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The one where the gang realizes if it bleeds, they can kill it.
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Lot of adult conversations in this one. Rehab, work site injuries, even salt. Possibly sponsored by "the Lube".
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Alien Romulus Trailer Discussion
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So first off, I saw some alien Romulus last night. Oh, yeah. At least for me, third favorite in the franchise. Really? And you say that having seen everything.
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you're You're up to date with all this. The way you said it made made it seem like you have like some dirt, um like, like, oh, no, you apparently you've seen everything. No, no, the reason why is because i i I was aware of this ah most recent and then I saw the trailer. I saw the trailer definitely during the Wolverine Deadpool movie. And then recently, while even like on Disney Hulu streaming, yeah I'm doing this like family movie night thing with the kids and then alien Romulus like shows up as and and it it it's like one of those. the It's a new trailer of it where commercial are saying that, you know, all the quotes from reviewers saying this is like the scariest alien of all time, you know, it's that that kind of a thing. It's i guess based on positive reactions and reviews. Yeah, sounds like this one went well. But I don't really have a
00:01:06
Speaker
Um, any type of, uh, of wave comparing it to anything because I'm not up to date myself. Well, I think I've, uh, the, the alien series for me is weird because I think I've expressed, maybe I've talked to you about like aliens. The second one is, Oh, that's like top of the hill. That's like, uh, yeah, for that's not just like my favorite, like alien, but that's like one of, if not at any given time, my favorite movie. Yeah. i heard like I've heard you say that. I didn't realize actually, I thought like you qualified it as action movie or.
00:01:37
Speaker
Sequel or something that but yeah, it checks so many boxes. It's just yeah I just recommend that somebody last week too cuz they're like this punk-ass 20 year old kid. He's like like I just Saw t2. I saw Judgment Day. I'm like, oh man. You got a lot to learn kid I said go watch our aliens and then like I just told them that well, ah well, I mean to be fair Judgment Day is excellent. It is truly excellent Oh, no, of course. Yeah, but just like just scratching that it's only if you like that you like. Oh, yeah for sure and I But so there's ah so I think Aliens is is a near for sure near perfect action film and just a great great great movie. And I think Alien, the first one is a great horror
Alien Franchise Criticism
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film. I don't put it up there as high as like Aliens as as some folks do, but I I appreciate it a lot. But then otherwise, I think every other movie in that franchise is not just bad, but like terrible and terrible and like its own
00:02:32
Speaker
Like alien three is like oh you can tell this is not a complete movie and resurrection is like really corny cheap sci-fi with the like human hybrid at the everything about it was just like this is trash and then Prometheus was just straight up boring and like.
00:02:49
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Wow, he just wanted to make a different movie and had to to stitch in the alien yeah franchise to get like funding. And then Alien Covenant was such a non-entity. I don't even remember it. I know I saw it in theaters. I remember being extremely disappointed. and ah But it literally had no impact on my psyche. So there's Covenant. And then what was the... Oh, I guess there's the Alien vs. Predators too, but we don't talk about those. There's the two.
00:03:16
Speaker
There were two, so two alien versus predator movies. And then there was, what was the direct or considered to be the direct sequel to Prometheus? Was that covenant? Yeah. Okay. yeah that That continued the story of David, the cyborg. Right. And then wasn't there another one before, after that one? Like wasn't there, I remember on the trailer, there was like the alien was on the side of ah of a spaceship or something. Um, that's covenant. That was covenant. ill kids same one Okay. Okay.
00:03:44
Speaker
I that for some reason, I thought there was I think that's the one ah one with ah Danny Boyle for some reason guys like the pilot. um Yeah, it's ah yeah. So they've all they've either been the best movies ever made or.
00:04:00
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complete garbage, which is such a wild kind of flip-flopping quality. But ah so when I say this one is the third best, that's a little bit of a loaded statement because yeah it's it's just not that hard to be better than the other movies. But yeah, I will say this fits nicely.
00:04:20
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It both, like, it literally takes place in between alien and aliens, like in the timeline. And I would argue it is a hybrid of those two tones, like a straight up horror film, straight up action film.
Predator Series Comparison
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It's kind of right down the middle. Oh, nice. OK. Where does it rank with Alien versus Predator? That huh? ah Predator, that's another series that, like,
00:04:47
Speaker
I never saw Prey. I know that was ah ah heard something about that. Prey is awesome. That's what I was going to say. I thought it was better than what was people expected, but on on it but on its own merits, it actually a stand stands out. It's good. Yeah. There's a couple of little, but because it was ah like the original Predator movies, it's a little bit lower budget, like B-horror sci-fi film or whatever. so There's like some CGI stuff that's a little janky.
00:05:12
Speaker
ah For the most part, yeah, it's like Predator, obviously easily one of the best just straight up action films. ah And then praise a great sequel. And then I try to forget everything else happens. You like Danny Glover? but Just ah how is he the next most, ah the next greatest hunt? is this from Arnold to L.A. detective. That's just, that's just, yeah, again, too old for this. I just, ah did he have, um I'm trying to remember, did he have like ah a good line, like a last line, Danny Glover in in Predator? in my Like, watch it sucker or something like that. I don't think we're gonna get you sucking. I don't yeah don't think so. I remember, because he, the,
00:05:59
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The predator didn't- I don't think the predator died in that, right? The predators showed up, they took the predator, and they gave him a gun. Yeah, or did they give him a gun? A predator? I thought they gave him like a sword or something. No, yeah, they gave him like a musket. Oh, really?
00:06:12
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Okay. Yeah, gotcha. You know, I don't want to so i don't want to spoil anything, but ah fred that stupid movie you're talking about, Predator 2, is somehow in the weirdest way, kind of important for prey. Wait, which one? Predator 2? Predator 2 is but in the weirdest way, directly ties to prey. I gotta watch that thing because I've i've seen Predator 2 a good amount of times. just okay then you It was on like TNT or TBS. I remember like on the weekends I would they come, it would come up as a back to back. There's something that happens in pray that if you've never seen predator two, you just like, it doesn't be so non plus by it. You might just kind of ignore it. But for anybody that's seen predator two, you're just like, you know, slapping the person's chest next to you. Like, Oh, you know, it's a, you know, what's what they did. And I got it. I don't know what the timeline is, but did you ever read a Batman versus predator comic? Yeah. There's so many of them, but I did read the original.
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yeah um I'm not sure if this was the original or not, but it complete and I don't know which came first, but it completely took b be ending the to Predator 2, or vice versa. Maybe Predator 2 took the Batman everywhere. They fight, and at the end, the um but the King Predator comes with his like his his ah henchmen, and then they take the yeah the warrior ah Predator away, and they give they gift Batman with a ah sword.
00:07:38
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And then they could go away, but it's like the same exact kind of premise. I think the the predator, the first, like the predator Batman stuff was towards the mid to late nineties, which would have been after predator two. So speaking of predator two. Whoa.
Technological Nostalgia
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You know, what's crazy is this is ah completely unrelated. Well, kind of related in that thinking about Horner showing me this video is reminding me that there was a time that Horner was on the cutting edge. And by that, yeah right but that i know but that i I distinctly remember, I think before anybody I know on this planet, you had a ah wireless keyboard.
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And I remember being like, yeah, you're like a wireless keyboard, you know, like a wireless mouse. And I've never been like this dude. get built to a computer Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I mean. Yeah. i got I mean, not that I, uh, I got it all from my, my, my brother, Bobby, he just like that was it really into it. So he just got me a bunch of this stuff so I, I could take no credit for it. But, uh, man, that seems like, uh, I'd not realize it was college years that there was no wireless stuff, but I guess you're right.
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everything was mean it um He didn't build it. like it It obviously existed. saturday the pc was like all I remember it was like all lit up. yeah I mean, Chris had a an e-machine with a 386 in it. Actually, no, it that was just pref, right? You got something else afterwards. No, for pref, I didn't even know what that was. It was terrible. It was like I had to just find pieces of computers to put together.
00:09:16
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Oh man, you really like the Riri Williams of pref. Just just the write paper. Just, you know, they had computer labs.
00:09:30
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bo yeah actually hurts you alloidid that yeah How's your ah appetite now? No, yes, it's all back now. Okay. Even more than it was. Bring it in. I need a whole rotisserie chicken. Let's get the day started.
00:09:52
Speaker
okay Uh, but you have now the, like the special, like you have to avoid like salt at all costs, right? Yeah. So that's co really good foods. Yeah. We're just for chicken. That's a little rough. minus so yeah Like the, now that the, uh, the heart failure is thrown in there too, it's, uh, just the, just the sod flavor was combination that my mom has to try to work around. Oh man.
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They make, um, I know my dad had a bunch of problems. He had like a stint put in and he was like, you know, he had a triple bypass, uh, and he had recovered for a year and they had them all on, um, this miss, uh, miss dash, no salt.
00:10:34
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Yeah, he put a bunch of that stuff on it, but it's like garlic and all that. So you just use that? Yes, he has to use like a bunch of different things where salt would have been the answer. You know, she's got to put, you know, garlic on your palate just to get it started. Yeah. I don't even know how it came up, but you should read ah some of the like white papers on ah MSG replacement for salt.
MSG vs Salt: Health Debate
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which is effectively like MSG is not, this it's I mean, it it is a salt compound, but it doesn't behave the same as salt in your body. And it also doesn't replicate salt like on the tongue. But when put in foods, in certain amounts, it can trick you and trick you into thinking that something is salty. So- Is Is that street legal?
00:11:27
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ah ah don't don't Don't go down this street like this. is It's made a comeback. Yeah, it's like super popular now because all of a sudden, all the xenophobia associated with equal MSG in the 70s has finally gone away 40 years later. What do you think it causes cancer?
00:11:46
Speaker
Uh, yeah, there was like all sorts of like, it's, it's problematic. But then a lot of people made the counter argument that it's like, uh, if you eat, if you eat mushrooms or fish, like you get, you just naturally get MSG anyway. So.
00:12:04
Speaker
Um, but anyway, so that might be something to look into it. To be honest, some of those like, uh, no salt mixes might actually have MSG in them to like do some of that. Because yeah, there's a bunch of, one of them is actually called no salt. Um, I would be, yeah, I would be a little surprised with Tim.
00:12:21
Speaker
Oh, but yeah, it's and i I find it. I always throw it in my eggs and it is delicious. But MSG. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Really? Order orders like a big tub of it off of Amazon.
00:12:36
Speaker
Who's going to stop street legal? I was going to say I remember when I was trying to eat healthier to get the calories down. I needed to add salt to dishes to give it you know flavor where it would have been.
00:12:50
Speaker
I don't know what else. Some boiled chicken. Yeah, so now I'm not, I mean, I don't want to gain the weight back, but I'm not entirely worried about that as much as, you know, the heart making me look like ah the Michelin Man when it when it starts doing this thing. ah Which I had no idea that happened until it started happening. Oh, has it happened again? No, just the idea of like,
00:13:21
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I'm swollen up from i something my heart's doing causing fluid to get just anywhere. Really? Yeah. are Yeah, like my stomach was swollen and I think and ah yeah my legs were too and I'm a little bit in the face when i the last time I had to go in there.
00:13:48
Speaker
this IV LASIK stuff and that just makes you piss it right out. So is the low salt diet is to avoid retaining water? Yeah. No kidding. What is it? Because I would retain the water along with my heart doing its gimmicks and putting it all over the place. Which is because For a long time I looked at research of like, if you, if you have a healthy heart, salt isn't a problem at all. Your body just flushes it right out when it, when you reach it, you know, I don't need any more of it. But how far away are you from, uh, Buffalo wild ones? Oh.
00:14:29
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but for Full of assault. What are you talking about? Yeah, that's a call. Is that a callback? That's for sure. Call back. Is it for a while? Oh, no, not Buffalo. ah Quicker. Quicker. Sticker. Sticker loop. Oh, man. you You would have had it. You would have had it. Yeah, that would. Oh, that would have brought. Yeah, because that would have brought all those memories back. Actually, actually, actually, just based on the current conversation, I shouldn't have just tried to double down that you didn't remember that you worked at Buffalo Wild. Diabolical.
00:14:58
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, it's a quicker state. How far away are you from um ah getting getting back in the wing this? I could i could i could do the wings. Oh, there you go. So that was the first station. The next station him was like this deep fried sides and appetizers. Yeah, sure. I think I could probably remember the cooking times on that. they' nice okay but But then, you know, once you get to be the tough guy where you're cooking steaks and burgers and all that. That's it. There's just three levels. It's just at the master level. Yeah.
00:15:33
Speaker
know what the so that yeah that There was the guy that cooks grilled chicken and stuff like that on the flat top. Then the next level was top of the line where you're cooking the steaks and the burgers and stuff like that. I i wasn't good at it back then and I definitely can do it now. I can probably get them all well done.
00:16:00
Speaker
burn the shit out of all order but crew <unk>s so expensive god they have a five egg why wagy be done again who's Who's ordering that had a quicker statement, it's you know expensive businessman who knows had a long week ah surrounded by race cars and A5 weapon.
00:16:29
Speaker
So they gave me, I guess I'm going from short term disability to long term disability coming up. I
Navigating Disability Insurance Challenges
00:16:40
Speaker
would have assumed you would have switched already.
00:16:42
Speaker
Uh, some things already switched, but, uh, the fully, um, like a different level of important level hasn't switched yet. I got this entire packet on what to pick out and stuff and I could, I can't understand it at all. Oh no. Um, so my mom was helping me with it and then I called the, uh, like our employee service center, uh,
00:17:11
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the specifically the leave and disability section and was talking to them about stuff and they gave me extremely wrong answers. Oh, no. I was like, okay, this packet is what we're talking about then, right? It says this and this and this, and she was like, oh, okay, I'll send that out to you then. Wait, was this Friday afternoon?
00:17:40
Speaker
Oh, maybe it was. Yeah. People don't care. Oh, this is working for the weekend. Uh, yeah, I would assume. Yeah. I mean, I would assume some, some people for sure check out a certain point of the week. you know what Yeah. Hmm. So, so they, right now you don't have the answers you need, but you're, you're, you're going to get paperwork to transfer you over.
00:18:09
Speaker
you can't do You don't do it automatically, you don't roll meat immediately into it. No, especially my medical plan. ah I would just go into no coverage unless I select something. and shit a mirror to fit and I had to like why would not defaulted a plan at a minimum. That's what I was saying. yeah I was like, it doesn't just default. You're like, no, it doesn't know. And then they may, they may send you some much stuff in the mail to pick one day. It's like set up for the insurance company. Not, not for the actual employee. It's like, if you make, if you're not on top of it, then it's like, well, you opted out automatically. It's, it's, it's messed up. and My, uh,
00:18:56
Speaker
My brother had, I found out later on, cause I, they let me, for whatever reason, I don't think I, I think I illegally did it cause they were, they should not have been talking to you, but I was able to get info and I found out. No, but they, like they didn't, they took away all the employees at his, has ah at his work. They, they took away short-term disability ah um because nobody opted into it when they had the the new enrollment period. And that was for everybody, like a 2020.
00:19:26
Speaker
So he didn't have like any short-term insurance. So he had like his regular employee insurance and then we had to kind of, we had to wait until long-term disability kind of got involved. So he had other, he had his regular healthcare. I mean, that was all good, but his, he opted out of short-term disability, unbeknownst to him. He was convinced that he had it. And then I had to like talk to him. his HR or whoever they like, um, uh, have it sent out to like whoever handles their third party and insurance. They thought that he had short term to the point where I applied for, for like a claim. And then I got denied and they said, Oh, it looks like you guys, he opted out in 2020. And then I had to go back and I found out that it just, they opted everybody out. And then he, he had like the fourth site to have, he, he opted into like a medical coverage for,
00:20:24
Speaker
a critical injury, including including stroke. So he was able to get you know paid out for that, luckily, until long-term disability like kicked in. But I remember I had to apply for it. like You have to apply for it within so many weeks of whatever the um the event was for it to be you know good. and then Oh man, just weeks? That's rough too. Yeah. yeah you Well, i I don't know. I definitely missed the deadlines. And then whoever I spoke to, Like it was all through MetLife and everybody I spoke to, I think they were like in Texas or something. I don't know. They, they were not in New York or New Jersey, but every person I spoke to were like very, very nice. Like they were like, they walked me, they walked me through it. Some of that had like wrong. Forget about it. Where are you from? Dallas. But they like were able to like walk me. They said, Oh no, it looks like you should have done this. Okay. Let me see what I could do. And like, they were able to, whatever they did, they like, you know,
00:21:20
Speaker
they must be dealing with people that are just dealing with traumatic shit all the time and they have no idea what they're doing. And so
Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities
00:21:26
Speaker
they have a pretty good bedside manner ah to work it out. So they were able to like, I had to do it every, for like, um for weeks at a time during lunch, I'd have to like just leave and and put notes on to to to deal with certain, um you know, technical, but you know, HR people to to get all the information. And it was like, it's hard to navigate. I don't know how anybody does it. It's like,
00:21:47
Speaker
very, you got to become an expert like immediately. There's like no, um, the, uh, you know, the ramp up for expertise, like really, uh, pretty tough. Yeah. And I mean, that's, that's you doing it. yeah Imagine if you worked there. Yeah. i think Like, you know, the the day it's left to the person who struggled basically. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what you would do in that sort of situation. If you didn't have family that would, and I was not, uh, I didn't have the, the, um,
00:22:17
Speaker
I got the guardianship like a year later. So I was, I was only able to do, I had to, he, at least he was verbal. Like some people that are nonverbal, he was able to give permission. Like I'd get him on the line and they say, yeah, you can speak to my brother and then that they let me do it. But yeah, exactly. you're You're right. What happens for a guy that doesn't have anybody top out? You're like left to the wolves. Like you're left into the wind.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, you have power of attorney for, um, well, I have, I have guardianship for like league, like financial and property. So I can, that covers basically everything. And then, um, power of attorney would be like, it's above power of attorney right now. And then if I get, if if the guardianship ends, then I guess I, I would defer to, I guess, power of attorney and medical. Yeah.
00:23:05
Speaker
But it's, uh, yeah, man, there's a lot, there's a lot that goes into it. How are you holding up? and is You know, it's, and you know, living a life and, you know, at the construction site, tired and, you know, not I thought I was doing all right, but then like, it gets to a point and there was the, uh, like I got a big team that if it was, if it was me four years ago on the job I'm at, it probably would have been bad because I'm the only like oversight for supervision.
00:23:33
Speaker
but now we got like eight people. so And they all they all know what's going on, so they were like helping me out with it. But ah like recently, you like a I'm doing all right, but the hours you gotta put in, like only recently, like this past like three weeks, have I had to like put in like a lot of work at work, where you know it's you i and that at the same time, like I gotta go to court on Wednesday for my brother's thing. So everything kind of came together this past like two or three weeks. I think I'm over the hump, but There was a while where I had to like do all of my brother's stuff. And then I had to stay late at work, come in early for like three or four days in a row to get a deliverable in. And then and and the all my work team, my my crew, my supervisor, all all these guys are like, Hey, just lock yourself in a room and just, you know.
00:24:20
Speaker
do whatever you got to do. So that was, that was cool. But come in, come in early. Don't you get there at like 5am? Yeah, man. Oh my God. It was so bad. Like, what what is earlier, earlier than that? I come. Yeah, I was coming. There was two days where I came in. or i can Yeah, I came in at 2am. There were two days where i I, I went, I stayed till like one day, 10pm, then another day, 11 30pm.
00:24:42
Speaker
And then I came in at like 2.30 AM. So you just look like you're doing like a walk of shame to the job site. Yeah, man. It was bad. Those, those two days were like really, really, really bad. And that was all for work. Like legitimately I needed to do, like there's eight of us and we have to do our, you know, we have a you know quote unquote schedule and we have like the last year to get all hit all these dates. So they're like, basically came on from up high saying, everybody's got to go to their specific areas and like you do your full schedule update.
00:25:12
Speaker
I don't care what the main schedule says, you do your schedule. So we all had to do it in our area. So I had to do the third floor, second floor, first floor. That's all like the hard stuff, complicated stuff. And I thought i it was going to be easy to just like jump it. But then the more I looked at it, the more it took. So I probably It felt like I was back in AE, like the long hour, except now I got a wife and kids. I was going to say, it doesn't feel like those, uh, well, you didn't realize those overnights would pay off yeah building that muscle. Oh my God. No, but it's the difference is that I don't have on a Thursday, my my wife and kids calling me, like yeah saying, where are you? We haven't seen you. I'm like, Oh my God. so that That kind of stuff is bad, but, um, no, we got, we kind of got, got over the hump, but it would have been fine.
00:25:55
Speaker
But it just so happens. I don't know if it's the, what the corollary is, but during that time where I was like, I had to lock myself in a room and do all this stuff. We had like four injuries, like right in a row where a laceration, a laceration, a guy that had hurt his leg. And I, you know, you try to make the connection to say, well, if I was out there, I don't know that I would have been able to do anything necessarily, but the more supervision you got, yeah I don't know. But then, you know, we had this big.
00:26:23
Speaker
You know, it it doesn't help because it brings all this attention to the job where it's like, well, what are you guys doing? You guys are all screwing up, you know, but, um, it's, yeah, so like, that was a tough, uh, two weeks. And, um, and now I'm doing presentations for a ah future job, um, on 25th and 26th where I had to leave the, my regular work and go to the empire state building and.
00:26:46
Speaker
Sit. All right. All right. We've all been in buildings. i just Sit with like all these like um higher level people my in my company. And we're going for this $800 million dollars project where they have me and another guy as the lead. like I'm going to be doing demolition of three buildings because I did that five years ago. So they put me my resume in. And now I got to like speak to the client and say, here's what I'm going to do. and you know get it So we me and eight people are in a room.
00:27:15
Speaker
going over like what the anticipated questions are going to be and doing like all the rehearsals. And now we're going to present on Monday. So this is a big deal for the company. So I had to stay, I had to, I had to leave my regular job and just go to the office for days in a row. And, uh, you know what, you can't say no, but in the meantime, like fucking like three injuries again, like, right. Like one after another, after another.
00:27:38
Speaker
But, and I don't know, it's, uh, people are getting, I don't know, uh, less cautious when they don't see you around. I
Workplace Safety Concerns
00:27:49
Speaker
doubt it now. It's it's, um, I think it's like the, we're, we're at a, we're at a peak of our manpower on the job where there's like 250, 260 people. And, um, we're hitting some like deadlines and like people are behind. So, uh, you know, we're, we're, we basically had to stop everybody.
00:28:08
Speaker
and say, everybody slow down, you know, that people were getting like cut and hurt, even though they had all their stuff on, like the guys have like cut level three gloves and they even have these, um, like, uh, protection, like sleeves that have a Kevlar in it. And these guys are getting cut at the wrist and they're cut at the, at the elbow, wherever you don't have. Yeah. Wherever, like where Batman would get cut, like you don't use, like you're, you have all this protection, like you don't have any full sized armor, but you have all these, like,
00:28:35
Speaker
areas where you could get like hit. So that's exactly where they're getting cut. And, uh, yeah, it's like, don't take a stab to the stomach or something. Yeah. Yeah. So that kind of so that probably, me probably getting then like all that stuff that was protecting them they're probably hitting that all the time. Maybe. I don't know. It's hard. It's hard to say, but you had, yeah, we had stuff like that. And, um, a guy got like hitting the head where he had, uh, uh, he, he had some type of piping and,
00:29:05
Speaker
He tried to like cut it, like hit it, uh, free it from like, um, a bunch of pipe, like eight inch diameter pipe. And he like pride it open free. And then it ended up having stored energy and it hits you in the back of the head and he's got a hard hat on, but he's got like a deep laceration on on his head. So he's come in and they saying like, well, was the guy, how can the guy get hurt? If he's got a hard hat, how can he get a cut on the top of his head? And then now you got like now because everything is like an investigation stuff. So.
00:29:35
Speaker
it's never good when you get injuries because one, you never want a guy get to get hurt on your job or, you know, you just don't want to get to get hurt. But then it also brings all these questions and you got to like do these investigations and photos and say this or that, or is this guy lying? Like you can always stick to the facts. There's a whole like, um, it's it's kind like, uh, like ah every now and then like slimy insurance agents show up to the site, like asking questions, not this guy. I think, I think I'm sheltered from all that stuff actually.
00:30:04
Speaker
Yeah, I don't, I don't really see any of it. Um, but, uh, cause yeah, at a certain point, like you instruct just don't let them talk to Steve. Yeah. Yeah. At a certain point it gets, it's beyond me. And then, um, you, you just really, you do the initial and you try to be, I feel like they probably should do more training with us. So we're a, um, don't have any issues, but really as long as you stay with the facts and then you just, and you, you report exactly what it is.
00:30:32
Speaker
That's really all you can do. And then from there, it it goes to the next person, but ah they do like a case managers and stuff. Yeah. Once you get to insurance, it gets, it's a whole thing. So you try to, I don't, I, as much as I can, I try to avoid um being dragged into any of that kind of stuff.
00:30:50
Speaker
what What you described is not something a guy would with fake. yeah He's not going to say, all right, we're ready for you to slice my head up. Yeah, exactly. I don't know, probably a ton of pain and minimal time off or something like that. Yeah, exactly. yeah there were there Yeah, I don't know. it's ah it's It's a tricky thing. I don't know. I try to ah to avoid it. Even stuff like this, like i was I was brought on. um i was Not the main person involved with an injury that happened like years ago, but then I was the only person that was still part of the company. Everybody else that either had moved on or a couple of guys were had left on their own. Some guys were were asked to leave my project. So I was the only person that was still you know on the job. So I had to be brought into litigation, like to be, uh, to pose and all that kind of stuff. And that was my first taste of it. And man, they really questioned the hell out of everything. Yeah.
00:31:46
Speaker
even like this, this podcast is is admissible. So it's like, that's why Doug's going to have to cut it all out. i I cut it out last time. So i did you? Okay. Yeah. Cause they'll, they'll say like, they'll ask me, it's, it's so in the the whole law thing, the whole being like sleazy or all that. So then we faked this injury, right? These suckers. Yeah, no but there's a whole thought because the guy, they, the even the the lawyer that was asking me during deposition, they're, they're your friend and they're being nice to you. And then they're like, well, so you know And then I ask you questions and they so you you just it's a conversation, but then at the end of that discussion, it's like, okay, we we need this, this, this. He said that it's this that there's some type of documentation. We need him to backtrack and get all this info. This might be admissible. This might be admissible. So it's you know it does seem like they're you know manipulating you and that type of thing, but you know anything, it's all very transparent. It's like anything you can say, you're on the record. So anything that is admissible should be on the record.
00:32:45
Speaker
But it just makes you feel like, you know, defensive or you don't want to say anything. So you're you're you're told to keep it to just yes and no. As much as you can, yes and no's and don't give more than just answer the question that they're asking. But I don't like it. I i do not like ah being a part of any of that kind of stuff.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah, very difficult. I can i can imagine. Yeah, I mean, who it like you're a big on safety guy. Yeah. I don't cut their ropes. So yeah, that sucks when it's the ropes.
00:33:15
Speaker
yeah Well, yeah, you got you got it. Yeah, it's not. um Yeah, you know, I was on a job before I thought everybody was like that, honestly, because like I would get good feedback from some of my supervisors general. They would say, it's like, you're very self safety consciousness. Yeah, isn't any everybody. And then But then I was on some job where they brought in, at the end of a project, they'll just load up the the the project with other like um peers, with my same position, but from other companies, they're saying, we need we need all hands on deck. like Bring them in. We got to get to the finish line. And I remember being, they bought these like two guys that were you know way older than me, and they just did not care. like but the guy They would come over to me and say, Steve, why do you care so much? I'm like, what are you talking about? It's like, we're we're all on the same team. we're trying
00:34:01
Speaker
And then the guy like literally lit a cigarette in front of me fucking in the building where, so it's you know, you could get shut down for that kind of stuff. And he's like, I don't care. And he just like would like that. And, you know, there's no, uh, I don't know the mentality. It just was not, it's that it's not in me to, to think like that. But I just wondered about things like, like, how was this guy broken that he just did not care?
00:34:26
Speaker
But there's there are people that are like that. Uh, yeah, I assume, uh, uh, like the metaphorical getting close to the end of day on Friday when you're close to retirement. like Yeah. Doesn't matter. But by the same token, it's like, Oh, that's, that's fine. That's fair enough. But then you also don't want to ruin it for yourself. If you're like, you know, you're fired to disgrace, you know? ah Yeah.
Wrap-up and Personal Updates
00:34:50
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, you got a hard out, right? Oh yes. I do have it hard out.
00:34:55
Speaker
I do have to get out of here. Um, yeah, I'm not, I'm going to call it a water a lot on your plate. So yeah, it's all right. We all do. But, uh, Hey McGree, you sound good though. I'm, uh, I'm hoping it's, it goes up and up and up. Yeah. I feel like things and mood and stuff are ah better while finances get much worse, but that's the cost of playing the game. I feel like, yeah.
00:35:24
Speaker
Even that, you know, I hope this is just a, it's a little road bump. It'll, it'll get better. By the way, while we were talking, I looked up Quaker steak and lube. Did you know that the website is called the lube dot.com?
00:35:36
Speaker
disgusting that's a no okay
00:35:44
Speaker
i'll and I'll leave it at that. Chris just accidentally ended up working there. I thought i thought this was something else, but yeah, sure. i pick it fra Yeah, I'll grill these burgers. Whatever gets me to the well done finish line.