will never come across in their life when you're talking about one-tenth of 1% of the population. Yeah.
00:29:21
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Well, going off with that, though, I feel like there's a lot of updates in building codes nowadays, especially with what I'm dealing with and redesigning a space for the company that I work for. But it's like we thought that we were going to have, you know,
00:29:35
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um a female restroom, a male restroom, and then like a family restroom, right? New building codes, no specific gender. They all have to be unisex, but they're single stall, like they're a single bathroom.
00:29:48
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So i think I think people just need to like ah look at their current building requirements and maybe if doing single stall bathrooms would be more adequate based on like their occupancy level, obviously the occupantancy occupancy level will reflect how many bathrooms they're supposed to have.
00:30:02
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But I mean, that kind of can prevent the issue of them being scared if they're going to be sharing a communal bathroom with someone, you know, that that kind of avoids the problem. Yeah.
00:30:14
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Yeah. Yeah. I find it, it's it's fascinating because you could be looking at that, not just in an individual business like what you have, but you could have it in, say, for example, airports, bus stations, train stations,
00:30:33
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you know, ah public places that are going to be all over the place. You're starting to see it more and more, I think. Yeah. um In Seattle, when we went up last summer, were waiting for our flight at the terminal and that they actually had full on like, all gender...
00:30:53
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bathrooms and it was floor to ceiling doors. Like you just walk in and it's like, here's a big trial of sinks. And then it's floor to ceiling stalls and people just go in. And at first I was like, what? Like I've never been in a bathroom like that.
00:31:09
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But to me, i wasn't like scared or anything. Like those bathrooms are specifically designed to keep each individual person private and safe. I would love to go into a bathroom all the years that I've whizzed in a urinal.
00:31:25
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I might get funny here. But the reality is this. I like to have my own private stall. Okay. and I know. You like to sit. Hey, if I want to sit and read, it's one thing. But no.
00:31:39
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You know, no, I want to do my business. But I'd like to do my business without having to stand next to a guy literally one foot away. Elbow to elbow. Trying to sneak a peek of your wiener?
00:31:51
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No, it's got nothing to do with that. It's just, it's weird. It's like trying to piss when somebody else is standing next to ye and you've got to you and you've got a prostate that's going, no, not today.
00:32:04
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Sorry, your bladder might be full, but pal, it's going to be a while. And you're going to stand there and stand there and people are going to look at you. How come it's taking so long? But when you go into a stall, they don't know if you're sitting down.
00:32:16
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without looking underneath and checking your legs. They don't know anything about it. All they know is that when I go into a stall and you think waterfall, it's no problem. You can go. You can take a whiz and go. Okay. So then don't blame it on your prostate. You're just shy.
00:32:31
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i am a shy guy. make You just have stage fright. You can't tinkle in front of people. Who can? Believe me, I'm not alone.
00:32:42
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There are other people out there just like that and have thought about this and would love to have individual stalls that all the women's bathroom have. They're envious of all those stalls. If I can ever take you to Disneyland, I know what bathroom money need to take you to because it is the most amazing pee experience. It's bougie, it's nice, and it's private.
00:33:05
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Are you sure that's just the women's bathroom? Are the men's bathroom look
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00:33:09
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more like what, a dungeon? um Well, it's supposed to be in one of their bougie restaurants. So I would assume that the bathroom for men's would be designed similar to the women's. If it's not, then I'm going to have a serious conversation with their Imagineer because they're not doing their job right.
00:33:25
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Especially since I had just finished designing bathrooms, I would expect that all bathrooms look the same. There you go. All right. Well, that I think that concludes our first episode. um You know, I'm not trying to make this super political, but I think at this point in the state of America, i think we're probably going to have a lot of different topics of conversation happening um and kind of sharing, you know, our opinions.
00:33:49
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Every day, every day, there'll be something new that numbnuts will come up with. Believe me. Just that I've lived a bit and I've seen a lot and I haven't even scratched the surface. I know you've seen a lot.
00:34:01
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Nam, for instance. Cold War. the Middle East. nine eleven Vietnam War. Old enough to enlist, but not dumb enough to enlist.
00:34:16
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you and talk like Did you pull a Trump card? Did you say that you had like No, actually and you kind' of go i actually, I actually registered for the draft and the draft was winding down simply because when I was born, there's so many people being born at a certain time of the century that either was prime meat to be served in the draft or you just missed it because you're either too old or too young.
00:34:43
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It all depends on when you were born, especially in the 20th century. You go back and even people that we knew, And I've known in my lifetime and whether they served or not, it's because of when they were born.
00:34:55
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That's basically it. And you either said, okay, well, I'm going to get drafted, so I will enlist because at least I'll have a say of who's going to be yelling at me you know in boot camp, whether it's going to be a Marine, whether it's going to be a ah you know a Sergeant, or it's going to be you know a sailor yelling at me you know and teaching me what to what to say or what to do, or an airman yelling at me.
00:35:20
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But yeah, it's it's all going to come down to when you were born is whether you will end up being drafted or not at that time. Kids nowadays have no concept of the draft because the draft hasn't happened because we had an all-volunteer military service um given to a lot of reasons about it. Like, for example, you know education was a big thing, getting things paid for. Nursing program, good example.
00:35:44
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A lot of women got their nursing degree and men got their nursing degree because of the military. I had one that stuck needles in my arm when I was in for a, a you know, an operation.
00:35:57
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And he stuck needles in my arm. And he went to Iraq and I got a chance to talk to him about it and everything, you know. And he came back and now he's working, um you know, for a hospital and doing what he's got to do.
00:36:13
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But he got all of his training in the army. you know So that was big, big for a lot of people. ah but I will ask you one quick question before i actually sign this off.
00:36:25
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Actually, it could be a two-part question. Do you think, one, if there were going to be another war happening besides this trade war that we're starting with our neighbors, do you think we'll see an influx of people volunteering because they think it's the almighty American thing to do?
00:36:44
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Or do you think a draft will be enacted again? Technologically, I don't think a draft is necessary. Yeah. Yeah. Because the weapons that they're working with now, they're s scary.
00:36:57
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Scary as fuck. They are stuff. One thing that's like, I don't, that's what scares me. That's not something that I want to see happen in this world. you don't understand the technology that the United States has right now and the technology that a lot of Western powers have right now.
00:37:13
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We're trying to keep that technology from permeating around the world. But the problem is, is that when commercials get involved with it, they love to sell stuff and they don't care about who they sell it to over a long period of time. We do.
00:37:29
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We do when they have a government contract. The problem is when that contract is up, You know, all of a sudden they're selling it to anybody and everybody. Like, for example, drones is a really good example.
00:37:41
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You ought to see the drones that Ukraine is using and the drones that Russia uses. I mean, these guys are doing stuff that a World War II soldier said, holy mack, if we had that information, if we had that information, we wouldn't lost so many guys.
00:37:56
Speaker
Nobody should be blind in this war going into anything because... To take ground, you still need individual soldiers on the ground to take ground. But the technology of how they eliminate all these other weapons, technologically not as advanced as the ones that the United States and Western powers have.
00:38:15
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um it's it's It's a scary thing. If I was a Hootie right now, in Yemen right now, there isn't a hole deep enough you could crawl into. Because these people, they're blowing up stuff 250 feet below the ground.
00:38:30
Speaker
Are you talking about the leaked WhatsApp messages? We can get into that. But even before that, we even before that. At least I didn't send a dick pic. Yeah, I know.
00:38:42
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There's been a lot of means, believe me on that. I've seen a lot of them. It's been better. yeah But no, I mean, you know, we just had, they just had some military actions and stuff because they start sending drones and stuff out to to attack the United States aircraft carriers.
00:38:59
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you know, in the Red Sea or in in the in the Gulf there in the Arabian Sea. And I look at it and I go, what are you guys even doing? Do you realize what kind of raft that's going to bring down on you?
00:39:12
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And it does. And then what happens is the technology that we use against these people. And of course, it's not all bad guys we kill. Hey, they killed another another another terrorist family. Yeah, a couple of cousins and nephews that got away, they're now becoming even more terrorists.
00:39:30
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What you've done is how many people do you kill? The ones that you don't kill the ones that you create future terrorists with. Future people that want to believe in their God, you know, and they want everybody else to believe only in their God because the rest of us are infidels and we're all, you know, you could be not believing in any God you're still considered you know, an infidel, whatever.
00:39:53
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Another topic of conversation, religion. Oh, exactly. We can go on and on and on. yeah But the technology is the thing that that'll these people go in, they'll they'll sign up for things because they want the technological stuff or they want the education in that.
00:40:07
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They might come out after flying drones in Florida somewhere and come out and and be involved in something else, you know, electronically. You know, when they get out of the military, not just ah just not just the medical side of it, you know, doctors and nurses, technicians and things like that, that are going to be trained and are going to be needed because the people who die are the people that try to take the ground after the technology has been deployed or the aircraft got shot down and he survives and, you know, he makes it back to friendly lines.
00:40:41
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But yeah. So I've been following that that Ukraine war ever since it started, even before it started.
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00:40:48
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And some of the technology that's being employed deployed there is really, really scary stuff.
00:40:55
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And the United States is still deploying quite a bit of it now with along a lot of Western union western union western European Union countries are deploying there. yeah Well, anyway, thank you for that long tangent.
00:41:09
Speaker
yeah um You opened a can of worms, baby. I'm really to dump it out. your Yes or no answer. But, you know, this is what you're going to get, guys. Long, long, drained out answers.
00:41:20
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And I hope that you have the patience. Although he is very insightful. I will not complain. I i learn a lot and I am patient. I will. ah I will give you an example of of of fast food at times and other days. It's going to be a long, multiple Eight-course meal with two desserts.
00:41:42
Speaker
Yeah, baby. Give me those desserts. I'll just stick to a nice 20-course tasting menu and a Michelin. Oh, God. Yeah, Michelin.
00:41:52
Speaker
Where do they come up with... well aren They're not the guys that invented the tires? They are. They're the same guys? Do you not know the story of the Michelin guy? Give me that. Give me that.
00:42:04
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When reps would go and try to sell tires... Michelin tires, they would create a food stop guide for their sales reps to go and try these restaurants.
00:42:15
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Okay. And then over the years, it ended up becoming like a premier league restaurant tour kind of situation. so because their tires are the best of the best, they award the best of the best restaurants.
00:42:29
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Oh, it wasn't just an idea to sell tires to the owners of all these restaurants. No. No.
00:42:39
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Are you sure there's no tires involved, but they're selling anything to anybody and making money on it? I went to three and no one has offered me a new set of tires.
00:42:51
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For the price of a dinner, you'd think I'm ordering summer and winter tires, but no. The ones that are rated for snow. Exactly. Exactly.
00:43:01
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no no No chains for me. No. Yeah. No, but that's how that's how they got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Now I can educate you ah fine dining. at least learned something.
00:43:15
Speaker
i appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. I'll never be able to afford their restaurants, but that's okay. You never know. Maybe this will give us the opportunity. That could be a podcast. We can live stream you having 20 piece little chef's table tasting course where everything is the size of a jizz load.
00:43:33
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Look, he didn't gain a pound. He got in before he started eating and he got off after. but you know what really gets you though is the wine pairing because they give you like a yeah two ounce pour with all 20 courses, but it's a mixture of wine.
00:43:46
Speaker
My birthday last year. yeah Fucked up. so No, no, no. Oh. Didn't eat all day because I was so excited about this meal.
00:43:59
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And then I've had like, Well, what, four ounces is a glass of wine, right? Yeah. So then, like, what, I had five glasses of wine? Let me tell you one more tangent.
00:44:10
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You ready for this one? Okay, lean forward, so you're talking in the mic. All right, one more tangent. All right, hear How's this? I'll just lean back. Yeah, yeah. Because this requires, this requires, think about this.
00:44:23
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You're in the Navy. You're 22 years old. You're not sure if you're coming home or not. And somebody makes them what? They called it torpedo juice. And torpedo juice was stuff. They actually took the alcohol out of the torpedoes that actually helped generate speed and send them on their way.
00:44:42
Speaker
This is in the war, during the war, World War II. They used to drink that stuff. Did grandpa drink it? No. And the reason why is because he had a high school education and he knew about chemistry and what the what it would do to your body.
00:44:56
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There were so many sailors that went blind. Did he have high school education besides grandpa? Believe it or not, believe it or not, grandpa was good on things like science. I saw his report cards while i was going through all his old stuff. He was terrible at cooking.
00:45:11
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He wasn't good in home ec. And they used to teach guys home ec back then. And it was kind of funny. I go, that's what you're supposed to bag a lady. That's what really gets exactly what it was. It was all about that. Yeah.
00:45:22
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Okay. But the reality is this, is that um guys would go blind and stuff like that because of that kind of stuff, you know? And so when you're, what they would do when they go out and drinking for sure, like what they if they went back to Pearl and they had so a leave or anything like that before they got on another ship or took a flight back to San Diego, like when his ship was,
00:45:46
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who was hit with a kamikaze in the battle of Lady Gulf. I told you about that, right? Okay. All right. So when they went back to Pearl and they made it back, even after the temporary repairs to the ship, and they made it back to Pearl without being hit by another Japanese submarine, a torpedoed or anything, they go out drinking and stuff. And he goes, these guys are so crazy drinking. He goes, the smartest thing you could do, believe or not, just that this is one of the keys they used to do.
00:46:12
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They used to eat Crisco. Yeah, Crisco would coat their stomach. The shortening? So they could drink they could drink more. Wait, wait, wait. So when they would drink this torpedo fluid, would they mix it with anything like vodka? or they they were They would try to mix it with other types of waters and things like that. But the problem is the grain alcohol the the type of alcohol in it was not good for digestion.
00:46:38
Speaker
To me, when you explained it, I thought it was like a vodka Red Bull. No, it was bad. It was bad. Oh, okay. Sailors were dumb and they're, you know, and he wouldn't drink that stuff at the time. But when you go to a bar, when you're on leave and you're going to having a shot and stuff like that to keep up with your buddies and stuff, you'd not only eat a meal, but you also coach your yourself, coach your stomach with Crisco.
00:47:00
Speaker
You Crisco by the spoonful. Yeah. That sounds like a hazing activity in a frat. Yeah. Yeah. This is what happens. and He told me about, I can tell you about other stuff that he told me about the Navy too.
00:47:11
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These are young kids, young, stupid kids, basically in their late teens and early twenties. This is what you get when you get the draft too, because they don't have to pass any kind of mental acuity a test.
00:47:22
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They just need bodies. They just need bodies. So, yeah. So the reason why you were talking about the draft, like you'd go back on that. I just don't think it's going to happen.
00:47:33
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The reason why, because they need people technologically aware of certain things. And, you know, you disassociate yourself when you're on a screen and you push a button to kill somebody from, you know, 8,000 miles away.
00:47:50
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It's pretty intense if you really realize what you're doing. You know, that's kind of tough. That's tough on somebody after a while. That's why a lot of these drone operators and stuff, they don't, they actually, they actually give them time off.
00:48:04
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They really do. There's like ghosts flying 24 seven. Yeah. Yeah. So long story short, I should get a bunker. ah don't know what I'm going to put in in the city, but I'll get a bunker.
00:48:16
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Get a bunker. Actually, you don't have to worry because there's no, there's no military, by the way, old military stuff. A lot of things have changed as far as attack places nowadays because the cold war has changed things and technology has changed stuff.
00:48:32
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All right. Well, I think that, I think that concludes our first episode.
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00:48:36
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I think are yeah when you're done with this, okay, go do your kids chi off God damn it.
00:48:44
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You know what? This will be the perfect sign off. Fuck you, boomer. Love you, honey. Love you too.