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00:00:23 ◼   ► hello hey John I Merlin how are you

00:00:28 ◼   ► oh it's very early yeah it's good though

00:00:33 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's good to go early how you

00:00:36 ◼   ► move the earlier moving

00:00:39 ◼   ► I've got a personal time change yeah i'm

00:00:41 ◼   ► moving earlier I am I'm trending earlier

00:00:44 ◼   ► food i think that early is morally

00:00:48 ◼   ► better

00:00:49 ◼   ► who it's been that's what people have

00:00:51 ◼   ► been telling me my whole life people who

00:00:53 ◼   ► get up early are morally superior people

00:00:55 ◼   ► that sleep late i resisted it because

00:00:59 ◼   ► we're not a pearly have to defend

00:01:00 ◼   ► ourselves

00:01:01 ◼   ► that's right that's right they're

00:01:03 ◼   ► writing their writing our biographies

00:01:05 ◼   ► and were sleeping and then when you wake

00:01:07 ◼   ► up they hide them under the pillow

00:01:09 ◼   ► no I go yeah look who's up lazybones

00:01:11 ◼   ► it's typical of the earlies just cutting

00:01:13 ◼   ► they do the earlies do a lot the earlies

00:01:16 ◼   ► are running the world because the

00:01:19 ◼   ► chances lots of things that I think

00:01:20 ◼   ► earlies tend to do that ladies wouldn't

00:01:22 ◼   ► do or we doing a different annoying way

00:01:24 ◼   ► like an early baby stuff like they move

00:01:26 ◼   ► things around the house

00:01:28 ◼   ► mhm right have you ever noticed this you

00:01:30 ◼   ► might you might notice a lot of what

00:01:31 ◼   ► earlies get away with with their

00:01:33 ◼   ► particular personality type is by virtue

00:01:35 ◼   ► of the fact that they're up literally

00:01:36 ◼   ► three hours earlier

00:01:37 ◼   ► that's right there sometimes up so much

00:01:38 ◼   ► earlier that it's like they're living in

00:01:40 ◼   ► a different universe parallel universe

00:01:42 ◼   ► who I you back in the old days when I

00:01:45 ◼   ► would stay up routinely all night and I

00:01:49 ◼   ► would be I never had a walk of shame

00:01:52 ◼   ► exactly because I'm too full of pride

00:01:54 ◼   ► but you know I would walk down the walk

00:01:58 ◼   ► down the boulevard in the morning it

00:02:00 ◼   ► wearing last night's clothes and I'd see

00:02:05 ◼   ► all the earlies like pooling

00:02:07 ◼   ► congregating in their little early

00:02:10 ◼   ► classes power walking

00:02:12 ◼   ► oh they're walking so strong and fast

00:02:15 ◼   ► and I would see like oh you look like

00:02:19 ◼   ► different people you have different

00:02:21 ◼   ► physiognomies yeah no I think I i well I

00:02:27 ◼   ► don't know that word very well but I

00:02:29 ◼   ► think you might be right now my question

00:02:31 ◼   ► for you is

00:02:32 ◼   ► in order to be getting up even a little

00:02:34 ◼   ► earlier and I guess I I'm this money i

00:02:37 ◼   ► partly because I mainly this time I

00:02:39 ◼   ► spent in person with you is when you're

00:02:41 ◼   ► on tour so your whole life kinda has to

00:02:43 ◼   ► be later but it seems like in the past

00:02:45 ◼   ► you've naturally you wouldn't naturally

00:02:48 ◼   ► wake up before like 11 in the past

00:02:51 ◼   ► no but not by preference or by nature

00:02:55 ◼   ► what I wake up before I'm not shaming

00:02:57 ◼   ► you know knowing that and the thing is i

00:02:59 ◼   ► spent my whole life trying to reconcile

00:03:03 ◼   ► that with Oh with the world with a world

00:03:06 ◼   ► that feels like eleven o'clock is pretty

00:03:10 ◼   ► much like too late to get anything done

00:03:13 ◼   ► like if you if you get up by 11 you're

00:03:16 ◼   ► not out of the house by 12 at which

00:03:18 ◼   ► point the stores are already starting to

00:03:20 ◼   ► close

00:03:20 ◼   ► you know those those stores there was

00:03:23 ◼   ► this is Madrid from the stores that are

00:03:25 ◼   ► open from seven to noon and then just

00:03:29 ◼   ► like oh well if you needed sewing

00:03:30 ◼   ► supplies the sewing store closes in his

00:03:34 ◼   ► notions is not a night owl operation

00:03:37 ◼   ► yeah it's like what you expect expect to

00:03:39 ◼   ► stay open till five and that's the

00:03:41 ◼   ► that's the crazy part about being an

00:03:44 ◼   ► eleven o'clock wake up person is just

00:03:47 ◼   ► that that so many places close at five

00:03:49 ◼   ► and and that just seems crazy to me why

00:03:53 ◼   ► every place isn't open till eight right

00:03:56 ◼   ► yeah and what kind of place opens at

00:03:59 ◼   ► eight in the morning like who is doing

00:04:01 ◼   ► anything at eight besides dragging their

00:04:03 ◼   ► sorry ass somewhere i was in probably

00:04:05 ◼   ► middle late twenties before this all

00:04:07 ◼   ► really clicked

00:04:08 ◼   ► I mean it was after i had a job and not

00:04:10 ◼   ► had a regular job and been freelancing

00:04:12 ◼   ► and sleeping general III m2 11 most days

00:04:15 ◼   ► but it ain't finally really did click

00:04:17 ◼   ► something that should be so obvious

00:04:18 ◼   ► which is the world runs 925 because the

00:04:22 ◼   ► world runs 925 that's exactly absolutely

00:04:25 ◼   ► you just said a mouthful sir and so

00:04:27 ◼   ► you're able to do things but i mean it's

00:04:29 ◼   ► it's so it's so bitter that you would

00:04:31 ◼   ► have to go and be somewhere during the

00:04:33 ◼   ► working hours and then right at the time

00:04:34 ◼   ► you get out and you know that for these

00:04:36 ◼   ► kids today they don't they don't know

00:04:38 ◼   ► from ours but it used to be you couldn't

00:04:40 ◼   ► buy stuff on Christmas and used abused

00:04:42 ◼   ► time was it doesn't count

00:04:44 ◼   ► on can count on ATM being there I mean

00:04:47 ◼   ► those there's a lot more stuff where you

00:04:49 ◼   ► really had to plan and think ahead

00:04:51 ◼   ► like for example i just noticed

00:04:52 ◼   ► yesterday our local post office which

00:04:56 ◼   ► really is like something from East

00:04:58 ◼   ► Germany and in the mid-seventies they

00:05:00 ◼   ► are they reached the I understandably I

00:05:02 ◼   ► think they're cutting hours so they're

00:05:04 ◼   ► going to start closing it 5pm instead of

00:05:06 ◼   ► 6pm but think about the impact that has

00:05:08 ◼   ► on people who actually need to do

00:05:09 ◼   ► anything with that place while you but

00:05:11 ◼   ► absolutely and this is the whole premise

00:05:13 ◼   ► behind daylight savings time which is

00:05:16 ◼   ► which is a crazy solution to a simple

00:05:18 ◼   ► problem you know daylight savings time I

00:05:21 ◼   ► guess I guess what they think we're

00:05:22 ◼   ► still getting up to plow or something

00:05:25 ◼   ► but I mean here's here's a here's a clue

00:05:28 ◼   ► just have the stores open later keep the

00:05:31 ◼   ► time the same just move the opening

00:05:34 ◼   ► hours and the closing hours of the shops

00:05:37 ◼   ► that's what strange and I've said this

00:05:39 ◼   ► to you have a half a dozen times but

00:05:40 ◼   ► that's one thing that's so starkly

00:05:41 ◼   ► different from what I was living in

00:05:43 ◼   ► florida is is I remember even being in

00:05:45 ◼   ► college

00:05:46 ◼   ► mid to late eighties ah gas stations

00:05:48 ◼   ► open all night it was you know is more

00:05:51 ◼   ► more you're seeing stuff it will still

00:05:52 ◼   ► wasn't the point when like I don't think

00:05:54 ◼   ► we had super walmarts then but you know

00:05:57 ◼   ► as recently as maybe what like five or

00:05:59 ◼   ► eight years ago going to Florida either

00:06:02 ◼   ► super walmart is open all night long and

00:06:04 ◼   ► that's in it really serves an ironic sad

00:06:07 ◼   ► purpose which is all the people who work

00:06:09 ◼   ► in this crazy jobs it's crazy hours they

00:06:12 ◼   ► go and they go in there wheeling there

00:06:14 ◼   ► with three kids at two in the morning

00:06:15 ◼   ► cuz that's when they can go get

00:06:16 ◼   ► groceries announcing the first time I

00:06:19 ◼   ► ever saw super walmart i was so

00:06:21 ◼   ► flabbergasted

00:06:22 ◼   ► it was in florida and it was one of

00:06:25 ◼   ► those super walmarts what would seem

00:06:29 ◼   ► like it was a

00:06:32 ◼   ► like to get there you have to cross a 11

00:06:35 ◼   ► lane Boulevard and then go down into a

00:06:38 ◼   ► storm dick your journey is not over yet

00:06:41 ◼   ► traveling down into a storm ditch that

00:06:44 ◼   ► was again like four lanes wide and then

00:06:46 ◼   ► up the other side and then across a long

00:06:48 ◼   ► misty parking lot like arc light lit

00:06:53 ◼   ► parking lot and it was the first time

00:06:56 ◼   ► I'd ever been to Florida and I was hyper

00:06:59 ◼   ► vigilant for alligators

00:07:02 ◼   ► oh so I'm like trying to get across this

00:07:06 ◼   ► Boulevard and through this storm

00:07:08 ◼   ► condition over and threw them at the

00:07:11 ◼   ► merc woodforest and everywhere I'm you

00:07:15 ◼   ► know every step I take

00:07:17 ◼   ► I'm thinking and I'm going to fully

00:07:19 ◼   ► grown adult like I don't the thing is I

00:07:20 ◼   ► don't know anything about alligators you

00:07:23 ◼   ► know you don't have to be scared of that

00:07:25 ◼   ► sort

00:07:25 ◼   ► I know enough that alligators are making

00:07:27 ◼   ► outrage on and straight line

00:07:29 ◼   ► mmm i didn't know that I knew enough of

00:07:31 ◼   ► I knew enough about alligators but I

00:07:33 ◼   ► didn't know how to say i didn't know how

00:07:35 ◼   ► to spot an alligator on the land or in a

00:07:38 ◼   ► in a pond and you know good in Alaska I

00:07:41 ◼   ► know how to not get eaten by various

00:07:44 ◼   ► things but it in Florida where I'd never

00:07:48 ◼   ► been the prospect of like I you know I

00:07:52 ◼   ► presumed that you didn't just put a bell

00:07:54 ◼   ► on your backpack and that would scare

00:07:55 ◼   ► the alligators away like it does the

00:07:58 ◼   ► bears an alligator belt an alligator

00:08:02 ◼   ► belt you didn't like you didn't walk

00:08:03 ◼   ► walk along up in the middle of the night

00:08:06 ◼   ► everybody that would draw attention to

00:08:07 ◼   ► me

00:08:08 ◼   ► well yeah right i mean in Alaska walk

00:08:10 ◼   ► along in the middle of the night through

00:08:11 ◼   ► the forest and you say everyone's want

00:08:12 ◼   ► to say hello bear

00:08:13 ◼   ► oh they're all bear and the bears here

00:08:18 ◼   ► you and they proved they prefer not to

00:08:20 ◼   ► have an encounter with you but I was not

00:08:22 ◼   ► about to start saying oh alligator was

00:08:25 ◼   ► just to be clear this is early in your

00:08:27 ◼   ► first visit to florida so this has gotta

00:08:30 ◼   ► be an overwhelming experience experience

00:08:31 ◼   ► for you is just it's like I'm I'm 12

00:08:34 ◼   ► hours in country and the it's you know

00:08:38 ◼   ► it's really it's my first trip to

00:08:39 ◼   ► Vietnam you know that the air is heavy

00:08:43 ◼   ► it's hot and there's this that the

00:08:47 ◼   ► concierge at the hotel says all you want

00:08:49 ◼   ► to go over the super walmart open 24

00:08:51 ◼   ► hours and you know and I see it in the

00:08:55 ◼   ► distance glowing it's like the it's like

00:08:57 ◼   ► the bridge that they blow up every night

00:08:58 ◼   ► and then rebuild and yeah but alligators

00:09:03 ◼   ► foremost in my mind I do not want to

00:09:07 ◼   ► walk along and step on an alligator

00:09:09 ◼   ► I do not want to do not want an

00:09:11 ◼   ► alligator surprise me from behind the

00:09:13 ◼   ► garbage can and so so whatever I think

00:09:17 ◼   ► of walmart even now I think alligators

00:09:19 ◼   ► on that way with new orleans in nutrias

00:09:22 ◼   ► have you ever seen a real live nutrient

00:09:25 ◼   ► be honest with you I only ever needed to

00:09:28 ◼   ► see one nutrient in my entire life and

00:09:31 ◼   ► equity right into alligator country it

00:09:33 ◼   ► was because my friend joking about say

00:09:35 ◼   ► oh you know these things they raised him

00:09:36 ◼   ► to make a beaver coat and then the

00:09:39 ◼   ► beaver coat fake beaver coat market

00:09:40 ◼   ► dropped out i guess in the late twenties

00:09:42 ◼   ► and they apparently however me like a

00:09:44 ◼   ► thousand two thousand even 10,000 let

00:09:46 ◼   ► him go and now they breed prodigiously

00:09:48 ◼   ► and they're they're like the face of

00:09:51 ◼   ► Satan their horrifying creatures they're

00:09:53 ◼   ► like oh they're rats but they're the

00:09:54 ◼   ► size of beavers the rap beavers with

00:09:57 ◼   ► with big yellow teeth and they make it

00:09:59 ◼   ► sound like this like they're like I

00:10:07 ◼   ► don't like the Korean water ghosts of

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00:11:39 ◼   ► here John I mean is we could have a

00:11:41 ◼   ► conversation about walmart has done to

00:11:42 ◼   ► America but the first time I walked into

00:11:44 ◼   ► a Super Walmart I thought it was like

00:11:46 ◼   ► Valhalla i thought was the most amazing

00:11:47 ◼   ► thing I've ever seen in my life because

00:11:49 ◼   ► at the time we had my girlfriend and I

00:11:52 ◼   ► were driving and I think we're moving

00:11:54 ◼   ► one of us one place to another and we

00:11:57 ◼   ► need a tarp to cover up like a u-haul

00:12:00 ◼   ► trailer in the back at our colon as they

00:12:02 ◼   ► say in in in in Florida and we put in

00:12:06 ◼   ► there and I think we ended up buyin

00:12:08 ◼   ► tires and frozen peas

00:12:10 ◼   ► I mean it was I've never seen a walmart

00:12:12 ◼   ► that had food in it to produce a frozen

00:12:14 ◼   ► peas that sorry I'm over here in the

00:12:17 ◼   ► otherwise you can hear me a prison peas

00:12:20 ◼   ► but now but I mean I just remember I

00:12:22 ◼   ► think memory serves

00:12:25 ◼   ► we ended up spending baloch an hour and

00:12:26 ◼   ► a half maybe two hours in there because

00:12:28 ◼   ► it was like oh my god they have

00:12:30 ◼   ► literally everything in it's all like a

00:12:31 ◼   ► dollar twenty yeah so I mean I don't

00:12:35 ◼   ► know it's I I had a right captain I want

00:12:37 ◼   ► to make this about the economics of

00:12:39 ◼   ► politics but i have to say it was a

00:12:41 ◼   ► really illuminating experience for me to

00:12:43 ◼   ► go back to Florida and mid-2002 my mom

00:12:47 ◼   ► was recovering from surgery and I had

00:12:49 ◼   ► spent like 10 days or something like

00:12:51 ◼   ► that when you went back to florida to do

00:12:55 ◼   ► make a White Castle fly about industry

00:12:57 ◼   ► cop

00:12:59 ◼   ► what that mean we go down to the Lord is

00:13:06 ◼   ► that is it but I surfers on and on and

00:13:09 ◼   ► no but I did see the crepe and that's

00:13:14 ◼   ► alla o my soul yeah I tell you though I

00:13:18 ◼   ► think there was something about it that

00:13:19 ◼   ► was it was weirdly illuminating to this

00:13:21 ◼   ► flaming liberal there was there was my

00:13:24 ◼   ► at the time still still living

00:13:25 ◼   ► grandmother who was very old and ill and

00:13:28 ◼   ► had you know Alzheimer's in my mom he's

00:13:30 ◼   ► got some kind of movement stuff and I'm

00:13:33 ◼   ► just here to tell you man you pull into

00:13:34 ◼   ► the walmart you got your little tag

00:13:36 ◼   ► everybody's gonna hang tag now you know

00:13:37 ◼   ► we should talk about that at some point

00:13:38 ◼   ► everybody's gotta tell you it's

00:13:40 ◼   ► interesting

00:13:40 ◼   ► everybody's gotta cut somebody a a

00:13:42 ◼   ► handicapped parking spot exactly just

00:13:44 ◼   ► they just give that to you in florida

00:13:46 ◼   ► and then if you don't want you give it

00:13:47 ◼   ► back but anyway you pull right up next

00:13:49 ◼   ► to the door you can you get to rascal

00:13:51 ◼   ► scooters and you can drive rascal

00:13:53 ◼   ► scooters like retail Rascals we've got a

00:13:55 ◼   ► battle gets on them so i actually I

00:13:57 ◼   ► wasn't super into grandma driving her

00:13:59 ◼   ► asking but she did pretty she was really

00:14:01 ◼   ► into it but we had we had this little

00:14:03 ◼   ► like a sad their sets wagon train of me

00:14:06 ◼   ► with a giant s cart and then my mom my

00:14:07 ◼   ► grandma we went around but it was it was

00:14:10 ◼   ► the thing is in san francisco you've

00:14:12 ◼   ► been to our safeway you park if you can

00:14:14 ◼   ► find a space you park on the roof of our

00:14:16 ◼   ► safeway you get the elevator which i'm

00:14:18 ◼   ► pretty sure pretty positive was probably

00:14:20 ◼   ► not working when you were here it was

00:14:21 ◼   ► enough just stop working while you're in

00:14:23 ◼   ► it you gotta get cards downstairs or get

00:14:27 ◼   ► cards upstairs and then go into the and

00:14:30 ◼   ► it's it's amazing though when you're

00:14:32 ◼   ► we've lived in even a pseudo urban area

00:14:34 ◼   ► like like where you live where I live

00:14:36 ◼   ► like it is so strange to pull into a

00:14:39 ◼   ► walmart that has literally hundreds i

00:14:42 ◼   ► don't think they've ever filled that

00:14:43 ◼   ► parking lot except maybe like Christmas

00:14:45 ◼   ► Eve writes the hugest parking lot you've

00:14:47 ◼   ► got the the worst space at a Walmart is

00:14:49 ◼   ► like the best space in our mall and then

00:14:52 ◼   ► you get two Rascals your driveway and

00:14:54 ◼   ► like a hundred twenty dollars later like

00:14:56 ◼   ► you fill the truck its I all I'm saying

00:14:58 ◼   ► is and you can do it two in the morning

00:14:59 ◼   ► and at times when you're like dealing

00:15:01 ◼   ► with things like moves or like

00:15:03 ◼   ► transitions you just find yourself going

00:15:04 ◼   ► to walmart three times today it

00:15:06 ◼   ► completely blew me away and I don't

00:15:08 ◼   ► think it's a great thing but it was

00:15:09 ◼   ► really illuminating to me as somebody

00:15:10 ◼   ► who likes to look down his nose

00:15:12 ◼   ► isn't talking about all the people who

00:15:13 ◼   ► are ruining America with all their

00:15:14 ◼   ► retail because that was all that was

00:15:16 ◼   ► there when I funny funny thing is i have

00:15:19 ◼   ► some coffee when I when I left for

00:15:20 ◼   ► college in 1986 we gone to walmart to

00:15:24 ◼   ► buy all the pots and pans kind of stuff

00:15:25 ◼   ► and at that point there were still strip

00:15:27 ◼   ► malls everywhere retail stores you had

00:15:30 ◼   ► so many drug stores so many grocery

00:15:31 ◼   ► stores but it's it's I don't want to

00:15:34 ◼   ► make this to idiocracy but really was

00:15:36 ◼   ► kind of like this 8th block area where

00:15:38 ◼   ► there used to be all these different

00:15:39 ◼   ► stores now this one like ridiculously

00:15:41 ◼   ► large building with ample parking

00:15:43 ◼   ► the ultra store how do you get those

00:15:45 ◼   ► what you know you can't build those in

00:15:46 ◼   ► the city limits here now we don't have

00:15:47 ◼   ► them here either in Seattle because yeah

00:15:51 ◼   ► right

00:15:51 ◼   ► the anti basically because because maybe

00:15:55 ◼   ► because of Meg Ryan's character in

00:15:57 ◼   ► you've got mail

00:15:59 ◼   ► we are prohibited from building super

00:16:01 ◼   ► stores in the city but you know a when

00:16:04 ◼   ► we first started doing this podcast you

00:16:06 ◼   ► sent me a giant long upright blue

00:16:11 ◼   ► hyperlink cable of that's a it's a that

00:16:17 ◼   ► was going to such a hyperlink cable it's

00:16:18 ◼   ► a hyper hyper link cable or whatever it

00:16:20 ◼   ► is it's a you know like a like a direct

00:16:22 ◼   ► direct in cable for the internets who

00:16:26 ◼   ► because the first I think the first four

00:16:28 ◼   ► letters help johns talking about an

00:16:29 ◼   ► ethernet cable ethernet cable the first

00:16:32 ◼   ► the first time we tried to do the this

00:16:35 ◼   ► television program i was doing it on the

00:16:40 ◼   ► line to the cap was doing to you on the

00:16:44 ◼   ► the Wi-Fi and you were like doesn't

00:16:47 ◼   ► sound good

00:16:47 ◼   ► I'm gonna send you something and then

00:16:48 ◼   ► this blue cable showed up within hours

00:16:51 ◼   ► and we never look back because of

00:16:52 ◼   ► because of amazon anyway so for a long

00:16:56 ◼   ► time I was doing the like housekeeping

00:17:00 ◼   ► of a bit a bit end of the show I would

00:17:04 ◼   ► unplug the cable that runs down the

00:17:07 ◼   ► stairs to the router if memory serves

00:17:09 ◼   ► the full part of the fun of this was

00:17:11 ◼   ► your internet connection was downstairs

00:17:13 ◼   ► that you're recording upstairs record

00:17:15 ◼   ► upstairs in the interconnect gonna get a

00:17:16 ◼   ► hurt foot a 100-foot Ethan 100 foot

00:17:19 ◼   ► ethernet cable because it internet

00:17:20 ◼   ► connection is down the stairs across the

00:17:22 ◼   ► hall and in the in the other wing

00:17:24 ◼   ► and so for a long time i would get done

00:17:27 ◼   ► with the program and i would go down i

00:17:29 ◼   ► would on unhook the hundred foot

00:17:31 ◼   ► ethernet cable i would plug the Wi-Fi

00:17:33 ◼   ► router back in i would coil up the

00:17:36 ◼   ► ethernet cable all the way up the stairs

00:17:38 ◼   ► and you know and put it behind the

00:17:41 ◼   ► computer well over time I just got used

00:17:44 ◼   ► to the blue cable running through the

00:17:46 ◼   ► house and everybody kind of got used to

00:17:48 ◼   ► it and so the blue cable just ended up

00:17:52 ◼   ► not getting coiled up the blue cable

00:17:54 ◼   ► just runs through the house but the blue

00:17:59 ◼   ► cable has to go through one two three

00:18:02 ◼   ► doorways and across it it goes right

00:18:07 ◼   ► across a pretty highly sounds like a

00:18:08 ◼   ► health class video John that sounds like

00:18:10 ◼   ► a terrible tripping hazard

00:18:12 ◼   ► well what's happened is that doors have

00:18:14 ◼   ► gotten shut on the long blue cable many

00:18:18 ◼   ► many times and now the longer cable it

00:18:22 ◼   ► looks like it has been like chewed upon

00:18:25 ◼   ► by a nutria it it is completely mangled

00:18:31 ◼   ► and if it if any real electricity were

00:18:34 ◼   ► running through it would be a hazard as

00:18:37 ◼   ► it stands it's just like a it's it looks

00:18:39 ◼   ► like it's just dropping internet bites

00:18:41 ◼   ► because it's just dropping bites right

00:18:43 ◼   ► there look and I'm sure the NSA comes in

00:18:46 ◼   ► and sweeps up all the internet that

00:18:47 ◼   ► spills out of it and and goes and and

00:18:50 ◼   ► catalogs it as they're doing to me all

00:18:53 ◼   ► the time but I realized as I was looking

00:18:56 ◼   ► at it today

00:18:57 ◼   ► oh right this thing now is is is fast

00:19:04 ◼   ► approaching uselessness and I went on

00:19:08 ◼   ► amazon to get a new one and in the

00:19:11 ◼   ► course of beam on amazon even for five

00:19:13 ◼   ► minutes I filled up a shopping cart with

00:19:16 ◼   ► seven hundred dollars with stuff

00:19:18 ◼   ► Wow and I was like well I can't spend

00:19:20 ◼   ► seven hundred dollars on all this stuff

00:19:21 ◼   ► so I didn't buy any of it and the blue

00:19:24 ◼   ► cable is still in the shopping bag

00:19:27 ◼   ► and now i feel like this blue cable

00:19:29 ◼   ► belongs in a museum

00:19:32 ◼   ► you should sell it blew on it belongs in

00:19:34 ◼   ► the Roderick on making the merch hits

00:19:35 ◼   ► the merch table and so so I can't part

00:19:39 ◼   ► with it because now it has value every

00:19:41 ◼   ► time the door is closed on it

00:19:43 ◼   ► mm it's you know every single Roderick

00:19:45 ◼   ► on the line has gone through this cable

00:19:46 ◼   ► at least half of it and so what is ok

00:19:50 ◼   ► yeah that's what I'm supposed to do i'm

00:19:52 ◼   ► gonna go burned in the yard so yeah now

00:19:56 ◼   ► i'm now I have this i have this kind of

00:19:57 ◼   ► busted ass cable and I don't know if you

00:20:00 ◼   ► can even find Wonder walmart i need to

00:20:02 ◼   ► just I just need to go to you know what

00:20:04 ◼   ► I need you know what Amazon needs to do

00:20:05 ◼   ► they need to start opening stores you

00:20:08 ◼   ► mean so you're saying that one of I

00:20:10 ◼   ► guess you'd call it out be retail but a

00:20:12 ◼   ► store

00:20:12 ◼   ► yeah like us retail store a retail store

00:20:14 ◼   ► so be like an online store but in a

00:20:18 ◼   ► building like in a big building with a

00:20:21 ◼   ► parking lot and people would come jump i

00:20:23 ◼   ► think i'm following you

00:20:24 ◼   ► you're saying instead of buying it

00:20:26 ◼   ► online and having it delivered they

00:20:27 ◼   ► would go there they would park they go

00:20:28 ◼   ► inside and they give something like

00:20:30 ◼   ► money to take something in their hands

00:20:32 ◼   ► and they are out of it with her seat but

00:20:34 ◼   ► Gordon you can use bitcoin bitcoin ok

00:20:36 ◼   ► alright the idea that the thing about it

00:20:39 ◼   ► think about it is that I when I meant

00:20:45 ◼   ► when i'm on the internet you might have

00:20:47 ◼   ► noticed this but this is the this is the

00:20:48 ◼   ► reason that dictionaries this is the

00:20:51 ◼   ► reason i've started buying dictionaries

00:20:53 ◼   ► in addition to the dictionaries i

00:20:55 ◼   ► already own which are several I started

00:21:00 ◼   ► getting other dictionaries because I

00:21:02 ◼   ► realized the main flaw of online

00:21:05 ◼   ► dictionaries is that they're so they're

00:21:09 ◼   ► so concerned with profiting from the

00:21:12 ◼   ► idea of a dictionary by throwing

00:21:14 ◼   ► advertisements up all around the world

00:21:17 ◼   ► you're trying to look up that they have

00:21:19 ◼   ► they have misjudged what the best thing

00:21:22 ◼   ► about a dictionary is which is that you

00:21:24 ◼   ► go to the dictionary to look up the word

00:21:27 ◼   ► gin

00:21:28 ◼   ► let's say or just you know like let's

00:21:31 ◼   ► say you go look at a vision which is a

00:21:34 ◼   ► kind of detainee what's this

00:21:36 ◼   ► the genie and then you're there and you

00:21:40 ◼   ► say oh interesting decision right and

00:21:43 ◼   ► then you go oh

00:21:45 ◼   ► djibouti or whatever like you see the

00:21:47 ◼   ► next DJ word and you say oh that's

00:21:52 ◼   ► interesting and then pretty soon you're

00:21:53 ◼   ► reading the dictionary and I defy anyone

00:21:55 ◼   ► to tell me a dictionary story that

00:21:57 ◼   ► doesn't start and end with some amazing

00:22:00 ◼   ► discovery they made up by this or

00:22:04 ◼   ► accidental proximity dictionary findings

00:22:09 ◼   ► and new dictionaries which are you know

00:22:14 ◼   ► on the internet you can look up any word

00:22:16 ◼   ► in any time but there is no there's no

00:22:18 ◼   ► lucky fun to them and it's the same it's

00:22:22 ◼   ► the same I mean wikipedia has the

00:22:24 ◼   ► hyperlink which is very much like we

00:22:26 ◼   ► used to do with encyclopedias where you

00:22:28 ◼   ► would know related articles or in line

00:22:31 ◼   ► length and you're justyou're then pretty

00:22:33 ◼   ► soon you're reading an encyclopedia and

00:22:35 ◼   ► I mean I think that I think that the

00:22:36 ◼   ► time i spent reading the Encyclopedia as

00:22:38 ◼   ► a child

00:22:39 ◼   ► absolutely trumped every school I ever

00:22:42 ◼   ► heard that's where three academic years

00:22:44 ◼   ► for me like three good academic years

00:22:46 ◼   ► that's worth like 4th to 6th grade

00:22:48 ◼   ► absolutely absolutely i mean and those

00:22:50 ◼   ► are precisely the years from 4th to 6th

00:22:53 ◼   ► grade point third to sixth grade I

00:22:56 ◼   ► learned more out of the encyclopedias

00:22:57 ◼   ► then out at and completely unguided

00:23:00 ◼   ► unstructured learning but just like you

00:23:02 ◼   ► go to the Encyclopedia to look something

00:23:04 ◼   ► up and then you're just there for the

00:23:06 ◼   ► rest of the afternoon and so hyperlink

00:23:10 ◼   ► kind of allows for that although you

00:23:12 ◼   ► never really feel like you're getting

00:23:13 ◼   ► all the way into talk about the

00:23:15 ◼   ► hyperlink cabling protocol hyperlink

00:23:18 ◼   ► cabling protocol

00:23:19 ◼   ► okay now you're just funny you should

00:23:21 ◼   ► say that because HTTP ok ok i I uh I

00:23:26 ◼   ► would never have thought of that and

00:23:27 ◼   ► you're exactly right we just finally I

00:23:30 ◼   ► the Webster's I think or Miriam we were

00:23:33 ◼   ► the red dictionary everybody had to have

00:23:35 ◼   ► a point and we've got a fancier one but

00:23:37 ◼   ► i wanted the the dictionary that I had

00:23:39 ◼   ► when I was in Middle School yeah thought

00:23:41 ◼   ► you could hold it in one

00:23:43 ◼   ► and metrics and you know what we we have

00:23:45 ◼   ► I realized that it's important that we

00:23:47 ◼   ► do that really annoying thing that your

00:23:49 ◼   ► family always makes you do which is you

00:23:51 ◼   ► go look upward and my daughter's not

00:23:52 ◼   ► gonna miss so much of a reader that she

00:23:55 ◼   ► can like going to do that on around but

00:23:57 ◼   ► we do it together and circle the word

00:23:58 ◼   ► and that becomes a thing but you're

00:24:00 ◼   ► absolutely right you did on the internet

00:24:02 ◼   ► you don't get to you don't get the edge

00:24:03 ◼   ► booty

00:24:04 ◼   ► no you don't and and oftentimes the word

00:24:07 ◼   ► on either the words on either side of

00:24:08 ◼   ► the world you looked up are related to

00:24:11 ◼   ► the word you looked up who and so you're

00:24:13 ◼   ► you you're developing up all this word

00:24:16 ◼   ► context that is like crucial to

00:24:19 ◼   ► understanding language it's crucial to

00:24:21 ◼   ► understanding concepts but that he look

00:24:24 ◼   ► up a word and then you go what is this

00:24:26 ◼   ► this looks like the a very similar word

00:24:28 ◼   ► and you read about it you're like oh it

00:24:30 ◼   ► is a similar word and here's why

00:24:32 ◼   ► etc etc so I feel like I feel like the

00:24:39 ◼   ► the you know in a way the opposite is

00:24:41 ◼   ► true with online stores because when i

00:24:43 ◼   ► go to the guitar store I and i'm looking

00:24:48 ◼   ► for something or let's say I go to the

00:24:50 ◼   ► wall into the the giant brick-and-mortar

00:24:52 ◼   ► amazon store and im looking 4a a

00:24:55 ◼   ► hundred-foot hyperlink cable i go in

00:25:00 ◼   ► there it's a store full of things I'm

00:25:03 ◼   ► just lookin for the cable you know maybe

00:25:05 ◼   ► they get me with a point of purchase

00:25:07 ◼   ► Reese's Peanut Butter Cup for the most

00:25:10 ◼   ► part like I know that I know I'm going

00:25:12 ◼   ► into a store it's going to be full of

00:25:13 ◼   ► stuff I'm I'm just here to get the one

00:25:15 ◼   ► jobber right but when i go on Amazon

00:25:19 ◼   ► looking for a thing that's dangerous

00:25:23 ◼   ► country for me when I go on amazon.com

00:25:25 ◼   ► looking for a thing and their their

00:25:28 ◼   ► their genius about this like oh well you

00:25:30 ◼   ► know if you had if you had one more

00:25:33 ◼   ► thing you get free shipping details on

00:25:35 ◼   ► prime well this you don't do it enough

00:25:40 ◼   ► to make that pay for it

00:25:41 ◼   ► well that's the thing if i did it then I

00:25:43 ◼   ► would be like oh I've got amazon prime

00:25:45 ◼   ► this is why don't this is why we don't

00:25:46 ◼   ► have a car anymore because I realized

00:25:48 ◼   ► that if you buy a car you're gonna have

00:25:51 ◼   ► to find ways to use it and then you just

00:25:52 ◼   ► end up spending more money i was going

00:25:54 ◼   ► to not have a car and put it

00:25:55 ◼   ► into like some uber and muni passes and

00:25:57 ◼   ► stuff like that this is but don't you

00:25:59 ◼   ► think isn't that kind of the thing

00:26:00 ◼   ► absolutely as my dad said when I when I

00:26:02 ◼   ► took away his car and he was like I

00:26:04 ◼   ► needed to do stuff I here we go to

00:26:07 ◼   ► appointments and I was like what

00:26:09 ◼   ► appointments do you go to would name on

00:26:13 ◼   ► an appointment and he was like I gotta

00:26:15 ◼   ► go to the car repair it said and he's

00:26:23 ◼   ► dead serious he has to go to the car but

00:26:26 ◼   ► doesn't that also kind of a social thing

00:26:28 ◼   ► for him

00:26:29 ◼   ► well then I'm not saying you're robbing

00:26:32 ◼   ► him of his social intercourse but but

00:26:33 ◼   ► but hanging out and and and shoot the

00:26:35 ◼   ► shit with the car guy was the kind of

00:26:36 ◼   ► thing he did the car guy is the car guys

00:26:39 ◼   ► slowly swindled him out of thousands of

00:26:41 ◼   ► dollars as the guy was when the amount

00:26:44 ◼   ► of you know and i think this is like the

00:26:47 ◼   ► I've told you before right that he

00:26:50 ◼   ► decided that the goalie guy he would let

00:26:52 ◼   ► work on his airplane lived in hell

00:26:54 ◼   ► tourists California and he would

00:27:00 ◼   ► it's that you know you never get like a

00:27:01 ◼   ► like a drink in style decision the even

00:27:04 ◼   ► you would really pull back on after a

00:27:06 ◼   ► week or so what I didn't occur to me

00:27:08 ◼   ► that I would have to go to another state

00:27:10 ◼   ► to get this plane worked on

00:27:12 ◼   ► yeah like it's the type of thing where

00:27:13 ◼   ► you're you're let's say you're flying a

00:27:15 ◼   ► commercial airplane you sit down next to

00:27:17 ◼   ► a guy and the guy turns out to be an

00:27:19 ◼   ► airplane mechanic and you own an

00:27:20 ◼   ► airplane here like I'm gonna come see

00:27:21 ◼   ► you in Altos California but my dad in

00:27:26 ◼   ► one of his many many cross-country

00:27:27 ◼   ► flights you know what he used to do he

00:27:29 ◼   ► would fly along and he'd see a little

00:27:30 ◼   ► Airport did see little airstrip and he

00:27:32 ◼   ► would just put her down

00:27:34 ◼   ► he do that yeah just call ahead and say

00:27:37 ◼   ► can I get clearance know you don't call

00:27:39 ◼   ► ahead you just put her down

00:27:40 ◼   ► all I gotta do these little one

00:27:42 ◼   ► uncontrolled airports you just line up

00:27:45 ◼   ► and you unmaintained Road in an airport

00:27:47 ◼   ► really just a little bit of road and you

00:27:49 ◼   ► land your you're on the plane road

00:27:51 ◼   ► that's right you go there is a that you

00:27:53 ◼   ► turn the radio to up to you know what if

00:27:55 ◼   ► you plot your map to find the little

00:27:57 ◼   ► Airport it'll have a little channel 4

00:27:59 ◼   ► channel 19

00:28:00 ◼   ► yeah channel 19 right you go there and

00:28:03 ◼   ► you say hey you know attention

00:28:05 ◼   ► uncontrolled airspace i am this airplane

00:28:08 ◼   ► I'm come

00:28:08 ◼   ► going in I am 763 for mike alpha i am on

00:28:12 ◼   ► final approach you know and you look

00:28:15 ◼   ► around and if there's nobody in the air

00:28:17 ◼   ► and there's nobody on that airstrip you

00:28:19 ◼   ► just put it down as an American that's

00:28:21 ◼   ► American that is this god damn holy shit

00:28:23 ◼   ► that's cool

00:28:24 ◼   ► I thought you'd have a flight plan a big

00:28:25 ◼   ► bag and and if you didn't show up

00:28:27 ◼   ► somewhere by certain time you just watch

00:28:28 ◼   ► out of the air

00:28:29 ◼   ► no you the thing is the thing about

00:28:30 ◼   ► flight plan i was explaining this to

00:28:32 ◼   ► somebody the other day you can change

00:28:33 ◼   ► your flight plan over the radio

00:28:36 ◼   ► you can just find a topic sentence

00:28:38 ◼   ► that's good to know

00:28:39 ◼   ► use file a new flight plan who so we

00:28:42 ◼   ► would do this all the time and sometimes

00:28:44 ◼   ► one time when I was about 10 years old

00:28:46 ◼   ► we landed on him on an airstrip that had

00:28:49 ◼   ► been clearly like carved out of the

00:28:51 ◼   ► forest up in Yukon Territories he was on

00:28:55 ◼   ► the 11 i was in Alaska so but it was up

00:28:57 ◼   ► way north we landed on a little dirt

00:29:02 ◼   ► airstrip out in the middle of nowhere

00:29:04 ◼   ► dad was just like look at that somebody

00:29:06 ◼   ► carved an airstrip another forest and he

00:29:09 ◼   ► turns around and lines it up and puts it

00:29:11 ◼   ► down and we are where you know taxing

00:29:14 ◼   ► down this little dirt runway and a guy

00:29:16 ◼   ► comes out of the forest holding a

00:29:17 ◼   ► shotgun from the revenue and I was

00:29:23 ◼   ► thrilled I was hoping you know i was i

00:29:25 ◼   ► was expecting that to do what he always

00:29:26 ◼   ► did which is turn the engine off open

00:29:28 ◼   ► the door climb out who and I we were

00:29:30 ◼   ► going to meet this very interesting man

00:29:32 ◼   ► who was holding a gun standing at the

00:29:34 ◼   ► edge of the woods and dad did a thing he

00:29:37 ◼   ► hardly ever did which was he went Wow

00:29:39 ◼   ► look at the throttle forward and fun the

00:29:43 ◼   ► plane around here like Dukes of Hazzard

00:29:45 ◼   ► store like dirt flying kicking up sticks

00:29:49 ◼   ► bra and headed down the runway at a clip

00:29:54 ◼   ► and I was like wow what's going on

00:29:57 ◼   ► it was like he didn't say anything until

00:29:59 ◼   ► we were at 2,000 feet and was like nope

00:30:02 ◼   ► that's not restricted that man was

00:30:05 ◼   ► explaining to us non-verbally yeah but

00:30:07 ◼   ► that was because it was interested in

00:30:10 ◼   ► personal unwritten rules in aviation one

00:30:14 ◼   ► of them is if a guy is running onto the

00:30:15 ◼   ► field with a shotgun

00:30:17 ◼   ► oh he was called this could be this guy

00:30:19 ◼   ► just stepped out of the boot dark forest

00:30:22 ◼   ► yeah that's that's creepy yeah with a

00:30:24 ◼   ► gun was just you know I'm gonna gun like

00:30:26 ◼   ► cradle not pointed and just say that man

00:30:28 ◼   ► that is that is so freaking exciting

00:30:30 ◼   ► like I'm everyone a very first started

00:30:32 ◼   ► playing around college-age being old

00:30:34 ◼   ► enough to just drive around and go

00:30:35 ◼   ► places and go out let's drive to this

00:30:37 ◼   ► place we don't even know about that was

00:30:39 ◼   ► exciting but i can't imagine doing that

00:30:40 ◼   ► a plane

00:30:41 ◼   ► I mean that must be so exciting just go

00:30:42 ◼   ► oh there's an area where we could put

00:30:44 ◼   ► the plane let's go there

00:30:45 ◼   ► yeah well I'm and in Alaska of course

00:30:47 ◼   ► dad put put slightly bigger tires on the

00:30:51 ◼   ► planet he landed on the side of the

00:30:52 ◼   ► river you know they were those guys are

00:30:55 ◼   ► therapy if there's a stretch of mud like

00:30:58 ◼   ► riverbank that seemed solid i'll just

00:30:59 ◼   ► put the plane right down and dad would

00:31:01 ◼   ► do it to just put them just put it right

00:31:03 ◼   ► down if putting it down isn't the

00:31:07 ◼   ► challenge the challenge of course is

00:31:09 ◼   ► getting it back up off the riverbank

00:31:11 ◼   ► sure I'm sorry

00:31:13 ◼   ► so you gotta you gotta have a good

00:31:15 ◼   ► because gravity right because gravity

00:31:17 ◼   ► and because a lot of things in but he

00:31:19 ◼   ► would do so you would put himself down

00:31:20 ◼   ► on these trips and he was flying along

00:31:22 ◼   ► in that corner of Northern California

00:31:26 ◼   ► and Southern southeastern Oregon and

00:31:29 ◼   ► Nevada that corner that's just like what

00:31:33 ◼   ► how is this even I mean that it should

00:31:36 ◼   ► much more properly just be an unbored on

00:31:39 ◼   ► governed area because there's nothing

00:31:41 ◼   ► there

00:31:42 ◼   ► why would why would you even pay a

00:31:43 ◼   ► surveyor could be like taking a holiday

00:31:45 ◼   ► or something yeah absolutely you could

00:31:47 ◼   ► you could you could you could put a new

00:31:49 ◼   ► state in there and can call it

00:31:53 ◼   ► winnemucca and no one would know one

00:31:56 ◼   ► would know or care

00:31:57 ◼   ► Prison Prison tension but so he landed

00:32:01 ◼   ► on this airstrip at some point just like

00:32:04 ◼   ► a look at that there's an airport morale

00:32:06 ◼   ► and taxied up to a hanger and I've been

00:32:10 ◼   ► with him it wasn't there the first time

00:32:11 ◼   ► you want to outsource but I've been with

00:32:13 ◼   ► them many many times when he's done this

00:32:15 ◼   ► and what happens is airport looks

00:32:17 ◼   ► abandoned your you're taxing down the

00:32:20 ◼   ► runway you're you know you kind of pull

00:32:21 ◼   ► off to the side you're just puttering

00:32:23 ◼   ► along there are a couple of old war two

00:32:26 ◼   ► era

00:32:27 ◼   ► hangers Quonset huts all look completely

00:32:31 ◼   ► abandoned you just pop up at Rincon

00:32:34 ◼   ► opener and as you're here slowly driving

00:32:38 ◼   ► by these little these little abandoned

00:32:40 ◼   ► structures and then invariably a door

00:32:43 ◼   ► bangs open in a building made out of

00:32:46 ◼   ► corrugated metal and I'm old man comes

00:32:50 ◼   ► out like things here and you're wearing

00:32:51 ◼   ► a cap he comes out sometimes he's

00:32:53 ◼   ► literally wearing overalls he comes out

00:32:56 ◼   ► he's wiping his sweaty hands on a rag

00:32:59 ◼   ► and dad goes hey points the plane at the

00:33:03 ◼   ► guy and you know cuts the cuts the motor

00:33:07 ◼   ► and we wheel over and the guy comes over

00:33:09 ◼   ► and he is absolutely invariably one of

00:33:14 ◼   ► the most laconic men you'll ever meet

00:33:17 ◼   ► dad gets out hey how's it going guys

00:33:19 ◼   ► pair up and that's it you know and then

00:33:23 ◼   ► dad's holding up both ends of the

00:33:25 ◼   ► conversation and everyone smile goes

00:33:27 ◼   ► morrow your mirror and it turns out dad

00:33:31 ◼   ► fought in world war two and this guy

00:33:32 ◼   ► fought in world war two and you go you

00:33:36 ◼   ► go try to find an encyclopedia and

00:33:39 ◼   ► there's a you know there's also it's

00:33:40 ◼   ► there was always it always turned out

00:33:43 ◼   ► that dad was an officer in the war that

00:33:45 ◼   ► was an officer in the Navy and this guy

00:33:46 ◼   ► was a was a petty officer in the Navy so

00:33:50 ◼   ► there develops right away some ancient

00:33:53 ◼   ► officer enlisted man dynamic between

00:33:56 ◼   ► them that only they understand only they

00:34:00 ◼   ► are comfortable with and then I you know

00:34:03 ◼   ► so then I'm walking around some

00:34:05 ◼   ► sun-blasted airstrip kicking rocks while

00:34:10 ◼   ► dad at this guy go into a hangar and sit

00:34:13 ◼   ► and talk about god only knows what dad

00:34:15 ◼   ► buys a baseball hat from him that says

00:34:17 ◼   ► I'll taurus chevron you know in the

00:34:23 ◼   ► heart of Kristin yeah have gas and pet

00:34:25 ◼   ► store gas and feed and then we get back

00:34:30 ◼   ► on the plane will fly away well anyway

00:34:31 ◼   ► one of these times he meets this guy who

00:34:33 ◼   ► he decides his mechanic this is the only

00:34:36 ◼   ► guy that he's gonna let work on this

00:34:37 ◼   ► plan and he lives in alaska which is

00:34:40 ◼   ► you know which requires that once a year

00:34:42 ◼   ► he go on a four-day walkabout each

00:34:48 ◼   ► direction in his airplane me and uh and

00:34:54 ◼   ► i have ended up spending more time in

00:34:56 ◼   ► all tourists so he really did he went

00:35:00 ◼   ► through with it

00:35:01 ◼   ► oh he was a word for you based on this

00:35:03 ◼   ► one like random chance thing now you

00:35:05 ◼   ► want done for 15 years

00:35:07 ◼   ► don't be like don't be like driving

00:35:08 ◼   ► somewhere in stopping at a Stuckey's and

00:35:10 ◼   ► deciding that was going to be your

00:35:11 ◼   ► physician or something that's just

00:35:13 ◼   ► strange

00:35:13 ◼   ► yeah it'sit's but it's absolutely

00:35:15 ◼   ► bizarre and you know and I'll Taurus is

00:35:17 ◼   ► like a is one of those Old West towns

00:35:19 ◼   ► that at least the last time i was there

00:35:23 ◼   ► still no one had discovered and turned

00:35:25 ◼   ► into a miking mountain biking town it

00:35:28 ◼   ► was still it was still just like I mean

00:35:33 ◼   ► the type of place that you pay for your

00:35:35 ◼   ► shot with a silver dollar and the only

00:35:39 ◼   ► people and there are still like they're

00:35:41 ◼   ► still there are still problems between

00:35:43 ◼   ► the ranchers and the and whatever the

00:35:46 ◼   ► other demographic is the musical waiting

00:35:48 ◼   ► to happen the ranchers and the meth

00:35:50 ◼   ► dealers are like trying to decide who

00:35:53 ◼   ► owns the dairy ranchers and the meth

00:35:54 ◼   ► dealer should be friends up

00:35:57 ◼   ► yeah so uh I'd say that's incredible

00:36:01 ◼   ► ended but before your dad has a real

00:36:02 ◼   ► sense of loyalty huh

00:36:04 ◼   ► he was a very loyal guy he was loyal to

00:36:07 ◼   ► loyal you know and i think part of it

00:36:09 ◼   ► was a like like his car mechanic this

00:36:14 ◼   ► was a world that he didn't understand he

00:36:17 ◼   ► did not know how to fix his own airplane

00:36:20 ◼   ► engine and he didn't know how to fix his

00:36:22 ◼   ► own car and so those things became

00:36:25 ◼   ► magical realms and he figured out that

00:36:30 ◼   ► he didn't need to know how to fix those

00:36:32 ◼   ► things he just needed to find one guy

00:36:34 ◼   ► that he trusted and then once he decided

00:36:38 ◼   ► that he trusted the guy even if even if

00:36:41 ◼   ► all empirical evidence indicated that

00:36:43 ◼   ► this guy was not trustworthy and that he

00:36:45 ◼   ► was ripping them off and that he was a

00:36:46 ◼   ► jerk and a bastard

00:36:48 ◼   ► my dad would privilege their their

00:36:51 ◼   ► friendship from that point on over

00:36:54 ◼   ► you know over the fact i mean his last

00:36:56 ◼   ► car mechanic was building him four

00:36:59 ◼   ► hundred dollars a month for work he was

00:37:02 ◼   ► doing on an eight-hundred-dollar cause

00:37:04 ◼   ► the past three feet

00:37:05 ◼   ► yeah exactly was just like oh Dave I

00:37:07 ◼   ► think you need a new are you need a new

00:37:09 ◼   ► water filter that's like the car doesn't

00:37:15 ◼   ► have a water filter down that's I think

00:37:18 ◼   ► my family had a lot in common there I

00:37:20 ◼   ► there was always a go-to person

00:37:22 ◼   ► especially not think my grandfather who

00:37:24 ◼   ► was roughly a little younger

00:37:26 ◼   ► my grandfather was born and I think 1903

00:37:27 ◼   ► and you're sure was your dad

00:37:30 ◼   ► 19-21 your granddad was a lot of well as

00:37:33 ◼   ► well as well as a kid but you know he

00:37:35 ◼   ► was very much of that like you know he

00:37:36 ◼   ► was a freemason was a Shriner and

00:37:39 ◼   ► everything was a secret deal like he

00:37:41 ◼   ► made it look like he would do these look

00:37:43 ◼   ► strange gestures sometimes to security

00:37:44 ◼   ► people I I'm sure we're into entirely

00:37:47 ◼   ► constructed to make me think that he was

00:37:48 ◼   ► part of a cabal didn't actually exist

00:37:49 ◼   ► like every time every time we drive

00:37:53 ◼   ► somewhere he do this little kind of like

00:37:55 ◼   ► this little like the stain thing with

00:37:57 ◼   ► his finger on his nose gotta rush toward

00:37:59 ◼   ► them like that's what we got in like an

00:38:02 ◼   ► idea what up but but now it's the same

00:38:05 ◼   ► way and I think every everybody my

00:38:06 ◼   ► family was like that where you like all

00:38:08 ◼   ► this is where we always get our tires

00:38:10 ◼   ► and eventually I was like mom like that

00:38:12 ◼   ► these tires are really expensive and it

00:38:15 ◼   ► takes them three or four days and they

00:38:17 ◼   ► don't answer the phone to get what we've

00:38:18 ◼   ► done to them for years

00:38:19 ◼   ► yeah isn't that is that a thing I think

00:38:21 ◼   ► that might be an old people think I

00:38:23 ◼   ► think basically will become a meeting i

00:38:25 ◼   ► think it's a thing and I think that I

00:38:27 ◼   ► think that you get to like we have now

00:38:28 ◼   ► in seattle here we have a an auto

00:38:32 ◼   ► mechanic I've talked to you about him

00:38:33 ◼   ► before he is he is from Palestine

00:38:39 ◼   ► graphics and he is an Arab but he's a

00:38:44 ◼   ► b-bad double question right and it gives

00:38:46 ◼   ► you some notes okay yeah and I think

00:38:49 ◼   ► maybe he's a messianic Christian and it

00:38:53 ◼   ► and he is a very nice guy he drives a

00:38:59 ◼   ► what is the car the dodge that rampage

00:39:06 ◼   ► what is the Dodge made a made the super

00:39:09 ◼   ► hot rod with the v10 motor it's a dodge

00:39:13 ◼   ► dakota pickup truck

00:39:14 ◼   ► it's a no it's it's a card about the

00:39:16 ◼   ► cobra verde or what is called the dodge

00:39:19 ◼   ► the dodge insanity car that it looks it

00:39:24 ◼   ► actually looks like a like a oh it's the

00:39:27 ◼   ► Viper it looks like a snake right the

00:39:30 ◼   ► Dodge Viper have you seen one of them

00:39:31 ◼   ► look it up it looks but it looks like

00:39:34 ◼   ► the head of a snake and I was I always

00:39:38 ◼   ► thought that it was just a just a clown

00:39:40 ◼   ► car like a joke car that that the hot

00:39:43 ◼   ► rod division 8.4 leaders yeah the hot

00:39:47 ◼   ► rods a hundred thousand dollars that

00:39:49 ◼   ► possible

00:39:50 ◼   ► the hot rod division of Dodge was given

00:39:53 ◼   ► free reign at some point by somebody by

00:39:55 ◼   ► Lee Iacocca to crap build like the

00:40:00 ◼   ► supercar and rather than build like an

00:40:04 ◼   ► attractive-looking a good handling

00:40:07 ◼   ► sports car they built that they took a

00:40:11 ◼   ► like a truck motor from a dump truck or

00:40:15 ◼   ► a or airplane motor and put it in the

00:40:18 ◼   ► front of a car that only an

00:40:21 ◼   ► eleven-year-old could have designed it's

00:40:24 ◼   ► got a real lady agra seafield you know

00:40:26 ◼   ► it's just like okay that is you can't be

00:40:29 ◼   ► serious right i mean that is a car that

00:40:32 ◼   ► that is a car that only an

00:40:35 ◼   ► eleven-year-old would buy or drives an

00:40:37 ◼   ► eight leader car

00:40:39 ◼   ► well so this is the thing so I always

00:40:40 ◼   ► thought these cars were were just jokes

00:40:43 ◼   ► it for somebody for whom a Corvette is

00:40:46 ◼   ► too subtle for somebody you know that

00:40:49 ◼   ► feels like a PT Cruiser is too is like

00:40:54 ◼   ► to add two to conservatives it's Harvard

00:40:58 ◼   ► Johnson's our version of a trap Street

00:41:00 ◼   ► it's like something you would put on the

00:41:02 ◼   ► menu to see some douchebag would buy it

00:41:03 ◼   ► right that's exactly right and they and

00:41:07 ◼   ► they sell them they sell them and and so

00:41:09 ◼   ► so I thought so I I just

00:41:12 ◼   ► I just assumed that it was it was the

00:41:15 ◼   ► hot rod PT Cruiser community that the

00:41:18 ◼   ► only type of people that would buy this

00:41:20 ◼   ► are people that have no eyes and yet the

00:41:25 ◼   ► other day i was looking up the fastest

00:41:28 ◼   ► laps around the Nurburgring for the

00:41:32 ◼   ► Nurburgring in bergen choices the I can

00:41:38 ◼   ► I don't know how to pronounce it but

00:41:39 ◼   ► it's a the Nurburgring gangin bergen

00:41:42 ◼   ► gurbin King ring and it's not getting

00:41:44 ◼   ► better

00:41:45 ◼   ► no not the Nurburgring number garden

00:41:49 ◼   ► soon that's a stretch of road it is in

00:41:55 ◼   ► so in Germany they built like this test

00:41:58 ◼   ► track the Nurburgring and it's it's it's

00:42:06 ◼   ► in Europe it's the thing where if you're

00:42:08 ◼   ► testing out a car

00:42:10 ◼   ► nurburgring that's hard to say her bring

00:42:13 ◼   ► you have your testing out a car you go

00:42:15 ◼   ► rule running around the Nurburgring and

00:42:20 ◼   ► and that's your that's your standard of

00:42:23 ◼   ► like a how fast do you make it around

00:42:25 ◼   ► this thing and it's a it's a and

00:42:28 ◼   ► everybody wants to everybody in the

00:42:29 ◼   ► sports car world wants to go around at

00:42:32 ◼   ► least once around this fabric ring and I

00:42:35 ◼   ► think if you heard seven is a little bit

00:42:37 ◼   ► hairpin turn 7 a little freaky right low

00:42:40 ◼   ► it's actually less than a hairpin it

00:42:44 ◼   ► less than happen yeah no I'm saying I

00:42:47 ◼   ► mean that you go you will almost a

00:42:48 ◼   ► circle to go around

00:42:49 ◼   ► Yeah Yeah right oh and i think if you if

00:42:51 ◼   ► you go on if you if you do those uh car

00:42:55 ◼   ► racing video games where you can you can

00:42:57 ◼   ► pick your track and you can do Monza and

00:43:00 ◼   ► you can do turn everyone yokohama s here

00:43:03 ◼   ► is really dangerous looking well and

00:43:07 ◼   ► people people get a people blow up on

00:43:10 ◼   ► this nürburgring like the crash and bad

00:43:12 ◼   ► things happen anyway i was i was as you

00:43:15 ◼   ► do

00:43:16 ◼   ► looking up the fastest laps in history

00:43:19 ◼   ► of the Nurburgring and it appears that

00:43:22 ◼   ► the fastest lap ever of the Nurburgring

00:43:26 ◼   ► is in a dodge viper which I was just

00:43:29 ◼   ► like what are you talking about faster

00:43:32 ◼   ► than any Porsche or Ferrari or like it's

00:43:39 ◼   ► in a dodge viper that just seems crazy

00:43:42 ◼   ► that seems like it seems like the

00:43:45 ◼   ► classic you know the story of sports

00:43:47 ◼   ► cars is that Americans throw horsepower

00:43:49 ◼   ► yeah i mean that drag race you've got

00:43:51 ◼   ► some crazy handling here

00:43:53 ◼   ► yeah it has to really really make it

00:43:54 ◼   ► around this super spinny track and I

00:43:58 ◼   ► don't know if you've ever done this but

00:44:00 ◼   ► um no I'm I'm you know what I do know

00:44:03 ◼   ► that you have never done anything I

00:44:05 ◼   ► heard it and i know i haven't done it

00:44:06 ◼   ► but I'm gonna tell you to do something

00:44:08 ◼   ► today it is 10 minutes or 10 or 15

00:44:12 ◼   ► minutes of your life that you that once

00:44:16 ◼   ► you've experienced it you will never

00:44:18 ◼   ► look at life the same way we need to get

00:44:20 ◼   ► a zipcar no I think it's all going to

00:44:23 ◼   ► happen on the internet that you are

00:44:25 ◼   ► going to google rough are you f rough

00:44:29 ◼   ► yellowbird nürburgring are you a fright

00:44:36 ◼   ► you offered nürburgring again and it is

00:44:40 ◼   ► a video of a guy driving a super

00:44:45 ◼   ► hopped-up porsche 911 barefoot around

00:44:51 ◼   ► the Nurburgring

00:44:52 ◼   ► [Music]

00:44:54 ◼   ► and it is phenomenal you put your

00:44:59 ◼   ► headphones on you you put you get in

00:45:02 ◼   ► full screen mode it's a bit it's bad

00:45:03 ◼   ► resolution this because it's a VHS

00:45:06 ◼   ► somebody put a VHS camera in the back of

00:45:08 ◼   ► this car but it is astonishing

00:45:12 ◼   ► it's it's better than it's really better

00:45:15 ◼   ► than going on a rollercoaster watching

00:45:17 ◼   ► this guy drive this one car around this

00:45:19 ◼   ► nürburgring your Palestinian mechanic

00:45:22 ◼   ► has a viper okay right so he has a viper

00:45:25 ◼   ► and he was discovered by my sister or by

00:45:29 ◼   ► my mom some some someone found him out

00:45:32 ◼   ► in the sticks and he was recommended

00:45:35 ◼   ► through somebody threw so-and-so and he

00:45:39 ◼   ► has become this character in Our Lives

00:45:41 ◼   ► the trusted mechanic and I have called

00:45:45 ◼   ► him a few times and said I'm thinking

00:45:46 ◼   ► about getting this this car thing about

00:45:49 ◼   ► getting car x and he says he's like can

00:45:51 ◼   ► I stop you right there we go yeah he

00:45:53 ◼   ► says would you like my advice I go yeah

00:45:56 ◼   ► he's like don't ever get that car so I

00:46:00 ◼   ► know you are the trusted mechanic now

00:46:02 ◼   ► like you are the guy that I'm putting

00:46:04 ◼   ► I'm just putting it all in your hands

00:46:07 ◼   ► like if you tell me that i need a new

00:46:08 ◼   ► water filter if you tell me that i need

00:46:11 ◼   ► you know whatever I find need new hoses

00:46:16 ◼   ► if I need if i need to to buy a hundred

00:46:20 ◼   ► a pound bag of grass seed whatever it is

00:46:24 ◼   ► that you say I'm gonna just go with it

00:46:26 ◼   ► because you are the year the wizard and

00:46:29 ◼   ► you live inside this world that assuming

00:46:32 ◼   ► obviously that he must have he must have

00:46:35 ◼   ► like the greatest car available right

00:46:36 ◼   ► for that he's seen so much about what

00:46:40 ◼   ► can go wrong so we can go well and

00:46:42 ◼   ► poorly about cars that he's obviously a

00:46:43 ◼   ► sage of these things

00:46:45 ◼   ► well yeah but i but i personally feel

00:46:47 ◼   ► like the fact that he drives a viper

00:46:49 ◼   ► it's very confusing to me it's like

00:46:52 ◼   ► something out of seinfeld John where

00:46:54 ◼   ► you've been trusting somebody for years

00:46:56 ◼   ► you know talking about like you know

00:46:58 ◼   ► what kind of real estate to buy and then

00:47:00 ◼   ► you find out that he's like loses a

00:47:02 ◼   ► shirt every couple months terrible deal

00:47:05 ◼   ► but he swears by it and as I've

00:47:07 ◼   ► explained before he's not a guy that you

00:47:09 ◼   ► that you're going to enter into a

00:47:12 ◼   ► conversation like that unless you're

00:47:14 ◼   ► prepared to have an hour-long lecture

00:47:16 ◼   ► about whether dodge viper is the

00:47:18 ◼   ► greatest cars ever made but

00:47:20 ◼   ► independently i have i've discovered

00:47:22 ◼   ► this that this confirmation this

00:47:24 ◼   ► nürburgring confirmation at least that

00:47:26 ◼   ► it is it's done that did that huh side

00:47:34 ◼   ► there's so many letters to write down

00:47:36 ◼   ► nerve for ruff ruff ruff yellow burger

00:47:39 ◼   ► burger bring rough yellow Bergner berg

00:47:43 ◼   ► ring boom you're berg group under yellow

00:47:47 ◼   ► berg yellow Bergner Berg Berg selling a

00:47:51 ◼   ► strep test this week up expertise man

00:47:55 ◼   ► that's complicated it's hard to never

00:47:56 ◼   ► trust just organic yeah and you know for

00:48:00 ◼   ► a long time at you or my computer guy

00:48:02 ◼   ► yeah i wrote the head coach it by that

00:48:04 ◼   ► hyperlink cable yeah if I had any

00:48:06 ◼   ► computer problems i would call you and

00:48:07 ◼   ► then you know and then you would spin a

00:48:09 ◼   ► web of a of lies

00:48:11 ◼   ► it's been a story and pretty soon i

00:48:14 ◼   ► would be down at the mac store buying

00:48:16 ◼   ► apple TV are you just reading things on

00:48:19 ◼   ► the card is the Select now here's the

00:48:23 ◼   ► question you're going to be in this

00:48:24 ◼   ► house you know god-willing for for

00:48:27 ◼   ► several years have you thought about

00:48:28 ◼   ► bringing somebody in to do some work and

00:48:30 ◼   ► get you some ethernet upstairs so you

00:48:32 ◼   ► don't need the blue hyperlink cable i'm

00:48:35 ◼   ► gonna guess you haven't no I have I have

00:48:39 ◼   ► but there are a few there are a few

00:48:43 ◼   ► mistakes that I've made in life get a

00:48:46 ◼   ► fresh card when I bought this house

00:48:49 ◼   ► there was cable TV in every single room

00:48:53 ◼   ► and when you went up when you went

00:48:55 ◼   ► outside and looked at the outside of the

00:48:57 ◼   ► house there was one of those cable

00:48:58 ◼   ► junction boxes and it looked like Doc

00:49:02 ◼   ► already love TV there he had his normal

00:49:08 ◼   ► to human hands and then he had six

00:49:11 ◼   ► octopus hands and then they were like a

00:49:13 ◼   ► there like 10 other hands

00:49:16 ◼   ► somebody love TV i think it was probably

00:49:18 ◼   ► at one point it was used this house was

00:49:22 ◼   ► used as a place where a lot of people

00:49:23 ◼   ► lived and so everybody had TV in their

00:49:27 ◼   ► room and I said to the guy night so I

00:49:30 ◼   ► said to the cable guy is a is a junction

00:49:34 ◼   ► box like this does it divide the signal

00:49:38 ◼   ► so that each box has one sixth of the

00:49:42 ◼   ► available bandwidth or does everybody

00:49:44 ◼   ► get equal power and he was like the

00:49:47 ◼   ► former yep i discovered that and so I

00:49:51 ◼   ► said well I want the most powerful

00:49:53 ◼   ► bandwidth so I want you to take all

00:49:58 ◼   ► these other oh I see what you're saying

00:50:01 ◼   ► you want the one big pipe i want a big

00:50:04 ◼   ► pipe i don't want a bunch of little

00:50:05 ◼   ► pipes and so I want to take all these

00:50:08 ◼   ► other a cables off and just give me one

00:50:12 ◼   ► solid power right into the room we had

00:50:15 ◼   ► we had the doc ock legacy spiderweb of

00:50:17 ◼   ► of that at one point in the comcast are

00:50:20 ◼   ► sitting right there was not enough

00:50:21 ◼   ► signal enough digital signal to keep our

00:50:23 ◼   ► internet connection up because there was

00:50:25 ◼   ► so much stuff and so much transit

00:50:27 ◼   ► injunctions and little Joyner things and

00:50:29 ◼   ► all of that and somebody came in just

00:50:30 ◼   ► just tore all the unnecessary stuff out

00:50:32 ◼   ► and it fixed it

00:50:33 ◼   ► you know it was leading ones and zeros

00:50:35 ◼   ► all over the yard you kidding me i gotta

00:50:37 ◼   ► get another sweep it out so so I say

00:50:40 ◼   ► that this guy like like kill it and so

00:50:42 ◼   ► what he does is he takes all the cables

00:50:45 ◼   ► off of the junction box and rewires it

00:50:49 ◼   ► so just it's a cable coming in and it

00:50:50 ◼   ► goes right in the house right where the

00:50:52 ◼   ► cable arrives which is like the middle

00:50:54 ◼   ► of the living room

00:50:55 ◼   ► well two problems one he didn't then

00:50:58 ◼   ► spend the afternoon taking all the cable

00:51:01 ◼   ► and down off the outside of the house so

00:51:05 ◼   ► it wasn't until he left that I realized

00:51:08 ◼   ► away all that cabling and still I mean

00:51:10 ◼   ► this house is basically held together by

00:51:12 ◼   ► by video cable coaxial cable staple to

00:51:16 ◼   ► be outside and that if I think about

00:51:20 ◼   ► that drives me crazy that bothers me i

00:51:23 ◼   ► want that cleaned up i want some sit

00:51:25 ◼   ► somebody's responsibility to come clean

00:51:27 ◼   ► that up it's so trashy and in our case

00:51:29 ◼   ► we are capable

00:51:30 ◼   ► he's like hanging off the wall and

00:51:31 ◼   ► nobody wants to take any responsibility

00:51:32 ◼   ► for it bases one of those like oh the

00:51:35 ◼   ► tenants are going to have to be the ones

00:51:36 ◼   ► who go to pay to fix this

00:51:37 ◼   ► that's our landlord is not going to come

00:51:38 ◼   ► out and like fix a cable box and you

00:51:41 ◼   ► know comcast and going to do it

00:51:42 ◼   ► oh yeah I'm the comcast guy if there was

00:51:45 ◼   ► ever an opportunity to get him to make

00:51:47 ◼   ► this change it was that first time that

00:51:49 ◼   ► first visit he came out I could have

00:51:51 ◼   ► said hey I just bought this house this

00:51:53 ◼   ► is my responsibility can all this cable

00:51:54 ◼   ► off here but even then he would have

00:51:55 ◼   ► said nah nah nah man nah but now it's

00:52:00 ◼   ► grandfathered in as far as comcast is

00:52:02 ◼   ► concerned I put up all that cable but

00:52:06 ◼   ► anyway so that was the first mistake was

00:52:07 ◼   ► that I didn't think you know what I'm

00:52:09 ◼   ► not gonna do I'm not gonna have a

00:52:11 ◼   ► computer terminal in the living room and

00:52:15 ◼   ► so now i have either given myself a

00:52:18 ◼   ► router behind a couch that I constantly

00:52:22 ◼   ► have to move the couch out from the wall

00:52:23 ◼   ► to reset the router or I have you know

00:52:28 ◼   ► what or I have to run a blue cable over

00:52:33 ◼   ► the over hill over the hills and Del's

00:52:35 ◼   ► up to where I want to compete you know

00:52:38 ◼   ► where i want the internet to be I i

00:52:40 ◼   ► think i'm not an expert on these things

00:52:41 ◼   ► John but I think you're not facing two

00:52:43 ◼   ► much here

00:52:44 ◼   ► mmm i think that's all you got to do the

00:52:47 ◼   ► thing is something just straight up

00:52:48 ◼   ► through the wall just the actual you can

00:52:50 ◼   ► get internet drop upstairs and you'll be

00:52:52 ◼   ► good i'd like to drop it and sorry II

00:52:55 ◼   ► you know you're gonna draw it starts

00:52:57 ◼   ► start over you know there's a nice bird

00:53:00 ◼   ► some of my favorite old-fashioned

00:53:02 ◼   ► candies the ethernet drops and the love

00:53:05 ◼   ► that is different also upgrade retro

00:53:09 ◼   ► jazz band like that ethernet driver like

00:53:12 ◼   ► when you wake up early so I want so

00:53:15 ◼   ► you're right i just recently I have gone

00:53:18 ◼   ► through the looking glass of feeling

00:53:21 ◼   ► like you know I when I bought my house

00:53:23 ◼   ► the market immediately crashed and i

00:53:25 ◼   ► actually remember being at the ymca with

00:53:27 ◼   ► my dad and I was there with the with the

00:53:30 ◼   ► whole group of of elder statesman who

00:53:33 ◼   ► ended up and they're declining years

00:53:36 ◼   ► going to water aerobics

00:53:39 ◼   ► you know all these guys that once was

00:53:41 ◼   ► sat in the seat of power guys that it

00:53:44 ◼   ► should look Henry Kissinger hand and now

00:53:47 ◼   ► they're doing water aerobics to Paula

00:53:49 ◼   ► Abdul CA and I had just bought my first

00:53:55 ◼   ► house sent a note and like that before

00:54:05 ◼   ► you know she started something very

00:54:08 ◼   ► slowly moving in with her she started

00:54:11 ◼   ► out of the dancer she was a later loser

00:54:13 ◼   ► all right that's right click and read

00:54:15 ◼   ► description just a licorice person

00:54:18 ◼   ► no that's a little ping-pong did you

00:54:20 ◼   ► know she was a lakers person

00:54:23 ◼   ► yeah and she was on that television show

00:54:25 ◼   ► well with weigh-in tomorrow with that

00:54:27 ◼   ► guy with the captain Katie yeah wait

00:54:29 ◼   ► wait and Martin's and he will hate

00:54:33 ◼   ► living color

00:54:34 ◼   ► yeah she was on the cool that's right

00:54:36 ◼   ► that's right you always want to be a fly

00:54:38 ◼   ► girls she's a fly girl that's correct my

00:54:40 ◼   ► girl

00:54:41 ◼   ► apply a girl a Flygirl flagger oh I'm

00:54:46 ◼   ► sorry you are you were supposed to join

00:54:47 ◼   ► in there outside fly girls there you go

00:54:50 ◼   ► anyway you're getting water aerobics

00:54:54 ◼   ► yeah one of the old men i was like i was

00:54:56 ◼   ► there and i was like i just bought my

00:54:59 ◼   ► first house and one of these old sons of

00:55:02 ◼   ► bitches says oh good job at the top of

00:55:06 ◼   ► the market

00:55:07 ◼   ► haha shut up old make that happen and I

00:55:11 ◼   ► was like oh you've seen some ups and

00:55:12 ◼   ► downs in your day is that right is that

00:55:14 ◼   ► what you're telling me you've seen the

00:55:16 ◼   ► cycle you can you can peer through peer

00:55:20 ◼   ► through the cheesecloth at the rest of

00:55:22 ◼   ► us are looking through and you see the

00:55:24 ◼   ► cycle of time

00:55:26 ◼   ► Hakuna Matata asshole but his words rang

00:55:30 ◼   ► in my head as the market crashed and my

00:55:32 ◼   ► house was not worth what I paid for

00:55:35 ◼   ► and i SAT here for several years going

00:55:37 ◼   ► like oh this is this was this is the

00:55:39 ◼   ► final straw

00:55:40 ◼   ► I've never participating in wall street

00:55:42 ◼   ► again I have never ever ever i am NOT

00:55:46 ◼   ► joining this dumbass American economy

00:55:49 ◼   ► that is such a blatant lie that has time

00:55:54 ◼   ► after time duped me and my family

00:55:58 ◼   ► personally and all of us collectively

00:56:00 ◼   ► into believing that there is anything

00:56:03 ◼   ► that is anything other than a shelter as

00:56:05 ◼   ► any order that there's any kind of law

00:56:08 ◼   ► that there's any kind of sense to it

00:56:09 ◼   ► that isn't just just a bunch of made-up

00:56:11 ◼   ► bullshit it's just a giant ripoff

00:56:13 ◼   ► we're gonna really is it's just a giant

00:56:14 ◼   ► it's just like two people at a roulette

00:56:17 ◼   ► table where they have a button under the

00:56:19 ◼   ► counter and they're like come play the

00:56:22 ◼   ► music game of one big rule that button

00:56:24 ◼   ► yeah so for a long time I you know I

00:56:27 ◼   ► loved my house but I had this i have

00:56:29 ◼   ► this tension the psychic tension about

00:56:32 ◼   ► it like that if that somehow I had been

00:56:34 ◼   ► cooked and that really the goal was to

00:56:39 ◼   ► get up above water again and then get

00:56:41 ◼   ► out of everything and go live on a

00:56:43 ◼   ► sailboat go live in a shipping container

00:56:45 ◼   ► but now that their economy has recovered

00:56:48 ◼   ► and back I'm back in the black here i

00:56:52 ◼   ► realized i still like my house and now

00:56:54 ◼   ► my mortgage payment is less than any

00:56:57 ◼   ► rent would be in this crazy nice and

00:57:00 ◼   ► these crazy times and so yeah now i'm

00:57:02 ◼   ► looking at being here for awhile and

00:57:05 ◼   ► feeling like maybe I should get some

00:57:07 ◼   ► drops maybe I should get some ethernet

00:57:09 ◼   ► drops maybe I should a rehab that a that

00:57:14 ◼   ► wing of the house that I've been meaning

00:57:16 ◼   ► to do maybe I should build a yoga studio

00:57:18 ◼   ► in the backyard

00:57:19 ◼   ► this could be the time to put up the

00:57:20 ◼   ► shelves you know put up some shelves

00:57:22 ◼   ► that sometimes like some some built-ins

00:57:25 ◼   ► get some built-ins maybe maybe have the

00:57:28 ◼   ► fireplace taken out and replaced with

00:57:30 ◼   ► the Franklin stove

00:57:31 ◼   ► mm its cozy maybe dig out the basement

00:57:34 ◼   ► and build a media room what about

00:57:37 ◼   ► tunnels

00:57:38 ◼   ► speaking Vietnamese have you ever

00:57:39 ◼   ► thought about having two tunnels or I

00:57:41 ◼   ► you know you can't say you can't say

00:57:43 ◼   ► nevermind

00:57:44 ◼   ► my life because that's what I that's

00:57:46 ◼   ► what I want if I ever achieved anything

00:57:47 ◼   ► like success all my single thing now in

00:57:50 ◼   ► the houses i would want to have like

00:57:52 ◼   ► that man isn't cabinets that aside i

00:57:55 ◼   ► have some outbuildings yeah and uh and

00:57:59 ◼   ► of course i would want a tunnel Network

00:58:00 ◼   ► sure

00:58:02 ◼   ► connecting all the outbuildings when

00:58:03 ◼   ► something gets you past the pool in case

00:58:04 ◼   ► you have to get away kind of Professor X

00:58:06 ◼   ► you know to mention you need a way to

00:58:08 ◼   ► get out off of the property right that's

00:58:10 ◼   ► the thing is I mean no matter how good

00:58:11 ◼   ► your defenses you still need a way to

00:58:12 ◼   ► get out of your own property otherwise

00:58:14 ◼   ► you just locked in its just like living

00:58:15 ◼   ► in prison

00:58:16 ◼   ► well this is one of the things that

00:58:17 ◼   ► infuriated me about the movie Skyfall

00:58:20 ◼   ► like Skyfall james bond goes out to his

00:58:25 ◼   ► his childhood mansion in northern

00:58:28 ◼   ► Scotland the caretaker is still there

00:58:31 ◼   ► i'll write a little monk whole this

00:58:33 ◼   ► beautiful

00:58:34 ◼   ► yes I called what is called among pole I

00:58:36 ◼   ► was awesome

00:58:37 ◼   ► god I either with such a boner moment

00:58:39 ◼   ► for me i would love to have a muckle

00:58:41 ◼   ► goes behind the fireplace down into a

00:58:43 ◼   ► secret passage and then somehow down in

00:58:45 ◼   ► the basement it's like full of barrels

00:58:47 ◼   ► of gunpowder and like it's not just

00:58:51 ◼   ► among all its true like month we've been

00:58:53 ◼   ► stocking up on plot devices for decades

00:58:55 ◼   ► exactly it's like wow since the

00:58:58 ◼   ► Revolutionary War you guys have been

00:58:59 ◼   ► since you've been putting cannonballs

00:59:02 ◼   ► down here what's what's in that day's ex

00:59:04 ◼   ► machina box open it to find out but then

00:59:09 ◼   ► in the film multiple times people follow

00:59:13 ◼   ► this monk hole which is which which you

00:59:16 ◼   ► you see these you see in the shots like

00:59:18 ◼   ► it still has brick or stone walls it is

00:59:21 ◼   ► still a passage that a man can walk in

00:59:23 ◼   ► upright and then somehow they somehow

00:59:28 ◼   ► there's 200 yards that they travel under

00:59:32 ◼   ► the under the grass which we never see

00:59:35 ◼   ► do they have to get down on their hands

00:59:38 ◼   ► and knees it's totally unmaintained

00:59:39 ◼   ► unless presently unless unless it has

00:59:42 ◼   ► spooky candles

00:59:43 ◼   ► yeah do they do they have do they run

00:59:45 ◼   ► the entire way and then at the barrier

00:59:47 ◼   ► that then we see them reappear in the

00:59:49 ◼   ► yard but we never see the opening we

00:59:52 ◼   ► always see it from over the time I don't

00:59:55 ◼   ► remember this being that flimsy I'm

00:59:57 ◼   ► gonna watch it probably get angry as

00:59:58 ◼   ► you're frustrating because

00:59:58 ◼   ► you're frustrating because

01:00:00 ◼   ► it's it because it's it's not there's

01:00:02 ◼   ► always some sort of chasing element

01:00:04 ◼   ► where it's like you're what you're

01:00:05 ◼   ► really interested in is are they going

01:00:07 ◼   ► to make it over to the chapel or

01:00:08 ◼   ► whatever it should be almost like The

01:00:10 ◼   ► Great Escape where it should be a little

01:00:11 ◼   ► bit perilous super-low like you know the

01:00:14 ◼   ► thing is that's not going to be made

01:00:16 ◼   ► who knows maybe that was a very

01:00:17 ◼   ► expensive undertaking at the time but

01:00:19 ◼   ► it's not going to be maintained it's

01:00:20 ◼   ► going to be dangerous that should be a

01:00:22 ◼   ► huge parallel getting out of there

01:00:23 ◼   ► that's right and is it just open to the

01:00:26 ◼   ► world then it then the entire thing is

01:00:29 ◼   ► going to be filled with bears you know

01:00:33 ◼   ► like what what it is there a dorm and

01:00:36 ◼   ► there's no in the movie

01:00:40 ◼   ► no one ever opens a door that just they

01:00:42 ◼   ► run out this monk hole and may appear in

01:00:45 ◼   ► the garden but you think it's probably

01:00:46 ◼   ► good-looking zeroed or maybe like a dog

01:00:47 ◼   ► house

01:00:48 ◼   ► well i would like to see that I like

01:00:50 ◼   ► that the screen it's not on the screen i

01:00:52 ◼   ► would like to see that technology

01:00:53 ◼   ► revealed because i am interested in

01:00:56 ◼   ► building among whole passageway to the

01:00:58 ◼   ► to the sin just in case I ever have to

01:01:02 ◼   ► escape from a very poorly explained

01:01:06 ◼   ► barcelona bad guy who was living in on

01:01:09 ◼   ► an island in China with computers taking

01:01:12 ◼   ► over the world but really he wants

01:01:13 ◼   ► revenge

01:01:14 ◼   ► let's get busy it's not a good look at

01:01:17 ◼   ► you getting terrible movies a really

01:01:19 ◼   ► good movie i did not about the Bears

01:01:21 ◼   ► it's awful that movie like really good

01:01:23 ◼   ► and so so this the problem the problem

01:01:27 ◼   ► of that monk hole is 200 yards of it

01:01:30 ◼   ► plus a door go unexplained I can't get

01:01:33 ◼   ► away from the upkeep issues you think

01:01:36 ◼   ► about how wet it is got to be there it

01:01:37 ◼   ► Scotland right it's this guy wetplace it

01:01:40 ◼   ► slow me it's Modi its Scottish think

01:01:44 ◼   ► didn't cave in and even if you assume

01:01:46 ◼   ► that the caretaker guy is also

01:01:48 ◼   ► maintaining the monk whole i would not

01:01:51 ◼   ► count on that I wouldn't count on it

01:01:52 ◼   ► either but let's say he's down there

01:01:54 ◼   ► stockpiling muskets and sabers and and

01:01:59 ◼   ► again more likely to be recently

01:02:02 ◼   ► disappeared children down there right

01:02:04 ◼   ► something terrible what who is who is

01:02:06 ◼   ► stashing what in the most stuff in the

01:02:08 ◼   ► monk hole but then but then this whole

01:02:11 ◼   ► business of like and then you just pop

01:02:12 ◼   ► up in the

01:02:13 ◼   ► garden like a did you pop up in the

01:02:16 ◼   ► garden like the groundhog in Caddyshack

01:02:21 ◼   ► no thank you that thing would be full of

01:02:25 ◼   ► burgers

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