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Tax waste and This or That
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (the heat wave, racketball, running, cycling, and the Acolyte); Ron rants about the waste of tax money that is a fireman’s parade; Chris runs us through a good ole “This or That.” As always please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Transcript
Welcome Back and Weather Effects
00:00:10
cltruitt22
Welcome back to the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:13
sweatynuts
I'm Ron.
00:00:14
cltruitt22
And it is stupidly hot.
00:00:16
sweatynuts
It is warm out, yeah.
00:00:19
cltruitt22
And it's only going to get warmer.
00:00:21
sweatynuts
It's, yeah. I made the decision to not come for bike ride today, to be here with you.
00:00:28
cltruitt22
Yeah, I don't blame you. Yeah, that's smart. Yeah, it's nasty.
00:00:35
sweatynuts
Is it?
00:00:35
cltruitt22
This morning, it wasn't horrible. Like, there was a breeze. But this afternoon, it was just, ugh.
00:00:44
sweatynuts
Yeah, once the breeze dies down, it's it's rough. We went disc golfing the other day, and it was actually really nice. but Breeze kept it nice and cool, and it was fun.
00:00:54
cltruitt22
Okay.
00:00:57
sweatynuts
But any time we got out of the breeze, it was like, oh, I'm dying.
00:01:02
cltruitt22
Yeah, always have to have a breeze.
00:01:03
sweatynuts
But that's why I go on this on every day to prepare for this.
00:01:07
cltruitt22
Mm, yeah. Gotta shock your body into thinking it's normal to be hot.
00:01:13
sweatynuts
Yeah. It is sad now coming out of the sauna. It used to come out of the sauna and it would be nice and cold during winter. Now you come out and it's like oh it's just as hot out here that it was in the sauna.
00:01:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:01:25
sweatynuts
Damn.
00:01:25
cltruitt22
Yes, you don't have to pay to go to the sauna. You just sit outside.
Hydration and Health Tips
00:01:29
sweatynuts
We're not paid. It's part of the thing.
00:01:30
cltruitt22
No.
00:01:34
sweatynuts
But I pay to go to the gym and then the sauna is part of the gym.
00:01:37
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:01:39
sweatynuts
It's not like an extra price.
00:01:41
cltruitt22
Just wrapped in.
00:01:44
sweatynuts
I mean, it's you know important for my health recovery.
00:01:47
cltruitt22
It is.
00:01:49
sweatynuts
I followed all of the cancer guidelines of the day. I showered within the hour. I worked out rigorously within 24 hours, and then I got a sona.
00:01:57
cltruitt22
Oh, hotsh yeah yeah. Nice. Take a shower as soon as you get back to the station.
00:02:06
sweatynuts
Yeah, eventually. Well, he's got it. You get a fire.
00:02:14
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:02:14
sweatynuts
you have to get the engine back together you have to switch out your gear well that it was great because my chauffeur was getting off that at that time so they're doing they're doing change out it was you know but then you gotta change your gear out you gotta put your gear in the washer then you get a good shower you know but the good news is during the whole time you're sweating so
00:02:18
cltruitt22
That sounds like chauffeur problems.
00:02:28
cltruitt22
Hmm. Yeah. No, yeah, that's yeah. So we should keep in the stuff going out.
00:02:44
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah.
00:02:46
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:02:47
sweatynuts
Because they never cooled down.
00:02:49
cltruitt22
Hmm. Yeah. No.
00:02:53
cltruitt22
But you drank plenty of water.
00:02:55
sweatynuts
Yeah, sure.
00:02:57
cltruitt22
It's okay. Sure. Yeah.
00:02:59
sweatynuts
Does drinking water at that point matter? Because aren't you really hydrating for later? You should have already drank the water.
00:03:10
cltruitt22
Well, you should have, but I mean, you got to replenish something.
00:03:15
sweatynuts
Sure, sure.
00:03:16
cltruitt22
Yeah. But.
00:03:20
sweatynuts
But yeah, that's...
00:03:20
cltruitt22
I'm sure those good old boys out there drinking Pepsi Colas and.
00:03:24
sweatynuts
Nope, they just had water.
00:03:26
cltruitt22
Oh, wow.
00:03:27
sweatynuts
Yeah, I was just a little proud of them. They showed up with a case full of bottled water and just drank water.
Public Perceptions and Personal Choices
00:03:35
cltruitt22
As they were shirtless.
00:03:38
sweatynuts
Only one of them will share this.
00:03:40
cltruitt22
I just can't imagine that instills confidence in the public.
00:03:45
sweatynuts
No.
00:03:45
cltruitt22
when they see the commanding officer shirtless.
00:03:46
sweatynuts
probably
00:03:52
sweatynuts
I mean, he was staying cool.
00:03:53
cltruitt22
Yeah, sure.
00:03:56
sweatynuts
I will
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cltruitt22
oh
00:04:01
sweatynuts
say I was very glad they didn't have Gatorade. I'm not a big fan of Gatorade.
00:04:06
cltruitt22
Too sweet.
00:04:07
sweatynuts
Well, that and like, it's not really meant to be drunk like that. It's meant to be drunk, you know, half and a half or like one.
00:04:15
cltruitt22
yeah in a nice glass bottle yeah what you mean that'll give you an electrolyte imbalance yeah oh yeah well
00:04:18
sweatynuts
Well, and like one of them, you know, don't drink like four of them. Yeah.
00:04:26
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. It's not good when you're already kind of, your body's crying out and screaming.
00:04:35
cltruitt22
i'm sure everybody there pre-hydrates and you know plans accordingly and says oh tomorrow's gonna be a hot shift i better start drinking water tonight
00:04:44
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah.
00:04:45
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:47
sweatynuts
I mean, I do.
00:04:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:04:49
sweatynuts
But that's because I also drink like a camel every day. It's a maniac.
00:04:55
cltruitt22
No, you're not meaning you're listening to your body. and The people are like, Oh, but you pee so much. You only do that like the first couple days to your body's used to being actually hydrated.
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sweatynuts
And who cares if you have to pee?
00:05:08
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:05:10
sweatynuts
If you have to pee, that means you're hydrated. Who cares?
00:05:16
cltruitt22
Yeah, if you're not peeing, that's the problem.
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sweatynuts
That's the problem.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
Star Wars and Pop Culture
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cltruitt22
and When it comes out like toothpaste.
00:05:28
cltruitt22
ah I'm glad everybody made it through safe, no injuries.
00:05:34
sweatynuts
Yeah, well, it was a heck of a shift too. We were busy.
00:05:37
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:05:39
sweatynuts
It's good.
00:05:40
cltruitt22
Yeah, and you only have three ambulances.
00:05:43
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah. ah
00:05:47
cltruitt22
yeah i heard yeah just leave it at that yep ah sounds like you're enjoying the acolyte yeah i
00:05:49
sweatynuts
I just, yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that. It's, it's fine.
00:06:06
sweatynuts
I am enjoying the accolade. I don't think it's so far my favorite Star Wars show, but like
00:06:15
cltruitt22
So I've only seen the first episode.
00:06:18
sweatynuts
But I feel like people are like, oh, it's it's not as good as this. Like, well, they can't all be the best one.
00:06:25
cltruitt22
I don't understand why people just are so angry about everything.
00:06:25
sweatynuts
But it's still been good.
00:06:32
cltruitt22
If you don't like it, don't watch it.
00:06:34
sweatynuts
Right.
00:06:35
cltruitt22
ah Yeah.
00:06:37
sweatynuts
And, you know, you can just enjoy it.
00:06:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:06:43
sweatynuts
And the Jedi do wear a lot of brown though.
00:06:45
cltruitt22
Well.
00:06:48
cltruitt22
It's because they're reserved and.
00:06:49
sweatynuts
Like a lot. Is brown the color of reserved?
00:06:53
cltruitt22
I don't know. Can you imagine that, like the Jedi shows up in like a neon pink set of robes and they're like, Oh, sir.
00:07:04
sweatynuts
I mean, but it sounds like they could. They should.
00:07:09
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:07:11
sweatynuts
I don't know why brown and yellow are the color of
00:07:11
cltruitt22
Wonder if there's.
Exercise and Lifestyle
00:07:14
sweatynuts
calmness.
00:07:17
sweatynuts
is
00:07:17
cltruitt22
Well, I mean, you're really calm usually when you're dropping one off. So.
00:07:22
sweatynuts
That's fair. But Corrin Horn in the book wore green robes, and I think his grandfather wore green robes too. So, you know, want to see that?
00:07:35
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:07:39
sweatynuts
See some color it would be nice.
00:07:40
cltruitt22
ah The road.
00:07:44
sweatynuts
i
00:07:44
cltruitt22
So just a quick Google says, typical Jedi robes are white, beige, or brown. They do not mean anything to their wear. If anything, the robes are worn as a way to make everyone seem as equal.
00:07:59
cltruitt22
Right.
00:08:00
sweatynuts
I mean, sure.
00:08:01
cltruitt22
That's lame.
00:08:04
sweatynuts
Again, the Jedi are kind of lame.
00:08:07
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:08:10
sweatynuts
I think that's what we really and we got out of all this, is that a Jedi? Kind of lame. But anyway, the show's good. i I've enjoyed it. the
00:08:27
sweatynuts
I kind of like that they pick something that you really can have no preconceived notions of.
00:08:28
cltruitt22
Great.
00:08:36
sweatynuts
It's set before everything, like there's really nothing for you to look like this this. Well, I guess apparently people are already like, well, this character could be this guy who's in the prequels and blah, blah, blah.
00:08:48
cltruitt22
Oh my gosh.
00:08:51
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:08:54
sweatynuts
it's been pretty good.
00:08:55
cltruitt22
I was surprised Jar Jar Binks is in it.
00:08:58
sweatynuts
Well, he's the bad guy.
00:08:59
cltruitt22
yeah He's always the bad guy.
00:09:04
cltruitt22
yeah yeah Just let
00:09:04
sweatynuts
Yeah.
Fire Department Budgets and Critiques
00:09:06
cltruitt22
yourselves enjoy something people.
00:09:08
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:09
cltruitt22
Or let other people enjoy things and don't poo on it.
00:09:15
sweatynuts
Yeah, just let yourself enjoy it. Or just don't ever involve yourself.
00:09:22
cltruitt22
yeah
00:09:22
sweatynuts
You know, I mean, except for the Lord of the Rings, which we all know is abomination.
00:09:27
cltruitt22
Well, I mean, um obviously, anything where the rings pitchforks and torches come out immediately.
00:09:29
sweatynuts
Yeah, you cannot enjoy that, you're not allowed.
00:09:34
cltruitt22
No. If it was done the right way, you could.
00:09:39
sweatynuts
Well, sure, but not the one that exists currently.
00:09:40
cltruitt22
Not the Peter Jackson way.
00:09:42
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, terrible.
00:09:46
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:09:48
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:53
cltruitt22
See, I'm not going to feed into it.
00:09:56
sweatynuts
Good, because
00:09:59
cltruitt22
Ugh. Too hot.
00:09:59
sweatynuts
This is terrible.
00:10:03
sweatynuts
It's too hot. It is too hot to fight.
00:10:06
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:10:06
sweatynuts
Which is what I'd never understand when people get fighting in it in the heat. It's too hot.
00:10:10
cltruitt22
Yeah. Right.
00:10:14
sweatynuts
Why are you so irritable?
00:10:14
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:10:15
sweatynuts
Just go be somewhere else.
00:10:15
cltruitt22
Yeah. Right. And if you're fighting, you're grappling with somebody, you're getting their sweat all over you.
00:10:22
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:23
cltruitt22
It's gross.
00:10:28
sweatynuts
Yeah. So, I mean, I don't really understand the desire to get physical and violent with people anyway, so.
00:10:30
cltruitt22
I don't understand it.
00:10:39
cltruitt22
Now.
00:10:42
sweatynuts
I was always.
00:10:43
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's say somebody wants to fight me. I know you just stripped down. Nobody wants to fight the naked man.
00:10:48
sweatynuts
That's true.
00:10:49
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:10:53
sweatynuts
I just thought, I have friends who would get just hammered and want to get in fights and I'm like, this, why would you, this isn't fun.
00:10:57
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:11:00
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those that we yeah they start drinking like, hey, let's pick a fight.
00:11:05
sweatynuts
Right.
00:11:06
cltruitt22
No.
00:11:10
cltruitt22
This doesn't sound fun.
00:11:10
sweatynuts
And not about all of that, but like, you can really get hurt.
00:11:15
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:11:16
sweatynuts
Like you never know when that fight is going to go wrong and you're just permanently
00:11:18
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:11:22
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:11:23
sweatynuts
You know, it's not worth it.
00:11:25
cltruitt22
No. No. I mean, a friend of ours had a broken jaw for a while.
00:11:30
sweatynuts
open
00:11:31
cltruitt22
Yeah, I can remember being at a wedding reception and a friend of ours named Big Dog, who at the time was probably what, six, four, 350,
00:11:43
sweatynuts
Sure.
00:11:45
cltruitt22
was, yeah, easily.
00:11:45
sweatynuts
Easy.
00:11:48
cltruitt22
Evidently something was going on and his wife and my wife said, Chris, go help him. It's like, if he needs help, I can't give him anything. What am I going to do? Oh, God.
00:12:02
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. Big dog's the one we would bring in and say, do you really want to keep messing with us?
00:12:06
cltruitt22
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
00:12:08
sweatynuts
Because we're going to let him loose.
00:12:10
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. If they've gone through him, I. Hmm.
00:12:13
sweatynuts
Yeah. My only hope is that he wore them out so badly that I can perhaps do something.
00:12:19
cltruitt22
Yeah. Golly day. Yeah.
00:12:25
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:12:25
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, the 30 of them wore their themselves out on him.
00:12:29
sweatynuts
yeah
00:12:29
cltruitt22
I have time to get a vehicle to run them over. Golly day.
00:12:35
sweatynuts
Just keep holding on, I'm gonna whittle myself a bat.
00:12:40
cltruitt22
with all yeah Yeah, I got out there and the other the people were moving away at that point.
00:12:47
sweatynuts
Yeah, I know. Never.
00:12:53
cltruitt22
So I got your back, buddy. Thanks, man.
00:12:55
sweatynuts
yeah
00:12:56
cltruitt22
Appreciate it. Yeah.
00:13:01
cltruitt22
ah They had taken steps towards him. Twilly, get him!
00:13:07
cltruitt22
Look, a bear! Run. Yeah, my maniac daughter the other day came home from work. I was like, oh, how was work? Yeah, good. She's got this look on her face. And I was like, what? She was like, I think I'm going to go for a run. I was like, OK. I was like, I mean, I didn't know you enjoyed running. She was like, I don't. I was like, what? She's like, I think I should. People all the time talk about how beneficial running is, and running is great, and this and that. I was like, OK. She went up upstairs, got changed, got her earbuds, and ran, got back. I said, how was your run? She said, miserable. I said, well, why'd you do it? She's like, I'll probably go for one tomorrow.
Outdoor Activities and Hobbies
00:13:52
cltruitt22
What kind of weird result is this?
00:13:57
sweatynuts
I mean, everyone always looks miserable when they run.
00:13:58
cltruitt22
yeah
00:14:02
sweatynuts
Always. She's probably getting in shape for college.
00:14:05
cltruitt22
But she's in good shape.
00:14:08
sweatynuts
Yeah, she's not in college shape.
00:14:10
cltruitt22
She doesn't need to be in college today.
00:14:13
sweatynuts
Of course she does.
00:14:15
cltruitt22
No.
00:14:15
sweatynuts
She's going to college.
00:14:17
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. The shape she needs to be in is to fight people off. She can do that.
00:14:23
sweatynuts
Uh, I mean,
00:14:25
cltruitt22
We picked out a lovely swimming burka for her the other day.
00:14:34
cltruitt22
ah
00:14:35
sweatynuts
Has she picked her classes yet?
00:14:37
cltruitt22
No. No, she's got something in a few couple of weeks.
00:14:40
sweatynuts
No.
00:14:43
cltruitt22
That's like a orientation day or something. I think they do it then.
00:14:46
sweatynuts
Pick out her bullshit sport that she's gonna do.
00:14:47
cltruitt22
So and she's got a roommate squared away.
00:14:55
cltruitt22
They don't have to do a sport in college, do they?
00:14:57
sweatynuts
Yeah, of course she do.
00:14:59
cltruitt22
What?
00:15:00
sweatynuts
Yeah, of course she do. I had to do racquetball.
00:15:02
cltruitt22
Really?
00:15:03
sweatynuts
yeah
00:15:04
cltruitt22
See, I just had to take like PE e for one semester.
00:15:07
sweatynuts
I mean, it's a sport, I guess.
00:15:09
cltruitt22
And instead of writing a paper, they were like, you can write a paper or you can run a 5K. I guess I'm running a 5K.
00:15:15
sweatynuts
or That would have done the paper.
00:15:21
sweatynuts
I did racquetball one and racquetball two.
00:15:25
cltruitt22
There's a two.
00:15:26
sweatynuts
I had to buy a racquet.
00:15:26
cltruitt22
what What do you learn in two that you didn't learn in one?
00:15:30
sweatynuts
I don't think I learned anything.
00:15:33
sweatynuts
I couldn't tell you the rules of racquetball.
00:15:35
cltruitt22
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. I like, I see people like, Oh yeah. But wreck a ball. I'm like, I don't know what that is, but have fun.
00:15:43
sweatynuts
It's the most terrifying activity you can do as an adult man because it's just...
00:15:48
cltruitt22
Well, the second, the highlight.
00:15:50
sweatynuts
ah Yeah, maybe. I don't know. You're pretty close together in racquetball.
00:15:54
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:15:54
sweatynuts
There's no room to hide.
00:15:56
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:15:57
sweatynuts
it's it's And that ball moves so fast.
00:15:57
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:16:00
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:16:01
sweatynuts
And you immediately...
00:16:01
cltruitt22
It's a, it's a soft squishy ball, isn't it?
00:16:05
sweatynuts
I mean, it's it's ah squishy.
00:16:08
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:16:08
sweatynuts
and say It's very soft.
00:16:10
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:16:11
sweatynuts
And you immediately know that your opponent is way better than you within 0.1 seconds of the game starting.
00:16:17
cltruitt22
Yeah, I think I'd rather just play wall ball.
00:16:21
sweatynuts
I mean, think about Wobble what with ah you get hit from all sides.
00:16:25
cltruitt22
Oh, that sounds delightful.
00:16:28
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, it's not.
00:16:32
cltruitt22
It's no pickle ball.
00:16:34
sweatynuts
Oh, look.
00:16:37
cltruitt22
Evidently, my parents are going to put in a pickleball court.
00:16:41
sweatynuts
Wow.
00:16:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:16:43
sweatynuts
I like it that much.
00:16:46
cltruitt22
I said, do you like it? I don't know, but it sounds fun.
00:16:50
sweatynuts
So you're going to put a cord in?
00:16:50
cltruitt22
I said, let's let's try it before we put a court.
00:16:53
sweatynuts
Right.
00:16:55
cltruitt22
Well, they're going to expand. They're going to like do a paved spot where they can park their vehicles. And so that would be the court. They would just back their vehicles off when they're using it.
00:17:05
sweatynuts
Hmm.
00:17:07
cltruitt22
I was like, OK, I can kind of see that. like So you're just going to you're having you're putting a landing pad in and you're going to paint stripes on it.
00:17:15
sweatynuts
Okay, that's more reasonable than the conversation of we're just gonna have a pickleball court in our yard.
00:17:16
cltruitt22
So.
00:17:18
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:17:24
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:26
cltruitt22
That's like it. Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, bully for them. But I made somebody mad the other day. I was like, oh, yeah, you know, the sport that was invented to keep seniors healthy. No, that's not why I was I was like, look it up.
00:17:27
sweatynuts
I mean, people seem to love it.
00:17:40
sweatynuts
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
00:17:41
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:17:42
sweatynuts
The whole point is it,
00:17:43
cltruitt22
And it was named after some dog named Pickle or something.
00:17:46
sweatynuts
The whole point is you don't move so much so that you don't, you know, get hurt.
00:17:48
cltruitt22
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:17:55
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:17:56
sweatynuts
I want to be one of those seniors. It's like, you know, doing crazy, like marathons and stuff.
00:18:02
cltruitt22
No.
00:18:03
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:18:03
cltruitt22
No.
00:18:05
sweatynuts
You just want to be one of the seniors that sit around and do nothing.
00:18:08
cltruitt22
I don't want to do nothing, but I don't want to run a marathon. That doesn't sound fun.
00:18:10
sweatynuts
I don't know, marathon, at you know, centuries.
00:18:15
cltruitt22
No.
00:18:17
sweatynuts
I mean, being the crazy runners that work with us, you know, doing triathlons and crap.
00:18:21
cltruitt22
Oh, my God. No, there's something. Mentally wrong with those gentlemen.
00:18:28
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
00:18:31
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:18:31
cltruitt22
Yeah, like that.
00:18:32
sweatynuts
I mean, my neighbor is ah ultra run marathon. She does like a hundred mile runs.
00:18:36
cltruitt22
My brother-in-law used to do that. I'm like, qui he's like Oh, yeah, you know, it's really bad when it's a hot day and your feet kind of slough off at the end. I'm like, Oh God, what? So, yeah, you go through like four or five pairs of shoes, all these socks. I'm like, No.
00:18:50
sweatynuts
Anything described as sloughing off is not for me.
00:18:53
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:18:54
sweatynuts
I want my things to unslough.
00:18:54
cltruitt22
He's like, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some people, they get so tired and worn out by the end. They just lose control. You know, their bowels evacuate. I'm like, No, that's no.
00:19:04
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:06
cltruitt22
That's your body saying I'm out.
00:19:10
sweatynuts
Yeah. My neighbor will, my my neighborhood is four miles. It's a loop of four miles, I think.
00:19:17
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:19:17
sweatynuts
I will see her run that 12 times a day.
00:19:21
cltruitt22
What?
00:19:22
sweatynuts
She'll just go out and run.
00:19:24
cltruitt22
God, you know, you deter that you chuck batteries at her.
00:19:27
sweatynuts
I don't know really want to deter her.
00:19:32
cltruitt22
Uh.
00:19:33
sweatynuts
I don't really feel like it's my place to step in on that kind of level.
00:19:36
cltruitt22
Well, obviously though, she's running 48 miles. She's got some other issues.
00:19:43
sweatynuts
aye I guess.
00:19:45
cltruitt22
I mean, yeah, I say, oh, you hit the runners high.
00:19:46
sweatynuts
but we
00:19:50
sweatynuts
we We had the conversation two weeks ago, her and I, and she's like, I was like, I don't know how you run like that. And she's like, well, I don't know how you get on a bike and just ride. I'm like, I mean, touche, but not the same.
00:20:01
cltruitt22
Yeah. No.
00:20:03
sweatynuts
She's like, yeah, I watch you get on your bike and you don't come back for an hour.
00:20:03
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:20:05
sweatynuts
And I'm like, how does he do that? I'm like, you run for four hours. You're lunatic.
00:20:10
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. And on the bike, I can stop pedaling for a little bit and coast.
00:20:14
sweatynuts
Yeah. And I got a nice breeze.
00:20:15
cltruitt22
If you stop pedaling, if you stop, you know, moving your feet while you're jogging, guess what? You fall on your face.
00:20:20
sweatynuts
yeah yeah yeah i carry water with me i can listen to music i could stop oh well you shouldn't drink alcohol while begging sure um i don't know how to tell you to get better at that
00:20:23
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:20:26
cltruitt22
yeah
00:20:28
cltruitt22
That is one thing. To this day, I have not mastered drinking while biking. I suck at that. No, no, no, no. Water anything. Yeah. Yeah, I just I got to have better faith in my balance is the thing.
00:20:49
sweatynuts
I don't understand the people that get the bottle holders that sit behind their seat. So they have to reach behind them to get their bottle.
00:20:56
cltruitt22
What?
00:20:57
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:20:58
cltruitt22
No, no.
00:21:00
sweatynuts
I mean, I could get it. I could get the bottle. I don't know if I could put the bottle back.
00:21:05
cltruitt22
No, it it'd be gone.
00:21:06
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:08
cltruitt22
I fell back in one of those like Campbellbacks, so I could just,
Transportation Debates and Travel Challenges
00:21:12
cltruitt22
you know, have a straw at my shoulder.
00:21:14
sweatynuts
Those are nice, but then your back sweats more.
00:21:16
cltruitt22
Yeah, true.
00:21:18
sweatynuts
Yeah, I've thought about that too. for my longer rides.
00:21:21
cltruitt22
Yeah. but I haven't been on my bike for a month.
00:21:27
sweatynuts
Oh, I thought I was back because I haven't been on my bike this week.
00:21:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:21:31
cltruitt22
Yeah, no, life's been busy, man.
00:21:34
sweatynuts
But I have done spin class. I did miss my spin class this morning. Didn't even think about it. My brother was like, don't you usually have spin class right now? I was like, oh, yeah. I do. Whoops.
00:21:50
cltruitt22
There's one empty bike there.
00:21:52
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. The old structure's like, it's wrong.
00:21:57
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:22:00
sweatynuts
That's what it is. You don't have to go every day.
00:22:03
cltruitt22
no
00:22:05
sweatynuts
I hit my activity goal for the week by Monday.
00:22:06
cltruitt22
You probably.
00:22:07
sweatynuts
So that was good.
00:22:08
cltruitt22
Yeah, I'd say you're good. Yeah.
00:22:14
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, the good thing is it's so safe around here to bike.
00:22:18
sweatynuts
Oh, yeah, it's not there. it's
00:22:20
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:22:23
sweatynuts
They're putting a new bike path in Newark.
00:22:25
cltruitt22
Oh yeah?
00:22:28
sweatynuts
It's going to go from Newark to Wilmington.
00:22:30
cltruitt22
Okay.
00:22:31
sweatynuts
I think it's going to go. out It might either go, it's either going to go Newark to Wilmington, or it's going to connect to the bike path that goes into Wilmington. I'm not sure. And I think they're supposed to put the release, the final path to like tomorrow, or no, Monday, maybe.
00:22:45
cltruitt22
Okay.
00:22:46
sweatynuts
Something and that very close.
00:22:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:22:49
sweatynuts
It's like $22 million dollars to do this bike path.
00:22:52
cltruitt22
Jeez!
00:22:53
sweatynuts
It's crazy expensive.
00:22:55
cltruitt22
22 million.
00:22:57
sweatynuts
Now, some of that is going to build bridges and stuff, but yeah, it's all, and the land's already like county or state land, so they're not even buying land.
00:22:58
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:23:00
cltruitt22
Okay.
00:23:06
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.
00:23:08
sweatynuts
Yeah. I'm very excited for the bike path though.
00:23:12
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, that sounds delightful.
00:23:13
sweatynuts
Yeah. I,
00:23:14
cltruitt22
I was excited when they teased us for the bike path and then never followed through.
00:23:20
sweatynuts
Yeah, with this bike path will be done.
00:23:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:23:24
sweatynuts
In theory, I can ride from my house to North Wilmington and technically into Pennsylvania, which should probably be 18 to 25 miles with only one mile of it being on a road.
00:23:35
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:23:38
cltruitt22
Nice.
00:23:39
sweatynuts
Yeah, that's the road.
00:23:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. Watch it out in Pennsylvania. There's a lot of snow.
00:23:44
sweatynuts
Sure.
00:23:50
sweatynuts
I guess?
00:23:51
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:23:52
sweatynuts
I tell the truth all the time. its My whole goal in life is just not have a car and ride my bike everywhere.
00:24:00
cltruitt22
It's a valid aspiration.
00:24:05
sweatynuts
Yeah, I mean, once I no longer have a job, what do I need a car for?
00:24:10
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:24:12
sweatynuts
I won't need to go to the gym as much as I could go to the gym because what's the point of being all muscled up when you're 60?
00:24:15
cltruitt22
Right.
00:24:19
cltruitt22
Yeah, well, I mean, you want to enjoy your retirement years.
00:24:24
sweatynuts
Yeah, I mean, still want to maintain.
00:24:24
cltruitt22
We just said, yeah, maintain just not.
00:24:27
sweatynuts
Just not this physique.
00:24:32
sweatynuts
This specimen of man.
00:24:35
cltruitt22
Hey, yeah you're doing more than a lot of people are doing.
00:24:38
sweatynuts
That's fair.
00:24:39
cltruitt22
So I got john I got in a gym this afternoon and there were two young men in there that I hadn't seen. In there, so one on a one from a shift, one on B shift.
00:24:45
sweatynuts
Good. Oh, Actually, you have a nice gym in 2016.
00:24:48
cltruitt22
Yeah, yep.
00:24:52
cltruitt22
Yeah, you guys have a great gym at station one.
00:24:53
sweatynuts
there's a couple things oh yeah yeah it's great all right yeah it's great all right yeah yeah well and the black widow spiders that I find in there regularly but other than that oh
00:24:58
cltruitt22
With the afro is showing you how to do it. Hmm. Yeah, any gym where they're like, hey, have you had your tetanus shot?
00:25:11
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. That's called motivation. Yeah.
00:25:16
sweatynuts
my god
00:25:17
cltruitt22
Well, that's what what Black Widow's are. Oh, no, they're a neurotoxin. It's going to say for the hematoxin, it'd be good, you know, get the blood flow going.
00:25:27
sweatynuts
So my friend um texted me the other day that he it was his birthday and he was like, ah I had a really shitty birthday and I was like, oh, that sucks. Didn't really elaborate, saw him.
00:25:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:25:41
sweatynuts
So Wednesday afternoon I saw him. He got bit by a brown recluse on his shoulder and it is necrotizing.
00:25:46
cltruitt22
Oh. Oh.
00:25:51
cltruitt22
ah Get it excised.
00:25:52
sweatynuts
I mean, it is an open wound and he's like, what do I do for this? I said, well, keep it clean.
00:26:00
sweatynuts
And yeah yeah I mean, that's what I told him. I was like, you're going to have to get that wound like debrided.
00:26:04
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:05
sweatynuts
And he went to, and this is a healthcare problem. I think he went to an urgent care and they gave him antibiotics and said, go home with no, with no follow up.
00:26:11
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:16
cltruitt22
What? And yeah, that's going to work.
00:26:19
sweatynuts
And I'm like, well,
00:26:19
cltruitt22
What? Oh, no.
00:26:21
sweatynuts
Again, I'm not a doctor, but I don't think a spider bite is a biotic issue.
00:26:23
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:28
cltruitt22
No.
00:26:28
sweatynuts
So the antibiotic and antibiotic is not going to work.
00:26:32
cltruitt22
Yeah, it really what he needs is here bite down on this belt and have your significant other take this Brillo pad and clean that wound out.
00:26:33
sweatynuts
So.
00:26:37
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:26:41
sweatynuts
Yeah. That's what I told him.
00:26:43
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:44
sweatynuts
And his, his significant other was like, really?
00:26:44
cltruitt22
And then dump it full of peroxide.
00:26:48
sweatynuts
I'm like.
00:26:49
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:49
sweatynuts
Yeah, it needs to be, you need to get all the dead flesh out.
00:26:50
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:26:55
sweatynuts
And Megatherian would technically work.
00:26:56
cltruitt22
Maggot therapy.
00:26:59
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:00
sweatynuts
And, and then he was like, he's like, well, I'm swelling.
00:27:01
cltruitt22
Yeah. yeah
00:27:05
sweatynuts
So I took ibuprofen. I said, well, you're swelling because you're having a histamine response. So you want to take an antihistamine.
00:27:09
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah. Yeah. Or address the point, that the root cause.
00:27:13
sweatynuts
But again, I'm not a doctor.
00:27:17
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:27:18
cltruitt22
ah Gosh.
00:27:18
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. So they were like, well, what do we do?
00:27:21
cltruitt22
Golly day.
00:27:22
sweatynuts
How will we know if it gets worse? I'm like, well, if it starts to turn any colors or smell bad, it's time to go.
00:27:24
cltruitt22
Was. Yeah, or when his arm falls off.
00:27:29
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:27:30
cltruitt22
Golly day.
00:27:31
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. But who's gross?
00:27:33
cltruitt22
Or he gets superpowers.
00:27:35
sweatynuts
Or it gets your powers. I think if I'm speaking one of those responses, I bet it's going to be the arm falling off.
00:27:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:41
cltruitt22
Yeah, probably.
00:27:42
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:27:44
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:27:44
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:27:45
cltruitt22
Let's see what I got a. yeah but another level of respect for our fire chief.
00:27:50
sweatynuts
Okay.
00:27:51
cltruitt22
He he was he told this story yesterday. He was fishing on his day off and went to pick the fish up and it flipped around or something. And one of the other hooks landed in his ring finger and it was a treble hook. So he held the fish down, and he looked at his friend who was with him. He was like, I need you to pull this you know unhook this fish, or else it's going to rip you know my finger off. He goes, I'm not good with blood, and this and that. So he was able to use his other hand, get the fish unhooked from the one hook, get rid of the fish. It was past the barb, and he didn't really have anything with him.
00:28:34
cltruitt22
And it was such a, so it was a smaller hook, so there wasn't enough room to push it through and cut it. So he took pliers and just wiggled it back and forth until he backed it out of his finger.
00:28:48
cltruitt22
Yeah. He said it took me about five, 10 minutes, but I got it out.
00:28:53
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:28:53
sweatynuts
And then I- Then you drove immediately to get a tetanus shot.
00:28:53
cltruitt22
He said he's on a moving boat digging around in his finger. Yeah.
00:29:00
sweatynuts
I would hope.
00:29:00
cltruitt22
Evidently he just had one, so he was lucky.
00:29:01
sweatynuts
Oh, okay. Good.
00:29:03
cltruitt22
But yeah, he was like, yeah, it doesn't even hurt. Slams his hand on the ah table. I was like, well, that's because you've got Ray Knowles, so you don't have feeling in those two fingers.
00:29:10
sweatynuts
It's true.
00:29:12
cltruitt22
Oh, gosh.
00:29:12
sweatynuts
It's a superpower.
00:29:13
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like good lord, man.
00:29:15
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:29:16
cltruitt22
You're harder than me. I wasn't that bad. It didn't hurt. It's like you you're a maniac.
00:29:22
sweatynuts
When I was a wee lad, my grandfather used to take us fishing all the time. Then my brother and I. And one time we're at the C and&D Canal fishing. My brother goes to Cass and he takes, he goes backwards and hooks my grandfather's arm and then tries to catch.
00:29:35
cltruitt22
oh
00:29:40
cltruitt22
oh
00:29:42
sweatynuts
My grandfather didn't say, he did not say it didn't, it was painless. I can say that.
00:29:46
cltruitt22
Yeah, I bet.
00:29:48
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:52
sweatynuts
My poor brother.
00:29:52
cltruitt22
yeah ah but You cast again?
00:29:53
sweatynuts
My grandfather just screamed at him.
00:30:02
cltruitt22
No!
00:30:04
sweatynuts
I mean, I discovered my superpower this week.
00:30:06
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, you did.
00:30:08
sweatynuts
I don't know how that happened, but a little tiny ember got in between my coat and my hood, passed my helmet brim, and it got stuck right in my back air and didn't burn me.
00:30:19
cltruitt22
Wow.
00:30:20
sweatynuts
Superpower.
00:30:21
cltruitt22
Would you just smell it smoldering?
00:30:24
sweatynuts
Well, I felt it.
00:30:25
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:30:25
sweatynuts
I was like, oh, put that out.
00:30:26
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:30:30
cltruitt22
See, if you've been like the other guy shirtless, you would have been fine.
00:30:31
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:30:33
cltruitt22
You've been easy to find.
00:30:35
sweatynuts
Yeah. It's like I had other problems, though.
00:30:36
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, probably.
00:30:39
sweatynuts
Yeah, it was pretty hot in that building because it was happy to be on fire at the time.
00:30:41
cltruitt22
Yeah. Ah.
00:30:44
cltruitt22
Really? Yeah.
00:30:47
sweatynuts
Fire hot.
00:30:48
cltruitt22
Yeah, fire hot, fire bad.
00:30:50
sweatynuts
Fire bad.
00:30:51
cltruitt22
Yeah. Mm. Mm-mm.
00:30:54
sweatynuts
Well, on to topic one.
00:30:55
cltruitt22
Mm-mm. Sure, topic one.
00:30:58
sweatynuts
Topic one, is there anything more a waste of taxpayers' dollars, time, abuse of privilege, like a fireman's convention?
00:31:05
cltruitt22
Ah.
00:31:16
cltruitt22
Uh, nope, not really.
00:31:19
sweatynuts
I mean, so I got a fork Wednesday morning. which they must have had their parade on Wednesday afternoon, I'm assuming. And as I'm driving, no,
00:31:28
cltruitt22
Well, you were in town to drive down there for it.
00:31:33
cltruitt22
Nope.
00:31:33
sweatynuts
but as i'm as I'm driving home, I get to see all the fire trucks driving towards Ocean City.
00:31:36
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:31:40
sweatynuts
And I'm just like, what how is this an appropriate use of resources?
00:31:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:31:48
sweatynuts
And I'm going to throw my fire department right under the bus. because we bought a brand new ladder truck last year and we couldn't put it in service because it had to be at the convention.
00:31:59
cltruitt22
right yeah oh yeah yeah yeah they'd be like if you bought a new car and they're like hey you know well because you got this package on it we actually have to keep it in the showroom for another three months no no right yeah yeah
00:32:00
sweatynuts
Which I would like to understand the mayor's perspective of that is I butt i bought you a ladder truck and you can't use it for two months so we can go to convention. How does that make sense? Make that make sense.
00:32:21
sweatynuts
Exactly. The taxpayers paid for that fire engine, right? That that piece of apparatus, that ambulance, that whatever. How is that appropriate?
00:32:34
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah, I know.
00:32:36
sweatynuts
and And then, so the one the one I saw was Chesapeake City's engine was driving down, which I get, sorta I get it, but how much does that cost in taxpayer fuel?
00:32:50
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:32:50
sweatynuts
you know, and if that engine's in Ocean City and clearly you don't need it in Chesapeake City, so why do you have it?
00:32:56
cltruitt22
Right.
00:33:01
sweatynuts
Right?
00:33:02
cltruitt22
That's why you have multiple engines, Ron. You have to have a backup and a parade piece and.
00:33:08
sweatynuts
Yeah, so Smyrna Fire Department in Delaware, I'm sorry, Smyrna, they literally had an engine that sat in a shed that was next to the building that was just for parades.
00:33:15
cltruitt22
Oh, but
00:33:23
cltruitt22
oh my gosh. Oh,
00:33:28
sweatynuts
But these are the same fire departments that cry poor and how they don't have enough money for things.
00:33:32
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:33:34
sweatynuts
Do you have enough money to have a piece of apparatus that can just go to parades?
00:33:34
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:33:38
cltruitt22
Right.
00:33:39
sweatynuts
Or any piece of apparatus that can go to a parade?
00:33:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, and that's the thing. When's the last time you saw somebody buy? Let's think of a functional vehicle, like a bulldozer.
00:33:49
sweatynuts
Sure.
00:33:49
cltruitt22
like Yeah. Yeah, I went the chrome rivets on that. And yeah, the the tinted window and the, you know, all the hoops. No, it's a working piece of apparatus.
00:34:02
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:05
cltruitt22
I've said it for years.
00:34:05
sweatynuts
it's ah
00:34:06
cltruitt22
I yeah I've known guys and gals working in other cities and they're like, yeah, yeah, the engine's like 20 years old. It's got steel rims and ah the paint's kind of rough on it, but goes to work.
00:34:21
sweatynuts
It's... Still goes, puts fires out.
00:34:23
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:34:24
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:34:25
cltruitt22
Yeah, I take it to this day, I would rather have engine for engine 10.
00:34:31
sweatynuts
yeah Yeah, absolutely. I mean,
00:34:35
sweatynuts
Yeah, I can't.
00:34:37
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:34:39
sweatynuts
I feel like fire departments and and maybe this is just my cynical side of me and maybe it's because I'm too to close to the ball team.
00:34:40
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:34:48
sweatynuts
I see how much sausage is made.
00:34:50
cltruitt22
yeah
00:34:51
sweatynuts
I feel like fire departments waste so much money and it's on apparatus.
00:34:55
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:34:57
sweatynuts
Like I looked at our budget for the year or at least the proposed budget for our year and
00:34:58
cltruitt22
Sure. Yeah.
00:35:02
sweatynuts
what 85% of it is employee costs.
00:35:04
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:35:05
sweatynuts
That's just part of the deal, right? Like that's how services function, you need the employees part of the deal.
00:35:07
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:11
sweatynuts
Can't really do much about that. But we could take a big chunk at our maintenance budget and our capital budget by having more fiscally responsible decisions when it comes to our apparatus.
00:35:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:35:26
sweatynuts
Like there's nothing we do at the ambulances, right? They gotta be replaced on a regular cycle.
00:35:31
cltruitt22
Right.
00:35:32
sweatynuts
you know I don't know if people know this, ambulances get the crappy out of them.
00:35:37
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah.
00:35:38
sweatynuts
They don't design diesel engines to be run the way that ambulances operate.
00:35:43
cltruitt22
Nor does a gas engine keep up with the use of an ambulance.
00:35:49
sweatynuts
Right.
00:35:50
cltruitt22
There's there's no good engine motor to put in an ambulance.
00:35:52
sweatynuts
There's just no good answer to how an ambulance has to operate.
00:35:54
cltruitt22
Yeah. Right.
00:35:57
sweatynuts
but it's just it It just doesn't have a ah good
00:36:01
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:36:02
sweatynuts
they don't design vehicles because they can't design vehicles that way but it's bonkers but yeah nothing is supposed to run
00:36:05
cltruitt22
No.
00:36:09
cltruitt22
yeah we Yeah, when you look at the use of a vehicle and you know you compare it to it, you're like, no, no, that's not what a vehicle is supposed to be doing. No.
00:36:19
sweatynuts
High RPMs, high RPMs High RPMs, high RPMs stop. This is not how it's ah supposed to operate.
00:36:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:36:27
sweatynuts
but And there's nothing we can do about it. you know they They go on a lot of calls.
00:36:29
cltruitt22
Right.
00:36:30
sweatynuts
They're going to have to be replaced. We could definitely do something about our fire apparatus.
00:36:37
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:36:38
sweatynuts
And I'm not talking about just my department or our department.
00:36:39
cltruitt22
Oh, no, it's every department.
00:36:41
sweatynuts
I think it's every department.
00:36:42
cltruitt22
Well, and I think if more departments were like that and push back a little bit, you wouldn't be seeing departments having to pay one point two million dollars for a rescue truck.
00:36:54
sweatynuts
Yeah. Well, and I don't know if this is true, but our budget was 1.3 for an engine.
00:37:02
cltruitt22
Oh, does it drive itself?
00:37:04
sweatynuts
that's That's insane. That's insane.
00:37:08
cltruitt22
Oh, my gosh.
00:37:09
sweatynuts
1.3 for an engine is insane.
00:37:11
cltruitt22
yeah
00:37:13
sweatynuts
And like the volunteer from Delaware who works on the shift after me, we were having this conversation of like, as a taxpayer, And you guys come to me and say, we need $18 million. dollars And I look at you and say, good. We will give you the money, but I need somebody to actually supervise how you're spending money.
00:37:32
cltruitt22
Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:37:34
sweatynuts
We don't want that. Well, then you don't get the money.
00:37:35
cltruitt22
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:37:39
sweatynuts
Do you need two ladder trucks and five engines in the city of Newark? Would you could only staff one of them and only get one of them out?
00:37:49
cltruitt22
Wait, the resources should match the needs?
00:37:53
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:37:54
cltruitt22
What? Oh, come on.
00:37:56
sweatynuts
Weirdly.
00:37:57
cltruitt22
and You know, in your own house, you have you and your wife each have a backup vehicle to use.
00:38:05
sweatynuts
Sure. Sure we do.
00:38:05
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:07
sweatynuts
Sure. I mean, Chris, we have an engine that's sitting as a backup engine that we lent out to be the backup engine to another department right now.
00:38:08
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:38:19
cltruitt22
What's wrong with that?
00:38:19
sweatynuts
Make that makes sense to a taxpayer.
00:38:23
cltruitt22
I can't.
00:38:24
sweatynuts
who paid for that engine.
00:38:25
cltruitt22
I can't make it make sense to the guy sitting in the office three down from the guy in charge.
00:38:33
sweatynuts
Either you need the engine or you don't.
00:38:35
cltruitt22
yeah Or you don't. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:42
sweatynuts
Let's be cost effective here and explain why our department needs a ladder truck ah tower ladder that has gone on, as far as I remember, five calls.
00:38:54
cltruitt22
Five legitimate calls.
00:38:54
sweatynuts
where it's gone and acts where it was used as a power.
00:38:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:38:58
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah. Hmm.
00:39:02
sweatynuts
Millions of dollars.
00:39:02
cltruitt22
I still don't understand why they put a pump on that thing.
00:39:06
sweatynuts
butm Sure.
00:39:08
cltruitt22
God.
00:39:08
sweatynuts
Sure. Or
00:39:10
cltruitt22
That doesn't even have that that whole piece of apparatus is just not designed well, but the fact that the intake for the pump from the tank is too small. So if you open the tank, the pump will cavitate unless you're hooked to a hydrant.
00:39:29
sweatynuts
Yes.
00:39:29
cltruitt22
That makes sense.
00:39:31
sweatynuts
Yeah. It can't even fill the pipe up the tower to make, to make, it doesn't make anything.
00:39:35
cltruitt22
now No. No. No.
00:39:38
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. But.
00:39:40
cltruitt22
I can't. So there's so there's some salesman out there laughing and scratching his belly.
00:39:44
sweatynuts
Well, that's, I think that's the worst part about this.
00:39:45
cltruitt22
With his shirt off.
00:39:46
sweatynuts
It's the companies that make these fire credits that are just laughing at these cities.
00:39:50
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:39:52
sweatynuts
Because city officials are not elected, mostly are not firefighters, right? I'm sure there are some, but not most of them aren't firefighters and they're going, Oh, the fire department says we need a new engine.
00:39:59
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:06
sweatynuts
All right. I guess we'll scrape together $1.2 million.
00:40:06
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:09
sweatynuts
But do you need a new fire engine?
00:40:12
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:13
sweatynuts
Does Salisbury need a new engine right now?
00:40:16
cltruitt22
No.
00:40:17
sweatynuts
Maybe I can make an argument that we're going to need a new engine in the next four years.
00:40:22
cltruitt22
Yeah, so you take the back line one and you're refurbished.
00:40:26
sweatynuts
Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's also buys two engines at a time for reasons that I can't understand.
00:40:29
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:33
cltruitt22
Well, because they did it at one time and it made sense.
00:40:36
sweatynuts
Right. Right.
00:40:38
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:40
sweatynuts
I mean, sure.
00:40:41
cltruitt22
But we also have certain individuals who spend almost as much as the cost of a command vehicle on the light package.
00:40:52
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:52
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:40:53
cltruitt22
And then you've got the housing inspector who can't even get them to you know fund a $14,000 F-150 or you know Ranger for him.
00:41:05
sweatynuts
I mean, it's hard for me to argue about fiscal responsibility when the city didn't have a garbage truck.
00:41:05
cltruitt22
they They got that light package and the building instructor was or yeah inspector was like, yeah, I've got one windshield wiper that works and no heat.
00:41:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:41:26
sweatynuts
Cause I could tell you this and I know that as a, look, I'm a member of the fire service, my whole life.
00:41:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:41:32
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:41:32
sweatynuts
People give a hell of a rat's mass more about the the trash truck than they do the fire truck.
00:41:36
cltruitt22
Oh, good gosh, yes.
00:41:38
sweatynuts
Cause when the trash don't get picked up, they get real angry.
00:41:41
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. And that's a regular thing. It's not like the fire department stops by once a week.
00:41:44
sweatynuts
Right.
00:41:46
cltruitt22
It's like, hey, you good. OK, see you next week.
00:41:47
sweatynuts
Right. Right. You see your fire truck, your trash truck every week.
00:41:49
cltruitt22
No.
00:41:51
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:41:52
sweatynuts
and if it if it misses a week it's bad if it misses four weeks right yeah yeah and it's so and right yeah i would be too i'd be like how dare these bastards but so it's it's a real hard argument and then to top all that argument off to say
00:41:54
cltruitt22
Hell, if it misses an hour.
00:41:59
cltruitt22
There are people riding in the streets if, you know, the garbage truck is four hours late. And rightfully so. I would be one of them. ah Yeah.
00:42:19
sweatynuts
I mean, our department used to spend department funds to get hotel rooms for people to go down to convention.
00:42:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:42:30
sweatynuts
We live 20 minutes or you guys live 20 minutes from the convention.
00:42:30
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:42:34
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:37
sweatynuts
You can't commute 20 minutes.
00:42:39
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:41
sweatynuts
Well, that wasn't that wasn't city funds. That was volunteer funds.
00:42:45
cltruitt22
That's still city funds in Salisbury, but whatever.
00:42:45
sweatynuts
Oh, it's weird.
00:42:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:42:49
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:42:51
cltruitt22
Unless they are taking money out of their own pocket to pay for it, it's somehow tax dollars.
00:42:52
sweatynuts
it
00:42:55
sweatynuts
which Which they are not doing.
00:42:58
cltruitt22
Yeah, exactly.
00:43:00
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. The older I get, the older I get in the service. And now Delaware, because the volunteers have gone to the county and said, oh, we need all this money.
00:43:09
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Your fire service fee.
00:43:11
sweatynuts
And now the state has passed a fire service fee. It's like, sure.
00:43:14
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:43:16
sweatynuts
I'm all about funding the fire department.
00:43:18
cltruitt22
Right.
00:43:19
sweatynuts
I'm not saying we shouldn't find fund the fire department, but we need to fund the fire department correctly.
00:43:24
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:43:25
sweatynuts
the the With no oversight.
00:43:26
cltruitt22
What you mean, the way Y Comico just gives them. thousands of dollars and just says, here you go. You don't have to show me what you used it for.
00:43:34
sweatynuts
Right.
00:43:34
cltruitt22
No, no, no, no, no.
00:43:35
sweatynuts
Yeah. Well, the the young man who's on A-Shift said, oh, I save, he he told me that he saves me, the taxpayer, tons of money because he's a living.
00:43:36
cltruitt22
Just here you go.
00:43:47
sweatynuts
And I said, okay, let's go through it. How much do you think your housing costs? Well, I get a $25,000 a year. Oh, okay. $25,000 a year. All right.
00:43:58
cltruitt22
um Okay. All right.
00:43:59
sweatynuts
Sure. Uh, what do we feed you? right Yeah. I want to want you to have to, you know, there's food sometimes and okay. So let's, let's say another 10,000 give you insurance. Well, yeah, there's insurance. Well, okay.
00:44:10
cltruitt22
No, okay.
00:44:10
sweatynuts
So now we're up to 45, 50 thou. Oh, I could have just hired somebody.
00:44:14
cltruitt22
Exactly.
00:44:16
sweatynuts
Right? Could have just hired somebody.
00:44:17
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:18
sweatynuts
Oh, but by the way, my department bought buildings for you to live in.
00:44:19
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:44:23
sweatynuts
Those buildings were well over a million dollars that the department spent on those buildings.
00:44:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:27
cltruitt22
Holy crap.
00:44:28
sweatynuts
So think about how many runs you need to go on for that to pay back to taxpayers. It's out of control.
00:44:37
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:38
sweatynuts
Yeah. There's only only one answer. That is Ron Wismar for Dictator for Life.
00:44:44
cltruitt22
Yeah. right t All those in favor say aye.
00:44:48
cltruitt22
Aye.
00:44:48
sweatynuts
i
00:44:49
sweatynuts
that's that's a nice idea but
00:44:49
cltruitt22
The ayes have it.
00:44:53
sweatynuts
And we're gonna get trash trucks there's gonna be trash trucks god damn it Yeah a
00:44:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:59
cltruitt22
Here's your platform. A trash truck in every neighborhood.
00:45:04
sweatynuts
Trash truck for every city The building inspector will have a vehicle that works
00:45:06
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:45:10
cltruitt22
Yeah. He'll have two windshield wipers.
00:45:13
sweatynuts
the The deputy volunteer fire chief who doesn't go on calls and is not medically clear to go on calls won't have a city vehicle. Oh, did I say that?
00:45:21
cltruitt22
ah
00:45:22
sweatynuts
Felix shouldn't say that one. Is that a step too far?
00:45:27
cltruitt22
No, just that's another whole nother level of rage.
00:45:33
sweatynuts
Taxpayer funded.
00:45:34
cltruitt22
ah Yeah, yeah.
00:45:37
sweatynuts
what this a side danger that but What happens if he gets sort of a wreck in that vehicle?
00:45:45
cltruitt22
I. ah Yeah.
00:45:51
cltruitt22
the
00:45:53
sweatynuts
yeah
00:45:54
cltruitt22
Yeah. Bad things.
00:45:56
sweatynuts
Bad I think the problem is
00:45:57
cltruitt22
Nothing good.
00:46:00
cltruitt22
Yeah, I don't know, though, the way that the last one, you'll probably get some award.
00:46:09
cltruitt22
God.
00:46:12
sweatynuts
I think ultimately the problem is fire departments in America have operated with little to no oversight for the last 200 plus years.
00:46:20
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:46:21
sweatynuts
And now it has become so expensive that they're going to need oversight and no one knows what that looks like.
00:46:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:46:27
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, and that's why people are up in arms with the proposed OSHA changes and things like that. It's like, yeah, sorry, you're going to have oversight.
00:46:38
sweatynuts
Right.
00:46:38
cltruitt22
You're going to have to be medically fit to do the job.
00:46:41
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, maybe we should.
00:46:42
cltruitt22
Yeah. And mentally fit.
00:46:45
sweatynuts
Well, maybe we should stop.
00:46:46
cltruitt22
And you're going to have to have benchmark training.
00:46:49
sweatynuts
Oh God.
00:46:50
cltruitt22
Can't just say, all right. It's Bill's grandson. He's a hell of a guy. He drives a tractor all day. He could drive a fire truck. No, he can't. No.
00:47:00
sweatynuts
I don't know if this is still true, but I know when I started in the Delaware State Fire Service, this was true. You were not required to go to fire school to be a firefighter. You just had to have your chief say, yeah, you're good to go.
00:47:14
cltruitt22
Well, that makes sense.
00:47:15
sweatynuts
And you were good to go. Doesn't it?
00:47:18
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:47:20
cltruitt22
ah Because I mean, we well, there are police chiefs out there that they just deputize people and put them on the street all the time. Oh, wait, no, that doesn't happen.
00:47:20
sweatynuts
And I know for sure, but there are sheriffs and there are sheriffs in the country who are just elected people who then become sheriff.
00:47:35
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's a whole other thing who he's running again.
00:47:38
sweatynuts
but That's a whole other thing.
00:47:41
sweatynuts
I thought he was done no ah the way things are safer than they've ever been in America but whatever yeah but I just I think the fire service needs some insight and some actual oversight you need to actually justify things
00:47:43
cltruitt22
No, no, no, he announced the other night, ah you know, the way things are, I need to stay and make sure things keep rolling smoothly.
00:47:53
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:48:10
sweatynuts
Would be nice for America. Be nice for me. I really like my fire service that covers my house to be run professionally. I think everybody should feel that way.
00:48:19
cltruitt22
I agree. Yeah.
00:48:22
sweatynuts
yeah yeah And so cancel all fireman's parades.
00:48:29
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:48:30
sweatynuts
Let's be done with it.
00:48:31
cltruitt22
yeah Does anyone like a parade?
00:48:36
sweatynuts
And little kids? I don't know.
00:48:38
cltruitt22
But it's a hassle. They're shutting down roadways.
00:48:41
sweatynuts
Yeah?
00:48:42
cltruitt22
There's this weird queue of people. Yeah, I don't know. That's like, you know, people are like, oh, it's a Macy's Day parade. i I'd rather stare at the wall.
00:48:54
sweatynuts
The only parade that I still, I guess, cotton to, is when someone dies in line of duty. And that, it's not a, it's a procession, it's still a parade.
00:49:03
cltruitt22
But that's not a parade, that's a procession.
00:49:07
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:49:09
sweatynuts
Some places it's really like a parade.
00:49:11
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:49:11
sweatynuts
You know, but they march and do a whole thing.
00:49:14
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:49:15
sweatynuts
But they put on in the back of the car.
00:49:15
cltruitt22
They got the person up there as an animatronic waving.
00:49:24
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:24
sweatynuts
The guy just waves his hand for him.
00:49:26
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:49:27
sweatynuts
That's terrible.
00:49:27
cltruitt22
Yeah. Weaken the burnies.
00:49:29
sweatynuts
That's terrible. Well, we've ranted enough on this.
00:49:30
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:49:34
cltruitt22
Hmm. Yeah.
00:49:37
sweatynuts
Some of us have to go on vacation, so mean they need to be out early.
00:49:39
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:49:42
cltruitt22
What? No, I have to be out early because my youngest has to go to the gym.
00:49:46
sweatynuts
No.
00:49:47
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:49:49
sweatynuts
Gymnastics gym or beep-a-blop gym?
00:49:50
cltruitt22
A personal trainer gym.
00:49:53
sweatynuts
Oh.
00:49:54
cltruitt22
Yeah. ah Yeah. As a high school athlete.
00:49:57
sweatynuts
Kitten.
00:49:59
cltruitt22
and You've got the others. Yeah, thanks.
00:50:04
sweatynuts
It's fair?
00:50:05
cltruitt22
Yeah. so
00:50:06
sweatynuts
Man, high school athletes have really changed since we were kids.
00:50:09
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:50:12
sweatynuts
When I was in football, you just showed up two weeks before school and you did football.
00:50:12
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:50:15
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:50:21
cltruitt22
All right. Well, for my topic, I was going to run us through some this or that questions. so can Yeah.
00:50:27
sweatynuts
Oh, good. I love this. for that Sunrise.
00:50:31
cltruitt22
So let's see. Sunrise or sunset?
00:50:40
cltruitt22
Yeah, I'm a sunrise person too.
00:50:42
sweatynuts
I didn't used to be, but the closer I get to the end of a march of death, sunrise becomes more important.
00:50:43
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:50:49
cltruitt22
Yeah. yeah it's Yeah, the sun is up. It's showing that the day is beginning and there's brightness entering.
00:50:58
sweatynuts
And if you're awake, like I happen to be a lot before the sunrise, it's kind of like really nice to go from like,
00:50:58
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:51:04
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:51:08
sweatynuts
dark to light versus the other way it's kind of like depressing to go into the dark yeah yeah sunrise oh
00:51:09
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh yeah. It is. It's very depressing. Yeah. ah um Live one immortal life or reincarnate every 10 years.
00:51:24
sweatynuts
every 10 years uh what
00:51:26
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:51:30
sweatynuts
a mortal life it's gotta be
00:51:32
cltruitt22
That's what I. Yeah.
00:51:35
sweatynuts
I feel like in just 10 years, you've just you're not learning enough in 10 years.
00:51:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:51:39
sweatynuts
Yeah, you're not gonna get enough done.
00:51:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. unless you're leaving like notes for yourself.
00:51:43
sweatynuts
Sure. I mean, it's just way to gain the system, but...
00:51:45
cltruitt22
But that's going to take you a couple of years to find the notes and.
00:51:48
sweatynuts
Yeah. But then if it's my handwriting, it's gonna be terrible to read.
00:51:51
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:51:52
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:51:54
cltruitt22
What the hell was I trying to say? Oh,
00:51:57
sweatynuts
I do that constantly now. I will go on a call, write myself notes, get back to the station within 10 minutes and say, what the hell does this read?
00:52:04
cltruitt22
ah
00:52:06
cltruitt22
ah yeah.
00:52:07
sweatynuts
I will literally go to my driver and say, what does this say? And they will say, I have no idea. You have terrible handwriting.
00:52:14
cltruitt22
I thought that's why your chauffeur wrote things for you now.
00:52:16
sweatynuts
That's what she does.
00:52:18
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:52:18
sweatynuts
That's her job.
00:52:19
cltruitt22
yeah um So if you worked a Monday through Friday, have Mondays off or Fridays off?
00:52:25
sweatynuts
Oh.
00:52:29
sweatynuts
Oh, so I had this conversation with my wife, actually, because they were at one point talking about going to a four day week work week when they were going to have to choose Mondays or Fridays.
00:52:32
cltruitt22
ah
00:52:41
cltruitt22
really yeah oh
00:52:41
sweatynuts
And I said, you should choose Monday because when normally if a holiday happens on the weekend, they observe it on the Monday. So then you would get Monday, Tuesday off gaming the system.
00:52:58
cltruitt22
yeah yeah see i i think i'd rather have wednesday off yeah
00:52:59
sweatynuts
Yeah. Oh, yeah. god boy That wasn't the question.
00:53:07
cltruitt22
but but yeah yeah But if you go to a four-day week, I'd rather work Monday, Tuesday off Wednesday, work Thursday, Friday off Saturday, Sunday.
00:53:14
sweatynuts
Yes.
00:53:15
cltruitt22
But yeah, Mondays or Fridays? ah Part of me, I think the Mondays, because I think a lot of people take Fridays off.
00:53:20
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:53:22
cltruitt22
I don't want to be around a bunch of people.
00:53:24
sweatynuts
Right.
00:53:25
cltruitt22
If I'm the guy that has Mondays off, that's just me.
00:53:28
sweatynuts
And everybody who's in the office on Monday is miserable. I'd rather skip that.
00:53:31
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:32
sweatynuts
I'll hit the Monday off.
00:53:34
cltruitt22
Yeah. um
00:53:45
cltruitt22
friday nights or sunday mornings really yeah because yeah i don't yeah it's not like we go out on friday nights yeah that's true so so but um b-shift nights or i don't know
00:53:50
sweatynuts
It doesn't mean anything to me.
00:53:58
sweatynuts
Well, I've just been a shift worker for so long that like Friday night doesn't mean anything to me. Okay.
00:54:12
cltruitt22
C shift mornings.
00:54:15
sweatynuts
ah C-Shift mornings.
00:54:17
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:54:19
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:20
cltruitt22
Yeah. I'd rather have Sunday morning. I don't know. Usually everybody else sleeps in. I get up, I get my cup of coffee.
00:54:26
sweatynuts
I feel like I get so much done.
00:54:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:54:29
sweatynuts
There's nothing better than me, Sunday morning, especially now, like because I go to so spin class in the morning. So I get up, I have my breakfast, I clean the house a little bit, I go to spin class, I'm done by 11 and my day is free.
00:54:33
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:54:40
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah, you have seized the carp.
00:54:41
sweatynuts
And yeah, the carp has been mine.
00:54:45
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:54:46
sweatynuts
Yeah. And that what are you going to do at night anymore?
00:54:51
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah. Ooh. Would you have would? Yeah. Silent but deadly farts or loud and odorless farts?
00:55:12
sweatynuts
This brings up a side tangent.
00:55:12
cltruitt22
I think I'd rather have silent.
00:55:16
sweatynuts
I think I'd rather go loud for one very important reason.
00:55:17
cltruitt22
Really?
00:55:23
sweatynuts
When you're in the gym, everybody's got their headphones in.
00:55:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:29
sweatynuts
You know, everybody's farting in that place the whole time.
00:55:32
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:32
sweatynuts
Everybody's doing squats or sit ups, or you're doing things that make you fart.
00:55:34
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:55:38
sweatynuts
So if everybody can't hear anyways because they got headphones in, it must be loud and not smell bad.
00:55:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:43
sweatynuts
Because if they smell as bad, they're going to know who's you.
00:55:43
cltruitt22
Yeah. No, that's why you got to do the crop dust.
00:55:49
sweatynuts
This guy wandering around the gym all the time.
00:55:52
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:56
sweatynuts
Yeah, no.
00:55:56
cltruitt22
You ever have that where you've got like, because like if I go to the grocery store, I'll usually put earbuds in if I'm by myself.
00:55:57
sweatynuts
Gonna go loud.
00:56:03
cltruitt22
And I've done it before where I've walked down the aisle, thought I let out a quiet fart and but you notice somebody like look in the aisle and you're like, crap, is that loud? I don't know. I'm getting your buds in.
00:56:17
sweatynuts
My wife and I went to Rehobis last year and we were in a bookstore and apparently I farted so loud that it got on a Yelp review.
00:56:28
cltruitt22
That is epic.
00:56:30
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:32
cltruitt22
Oh, oh, my God.
00:56:36
sweatynuts
It literally is like there's a Google review of this place that says bookstore is pretty cool, but there was a guy who farted very loudly.
00:56:36
cltruitt22
You. yeah
00:56:46
cltruitt22
Oh my god, you need to like cut and paste that.
00:56:49
sweatynuts
Yeah, I just put it in my office.
00:56:50
cltruitt22
Oh oh my gosh.
00:56:52
sweatynuts
Yeah. She brings it up all the time.
00:56:57
cltruitt22
a Shop online or in person.
00:57:02
sweatynuts
It's all online.
00:57:03
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:57:03
sweatynuts
I mean, I get so annoyed these days. Right now, I got so, ROB has this toothbrush that like you just replace the head. You just put a new head on there and like, you don't have to buy a new handle every time.
00:57:16
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:57:19
sweatynuts
So it cuts down on wastage.
00:57:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:57:21
sweatynuts
So it's time for me to get a new toothpaste head toothbrush head. So, cause I get it every time I go get the dentist, just get a new head. Boom. I got systems in my life is full of crazy systems.
00:57:31
cltruitt22
move
00:57:33
sweatynuts
Do you think the four times I've gone to the store this week, I've been able to find where those toothbrush heads?
00:57:37
cltruitt22
Absolutely not.
00:57:38
sweatynuts
Absolutely not. Do you think if I go to Amazon right now, I can get that toothbrush head here by five o'clock today?
00:57:40
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:57:42
cltruitt22
Oh yeah.
00:57:45
cltruitt22
Yeah, probably.
00:57:46
sweatynuts
Probably.
00:57:47
cltruitt22
Yeah, oh yeah, my kids use quip.
00:57:51
sweatynuts
Oh, oh yeah. like I tried Quip.
00:57:52
cltruitt22
So.
00:57:53
sweatynuts
ah Mine broke, and I was like, eh, I'm done.
00:57:55
cltruitt22
Yeah, and it's yeah, I mean, yeah, just like you said, package comes in the mail.
00:57:57
sweatynuts
It was fine.
00:58:01
cltruitt22
Hey, look, it's time for a new toothbrush head.
00:58:04
sweatynuts
Yep. It was nice.
00:58:05
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:58:06
sweatynuts
that's as just It's not that I hate shopping in stores. It's just that I never have what I want.
00:58:13
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:58:14
sweatynuts
The only thing I don't do, I do not buy groceries online.
00:58:21
cltruitt22
I won't buy produce or meat.
00:58:22
sweatynuts
Like I don't do that, that delivery. Yeah. Yeah. If I, if I'm going to buy groceries, which pretty much means roaches or meat is I'm going to the store.
00:58:30
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah, yeah.
00:58:32
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:58:33
cltruitt22
Yeah, if it's a non-perishable or pasta or something like that, yeah, hi online's fine. But I've seen the way those people bag up apples and things.
00:58:39
sweatynuts
Sure.
00:58:43
cltruitt22
No.
00:58:44
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:58:44
sweatynuts
I don't know people who bag my groceries.
00:58:44
cltruitt22
Yeah, because I'm like a maniac. i'm like Yeah, I'm the person I go to, like, Lowe's or Amdipo, and I'm looking at every board before I buy it. I'm the same way with an apple.
00:58:52
sweatynuts
Yeah, of course.
00:58:53
cltruitt22
Pick it up, it's spin it all around. Look how.
00:58:57
sweatynuts
It's a 25 minute ordeal to get a watermelon.
00:58:57
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:59:00
cltruitt22
I can't.
00:59:02
sweatynuts
I have to put the watermelon against my ear and plunk it. I don't know what I'm listening for, but I have to do it.
00:59:04
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. and there's There's a you know, the good plunk.
00:59:11
sweatynuts
right One of these days I'm going to hear the watermelon go, bo and I will know that that is the watermelon that I was chosen for.
00:59:18
cltruitt22
But would you cut it open?
00:59:20
sweatynuts
Yeah. How else am I going to imbue its power?
00:59:21
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh yeah, that's true.
00:59:24
sweatynuts
Yeah.
00:59:25
cltruitt22
um Speak to animals or speak all languages?
00:59:32
sweatynuts
Wow.
00:59:32
cltruitt22
I think i' one is I'd want to speak to animals.
00:59:35
sweatynuts
That really hits me. Are all languages.
00:59:37
cltruitt22
Yeah, all languages.
00:59:39
sweatynuts
All languages.
00:59:40
cltruitt22
Yeah, all languages.
00:59:42
sweatynuts
I'm choosing all languages.
00:59:44
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:59:45
sweatynuts
Because there are languages that we don't speak anymore and we don't know how to, we can't even interpret them.
00:59:50
cltruitt22
Uh, yeah.
00:59:50
sweatynuts
You would be such a selfish bastard if you didn't learn all languages.
00:59:55
cltruitt22
Yeah, but I'm more likely to interact with an animal than I am somebody who speaks, you know, Greater Mongolian or, you know, Swahili or...
01:00:04
sweatynuts
If I spoke all languages today, I would go and translate Linear A for the world.
01:00:10
cltruitt22
What the hell is Linear A?
01:00:12
sweatynuts
Linear A is a'm a Minoan language that we don't know how to decipher as of right now.
01:00:17
cltruitt22
Oh.
01:00:19
sweatynuts
I think all the knowledge is lost because we don't speak the language.
01:00:21
cltruitt22
Hm.
01:00:23
sweatynuts
No, no, I would speak all languages.
01:00:25
cltruitt22
I don't want to ask my dog if they really like me.
01:00:29
sweatynuts
I know my dog likes me.
01:00:31
cltruitt22
Well, that's because it's a cat.
01:00:32
sweatynuts
And I know that that cat doesn't. It's fine. Yeah. Speaking of knowing languages, an older lady thanked me for trying to help her the other day using my French language.
01:00:42
cltruitt22
Oh, that's very nice.
01:00:46
sweatynuts
And she said, thank you. You're the only one who cared.
01:00:49
cltruitt22
Aw.
01:00:50
sweatynuts
I said, you're welcome, ma'am. And I do make an effort.
01:00:53
cltruitt22
That's very nice.
01:00:55
sweatynuts
Yeah. My language, my French is terrible, but make an effort.
01:01:00
sweatynuts
So I'm speaking all languages.
01:01:03
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:01:08
cltruitt22
Ooh, look like you haven't showered or smell like you haven't showered.
01:01:12
sweatynuts
I look like I haven't shared it already, so I'll go with that one. I'm always disheveled.
01:01:18
cltruitt22
Always the shuffle.
01:01:20
sweatynuts
I am. like I always have this vision in my head that I'm going to dress like people on TV. I'm going to go get a nice suit and just wear that around. And then I'm like, why? I could just wear sweatpants and a t-shirt.
01:01:32
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Well, I have the problem. I shave, and 20 minutes later, I've got a 5 o'clock shadow.
01:01:41
sweatynuts
Yeah, I don't have that problem. But I do get the shadow after day two. I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah. And I have nice short hair, so my hair's not gonna be that messy.
01:01:58
cltruitt22
Well, aren't you lucky?
01:01:58
sweatynuts
Hair's this thing um on the top of your head, protects you from the sun.
01:02:03
cltruitt22
yeah Well, the final one. Jerk. Road trip or fly.
01:02:10
sweatynuts
Road trip. We were just talking about this the other day.
01:02:12
cltruitt22
That's what I say.
01:02:18
sweatynuts
My buddy and I were talking about going to Milwaukee and he's like, we could fly.
01:02:21
cltruitt22
Oh.
01:02:24
sweatynuts
I said, yeah, sure we could fly. And it was like, I don't know, 500 bucks or whatever.
01:02:28
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:02:29
sweatynuts
So, or we could take the train and it's 460 bucks for a sleeper car.
01:02:31
cltruitt22
oo Yeah.
01:02:36
sweatynuts
It was actually 300 bucks, 320 each for a sleeper car.
01:02:40
cltruitt22
Huh.
01:02:40
sweatynuts
And I was like, let's do that.
01:02:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:02:43
sweatynuts
And he's like, well, we could drive then. And I said, okay, well, it's a 14 or 15 hour driving experience, or it's a 16 hour trip on the train where we don't have to drive, stop for gas.
01:02:49
cltruitt22
Hmm.
01:02:56
sweatynuts
There's a bed and we can sleep and there's a little bar car.
01:02:57
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:03:01
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:03:02
sweatynuts
Hmm.
01:03:02
cltruitt22
Train is nice.
01:03:03
sweatynuts
Train is nice.
01:03:04
cltruitt22
right When I was 15, 16, we took the train out to California and then back.
01:03:11
cltruitt22
That was, yeah. Four days each way.
01:03:11
sweatynuts
I really want to do that.
01:03:14
sweatynuts
four days each way.
01:03:16
cltruitt22
Yep.
01:03:16
sweatynuts
I really want to do that.
01:03:18
cltruitt22
Yep. It was fun.
01:03:19
sweatynuts
Maybe.
01:03:20
cltruitt22
Got to see the sun rise and set over the Rockies.
01:03:24
sweatynuts
Oh, that's pretty cool.
01:03:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:03:27
sweatynuts
Did you have like a sleeper car?
01:03:27
cltruitt22
Yeah. ah No, we actually just got a regular and the seats reclined back and we just slept there.
01:03:39
sweatynuts
I kind of really something I feel like I want to do.
01:03:43
cltruitt22
Yeah. Take a train trip.
01:03:44
sweatynuts
Yeah, I should just take a trip.
01:03:48
cltruitt22
Yeah. There you go.
01:03:48
sweatynuts
I'm off for days.
01:03:50
cltruitt22
Yeah. You and your wife, it could be a lovely anniversary gift.
01:03:53
sweatynuts
Yeah, don't take the dogs though, that's a problem.
01:03:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:03:57
cltruitt22
You think the dogs?
01:03:59
sweatynuts
On the train?
01:04:00
cltruitt22
There are trains that allow dogs.
01:04:01
sweatynuts
Not my dogs.
01:04:03
cltruitt22
There. You're good. You're good puppies.
01:04:06
sweatynuts
Yeah, yeah, one of them will bite people's faces off.
01:04:13
sweatynuts
But no, I totally red trip. I hate flying.
01:04:15
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah.
01:04:16
sweatynuts
And it's not that I'm scared of flying. I just hate the experience of flying. Every bit of it is made uncomfortable and annoying.
01:04:23
cltruitt22
Yeah. Guess what? If I'm going on a road trip, I don't have to take my shoes and belt off.
01:04:28
sweatynuts
Yeah. i to I don't have to do that. I don't have to stand in line for the whole time. And ah but the seats are uncomfortable. The temperatures always suck.
01:04:41
cltruitt22
Yeah, I can control my own air.
01:04:45
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. That's just experience of flying sucks.
01:04:49
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:04:49
sweatynuts
It's terrible. The only flights that I'll take are like, if I was going to Disneyland or i'm not that I'd go to Disney, but I'm going to Florida. Cause it's like a two hour flight versus a 16 hour drive. Okay.
01:05:01
cltruitt22
But if there was a train,
01:05:03
sweatynuts
But if there's a train, let's take the train. I'm all about train. Yeah. I just wish the trains were better.
01:05:10
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:05:11
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah. I kind of want to go book my train trip to California.
01:05:18
cltruitt22
There you go.
01:05:19
sweatynuts
I'm off for two weeks.
01:05:20
cltruitt22
We took the southern route out and the northern route back.
01:05:23
sweatynuts
Oh, that's a good idea.
01:05:24
cltruitt22
Yep.
01:05:25
sweatynuts
Does it like, did you stop anywhere or did you just straighten the train?
01:05:28
cltruitt22
Yeah, we had a ah six hour stop in Chicago.
01:05:34
sweatynuts
Oh, Chicago.
01:05:34
cltruitt22
So we walked all around Chicago. Well, not all around, but around a bit.
01:05:37
sweatynuts
Sure.
01:05:39
cltruitt22
Um, and we also had a stop in Arizona. So, yeah, it was neat.
01:05:47
sweatynuts
Did you get on in DC?
01:05:49
cltruitt22
Uh, yes.
01:05:50
sweatynuts
Yeah. Yeah, that's nice.
01:05:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:05:55
sweatynuts
Yeah, I had this argument with somebody, not argue, discussion at work. Argument is the correct word, but people have a bad connotation with that argument. But anyways, about taking the train versus driving to DC.
01:06:03
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:06
sweatynuts
And I said, it cost me $5 to take the train from my house to DC. And I could be there quicker than if I drove.
01:06:14
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:15
sweatynuts
Why would I take my car? And they were like, well, then you won't have a car.
01:06:17
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah. Who cares?
01:06:19
sweatynuts
What do I need a car for?
01:06:22
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:23
sweatynuts
You gotta get around the city.
01:06:23
cltruitt22
Oh, so you can get into traffic and get angry.
01:06:26
sweatynuts
Right. And DC is like the most eminently walkable city in the world because there's like 14 blocks that you, any one of you have anywhere to go to.
01:06:30
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:35
sweatynuts
You don't want to go anywhere else in the city. It's fine. Yeah. And there's a Metro where you get those stupid scooters and try to, you know, fight traffic for death.
01:06:42
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:47
cltruitt22
Ugh, no, no, just walk.
01:06:48
sweatynuts
Yeah. This walk. Yeah. Yeah. Or like like I do, I had to run across DC one time, but that's fine.
01:06:57
cltruitt22
Ugh, yeah.
01:06:57
sweatynuts
Cause I wasn't going to make my train otherwise.
01:06:59
cltruitt22
Yeah, well.
01:07:00
sweatynuts
Yeah.
01:07:03
sweatynuts
Yeah. Road trip, always road trip.
01:07:05
cltruitt22
Yep.
01:07:06
sweatynuts
It's more fun.
01:07:07
cltruitt22
I'm about to take a road trip next week.
01:07:10
sweatynuts
Well, staying in the state of Maryland, though.
01:07:13
cltruitt22
It's still a five plus hour drive.
01:07:16
sweatynuts
It is a long drive.
01:07:18
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:07:18
sweatynuts
Yeah. Out there in Washington County.
01:07:22
cltruitt22
No carrot.
01:07:23
sweatynuts
I don't care again. I'm sorry.
01:07:24
cltruitt22
Yeah, they have a furthest.
01:07:25
sweatynuts
I confused the two Bumpkin counties.
01:07:28
cltruitt22
I got for Allegheny in there, too.
01:07:31
sweatynuts
I'm sorry. Confused the three Bumpkin counties.
01:07:38
cltruitt22
But yeah, that's a good cast of the pod.
01:07:41
sweatynuts
Well, yeah, and enjoy your vacation.
01:07:46
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:07:46
sweatynuts
Everyone out there and listening to this, try to stay cool.
01:07:52
cltruitt22
yep stay hydrated um yep yeah um enjoy those sunrises folks
01:07:53
sweatynuts
It is is officially the longest day of the year today, which is good news because it means it's only days are getting shorter.
01:08:04
sweatynuts
Enjoy your sunrises. Take a road trip.
01:08:06
cltruitt22
yeah
01:08:07
sweatynuts
Take the train. Fine. The closest train station to you, walk to the train station. I don't care if it's a three hour walk or a two day walk. Walk to the train station, get on the train and go somewhere.
01:08:20
cltruitt22
Yeah, that means everybody out there, including Justin.
01:08:23
sweatynuts
Yeah.
01:08:25
cltruitt22
All right, folks, take care.
01:08:27
sweatynuts
See ya.