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Episode 11 - Tattoos
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Gregg and Ross talk travels to Boston, Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg, and Ross's quest to get his first Tattoo
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Introduction to 'Unmotivated and Unprepared'
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You're listening to Unmotivated and Unprepared, a podcast where we take a break from the everyday hustle and bustle to muse about life, liberty, and the pursuit of randomness. Now here's Greg and Ross.
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Greetings,
Episode 11: From London to New Topics
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Earthlings, and welcome to episode 11 of Unmotivated and Unprepared. I'm Ross. And I'm Greg. And Greg, we wrapped up our London stuff, and so now we're back to boring topics.
Ross's Tattoo Decision
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So I thought, why don't we start out with a bang? And I'm thinking I might get a tattoo.
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You're going to get a tattoo, Ross. Really, a tattoo. Of all people, you getting a tattoo seems like a strange development. Now, why would you think that? Because I don't have any... Let's dive into your thinking as to why Ross wouldn't want to get a tattoo.
Tattoo Motivations and Stereotypes
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So I think about people who get tattoos, right? And there's always the, I'm a rebel for a cause. They got their first tattoo at 18 as soon as they were old enough to get one. There are those people who had real pain in their life. They wanna get a tattoo of their kid or somebody else who got hurt or their mom or I get that. I get fitting in, I get that one. All the people walking around 90s Tribals these days, they still have them from when they were trying to be George Clooney from
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from dawn till dusk or whatever. But but you you but minus the fact that yes you're into heavy metal and you're into like hard rock and that kind of stuff and it's kind of a symbol of that style of music. Although nowadays I think hip hop's taking the taking the crown with face tattoos. That's true. That's true. That's true.
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You getting a tattoo has to have some sort of reason. There has to be some sort of big aha moment where you went, I want to put permanence on me, which also you're not exactly a permanent kind of guy.
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I mean, I am. I mean, I'm a permanent, I mean, permanent for a while. Like I'm a permanence guy in this. So here's, so here's my dilemma.
Ross's Tattoo Design Dilemma
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I'll just, I'll just, we'll just unpack the psyche of, of my tattoo decision. I've like, so my brother, my brother got it. My brother has a few tattoos. My wife has tattoos. Um, I don't, I like tattoos. I think they're, I think
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I think they look good. I appreciate the art. My problem was always, I don't know what to get. Because I've always been like, yeah, I'd get a tattoo, not necessarily like an obvious place, but I just don't know what I would get because I was always afraid like something will happen and then get a tattoo of my name and then some, you know,
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some natural disasters named after my name and then just devastates all of America. And, you know, some super volcano named Ross kills, you know, half the population. And then I've got Ross tattooed on me. So, you know, I've always been like, to me, it's a, it's like a, I can't commit for me. So, but I finally, I finally found something that symbolizes
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like a mentality, a mindset that I have that I think I could commit to being tattooed on me. And I finally know what I would get. My big dilemma now is who am I going to get to do it?
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Like that's, that's my problem now because I've got, I even sketched it up, Greg. Like I even sketched. You drew it. You drew it. I, well, I'm, trust me, I'm going to have a professional do, do it correctly, but I drew up the thought, the idea behind what I want.
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Um, on my iPad, I felt real trendy, you know, doing on my iPad, very, very, very modern. Um, it's terrible drawing, but it gets across what I want. But now I'm like going through Instagram, I guess, and like trying to find like tattoo artists who like post their stuff that kind of matches the style. Cause it's going to be,
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It's going to be not like, I mean, cartoonish, nasty. Now I've really got you wondering. All right. It was like, now the question. You get Jessica rabbit tattooed on you. I'm going to be scared on, on the choices that you've been making and whether or not you've taken some alternative substances.
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Yeah. Yeah. I've on my mind altering substance as well. So what happened was, um, I was up late. I was doing weed, watching Roger Rabbit. I went tattoo. And then before I drew it, you know, before I drew it, I dropped a few. And then like, anyways, um, so I'm like looking around Instagram, like, you know, so how do you,
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For
Choosing the Right Tattoo Artist
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a service like that, for something where you want something unique, this day and age, I mean, is word of mouth better than Instagram? Because I go to Instagram and I look how many followers they have. And that's kind of my thing. So wait, so you're an experienced guy, right? You've always been an experienced guy. That's why we do the podcast. That's why we do these things. It's a journaling of life, right? So I would imagine
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that for you, it's so much more, if it's gonna be your first tattoo, it's about the experience of it. So here's what I would suggest to you. Find a place that you want to go. So go to Tattoo Hubs, right? So you've got New York City, you've got Miami, you've got LA, very famous tattoo places.
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Maybe Denver, Colorado. Think through places that you would go that would do that kind of art that you're looking for. Do you want the surfer style art? Do you want that look, the goth look of LA? Do you want the more artsy Latin style tattoos you get out of Miami? Do you want more of the grungy, deep, dark underground
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aesthetic that you get from New York. What is the symbol of the tattoos that you kind of want to get? And I would watch too much ink. Go go. I was like, I was like, dang, this dude's going regen a lot us here, folks. But but but that's what happens here late at night. And you're like, let's watch tattoos.
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And I don't have any, nor do I ever want any. And not that I'm anti-tattoo. But for you, I think, because you have means, you have enough money to make this, to pick out whoever you want, right? To do your tattoo. It's a permanent thing. It's a piece.
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I think for you, it means a lot more to go visit somebody who's kind of a more famous tattoo artist in a region that does the art you like than I think just finding someone in San Antonio or Dallas or Austin that does that. I mean, for instance, if you do want graphite art, so if you wanted more of the
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the the symbol of pencil work Houston's a great place for that right if I was ever gonna get a pencil work tattoo I'd go to Houston that's where it was very popular that's where it came out of for that that scene definitely more of an urban urban look then I would pick a Houston but I don't think that's the art you're looking for I think you're more the Ed Hardy look the more the LA style of loud and
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See, I, you're, I'm going to send you what I drew. Like, and you're gonna, you're not going to say anything on the podcast. I just want to, I just want, I want your reaction. I'm going to text it to you. All right. All right. Here it comes. I'll text it to you. So, um, inbound. See,
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So he thinks it's a joke now. He thinks it's a joke, but like, obviously this is not an artist ever Ross's rendition of, you could see the elements of what I would want in, in the tattoo. Now, obviously someone who drew like a cartoon, not necessarily anime style,
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but could do a really good job of like adding depth and shading and color to that, like making it look real, like that's interesting. Do you want it to look real? Do you want it to look like a real, like you want this to look realistic or do you want it to look somewhat close to this, the cartoony-ish that you put into this? I want it more cartoony, but I want like depth and shading. So think of it like a,
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like a video game style, like where it's not quite 80s version of that, but like more of like the 2000s or 2010s version. So you want an emblem marker. You want it to look like a shield more than you want it to look like a live action Pixar type thing.
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Correct correct. Yeah, like so like but but that's where that's where I need that's where I want a creative professional To obviously go and make this because that that's their art too. They're an artist. You're just displaying that You know, I've always joked and my wife has always you know
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laughed at me when I said when I find the tattoo I want I'm gonna give give them an idea and say my body is the canvas you're the artist and she's like oh my god you're such a nerd but I mean they're they're they're going to take that it didn't take that I know that I mean there's yes there's other indicators there's other
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That was the thing that led her to believe that. So anyways, but that's like, obviously way beyond, that's like 5% of what ultimately it would look like. But those are, my goal was a couple of elements to incorporate. But I would get you to, because this is probably the one and only tattoo you probably ever will get, and it's probably
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for you so much more about what that means to you. Oh, yeah, I do know it's hyper personal. I know exactly what this is. Yeah. I think you need to decide which art form you want to take like which artists are going to to really drive it. And I do think really, I do think regionally, you're going to find more artists that can do this type because I think a lot of people get drunk and go get a tattoo.
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They go in the shop and get a tattoo. I've been thinking about what tattoo I would want for 20 years. They don't think about it. They don't think about what it means. I mean, I'm generalizing. I think there's a lot of people who do really great body pieces. But I think for you, think about what art style you want that in.
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and what artists can get there. I don't think you're gonna want to sprinkle, there's a popular person on TikTok right now that does the like, looks like glitter. She has glitter tattoos, they're like glittery and they're very cutesy and they're very, I don't think that's the look you're going for. My point is, you could- No, that's not, no, that'll be for my lower back tattoo, I get one. Yeah, yeah. The one on the butt cheek, just the butt cheek. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like someone just slapped me with glitter. Yeah, yeah.
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That would be a great tattoo though, if you got a hand print, a glittery hand print just right on top.
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Oh, man. But I mean, it probably the least painful. I imagine the butts probably the least painful for that. But yes, I have to ask someone who has a butt tattoo.
Greg's Tattoo-Free Philosophy
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Do you have a separate conversation starter? You know, you're in the grocery store, you're picking up produce. Do you have a butt tattoo?
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But yeah, so I think you should look at where, I think you should plan a trip around it. I think that would get you hyped for it. I think you'd be excited about it. It wouldn't just be- Definitely get my spouse excited too because she loves to travel, so. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't think I don't think this would be going to Orlando for your Disney trip to get someone to do the art. No, probably not. No, probably probably not a tag along item to a Disney trip. No, so so now you you said you you have no desire to get a tattoo. No, like that's not it's just not something that's interesting to you or or is it Yeah, permanence of it for you. Like what why?
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Well, I think part of his socialization, my brother, all right, same parents, but my brother was the absolute rebel. He's got a bunch of tattoos. It's his birthday today. He has tattoos on his feet, on his back, on the back of his calves. He's got one on the lower back, but he no longer, I think he's grown up. He doesn't want, he was that rebel and he got tattoos for that reason. That was his reasoning. Okay. I think he also liked just the culture that he was in at the time and those things.
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Um, my younger brother doesn't have tattoos and I don't have tattoos. I think a lot of it was our, was my father had a very influential mentor when he was a kid who, and you gotta remember this is the, this is the sixties, right? The sixties and like late sixties. And the guy that was his, it's his lifeguard. He said that the having tattoos, especially visible tattoos is a sign of the proletariat, the working man.
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right? And I don't think it was pejorative. I don't think it was negative. It was just that idea that tattoos kind of symbolize they don't anymore. And I'm not trying to be judgmental. But having a father who socialized you that way, it was just always that idea that tattoos were kind of that they were they were a differentiator that didn't necessarily come with a positive aspect to it. Sure, no way. Sure. And they had always stuck. And so by the time I was now I'm looking 40 at the time,
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When I was younger as a kid, I always thought about that as you don't want to get something that could hold you back or make it difficult. Now, I could have gotten tattoos on other places that people couldn't see, but I think it was always that idea. Plus, I have a really low pain threshold, so I don't want to be in pain. I'm sure that my tattoo, if I ever went and sat down, would be a dot where the first ink hit my skin to be like, that's it. Nope, done. I'm out of here. I'm good. I'm good. No more tattoo. I've got a physical dark dot on my skin, and that's about as much tattoo as I could get.
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some of that too. I can't be all just super, you know, theoretical philosophical about it. Yeah, there's there's there's a physical pain aspect too. Okay. Well, that's fair. Well, I'll let you know how my my tattoo journey goes. And yeah, I want to know the quest. I want to know the quest that you know. Yeah, now that you know,
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what it is if you see something and you're late night inked watching that you're like, hey, this artist in 20 years when you hit your midlife crisis or 10 is going to be available at that time. I think they would be good. Let me know because that's the problem. These popular people is like, you got like four years to sit on it because, you know, they're so popular and, but they do good work. I mean, that's why it's, it's hard. It depends on how big it is. Your commissioning work.
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Depends on how big it is and how much money it is. I mean, I'm sure with what you're asking for and where you're going to put it, I think you'd have a lot more opportunity to get a more famous artist than say the weirdos that just go, I want to put it on my junk.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right, right. It's like, ouch. No, I'm thinking, I'm thinking calf. I'm thinking, and my calves are, I got chicken legs. My calves are tiny. So it's going to be like a one inch by one inch square, probably, but they're going to be like, I don't have a whole lot to work with there, sir. Are you sure you don't want to put it somewhere else?
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I'm a whole lot there. So I can start working on my start and start and start bulking up my calves, you know, increase the canvas space. Now I was I was born with tiny chicken legs. So. All right. So, man, we've we did some traveling with with London. You've you've traveled, right? You went to Boston recently. Yeah. Yeah. I went to Boston. Yeah. Yeah. For work. I was up there for work, but I took a couple of days to go
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to spend visiting. I've been to
Exploring Boston and Salem
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Boston before several times for work and different things. And I'd gone up there for vacation about 10 years ago. So revisiting it now or 11 years ago, revisiting it now was an opportunity to
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kind of see it with someone else, see it differently, and see how it changed. And it only had a couple days. Went to Salem, went to Salem, saw that wackadoo. That's a whole thing. I mean, I do recommend going just because you can see 1970s tourist traps.
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mannequins made by college kids that did way too much weed and LSD. Sure, sure. It's like, it kind of looks like a human. That's kind of looks like what it should look like. Yeah. Wax museums made in a dark garage.
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It's like leftover wax from something else. Hurry, hurry. Oh man, it's scary. And you can tell that they don't exactly dust. There was like four inches of dust on each of the leaves in the dioramas. And they're really big in this whole witch trial. That's what puts Salem on the map. Of course, actually, I think it's Hocus Pocus put him on the map because everybody was there. Everything was about Hocus Pocus, the movie. Yup, yup.
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And millennials, of course, love that movie. It was a, you know, VHS archive item that every kid had from classic. Have you watched the new one yet? I haven't seen them. I can't even believe they made a movie of 30. Yeah, no, no spoilers. I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, I had my bar set pretty low. I feel like there might have been a little bit of CGI makeup on some of the ladies who were returned returning from the Oh, I'm sure. But but yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I'd recommend it.
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Yeah, I think I rewatched Hocus Pocus the other day and it really it looks like a no wonder it didn't do well. It looks like a made for TV movie. Like you watch it and it's great. It's great nostalgia, but it looks like a made for TV movie. Like it's it's the start of the Disney kids series. You can just you can just replace those actors with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen at that time. And that would have played out just fine. The directive VHS like it's movies. 100 percent. Yes. Sorry, Mary Kate and Ashley. Not that they're listening to our stuff.
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Why would they? But anyways, the Salem thing was interesting. It was pretty. It was pretty to be up there. You could definitely feel like it was fall. It was crisp air. I think everybody was out with costumes and being just Halloween all day. It was Halloween town. If you ever wanted to see Halloween, like it probably should be, that's where you go. So that was fun. And then the next day walked around.
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visited a couple different things in Boston, but then we did a duck tour. And if you've never done a duck tour. Well, hold on. A duck tour?
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Yeah, a duck. So a duck is a military amphibious vehicle. Oh, okay. I was thinking quack quack. And I'm like, wait, Oh, no, that's part of it. It's part of the tour. I mean, duck, duck Tracy was our was our tour guide. And each of the tour guides have their own, have their own kind of thing that they do their own. Why do I, why do I feel like that was, wait, was that the missing episode between dark wing duck,
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DuckTales and did we miss DuckTracy or was he actually in one of those? Because I'm talking about Didi's nostalgia for millennials. Wow. Anybody who wasn't growing up that just does not know what I just talked about.
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And I couldn't hope for the guy to stop. So duck tours, I mean, they're cheesy, right? It's a tour around Boston in a duck. Very uncomfortable kind of seating, like a bus. Like a school bus. Like a hop on, hop off. Like a school bus. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, and it's not a lot of room, not a lot of seats, not a lot of positions. It hurts your butt after a while. And this tour is like an hour and 45 minutes. Oof. Is it really that much seating in Boston?
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So you're going around and you're driving. Well, a lot of it's the traffic, right? We happen to get on at five o'clock. So that's fair. Like five o'clock traffic driving through the city. And then, of course, it goes into, you know, into the actual river, right? It goes into Charles River. It goes into the river and drives around for a bit at six miles an hour. So you can feel like you got in the water. But yeah, so that each of the characters have a shtick.
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And this guy we get on, he's dressed in a trench coat, a duck tie. He's got a fedora with a duck ribbon around it. And he starts doing that overly emphasized 1920s, 1930s style of, yeah, Shane, this is what we're gonna do, Shane. This is what I said to Shane. But he didn't even do it very well, right? So he was trying to do this voice for 15 minutes.
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And I kept, I want to throw something at him. I was like, what are you doing, man? Stop it. Why are you doing? Also, that's not how Dick Tracy sounded. So why are you doing that? But apparently ducks sound like that when they're doing the voice of.
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Oh, so a Dick Tracy duck ie duck Tracy Tracy, right? Spot a side note on a side note before we go to continue on this duck tour journey. Have you ever sat around and thought about the conundrum of Dick Tracy? I have like he's detective Tracy, right? Which is a dick, right? That's what it is, right? Because a private detective is a private dick. So yes, as a as a kind of
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of DEC, right? Dick, right? Basically. But also, we don't know what Dick Tracy's first name is. Is his first name Richard? Which is also nicknamed Dick. So is it Dick Tracy?
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That's true. And then is it Dick Dick like the animal in the zoo? Yeah, exactly. So then it's like, wait, that's a whole another series. An animal, a Dick Dick, that's a detective, Dick Dick Tracy. Or is it his first name? Because his love interest, she always calls him Tracy or she calls him Dick, but she's interchangeably in the comic strip, but calls him Tracy a lot.
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So which could have been the old day. So it's his first name Tracy. Right. And he's Dick Tracy what? Yeah, Dick Tracy what? Like what's his last name? Right. That's interesting. Also sometimes they call him just Dick. Hey, Dick, we got this, right? But most of the time it's Tracy. Most of the time it's Tracy. And I assume it's his last name. But like what's his first name?
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Maybe his last name is Richard and his first name, maybe he's Tracy Richards. So it's Dick Tracy, Dick. Yes. I was just seeing how many times we could say this word at our broadcast and not, and not tag it as explicit. Um, right. Because we're not actually referring to male genitalia. We're referring to detective Tracy. Right. Yeah. So that's, you, I've spent way too much time thinking about that. Totally something I would do though. So yes.
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So whenever I see Dick Tracy, it's always just like, wait, which one is it? Anyways, yeah, so Duck Tracy, so the one thing they make you do every time you pass another, you pass people who are waving at you or whatever. And I did this tour 10 years ago when this company only had three boats or 11 years ago. When they only had three boats, now they have 28 boats. So they've grown to be a much bigger boat. They used to pick you up at your hotel. Yeah, that's quite the fleet.
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Yeah, they used to pick you up at your hotel and they'd pick everybody up and then drive. Now they have actually like two depots where you can get picked up for the tour. So they've become a force, they've become a tour force for this whole thing. But anyways, the one thing they make you do is they quack at people who wave at you or quack out whatever, right? It's for kids, right? Yeah, yeah.
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But this guy wanted to be slick, and his whole thing is he would do the dragnet theme. He would go duck, duh-duh-duh, and everybody's supposed to say, quack. So that got old, like after the first time. Just the first time. Just the first time. And then every other time after that, it was just like, okay.
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Yeah. You're like, you're like, okay, it was cute. You did it once. It's like when somebody says, it's like when somebody says, I can't hear you. That wasn't loud enough. Clap, clap. It's like, okay, you're done. You don't need like, if you can't get that much applause, you're not good enough. I'm sorry. It's just how it works.
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Plus it was like a five o'clock. Half the people on there didn't speak English. Like they're like non-English speaking Taurus. Yeah. They're just, yeah. They're just coming to like try to figure out what's going on. So they don't understand these like norms and these things that he's trying to do. So very confusing to them.
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So was it was it valuable? I mean, would you recommend if I go to Boston? I've been to Boston. I think I, geez, I don't even remember. I think I've been to Boston once, but clearly it wasn't memorable enough. No, I've just been to Philadelphia. And no, I've never been to Boston, Massachusetts. So tell me more. Is it? So Boston is very expensive. What I thought was interesting is that for three days in Boston, it costs the same as what we spent for a week, seven days in London, right? Just crazy expensive.
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That's what I heard. I had a co-worker go to a Two Friends concert, which they're two friends. It's a DJ duo that mixes pop songs. And they were like, oh, this Boston thing is really cool. And he was like, never mind. It's too expensive.
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Yeah, it's it's way too expensive. And I think Boston's a cool city. It's got its it has, you know, the Italian influence, it has a long history, obviously, the Boston Tea Party. For people who are American historians, I think that's great. It's also got a heavy because they have a
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positive tax incentive for movie makers. They've made a lot of movies there, made a lot of films there, right? Because they're trying, we're trying to pull people out of New York City and make movies in their city because they also realize you make movies in the city. Yeah, if you make movies in that city, people are going to come visit your city to see where the movie was made.
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Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. Cause you've got that, you've got that kind of the, the appeal of like where, you know, all the things and you know, the landmarks and those types of things. So it's kind of a tourism play as well as a potential pulling people in there. So man, yeah, that's so expensive. Not, but, but I mean, worth a, worth a weekend trip at some point.
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I yeah, absolutely. I think I think there's things you can do there. I mean, I've done it before. I think not much has changed. That's fun part about boss. It doesn't change much. So you've got the Children's Museum, the Science Museum. It's a science museum. It's an awesome museum. I think you get you can play with lots of different science things, teach job up is just amazing museum to go to.
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You have plenty of tours. You can go. I mean, the last time I was there, I had the same kind of experience 11, 11 years ago, whatever I did, the American Heritage Tour, which is they walk you around like all these places. And I had a guy doing Lewis Black impression the whole tour, like everything he did was with angry fingers and just doing Lewis Black and like the whole way that he
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Yeah, I don't see its words and gets mad about things. Yeah, he like did Lewis black that was his that was his thing man You just get you get the whole crew coming out. You got duck Tracy. You got Lewis black impersonation Like what will they come up with next? They got to keep reinventing themselves Yeah, I'd be interested to go on the cat Williams version of a tour though. That would be
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That would be great. That would be great. So I did. What are we at? What are we at on time? We're typical time. Well, real, real quick. I did. I recently went to Oktoberfest and my not in Germany and my hometown, um, small town of Fredericksburg and, um,
Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg
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I grew up there all my life, never went to it. Because as a local, these things, you just avoid them, you know? And I quickly realized that all it was was San Antonio's fiesta with a German flair. That's all it was. Like everything on a stick to eat, lots of beer, lots of alcohol, crowded people, cramped in. But I was probably most entertained
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And during Oktoberfest, by the small number of Carnival games, which the only one they really had was the one where you hit the thing and the little ding goes up to the top. You see, you know, feats of strength type of thing and how much like the people in line were all just trying to like prove something. But it was really all about where you hit it, like in like the style of how you hit it. And then I saw how much they were charging people for that. And I'm like,
00:28:59
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man, the Carney business is good right now. Mike, they're making serious coin on this. It was like five bucks to hit the little thing three times. I'm like, man, inflation's a real thing. You don't want to be a Carney, Ross. You don't want to be a Carney. Hey, I think, I don't know. Maybe there's an appeal to that. Probably not. But maybe there's, maybe there's some sort of like traveling around appeal to being a Carnival worker.
00:29:26
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What's interesting about Texas, thinking about carnivals, is that, have you ever noticed in Texas, one, it's the heat, right? So we put everything in either early spring or winter, like the rodeos in February, right? We put it in when it's cool, right? Because you can be outside longer.
00:29:41
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So all the people that are the carneys are the people from Michigan and Minnesota who come down here in the wintertime because no one's going outside in Minnesota and Michigan. Yeah, I know. So they come down here with their Ferris wheels and their unsafe roller coasters and their carney games to do that, right? I don't even know. Is carney a negative term? Like, are we supposed to not say? I don't know. Carnival operators. I don't know. I don't, I don't see. I mean, like, I don't, I don't intend it to be a negative term because like, that's just like. Yeah.
00:30:10
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This is something that's like I would, you know, well, Archie. That's like calling it calling an IT person like a nerd or something to me. It's like it's just like that's like kind of a term for it. But yeah, well, I think back now the Archie comic book company actually had a had a had a comic book series very, very short lived called the carnies. It was a family of carnival workers.
00:30:31
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in Archie comic books i think i have i think i have a copy of it and if if Archie comic books yeah obviously that it's probably all right all right check myself um but yeah so it was it was good did you have uh did you did you frequent carnivals growing up did you have like a favorite carnival game that you play as a kid like we all had those games i know mine i know what mine was but did you have like a carnival game that you played or anything that you did
00:30:56
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So growing up, they used to have the Fests on the German military bases, on the military base, and in England too, they would always have a Fests one time of the year where they would bring the Carnival onto the military installation.
Addictive Carnival Games
00:31:09
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And it was all Americans that would go to do things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember one year, several years they had this giant Viking, they had a water flume ride, and then this giant Viking that was, it was called Vyld Vasa.
00:31:23
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right? Which is wild, wild water. And he would say things in German with his big beer, with his beer, big beer stein and say German things to you to get on the ride.
00:31:39
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It's like, come on, little children, get on the ride. Yeah. Yeah. But no, my dad wasn't real big on letting us play a lot of carnival games because he knew they were rigged. Very logical man. Yes. Yes. Very logical man.
00:31:54
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I do remember my brothers always wanted to play and they'd get snuckered into it all the time of like trying to throw the ring on the milk bottle. Ring toss. Yeah, ring toss or the basketball. It's like maybe that's the Lakers problem right now. They're shooting on carnival rings because they can't make a shot for anything. That's what it is. Give LeBron a call and say, hey, I know what the problem is. They're cramping your
00:32:19
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your your hoop there they're making it thinner than it is long i guess my game was uh the stupid coin pushing off the edge game oh i love that where you drop the coin yeah oh i know it was an absolute blast i was addicted to it what am i getting from it that one little key chain that might fall it's kid gambling it's kid gambling oh it's totally kid gambling like
00:32:42
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That's when I knew I'd have to moderate myself in Vegas, which we know from before. My Vegas budget is very small. If they had one of those coin machines in Vegas with real quarters and you're just dropping quarters in, which they probably do somewhere. Circus Circus does for sure.
00:32:58
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oh i don't ooh yuck but but but i was just reading about this uh so you know how like true gambling has rules like there's a you have to pay back like 92 of whatever you take like you have you can only make eight percent off the top right that's all you can make from what was put yeah yeah
00:33:16
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But on kids gambling machines, like the things at Dave and Buster's, there's no rules for how often you have to win. Yeah, it's tickets and there's no like you can throttle it to... Right. So you could give out jackpots. Yeah, give jackpots out only one percent of the time. Whereas on other machines, if you were in Vegas, you have to win a certain amount.
00:33:37
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I feel like that's like a lawsuit like a like a YouTube advertising lawsuit about to happen again where they were like gathering data on what kids were watching and they got busted for that or we should do a class action lawsuit against Dave and busters for for Took too many of my tickets
Regulating Kids' Gambling Machines
00:33:57
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I never got that spider glow in the dark spider ring because... Yeah, it all has to do with the fact that the idea is they're just for entertainment and there is no monetary incentive to play the game. That's really what it is. Yeah, because it's tickets. Yeah, and that Xbox up there that costs, you know, 500,000 tickets, you'll never get... I wonder if anybody's ever gotten one of those. Like they... They probably lost their tickets before they ever got there. I love the cards now. You lose those cards all the time. How many times you would go to Dave and Buster's and like get a new one?
00:34:26
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Yeah, you just get a new card. Yeah, every time you're like, Oh, well, this is, where's that one card? And then somebody walks in there and like, like, I want one of everything. And they got like 10 million tickets on their card. On a side note, thinking about games from David Busters, I totally want to buy that Sega horse racing game. Like if I had a giant room in my house, I would have the horse bidding game from Sega. Yes, yes, absolutely. I'm sure I'm sure that I'm sure you could where there's a will, there's a way. If you can buy
00:34:57
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a British taxi, which I don't think we talked about. Oh man,
Desire for Impractical Items
00:35:01
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we should totally talk about that. Things that we want to buy that are very, very impractical, right? Very impractical for us to buy. Well, we're coming up on time, Greg, and we've got a whole list of things I want to talk with you about.
00:35:22
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experiences that you can buy that can come to you. So one teaser, Habachi to you.
00:35:30
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Apparently, this is a thing. You can actually have a hibachi come to your house. So I think there are some that are really good ideas, but I want to brainstorm because I think we could maybe make millions on coming up with some ideas that are some good experiences that could be brought to the person. I think there's also some bad ones that we can mine out of there that would make for good conversation as well.
00:35:55
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I think that's the next
Preview of Next Episode
00:35:59
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topic. So that's the next topic is in-home experiences? In-home experiences and both good and bad. And a bonus round of, am I living in a box or are you living in a box? Because I've discovered some new sports and some new things that I've never heard of. And apparently hundreds of millions of people enjoy these sports.
00:36:23
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And so I'm curious, am I the only one living in a small, small dark box or are you and others living in a small dark box? So more to come on that. All right, Greg, as always, it was great talking to you and I'll talk to you soon, man. Bye. Sounds good. Bye.
00:36:46
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