Roderick on the Line

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00:00:27 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► boy not John I'm Merlin that's it going [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► good four times jar times just what oh [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► my god now what would cost at that time [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► well see here's the thing huh think [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► about the internet yeah the way it's [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► provided to you don't know what it's [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► like other countries but i don't know i [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► don't know what it's like but here in [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► America is provided to you by a company [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► right yeah even though the Internet [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► itself exists in a sphere em right it's [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► a series of tubes under the Rocky [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► Mountains in salt lake city in an old [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► salt mine owned by just is that what is [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► that what the internet mostly is it has [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► tendrils that come out via via tubes and [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► orbs but he largely located in Colorado [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► that's my sense of it between salt lake [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► in Colorado there's a giant tunnel that [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► used to be a salt mine who that now has [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► a biohazard billboard outside of it [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► ok so that's smart yeah so that future [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► generations when they don't speak eight [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► languages anymore and they're just [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► wandering the desert post-apocalypse and [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► here be dragons right exactly they see [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► the pointy biohazard sign they know that [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► either there's a giant metal concert [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► happening there but with insects or [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► that's where the internet lived and [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► don't mess with it [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► oh my gosh finally found a way to [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► contain it yeah right but the tubes the [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► tendrils let's call them 10 tendrils him [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► the tendrils come out and then at some [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► point there is coitus interruptus [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► between the tendrils and me and in [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► between there is a portal [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► let's call it a let's call it a valve ok [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► I should be writing all this down you [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► got you got you got the cold storage [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► when the spiky signs that's that's where [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► they mainly keep the internet and into a [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► series of two orbs tendrils and portals [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► there are various methods by which the [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► internet does or does not get to John [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► Roderick right and the valves are [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► controlled by [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► I companies all the valves ok right in [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► my case at my office [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► the valve is controlled by a company [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► called wave John did you have many many [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► options for your internet provider your [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► office at my office wave company has the [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► exclusive rights to provide internet and [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► that right was was negotiated i think at [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► a level above above my access right I [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► didn't I wasn't included in that [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► discussion so i can only use the [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► internet provided by wave and wave is [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► very inconsistent sometimes the valve [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► slams shut and then I am I you know I am [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► in a situation where I have to take out [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► my Big Chief notebook and write down [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► some very very angry letters to various [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► mixes the thesis will turrets and and [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► those times you fear that your valve me [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► a permanently sealed permanently sealed [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► and so I i call the customer service and [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► I i talked to a nice man at a certain [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► point I yelled at him at a certain point [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► he reverted to as we've talked about [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► before customer service formality [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► weekend nice he did he said sir Sir [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► and then he said well sir before you [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► swore at me when in fact all I had said [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► was bullshit who isn't swearing i think [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► in the in the realm of customer service [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► i'm not like sonographer but I think in [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► the realm of customer service that's [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► just a response like did you try [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► plugging it in ya boldly valid response [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► totally valid and I got a time he asked [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► me seriously if I had unplugged and [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► replugged in my modem three times and uh [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► that one point he said something i don't [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► remember what it was and I said bullshit [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► and he said well sir before he swore at [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► me i was about to tell you some i was [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► about to tell you to unplug your modem [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► and I was like um [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► I got so anyway here I am broadcasting [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► from a separate location where the tubes [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► are clear the valve is open for now [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► valve is open the tubes are clear the [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► internet is provided by a different [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► company this this internet this comcast [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► internet huh [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► another internet provider that is some [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► kind of oligarchy oligopoly mm and they [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► don't they don't care about me right [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► I've been on the phone with them too [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► they don't care about me I might have [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► even said bullshit to them oh and what I [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► want is unfettered unrestricted access [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► to the to the tubes [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► I want to control my own valve yeah and [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► I don't you tell me Merlin what what [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► about net neutrality no can literally [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► begging to get me started on this but [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► now you have and here's the thing about [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► the valves and cubes and the orbs in the [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► tendrils and yes about the cold storage [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► by this bike you sign in Colorado and by [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► the way it's pronounced colorado i found [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► out Cole arado Colorado and Nevada [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► oh and how ru pronouncing well used to [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► say Nevada and Colorado and apparently [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► that's not correct i found a a web page [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► that tells you how to pronounce states [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► Colorado and use and now you're saying [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► it's colorado state colorado but here's [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► the here's the thing and this is this is [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► I think the vexing part about so much of [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► the technology stuff is it seems like it [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► either works [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► ninety percent well or it doesn't work [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► at all me when it doesn't work at all [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► there's not much recourse except yelling [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► bullshit at somebody you don't know [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► there's not much you can do and I was [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► trying to and so just in terms of a [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► little bit of inside baseball [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► this is our third well counting today's [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► failures of 4th 4th attempt to record [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► the show last week and a half because of [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► your wave problem and the inherent valve [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► issues and you don't have control the [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► valve right so we have some abortive [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► attempts to do this and I was trying to [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► help you troubleshoot because the error [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► message you were getting i used i use [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► the googles and i found out that's for [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► your router yeah router was throwing [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► that message so i was trying to help you [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► log into that to see if maybe needed to [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► be rebooted I here's to us here's the [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► thing so now now wave people now I just [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► interrupt the ways people have the [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► capacity to [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► reboot the router via of their own valve [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► a server assuming all of the tendrils [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► are intact they should be able to say [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► there is a router here there's a modem [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► here and i should be able to see if [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► that's working so here's what happened [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► here is where the mystery deepens they [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► were able to see the router and it [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► doesn't make you feel better and they [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► said seems fine [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► looks like from here works for me looks [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► fine from here and I said that's why [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► they were like trying to unplug it and I [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► said listen to me i have been you know [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► this isn't my first rodeo which is a [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► good phrase I don't usually use it [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► because it's kind of trite this isn't my [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► first rodeo [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► no I i was driving in a town called [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► mcminnville oregon the other day and a [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► guy in the high country that's right and [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► I was I was parallel parking and a guy [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► in a very big dodge ram truck pulled up [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► right behind me and I had my blinker on [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► my reverse lights on and I proceeded to [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► back up in order to get to my to my [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► parking spot at which point he hawked [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► his giant horn and so I leaned out the [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► window and I said I'm parallel parking [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► here you know in a kind i didn't use a [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► Brooklyn accent but like parallel [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► parking here you know what that's from [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► we get a little rats ERISA that's right [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► and he leans out his window and he says [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► that movie is overrated [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► no he's going anywhere baseball cap knee [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► has a moustache and his wife is in the [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► truck and he says you ran that stop sign [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► and everything through referring to a [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► prior stop sign which I had made a free [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► right turn ass which is legal in the [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► northwest and maybe I didn't come to a [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► complete stop [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► yeah I slowed and then made a free right [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► right you were respectful he said you [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► ran that stop sign and everything and [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► everything and that's and that's why the [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► horn [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► that's why though he came up behind me [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► didn't want to give me an inch to [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► parallel park because i had run that [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► stops oh it's time for some friends but [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► yes that's right and everything [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► and so I thought at that moment to yell [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► is this your first rodeo cowboy which i [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► thought would be a good burn but then I [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► thought that's a that's too on-the-nose [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► if they were there were three lines from [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► a screenplay it would never pass muster [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► though because it's not it's such an odd [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► exchange yeah and so what I said I [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► because I because this is the problem [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► right if you if you edit yourself in the [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► moment [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► sometimes you do it you sometimes it [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► works but a lot of times you get in [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► front of yourself right and so I should [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► have said is this your first rodeo [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► cowboy [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► mhm oh that would have been devastated [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► but instead i said is this your first [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► day I got halfway in and I was like [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► don't think I don't see rodeo is this [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► your first day that sounds like this is [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► has been translated from maybe polish [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► this your first day of sand and [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► everything is this your first day and so [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► of course he like big diesel like a [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► take-off around me on his way that's the [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► other side of mcminnville like to the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► feed and seed store because it might [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► have been his first day [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► oh you let you might have triggered him [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► a little bit [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► well but then i sat in my car and I was [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► like God is this your first day [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► nobody's gonna be like sick burn all the [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► other people walk all by all that like [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► hippie mom's walking the streets in [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► mcminnville are going to be like is this [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► your first day they're gonna they're [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► gonna walk home they're going to be [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► thinking about that was that a burner [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► what to so anyway you were about to go [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► on a rant about about Internet portals [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah just sit down [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► I know what you mean about the valves [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► though because I get this i M gonna say [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► something shocking here i'm i'm not a [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► huge fan of cable town the company but [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► but the comcast service has been fast [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► and solid for me mostly for the past few [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► years with some crazy exceptions [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► and you know that the thing is that in [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► order to have the technology that we [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► have there are so many layers of [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► abstraction to make us not have to see [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► the bits and bytes and that benefits us [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► a lot of the time when it works [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► extremely well you don't even think [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► about the bits and bytes don't but they [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► want something does go wrong [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► there's not they don't easily expose I [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► think about this all the time of my [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► phone is not working on my phone of my [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► messages are coming up in the wrong [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► order or not at all [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► there's not a button that says show me [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► what's going wrong no you can do nothing [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► and this is super true to the 11 million [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► power with the internet because your [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► internet goes out eat well unless you're [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► on your phone and wireless you can't [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► even go to the website and check it out [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► it's the ultimate network diagnostics [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► says the network is not working kind of [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► radical right so I mean one handy thing [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► to do is like lucky with comcast you can [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► go in and if you log in with your phone [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► using you know your regular old LTE [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► service or whatever don't you can go in [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► and see if there's any problems in your [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► area but then you get these mystery [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► problems this is almost on us we're like [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► the KKK fairly common twice your thing [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► for me with comcast is their dns servers [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► go down [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► oh yeah and dns is just in for people [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► who care and do not service do not [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► service that's right you know shirt no [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► shoes right to present reserve it's [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► basically the system that says that this [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► IP address sequels this name and vice [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► versa so the thing is though if you [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► don't experience you experience that as [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► websites don't come up because it's [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► using the names of them usually not the [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► IP addresses of those things and but how [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► would a normal person ever that's me [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► well how ok so I I know I know to do [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► this because it took several times this [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► happening to wear with you here like [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► every couples few months of the dns [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► servers go down so one thing you can do [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► is you can go you can log into in my [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► case my router is an apple router i can [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► go into the apple router and i can say [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► use this these different dns servers [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► avoid the comcast servers [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► I don't think many people are going to [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► think to do that if they're if they're [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► if they're Game of Thrones isn't showing [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► it's not necessarily going to occur to [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► them to go find alternate IP addresses [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► to use as dns servers i would not that [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► would not occur to me and and then even [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► then it doesn't always work because that [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► may not be the problem you know and so [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► you know it it's it's really vexing and [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► you start to feel like you got more [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► gallant we go to your doctor and you say [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► i have threads coming out of my skin and [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► here's a match box full of skin and [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► mushrooms and so what we need to do to [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► fix this and they go that's not a thing [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► haha [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► and that's how you feel when you're when [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► you're talking to these folks [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► yes that is how i feel and so not to [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► press the bruise here but this is still [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► I'm giving that you're at a third [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► location that you know this is not a [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► resolved issue with your wave [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► no because then the person very nice man [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► and we ended up being good friends you [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► reconcile we did because because he went [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► away to talk to somebody and put me on [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► hold with some jazzy music and when he [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► came back i had calmed down and he had [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► calmed down and then he was trying to me [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► not in a knot in his like training voice [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► he's talking me into a human voice and i [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► SAT and listened to his human voice and [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► then i said i'd like to apologize for my [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► outburst earlier good for you and he [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► said thank you sir [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► and then we proceeded from there in a [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► very human way and at the end he said I [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► understand how frustrating this is [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► I would be frustrated if I were in your [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► situation and I said you're going off [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► script now [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► yeah like I don't think it's supposed to [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► say that no you're apologizing like hey [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► let's keep this between us if this call [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► is being recorded for quality assurance [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► let's hope nobody reviews it was there [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► going to see that you're being a human [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► being so then he said i have the [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► following because you have to be there [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► for wave to come check it out so he was [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► like i have the following appointment [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► monday at 11am I was like too late i [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► haven't I have a podcast at ten on [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► Monday [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► alright what about tuesday at eleven [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► well that would be after the pod cat so [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► that's not good what about sunday at to [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► do you think I want to be at my office [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► sunday at two waiting 46 hours for a way [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► of guy [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► yeah like sunday that's that's sunday [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► funday mhm says write the name sunday [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► sunday sunday [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► mhm I'd be a monster truck rally yeah so [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► what it ended up was [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► one of the times were convenient to me [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► because guess what not it's never going [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► to be convenient for me to go sit in my [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► office without internet for four to six [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► hours waiting for your repair man it's [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► like your basement is full of water and [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► they want to just go sit in waist deep [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► water for a couple couple 28 hours until [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► they should maybe show up [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► yeah go sit in the basement servers are [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► we can fix that until you sit in the [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► water so for me what that means is go [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► sit in front of my computer from 1997 [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► and go through old files and try to [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► remember why i put that in the file [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► well that's no good you know like some [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► of them are like why did I put that in a [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► fight it's weird how long we use [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► computers before they were on the [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► internet it's so you [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► it seats six so we're okay i guess i [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► look at my txt file I remember taking [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► some little will you know what were the [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► floppies that weren't floppy yellow gem [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► like the the little ones with little [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► silver sliding on ya little pop tarts [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► still causing call it off because that [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► sorry [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► yeah but how would you distinguish that [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► from like a giant 7 inch across right [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► you get the big pc floppy disks with [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► little record player in them and then [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► you get the little ones and you get like [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► what like it in the 800 k or a hundred [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► full-on k right and you can put tape [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► over the little notch and in and making [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► bigger these to be a trick [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► yeah that was a trick right because that [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► you would you put them it would flip the [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► switch outside double density [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► double-side double densities I remember [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► that that was like that was like a [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► double-sided tape that 120 minute [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► passive tape that's always a huge [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► technology it was anyway I had a bunch [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► of the little the poster sized ones [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► toaster popping fresh floppy like [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► pepperidge farm bread that sighs yeah [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► and I took them into the stranger [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► Seattle's a weekly alternative paperback [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► before I was feuding with them the most [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► recent time because they had some old [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► Mac some-some Lisa that was that they [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► actually had hooked up to their system [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► where you could put in floppies [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► and translate that material into a [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► contemporary format so you can get like [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► old like Microsoft Word files or [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► whatever yeah and so I went in there and [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► I had like I had 800 files where I had [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► sat down after smoking a doobie and [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► written some uh what we would call now a [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► blog post but which at the time was a [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► was a post for a zine that i had the [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► idea to publish one day [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► Wow which I never did publish a zine and [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► all this stuff all this writing that was [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► you know a time before i had never [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► published anything right sit down at the [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► at the typewriter or the computer later [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► and say a writer writes and so I would [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► write write write write and the writing [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► would be garbage but i would fill the [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► page with writing about my feelings or [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► sore observations and I and I think via [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► that process did actually develop a [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► writing style and I have like hundreds [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► and hundreds of these pages and I [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► translated them all over into a format [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► that i can now even go into my 1990a [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► computer waist-deep in water who waiting [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► for the internet yeah and and read some [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► of these of these wonderful wonderful [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► historical posts unposted posts will [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► call you and and and then be unable to [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► either delete them because they're part [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► of the historical record or edit them [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► because again that would be that's like [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► going back and putting shockwaves around [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► the destruction of a planet that's kinda [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► like oh yeah it's time for Paul [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► McCartney problem right [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► yeah don't go back who you never never [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► go back always go forward so yeah and so [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► what are they they're just these [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► albatrosses I don't want that nobody's [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► ever going to read them [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► I'm never going to publish a magazine [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► yeah do i do I give them to my daughter [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► when I die let you feel about the story [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► it's kind of sad [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► yeah every one of my stories of you [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► pursue it long enough it turns into [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► turns into another year passing where [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► then death is raking up my year into a [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► garbage bag that looks like a pumpkin [TS]

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00:22:45 ◼   ► right consistent deaths front yard [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► happy holidays it's a guy just never [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► gets better does that back [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► nothing ever gets better well how could [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► no oh nobody's working on making it [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► you're gonna know it's just fits all [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► over again right is it you're pushing a [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► modem up the modem uphill so [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► sophisticated [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► huh yeah i think people are trying to [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► make more rather than better who don't [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► you think yeah yeah do better [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► yeah and just more and slightly [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► different but not better [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► mm you don't get better that much so [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► often right [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► who was the last time you upgraded or a [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► yeah or updated let's say upgraded or [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► updated who anything where you felt like [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► that was not just knew that there was up [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► there was a market improvement in what [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► was already there right [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► not not that often and it's usually a [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► different disagree but sometimes by been [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► sort of my identity the fact that the [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► operating system on the phone gets [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► better the people who make the apps that [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► I use or sometimes able to do something [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► really really quite amazing and actually [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► very useful from the minute I get it [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► that is one place where I do see that [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► improvement now it is that something [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► where having you know millions literally [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► millions of apps on the App Store has [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► led to like being better absolutely not [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► it's a shitshow but now in regular life [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► I mean our friend John Syracuse's talked [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► about with toaster ovens you think about [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► the toaster oven of your childhood like [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► that's to me that's a pretty great [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► example like the toaster oven that we [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► had it was before Black & Decker later [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► would be a black & decker model i think [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► there was this [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► toaster oven that everybody had in 1978 [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► i remember it was flawless [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► I mean not flawless but they still work [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► now if you find one of the thrift store [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► plugin oh there's so many grandmas and [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► grandpas still have this thing and it [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► works great it does what it needs to do [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► it makes toast fast independently it has [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► an analog dial that lets you choose [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► exactly how dark you wanted to be and [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► you can also make a stop first meal in [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► yeah stouffer's and like you know so I [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► mean yeah whatever old man talk but you [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► know instead now you go to walgreens and [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► you get a toast for nineteen dollars [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► that suggests it's a piece of shit [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► yeah so i don't know i mean it will not [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► can we just say knob know what I can't [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► we have more knobs not such a good idea [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► I don't want a digital display I don't [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► want a button I don't want to scroll [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► through something give me a knob [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► this is it's a great scroll you actually [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► literally scroll especially like a ticky [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► ticky ticky knob like a ticky ticky we [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► can go like you know it three notches [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► means on your old clock radio or you [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► know like in your car stereo you know [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► think about all acdelco were you exactly [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► how to turn to get right to key 15 you [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► exactly how much motion took oh yeah do [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► you want to know a secret [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► yes do you want to know a secret from [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► that movie [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► do you promise not to towels and deals [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► this weekend want this in the beatles [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► this weekend [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► they're a good band yeah you know George [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► George read some kind of kind of mean [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► songs he had a little bit of Rolling [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► Stones fever he was really mad women for [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► a while [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► well George you know like still waters [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► run deep [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► yeah except in the case of George the [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► water fairly run from but he got way [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► better even by revolver like something I [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► want to tell you is is a much better [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► song he's you know my favorite people [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► obviously but he really yeah okay I [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► don't know how I missed that [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► yeah okay continue um but he he was a [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► dark little dude and that's why he went [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► to the to the Swami land i want to swami [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► little regime a schmoo right and then [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► then hare krishna who [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► who which is actually hari krishna m dot [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► nevada nevada nevada Harry hari uh-huh [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► you wouldn't call it Harry krishna right [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► Harry krishna what that's my father's [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► name lookup mr. Christian but uh but [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► George actually like ashes Christians [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► monster haha yeah sorry [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► reseña he changed it Ellis segment I [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► officials like the like the you know [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► whatever was dark and fucked up about [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► lennon was right on the face of things [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► whatever was dark about Paul his true [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► darkness Paul's darkness i think was and [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► Paul is probably the darkest man that [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► ever lived but it is so very Baltimore [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► think that ball if you if you took if [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► you took the they live of human face [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► mask off of Paul you would find a you [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► would find a mini tentacled cthulhu [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► really yeah [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► Ringo is the only person the only beetle [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► who is genuinely nice like Ringo is is [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► purely a nice person i believe that but [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► George there's something there's [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► something darken in George that you know [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► that a that he tried to solve let's call [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► let's say George tried to solve his [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► darkness and I and I admire him for that [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► that's one of the reasons he's my [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► favorite people [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► he's also the smallest people know me [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► Tony Ringo is taller than George well I [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► don't know if he's taller than George [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► but he's bigger than George huh [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► right like smallness George kind of [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► narrow gorge is narrow i think if you [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► put them in a mass spectrometer ok [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► George would have the seals and a [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► spectrometer [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► oh no my low but George's my face is [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► that more molecular molecular weight [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► Ringo does the Ringo yeah these [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► molecules are bigger ok but there are a [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► few songs by George that just make me as [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► happy as any as any music [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► and it's um I can't explain exactly why [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► uh yeah i'm sorry i'm typing now that's [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► fine um I can explain exactly why these [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► these these George Harrison tunes made [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► me happier than almost any other Beatles [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► but but they did right like I want to [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► tell you how to does that not make you [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► happy just to think about it now but [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► like sample like I like everything about [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► that song [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► yes it's really feel something up but he [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► doesn't know why it but it's also just [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► the music I'm just kind of singing in my [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► head it's very angular for the time then [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► and it's kinda got a weird it's got a [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► weird vibe for the time [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb i mean that's [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► that's a heavy jam it's got that cool [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► bridge [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► what's a boy truffle is something that [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► you just go WTF that's not you nobody [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► puts that on the list of best beatles [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► songs but i really really like it and [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► then within you without you [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► that's what we're talking about the [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► space to ourselves [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► that's right ok George Harrison Beatles [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► and uh and it is i get that solo record [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► which is just like whoo right we let [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► what is life [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► I mean come on it's easier to make no [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► sensible what if lyrics guy I'm just got [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► down our narrow narrow its man that gets [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► got some he's got so many killer riffs [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► the horns on that like oh and I oh my [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► god no no I i suggest to you this [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► yeah go into the internet okay I'm going [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► in now go up the go up the stream [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► through the valve pass that test the [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► tendrils to through a tendril all the [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► way to the cave under the bridge orb [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► don't don't don't listen to it right now [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► because we're doing a podcast right but [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► there is a there is a track on the [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► Internet of clapton playing guitar on [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► what his life was an isolated track [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► well wait a minute he George so I love [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► this because of the [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► story that it suggests George had [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► Clapton in his pal his wife stealer [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► uh-huh and clapped and laid down a track [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► on what is life that George did not use [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► what is life secondly guitar [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► yeah okay well and he's gotten but it's [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► a rhythm it's a rhythm track so there's [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► a if he plays the lead i didn't hear it [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► but he does play a rhythm track that's [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► very very Clapton that's all like [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► chicken back toward on plant want to [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► grip down in particular [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► he's dead just got like he's got a whole [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► part it's not just a he's not just [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► laying down a strumming acoustic he's [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► got like a he's doing a bit throughout [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► that's Clapton II and I was like is this [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► in there as I was listening to it was [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► like is this in the track i can't [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► believe it [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► this is such a like Clapton you chicka [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► chicka [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► it's like a chew its not its chillin and [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► I don't have that song juke remember [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► chicken I remember it having of a tank [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► again gonna get like a sick scored like [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► a thing you know I mean that that's what [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► I remember the rhythm guitar being well [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► so then you go listen to the track and [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► you realize George had George head a [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► George Clapton come in charge captain [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► and play this track and then he was like [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► when they were mixing it he said it's [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► not really working and he pulled it out [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► because it would have totally changed [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► the tune and that's a thing that George [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► Harrison can do not use the clapton [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► track what you're clapping came in and [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► played some jubilant thing on a long [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► winter song I'd feel somewhat obligated [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► to have it in the track right but [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► George's like now [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► no that's not what that's not what i'm [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► going for and I thought that was pretty [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► cool like mute the clapton ok i'll check [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► that out and try to see some of that [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► one's here [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► I think you'll like it um look at a few [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► you know you do [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► imagine my tell you i mean my need you [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► somewhere mmm that you you know Harvey [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► danger covered that too when I [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► the band really there's a local band has [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► a cover that too it's it's such a great [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► little 3-quart pop song that is that's [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► nice [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► oh man did you know I don't know if I've [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► ever told you this [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► we did not have a toaster oven in my [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► home when I was growing up he did not [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► have a toaster oven in your really no [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► tools no toaster oven we had a toaster [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► well I know that you and your sister you [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► got your mystery brother you never talk [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► about but this is you and your sister [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► living with your mom [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► that's right no toaster no toaster oven [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► was it on like ethical moral grounds why [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► would you not [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► and this was this was one of this is [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► like not having a calculator in your [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► house [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► well we had calculator sure use them all [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► the time she's not afraid of science and [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► math know my mom's the original stem [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► baller [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► that's right she had we had one of the [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► first chicken soup maybe 1 John my mom I [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► don't think made a calculator but she [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► knew how to use a graphing calculator [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► Oh hot which I never figured out no [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► sense but you know I could find it [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► I could I could push the cosine button [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► and watch what it did [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► that's that's going on your CV you know [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► I i spent many an afternoon pushing a [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► pushing the cosine button1 roulette [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► shale shale oil boobs but I but here's a [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► here's the weird business is that I had [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► never seen a toaster of them we just [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► didn't have one it was it never came up [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► my dad didn't have one either and then [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► later on in life like when I went to [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► college [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► some kid had a toaster oven in his room [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► and I was like what's this miraculous [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► thing you can put a piece of pizza in [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► there and it it makes it like so much [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► better than microwave pete's sake [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► yeah we we had we had no access to this [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► technology and I think if we wanted to [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► heat up a pizza we turned on the oven [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► yep but we did it we were early adopters [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► of microwaves [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► ok so so your mom to have a microwave we [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► got a microwave a fairly early in the [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► consumer ionization of of a nuclear [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► power to hell but the youngsters today [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the millenniums will not remember that [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► we got our first 1i want to say 77 78 78 [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► and better than that but but no but [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► being a why because it was yeah well its [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► gonna be like having hiroshima in your [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► kitchen yeah you turn it on when you run [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► into the other room and you tell me you [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► got like nuclear technology in your oven [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► you think that doors gonna protect you [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► yeah well so we got ours in about [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► nineteen eighty but it was the size of a [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► stereo speaker and I mean the size of a [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► nineteen eighty stereos because sure [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► write it it had it was this if you could [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► put two woofers but the usable space [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► inside was still kinda surpassingly [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► small there's a lot of stuff in the oven [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► by 1980 they had made it so that you [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► it's not like you're going to put a [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► turkey in there and if you did put a [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► turkey in there would either explode or [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► become like it would it would have the [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► consistency of flawed i tried i tried to [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► cook a chicken once in college I tried [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► to cook a chicken in the microwave it [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► was unspeakable what to do this animal [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► haha yeah what did you do well you know [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► there was a time when i start to capture [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► story but there's a time when you can [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► get microwave because in the original [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► vision of microwaves I think the [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► marketing geniuses realized that the [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► microwave parts or like steve jobs in [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► the iphone were like we had to get want [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► to give you this internet communicator [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► but we had to call the phone otherwise [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► you wouldn't buy and in this case this [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► is a whole new technology but it also [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► had to feel like a regular oven so we do [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► stuff like browning you'd have like a [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► little like up cover burner in there [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► where you can brown things people like [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► why would I because people the idea [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► about microwaves was there dangerous [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► than a few food toxic and it doesn't [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► really cook anything except maybe [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► scrambled eggs and then that's really [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► gross [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► that was the thought or you know bacon [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► you can make bacon your microwave and by [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► the way I've got a great pic and recipe [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► for you but but [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► so this one did not have that if it did [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► happen i didn't use it i didn't really [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► understand how to use a microwave and [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► with everything you can imagine being [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► horribly wrong about this food it just [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► it made it like it was just it was kinda [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► like a big pile of human skin [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► yeah was it was yellow ok it was yellow [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► and kind of crackly and it was very very [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► unpleasant and I had to just have to [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► just let go a little bit of a crack one [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► road cracks so you just toss the old [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► trick what do you do you know I hate [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► throwing food away but you know what it [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► looks like and also used to cook my [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► bathroom in college [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► that's a different issue the microwave [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► that we had in 1980 we continue to have [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► through the eighties into the nineties [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► and then when I moved to Seattle I took [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► said microwave did have a handling a [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► chunk it had a boat went to chunk it one [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► could jump like a vault door [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► yeah like but like I like the deep [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► freeze at a restaurant and had like a [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► latch it didn't have just like a little [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► door that swung open you had to go cut [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► chunk no it wasn't a like industrial [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► food service one it was consumed it was [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► you know what had a woodgrain finish [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► bright stars [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► um but but I put it on top of the [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► refrigerator in my apartment in in [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► seattle and it was the same width as the [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► refrigerator like it sat on top it's [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► that proudly Wow on top of the [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► refrigerator giant microwave and then [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► one day I came home I opened the door [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► and will open my front door and was [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► greeted with a blast of hot air and I [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► was like what [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► hey uh huh and I could see into my [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► apartment and I saw that all the windows [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► were steamed and I was like what the who [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► what did I leave the shower on is there [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► someone and then I was for a brief [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► moment I was like be is there some [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► amazing woman that's come into my [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► apartment is showering and when I walk [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► into my place she's gonna get out of the [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► shower [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► she's probably in trouble and say that [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► she had trouble she's place to go to get [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► a quick shower [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► she's either in trouble or she says in a [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► Russian accent huh [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► we've been watching you m or something [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► many movies I've seen let me to believe [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► this would be that is a fairly plausible [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► explanation for why of steam in your [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► house [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► sure I kept I I stood there and I was [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► like this is you know like I I then mind [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► taking out my pistol who from inside my [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► shoulder holster between my tweed jacket [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► and my turtleneck [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► and then I appeared into the bathroom [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► thinking that there would be a lovely [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► russian spy who stepped out but in fact [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► there was not and then I walked into the [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► kitchen and the microwave was on [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► oh and had been on all day with nothing [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► in it turned itself on know and I was [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► like what [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► oh no no no what the what yeah and I ran [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► in and I pushed stop on the on the [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► button and it did not stop it did not [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► want to stop and so I think even in 1996 [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► when this was i think i did at [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► absolutely feel like maybe the entire [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► apartment was full of radon and Iran [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► that's like that's one of the first [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► rules i mean one of one of the rules is [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► don't you ever put metal in the [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► microwave and the other one is you never [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► have nothing in the microwave right and [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► I never really got the full explanation [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► about why that would be I can second [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► speculate but I think radon is a very [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► that's a pretty predictable outcome [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► radon or a older Eaton's yeah meetin's [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► so I then I ran back in unplugged it and [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► then stayed out of there for the rest of [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► the day came back in very suspiciously [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► still no one interesting in the shower [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► and I immediately said about moving out [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► of this apartment and when I moved out i [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► left the microwave because this was also [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► the apartment this was the apartment [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► where the manager said i did not make [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► the rat God made the wrap and so get [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► your least sir [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► and so it says right there God made the [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► rack it's it was a force majeure what [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► ok that's God right that's not matter at [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► yeah so this was the apartment that so [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► here's how i left the apartment right [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► under the refrigerator i took all the [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► white bombs and I left the microwave [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► that will ship it so II he either had a [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► real mess to clean up or he just rented [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► the apartment with the microwave [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► I don't know if you plug it back in and [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► it started running again [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► like I don't know which one of the [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► little the little like synapses the open [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► closed doors the the on/off so the ones [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► and zeros [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► uh-huh I don't know which one shorted [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► out so that this thing was like I'm on [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► now you can't keep me off haha imagine [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► you've been away for the weekend that's [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► why my works is I feel like Oh imagine [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► that went on for like a Liberty weekend [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► you know how long how long before [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► melting itself [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► I mean it's steamed up the house I don't [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► even know where it got all that steam [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► isn't one of the rules of Robotics [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► you're not allowed to hurt people [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► right yeah he can't hurt other [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► microwaves right don't go on by yourself [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► right Stan stay on the roads down the [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► Moores one of the rules of our local [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► employers ya never a never initiate a [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► land war in Asia brightness is she on [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► sunday i don't invade Russia in the fall [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► mhm up against this is necessary and get [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► this online but all these things should [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► have been in the microwaves prime [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► directive why we're not putting out [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► ebooks we can help so many people do you [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► know many people have microwaves and [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► don't really know all the all the laws [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► and rules there are 40 Merlin Mann [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► parody accounts on Twitter but there's [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► no Merlin Mann ebooks [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah we get the bottom does that [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► I would be indistinguishable from actual [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► account [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► yeah I I feel the same way i don't think [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► i'm on my account is where but people [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► tell me it's where John syracuse I think [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► my comments very weird and I don't get [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► that you make references to things that [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► are flying through the sky [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► yeah that can all be googled well but [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► there goes now and you see it and you [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► refer to it but in a lot of cases no one [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► else thought oh I see [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► see what I mean yeah at least like two [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► policemen saw they chased it over a hill [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► they're not gonna talk about that like a [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► pilot like a pilot less than pallets [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► going to do is say oh yeah I saw new foe [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► yeah you know you do that that's a quick [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► trip to retirement right there I watched [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► a i watched a an actual like documentary [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► but like someone was filming in a [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► control tower at some point in the [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► nineteen seventies and there was a there [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► was a new foe [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► and the control guys were talking to the [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► pilots and they were like three pilots [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► that saw it and they all were describing [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► it to each other and they were all [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► talking about it and then at the end and [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► then all the you know like at the end [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► the air traffic controller was like do [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► you want to report this [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► and there was a long pause and you could [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► hear the pilots go about me- i don't [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► want to report it and they're there and [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► it just went downstream little jiminy [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► Christmas [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► merrily merrily merrily who is the thing [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► is we talked about this before but you [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► know was it with regards to the [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► anchorman UFOs you know if you're in a [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► cockpit a lot forgive my french but like [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► if you're in there a lot you've seen a [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► lot of stuff you've identified a lot of [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► stuff is this thing and not that thing [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► and it seems to me if you've done that [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► for even like a few years if you see [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► something that doesn't seem right [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► I mean you know maybe this corner cases [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► but i think all weather balloon they [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► know stuff like that [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► yeah that sounds like a jam up to me and [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► a lot of the time that you're piloting [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► and looking at stuff the whole game is [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► what is that and how far away is it [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► right like what altitude is it what [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► direction is moving [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► how far away is it and what speed is it [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► go except really where we can we sit on [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► our back porch sometimes we like to send [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► our back porch and just look at the sky [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► and one of our little games is to notice [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► how many things are planes because I [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► guess is a flight pattern out over the [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► Pacific which is what we look at from [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► our back porch and there are times when [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► my daughter and I will both look up and [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► get those planes look way too close and [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► they look like they're heading in the [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► same direction obviously they must not [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► be I've looked at flightaware your spend [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► time on flightaware he must've huh [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► it's a nice program i spent a lot of [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► time looking at flight patterns but in [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► this case you can now I know that's [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► because I don't know how far apart those [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► things actually are [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► yeah they've got a pilot man I don't [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► know man [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► so those guys I mean you ever write you [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► ever look out the window of a plane that [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► you're flying in and then all of a [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► sudden a plane going the other way goes [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► by really fast happened to me last year [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► and it scared the shit out of me [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► I think there's no way this this is a [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► good idea whoa there goes it's one thing [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► people see a plane but to be able to [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► actually interpret like see that oh I [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► can see that this plane is going this [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► much faster or slower than my plan is to [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► god damn close [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► yeah you get the with called parallax [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► effect get a little bit [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► parallax effect whoo-hoo but so that's [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► all pilots to all day long they're like [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► to do so here's the thing and then they [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► call them they say I see the thing or [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► the tower the tower calls them and says [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► do you see that thing huh [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► and you know yet said you know it's it's [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► 2,000 feet above me and it's moving in [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► this direction like that's it that's the [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► whole that's all they do [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► so when they say I don't know what that [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► is but that doesn't belong here a and [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► here's how fast it's moving here's how [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► big it is [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► here's how far away it is and the tower [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► goes my either see that or I don't let's [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► call over to the military base and see [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► what they say and the military base [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► predictably says not one of ours then [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► what do you do [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► right then but you don't want to report [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► it because then you're going to be on [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► the front page of the newspaper one at [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► this point it's like calling wave em we [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► don't mean they're gonna return now [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► they're gonna be like what looks fine [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► from here that's not weird you're gonna [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► say reset your router that's right just [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► unplug it not into it not into george [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► harrison modems you had something else [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► microwaves you know what's great about [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► flightaware you know these programs that [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► allow you to and it might even be [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► flattered that allow you to put in the [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► tail numbers of aircraft Florida [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► flightaware yeah yeah I or the bed at [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► the registration number of a boat and [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► find out who owns it and what launching [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► of that that's interesting [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► there's a boat 12 that will tell you [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► every boat that's on the water and all [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► their IDs and you can click on them and [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► see it so if you're in a if you're into [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► place and you see a giant yacht in your [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► like what asshole owns that yeah right [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► you can click it and over it is [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► all-aware putting down the button over [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► and then I God forgave Britt no don't [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► know he's a wonderful wonderful man [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► helps a lot of useful I think he's [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► listening to us right now and as I is [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► google glass [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► hello well but the other day John [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► Hodgman was somewhere probably London [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► and he sent me a picture of a Learjet [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► that was painted all black a flat black [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► Learjet and right on the front of it was [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► the old Woody Woodpecker [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► like a like a like a blue with the extra [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► elongated bill [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► no just the other long bill right but no [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► body just the head like the station the [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► same tattoo that was on the guy in let's [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► face and raising and john matuszak john [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► matuszak why do I know that and also [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► nicolas cage they had the same tattoo [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► because they were what brothers who [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► well now we don't know that's that [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► that's one that's one of the mysteries [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► of raising arizona sure what were they [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► want frat brothers know we want as one [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► to close of another mother brothers of [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► another mother what's the story there [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► boom will never see it because he's [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► blown up [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► spoiler alert and get em oh yeah that [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► was sad [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► he's I think he's one of the great [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► xboxing actors [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► oh he was a boxer but he was a boxer [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► this before they had ultimate fighting [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► especially just have boxing up [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► was he a fighter by trade my geometry [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► Zach yeah absolutely carry a reminder of [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► every glove that laid him down or cut [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► him until we cried out his anger and his [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► pain [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► shame shame John wait jama to know and [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► that Jammeh to Zach was a football [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► player who might think enough [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► Ray's got great i had no ready ready [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► rent ex-cop Randall Texcoco even had [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► heard that name because I probably [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► google in one time because i thought it [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► was fascinating six-foot-three born 1950 [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► he did boxing and karate a you know I'm [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► six-foot-three know he seems bigger than [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► me he isn't it funny how that works [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► isn't forced perspective thing John [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► well I think it's because a lot of [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► Hollywood actors are small in stature [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► how tall is Nicolas Cage I bet they say [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► he's five-ten what they say six six foot [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► tall but he's really 59 [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► okay i'm gonna say Nicholas Cage is 61 [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► Nicolas Cage you know you really fast [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► now I'm going now Nicholas Cage is [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► related to engage feet [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► Nicolas Cage Nicholas Cage's 660 [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► according to the ASC that means 5 9 12 [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► inches taller than Tom Cruise turns out [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► yeah he's not he's not at all John [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► Travolta 62 [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► no yeah seems like a stretch well Leumi [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► less alone 5 10 [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► please please no chance everything I [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► think he's little and then somebody I [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► somebody I know a just published a photo [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► of themselves on their zine and they [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► were standing next to sylvester stallone [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► and he was the size of a wastepaper [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► basket this November we head to the [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► polls and select the 45th President of [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► the United States of America but today [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► cards against humanity is asking you to [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► vote with your dollar for the candidate [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► that you support [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► is a graduate of Yale Law School who has [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► served our country as secretary of state [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► senator from New York and First Lady of [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► the United States in her decades of [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► public service [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► she has tirelessly advocated for women's [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► rights campaign finance reform and [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► access to healthcare [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► the Republican candidate Donald Trump [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► will make America great again he is a [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► powerful CEO who wears three suits at [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► once all across America buildings scream [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► his name Trump Trump he always knows [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► what time it is [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► Donald Trump is a huge man who lives in [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► a golf course at the end of this [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► promotion cards against humanity will [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► tally up the sales of both packs and [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► depending on which pack gets more [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► support we will donate all the money in [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► support of Hillary Clinton [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► exercise your sacred franchise at [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► www.bulbamerica.com with cards against [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► humanity dot-com [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► he was what I think an office an office [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► wastepaper basket [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► yeah his nose was wider than he was tall [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► out here anyway Hodgman sent me this [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► picture of this airplane and he said [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► let's buy this airplane and uh went to [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► the site went followed this flightaware [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► to the site and it was owned by the [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► owned by an LLC called something dumb [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► something like little woody for or I [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► don't know what it was [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► sociological corporation John I think it [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► was a situation where somebody somebody [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► with more money than brains was like I [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► want my I'm gonna get my Learjet through [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► a broker I'm gonna buy some Learjet from [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► glenn frey the grand Rite estate and I'm [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► gonna rattle can it black and put a [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► Woody Woodpecker on it and and then [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► people will know I'm coming right right [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► sure that's what i want i want to land [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► in a regional airport in my black [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► Learjet and I want people to be like I [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► don't even know about [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► flightaware but i want to download just [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► to find out who this play is it's it's [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► really it's some noble to get to that [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► point life we are successful enough that [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► nobody tells you what an asshole you are [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► haha what do you think the finishes are [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► you going to do that we can do that we [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► can paint your you betcha you betcha mr. [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► guy and you woodpecker on there so it on [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► the inside I'm thinking either it is [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► like a super eighties interior like [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► mauve linoleum right because he got it [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► from glenn frey yes or it's some [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► situation where he took a lot of bench [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► seats out of a ford f150 were like out [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► of out of out of the e350 van and just [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► bolted them in because he bought he just [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► bought the shell there's like this thing [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► needs an interior and you got it you got [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► a bunch of seeds from a bus [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► oh but I i highly doubt whole little [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► woody but they don't think his Lear jet [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► is like custom appointments inside [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► yeah all of all hat no cowboy all hat no [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► cattle is that no cattle will have okay [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► I have no doubt is this your first day I [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► have no cowboy is what you say about it [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► boy coast but blue partner uh yeah [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► death is raking up him too oh my gosh [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► she's just pushing the cowboy out of the [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► hill never gets any better [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► oh my goodness yeah so I but I do that [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► so let me ask you this yeah if you were [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► going to have if you're going to have [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► somebody gave you a jet [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► ok let's say first of all that you had [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► money yeah a racket sure we go let's [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► imagine that you have money and enough [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► money you need a minute for this one be [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► sure [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► ok let the get the gears turn and I know [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► you're gonna have to boil you're gonna [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► get oil came out and start boiling let [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► my VR headset you have money enough [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► money that you that it's now reasonable [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► that if you traveled you would not want [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► to fly commercial anymore okay [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► yep because that's a tremendous [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► inconvenience you have to wait around [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► it's a sit with other people they don't [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► serve Kentucky Fried Chicken nothing's [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► gold sometimes you want to leave when [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► you want to leave you have to gather you [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► want to get there yep because you're [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► you've got money now which means you're [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► important enough that you have to be [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► played mr. guy got to be places i get [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► get back to my bedroom in Manhattan [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► because it's literally the only place I [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► can sleep right right exactly you need [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► your pillow my pillow but you're not [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► gonna bring your pillow now I'm not a [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► monster is your pillow stays in your bed [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► that's how you know we're so in this [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► model somebody gives me a jet and let's [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► go we just stipulate maybe a place to [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► keep it and then for the sake of [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► argument i have enough money to do [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► something with it [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► yeah you have enough money a to maintain [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► it be to keep a pilot on call boy see to [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► pay the absorbent gas bills that are [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► that you know that uh attenuate every [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► time you turn the lights on and oh I [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► know but the thing is you have enough [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► money that you don't have to think about [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► any of this stuff your you just you you [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► charge your Executive Assistant with it [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► and then the bills get paid you never [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► think about it [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► yep here's your here's your jacket cost [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► you two hundred fifty thousand dollars a [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► year [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► just so that you can fly to wherever it [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► is you need yeah but forgot like me [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► that's a rounding error right exactly [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► it's just the interest payment on your [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► boat yeah right now how would you [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► configure your jet airplane okay [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► hmm i'm not super clear on the [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► constraints but i would say I would have [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► taken my family places [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► oh yeah absolutely have the same family [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► or what we know that I've got money to [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► have a different family [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► well I think you're gonna have to have [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► the same family you have but you could [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► add additional families up to 40 k [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► sliding doors [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► I got it okay and also your family [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► doesn't have to work your daughter no [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► longer has to work or school every night [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► she'd have to work anymore right [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► yeah you know she she gets to come out [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► of she doesn't have to thread the [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► needles at the symbol factory anymore [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► yeah that's just about the symbols [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► behind little fingers out this been the [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► symbol goes but i want to buy shopkins i [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► have to work at the thimble factory [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► yeah I don't just lying around you're [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► going well I think you would have like [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► five bathrooms and a pretty nice kitchen [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► and places like soundproof rooms for [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► everyone right and see the thing is I [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► this is all speculation because i don't [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► i haven't been on a lot of fancy jets [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► big benefits everybody gets their seen a [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► lot of fancy jets for watching sherlock [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► last night we saw a fancy jet in that on [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► the inside of that of course I've seen [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► the the Republican presidents Jack many [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► times I've seen that the Air Force One [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► yeah the most of the most of those seem [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► fairly unambitious it sounds like they [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► basically go nice chairs in more legroom [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► a table and maybe like a wet bar but not [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► really you're right that they don't [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► really go for they don't it's not very [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► fantastical it isn't like a psychedelic [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► sixties idea of a sex jet like it'sit's [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► very it seems most of these another very [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► costly know what now if I want to get [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► like like a Learjet our Gulf Stream [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► we're looking like 5 million dollars [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► oh it's a lot depending on you know it [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► goes up very quickly from like oh that's [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► an expensive indulgence [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► who to that's a ludicrous fame yeah that [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► you would have to that there's a frankly [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► no justification for like no CEO is so [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► important [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► that he needs to show his face like the [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► more important to CEO is I would think [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► the less likely he would actually have [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► to get his face in front of other people [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► that's a really good point let me ask [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► you this pop quiz hotshot how many rack [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► rate first class round trip flights per [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► year would you need to spend to make it [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► worth the effort to have a company check [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► answer anyway you want you would have to [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► be in the air all the time you would [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► have to be a super villain that was [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► getting refuel in midair [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► oh my goodness and never touch the [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► ground that costly it's a bit well just [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► the airplane like a like a like a like a [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► brand-new gulfstream to gulfstream and [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► there they want five last I checked [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► 200-300 that's right girlfriend Vee [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► let's say Gulfstream V and let's see [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► always 36 million dollars as a 1998 [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► don't even know what the latest call [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► streams are named by owners as the best [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► in value business aircraft 36 million [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► dollars in 1998 well hours non-stop [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► dollars in 1998 well hours non-stop [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► I'm here you can get you can get a used [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► one here at global air com [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► is that right a so 1999 gulfstream five [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► is only 14 million nine hundred thousand [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► now so it retains its value pretty well [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► so this is one of the things that you [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► wouldn't make it too fucking weird you [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► wouldn't have like a small abattoir it [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► because that would take some of the [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► retail value away [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► I think of you it's like it's like a [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► house if you decorate it too closely to [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► your own style you are going to have a [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► hard time selling it later okay [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► I went and looked at a house in tacoma [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► the other day that was that was like a [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► beautiful four-story tall victorian and [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► but had been decorated by a couple of [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► eccentrics I'm gonna say [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► husband-and-wife team of eccentrics and [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► the outside of the home was covered with [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► knitted it had trombones stapled to it [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► and that sounds eclectic I'd never seen [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► the like and I was like wow so that [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► every day so when you were when you [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► thought to put this house on the market [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► you didn't think take the trombones down [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► you're just like maybe the next owner [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► wants to fuck on a pile of trash [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► why would I deny them that right maybe [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► anyway somebody from neutral milk hotel [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► and you know they wanted some bones are [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► all war [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► Brandon gulfstream is singing against [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► signs on a pile 61 million dollars 61 [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► million dollar which would be talking [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► about a brand-new gulfstream looking at [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► gulfstream g650 er which is 68.6 eight [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► million its seats 19mm 68 million yeah [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► so who so that means if you have 680 [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► million dollars [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► this is already ten percent of your of [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► my my back-of-the-envelope calculation [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► on a first-class flight which i never by [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► it's only ever bought for me but [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► generally speaking I think you can [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► expect most American first-class flights [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► to be at least 2 grand record [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► yeah I i always think first-class [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► anywhere you'd want to go and if you're [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► flying first class you're probably not [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► booking those flights a long time in [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► advance right because its first your [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► first class wire but we seem two [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► thousand is that fair i would i would [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► have said for ok well let's say four if [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► you get lonely I yeah but even if its [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► let's say if it's 313 [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► let's go if it's the abusive figure 3 [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► thousand you fly once a week is my math [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► right that's a little over a hundred [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► fifty thousand dollars here okay [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► is that right i did the math right so do [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► that again no I probably did that wrong [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► yes say that again three feelings [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► graphing calculator should I close the [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► internet 3000 asterisk 5259 thousand [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► dollars per a rack rate first class [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► round trip flight more or less [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► let's double that let's double it double [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► that right 318,000 dollars a year [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► let's say maybe you're gonna even go to [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► Canada sometimes I don't know [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► yeah 300 how are you calculating this [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► 300,000 dollars a year for what [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► oh uh so if you took a [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► three-thousand-dollar flight 52 times a [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► year a once-a-week that's a hundred [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► fifty six thousand dollars per flight [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► yeah if you if you amateur izing that [TS]

01:03:26 ◼   ► jet over the course of only one year the [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► amateur eyes it for one year you get [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► read that but you have to factor in how [TS]