Roderick on the Line

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00:00:09 ◼   ► hello hi John [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► hi Merlin how are you I'm good a little [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► mad now what happened [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► I've got ants a homeboy gets serious [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► ants I've got ants and there they are in [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► the least likely place for ants to be in [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► one's home like ants in the kitchen I [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► understand dance around the bathtub [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► where you eat your sandwiches [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► I understand that's your something [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► except as a fact of life [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► yeah but I have ants in my in my [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► bathroom sink and I don't understand [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► what they are doing there are they are [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► they eating skin flakes are they spying [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► on me i don't understand it but i've [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► been i've been killing them with my [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► thumb and i have created a kind of Aunt [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► Holocaust is trying to make an example [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► out of them [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► well i feel like i have created a kind [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► of killing field where the answer the [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► answer come later they see the the [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► thousands of skulls of their of the [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► answer came before all the answers were [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► wearing glasses all the ants that had a [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► college education [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► I've squash them all and i would think [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► that the later ants would be would be [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► scared away or would go back to the [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► Queen and say this is bad this is a bad [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► scene up here let's try different sink [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► let's try different things let's get out [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► of this house I don't like your kind of [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► like like insect Kurtz mclovin said [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► Kurds he's not he's not a crazy man he's [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► a great man but anyway they keep coming [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► and I'm I'm i stand there and look for [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► them to get their to the second floor to [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► that sink they would have to be [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► everywhere they would have to be in the [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► walls they would have to be they would [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► have to be in my in my drawers [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► there-there ants in my pants Merlin boom [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► mmm you see you're like a Salvador Dali [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► painting I I'm you hula dance this room [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► that's pretty good [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► you should write that down sure you [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► could use that I could I have I am I I [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► they're just so you know maybe i might [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► be able to help you with this a little [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► bit there are several books but you know [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► Wilson that I have not finished [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► yeah right including elements of style [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► yeah sure ed white and yellow Wilson oh [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► whatever [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► yeah yeah there's a guy i'm fascinated [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► by ants and I have actually a lot of [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► respect France [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► oh right sure they're great no I mean [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► it's funny because in our house this is [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► a big topic of discussion in our home [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► not that this matters here but we have [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► three very very different feelings about [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► ants my while my wife despite we going [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► to call sugar and this little tiny ants [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► that you get when it rains [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► that's right i guess they get money when [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► it gets wet you know a rainy they get [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► pushed out of their little and home they [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► start looking for different places and I [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► guess they get curious you know so now [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► now I'm wait a minute you're telling me [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► they have curiosity I don't know I feel [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► terrible i didn't finish the book but i [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► don't know i don't know much about my [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► underwear and your wife once no ants my [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► wife wants my wife despises ants all [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► right now who's the buddhist doc that is [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► pro and I am somewhere near them the [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► college they call it the spectrum i'm [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► about halfway down the spectrum where I [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► don't like that to me it's like what [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► it's like anchovies and ex-girlfriends I [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► just I don't like being surprised you [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► know right like I don't like ants [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► showing up III have a little bit of a [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► start when I see ants but then i'm [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► mostly okay with it [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► my daughter loves the ants are she came [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► to my office which is written with ants [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► right now and she came up to me and very [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► gently said daddy and she said hold out [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► your hand and she led an ant cross from [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► her hand into my oh she's a nature lover [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► that's we yeah so how could you kill the [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► curious little ants that are just [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► looking for looking for shelter from the [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► storm [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► I hmmm i should finish that book but my [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► feeling is I try to be a good citizen [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► John I mean not a really good citizen [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► but I didn't want to be on the spectrum [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► i try to be like an okay citizen [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► yeah well for instance right now yeah I [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► i started to repair my bathtub [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► I have two bathtubs in my house so one [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► of them was in need of some repair so i [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► started took it apart and i'm sure i [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► started to repair it I've been using the [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► other bathtub which is the lesser of the [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► two bathtubs but i have the one bathtub [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► dismantled a spider has taken up [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► residence in the bathtub love spiders [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► and it's not of the kind of spider it's [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► it's the kind of spider that little that [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► uses a flat web he's made a web in the [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► bottom of the bathtub and I don't know [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► what he's hoping to find maybe he thinks [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► that a monkey is going to fall into it [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► to me like a trapeze ten net like a [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► horse yeah yeah it's kind of horizontal [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► and it's sort of it's a little bit [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► it's like connected to the bottom of the [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► bathtub in multiple places so it's kind [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► of like a it's just a sand trap things [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► work than I've ever done in my entire [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► life [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► well I know but he is driven by his by [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► his genes in a way that you and I are [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► not true we have divorced ourselves from [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► our genetic motivation I playing the [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► culture of nice you know what [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► yeah i think the public schools are to [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► blame but in any case this spider is [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► living happily in my bathtub and this is [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► a bathroom that I don't let other people [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► go into visitors don't come to daddy [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► daddy special bathroom female guests [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► that come to the house are directed to a [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► different bathroom haha because this is [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► this is dad's inner sanctum [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► uh-huh and so there's a spider right now [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► in the bathtub and i have no beef with [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► the spider he's not bothering me [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► he's waiting for monkeys to fall into [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► his net and so and no girl is gonna walk [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► in there and scream and say there's a [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► lighter your bathtub and force me to [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► deal with it so the spider and i have [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► have reached a comfortable reproach [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► meant my only question is why is he not [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► in the middle of the night eating these [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► ants that are that are sharing the [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► bathtub with him for sharing the [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► bathroom with him and I've come to the [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► conclusion that spiders don't you dance [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► I think that's I think that it's a very [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► sound conclusion spiders don't you dance [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► I've never seen a spider in and you know [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► I I haven't either i haven't watched [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► forward enough to say i do think i spent [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► a lot of time watching spiders [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► oh I i am for practical purposes here [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► utilized by spiders my dad's I like them [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► a lot [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► I really like spiders and I don't know [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► if this is so wives tale network ping [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► pong but I for some reason I feel like [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► when I see a spider it feels like good [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► luck [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► I like a spider and I really when I was [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► little I killed you to seattle he could [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► have a good luck also that spider [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► country [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► oh boy is it ever spider spider spider [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► spider that's our state motto spider [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► spider spider welcome to Washington that [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► is a terrific block that I like to do [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► not want to circle back to this but I [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► mean and I want to get to the reproach [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► mom part because I don't understand how [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► you can have one first of all taking [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► part of bathtub sounds like a lot of [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► work it is a tremendous amount of work [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► at the lights [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► that's why it's still taking apart but [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► so where were you think it's like when [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► somebody tries to restore a Fiat haha [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► that's funny [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► it's very easy to take a Fiat apart I've [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► never seen an mg altogether [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► I've only ever seen mg's that somebody [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► started working on and never finished [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► right out of the getting busier finished [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► an mg now they take them apart and then [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► they think that they're gonna drop a [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► chevy 350 and remove and then they have [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► a bucket of parts in the garage so [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► that's what's happened with my bathtub [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► i'm sorry to say I took it apart and [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► then I realized that that there were [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► other things that needed to be fixed [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► while I had the bathtub apart and then [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► pretty soon I was building a seven-sided [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► lighthouse made of dreams but we're way [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► I mean I'd not to put too fine a point [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► on it but where do you enjoy your subs [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► now you don't want to stir the spider [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► obviously you've got you've got a [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► certain is d considering nemesis or or [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► companion you don't want to you don't [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► script as well but like you need a place [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► to have a sub yeah i know i'm having it [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► in the secondary bathtub the lesser [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► bathtub [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► oh IC so the under-construction bathtub [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► or ladies allowed to use the bathroom at [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► the end of construction bathroom is [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► where the spider is living under [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► construction bathroom is is the major [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► bathtub [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► hmmm that has the that has the bubbles [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► it has the electronic bubble low flame [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► it's not there yet jets jets got jets [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► are you kidding me [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► yeah you ever had ladies in there that [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► have hold a drink and like to run your [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► fingers through the hair [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► I have never allowed anyone to bring a [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► drink into my bathtub the other than me [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► because there's no room on my bath desk [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► for more drinks after I object to have a [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► bad debt scores i have a bath this guy i [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► built the bath desk and and what you [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► make it out of [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► well I went to the i went to the thrift [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► store and I found one of those one of [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► those serving trays that if you had a [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► manservant your manservant would bring [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► your breakfast your continental [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► breakfast in your your copy of the [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► london times it's roomy it's nice cake [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► but it wasn't big enough [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► these visa these these trays that that [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► are meant to go on your lap while you're [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► sitting in bed or not did they do not [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► span a bathtub bathtubs carbon why are [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► you you're not talking about i'm sorry [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► you're not talking about a bathtub side [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► table or or like a stool you're talking [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► about something you can literally have [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► go across the bathtub in front of you [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► you can you can do your work you can [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► enjoy a sandwich you work on your [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► memoirs correct in fact so here's what I [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► have a typical when I'm when I'm baking [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► in the major bathtub on a hit that in a [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► typical afternoon i have a large mug [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► coffee then I have a secondary drink [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► either an Arnold Palmer fruity pleaser [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► or a or a smoothie [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► if it's really the hot season and then [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► there then there's the plate with them [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► intentionally have two hot beverages [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► right over your dingus on a tray [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► no one's hot ones called the coffee's [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► hot the smoothies cold ok and then I [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► have that the sandwich which would be [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► the to be the major part of the meal and [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► then i have the lesser meal which is [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► like a scone or snack and then a stack [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► of magazines and then a stack of [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► unfinished crossword puzzles and Sudoku [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► news and then now my my pen and a [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► notepad [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► uh-huh and that that that that that's [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► basically it [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► it's like once I get past the utter [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► insanity of that I I can't believe I [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► don't do that it's incredible and all I [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► had to do i bought this serving tray for [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► a dollar [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► at a thrift store and I added some you [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► know I i beefed it up i added some [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► supporting crossmembers and a nice then [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► I put two big sort of the main supports [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► the main beams though the load-bearing [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► beams who and now I keep it next to the [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► bathtub and when i get in the bath [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► I i start to draw the bath and then I [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► take the tray downstairs and I loaded up [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► with all my bath accoutrements and then [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► bring it bring it up and I climb in the [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► bathroom put my little table down i'm in [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► there all afternoon [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► now do you let some of the water out and [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► then we get more hot water in how do you [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► how do you keep it how do you keep it [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► comfortable that for that whole [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► afternoon when a lesser bathtub yes it's [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► a constant constant that must be [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► miserable John this is this is putting [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► put a serious such if I could say not [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► working for serious change in your [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► workflow it it doesn't because it's [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► because I've worked it out so that [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► they're you know there are so many [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► different kinds of bathtubs you can have [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► there's the one so many where you can [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► leave I used when I grew up in my [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► childhood I which is where you grow up I [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► had an idea i had a bathtub where I [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► could turn the slightest trickle a very [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► hot water just trickled it was like a [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► new it was like I was at a buddhist [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► retreat this water was just like TT and [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► it was very hot and it kept the bath and [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► an even temperature as the bath cooled [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► this little teeny trickle hot water just [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► replenished and rejuvenated these other [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► bills it was a homeostatic trip [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► that's right these other faucets the [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► ones where when you turn it on it's cold [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► and you have to crank it all the way [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► over to full to get it to be hot [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► I don't understand who designed that so [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► terrible design what if you want a [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► little bit of hot he cannot get it and [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► and that seems to be what certainly find [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► in hotel rooms is terribly that's what [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► have you been in a hotel room that first [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► time I saw this at first I couldn't [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► understand it I i often have trouble [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► understanding showers like to come back [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► to your mom's house [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► she's the most confusing shower bath of [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► every stone was little there are seven [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► handed [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► I don't know if you remember what [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► happened there was an incident but but i [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► like the things in a hotel where they [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► got a separate dingus for the [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► temperature and for the pressure so you [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► could have you could have a co2 and [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► talking about you could have a super hot [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► you know you could have that you know [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► what I don't know what I don't know 110 [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► degrees or whatever and then you could [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► have just be a little bit in the shower [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► you know what i mean i think that is [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► very responsible that's an accelerator [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► and the brake or better put it maybe [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► it's an accelerator in the steering [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► wheel brakes brake would be the the [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► drain people should have the power [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► placed into their trust to determine how [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► hot they want their water and how much [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► water they want and this is part of the [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► overall problem of of the sort of [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► paternalism that is rife in America have [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► you noticed how many stop signs there [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► are in America not noticed how many of [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► those stop signs are absolutely [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► necessary [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► 6 that's right there are six absolutely [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► necessary stop signs in the entire [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► United States three and three of them [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► are four-way stops and and then some of [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► the other ones we could probably let go [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► in the next five to seven years every [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► other stop side in the country is it is [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► a total waste because when you arrive at [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► an intersection if there is no stop sign [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► there unless you are unless you are a 95 [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► year old man and you are and you left [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► the house that morning thinking how many [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► people can run over before I die you're [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► going to arrive at that intersection [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► you're going to say look both ways if [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► there's another car there you make some [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► determination who's going to go and [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► finally join but here's this freaking [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► stop sign and everybody has to stop it [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► we're all standing there like we're all [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► it being controlled by this piece of [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► aluminum and where were just like cows [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► like I have to stop he stops we all stop [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► now we go one at a time to die i hate [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► this I hate this world [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► yeah we do there's a lot you can do to [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► improve it won't stop signs and I know [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► any of the supertrain there will be no [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► stop signs how we how you handle people [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► we do people people will be educated to [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► to know what to do or world would be [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► some kind of a little crane that's you [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► wouldn't want to impede people's flow [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► i'm guessing it would only want a [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► population that would understand that [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► you don't need a fucking stop sign [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► well what will happen i I'm afraid to [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► say is that will be much harder to get a [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► driver's [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► license haha it would be like medical [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► school how just under medical school [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► it'll be harder to order to get a [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► driver's license candles will be [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► eligible [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► I you know what I want the highest [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► qualified dentists speaking as someone [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► who has had a lot of people hands in his [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► mouth [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► I want the dentists to be I want the [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► dentist to go through like a astronaut [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► training doctors they just I I've yet to [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► meet the doctor the new with health and [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► Kirsten needs a ride she hops right in [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► the dds takes her ring I think when [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► dentists are inventors have to go [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► through astronaut training they will [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► stop naming their daughters Kirsten no [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► kidding [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► no no that's absolutely true I don't [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► just move to texas to become an [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► astronaut you might get the texas since [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► we're super train land to in order to be [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► a dentist you might have to go to Texas [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► for how do you handle the skateboards [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► the skateboard bike problem [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► I mean I cuz I'm not first of all let me [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► just say I think this is a problem i [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► think they don't see stop signs i don't [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► know if it's by virtue of the fact there [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► are few inches off the ground but i [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► don't think people on one skateboards [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► and bicycles [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► I used to think I used to think when I [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► was a smaller person that they were just [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► ignoring them [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► I don't think they might be a little [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► goofy i think they might be on the [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► bicycle spectrum and they do not see [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► stop signs [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► oh they see them if they seldom and [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► every time they run one it is in their [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► minds an active resistance right look at [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► what colors to little cars to John your [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► cars do [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► hey there looking at cars and cars the [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► response when I say this to people like [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► you understand how irresponsible it is [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► to be coming down a twenty20 green angle [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► hill and blow through a stop sign on a [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► busy street i want you know that you [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► know not a four-way like you're going to [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► blow through a stop sign and there's a [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► busy road people are going to be going [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► down there with the kids and their dogs [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► yeah and you blow right through there [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► and any what they say they say well in [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► this seriously this is the response [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► response is oh yeah well you know what [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► cars do em and I just I don't see where [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► we're I mean the supertrain have a [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► solution [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► I mean anything differently what is [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► super train solution for dealing with [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► the bikers here's the thing i spent 15 [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► years living in Seattle with no car and [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► I was one of those pedestrians I'm [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► embarrassed to say now now that I'm a [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► car driver and I Drive everywhere i'm [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► embarrassed at what kind of pedestrian I [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► was I think you can guess [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► I was first of all the kind of [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► pedestrian that that wore a soul patch [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► em and I was the kind of protection that [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► makes you a target right off the bat I [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► was really really this was the nineties [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► yeah but I did have a soul patch [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► how big was that it was intelligible was [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► like anyone is negligible ones that [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► looks like it it might be some kale or [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► it was it was blond hair and it looked [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► like maybe i just missed it when I was [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► shaving but its lucky be it was there it [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► wasn't pubie is this it wasn't curly it [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► was just a little slit blonde will tough [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► to that I would stroke when I was [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► thinking deep thoughts you can take it [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► deep deep out with a soul patch [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► well I realize that now ok but it was [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► the nineties in any case streets had to [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► be crossed [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► I'm going cross streets and I'm on my [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► feet I don't have a car I don't even [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► it's been so long since I've had a car i [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► don't even remember what it's like I [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► don't I don't look at people in cars as [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► being in the same species as i am like [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► people in cars are people who are eating [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► antibiotic treated beef and i am walking [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► the streets of seattle with a soul patch [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► and i am eating only like lightly [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► steamed vegetables it's like we're [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► different were totally different [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► populations and I would step out in [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► front of a moving car and turn my head [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► slowly and glare at the driver until [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► they not only came to a stop but didn't [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► squeak their breaks like of a driver [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► squeaked their break something out there [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► that's the kind of threat it was well [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► yeah sure [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► squeak squeaker breaks at me there were [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► multiple times where I would put my hand [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► on the hood of somebody's car and I [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► balham as I was walking past like I was [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► such a dick and and it was based on the [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► concept that pedestrians are not only do [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► they have the right-of-way pedestrians [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► are right questions are morally right [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► again it was the nineties i was a young [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► person did not fully understand that one [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► day I would be driving a car and people [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► would walk across the street and look at [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► not anywhere near with the glare of that [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► with the self-righteous clear that I [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► used people would just look at me [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► sometimes it has i'm waiting on a light [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► and I look at them now and go we looking [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► at [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► keep moving the walkie keep locking [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► walking walk walk down the road at the [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► oh my god i would i would strive with I [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► would nope across the street taking my [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► sweet time and so with that history with [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► that sordid history when I see a [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► bicyclist who is who has those earplugs [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► those big ear ear rings that are like [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► that are like sink stoppers are you [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► talking about like that grommet loves [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► the grommet lobes I see a guy like that [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► with his bike messenger bag and his is a [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► loud pipes save lives [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► bumper stickers guys these guys bike [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► lock in his back pocket and Casey yeah [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► once they hit your mirror [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► yeah skinny jeans and one of them's [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► rolled up and tucked in his sock when I [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► see one of those guys blow through a [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► stop sign and I go oh oh you little [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► prick i remember what a prick i was and [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► i think mm alright yeah you're you're [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► falling into the same poor logic there i [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► mean there has to be a date on San [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► Francisco IMA kind of a pissy San [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► Francisco pedestrian and but but i'm [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► also I try really hard to be a very [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► considerate driver when it comes to [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► pedestrians because here's the thing you [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► move to a fruitcake city like this [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► because you want a certain theoretical [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► quality of life is my feeling we're [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► living in a society to quit george [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► costanza and and I really think that if [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► you moved to San Francisco my [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► neighborhood my neighborhood is in be [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► your lawful good know your lawful [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► neutral I'm a ranger but the Rangers [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► have to be lawful something not get [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► chaotic i think i'm not sure when you [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► look that up you put a lot of you put a [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► lot of i play think they ultimately you [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► believe in the law people even long i [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► need the law [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► I need I need I need the the monkey web [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► for [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► yeah and i think i think you know what [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► you're saying is that that that there's [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► that this population of bicyclists as a [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► group adopted a kind of anarchic [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► approach to traffic laws and that [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► doesn't suit you ok I must say I'm [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► saying they're assholes [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► I I mean there may be some kind of a [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► deeper Development Shaun but i think i [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► think mostly there's this sense of [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► entitlement that comes from absolutely [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► nowhere and you think do you think that [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► that riding bicycles attracts assholes [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► that's right but this is hansel John you [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► are really onto something I I just hope [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► to god supertrain has an answer because [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► I can't tell the difference [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► it's like do i do this business [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► development exist to attract douchebags [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► or is it that if we didn't have you know [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► with the douchebags you have made you [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► know what I'm saying it's it's a Gordian [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► knot you know I went to college [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► yeah i did not graduate and say well now [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► and I think that business development [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► that is there to at to attract assholes [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► because the you could on orientation day [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► you can walk around and just just by the [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► haircut pick the guys who are majoring [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► in business who you know what I mean [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► they came that way already there was [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► that one is selfish haircuts [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► well or just like just like 22 done why [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► are you wearing your hair like that it's [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► a good for you at freshman orientation [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► you should be here with Pete sustained [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► sweats [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► instead you got your hair all done what [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► is that about [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► it's a it's a thing that it's a thing [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► their parents did to them I i just feel [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► like i said the neighborhood I live in [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► which you've been to numerous times is [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► your in something like the 90 something [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► percent i love walkable neighborhoods [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► look this up on some internet it's very [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► walkable although there is a slight [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► incline if I was a fire was [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► differently-abled might find it hard to [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► get down to the beach and then all the [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► way back up [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► yeah I really think hills our ablest [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► know our original level absolutely no [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► question about it [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► that's funny they recently redid that [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► big park that the soldiers ran out of [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► towards you you know across 30 yeah they [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► did a really great job but it took a [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► long time and it was a good standard we [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► do that well and it's funny it was very [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► it was somewhat melancholy for me [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► because they knocked on the playground [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► you know Polly with my canvas it was but [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► they brought it back up an old man it's [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► great they did you hear the howling of [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► of a Confederate Army that was displaced [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► it's like you [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► we've got to I can't tell if it's a gold [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► shoulder or red-tailed hawk is that [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► right cold shoulder [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► anyway I got this new app for my ipad [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► that helps me identify birds but I [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► couldn't tell if there's that could have [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► been a hawk but you know it could have [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► been that could have been a private for [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► from Virginia I'm not gonna lie me see [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► you know now I got dammit pedestrian [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► pennies i want to come back to this i'm [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► elated if I have a lady friend here in [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► Seattle he has recently attacked by a [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► crow on a downtown street [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► I fucking not a raven a crow crow caws [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► get pretty big i think i confuse my [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► Ravens and crows yeah they have [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► different faces [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► okay can it was a sight but it's a [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► Ravens because if you don't i don't mean [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► to cut you off its just you get you so [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► very close to helping me on so many [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► things and I feel like my stack is [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► getting very thick that Ravens and crows [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► are very different Ravens can actually [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► pick locks Ravens can do simple coding [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► Raven see stop signs i had actually a [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► website website designed by Raven or [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► team of Ravens who crows are slightly [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► less sophisticated but they're they're [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► also very social and it and she was [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► walking downtown and the Raven swooped [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► down in her hair and this is in the [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► middle of a busy downtown street and so [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► she was trying to figure out what this [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► was about with what you know she's like [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► as the Raven protecting its nasty i'm [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► like no it's a raven doesnt nest on a [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► sidewalk in the middle of town [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► Raven's nest far far out of town I don't [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► I couldn't explain what the problem was [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► but but what I didn't second [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► discrimination that's right there there [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► there redlined Ravens are getting Cotts [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► steering is a little shady you know what [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► these houses are nice i think you'd be [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► happier over in this neighborhood [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► yeah there's a lot more Ravens and [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► blackbirds here welcome to our party [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► have you met Mohamed that animal house [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► that's terrible about um but I said to [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► her here's the thing with Ravens [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► r and crows Ravens and crows they talk [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► to each other at night they they compare [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► notes [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► it may not even be that you did [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► something at that moment to personally [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► offended that particular crow it may be [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► that you have been impolite to crows in [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► general and they have targeted they're [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► sharing intelligence that's right they [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► absolutely are like you didn't know you [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► the one are you the one he says you say [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► you say that the Soviets are the ones [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► who won the war in Europe right they're [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► the ones who did all the heavy lifting [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► over there was such a quote you you had [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► a long day of quotes and I couldn't keep [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► up with all of them [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► you think it's like the Allies it's like [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► the Allies we all do different things [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► when the war is over we have very [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► different you know things that we'd like [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► to do and sometimes we go [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► you know I loggerheads about that you're [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► saying you're saying here there's a [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► certain kind of date on that and they [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► share information like the Allies would [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► well but they are all crows are aboard [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► and and a highly sophisticated one that [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► doesn't get mockingbirds mockingbirds [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► are different things but I have very [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► very very I have deep and wide [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► experience with Ravens and crows really [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► growing up in Alaska Ravens are Raven [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► stand four feet tall [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► oh they wear that is chilling they were [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► very very nice outfits when they come to [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► the DMV they are there are completely [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► the they're completely integrated part [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► hey let's just do you want to go any [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► further I have a lot of very good [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► friends who are Ravens some of them are [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► extremely smart and articulate and [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► almost all of them are very clean you [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► know what they're very clean very clean [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► piece you know that's the thing is I'm i [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► really hate to hear the casual [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► discrimination against super articulate [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► some of them some of them sure [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► well you know that is good Ravens and [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► bad Ravens we should probably move on [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► there was a there was an incredible [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► piece written in the in the anchorage [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► daily news in the mid-eighties about [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► this guy who who said well you know we [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► don't really know that much about Ravens [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► we don't know where they sleep at night [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► we don't know really anything about them [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► considering that they live all around [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► think that's correct [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► no I've had in fact in fact in this [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► instance it is and I and I think it's [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► true even of the crows I think somebody [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► in the Raven racket would at some point [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► follow Raven and see where it went to [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► sleep [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► let me tell you okay [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► my mother and I for many many years have [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► at dusk gotten in our cars and chased [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► the crows as they congregate as they fly [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► out of the city congregate they do [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► congregate in trees at the south end of [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► town and once all the crows have [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► gathered in one massive crow the [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► Parliament that's not a murder plot at [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► this point it's a part of it because it [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► is tens of thousands of crows 0 then on [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► right at dusk they all leave together [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► and fly to the mountains and my mom and [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► I chasing after them in our cars talk [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► communicating to each other on our [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► phones we have never been able to [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► successfully find them where they go [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► everywhere in order to get got a [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► mysterious mysterious avian commuters [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► and you and your mom are in some Wes [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► Anderson movie we're driving in separate [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► cars with walkie-talkies and you are [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► literally driving as the crow flies that [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► is right we are chasing them and they [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► elude us every time [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► god damn it but this guy in the eighties [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► he set out he invented a gun that would [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► shoot a net the net gun and he went to [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► to a certain mall in Anchorage where the [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► Ravens all congregated at the dumpsters [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► and he got out of his van and he shot [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► the net gun any captured 10 Ravens and [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► the following day he drove up in the [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► same van and all the Ravens split so he [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► draw all that you say they learned [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► yeah I drove across town in this van and [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► he went to a different mall and he shot [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► his net gun and captured five Ravens and [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► the following day no matter what mall he [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► went to in the city when he drove into [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► the parking lot in that van [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► The Raven split well so he rented assets [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► a new van and he repeated this [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► experiment soon he found that he could [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► not drive into a mall parking lot in any [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► kind of van [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► the Ravens wood split what kind of time [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► frame are we talking about this is over [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► the course of a few weeks are you [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► kidding me [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► he started to arrive in a car then it [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► got to the point that the that if this [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► is his reporting that the Ravens [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► recognized his face citywide so he [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► started wearing masks and then anytime [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► the race is tier VIII this is this is [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► absolutely is that I i have the sources [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► that we could weekly column or a [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► peer-reviewed journals this with this [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► curl a bit [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► this was a big feature in the sunday [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► supplement oh ok well so he said get [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► makeup chrome asks instead how now [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► anytime across he's a person a mask they [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► split he tried cheetos he got a couple [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► Ravens with Cheetos then they wouldn't [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► eat Cheetos anymore he tried and so all [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► summer long [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► he changed these Ravens trying to get [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► enough trying to capture enough Ravens [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► that he could tag them and let them go [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► to have a significant you know a [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► significant sort of case and he said [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► that they thwarted him at every turn he [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► could never he could never get a system [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► down where he was capturing and tagging [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► Ravens because everything he tried to [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► fit within a day every Ravens in the [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► City knew what he was up to and she [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► recently divorced and that's just the [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► beginning to sound like I'm recently [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► divorced man i watch two Ravens once [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► steal a box of Raven sorry box of [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► raisins denies it I just want to raisins [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► steel Ibaka Raven now I think you almost [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► said you wanted nothing i'll cut it out [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► but I i think he said that you once he [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► started to say that you want swatch to [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► Raven steel box of ravens yeah also cut [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► out that he be white thing at the [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► beginning that's embarrassing [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► okay um but haha the Ravens one Raven [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► landed in front of my niece she had a [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► box of raisins and he hopped up to her [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► right just right out of her reach [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► she was an infant or like a like a like [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► a two-year-old and so she drop the box [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► of raisins and started to crawl to the [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► bird and he hopped back just right out [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► of her reach and she's crawling toward [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► him and as he as she gets away from the [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► box of raisins another raven swoops in [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► behind and starts eating the raisins get [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► a partner she turns around and sees the [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► other bird goes back to the box of [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► raisins the other bird start hopping [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► back she follows the bird the first [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► Raven goes it's the raisins and the east [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► and i SAT and watched this happen [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► these two birds ate her entire box of [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► raisins playing this like I'm right here [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► you can i'm right here you can catch me [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► just [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► Oh Here I am Here I am and they back and [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► forth back and forth until all her [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► reasons work on [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► oh my god and now anywhere that she goes [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► in the city she can t raisins [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► that's right even if she's wearing a [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► mask god that's complicated [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► they are very complicated so i told my [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► mother I gotta learn more not as we've [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► kind of been fast and loose with Ravens [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► and crows your interest primarily here [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► is in Ravens it sounds like they're the [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► real trouble [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► well except that in seattle crows are [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► much more are much more common and this [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► has nothing to do with crackles I know [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► there are no graphical stupid compared [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► to the Ravens I would never on honor on [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► a public program say that any bird was [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► stupid because I at this point believe [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► that they're listening so if I said the [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► United you travel a lot John you need to [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► be able to move freely need to keep you [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► under these these birds on your side [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► I don't know whether the ravens in [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► Alaska are communicating with the crows [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► in seattle it's possible they could have [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► a translator [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► I i think based on the the work of this [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► gentleman in the mask i think it's clear [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► that where were their operating on a [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► much higher level than anybody wants to [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► admit it's their world where we're just [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► living in it and I think it's like right [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► you you were attacked by crow on a [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► downtown street what you need to start [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► doing is do what I do which is every [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► time you see a crow particularly across [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► that that flies down and lands at eye [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► level you know the way that sometimes [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► you're walking along and there's [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► suddenly a crow on a on offense [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► I hate that he's looking right at you [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► hate it when that happens you have to [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► look at the crow and say hello crow [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► and.and I do I boom boom you're looking [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► at him he's looking at you you say hello [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► to the peg is a bitch [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► what no you're you're you're showing [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► respect for showing respect but you're [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► also saying I see you motherfucker [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► ok I see you like you don't walk around [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► with a rave a crow or raven flies down [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► and lands on a fence and looks at you [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► and you don't look at him [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► oh whose world isn't no crow crows [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► world's Chris world you need to look at [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► that crow and say I see you and you see [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► me and I say hello crow you don't say hi [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► mr. Crowe let's settle this while it's [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► easy [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► that's right you know any other thing is [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► I've been beguiled by by many animals by [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► hand sand by spiders and crows and [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► ravens and and I've been annoyed by [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► grackles but I you know this is one of [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► those funny things that'll do it some [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► kind of Florida burger with no no no no [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► in Austin Kiki Austin with this [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► deafening birds on the while he rides [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► the grackles lost an APB on everything [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► yeah the grackles of Austin who travels [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► involved i think josh Josh just sign [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► them not long ago I I here's the thing [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► though and you know John you know this [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► you're getting a little older but there [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► are things okay for example you still [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► eat spicy food [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► I used to be able to eat a lot of spicy [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► food now light spicy food i'm going to [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► be reading a lot [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► okay i know that I accept that there are [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► some things that change in life i'm [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► saying one thing that changed my life I [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► used to think very little about birds in [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► general if there's a bird in front of me [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► I'd I'd say that's a bird you know is [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► Macar I I'd you know or whatever you [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► want to talk or or fly around or [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► whatever i got to John bird eyes freak [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► the living shit out of me those BTW and [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► i'm not even talking like you know and [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► after Hitchcock movie [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► I'm just saying that as you look into [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► the eyes of a crew or especially a raven [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► and you try to figure out what is on [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► that birds mind you're gonna be fucking [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► nothing but yellow looking back at you [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► and no matter how big the bird is the [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► eyes will always be BTW and the children [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► me you can pick up my bird eyes I think [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► they're super freaky and I don't get [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► freaked out because I I feel like eatin [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► I feel like I'm meant to be here on [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► earth and there's a standard [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► stand-your-ground not only stand your [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► ground but establish [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► I i established with all animals and in [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► fact all living things including [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► including humans yes I tried to [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► establish that i am here for a reason [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► and you can either aid me or you will be [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► defeated [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► have you thought about putting that out [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► in handing that to people or is this [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► something we should just into it but [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► it's not something into it it's [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► something that I communicate with my [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► mind bullets are you always finding [TS]

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00:37:48 ◼   ► instapaper dot-com or search for [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► instapaper in the app store [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► John of hey now i got my bell back you [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► know what we just turned a corner we [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► found a corner we turned it i hope [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► there's no birds john III believe it [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► grackles are commonly I'm looking this [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► up now [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► ok people commonly mistake is a common [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► common common grackle which is they [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► mistakenly call starlings grackles [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► crackles our thing our own bird native [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► to the Americas yes starlings are [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► imported from Europe and so we do have [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► starlings in proliferation there's some [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► fruitcake maybe in New York who wanted [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► to have every hear the story i nostri [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► culture it's a true story if you want to [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► have everything shakespeare is this true [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► all the birds of Shakespearean Central [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► Park [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► I didn't dream that no no and he leaves [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► he released a hundred starlings in [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► central park in 18 whatever seems like a [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► terrible idea and now there are billions [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► and billions you get the invasive [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► exotics oh my goodness [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► um can i just have a class teaches a [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► couple quick questions of this will be [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► quick works okay um do you agree that on [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► the basis of your personality and in the [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► background did that you just say based [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► on your learning and you [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► and your personality you feel like you [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► can go head-to-head with an animal in an [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► environment of mutual respect for the [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► most part for the most part there's [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► something you have trouble with or they [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► have trouble with you [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► no no I mean there are ones that are [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► rabid I'm not gonna mess around the [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► rabbit animal i die i met a guy but you [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► could control you can control i'm sorry [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► to interrupt you to control this [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► relationship with the revenue animal [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► probably better than eighty-five percent [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► of other people i'm guessing it's not a [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► total wild card i have i have enough [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► information that I can I can I could [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► deal with a rabid animal better than you [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► tell me you can deal with promoter but [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► you can't deal with a rabid animal rabid [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► animal habitats animals depending on how [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► far the rabies has progressed who you [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► really the only way to deal with them is [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► with the with the blade end of a shovel [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► you have to think about it twice I would [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► I would I would not I would not kill a [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► rabid animal instantly because it might [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► just be a pet that has eaten some [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► laundry soap i would lose everything is [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► really is a real phone phone is it like [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► spittle like am a student would have [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► welcomed you follow me followme really [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► awful [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► okay so I'm gonna check out possibly [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► sort of yes but it sounds to me like you [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► go ahead [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► would you not agree that in amongst this [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► kingdom and these fight these phylum and [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► and the kingdom's me and cameron the [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► other thing to violence who gave us that [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► Genesis papas you got all these [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► different things and it its deep would [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► you not acknowledge that there is a [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► certain power in that ability to compete [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► with them what I'm trying to get at John [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► is when it is finally time and I don't [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► want you talking timeframe that careless [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► when the supertrain generation well and [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► truly arrives in a way that it's no [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► longer a rumor it's just something [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► you're fucking dealing with now do you [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► think that you might like to be in a [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► position where you can harness some of [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► this power somebody to talk to a spider [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► who can make a monkey net or possibly a [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► grackle common grackle or an uncommon [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► rave and somebody who could go out and [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► literally figure things out on your [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► behalf as an agent for you you reaching [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► date on reproach mall [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► hmm is this something that could be part [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► of the the supertrain program i think it [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► absolutely is you know i have said for [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► many years they could get your way John [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► if you're not in front of this i'm just [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► saying you're gonna you're gonna have to [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► face them down and [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► x-men type situation now it is a it is a [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► natural system that we have we have [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► intruded into with are overthinking and [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► we are now separate from animals in a [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► way that is not entirely necessary in [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► this is the this is the problem that and [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► i recently went to comic-con and and [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► comic-con is an extension of this larger [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► problem that I used to see an indie-rock [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► quite a bit which is the the mistaken [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► idea that everyone is an artist and they [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► just need to get if we just clear out [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► all the all the things in the way of [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► certain people that they are the art [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► that they make is beautiful [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► you know what I mean like everyone's an [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► artist and and it's just that we are [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► inhibited and we are we are locked in [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► our small little world and we need to [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► keep going to be free [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► we need to get free and then art will [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► pour forth and I think that that is a [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► terrible idea [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► it is not true at all not everyone is an [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► artist it's a kind of existential [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► alchemy because not every piece of metal [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► can be made into gold [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► mm like too much in fact no metal can be [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► made into gold [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► most likely crazy but but going to [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► comic-con you see a million people who [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► have been told their whole lives that [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► what they are doing qualifies as art had [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► been congratulated uniform now do you [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► think it's doing that are not art and [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► and then now and they now they believe [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► that it's our own people are encouraged [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► to congratulate them for it it's like [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► actually this isn't none of this what [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► you're doing is arc in the same sense [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► like your dog in a little bit more than [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► your last week like you order that you [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► are on the fence with the bronies last [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► week when I was I'm still on the fence [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► with the bros i think there might be [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► stuff in the brownie brownie seemed nice [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► I think there might be stuff in the [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► brownies that I don't understand there [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► still is stuff at comic-con i know i [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► don't understand but there is also it is [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► absolutely the case but there is stuff [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► that is being that has been presented as [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► art which is not our is an etsy kind of [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► thing we make something you make like a [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► brush and I thought your pubes or [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► something that kind of someone made [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► bread knife out of their pubes i'm gonna [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► call it art and I would not bet on it [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► but I would be happy to watch it be [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► built upon that I I like you I'm trying [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► to keep an open mind and I don't want to [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► get ahead of myself but I'm saying if I [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► could eyeball that thing and I saw that [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► and I saw that it definitely was [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► Brezhnev and probably not pubes i would [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► say success thank you here's your ribbon [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► you know what I mean Franco yeah [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► absolutely [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► the thing is if it looks and i think [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► it's going to look a lot more like kids [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► impression if I mean you know long hairs [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► on the address notwithstanding but with [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► animals like take Dances with Wolves a [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► classic example of a man who is his [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► community with a wolf [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► yeah and they find this commonality that [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► they share now he was not he was not [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► setting the wolf on errands exactly [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► yeah but it was only a matter of time [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► before getting the Wolfers snuggling up [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► around around the fire talking just [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► drinking hxp and water world so I didn't [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► see water world's my oyster the line [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► Kevin Costner the line on Kevin Costner [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► stopped in like 80 well I guess 90 [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► didn't dance with rules that's the one [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► that be good fellows right for the for [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► the Oscar I don't follow their awards so [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► follow martin scorsese okay with that [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► martin scorsese a good guy i support him [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► Goodfellows good movie will seem like an [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► obvious thing to commune with I'm just [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► saying like for example in a comic that [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► I have enjoyed at times that called The [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► Avengers there's a team of these [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► characters [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► no nothing hmm i already feel like the [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► select the crows and other birds of [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► washington state of Western Washington [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► yeah I already feel that they and i are [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► working towards a mutual understanding [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► and it's only a matter of time [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► you're already benefiting from there [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► talking to each other already eyeballed [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► you they've seen this John Roderick he's [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► keep an eye on us you know what will [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► keep his fucking beady eyes on him [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► that's right we need him on our team got [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► eyes on me i do not cross do not come [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► and Brussels my hair on a downtown [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► street no crows i am convinced are going [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► a block or two ahead of me and checking [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► it out and make sure everything's cool [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► and then communicating back is it good [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► for both of you [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► I think so you are you doing are you [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► doing each other favors is it something [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► you know I mean we still talk about [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► daytime and I don't know if you know [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► this but the Russians don't have a word [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► for daytime on one of my all-time [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► favorite question ever that is that a [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► sting work the Russians love their date [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► on too [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► he was doing was I think it was during [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► the Reagan years somebody and his [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► cabinet said that the Russians don't [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► have a word for date on somebody had to [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► point out to him that neither does [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► english haha but um but it you know what [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► I'm saying here i'm not going to think [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► of it this way you know you throw me you [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► throw me the head I three the whip right [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► you're saying if i understand correctly [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► that's a movie quote but i understand [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► correctly you're saying that there is an [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► unstated done squawked on talked about [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► relationship mama says really about [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► business development relationship with [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► the birds [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► that's right that's right I did see I i [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► believe that that particularly these [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► birds is beneath their dignity for me to [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► throw them a bread crust [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► ah they want beneath everybody's didn't [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► yet they would they would happily people [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► to that is against a car rather than [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► have a human being like throw them some [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► food and such a chicken in a rat why the [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► fuck would you feel bird so we're making [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► feed themselves but I feel like it is [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► not it is not a case where I am a mole [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► inside of human society on behalf of the [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► birds and I don't believe that they are [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► the birds that I'm communicating with [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► our like betraying their own culture by [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► by reaching out to me I think that they [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► recognize me as a guest cottage kindred [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► spirit and they say there's a human we [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► can deal with let's just keep that on [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► the back burner if we see something that [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► can help him [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► islip it together we've got a man on the [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► inside literally that's right but in the [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► meantime let's just go our separate ways [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► if it comes down to it we can go to this [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► guy for counsel if there's some human [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► bird war we can go to this guy and yeti [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► well I think things things are going to [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► get tough I think i was looking up [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► yeah well you know did you read about [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► the crazy cat lady disease turns out [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► suppose supposedly there it's in their [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► boots in the cat poop [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► yeah that's right and so but there's I [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► i'm like i can't quote this from memory [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► but but it goes something along the [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► lines of you know there's certain [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► animals that need to have a host you [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► know inside of another animal that's a [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► very interesting thing in the nature and [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► if I remember this correctly there's [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► some kind of a bacteria or whatever it [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► is but it's something new it's in cat [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► poop and and the thing is when and i [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► know crazy cat ladies ping-pong so i [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► apologize it colonizes the crazy cat [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► ladies brains [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► so they keep cats so that they become [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► incubators for the cat poop bug right i [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► want to can stipulate one thing just for [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► myself I don't you don't have to agree [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► with this obviously but i would just [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► like to stipulate this you know when I [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► say cat lady [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► it's ok to have a cat it's potentially [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► okay to have two cats are you afraid of [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► getting letters are you afraid you're [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► going to get letters from people with [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► cast know i just wanna try to help [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► people i can't help people in the level [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► you do but I want to help somebody and [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► let you know to get on someone helps [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► some cats so here's something I what's [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► the maximum number of cats that the same [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► person can have three as three charities [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► real iffy 33 is real for crafts cats is [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► over the border into crazy cats are like [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► tattoos like how do you know when to [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► stop [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► like once you've got one you got fucking [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► i might as well get nine you know and [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► you're going to have animals in your [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► house you're already a little unbalanced [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► and so what is the number of tattoos [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► that you can have that is over the line [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► in your crazy person [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► i won ok write some letters [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► mm well not to worry about people and [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► hepatitis A and I have just like I said [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► 14 tattoos and I'm a regular leader sir [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► i am a grackle living inside of a man [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► mask but here's my thinking on this and [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► and I just want to get back to the big [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► bacteria or whatever in a second but [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► here's the thing i think if you've got [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► cat a cat that's fine [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► it's really good if you kind of tidy up [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► after for all of our sakes if you find [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► yourself getting closer and closer to [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► the 10 cat level I think I think it's [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► time to start thinking about some stuff [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► I think when you get to the greater than [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► 10 cat level your operation is slightly [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► higher level [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► no here's the thing i think at this [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► point first also John are you aware that [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► scrapbooking when people say scrapping [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► units code for hoarding right [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► scrapbooking is code for hoarding if you [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► ever go show me somebody [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► this is like this is like Dennis and [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► Kirsten if you show me somebody who is a [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► quote-unquote scrapbooker who's not a [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► hoarder [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► I learned this the other day Hugh Hefner [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► has been keeping scrapbooks since his [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► teen years and he's up to like 3,000 [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► scrapbooks he's not likely to the ladies [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► underwear or like what I don't know he [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► clicks eclipse his newspaper articles [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► any that's the four years said okay [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► there was clear the rest is flowers and [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► stuff i don't know what is [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► doing in these but he has he's got a [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► room in that the the Playboy Mansion [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► involved scrapbook she's been keeping [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► since the thirties right why I made this [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► might be the category error i'm gonna [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► have to figure all this out better stuff [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► yeah but here's what I'm saying I mean [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► there's a commonality and all these [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► things i'm sorry to say [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► all I'm saying is when you get to the [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► point when you have greater than n cats [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► whatever that number is the thing is [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► when they die you have to get rid of [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► that's I think the big problem is first [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► you start cleaning up the poop and then [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► you stopped getting rid of them when [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► they die and i think when you have more [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► than safe 540 cats and they are dying [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► and I think if you're not getting rid of [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► the bodies on a fairly regular basis [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► it's time to start looking at yourself [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► that's what I'm saying I think that's [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► well past time that you should have been [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► looking I'm trying I'm not trying to [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► judge i'm not judging or you're dead [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► cats [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► well you know what happens in the thing [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► is according to this bacteria or [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► whatever theory is affecting the poop [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► that poops in the house you and now you [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► you suppose that that's that is the best [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► kids song I've ever heard you write like [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► first there's a cat house and then [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► there's five cats in the cats make poop [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► and that seems that the mountains and [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► the houses in and it's like it could you [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► want to be like one of the school bus [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► campfire songs we eventually go like 99 [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► bottles of beer on the wall you know [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► well before that guy in Florida like to [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► like totally changed face-eating as a [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► mean forever just the bath salts will be [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► yea that well but it wasn't bath salts [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► he was just don't tell you how much it [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► touching cats [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► well I'm talking about cats that were [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► eating people's faces when the people [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► died people would died in their house [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► with 15 cats and they can take their [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► face that was the original face-eating [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► yeah that that's definitely up there in [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► the ways i don't want to go [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► there's a there's a slightly [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► fictionalized well the song is a [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► fictionalized version of that song [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► Murray provost bye bye nick lowe and [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► it's about a former silent film star her [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► dog like eight ER after she died [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► oh she was a winner but she became the [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► doggies dinner he was still developing [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► as a leader assistant yeah yeah Nick [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► Cave niklo don't know that would be [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► great [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► you've been white [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► and cabin nipples actor toes the toes [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► pretty that's [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► but you know why we should get into this [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► because we're already doing it so many [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► letters probably more into written in [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► calligraphy um I I guess I guess what [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► I'm trying to get at is this i think [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► there's obviously you know one it's your [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► show I just think there's so much power [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► in these animals and you can be firm or [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► again them and I think you should you [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► should if I don't tell you what to do [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► but I can't tell you what to do but it [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► seems crazy to me not to leverage the [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► way this could benefit everyone [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► especially the people that you [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► eventually want to smite but that's the [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► thing i cannot at this juncture as much [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► foresight as i have as much inside as I [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► have into these creatures and I cannot [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► see the end [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► from where I stand I've been working on [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► my relationships with the raccoons of [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► the Northwest my entire life and I feel [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► like the raccoons and I understand one [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► another but they are inscrutable to me i [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► can I do not have the power to command [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► them and they don't that they don't seem [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► to mean they definitely want to engage [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► we have long conversations but then they [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► they do their little bow and put their [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► little hands together and do the little [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► like the same phenomena state bow and [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► then they are often to the darkness and [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► I'd I just I feel like it is not a [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► relationship that I'm trying to I'm [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► trying to shape or move in any direction [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► i'm just waiting and watching and [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► keeping every once in a while we meet in [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► a dark alley and I say hello and they [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► say namaste and we go our separate ways [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► and even if even if i die and all of [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► this collected wisdom and it all just [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► don't think I I don't think you'll die [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► John well it's it's conceivable if it [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► happens I think what will happen is that [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► that that that someone will take me out [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► i'm sure i've already got a cross hairs [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► on me you think it might be the animal [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► that does it [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► no no not at all the animals know the [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► animals no no and i think i think the [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► animals have probably protected me so [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► thus far in ways you may not even know [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► that's button here [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► the thing now that spider you never know [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► could be Charlotte's Web Wilson type [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► situation it could be something with [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► that monkey net is there because you're [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► not supposed to be in the top maybe [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► there's letting that time and it would [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► be stupid if you liked it [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► you're looking stuff very close to the [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► let you know you can have led you by [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► ingo your walgreens you buy a kit to [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► find how much like you got your bathtub [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► did you know that i didn't know but you [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► know much like we have in our bathtub [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► about shit tons in your bathtub 1928 [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► they don't replace much i think our [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► furnaces original but you know when [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► you're when you first get your kid you [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► worry about it [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► yeah you don't worry about as much later [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► the other did you do you don't you know [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► baby your daughter because of the LED [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► well I mean now we don't want to get [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► into your parenting know we know you [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► don't want to get into my parenting [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► that's a record and Ally my friend but [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► no well as easy in the early days [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► because you get a little bucket you [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► watch it watch the child a bucket and [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► there's no letting buckets by and large [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► as long as you if there is let you [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► remove it [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► did I do a good job as a parent that I [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► never watched my kid in a bucket when [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► she was small enough to go into a bucket [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► I think it depends it depends if you did [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► you do the same core did you just do it [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► down ecology do it from the time she was [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► she was very very little person i just [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► took her in the bathtub with me with you [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► so I had a sandwich I had the coffee i [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► had the smoothie the newspapers and then [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► I had this little uh zygote like a [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► little bouncy see her when she was just [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► such a kind of floating apparatus now [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► she's set on my me huh [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► I don't think that's so bad as long as [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► you don't you know center with the sub [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► she didn't die [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► no all you know Mazel Tov I I don't see [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► a problem in the world with that like [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► yeah although the one the one fear of [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► course the whole time was that she was [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► going to poop but you never did because [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► again i looked at her she looked at me [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► who there was an understanding yes she [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► said namaste [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► I said no poop in the bathtub you never [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► you never got one of those huh [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► she's never pooped on me never had a man [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► on the boat I we had that we had one [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► very tiny one that we all felt a little [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► bit bad about but wasn't I've heard [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► people save me some people to make them [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► they make it sound like you know [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► something happens all the time [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► well there are a lot of people who are [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► doing a terrible terrible terrible job [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► of raising their kids [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► well I think one thing is they let their [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► kids know that it's okay to poop and I [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► think when you send that message out [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► that's going to be reinforced it's [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► something that you know they-they-they [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► I think your child should never know [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► that you poop you you should you should [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► just assume that when they're in the [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► bathroom they're probably having a sob [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► working on some kind of relationship [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► with grackles and raccoons you serious [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► that's daddy's strategy room [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► yeah as they as they say you know with [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► every generation the the parenting style [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► switches you have a generation of strict [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► parents and then a generation of leaders [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► and parents who solutely i personally [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► agree I agree with that yes and and now [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► i am the I'm the new generation of [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► strict parent I do not want my child to [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► think it's okay for them to do anything [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► that's not okay for them that's just not [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► okay [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► it is it guilt is it self-doubt is it [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► fear what was there one governing thing [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► that you've instilled in her with terror [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► guilt self doubt or fear no none of [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► those things I I don't want her to feel [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► guilty or any self-doubt or any fear of [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► anything other than me [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► it's strictly fear of dad she's passing [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► everything through and add filter [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► yeah it's just like what's dad gonna say [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► about this dad your name [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► I think I can't think of a possible way [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► that could go wrong no it's not it's [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► it's foolproof [TS]