1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,480 Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Nate. 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:10,800 And I'm Mike. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,720 What are we smoking today, Nate? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:20,280 We are smoking a Gurka Vintage 2001, which is strange to think that anything during my 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,600 lifetime could be considered vintage anything. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,320 Yes, this looks wonderful. 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:30,320 It really does. 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,720 It's a really nice torpedo. 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:33,720 Double torpedo. 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,720 Indeed. 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:35,720 It's a good start. 12 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:36,800 A very good start. 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,400 Are you pairing this with anything, Mike? 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:40,440 White Russian. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:45,000 Not a traditional cigar pairing, but had a rough weekend. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,800 Have you heard of the Iron Butterfly? 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:48,960 No. 18 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:55,640 It's basically a white Russian, except instead of the cream, you use something like rum chata. 19 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,360 So it's another kind of liqueur you add. 20 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,200 So it's got a little bit more potency. 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,280 I'm going with something new to me, a Joseph's Brow Hefeweizen. 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:12,160 This is, I believe, a Trader Joe's special, but it's brewed out of the Joseph Brow Brewing 23 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,120 Co. in San Jose, California. 24 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,120 Very nice. 25 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,080 And it's unfiltered wheat. 26 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:22,620 So you had a rough weekend and I had a rough week. 27 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:29,840 So Monday, our water heater went out and by going out, I mean, it was leaking from the 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,080 vents. 29 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,680 So we had to get that replaced. 30 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:39,160 Shout out to Keith, one of our listeners, for helping me with that because that was 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,800 a little over my skill set. 32 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:51,120 And then Tuesday, I was going to go to a concert with our listener and one time guest so far, 33 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,960 Dev, and he was asking, hey, who's going to drive? 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,320 Because we're neighbors. 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,200 And I said, oh, it doesn't matter to me. 36 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,800 And so I was standing out in my driveway and I kind of looked over at my car and I'm like, 37 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,920 huh, I don't think that was there before. 38 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,520 And so I thought, and there's a pipe laying on the ground underneath my car. 39 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,540 And it was my exhaust pipe. 40 00:02:12,540 --> 00:02:17,040 And I got down to look at it and sure enough, it was sawed off. 41 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,820 So my catalytic converter got stolen. 42 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:23,520 So Dev had to drive to the concert and back. 43 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,840 But he also helped me fix this in a totally legal, non-illegal way. 44 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:37,280 So with the help and aid of Campbell's Soup, not a sponsor. 45 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,920 Are you willing to talk about how you fixed it on the show or is that something for after? 46 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:44,160 No, I don't care. 47 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,160 You can go online and Google all these comments and things. 48 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,560 And I'll tell you a couple. 49 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,280 I can tell you a couple of the reasons behind, but this is actually going to like kick into 50 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,120 our topic for this episode. 51 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,080 So it might be worthwhile talking about. 52 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,560 But yeah, so far the cigar is really nice and I'm digging it. 53 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:04,560 I am too. 54 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,560 I am too. 55 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,280 So I don't know much about cars. 56 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:11,880 I drive a 2004 Honda Civic. 57 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,400 It's a hybrid and it's a manual transmission. 58 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:22,360 It's almost 20 years old and it's a car in Minnesota, meaning it's got rust and the rust 59 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:23,960 gets bigger every year. 60 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,600 And I park out in the driveway because we only have a one car garage and Sarah's got 61 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,380 a newer car than I do. 62 00:03:29,380 --> 00:03:32,720 So we keep that one kind of nice and out of the elements. 63 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,160 And I just kind of assumed that with it being a manual, nobody would want to steal it. 64 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,640 And two, just kind of like looking at it. 65 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,760 I was hoping people would look at it and say, you know what, this guy suffers enough in 66 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:45,080 life. 67 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,800 Just let him keep his catalytic converter. 68 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,600 However, that is not the case. 69 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,560 So apparently you can get like three to $500 for a catalytic converter. 70 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,600 Yes, you can, even though it's illegal to buy them. 71 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,360 Well, tell that whomever. 72 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,880 And I think, and we'll get into this in a little bit, but and so they're more valuable 73 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,640 if they come from a hybrid car. 74 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,880 I don't know that mine's fully considered. 75 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,640 I mean, it says hybrid on it, but it's really more like a battery assist because it's only 76 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:13,640 four cylinders. 77 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,760 So the battery will kind of kick in when you're trying to accelerate and stuff just to assist 78 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:17,760 you. 79 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,720 It's never going to switch over to full battery mode. 80 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:20,720 You know what I mean? 81 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,720 Okay. 82 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:22,720 Yeah. 83 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,240 It doesn't run on battery and then have the main motor be a pony. 84 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,000 No, this is a, it's, I mean, it's from 2004. 85 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,000 So it's like one of the earliest, I'm sure available kind of like hybrid technology type 86 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 of things. 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,880 So, so anyway, of course, Dev was home because we were going to the concert and I asked him, 88 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,000 I'm like, Hey man, like somebody jacked my catalytic converter. 89 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,840 Should I, should I even bother filing a police report? 90 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:50,260 And he said, well, you know, you can, if you like doing a lot of paperwork and I don't, 91 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:54,840 so I didn't because like what they're going to find, they're going to find this catalytic 92 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,960 converter somewhere and bring it back to me. 93 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,580 And then I still have to put it back on. 94 00:04:58,580 --> 00:05:03,960 And then I was kind of looking at like a catalytic converter costs and we're talking like 1200 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:10,160 bucks for a 20 year old car that I don't think I could even get $500 for if I sold it to 96 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,160 the scrap yard. 97 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,160 You know what I mean? 98 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,400 And then if I get a new catalytic converter, I'd have to put a catalytic converter protector 99 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,760 thing on it, like have somebody weld the cage on. 100 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,040 And that's another, I was looking like another 900 bucks or a thousand bucks as a 20 year 101 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,880 old car. 102 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,680 And technically you can drive a vehicle without a catalytic converter. 103 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,520 It's not a, not a necessary component of operating a motor vehicle. 104 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,700 In fact, if you remove a catalytic converter, and I'm not saying you should do this because 105 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:43,800 this is illegal, you actually get more horsepower and better fuel efficiency by not having a 106 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,800 catalytic converter. 107 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,240 Oh, growing up, it was very common for the Hibbilloo people to remove their catalytic 108 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,840 converters and strike pipe usually to increase horsepower and noise. 109 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:54,840 Yes. 110 00:05:54,840 --> 00:06:00,440 I will tell you, it was very noisy when I pulled it up onto the, onto the ramps to, 111 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 to fix it. 112 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:02,440 I bet it was noisy. 113 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,440 Yeah. 114 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,520 Not having a catalytic converter is known to the state of California to cause cancer. 115 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,760 And state, and the state of California is one of the few states, or maybe more states 116 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,880 do it now, but I think that some of the East coast states do. 117 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:22,160 Minnesota here does not do vehicle emission testing or vehicle inspections, which I guess 118 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,880 they do in some other states, even like, I think Michigan does, does them or no, wherever 119 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,600 Nantucket is, does them. 120 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,520 Having a cat doesn't necessarily mean anything because if the baffles come loose, this is 121 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,260 my understanding, and I am not a car expert. 122 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,940 If the baffle comes loose, first of all, it rattles really bad. 123 00:06:40,940 --> 00:06:44,720 Like my truck, pretty sure the catalytic converter is damaged. 124 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,520 So it's doing nothing. 125 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,920 Potentially it's causing me to get worse gas mileage. 126 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,320 You know, I should just cut it out, but, and then it rattles. 127 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,320 That's illegal, Mike. 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,000 It's not doing its job either. 129 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,900 This hypothetical situation of what I did to remedy this is purely hypothetical and 130 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:01,520 not what I actually did to remedy this. 131 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,600 So what I did to remedy this was we just straight piped that bitch. 132 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,320 And what did he use? 133 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,320 Hypothetically speaking. 134 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Hypothetically, yeah. 135 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,320 Yeah, hypothetically. 136 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,560 Well, since I couldn't drive my car because the exhaust pipe was actually laying on the 137 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,680 ground and still attached to the muffler and the exhaust pipe in the back, right? 138 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:23,120 So it was kind of going to dig into the road and potholes and like rip the whole rest of 139 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:24,380 the assembly off. 140 00:07:24,380 --> 00:07:26,680 So I couldn't really drive it to go get parts. 141 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:32,960 And I don't have an auto parts store nearby, but Dev, shout out again to Dev and to Keith 142 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,440 because they were kind of like our two heroes this week with all of the stuff that went 143 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,720 just shit walls. 144 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:45,080 So anyway, he picked up some exhaust pipes because you can go buy like two foot sections 145 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,680 of like test pipe at automotive stores. 146 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:52,780 And so what it's used for is to bypass your catalytic converter to see if something else 147 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:55,360 is the cause of the issue or if it's catalytic converter. 148 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,720 So and I was told after I first bought my car because it's had the check engine light 149 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,640 on for probably 20 years now that the catalytic converter was bad on mine. 150 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:08,060 So apparently mine wasn't even working to begin with and somebody I guess kind of did 151 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:10,120 me the favor of getting rid of it. 152 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,000 So he got all these fittings and couplers and things and then some clamps. 153 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,760 And we hypothetically got this all assembled up. 154 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:25,960 And what the criminals did was they jacked up just on not on a jack point on my frame. 155 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,760 So they bent the front frame quite a bit. 156 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:35,460 And then what they did was they started a cut on the exhaust pipe after the catalytic 157 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:36,460 converter. 158 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:39,840 And then they decided they're about halfway through the pipe and they decided, oh no, 159 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,720 no, no, let's cut a little closer to the catalytic converter. 160 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,760 So they left a half a cut there. 161 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,520 And then they cut as close to the where it comes out of the actual engine as they possibly 162 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:50,520 could. 163 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:56,800 So we had to hypothetically we had to flange one of these connectors using my vice grip 164 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,540 and we had to flange it so it fit over this bit. 165 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:04,760 And we had to angle grind a clamp off because they didn't leave us enough room to straight 166 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,600 pipe it hypothetically speaking. 167 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,720 I mean there's criminals and then there's dick wads. 168 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,600 And these people were definitely dick wads because he could have cut it and left me enough 169 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,200 room to just have an easy straight pipe. 170 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:17,540 But no, they did not. 171 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:21,440 So we got that all all hooked up on Friday. 172 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,120 And then we realized that that first initial cut that they made and left in there was rather 173 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,960 large and it was going to be putting out a bunch of exhaust and some noise. 174 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,240 So I was like, well, okay, I'll go get some sheet metal. 175 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,160 Now we'll just wrap that over there and get some clamps and whatever. 176 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,160 And it'll be good. 177 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:43,680 So I go to the store and the sheet metal is pretty thin, but it's way thicker than I could 178 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:44,680 physically bend. 179 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,260 And my exhaust tube is only an inch and a half. 180 00:09:47,260 --> 00:09:51,360 So there's no way I'm bending a piece of sheet metal to an inch and a half circumference. 181 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,640 Like it's too thick. 182 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:58,400 And I asked one of the older guys that was working there and he's like, ah, there's machines 183 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,400 that do it. 184 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,320 But he said it in a way that implied to me that those machines are not cheap and you 185 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,000 don't just buy one for a weekend project. 186 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,560 Then I went up to plumbing and electrical because he was like, maybe there's a, like 187 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:11,960 a over clamp you can do. 188 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:19,440 Well, I found this self fusing tape that you can use for plumbing and its temperature rating 189 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,400 is 500 degrees Fahrenheit. 190 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,660 So then of course, because I have the internet in my pocket, I needed to find out how hot 191 00:10:25,660 --> 00:10:26,660 exhaust is. 192 00:10:26,660 --> 00:10:28,200 Well, it's 1200 degrees Fahrenheit. 193 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,680 So because I know some basic math, 500 is way less than 1200, at least by a few hundred 194 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:34,680 degrees. 195 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:38,880 So I was looking on Amazon and I had previously looked at an article that said you can take 196 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:44,200 a beer can and some JB weld and patch a hole in your exhaust pipe using that. 197 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,240 And I thought that's pretty redneck. 198 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,820 And I also thought that, gee, a beer can is awfully thin and I don't think that would 199 00:10:51,820 --> 00:10:53,000 stand up to the heat either. 200 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,920 I think that would burn through pretty quickly. 201 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:59,400 So I found this exhaust tape on Amazon, not a sponsor. 202 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:04,720 It was like 10 bucks and it was specifically designed for exhaust pipes. 203 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,160 And this guy was like, Hey, save your money. 204 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,760 Just get a soup can and some hose clamps and you'll be good to go. 205 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,240 And I thought, gee, that sounds swell. 206 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:21,760 So I went and bought a can of chicken noodle soup, a Campbell's, not a sponsor. 207 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,400 And I ate that bitch up and gave some to my daughter and she ate some too. 208 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,880 And then I rinsed it and JB welded and hose clamped that motherfucker right up there, 209 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:31,880 hypothetically speaking. 210 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:32,880 Nice. 211 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,920 And does it seal at least for your ear? 212 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,200 Yeah, it sounds as quiet. 213 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:44,480 It's not as quiet as before the incident, but it's quieter than after the incident. 214 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:45,600 You know what I mean? 215 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:51,400 And so I actually took it for a cruise today and my car kind of sometimes would lurch upon 216 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,600 accelerating and it doesn't do that anymore. 217 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,160 And I think because the catalytic converter was bad, that it was like gumming up my whole 218 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,800 flow, man. 219 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,160 And I was just blocked up and now I'm not. 220 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:10,160 But I do hear a little bit of a weird noise and I smelled some exhausts. 221 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,120 So I might have to pop back down there and just make sure I completely covered that cut 222 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,040 because it was almost all the way through the thing. 223 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,160 And I think I did, but when you're under a car and inverted or upside down or whatever, 224 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,840 it's hard to see everything. 225 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:24,840 So right. 226 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:25,840 Interesting. 227 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,240 You could suppose you already bought the pipe. 228 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:29,240 You're already money in. 229 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:33,360 Let's say you cut the rest of it out, whatever the section was theoretically. 230 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,840 Yes, theoretically one piece there. 231 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:42,400 And so theoretically, this cost was about $40 to do all this fix, you know, with all 232 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:48,720 the couplers and the straight pipe, the dollar 29, I think for the can of soup, the 99 cents 233 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,120 for the hose clamps. 234 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:55,480 And that would be your theoretical cost of straight piping your car. 235 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,960 So the reason that people have a catalytic converter is because it cuts down on the emissions, 236 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:00,960 the pollution emissions. 237 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:01,960 Right. 238 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,720 And I guess fairly drastically, I don't know. 239 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:05,760 I don't have the numbers. 240 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,200 Nobody really tells you because it's one of those things. 241 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,840 It's hard to get a reputable source on this because I was looking this up for our topic 242 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,360 for tonight. 243 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:20,600 How much does the catalytic converter prevent from leaking into the atmosphere and stuff 244 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:21,600 like that? 245 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,840 And I can look again real quick just before we get into the brunt of it. 246 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,120 But they won't tell you because it's illegal to drive without one. 247 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:34,480 So it's kind of like when you go into a head shop in a state that doesn't allow marijuana 248 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,960 sales and you want to buy a real nice Chillum or something. 249 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,680 And they have big signs saying, if you mentioned weed or marijuana, we have to ask you to leave. 250 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:45,860 These are only for tobacco or personal display or something. 251 00:13:45,860 --> 00:13:46,860 Which is always hilarious. 252 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,860 Yeah. 253 00:13:47,860 --> 00:13:51,960 And in cities like Fargo, at least when I was living there, all the head shops were 254 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,720 in Moorhead because they had a Sydney or city ordinance against it. 255 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,720 Okay. 256 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,720 It was the goofiest thing, you know. 257 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:59,720 Yeah. 258 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:00,720 I can't. 259 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,720 I mean, so to replace a catalytic converter costs between $945 and $2,500 to fix a catalytic 260 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:07,720 converter. 261 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:08,720 Right. 262 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,000 So it doesn't really by how much do they? 263 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Okay, so here we go. 264 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,680 How much do they reduce pollution? 265 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:17,580 This is the International Platinum Group Metals Association. 266 00:14:17,580 --> 00:14:23,800 So I'm sure that it's non-biased because they use a lot of platinum metals in the converters 267 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,160 and that's why they're so expensive or such a hot thing to sell. 268 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:32,280 Basically it just says the use of a particulate filter in conjunction with a catalyst can 269 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,680 reduce the particulates mass by 90% or whatever. 270 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,000 So I don't even know. 271 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Let's see. 272 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,840 2015, you know, it doesn't even really say like how much they do. 273 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,920 It just says by can reduce like up to and that's not what I would call it. 274 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,160 One time in a lab test they got 90%. 275 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,160 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 276 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,160 Yeah. 277 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:53,160 That's our high water mark. 278 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:54,520 So it could get that high again. 279 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,480 It hasn't for a long time because we don't make money off of that. 280 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,480 Yes. 281 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,480 So. 282 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,480 Yeah. 283 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,480 I wonder how long or how many years a catalytic converter is good for realistically because 284 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:04,960 it's got to go bad. 285 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:05,960 You would think. 286 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,280 I mean, it's basically filtering, right? 287 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,800 And I know they want every time I go to get my oil changed, which I don't go to get my 288 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,440 oil change because I can do it for a lot cheaper myself. 289 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,520 But they're always like, oh, you got to replace your cabin filter. 290 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,240 You got to replace your engine filter. 291 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:20,400 And that's just regular. 292 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,960 That's just regular air. 293 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,640 So you have to imagine something filtering out like deadly harmful pollutants needs to 294 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,000 replace more often. 295 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,880 But maybe that's part of the problem too is they only sell them as a whole and you can't 296 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:33,280 swap out the filter in them. 297 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Right. 298 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,920 Or maybe they work through some kind of like chemical thing. 299 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:36,920 I don't know. 300 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:37,920 Yeah. 301 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,420 And then on the badlands, I'd have to change out my cabin air filter, my engineer filter 302 00:15:41,420 --> 00:15:43,420 every 5,000 miles. 303 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:45,000 So that's why I have a K&N cabin air filter. 304 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Yeah. 305 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Well, there's so much dust out there. 306 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Yeah. 307 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 It's just dusty as shit year round. 308 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,640 And even in the winter time until there's snow on the ground, which usually isn't until 309 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,320 January, it's dusty. 310 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,320 Yeah. 311 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,560 So you're talking nine months of dust, you know, just awful. 312 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,500 And you go through a set of windshield wipers three times a year because all the dust just 313 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:03,500 cuts your. 314 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:04,500 Oh, yeah. 315 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:05,500 Yeah. 316 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:06,500 Just microabrades it. 317 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:12,520 And I was having my moral conundrum about whether to theoretically, hypothetically straight 318 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:18,140 pipe my car or do the right thing and the legal thing and put a brand new several thousand 319 00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:21,600 dollar catalytic converter on a piece of shit, which is what I did. 320 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:22,600 I did this. 321 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,320 I did the latter thing, of course, wink, wink. 322 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:25,360 And well, yeah, yeah. 323 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:30,160 You made a investment in your old Honda Civic. 324 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,520 And I am and I am totally not at all worried that somebody stole my catalytic converter, 325 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,640 knows that I legally need another one and will probably come back to check to see if 326 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,840 I went and put a new one on there just so they could steal it again. 327 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:44,840 You know what I mean? 328 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,200 Like you're if you're not if you're not fixing the problem and people are like, well, you 329 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:49,760 could spray paint your catalytic converter. 330 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:50,760 Great. 331 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,760 They don't give a fuck what color it is. 332 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,400 Neither do people buying it since it's illegal to buy one anyway. 333 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,040 And it kind of reminded me of one of the jokes I saw online that I liked where it was. 334 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,040 Sure. 335 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,440 Donate one kidney and you're a hero. 336 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,440 Donate 15. 337 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,440 And they start asking you, what are you doing with all these kidneys? 338 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,440 Yep. 339 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:11,560 Yeah, I can't believe that people are still stealing shit like that when it's it's illegal 340 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,040 to buy one. 341 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,960 Yeah, not illegal enough, I guess. 342 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,180 So I was having that moral dilemma. 343 00:17:18,180 --> 00:17:21,200 And then Elon Musk decided to blow up his spaceship. 344 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:25,280 And then I remembered the thing that I read that there's like a handful of companies that 345 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,280 are responsible for 70 percent of all the pollutants in the world. 346 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,120 So maybe maybe a paper straw isn't that big a deal. 347 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,120 So I wanted to talk about that. 348 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:35,800 I want to talk about companies that pollute and that are terrible. 349 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,040 OK, I am about halfway through my cigar, by the way. 350 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,040 Me as well. 351 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,040 Yeah. 352 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,360 Do you want to wait for our topic and just ramble this episode? 353 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,240 No, because I don't have that much data or information on these companies. 354 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,800 I was just going to kind of read through the list and then we can kind of talk about how 355 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:57,480 evil they are and how they make us fight amongst ourselves to use plastic straws and reusable 356 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:58,480 bags. 357 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,200 And they're basically flushing, you know, nuclear waste into the rivers. 358 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:03,200 Right. 359 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,200 That sounds good. 360 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,200 Yeah, I'm halfway through. 361 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:06,200 So far, I like it. 362 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:07,600 Like, I like it, too. 363 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,600 Way better than that beauty. 364 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 365 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:10,600 Yeah. 366 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,320 I recall the beast is pretty good. 367 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:13,320 The beast was good. 368 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:14,320 Yeah, the beast was good. 369 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,360 The beauty was, yeah, not not good. 370 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:18,360 All right. 371 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:24,760 So I've got this because I wanted to do a comparison between cars and these corporations. 372 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,360 So I think I think this is still be good. 373 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,320 And this is from a totally non-biased site. 374 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:31,680 OK, non-biased. 375 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:32,680 No way, no how. 376 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,200 It's treehugger.com. 377 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 They are firmly. 378 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,200 I know what they are. 379 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,680 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 380 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:40,680 OK. 381 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:41,680 Anyway. 382 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,680 All right. 383 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,720 So it says here, this is really the only blurb we need from them. 384 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,520 It says, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, motor vehicles produce about 385 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,800 22 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gases in 2020. 386 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,880 And so this is funny because it says, making them the most significant contributor to the 387 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,040 country's emissions. 388 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,760 Are they are they not good at math? 389 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,000 I mean, 22 percent is not 100 percent. 390 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 And then they did a bunch of like. 391 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 That's impossible. 392 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000 I know. 393 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,480 And that's what we're going to try and prove here, because 22 percent and then probably 394 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:19,360 the other 8 percent is, you know, like whatever you or I forget to recycle. 395 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:20,360 Right. 396 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,300 And then the remaining 80 percent is corporations. 397 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:24,300 So I don't know what their math is. 398 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:26,520 And I don't really care because it's treehugger.com. 399 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,960 It's not, you know, like Friends of the Environment dot org or something. 400 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,440 And we did a whole nonprofit thing and how corrupt a lot of the nonprofits are, too. 401 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,320 So let's not get all bent out of shape about dissing on treehugger dot com or save the 402 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,160 earth dot org or whatever. 403 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,160 That's intense. 404 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,200 Do we ever talk about the Biden plan on having electric vehicles on? 405 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,200 Yeah, we talked about that briefly with Simha. 406 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:50,200 Oh, yeah. 407 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,200 Yeah. 408 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,240 So what a fucking joke. 409 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,240 Yeah, man. 410 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:00,880 So let's see, this here says reveal the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions. 411 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:07,120 So I don't know how treehugger dot com can say greenhouse gases at 22 percent is massive. 412 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:11,500 And then this says there's 20 firms behind 33 percent of everything. 413 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,640 And I'm sure there's more, you know, if you really broke down and everything. 414 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,960 But this is strictly emissions. 415 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,360 There was a whole article on microplastics. 416 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:20,360 Right. 417 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,640 So there's more than one way to pollute the planet. 418 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,040 And these corporations have found them all. 419 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,520 And you know, you can't just look at that one thing. 420 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:32,160 But even with cars being 22 percent of the emissions, there's here's 20 companies that 421 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,920 are responsible for 33 percent of the emissions. 422 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:42,420 So this is like this is a apples to apples because cars do emissions and these companies 423 00:20:42,420 --> 00:20:43,420 do too. 424 00:20:43,420 --> 00:20:46,800 So it's kind of apples to apples, I guess. 425 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,760 So do you know who's number one? 426 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:55,080 And this is in billion tons of carbon dioxide, a billion tons. 427 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,920 I mean, I know I know most of these. 428 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,400 They're actually not on this list. 429 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:02,400 Really? 430 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,520 So these are these are these are like firms. 431 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,380 So I don't know that they're actually like manufacturing companies. 432 00:21:08,380 --> 00:21:10,740 So the first one is mining. 433 00:21:10,740 --> 00:21:14,960 This one is Saudi Aramco. 434 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:15,960 The next one. 435 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,000 The next highest is Chevron, and we've all heard of Chevron. 436 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:25,940 Then it's Gazprom, then Exxon Mobil, then National Iranian Oil Company, BP, Royal Dutch 437 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:34,360 Shell, Coal India, Pemex, Petrolios de Venezuela, Petro China, Peabody Energy, Conoco Phillips, 438 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:41,880 Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, Kuwait Petroleum Co, Iraq National Oil Co, Total SA, Sonatrack, 439 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:47,560 BHP Billiton and Petrobras Petrobras Petrobras. 440 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,880 And those are like billions of of whatever's. 441 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:57,360 So I don't know that they must be extremely wasteful in their extraction because I didn't 442 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:00,640 hear any Bakken oilfield companies. 443 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:10,520 Well, yeah, it was one or two, but not Whiting or S or EOG or but do they do the same volume? 444 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,160 All the Bakken oilfields is the biggest oilfield in the planet right now. 445 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:19,960 So they're producing a lot of oil and they do oil in Colorado and they do oil in Texas. 446 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,240 All those companies do. 447 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,240 OK. 448 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,920 Yeah, they're big conglomerates. 449 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:24,920 Yeah. 450 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,440 And so, you know, I mean, I don't know, I mean, without kind of really going into a 451 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:33,320 big like kind of expose type of episode, which is not usually what we're about. 452 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:34,320 Right. 453 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,800 Like we're just kind of like here's some general knowledge or a little bit deeper than surface 454 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:37,800 level knowledge. 455 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Yeah. 456 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,800 Oh yeah. 457 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:45,120 I kind of thought like blowing up a spaceship would probably be more harmful to the planet 458 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:48,080 than me theoretically straight piping my car. 459 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,080 Oh, yeah. 460 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,080 Yeah. 461 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,480 Owning a mega yacht is definitely worse. 462 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:54,480 Yeah. 463 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,840 And and forcing a country to take down a bridge and then reassemble said bridge. 464 00:22:58,840 --> 00:22:59,840 Right. 465 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:00,840 Yeah. 466 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,520 I can't remember where I was listening, but they were talking about the mega yachts and 467 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:12,680 one mega yacht produces eight hundred years worth of one person's annual CO2. 468 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,680 Yeah. 469 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,680 Per year. 470 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,440 Well, and I read something too, and I don't know if it was Taylor Swift or if it was one 471 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:22,560 of these other like Instagram influencers or somebody, one of the Kardashians, maybe. 472 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:23,560 I don't know. 473 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,480 But it was somebody who was kind of like they had a big like pro-earth message and like 474 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,640 anti pollution message. 475 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,820 And it's only well, it's end of April when we're recording this. 476 00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:37,480 So we're only four months into the year and they've already taken over 200 flights on 477 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,480 their private jet. 478 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,480 And they're trying to make people who follow them feel like shit because they wanted to 479 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,360 use a straw that didn't disintegrate halfway through their beverage. 480 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:47,360 Right. 481 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:51,720 I've never had a problem with the paper straw, but I don't know. 482 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,240 I usually don't use a straw either. 483 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,240 Yeah. 484 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,980 I think it depends on whoever manufactures it, because some of them have been fine for 485 00:23:58,980 --> 00:24:02,500 me and some of them really do disintegrate really, really quickly. 486 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:04,880 So I think it depends on how they make them. 487 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,880 Interesting. 488 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:06,880 Yeah. 489 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,120 I've never had a problem, but I've also always only ever had ones that are like really large 490 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,160 diameter, you know, like quarter inch at least on the inside of them. 491 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,160 Oh yeah. 492 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,140 I think if they're tightly wrapped enough, then it's okay. 493 00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:22,320 And if they're thick enough, thick walled enough. 494 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:28,720 But if you get them that are kind of like, I don't know, shoddily manufactured, I guess. 495 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,720 But interesting. 496 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,080 Anyway, yeah, I just thought it'd be nice to call out some people that do an awful lot 497 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,080 of polluting. 498 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,520 Oh, the US military is a major polluter too. 499 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,880 All militaries are, but US military is bad. 500 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,880 Just because of the size. 501 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,880 And they want a diesel. 502 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,760 Think of all the diesel they can burn. 503 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,000 Well, maybe one day we'll get tanks that run off the blood of our enemies. 504 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Right. 505 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Fuck yeah. 506 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:02,920 Yeah, and I just, it was mind boggling about how ineffectual or, I don't know, what is 507 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,920 it called? 508 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:10,560 Castrated, our legal system is when it comes to like the catalytic inverters, because they're 509 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:17,080 talking about passing harsher laws here in Minnesota about reselling them or doing a 510 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,960 law that puts your VIN number on your catalytic inverter. 511 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,160 And it's like, well, okay, but people are still buying them even though it's illegal 512 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,160 to buy them. 513 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,640 So do you think they're going to care that a VIN number's on there that they can grind 514 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,640 off really quick? 515 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,880 Like that's not a, I don't think that's a solution. 516 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,280 No, it's totally pointless. 517 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,940 What they don't want to do is make it so that there aren't people who are so desperate that 518 00:25:37,940 --> 00:25:39,840 they want to steal catalytic inverters. 519 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,160 Yeah, heaven forbid we fix the problem of drug addiction or homelessness or poverty 520 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,640 or anything else. 521 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,680 You know, let's spend more money on these stupid fucking catalytic converter things. 522 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:52,680 Right. 523 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,320 Even if I could sell a catalytic converter for $2,000, I wouldn't go around stealing 524 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,320 them. 525 00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,320 That's just not... 526 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,920 No, I totally steal my own and then just straight pipe it, theoretically. 527 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:03,920 Yeah, theoretically. 528 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,320 I wouldn't go around and steal other people's catalytic converters for sure. 529 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,560 No, there's a lot of other good things you can steal. 530 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,040 Not that I'm advocating stealing unless it's from the rich or these corporations. 531 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,040 Right. 532 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:23,560 Also, if you see someone stealing food from the store, no, you didn't. 533 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,560 It all depends. 534 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:25,560 It all depends. 535 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,560 It's like the Walmart that closed in Portland. 536 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:28,600 Depends on what? 537 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:29,600 Let's talk about it. 538 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,360 Well, it's like the Walmart that closed in Portland because they can't get police to 539 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,640 come and arrest shoplifters. 540 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,240 It's like, well, okay, so now there's not a Walmart anymore. 541 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,160 So the people that live in that community don't have access to that. 542 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,400 Well, in an area where you're getting a lot of theft from Walmart, there probably isn't 543 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,720 a lot of other options as far as shopping and for food. 544 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,720 Yeah. 545 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,720 Well, were they shoplifting food or were they shoplifting electronics? 546 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,760 Oh, I'm sure they were shoplifting electronics and other shit like that. 547 00:26:58,760 --> 00:26:59,760 I'm guessing. 548 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:05,920 Yeah, that's why I specified if you see somebody shoplifting food, no, you didn't. 549 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,320 Did you see the Target lady? 550 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,320 The Target lady? 551 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,440 Yeah, the Target reparations lady. 552 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,440 No. 553 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,240 Well, you should watch that video. 554 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,240 It's fantastic. 555 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,360 There was a woman maybe in Minnesota. 556 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:21,680 It felt like that because of their accents, but she tried to go through the line. 557 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,680 I thought they were headquartered here. 558 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,680 They are headquartered here. 559 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,320 Yeah, yeah, they are. 560 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,760 But she tried to go through the line with a thousand dollars worth of groceries and 561 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:36,240 she forcefully requested reparations so that she could get a free thousand dollars worth 562 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,720 of groceries. 563 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,720 Okay. 564 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:39,720 Yeah. 565 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,640 And finally, she got a little too aggressive with some of the employees for her own good. 566 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,640 Yeah. 567 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:50,040 Well, and I think there's a fine line between trying to screw over the corporation who's 568 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:56,040 screwing over everybody and screwing over the employees who are just like you or I or 569 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,760 the reparations lady, I'm sure, and just trying to go through your day and get your paychecks 570 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,040 and go home and be taken advantage of by some other major corporation. 571 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,320 I'm sorry, corporate person. 572 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,320 Right. 573 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,320 You know, I mean, then that's the thing. 574 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,880 You have to like not everybody that works at these corporations is a mindless drone 575 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,200 who wants to kill you. 576 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,200 You know what I mean? 577 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,200 Like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for sure, but everybody else that works there, probably 578 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,200 not. 579 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,200 Not everybody else. 580 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,440 There's got to be a handful of them, though. 581 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,440 Yeah. 582 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:23,440 I mean, the C-suite for sure. 583 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:31,240 But yeah, when I went to court, this was a long time ago to fight a yellow light incident 584 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,640 in the middle of a snowstorm of all things. 585 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,560 And I got pulled over for going through a yellow light, and so I went to court to fight 586 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,560 it. 587 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,400 And there's this woman before me that got was in there for her like 15th shoplifting 588 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,960 charge or something. 589 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,760 She had stolen like two cans of soup. 590 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:53,000 But the way that she was like, kind of like, it was weird, man, like the way she was responding 591 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,800 to the judge and everything. 592 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,060 Like I think she got off on like going to court. 593 00:29:00,060 --> 00:29:01,060 You know what I mean? 594 00:29:01,060 --> 00:29:04,360 Like just got a rush from doing that kind of stuff. 595 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,960 And so she stole like two cans of soup or something. 596 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,280 So it wasn't enough to toss her in jail or anything. 597 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,440 But yeah, you got to go to court and you got to settle your $2 bill or whatever. 598 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,560 Did she get irate with the judge or what? 599 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:17,560 Oh, no. 600 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,960 She was thoroughly enjoying the whole proceedings. 601 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,000 Like if she could have dropped her pants and like masturbated, I'm sure she would have. 602 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Really? 603 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Was she homeless? 604 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,880 It was that weird with the body language. 605 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:28,880 I don't know. 606 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:29,880 I don't know. 607 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:30,880 I don't know if she was like, I don't know. 608 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:31,880 I don't know. 609 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,240 But it was just one of those things where it like really stuck out because they were 610 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,520 like, you're charged with stealing like a couple cans of soup. 611 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,080 And I'm like, we're really wasting time on this. 612 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,800 Like couldn't you just take up like take up an offering of everybody in the courtroom 613 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,480 right now and we'll just we'll cover it and let's move on with our lives? 614 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,480 No. 615 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,160 There was a Walmart that I went to. 616 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,520 This is years ago. 617 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,680 And they had a donation bin in the front of the Walmart. 618 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,200 But the donation bin was for the employees of the store. 619 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,200 So good. 620 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,720 Yeah, I was like, I saw that. 621 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,680 I was like, what in the fuck is this? 622 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,160 That's what they call late stage capitalism, I guess. 623 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,160 Yeah, yeah. 624 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,840 I think it was in the oil field during the height of the boom. 625 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:14,840 Okay. 626 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,440 It's not the it's not the capitalist system that's wrong. 627 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,080 It's the communist millennials. 628 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,080 Right. 629 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:26,580 All those millennials who totally weren't the major workforce behind the last several 630 00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:27,580 boom cycles. 631 00:30:27,580 --> 00:30:32,200 Yeah, those that were essential, but not essential paid. 632 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,200 Right. 633 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,200 Right. 634 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,760 God, that's always funny to essential essential worker. 635 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,040 Maybe pay them like that that then you know what I mean? 636 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,520 Oh, I really like the backlash of the office pukes who said that it was psychologically 637 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,840 damaging to not be called essential. 638 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,560 It's like you are being paid to work from home. 639 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:53,560 Shut the fuck up. 640 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:54,560 Yeah. 641 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,200 And you're sending emails and you're sitting on zoom calls. 642 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,840 It shouldn't even be a zoom call. 643 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:58,840 It shouldn't even be an email. 644 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,920 And yet you're spending a full hour listening to some asshat flap their flap their gums, 645 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,920 you know. 646 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:05,920 Right. 647 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,920 Because they have to have you busy for eight hours. 648 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,920 Yeah, I don't want to be called essential. 649 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,240 I don't want to be called at all. 650 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,600 Don't don't think about me. 651 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:12,600 Leave me alone. 652 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,600 Right. 653 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,060 I would love to not be essential. 654 00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:17,720 All the people were like, oh, essential workers. 655 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,680 And they're so brave, because they served me while I was out eating during the height 656 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,680 of the pandemic. 657 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,720 It's like maybe maybe you don't go out and eat in the middle of pandemic, you fucking 658 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,720 boomer. 659 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,720 You know what I mean? 660 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,720 Right. 661 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720 Yeah. 662 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:31,720 They don't have to work. 663 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,720 Not every four workers were quote unquote essential workers. 664 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,720 Yeah. 665 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,800 They did the minimum wage pay in Minnesota and it was one quarter of every of every person 666 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,200 in the state. 667 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,200 Fucking goons. 668 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,200 Yeah, dude. 669 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:51,280 People that just don't understand like action reaction choices and repercussions, you know. 670 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,280 It's crazy, dude. 671 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,280 It's crazy. 672 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,880 So you theoretically not not that you did this. 673 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,200 You went and got a stick of straight pipe and clamped it on with an adapter. 674 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,200 Yeah. 675 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,200 Yeah. 676 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,000 A couple of adapters and a couple of smaller little chunks to kind of make up the thing. 677 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,080 And we were a little worried, hypothetically speaking, because they kind of cut it right 678 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,480 when the pipe bent to go from the muffler. 679 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,080 It went ran straight for a couple of feet. 680 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,720 And then there was a bend in it that shot over to the center of the car right underneath 681 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,720 the engine. 682 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:29,040 So but we hypothetically, theoretically in the textbook, we got it to work. 683 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:33,680 And then the pipe was hanging so low because I feel like the catalytic converter might 684 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,280 have been like actually bolted to the under undercarriage. 685 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:43,640 And so this pipe was hanging so low that we in our textbook simulation, we got the bottle 686 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,920 jack out and jacked this pipe up and then got some of that steel like plumbers spool 687 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,920 stuff, you know, like the hangers. 688 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:51,920 Yep. 689 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:56,640 And and then we use that in the textbook illustrations anyway. 690 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,320 And so hypothetically, that would work very well to go through the car and then hold that 691 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,640 pipe up if one were to do that in a textbook setting. 692 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:05,640 Yeah. 693 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,520 In Minecraft, in Minecraft, you were to do vehicle repair. 694 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,040 Yes, indeed. 695 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,040 Oh, boy. 696 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,040 Oh, boy. 697 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,040 Cool. 698 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,720 So did you look at the flex pipe? 699 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,220 I looked at the flex pipe. 700 00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:21,220 That's what I use. 701 00:33:21,220 --> 00:33:28,120 Well, I use the variant of it for the bathroom fan right above my podcast studio in the garage. 702 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,600 But that stuff is like it's like it's like coiled. 703 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,600 Right. 704 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,040 So it's like one layer and then the next layer and the next layer. 705 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,560 So when I tried to cut that at the end, I should never have cut it. 706 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,080 I should have just shoved the excess up. 707 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,100 But I kind of like started to unspool. 708 00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:46,400 And then it like cut me and I was bleeding and I was screaming and my buddy was screaming 709 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,840 and we were all screaming. 710 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,220 But then it was all OK again. 711 00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:52,880 And so I thought, you know, I don't want to really mess around with that shit. 712 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:58,280 And here in Minnesota anyway, if you go by the book, Captain, there's a lot of rust and 713 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,760 salt salt on the road leads to rust. 714 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,540 The flex pipe isn't as thick as other pipes. 715 00:34:03,540 --> 00:34:06,320 So I heard it degrades rather quickly. 716 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,680 I don't know. 717 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:13,120 Possibly in a previous life, I used some to repair a muffler situation on a pickup truck 718 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,600 and textbook author yourself. 719 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,600 I see. 720 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,600 Yeah. 721 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,600 Oh, yeah. 722 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:23,840 So theoretically, I may have popped a hole in a muffler and instead of replacing the 723 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,360 muffler, I just cut the fucker out. 724 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:31,600 Maybe and then put a piece of flex pipe in because it was in a real awkward spot underneath 725 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,600 the truck. 726 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:33,600 Yeah. 727 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,480 Well, and I don't know that it's illegal to cruise around without a muffler unless you're 728 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,320 like in a neighborhood where there's noise laws. 729 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560 As long as you're not over the decibel limit. 730 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,560 Yeah. 731 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,560 Yeah. 732 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,560 You might still get hassled, but then you're going to have to what? 733 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,280 Get an audio meter out there and whatever. 734 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,280 Yeah. 735 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,640 I worked down in southern Minnesota and the cop hassled me because my truck was too loud. 736 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:59,960 And then I eventually got enough money and I just put a regular muffler back on it. 737 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,400 But, you know. 738 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,400 The muffler was too loud and the driver was too attractive. 739 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,820 Next week, nice ashes. 740 00:35:08,820 --> 00:35:11,960 Will Mike seduce the police officer or not? 741 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,120 Tune in to find out. 742 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,540 My employer threatened him. 743 00:35:17,540 --> 00:35:18,540 That's the end of the story. 744 00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:20,800 My employer threatened him. 745 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:21,800 Nice. 746 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:27,240 So, yes, the officer may or may not have had a girlfriend that was in high school and my 747 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,000 employer was aware and threatened him. 748 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,440 Isn't that the, that's one of those things. 749 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,440 Okay. 750 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,440 So I'm just going to say that. 751 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,160 Have you seen Mel Brooks films? 752 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,160 Okay. 753 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,680 So it's good to be the king in America. 754 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,680 It's good to be the cops. 755 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,680 Oh yeah. 756 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:49,240 Yeah, you can have a girlfriend that's 17 all day in a small town in southern Minnesota. 757 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,520 If you're a cop or a politician. 758 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,520 Right. 759 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,600 And 17 is a little old if you're a Catholic. 760 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:55,600 Hey, oh. 761 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,320 Hey, wrong gender too. 762 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:03,400 That is very true. 763 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,120 I was raised Catholic for all the listeners who got upset with that joke. 764 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,120 Yeah. 765 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,880 I have the right to say negative things. 766 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,840 You keep offering to help me go to the bathroom. 767 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,320 Yeah, right. 768 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,320 Some habits die hard. 769 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,320 Yes, they do. 770 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,320 Yes, they do. 771 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,320 No, I'm just kidding. 772 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,440 Mike's been nothing but a perfect gentleman with me, except for our first meeting. 773 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,440 Yes. 774 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,240 Well, you know, gotta be a twat every now and again. 775 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,040 Yeah, it's good to know, you know, you got to keep yourself balanced and level and you 776 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,320 can't be level being good all the time. 777 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,040 People that are good at two shoes, I never trust. 778 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,840 There's something going on, you know, there's some dark. 779 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,840 Yeah, if you're not willing to straight pipe your car in the textbook. 780 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,600 Oh, my God. 781 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,920 It's like the Jehovah's Witnesses, you know, you just can't trust those people. 782 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:51,920 Yeah. 783 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:52,920 Did you hear I heard a story? 784 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,320 I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently somebody's mother convinced the Jehovah's 785 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,840 Witnesses that they could give their their spiel if they like cleaned her windows. 786 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,840 And so sure as shit, they cleaned her windows. 787 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:04,840 Wow. 788 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,280 So they give their speech. 789 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,480 There's a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses who are window cleaners by profession. 790 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,480 Oh, OK. 791 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,480 I know that. 792 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,040 And apparently Serena Williams just got baptized as a full on Jehovah's Witness. 793 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,040 OK. 794 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,040 Which is fascinating. 795 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,280 Is that her after she's a tennis player, right? 796 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,280 Yeah. 797 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,280 Yeah. 798 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,280 Yeah. 799 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:29,320 After her after tennis career, then is door to door sales. 800 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,440 I don't know. 801 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:37,840 I guess that she was raised Jehovah's Witness adjacent and now after her career is done, 802 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,360 she's finally joined up. 803 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,760 I know that there's a lot of really strict rules with that. 804 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,800 So probably no tennis. 805 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:46,800 Yeah. 806 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:51,360 I don't think there's any dressing up in like skippy clothes and going on television and 807 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,280 doing a lot of the shit that she did during her career. 808 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:55,840 I'm not talking about tennis clothing either. 809 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,360 I'm talking about her appearances on like red carpets and stuff. 810 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,520 Yeah, I'm sure she's been in some of those like swimsuit magazines and whatnot. 811 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,120 Oh, I'm sure. 812 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,120 Yeah. 813 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,120 Yeah. 814 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,320 I've never looked at a swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, but I'm sure. 815 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,680 Yeah, me either. 816 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,920 You know, like, OK, swimsuit. 817 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:15,920 Cool. 818 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,920 Right. 819 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:17,920 Yeah. 820 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:18,920 I mean, I grew up in the age of the Internet. 821 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:19,920 Yeah. 822 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:25,560 So yeah, I'm not that interested in looking at famous people in swimsuits or whatever. 823 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,560 Yeah. 824 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,200 Or a lot of times normal people in swimsuits, like it's not that interesting. 825 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,080 No, no, it's not that crazy. 826 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,920 Like and it shouldn't be like it's a swimsuit. 827 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,560 Like, yeah, everyone calmed. 828 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:37,560 Everyone calmed down. 829 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,560 Right. 830 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,560 Yeah. 831 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,520 Ronda Rousey in a swimsuit is just like whatever. 832 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,160 Or like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 833 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:45,160 Oh, yeah. 834 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,160 In a swimsuit. 835 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:51,160 I'd be more interested in seeing that. 836 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,280 Yeah, that's fair enough. 837 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,720 Hillary Clinton in a swimsuit. 838 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,200 Oh, boy. 839 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,000 Well, we know where you would stand on a Soka in a swimsuit. 840 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:10,360 So here I hear Daisy Ridley is going to be a swimsuit in the new Star Wars movies. 841 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,280 Ray, it's going to be Star Wars Star Wars 13. 842 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,520 The Jedi Way of Water. 843 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,800 It's going to be four and a half hours long. 844 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,280 Some blue people will show up. 845 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:25,240 Some blue people with their nipples conveniently covered with by their hair the entire time. 846 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:26,240 Yeah. 847 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:32,280 Did we talk about I finally have watched Avatar 2, the longest drink of water. 848 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,280 We talked about it. 849 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:34,280 We covered it on the show. 850 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,280 Not on the show. 851 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,760 So I fell asleep because I was not interested at all in it. 852 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,680 I was awake and then they kind of like took a long time to get out to the island people. 853 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,040 And then I just knew there was still like two and a half hours left. 854 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:54,560 And they were kind of doing like and I sent Mike a text and I said in summation, it was 855 00:39:54,560 --> 00:40:00,840 something like white people bad, blue people good, white people who clap, blue people cheeks 856 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,960 good, whales good. 857 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,760 And really it just kind of made me want to watch Free Willy. 858 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,760 I didn't care about all the rest of the stuff. 859 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,720 I just wanted to watch Free Willy. 860 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:16,240 It definitely leans very hard on watching it on a huge screen because it's very visually 861 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:19,940 interesting, you know, extremely visually interesting, especially if you're drinking 862 00:40:19,940 --> 00:40:21,960 whiskey at the movie theater. 863 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:22,960 Yeah. 864 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,240 If you're drinking whiskey at the movie theater, it's not too bad. 865 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:27,240 Yeah. 866 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:36,040 I feel like if I had been well rested and had consumed copious amounts of the Giggle 867 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:44,560 Bush, then I would have been very interested in like a 3D full immersion experience. 868 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:49,200 But it's still three and a half hours long and that's that's too long for anything that 869 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,440 doesn't really have a story. 870 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:55,120 It has a story, but it's not much of a story, is it? 871 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,120 Well it's not. 872 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,240 So it has a story, but it's not a three and a half hour long story. 873 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,480 It's like a 90 minute story. 874 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:02,520 Right. 875 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,120 And so much of it, I mean, you know, and so much of it is the visuals and it's the visuals 876 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,760 and hey, we're back in this Pandora place and you know, hey, hey, hey. 877 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,560 And they're kind of he's kind of going going like the Gola route, the cloning route, you 878 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:15,560 know. 879 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:16,560 Oh, for sure. 880 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,560 Yeah. 881 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,040 It's got exactly the same fucking characters and exactly the same story. 882 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,320 Yeah, I don't know. 883 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,360 I wasn't very thrilled with the whole thing. 884 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,440 I think Sarah watched to the end. 885 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,720 I was asleep so I don't know how it ended. 886 00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:29,880 And I know you said it ended on a cliffhanger. 887 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,440 Even if I had known what the cliffhanger was, I'm sure I would not be that super interested 888 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:34,440 in the next one. 889 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,960 But it wasn't that great of a cliffhanger. 890 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,000 That's the next one. 891 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,440 It has to do with that. 892 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,440 Did it have that spider? 893 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,440 It has something to do with that spider kid or what's his name? 894 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:45,440 No, you know what? 895 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,440 It's so forgettable. 896 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,000 I don't even remember what the cliffhanger was, to be honest. 897 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,720 You were so gung ho on our movie episode when you're like, oh, it ends on a cliffhanger. 898 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:56,720 So that's good. 899 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,880 And now you're like, I don't even remember what that cliffhanger was. 900 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,400 It was very forgettable. 901 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,400 Visuals are good, though. 902 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,400 Visuals are good. 903 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,400 Yeah. 904 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,840 If you can't see it in a theater, don't watch it. 905 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,640 And if you can't sit still for three and a half hours in a theater, don't watch it. 906 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,560 Go watch Top Gun Maverick or something. 907 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,560 I think that's still in theaters. 908 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,560 I don't know. 909 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:18,780 It's on Amazon, I think. 910 00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:22,840 It's easy to rake in a lot of money when you spend like six months out of the year in theaters. 911 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:23,840 Right. 912 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,760 I am near the end of the cigar, by the way. 913 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:26,760 Me as well. 914 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,480 My fingers are getting a little bit toasty. 915 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,480 Mine are as well. 916 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,080 Do you think I should do more? 917 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,800 Should I do more voices on the podcast or should I just talk normal? 918 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:36,800 I don't know. 919 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,800 I'm kind of experimenting. 920 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:38,800 You know, that's up to you, man. 921 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,100 They might think that we have guests. 922 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:41,600 This is the experimental episode. 923 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,400 I have guests in my head and they tell me to straight pipe my car. 924 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,440 But don't if it's illegal in your municipality. 925 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,000 Yes. 926 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,000 In Minecraft. 927 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,000 Yes. 928 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,280 Yeah, I like this cigar. 929 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,600 I don't think it really changed a whole lot throughout. 930 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:57,600 Very solid. 931 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,600 At the end it is. 932 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,080 At the end it's a little bit different. 933 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,080 Yeah. 934 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,720 Yeah, I like the finish is very nice. 935 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:06,240 The last inch or so is peppery. 936 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:08,080 Otherwise it was very smooth. 937 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:13,760 I don't know what the term is for these kind of like lighter wrappered cigars. 938 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,680 If they're really good, they kind of have, it's not like a butter taste, but you know, 939 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,520 like, and you're like, oh yeah, I went through the water like butter. 940 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,960 I went through the water like a Navi. 941 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:23,960 It's kind of like that. 942 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,880 Yeah, it's just smooth and creamy. 943 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,440 Yep, creamy, creamy. 944 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:28,440 That's it. 945 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:29,440 Yeah. 946 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,880 It's only Navi are only smooth in the water if they're a water Navi, not a forest Navi 947 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,360 and forest Navi, water Navi can be racist towards one another, but heaven forbid you're 948 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:42,320 not a Navi and you point out the differences and then that person's the racist. 949 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:49,160 So all right, you know, oh geez, American politics 101. 950 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,160 There we go. 951 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,760 So yeah, I would recommend it. 952 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:53,760 Go out and get one. 953 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:54,760 Yep. 954 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,760 I would recommend it. 955 00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:00,720 Stay tuned for next week because we're going to smoke another agarca torpedo. 956 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:01,720 Thanks for listening. 957 00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:19,480 Be safe.