Roderick on the Line

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00:00:23 ◼   ► hello hi John I'm Merlin has gone pretty [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► good pretty darn good [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► mhm mhm not too early [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► PYT pretty darn good did you do know [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► it's not too early it's it's a it's [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► medium curly as your schedule been [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► upended today part part of part of you [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► know just in the time that we've been [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► doing this podcast part of what has [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► happened to me is that my life has been [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► transformed from one that had no [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► schedule of any kind to one that has a [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► moving target schedule that's happening [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► all around me [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► coalescing coalescing in space it's it [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► is it is crystallizing out of the [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► solution but i am still like like John [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► Travolta boy in the bubble not really [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► touching the atmosphere is this making [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► sense to you now all too much time in [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► that bubble if I put my hands up against [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► yeah yeah I touch me feel me [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► I i have a very unsympathetic situation [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► which is that I have you know when I had [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► a job even though his job where I might [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► have to work on the weekends or [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► there was some sense of like I gotta go [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► to my job at 8am anyway I get to go home [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► at five or six and and I i think this is [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► more having to deal with family and [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► getting older but also to deal with [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► career stuff is it like i feel like i do [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► almost nothing and yet i have an [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► infinite number of things to do and even [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► when i do a lot with the other night [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► after dinner I came to work and I got [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► three things done that about [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► that's which is like a month of work for [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► me like accomplishing three things I [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► meant to do or been procrastinating [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► about it felt really good but that's [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► such a you know you get that dopamine [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► hit for about three minutes and then I [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► instantly go back into oh my god there's [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► so much stuff I should be doing [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► I have a list of like 50 things to talk [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► to you about yeah and we don't have to [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► talk about any of them but very good and [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► that makes all the difference [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► yeah you know what I mean there with my [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► plastic bubble [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► I do i do I have a gig tonight where I [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► am required to do five minutes but it's [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► something I have to do have to go do it [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► have to get there have to stand around [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► have to do it and have to stand around [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► some more [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► check that backstage coffee and and I [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► got a couple emails today from people [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► that were like remember that thing we [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► talked about a month ago [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► let's do now and then there were a [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► couple more emails that I'm just [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► remembering now that i'm talking about [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► we're a week ago I was like listen I'm [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► really gonna get you that thing this [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► week and both those people were like [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► alright like we're holding it waiting [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► for your thing waiting for your part of [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► it and again I mean it's all things were [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► like you know i get is an unsympathetic [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► thing but like there's like this thing [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► that I could do and i'll probably work [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► really hard on it for a long time and it [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► won't make any money but it might or [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► might be an opportunity thing or [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► whatever thing or a career thing but [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► there's like an almost infinite number [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► of things I could do for almost no money [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► right now that might turn into something [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► and I mean and but then all across the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► spectrum there's all these little micro [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► things were like it's not really a [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► calendar event it's kind of a to do but [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► like I gotta write this talk description [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► of that should only take me five minutes [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► but it takes me a month to get it done [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► MC frontalot very familiar with his work [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► I am MC frontalot communicated with me [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► sweet two months ago maybe maybe three [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► months L and said here is I want you to [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► sing on one on my record here are [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► everything you could possibly need the [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► lyrics the track i made the idea i had [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► in mind like he really more than any [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► other musician I've worked with gave me [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► the entire deck of cards of like here is [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► everything to make it so simple and fun [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► for you to do to dream gig and I was [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► like how exciting and [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► the ease of the ease of the preparation [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► made me feel like i'll just i'll be able [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► to do that in afternoon and many many [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► afternoons have gone under the great [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► spirit in the sky and and here here i am [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► a lonely a lonely orphan dough special [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► armor Bubble Boy still haven't done it [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► and you know and front a lot is is a [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► good enough dude that he's not like a [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► he's not an email Hassler he's not a [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► he's not he's not giving me any grief [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► about it he's he actually has a [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► contingency plan probably where it's [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► like well Roger didn't come through so i [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► went ahead and did another thing you [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► might even 250 people just standing [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► restaurant first but uh but there it is [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► i really want to do it i'm excited to do [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► it i like that man very much and you [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► hurry you might be up against Colin [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► lawyer money there and Bonnie there eh [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► there's you found the one guy that can [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► trump colin Meloy in my in my drop an [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► octave and say his name snakes takes [TS]

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00:07:04 ◼   ► Oh Bonnie there yeah it's a beautiful [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► day here in Seattle it's a beautiful day [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► in my neighborhood I was out in the yard [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► poking around you know like it's I'm [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► living the life of Riley here can't [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► complain as you say completely [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► unsympathetic it's completely I mean my [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► imac I had a wonderful 90 minute phone [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► call and I'm exhausted I'm completely [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► exhausted i got up i laid in bed and [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► looked at twitter i made a coffee i had [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► a shower i came to work i get old around [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► come on you're exhausting me even [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► listing all the things you've done today [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► our coffee [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► come on i let it takes it out of me oh [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► me too [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► just hearing about it i had a meeting [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► yesterday at my new office space with [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► the Roderick group which now it's got to [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► be a cable show it's unlikely now [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► numbers five people haha [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► this includes your manager or assistant [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► manager your manager of assistance your [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► various assistance I you get your your [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► you get your conciliatory yep [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► executive producer co-executive producer [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► a assistant co-executive producer and so [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► I go down to my office [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► I'm there with my daughter we need to go [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► to the potty as you know that's a thing [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► that happens usually with not a whole [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► lot of notice it's like oh I need to go [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► to the potty and you go oh shit let's go [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► and I go out of my of this brand new [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► office i go i checked the doorknob as [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► i'm leaving which is the thing i don't [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► typically do but I was a new space so i [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► might check the doorknob doorknob turns [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► freely we go down to the party we come [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► back the door is locked itself somehow [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► and I'm standing there in the hall with [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► the with my daughter and I'm like [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► my keys are in there my phone is in [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► there now i cannot even go to to the [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► emergency location because the cars you [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► know the car keys are in there all that [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► stands between you and carrying on your [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► life is a tremendous analogy for your [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► life and so my daughter and I play in [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► the hall of the office building for a [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► couple of hours while we wait for the [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► rest of the people to arrive this the [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► staff the Roderick group is all coming [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► here is digital group the group and then [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► I'm going to reveal something that is a [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► little that's a little parmesan was [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► going to reveal that I'm not gonna I'm [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► not going to characterize it but I i [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► searched through my wallet looking for [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► the exact stiffness of card needed to [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► Jimmy a lock your the credit card that [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► is you know you get the old trick [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► yeah you're gr your lock jimmying card [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► has to be a certain kind of card it's a [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► it's a very special kind of card because [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► it has to be thin enough to fit but [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► stiff enough for you to go look up right [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► and i'm going through my wallet i'm like [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► I you know I don't I don't have a [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► driver's license like an old laminated [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► one anymore i haven't I have one of [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► those executive driver's licenses [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► enhanced drivers license that's like a [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► hard brittle glass Washington's license [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► clear [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► that's right and and I don't want to use [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► my credit card because I because i use [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► it 50 times a day and I don't want to I [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► don't want to be standing here in my [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► office locked out and with a credit card [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► broken in half and I'm realizing that [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► all the all the new cards i've received [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► are all either made out of paper thin [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► cardboard so not stiff enough to [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► actually pick a lock and go or they are [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► like hard brittle plastic not flexible [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► enough to fit into the georgian and so [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► I'm standing there I'm like I can't [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► believe that I don't even have you know [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► in a over filled wallet i don't have a [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► single card [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► I can use to Jimmy a door like that is [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► that makes me mad and that makes me feel [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► like it makes me feel like I don't have [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► a small bag packed now it's a failure in [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► the system for shit really it really was [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► and I wasn't anticipating it and I was [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► and I was mad at myself so I'm standing [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► there in the lobby and you know you know [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► sometimes what happens to me as i get [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► mad at myself and then ice then I [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► decided that the adequate punishment is [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► to the the my punishment is going to be [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► that I just sit on a cold linoleum floor [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► for an hour or whatever like just like [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► you don't have a lot of yourself in the [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► corner [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► yeah you don't have a lockpick you don't [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► know you don't have anybody's phone [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► number memorized anymore and there's not [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► even a phone in this building you don't [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► even deserve to know you don't you know [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► what you should be sitting in the rain [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► and the only reason you're not is [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► because your daughter is here pretty you [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► know and she is your shield against the [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► anger that you are feeling toward [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► yourself what a pussy anyway that at one [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► point one point she turned to me and she [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► said she said daddy don't [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► that and the things I hadn't guy i [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► thought i was i thought it was [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► completely opaque but she said Teddy [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► don't feel anxiety [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► oh no like I didn't even realize that [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► was projecting anxiety but thank you [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► little empath there are so many levels [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► of sad to that up but anyway so then the [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► robbery group starts to trickle in and [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► we realize oh not only are we locked out [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► but I had the only key because the key [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► had do not duplicate on it [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► yeah and the robbery group members who [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► tried to get the key duplicated were [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► thwarted and so credit to them they they [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► gave me the one key and then I like the [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► nutty professor did [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► so we're standing there in the in the [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► hallway wondering what to do and a [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► assistant to the assistant manager [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► Roderick group like sergeant-at-arms [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► baileywick am kinda disappears around [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► the corner and five minutes later she [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► comes in she's like I picked the lock [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► what she is if you can say well I'm not [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► going to reveal her secrets and you just [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► think that Tom bowling well not just [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► tumbling but also like you realize oh of [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► course you did like yes this is the team [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► this is the crew i was i I am I was [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► unprepared she was not and somehow as I [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► become crazier and and less useful i am [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► I magnetically surrounding myself with [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► apparently office ninjas [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► so now I don't even need to carry [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► lockpicks I just just have us they have [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► a lot lock-picker on staff [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► I'll tell you that sickens me this nanny [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► state you know they do not duplicate [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► Obama thanks Obama had a guy I you know [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► we're going to probably cut literally [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► all of this out but i'm a little bit [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► surprised that you don't have some kind [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► of a small lock-picking kit very [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► surprised to seems like there would be [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► something surprised at myself that those [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► are technically in the nanny state [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► illegal to own but this seems like that [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► should there should be some kind of what [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► we call the darknet what you call it the [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► dark web [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► there should be a dark web version of [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► thinkgeek where you can go and get [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► something that's the size of a zoo [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► membership card that could be used as a [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► lockpick 449 sophisticated locks [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► well believe me i came home and i took [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► all of the ID cards having to do with [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► the local swimming pool and the ID cards [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► that the ID card that I have from the [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► local community college that I basically [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► signed up for the community college just [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► to get [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► a student discount so i could buy a new [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► mac laptop and then went and and [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► realized that Macintosh's is wise to us [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► wise to students and they were like [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► here's your discount $50 what it was [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► like what you're talking about it you [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► said there was a 20-percent discount [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► they were like yeah on desktop computers [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► oh come on but laptops first let's so [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► fifty dollars off your laptop that's [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► your student discount [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► take-it-or-leave-it because we are Apple [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► take-it-or-leave-it yeah be their motto [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► take it or leave it here we go [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► but if I gotta flee typeset I got a [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► couple I got a couple of uh I got a [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► couple of tweets from a guy yesterday [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► was like I don't know why you spend so [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► much time like completing about apple [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► products online when all you need to do [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► is go to the apple store and they will [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► fix it for free [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► why do you not seek solutions [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► why do you complain instead of seeking [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► solutions that's such a partial answer [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► and I i wrote like five versions of all [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► cap fuck use to this guy and I didn't [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► send any of them but I was like Bologna [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► there you dropped your registers on that [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► one but I saw I saw you gonna leave it [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► expressing your frustration with the [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► Apple group yesterday and I i had to [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► close i had to close the browser because [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► I think I didn't want to see I didn't [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► even want to see what kind of response [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► you're going to get I think the phrase [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► you use work with something like that [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► they should be ashamed of them [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► yeah and then somebody else somebody [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► else way to me and said no one monitors [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► the at Apple twitter group so don't try [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► and except for literally millions of [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► people who like to yell at people like [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► you but it was like don't even try and [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► and and shame them because they're not [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► paying attention [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► no they're not i know i'm not trying to [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► you know like i said that that is not [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► where I'm demanding satisfaction that is [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► just a place and it's just a place of [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► like [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► but you know twitter is my place it's [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► not your place [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► you know there's lots of things that you [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► could do about a lot of things and I [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► right Randy was a number of times [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► there's an endless number of things that [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► you could do about something but that's [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► not what I'm bitching about what I'm [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► bitching about it's incredibly [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► frustrating me that I have to go and [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► navigate all those kids do things [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► yeah right i need to sign up for a an [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► appointment with some geniuses and [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► that's gonna that's going to be two days [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► out at they're at their convenience not [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► mine i get to pick one of three times [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► and then I go down there and they're [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► going to take the phone in the back room [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► and there the first thing they're going [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► to do is come out and say this phone has [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► gotten wet and so avoid all your [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► warranty is void [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► get out of our store well I want the [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► impossible i want satisfaction I want [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► them to go that like we made a whole [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► bunch of fucked-up stuff and we're sorry [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► that we inconvenience to you [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► that's what I want that's what i want to [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► that's all i want i want my phone to [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► work but i want you also to acknowledge [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► the fact that the literally thousands of [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► dollars that I've spent on this company [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► on the strengths are partly with the [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► expectation that I don't have to take [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► the advice of some people paid face kids [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► to go to the mall today [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► yeah well I want us to a letter to have [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► worked i want that letter from the US [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► State Department 200 i wanted to have [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► sorry about slavery letters you exactly [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► i am sorry I'm sorry that every war [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► we've waited since world war two has [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► been a complete fucking yeah you're not [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► even asking for reparations you're [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► asking for his simple grown-up apology [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► we we we started with my mom and I went [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► down to chase bank the last few days [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► we've been trying to set up a business [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► account with all of the you know we want [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► likes five different credit cards and so [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► forth and we got some manager and the [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► manager was like oh this will be really [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► easy but he didn't know what he was [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► doing and then you know the other people [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► in the bank were like differential to [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► his managerial status but [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► turned out as the process went on he's a [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► manager in training so he doesn't know [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► what he's doing but he's the person in [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► authority he is the B is the buck [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► lieutenant who's out in the jungle with [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► his fucking helmet on backwards getting [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► fragged that's right he's calling in a [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► fucked-up fire mission and uh and he's [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► getting his own guys hit with without [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► shells this guy but nobody's but [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► nobody's yelling at him cuz he lets his [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► lieutenant and so he screwed up this [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► thing so badly and by by the second day [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► my mom was like you know she's like I [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► don't want to do with these people [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► anymore and I said mom this is this is [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► one of our core principles if we do [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► nothing else in this family it is that [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► we punish companies who do bad jobs we [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► need to take me make it [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► that's right even if this doubles our [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► effort to move this account let you two [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► get an account that allegedly getting [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► cards now it's going to making the [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► fucking point [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► this is a question of that's right if we [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► have to fall on our sword if we never [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► get a bank account we are not going to [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► we are not going to do this this [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► business with chase they have screwed [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► this up so badly and she's like ah you [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► know and then she goes to that fit that [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► little phase she has because she's [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► afraid of a police state a little better [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► she's like she doesn't like she's she's [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► one of these people that's like don't [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► complain to the way because they'll spit [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► in your food and she's like this guy at [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► the bank he has all my information now [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► and I'm like if are you kidding me are [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► you kidding me [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► this guy if he liked the idea that this [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► banker would have some retribution [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► against us we do with it [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► well that's what I mean it's just like I [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► you know that i would we would be in a [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► position that the which I have always [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► wanted which is a position where we [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► could legitimately sick our family [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► attorney Byron de tony on a corporation [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► Byron decoding the 80-year old pitbull [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► of Washington you say [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► you environment go to the mattresses [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► Byron and I would freaking go to the [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► mattresses with but when I was in my [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► twenties Byron sometimes would come by [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► the house and say hey you wanna go for a [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► ride [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► yeah you know he had a Jaguar whenever [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► we go for a ride and then hydrolyzed [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► once we got out that he was uh he was [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► serving people with papers [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► oh my god and he would he put the papers [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► in my hand you could say to go to ring [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► the doorbell and ask her can break Jones [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► I my god and she was like this process [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► server [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► yeah he was using me to serve people [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► because they wouldn't expect because I [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► looked like a grunge rocker whenever I [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► looked like so I looked like the guy [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► that was there too [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► I looked like a bike messenger basically [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► and then you know guys would come to the [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► door and be like here here's your blue [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► papers my god buried and but you know [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► some violence you know burns the guy you [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► want on your team even though he's now [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► in his eighties and like he still he [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► still a ferocious guy and I've always [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► wanted to have a rational reason to [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► really go after some some company like [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► chase some company with a with a million [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► lawyers because you know Byron is [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► underused and he's one of these you know [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► he's one of these lawyers with a pair of [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► glasses on top of his head apparent [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► lasses on his nose and pair of glasses [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► hanging from a chain around his neck [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► that would just file he would file [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► papers all day long he would file papers [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► he would file so many papers [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► yeah I know I know it gives it gives one [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► chills anyway so so I've convinced my [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► mom that we're going to we're going to [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► punish chase it going to punish chase [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► with your business [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► we're gonna punish chase with in a small [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► way by taking our business to another [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► bank one just as reprehensible probably [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► but one but on other bank [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► unfortunately there is not really on [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► other Apple unless you count all the [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► other phone companies now I'm but I [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► think that's also i mean i really want [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► to talk about this but no no let's not [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► let's not but i'll just say that this is [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► in to clarify here I I don't want to [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► pawn shop I want Apple do what they're [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► good at which is make sure that works [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► right that's that's all i'm askin and [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► like I believe me i have i have i've [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► been the one who stands at the gate and [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► says no you guys don't get it to other [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► people [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► they sell you get this thing for a [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► nickel over here you get a get a phone [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► for a free phone or what I want to free [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► soup like no I i was that last night did [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► you get that you over here [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► I didn't want to not be not me not me i [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► do not like racial intolerance butter [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► yeah yeah no I mean I does not need [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► there's not an answer for this that the [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► answer for this [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► I understand what people are saying I [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► mean but I also I I kind of dread the [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► idea of a future where uh i don't know [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► i'm probably catastrophizing this a [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► little bit but it's frustrating to me [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► that I have to do it all [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► it's one thing to take home a new [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► computer and the hard drive breaks [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► because you know what apple didn't make [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► that hard drive and hard drives but at [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► least back in the day when I was the [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► computer guy at at my job there were [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► times we get a shipment of hard drives [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► and you know three-fifths of them will [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► be broken because that would just happen [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► back in the day [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► yeah yeah and I mean the thing was you [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► would really this might have been [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► superstition on my part put I mean this [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► is what it used to be like to be a [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► computer user was you would use you back [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► everything up really well which is very [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► expensive and then you would kind of [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► watch real carefully over the first [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► month of use because my experience was [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► that if a hard drive broke it would tend [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► to be in the first month of usage and [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► you watch some real carefully and then [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► we discovered that which is a bad lot [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► that we got from Lucy and they send us [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► new ones but you know what I don't want [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► to do that Apple I wanted to give me [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► something amazing the first time in [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► shame on them [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► that's all I'm gonna say about that well [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► yeah and I feel like we've talked about [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► this many times but it is it at what I [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► see from young people who have never [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► ever ever lived in a world where the [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► expectation of businesses was that when [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► they were providing you a good or [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► service that they did it right the first [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► time it was a well-made thing that they [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► stood behind and that their customer [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► service philosophy was the customer is [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► always right [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► what can we do to make it right now you [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► know in the rare occasion that something [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► goes wrong like everybody stop what [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► they're doing and tries to fix the [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► problem for you as fast as they can [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► because what they value is first you [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► know their reputation and the reputation [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► is predicated on your satisfaction and [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► so there there's a whole generation and [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► maybe now into two generations of people [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► who've never experienced life in that [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► world and may have grown up in a world [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► where everything is disposable where [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► companies mentality is we're just going [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► to keep pushing stuff out and if we lose [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► you know if we lose twenty percent of [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► our customers to dissatisfaction [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► and they're just twenty percent more [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► going to be lining up at the door to buy [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► the garbage that we're putting out there [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► and the twenty percent of the people are [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► going to go across the street to another [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► shit company that's turning out garbage [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► and they're just going to bounce back [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► and forth because all they're interested [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► in is what's cheapest that but also I [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► mean that was part of what you're [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► describing I started thinking about [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► restaurants where you know restaurant [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► business for 30 years but how many of [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► the things that you're using right now [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► that we've been using a company stuff [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► for 10 years I've been most companies [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► stuff you've been using for 10 years [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► have been around for a lot longer than [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► 10 years because the other side of this [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► act companies go away products go away [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► I mean can you tell can tell me who made [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► your DVD player you tell me who made [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► your TV like we used to really know that [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► stuff inside nerds know that but most [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► people don't know is I don't know [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► something about a costco and it breaks [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► up a new one but what you're describing [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► in terms of like a restaurant like today [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► like you know there's a place that [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► recently reopened down the street from [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► where i am and they had three reviews on [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► yelp before the place opened [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► whoa you say oh my god this is fantastic [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► I've never i thought i'd had gourmet [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► sandwiches before but these were amazing [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► and look at other buddies know cause [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► other buddies went in and left reviews [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► and that is the cynical environment that [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► we're in right now and the place will be [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► there in two years it'll be something [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► else it'll be a verizon dealership you [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► know in no time [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► right well I'm at and that I see that I [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► see that all over the place like people [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► now this is have this is that how they [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► feel about shoes you buy a pair of shoes [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► they're not cheap cost a hundred fifty [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► never got cheaper even though you don't [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► get them fixed [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► Yeah right there they never got cheaper [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► there still extremely expensive but but [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► the idea is I you wear them for a year [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► or two and then you dump them and it's [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► like I i still have I mean I have shoes [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► that are 50 years old [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► you know I have shoes that i bought from [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► a person living person you knew well [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► well no I mean I did man she's looking [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► good shoes i choose that i bought [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► vintage 25 years ago that were 30 years [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► old at the time and I paid to have them [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► resoled and i still wear [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► and in some cases I've had shoes resoled [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► a couple of times and I recognize that I [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► am an old man and that that is an [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► archaic way of thinking but I cannot [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► describe how much better the shoes feel [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► and how much better they are and you [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► know I put on new shoes and they're like [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► it's their kind of like stone washed [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► already like they're broken in already [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► they're comfortable they're lightweight [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► and you put them on your like they're [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► fashionable looking they've got blue [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► crepe soles now and they're made out of [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► suede and they feel like slippers and we [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► and you run around in them and as soon [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► as they're you know as soon as you get a [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► stain on them as soon as the thread [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► starts to unravel or the you know like [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► I've got a pair of a kind of pair of [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► boots and I stepped on a sharp thing and [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► it cut through the soul all the way to [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► my sock line and I looked at the [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► construction and it's this it's the one [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► I mean this is the way that they keep [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► these products cheap is that the soul [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► and the top of the boot are bonded [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► together so it's kind of like a shoe [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► balloon there's no there's not actually [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► a piece of whether that they build the [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► soul you know that they build the shoe [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► on the top of and the soul on the bottom [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► like the way you construct a beach ball [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► just kind of glued together [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► yeah you take this kind of a rubbery [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► soul thing and you glue it to the to the [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► open sort of top part and you make this [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► to balloon that you put then odor eater [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► in and set its shoes tonight shoe and [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► it's great except if except they are [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► unrepairable right it's not a [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► construction that you can take any [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► portion of and change you can't put a [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► new soul on it you can't put a new top [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► on it you can't you can't really even [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► change the odor eater out because the [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► odor eater is like custom shaped [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► and so the whole thing is just built [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► it's built for now and ice [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► I'm still living in this dream state of [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► like this red wing based dream state [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► where you buy a pair of boots and you [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► think now i have the boots that I'm [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► gonna wear now I have the boots i'm [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► going to hand down to my grandson right [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► you know like these are the bees are the [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► great boots that I needed and it be [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► amazing if it lasted a year uh the the [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► new learn the Belushi's yeah the balloon [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► shoes and you know and they're not meant [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► to input the the problem is a lot of [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► these conversations that you and I have [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► here and the conversations i have out in [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► the world like they're being received by [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► people that speak the same language that [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► we do and understand the concepts but [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► they don't have in their heart that [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► fundamental feeling that the [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► relationship that the that their role as [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► consumer of things is a position of [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► power or it traditionally was a position [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► of power you were the buyer and the [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► buyer had the power of choice and the [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► power to reject bad products and that [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► was that [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► that's the myth of the of American [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► capitalism but it's also how brands of [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► change though I mean I think about stuff [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► you think about things like filson stuff [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► you've got I gotta like a windbreaker [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► that my dad bought in 1970 that i still [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► wear it started very handsome [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► that's bright red it's really cool but [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► still got the patches on it carefully so [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► non in the early nineteen seventies of [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► those is one of them say hi life and I [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► no no there's no beer once it's got its [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► got large lures on the call it's a [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► fishing protect it could be sure but you [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► know i mean this is this is gonna sound [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► / subtle but I think about how our [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► relationship with brands has changed and [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► you know your it won't just go right [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► back to you and then it was in North [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► Face you know and you know you there was [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► a time basically the bubble shoe of [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► backpacks book but in that case I mean [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► you know people would use that to [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► actually go do stuff they would use that [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► to go do stuff where the weather might [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► change [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► inch and they might have to be out an [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► extra two or three days and they would [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► have to make do [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► I'm not saying it's like survivalists [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► kind of stuff but there but that was [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► stuff that was made for that kind of [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► wear and tear [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► whereas now today I mean people align [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► themselves with these brands based on [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► I mean the case of Apple I think you can [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► fairly say yeah it is based on a certain [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► kind of build quality or whatever but I [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► mean you know there's all kinds of stuff [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► where you're like the way this confusing [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► like the way this looks [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► until you find out that somebody on the [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► board was against gay marriage and then [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► and then that's a different thing now [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► you go look for another logo because [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► it's more comports with how you feel [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► about the world and I think maybe maybe [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► that was just maybe a little more subtle [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► in the past but you know I and I you [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► know I'm not trying to say anything [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► grand i think a lot of this test has to [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► do with amazing marketing over the last [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► hundred years but every family your hunt [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► family or your behinds family or a coke [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► family or pepsi family and you know you [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► would rarely meet people who would you [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► know go over crossover the other brand [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► unless I guess was you know because of a [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► big sale or something but even still so [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► Kevin hornings mom would not drink coke [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► if I have a truck backed up and gave her [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► a lifetime supply freak shouldn't [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► consume coach she was Pepsi all the way [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► you know the irony is John there are so [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► many things today where I could not pass [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► the quote-unquote Pepsi challenge I [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► could not tell you that I could not tell [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► the difference between five wines I [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► couldn't say what color most of them are [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► but to this day I can still tell you the [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► difference between a coconut pepsi an RC [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► yeah well I I I feel like part part of [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► this is that every time I walk out of [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► the door and you know and I i don't i'm [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► not exaggerating when I say this it [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► seems like maybe that this is some [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► increasingly it's it's become kind of my [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► my brand and that that it is but it's [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► funny but it is literally true that [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► every time I walk out of the door I [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► think what if I what if I never come [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► like I'm walking out the door in these [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► clothes what if this is the last time I [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► walk out of this door for whatever [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► reason like nobody ever expects the [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► Spanish Inquisition with her and if you [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► if you walk out of the house in like in [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► your flip-flops and drawstring shorts [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► what if that just happens to be the day [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► that everything comes unraveled for [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► whatever reason and then you're out [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► there in the world with your flip-flops [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► and your drawstring shorts and that and [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► you've gotta make it from that point [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► forward you know you've got to like your [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► you're the person huddled up in a [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► drainage culvert and you're in here in [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► your drawstring shorts and flip-flops [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► and you're saying to yourself well [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► where's nice where can I find lamp oil [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► right like this would be hard even if I [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► were in shoes and pants but i have made [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► it additionally difficult because now [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► the first thing I have to do is to find [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► some shoes like before I do anything [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► else before I go that searching for lamp [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► oil [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► I've got to get shoes first and so this [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► is the premise behind keeping a small [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► bag packed this is a premise behind [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► having that bag in your car and [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► ultimately the idea behind why didn't I [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► have a lockpick in my wall I don't want [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► to bring it up [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► yeah and it you know and that but you [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► can never know where the soft spots in [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► your scheme or unless you're always [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► probing them and for me every time I [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► walk out the door and there are times [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► when I walk out the door it's like if [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► the if this is the moment like I'm [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► putting I'm putting myself in fates [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► hands right now because i am going away [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► from my house with no contingency plan [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► because it's a hot summer day and i'm [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► just going to the fucking beach and I [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► don't want to think about it right now [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► but it's always in the back of my mind [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► what happens if I never get back here [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► and if you know so if i have a house [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► full of survival gear [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► it's going to really benefit whatever [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► mutants end up colonizing my house [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► because I am living in a culvert [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► somewhere so that the concept of [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► readiness the premise of readiness is [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► like you need to always be ready and it [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► and if it's and any and it's fun for me [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► you know that is a game [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► it isn't based on paranoia it's not be I [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► mean I recognize that we get our systems [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► largely work right but that the grid of [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► electricity but you have no control over [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► that you're lucky you're lucky if you [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► eat this amazing how often you can roll [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► around without a contingency plan [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► even something as simple as like like [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► having a key hidden outside your house [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► or something like that you can go buy [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► for years and years and years and that [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► will never become an issue but there's a [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► writer I like named David Allen and one [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► of his things i like a lot he said [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► something along the lines of the worst [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► time to decide that you really need to [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► practice that martial arts is when [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► you're getting jumped in an alley right [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► right and the work yeah exactly right [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► and the worst time to discover that you [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► don't have a lockpick in your wallet is [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► when you're locked out of a place and [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► that is when you're going to discover it [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► right if you don't if you're not [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► thinking about it all the time and if [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► you're not just kind of consciously [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► borderline aware like I think about [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► being in a wheelchair if I were in a [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► wheelchair the world would look very [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► different to me you know the landscape [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► would look different [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► getting from place to place should [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► really fix the pavement outside your [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► house you know that would be the master [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► in wheelchairs can take longer if you [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► haven't said do-it-yourself except you [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► know I would like I would have I think [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► that I think that what I would have is I [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► would have a motorized wheelchair that i [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► never used the motor [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► haha you know I would be late you'd be [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► in constant training i'd be pushing it's [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► like in the seventies when people walk [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► around with weights on your on their [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► ankles and wrists [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► that's right i would be pushing against [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► the additional weight of the motorized [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► wheelchair all the time partly in laxmi [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► yourself [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► probably but I would want the motor [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► there in case I need it or in case I [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► wanted her in case you know like it [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► would and that and honestly like that [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► would require that wheelchairs be [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► redesigned and honestly we [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► chair design seems to me to be a really [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► unexplored I know there are people doing [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► it i totally agree but I feel like a [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► wheelchair design should be a place [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► where startups like Elon Musk I don't [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► know why he has not built the the like [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► uber wheelchair and I know the dude the [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► segway dude yeah build some kind of [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► standing wheelchair that was this is [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► precursor to the segway was this amazing [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► wheelchair that could like lift you up [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► in the air [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► yeah but just think about how many [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► people you see on Rascals just because [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► they really don't want to walk i think [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► is a huge untapped market [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► well I mean yeah the supermarket rascal [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► right where you can you come to the [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► supermarket and like part of the appeal [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► is Justin yeah those are those are [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► beaters but I mean what see once you've [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► written in one of those you get the idea [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► pretty fast i would call a convenience [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► chair because first of all you know the [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► thing you realize about accessibility [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► honestly [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► well that's a ramp or whether that's [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► larger type is it's not really a [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► question of like whether or not you are [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► was a freak crippled it's not whether or [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► not you're crippled it's not whether or [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► not you're handicapped it's the fact [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► that you're healthy for now because [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► you're eventually going to need pretty [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► much everything that accessibility gives [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► us [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► everybody's going to eventually need a [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► ramp trust me everybody's eventually if [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► you're if you're lucky enough to live [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► long enough to have your eyes fail [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► you're gonna want the big type M so I'm [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► just saying I comfort chairs so maybe [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► somebody think of the front [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► I really feel like this is an untapped [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► market a huge growth possibility but you [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► know what I had it I had it inside the [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► other day a business that I really [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► actually do kind of want to get into do [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► you remember buck rogers in the 25th [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► century sure Darren great boom but with [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► the television show [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► oh yeah what we keep ed right well the [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► more i reflect on that television show [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► the more I realized that it really [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► affected really influenced my idea what [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► the future was going to look like in [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► particular two things one whenever there [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► was a gathering of people whenever there [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► was like a whenever there was peace or [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► sociability or they were meeting a new [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► culture [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► what did they do they got rid of ribbons [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► out and they danced in a circle holding [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► ribbons with one another while somebody [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► played the weird [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► like synthesizer OBO right so there's [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► like some synthesizer hahaha oh dance [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► music and then they're kind of doing [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► like a maypole dance holding ribbons [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► that seem to be like look that's a [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► better way to say we're not a threat [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► we're not a threat here we are we're all [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► dancing with ribbons together to some to [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► some OBO electric Obama's so I'm upset [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► that isn't I have yet to see that really [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► be part of like hipster culture and I [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► feel like maybe that could be next but [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► the other thing and the number one thing [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► is jumpsuits [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► yeah I do remember shiny jumpsuits [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► unitard outfits and as you recall like [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► my orange flight suit was a big part of [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► my preteen early teen years i was [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► thinking about it the other day and I [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► was like it's the one thing of the [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► seventies that we have that has not been [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► reintroduced i initially ironically and [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► then and then earnestly but there is [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► nothing better then a onesie [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► yeah and if you could make onesies and [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► the thing is you can you can make [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► onesies out of sweat pant material you [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► can make onesies out of fleece you can [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► make onesies on anything and I mean with [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► this also include things like dickies [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► your carhartt coveralls not overalls but [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► I mean like you talk about like the kind [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► of suit like like a painter would wear [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► maybe but here's the thing and this is [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► the reason why I think this is this is [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► so of the moment people are like half [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► the population i have just surrendered [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► to the idea we get into fights about the [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► fights with people about this all the [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► time they've just surrendered its like [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► that they believe that everyone in the [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► world should see their ass crack if it [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► makes if it makes them one percent more [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► comfortable on air boots and Jamie's [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► they're just like I am a gross lob i'm [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► wearing juicy sweatpants and a halter [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► and that's my right as an American and [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► comfort above all my comfort is my [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► church [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► that's right my comfort above above all [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► else so half the population is there and [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► then the other half of the power is [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► certainly a percentage of a large [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► percentage of the youth population and [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► people that live in my circle are have [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► have gone all the way to like this this [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► new era of fashion that is so [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► form-fitting and so tailored that it [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► cannot possibly be comfortable under any [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► circumstances you know the stovepipe [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► pants and the super tight shirts and the [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► really tailored jackets close-fitting [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► everything you know to the nth power [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► unless you're spending six thousand [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► dollars on a suit you're wearing some [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► Ludlow off-the-rack j.crew suit you are [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► just you're just barely holding it [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► together like you're definitely not [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► going over a fence in that outfit and I [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► think when we think about unitards and [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► we think about boiler suits and [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► jumpsuits of all kinds you your [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► immediate your mind leaps to the image [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► of someone at a furry convention in in [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► like a suit their grandmother made [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► that's like a lie on but it has little [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► pilling little polyester pills on it [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► from having been washed so many find [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► well-loved to get all the semen and sent [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► or out of it it's it's got a little [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► fuzzy fuzzy tail semen-stained pilling [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► lion sue but it doesn't have to be that [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► you know we could we could my my unitard [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► idea is that we make it out of these [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► modern fabrics these comfortable fabrics [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► that people love so much but we tailor [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► it so that it is like so that it's very [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► becoming [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► sometimes you put a robe double-breasted [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► buttons on it sometimes you put a little [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► patch that says gone fishing on it like [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► you can express yourself a little beast [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► it's a movable piece that's right you [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► put epaulets on it you put like a like a [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► faux belt [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► some of them have bell-bottom some of [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► them are pegged and it's a whole new [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► fashion it's a it's very fashion-forward [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► some of our side zip some of our middles [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► if you get a gusset [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► the crotch little gusset maybe a [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► double-breasted like a Hermann Goering I [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► I like chief of the Air Force look [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► powder-blue applets but you don't you [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► get out of it is you think about what [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► you go through with the travel air [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► travel [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► you got to think i'm going to check my [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► luggage and i'm going to drag this giant [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► luggage onto the plane and take up the [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► entire rack you your your suit your [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► double breasted coverall onesie could [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► also be your carry-on luggage because [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► you get a lot of pockets and you didn't [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► you see people with utility kilts and [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► carry whole toolbox in those things [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► that's right in fact yeah you are a tool [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► box if you're wearing one of those it [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► could you can put a subway sandwich in [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► there you can have a hammer [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► you could definitely get fit in like a [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► large ipad and some of those pockets 70s [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► a wood at TSA would have a sign that [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► says you know anything you can put in [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► your unitard is fine we don't do an [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► additional search if you know like we [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► are our new backscatter body scanners [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► can can see all the things that you have [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► in your pockets and every pocket you [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► know with me Taylor make the pocket so [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► that so that you know you can 30s a safe [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► that's all the TSA that's right esa [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► compliance who but I feel like we need [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► to we need to get ahead of this like [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► comfort style division this resident [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► things John it's not going to go away we [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► need to we need to get hit go with the [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► ball is headed with the punches spinning [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► and if we go there and arrived there [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► with a jumpsuit I think there's going to [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► be people standing in line probably like [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► jammies for now [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► jumpsuits jumpsuits jumpsuits like it [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► appeals to the jammy crowd it appeals to [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► the cosplay crowded appeals to the [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► fashion people crowd and it absolutely [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► appeals to the vision of the future I [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► had as a kid where everybody was [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► co-ordinated and at you know dare i say [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► it's sleek like it looks and it's an end [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► it's in keeping with the increasing [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► militarism in our society so that [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► everybody is kind of in a very uniform [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► various sign I mean you could in some [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► cases you could pair with a bow tie and [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► a sports jacket [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► I mean you know in time the thing is if [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► you ask people like 15-20 years ago [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► which you ever expect to see coeds with [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► tramp stamps [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► walking around in suede suede basically [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► slippers [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► yeah they said no way no way not even no [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► way we're never gonna let you know the [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► 911 happened everybody's got on boots [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► but I i we could get I could see within [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► one year that there is atrocious stuff [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► that happens in fashion everyday job but [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► this is practical [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► it'sit's Democratic it's not costly to [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► get a jumpsuit jumpsuit jumpsuit [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► it's absolutely true we could and the [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► thing is you can custom make them so [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► that they have so that if you want to [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► back flap if you want to poop flap you [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► can have it if you want to select a [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► little boy in a children's book that's [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► right a little boy and children let's [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► hangout was like what if what if you [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► wanted to / masturbators you would you [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► have to take off the entire garment [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► which you have that drop it [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► we would we would account for that and [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► you'd be able to see you be able to see [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► people walking through the airport like [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► this person is in one this person is in [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► a suit that he has had custom-made and [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► he apparently does not ever pooper does [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► not fear the need but he has a very is [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► very carefully hidden jackhole but this [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► person over here has basically got a [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► colostomy bag built into the into their [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► suit [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► it's like the entire everything below [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► the waist is just flaps attention and [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► but it's got you got your pockets he got [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► buttons i think it could be a very smart [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► look and it can be very flattering [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► especially if you're slender also this [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► was that this was this this comports [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► with a further idea which is that as as [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► the years go by and I'm not now I'm [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► prognosticating way into the future as [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► the years go by what are the great [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► brands get your nike yeah apple like [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► Levi's Levi's coke also Judaism that's [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► wrong brand Christianity big brand right [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► the the the the the moon of the Moon of [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► Islam those are big brands right you've [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► got the American flag that's a killer [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► brand [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► I feel like the hammer and sickle of the [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► Soviet Union is a great brand that's [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► being underutilized right now [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► Andre the Giant he has a posse of the [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► Rising Sun flag of the of World War two [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► the Japanese in World War two great [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► brand think about that i mean and [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► ultimately like the swastika amazing [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► brand so as we go into the future and [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► brands become what we're really talking [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► about right like eventually there's [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► going to be a situation where the nike [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► people and the Christians have some beef [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► with each other right it's like I [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► represent nike and I'm tired of being [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► persecuted by them by the Christians who [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► refuse to you only wear adidas or [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► whatever you know this is going to be [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► the brands are going to come up with [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► plenty of room for unnecessary [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► factionalism there's a reason we could [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► make a little Bank off of that well [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► that's something right now the religious [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► brands are all in contention with each [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► other and there's a little and we're [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► increasingly seeing religious brands [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► attached to national brands right so [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► from from the Middle East when they [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► think of the the united states they [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► think of the American flag they are [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► subconsciously attaching Christianity to [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► that brand and even though there's no [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► cross on the American flag that's that's [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► what they are seeing and it's a it's a [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► Miss understanding of it but in some [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► ways maybe a hyper understanding of it [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► and when we look at the when we look at [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► the arabic script we are also seeing the [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► Halfmoon of Islam right so these brands [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► are going to start are going to start [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► bleeding into one another and you know [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► like all the Star of David the israeli [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► flag the Star of David on that loan that [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► powder-blue Oh what an amazing brand [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► that is and when that starts getting [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► sort of attached to commercial products [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► as all these ideas start to blend into [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► each other [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► what are we going to have we're going to [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► have an international [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► league of neighborhood stick fights with [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► people in unitards with these various [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► brands so it's going to be the hammer [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► and sickles against the Maytag washing [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► machines [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► oh I understand that sells got the the [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► giant stick fight league national [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► socialist vs brownies [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► thank you right and everybody's you know [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► the the different jumpsuits are going to [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► be different colors they're going to [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► have different sort of patches and [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► brands on them like like NASCAR racers [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► and this is going to be the the united [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► nations of the of the future we're [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► working on resolving these things on the [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► game field there's a certain amount of [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► death and mayhem involved to satisfy our [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► human blood lists but really it's going [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► to be brand against brand and I i want [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► to get in on the ground floor of those [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► jumpsuits [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► I like it I like it it's sort of like [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► the way Apple came in you know 2006 [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► people say know who was gonna why would [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► Apple make a phone like phones arkamada [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► modified right you go get out and get [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► get an A and a box of Cracker Jack these [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► days but then Apple figure out how to do [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► it right it was a part of what you're [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► saying here is we get on the ground [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► floor of this where it's not super [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► costly to make something like this but [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► we make something that will years after [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► you are crippled or dead from your [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► neighborhood stick fight your suit will [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► live on your family can keep using it [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► it's gonna be that well-made like I [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► think about carhartt pants I've got [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► there like you know quintuple stitched [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► you know me like logging pants that this [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► could be a really nice stick fighting [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► jumpsuit [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► well yeah sure and then you know and [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► you're going to have you're going to [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► have your like your eyes odd alligator [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► your do you have you seen those those [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► new clothes new ralph lauren shirts [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► where they have blown up the the polo [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► pony so that it's the size of like a pie [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► plate on the shirt [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► this is the end at the thing is we sound [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► like such grandfather's right now [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► because they've been making these things [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► for years and all the frat boys [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► wearing them for a long time but you [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► know the little teeny polo pony rides to [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► be like a you know three quarters of an [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► inch high [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► yeah now the on the new shirts it's [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► basically the size of like a small [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► frisbee same polo pony but it takes up a [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► quarter of the front of the shirt and [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► this is you know this is the genius of [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► branding where the company was like [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► let's make this thing so big and people [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► will think that it is like fresh anymore [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► brand for the money [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► yeah but now people can you know like [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► they can see from space what brand of [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► shirt you're wearing [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► so eventually it's going to be the case [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► that that polo pony no longer needs to [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► actually be attached to shake something [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► as small as a shirt like what [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► what matters is not the garment what [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► matters is the polo pony you put on the [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► stadium [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► I'm you the right foot you could put it [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► on a stadium you could put it on a [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► jumpsuit that was manufactured by [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► anybody people that discerning as long [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► as it's got the pony on it they're gonna [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► buy it [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► did I remember in the nineties seeing a [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► gal it was a one of those hot summer [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► days where the gals in seattle a [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► particularly the lesbian gals are all [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► wearing a wife-beater t-shirts [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► this was in the nineties when and I [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► think it may even still be true i'm less [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► up on contemporary summer lesbian [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► fashion but in the mid-nineties all the [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► girls who love girls switch to switch to [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► tank top like you know white colored [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► Frank norton style tank top tee shirts [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► at a certain day in the summer and then [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► that was what they were wearing and one [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► day I was sitting around i was sitting [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► outside a bar called the wild rose which [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► is the women who love women bar [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► and there's a girl sitting at the table [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► next to me and she has a big nike swoop [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► tattoo on her shoulder and was the first [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► time I had ever seen somebody and since [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► that time I've seen thousands of [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► instances where people put like that's [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► like brand logos sportswear logos [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► tattooed on their body but this was the [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► first time I'd ever seen it took me a [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► minute i was looking at I was like is [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► that is tennis nike scoop that a [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► checkmark am I not seeing that right now [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► is that is that is this some kind of [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► Rashad touched workshop plus your first [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► phase is already a little bit normative [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► right well no my gaze has never been [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► more but but I understand what you're [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► trying to say but in any case I'm [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► looking I'm looking at her swoop and I [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► realize it's a fucking nike scoop [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► she's got a tattooed on herself I do not [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► know what she means i'm not sure what [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► there's nothing like the brand of the [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► brand is meant to differentiate this [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► pair of shoes from that pair of shoes [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► but when you put it on your skin [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► yeah I mean you're you're flipping [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► through this irony rolodex for all the [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► possible readings [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► what's one thing you know if you go out [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► and you decide to get a UPC symbol on [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► your forehead like we know that's [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► probably singing States fucking super [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► punk i will say the Lord's there's just [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► open up up but I you know any even if [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► you do something that's like kind of [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► working against the grain [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► I ideologically yeah you know I keep [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► like even if even if she had like a Tom [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► of Finland guy tattooed on her arm so [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► well she's making a statement about [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► gender and sexuality and turn and power [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► and things like that but that the nike [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► swoosh is that's beyond irony for me [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► so what it would that was the moment [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► when I realized that eventually the shoe [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► and because already the people that you [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► know the little brown hands in China [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► that are making nike shoes [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► are the same ones that are making a DD [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► shoes it's not like there's any it's not [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► like really the the product itself has [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► any differentiation at all it's just to [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► swoop versus the stripes and eventually [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► they will figure out a way to just sell [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► you the swoop and stand dispense with [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► this business this stupid business of [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► manufacturing shoes garbage balloon [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► shoes that that that blow away in a year [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► they'll find a way to just sell you the [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► brand now the NASCAR thing makes sense [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► so what you're saying is you get [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► whatever kind of piece of clothing you [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► want or high quality clothing doesn't [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► matter and I get your the your preferred [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► brand affiliation put on there that's [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► what there be a licensing fee for that [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► absolutely so it's going to cost you a [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► hundred dollars this it's gonna be 30 [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► bucks one way or another suit and [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► everybody's got the you know the suits [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► you can get a tailor-made you can get [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► them at the at the drugstore doesn't [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► matter the suit is it a material that's [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► exactly the point exactly the point what [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► matters is that you paid a hundred [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► dollars or a thousand dollars or [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► $100,000 to have bugatti on your suit or [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► you know whatever the Brits the brand [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► that you paid for [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► it's the licensing of the brand because [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► lily and it's a form of constraints a7 [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► good right [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► conspicuous consumption because we know [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► that we know you had to pay that [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► licensing fee that's right that's [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► exactly right and so we don't have so so [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► where we no longer have to bother with [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► this [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► stupid manufacturing of stuff and [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► shipping it back and forth across the [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► oceans on these giant ships we can just [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► you know you can just go back to a [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► situation where locally there's some [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► dumb mill that just churning out [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► unitards one after another and then you [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► customize them with your own sort of [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► like so my unitard would have a star of [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► david and a BMW logo and you know and I [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► like a filson thing across the middle [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► and then I would have you know then like [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► my favorite porn actress and who I voted [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► for in the last election you know and in [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► this sort of NASCAR patchwork and then [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► you walk out in the world everybody [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► knows where you stand everybody knows [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► who you're rooting for in the in there [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► the stick fight that's coming up you [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► hate everybody knows who you look [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► rooting for in the local stick fight in [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► the National stick fight in the inter [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► global brand stick fighting but imagine [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► that like you get to a hundred or two [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► hundred years from now however long [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► could be 50 years but imagine when the [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► materials get through to a point like [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► right now we're at the point where you [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► can get like a like a foldable screen or [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► you know you can have these curved [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► screens imagine we get to a point where [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► there could be some kind of materials [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► processing will you be able to like [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► basically rent those logos or lease [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► those logos for certain amount of time [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► making changes in real time you say you [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► see the Mariners just don't have the [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► pitching today change my logo right or [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► I'm going to a big party and I'm gonna [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► I'm gonna I'm gonna fork out the money [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► to be in louisvuitton I'll like head to [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► toe my unitard is going to switch to [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► louis vuitton branding but just for the [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► next hour and a half lime at this [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► cocktail party and then at the stroke of [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► midnight it's going to turn back into a [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► pumpkin and and you're going to see here [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► cannot see basically just that I just [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► have like shale oil not even she'll like [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► a monarch it's just a narco suit it's a [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► yeah right [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► these on your card and get reunit [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► started yeah so people are like you know [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► like wow that she's super fancy and then [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► oh yeah she's just she's just renting [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► some she's just running the branding for [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► instance that kind of its nice that's a [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► nice combo [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► asian it's a it's the kind of industry [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► you you could have had a hundred years [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► ago [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► it'sit's no I you gotta the brand [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► conscious young people you take that and [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► you combine it with inexpensive goods [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► and the rent-to-own furniture model i'm [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► not very attractive so how do we get in [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► on the ground floor of this where we're [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► actually profiting from you might need [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► to actually hire dickies okay for [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► someone like them somebody who's got [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► like was a paint store we walked by in [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► our neighborhood and they sell all the [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► different like white dickies things that [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► you can get I don't think that stuff is [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► super expensive it's not at all because [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► it's made out of it's made out of hemp [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► basically food [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► I mean that's the thing to positive is [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► good for the environment to to produce a [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► rough white garment a rough white [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► unitard is not expensive doesn't have to [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► be you could you could do that right [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► here we can be making those in [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► washington state right now the only [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► reason we're not is that we got you know [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► we got convinced that oh no we don't [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► want you know we don't want a [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► locally-made thanks Obama [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► ya nah know what I need to get this you [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► know this needs to say this needs to say [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► Ralph Lauren on it and so therefore it [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► is busy with their support companies [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► John it's ridiculous the Ralph Lauren [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► and Nike and Adidas and the National [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► Socialist it's amazing how much money [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► they have to spend overseas to get their [TS]