Roderick on the Line

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00:00:22 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Merlyn how's it going [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► super good [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► are you having a nice morning so far a [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► pretty good morning yeah T good morning [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► you know I'm trying to I'm trying to [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► practice better sleep hygiene I've heard [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► rumors about this yeah and the Sun now [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► the Sun has become my friend the Sun [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► accommodates us it's finally like a [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► normal day yeah I accept we're about [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► daylight savings time it again uh like a [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► week from now it's all gonna go to shit [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► again [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► it's only in the last week that sunset [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► feels like a normal time and I don't I [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► don't mind the dark mornings but it [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► feels like it came up I mean you're in a [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► different latitude longitude you're in a [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► different horizontal than I am that's [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► latitude what does that do to your day I [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► mean it's both right cuz I remember [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► being in Portland and thinking their [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► time feels different here it is [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► different yeah and the summertime the [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► Sun doesn't go down until like almost [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► 10:00 but in the winter especially after [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► the after the the daylight savings time [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► comes in the Sun Goes Down at 4:00 yeah [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► and so that's too early John that's [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► right it's the worst and there's no [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► reason for daylight savings time up here [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► it doesn't it all it does is is pummel [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► us nobody cares if it's like light at [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► give your family more time to collect [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► their potatoes yeah yes so so appalling [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► it's like when you get home from work [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► it's already dark when you get home from [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► school it's like already dark there's no [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► daylight that is hard on my lady friend [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► man she works for a living [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► it sucks to leave work while the Sun is [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► setting is gross it's terrible well you [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► know what I was growing up in the winter [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► you never saw the Sun I had a classroom [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► my fifth and sixth grade classroom was [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► in a converted locker room because the [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► hotter the school my elementary school [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► had been a Catholic school like a [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► private school and somehow the city [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► absorbed it but there but it wasn't [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► quite big enough to to accommodate all [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► the students and so they and also there [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► weren't [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► locker rooms because it was an [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► elementary school now instead of I mean [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► I think it was a Catholic junior high or [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► something okay so they turned the locker [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► room into a into a class and it was [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► great in there it was like this it was [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► like this little it wasn't little it was [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► big but it was all carpeted they had [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► carpeted the floors I think they'd [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► carpeted like they put carpet on [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► everything they could and it just felt [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► like a little womb in there but the [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► problem is you would go in in the [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► morning and it would be dark and you [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► would come out at night and it would be [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► dark and it was like you just I mean I [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► guess on sunny days they would they [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► would give us recess and we'd go outside [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► and get a little Sun but there were [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► windows right so you couldn't look out [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► and even see no good that's good body [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► clock it does but it was like living [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► inside of a beanbag chair I'm talking [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► about it I kind of miss it I would take [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► it go back to my fifth grade class and [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► just curl up in the corner and read [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► watership down a Sat book you left alone [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► it is a sad book huh [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► it is that book um I want to circle back [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► to your sleep because I I'm not up to [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► date on your other program but I'd like [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► to hear about your sleep I'm just saying [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► I've talked about this too much lately [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► so I'm just gonna say this I'm uh I have [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► feelings about time and I have a lot of [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► feelings about time and keeps on tickin [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► and yeah I my thought on this is just [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► pick one just pick one good time I mean [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► if we're gonna do daylight saving time [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► let's do that all the time if we do the [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► other one let's do the other one but [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► let's just do one and stick with it it's [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► the change is you have a kid now that's [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► old enough that you're probably facing [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► this when daylight saving time starts it [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► feels criminal to a child [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► mm-hmm it's not even near sunset you're [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► supposed to go to bed while the Sun is [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► still visible in the sky I will farm [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► people no thanks Marcia are we what what [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► what is happening we need to just get [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► one in and stick with it I think that [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► Jim I have a lot of other feelings but [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► just for the purposes of this program I [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► just want to say let's not [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► overcomplicate this it seems like [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► daylight savings time [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► and the electoral college gam starting a [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► list are the same right they're both [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► things that we need to eliminate but [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► there's a lot of investment in it that [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► no you know it's like the sunk cost [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► fallacy nobody really cares what we've [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► invested in them like it's not it's not [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► like it's not like it would cost us [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► really any money we just were just [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► emotionally invested in these dumb ideas [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► that are and also like the electro [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► college is getting worse the time thing [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► sucks but it's always sucked mostly the [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► same the electro college problem is [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► getting worse yeah but there's no you [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► know that's not like the it's not like [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► the people in power presently are going [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► to do anything about I know I know but [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► as more people move to cities and as [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► collections of various political parties [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► tend to get more kind of collect or pool [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► down to these same areas I mean come on [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► Montana really it's awful so but what do [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► we do it's another example of of what [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► what of a situation where they just need [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► to give us the keys let's that [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► do-nothing Congress Congress keeps [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► changing or changing our clock the [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► government wasn't it Arizona that [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► decided in their in their way the path [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► they passed a referendum where they [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► wouldn't celebrate Martin Luther King [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► Day and also they wouldn't go on [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► daylight savings yeah oh yeah and is [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► that still true is it still the one [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► state that won't switch over hip-hop [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► songs about that I feel like and I'm [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► pretty sure that Arizona is still off [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► the daylight saving time but you know [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► there's videos you can watch about this [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► that are that will that will make you [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► extra super mad because there are there [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► are areas where like to two different [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► sides of the street you know are like in [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► different times there's stuff it's just [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► bananas oh I'm so mad already [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► yeah that's I'm so mad I'm so mad you [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► know that's like splitting families [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► apart it's like kind of temporal Civil [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► War yeah that's right that's exactly [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► what it is one side over here the other [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► side over here it's got no soup yeah and [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► the brother against brother but the [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► other one doesn't find out for an hour [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► it's just like in East Germany I [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► remember seeing after they took the wall [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► down there were all [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► these situations where it I guess when [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► the wall was there it was maybe less [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► clear because there was a giant wall but [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► when the wall went down you realized how [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► many places came out in the countryside [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► that they'd that just like in Berlin [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► they ran this wall down the middle of [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► the street and there was a house over [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► here and there was a house over there [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► and all of a sudden there was a no-man's [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► land between them where they had been [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► like neighbors where you could call from [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► the porch and like your Leahy who that's [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► that's so arbitrary it's like a tornado [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► you know you just it's ridiculous right [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► it's crazy it's crazy and and you you [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► can stand in those places now and just [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► be like wait a minute wait a minute wait [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► wait these were two separate countries [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► before like like really it's across the [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► street what else goes on the list I've [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► got don't talk about your sleep I got [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► daylight saving time I got the electoral [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► college are there other things that were [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► once a good idea for a reason that are [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► sticking around in a way that's that's [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► perhaps harming us more than helping us [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► hmm that's a good question [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► yeah we'll think on it I got I got a [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► list start it if you think of anything [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► well you know I'm thinking I'm I'm [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► thinking about that stuff all the time [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► you know I usually usually think about [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► it in terms of like top-down [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► organization rather than bottom-up [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► organization mmm-hmm [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► I mean there are ones that are just like [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► bees in my bonnet you take like [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► something like a fax machine where it's [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► almost like like anthrax or polio or [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► something we're like as long as any of [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► them are still out there we might get a [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► fax or need to get a fax they need to be [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► eradicated think we need to just say as [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► a people we were not going to use this [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► it lets served a very important purpose [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► but there are so many better ways to do [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► that at this point unless met with fax [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► machines on the list yeah please do you [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► know until very recently only it feels [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► like only a year ago even I was still [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► getting emails from people saying well [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► just fax just print this out sign it and [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► fax it back to me and I always refused [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► to do it [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► and there were a lot of well [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► yeah it's been like oh no you DocuSign [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► but I do a lot of my business on my [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► phone and a lot of those apps are badly [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► well I don't have to tell you about an [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► app that's badly you said this to people [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► in positions of power or basically if [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► you can't do it on your phone you're not [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► gonna do it right and I said I said to a [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► guy the other day he was like well just [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► send me an invoice for that and I said [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► you and I've been doing business for 22 [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► years uh-huh do you need me to fucking [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► send you an invoice are you serious are [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► you serious right now [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► you need an invoice from me legging [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► write it out on a piece of paper and [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► sign my name to it you know I don't give [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► a shit but what world are we living in [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► they use yeah I need to send you an [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► input Britney's for a system probably [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► sky Sesenta the thing is I sent him one [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► he's like oh I can't open that because I [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► because I did it in pages because I [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► don't have word I don't know I don't [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► know man I don't know send a text file [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► it says send me $200 motherfucker right [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► so don't make it a check I'm putting [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► checks on a list so he says oh well if I [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► was the business I can't send it to you [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► because I'm not the business manager if [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► I was the business manager I'd do it and [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► I'm like you're the manager what do you [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► mean business you're doing with the [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► manager manager you're the manager [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► manager you telling me that the business [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► manager has got some system that you are [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► like yes ma'am Trump won but DocuSign [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► and I know this is not a plug but [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► DocuSign in the last nine months let's [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► say has finally gotten to a point where [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► more than 60% of the time I use it I [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► don't fling my phone across the room and [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► scream well that's that's nice to hear [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► yeah so I just signed a contract a few [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► days ago I signed it on DocuSign and and [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► it was one of those I think some we [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► crossed some line where these apps now [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► are starting to say like ah you've been [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► or yes I like like square when you when [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► you when you go to a shop and you use [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► your credit card on this way it no [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► longer in most cases is confused by who [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► you are and wants you to put your email [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► address in right if I've used a credit [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► card on square now I get a receipt in [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► them yeah it just has decide it's [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► figured it out it's figured out for the [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► most part there are still some places [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► that are like where they were the person [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► behind the counter says would you like a [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► receipt would you like a receipt and I'm [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► like yes I always want to receipt and [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► they're like they turn the thing around [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► they're like just put in your email [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► address I'm like I would rather give you [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► a pint of blood and stand here and put [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► my email address and for my blood [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► you know what you're gonna get before [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► you get a email address I want you to [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► fax me the receipt yeah I want you to [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► fax it between two slices of bread [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► melons you want you to put it between [TS]

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00:13:33 ◼   ► family plan which is quick and easy [TS]

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00:13:41 ◼   ► so easy to cook delicious balanced [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► dinners for less than $10 a meal what no [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► more time-consuming meal planning or [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► grocery shopping I happen to really [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► dislike both you're not gonna have to [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► plan dinner you're not gonna have to go [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► spend money on takeout and you're not [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► gonna be worrying about gathering [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► ingredients week after week after week [TS]

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00:13:58 ◼   ► some of the notable recipes that are out [TS]

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00:14:19 ◼   ► ravioli gratin with spinach time and [TS]

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00:14:24 ◼   ► last week my special lady friend made us [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► amazing a chili from hellofresh [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► I had it the next day and it was like [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► the best leftovers o-o ever it was so [TS]

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00:14:36 ◼   ► that she thought this was a great [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► service she says it was a breeze to make [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► and that she was especially impressed [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► with the way the ingredients were [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► packaged and presented I agree good job [TS]

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00:15:00 ◼   ► first week of hellofresh [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► our thanks to hellofresh for ting [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► roderick on the line and all the great [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► shows well okay here's the thing I don't [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► go on about checks but you know the [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► thing is a check made sense at a time [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► when you hmm [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► the Czech people oh no sorry now I'm not [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► talking about the metal the metal is no [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► but like in a time when most of us were [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► using American green currency and coins [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► to pay for things checks made a lot of [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► sense so like if you want to get your [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► sea-monkeys right you might you might [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► send a senate check or what a check or [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► your rent because it doesn't make sense [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► sense to send your $200 rent check or to [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► send your $200 in cash in the mail look [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► you don't want to do that no and so you [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► say please accept this little piece of [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► paper with my signature that's going on [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► the list with my signature on it so you [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► know it's me and then my bank will give [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► you this much money if it's in them it [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► made a lot of sense but now [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► doing that so much now people especially [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► the millenniums the millenniums don't [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► even understand what cash is anymore by [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► some Altoids and the user leaves their [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► chip card yeah [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► that's why I keep I keep paying [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► millenniums for things in in Canadian [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► currency because they don't know the [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► difference I'm like here you go this is [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► two loonies and a toonie and they're [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► like thanks thanks man priests process [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► is real gold [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► that's a Canadian doubloon blooney a [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► doubloon e huh yeah they they put it up [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► into their mouths and they they bite on [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► it because they've seen Olympians do [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► that with their gold medal our [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► prospectors counterfeit money I learned [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► from prospectors I actually still get a [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► book of checks oh I think I know because [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► I pay people that come around oh sure [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► my psalm wouldn't turn down a check I [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► bet no no in fact they paid him with a [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► check I pay people that come around I [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► like to have every kind of financial [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► instruments available because there are [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► a lot of people that I do business with [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► the don't they don't trust the banks do [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► you want a German bearer bond yeah [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► that's right that's right and the way I [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► get them is that I shut down the entire [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► electrical grid mmm [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► ladies and gentlemen I give you the [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► f-b-i smell that coffee they pack them [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► with coffee but I just I just found out [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► the other day because you know that I [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► don't like to sit and yell at companies [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► or corporation you know that's not gonna [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► happen I don't like to do it but [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► recently Chase Bank some kind of a [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► problem and Jesus was now in your bed [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► box yeah there's a problem we've written [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► a thousand word letter to them to the [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► States Attorney General so so you know a [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► letter was drafted a minute went out and [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► we edited it down [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► and now it's ready to send cowboy the [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► States Attorney General is gonna hear [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► about it when I was growing up we always [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► used the National Bank of Alaska and [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► there were a lot of there was the bank [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► it's a National Bank [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► well the National Bank of Alaska it's [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► the bank of the nation of Alaska okay [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► when my dad worked for the Alaska [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► Railroad we used the Alaska Railroad [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► employees Federal Credit Union and that [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► was my first book of checks and when my [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► and that was like 12 years old my dad [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► was like I'm getting you a checking [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► account and I was like oh my god I'm so [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► big I could almost drive and they let me [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► pick out the kind of checks I wanted and [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► of course I got the ones with the [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► Western theme that looked like old [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► parchment and my checkbook looked like [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► hand tooled leather that's a good look [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► that's a really good look it's really [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► impressed by it and so because I wanted [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► to be prepared I went through and I [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► signed every check in advance so I [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► didn't have to worry about doing it a [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► hand-tooled leather book of checks a [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► blank side checked in [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► that was my first experience before that [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► my bank account that I had down here in [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► Seattle when I was a kid you know I had [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► a bank book they not only millenniums [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► one book yeah but even like Generation Y [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► won't understand what that is but they [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► give you a password a book like a pass [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► it was and it was like a little ledger [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► yeah and every time you made a deposit [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► they would like write it in this book [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► and and and every time you you admit it [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► withdrawn so you could keep this little [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► book oh my god I pored over this little [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► book you know because every every time [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► somebody would give me 25 cents I would [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► put it in a shoebox then when I got up [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► enough money that it was worth a trip to [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► the bank I would carry my shoebox in to [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► the bank and give them and open the lid [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► and say like here I made a dollar doing [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► this and I mowed the lawn for six weeks [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► and let's say say that there's a lot of [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► people in life [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► they loved kids because everyone had all [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► the time in the world but that's true [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► that's true [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► you can't there be 16 people at windows [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► yeah right and the carpets on the floor [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► and they were giving away toasters going [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► to the baby I got my first digital clock [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► radio came from a bank bank right first [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► Supertramp was on a bank radio really oh [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► the rig wasn't at the bank no no I had [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► to take it home plug in and take out the [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► box and whatnot yeah but National Bank [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► it wasn't a real digital clock it was [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► one of the ones that flipped away [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► couldja flipper Chuck I was at a thrift [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► store the other day and I saw one of [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► those and it was the same one that I'd [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► had as a kid and I I was walking through [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► the shelves you know looking at all the [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► crap and I saw this thing from afar and [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► just had that like that bursts of [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► familiarity of like what the hell is [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► that like there I've seen a billion [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► clocks at thrift stores why am I having [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► this reaction I walked over to it and it [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► was like yeah oh the but this is the [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► button that I would every morning hit [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► hoping that I would the alarm would stop [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► bringing in that I would never have to [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► go to school again speaking of sleep the [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► one that I had when I was probably at my [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► nearly most sleep-deprived I want to say [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► around eighth grade it we had a real [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► nice feature if you're having trouble [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► sleeping you can get sleep at night and [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► you know what I do before the minute [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► card flipped you behind a little bit [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► just a little bit of like pumped up I [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► guess it's 12:03 now Oh back with bings [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► word things Oh things were just things [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► it was so simple then these were things [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► clocks were clocks well I hope you'll [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► follow up and you know get a response to [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► the letter oh well so anyway this is bad [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► OPSEC for even talking about banking [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► things but since you're walking out the [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► door I guess you're free to talk about [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► it yeah no it's good that so so [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► Washington Mutual I got my first washing [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► mutual account really early on in [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► 91 because I tried to use US Bank and US [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► Bank had this program that they were [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► really excited about they touted this [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► program called overdraft protection [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► where if you if you wrote a check and [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► you didn't have enough money to cover it [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► they would cover it [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► it was overdraft protection that's [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► imagine I was like I was like that's [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► gonna be great you guys cover it [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► fantastic alright and then I made the [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► natural assumption that when you then [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► put more money in the bank they paid [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► themselves and whatever little charge [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► they had and and everybody was good but [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► in fact what overdraft protection was [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► was the a paid your debt and took the [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► amount that they'd paid and put it in a [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► separate account because they were loan [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► it was alone oh that's how they get you [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► yeah and so then I would make my deposit [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► of my paycheck and burp interpreter [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► Merilee on my way well one day I went [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► into the bank and they were like you're [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► $500 [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► you have $500 in your overdraft [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► protection account and it's accruing at [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► 24 percent interest or something like [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► this and some banker told this to me and [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► I was like what are you talking about [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► because each one of these $20 checks [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► that had that had would that would have [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► bounced oh it's accruing toward them [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► were them oh that's that's the wrong [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► kind of accrual right and they had not [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► it was not clear and they were like oh [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► well if you'd read the fine print on the [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► thing that you signed it was one of [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► those if you'd read the fine print [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► things and so at the time I was pretty [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► young I didn't fully understand the [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► repercussions of everything that I did [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► and I said I am closing my account good [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► day sir [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► and that set in motion a situation where [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► I was getting phone calls in an attempt [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► to collect a debt and any information [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► will be used by Miranda uniforms for [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► spor eleven more years so ye every time [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► every time I had a house phone mr. [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► Roderick [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► does it make you feel like a big man not [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► to pay your bills but anyway I went to [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► Washington Mutual I loved my [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► relationship with them they were right [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► there on Broadway I remember them being [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► in Florida it was they were they became [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► a big bank but they were originally a [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► local bank [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► I had a count number that when I would [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► when I would go up to the teller and [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► they would read my account number they'd [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► say oh wow you've been here a long time [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► this is the old style of account number [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► and I always took a lot of pride in that [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► you know I like I like to have an old [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► style account number and then they got [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► too big for their britches they screwed [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► up they they became a big behemoth and [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► they fell apart well they lost a little [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► bit that personal touch [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► you really did they really did and they [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► also lost like several tens of billions [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► of dollars yeah and then they were [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► absorbed by Chase Bank a faceless New [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► York banking enterprise and and largely [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► it was because of my old account number [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► my mind now like account number that [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► predated five different iterations of of [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► the bank but I just hung in there I was [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► like all right I'm gonna hang in there [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► you know because I've got this account [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► number that starts with zero five nine [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► or something which you know which it's [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► it's hard for me to you know when I call [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► triple-a and they're like thank you for [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► being a member since 1997 I'm like you [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► goddamn right uh-huh [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► you goddamn right triple-a you provide a [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► good service even though you're even [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► there customer service is about 50/50 [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► yeah anyway Chase Bank has started they [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► wanted us to use their take a picture of [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► the check in a little little deposit [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► nothing yeah but in the last year they [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► have disappeared three separate checks [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► know where they they said your check has [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► been deposited here's your number you [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► know here's a transaction up and they [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► sent the people who whose check it was a [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► canceled like canceled check the back X [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► Emily but did not deposit the money [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► that's that feels like I don't want to [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► talk out of school here that feels like [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► a a failure at a fairly fundamental [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► level for what one considers a [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► professional bank for what a bank is [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► being asked for what we still actually [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► need a god damned bank to do that's [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► right and so they're like hey early [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► adopter grab on this technology where [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► you just take a picture with a jack why [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► do we do it's like when you go on do on [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► an app and they're like oh just put your [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► phone over your credit card and we'll [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► scan it and then it'll be in your [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► account and you sit there with your [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► phone trying to square up the credit [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► card like a minute and yeah you know I [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► could have just put the number in by now [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► anyway so we so it was my bookkeeper who [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► discovered this my bookkeeper who said [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► wait a minute [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► there's like five thousand dollars [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► missing that's a lot of money John it's [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► a lot of money so we called them we [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► called their customer service operation [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► which was in Bangalore right next to [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► where they make the torpedoes okay and [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► we talked to some people who they were [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► able to resolve it very quickly I [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► imagine ultimately what they said was [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► that a banking relationship between a [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► bank and a customer is a relationship [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► that requires some mutual effort in the [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► sense that the bank can take your money [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► and give you a number for the exchange [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► but then it's really the onus is on the [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► customer to make sure that the money was [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► there oh you fucked up this is what [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► they're saying by not being sure you [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► didn't follow up follow up make sure the [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► cheque went through is that what [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► happened yeah I didn't check the bank's [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► work and that was part of our mutual [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► obligations one I'll see now you know [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► yeah the bank takes my money and get and [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► tells me that it's fine but then I have [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► to make sure mmm [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► so that precipitated well that really [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► really kind of like if you think about [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► what is it bad [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► actually good for I mean one of the [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► obvious things is like okay they got a [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► pretty secure facility if you want to [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► put your deed in a safe-deposit box you [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► would do that if somebody sends you a [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► piece of paper that says it's worth [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► $5,000 they'll take care of that what [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► they said then you know you should [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► really be checking in on that box you [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► should pop in once in a while make sure [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► that deed is still there the way you [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► left it [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► yeah make sure that the that we didn't [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► like break it open with a crowbar [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► I thought you pushed it our relationship [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► so believe you me my bookkeeper really [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► had a lot to say on this matter and [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► wrote she tends to write very long [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► letters and then my job is to you know [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► punch him up a little bit make make him [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► a little bit tighter tighter anyway [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► she's going to the state's attorney [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► general but in any joke a but you're the [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► manager in that case yeah but we have so [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► we're now switching our bank and I and I [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► this is another Bank I've had a long [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► relationship with it because this was [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► the bank where I did the banking for the [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► Roderick group right and what I had [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► realized I didn't know this I guess [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► because I had registered several aliases [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► at that Bank because I was in a phase [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► then before I started before I really [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► started taking by the kitchen if you [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► have the option of registering an alias [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► I would I would do it out the door what [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► I did and didn't even realize I done is [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► that you can write me a check you can [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► write a check to hashtag supertrain and [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► I can catch I can cash it please someone [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► do this and I don't know why like four [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► years Wow if somebody's like oh yeah I [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► can write you a check just say like yeah [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► make it a hashtag supertrain I can do [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► that Wow what is that ever seen I could [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► see that screwing up the system because [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► that's got a special character in it [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► well it does and I'm and I'm not sure [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► either [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► about whether or not the hashtag is just [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► for fun [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► I see but to accuse about this heat now [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► well and I and I actually I sent an [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► email to my banker and I was like can I [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► really do this and then I realized wait [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► a minute I can get checks made that say [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► hashtag super training oh my god [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► I could get a platinum business card [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► that says hashtag super train on it oh [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► my god [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► and if it was one of those new ones [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► where the numbers just like kind of [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► itched on the back that would look so [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► badass it's super bad I'm okay for this [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► bounce on super train it's also also I [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► can get checks written to all the great [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► shows oh my like I don't even remember [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► doing this I must have been in an [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► absolute fugue state and I think at what [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► I did at the time I was very busy I [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► think even my banker offered me the [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► option of getting checks made with with [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► a stencil picture like a like a clipart [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► picture of a GMC RV on them and I guess [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► I I guess I maybe forgot to give him the [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► go-ahead on that now I'm kind of now i [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► partly regret it and partly am kind of [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► fine with it but I don't have this so [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► you're moving thanks that's good it [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► feels like a good step but now you're [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► gonna feel like you need to ride that [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► like if you do the I mean that's a [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► pretty common thing now you take a photo [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► of a check yeah like you feel like you [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► need with your new bank or your new old [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► thank you super training bank you still [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► feel like you need to kind of ride that [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► and monitor the relationship well it's [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► interesting because when I was at [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► Washington Mutual I didn't have enough [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► money coming and going that I had a [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► banker but I knew the tellers you know [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► I'd go in there and like hey cuz I it [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► was like the old style of banking those [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► people worked there for a long time and [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► you would go to posit your paycheck all [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► the time you would he'd go in there and [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► it was two blocks from where I work and [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► it was like part of your day go to the [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► bank that was part of the ritual like go [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► to the butcher shop go to the bank there [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► was like this is this certain like these [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► at least weekly errands that I was [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► compelled to attend as a kid that were [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► just like part of life go to the post [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► office yeah [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► right oh stop aside fire 13 cent stamps [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► most of his bank hardware store or [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► grocery store that was back when I [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► carried a little laminated card in my [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► wallet where I'd written down the phone [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► numbers of everyone I knew in tiny tiny [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► tiny little letters i smart then I [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► laminated it with scotch tape or with [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► packing tape it was like a piece of [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► paper and I would put packing tape over [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► you know this is we still had the [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► specter of nuclear war hanging over our [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► head we had to be ready to jump into a [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► bunker at any time oh I'm reading a book [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► right now about the United States [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► government's like the basically the cold [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► war strategy for continuity of [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► government and I'm the hole like where [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► the plan started during the Truman [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► administration like wait a minute [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► if the Russians were to drop a bomb on [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► the White House do we have a plan right [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► for that and the answer was no why would [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► we never had a plan like like like the [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► first I think that somewhere in the book [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► is a story like the first day of Harry [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► Truman's presidency after FDR died [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► they're like you're the president now [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► and he was like great I'm going to the [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► bank and he walked out the door of the [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► White House and started walking to the [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► bank where he had where he did his [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► banking and and the Secret Service was [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► like chasing after him and they shut [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► down the street and suddenly all of [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► Washington DC is like paralyzed because [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► the president like snuck out a side door [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► and went to the bank and didn't realize [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► or didn't factor in that he couldn't do [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► that he was already vice president how'd [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► he not know that but as vice president [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► in 19 in the 45 but like in the 40s like [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► just because he wasn't he wasn't FDR's [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► vice president until that that final [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► term right until 40 44 44 and up until [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► that point you know he'd been a senator [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► in it so wait a minute if he was elected [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► in 44 he came in January 45 so he'd only [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► been that was April when Roosevelt [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► thought it [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► he was he was vice president for two [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► months oh my goodness and then it's like [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► oh you're the president now I if I knew [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► that I forgot it that's super [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► interesting it's really interesting and [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► I think the story is that he can't that [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► he got a message like Harry come over to [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► the White House we need to talk to you [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► and he said huh that's weird [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► I've only seen the president twice since [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► the election I wonder why I wonder what [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► they want and he walked over to the [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► White House and Eleanor Roosevelt was [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► waiting for him oh my goodness [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► and she was like Harry you're the [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► president now and he's like shit I gotta [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► go to the bank until the middle of the [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► war there was no Secret Service [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► protection for the vice president they [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► didn't think it was necessary who would [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► bother so he just walked around and then [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► I think it was then they realized oh [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► wait a minute he's the next in line and [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► FDR could die any day we'd better put [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► we'd better give him two agents you know [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► to kind of make sure he doesn't get lost [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► and and and Truman there's more like [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► minders yeah and he was like get off me [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► you know you get out of here kid you're [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► bugging me but then he realized oh you [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► can't do that anymore Harry you're the [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► president but so this book yeah it's [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► about all of the secret you know grass [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► gradually and I I didn't know this [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► either but there was a whole period in [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► the late 40s early 50s where [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► conventional wisdom in the United States [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► seemed to be that our future as a [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► country was going to involve us [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► basically moving our industry [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► underground because of the threat of [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► nuclear war yeah yeah so that a [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► seemingly survivable nuclear war that [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► will let us continue to have milling [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► machines underground for perpetuity [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► that's right so they so government [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► agents went around and did an enormous [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► survey of all the caves in the United [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► States and they were like well let's see [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► if we just requisition all these caves [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► if we eminent domain all these caves and [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► we build like [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► General Mills I guess it's real this is [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► real dr. Strangelove in the mineshaft [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► gap was not so far off no no no they [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► were it was it was it there was a period [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► there and I think it was I think [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► depending on who you were talking to if [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► the period was either long or short I [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► think a lot of people in government who [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► had actually seen the pictures of her [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► Oshima were like oh wait a minute this [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► is a lot worse than we thought there's [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► nobody there's no surviving this yeah [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► but they didn't really they didn't [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► disseminate that to everybody and so [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► there were a lot of people running [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► around like well you know not just [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► building bomb shelters but but but [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► really envisioning that the entire [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► country was going to move out from the [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► cities get out of the center so that we [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► weren't as easy a target and sort of you [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► know like disseminate our business and [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► and and manufacturing sort of out into [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► the out into the woods the United States [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► basically becomes a series of Horcruxes [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► so we distribute everything and I've [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► seen that that movie where they were [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► sunglasses when they're watching Bikini [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► Atoll we should be pretty good to go we [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► dig a hole be hard it's three into [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► Oklahoma and everything will be fine [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► yeah there were actually real estate [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► advertisements at the time for houses in [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► upstate New York and southern Virginia [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► that we're like you know this is a [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► beautiful farm it's well outside the [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► blast zone oh my god was this also run [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► so I mean I there's gosh there's been so [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► much presidential stuff floating around [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► about just boy laws work like when did [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► it is it officially like a law a rule [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► policy for example that the President [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► and Vice President don't fly together [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► isn't that a thing so this happened [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► circus it's that era is this was that [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► era okay yeah that that that they [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► realized that the this is when they [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► developed those elaborate hierarchies [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► where you know I mean it's on it I think [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► it had always been that the that the [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► Speaker of the House ascended to the [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► presidency if you know that the [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► President and the Vice President were [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► finally codified like when interior [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► comes into the picture yeah and this [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► went all the way down to eventually what [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► happened was if the Secretary of [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► Interior dies there the guy that's [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► running the Tennessee Valley Authority [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► is next in line to become Secretary of [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► the Interior in the future [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► administration post apocalypse and [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► somewhere down the line there there's [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► like there's a list of succession that's [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► like 60 people deep like that's insane [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► like the mayor of Skokie Illinois [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► becomes the President of the United [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► States at some point if the 75 people [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► ahead of him in line are at we're all [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► vaporized and every single cabinet [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► member also has this train of potential [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► successors and in situations where the [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► US gets on a real war footing all of [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► those people know they're on that list [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► and they get some like like like some [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► telegram activating this like DEFCON 1 [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► thing that it actually has a name like [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► that like like con-com when when this [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► set of conditions occurs this plan goes [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► into action the word goes out we're now [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► in space White House mode right and some [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► of those people the Tennessee Valley [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► Authority person or the person that is [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► in charge of the Grand Coulee Dam like a [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► federal agent or someone else empowered [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► to do this shows up and becomes that [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► person's bodyguard like we need to [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► protect you sir like don't you can't go [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► to the bank today because you are a [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► forty second in line to be the Secretary [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► of Housing in human welfare or whatever [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► yeah so and so as the 50s wore on the [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► government became less and less [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► convinced and then less and less [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► interested in this project of putting [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► the American all of the American people [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► underground and all of our industry they [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► were like you know what [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► this isn't gonna work this is really [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► something very scalable no like Carl's [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► brought the bad Canyon's we could put [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► like it off you pretty I think it cave [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► is pretty moist John it's how its moist [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► it's disgusting it's dark it's there's [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► not much parking no and where the where [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► the potties where would you go where [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► would you go out to smoke [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► I'll think about that at the time that [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► would have been a big issue not a huge [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► issue what do you do you gonna go up the [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► mine chef's you're gonna ride an [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► elevator outside to have a but every 20 [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► minutes I'll tell you what I'll go up [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► your mind chef's fifties but so the [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► government did not abandon this project [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► when it came to themselves so they so [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► basically they as far as the American [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► people were concerned the government was [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► like let's do that civil defense thing [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► where we show them a lot of like [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► cartoons kids ducking and covering and [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► hey that was the extent of the plant oh [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► and they built the interstate highways I [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► guess in the internet and well [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► eventually I mean is that in the book [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► but isn't that at least the lore that I [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► always heard was that what we could [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► consider the Internet today started as a [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► DARPA project to be able to maintain [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► continuity of communication and [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► structure after some kind of a [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► devastating event yes right and that [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► whole problem that so I'm I'm not that [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► deep into the book but that all came [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► after they realized oh wait a minute [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► how are we going to like how are we [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► going to stay in contact with the [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► Department of the Navy if everything [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► blows up how are we going to stay in [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► contact with General Mills how are we [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► gonna get our Captain Crunch and little [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► by little you know they he got a you got [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► a field promotion he's a colonel now [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► Colonel crunch he'd be the captain is [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► like a colonel right he'd be Admiral [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► crime this is confusing so you think a [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► hot guy hot guys a captain with two bars [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► in the army but I believe a captain in [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► the Navy is like a [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► colonel or yeah full yeah full fuller [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► colonel that's right okay so come on [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► he'd become a would he become a [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► brigadier general he would become a rear [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► end he'd become rear admiral car things [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► but so they continued to build secret [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► installations for government people to [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► survive the war caves and and [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► underground bunkers not just the one [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► from war games but like all over every [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► single state has an underground bunker [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► for the government people to escape to [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► and all these elaborate plans and they [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► have they have secret laminated cards [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► that have not only the numbers of all [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► their friends written on them but also [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► dr. Strangelove were written and [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► directed by Wes Anderson yeah right you [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► get walkie-talkies you get laminated [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► cards you get cool uniforms oh I bet I [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► bet those what what is it's that [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► Terminator movie the third one where [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► they find that that bunker in the [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► mountain right isn't that the third time [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► I don't acknowledge that movie but that [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► sounds like it could be right so and [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► they go in and and the whole thing is [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► decorated super mid-century multum at [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► bachelor pad right right it's like it's [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► like it's like the Playboy Mansion [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► except like hardened against the ground [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► has a real grotto and does that come in [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► it okay no but it has a lot of a lot of [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► hanging moss that came from the sweat [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► and cigarette smoke of all those people [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► in there coughing there'd be in that [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► cave that wet air those pall malls farts [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► have you been recently to a hotel that [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► has not been upgraded from from times of [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► your well I feel like I got I think you [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► told I told you my sad tale of woe where [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► I got stuck in [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► where was I anyway I recently got stuck [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► somewhere my flight got canceled had to [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► stay overnight and you know I'm a [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► Marriott man they put me up in a [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► Marriott and I think it was that rare [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► thing where I was in this Marriott [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► probably right at the end of the cycle [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► where the furniture is a little [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► oversized and like brown wood and stuff [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► it hadn't gotten that light look that [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► you see in most hotels today right yeah [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► yeah yeah I mean it always strikes me [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► how much especially given how many [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► basically old like disused SROs get [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► turned into hotels now like it's weird [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► what gets attention and what gets [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► upgraded but yeah most of them seem like [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► they've gotten an upgrade in the last [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► 10-15 years but do you still get [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► somewhere there's like also the one you [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► were at in San Francisco where there's [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► bits of carpeting that had been replaced [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► because probably blood total it's that [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► was a total SRO a classic a classic [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► hotel that probably until recently [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► sure-sure down to a shared bathroom [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► right well the rooms had bathrooms and [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► and looked like bathrooms that had been [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► there a long time but but almost [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► certainly almost certainly 25 years ago [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► if you walk down the halls of those of [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► those floors it would smell like fried [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► fish because people had that is not a [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► very friendly thing to fry in an SRO oh [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► my goodness oh my gosh she's gonna cling [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► to every fiber and it's not gonna it's [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► gonna be like close to like a bait fish [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► quality probably like a lightly saute [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► column and I've looked in it enough in [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► enough doorways at a guy in an [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► undershirt you know when I was 22 or [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► whatever I didn't realize that the world [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► was gonna change yeah cuz this looked [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► like what did it what I what it looked [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► like in the 50s you know until then [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► until the 90s there were still in babies [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► but there were always like old guys in [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► undershirts fryin fish on hot plates in [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► single that would always be true I [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► didn't realize that all those hotels [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► would become a so tells and I just look [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► at my phone trying to find where were we [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► where were we when I met the guy from TV [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► and we hung out and you got the nice [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► room and I got the not nice room was [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► that was that Portland guy from TV TV [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► with the jaw I like James oh sure James [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► Urbaniak I like that guy yeah that was [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► the that was a classic hotel comedy but [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► don't you be putting the bones down the [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► sink that was the hotel room where I [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► opened the door one time in there just a [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► mystery well there was a single [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► walkie-talkie lying in the center of the [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► room I was like the beginning of an [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► adventure and mine looked like I don't [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► know like an updated version of the [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► prisoner it was it was like it was a [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► very very tidy cell yeah yeah put a TV [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► in a hotel room John well because Lingus [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► is that what it is like there's no place [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► there's nope there's no drawers you can [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► only hang your clothes basically you get [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► throw pillows and kind of Lingus that's [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► the whole thing right you go in there [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► you're gonna wash your hands you might [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► well sure you might want to brush your [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► teeth but like is it because young [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► people have so much sex they just want [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► to get on the bed is that what it is cuz [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► the bed is real central to the room no I [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► think you come in you put yeah here's [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► what you do you take your your dynamic [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► abag you set it down you pull out your [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► can of mustache wax cotton can of hair [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► wax you can of eyebrow wax your hogs fat [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► hair tonic you you untie your [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► the next thing it's gonna be oh sheikh [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► is good artisanal handcrafted [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► bindle yeah you let your hair deal it's [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► gonna be your source neckerchief tied [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► around an artisanal responsibly sourced [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► stick that's right that's right well [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► yeah like a like like a renewable stick [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► renewables it's gonna be like that a [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► hardwood flooring site on NPR it's gonna [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► be all recovered hobo sticks that's [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► right holy sticks that they found in a [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► pile at the big hobo mass it's like it [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► reduce like you don't you don't make a [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► didgeridoo you find a didgeridoo okay so [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► you go in the room you're ready for some [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► kind of Lingus you take out your bindle [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► you got so here was the philosophy [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► initially you remember initially you [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► first heard of boutique hotels well and [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► artisanal anything oh okay right we're [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► going all the way back workers set the [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► set the Wayback Machine to all the way [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► back to the first time you heard the [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► word artisanal bread okay right all [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► right now hearing about we actually have [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► a loaf in our refrigerator right now [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► that says artisan bread then I think [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► bread if memory serves is the first [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► thing where I heard somebody use that [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► where they didn't mean like you're an [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► artisan making wagon wheels you're not a [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► Cooper you're not a Fletcher right an [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► artisan bread right okay I think the [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► first time I don't remember the first [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► time I heard the word art artisanal but [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► I do [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► well the first time I'm saying was from [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► you but I think I think I've really [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► given that one some legs you sure did [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► yeah I think the first time you said it [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► I had I had about 30 seconds of like [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► very slow thinking where I was like what [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► but but so I dated I dated a gal in the [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► 90s who was part of that whole I've told [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► you about her who was part of that whole [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► take find jeans in Montana for 50 cents [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► bring them to Seattle fine [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► like old jeans for 50 cents at thrift [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► stores in Montana bring them to Seattle [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► sell them to a broker from Japan for [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► $1,500 [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► he will take those jeans to Japan and [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► sell them for $15,000 really early on in [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► this case pants minor she was and I know [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► a guy who was a literal pants prospector [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► and he made a fortune he bought himself [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► a house just driving around Montana in [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► that weird era where all these old guys [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► were dying their old buckle back Levi's [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► were going to the goodwill and and you [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► could drive around and just go to good [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► wills and just flip through stuff and be [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► like oh check out these jeans they're [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► worth $20,000 and I don't want to break [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► the goof here how far off is that really [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► how much were they were they charging [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► for jeans in Japan like over $1,000 [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► sometimes up to five figures and you got [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► some really authentic 60s made in the [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► USA a Jefferson Airplane era Levi's in [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► the right condition with the right [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► what's called Hin gauging J jeans okay [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► he gave you're gonna you're gonna be [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► able to move that up to five figures I [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► mean right now if you find a pair of of [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► sixties biggie Levi's you can sell them [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► online for good good money but there was [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► there was a bubble in that market just [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► like there was a time when when a 1959 [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► Les Paul I mean there were 59 Les Paul's [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► that were selling for a million dollars [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► that's not true oh I see bubble yes yes [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► said you know what yes yes yes yes [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► they're like a tulip type situation yeah [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► so there was a while where it felt like [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► so yeah right here I have a pair of [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► vintage 50's biggie Levi's for $5,500 Oh [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► jiminy on Etsy we've got let's see [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► now those are from nineteen so this pair [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► of jeans from 1987 is $250 like this [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► world still exists there's a nice pair [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► of vintage men's Levi's xx great [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► acid-wash jeans mmm they're after $4.99 [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► so you can just pick those right up [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► acid-wash jeans can you believe that 32 [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► 36 that's a slender to kind of taller [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► fella but there were these but but the [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► even older Levi's the ones that had like [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► a buckle in the back okay were were [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► super prized among the the like fashion [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► cognoscenti in Tokyo and and I don't [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► think you can still get that kind of [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► money but this friend of mine who did [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► this work who drove around Montana he [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► said I have my retirement and my like my [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► escape bag mice might keep a small bag [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► packed yeah under my bed I have two [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► pairs of jeans in this bag that if I [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► need to I can live off of he sure [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► wouldn't trust it to a bank no it's [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► under his bed you know there's a famous [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► story of a woman that was out in the [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► outing the sort of outside of Sacramento [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► and she was just out in the gold country [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► they call it gold country and she found [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► a mineshaft that was just sort of open [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► and she walked in just touristing you [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► know just like pooping around boopity [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► boop and kind of walked into the mine a [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► little bit maybe further than you would [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► do if you weren't bold and turned a [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► corner and there was a table and there [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► was a pair of jeans on them that were [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► like a old patch two pair of jeans and [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► she pulled him out of there and was like [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► oh look at these you know look at these [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► old great jeans and they'd been patched [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► and whatnot and she brought him out and [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► they're the oldest pair of Levi's like [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► oldest surviving pair the oldest pair no [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► one at Levi's had ever seen them and she [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► brought them in and they became like [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► these talismanic pants that [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► you know that were just the earth right [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► right but so that was my first [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► experience of understanding that there [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► was value in something that wasn't an [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► antique but was you know like a soft [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► good and it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► clear where the value actually was other [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► than scarcity I guess scarcity also it's [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► interesting how I mean guess this is [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► obvious but it also sets a new bar in [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► some ways where you think about like oh [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► wow it's almost like breaking a record [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► right like where somebody breaks a [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► record and breaks it by like more than [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► 5% you're like wow we're capable of much [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► more than we realized [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► and so that might kind of reset the [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► market a little bit cuz now people can [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► go oh are there more of these out there [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► should we should we go a little bit [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► deeper into the cave and see if there's [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► some special pants that's exactly right [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► and I remember sitting at her because I [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► would sit and watch her do her job and [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► people would come in with a big stack of [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► Levi's did you get bring it I for that [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► oh you get a really good eye and she had [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► this she already had that that attitude [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► you know she had really really dark [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► brown hair and she dyed it black she [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► dyed it black for no reason like it was [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► already as brown as brown could be and [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► she was like black dark dark red [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► lipstick and she would sit and smoke [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► cigarettes behind the counter where she [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► worked and people would say I got all [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► these Levi's and she would she would [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► flip through them with such disdain [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► we're so attracted this woman I haven't [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► met the person on the other side would [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► just feel so bad for themselves for [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► bringing this stack of jeans down to her [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► and thanks but no thanks for these but I [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► will take this pair and you're just like [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► wow she was one of those people that had [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► the ability to go to a thrift store buy [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► a puffy coat and make it seem like it [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► was from the future mm-hmm it's like how [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► did you make that seem like it's from [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► the future that's like a mom coat from [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► 1981 and she's just like I don't know [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► man that's a gift yeah why are you [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► talking to me and it's like I'm your [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► boyfriend yeah yeah I'm an idol to talk [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► to you but so I think the premise as we [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► moved into the whole thing [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► moved into the whole thing [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► like well these boots admittedly these [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► boots are $500 the premise was that [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► you'd only need one pair right mm-hmm [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► right it was it was that yes things that [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► are made in America things that are made [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► by hand are gonna be a lot more [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► expensive this is how you get to the [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► artisan thing you're here this is how [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► you get okay so it's gonna be a lot more [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► expensive but where you're already used [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► to paying thirty five hundred dollars [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► for a pair of baggy jeans if you're [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► anybody you're just making that mental [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► transition you're not gonna have seven [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► pairs of these boots you're gonna have [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► one mm-hm and then just sit with that [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► for a second you're just gonna need one [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► just one just one it's gonna be very [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► expensive but it's all you need is the [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► one it's like finding the one true beard [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► go yeah yeah that's all you need you're [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► gonna have one can of mustache wax not [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► four and that idea like I remember it [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► kind of reverberating it actually it it [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► hit the top pair of Levi's in the stack [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► of 40 pairs of Levi's I hadn't had [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► reverberating all the way down to the [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► bottom and I was like wait I only need [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► one pair of Levi's I think that's wrong [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► I think I need all these maybe I don't [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► need all these Levi's right but I [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► definitely need more than one pair and [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► then that was all of a sudden there was [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► denim that was made at the that the [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► white cone mill in being oz back [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► Tennessee or whatever in roz but [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► whatever [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► Carolina it's like oh man these jeans [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► are five hundred dollars but you only [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► need one yeah jeans are tough now if [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► it's a top hat one one really nice [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► artisanal time pad yeah don't wonder [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► from a small batch Tennessee top but I [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► think when they check into those [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► fisherman's hotel it's all coming [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► together now you know what it would be [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► embarrassing don't don't embarrass me [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► don't embarrass [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► self by giving me the fucking drawers [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► what am I gonna put in drawers I have [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► one pair of pants on the top hat yeah [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► you open the door to your room [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► there's no TV there's a walkie-talkie on [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► the floor there's two hangers and [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► there's a little Larry source neatly [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► sourced hangers locally-sourced hangers [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► that are carved out of out of [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► prehistoric whale bone uh-huh [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► you hang your one jacket that cost [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► $1,200 on it you put your artisanal [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► boots on the floor and then you lay back [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► and read your artisanal book you know [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► anyone you don't take a few jacket your [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► jacket is one of those like bandleader [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► ones right there's there's no jacket [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► required you're walking around you're [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► one pair of pants you get your band well [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► what do you call that kind of jacket [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► like an atom and jacket there's a name [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► for that yeah I would say it was the it [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► was the what is the Buddhists ik guy [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► what is he called he's the covered this [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► damn ant vest [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► what's the address best called it's a [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► collar jacket you got the knot [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► bandleader it's good it's a sergeant [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► major the something major the drum major [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► yeah but there's a name for that [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► particular vest you talked about the one [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► with the multiple but the Frog ings and [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► stuff on it and they got the Frog in his [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► waistcoat they call it a waistcoat in [TS]

01:03:40 ◼   ► England to make it even more confusing [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► how they do oh man there's so much [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► vintage out of man stuff look at all of [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► this you can get it Bonaparte hat [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► we call him Bonaparte cause we're still [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► mad at me we're against him we're [TS]

01:03:56 ◼   ► against him not for it I'm the one that [TS]

01:04:00 ◼   ► needs to adjust I need to get out of [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► this mindset I have I'm gonna bring [TS]

01:04:03 ◼   ► seven pairs of me undies for the two [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► days that I'm there I need one pair of [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► underwear I need one grand master jacket [TS]

01:04:08 ◼   ► with frogging x' a 31 top hat and even [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► though I don't have a mustache I should [TS]

01:04:12 ◼   ► probably bring some some mustache soils [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► you can use it on your eyebrows okay if [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► you get one of those pairs of Mac weld [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► and silver Underpants yeah those aren't [TS]

01:04:21 ◼   ► cheap but you can wear those day in and [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► day out because the silver will [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► anesthetize the buck [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► the antimicrobial silver add the [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► microbial yeah our thanks to hellofresh [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► for supporting this episode of Roderick [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► on the line hello fresh hello yeah [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► Froggy's I I was in the market for this [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► kind of thing not very long ago as I was [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► compiling my King Neptune outfit yeah [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► and I contacted a man in Canada because [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► what I really wanted was a jacket from [TS]

01:04:51 ◼   ► the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► what I learned is that the Royal [TS]

01:04:57 ◼   ► Canadian Mounted Police iconic red [TS]

01:05:00 ◼   ► jacket is not only copyrighted by the [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► Royal Canadian Mounted Police but you [TS]

01:05:07 ◼   ► never owned your Mountie jacket when [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► you're a Mountie you are only in Lent [TS]

01:05:14 ◼   ► you're just inhabiting it for the for [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► the role for the that's right [TS]

01:05:17 ◼   ► because duty the jacket is is sacrosanct [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► and just like the way you refer to the [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► Queen you've got the Queen but the Queen [TS]

01:05:29 ◼   ► is different from the throne right and [TS]

01:05:32 ◼   ► you got a pope but that's different than [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► the Vatican or the papacy there's this [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► thing that's bigger than you that you're [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► just inhabitant in that case it's a red [TS]

01:05:38 ◼   ► coat yeah you got the Pope over here [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► yeah it's like getting a soup right the [TS]

01:05:44 ◼   ► jacket the the emblem of the Mounties is [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► is a thing that when you're done being a [TS]

01:05:52 ◼   ► Mountie you give the jacket back so you [TS]

01:05:56 ◼   ► don't see Canadian punk rockers out [TS]

01:05:59 ◼   ► rolling around in old Mountie jackets [TS]

01:06:01 ◼   ► with the big energy it's not like West [TS]

01:06:03 ◼   ► Germany green jackets that are just [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► everywhere no it's not and so I am I was [TS]

01:06:09 ◼   ► up in the Canadian internet I don't know [TS]

01:06:13 ◼   ► if you've ever been to it that's the [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► dossier [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► yeah and it's um but you know there's [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► it's almost like a fully functioning [TS]

01:06:21 ◼   ► internet up that's a lot friendlier [TS]

01:06:23 ◼   ► but I'm up there and I'm like look I [TS]

01:06:24 ◼   ► want one of these and they're like sorry [TS]

01:06:26 ◼   ► hmm and then I found a guy outside of [TS]

01:06:31 ◼   ► Ottawa who as far as I could tell lives [TS]

01:06:35 ◼   ► in a shipping container okay and he's a [TS]

01:06:38 ◼   ► very friendly man he actually wanted to [TS]

01:06:40 ◼   ► talk on the phone quite a bit and [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► because he was helping me I indulged him [TS]

01:06:46 ◼   ► in this and I spoke to him on the phone [TS]

01:06:49 ◼   ► for a long time and heard all about his [TS]

01:06:52 ◼   ► many adventures driving a truck in the [TS]

01:06:54 ◼   ► Yukon Territories and living in a big [TS]

01:06:57 ◼   ► house with a lot of friends that he [TS]

01:06:59 ◼   ► doesn't have anymore [TS]

01:07:00 ◼   ► but one thing he does have is a small [TS]

01:07:03 ◼   ► collection of jackets which were used in [TS]

01:07:06 ◼   ► the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [TS]

01:07:09 ◼   ► Academy oh pretty good and they are in a [TS]

01:07:15 ◼   ► lot of ways fancier than Royal Canadian [TS]

01:07:20 ◼   ► Mounted Police [TS]

01:07:21 ◼   ► normal tunics they're called tunics by [TS]

01:07:24 ◼   ► the way okay [TS]

01:07:25 ◼   ► and because they're like cadet jackets [TS]

01:07:29 ◼   ► right it's not like you're the rank and [TS]

01:07:31 ◼   ► file these are the these are the [TS]

01:07:32 ◼   ► hotshots so they've got a lot of gold [TS]

01:07:33 ◼   ► braids on them and I don't even know if [TS]

01:07:36 ◼   ► the if that Academy still makes them [TS]

01:07:39 ◼   ► wear these jackets but somehow the fact [TS]

01:07:42 ◼   ► that they were cadet jackets meant that [TS]

01:07:44 ◼   ► there was a loophole and he had some and [TS]

01:07:48 ◼   ► I wanted that also you're you're not as [TS]

01:07:53 ◼   ► far as I know Canadian so are you are [TS]

01:07:54 ◼   ► you on or bound are you stealing [TS]

01:07:56 ◼   ► Canadian valour by wearing that because [TS]

01:07:58 ◼   ► it seems to me if you're from a [TS]

01:07:59 ◼   ► different country you should be able to [TS]

01:08:00 ◼   ► get the real deal well but this is the [TS]

01:08:02 ◼   ► thing they're not letting him go they're [TS]

01:08:05 ◼   ► not letting him go the scarcity begins [TS]

01:08:07 ◼   ► scarcity yeah you serve at the pleasure [TS]

01:08:09 ◼   ► of the President [TS]

01:08:10 ◼   ► Yeah right like gifts for the Queen who [TS]

01:08:12 ◼   ► works for the crown it's all that it's [TS]

01:08:14 ◼   ► all that stuff all that stuff that [TS]

01:08:16 ◼   ► government stuff that my dad used to [TS]

01:08:17 ◼   ► have around when he was working for the [TS]

01:08:19 ◼   ► federal government that would say like [TS]

01:08:21 ◼   ► when you're done using this pencil [TS]

01:08:22 ◼   ► return it to the federal government [TS]

01:08:24 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

01:08:26 ◼   ► anyway so this guy very unusual person [TS]

01:08:29 ◼   ► and and these jackets had an unusual [TS]

01:08:32 ◼   ► sizing system and he and I were [TS]

01:08:33 ◼   ► negotiating [TS]

01:08:35 ◼   ► what what jackets he had and he I said [TS]

01:08:38 ◼   ► listen just send me the biggest tallest [TS]

01:08:41 ◼   ► one you have I know there are big tall [TS]

01:08:43 ◼   ► Mounties but I'm not willing to take [TS]

01:08:46 ◼   ► chances so send me the biggest tallest [TS]

01:08:49 ◼   ► one you have well the jacket arrived and [TS]

01:08:51 ◼   ► it was neither big nor tall but it was [TS]

01:08:55 ◼   ► the biggest one he had and so what I [TS]

01:08:57 ◼   ► have Merlin is a mount is a of 60s Royal [TS]

01:09:01 ◼   ► Canadian Mounted Police Academy jacket [TS]

01:09:04 ◼   ► how long is it well I think it would fit [TS]

01:09:08 ◼   ► you perfectly oh my god but I don't want [TS]

01:09:11 ◼   ► to give you things that you don't want [TS]

01:09:13 ◼   ► right because because there are all [TS]