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Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Nate.

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I'm Mike.

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Now, what are we smoking tonight, Mike?

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It tastes great just from the wrapper feel and smells really good too.

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This is a 6 inch Maduro basket cigar from the local cigar shop in Minneapolis.

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So very cheap, very reasonable.

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I smoke a lot of these basket style cigars at home when I'm in a, you know, putz around

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the garage or even sit and read a book.

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I'll smoke a cigar outside.

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I'll smoke something like this instead of a $16, $17 cigar.

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Yeah, I think what?

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This was like five or six bucks.

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I believe so.

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Mine has a very good draw.

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Yeah, mine too.

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I was just trying to formulate some first impressions here.

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A little bit spicier wrapper.

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It is.

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We've been on a spicy kick lately.

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Not just on the show.

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Huh?

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I said, not just on the show.

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Yeah.

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Oh, before we get into like the topic of the evening, I actually have a beer tonight because

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it's warm enough outside.

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And this beer I just grabbed because it was a beer that I haven't tried before.

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And it's from a local brewery called Badger Hill down here.

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But I have to preface this with I am not a fan of Prince.

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Okay.

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Musically.

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You know, there's like Darling Nicky, great song, but kind of the rest of his stuff, not

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hugely into it.

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But this is called a-

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You don't like Raspberry Parade?

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No.

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Is it parade?

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I thought it was, is it parade or beret?

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It's beret.

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I always say Raspberry Parade because it's about sex.

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To try to find out the Prince haters from the true people who know Prince and still

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don't like him?

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Sarah's uncle met Prince a lot because they were both partying in downtown at the same

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time before Prince was famous.

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And he can't stand Prince.

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I mean, I'm sure he was a nice enough guy or whatnot.

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I don't know.

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He said he was a really nice guy.

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His music just never-

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He just never followed him.

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He hasn't ruined all the bars.

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Yeah.

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It's just not a music style that I was hugely, hugely ever into.

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But anyway, we're getting off the topic here.

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Yes, the beer.

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The beer is from Badger Hill, which is here in Chocopee, a little bit south of where I

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am.

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And it's called the Paisley Hazy.

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And so I've been on a hazy IPA kick and it's Paisley Park themed or whatever.

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But I have to tell you, this is like the smoothest tastiest beer.

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It doesn't have the harshness of an IPA.

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It's just so good.

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Sarah and I both had one and she goes, it's like drinking water, but very, very tasty

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water.

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Have you had Hui?

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Have I had wheat?

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Hui, Hui, H-O-O-E-Y.

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I don't believe so.

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That's a hazy IPA that's really popular up here.

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They have it in Crosby and Burndale and all these small little towns up here.

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Okay.

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What breed is that?

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It's kind of like their main, I have no idea.

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Oh, okay.

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No idea.

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Never ask because they have it at every bar.

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I won yesterday at the Pirates Den in Burndale passing through, passing through a little

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beautiful town of Burndale.

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For our listeners who don't know, Burndale is a spot on US Highway 10 where you have

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to slow down to 40 miles an hour.

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They used to make manufactured homes with that business closed.

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So now they pretty much don't have anything.

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They got the bar though.

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They have the Pirates Den gas station bar.

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Doesn't get better than that.

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No.

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Tell you what, my hometown in Wisconsin was so small.

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We had 89 in my graduating high school class.

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The only chain restaurant we had was a subway and it was one of those subways that's in

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the gas station.

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You know what I mean?

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It wasn't even its own building.

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It was just in the gas station.

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Sure.

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Actually, I still don't think they have any chain restaurants there outside of that subway

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somehow that held on.

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Yeah, that's interesting.

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They just opened up a brewery a couple of years back now.

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I haven't been there though.

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Really?

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I would be, if I ever find myself there, not much reason to go there anymore because my

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best friend from high school doesn't live there and then my dad doesn't live there anymore.

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Either he sold the house and moved somewhere else.

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Oh wow.

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Okay.

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Yeah, you really don't have a reason to go back, which is interesting.

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Yeah, they do have a really good cheese co-op just outside of Grantsburg, Burnett Dairy

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Co-op.

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They've got really good cheese.

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I mean, honest to God.

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When I was in high school there, you walked in and it was like a converted Tom Thumb gas

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station and they didn't even bother to move the layout.

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It was just cheese in the coolers instead of sodas.

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And then behind the counter you could get soft serve ice cream if you wanted.

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But they did a huge renovation and now they've got their own little bistro and you can get

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paninis.

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They've got wine tasting and now it's first class, top of the line.

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Sure.

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So dreams do come true.

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That's so funny.

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I have a coworker who's originally from Wisconsin and he brings back smoked mozzarella cheese

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from the co-op from his hometown.

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Does every town in Wisconsin have a co-op?

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Usually for a town to be incorporated, they need what?

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Like a town council or something.

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But in Wisconsin, all you need is a cheese store.

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And then the state government is like, yep, we recognize you as a town.

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That's really nice.

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Don't tell that to Roy Cobb.

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We were just talking about that guy at work today.

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My coworker had a racist encounter at an auto parts store yesterday.

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So this scraggly, he called him a trailer park looking guy, was eyeballing the clerk

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behind the counter.

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And Gary said he bought a bunch of parts.

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He's fixing up his Corvette.

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And he's like, yeah, he's like a young guy in his twenties who's happened to be black.

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He's a really nice guy.

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Help me out, blah, blah, blah.

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He's like, I have no idea why that guy would be staring at him with the ugly eye other than

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he had to have been just an out and out racist.

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It's like, holy shit.

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You don't hear about that very often in the modern world.

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I don't know how race motivated this was other than it was a white person and a black cashier

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at the post office here, right here in my town, just outside of Minneapolis.

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And it's like this short white guy and he was upset about something that had happened

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prior and I'm waiting in line.

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And he's trying to play the, well, I was discriminated against card.

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And the lady behind the counter is black and I'm just sitting there and I'm like, I don't

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think this is going to play out how you want it to play out, my man.

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But so he goes, well, I'm going to call my lawyer and I'm going to see if I have to take

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your stuff or not.

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And so he calls his lawyer on speed dial, I guess, which isn't really a thing.

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You just save your contacts, right?

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But anyway, calls his lawyer and he's trying to explain this whole thing.

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And he's like really worked up and super heated.

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And she did a great job of trying to stay calm and kind of deflate the escalation, the

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incident.

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But I was like, man, I don't know many people.

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I think there's one person I know of that's a friend of mine that would in an instance

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like that call his lawyer on the phone.

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But it's, I mean, you're at the post office, dude.

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You're not getting good service.

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Sorry.

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Like this is not going to happen.

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Yeah.

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Not unless you're into it.

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No offense to like small town post offices where they know everybody's name, they're

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super nice and all that.

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But you know, down here.

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I was not here to say that.

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I'm like, unless you're at a small enough town to where you know who the clerk is.

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Probably, they probably don't care about you.

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Yeah.

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I mean, where, you know, between the post office and the DMV, where are you getting

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better customer service?

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I mean, you know, marginally probably the post office, but.

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Oh, for sure.

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James went to the DMV a couple of years ago when he moved back to Minnesota.

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Got to get a new driver's license.

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He was in California and Texas for a number of years.

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And the person behind the counter was somebody that we graduated high school with.

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And he said that she recognized me and I recognized her and she still treated me like dirt.

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Yeah, actually, I hear that goes on your performance review.

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If you work for the DMV and you're nice to anybody, you get like a demerit.

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Oh my God.

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I hope that's true.

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That would be awesome.

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That would be wonderful.

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Oh, that would be so good.

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So I don't know.

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I may be like a half inch in on this.

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What I'll say is there's like, there's no, not really bitter.

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It's not bitter.

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I'm not really getting much flavor from it at all.

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Actually the wrapper is not really spicy anymore and I'm not really getting a whole lot of

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flavor from it.

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No, I'm, it's so-so.

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So very smoky.

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Oh yeah.

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Mine is extremely-

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There's more smoke coming out of this.

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I was kind of like relighting it to keep it even burn and the whole thing kind of went

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up in flames.

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And so I was frantically like blowing out the end.

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When I initially lit it, the end of the cigar changed colors from that dark, dark brown

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to kind of tannish.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, mine did too.

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Uh oh.

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Yeah, I'm putting, I'm actually putting it down.

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I'm puffing on it and putting it down to let the smoke come off of the wrapper.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what, I don't know what that is.

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Somebody who knows more about cigars might be able to tell us why it's doing this, but

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probably the short answer is, you know, it's a bin cigar.

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So right.

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And it didn't come individually wrapped.

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So I mean, that might have something to do with humidity dryness.

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Well, mine's at a perfect humidity.

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I had mine in my humidor for-

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Oh mine too, mine too.

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Several weeks.

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Yours, you just got-

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Not weeks, but you know, one week for me.

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Right.

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I want results now, Mike.

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I want them now.

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You know, I've heard people wait, some guys wait 45 days.

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They'll humidify a cigar that they buy.

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You know, so you buy them online.

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I always freeze them for a day or two.

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Oh, okay.

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I didn't know-

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To kill off any tobacco bugs.

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I just smoked those little fuckers.

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Just smoke them.

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I just don't want them to get into my other cigars because I have quite a few as you know.

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Yes.

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So now I didn't know that I should be freezing them.

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Oh yes.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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If you already have a built up humidor, you want to freeze them because these big cigar

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warehouses basically, they can't possibly have the quality control of a cigar lounge.

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So I don't worry about it from a cigar lounge.

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Those guys are maintaining their stuff at a top-notch level.

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Yeah.

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But when you get it from like pipes and cigars or something, I always freeze them.

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Okay.

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What about like, so like Tobacco Grove, they've got to have their stuff all kind of locked

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down.

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But what about some of these other smoke shops where they maybe specialize in like e-cigars

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and the vape juice?

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Well, you go to like Anthony's in uptown.

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I would not worry.

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Anthony's is a beautiful spot.

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I would never worry about that.

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I don't know.

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If it's a real cigar lounge, I wouldn't worry about it.

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Yeah.

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You know, mine had a cigar lounge called the garage, Tom's Garage.

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Okay.

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It closed down unfortunately, but I would never worry about getting a cigar from him.

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Yeah.

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I've never been to a cigar lounge where I was worried about it.

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I wouldn't buy anything if I was worried.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I wouldn't trust like those gas station style glass-frozen humidor's that you see at other

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stores and stuff.

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Yeah.

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That's a little different.

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All opinion.

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But anyway, some guys say you should humidify your cigar for 45 days before you smoke them,

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after you freeze them.

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Okay.

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And I'll do 21 days usually, three weeks.

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Okay.

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If I'm excited.

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I have not been.

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And you know, our first episode we were talking about, you know, you're more of a buy the

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book and I'm more of a not, but I had no idea.

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So, I've, but I don't smoke as much as you.

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I've been smoking more now that we've been doing this podcast, but I've got some cigars

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in there that have been in there for maybe two years now.

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I have cigars that I purchased before I left Brainerd when I graduated high school.

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Okay.

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So two years.

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Two years for you too is your max.

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Two years.

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These young kids, I tell you.

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Oh yeah.

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No.

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So what the heck would that be?

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16 year old cigar, something like that.

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Somewhere in there, 15, 16 year old cigars.

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I have a few that are original from the old cigar shop from town.

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Okay.

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So it's interesting that you had mentioned a 16 year old because what I kind of want

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to talk about tonight has to do with a meme kind of, but then it has repercussions in

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the legal system and along party lines and everything else.

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So being that we're kind of mostly from the same generation, even if we might not identify

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fully with the generation everybody kind of labels us.

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Sure.

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You've heard the phrase, okay, boomer, right?

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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When, you know, it was a boomer and they're doing something super boomer-ish.

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The young kids all say, okay, boomer.

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But the one I saw now was okay, groomer.

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And it's in response to the Florida's don't say gay bill that passed.

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I have not heard this.

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Okay.

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Well, and I purposely didn't tell you because I wanted to talk about it with you.

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And I didn't do any research on all the sports ball stuff we talked about last time.

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So I have not heard about this bill and I have not heard about the okay groomer meme.

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So I'm not a meme lord.

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I'm not a meme lord.

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Okay.

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Not yet.

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Okay.

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So just let's sum it up.

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I'm just going to straight out say I am not a lawyer.

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I'm not a legal expert.

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I am not a tax expert.

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I'm not a doctor.

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I'm not a physician.

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Consult anybody, a professional.

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If I say something that is incorrect.

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Okay.

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Just throwing that out there for our listeners.

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Other than smoking is cool.

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But only cigars, not vapes.

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But anyway, so the don't say gay bill, they introduced it in Florida.

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And that's just the nickname it got, the don't say gay bill.

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But basically it is aiming to prevent sex education for kids in kindergarten through

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third grade.

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So basically saying you can't teach kindergartners through third graders sex ed.

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But what that has now kind of transformed into is the LGBT plus community has said that

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they are trying to hide transgender and alternative sexualities from children.

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Okay.

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So basically the liberals have billed it as a don't say gay bill.

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So if they pass this bill, it means you can't say gay in Florida, you know, to garner support

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for their side of the issue.

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The other side now that says no third graders should be being taught anything about sex

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from a public education, from a school.

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They're saying, okay, groomer.

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Saying that if you want to force alternative sexualities down kids' throats, you're basically

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grooming them as a pedophile.

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Okay.

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So maybe I should have given you a little heads up that it was going to get dark pretty

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fast.

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Yes, this is interesting.

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I'm drinking Guinness right now.

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I'm drinking Guinness and the green labeled bottle and bond whiskey.

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This is darker than Guinness, I can tell you that.

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Pretty dark.

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So not being one to leap on either side and me mostly hating both sides, politically speaking,

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I did some research and typically, typically in America here, sex education doesn't start

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until sixth grade.

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So like sixth through 12th is basically when you could expect your child to go to the,

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you know, quote unquote sex ed, let's put condoms on bananas type of thing.

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Really?

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See, I had sex ed in fifth grade and then we had health class in like sixth, seventh,

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eighth, ninth grade and they had a little one or two day unit on it, you know?

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Yeah.

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Not to make a reference to a penis.

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But yeah.

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I mean a banana is one thing, a penis is another thing.

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Right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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So I had sex ed by the principal in fifth grade.

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And the girls, phrasing, phrasing.

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Yeah.

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They separated the boys and the girls out and you know, that they had a female teacher

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teach the girls about periods and preparing them for the inevitable.

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And then the boys were, I don't even remember what it was.

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I think it was a little bit of condom talk and it was mostly about all that going through

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puberty, like prepping us for the fact that we're about to enter puberty.

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Yeah.

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Well, that kind of, when you said you had sex ed by your principal, it reminded me of

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a favorite joke that I have is that I was blessed with a massive cock, but unfortunately

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that cock belonged to Father O'Malley.

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Oh my God.

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Okay.

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So anyway, but the point is that there's a certain age typically that our society deems

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correct or too young to be talking about sex things, to just sum it up.

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You know, and I think, you know, sixth grade, fifth grade, somewhere in there, that's about

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when you start, you know, bodies start changing, hormones start going.

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Again, I'm not a doctor and it's different case by case basis.

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So I think, you know, we can-

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It makes sense to have it at that time because it was at the end of fifth grade year for

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me.

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But that's, it makes sense.

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You want to prepare, you know, young people for the inevitable, right?

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It's inevitable.

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It's going to happen.

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So.

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So yeah.

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So I just, I was, I was curious because, you know, if you read the media about it, it's

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the don't say gay bill and they're all, you know, backwards hillbillies in Florida.

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And that's a whole different topic, you know, whether or not the Floridians are or aren't.

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But you know, when you actually look at what the bill was saying, cause I heard the okay

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groomer and I thought, well, that's hilarious as a response to it.

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And so I thought, well, why don't I look it up and see what that bill actually is?

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You know, not living in Florida doesn't really bother me because I don't live there and I

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don't plan on living there and I don't plan on sending my daughter to school there.

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So, but when I read it and they said they just don't want kindergartners through third

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graders getting sex ed, I thought, well, that's, that seems reasonable to me.

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It's well within the lines of reason as far as I can tell, especially if, especially if

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they're actually doing that, you know?

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Yeah.

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And I mean, I have no idea because you know, like you said, it's been 16 some years since

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either of us have been in school, high school or middle school this longer.

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Right.

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It's been 20 years since we were in middle school.

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Yeah.

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And so my initial thought, I mean, I literally was, I entered high school 20 years ago.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So my, my initial, my initial thought just as a person was, well, I don't want my parents

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talking to me about that stuff.

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You know, cause it's awkward.

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It's weird.

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I don't want it.

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But as a parent, I'm thinking, well, I don't want some school official talking to my daughter

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about that stuff.

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You know, but it kind of comes down to like parental responsibility or personal responsibility.

430
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Like that stuff's out there.

431
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You know, sex stuff is out there.

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I heard about sex, like on the school bus, you know, some other kid had the talk with

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their parents and then told the rest of the school.

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So we all knew about it, you know, well before sixth grade.

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I'm not saying that's right or wrong.

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It's just, it's out there.

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And I think, and we didn't even have cell phones back then.

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So we didn't have the internet.

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So it's not out of the line of reasoning that a lot of these kids before sixth grade are

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going to know all of this stuff anyway.

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They certainly will.

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They'll learn from their peers.

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I mean, not the, maybe, yeah.

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I mean, maybe not the safest way to do stuff, not the best way to do stuff, but I mean,

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they're going to have ideas and they're going to have things in their head, you know, about

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it.

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But I thought it was interesting because, you know, the media just makes it out to be,

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they don't say gay bill.

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And then the other side is like, they're calling, you know, so the liberals are saying, oh,

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don't say gay.

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You don't like anybody that's not heterosexual.

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And then the other side is saying, well, you're grooming them for sex, you know.

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So it's kind of like gets back down into that area where it's like, if you read the bill,

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it seems fairly reasonable to me, regardless of anybody's sexual orientation or gender,

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that you know, kindergarten is probably too soon.

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I would say that, you know, this, I'm thinking about this and this boils down to, and I think

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we've talked about this before.

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We both grew up in the post Cold War era and you know, in the nineties, this kind of reformative

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middle school teenage years.

460
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Yeah.

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Pogs.

462
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Yeah.

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Pogs and Pokemon, which I never played Pokemon.

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Yeah.

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Magic the gathering.

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I played WWF before it got turned to WWE, you know, WCW wrestling on TV.

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Back then, especially, you know, when the Afghan war broke out September 11th, the liberal

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wing of the Democratic party started to become more and more authoritarian in their view.

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And this seems to me to kind of be that flex where these left-wing people are trying to

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control what other people do, you know, because we don't all think alike and I'm not, I am

471
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not a conservative Christian, as you know, but there are conservative Christians and

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they want to be able to brainwash their children in their particular flavor of reality.

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And he says there's liberal people and they want to brainwash their children into their

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particular view.

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And there's a big movement, authoritarian movement on the left to force their views

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on people.

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And I would say on the right.

478
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Huh?

479
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Well, I'd say on both sides.

480
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Oh, now it certainly is, you know, growing up, it was a lot of, especially in Minnesota.

481
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The Republicans in Minnesota were very authoritarian and the Democrats were less so, but now both

482
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sides have become just anti-freedom, you know?

483
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Yeah.

484
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Well, and we talked about this a little bit last episode with trans athletes and things.

485
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And, you know, I have to believe that by and large, the majority of Americans really, really,

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really don't care.

487
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If you want to be trans or if you are trans or if you are gay or if you're pansexual or

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any of the other things, most Americans, it doesn't affect their day-to-day life.

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If you, an individual, feels a certain way and wants to live a certain way with your

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life, you know, as long as you're not breaking the law, meaning like just the base laws,

491
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like you're not going out and killing people, you're not stealing, robbing, I don't know,

492
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you know what I mean?

493
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But by and large, it doesn't bother me if somebody decides to get gender reassignment

494
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surgery.

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How does my life change from that?

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It doesn't.

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And so I think that maybe the liberals or the Democrats, whatever they're going by these

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days, see that as, oh, a majority of Americans agree with us so we can double down on some

499
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,840
of our weird dogma.

500
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,840
Yeah.

501
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,240
I'll call back the last week.

502
00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:01,880
So last Wednesday, the United States bowling gongers banned a bunch of bowling balls.

503
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,880
Yeah.

504
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,940
And it's causing a big ruckus in the bowling community.

505
00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:10,520
But nobody else outside of the bowling community cares about them banning a couple of bowling

506
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,520
balls.

507
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,520
Half of them.

508
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Yeah.

509
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,400
Well, I'm telling you right now, this is the first I've heard of and I'm ready to riot.

510
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,400
Right.

511
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,400
Exactly.

512
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:24,960
And I view truly, even though we were having fun last week about the trans athletes, I

513
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,360
truly don't care.

514
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:27,360
Right?

515
00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:33,360
The high school sports and the college sports will figure out what they want to do and it'll

516
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:37,080
be a trial and error process and they'll do what's best for them.

517
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,960
I mean, I think ultimately, I'm not involved.

518
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:40,960
Yeah.

519
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,600
Ultimately what I'm saying is I'm glad I'm not a coach and I'm glad I don't have strong

520
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,720
feelings one way or the other about it because-

521
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,080
Well, I'm glad I'm not one of those female athletes.

522
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:54,400
I can tell you that because I know that I'd be pretty upset.

523
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,400
I know me and I know me when I was 17.

524
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:04,600
A 17 year old me would be very upset if I was a girl.

525
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,600
You know what?

526
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,960
17 year old me might not be upset if you were a girl.

527
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,960
I don't know.

528
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,960
I mean, we'll see.

529
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,520
Life might be different.

530
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:21,160
It's funny because I just had a buddy call me and he's feeling a little bit down earlier

531
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:27,040
today and he had a message from this girl he's been communicating with that seemingly

532
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,120
ended their communications.

533
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,000
He was like, oh man, I really want to just send her a message and tell her to fuck off

534
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000
and all this.

535
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,280
He's like, but I'm calling you for advice.

536
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,580
I said, you know what?

537
00:29:38,580 --> 00:29:42,360
College me would have said, yeah man, here's some more choice words you can add to that

538
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,760
message.

539
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,600
I said, but you know what?

540
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:53,200
Current me is like, it costs nothing to say nothing.

541
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,760
Yeah, you're upset and you're mad, but what if she changes her mind?

542
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,500
What if you misunderstood the situation?

543
00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:04,800
What if even she didn't change her mind, you were mad and then 20 years from now you meet

544
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,080
again and she goes, you know what?

545
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,240
It was really great you didn't tell me to go f myself.

546
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,240
I don't know.

547
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,520
It doesn't cost anything to be a friend that you end up getting with.

548
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,840
Well yeah, or a sister who knows, you know?

549
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,440
Yeah, whatever.

550
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:26,000
It's a people, especially online, all this, there's a lot of controversy right now about

551
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,480
people being mean online.

552
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,480
Yeah.

553
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:33,800
The thing that they don't say on like the big talking heads on the television is that

554
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,520
the people who are involved with this, both on the saying negative things side and the

555
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,760
people who care is that those people are losers, right?

556
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,080
They do not feel like they are winning at life.

557
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:54,520
They feel bad and they're doing this online outlet thing because they're frustrated angry

558
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,520
about where they're at.

559
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:56,520
Yeah.

560
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,240
Because people who are not don't care.

561
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,000
And there's fewer repercussions online, I feel.

562
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,840
I mean, maybe now you can get some hate speech stuff thrown at you or hate speech charges

563
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:12,640
or whatever, but I mean, there's hardly any repercussions.

564
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,920
But you get banned off of Twitter or whatever.

565
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,560
You can get banned.

566
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,160
You could get like sued for cyber bullying or something.

567
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,640
I mean, as long as you're not doing the, what is it, the swatting, the houses or whatever.

568
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,640
Right.

569
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,560
You know, it's like, oh, freedom of speech.

570
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,520
If you don't like it, log off, you know, like go to a different website.

571
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,240
But the thing is too, that that stuff happens everywhere.

572
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,560
It happens everywhere.

573
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,720
Even before there was the internet, people were calling each other names.

574
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:42,720
Sure.

575
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,000
And I'm a free speech hardliner.

576
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:53,880
You know, I completely disagree with social media platforms banning white supremacists.

577
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:59,280
The best thing for the white supremacists themselves as individuals and for our society

578
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,160
is for them to spout their stupid nonsense and then to have that addressed by like Cornel

579
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,160
West one time.

580
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,160
You know what I mean?

581
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:12,600
Like, it doesn't have to be a daily thing for Dr. West or, you know, whoever it happens

582
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,600
to be.

583
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,520
But here's the thing, but even one interaction could change that person's mind.

584
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,520
Yeah.

585
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:20,880
And that was better for them.

586
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:21,880
It's better for society.

587
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:28,280
You know, I mean, so on one hand, yeah, sure.

588
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,280
I agree.

589
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:41,720
On the other hand, and this, you know, it almost pains me to say this, but the constitution

590
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:47,200
doesn't guarantee that businesses will respect your first amendment.

591
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,800
And that's the whole case that they did in the Colorado bakery that didn't want to make

592
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,960
a cake for a gay same sex wedding.

593
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,640
And they ultimately said, you know what, every business has the right to choose, blah, blah,

594
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,640
blah.

595
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:06,280
See, and I consider that to be a fascist loophole because I do not view these huge corporations

596
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:11,400
as being separated from the government by anything more than a veneer.

597
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,040
You know, they are paying for policy.

598
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,720
So they are creating policy for the government one way or the other.

599
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,720
So they are the government.

600
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:27,360
Well, and I 100% agree that you know why everybody's so up in arms about Republicans versus Democrats

601
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:32,320
because all the politicians or all the people in power, which are politicians and Jeff Bezos

602
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:38,000
and Elon Musk and Bill Gates and all these other people that have most of them have actually

603
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,080
been to Epstein Island, by the way.

604
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:45,920
But regardless, all of these rich people, super rich, like I'm talking super, super

605
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,960
rich, rich enough to build dick shaped spaceships and go up into space rich and politicians.

606
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,360
They're all on the same side.

607
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,800
They don't care if Trump's in, if Biden's in, they don't care.

608
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,760
They don't give two shits about that.

609
00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:59,760
They want to stay in power.

610
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,240
And the only way they can stay in power is if we get riled up about Will Smith slapping

611
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,240
Chris Rock.

612
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,220
If we get riled up about a don't say gay bill that has nothing to do with limiting people

613
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:09,220
saying gay.

614
00:34:09,220 --> 00:34:11,680
That's how they stay in power.

615
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,680
Wedge issues.

616
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,240
All it is is wedge issues.

617
00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:20,000
It used to be gay marriage, which was like the biggest no brainer growing up.

618
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:26,000
I even as a teenager, I knew that it was a no brainer.

619
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,920
Workers are taxpayers, citizens are citizens.

620
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:30,920
That's it.

621
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,360
We should all have the same access to government policy.

622
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,360
Yeah.

623
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,360
Well, why not?

624
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,520
It was all abstract because nobody really got hurt by legalizing gay marriage.

625
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:41,520
It was pointless.

626
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,520
Yeah.

627
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:50,640
But I mean, that's to say like, you know, under that logic and I agree with you, the

628
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,640
mega corporations were not capitalist, were corporatist or something.

629
00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:01,000
I don't know what the new terminology would be for our society as a country, but it's

630
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,800
sure we're a fascist oligarchy.

631
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:03,800
Yeah.

632
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:09,120
I mean, it sure as shit is capitalism because capitalism, we would just say, Oh, I mean,

633
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,760
you go talk to anybody, anybody.

634
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:16,300
I'm talking anybody is Walmart a good company or bad company?

635
00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:17,300
Terrible company.

636
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:18,680
Is Amazon a good company or bad company?

637
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:19,680
Terrible.

638
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:20,680
Okay.

639
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,560
Well, have you canceled your prime membership then?

640
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,560
No.

641
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,560
Oh, okay.

642
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,560
Well, why not?

643
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,560
Because it doesn't make any difference.

644
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,840
He has more money than God.

645
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:29,840
It doesn't matter.

646
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,120
Like, they tore down a bridge so he could get high.

647
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,120
I know.

648
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,120
I know.

649
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,960
But you can't, but that's the whole thing is like the average citizen can't make, I

650
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:43,500
mean, I'm not saying they can't make a difference, but I'm saying these people have so many streams

651
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:48,320
of income coming in that if you want to sit there and stomp your foot and say, well, I'm

652
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,320
not going to buy at Walmart.

653
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,320
I'm not going to buy at Amazon.

654
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,320
I'm not going to do this.

655
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,880
Well, congratulations, you're paying like triple for the same cheap shit that you could

656
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:56,880
have got for cheaper.

657
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,240
Like, I'm sorry, you don't have enough money to make that distinction.

658
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:00,480
You have to go shop there.

659
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,680
And that's the way they set it up.

660
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:03,680
That's the way they set it up.

661
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:04,880
They're necessities now.

662
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,680
You can't get around it.

663
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,160
Certain things still drive me nuts.

664
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,560
You know, I've met a lot of guys in construction and in maintenance that will buy a cheap pair

665
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:15,560
of work boots.

666
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,560
Yeah.

667
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,800
And then they talk about how much they love America and how we should all support war.

668
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:26,040
You could have literally spent a little bit more money and bought American made work boots.

669
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,040
Yeah.

670
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,040
And then not have to go to war.

671
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,040
Because you want to save like 75 bucks, you know?

672
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,040
And now you want to support war.

673
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:41,640
You know, but that's the thing is like minimum wage hasn't gone up.

674
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,360
Companies want to pay the bare minimum for everybody, for employees.

675
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:51,440
So there's not that much room for a lot of these people, you know?

676
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,400
And they don't know what they're talking about.

677
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,960
Like most of them do not.

678
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,200
Like how many people could you go and ask about the don't say gay bill and ask them

679
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:05,680
what it was actually like the actual language, what they're actually trying to prevent with

680
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,680
this bill.

681
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,040
And none of them would, none of them will be able to tell you anything other than, well,

682
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,280
Florida doesn't want people to say gay anymore.

683
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,280
And that's what they would say.

684
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,280
And that would be it.

685
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:19,000
Yeah, it's the same thing with systemic racism and what is it?

686
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,720
Well, with anything really, it's like, if you explain it, if you actually have a long

687
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:30,200
conversation and explain what they're talking about, most people kind of all get on the

688
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:36,600
same page or they at least they at least see the logic behind it and can give you a valid

689
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:42,400
valid to them or a well thought out like counter, you know, like, sure, it shouldn't just be

690
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,920
like, oh, they don't want you to say gay.

691
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,280
Oh, well, you want them to say gay.

692
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:50,520
Well, you're grooming them for gay child prostitution or something like, I don't know.

693
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,160
I mean, it shouldn't be like that.

694
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,840
Well, people are lazy.

695
00:37:54,840 --> 00:38:03,320
You know, I thought when the internet went from 1.0 to 2.0, and we started getting smartphones,

696
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,320
I really believed them.

697
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:10,280
Like we are about to see a revolution in consciousness and we're actually going to have a, like a

698
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,920
more enlightened society and the exact opposite has happened.

699
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,680
I feel like people are lazier than ever intellectually.

700
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,680
Yeah.

701
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:24,240
Well, being a meme, Lauren, I saw a great one where it was a tweet and they said, Hey,

702
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:30,040
remember when, when we thought it was easy access to information that was making everybody

703
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,320
be an ass hat?

704
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:33,440
Yeah.

705
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,600
Our cell phones in our pocket connected to the massive wealth of human knowledge across

706
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,360
all of time.

707
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,080
Yeah, that wasn't it.

708
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,600
Like access to knowledge and information.

709
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,600
It doesn't, it doesn't matter if you don't know how to use it, you know, and it's crazy

710
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,280
because like my parents were always like, well, don't believe everything you read on

711
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,280
the internet.

712
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,280
And then they'll post all these weird Facebook things.

713
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,640
And it's like, uh, what?

714
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,920
Yep.

715
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:10,000
I have a cousin who likes to send insane right wing conspiracy memes.

716
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:16,520
And I don't know him well enough to know if he's being serious about it or if it's a joke

717
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,520
to be honest.

718
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:22,520
And I'm not going to have that discussion, you know, with my, my second cousin or whatever.

719
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,520
Yeah.

720
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,200
But I think you should be a good Thanksgiving dinner topic.

721
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,200
Right.

722
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,200
Yeah.

723
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:36,560
But you know what the technology stuff, we watched the Oscars as I, as I mentioned, but

724
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,120
the coolest thing, I mean, honestly, the coolest thing that we saw were some of the commercials

725
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,960
and one was a Snapchat recognizing sign language.

726
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:49,640
So you could sign into your phone and it would pick up what you were saying and send language.

727
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,360
Like it would, it would, it learned.

728
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:57,000
And then there was another one for, uh, it was another app, uh, for like a bedridden

729
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000
and kind of like paralyze people and they could like look with their eyes left or right and

730
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,680
they could control the screen on their phone.

731
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,400
And that's what technology should be doing.

732
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:07,440
That's what it should be doing.

733
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,680
Not whatever else people are using it for.

734
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:17,240
Um, you know, but it's like, man, that's closing the gaps and the barriers and it's, uh, helping

735
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:22,760
these people that have been underserved that, you know, can really finally do stuff.

736
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:23,760
Absolutely.

737
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:31,240
Yeah, I know this is like a first world, uh, benefit obviously of the internet, but, uh,

738
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:36,920
when I got the internet, I didn't have the internet at this house until last year, right?

739
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:42,360
We just became available where I live, uh, for the first time ever.

740
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,360
So now I have it.

741
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,760
So I installed some smart switches in the house and I love being able to have my outside

742
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,860
lights on a timer.

743
00:40:49,860 --> 00:40:54,240
So if I know that I'm going to be out, you know, every, every Thursday, I can have it

744
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:55,240
turn on.

745
00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,420
I can have it turn off and I can have it turn on again.

746
00:40:57,420 --> 00:40:58,880
You know, what else is cool?

747
00:40:58,880 --> 00:40:59,880
It's awesome.

748
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:00,880
Yeah.

749
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,180
Uh, so I've got this app.

750
00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:06,960
It's called if that, then this, and you can basically connect all your smart things together,

751
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,320
but I've got it connected to a location, uh, beacon on my phone.

752
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:15,080
So whenever I leave like a one block radius around my house, all the cameras on my security

753
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,400
cameras turn on to motion activated and then it sends a list to my phone.

754
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,680
And when I come back, it turns them off.

755
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,720
So I don't have to look at my, myself walking across my patio or something.

756
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:24,720
Um, so it's like a cheat.

757
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:25,720
I shouldn't say cheat.

758
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,120
It's like a short way to do logic chains.

759
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,120
Yes.

760
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,120
Yep.

761
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,120
And you can do it with lights too.

762
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,160
Like if I arrive home, turn on my lights, you know, you can do it with anything that's

763
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,160
connected.

764
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,160
Um, it's great.

765
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,160
It is great.

766
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:44,880
I mean, I, I, uh, have, uh, five switches and a couple of lights on, you know, plugs

767
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,280
and I like it.

768
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,280
It's awesome.

769
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:48,280
Yeah.

770
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:57,920
And they use to have the old school timers.

771
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,600
You could set the old timers and they can, yeah, we still use one for like our Christmas

772
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:02,600
tree.

773
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:08,440
When we break it out, we pull out the old 1987, you know, programmable 24 hour a day.

774
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:14,160
You push the little tabs down, um, thing for the, for the Christmas lights.

775
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,160
Sure.

776
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:20,240
We used to use them for cameras, timers and stuff.

777
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:21,240
Yeah.

778
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:26,320
We've got a daylight, like a light sensor for our patio and you can tell it how long after

779
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,520
dark to stay on, which is, which is nice, especially in the summer when you're out there,

780
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,200
you know, it's like, Oh, they shut off.

781
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,600
It must be, you know, about 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock or something.

782
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:37,600
Right.

783
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,160
I really like being able to turn the lights on and off of my phone too.

784
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,160
Oh yeah.

785
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,160
That's great.

786
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,160
Yep.

787
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,160
It's awesome.

788
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,200
But again, that's like total first world benefit.

789
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:49,200
It is a help.

790
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,720
You know, people that don't have access to electricity 24 hours a day.

791
00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:54,720
That's true.

792
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:55,720
That's true.

793
00:42:55,720 --> 00:43:02,000
But, but I mean, the point is technology can do amazing things and that's really what it's

794
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:07,800
supposed to do is make people's lives easier, not, not make them harder and not, um, drive

795
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:08,800
them apart.

796
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:09,800
Right.

797
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,400
I mean, I mean, you know, these cameras that I buy, uh, they're really cheap, like really

798
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,700
crazy cheap and they've all got infrared night vision motion sensors.

799
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:24,400
This new one I have on the patio has a color night vision.

800
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,320
Like that's better than Arnold had in predator.

801
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,480
I mean, it's got color night vision.

802
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:30,920
Wow.

803
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,760
And it was like, it was less than 30 bucks.

804
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,020
That's incredible.

805
00:43:35,020 --> 00:43:39,760
So you know, they manufacture these things for like four or $5 a pop.

806
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,520
Right.

807
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,400
And you could, you could literally send them anywhere and it would hardly cost you anything

808
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,040
or you're just selling that cost.

809
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,040
Yeah.

810
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,200
I mean, not just cameras, like what are you going to do with a camera if you don't have

811
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,640
internet and you don't have electricity and stuff like that.

812
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,680
But I mean, that's what technology should be doing for everybody.

813
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:03,480
Should we be making everybody's life easier and not what it's seemingly doing, which is

814
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,080
trapping all of us in this, some kind of like corporate hell hole.

815
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,000
Which is what, I mean, arguably it was what we're at now.

816
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Yeah.

817
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,920
But it's not really that bad for me personally, but.

818
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:16,920
Yeah.

819
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:17,920
Well, you got, you got bowling.

820
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:18,920
So that.

821
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:19,920
Right.

822
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:20,920
Exactly.

823
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,520
Well, I got so mad the other day.

824
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:24,520
Not bad.

825
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,520
Let's be honest.

826
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:26,520
I didn't get mad.

827
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,280
I was cynical about it.

828
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:33,960
They just gave Ukraine like $13 billion for some reason.

829
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:34,960
Oh yeah.

830
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:35,960
Yeah.

831
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:36,960
Yeah.

832
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,960
And.

833
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:38,960
There's a war there or something.

834
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:48,160
Well, there's a war, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal government

835
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:52,080
could end homelessness for $20 billion a year in this country.

836
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,080
Oh, of course.

837
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,080
Yeah.

838
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,080
It's like.

839
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:56,080
They could end student loan debt.

840
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,960
They could end people that can't afford medications and set up GoFundMe's and then die anyway.

841
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,520
Right.

842
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,520
It's insane.

843
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,400
No political will to end homelessness.

844
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,040
You know, they'll kick them out of where they're at and move them around the city and harass

845
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,040
them and do all that.

846
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,040
Yeah.

847
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,040
No will to just.

848
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,400
Oh, and they do the, they spend lots of money.

849
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,960
I mean, lots of money on these anti-homelessness architecture things.

850
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,640
Like you've seen those benches where you're like, oh, that's like a cute bench, but really

851
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,400
it was designed so that homeless people couldn't sleep on it.

852
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Yes.

853
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:29,400
Yep.

854
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,680
Louis Rossman shows stuff like that in New York City and they, even on the grates.

855
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:33,680
Oh yeah.

856
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:34,680
Everywhere.

857
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,400
Under bridges.

858
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,800
Even here in Minneapolis, you walk, you walk around and you look at those, some of those

859
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,160
benches and you're like, all right, I know what you're doing with that.

860
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:45,160
Yep.

861
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,160
Yeah.

862
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:53,920
Instead of a, like I say, I know no, no solution is going to be a hundred percent, but you

863
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,960
gotta do something.

864
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:56,960
You know?

865
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:57,960
Yeah.

866
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,800
Well, and any of that's the government.

867
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:05,120
So they thought they were going to, they took drugs to war and drugs won.

868
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:10,840
So I mean, just cause they say they could do it for 20 million and end homelessness,

869
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:11,840
would homelessness win?

870
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:12,840
I don't know.

871
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,760
I mean, they're pretty inept at things if you can't fight drugs.

872
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:22,920
Well, I mean, the drug war was a front anyway.

873
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,560
Oh, well I'm on the side of drugs.

874
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:25,560
Don't get me wrong.

875
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,560
I'm just saying the government is inept.

876
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:34,400
One of Nixon's old advisors has now formally admitted that the drug war was formulated

877
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:39,160
to attack dissidents and people of color back in the seventies.

878
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,160
Yeah.

879
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,320
You know, like that's what it was for.

880
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,760
It was never about getting rid of drugs.

881
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,880
You know, it's so ridiculous.

882
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,920
You know, obviously it didn't prevent meth from spreading like wildfire through northern

883
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:52,920
Minnesota.

884
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:53,920
Yeah.

885
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,600
And it didn't stop crack in the city areas.

886
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,640
It certainly didn't stop the heroin epidemic that's currently going.

887
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:08,520
Well, and then you get into other things like Oxycontin and just prescription drugs in general.

888
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:17,200
So I mean, just one big round of applause for drugs, I guess, for winning that.

889
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,480
So cigar, but it kind of comes back.

890
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,480
Oh, I'm sorry.

891
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:20,480
Go ahead.

892
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:21,480
Oh no, I have about two inches left in my cigar.

893
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:22,480
Yeah.

894
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,480
So I was going to say I'm over halfway.

895
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:34,400
I've got maybe four, but Mike smokes and can take greater length than myself.

896
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,240
And I will say, you know what, if it's the best thing I can say about the cigar outside

897
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,360
of the price is it is pretty dang consistent.

898
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,600
It's been consistently bland the whole time that I've been smoking it.

899
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:53,240
But see, the reason why I'm saying I'm in the last two inches is because now the flavor

900
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,040
is starting to change.

901
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,040
Okay.

902
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,040
For the better or for the worse?

903
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,240
First four inches, I would say for the better.

904
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:02,240
I mean, change is good.

905
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:03,240
Yeah, yeah.

906
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:11,560
Typically, in a good cigar, I expect kind of a change of flavors throughout the process.

907
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:17,160
This has been, I'd smoke this mow in the lawn.

908
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,160
Yeah.

909
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,160
You know?

910
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:20,160
Yeah.

911
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,940
I could do it mow in the lawn.

912
00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:28,880
This wouldn't be a bad one if you had friends that maybe never smoke cigars or were interested

913
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,320
in kind of like getting into cigars.

914
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:38,680
It's a little darker maybe than I would start with, but you know, a bin cigar like this,

915
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,360
I think that'd be a great just starter.

916
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,240
Hey, you want to get into cigars?

917
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,480
Here, try a couple of these.

918
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:51,920
You know, you could grab a couple different blends or whatever and just say, you know,

919
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:56,520
whichever one you like best, you know, branch out in that area.

920
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,920
I wonder if we made this into a tequila cigar.

921
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:01,040
You know, I was just thinking that.

922
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,600
We need to talk about the tequila cigars for our listeners if they haven't heard about

923
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:06,600
it.

924
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,440
But this one would be a good one, although I think that for whatever reason, the wrapper

925
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:17,000
on the end here is a little soggier than my wrappers usually are at this point.

926
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,140
So I don't know if that's a wrapper thing or if that's just, I've been drinking the

927
00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:23,560
paisley hazy and just getting excited.

928
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,360
It's a slobberknocker.

929
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:28,760
Yeah.

930
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:36,840
I got other things I could say about it, but I won't because it's 2022 and they're no longer

931
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,480
appropriate.

932
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:45,320
My grandpa and my grandparents, well, he was a World War II vet and he was in the merchant

933
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:53,080
marines with the Navy and he was off the beaches of Normandy for that.

934
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:59,000
And then he was stationed off of Japan right before they dropped the bombs.

935
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,880
But they would always get a big bowl of nuts, you know, like mixed nuts for Christmas.

936
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:08,760
This huge bowl, like this massive bowl of all of these nuts.

937
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:14,040
And it was exciting as a kid because, you know, as a kid, you really only know peanuts,

938
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:15,560
you know, maybe sunflower seeds.

939
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:19,680
But these were, you know, walnuts and things I still don't even know the names of, the

940
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:25,040
true names, because there were some that had some very, very racist nicknames that he would

941
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,040
call them.

942
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,680
You know, I don't know, it wasn't really like a hateful way of just, hey, grab me one of

943
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,240
those, you know, expletive expletives.

944
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:33,760
And you'd be like, oh, okay.

945
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:38,080
And you go and grab it and, you know, it was a tasty nut, but that's not what it's called.

946
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,080
And so, you know, I may never know what it's called.

947
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:46,360
My grandfather was also a World War II vet, and he also got nuts for Christmas.

948
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,840
And I also heard those terms.

949
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:48,840
And I believe you're talking about Brazil nuts.

950
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,840
I think we're talking about the same one.

951
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,840
You're talking about Brazil nuts.

952
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:53,840
Yes.

953
00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:02,400
My mother made sure to tell me the real names of the nuts because, you know, she was a school

954
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:03,400
teacher and a nurse.

955
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,080
Yes, she was worried you were going to find yourself at a cocktail party at a young age

956
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,800
and say an inappropriate thing.

957
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:16,000
There's many electrical components when I was in a party that I did not know the real

958
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,000
name to it.

959
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,000
You know, it's like, oh, grab me that donkey dick.

960
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,000
I didn't know what it was called, you know.

961
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,840
Flexible explosion proof fitting.

962
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:28,840
Yes.

963
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,840
But, yeah.

964
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,200
Donkey dicks and horse cocks and other less appropriate names.

965
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,200
Yes.

966
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,880
And that's sometimes that even Mike and I will not say on a podcast.

967
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:42,880
No, no, no.

968
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:51,080
When I became a journeyman, they started sticking with female apprentices a lot for various

969
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,120
reasons, mostly because I wasn't going to sexually harass them and I wasn't going to

970
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,880
allow them to, you know, slough off.

971
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:57,880
You know, I'd make them work.

972
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:03,160
And a lot of the older guys didn't feel comfortable with that because they're, you know, creepy

973
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,160
a little bit, I'm sure.

974
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,520
But I had so I had to learn all the right names for all the materials.

975
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,680
So I don't want to say all this nasty shit.

976
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,520
And then I would have to tell them like this is the trade name for this.

977
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:24,400
So when you know, XX says, I bring me the this, this is what he means.

978
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:30,160
Very interesting conversations, you know, to talk to your 20 year old female apprentice.

979
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,960
Well, the more you know.

980
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,960
Yeah, the more you know.

981
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,360
So always interesting.

982
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:40,440
Yeah.

983
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,400
So bringing it back to the tequila cigars.

984
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:50,440
Now, Mike and I, we did try this once, but I think we both agreed that it was we were

985
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:57,920
a little little overzealous with tequilaing the cigars and it turned it into kind of a

986
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,720
soggy, soggy stick.

987
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:01,880
We had imbibed beforehand.

988
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,280
Oh, yes, and we imbibed after hand.

989
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,280
Yes, we did.

990
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:06,280
Yes, we did.

991
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:13,280
But just for our listeners, explain to them kind of how we got turned on to this.

992
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:20,800
So I was scrolling YouTube, as one does, and a video popped up of my feed and it had Arnold

993
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,680
Schwarzenegger.

994
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,280
And he was explaining how to make a tequila cigar.

995
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:31,320
So anybody who wants to watch the video, just type in, you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger tequila

996
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,960
cigar and he'll tell the story.

997
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:34,960
Great storyteller.

998
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:35,960
Makes me jealous.

999
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:41,520
I think he gets paid to do that, though.

1000
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,960
As an actor and a governor, ex-governor.

1001
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,520
I mean, he gets paid to tell stories.

1002
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,120
He's personally, I think that he's incredible, you know.

1003
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:51,120
Oh, yeah.

1004
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,280
Anyway, he'd be a fun guy to meet, I think.

1005
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,200
Oh, what an intense guy.

1006
00:53:56,200 --> 00:54:02,200
You know, he's like a, let's just call it a dock worker who really liked to lift weights.

1007
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:03,820
He got really good at lifting weights.

1008
00:54:03,820 --> 00:54:08,640
So he moved to the superpower, didn't speak English, learned to speak English, became

1009
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:14,540
an actor, became so successful as an actor, he married into the royal family of the country

1010
00:54:14,540 --> 00:54:18,880
and ended up becoming the governor of the biggest state in the country.

1011
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:19,880
Yeah.

1012
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,280
Pretty impressive rise, you know, in life.

1013
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:31,000
But anyway, so basically a tequila cigar, put your tequila in a little glass and you

1014
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:37,560
brush the cigar with tequila and you dip the tip of the cigar after you cut it and you

1015
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,240
let it muddle, so probably for a couple seconds.

1016
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:42,240
Yeah, not like five.

1017
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:43,240
Not like what you did.

1018
00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:44,240
More like five seconds.

1019
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:48,240
Just put it in there and then start yakking.

1020
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:50,920
I mean, it will soak up liquid.

1021
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:56,760
It's a mostly dry, meant to be ignited thing and it will soak up moisture.

1022
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:01,760
So for a couple seconds, you know, maybe three, you dip the tip and then you let it sit and

1023
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,640
dry out a little bit and then you smoke it.

1024
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:11,280
But he said you can turn any, even like a shit cigar into like a phenomenal smoke this

1025
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:12,280
way.

1026
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:13,560
Like he swore by it in the video.

1027
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:14,560
He did.

1028
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,380
He swore by the method.

1029
00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:18,040
So we can test it with this.

1030
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:19,040
Yes.

1031
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:24,120
I have some Alec Bradley seconds that I was going to try it with and they're actually

1032
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:25,120
pretty good already.

1033
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,120
Okay.

1034
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:27,120
We, you know what?

1035
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,160
I think we need to try it with one that we're not like, not in love with.

1036
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,160
Yeah.

1037
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:32,160
This one would be great.

1038
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:36,040
I think this one would be a good one because I have a couple of these in the in the humidor.

1039
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:42,320
So I mean, I guess, I guess to be fair to this cigar though, like I'm not hating it.

1040
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,800
I'm not hating it.

1041
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,880
There's been cigars I've smoked.

1042
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:53,880
Usually they're like the really sweet ones, you know, but I'm not hating it.

1043
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:55,560
You know, like I'll finish it.

1044
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,320
You know, I'm not going to put it out by any means.

1045
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,320
I used to hate the real sweet ones.

1046
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,160
And then Sarah got acid blondes or something.

1047
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,680
They're very sweet, like vanilla cigars.

1048
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:08,680
Okay.

1049
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:09,680
And I didn't mind them.

1050
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:10,680
She hated it.

1051
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:11,680
And I was like, that's not too bad.

1052
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:18,040
So I think, you know, as I get older, I'm starting to really kind of just like everything

1053
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:19,400
as far, you know what I mean?

1054
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:20,400
Like, yeah, it's fine.

1055
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:21,960
I don't want it every day.

1056
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:22,960
No.

1057
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:23,960
Yeah.

1058
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:28,280
And I think, I think it really comes down to like, not just the cigars that you enjoy,

1059
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,040
but which cigars do you enjoy for which things you're doing?

1060
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:36,760
You know, if you're drinking, if you're drinking a really dry drink, maybe a sweet cigar would

1061
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:37,760
be the way to go.

1062
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,400
You know, if you're mowing the lawn, this cigar might be the way to go.

1063
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:42,400
You know.

1064
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,440
It pairs well with Guinness.

1065
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:51,600
Yeah, it pairs well with this, the Hazy Paisley or whatever.

1066
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:58,600
So for non Minnesotans, the Paisley Park is Prince's residence slash recording studio

1067
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,040
that they've now turned into a museum and tour destination.

1068
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,760
You can go and tour it.

1069
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,960
But that's the name Paisley Park or Paisley Hazy.

1070
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,960
They named it after that residence.

1071
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,760
Yes.

1072
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:18,000
And actually we, Sarah and I went to Paisley Park after Prince died.

1073
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,520
This is before you could actually go in, but we went and saw the big mural that people

1074
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,440
had created on the, on the chain link fence around it.

1075
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:31,920
You know, they went and put their own, you know, artworks or Prince memorabilia or whatnot.

1076
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,720
But you know, we were close and we're like, I don't know, you know, let's go check it

1077
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,860
out, you know, one time thing.

1078
00:57:37,860 --> 00:57:42,480
But it would be neat to go and see the recording studio, the setup and all that, even as not

1079
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,600
a fan of his music, you know, it'd still be neat.

1080
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,720
Oh, absolutely.

1081
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,720
He's a, was a big musician.

1082
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:50,720
So yeah.

1083
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:58,720
And he was a huge musical influence on tons of people and did things to further, you know,

1084
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,960
non white musicians and other things.

1085
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,720
So it's a Minnesota legend.

1086
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:04,720
Yeah.

1087
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:05,720
Not slamming the dude.

1088
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,200
Well, you know what, Bob Dylan, not really a fan.

1089
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:13,640
I'm just going to come out and say it as long as I'm saying things I'm not fans of.

1090
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:14,640
See and I like Bob Dylan.

1091
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:20,040
I like Bob Dylan, but I, you know, being from the Northern territory, I grew up with a lot

1092
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:24,040
of folk music, a lot of folk musicians around here.

1093
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:30,160
They like to wear their lumberjack shirts and you know, one I enjoy folk music.

1094
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:35,160
But I think like Bob Dylan is the mumble rapper of folk music.

1095
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:36,480
So I don't know.

1096
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,240
I mean, he's got some good songs.

1097
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:39,240
Don't get me wrong.

1098
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:45,240
But I don't think I'd ever sit down and maybe I would after a couple of tequila cigars,

1099
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:48,280
you know, but I don't know if I'd sit down and be like, I got to hear this Dylan record,

1100
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:53,680
you know, part one to the end or track one to the end.

1101
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,880
I like it, but that's okay.

1102
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,200
I have about an inch and a half left of the cigar now.

1103
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:00,200
Yeah.

1104
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,120
And the flavor change is definitely occurring.

1105
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:07,840
Like all the flavor changes in the last two inches of the cigar.

1106
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:08,840
Okay.

1107
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,800
It's all right, you know.

1108
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,200
I've got a little bit more, maybe three inches.

1109
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,200
I'm getting a little, little subtle flavor changes.

1110
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,320
Not sure if it's good.

1111
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:23,320
It's not bad.

1112
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:27,640
Not a bad change.

1113
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:28,640
Maybe it's a good change.

1114
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:36,120
I think the whole of the cigar so far has been bland is what I would say.

1115
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:37,120
I would just say it's bland.

1116
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,160
I would agree with that assessment.

1117
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:40,160
It's a bit bland.

1118
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:46,800
You know, it's something like you said, you're doing something, I don't know, whatever, mowing

1119
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,280
the lawn.

1120
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:52,440
If you're just like, eh, I don't feel like smoking something that's going to overpower

1121
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:53,440
my mouth.

1122
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:59,000
You know, let's say you're having a fantastic dinner later or something.

1123
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:00,000
It's fine.

1124
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,000
It's fine.

1125
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,960
You know, I think this would be a good second cigar.

1126
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:08,560
You know, let's say you come over or I go over.

1127
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,760
And by the time we're to the second cigar, the cigar really isn't important anymore.

1128
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,560
No, especially if we've been drinking.

1129
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:16,560
Right.

1130
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:17,560
Right.

1131
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,760
And that's kind of what I was getting at.

1132
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,560
If we had been inbinding.

1133
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:27,520
The second cigar, you don't need a $10 or $15 or a $20 stick at that point.

1134
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:28,520
No.

1135
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:29,520
You start with that.

1136
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:30,520
Yeah.

1137
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,360
And you move on to this.

1138
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,800
This is a very good maybe social cigar where it's like, hey, we're here.

1139
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,600
Okay, I'm going to light up my cigar.

1140
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,600
Hey, we're going to get in the car and move, but you can't smoke in the car.

1141
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,240
All right, I'll put it out and throw it away.

1142
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,240
Like, I don't care.

1143
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,280
Like it's not no big loss.

1144
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,160
I can go do something else now.

1145
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:48,160
You know, like it's not a.

1146
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:49,160
Right.

1147
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,760
I'm heartbroken about cutting the tip off and relating it.

1148
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:52,760
Yeah.

1149
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,760
I don't think it would hurt it any.

1150
01:00:55,760 --> 01:01:00,840
Which I usually smoke a shrew for a second cigar or something like that.

1151
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,280
And we are going to do a shrew showdown at some point.

1152
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:05,280
Yes, we are.

1153
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:12,840
We're going to probably do the Kentucky, I'm guessing a bandito and then I don't know,

1154
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:14,440
red line or we'll figure it out.

1155
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:15,520
Yeah, we'll figure it out.

1156
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:21,160
We got some more planning to do, but that's in the works for some, some episode sometime.

1157
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:22,160
Yeah.

1158
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,400
We're also going to do a CEO flavors showdown.

1159
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,360
Oh, that'll be good.

1160
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:27,360
Yes.

1161
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:28,360
Yes.

1162
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:29,360
I ordered them up.

1163
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:30,360
I like the moon trance.

1164
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:34,600
I am 100% behind the moon trance, but.

1165
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:35,600
Is that the vanilla one?

1166
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,600
Yeah, I don't know if we're adding the other ones.

1167
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,920
Oh, is the moon trance, is that that vanilla one you're talking about?

1168
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:41,920
Yeah, it's a vanilla bourbon.

1169
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:42,920
Okay.

1170
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:43,920
Yeah.

1171
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:44,920
Oh, well, vanilla bourbon.

1172
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:45,920
Yes.

1173
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:46,920
Hello.

1174
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:47,920
Yes.

1175
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:48,920
It's very good.

1176
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:49,920
Yeah.

1177
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,040
One of my favorite cigars are the diesel whiskey Rose.

1178
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,280
Those are delicious.

1179
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:57,400
I liked it too.

1180
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,080
I liked that cigar, which I'd never had a diesel cigar before then.

1181
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:02,080
Then I was impressed.

1182
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,080
Yeah, me either, but it was good.

1183
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,080
It was good.

1184
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:06,080
Yeah.

1185
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:09,480
So I guess like this cigar is really good for social, for thinking about other cigars

1186
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,120
you'd maybe rather be smoking.

1187
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:12,600
Oh yeah.

1188
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,280
I mean, I would love to have a Diablo right now.

1189
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:17,280
I think that.

1190
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:18,280
Yeah.

1191
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:22,400
It reminds me of a darker cigar, but it's just a remembrance.

1192
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:23,400
Yeah.

1193
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:24,400
Yeah.

1194
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,360
Oh, oh, it's like the La Croix of cigars.

1195
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:27,360
Yeah.

1196
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:28,360
Oh yeah.

1197
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:29,360
Yeah.

1198
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:33,080
This cigar was stored near a case of dark cigars.

1199
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:36,520
So it just picked up a hint, hint of lime, a hint of dark cigar.

1200
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:37,520
Oh man.

1201
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,600
A hint of lime.

1202
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,800
This can was shown a Wikipedia article on pomegranates.

1203
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,920
And so now it kind of vaguely tastes like pomegranate.

1204
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,440
Oh yes.

1205
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,280
I've been searching Wikipedia on all these journalists.

1206
01:02:53,280 --> 01:03:00,080
There's been some heat in the news, which I know you don't watch about these Ivy league

1207
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:07,160
educated female journalists claiming that they're being harassed and all this stuff.

1208
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:12,280
And it's all online harassment, but they're trying to compare it to like in-person harassment.

1209
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:13,280
Yeah.

1210
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,000
It's, but I mean, so.

1211
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:22,080
You just can't compare what's going on on the internet in that little texty box to being

1212
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:23,080
harassed in person.

1213
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:24,080
Like it's ridiculous.

1214
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:28,040
Well, but now think about this because Meta, Facebook and Meta, they're going to do this

1215
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:32,280
whole metaverse where it's going to be like ready player one, and you're going to log

1216
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,680
in to your little avatar.

1217
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:39,140
And then you have the real question if you kill somebody else's avatar, is that technically

1218
01:03:39,140 --> 01:03:41,720
murder or not?

1219
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:47,120
It's going to open up a whole new realm of lawsuits.

1220
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:48,120
I'm sure.

1221
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:53,920
Well, there was a journalist who tried Meta and she claimed that she was groped on Meta.

1222
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:55,520
Yeah, I was groped on Meta.

1223
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,640
Which is AKA not being groped.

1224
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:58,640
Just so everybody's aware.

1225
01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:02,480
Being groped on the internet is not being groped.

1226
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,800
What if you're wearing a haptic suit?

1227
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,800
Well that's different.

1228
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,280
I'm not going to worry about that since that's not the case.

1229
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:11,880
We'll get there when we get there, Nate.

1230
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,200
We'll get there when we get there.

1231
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,880
I'm never going on the metaverse.

1232
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:19,040
I shouldn't say never.

1233
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:20,040
Never say never.

1234
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:23,360
I'm likely not to go on the metaverse.

1235
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:28,280
I would really rather not go on there, but I don't know.

1236
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:37,600
I don't want to be necessarily that crotchety old man that doesn't enjoy technology.

1237
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:41,560
I was on Facebook when Facebook first opened up to other colleges because I was in college.

1238
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,000
Then they opened it up to high school kids and we were all like, oh man, it's going to

1239
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:46,000
be ruined.

1240
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:51,000
Then it opened up to everybody and it totally was ruined.

1241
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,240
I was on there quite a bit throughout college and even shortly after graduating college

1242
01:04:55,240 --> 01:05:00,440
and posting opinions and trying to debate people online and stuff.

1243
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:07,480
Now it's like, yeah, I go on and I can see pictures of my niece and my nephew and my

1244
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,840
family members.

1245
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:13,360
I went in this, not this last election, but the election that Trump won.

1246
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,680
I went and muted a lot of the stuff that my dad was posting.

1247
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:18,160
Now I don't see any political stuff.

1248
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:24,960
You can customize your feed so you don't see the stuff that you don't want to see.

1249
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,840
That's not like, why would I go on there?

1250
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,840
I can play with my daughter.

1251
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:29,840
I can go outside.

1252
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,360
I can smoke a cigar and talk with you.

1253
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:34,960
I don't need to be on there.

1254
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:40,160
I don't know why I would want to go on Metta.

1255
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:41,440
We just picked up a fourth cat.

1256
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:42,800
I'm not sure if I mentioned that last week.

1257
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:43,800
I saw that.

1258
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:44,800
You were trying to pawn it off.

1259
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:45,800
I was trying to pawn it off.

1260
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:46,800
Yeah.

1261
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:47,800
We found the cat in the garage.

1262
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:48,800
But too late.

1263
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:49,800
It chose you.

1264
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:50,800
It chose you.

1265
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:51,800
It really did.

1266
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:56,040
I went to the vet and got the cat shots and a checkup.

1267
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,960
She had some mites in her ear or whatever.

1268
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,960
Now it's like, four cats and a dog.

1269
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,000
It's like, jeez, I don't have time to go online.

1270
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,320
I have pets to take care of.

1271
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:08,320
Bowling to bowl.

1272
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:13,400
Bowling and work and my parents.

1273
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:18,720
People need to focus on their own lives.

1274
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:25,080
I know Jordan Peterson's heavily criticized by a lot of people for a lot of reasons, but

1275
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:27,240
people should focus on their life.

1276
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:28,240
You're in it for you.

1277
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:29,240
Yeah.

1278
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:30,240
You know what?

1279
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:31,240
You only get one shot.

1280
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:38,800
If we get to the point where we can have a little merch shop for nice ashes, I want a

1281
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:42,120
t-shirt that says, I was groped on Metta.

1282
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:43,120
Yes.

1283
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:44,120
Yes.

1284
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:45,120
I like it.

1285
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:50,840
I mean, I don't have to tell them it was myself that did it, but-

1286
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:51,840
Wow.

1287
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:52,840
All right.

1288
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:56,400
Self-groping has a different term, I think.

1289
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:57,400
Yeah.

1290
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:04,840
Well, and it's kind of the same thing with AI or robotic servants that you sometimes

1291
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:10,680
see in sci-fi flicks and things.

1292
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:17,960
But is there going to be, I'm sure there will be lawsuits about my AI sexually abused me

1293
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:24,400
because you read these stories about scientists or developers feeding their AI hundreds and

1294
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:29,600
thousands of pages worth of Twitter feeds and they become these racist, antagonistic

1295
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,600
AIs.

1296
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:35,120
So I don't know.

1297
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:39,880
I would like to see the data, which I'm certain that they keep track of.

1298
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:49,400
I would love to see the data on how many people are rude to their smartphones and their smart

1299
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:50,400
devices.

1300
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:51,400
Oh yeah, their devices.

1301
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:52,400
Yeah.

1302
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:56,120
I'm occasionally rude to mine, Siri especially.

1303
01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:57,120
Not Alexa.

1304
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:59,120
Alexa's pretty good, but Siri is-

1305
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:00,120
She's pretty good.

1306
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,240
Siri does not understand my accent.

1307
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:06,480
I don't understand your accent, so that's not a Siri thing.

1308
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:11,440
No, I swear to God, Siri does not understand my accent.

1309
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,000
She does not.

1310
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,040
I did the whole tutorial and everything.

1311
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:18,440
It's like, you just don't understand what I'm saying.

1312
01:08:18,440 --> 01:08:19,440
Yeah.

1313
01:08:19,440 --> 01:08:24,560
I get mad at my Alexa sometimes because she'll keep wanting to tell me, did you know you

1314
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:27,440
can also do this and this and this and these five other things?

1315
01:08:27,440 --> 01:08:29,920
And it's like, that's not why you're here.

1316
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:30,920
I don't want that.

1317
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:31,920
I don't want you to do that.

1318
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,520
I don't want you to give me deal updates.

1319
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,080
I want you to tell me the weather every morning and play music I like.

1320
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:38,080
That's it.

1321
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:44,880
Lately, my Alexa has been asking for reviews of products that we've purchased on Amazon.

1322
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:45,880
Okay.

1323
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:51,920
And it's like, I've done a few in-depth reviews on products and I think that's why.

1324
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:59,640
They're targeting me because I've done a few reviews with pictures, staged photos and in-depth

1325
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,880
answers about things.

1326
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:02,880
That's why they're after you.

1327
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:03,880
Yeah.

1328
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:04,880
You're doing content.

1329
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,240
You're doing Jeff Bezos' work for free.

1330
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:12,960
Well, when it comes to certain things, I like reading good reviews.

1331
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:16,600
So if it's something that I really like, I'll write a good review and if it's something

1332
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,560
I really hate, I'll write a detailed review.

1333
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:30,000
Mostly they're positive, but occasionally I bought ear protection that also doubled as

1334
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,640
an amplifier for hunting.

1335
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:33,640
Oh, okay.

1336
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:34,640
I have a good earbud.

1337
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:35,640
We worked one season.

1338
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:41,080
180 bucks worked one hunting season and I wore it to work a couple of times.

1339
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,400
So maybe four or five months and then it stopped working.

1340
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,440
It's like, that's trash.

1341
01:09:45,440 --> 01:09:46,440
Yeah.

1342
01:09:46,440 --> 01:09:50,680
Well, that's the crazy thing.

1343
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:54,480
Hearing is so important and I spent a long time since I've gone hunting, but I would

1344
01:09:54,480 --> 01:09:59,320
definitely want to get some sort of hearing protection that would do that.

1345
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:02,400
That it would shut off when I fire.

1346
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:03,400
Absolutely.

1347
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,600
I'm a big proponent of that myself.

1348
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:12,320
So I've hunted a lot and you got to protect your hearing.

1349
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,040
It's just the way it is.

1350
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:19,320
Sarah and I, we both have, I don't know, they were maybe like 12, 16 bucks on Amazon.

1351
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:20,320
They're called downbeats.

1352
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,120
They're little silicone things that go in your ears.

1353
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:28,980
They don't alter the sound of anything, but they reduce it by, I don't know how many decibels.

1354
01:10:28,980 --> 01:10:31,200
So we wear that every time we're at a concert.

1355
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:32,280
Everything sounds crystal clear.

1356
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:38,120
We can talk to one another, but anything over a certain decibel threshold gets cut out and

1357
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:40,160
they're just silicone.

1358
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:41,160
There's no battery.

1359
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,080
There's no nothing and they work fantastic.

1360
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:48,400
I used to have these massive headaches the next morning after going to concerts and stuff.

1361
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:49,400
Gone.

1362
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,920
These are the greatest things.

1363
01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:52,920
Nice.

1364
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,800
Highly, highly recommend hearing protection if you're anywhere loud.

1365
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:57,800
Absolutely.

1366
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:03,520
Yep, I wear ear protection pretty much all day in one form or another.

1367
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,520
That's just me.

1368
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:09,040
I don't want to lose my hearing.

1369
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:10,040
Me either.

1370
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:11,040
Especially now that-

1371
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:12,040
What's with your cigar?

1372
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:13,040
I am officially done.

1373
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:14,040
Yeah.

1374
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:15,040
I don't know.

1375
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,720
I've got like a couple inches left here.

1376
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:18,720
Oh wow.

1377
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:19,720
Maybe two.

1378
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,120
Well, it's kind of like going out.

1379
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:22,600
It's petering out on me.

1380
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:24,920
It's got a lot less even here at the end.

1381
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:25,920
Sure.

1382
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,680
I didn't have any issues with the light again.

1383
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:29,680
You're outside.

1384
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:30,680
I'm outside.

1385
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:34,640
I've kind of been struggling and then I forgot to turn our patio lights back on.

1386
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:35,640
It's just dark.

1387
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:37,120
It's dark out here.

1388
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:38,120
I'm scared.

1389
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:39,120
Scared.

1390
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:40,120
Scared in your suburbia.

1391
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:41,120
Hold me.

1392
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:42,120
Yeah.

1393
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:50,520
I'm trying to keep it going, but the change in flavor hasn't really improved its opinion

1394
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:54,940
in my book.

1395
01:11:54,940 --> 01:11:56,400
It's not bad.

1396
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:57,400
Still not bad.

1397
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:03,800
I guess if you wanted to spend $6 on a cigar, you could on this one.

1398
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,600
I think there's probably some better ones that you could get for around the same price

1399
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:08,600
point.

1400
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:09,600
Oh, absolutely.

1401
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:10,600
Absolutely.

1402
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:14,320
And this is a no name or no brand cigar.

1403
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,040
Some of the basket cigars are very good.

1404
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:19,720
Some of them not so much.

1405
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:25,440
I would say this is definitely a loser as far as it goes.

1406
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:26,440
Yeah.

1407
01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:27,440
It's metal road.

1408
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:31,800
I have some Rocky Patel edge fumas that I want to try.

1409
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:35,720
I got a bunch of those and I like the regular edge.

1410
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,200
So that's why I got the fumas.

1411
01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:43,440
Those are made out of the end cuts, the end cuttings.

1412
01:12:43,440 --> 01:12:46,960
So it should be, theoretically should be as good.

1413
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,760
Just a little different construction.

1414
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:50,840
But yeah.

1415
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:51,840
Yeah.

1416
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:59,360
Well, I guess our message then is the basket or bin cigars kind of at your own risk.

1417
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:03,360
But if you find one you like, it'll be worthwhile.

1418
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:04,360
Absolutely.

1419
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:05,360
Yeah.

1420
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:09,640
When I was younger, I always smoked a basket cigars because I didn't have a lot of money

1421
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:16,880
making $6.50 an hour, which was still $2.25 more an hour than minimum wage at that time.

1422
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:17,880
Yes.

1423
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:24,600
At $6.50 an hour, it's hard to swallow a $20 stick.

1424
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:25,600
And you know what?

1425
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:31,080
Like honestly, if I had the choice between like a Swisher Suite and this bin cigar, it's

1426
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:32,880
the bin cigar all day long.

1427
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:33,880
Oh, absolutely.

1428
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,880
That's not really even a comparison.

1429
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:37,880
No, no, no.

1430
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:41,080
I didn't even make the connection because it's not in the same ballpark.

1431
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:44,320
It's not even really cigar.

1432
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:46,360
It's not bad.

1433
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:48,800
It's just not great.

1434
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:49,800
Yeah.

1435
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,200
It's the middle of the road.

1436
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:56,200
I think if I would have smoked this when I first started getting into cigars, I probably

1437
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,200
would have liked it quite a bit.

1438
01:13:58,200 --> 01:13:59,200
Sure.

1439
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:00,200
Yeah.

1440
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,640
With experience, your taste change.

1441
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:03,640
Yeah.

1442
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,160
So, well, I think that's all for this episode.

1443
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:17,440
So thank you for listening and we'll be back next week.