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Speaker: Why do they know my name?
Speaker: The pizza's really good and affordable here.
Speaker: And I can put a slice in the front of my overalls.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Just as long as you're not joined by your brother.
Speaker: You could each be in a leg hole if you wanted.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Stop right there.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I did look up an obituary yesterday, actually, about the person who invented the gumdrop.
Speaker: Because yesterday was National Gumdrop Day.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: You know, there's using the internet to its fullest.
Speaker: And then there is a gross misuse of the internet, which is, hey, let me go down the rabbit hole of some poor candy inventor.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Who?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And is it safe to assume that the inventor of the gumdrop also invented other confection, confectionary delights?
Speaker: Or did they limit themselves to just gumdrops?
Speaker: He did have a corner on the gumdrop market, but I couldn't get more.
Speaker: Basically, the obituary was four paragraphs, and I was more fascinated because it talked at length about, hey, he would wear his work overalls, and then when he would go out and sell the candy, he would switch into a different pair of overalls.
Speaker: It was literally about overalls, and then it was like he was in great shape, and he challenged a bunch of teenagers to an ice skate race.
Speaker: you know a year ago before he died are you making this up i'm no it's literally oh man i can't remember his name but yeah there's a gumdrop guy who is in indiana or something like that well our our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones we died in like 1913 or something like that 1950 or something
Speaker: but you didn't read it very closely.
Speaker: Was it 1913 or was it 1950?
Speaker: I think it was like the invention of the gumdrop was 13 and then he died in like 27 or something like that.
Speaker: Now it's 27.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I don't remember.
Speaker: I spent 14 years.
Speaker: Trying to perfect the gumdrop and by golly, when I did, I choked on it because the gumdrop is, that's the way he went.
Speaker: Just straight down the way.
Speaker: I think this guy died from gumdrop choking.
Speaker: Michael McDonald has a weird obsession with the guy who invented gumdrops.
Speaker: And James knows everything about Michael McDonald.
Speaker: Ask, ask James, uh, when did Michael McDonald get his start?
Speaker: Let's, this is random facts of Michael McDonald brought to you by James.
Speaker: Sponsored by the Bittencourt podcast, bit by bit.
Speaker: Get it?
Speaker: Cause that's a Michael McDonald song.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Holy smokes.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I was not ready.
Speaker: I don't remember actually.
Speaker: Was he part of Doobie Brothers?
Speaker: Wasn't he in like a doo-wop group or something before the Doobie Brothers?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I was hoping.
Speaker: I was hoping to set the hook.
Speaker: Well, James, if you're having to look it up, that means that you're not the biggest Michael McDonald's fan ever.
Speaker: I'm not.
Speaker: I thought he was a backup singer on Steely Dan albums.
Speaker: He was, but I can't remember if he started on Steely Dan.
Speaker: I think he started actually before.
Speaker: He didn't have solo stuff until 77 or 78.
Speaker: But I do have a very important update on Percy Truesdale, who in 1915 started producing a gumdrop with an enhanced texture, and he became to be known as the gumdrop king.
Speaker: But assertions in his 1948 obituary, so he died in 48,
Speaker: accounts that the gumdrop had previously been a hard candy jawbreaker.
Speaker: So basically he made jawbreakers.
Speaker: Then he's like, it's too crunchy and came up with the gumdrop, which makes sense.
Speaker: But then he died in 1948.
Speaker: So he didn't have any teeth because he's been eating sugar candies for the last however many years.
Speaker: And the consistency of the gumdrop to slightly be just a little bit squirmy,
Speaker: is how he choked, right?
Speaker: Is that what happened?
Speaker: He used the basis for that character in The Simpsons when Homer gets the dental plan and he says, well, I wouldn't have old chomper here.
Speaker: That's for sure.
Speaker: And remember that guy who pops open the can of soda with this tooth?
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: But that's a pretty good – look up that guy.
Speaker: That's a pretty good Percy Truesdale impression actually.
Speaker: We're definitely going to get talked to by – what is it?
Speaker: Matt Groening and Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.
Speaker: They're all going to look us up and go, who called our name on this?
Speaker: What is this?
Speaker: I'm fairly certain that all of those gentlemen –
Speaker: In fact, every single person who has ever worked on The Simpsons has way better things to do than to listen to us riff on gumdrop inventors, Michael McDonald, and just general dental hygiene.
Speaker: Let me take this opportunity to go on The Simpsons slant.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Which...
Speaker: Which one of the voices do we do the strongest from The Simpsons individually?
Speaker: Like, I know, Jason, you have a pretty killer.
Speaker: Who do you do from a Simpsons perspective, voice-wise?
Speaker: Nobody?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Have you tried to do any voices or are there any favorite characters that you can kind of like Hans Mole Man or like?
Speaker: I can probably do Troy McClure pretty well.
Speaker: That's pretty good.
Speaker: That's pretty good.
Speaker: But even Troy McClure, he's got this.
Speaker: He doesn't have the, hey, he's got more of the.
Speaker: Well, that's Lyle.
Speaker: I know what I'm confident in singing because I'm Troy McClure.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So the, the, the, Hey, that's the other guy, the late Phil Hartman did that voice, right?
Speaker: Lionel Hutz.
Speaker: Lionel Hutz.
Speaker: I think Jason, you were giving Lionel Hutz then, but, but my favorite Troy McClure isms are all of the things he's like, you might remember me from such films as, as when, uh, when apricots attack or something, you know, it would be a random, uh,
Speaker: It would be a random or it would be like some kind of public service announcement or or educational school film.
Speaker: So I think I think my favorite is when when Ralph goes, I want to go to Bovine University.
Speaker: And it's the Troy McClure where the kid goes into the slaughterhouse.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And you see the kid in the front as he goes into the slaughterhouse.
Speaker: And then you hear all of the noises of a slaughterhouse.
Speaker: And then the kid at the end is like shaking.
Speaker: And Troy McClure is like, that's how you make a hamburger.
Speaker: So, but yeah, it's not really a floor.
Speaker: It's more of a, like a grading that the meat sluices through is what he says.
Speaker: Something like that.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: I could do, I could do.
Speaker: Hi everybody.
Speaker: Oh, that's good.
Speaker: Oh, Dr. Nick.
Speaker: Dr. Nick Riviera.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's good.
Speaker: Hank Azaria voice.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And Jeff, you said Phil Hartman does that.
Speaker: He did.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I can do crusty.
Speaker: I can't do any of the voices very good, but I can do crusty.
Speaker: Aren't we going to have to pay them if we do those voices?
Speaker: No, because we, we just, I mean, in post, I can just say crasty.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: And Hank Azaria.
Speaker: We could say thank you so much.
Speaker: We want to give a shout out.
Speaker: Hank Ismeria.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: To Hank Ismeria.
Speaker: The Samsons.
Speaker: The Samsons.
Speaker: Not Flinders.
Speaker: Yeah, not Flinders.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: That's a good one.
Speaker: Here's my... How much Samson?
Speaker: I can't do any crusty voices, but here's my crusty sort of groan.
Speaker: Ready?
Speaker: It's pretty good.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Anyway, that's all I got.
Speaker: That's not bad.
Speaker: That's really good.
Speaker: That's not bad.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So obviously your job search did not take as long as you thought.
Speaker: So congrats again on that.
Speaker: That's very exciting.
Speaker: Were there any other either purchases or hobbies or anything else that you took on with the intent of, hey, if I've got X amount of weeks of time to kill, you're going to be able to do that.
Speaker: Can I, you know, can I like, did you buy an accordion or, you know, are you, have you started making your own, I don't know, pasta sculptures a la Kramer or, you know, is there anything else that you've picked up on?
Speaker: with the intention that, hey, I'm going to have some time to kill.
Speaker: And now you don't actually have that time to kill.
Speaker: I guess, I don't know.
Speaker: I think the ambition is, hey, I'm going to have free time to read or I'm going to have free time to do all those things.
Speaker: Just tell us what you got into.
Speaker: What is this philosophical buildup?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I remember I got a picture from you of a very special headset that released
Speaker: And it was a big announcement, right?
Speaker: You could see kind of through it.
Speaker: And I happened to FaceTime you, which I hadn't been able to do in about five and a half, six years.
Speaker: So since your oldest niece, who's now six, was a five-month baby, you have not been able to FaceTime us because you're part of the green team, okay?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Meaning the non-Apple ecosystem?
Speaker: Yes, correct.
Speaker: But I FaceTimed you and I laughed for a good five minutes as to the random human orb me character that generates within the Apple Vision Pro ecosystem.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm just going to say this.
Speaker: It was horrifying for me because I know what your face looks like.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And the whole time your oldest niece was trying to talk to you.
Speaker: She's like, Uncle James looks silly.
Speaker: And I said, what do you mean he looks silly?
Speaker: And then I look and you look like a macrame vision of yourself.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Put on a Salvador Dali, you know, live expression portrait.
Speaker: James, the picture that you sent us, to me, it looked like they had projected your face onto a partially deflated balloon.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It had enough inflation at the top.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But towards the bottom, it wasn't.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So that's what it looked like to me.
Speaker: Jeff, you've been to a place that it would actually probably look pretty cool in Las Vegas.
Speaker: You got to see the sphere.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: The sphere.
Speaker: That's what it looked like to me.
Speaker: It looked like they just put James's face and stretched it.
Speaker: on the sphere like the ace ventura bursting out of the back of the rhinoceros right it's like oh my god yeah what's james gonna look like if he goes to turkey or thailand and get a facelift in like 35 years that's what it's gonna probably look like hey everybody it's kind of to be here yeah
Speaker: Shout out to our dad and stepmom's friend, Sam, who, if y'all remember, when Sam went and got his facelift in Thailand, they went a little bit too tight.
Speaker: And do you remember, do you remember they said, they said, you look like a 15-year-old boy, which if that's what he was going for, would have been amazing.
Speaker: But as a established gentleman in his life,
Speaker: late 60s early 70s yes no doubt the the 15 year old face that he had post and not literally it wasn't like a face-off kind of it wasn't it wasn't a travolta somebody's gonna hunt down sam what's your new name i'm not gonna tell you yeah no it wasn't one of those it was just boy that's from a face-off yeah i just remember i just remember that day was like you look like a 15 year old
Speaker: Oh, I got the quote wrong.
Speaker: It's, woo-wee, you good-looking.
Speaker: That's what it is.
Speaker: Oh, that's right.
Speaker: That's John Travolta when he looks at, what is it, Castor Troy?
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: I mean- It's reversed.
Speaker: Casper Broy, because we're not going to pay Bruckhelmer.
Speaker: We're not going to pay him.
Speaker: Yeah, Bruckhelmer has money of a truckhelmer or whatever his name is.
Speaker: Have you guys ever seen Knights of Thunder?
Speaker: No, maybe that's different.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Nights of Thunder.
Speaker: I meant Days of Thunder.
Speaker: Days of Thunder.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay, so Jason, I think the elephant in the room that you're talking about is that James has become the recent owner of a brand new Apple Vision Pro, correct?
Speaker: And he went all in.
Speaker: And this is not a sponsored podcast?
Speaker: No, it needs to be because I got to recoup some of my costumes.
Speaker: It would be nice if anyone at Apple wants to send us even a single AirPod, we will gladly take it.
Speaker: Well, maybe not a single AirPod.
Speaker: You should have shopped like a billionaire with Taimu.
Speaker: Taimu.
Speaker: There's probably a knockoff already out there.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Airprod's pod.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: It's the vision schmo.
Speaker: It's just like the vision probe.
Speaker: They call them vision bros actually now because people are wearing them out in public just as obnoxious as can be.
Speaker: You're a vision bro now is what you're saying?
Speaker: No, I'm not a vision bro at all.
Speaker: I'm not leaving the house with this thing.
Speaker: You are our brother.
Speaker: You are our brother.
Speaker: So technically.
Speaker: I know what they'll sell.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: They're going to sell like a frame knockoff without any sort of computer or anything device.
Speaker: So people can walk around and they'll call it a Kiwi Vision Go.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Because it's easier to ski with just a pair of sunglasses.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's just a hollowed out ski goggle.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I like that, Jason.
Speaker: The Kiwi Vision Go.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Do they still make blue blockers?
Speaker: Blue blockers go.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: They made a comeback.
Speaker: we should buy the blue blockers company and just call that.
Speaker: No, no, those, those blue blockers are almost $70 a pair.
Speaker: Are they?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: When, when, when kind of that nostalgia retro style glasses came back, I've got a pair of pit vipers.
Speaker: And they're goofy, right?
Speaker: They're fun.
Speaker: So they're kind of like the old Easton sunglasses or Oakley sunglasses.
Speaker: They kind of look like that a little square.
Speaker: Talking about the Boz, right?
Speaker: Brian Bosworth used to wear.
Speaker: Pretty much exactly what they look like.
Speaker: So I got a pair a couple of years ago from the girls for Christmas.
Speaker: And all of my softball teammates teased me.
Speaker: But then they actually tried them on.
Speaker: They went, these are really effective.
Speaker: And I go, yeah, they literally cover all of your... They hug your face.
Speaker: They do.
Speaker: All of your O-Hos are going to be protected, right?
Speaker: So that's the point.
Speaker: And it works really well, but you look ridiculous.
Speaker: And so blue blockers came back as part of that rise, so to speak.
Speaker: But post...
Speaker: post plastic surgery, while your 15 year old face is healing, it's probably helpful to have the full coverage that only those sunglasses would provide.
Speaker: So but James, if you didn't have the Kiwi Vision go, as Jason said,
Speaker: Could you have hacked something together?
Speaker: Think like, can you take an iPod Nano and strap it inside a set of ski goggles?
Speaker: And can you get 80% there?
Speaker: Most of the people who've tried it so far, and I highly recommend the demo because it's free.
Speaker: And you'll know within the first five minutes if it's for you.
Speaker: By the way, are they wiping that thing down between demos?
Speaker: Because if a large sweaty gentleman like myself...
Speaker: Shows up to demo it.
Speaker: And then someone walks behind me.
Speaker: They're like, sir, gym rules.
Speaker: Please use your towel to wipe off the inside of the frame.
Speaker: They have a, they have a, like kind of a fabric sort of covering for the, for the light seal basically.
Speaker: So there's a light seal cushion.
Speaker: that they they do have sort of like a gauze it's a fabric type coverage it's like the little temporary socks yep right that you're trying on shoes it's like that okay so they'll so they'll throw it they'll give a new cushion every time and then they'll throw it through like the sanitizer um but i again like
Speaker: at least for people to know what it will, what the, what the future will look like.
Speaker: Now there are people who went out there and like, Oh, like I'm, I'm an Apple, you know, like early adopter or whatever.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And I'll get to like my experiences.
Speaker: The only reason, not the only reason, but one of the main reasons why I bought it is because I don't just want to be like an early adopter.
Speaker: Like I want to do stuff with that.
Speaker: I want to learn how to code.
Speaker: And that's another thing that kind of, you know, intrigued me.
Speaker: It's just like,
Speaker: Hey, like I'm 42 years old and I work in the med tech industry, but I don't know anything beyond like being, you know, really good with coordination and project management.
Speaker: And I love that, but I want to be closer to the tech.
Speaker: Let's pause there for a second.
Speaker: Jason, I'm assuming that we can chop that up and make that some kind of dating profile for James.
Speaker: He's 42.
Speaker: He's in med tech.
Speaker: He likes technology.
Speaker: And I kind of tuned out after the rest of that.
Speaker: Why?
Speaker: No, I'm just.
Speaker: All I heard was he's interested in coding.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then I went.
Speaker: James, there are cheaper ways to learn how to code, by the way, instead of spending thousands of dollars on the Kiwi Vision Mo, Shmo, Go, Grow.
Speaker: Kiwi Vision Go, yes.
Speaker: Kiwi Vision Go, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker: But you could have, I mean, there's a ton of open source code that exists.
Speaker: I mean, I was at TJ Maxx or Ross last week and in the discounted Christmas gift section, there was a $40 robot to teach kids how to code.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So it looked like the robot that came with the Nintendo right when it came out.
Speaker: Rob the robot.
Speaker: See, James, I knew Jason.
Speaker: Gyromite.
Speaker: You know me.
Speaker: Stack up in gyromite.
Speaker: Stacking up disks.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: The robot looks similar to that, and I think it was $40, and it may have been on clearance for $20.
Speaker: You bought something that was, let's do the math, 20 times that?
Speaker: Oh, 200 times that.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: 200 times that.
Speaker: So, wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So for your 200 time increase, what do you love about the Kiwi Vision Go?
Speaker: It is instantly, it instantly makes me feel like appreciative of
Speaker: the kind of the technology that does exist that I've missed out on.
Speaker: I think, you know, essentially it's okay.
Speaker: Like I probably did it wrong because I'm an early adopter for this thing.
Speaker: And I totally fell behind for like a generation and all the other Apple devices, if that makes sense.
Speaker: So I've been out of the ecosystem and I'm just easing my way back in, but I like kind of cannonballed my way into the pool.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I was going to say easing your way back in at a, at a four grand clip.
Speaker: That's not really easing your way in, but we understand.
Speaker: Yeah, here we are walking along this pace of line and all of a sudden we hear, yeah, exactly.
Speaker: It's James riding by on his Tron bike, on his light bike with his vision, with his vision go.
Speaker: It's a very smug device, right?
Speaker: If you're really into yourself, it's very... So that's the challenge is James is not a person who's into himself.
Speaker: He's a person who likes to socialize.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Beginning of something.
Speaker: I'm just kidding.
Speaker: Nobody's with me on my Tron bike.
Speaker: So you're saying, if I understand you correctly, Jason and James, it could be like for a narcissist,
Speaker: As an example, it could be incredibly like fulfilling because it is just all about you in that moment.
Speaker: It's not necessarily, you said, I think it's a wearable, but it's not a shareable.
Speaker: If that's, if that makes sense.
Speaker: Hey, that's a nice, yeah.
Speaker: It's a person that really cares about the integrity of their,
Speaker: of their finely threaded eyebrows as a man.
Speaker: They have to make sure that everything is neat.
Speaker: But they're also a person that will look through you in a conversation.
Speaker: So having a device where you say, I can see you, but you don't actually have to look at them.
Speaker: Perfect.
Speaker: Absolutely perfect.
Speaker: That hits them right where they want to be.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: I like wearable, not shareable.
Speaker: What other items have been sold that are wearable and not shareable?
Speaker: That are appropriate for a podcast?
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Listen, there's a lot of podcasts out there.
Speaker: I don't know that we want to become that podcast.
Speaker: Yeah, there are things.
Speaker: So wearable, not shareable.
Speaker: That is PG, I suppose.
Speaker: PG.
Speaker: We have to go PG.
Speaker: Yeah, we go.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No, that's a great question.
Speaker: Well, I mean, James, you said it earlier with the gumdrop dude's obituary.
Speaker: Overalls, I mean, overalls are wearable, but they're not shareable, right?
Speaker: I mean, if two people are in a set of overalls, they're either massive overalls.
Speaker: I'll see now.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So besides, besides overalls, what other wearable, but not shareables exist?
Speaker: And, and frankly, I guess to that point, we should eliminate all clothing, right?
Speaker: Unless it's one of those, like you're a horse, you know, there's a head and a tail like costumes.
Speaker: That would be the only, I mean, that's wearable and shareable, but, but aside from that, is there, are there other non-clothing items that are wearable, but not shareable?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: The only thing I can kind of think about would be like, um,
Speaker: a rocket pack or something like that, you know, and a jet pack.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, James, James has one on order by the way, Jason.
Speaker: He's got a, he's got his Tron bike and his jet pack coming, coming.
Speaker: You know, the Tron bike is just a little risky out there.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Cause I don't actually want people to see me.
Speaker: I want them to hear me, but when I park, they're going to see me.
Speaker: If I just go on top of the roof of everywhere I can go,
Speaker: They won't be able to see me.
Speaker: I know something that's wearable and not really shareable.
Speaker: Oh, you got, okay.
Speaker: A wristwatch.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's something that when it fits to your size, it's your own.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: Um, good.
Speaker: That's a good one, Jason.
Speaker: But James, one thing that you just said, I want to, I want to hit on before I have a question for you guys as we're all getting older is, um,
Speaker: So the early adopter thing that you mentioned.
Speaker: So I suspect that if you had gotten one of the first iPhones when it came out.
Speaker: you would have probably gone as most people did when they got them like, holy smokes, like this is an amazing, this is an amazing piece of technology.
Speaker: And because at that time, it was so far ahead of everything else, generally, that there were probably people who were the early adopters, and they got to sit on the sidelines for three, four, five years after that, because they
Speaker: the technology was so groundbreaking that they didn't need to kind of follow generationally.
Speaker: So is it possible that you're going to be in the same boat where you said, hey, I made this massive investment, but look, I'm good for a few years because I can just watch the technology continue to evolve.
Speaker: And because it was light years ahead of everything else,
Speaker: you don't have this direct need to like, oh, I've got to update every generation or upgrade every generation.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I feel like it's a good place for me to hang out for a little bit, but also rather than just hang out and watch the technology continue to evolve, like I might still be able to do something.
Speaker: And now it's especially time for me to say, hey, if I can be part of that evolution, not in a drastic way, but like I have ideas and I can learn how to like put it in,
Speaker: in front of it and to do it like in a way that makes sense for me to like, because again, if the whole, if the cultural,
Speaker: belief is that this is an isolating device.
Speaker: Well, I don't want to play to that.
Speaker: I don't want to say like, I'm going to do things that, you know, makes people feel more isolated.
Speaker: It's for the next generation of, you know, how do you walk around and not look like an a-hole in this thing?
Speaker: You know, five years from now, should it just look like a pair of glasses?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But how do you keep this from disconnecting us from...
Speaker: Jason, you recently got to do a business trip to California, correct?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I had to spend an entire week.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And during that time, you got to see grandma, at least, and some other relatives?
Speaker: I did, yeah.
Speaker: I got to see grandma, Auntie Nancy, and Uncle Howard.
Speaker: Yeah, okay.
Speaker: It was nice.
Speaker: We were able to get together and...
Speaker: They took me to one of the coolest places in the world, I think.
Speaker: Where's that?
Speaker: It's a place on the cutting edge of everything when it comes to any sort of graphic interface, AI.
Speaker: It's the, I would say, the holy land of AI.
Speaker: And to be in that particular building and to just see the way that people were interacting with one another, it was really cool.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: Because it was like any other, hold on James, any other Silicon Valley place I've ever been to.
Speaker: It's the glitter in the face.
Speaker: People were very friendly, very humble.
Speaker: And the nicest part about it was
Speaker: you know, they looked at myself, they looked at Auntie Nancy, Uncle Howard, and they looked at grandma and they went, yeah, they fit in here.
Speaker: And for those who need to know, you know, grandma is, um, we'll just say she's a very distinguished queen and, uh, she's, uh, lived, uh,
Speaker: a long time and we're just very fortunate to have her um still be so wise and and full of life and the entire time we were walking around this campus singing songs and just having a good old time oh and and as that happened james whizzes by on his tron bike with his apple vision pro and goes hi guys and then
Speaker: Goes right to Apple headquarters where everybody else that doesn't live in touch with reality.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, I mean that.
Speaker: Sorry, Apple.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Kiwi.
Speaker: Kiwi.
Speaker: But it was good.
Speaker: And the reason I asked you, I was talking to James.
Speaker: I got to go to Las Vegas a couple weeks ago for a huge event.
Speaker: a huge event in automotive uh so you know this episode since it is likely to be released later uh this will be a couple months in the past timing wise but uh but this this event was a couple weeks ago as we're recording today and so it's um uh you know it's a big dealer convention in ada it's awesome had a great time
Speaker: Our company and our parent company both have a great presence there.
Speaker: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker: It was actually my second time to get to go to the show.
Speaker: Last year, it happened to be here in Dallas.
Speaker: But Jason, something funny happened with one of my coworkers.
Speaker: And I mentioned this to James.
Speaker: And so this is the evolution of travel, especially with Las Vegas.
Speaker: And technology.
Speaker: And technology, yep.
Speaker: So they have the sphere.
Speaker: They had the Super Bowl there this past weekend.
Speaker: So a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker: And so I remember one of my coworkers a few weeks before NADA came and sat with me in my office.
Speaker: And Jason said,
Speaker: If I can tell you, this guy was so earnest and so sincere.
Speaker: He sat down in my office and he closed the door and he said, hey, man, he said, he said, I know we're going to Vegas in a couple of weeks.
Speaker: He's like, but I just want to tell you, like, I'm not really a big partier.
Speaker: And I was like, oh,
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And he was like, well, no, he's like, it just, just, you know, I just want to tell you that.
Speaker: And I was like, well, Hey man, like, are you assuming that I'm going to be out till like, you know, 5am or something?
Speaker: Like, is there something about me that gives that vibe?
Speaker: He's like, no, no, no.
Speaker: I just know that like, sometimes when people go to Las Vegas, they, they get a little crazy.
Speaker: And I said, well, I said, I said, well, let me, let me normalize this for you.
Speaker: Let me put something in a perspective.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I said, I'm bringing my CPAP machine.
Speaker: And so he says, me too.
Speaker: I said, perfect.
Speaker: I said, now that we know what is expected of one another.
Speaker: So Jason, it made me reflect.
Speaker: And James, it made me reflect like,
Speaker: I don't think that I'm getting old-ish, older.
Speaker: I turned 45 this year, so I suppose I will officially be in my mid-40s.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: But I don't feel like I'm super old.
Speaker: I think I'm in this happy medium between like –
Speaker: going back to the hotel after the sun has come up, that those days are long, long gone.
Speaker: They are far behind me.
Speaker: Yeah, but but I'm also not looking for the early bird special.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You know, so I can have dinner at 430.
Speaker: OK, I feel like I'm in that kind of meaty, happy medium where, you know, hey, I will go out and, you know, with with with
Speaker: family or friends you know have a few drinks or whatever you know keep keep have fun yeah but not to the point of you know it's not heavy metal vomit fest where i'm puking my guts out in the parking lot i got tickets for that this year actually did you nice nice uh wow uh now real tickets are virtual were you no virtually yeah yeah you're virtually watching heavy metal vomit fest
Speaker: Have we aged out of any place in the world of just like, oh, that's a destination I want to go to?
Speaker: Like, I'm going to say I've been to Vegas enough to where I know what to expect and nothing is necessarily lucrative enough to draw me back there.
Speaker: Like, if I'm in the desert, I'd rather go to like...
Speaker: arizona or something like that okay um but yeah i'm just curious like places that we feel like maybe we we've aged out of just like oh i did this once like up here in minnesota there's the boundary waters and it's like i'm fortunate because several years ago i did go to the boundary waters i did portages in the canoe and whatnot and it was great you know with an ex-girlfriend of mine or whatever
Speaker: But now I think about carrying a canoe and it's like, well, did I bring my back brace?
Speaker: Do I have the right boots on or something like that?
Speaker: Am I going to stay warm?
Speaker: Do I have the thermals or whatever?
Speaker: I was very lucky.
Speaker: I got to...
Speaker: spent some time with some pretty, I would say significant people for the place I work.
Speaker: And I think a lot of it was, it's just the people that I try and hang around with are people that they're just good people.
Speaker: And it got late one of the nights.
Speaker: And what's weird about that is if you stay out just a little bit later, but you are smart about how you consume anything, um,
Speaker: what is it, food, any sort of booze, and you sort of pace yourself.
Speaker: You can go toe to toe and have some pretty impactful conversations.
Speaker: And I think a lot of it comes down to is if you're on the road frequently, if you understand how to travel, if you understand how to sort of extend your time out,
Speaker: it makes it a lot more pleasant of an experience for everybody else around you.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: So last week was a little bit of a blur just because I walked, I think the whole time I walked close to 60 miles that time.
Speaker: I mean, it was, it was a lot.
Speaker: Everyone was so excited to go, Oh my gosh, we missed,
Speaker: a lot of this camaraderie and it was like, it's just like, this felt just, it had a buzz to it.
Speaker: And you carry that energy into the night.
Speaker: Well, the problem is night two, I carried that energy into approximately 845 when I collapsed into my pillow.
Speaker: So it's like, you okay.
Speaker: And I was like, 4d 5am or 845 PM.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: The only AM time I spent was, um,
Speaker: like one ish the first night and then about close to one.
Speaker: The last night I was there, but otherwise I, you know, I kept it fairly tame.
Speaker: Jason, you're saying that quarter to 9 PM night two, you crashed because night one and just all the energy from day at day one and day two were enough.
Speaker: I see.
Speaker: You are hitting on something, by the way, that and I know that that a lot of companies are wrestling like with hybrid remote, you know, all this stuff.
Speaker: It's it's, of course, all over the media.
Speaker: And all of us are very fortunate to have, you know,
Speaker: full-time careers, all that stuff.
Speaker: And I know that we have a balance between in-person and virtual work.
Speaker: But Jason, what you hit on, which I really love, is the fact that it's not always the big thing.
Speaker: Sometimes it's just spending time with a coworker, being able to connect with them off the cuff.
Speaker: Those are important for like
Speaker: connection, team building, all that stuff.
Speaker: So definitely agree with and understand that.
Speaker: So James, the only other place that stood out to me in terms of aging out of is obviously Chuck E. Cheese feels like a place that is where we have aged out of.
Speaker: Oh, I thought you were talking about the Chuck E. Cheese mouse suit is wearable and not shareable.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker: You know, it is.
Speaker: Well, I guess one person could wear the pants and the other person to wear the head.
Speaker: But for what it's worth, I'll make a shameless plug for last week, last week tonight.
Speaker: Yeah, I think with John Oliver.
Speaker: I watched that.
Speaker: Did you see that 30-minute thing on Chuck E. Cheese?
Speaker: It was amazing.
Speaker: And I had read about Nolan Bushnell having started it and all that stuff, but I didn't realize all of the other stuff.
Speaker: And I remember going to Showbiz Pizza as a kid.
Speaker: We went as kids to Showbiz, but...
Speaker: Yeah, that's an amazing view for somebody.
Speaker: It's pretty impressive.
Speaker: But yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker: If I'm going to go someplace where a kid can be a kid, it's Dave & Buster's, and I'm just going to order like...
Speaker: you know, wings.
Speaker: Am I the only one that believes that, that Dave and Buster's for kids is like a gateway drug for casinos.
Speaker: It all starts at Chuck E. Cheese.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Go to mouse casino.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: We're going to give you some food.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Might be able to win some prizes.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Go run around, get, get,
Speaker: Hopped up on our free soda.
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: And then figure out how to do math.
Speaker: Okay, cool.
Speaker: Sounds good.
Speaker: And then that transforms into... Well, 50,000 tickets, Jason, I think gets you a pencil eraser, right?
Speaker: It totally does.
Speaker: But wow, 50,000 is a big number.
Speaker: And then they want you to stand in this tornado booth to catch...
Speaker: You know, Chucky Box or whatever the hell they're called.
Speaker: Anyway, so the girls called it, the older one called it Chunky Chip.
Speaker: She didn't, she's just like, it's Chunky Chip.
Speaker: We're like, we think it's called Chunky Cheese.
Speaker: She goes, no, it's Chunky Chip.
Speaker: And we're like, okay.
Speaker: By the way, the man named Chip with a slight weight problem, who's on the other side of the restaurant is like, hey, why are you calling me Chunky Chip?
Speaker: Why do they know my name?
Speaker: It's not my fault.
Speaker: The pizza is really good and affordable here.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I can put a slice in the front of my overalls.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That's a callback, gentlemen.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Just as long as you're not joined by your brother in the same pair of overalls.
Speaker: You could each be in a leg hole if you wanted.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Stop right there, okay?
Speaker: James, you have been on probation for a little while.
Speaker: Leg hole.
Speaker: You cannot say leg hole, okay?
Speaker: Sorry.
Speaker: So you go from Chucky Chip to Dave and Buster's.
Speaker: You go from Dave and Buster's to, hey, you should go to a local casino time if you turn 21.
Speaker: And then you go, but the real place is in Vegas.
Speaker: And then you get to being in your mid-40s with a CPAP machine.
Speaker: You end up hanging out with your CPAP homie.
Speaker: And you're like, you know what?
Speaker: we weren't wearing our cpaps in the casino i just want to be i want to be clear the cpap the cpap was safely in my room and his room like separate rooms but yeah also cpap machine wearable but not shareable oh now hey now james that is a callback that is a good that is a good layer
Speaker: Well, hey, one quick thing before we wrap up.
Speaker: James, you know, next month, as this is being recorded, it'll be released later.
Speaker: It is Jason's birthday.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Now, it's not a milestone birthday, but he is inching ever closer to the big 4-0.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: In addition to that, it is also our father.
Speaker: who we've never actually referred to him as our father.
Speaker: What a weird formality.
Speaker: Our father.
Speaker: Our father, yes.
Speaker: Yeah, we could have gone Star Wars or, yeah.
Speaker: So it's dad's birthday within a few days of Jason's, right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So what do you guys think about having dad as a guest on the podcast somewhere, Jason, around his last year birthday?
Speaker: Now, by the way, that's probably the cheapest birthday present we could get him.
Speaker: Invite him to our dumb podcast.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It was like, hey, dad, could you?
Speaker: I had a good time.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Where's my gift card to Golden Corral?
Speaker: Dad, look, it's not exactly in the budget for Three Ring Circus Maximus because Golden Corral has not signed their letter of intent with us yet.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Maybe one day.
Speaker: If he has a rider, say like, hey, no green M&Ms or something like that.
Speaker: In the green room.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Could you imagine?
Speaker: He's got just, I told you I want a Diet Coke.
Speaker: He's just throwing it all over his own house.
Speaker: He's like, Dad, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: That's your house.
Speaker: And Dad, when did you get an assistant?
Speaker: Like, who is this?
Speaker: Who is this young, this young mustachioed person with a headset on?
Speaker: Oh, that's my assistant.
Speaker: His name is Sebastian.
Speaker: Yeah, that's my assistant, Sebastian.
Speaker: Don't worry.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: He's also a contract writer and he's the, he's the primary outbound marketer for golden corral.
Speaker: And you guys have failed the test.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: You will get no mini M&Ms in your soft serve ice cream.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That's a, that's a very specific golden corral.
Speaker: I'm just saying.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or, or what is it?
Speaker: No handful of buttermints at the end.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: I got to say, look, anyone that gives it trouble, Golden Corral is still raking it in, man.
Speaker: You drive there on a Thursday afternoon, you're like, man, I really feel like I'm in the mood for some delicious mashed potatoes, maybe a side of Salisbury steak.
Speaker: But it's $6.99 a head.
Speaker: What kind of steak is being served that they can serve it?
Speaker: The most delicious kind, Jeff.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: We love Golden Corral.
Speaker: We're thinking economically here for all the families in America, right?
Speaker: I see.
Speaker: I see.
Speaker: They want to create the biggest family experience.
Speaker: Now, what would be a total ripoff?
Speaker: No offense to Golden Corral.
Speaker: And this is not an ad, by the way.
Speaker: No, but they do have a fine selection of soft drinks, including the freshest milk in all towns that they're in.
Speaker: Side note.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: What would be kind of a rub?
Speaker: Imagine that you've worked 25 years in the same place.
Speaker: And at the end of your 25 year, they go, we're going to have a retirement party for you.
Speaker: And they take you to Golden Corral.
Speaker: Wouldn't that just be, I mean, they say there's something for everybody.
Speaker: Isn't 25 the golden anniversary?
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: So that would be actually highly appropriate.
Speaker: So, okay.
Speaker: So here's what we're going to start doing.
Speaker: Anyone that listens to this, that has worked at an organization for 25 years, we will pay out of our own pockets.
Speaker: Whoa.
Speaker: You said $6.99 for you and two members of your family on the buy one, get one free days to go to Golden Corral.
Speaker: So you're talking roughly $15 plus tax and tip.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: The offer expires March, 2024.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Better hustle up.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's free, free beer tomorrow.
Speaker: That's the sign.
Speaker: If the algorithm catches that and we have 20,000 listeners in a night and then 800,000 in two days from then, we get, we get 60 people that have contacted us in 15 minutes.
Speaker: We're doomed.
Speaker: I'm very sorry.
Speaker: We go to Corral.
Speaker: We really need your money.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We want to corral some money.
Speaker: Please help offset this or one of our nieces is not going to college.
Speaker: That's basically the moral of the story.
Speaker: That's totally it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It'd be better if Golden Corral was part of this instead of us having to go to them and go, hey, can you hire my daughters?
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Sorry, no college for you.
Speaker: I think we extend the invite, but next time I think we need to each take a bet on something that dad will mention, like the over under on whether he mentioned.
Speaker: Oh, you're talking about like a, like a bingo kind of thing.
Speaker: Kind of.
Speaker: So yeah.
Speaker: Bingo.
Speaker: Well, the wild card already is, is the thing is, is that if that's the center of the bingo card, we already know we're going to hit that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: The free spot.
Speaker: The thing is, is that when you boys get together and do something, do something special, right?
Speaker: He mentioned Pizza Ranch.
Speaker: He mentions it almost every time I see him.
Speaker: He is a Pizza Ranch guy.
Speaker: I got to tell you, look, when we went there, um...
Speaker: Dad, what are you hungry for?
Speaker: Let's go to Pizza Ranch.
Speaker: I was like, sure, Dad.
Speaker: We totally go to Pizza Ranch.
Speaker: Is Pizza Ranch a place?
Speaker: It's an all-you-can-eat buffet for pizza.
Speaker: It's like CeCe's, but it's... Yes, but it's South Dakota CeCe's is exactly what it is.
Speaker: They're from South Dakota.
Speaker: I got to tell you, hot and fresh pizzas, the dessert pizzas, absolutely spot on.
Speaker: Are you talking like some apple cinnamon?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Apple cinnamon, and then they also have a chocolate brownie dessert pizza.
Speaker: But the only area of improvement, their salad.
Speaker: The thing that you probably will not expect at Pizza Ranch, that is what they do better than anyone else, the fried chicken.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: That's actually what we have to have.
Speaker: Dad, you can't repeat this.
Speaker: That's out of left field, by the way.
Speaker: Pizza Ranch and fried chicken.
Speaker: The fried chicken at Pizza Ranch.
Speaker: He will say that, I promise you.
Speaker: Say, Dad, what's your favorite?
Speaker: Kind of go-to meal when people are in town.
Speaker: Well, we need to record.
Speaker: Obviously, we will record...
Speaker: that episode before we release this because we should really we should really try and do the the bingo um and and what i'll say at the end is that's all going to be done with love we love our dad our father um we we we love our family we're very very lucky and uh and absolutely we're happy to have him on it does help that it is a very inexpensive birthday gift um
Speaker: So one trip to pizza ranch and a guest on our dumb podcast will, will work guys.
Speaker: Ultimately, if he's not funny, I'll just edit them out.
Speaker: It's okay.
Speaker: It's not a big deal.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That feels like, well, and Jason, guess who's getting edited out of the will right after that.
Speaker: That'll be, that'll be pointing and clicking on.
Speaker: Well, James gets diddly squat.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You're not going to get any bit of my suitcase of pizza ranch gift cards.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Sorry, dad.
Speaker: Dad, why am I out of the wheel?
Speaker: Well, the thing is, is that you shouldn't have had it in there.
Speaker: By the way, I say the thing is a lot, or I also say the idea is.
Speaker: So I have definitely picked that up from Dad.
Speaker: Thanks, Dad.
Speaker: Generational talent.
