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three things for today. Okay. What do the flat
earth, Victorian medicine and angry Zeus have
to do with each other? Flat earth, Victorian
medicine and an angry Zeus. Believing in them
can get you in a lot of trouble. Actually, where
I was going with it was the opposite. At one
point. these were all the beliefs that you had
to believe in or you would be exiled from your
community or maybe even exiled from living on
this earth. There was a time and some might say
that time is still here where people believe
that the earth was flat. Do you think the earth
is flat? No. No? What's your evidence that it
isn't? I speak. So pike's peak is supposed to
be like so it's 14 ,000 feet I think in elevation
and when you get to the top you're able to see
the curvature of the earth So theoretically speaking
it's the proof that we have of the round earth
So if you were up there in the earthless flat
you would just look off into the distance and
see the ice wall Yes, that keeps us all on the
disc Alternatively, maybe if you see pike's peak
then you're basically looking at the earth which
is a contact lens Like that half dome kind of
thing who's to say I was just in Colorado Springs
and we went to the bridge over the big yes, yes,
and they had a video and one of the takeaways
from this video is that the mountain that The
pike the one that they named the mountain after
he climbed the one next to it and they mislabeled
it. History is full of mislabelings when it comes
to geography. Yeah, so the one that Pike actually
summited was the one next to it, not actual Pike
speak. Well, that's a bummer. Yeah. Or really
fortunate is the other mountain shore. I think
so. Oh, go Pike. I think that he put in less
work, but still got the accolades. Okay. And
Victorian, Victorian medicine. Come on. Come
on. It's a guy climbing a mountain. He's probably
gonna be white. It's a great way to stay in shape.
It is, yeah. Yeah, and then you get to stop people
on the way up or the way down and see if they're
really into it and if they're not then you can
convince them how into it you are. When are they
gonna put the elevator in? I don't know. I don't
know. Whenever we were going to Colorado Springs
we were looking up a lot of stuff to do and One
of the videos that we watched on YouTube. It
was about one of the waterfalls there. Yeah,
and they were like Yeah, there's an elevator
that you can take. I think I was real Real pretentious
about it, but if you want the real view and you
want the real experience then you're gonna climb
the stairs You're telling me you're telling me
but it doesn't matter one way the other because
we didn't go so I can't report to you on whether
the walk up the stairs was worth it or not. Are
you talking about Seven Falls? I think so. Seven
Falls was absolutely worth it. Yeah. It was a
terrifying like trip up the stairs because it's
just like a free standing metal staircase full
of a ton of people who are not a hundred percent
sure they want to make it to the top of that
really tall staircase. But once you get up to
the top, it is incredible. Everyone was like
white knuckling it. All the way up. It was wobbling
from all of the tourists and stuff. So I Think
if I were to go and I were in the same company
that I was in with Royal Gorge I think I'd probably
be submitting it myself. Yeah, I don't think
I could convince her to go I did Royal Gorge
Probably like seven years ago and when we did
it the person that I was with was Freaking out
because the bridge moves yeah because I mean
like it's a suspension bridge like it's meant
to wobble so that it doesn't collapse and that
was not reason enough for her to believe that
it was actually not going to collapse at some
point we were just gonna fall into the canyon
first thing we did when we got there was the
gondola yeah and I probably still have marks
on my knee from how tightly it was grabbed with
the entire ride yeah So we took the gondola from
the entrance side over to the other side and
Went and all did all the stuff over there and
then just walked back across the bridge and then
after that she just stayed in the in the lobby
area and I went on the gondola two more times
and We she can say that she did it. Yeah, but
it was pushing her the whole way through But
she can still say she did it They used to have
like a mine cart that went down Into the canyon
like down to the bottom of the canyon. Okay,
that got taken out by a fire that destroyed everything
in that Park except for the bridge and then there
in the process of rebuilding that so hopefully
next time we go That's gonna be there and then
you can actually go down into the gorge When
I did a pike's peak the first time I'm not really
afraid of heights, but I don't like being the
passenger in a car Because I don't feel like
I have like control over the situation And the
first time that I went to pikes peak there was
no monorail They were in the middle of renovating
it, but we had to drive up pikes peak and I was
On the side of the road that just like faced
the side of the mountain because there are no
like guardrails or anything So I assume it ruins
the aesthetic And it was the scariest thing I've
ever done was being a passenger on the drive
up and down pikes peak I'd love to go back. It
was a lot of fun Yeah, and you should check it
out if you're Interested if you're on the fence
go for it. Anyways back to Victorian medicine.
All right Have you ever been to the doctor and?
The doctor just suggested for fixing your ailments
just leeches leeches cocaine little bloodletting
You know that that was that that's the one That's
the one I was going to use, but obviously I'm
not gonna put Victorian Oriasms in the title
of the episode. That would be an interesting
Instagram post. That would be a hard one to illustrate,
yeah. So I just put Victorian medicine instead.
Sure. Anyways, it's a lot of fooey that people
once believed was the end all be all and this
is going to be medicine forever and then turns
out maybe don't put leeches on your body to suck
all the bad humors out and the last thing angry
juice sky goes boom people say oh god you're
just angry honestly i think that would bring
some some whimsy to life these days if you just
like saw a thunderstorm and were like oh god's
pissed off and so you just go on a sacrificing
spree i'm not suggesting we take all of the uh
the olympus beliefs I'm saying we could take
some of them, but at the same time Isn't it crazy?
That electricity just shoots from the sky and
can zap you and make you go boom Yeah, either
explain lightning to me or I'm gonna start believing
that Zeus is causing it Hindsight's 2020 what
we know now just looking back at them. They just
look like total idiots, but those were the experts
of the time Sounds like a lot of But that also
led me into things that we believe now not necessarily
in regards to medicine or Status on curvature
of the earth or big sky go boom, but just things
that we were taught as Children that maybe don't
hold as much water now or maybe even didn't hold
as much water then But we were still taught them
anyways. Yeah Like the big one that I the one
that really just Driving factor behind this episode
was love thy neighbor. I Can't tell you the last
time I have been around neighbors that I have
enjoyed Time with I don't know that I've known
any of my neighbors since my first apartment
Yeah, like I obviously I knew the ones growing
up cuz we were Lot more involved with them, but
as far as like since I've been living in apartments.
I've known to probably of my neighbors and that
was more of just like Just like in passing and
we just happened to show up at the same things
enough times that we became like friendly. Yeah.
Yeah, it's like we live in a Neighborhood that
is I mean, I think most these houses were probably
built early 2000s and these people majority of
them have lived here since then like they were
new new tenants for those and so there's some
territorial chest beating that goes on like the
first thing that I noticed was whenever we moved
in I have a personal truck wife has a car and
then I have a work vehicle that I have to leave
at my house and I park it At the curb right in
front of our house first interaction we had with
the person across the street was an older lady
and She came up. She's like hey, how you doing?
She's like introducing herself to the kids and
all this other stuff and she Just fakes the conversation.
That's just it's just basic like cordial stuff
like it's like whatever it's inconsequential
and then she was like So I just want to ask can
you put the truck somewhere else like the one
that's on the curb? I was like No. I don't have
anywhere else to put it. Yeah. Like this is in
front of our house, so I can park it there. But
I mean, it's it's not going to be here all the
time. And then after that, it was just like complete
flip. And she is just the ics bitch. Yeah. Yeah.
That you've ever met. And still to this day,
we've been here four years, three years going
forward. I don't remember. Haven't said she hasn't
said anything since that. I'll wave to her. She'll
ignore me. And she's just a very unpleasant person.
So why just based on? Proximity do I need to
love this person? I mean, is that is that phrase
actually based on proximity? Or is it just like
love another person as you would love yourself
kind of thing? I mean, I think it's both I think
that you should want to feel like you are involved
in your community and other people should feel
the same involvement with you and I think that
that comes with being able to have these conversations
with these people and being able to have a, uh,
amicable relationship. Right. Uh, the guy next
to us who his house was for rent. He rented the
house and then he decided to offer to buy it
from them and they sold it to him. And so he's
been here maybe half as long as the old heads
that are here. Yeah. And I think his deal is
that he got the same nonsense that I got. And
so now that he is a resident, he gets to push
all that onto me, but it's like 10 fold. Yeah.
He says some of the most just weirdest stuff.
Weird how? Well, again, with the truck on the
curb, he is next to us. So we share that same
curb. He came to my door one time and said, Hey,
man, what's what's going on with this truck on
the curb? I was like, what do you mean? Like,
I just why? Why are you pulled up onto my property?
What? What are you talking about, man? And apparently
I pulled up maybe like six inches a foot more
than I usually did like towards his house and
he thought that it was egregious enough to come
to my door and Chastise me for where the truck
was parked and that I was parked on his property
Yeah, and this is the same man who half -assed
half -assedly put up Christmas lights He ran
like a string above his garage Eve and then One
from the post by his door just randomly to a
tree and left it up for like six months I think
he put him up in like like mid December and then
they came down like end of July He's like he's
a redneck woman. Yeah, and then he I Guess he
thinks he's got a green thumb because he's just
got potted plants all over the place He does
take care of his yard. I'll give him that yeah,
but He also just has re -inputted plants everywhere.
Yeah, I don't I don't know what's going on with
him Because every interaction with him has made
it to where I don't want to know what's going
on with him. That's fair. So we just co -habitate
and Try to make the best of it. I feel like we've
become such an anti -social society in just like
a general sense that there Feels like there's
so much weight on every interaction that we have.
Mm -hmm. And so now we expect if things don't
go Our way from the get -go that we just have
to be the like chest beating assholes kind of
thing. That's fair. Yeah, I mean even if you're
not even if you're not basing this on community
just Interactions in general. Yeah, I get that
you don't know what everyone is dealing with
at all times during their lives But I feel like
common courtesy is just out the window and that
is it shouldn't be groundbreaking when you go
somewhere and someone says, hey, how you doing?
But it is, especially unlike, I want to put your
industry on blast, but I do feel like since COVID,
since all the lockdowns and everything, like
service industry has just gone in the toilet.
I've had a couple of conversations about that
specific thing that like since COVID happened,
it changed the perspective for both sides. for
the patrons and for the people that work it.
So for the people that work it, they were told
they were these like essential workers or whatever.
Like, I worked at a BJs during COVID. I was not
in this. I worked at a very lame chain restaurant
during COVID. I was not an essential worker.
But they brought me back because, you know, both
Texas and because we were in desperate need of
employees and the people that came back. were
a 50 -50 of the ones that were just like so excited
to be out of lockdown and away from their homes
for a while. And the people who were just so
far up their own butts about how we did things,
like no one is requiring you to go to a restaurant.
I don't know why anyone would go to a restaurant
if they had this like, you're not doing this,
this, and this, right? Like, I know. I have 10
tables right now, like I have to move at the
pace that I'm moving. There are things that are
going to get sacrificed and I'm trying to like
Like I'm trying to keep both healthy and I'm
trying to keep as clean as possible. But there
are some things that just like will fall by the
wayside. And so it was so deeply demoralizing
for a lot of people in the industry that they
came back to something that had just changed
so drastically so fast. And people felt in a
lot of ways that they were given free reign to
treat us like we weren't people anymore. And
so it was a... Yeah, things got worse on both
sides. And then when inflation got like continuously
worse and things got more expensive, people were
more pissed off about the tipping thing. And
because of also because of COVID, every everyone
who gave you a thing who did who passed a food
or a drink over a counter served you for the
amount of times that or the amount of time that
it takes to get from an espresso machine to the
front counter would like give you an iPad with
a tip option. And so like It pissed off everyone.
Yeah, no one of my least favorite things that
I just I still cannot wrap my head around is
You go to a game like a sporting event. You're
paying $50 for parking You paid easily $100 per
ticket you go in you wait 45 minutes on the line
to get carnival food and they just go get the
prepackaged thing or they fill up a cup they
hand it to you they flip their computer around
and there's an option for a 25 % tip and I think
that one of the biggest issues that people have
is like where is the line for you are paying
You were being paid to do this job versus this
is a job that you went above and beyond for to
get a tip. I don't know if this is a controversial
take, because I know that like tipping in its
entirety is really controversial right now, but
I don't... More than just a city in China. I
don't like tipping people that get paid hourly.
I think that it's... You mean like an hourly
wage, like a regular hourly wage, not like the
213 that servers get. I don't get paid that 213.
I've never seen it. in all of my time serving.
It's not, it's not a real number, but I don't
like tipping people that make hourly. And part
of that, this might sound like a cop out. But
part of that is because I think that if you perpetuate
the system and you're, say you're tipping baristas,
people who are making hopefully a decent amount
of money, if you start tipping people like that,
then are people in those roles, then they're
those companies are going to decide, Oh, well,
these people are making a good amount of tips.
We're just going to move them to the same Payscale
the servers you're gonna make them make to 13
an hour and then people are going to like car
hops at Sonic Mm -hmm the fact that those people
make to 13 an hour and it's not widely known
that they're actual like servers They don't make
they make 13 an hour. Oh, I've never seen Sonic
busy enough to justify to 13 an hour and so Realistically
like they that just gives them the ability to
pitch the job as like you'll be making 12 to
15 dollars an hour Which no one is ever going
to make $12 to $15 an hour at Sonic. They're
going to make $7 .25 and that's because they
didn't make enough in tips to cover the difference
between $2 .13 and $7 .25. I can get very heated
about tipping culture. I'm surprised because,
I mean, you have been in the serving industry
for way longer than I was. I just passed 10 years.
comforting I guess to know that the issue is
on both sides and it's not just you look like
a dick for just saying hey these people shouldn't
be tipped like they're just doing their job why
am I and there's there's nothing to go above
and beyond for like there's I was still waiting
in line for 45 minutes was there anything you
could have done about that and then you get the
people I mean I don't I guess once the option
was available to them then all of a sudden well
if you're not gonna tip and I'm just not gonna
do my job I'll just do it whenever I feel like
doing it and it's just I don't know what the
solution is but it is very frustrating to have
spill into all sorts of aspects of life I think
the the solution in that case is to eradicate
tipping entirely I say that for the record as
a person like I said who has been tipped or in
tipped jobs for 10 years now. I think eventually
the solution is just to stop tipping because
it doesn't make any sense. Like I've benefited
from the system the way that it is but it would
make so much more sense if we adopted the like
the European model or the model of almost any
other country and give people that do like service
jobs and hourly wage and then you can tip if
it's appropriate based on the level of they you
feel like they went above and beyond. Yeah. Like
I worked in a place where like the amount that
a guest would spend was very high. And so it
kind of enabled this kind of mentality with a
lot of people that I worked with that like because
we had high standards that we deserved more than
like 20 % of the bill to which I think it's ridiculous.
because I'm grateful that you gave me anything.
Yeah, some tips are stupid. Sometimes it is genuinely
a slight to you because a person agreed to go
out to a restaurant knowing that... the person
that was taking care of them and was creating
this experience for them was making two thirteen
an hour and they actively chose to not tip. Yeah,
it's an unwritten social contract. Right. But
at the same time, like I think there is a, for
lack of a better term, a tipping point where
like it's just it's kind of absurd the things
that some of the people that are still in the
service industry expect at this point. Like at
the end of the day, like you're serving food,
you're making like you're being super friendly
with them. Like maybe I'll get along. Cool. That
is your job. Yeah. And then you've got companies
that try to straddle the line like Casablanita.
There is a added gratuity. I don't remember how
much it was. But the reasoning is so that our
servers can have a living wage. Okay. Then if
you're going to add it on anyways, then just
add it to the price of the food. But then you
don't want to add it to the price of the food
because then that makes the food less desirable.
And then you're not going to have as much Business
and so what you're saying is like you're putting
it on the customer Saying hey these are the prices
of our food, but you're gonna have to pay this
and you're not gonna have any Say in it we're
gonna force you to pay it because if you don't
then these servers don't have a living wage Well,
then maybe restructure your system Don't try
to put this guilt trip on me saying oh well We
had to do this 15 % because otherwise all these
servers are gonna be out on the streets One last
little soap box about tipping. I recently left
a job where apparently this is a pretty common
practice. I was at the same job for four years
before this one. And apparently it's pretty common
practice that your tips to your server are split
between all of the members of the service staff
as well as the people that seat you, the people
that run your food, and the people who clean
your tables. Which I had a problem with the one
that cleans your tables. Because if you're doing
your job, because I worked at a child's play
of serving, I didn't ever step up to anything
that was ever serious. But we did have stuff
like that. Like we had, we had a essay, a server
assistant, funny because they were usually Mexican.
They were my essay. Anyways, if you're doing
your job the right way, then whenever that table
is gone, there shouldn't be much work for them
to do. And so you have this person that is supposed
to come up behind you and get your table ready
for the next person But then you're being chastised
if you don't have full hands in full hands out
So you you go out you're running food But you
come in with the dirty dishes to put in the the
pit and those get washed so they can be reused
So then why are we having all these extra people
here if at the end of them getting up? There's
maybe like two cups to go and then you just wipe
the table down Why are we paying for people to
run the food when you're expecting all the servers
that have all this other stuff to do are also
running the food? Like we're paying one person
to run the food, but maybe you've only been to
my table four times in one night And I owe you
$20 because that if that if that's upsetting
to you then you would you would be driven absolutely
crazy by the the tip system that That's why I
got out. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the reasons
but that was why I did not like the job anymore.
Yeah. The place that I most recently worked at,
they didn't hire anyone but servers. So the people
that hosted were servers, the people that ran
food were servers, the people that like bartended
were servers. And the reason that they did that
was because everyone that did any one of those
like support jobs or actual serving was making
the exact same amount of money. And it was so
that the restaurant didn't have to pay anybody.
Everyone made two 13 an hour. And if I Say I
made $200 and a night I would probably take home
75 because hosts don't contribute anything to
a tip pool. Runners don't contribute anything
to a tip pool. Anyone that busses tables doesn't
contribute anything to a tip pool. But my money
is everyone's money. Yeah. So if you're if you're
one of the hosts or you're one of the bus people
and you just see someone that is being the worst
to one of their tables and do they say anything?
like do they say hey you treat this table right
you're messing with my money there were there
were a couple of people who i guess had come
from like restaurants that were in a different
system and i i hadn't worked in a system like
this where everyone was making all of the same
money um but i still helped out all of my teammates
because if the restaurant does better the restaurant
does better and there were people at my last
job that would be upset that they would have
to like ring in food for somebody else because
when they went to drop something off the table
was like, hey, can I also get this? Like that's
still your job. You're taking care of everybody
in the restaurant just because that's not, you're
not technically the person that's taking care
of them. You, you cannot possibly have the, this
is just my section of the restaurant mentality
if you're sharing your money. And so it's, it
just got to a point of just abject ridiculousness,
which I think the industry and its entirety is
getting that way because of the the greed of
the companies that run them. All of the hospitality
groups that have decided that the more people
that they can hire at two thirteen an hour, the
better. What do you think the breaking point
is going to be? Inflation is going to be used
as the scapegoat for restaurants raising their
prices to a laughable extent. I think that eventually
it's going to get like if you Look at the trends
with how Gen Z versus the Millennial spend at
restaurants. Gen Z is going back to Chili's,
to Applebee's, to all of these like chain restaurants
that like Millennials kind of turned up their
noses at because millennials wanted like the
more hipster food, the thing with a concept behind
it. And so so many restaurants took that and
used it as an insane ego boost. They were like,
we can call it farm to table and charge whatever
we want for it. And so I think that those things
are on their way out. And because of that, the
industry in its entirety is going to collapse
one day. The dining experience is so ruined because
of how expensive absolutely everything has gotten.
And there's no way to to rectify that with a
good enough experience. I can make sure that
you enjoy your food. I'll make sure that everything
gets to your table on time. You get refills and
all the things you need, whatever. But at the
end of the day, if the only thing that you're
taking away from your experience is how much
money you spent, you're not going to go back.
It's not going to be worth it to you no matter
how much you enjoyed everything. And the more
experiences you have, where your takeaway from
it is just how expensive it was, then eventually
the industry is... It's going to meet its end.
Yeah. And even those chain places, the prices
are ridiculous from what they used to be. Yeah.
I mean, I sound like I'm just screaming at the
clouds when I say that there used to be a two
for 20 where two people could eat at Chili's
for $20. An appetizer, two entrees and two drinks
for $20. Yeah. And now that's like part of one
person's meal. Right. That being said, these
millennials are going to Chili's this evening.
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right, number two. Number two. Have you ever
been told, I think you probably hear this in
school, you'll need this in the future. I think
in a lot of the context that like that's been
used in, I was a little too young for that to
have made sense. Because I was already like,
I still had there were still cell phones and
stuff from the earliest memories that I have.
They weren't as widespread, but I don't think
I got like the, you have to be able to do this
math by hand because you're never gonna have
a calculator with you. Or you need to memorize
these facts and be able to recite them back to
me because you're not just gonna have some easy
way to look it up in the future when you need
this information. To be fair, that mentality
is why I am great at trivia. It's why both of
us are great at trivia, I'm sure. We are, yeah.
The elderly gentleman that I am. All throughout
school it was you need to have this you need
to be able to do this by hand because you're
not going to be able to use Calculators or this
or that or whatever whenever you're older and
now it's just all in our pockets Literally anything
there's a picture from an ad from I would almost
say the mid 90s and it is just all the technology
of the day. It was like, I don't know, 50 different
things. It was a CD player. It was a cassette
player. It was a boom box. It was a TV. It was
a Game Boy. It was all this other stuff. And
all that stuff is just in one device in our pockets
at all times. Yeah. I think there's a lot of
merit still to that one, that you need to be
able to do this. Not, obviously, because there's
no way that you'll be able to do it by yourself
in the future if you don't learn now. But I think
there is a lot of merit to knowing how to get
from point A to point B, even if you don't use
it regularly. Like, I don't think I could do
long division, because it's been... a million
years since I've had to do long division, developing
that skill and being able to have, having been
able to do it at some point in my life, it would
be able to be picked back, picked back up if
I needed it. Yeah. Like having an understanding
of the concept, but maybe not being so beat over
the head with it. Right. Yeah. Oh, now I get
that. And there's, I mean, there's, there is
still merits to anything. on this list there's
still merits to love thy neighbor there's still
merits for you'll need this information in the
future but i just think that people really underestimated
what the future would look like and so these
things don't hold the weight that they used to
imagine if the zoom was the like take -off music
player imagine what would be technologically
if it wasn't the ipod and we just had the zoo
phone and then like i don't know what Bill Gates
was the Steve Jobs. Yeah. Bill Gates had the
black turtle necks. The illegitimate children.
The black turtle necks? The thing that gave him
power? It might be. But the last, yeah, because
I think the last photo of Steve Jobs before he
died is him in a deep V. So maybe if he had thrown
on that black turtle neck one more time he could
have powered through. Maybe he gave it up because
he was killed by a PC. Maybe. Maybe they couldn't
find the eye cure fast enough. How do you feel
about the phrase hard work always pays off? I
think it's absolute nonsense. I don't think it
always pays off. I think it can pay off, but
I think that a lot of things are dumb luck and
the right connections at this point. No, my networking
is so vital for any kind of work relationship.
It's pretty frustrating as someone who maybe
isn't as much of an extrovert as the next guy.
you try to rest your laurels on, okay, well,
maybe I can't yuck it up with these guys as much,
but if I just put my nose to the grindstone and
really, really knock it out of the park, then
that's going to get me somewhere. It doesn't.
It doesn't. The other guy is going to win every
time. And so that's something that I've gotten
better about is the, the schmoozing. I don't
like it, but it's just a, it's just a fact of
life. And it's just the way of the world. I think
this particular idiom, aphorism, I don't know
what the term is. I think it's an idiom. I think
it's idiotic. Sure. I think this particular idiom
grinds my gears. And it's because I worked incredibly
hard to get a degree. Yeah. And in the time that
I was trying to get a degree, I did have to work,
which I think most people that are are getting
their hydro... higher education degree have to
work during that time. Whenever I finished school,
I applied to everything that I could to get from
food service into a job in my field. And I like
agriculture. Honestly, I should have tried agriculture.
I think I would have had better luck being a
farmhand. But I applied to everything in my field
and got nothing. And I knew that I had applied
to jobs that like were based on the job descriptions
out of my wheelhouse because a lot of the like
almost every quote -unquote entry level job required
years of experience or like internships or things
that like I did not have the time or the opportunity
to do when I was in school and so I I feel like
I set myself up for failure and then I worked
incredibly hard for a piece of paper that I cannot
use but I can't get the opportunity to use because
it doesn't really matter. Like I didn't have
the the right connections. I didn't know any
of the right people and I didn't have I didn't
I guess put in enough effort to schmooze whenever
I was in school to make connections with people
who had connections Yeah, and you also fall into
the trap of you've created a I wouldn't say it's
a career because you I don't think people get
into the service industry To say this is what
am I doing forever? So it's like a It's a career
like path, but it's it's not where you hope to
end up. And so you have to flush all that down
the toilet and start all over again from scratch
when you're when you have your degree and you're
moving on into something else. And I understand
that you can do internships, you can and most
of them are unpaid and take up all your time
the time a normal job would take up. You can
you maybe are trying to get a degree in a field
that you're already working in. So it's it's
you just by virtue of being already in the industry,
you'll be able to work up faster. But usually
for most people, it means just throwing everything
away and starting from scratch and starting from
the bottom. And maybe in five, six years, you're
back to where you started. And then you're working
up from there. And It's just it every day. It
just seems like more and more one college degrees
aren't worth it because I would say right now
my college degree is not worth it. I couldn't
tell you where my actual piece of paper is. I
don't know where my degree is. Yeah, I don't
currently use it. I'm hoping to but the plans
that I have with the company that I'm at now,
I don't need it. It's something to say that I
have. I think I could still say that I have it
and not ever need to verify it. But it just is
it's it's rough to put all that time into that.
And then you get into the other side and you
think that you finally got it all together and
everything's going to be peaches and cream. But
you get hit with that hard reality that, uh,
you know, actually none of that really matters
because now you're just back to square one. Right.
Whenever, whenever it was job hunting, a lot
of the things that I found, um, because I like
reached out to like career coaches and people
who would give like advice on the specific kind
of thing. Um, and a lot of it was like, you just
need to get your foot in the door at the company
and then prove that you can do the thing, whatever,
which I don't think is something that still happens
these days. Like the work your way up from the
mail room is not, it's not real. It's not because
then you have somebody who did a thing on the
internet went viral and then we want them for
this company. Right. But a lot of that, like
It was talking about how they need to make sure
that you have like this experience to make sure
that you're like worth it as an employee essentially.
Like yeah, I spent four years proving that I
can do this stuff. I graduated with honors. Like
I don't know what else you need for me to pay
me not a livable wage. Yeah, I like to sit here
and say yeah, we're real glad that you have all
this knowledge for this industry fresh in your
mind because you just graduated but you know,
we can't trust you. We're going to start you
here, but don't worry. Don't worry. You'll move
up real fast. And that actually leads into another
one of the words of non -wisdom. What's the opposite
of wisdom? Idiocy? That's what I was going to
say. Words of idiocy that we used to, that we
had beaten to our heads was work for one job
and rise up. You can't do that anymore. You are
so expendable. You're with a job for 10 years.
Something gets rough for them. they start looking
at the people that make the most money or make
more money than they'd like to not not that not
the head people not the people at the head of
table but they want the people that are more
expensive and you're gonna be gone well it's
cost -cutting because the company is really taking
a hit right now because of ABC and D so we're
sorry but we're just gonna have to let you go
I've read something a little while ago talking
about how Gen Z people are doing this thing that
just like pisses off the boomers, which to be
fair, it doesn't piss off the boomers. But they
were talking about how Gen Z is doing something
called job hopping, where it was like, you'll
stay at a job for six months or whatever, and
then you'll leave. And I absolutely support that
because there's nothing that the companies are
doing in the situation to feed back into you.
It's a job. It's not a career. There was a job
that I did for... It was there for like eight
months and I love my coworkers. But there was
a certain point where everything had changed
hands in upper management. And so they decided
that the best way to approach all of the change
that was happening was to set weekly Q &As with
our CEO. Every week, for months, they would take
every member of the company. They would put us
on a Zoom call and then they would just tell
us like, we're downsizing. We're just like trying
to make sure this company makes sense. We're
restructuring. We're trying to figure out how
these pieces fit into this puzzle. And the entire
thing was just like, people would be asking the
one question that everybody wanted to know that
they weren't going to outright tell us, which
was, are we getting laid off? For months, they
just would skirt the fact that 100 out of 150
questions, where are we getting laid off? And
then they just cut everybody. And like at that
point, why would I want to stay? If you spent
two months telling me that I'm about to lose
my job, what reason do I have to want to try?
Yeah, I mean there's no there's no loyalty anymore
and okay, that's if the Bottom line and the profit
margin is more important than the people that
make that profit then That is fine. That's your
choice, but I don't owe you anything. I don't
have to sit here and kiss the ring when Something
goes south with me. Oh, well, you you have cancer.
We really need you in here. Okay. Well, I got
chemo Okay, well, can you come in after and that
was based on a post I found on reddit a Meta
the name I the asshole was like, how are you
asking yourself this question? Yeah, if you're
an asshole because you told your boss you weren't
gonna come in post chemo and I know a lot of
this is going to affect older generations and
well just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
and and do all this and do all that but this
is a completely different system this is i won't
say that's a completely different system than
the one they have it's a completely different
system than what they were raised in but then
they did the same thing peter dingledge did uh
they got their success and then they shut the
door right behind them and so now all these younger
generations are picking up all the pieces from
and just trying to make something work. Yeah.
And then you get all these, all these older people
coming on the news saying, Oh, well, younger
generations don't want to work anymore. They
don't want to do this. They don't want to do
that. And all the all that other stuff. And I
mean, it's true. But it's also not as cut and
dry as these people are just lazy. It's these
people are just tired of it. These people are
it's so bad that a CEO for a pharmaceutical company
can be gunned down in the middle of the streets
in New York City and people are praising the
shooter. And for the record, don't agree with
it. There's all I have UnitedHealthcare. There's
a whole bunch of stuff that they do that I don't
agree with. That doesn't give someone the right
to murder their CEO who was a father, a husband,
I don't know whatever his deal was, but it doesn't
matter. And for people to justify it by saying,
oh, well, he was a shit dad because I read this
story on this one place. Oh, he was a shit husband
because maybe they were getting a divorce and
all this other stuff. Like if you have to justify
it that hard, then you completely lost the point.
Like it's either about the decisions he made
with the health care company as the CEO or it
isn't. But you can't say, well, it was because
of that. But then he also deserved it because
of all these personal reasons. Well, you wouldn't
know these personal reasons if he hadn't been
gunned down in the middle of the street in New
York City. I'm not as against that particular
situation as you are. Not condoning murder, obviously,
but in the terms of what he did as the CEO, there
were a lot of, like, cost -cutting measures or
profit -boosting things and stuff that were just
so incredibly inhuman that, like... I think it's
tough to to justify his humanity in a lot of
ways. Yeah. Again, not condoning murder, but
I think that if you are giving him that level
of humanity, like, yeah, he was a father, he
was someone's son, he was all of these things
like, yeah, but so were all of the people that
died because they didn't have access to proper
health care because of choices that that man
made. And then he goes on to earnings calls to
brag about it. Yeah. Don't condone what happened,
but I also don't feel a whole lot of sympathy
for it, but it's it's also it's the People are
just a number. That's the that's the attitude
with everything even outside of healthcare is
that people are completely expendable people
have no no background or they have no Familial
ties. They are just a drone that is meant to
do a thing until they are no longer Useful to
do that thing and then they can be let go and
so I come I completely get the mindset behind
the motivation it's not as cut and dry as CNN
wants to make it it's not cut and dry as Fox
News wants to make it there's definitely a bunch
of gray area and I think I mean I'm definitely
not in the center I fall towards one side But
I'm not just completely on that bandwagon. But
I mean, we're just going to see more and more
of this as the system begins to crumble more
and more every day. So there was a thing that
happened. I don't remember exactly what it was
because there have been a billion things that
have happened since. But after after the CEO
was shot, there was something that happened with
Blue Cross Blue Shield, where they had made a
decision and they walked it back immediately,
immediately afterwards. I think it was. probably
remarkably stupid for them to have done that.
Yes. Because if you are under the impression,
because I assume it was some incredibly high
-up person in the company that was like, oh shit,
I don't want to die next. Yeah. If you are proving
to the American people that you have the ability
to not make decisions that would decimate plenty
of families, and you're only going to do the
right thing whenever one of your compatriots
gets murdered, then I think you're maybe you're
maybe telling the wrong. perpetuating the wrong
narrative. In a way, it's rewarding bad behavior.
That's saying, Oh, so there's consequences to
this. Well, then maybe I'll just maybe that's
not the right way to phrase it. So so someone
does something bad. And then so on the the Blue
Cross Blue Shield side, it's oh, okay, so there
can be consequences for me making these decisions.
Let's reverse it. But then on the other hand,
you're also saying Okay, so if we murder people
we get our way and so it's a double -edged sword.
Yeah, I think it was the wrong decision, too
Because just the optics of it as a business and
if if you sit back and think about the fact that
These people have been raking in millions and
millions and millions of dollars every year as
the ones who quote -unquote make these decisions
Consequence free Maybe they have a protest or
something once a year outside their building
when they're walking to their town car or whatever
Yeah, and then now you're showing them. Hey No
Not anymore. So I do I do understand that aspect
of it and I I do maybe I'm a little closer to
the situation just because I at face value have
a lot more Similarities father. Yeah and father
and it's just yeah, I mean maybe that probably
has a lot to do with it sure, but you also Having
known you for in all of my life. You would never
make a decision or a series of decisions That
would be such a net negative for so many people
No, so you you can't really put yourself on the
same playing field because you wouldn't I Don't
think ever be in a situation where you would
do something so completely disregarding of human
life But I think that he also was put in a position
where, okay, you either make this as valuable
to the stakeholders as possible or you don't
get a salary anymore. You get accustomed to that
salary. Now, someone with completely unquakeable
morals would probably say, okay, keep your salary.
I'm not doing this, but then you're going to
get someone else in who is, okay, stakeholders
want what? Okay, here we go. One, two, three,
four. So he's justified in it because he was
looking at the paycheck not the people. I'm not
saying he's justified in it I'm not saying his
hands were clean in it. I'm saying that It's
it's not cut and dry It's it's it's not it's
not he was doing this so this thing happened
to him and That was good because of that that
was bad because of that. I'm saying that he was
fulfilling a job whether he was doing it for
the right reasons or not is irrelevant because
either way he's dead. My main concern is just
the fact that things have gotten so bad that
it's something to be praised and it's something
that people feel comfortable saying out loud
because I mean even even if this were to happen
I don't know 20 years ago then people wouldn't
be publicly saying hurrah it would be be private
and then this is them and this is another thing
that has been torpedoed by the internet and places
like twitter and and 24 -hour news cycles and
all that stuff is that everyone has to have this
opinion that is either meant to just echo the
people around them or Be so quote -unquote controversial,
which I don't think there's a controversial anymore
Controversial opinion anymore. Yeah on the internet.
I think everything is just so such an attempt
to be controversial that This is just what we
live in now. Yeah, like a middle of the road
Comment or opinion is the controversial one.
I mean even in a lot of the places that like
you and I disagree on things that have been said
in this podcast or just in general I think so
much of the merit in these conversations is that
I don't think I'm glued to any of the opinions
that I have. I'm always willing to listen to
the other side of things, even if I don't end
the conversation agreeing with you or like changing
anything. I don't think that it's necessarily
like, like in this situation, I don't think we're
going to agree. Because although I will absolutely
recognize that there are a lot more nuances to
the situation, I don't I don't have any sympathy
in it, which I absolutely recognizes. at least
partly because you you can identify with this
man more than I can. But this is a conversation
that I've had also a lot of times recently about
like how deeply specific our algorithm gets into
our brain. And so like the things that I was
always shown after this particular situation
happened was it was jokes, it was thirst traps,
it was like, which bold choice is are, but it
would just be people making light of just the
most ridiculous situation. At the end of the
day, it's the people's coping mechanism for a
world that makes absolutely no sense anymore.
The fact that there was ever room for us to be
cheering for a CEO or a person in general getting
murdered in broad daylight. It's a societal collapse.
But I think that the conversation that I've been
having about this is that you have to... try
to do your best whenever you're doom scrolling,
which is difficult because you're only getting
maybe 60 seconds of a video at a time to think
critically about what is being fed to you, why
it's being fed to you, and who stands to gain
from you having a more intense opinion about
the situation. Nate will be fed a lot of those
videos of people that are recording in restaurants,
and they're upset because someone has misgendered
them. Oh, who's the big one? Lily, Latina. So
in this particular situation, this person is
upset because a server called them by the wrong
gender. And so they go just bananas. They're
complaining about this person and talking about
how deeply offensive it is despite the fact that
the waiter in the video is apologetic and corrects
themselves. And so like it's just it's frustrating
that that is the conversation because that's
not indicative of an entire community. Nothing
that you see online is indicative of the entire
community. Yeah. And also this person puts them
in this position in order to have these confrontations.
Right. And so like, yeah, if that if that is
your purview of the trans community, like, of
course, you're going to have a negative opinion
because these people are just out to start fights,
which is not in any way, shape, or form accurate.
Yeah. And so, like, it's more important now than
ever to actually use your brain. Think about
who stands to gain from the things that you're
seeing. Yeah. And everything, I can't tell you
how many times, especially since the stuff that
happened with the stabbing in Frisco, and then
the stuff that is now happening in Minnesota,
I think. They've got battling Gibson Go, so it's
called. What? What is it? It's like... It's a
donation platform. Yeah, it's gifts and go it's
a fundraising platform like I can't remember
what the big one is Kickstarter kicks go fund
me go fund me. Yeah And so they are for whatever
reason they were the platform that was tasked
with taking in the donations for the white kid
that was stabbed in Frisco the guy that is being
accused of his unaliving his um his legal funds
and then last week some extremely strange story
of the unsupervised five -year -old at the park
starts going through this woman's diaper bag
she verbally berates the kid calls him the n
-word is being recorded by a Somali potential
pedophile that picks up 16 year olds at the gas
station and Then it comes out that this child
was five years old, which he's about as tall
as Max is. So I don't buy five years old, but
then also autistic and then black. And then this
woman, it's a wild story. You should look into
it. Anyways, this turned into just the white
woman in Minnesota versus the black kid from
Frisco and who could raise the most money. And
it's, it's like its own civil war because. Both
comments, when you were filling out like a donation,
you could write a comment. Both of them had to
be turned off because they were so killed the
whites, killed the black. And both the one is
at like $519 ,000. The other one is on its way
to set like five, close to 600, on its way to
a million. The legal fund one is the one that's
set for $519 ,000 right now. And then that one,
it came out that they're... moving into a big
rental house in Frisco and a gated community
with security and all this other stuff. It's
like something like $4 ,000 a month rent and
all that. And then the other one, the one in
Minnesota is talking about how she needs to relocate
because she's been doxxed and all this other
stuff. And I get that. I get the backlash from
it because one, it was a child. Two, it was racially
motivated. And so that stuff that's gonna get
you doxed, should it? I don't know. I'm not the
judge and jury for that. I know that I wouldn't
do it and I would just go about my business,
but it's turned into all this, this extra fluff
that it doesn't need to be. And, uh, the one
in Frisco, we don't know the whole story. The
one in Minnesota, we don't know the whole story.
There's just bits and pieces, enough of it to
where people feel like they can make a decision.
And a lot of it is probably racially motivated,
just like the stuff with the, with the CEO of
United healthcare was financially motivated.
Uh, and people just. posting the most vile stuff
about all of it about this woman saying that
she's a single mother and she's I mean she's
all tatted up so you know they're gonna have
lots to say about that and then calling the butt
get it and just all this stuff and it's just
it's also indicative of how when these phrases
were popularized when they were in like the public
consciousness most prevalently they could not
have foreseen the way the world would look by
now. And yet these things are still, these things
are still taught like I'm, I'm cognizant enough
that most of the stuff like these isms that we
were taught are just bullshit at this point.
And so when I'm talking to my kids about it,
I have ways to rework them to where they actually
make sense in today's era. Like you were saying
that you'll need this for the future. It's okay.
Well, you may not think you need it, but what
if your phone dies? What if you don't have a
phone available to you? You still need to know
the process of this. So you need to know what
the phone is doing, whether you're actually doing
the move in the decimal or any of that stuff.
You need to understand the process behind it.
That's why we're doing this. Love thy neighbor.
You need to make an effort to be kind to people.
Know that most people are not going to be kind
back to you. Maybe not most people, but the ones
that are not kind in return are the ones that
are going to stick out. So it's going to feel
like. A majority of people are not kind to you
even though you feel like you've given your best
foot forward. Hard work always pays off. It's
not going to. You can put everything you have
into something and it's not going to pan out.
But you know what? At least you tried and you
move on. You put all that hard work into something
else and maybe that does pay off. That's when
you get to those points where like Leslie Jones
was in her 50s or something when she was on SNL.
Like Samuel L. Jackson was like 60 when he was
in... No. Pulp Fiction, things like that, or
41 News and Pulp Fiction. Yeah, which it's also
been weighing heavy on my heart since we recorded
yesterday's Friday's episode, the last episode.
Reservoir Dogs was from 92 and Pulp Fiction was
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Plug number two. All right. So I, I don't know
how many you have left, but I am going to throw
a couple of mine out. So money can't buy happiness.
That is one of the ones that pisses me off to
no end. Because yeah, I'm not looking to like
make myself happy with a number. What I am looking
to be able to pay my bills. Yeah, I am looking
to be able to go on a vacation, not have to think
about everything I spend. That's true. Yeah.
I mean, money may not buy the actual happiness,
but money puts you in a position to be happy.
It puts me in a situation where like I I don't
have to stress out about a fun thing because
there are consequences to it. Yes. And I think
that's like, that ties back into restaurants.
Like, you don't want to go out to a nice restaurant
because you put stress on yourself because of
how much money you're spending. Yeah. At that
point, don't go. But I still want to have nice
things. I still want to be able to go out and
do stuff. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
that's another thing that I try to instill in
the children like I made sure from very early
on, they had. they understood the value of money
because money is going to be a uh it's going
to be a common factor in everything they do for
the rest of their lives right where you can say
there's stuff more important there than money
there's not really not because somewhere down
the line money is involved whether it's You you
don't want to go out because you want to save
the money. Okay. Well, maybe going out is where
where you meet a spouse or you meet someone that
you date and send your life on a whole nother
trajectory. Yeah, maybe you don't want to spend
the money on on this this podcast equipment.
Well, maybe podcasting is something that is going
to be something something you can enjoy and it's
going to be a sustainable way to make more money
in the future. The gaping flaw in Money Can't
Buy Happiness is that it's always framed wrong.
Money Can't Buy Happiness, like, I'm not trying
to buy a Lamborghini. I don't need a yacht. I
don't need a mansion. I just want to be able
to, like, buy foods that are not full of processed
nonsense. And live comfortably. I want to be
able to pay my rent. I want to, like, be able
to blow a tire and not freak out about how I'm
going to replace it. Like, I'm not looking for...
for the Silver Spoon lifestyle, I just want comfortability.
Yeah. Money would buy my happiness. It would
buy my peace. Yeah. And for most situations,
peace is happiness. Respect your elders. Not
everyone deserves respect. Correct. You, you
earn it just because you've been on this earth
longer than me doesn't mean that you haven't
just had the opportunity to be an asshole for
longer than me. There was a particular situation
in a previous job that I had in which I was being
things were being said about me, um, to my coworkers
from member of management. And I was spoken to
by upper management about the situation. And
upper management told me in the situation that
he came from a different generation. So the things
that he said to me were him just like coming
from the place that he was coming from. Was this
the back of house person? Yes. Yeah. And one
of the things that he said to me was that I had
had a conversation about something that had happened,
an interaction that I had, and he decided to
take it upon himself to escalate the situation
after I'd already handled it, because quote unquote,
a man needed to say it for it to be taken seriously,
which is both an absolutely bananas thing to
say to a human being and... the fact that it
was defended by upper management because he was
from a different generation and you know at that
point just like didn't know better. This man
was 40 for the record. 14 years older than me.
14 years. You know those Gen Xers man completely
different world. But in the situation like he's
not allowed to act that way just because he's
older than me. There's no justification in you
being a shitty person just because you're older.
I will not respect you because you're older than
me I will respect you because you deserve respect
or you don't and I won't Suck it up buttercup.
I think this one particularly like affects men
in our society. Yes, I would agree with that
It's inherently a very demeaning thing to say
and it's not meant to be it's not meant to be
helpful It's not meant to be encouraging like
hey, it'll be okay. You don't get feelings. Stop
it. Yeah, so my my son is Very in tune to his
emotions. It's not something that I am altogether
used to but I mean I think that I was I was pretty
emotional when I was his age I think just hearing
back stories of of ways I reacted to stuff but
I still have to find a way to rectify how I was
treated just experiences I've had when I was
maybe showing emotions Versus how I wish I would
have been treated and then finds find some middle
ground for me to approach him with and I mean
this isn't something that I have had to deal
with with my daughters Because you approach it
in a completely different manner But it's just
because of the things that I've experienced in
the ways I was treated in the ways that I Treated
other people it needs a completely different
approach and so yeah suck it up buttercup is
not meant to be helpful At all it's meant to
say just shut up and do what you're supposed
to do. I've made a lot of male friends for most
of my life and I think a lot of that stems from
the fact that like I create a judgment -free
zone like have the emotions you have. You're
the plant fitness of women. Was that a sexism?
Did I just do a sexism? I feel like I want to
sound the lunk alarm for that statement. But
no like I try to create like yeah like a space.
I've had a lot of feedback from like male friends
and stuff that like there's not. there's not
kind of a platform. And like, I've spent a long
time having conversations with my current partner
about like the fact that there's really just
not a societal willingness to accept that men
also go through things. The world is hard. Oh,
it is. I can cry in public. No one's gonna bat
an eye. But if you cried in public, it would...
No, if you cried in public, you're gonna have
a huddle of women. It's gonna be okay. What's
going on? If a man's crying public, there is
a 20 foot... Radius of a no -go zone and that's
ridiculous suck it up buttercup nonsense not
fit for 2025 All right, and my last one treat
others how you want to be treated that is how
you get abused Yeah, I think that that would
probably be pretty prevalent in the the DV arena.
Yeah, just women not just women. I mean I've
had some experiences with being on the receiving
end no i i definitely see how you think that
if you and this goes back into i don't know if
i had this one i mean it's it's kind of like
work one job rise up and hard work pays off it's
the um it's that if you keep going after the
thing that you want dress for the job you want
not the job you have yeah then then eventually
everything's gonna happen everything's gonna
fall into place for you everything's gonna land
where it's supposed to land and So think that
that is definitely a justification for staying
in those kind of relationships. And I do believe
that people can change. I think that I am a glowing
beacon for that sentiment because I take my life
three years ago, completely different person.
But I had the motivation. I had a reason. I had
a goal in mind. If you are just doing what you
think you need to do and waiting for someone
else to do it and they don't have any motivation,
they don't have a goal, they don't have a reason.
They're not going to change. They have no reason.
There's nothing incentivizing them to change.
If they can still have their crappy behavior
and get everything that they want, what is the
motivator for them to change? Oh, well, I'm going
to leave. OK, no, you're not. So that one is
a bunch of bull too. All of these things are
great things in theory. They're great things
that in a perfect world make sense. May have
existed legitimately in a bygone era. Or maybe
even when these things were created, when they
were popularized, it was kind of a manifestation.
Sure, coded nonsense. Yeah, like we're going
to say this in hope that it takes off and then
hope that it becomes true. And maybe it did take
off, but it doesn't mean it became true. That
doesn't mean that it is a thing that everyone
built their entire lives around because it was
a thing that that was just beaten into their
head since they were kids. I don't know. It's
just. Think that these sayings are really indicative
of the differences in Generations for sure. Yeah,
and I think that a lot of the issues that we
have a lot of the I hate using the word systemic
but systemic problems that we have is based on
the fact that there is such a great divide between
generations and Saying that someone is stuck
in their ways because this is just the way they've
always do it done it. Okay But that's not that's
not a good excuse because that just means that
no one stopped them along the way and said, hey,
maybe don't be a dick. Above all of the things
there from a different generation, which is not
one of the ones that I wrote down. That one might
be the one that irritates me the most. Yeah.
is because like yeah see you were you're from
the 50s so you were raised in 50s 60s mentality
sure if you're still kicking it like you're you
existed for all of the time between then and
now you should be more worldly than me i'm 26
years old if you're telling me that you grew
and then you just decided oh 30s the right age
i'm gonna stop progressing as a human being and
so you just lived all of the time between then
and now being the same jerk that you've always
been because that was the perfect era. Then I
think you don't belong in society. But then you
also you also continue that because you've been
allowed to continue that. Right. Anyone who enables
it by saying things like they're from a different
generation needs to check themselves. It's stupid
on every front. I agree. Well, on that cheery
note, this episode definitely had a lot more
meat to it than I thought it would. Yeah. I saw
Love Thy Neighbor on our list and I was trying
to figure out a way to expound upon that to make
it a full episode and we probably could have
left the tipping thing as its own. In fact, I
don't even know if tipping is listed on. It was
just a John Oliver episode, so I don't think
it needs to be an us episode too. All right,
got any closing thoughts? I think we covered
a lot of good ground today. Yeah. I think that
we... proved to the world that we can be more
than just silly movie reviews and jokes about
obscenely large nipples. And because I've missed
a couple of episodes, and Night Shyamalan still
sucks. Not to take away from the poignancy of
this episode, but it feels important that I throw
that back in. Yeah, that's a throwback. It's
a throwback at this point. Yeah. We said we were
going to mention it in every episode, and we
dropped the ball. We're sorry guys. Tell us how
disappointed you are in a comment on X Instagram,
Facebook or in a five star review on Apple Music,
Amazon Music or Spotify. I swear that's my last
one. But it's not mine. Check out. No, I'm just
kidding. All right, guys. I would say my closing
words of wisdom, not idiocy. This is something
that you will be able to take. It's universal.
It will be true until the end of time. or until
the AI relieves us of life on this earth is just
live your life just live it however you want
to live your life to the fullest because you
only get as far as we know one shot and as long
as you're gonna say one opportunity I was well
you should have jumped in faster I thought you
were gonna finish it and as long as the way you
are living your life does not impede anyone else
from living their lives then you're golden Do
no harm, but take no shit Don't you mean take
no crap just bouncing back and forth? I Do not
I'm not censoring that one. Okay. All right We'll
see you next time