1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,520 Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Mike. 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,400 And I'm Nate. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,280 What are we smoking today, Nate? 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,080 Well we're kind of rounding out our mini run of the 5 Vegas line. 5 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:21,640 I'm not sure if they have more than the three or not. 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,920 I think they do. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:31,720 So this one is the 5 Vegas cask strength and that's really all the wrapper says. 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:32,720 Yeah. 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:33,720 About it. 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:44,240 So I only had one of these and one of the regular 5 Vegas in my humidor, but I did have 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:50,960 or I do have at least two more of the S series or those Maduro ones. 12 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:51,960 Okay. 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:59,160 And now upon wetting it to get it cut, I noticed that the wrapper is just a bit spicy and I 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,200 don't think the other two were. 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,520 So no, no, the wrapper was definitely spicy. 16 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,360 I got a little pepper on my lip. 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,360 Yep. 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,680 And I can actually draw through the cap without cutting. 19 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:12,680 Okay. 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,960 And now, and we did have some cap issues on there, just their standard, I think, right? 21 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:18,960 Yes. 22 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,040 And no cap issues on this one. 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,280 So mine's a little rolled at the end, but it's not really the cap. 24 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,000 It's the outer leaf. 25 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,440 Oh, okay. 26 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:31,440 Yeah. 27 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:37,000 It's like, there's like a little weird spot towards the end, but this is definitely what 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,720 I would call a budget cigar, you know? 29 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,260 So all right. 30 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:47,240 And I'm still out in my garage, but I'm going to remember to put my lighter in my pocket 31 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,920 so that if I need any relights, I've got it ready to go. 32 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,920 Hell yeah. 33 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,920 Whew. 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,240 I had a heck of a day today. 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,040 Well, do tell. 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,040 We have a topic. 37 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,200 I don't know how long our topic is going to take really, but I'm going to tell you, I 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,000 had a hell of a day today. 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,880 I went out to start my four-wheeler to plow and the fucking thing wouldn't start. 40 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:18,080 And we just had a big snowstorm here. 41 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:27,600 So I had to hand shovel earlier when the storm happened because I had two drifts that were 42 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,440 four feet tall at the end of 12 inches of snow in my hole of everywhere, everywhere in 43 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:40,680 my driveway and my yard where I plow out to get access to the tank and stuff. 44 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,400 And so I was so mad. 45 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,400 I was so sour. 46 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,440 Yesterday, I did my taxes and I got back enough money to buy a new snowblower. 47 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:56,320 So I blew $2,000 today on a fucking snowblower that was on sale. 48 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,920 That was this season. 49 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:04,000 So now I got a 30 inch commercial snowblower and a four-wheeler with a plow that doesn't 50 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 run right now. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,800 I'm going to have to tear it up, spring and rebuild it. 52 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,040 Or I probably won't rebuild the motor, but I'm probably going to have to do a pretty 53 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,840 intensive tune-up and probably rebuild the carburetor. 54 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,840 But yeah. 55 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:27,480 And then somebody, my neighbor, saw that I was screwed and I had hand shoveled out my 56 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,920 driveway at the end there. 57 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:34,560 And he came in and plowed me a couple of big rows with his truck today. 58 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,040 So yeah, that was pretty nice. 59 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:45,880 But now I got a snowblow tomorrow, the rest of it. 60 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,600 So now I have a walk behind it. 61 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:56,520 Well, it's a $2,500 originally snowblower. 62 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:57,520 That was not happy. 63 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:58,520 I was mad all day. 64 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,800 Well, now you can be happy. 65 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,800 I guess so. 66 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:12,360 Initial puffs, it's medium, not overly dark. 67 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,240 It's not overly dark, but it is spicy. 68 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,280 Yeah, it is very spicy. 69 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,780 Very spicy, actually. 70 00:04:18,780 --> 00:04:19,780 It's very interesting. 71 00:04:19,780 --> 00:04:26,480 I haven't had a medium bodied cigar this spicy since probably the nub, maybe. 72 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,480 Oh yeah. 73 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,440 You know, the nubs, what the heck one was that? 74 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,480 The habano, I think, was the spicy one. 75 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,560 Yeah, I believe so. 76 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,920 I believe so. 77 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,720 And it's good. 78 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,400 Yeah, I'm digging it so far. 79 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,440 I'm only like a quarter of an inch in. 80 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,800 So Nate picked our topic. 81 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,680 Yeah, it did happen. 82 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:58,720 And you know, like Mike said, there's probably not a whole lot to talk about here. 83 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:05,760 But it is the Marjorie Taylor Greene, everybody's favorite. 84 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:10,840 And she's calling for something called a national divorce. 85 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:17,520 And she wants to split the country into red states and blue states. 86 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:26,260 And she has some additional, let's say, thoughts on if you're, say, a, I don't know, blue person 87 00:05:26,260 --> 00:05:28,440 moving into a red state. 88 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,040 If you're a Democrat. 89 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,040 Yes. 90 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,080 Putting a statute of limitations on like how many years until you can vote again. 91 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,080 She said five years. 92 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,080 Five years. 93 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,080 She suggested five years. 94 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 Okay. 95 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,600 Because I thought it was four, but five years. 96 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:42,600 Okay. 97 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:43,600 Yes. 98 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:50,480 If you move from a blue state to a red state, you should not move for five years, is what 99 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,480 she said. 100 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,680 Yes. 101 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,400 Out your values into the red states is what she that was the addition. 102 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,400 Yes. 103 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,640 Yes. 104 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Which I've heard that that particular refrain from people that I know, living in rural areas. 105 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:21,800 And it's usually the same people that complain that all the young people move away. 106 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,600 Yes. 107 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,480 And a good friend. 108 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,760 And I looked at him. 109 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,120 I'm like, Chris, who the fuck is going to move to this shitty little village you live 110 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,120 in? 111 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,120 Like the only people that are going to move here are people who were from here. 112 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:38,120 Yeah. 113 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:44,000 So sure, they might be more liberal than you, but they are undoubtedly originally from this 114 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,560 town, at least one half of whoever is going to move here. 115 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:48,560 Yeah. 116 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:55,480 Because at that time it was right after COVID and I think 12 to this little hamlet town. 117 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,480 Yeah. 118 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,200 And I'm like, who do you think those 12 families are? 119 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:04,560 I guarantee you that 12 of those couples were from here originally. 120 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,680 Yeah. 121 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,680 So it's always interesting. 122 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:15,560 But yeah, so that's pretty much all of it too, because you didn't go into any more detail, 123 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,560 but I did. 124 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,080 And it was just a single tweet. 125 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,400 You had asked me if you, because sometimes we like to do that thing where only one of 126 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,600 us researches it and the other one has no idea what's going on. 127 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,440 So we kind of have the knower and the unknower. 128 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,680 It's the React channel. 129 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:34,680 Yeah. 130 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:40,280 But yeah, so I did it more in depth and that was pretty much it. 131 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:47,920 It was just a single tweet and then she did an interview with Newsmax or some outlet that 132 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,240 wants her on. 133 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,240 Yeah. 134 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:56,840 And that's where she said that Democrat voters should have to wait five years before they're 135 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,320 allowed to vote if they move to a red state. 136 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:00,320 Oh yeah. 137 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:01,320 Yeah. 138 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,760 So Marjorie Taylor Greene, this is an online conspiracy theory. 139 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,800 I kind of conspiracy theory, that's not the right term. 140 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:17,000 But in like hardcore right wing circles, they've been talking about a national divorce because 141 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:23,200 a lot of it is focused on California and the homelessness problem there. 142 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:31,440 And then also woke politics because politics is a big hot button issue amongst conservatives. 143 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,880 And she is kind of a meme lord. 144 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,960 You know, she's always been that way. 145 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,760 She was that way with QAnon. 146 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:46,680 I'm not sure if it's intentional or if she just really is that meme lord person. 147 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:47,680 You know what I mean? 148 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:56,760 She ran on that sort of campaign, the like QAnon right wing online meme lord campaign. 149 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:57,760 Yeah. 150 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:05,880 I mean, she's very much tied in with QAnon and like the right wing meme culture that 151 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:11,400 you enjoy so much. 152 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:18,720 And I'm not sure if she's genuine or not about that, but that's all this is. 153 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:25,820 I mean, this conversation has happened online many times or talk about it has been going 154 00:09:25,820 --> 00:09:28,080 on online forever. 155 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,680 I think we might even brought it up on this podcast before. 156 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,680 Probably. 157 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:35,760 We're pretty good about that. 158 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:36,760 Right. 159 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:44,160 It is a big right wing thing right now that they want to separate from the blue states, 160 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:52,400 but they ignore the fact that red states are largely welfare states that are out of the 161 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,760 federal government. 162 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:59,160 So they economically can't afford to break away from the blue because they use the tax 163 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,400 base in blue states to pay for all their programs. 164 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,760 Got it. 165 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:12,600 It's kind of like a dirty secret of federal politics is that the majority of red states 166 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,720 are more rural. 167 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:23,360 More rural states take more money per capita per person than populated states. 168 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:24,360 Yeah. 169 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:25,360 Yeah. 170 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,760 So it's interesting. 171 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,560 We'd be better off in we in the blue states would be better off not having the red states 172 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:33,560 economically. 173 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:34,560 Yeah. 174 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:35,560 Yeah. 175 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:41,080 Amongst some other reasons maybe, but. 176 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,920 Oh, you know, all depends on how you look at it. 177 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,120 Yeah, that's true. 178 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:54,800 The story is really about the media's reaction to the just the presenting of what's already 179 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:55,800 going on online. 180 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:01,240 Yeah, they pretend they're pretending like some radical idea that nobody's ever heard 181 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:02,240 of. 182 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:03,240 Yeah. 183 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:04,240 But what do you what are your thoughts on it? 184 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,240 I don't know. 185 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:11,480 I mean, I guess like throughout our history as a country, there's been lots of people 186 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:18,800 that have at one time or another wanted to kind of secede from the union as it were. 187 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:24,520 Probably none more violently than the Civil War. 188 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:30,520 But I guess states rights remain a big issue even today. 189 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,280 And I don't know. 190 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:40,560 I don't know if our overwhelming national federal level government's opinion on secession 191 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:50,120 has changed in the past 200 years or whatever it's been since the Civil War, because we 192 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:57,520 did commit a huge amount of people to their deaths to maintain our nation as a whole. 193 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:05,280 So I don't I don't know if that kind of overwhelming mindset has faded and that if our federal 194 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,400 government would be amenable to something like that, my guess is probably not because 195 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,880 the more states, the more federal income tax they get and the more they can shuffle around 196 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,400 their money and hide money and things like that. 197 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,400 So I'm not sure. 198 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:26,760 You know, it's certainly not unique that somebody would want to, you know, leave the union. 199 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:32,720 No, it's kind of a theme through our history, I think. 200 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,560 Civil rights era for sure. 201 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:39,800 The gay marriage thing, we've brought it up like every time anything changes, it brings 202 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,240 it up, you know? 203 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:50,160 And it's always the same pathetic nonsense where people don't want to don't want others 204 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,400 to have rights. 205 00:12:52,400 --> 00:13:00,120 And more or less, I mean, some of the politics we talk about it is problematic to me, at 206 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,120 least. 207 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,120 Yeah. 208 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:08,000 And I think some of it is, you know, like, and we talked about this on the podcast, too. 209 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:16,840 But you know, one group always wants to have their own ideals and stuff represented by 210 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,800 their government. 211 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,240 And they tell everybody, well, if you don't like it, you can move and have your own, you 212 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:24,240 know, government. 213 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,880 And we talked about how that isn't really an option with because we talked about with 214 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,060 the abortion stuff because they say, well, just move to a state that has abortion. 215 00:13:32,060 --> 00:13:34,040 You don't have to have to worry about it. 216 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,960 But if you don't have the same means as everybody else, that's not a reality. 217 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:44,640 You can't just move to be close to health care. 218 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:45,640 Right. 219 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,840 I can't remember what percentage, but a significant percentage of the population cannot afford 220 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,640 a $500 emergency. 221 00:13:53,640 --> 00:14:02,320 So yeah, moving your whole life to live in a different state is really not something 222 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,240 that most people can do. 223 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,640 Yeah. 224 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,960 I moved several times and it's always been for work. 225 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,280 Yeah. 226 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:17,920 But I don't know, do because they want to be somewhere else, you know, other than for 227 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:18,920 work? 228 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:19,920 I don't know. 229 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,640 Do people move outside of for work? 230 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,280 Was that your question? 231 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:27,520 Yeah, like adults, adults in the United States, like do people move for reasons other than 232 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,520 work? 233 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:29,520 Oh, yeah. 234 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:30,520 I mean, I don't know. 235 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,760 Sarah and I moved, I mean, work was part of it, but we wanted to move. 236 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:42,320 So we found jobs in the city that we wanted to live in and then move down, you know. 237 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:43,320 I suppose. 238 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:48,360 I mean, you know, like the unfortunate thing is like work is always tied into it, at least 239 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,840 pre pandemic because there weren't a lot of remote jobs. 240 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,000 And I suppose now the stats will be different because a lot of companies are keeping the 241 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,760 remote work and they don't really care where you live. 242 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,680 So people could theoretically move wherever they wanted to. 243 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:08,560 They're not going to get, you know, the reimbursement from their job to go move. 244 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:14,760 But being remote for a lot of professions, I guess people now have more options where 245 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:15,760 they want to live. 246 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,480 They don't necessarily have to live in that town where the company is headquartered. 247 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:20,480 That's true. 248 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:21,620 I didn't think about that. 249 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:27,160 There was a lot of people moving, especially tech sector type people. 250 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,040 A lot of those people are losing their jobs, too, from what I understand. 251 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:32,040 There's a big layoff. 252 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:33,040 Yeah. 253 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,040 Yeah. 254 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:35,040 Bubble. 255 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:36,040 Right. 256 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaking about like jobs and stuff. 257 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,580 The other thing we could talk about is I think Britain just finished up their four day work 258 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:43,080 week trial. 259 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,940 Air about that. 260 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:49,640 So they were and I don't know, I'd have to look it up. 261 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:56,520 But I don't know how long the trial went, but they said that basically the work life 262 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,360 balance, like the employees were all happier. 263 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,520 They had way less turnover during the four day work week. 264 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:08,400 And so basically what they did was they said, hey, instead of working, you know, 40 hours 265 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:15,160 a week, five days a week, why don't you work four days a week at eight hours? 266 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:23,120 So 32 hours or whatever a week, we're still paying you for the full 40. 267 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,160 You're still getting paid for the full 40. 268 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,760 But they just had that extra day off. 269 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:36,220 And it was kind of the same results as the pandemic when all the companies went remote. 270 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:39,920 Like productivity went up, overhead went down. 271 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:44,400 People were happier because they were home. 272 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,040 So for this one, it's kind of the same thing. 273 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:52,840 I think a majority of the companies are going to keep the four day work week, at least for 274 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,840 a bit longer. 275 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,840 And there were a few that were making it permanent. 276 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,900 And you know, the work life balance and people were more productive because they were more 277 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:06,280 recharged showing up at work and all that stuff. 278 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:07,280 So. 279 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,280 No, it's good. 280 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:17,040 That is another right wing online conversation is people claiming that the pandemic and remote 281 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:24,120 work is crushing productivity, shrinking it, you know, making it smaller. 282 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:30,400 Yeah, I've engaged several times these people and I asked them, like, do you work at a place 283 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:31,400 that has this? 284 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,680 Do you have any data for any of this? 285 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:41,240 Because there's three of us that are three people that I know, myself included, where 286 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:48,520 they're doing remote work and at three different employers doing three different type of jobs 287 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,320 and productivity has gone up. 288 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,560 Yeah, all three places. 289 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,440 So I'd say our productivity has gone up at my work. 290 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,320 I mean, I don't know for sure because I don't really get to see a lot of that data. 291 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:05,120 But I'd say by and large, like things are I never really have an issue. 292 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:06,120 Right. 293 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:07,120 It's kind of bizarre. 294 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:14,840 Like I say, where I work, we don't I can't do remote work, but yeah, there's people who 295 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:21,200 are and they they it does feel like they're not doing their job. 296 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,800 I'm not going to lie. 297 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,080 But they are by the numbers. 298 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:30,280 Statistically, they are, but it seems like the wait time to answer emails and stuff is 299 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,280 longer for some reason. 300 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,280 Yeah. 301 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,640 And but you know what I think and that's and that's probably definitely true because I 302 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,280 haven't frustrated, you know, like sending emails or asking people things and like just 303 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,320 the number of times sometimes I have to follow up. 304 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:51,920 But you know, it's like if you think about it, an email was never intended to be instantaneous. 305 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,560 And we got into this weird like corporate cultural habit of you have to respond to an 306 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:03,080 email within, you know, 15, 20 minutes or whatever your company might say. 307 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:09,840 But it's like that's not really how emails were intended to behave, you know. 308 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:10,840 Right. 309 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 No. 310 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,880 And I I definitely check my email once a day. 311 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:16,880 Yeah. 312 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:25,840 And then on my work phone, that is important if I happen to look at it, then I'll respond. 313 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,600 But typically it takes me 24 hours to do any email responses. 314 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:30,600 Yeah. 315 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,680 So I'm not blaming them. 316 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:33,920 No, no. 317 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:39,440 It's just that these people were just sitting at their desk waiting for an email, I think. 318 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,440 Yeah. 319 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:41,440 And now they're not. 320 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:49,000 Which I think is, you know, better in the long run, because how lame is that that we 321 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:55,120 as a country or as corporate America had all these people just sitting there and they're 322 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,920 just waiting for an email to come in when they could be doing like other things, you 323 00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,920 know. 324 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,760 But it's like, nope, you're supposed to work eight hours a day. 325 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,480 So you clock in at this time, you clock out at that time, and you've got to sit here. 326 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,080 And it's like, come on, you know. 327 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,480 Yeah, it's pretty much a bunch of nonsense, I would say. 328 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:13,480 Yeah. 329 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,320 And especially, you know, like not your job and not like doctors and not, you know, so 330 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,880 there's other things, but like by and large, corporate America isn't doing anything to 331 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,280 really make anybody's lives better. 332 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,600 You're not saving lives. 333 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,680 You're not doing anything. 334 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:32,480 You're like moving 401k accounts or money transactions or whatever. 335 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,280 And it's like, it doesn't have to happen right now. 336 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,400 It doesn't have to be an instantaneous thing. 337 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,080 And if it did, you could easily spend the money to automate a bunch of stuff and not 338 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,880 have all these people doing these stupid redundant tasks. 339 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,480 But you know, and maybe that's something else we need to talk about is with the proliferation 340 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,880 of AI. 341 00:20:53,880 --> 00:21:00,280 And I just found out that there are a bunch, a whole slew of ebooks on Amazon that have 342 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,720 now been authored by AI or co-authored by AI. 343 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:10,600 But we only know about the slew of them because the humans are saying written by, you know, 344 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:17,360 myself and whatever chatbot, whatever 10,000. 345 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:23,780 But there's no actual requirement or law that says you have to disclose who wrote the book. 346 00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:29,440 So there could be a lot more books out there within the past couple of years that are completely 347 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,400 AI fabrications and nobody's disclosed that. 348 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,400 Interesting. 349 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,920 Are any of them bestsellers? 350 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:37,920 You know, I don't know. 351 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,120 I didn't look that far into it. 352 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:46,620 But I did see there's a photographer Instagram account who had posted all these portraits. 353 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:50,400 And he just came clean that he's been using AI to generate all these images and they're 354 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,360 not actual people and they're not actual like real photographs. 355 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:58,240 He's just been using AI to generate these portraits of people. 356 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,840 And he's been getting likes and all these followers and I don't know what else, you 357 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,960 know, but. 358 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,360 So it's kind of like a strange, strange era. 359 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,000 It is a stranger. 360 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,880 I have to talk to you about something that happened not at my work, but related to my 361 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,960 job on the East Coast. 362 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,360 OK. 363 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:30,320 It's some Russian hackers got into a system being operated by a city in like North Carolina. 364 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:36,080 And I guess they raised all kinds of they didn't change any of the software passwords 365 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,120 from standard and they had them online. 366 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:46,140 And it was like the most basic hack that could ever happen for a government agency. 367 00:22:46,140 --> 00:22:50,040 They just didn't change any of the standard settings and they had it fully online. 368 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,080 Yeah, like that's so stupid. 369 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,320 You have it on the VPN or something, you know. 370 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,320 Oh, yeah. 371 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:02,040 Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were just running it on standard Internet. 372 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:08,200 It's like your, you know, your router password is like admin and you got to change that right 373 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,840 away or else people can come in and like hack your hack your router. 374 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:13,840 Right. 375 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:14,840 Oh, yeah. 376 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:19,940 Passwords don't really have to be all that difficult if it's a closed system. 377 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:23,320 But the second you put that put it online, now you have to. 378 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,720 Yeah, I mean, be careful. 379 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,640 It's kind of it's kind of like anything else. 380 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:36,120 And I guess the best analogy that I can think of is kind of like bike locks, you know, because 381 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,180 when I was in college, that was my only mode of transportation. 382 00:23:39,180 --> 00:23:44,040 So I researched all these bike locks and I bought like this really heavy and it was like 383 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:53,920 hardened steel and they had like octagon links or something and you couldn't fit a bottle 384 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,360 jack in there to pop it and all this other stuff. 385 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,920 But it was like heavy and cumbersome and unwieldy and everything. 386 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,480 And but the point is, you don't really have to have that. 387 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,240 But you need to have something better than most other people have. 388 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,520 But you don't need to have something that's unbreakable because nothing's unbreakable. 389 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:13,520 Right. 390 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:19,040 And like the deterrent is having something that makes it difficult for somebody to quickly 391 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,040 steal it. 392 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,080 And the same with passwords, like it doesn't have to be the Fort Knox of passwords. 393 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,880 But if they guess like your pet and your birthday and your spouse's name and they can't get 394 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,160 in, they'll probably move on to somebody else who's got, you know, because how many people 395 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,960 have accounts and how many people have weak passwords, you know. 396 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,880 I know there's brute force hacking for passwords. 397 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:37,880 And that's what I mean. 398 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:43,200 Like even if you have like the most complex password ever with quantum computing and AI 399 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,980 and all this other stuff, like who knows, maybe they can feed the AI a description of 400 00:24:46,980 --> 00:24:49,880 you and it'll guess your password, you know. 401 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,880 Possibly. 402 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:57,480 I know that back in the day when they had all those little quizzes online, it was like, 403 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,480 what's your favorite color? 404 00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,480 What's your thing? 405 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480 Yeah, yeah. 406 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,720 Basically, password for hacking purposes, from what I understand. 407 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,800 Yep. 408 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,760 To find out what kind of bread you are, we need your mother's maiden name, last four of 409 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,760 your social and your sourdough. 410 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,760 Right. 411 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Yeah. 412 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:14,760 What's your favorite? 413 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,280 Or what's your high school? 414 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,360 Tell them where you bought it. 415 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:21,360 Yep. 416 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:22,360 Yep. 417 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,360 Always interesting. 418 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:24,360 Oh, yeah. 419 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,960 Well, I think I've got to be about halfway. 420 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,840 I'm not quite halfway through. 421 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:30,840 Maybe it maybe. 422 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,000 Yeah, maybe not quite quite. 423 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,400 But I figured now is a good time as any before we shift into some other kind of topic. 424 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,320 So yeah, absolutely. 425 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,240 I had only weird. 426 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,960 I had a weird issue where I was getting like pinholes going down it like there's a hot 427 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:52,040 spots burning down the center of the cigar and it's affecting kind of the draw a little. 428 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,040 OK. 429 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,360 But otherwise, the flavor is good. 430 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:55,360 Yeah, it's good. 431 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:57,680 I don't really have the pinhole. 432 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,160 It's a slightly uneven burn. 433 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,240 Sure. 434 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,080 But you know, not anything super drastic. 435 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,920 Nothing that's affected the draw really, I think. 436 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:14,240 There's been a couple I've taken a couple of puffs and they felt a little I don't know 437 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,840 if more airy is the right word, but they didn't feel as flavorful. 438 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:18,840 Yes. 439 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,360 But then the next puff was the same flavor. 440 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:26,480 So I wasn't quite sure if that was just me making it up. 441 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,680 But you confirming it means that it must at least be happening. 442 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,760 Or we have like our own like two person confirmation bias going on. 443 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:36,760 It's possible. 444 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,800 And like the first one, these are from the same box. 445 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:49,360 So yeah, yeah, there was a couple of imperfections, which is unlikely given the I want to say 446 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,680 quality of the cigar, but the price point, maybe price point. 447 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:54,680 Yeah. 448 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:55,680 Yeah. 449 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:02,680 And to be fair, the airy puffs or airy drops, whatever you want to call them. 450 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,280 Not really a big deal. 451 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,280 Not a big issue. 452 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,880 You know, if you're a casual cigar smoker, I only brought it up because, you know, we 453 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,200 have a cigar podcast. 454 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,600 So I wanted to mention it. 455 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,600 And you know, if I was just smoking this with friends, I don't think I would say like, hey, 456 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,000 did you guys get a couple like airy puffs there? 457 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,240 Like I just, I did, I don't know. 458 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,800 I don't think it would be worth mentioning outside of the podcast here, you know, just 459 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,480 for full disclosure of our experience. 460 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:31,960 So. 461 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:36,080 So far I like this better than both of the other ones, to be honest with you. 462 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,080 Yeah, I would agree. 463 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,080 I'm really digging it. 464 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,080 Yep. 465 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,240 Yeah, I'm really digging it. 466 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,080 It's good. 467 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,280 I think it's the best one of the three. 468 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,800 Yeah, I concur. 469 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,300 So far, which we're only halfway through. 470 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,520 So we'll find out. 471 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,760 We will find out. 472 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,760 We will find out. 473 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,200 So I want to talk about this again. 474 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,800 I want everybody to be clear that I hate her. 475 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,080 I think that she's. 476 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,160 We're talking Marjorie Taylor Greene. 477 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,160 Marjorie Taylor Greene. 478 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,160 Yeah, yeah. 479 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,160 OK. 480 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:18,600 She's the typical hypocritical right wing conservative type person who wants to ban 481 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,280 trans people from bathrooms and gay marriage and abortion. 482 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,280 She cheats on her husband to the point where they had to get a divorce, even though she's 483 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,800 an elected politician. 484 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,800 Right. 485 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,280 Her personal life is a total mess. 486 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,880 She's clearly a moron. 487 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,400 Or she pretends to be a moron. 488 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,400 It's hard to know. 489 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:47,160 I mean, she's basically just a Jim whore who got elected because she knows how to spout 490 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Internet memes. 491 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,840 Yeah, it's crazy. 492 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,280 It's insane that anybody takes her seriously at all. 493 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,280 Yeah, she's not a serious person. 494 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,880 If I if you met this person in real, if I met her in real life, I would immediately 495 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:02,880 dismiss her. 496 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:03,880 Yeah. 497 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,480 I would just dismiss her for being a consciousness. 498 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,880 Which maybe that says a lot about me and not about her. 499 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:10,880 But well, maybe. 500 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,640 I mean, there definitely are. 501 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,920 And living here in the Midwest, where you've got kind of the Minnesota nice, it's a little 502 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,920 more difficult to just be like, this is the person I wouldn't talk to. 503 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 Or, you know, if they started talking to me, I'd leave right away. 504 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,640 But definitely somebody that you'd want to limit your exposure to. 505 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,920 You know, I wouldn't walk away or stop talking to her. 506 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,520 But I would dismiss that person in my mind. 507 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:36,520 Yeah. 508 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,920 It'd be one of those things where it'd be like, you know, you talk to them and then, 509 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,920 you know, on our next podcast, you'd be like, well, Nate, do I have a topic for you? 510 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,920 So I met this person the other day. 511 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,520 Yes, we don't have to be nice on the podcast. 512 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,840 No, you know, but like, I don't feel like I don't feel like we tear anybody down, really. 513 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:04,120 You know, politicians for sure, because most of them are too faced or worse. 514 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,120 And they're public figures. 515 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,760 They're the public figure. 516 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,920 And maybe they're nice to some people in their lives, but definitely not their constituents. 517 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,120 So yeah, they're the lowest of the low largely. 518 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,800 But yeah, if I were to meet this person in real life, I would just immediately discount 519 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:23,800 whatever they said. 520 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800 You know what I mean? 521 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,800 Yeah. 522 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,920 I mean, it's pretty harsh, I guess, but 523 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:29,920 that is true. 524 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,800 You do tend to have some patience every once in a while. 525 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,280 Yeah, I try. 526 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,680 I really try. 527 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,880 I went to a music show last night. 528 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,160 Yeah. 529 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,160 It was good. 530 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,160 It was really good. 531 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,160 Yeah. 532 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:49,160 Yeah. 533 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,160 My buddy played. 534 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,760 Yeah, I saw the posts from your Sarah. 535 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,760 Oh, okay. 536 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:54,760 Yeah. 537 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,960 Yeah, my buddy's band played. 538 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,520 They were really good. 539 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,520 I don't know if I should say the name of their band. 540 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,320 They're going to play a music festival that's coming up this summer, too. 541 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,320 Okay. 542 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,400 So I'm pretty excited about that. 543 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,480 I'm definitely going to go. 544 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:14,480 Yeah. 545 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,120 And Sarah's cousin's band played the same event. 546 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,120 Okay. 547 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,480 So and then the daughter of one of my friends was the other performer. 548 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,440 So I didn't directly know all three bands. 549 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,440 Yeah. 550 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,360 But I indirectly knew all of them. 551 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:32,360 So it was good. 552 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,120 They were all way better than I thought they were going to be. 553 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,120 Okay. 554 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,040 I'm used to the local bands in North Dakota and they... 555 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,040 Yeah. 556 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:48,600 A lot of the musician artsy people can't afford to live there or couldn't at that time afford 557 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,600 to live there. 558 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:50,600 Oh, yeah. 559 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,880 The Fargo and Bismarck bands were good, but here, these hippie people, they just live 560 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,840 everywhere I guess. 561 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,840 They walk among us. 562 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,920 But yeah, they were really good. 563 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:03,920 That's good. 564 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,080 You have to send me the three bands or whatever so I can check them out. 565 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,240 Yeah, I will. 566 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,240 I know the one because I think Sarah posted the name of the one, but... 567 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,500 Was it the first performer or the second? 568 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:16,500 Or was it her cousin? 569 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:17,800 I think it was her cousin. 570 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,840 Yeah, her cousin's band does alternative rock. 571 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:22,840 Okay. 572 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,800 Yeah, they're our age so it's like that 90s alternative rock type music. 573 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,640 And it's good. 574 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,640 I enjoy it. 575 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,000 But yeah, it was really good. 576 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,600 I didn't know that my little area here had such diversity. 577 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,400 There was a lesbian couple there and there was a transgendered woman there. 578 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:47,400 Okay. 579 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:53,400 Yeah, it was the first time I'd really gone to an event in a while. 580 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,360 And it's kind of crazy seeing the crowd. 581 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,360 It's not like growing up. 582 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,360 Yeah. 583 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,360 At least seemingly. 584 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,360 Well, that's good. 585 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:13,400 No, it's a good thing that the people that people are staying who normally would have 586 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,880 moved to Minneapolis, Denver or something, Chicago. 587 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,880 Or Portland or wherever. 588 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:20,880 Right. 589 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,840 Yeah, it's always nice when your small hometown is growing. 590 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:32,320 Because I remember my small hometown growing up and they've got a micro brewery now, which 591 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,040 is kind of amazing to me. 592 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,040 I mean, not really because it's in Wisconsin. 593 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,480 So why wouldn't they? 594 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,840 They already have the cheese co-op so brewery fits right in. 595 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:52,400 But just a small town's kind of growing or finding their place and being a place where 596 00:33:52,400 --> 00:34:00,840 people that are not like the white hick feel comfortable staying and going to events. 597 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,160 That's a good thing all around. 598 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,440 Yeah, I agree. 599 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,920 Like I say, I was pleasantly surprised. 600 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:18,280 And I guess I have an image in my mind of what the area is like and it must be getting 601 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,720 outdated, which is a good thing. 602 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:22,720 Yeah. 603 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:28,680 So I know they called us NAFTA refugees. 604 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,600 And now a lot of people are talking about a renaissance because there's a lot of people 605 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,720 in their 30s moving back. 606 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:36,000 Okay. 607 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,280 And yeah, there's a lot of hopes. 608 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:46,840 Yeah, I wonder if that has anything to do with the pandemic and remote work or if it's 609 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:53,200 partly because the population where you are is, the working population is aging out. 610 00:34:53,200 --> 00:35:00,640 It's the, oh, some people that are in charge of hiring at certain businesses in town. 611 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:01,640 Yeah. 612 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,840 So it's an unofficial policy that they want to hire people that are from the area originally. 613 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,840 Okay. 614 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,200 You know, at these at professional level positions, not at. 615 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,200 Yeah. 616 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:18,880 They want to replace the people who are retiring with people who are originally from the area. 617 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:19,880 Yeah. 618 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:20,880 Preferably. 619 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:27,520 So I'm sure it's both though, because I have a, he was working remote. 620 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,080 And yeah, it's entirely because he's working remote. 621 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,080 Okay. 622 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,440 That's good. 623 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,440 Yeah. 624 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:41,000 It definitely benefits the community to have more people here. 625 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,360 So. 626 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,600 That is true. 627 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:49,200 And unlike Marjorie Taylor Greene, it benefits community to have people that are different 628 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,200 than you. 629 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,400 And I'm not trying to spout some, you know, like liberal BS, but like, honestly, it is 630 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:04,400 because I was talking about this with, I think, I think it was, I don't want to say it was 631 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,160 Dev, who was a guest on our show in season one, but it might've been, it might've been 632 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:10,160 somebody else. 633 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,160 I think it was somebody else. 634 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,160 I don't know. 635 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:17,000 But anyway, we were talking about like people who don't have like a friend or a partner 636 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,880 or somebody that they spend time with. 637 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,240 Like you don't have anybody to call you out on your bullshit. 638 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:30,880 Even if that person is mostly like you, you know, but if I were acting, you know, like 639 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:36,560 entitled or somehow normally out of my character, I know you would call me out on it and be 640 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,120 like, Hey man, like what's going on with that? 641 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,840 Or, you know, that's kind of weird. 642 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:46,360 But also to just like to learn, like it's good to get other viewpoints of people that 643 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,080 didn't grow up in the same background that you grew up in, you know. 644 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:51,400 Right. 645 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:57,880 So I don't know why you'd want to keep all the other, the opposing side out. 646 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,160 But I'm not going to say too much more about the opposing side because that will be the 647 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,680 big theme of the next episode. 648 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,680 Nice. 649 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,680 Nice. 650 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:07,960 See what I did there? 651 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,920 I'm trying to get better about hyping our own show. 652 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,400 Hype, hype, hype. 653 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:19,720 I was going to say that at my work, we do a lot of not workshopping, but discussing 654 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:24,960 on how to fix problems or prevent issues in the future. 655 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:32,040 And there's certain people that they want it their way and it doesn't matter what anybody 656 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,040 else says. 657 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,040 Yeah. 658 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:40,200 And that usually ends in disaster because if you don't take into all the perspectives, 659 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:45,400 especially if some people, there's radically different ideas, you're going to come up with 660 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,480 the best solution of every, if you have a diversity of thought involved in the process. 661 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:51,480 Yes. 662 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:58,080 But address all the possible roadblocks that you're going to come up against. 663 00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,080 Yeah. 664 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,840 And no one person can predict all the random nonsense that happens, you know. 665 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,160 What's the saying is like, you don't want to make decisions in a vacuum or something? 666 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,160 Yeah. 667 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,160 Yep. 668 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,160 Yeah. 669 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:16,320 And some people like it when they're in an echo chamber, but that usually leads to total, 670 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,760 like I say, it just leads to disaster. 671 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,960 One mistake after another, you know. 672 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,240 It's not a good thing. 673 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,240 Not at all. 674 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:27,240 Yeah. 675 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:28,240 It's interesting. 676 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:35,880 So for my job, I'm in sales enablement and we launched a big project for the sales reps 677 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,920 to use. 678 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,840 And we've, you know, it's over a year. 679 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:48,840 It's almost, I guess we're, you know, yeah, just a little over a year that it's been live 680 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,840 in production. 681 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,360 And so we're trying to figure out more ways to make it better. 682 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:58,840 But we've got these, and this is going to sound kind of bad initially, but it's not 683 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,760 intended that way, is we've got these people that send in a lot of help cases, help case 684 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:08,440 requests like, Hey, I'm struggling with this and, and they're like repeat offenders. 685 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,440 Right. 686 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,880 So we kind of, when, when we see their name attached to like the help ticket, we're kind 687 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:21,720 of like, Oh no, but I decided that why shouldn't we take a survey of these like top, I think 688 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:26,720 we ended up at 12, like these 12 people that seem to really be struggling with, with what 689 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,140 we launched. 690 00:39:29,140 --> 00:39:33,200 And you know, we ended up getting a lot of good feedback because we asked the people 691 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,120 that were struggling. 692 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:36,760 So not the echo chamber. 693 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,120 We weren't asking the people that had great success with it. 694 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,520 We're asking people that are for, for whatever reason, one reason or another are struggling 695 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:49,200 with it because they're the ones that are going to give us the better ideas to fix it 696 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,880 and make it even more accessible to everybody. 697 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,880 Right. 698 00:39:52,880 --> 00:40:00,360 And I'm sure that some of them are lazy and not trying to learn the system. 699 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,520 It sounds like you have met a salesperson in your life before. 700 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:04,520 Right. 701 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:11,720 Some of them, at least one of them, probably extremely knowledgeable about how it works 702 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:15,000 and they're pushing the boundaries of the program. 703 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000 Yeah. 704 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,760 I mean, they're pushing the limits of what it's capable of. 705 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:20,760 Yeah. 706 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:26,560 At least what I do, that's how our, a lot of our programming is like, there's both of 707 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:31,440 those two, there's, there's multiple people obviously involved and there's at least one 708 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:39,960 that's like pushing the outer limits of what the software is even capable of performing 709 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,600 and potentially breaking like the user agreements to try to manipulate it to make it do something 710 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,960 it's not intended to do, at least in my. 711 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:47,960 Yeah. 712 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,280 I don't think we have somebody like, I don't think we have anybody like that. 713 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:57,080 We have people that definitely have a different selling style or sell a particular set of 714 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:08,520 clients or accounts, similar accounts we'll say that maybe don't fall within the norm. 715 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,280 And so they want the system to be able to handle these kinds of what we would consider 716 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,800 outliers, but to them it's their everyday. 717 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:20,560 It's like it's third day today, but it's company wide the outlier. 718 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,560 Right. 719 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,840 There's bread and butter on the fringe itself. 720 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:24,840 Yeah. 721 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:25,840 Yep. 722 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:26,840 So that's good. 723 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:33,680 You know, like, there's one guy in my work group who he doesn't like dealing with one 724 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,760 of the programs that we have to use. 725 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:43,720 And for about two years, he just didn't use it at all until I did pretty heavily. 726 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:48,840 And now he uses it rarely. 727 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,920 It's so funny that I have access to all of his data logs and stuff like that. 728 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,080 And he has access to all mine too. 729 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,560 It's mutual. 730 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,000 I have a supervisor authority or whatever. 731 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,500 Yeah. 732 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:03,500 You don't do it. 733 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:11,960 It's either you're not doing anything or you're just not using this program at all, even though 734 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,480 we're supposed to use it on a daily basis. 735 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,280 Yeah. 736 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:25,040 I use it every day just for information, more or less. 737 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,160 Yeah. 738 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,160 It's so funny. 739 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:33,840 But yeah, so funny. 740 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:34,840 He's an older guy. 741 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,440 He's about to retire. 742 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:37,440 Okay. 743 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:45,080 So, you know, they get the retiree syndrome. 744 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,520 I already have that and I'm not even close. 745 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,520 Oh, I know. 746 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,520 Right. 747 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,640 I know. 748 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:58,220 So far, I've worked with two guys directly that document any of the stuff they did. 749 00:42:58,220 --> 00:43:00,520 So I ended up doing all of their paperwork. 750 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,520 Okay. 751 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,880 And they were older guys about to retire. 752 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,880 They just didn't give a shit. 753 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:06,880 Yeah. 754 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,320 And I meant that I had this time. 755 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,280 I was like, yeah, I can do more desk time. 756 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:21,280 And they got me to learn a lot more about the internal workings of the machine. 757 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:22,280 You know what I mean? 758 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:23,280 Oh, yeah, yeah. 759 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:28,360 Of the machine of my workplace, not like any directly related. 760 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,080 But always interesting. 761 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,880 Yeah. 762 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,520 I'm sure that sounds very vague to anybody who's listening who doesn't know what I do. 763 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:44,000 I'm guessing that of the nine lists you have, they all know who I am and what I do for a 764 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,000 living. 765 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,000 Yeah, possibly. 766 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,000 Yeah, possibly. 767 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:55,520 But you know, when we hit it big and people come back to listen to these first few seasons. 768 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520 Right. 769 00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:57,520 Yep. 770 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,480 When we're when Joe Rogan is a guest on our show. 771 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:02,480 Yep. 772 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,840 When we're when we're podcasting from our yacht in the Caribbean. 773 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:06,840 Oh, geez. 774 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:07,840 Oh, geez. 775 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:13,080 Going to have to get one of those mega yachts where they have to take bridges down. 776 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,080 Yeah. 777 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:20,240 And we won't be able to afford it at that point. 778 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:28,200 You know, there's nothing like podcasting from a yacht with having like oil massaged 779 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,840 into your into your muscles. 780 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:31,840 Oh, yes. 781 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,480 That sounds horrible. 782 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:40,480 Yes, we're still digging out from the foot of snow we got. 783 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:41,480 Oh, my God. 784 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,480 Yeah, that sounds terrible. 785 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,480 Yachts, sun. 786 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,480 Yeah, it was not for me. 787 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,320 No, yeah, it was sunny today. 788 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,320 It was sunny for me, but yeah, it was. 789 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,320 Oh, I was so sour that I had to spend all that money. 790 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,480 Yeah, for a day snow blower. 791 00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,480 In spring. 792 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,480 In spring. 793 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,120 Well, we're going to get at least two more storms. 794 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,120 So yeah, yeah. 795 00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,160 I mean, it's well worth it. 796 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:11,720 You'd rather have it now on sale than, you know, have to buy it at the start of winter 797 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,160 next year. 798 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:14,160 Right. 799 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,480 Even if you didn't have to use it again, you know, rail, it's done. 800 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,320 It's taken care of one less thing to worry about. 801 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,480 I was talking with Sarah, my Sarah about it. 802 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,080 It's like, well, it's going to be two grand now. 803 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,280 It's going to be three grand next next winter. 804 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:35,160 Because we're going to have to have a backup to the tour for weather for sure. 805 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,160 Yeah. 806 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,520 Well, three grand barring any more ridiculous inflation. 807 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:40,520 Right. 808 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,080 Or supply chain issues or whatever. 809 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:50,880 Another evergreen getting stuck in the canal. 810 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,640 It just so happened to be carrying snow blower parts. 811 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,760 So now snow blowers are eight grand. 812 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:56,760 Right. 813 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:57,760 Exactly. 814 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,760 Oh, it's a one year in Minot. 815 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:09,240 We had an epic snowfall and I was told this by somebody I knew that worked at Walmart. 816 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:10,240 He was a manager. 817 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:11,240 OK. 818 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:15,080 They sold out every machine there in like two hours. 819 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:16,080 Yeah. 820 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,600 I guess nobody had a snow blower or something. 821 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,760 He didn't even know what was going on. 822 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,840 They sold out every single one. 823 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,320 I mean, I guess. 824 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:27,320 Yeah. 825 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,880 And he said that the next day at like Ace or some one of these smaller stores, they 826 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,880 doubled the price of all their equipment. 827 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:34,880 OK. 828 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,800 There's a lot of price gouging going on at that time. 829 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:39,800 Yeah. 830 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:44,760 But yeah, no, it's just a pain. 831 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:45,760 Oh, well. 832 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:46,760 Yeah. 833 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:47,960 I had to. 834 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,760 We've got an old, it's an old Toro snow blower. 835 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:57,240 I've actually burned up the electric start on it this year because I forgot about that. 836 00:46:57,240 --> 00:46:58,560 Got the fuel shut off valve. 837 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,520 So I'll have to replace that this summer. 838 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,480 I'm not doing it when it's cold out. 839 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,760 But it was also leaking gas from the fuel shut off valve. 840 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,320 So I had to buy a new fuel shut off valve and swap that out. 841 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:16,880 But it's always something, you know. 842 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,800 He had a commercial grade Toro. 843 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:19,840 OK. 844 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,880 Years and years ago. 845 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:30,000 And he he he blunts years and the reason why he got rid of it is he couldn't get any more 846 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:36,240 replacement parts for it because they stopped manufacturing like the hands and small parts 847 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:38,960 like that that he just couldn't physically find anymore. 848 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,160 And this was pre Internet. 849 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,480 So he could knock off version of it. 850 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,300 But it ran. 851 00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:49,200 The motor was still running when he brought it to the dump. 852 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:50,200 Oh, yeah. 853 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,640 Couldn't get any parts to fix everything else on it anymore. 854 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:54,640 Yeah. 855 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,000 So it was a hell of a machine. 856 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,400 Yeah, this one seems to be fine. 857 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,320 You know, if anything, it's probably a little undersized for what I need or for, you know, 858 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,600 the berms that those plows leave at the end of our driveway and stuff. 859 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:09,600 But right. 860 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:14,720 Oh, why don't you just give it time? 861 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:19,480 I'm not sure the exact measurements, but it's basically sidewalk width or like sidewalks 862 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,680 by your house, you know, like that with 20 inches. 863 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,680 Yeah, probably 18, 20 inches somewhere in there. 864 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:32,840 OK, it's not a bad size, but I wish it through through a little further, but that's all good. 865 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,840 Right. 866 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:34,840 I got a 30. 867 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,960 OK, yeah, yeah. 868 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,320 I got the biggest, most expensive one I could find. 869 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:41,720 Yeah. 870 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:43,200 Is it gas or electric? 871 00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,560 Oh, it's gas. 872 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:45,560 Of course. 873 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:46,640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 874 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,840 It's got an electric start, but it's yes. 875 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,120 You got to have gas. 876 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:51,120 It does not have track. 877 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,800 I kind of wanted to get one that had tracks, but they didn't have one. 878 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:55,800 Oh, yeah. 879 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:56,800 It has wheels. 880 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:57,800 But whatever. 881 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,440 Mine, you'll get some tire chains for it. 882 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,160 Yeah, I should get some tire chains for mine. 883 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:09,720 Mine has wheels that aren't inflatable, so they're like the hard rubber, which is nice. 884 00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:11,640 But I should probably get some chains. 885 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,480 We just we have so much ice. 886 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,040 Right. 887 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:22,320 I definitely am going to order a little enclosure for myself. 888 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:23,320 Oh, yeah, yeah. 889 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:24,320 That would be good. 890 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,280 I was hoping to get one like my grandfather had. 891 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,880 He had a 1980s, probably. 892 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,160 John Deere walked behind. 893 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,160 OK. 894 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:39,760 And he it had this enclosure and it was like down to the ground. 895 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:40,760 You know what I mean? 896 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:41,760 You had a zip. 897 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:42,760 Oh, yeah. 898 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,760 OK. 899 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:44,760 To get in and out of it. 900 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:45,760 Yeah, it was incredible. 901 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:52,280 He had his cigarettes and he had a he welded a beer cup to it or beer holder so he could 902 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,320 drink his beer and have a cigarette inside of there. 903 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,960 Like he would snow blow the whole block and he would go around to the school he used to 904 00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:00,960 live by a school. 905 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,960 He did all the sidewalks and everything. 906 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:05,960 He was retired. 907 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:06,960 Nice. 908 00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,320 Yeah, that was a mean machine for. 909 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,320 Yeah. 910 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:15,120 Well, if you get your enclosure, you have to put one of those really light like rechargeable 911 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:20,080 USB fans and cut a little hole so you can smoke your cigar when you're snow blowing 912 00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,080 and the smoke has somewhere to go. 913 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,080 Yep. 914 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,080 Oh, yeah. 915 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,240 I smoke a cigar when I plow typically. 916 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:29,080 Oh, yeah, yeah. 917 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,120 I had a nub this week. 918 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,120 OK. 919 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:33,120 Mm hmm. 920 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,120 Yeah. 921 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,280 So I just measured because I'm sitting at my workbench. 922 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:43,280 I got three inches left and it's kind of there's a little bit of a flavor change that I'm not 923 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:48,160 particularly fond of. 924 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:49,160 I don't know. 925 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:50,160 It's about the same. 926 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,160 Probably two and a half. 927 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:52,160 But it's. 928 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,160 It's not. 929 00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:59,760 I don't know if it's like full on bitter, but it's got a little like a little hint. 930 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,440 So maybe I got to slow down just a little bit here at the end. 931 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:07,560 I know we've talked about this on a lot of sticks, you know, where it's like when you 932 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:13,720 get close to the end, especially if they're within, you know, kind of the budget of the 933 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:19,120 sticks that we smoke, you have to kind of slow down or just kind of put them out. 934 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,680 But this one's definitely not put out yet. 935 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,920 But I just have been starting to get some hints. 936 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,640 So mine's good. 937 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:28,640 Mine's still good. 938 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,880 What are you pairing it with? 939 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,760 We didn't say that at the start of the show. 940 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,200 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 941 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:42,160 So I'm on my third beer, but I started with a drive through red dry hopped red ale. 942 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:49,480 And it's from San Jose, California by Joseph Brow Brewing Company. 943 00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,920 And it's a dry red and it was it was a good match. 944 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,160 Then I switched to a simpler times. 945 00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:03,400 And now because my wife's parents were here, we have an influx of bush light left over 946 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:04,400 in our fridge. 947 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,600 So I am working through some bush light. 948 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,520 Yeah, bush light. 949 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:18,000 I have other beer in there, but it's like, well, you know, I'm going to drink the two 950 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,160 like good tasting ones. 951 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:25,000 And then I think for our next cigar, the bush light will will pair nicely. 952 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:26,000 So that's great. 953 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,200 I mean, you know, the bush light doesn't really have much of a taste. 954 00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,240 So I can focus on the cigar. 955 00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:39,360 Bud light, 60 calorie beer. 956 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,360 It was like a Bud Light, Ultralight or something like that. 957 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:48,560 OK, it smelled like nothing and it tasted like a weak Zima. 958 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,720 So what are you drinking right now? 959 00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,640 I made myself a stone fence. 960 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:53,640 OK. 961 00:52:53,640 --> 00:53:00,000 And for what people don't know, it's the modern stone fence, quote unquote. 962 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,720 And it's cider with whiskey and bitters. 963 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:04,720 OK. 964 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:05,720 Yep. 965 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,520 So that sounds good. 966 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:09,960 This is a very old school drink. 967 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,880 I watched an episode of now. 968 00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:14,880 I can't remember. 969 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,880 It's a it's drinking mixing drinks. 970 00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,800 It's like drinking for adults or something. 971 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,840 But I went through the whole history of this particular drink. 972 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,120 And I OK. 973 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,120 It sounds good. 974 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,520 Next time I'm up, we'll have to like to try one. 975 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,520 Yeah, it was Ethan Allen's favorite drink. 976 00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,400 OK, so there we go. 977 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,400 Now we know the more you know. 978 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,520 And for those revolutionary war history buffs. 979 00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,520 That are definitely listening. 980 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,840 Well, not with how much we've been talking about state rights. 981 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:50,840 Mm hmm. 982 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,680 Oh, I love it. 983 00:53:52,680 --> 00:54:01,080 Like the more it's such an ignorant argument to say, oh, we'd be better off separate from 984 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,960 the is economically. 985 00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,160 They are not, you know, it's all about economics. 986 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,960 Oh, nice setup, dude. 987 00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:09,960 Yeah, man. 988 00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:10,960 Yeah. 989 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:11,960 I don't know. 990 00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:12,960 Oh, yeah, yeah. 991 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:13,960 Go on. 992 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:19,040 Oh, Nate sent me a picture and I have a Apple phone and Apple computer. 993 00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,040 So I got my little pop up right on my laptop. 994 00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:23,560 And no, it's definitely nice. 995 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:24,560 I like it. 996 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:25,560 Yeah. 997 00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:26,560 So I'm sitting at my workbench. 998 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:31,120 I put in we talked about this last episode or two episodes ago. 999 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,280 I put in a brushless bathroom fan over my workbench in the garage and I've got a oil 1000 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,800 heater radiator style. 1001 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:44,680 And today at a thrift store, I found a swivel stool with a back bar stool with a back that 1002 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,680 I'm sitting in and it's comfortable and a little little lamp and it's got two USB plugs 1003 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:53,240 in the front. 1004 00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:58,800 Now the last because we recorded two episodes at a time for episodes one and two and the 1005 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:05,140 garage was very much smoky even with the bathroom fan. 1006 00:55:05,140 --> 00:55:12,460 So today I put a little fan heater and I left the entrance door, the side door cracked open 1007 00:55:12,460 --> 00:55:17,840 a little bit and I'm having that blow some hot air in to kind of get because otherwise 1008 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,360 you don't have any like airflow in this garage. 1009 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:26,600 So I thought just a little bit of influx of the fresh air on the other side for me would 1010 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,680 help keep the smoke up through the fan. 1011 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,820 It helped. 1012 00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:34,520 It seems to be helping so far. 1013 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:41,200 But the fan is it's pretty underrated for the size of this whole garage. 1014 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:47,120 So I might end up doing something with like some fabric cloths or something to kind of 1015 00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:51,840 like make it more of a little booth when I'm out here smoking. 1016 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,960 Oh, like build a hood. 1017 00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:54,960 You could build a hood. 1018 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,160 Yeah, yeah, something like that. 1019 00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,360 So so as for your needs a tarp. 1020 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:07,740 Yeah, I thought if I did like fabric, it would be better with the echoing and the noise since 1021 00:56:07,740 --> 00:56:09,560 we're doing an audio podcast. 1022 00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:10,560 So 1023 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:18,440 a little blip there, I guess I have noticed you had a couple audio blips. 1024 00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,320 Oh, I had some audio blips as well. 1025 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:25,360 You're not cutting out, but it's like a like a blip, you know. 1026 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,960 Not sure if it'll be on the recording or not. 1027 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,880 Yeah, it's tough to say usually whatever I hear is on the recording. 1028 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:37,160 So okay, we've been having technical difficulties for those who haven't noticed. 1029 00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,280 Yeah, and if you have a fool. 1030 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:46,000 Well, if you haven't noticed, it's only because I have in the future gone and edited those 1031 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,920 blips out before we publish. 1032 00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:52,640 So yes, Nate is a pro. 1033 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,520 We're gonna we're gonna try and remedy some of our issues. 1034 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:03,200 And you know, the other change to our setup is that I am out in the garage and I changed 1035 00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,720 to mesh a mesh Wi Fi network to reach out here. 1036 00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:15,880 But as far as I know, like my connection strength is, you know, around 70% on the Wi Fi. 1037 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:21,080 So I don't really think you know, streaming audio doesn't take up that much bandwidth. 1038 00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:22,080 Right. 1039 00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,360 I wouldn't think so. 1040 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,960 Yep. 1041 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:26,960 Mine's getting hot. 1042 00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,800 My cigars getting hot, but it's not sour yet. 1043 00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:30,800 Okay. 1044 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,760 Yeah, but it's definitely hot. 1045 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,160 I can feel it. 1046 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,760 Yeah, and it's not it's not full on sour. 1047 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:42,760 It's just it's it the the flavor changed a little bit. 1048 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:43,760 Right. 1049 00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,840 But I can't quite place it and it's just not quite as maybe it's not quite as full. 1050 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,200 Maybe it's a little thinner than it was. 1051 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:51,760 Maybe it's the beer. 1052 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:58,000 Yeah, maybe it's the water in the can that I'm drinking. 1053 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:03,840 And I can say that because Bushlight is not a sponsor. 1054 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,440 If they want to become a sponsor, I will drink Bushlight. 1055 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:07,440 Yes. 1056 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:15,840 And I will say it is the greatest light beer that is a sponsor of mine. 1057 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:19,200 Yeah. 1058 00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:24,720 I think I think we talked about like the Bushlight blind taste testing that I did with my buddy. 1059 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:30,640 Because I always thought that I liked Coors, but it turns out blind taste test like Coors, 1060 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,200 Bush, Bud, and McGolden. 1061 00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,320 McGolden is actually the most flavorful. 1062 00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:37,560 Interesting. 1063 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,440 And I never would have known because of the marketing. 1064 00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,300 And that's one of those weird things where it's like, I never thought the Coors marketing 1065 00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:45,860 was really all that great. 1066 00:58:45,860 --> 00:58:52,000 But I always found myself like ordering a Coors if I are grabbing a Coors from the like 1067 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,440 the you know, if you're at a party and they got a cooler beer and it's like, okay, great. 1068 00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,680 They got Bud Light Coors light and McGolden. 1069 00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,320 Like okay, I'm grabbing the Coors. 1070 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:05,760 But apparently that is that is mistaken thinking. 1071 00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,600 I have not been to a party where they had a cooler beer where there wasn't Grain Belt 1072 00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,960 in it in a very long time. 1073 00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:18,160 Yeah, I was just talking more like, yeah, if you're at a party, but it's not really 1074 00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:22,760 a party and your parents put it on or your parents friends put it on that that kind of 1075 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:28,240 party not like our peers, you know, no, no, I'm talking about the same thing because I 1076 00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:33,960 usually bring I usually bring beer. 1077 00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,960 Okay. 1078 00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:36,960 Like always. 1079 00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:37,960 Yeah. 1080 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,520 And I always bring Grain Belt for sure. 1081 00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:42,520 That's my go to. 1082 00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:43,520 Yeah, that's a good one. 1083 00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:44,520 It's a good one to go to. 1084 00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:45,700 I haven't had a Grain Belt in a long time. 1085 00:59:45,700 --> 00:59:52,240 So maybe I'll have to pick some up before our next for some future episodes, I suppose. 1086 00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,760 Yeah, no, I really like it. 1087 00:59:54,760 --> 01:00:00,760 I like bringing it to because they they don't really sell it outside of Minnesota and North 1088 01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,900 Dakota, or at least the the region here. 1089 01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:10,120 So if there's somebody from Colorado, they've never had a Grain Belt before. 1090 01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,400 So yeah. 1091 01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:13,720 And it's drinkable, you know. 1092 01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,880 Yeah, I like the I like the northeast from them. 1093 01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:17,880 Yeah. 1094 01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:18,880 Oh, yeah. 1095 01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:19,880 Northeast is good. 1096 01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,040 They, you know, maybe in northeast, too. 1097 01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,960 I never really thought about that. 1098 01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:28,120 That is a good beer, entry level beer for somebody who drinks Bud Light. 1099 01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:29,120 Yeah. 1100 01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:37,800 You know, it has some flavor to it and it's not overpowering. 1101 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:38,800 It's not an IPA. 1102 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,080 Yeah, that is true. 1103 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:42,280 Mine's still not sour. 1104 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,840 I've been puffing really softly because there's really good draw. 1105 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:46,840 Okay. 1106 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,720 I've had really good draw. 1107 01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:56,400 I feel like you've had better draw than I've had and these came from the same box. 1108 01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,100 But I feel like mine's maybe a little more tightly packed. 1109 01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:04,080 It's not terrible draw by any any stretch, but I don't think and I didn't try, but I 1110 01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:08,760 don't think I could have I don't think I could have pulled anything through the cap like 1111 01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:09,760 you did. 1112 01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:10,760 Oh, okay. 1113 01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,080 Yeah, no, I pulled it right through the cap. 1114 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:19,120 I was like, yeah, I think I think mine's a little more tightly packed for whatever reason. 1115 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:20,120 Interesting. 1116 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,680 Maybe it's the humidification. 1117 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:24,680 I don't know. 1118 01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:28,040 I had it in my big humidor. 1119 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,040 Could be. 1120 01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:34,880 So I've been really diligent on maintaining my humidor. 1121 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:40,000 So I just picked up some new Pave de Beggs as well and dropped them in there because 1122 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000 mine turned crispy. 1123 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,000 Sure. 1124 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,760 They're crunchy or whatever. 1125 01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:45,760 I soaked mine in. 1126 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,040 Yeah, that's what you said last episode. 1127 01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:49,800 It worked swimmingly well. 1128 01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:50,800 Oh, OK. 1129 01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:51,800 Yeah, yeah. 1130 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,360 They're now, you know, a week later. 1131 01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:55,360 Yep. 1132 01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,600 And on the outside and they have moisture in them. 1133 01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:58,600 OK, good. 1134 01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:00,120 And it went really well. 1135 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:01,120 Worked out great. 1136 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:02,120 Let them sit overnight. 1137 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,120 Yep. 1138 01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:04,120 And yeah, I don't know. 1139 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,920 Maybe I'll have to give that a go. 1140 01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,680 Yeah, my cheapness paid off. 1141 01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:14,760 We also have distilled water, a lot of it in the house because we use diffusers during 1142 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:15,760 the winter. 1143 01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:16,760 Oh, got it. 1144 01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:17,760 Yeah. 1145 01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:25,600 I heard you're supposed to put, you're supposed to use distilled water in your humidifiers 1146 01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:26,600 and things. 1147 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:27,600 Yes. 1148 01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:28,680 And not tap water. 1149 01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:35,880 So yes, anything that processes the water, you want to have this distilled water. 1150 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:43,640 So we've been, I've been messing up then for a lot of years now. 1151 01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:44,640 Does it still operate? 1152 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:47,040 Yeah, I mean, it still operates. 1153 01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:50,400 I think I thought it was more about like the mold or like the whatever. 1154 01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,040 No, I was, I see. 1155 01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,680 And I was always under the assumption that it was for the mechanisms in the machines. 1156 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:56,680 Oh, OK. 1157 01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:03,600 So that didn't build up salt and iron and whatever other crud is in the water. 1158 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:04,600 The fluoride. 1159 01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,760 Yeah, the fluoride. 1160 01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:08,760 I don't know. 1161 01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,160 My water's not, doesn't have any fluoride in it, but. 1162 01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:14,840 Yeah. 1163 01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:20,400 This whole other conspiracy thing we could go down rabbit hole, I suppose. 1164 01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:24,560 But oh, fluoride, fluoride in the water. 1165 01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,080 I don't know if it's true or not. 1166 01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:33,920 I think they put it in there, but they claim it's for the teeth. 1167 01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:40,440 But I've read some things that say it's kind of like a calming agent or I don't know what 1168 01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:41,440 you would call it. 1169 01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:45,120 It is a weak calming agent. 1170 01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:50,920 Yeah, kind of like pacifies, but mildly, you know, so you can still have like the super 1171 01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,320 angry bros and alpha males, I guess. 1172 01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,040 But it takes the edge off. 1173 01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,480 Yeah, that was the conspiracy theory. 1174 01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:06,760 And it in clinical trials, it does have a calming effect, but I'm not sure what the 1175 01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:08,280 dosage is, you know? 1176 01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:15,320 Yeah, or to what extent the calming is, because like lots of things have calming effects. 1177 01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:19,520 Cigars maybe, beer maybe. 1178 01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:20,520 I don't know. 1179 01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,720 All of the things we like to partake in. 1180 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:28,760 But I wouldn't, you know, but like, you know, is it like, oh, I hate being calm. 1181 01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,280 Like why am I calming myself? 1182 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:35,000 So I don't know, like to what extent the calming effect is. 1183 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:41,240 Like is it, are you, can you tell for one, you know, like if you smoke enough cigars, 1184 01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:45,720 you can't really tell that you're calmer after smoking one. 1185 01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:49,000 You know, like, I don't know. 1186 01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:53,520 I can definitely tell that I'm now the one we started. 1187 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:57,800 That you're what I was pretty worked up all day and I slowly calm down throughout. 1188 01:04:57,800 --> 01:04:58,800 You know what I mean? 1189 01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,240 Yeah, I can tell that to you. 1190 01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:04,080 You're real tense. 1191 01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:05,520 I was wound up pretty tight. 1192 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,360 And I was all sore earlier today. 1193 01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:14,340 But I don't know, I don't remember if it was for her birthday or last Christmas or something, 1194 01:05:14,340 --> 01:05:21,260 but I bought Sarah one of those massage guns and I was like, you know, I did all the snow 1195 01:05:21,260 --> 01:05:24,560 blowing and the shoveling and I'm all sore. 1196 01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,600 Like could you give me a gun in quick before my podcast? 1197 01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,040 And so I've just been pretty, pretty calm today. 1198 01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:37,120 I might write an angry letter to my senator about the calming effects of massage guns 1199 01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:38,120 later. 1200 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,120 I don't know. 1201 01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,600 But yes, yes. 1202 01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,120 Yeah, drinking. 1203 01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:52,920 I know you've met people like this, but alcohol affects everybody a little differently, of 1204 01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:53,920 course. 1205 01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:54,920 Yeah. 1206 01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:55,920 And different types of alcohol. 1207 01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:56,920 It can. 1208 01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:57,920 Yeah. 1209 01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:02,760 And it's a lot of it is, you know, if I'm sick before I have a drink, it's I'm going 1210 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,760 to get affected a lot differently than if I was healthy. 1211 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:06,760 You know what I mean? 1212 01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:07,760 Yeah. 1213 01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:11,080 And for me, I don't really drink if I'm sick. 1214 01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,960 But it kind of depends. 1215 01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:18,960 Like if I have like a salad for dinner, which I almost never do because that's stupid, unless 1216 01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:22,480 you unless every all of our listeners love salads for dinner, then it's great. 1217 01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,600 But like sometimes I do just want a salad for dinner. 1218 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:30,680 If it's like the holidays and I've just like eaten for three days straight and I'm like, 1219 01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,560 oh, my God, I need something light. 1220 01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:38,780 But if I have like a lighter meal and then I drink like it affects me way differently 1221 01:06:38,780 --> 01:06:41,960 than if I have like a good base. 1222 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,120 Sure. 1223 01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:50,080 What I'm talking about being sick is sometimes I'll have a cold coming on and I won't be 1224 01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:51,080 sick yet. 1225 01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:56,160 And I'll have a couple of beers and it will just radically affect me. 1226 01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,160 Yeah. 1227 01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,440 Almost like a two for one ratio. 1228 01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:00,440 Okay. 1229 01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:08,040 I'll get way more and less alcohol and rat like wildly intoxicated. 1230 01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,120 Sometimes it's kind of crazy. 1231 01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:11,920 I was there once. 1232 01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,600 No, I'm just kidding. 1233 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,520 I've never seen Mike wildly intoxicated or intoxicated at all. 1234 01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:20,640 He is an upstanding citizen. 1235 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,280 Yes, he hates French haircuts. 1236 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:25,720 Absolutely. 1237 01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:27,160 Absolutely. 1238 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:34,560 Well, I was what I was getting at is I know people that get really angry when they get 1239 01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:36,800 intoxicated, but they still drink. 1240 01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:37,800 Yeah. 1241 01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:38,880 Never understood that. 1242 01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:42,920 Like, why are you doing this to yourself and everybody else? 1243 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:47,760 Well, yeah, I mean, it's like the everybody else part is kind of the big one. 1244 01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:53,660 You know, you do what you want to yourself at home, but some people can't handle things 1245 01:07:53,660 --> 01:07:55,480 and you know, it can be alcohol. 1246 01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:57,780 It could be other drugs. 1247 01:07:57,780 --> 01:08:04,600 It could be, you know, I don't know, shopping or a certain like show. 1248 01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,920 You know, like people get so worked up about things and like football, like, let's just 1249 01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:13,260 say football and it's like, you get so worked up and like you through the remote through 1250 01:08:13,260 --> 01:08:17,760 the drywall because you're set about a play or, you know, you did this or that and it's 1251 01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:18,760 like. 1252 01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:24,240 At some point, you just have to kind of be like, wouldn't you think like the person would 1253 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:28,640 be like, man, I don't like how angry I get watching the football. 1254 01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,800 Like maybe I should stop. 1255 01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:35,040 I had the feeling that you've not happened before. 1256 01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:42,040 Have you seen somebody throw the remote through the drywall at a house? 1257 01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:43,040 No, no. 1258 01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:44,040 I haven't. 1259 01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:45,040 I haven't. 1260 01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:53,240 But I've seen other things come out of like sporting events or watching sporting events 1261 01:08:53,240 --> 01:09:01,320 and like just some, just some things I've seen some things and I used to be one of those 1262 01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:08,160 people that did the things, not like you get like physically aggressive or violently, whatever, 1263 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:14,000 but like sometimes the shit talk goes too far, you know, and it's like, well, is it 1264 01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,720 really about the game or is it about your friendship with people or, you know, like, 1265 01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:21,280 you know, just kind of like, I don't need that stress and I don't need that thing. 1266 01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:25,720 And it's like, you like, my family was huge into football and it was like every time we'd 1267 01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:30,280 watch the game, it'd be like, I was on edge, like, oh, I hope the team wins and I hope, 1268 01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:35,520 you know, and it's like, and then if they lost, you were angry for days or like depressed 1269 01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:36,520 for days. 1270 01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:38,720 And it's like, it's a sports game. 1271 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:43,320 It's supposed to be entertainment, you know, like you're not supposed to take it that serious. 1272 01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:46,480 So that's why I quit watching mostly. 1273 01:09:46,480 --> 01:09:51,560 I can honestly tell you, I do not know who was in the Super Bowl this year. 1274 01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:52,560 I don't know who won. 1275 01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:53,560 Yeah. 1276 01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,600 I don't know who is playing. 1277 01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,520 I didn't bet on it. 1278 01:09:57,520 --> 01:09:58,520 Yeah. 1279 01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:04,760 Even when I did bet, I bet on a couple in the past and I didn't watch them. 1280 01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:05,760 Yeah. 1281 01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:12,800 Well, we watched the Super Bowl, but we usually only like watching it for the halftime show. 1282 01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,960 And we always tell ourselves we like watching it for the commercials, but for the past like 1283 01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:18,480 15 years, the commercials have an absolute shit. 1284 01:10:18,480 --> 01:10:21,040 So it's not really that either. 1285 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:25,000 It's just kind of like, it's the biggest sporting event of the year. 1286 01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:29,280 So like, so we don't watch live TV like ever. 1287 01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,880 And so we hate commercials and stuff, but like we'll watch. 1288 01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:37,600 So we make two exceptions, we watch the Super Bowl and we watch the Oscars. 1289 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:40,480 Oh, you do watch the Oscars. 1290 01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:42,320 And you can say like, oh, you watch the Oscars. 1291 01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:46,840 Oh my God, you're like feeding into whatever and like, I don't know, all the racism or 1292 01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:49,360 the glorifying the people. 1293 01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:50,920 And maybe we do. 1294 01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,280 What we like to do is I'll print out the ballot, right? 1295 01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,120 Of all the nominated films and actors and all that stuff. 1296 01:10:56,120 --> 01:11:00,160 And then we make predictions beforehand and then we watch to see who wins, like who got 1297 01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:01,160 the most right. 1298 01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:05,920 And we also like to try and watch all the all the best picture and all the best actor, 1299 01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:10,440 actress, nominated, nominated films. 1300 01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:14,960 And usually we've seen most of them anyway, just because I'm a film buff, you know, so 1301 01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:15,960 great. 1302 01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,320 So it's kind of nice to see. 1303 01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:23,240 But you know, I don't really like, like, yeah, we watch the slap live or on the seven second 1304 01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:24,600 delay or whatever they do. 1305 01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:29,440 But that wasn't, I wasn't like, oh my God, I'm so glad I was watching and saw that. 1306 01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:31,120 Like that wasn't my thing. 1307 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,920 Like I love the in memorandum thing because you can see all the people that have passed 1308 01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:36,800 and like, oh my God, I didn't know that person died. 1309 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:40,520 And then for a lot of those documentaries and the other like foreign films and stuff, 1310 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,480 they show the little like blurbs from them. 1311 01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:45,280 They're like, and here's the nominated films for like best foreign picture. 1312 01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:48,360 And they show like, you know, a 20 second clip from each of them. 1313 01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:50,320 And then sometimes you're like, oh, that looks really interesting. 1314 01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,160 Maybe we should check that one out, you know, so. 1315 01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:53,160 Yeah, interesting. 1316 01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:57,000 Not that I'm trying to like justify why I'm watching the Oscars. 1317 01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:02,600 No, no, no, no, no. Were you the one who used to throw an Oscar party? 1318 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:05,160 No, people would write their predictions down. 1319 01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:14,600 No, I had a friend who would throw a party for the Oscars and I never went, but. 1320 01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,760 They would write the predictions down and like have a little game out of. 1321 01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,000 OK, got the predictions right and stuff like that. 1322 01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,560 Yeah, it was a kind of cool. 1323 01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:28,760 And the party part, you know, that's interesting. 1324 01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,920 I mean, it's just something, you know, like, I don't know, so many people watch all these 1325 01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:36,080 shows and reality shows and whatever. 1326 01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,200 It's like, now we just watch two events a year. 1327 01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:42,640 I guess two nights out of our life and we spend and. 1328 01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:43,640 That's what we do. 1329 01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:44,640 So that's cool. 1330 01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:48,000 You know, no judgment for me. 1331 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,720 Yeah, I. I haven't been watching any live TV. 1332 01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:56,560 I do need to watch some. 1333 01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,720 They need to watch some what some bowling. 1334 01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:04,440 Oh, yeah, they just did the US Open. 1335 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:07,280 OK, like last week or something. 1336 01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:09,400 And I'd like to I'd like to watch it live. 1337 01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:10,400 It's a pretty tough. 1338 01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:11,400 That's a pretty tough tournament. 1339 01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:12,400 Yeah. 1340 01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:13,400 For those who don't. 1341 01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:18,280 There's all sorts of information about the oil patterns on the Internet. 1342 01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,740 It's always fascinating to watch. 1343 01:13:20,740 --> 01:13:24,680 For me, I'd like to bowl in those patterns. 1344 01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:28,360 But of course, not likely to happen. 1345 01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:31,000 But I would like to try it at least. 1346 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,880 Well, where's where's one of those lanes? 1347 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:39,200 Well, we'll have our yacht dock in that city and, you know, in between episodes, you can 1348 01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:40,200 go bowl. 1349 01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:43,800 I'll just buy a bowling alley so I can pattern out myself. 1350 01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,520 Yeah, just put it on the yacht. 1351 01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:46,520 Yeah. 1352 01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:47,520 Hey, there we go. 1353 01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:48,520 Yeah. 1354 01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:54,240 And you know, the the waves or the tide is part of the hazard of playing the course, 1355 01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:55,240 right? 1356 01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:56,240 Yep. 1357 01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:59,120 They had an event years ago. 1358 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:02,600 It was a women's bowling tournament and they did it in an outdoor stadium. 1359 01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:03,600 OK. 1360 01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,720 And there was like a frickin windstorm or something. 1361 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:07,720 OK. 1362 01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:13,920 Oh, Lane, you got to hang a you got to hang a windsock down by the pins. 1363 01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,720 Oh, it was great. 1364 01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:17,880 It was really interesting to watch. 1365 01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:22,080 Very entertaining for anybody who's wants some entertainment value. 1366 01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:23,080 Yeah. 1367 01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:24,080 See the best lady bowlers. 1368 01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:28,400 Oh, Lane said dirt on him. 1369 01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:34,080 Yeah, it was great. 1370 01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:37,280 So I thought it was humorous. 1371 01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:38,280 Yeah. 1372 01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:45,320 But that's kind of like for those who don't know, nine pin bowling was banned in the United 1373 01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:48,200 States because of the gambling. 1374 01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:52,720 And that's how 10 pin bowling became the top dog in this country. 1375 01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:54,080 OK. 1376 01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:58,440 Because nine pin bowling was banned, but 10 pin bowling was legal. 1377 01:14:58,440 --> 01:15:02,880 I feel like that was a ploy by the the big pin industry where they're like, how can we 1378 01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:04,920 sell them an extra pin? 1379 01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:05,920 Right. 1380 01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:06,920 Yes. 1381 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:07,920 Ban nine pin bowling. 1382 01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:08,920 Yeah. 1383 01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:09,920 Big pin. 1384 01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:15,280 So well, I'm I'm going to put mine out because it's. 1385 01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:20,600 Not pleasant to me anymore, but I've got about an inch left. 1386 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:24,760 So OK, that's about me to the end. 1387 01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,680 That's about standard, I think, for most of our sticks. 1388 01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,680 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1389 01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:33,680 There's been a few that we've wanted to Roach clip or whatever. 1390 01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,960 But you know, this one was a decent smoke all the way through. 1391 01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:42,840 I like the spicy wrapper and the flavor profile of this one is much nicer than the other two. 1392 01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,480 Not that the other two were were terrible or bad. 1393 01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:50,880 But I think I like this one the most. 1394 01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:51,880 I thought it was good. 1395 01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:55,400 This one, I think if you if you see any five Vegas, I think the cask strength is probably 1396 01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:56,400 the way to go. 1397 01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:57,400 Depending on your flavor preferences. 1398 01:15:57,400 --> 01:15:58,400 The Maduro was good too. 1399 01:15:58,400 --> 01:15:59,400 Yeah. 1400 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:00,400 Sorry if you're talking about him. 1401 01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:01,400 Oh, no, no, not at all. 1402 01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:07,760 If you like a little spicier, do the cask strength. 1403 01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:12,600 If you like just flavor, do the Maduro because it doesn't have the spice. 1404 01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,960 That would be our recommendation or mine. 1405 01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:18,080 I speak for Mike. 1406 01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:22,160 I think this is clearly the best of the three we had. 1407 01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:26,040 I think that the Maduro was a series S or something. 1408 01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:29,120 It was the middle point and that was good. 1409 01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:35,640 I would recommend if you see this at a cigar shop and you want a cheaper stick, I would 1410 01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:36,640 recommend buying this. 1411 01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:37,640 Yes, I liked it. 1412 01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:38,640 It's spicy. 1413 01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:39,640 I liked it too. 1414 01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:44,840 I have about an inch and a half left on mine, maybe an inch and a quarter and it's still 1415 01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,600 good for me. 1416 01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:49,160 But the end is starting to unravel. 1417 01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,120 I'm starting to get a lot of leaf coming through the end. 1418 01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:54,040 I'm getting a lot of junk in my mouth. 1419 01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,640 Yeah, so mine didn't unravel, but it got kind of sour. 1420 01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,160 So sure, a little. 1421 01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:04,920 I don't know if that's quality control or just smoking styles or or what, but you know, 1422 01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:09,800 there are slight variations stick to stick even in the same even the same box. 1423 01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:11,320 Oh, of course. 1424 01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:16,360 It's a artisanal product. 1425 01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,840 So you're going to have variation. 1426 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:20,760 But I would I would recommend it. 1427 01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:22,760 I think it's good. 1428 01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:23,760 Likewise. 1429 01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:30,720 We'll see you next week for our random stick that neither of us thought we'd be smoking. 1430 01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:31,720 Be safe. 1431 01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:35,160 Hum.