From Bunny Explosions to Burning Buildings: A Wild Ride of Weekly News

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Well,

this week continues shit though. Why? Our interviews were great, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we need to fill in all the gaps with interviews. Right. So we don't have to talk about the shit anymore? Yes.

So SAG went on strike with the Writers Guild

in Hollywood.

SAG is the actors guild. Oh, okay. So the writers and the actors are now on strike together? Yes. Okay.

Writers went first, actors started second,

which has a lot of consequences.

The first one being the Deadpool

Next Movie has stopped filming. The Deadpool next movie. Okay. The next Deadpool movie. Did you just

go full on dyslexia on me?

I have it. Don't judge me. I have it.

Yeah. So

Deadpool is I'm a big fan of the Deadpool movies.

Second one was meh, but

that is kinda sad.

Did you see Hugh Jackman's in that and everything?

Exactly. Reprising his role as

Wolverine? He is a SAG actor as well. So Ryan Reynolds is too? Yep. I mean They both are. Aren't they all? I think

a good amount of them, but I don't know if all because they actually have to be given SAG cards.

Okay. What are they protesting?

So wages, essentially, for writers.

Wages? I mean, for writers? Okay. Yes. Maybe I can understand that. So the actors are protesting for the writers or they're protesting for their wages too? No. Actors are protesting with the writers. Okay. I In solidarity. That makes

some sense because if they were protesting their paychecks,

I will be happy to take one of their paychecks for

a 60 day shoot.

I I just find it interesting. The reason why I'm bringing this up all to begin with is that Barbie and Oppenheimer,

It's like anything anybody can talk about right now is that and a couple other topics we'll get to for this week. But

Barbie and Oppenheimer came out this past weekend or weekend before, one of the 2. Right. Very recent that they came out, and

I think it's odd if the writers and actors are on strike,

but then these movies come out that are supposed to be these huge blockbuster hits. I guess the point is that they've already been written and they've already been

filmed. Yeah. How long does it take? I think the shoot and the the writing and stuff, that's a

very short amount of time. Maybe not not the writing, but the shoot,

the actors and the writers, all that process was complete before the strike, I would assume.

I think so too, but I just found it kinda odd

that you have these actors who are part of SAG

who

I don't like that. Huge blockbuster

movies coming out

while everyone else is on strike. You know what I mean? It's Yeah. Feels weird. Well, you It sounds weird.

They have to

recover their funds that they spent on the movie.

True. Time, effort. Yeah. Time, effort.

They paid the actors. They

already paid the writers, I would assume, in in the Barbie and up in Oppenheimer.

I think that's how you say it. I think that's how you say it.

We're probably pronouncing it wrong. No. I think that's right. We haven't seen these 2 movies either, by the way. No. And I do not plan on seeing Barbie, to be quite honest with you. The reviews that I keep seeing, it doesn't sound like it's Barbie at all. Yeah. See, I don't wanna see that shit either. No. But I am excited about Oppenheimer. I am too. I am a big Christopher Nolan fan. Anyway

Mhmm. He makes I don't think he's made a bad movie.

I wasn't much of a fan of the war what was it? Tom Hardy was the pilot and all that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think It was very quiet movie. Right? Yeah. It was a little talking. I don't know. I wasn't a huge fan of that one. And then what was that one? Tenet?

Tenet? Yeah.

T e n e t.

Tennant? The the Denzel washing Washington's son was in it or whatever. Isn't that his son? Michael b Jordan? No. I don't think that's his son. That's not who was in it. Michael b Jordan is the Creed guy. Yes. But, no, that's not the guy that was in it. Oh. It was,

I can't remember his name, but I'm pretty sure It was the dude that was in ballers with The Rock.

Oh. The main football player guy that he was essentially signed.

Yeah. I don't I still don't know if that's Denzel's son, but I know who you're talking about now. I think it is Denzel Washington's son. Okay. And he was in Tennant. You remember that movie? It was all about going forward and backward in time and all that shit. No. But

continue. Well, that was one of his movies too, and it was fucking confusing.

Well, you and time travel just aren't friends anyways, but

to your point And Inception.

That was probably that's a top ten movie for me. Mhmm. Inception was nuts, and the Oppenheimer guy played in Inception.

The cast is huge. Yes. So Cillian Murphy

is main character. He, I believe, is Oppenheimer. Yes. Matt Damon is in this. Matt Damon. Thank you. And so is Robert Downey Junior. Yeah. And so is Emily Blunt.

Mhmm. There was other people that I saw in there too that were

really big names and

I mean, it's a huge cast,

and we

like to study World War 2. It is fascinating

Yes. The different theaters and how

war literally changed

because of World War 2, the way we did war.

I don't know. This movie shines a light on it. Right? But all that to say, it sounds like a great movie. Seems like it has great cast in it. During the

premiere

of Oppenheimer,

the cast actually walked out

as

protest solidarity with

Zag and the writers. Right.

Barbie cast didn't walk out of theirs,

but now they're talking about how they're trying to support the strike. So it was an afterthought for the Barbie people. I don't know if that sounds, again, kinda weird. I don't get it. I kind of understand what you're saying. How are you protesting when you release these blockbusters, but at the same time, you can't stop everything?

Yeah. I know. Like, the this was already in motion before all that happened,

for sure,

but it's just it feels weird. Well, and there's probably a lot of contracts in place with the movie theater companies that

run these movies like AMC and things like that. There's gotta be contracts in place. We booked you for

this date that you said you were gonna release Oppenheimer.

Right.

We were banking on you releasing this huge movie so we could make money. Mhmm. Yeah. And that's a lot of people. Like, that that would affect a ton of people. How many people work at theater chains too? Right. Now it's a huge industry for sure.

And according to this website killed me. But according to vulture.com,

seeing these movies isn't against the strike. That was another thing for me is watching these movies, paying for these blockbusters,

and contributing to their success, is that against the strike? And everybody's saying online no.

But, again, it feels weird. Right? I feel like you should go if you wanna see these movies, you should go because

you

should keep AMC

and Regal and things like that in business because there's a lot of the little guy that works there. Right.

You've got

the person running the projectors and

the popcorn server person. What do you think that title would be?

Popcorner.

The the colonel colonel? Oh, colonel of colonel. The colonel.

I like it. But, you know, I I feel like you have to go see them

because of that. You have to go see colonel of colonel? You have to go see the movies in the theater to to keep these people employed. I don't wanna see

colonel colonel getting fired because there's Oppenheimer decided not to open up Right. Or whatever. And it this might be a snowball effect if they're not doing any writing and acting right now. It will be. There's gonna be a huge gap. Yeah. When is that gap gonna hit, and is it gonna

make AMC and

stuff tank? Well, even television, Netflix, I mean, anything that has content. Right? There's gonna be a huge gap

because the writers are out right now. I don't hey. Okay. I I just don't understand.

So the entire all the writers are, like, not writing? There has to be people still doing their job. Well, anyone who's in the Writers Guild. Now, what percentage of writers in Hollywood are in the Writers Guild? I don't know. But Well, maybe this will be a

blessing for indie films and stuff? Could be. Alternative media like podcasts?

Mhmm. Maybe they join

podcasts and do their own, like, true crime story type

podcast

gig. Yeah. Danielle Fischel. Danielle Fischel.

Danielle Fischel

from the Pod Meets World, Cash, she actually said that she asked SAG in the Writers Guild if it was

against the strike to do podcasting, and they said no. Yeah. That So it sounds like, to your point, alternative media

may

find a strong foothold. Maybe it's if you are

writing for a show

and you're not the one, like, gaining monetary value directly for it Mhmm. Like, it's going into a big ass production,

maybe that's where the line's drawn. So, like, us, we're doing a podcast. We're alternative media.

And

any income that we make from the show comes directly to us. It doesn't go to Warner Brothers or,

I don't know, Lions Gates, things like that. It's all

coming to us, which it's 0, but, you know.

Yeah. But we like doing it. Yeah. We do. It's fun. And And I figured I'd also give an update on the UPS strike.

I have I think I saw a little bit about this. Well, so UPS

has been for,

gosh, months now,

threatening strike because, again, wages. They want their

employees who are unionized

to have higher wages.

It has

been pushed back continuously

their deadline for when they were gonna begin striking

because it sounds like they keep both coming to the table. Right? They keep trying to negotiate. They don't want the strike to happen. Right.

I've read one article where it said it would be the biggest strike in 60 years and could trigger a recession. So if we aren't already in 1 Yeah. I was gonna say I'm pretty sure we're already going that direction anyway. Right. But it sounds like they keep coming back to the table, and now it's an August first deadline.

But just this week, I would say in the past couple days, they may have reached a settlement. Nothing signed yet, but it sounds like they may have come to

ahead in the negotiation process.

But did you know The muffin man?

The muffin?

The muffin man. Okay.

That there are companies that can't use

other distributors like FedEx

because FedEx isn't a union.

Yeah. I think it's a lot of government contractors Mhmm. That are involved in that. They require a percentage of union work. Yep. Things of that nature, and that's messed up. Would that that it's required? Or Well, what if something like this happens? Exactly. What are they gonna do If UPS goes and says, alright.

All our drivers, all of our employees, we're done working until you the walkout on-site. What the hell? Yep. So all these government contractors can't work?

Well, they can't ship.

That's what I mean. So if you're not shipping product, you're not working. Mhmm. The alternative would be USPS,

but can they handle what UPS does? Yeah. I mean, do you remember when we tried Amazon Fresh?

Yeah.

And they were using USPS to deliver it? Those poor people. Oh, my god. It was a nightmare. Mhmm. It would be our

groceries, which

We order for a week. Yeah. We order for a week, and it's obviously perishable stuff like milk and things like that.

It would be in somebody else's driveway

if it even showed up at all. Mhmm. And it would be like, what, 8 to 10 bags of these what do they call them? The Those big Insulated Yeah. Big square bags. So it's taking up the whole male driver's truck anyway. Exactly. And then what really bothered me was they would stack the bags up in front of our storm door,

and I had to go through the fucking back door to go to the front of the house so I could get the groceries inside.

So all that to say, if UPS did go on strike, I do believe it would

trigger

a mess, let's just say. I wonder if

Amazon because, you know, they're using a lot of their own shipping stuff. I wonder if they could capitalize on that. Talk to Bezos. I well, I don't think he's the CEO anymore. He gave it up. He's obviously I guarantee he's still on the board. I think he is. But, anyway, what if why wouldn't they capitalize? They're doing great, in my opinion. They're doing their own network? Yeah. They're doing awesome too.

Their people, when they deliver, they actually give a shit.

Although, UPS has been pretty good too, but I've seen some horror stories about FedEx.

We have our own horror story about USPS.

Oh, yeah. The fishing poles? Uh-huh.

I bought 2 fishing poles that are

in this

I'm not even joking. It's the highest strength cardboard tube you could ever buy. I bet you Oppenheimer couldn't even nuke that motherfucker. I remember the break. But

I got I bought 2 fishing poles.

It was buy 1, get 1 free.

I got 4 fishing poles delivered

because it was broken in half and they still thought it was okay to deliver it. Someone tried to tape it even. Yeah. It said damaged when received, and I'm like, I'm 99%

sure that's a lie. Mhmm. I don't think the website that I bought these fishing poles from would send it to you that way because they know damn sure a customer is not gonna accept it.

And the only reason

I accepted this

was because I wasn't able to answer the door. Right. And I don't think I'm actually

99% sure that this post office person

didn't ring the doorbell, and I'm pretty sure I know why. Uh-huh.

Exactly.

I don't think they wanted to, deal with it because they knew it went through the whole system. I think the company is in

Missouri or Montana or something like that Mhmm. That I bought the fishing poles from. So it went from there all the way to Florida Yeah.

And shattered in half. Mhmm.

And nobody decided, like, I wonder if if

we should probably call the company

that I bought my fishing poles from

and see

what's in here. Let's just keep putting out the good vibes that UPS does not go on strike. Yeah. I hope they don't. If they gotta do what they gotta do I mean, everybody's suffering

Seriously? In this economy? Yeah. That's what I mean. What there was a company. I can't remember.

Oh, I think it's Menards.

So that is a Seju. Yeah. I speak in German. That is a company in, like, the Midwest.

Mhmm. And it's like their version of Home Depot or Lowe's. Okay.

So the CEO of that company now don't quote me on all this. This was secondhand knowledge because one of my buddies used to work there.

He said that the CEO,

if a store

was organizing for Union Mhmm. He would shut the whole store down and close it.

Wow. He would say, alright. Well,

everybody at that store now no longer has a job, and that store no longer exists. He would shut the whole store down.

I was like, well, damn. That's one way to stop unionization?

I guess so.

Jeez. I was like, holy crap. And like I said, I don't know if that's a 100% true. I think it is

because this guy was pretty

he was pretty company man

with that with that place for a while, and,

he just he that dude would not tolerate unions.

Weird. I mean, that that's a rabbit hole that we won't go down to today. That's a very political rabbit hole, and

I don't know.

They've been very politicized. Gonna do it. Here we go. So to me, unions

have

a place and purpose.

Yes. And there are

reasons for unions. Right?

To me,

a long standing union,

to me, doesn't make sense.

A union, to me, should be something that is almost like a charter. You seek to accomplish something.

Right. And once it's done, you dissolve. Yeah. Until something else happens. Exactly. And you come on back.

Longstanding

unions, all it does is create a sense of

strife between the company

and employees.

And

there's it's weird because they

I think a lot of them charge dues,

like union dues.

I was part of 1 for a hot minute. Yeah. But some of It was like 25¢. I don't think some of them, you have a choice. I didn't. I didn't sign up for it. That's what I mean. And that's not right. Yep. It was the company I was with because it fell into a certain category or because the rest of the company was already unionized, I fell in. And I don't like that. Mhmm. How does that make sense? Why should I I mean, if I don't believe what you're doing,

which I'm not saying that I don't, but if I don't believe

because unions are very political. Mhmm. They have gotten very politicized. And

if I don't support

the politics of a union and I still have to pay for it, that to me that brings bad blood too. Right. Like, again, the idea of having a charter of a of a mission, of a problem to solve,

and then dissolve thereafter.

And I'm not saying I think an argument could be made that they want to accumulate funds. Right? And to dissolve means the funds go away. But

if there is a, what do I wanna say, like a trust or some way to keep that money intact,

but

keep it in the background, but you dissolve after a problem happens. I mean, I don't know. There's gotta be a way to do it so that there's not a long standing

union. But if you were just doing these

missions, I guess you could say, like

UPS, we want higher wages, economies, and this shit,

You do that,

and you shouldn't need a bank account.

It should be funded.

Typically, those conversations are happening between lawyers, though. Okay. I know. I know. So how do you pay a lawyer? You raise the money.

Right. But to do that quickly

and have a leg to stand on, like, we can go on strike if you don't agree. Well, you I mean,

you only go on strike when you're ready. You have to say, hey, everybody.

We think that we're not getting paid enough.

I want you.

If you believe this, please send a donation.

And then guess what? I guarantee you're gonna get donations.

To an extent, maybe not as fast as you would if you had that bank account sitting there and had people Well, and what and what else is in and what else is in it for the lawyer too? Do they get paid after a a settlement? Oh, I don't know.

I just feel like they're gonna be I don't know. They could be I I feel like they're probably gonna get paid to

not just from

the

donations

or they're probably gonna get paid after settlement.

Yeah. Whatever kind of would guess. Yeah. It's probably in the settlement, but

do you wanna hear something funny? Yeah. Oh.

We did a couple of heavy things. We'll get back into more heavy stuff in a second. But these two items, well, one of them at least is funny.

Did you hear about the bunny invasion?

The in Florida. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did.

The suburban neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale

where there's a bunch of bunnies procreating. Yeah. And they're domesticated too. I think somebody let them out. Mhmm.

They're just having babies everywhere, and it is a bunny explosion. And that's crazy to me because Florida is a very diverse ecosystem. Uh-huh. There's lots of predators. Yeah. These things are at the very bottom of the food chain. That's what I I mean, they're I mean,

our neighborhood is full of hawks. Mhmm. Birds of prey, osprey,

hawks, bald eagles. They're they're everywhere down here. We Not to mention the things that slither on the ground and growl. Slither,

swim. Uh-huh. Gators can walk too.

Yep. That's what I'm saying. So I I just feel like

I don't think that's gonna last very long. I don't know. The way bunnies

procreate,

rabbits, bunnies, whatever these are We'll see.

The way they procreate, though, is very fast. I think it's, what, like every 45 days or something like that? Getting smashed.

Right.

So they are just popping out babies in this poor neighborhood.

Although, I would enjoy it, though. I don't know. You probably wouldn't. Imagine driving through the neighborhood, and you squish a bunch of them in an accident. Exactly. Oh, that would not make me happy. No. It wouldn't. But when they explode like that, where do they go?

Mhmm.

I don't know. I think

I don't think truthfully, I don't think that would happen here in our neighborhood.

Maybe.

There's a lot of birds. I walked out the other day

to, go fishing, and there's a hawk sitting in a tree looking at me. I'm like, don't look at me, dude. I will break your neck. Something else to steal your fish. Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. Oh, a fucking gator.

Speaking of that, I was fishing a couple days ago,

and I caught a bass, and I was reeling it in, and a gator was underneath the dock I was standing on. Mhmm. He typically stays there. He never really messes with anything. No. No. He but I guess he was super hungry

because I started reeling it in, the fish starts jumping out of the water making a commotion,

and this thing sprung into action. Mhmm. Swam as fuck. I couldn't believe how fast it swam, and I'm trying to reel this fish in before he gets it. He gets

it, and I'm yanking on my fishing pole to get it out of his mouth, and he's not having that.

And I eventually, he takes the whole fish and he swallows it whole.

Fish hook and all. I had to cut my line. I looked it up. That's what you're supposed to do.

You're supposed to cut it off as soon as they bite your fish, and that's what I did.

But it was nuts how fast them things are, and I was pissed. I was hoping I could reel it in and then show a shredded bass, but Uh-huh.

Instead, you took a video, and now it's on our TikTok and Instagram and everywhere else. Go check it out. It's actually it's quite quite crazy.

It pissed me off too, though, because it was a decent sized bass.

So one more item for you here before we get back to the heavy.

There's a Carnival

cruise ship, the pride ship.

It's floating right now

just as a floating hotel in the middle of the ocean because it broke

down. So I'm confused.

Imagine being on a cruise ship that breaks down in the middle of the ocean.

Are they anchored? No.

They probably can't because it's too deep. So they're just floating? They were. Yeah. This was a couple days ago, and they might have fixed it by now. But to what I read in the article, they were trying to get

the thing fixed, essentially, get boats out there, get technicians, get engineer, whatever, to fix the darn thing. But, yeah, they were floating.

Like, that that sounds eerie.

Well, I wouldn't mind it.

Oh, no? No.

Okay. Okay. Minster Coast Guard, you told me all about these waves, right, that would come and jostle your boat? Yes.

You're in a dead boat. Yeah. I know. But that was an 87 foot patrol boat that's not

bigger than your big toenail.

Eighty seven foot sounds bigger than my toenail. Not big. I mean, you think it's save on my toenails? You got large, Dorito shaped toenails.

I get pedicures. Thank you.

I don't because every time I do, my toes get infected. I don't understand. You have the most sensitive feet in the world.

But,

yeah. I mean, 87 foot patrol boat,

I can't remember.

I think we were rated for, like, 4 or 5 foot swells. We were in bigger than that, though, and it was not fun.

I can't imagine being in a dead boat, literally a ship. I mean, you you will feel a storm in that, but you're not gonna feel most of the stuff. That those boats are

freaking huge. I know. But it's just eerie. It would be very eerie. I think I would have a panic attack. I'm not kidding. I don't know. It'd be kinda cool though because they'd have to provide you with all kinds of stuff.

I guess. They those people probably got a free cruise. But at the same time, what was broken?

I don't know, but it was a ship floating in the ocean. Now it would suck if it was broken and, like, the whole power system was shut down.

No. I think they were okay in that aspect. So they had AC and and all that. Yeah. Yeah. See, that that would be kinda that'd be okay. It's just another day at sea.

Yeah. But you're not moving. It doesn't matter. You don't you wouldn't even know you were moving. Deep Blue Sea. Deep Blue Sea. Don't fall in.

Keep reading stories about that crap. People jumping off a cruise ship. So I'm like Why? That, I don't know. It sounds a little bit like suicide.

Mhmm.

But

I couldn't. Uh-uh. Because what if you don't and you're just floating in? Okay. This is going really dark. No. I I agree. Like, that movie, what was it? Perfect Storm with Mark Wahlberg in it long time ago?

He was a fisherman

and I think, yeah, I think I know each storm out. Yeah. The boat went down and he was just floating out in the ocean.

No. It was I was like, nope. That ain't the way to go, man.

It is not.

Well, we just went to the dark.

Let's go back to

the heavy, shall we?

Mhmm. Jason Aldean.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

So I've got I did a lot of research on this one because

I

really

wanna understand. I I swear I do.

But all I all I can come up with right now

is that this is going against the woke movement.

Yeah. A 100%.

A 100%. It's going against the woke movement

because he is using video clips in his video from all of these riots that have happened. And I heard that he used January 6th footage in there too. I don't know if it's true, but I don't give a shit. If you're acting a fool in breaking law,

Then

what I don't then you should

You're gonna be used as an example of what not to do. Yeah. Be shamed. Yep. If you're gonna burn down a city regardless of what side you're on and you ruin people's lives by burning their businesses down

or looting their businesses. I don't give a shit. Go on that video and be ashamed of yourself. Yep.

So, to me, it's all about it's going against the woke movement.

One of the things that they're saying is that it's inciting

violence

because

so Oh. At first, I was wondering if it was the surface level. Right? The video has his music video

has all of these clips of the riots. Like, is that what they're talking about? No. No. They're they're saying that's that the the right,

I guess,

is

he's essentially

threatening

because

try that here

and see what happens. That's what I thought too.

So, first, I was wondering if it was the video clips, and then I started you you saw me. I started watching all these videos on YouTube trying to figure out what people were saying about this, And then I thought it was the lyrics. And it actually I heard nothing.

Neither of those. I heard nothing in that video. And I I will be clear here. You heard nothing in the video? Yeah. I heard nothing. Nothing bad. Okay. I and to be clear here And you saw nothing bad too? No. I saw a a video with footage from the news in it. Right. But I'm I'll be clear here. I am not a Jason Aldean fan, period. No. Me either. I know all of his songs. Yeah. Well, that's because they're popular? He's popular. Right.

But he is not my cup of tea. No. I'm not a fan of him. But

do I think he should be

essentially canceled over this? Well, hold on.

So it's not the video.

It's not the lyrics.

It's because of where he recorded this video. Where did he record it? So where he recorded it was a location where lynchings happened. How did you find this

location where lynchings happened.

How did you find this out? Because you dug dug dug dug deep?

No. Because

a bunch of people on TikTok, on the left side, the woke side,

are putting this information out there, saying that

it's not the video. It's not the lyrics. It's now the location of where he recorded because that location

happens to be in Tennessee,

and

it is in front of the town hall or the city hall,

building.

And it's a location where many lynchings happened.

Now,

when you research what lynching is, and it is a

dark piece of history that good. It's a dark piece of history that nobody wants to research, to be honest with you. It's

it's sad and scary, but we all need to know about it. Right? Yeah. 100%.

So lynching was actually concentrated, not meaning that it only happened in, but it was heavily concentrated in what they considered the cotton belt. In Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama,

Texas, and Louisiana.

So

Tennessee's not on that list. Right? Mhmm. And even the Lynch law, which allowed people to do this

disgusting

act,

which is credited to people in Virginia.

Again, not in that list of where it was concentrated. Right?

My point is

this country as a whole has a sad

and disgusting history

regarding race and lynching.

But we have come so

far, and people are always gonna find something wrong

with things they don't agree with. Yeah.

Now there's one other thing that some people are harping on. But, again, they keep saying it's not the lyrics. It's not the video. It's the location.

But one of the phrases was good old boys.

Now,

if you What? If you look at

the dictionary.com,

what is the term good old boys?

It's a man considered as being trustworthy and dependable because of his ordinary

and down to earth background and upbringing. But

if you go to vocabulary.com

and type in the same thing, it is a white male southerner

with an unpretentious,

connivial

manner

and conservative or intolerant attitudes

and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group.

This is divisive. Right? Dictionary.com says one thing, vocabulary.com says another thing. Yeah. I know.

I can understand where people would

be concerned with a phrase like that.

But, again, it's find your truth. I've heard good old boys used at work.

You're part of the good old boy network. You know, you're a fast track and do big things because you're part of the good old boy network. And it had nothing to do with being a white dude. Well It had everything to do with you new people,

and it didn't matter what color you were,

what gender you were. A good old boy could be a woman.

I agree.

But

to the point of being able to research what that phrase means, you're getting conflicting information. I know. But you people are also putting a spin on a saying

that I never knew was embedded or somebody thought it was racist. Mhmm.

I never I seriously, until you said that just now, I had no idea. I thought good old boy, we always called it the good old boy network. Mhmm. That's what we called it, and that was because

this guy knows this guy from

Nepotism.

Yeah. 20 years ago. That's his brother. Or that's his uncle's kid

or something something crazy. Yep. God's kid. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Or

he's been family friends with them forever.

And it was never a racist thing or a racial thing. It was always,

this dude's getting fast tracked. This woman's getting fast tracked

because they know somebody.

My point in all of that though is

people are gonna find the bad in anything. A 100%. Especially if they don't agree with you. So what is happening right now to Jason Aldean is the people that don't agree with him are trying to break it down

into ways that people on the woke side are gonna say I agree with. A 100%.

Like, I get why everybody's upset because Blitt or because Jason Aldean did this. But you're putting everything out of context.

Like, he's talking about

these riots that are happening. And if you tried it in a small town

Who knows what will happen to you? Exactly. Because small towns are a community regardless of who lives in. If it's man, woman, black, white, purple, yellow, green,

they're gonna take care of each other. Everybody takes care of each other, and usually small towns like that have a lot of guns. That's that's the point.

Seriously. No. I don't even think it's just guns to be honest with you. I think they will kick your ass. Yeah. A 100%. And You come into their store

and try and do something,

they're going to kick your ass. What was it? The LA riots. Remember the group of Koreans that were on the top of their grocery store?

Trying to protect it. And they did. Yep. They had AKs and all that stuff on top of a grocery store. I was like, damn.

But guess what? That grocery store stood. Mhmm. That's what he's talking about. Absolutely. Their community came together and saved their business. Yep. You gotta think, this is a lot of people's livelihoods.

Exactly.

Don't don't look at a restaurant and say, oh, that's just where I eat.

Well, that's Bob

and

Janet's

livelihood.

Mhmm. They pay for their kids' food for from that place.

They have a house because they run that restaurant. Right. And you're gonna burn it down?

For what? For what?

For something you don't even understand. For somebody saying good old boy? Mhmm. Come the fuck on. Well, no riots have broken out just yet. No. I know. But Over Jason Aldean.

My point is

there's things out there you shouldn't.

If you have a problem,

like, a lot of this stuff was George Floyd. Mhmm. It was. A 100%. A lot of these riots broke out for joy George Floyd. Don't take it out on your people that live there. Right. It's not their fault.

It really isn't. Lawmakers

Yeah. I mean, the people who are in charge Don't burn down Bob and Janet's restaurant or loot their restaurant or their pharmacy

because you're mad. It's that you they're they probably are supporting you

protesting

because they disagree with what happened to him too. Right. But you just burned down their place of business. What are they gonna do? Mhmm. They can't. Who does that really affect? It affects their community that Exactly. That they're living in. Now I don't have a place to eat. Yep. Or now I don't know where to go get my pills, my my

congenital

congenital heart failure. Is that right?

Yeah. But I don't have my pills for that. So now I gotta drive 30 miles outside of town to buy them. Right. And that's

and it's hard for me to drive because of my condition.

That it it's messed up,

but you're taking it out on the wrong people. Burning down buildings isn't doing anything. Mhmm. You're hurting your own people. Yep. And I hate that. I fucking hate it. Yep. It bugs me so bad.

Tell your local politicians.

Send in letters.

Vote them out.

Well, and then you're burning down all these buildings, and it's like

insurance has to cover it, which means insurance goes up. For everyone. Yeah. For everyone. And then your tax dollars have to go fix the roads.

It's like

Never ending. What are you doing? Yep.

You're doing nothing.

All you're doing is making it worse

after the aftermath. Right. Because what crews come in there to clean up? Probably local government crews Mhmm. Which

if their budget gets blown up because they're having to pay overtime out the ass because they have to get the roads cleared, what are you gonna do? They're gonna raise your taxes up to recover.

Never ending cycle. Oh my god. While fans of Jason Aldean are backing him,

Blake Shelton has pulled out of a $30,000,000

project with CMT.

Luke Bryan pulled all of his videos from CMT. He had 10 of them

on CMTs.

He pulled them all. He pulled them all. Damn. See And then Hank Williams junior has now resigned from the CMT board of directors.

We always say this. We've said this multiple times, know your market.

Well, a, know your market, and, b, it's okay to not agree with

him, his song, his Yeah. Right. Video,

anything about it. It's okay. Right. You don't have to try and cancel him. Right. Exactly. It's fine to disagree. The fact that they're saying that it's inciting violence, what about all these other

genres of music that say shoot cops and wet ass pussy and things like that? I'm serious. Mhmm. Wet ass pussy doesn't really incite violence, but

you're talking about, like The right kind of violence. Okay. Sorry. Fuck the police and things like that. It's like,

how does that not incite violence? I don't give a shit. I like that song. I do too. Definitely.

But but my the point I'm trying to make is it's

why why does certain rules apply to certain people but not others? Mhmm.

Why? I don't understand. Yep. And again, if it is not

hurting anyone, if it is not

and I'm not talking about your feelings.

Yeah. Your feelings are going to get hurt no matter what. Simply hurting you.

You're not losing a leg, and it is not

somehow

He's not rallying troops to go

start riots and burn down building. He's not doing that. And he's not

just

where he shot the video

is not

him

somehow

saying lynchings

were good. I don't. Who would say that? Yeah. I know. Right. And if he did say that, then, yeah, then burn his ass up. Cancel him. But if he wanted to say that, I don't think that he would

do it subliminally

like that.

I think he chose that place.

If you watch the video, it's a it's kind of a cool backdrop.

Yeah. And it's got, like it's almost like projectors on both sides of him. So it almost

it I don't know. It's just symmetrical.

Well, and it's Tennessee. I I believe he lives there. I mean, Nashville is there. Like, it's country So you can't so from now on,

all the music musicians,

you cannot record in any state that had lynchings.

Right. Because if you do, you're going to be

said that you are racist or that you condone that. That's what they're saying in my opinion. Yep.

And, again, it is a sad history. It's disgusting. But to your point, what option

And

I mean,

and if he did, that's when you go after him and you cancel his ass. And I mean, and if he did, that's when you go after him and you cancel his ass. But

oh, I didn't get that. I had no idea that that was

I know. That was part of the history. I went down the rabbit hole. But at the same time, it's like everywhere in the South, not everywhere, but the South was

fucked up.

But it's not just the South, though. I know. But you know what I'm trying to say.

The South was Was predominant, for sure. It was slave owners, there was Jim Crow and all that crap. Yep. And that's all terrible.

But

that's

history,

and

we need to go and and move forward.

Mhmm. We've come a long way. And not and not try to not try to bring it back by pointing fingers and saying he's being

a pro he's being pro lynch because he recorded it in Tennessee. Then what the fuck? Yeah.

I think I digress on this topic. I'm I'm good. It just does it's crazy.

Everybody can find anything wrong with anything.

Well, especially if they disagree.

And the whole point of this freaking podcast is for us to show that it's okay to disagree.

That's

part of life, and it is Yep. Okay.

And if somebody's being hateful and they truly think that that is okay, like pro

racism and pro lynching, then, yeah, cancel them. You say, look at this guy. He's a piece of crap. Yep. And they get fired now. Don't don't watch his videos. Don't buy his music. He's a piece

how

you cancel people Mhmm.

With your wallet.

Agreed.

Yep.

But speaking of disagreeing

Oh god.

We have been talking about doing this for, what, a week or so now? Yes.

That we

in the

this wonderful household

have

come to A crossroads.

A crossroad.

With technology.

Uh-huh.

So

I think we've said it before, but Ross is an oh shiny kinda person. Not just oh shiny. I'm I am an IT guy. I love tech nerd. I love tech,

and I love

working with tech, working on tech, all that stuff. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Well, it doesn't always leave us in the best of places because

you like to jump around platforms

nonstop.

Not nonstop.

Oh, nonstop. No. Nonstop. That's a disagreement,

but No. We can't really argue that. Oh, I sure can. Okay. Go ahead then. Let me hear it.

It is nonstop. For as long as we have been together, we have switched

devices and platforms

as many times as I can count,

maybe once a year at this point. No.

Yes. No. Anytime something new comes out. Anyways, the argument right now is

we have been in Apple

for the past, what, maybe 3 iterations?

3 or 4 years. Yeah. So you just proved my point that I don't jump around, but thank you. But Appreciate that. We had the tens, the elevens, the fourteens.

Okay. Yeah. But that's a standard upgrade cycle.

But it's not. It is. I can't.

If there's a new phone out that has a boss ass camera, I'm buying that, bitch.

See? Exactly.

You just made my point. Yeah. But you were

this argument is about iOS

versus Android. This argument is about platform. Yes. But I'm setting the stage for

we constantly do this flipping crap

all the time.

Now, we have been in iOS for a little while, but we have upgraded our phones continuously.

And that does nothing because Apple

makes upgrade. Still a pain in the ass. No. It isn't. But

now

you have decided you went rogue on me a few months ago I did. And decided to get the s 23. Right? Ultra. S 23 Ultra. Yes.

Whatever.

Which is Android. Yes.

I was left It it is Samsung.

It's an Android phone. I know, but it's the brand is Samsung. I understand

that the brand is Samsung. What I'm saying is that you switched to Android. I did.

I was still on Apple.

So you broke

our environment.

I did. We had a family environment.

I did. Right. We had everything tied together, and you broke it. And why do you think that that's okay that Apple keeps you in that walled garden like that? Are we starting this already?

That's what this argument is about. Yes. Okay. For me, the reasons why

I finally bought into Apple. Honestly, I really didn't give a shit at first for

as long as I could remember. I really didn't care what platform we were on.

But

during this stretch where we were 3 or 4 years into Apple iOS,

it really got me thinking about why I like it and wanna keep it.

Apple has security.

Right? Okay.

It will never give up users'

info.

It won't put in backdoors for governments to spy like the EU is trying to force.

It gives options for app tracking,

and it has more updates than Android for security purposes.

None of that's true, but okay.

Please tell me what is not true.

Updates?

Yes. This phone, this s 23, I think, gets 5 years of updates, and they put out a security patch once a month.

Once a month?

Yeah. That's a lot.

Okay. I think I got it on Apple,

maybe

biweekly

at the least. So their shit is so insecure, they have to patch it every 2 weeks. That's bullshit.

No. They're constantly

updating, upgrading, and ensuring

there are no holes in their system. Now I will say, though, that Apple does have security

and privacy down pat,

but

you can get that you can get more

of that with Android if you use the right ROM.

Not easily.

That's not true. It's a 100% true. So Oh, do you Here we go. Ready? The Apple user experience and interface

is easy.

Yeah. It's fucking jitterbug like.

It's for old people. It's got little red dots on your with the fucking number on it. There's no

It works right out of the box, and there's no there is less, I will say, less bloatware There's than Android has. Well, that your your phone doesn't have bloatware.

The Pixel

line of devices by Google do not have any bloatware built in. That is a carrier thing and Google doesn't allow it just like Apple.

But

Apple allows you to access whatever it is you are looking up on any device easily without additional software. What? So this whole user What does that even mean? I don't understand.

So I can go from an iPhone to an Imac

to How many Imacs do you own?

I had one.

Yeah. 300 years ago. No. What's what was that called? The box?

The Mac mini? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But you hated it.

I did not. You did. Don't start.

You hated it.

Now I will say, though, that their ecosystem

with device

you know, your phone

to desktop device is very seamless, and it is nice. Mhmm. However I'm crushing you right now. I'm just saying. However, that comes with a lot of negatives because their garden

has very high walls. You can't do shit with that phone without

begging.

What do you mean begging? They they don't allow you to make changes. You can't run a custom launcher.

You can't change the ROM on it. Right now, I could put a ROM on there called Calyxt OS. It takes 5 minutes. You can't even say it's hard. You plug it into your computer. You click a button, and you got Calyxt.

And that is high security.

It is high security.

By default, I believe it containerizes

Google services so they can't track you.

And there's also another one called Graphene OS,

which is even more secure.

It's nuts. The fact that you're able to do that on a cell phone

and

do these custom roms is a huge benefit.

To who?

Who wants these custom roms?

People that want security. So you say you want security. Well, I can put a custom rom on there and that thing will be fucking

way more secure

than

an iPhone. How would I know?

Call me completely dumb. I am a dumb person in this scenario.

How would I know? Don't you make a face. How would I know

that there is a custom ROM out there that would benefit my security

desires

Because for my phone. Because because you are acting like security is this big deal. And if you truly believe that, then you would be researching what's the most secure OS.

No. I would want a phone that out of the box

has

the security that I need. Period. Okay. I don't want to have

to put in a custom ROM. Why not?

Because I want something out of the box that is standard Okay. Across the board. You can buy a Pixel with Calyxt

already on it. Why didn't you do that? Do you want that?

You see, you don't because you you want convenience.

Absolutely. An Apple is convenient. It's not, though.

It's not. I'm saying it is. It's not because okay.

One thing.

What choice do you have in device

with Apple? You have one manufacturer

and, essentially, one design

of an Apple device. Yeah. You might hear if you're gonna focus screen smaller,

but other than that, you are stuck. With Android,

there are there are hundreds of different variants of a device that you can buy. Why does that matter?

Because what if I want a foldable?

Why would you want foldable?

What do you mean why? Because if I am

sitting down and I wanna read a book, I can unfold it and read a book like I'm like, I have a tablet.

Right. But you would have your iPhone. You would have a tablet. You would have a Mac mini or a Mac Air. Is this Mac Air? Mac Air? Yeah. They oh, we have one of those. Yeah. Whatever it's called. Your

AirPods,

your it is a all inclusive environment

of everything you need. That you have to buy all from one company.

That will secure your data,

that makes it easy to use.

Apple ID is clutch because you lose your phone, no problem. Back it up and it's running in minutes. Like You can do that with Android too. Google 1 does that.

Not easily though. Yes, it does. You still have to download a bunch of app. No. You don't. With Google 1, you're part of the Google 1 family now. You

get full device backup.

You get What was that? You get full device backups, not

the standard, you know, you back out your contacts, your calendar, your email, da da da da da. No. I'm this Apple family.

We have that with Google.

We do not. We do.

Google Photos is fucking

killing iCloud Photos. I will admit Google Photos is is better.

But goes back to security.

Google is

trolling

is that the right word? I think that's the right word. Over your photos. Every single one of them. So is Icloud.

But it's

captured on your phone, your device. It is not a cloud based. It doesn't go anywhere.

Okay.

But how does Apple determine

so one of Apple's things that just came out was

for child

porn.

Now

Icloud will go through photos on I don't know how it does it, but it finds photos.

If you had backed up that

in your Icloud photo library,

it would detect it and then essentially call the popo on your ass. Mhmm.

How does that work

if they're not

scanning

things constantly?

Nature source.

I don't know.

I don't know. I gotta find it again. But, seriously, they're they're doing that, or they

they were talking about rolling it out? They It sounds like an Android thing. No. Well, I mean Site your source. Oh, I'm sure. I mean, I I like that idea. I do too. Catch those motherfuckers. But at the same time, it's like I said, it's hard to have your cake and eat it too. Do you want somebody trolling through your shit

but have all your photos backed

ass, and then you buy a network attached storage device,

you plug it into your house, you back up your photos within your residence.

Which one do you wanna do? One's a lot easier than the other. Apple's apps are better.

That's that that is completely

user preference. No. I don't believe that. Yes, sir. It's also more secure, and they're less buggy.

I don't I disagree with that too.

What makes you think Apple is, like, an Apple phone is smarter than that phone you have in your hand right now?

Which is the Google Pixel 7 Pro. Yeah.

What do I think Apple may smart

Of of your phone is supposed to be an extension of, essentially, like, you use it as a reference point. Mhmm. Apple is shit for that.

I don't believe that. Ask

I I we're not gonna say I'm in Google, but ask Google something versus Siri.

Siri is hot poop shit. Well, I don't have an Apple phone now, so I can't.

Siri sucks ass.

It's complete garbage.

And

the user experience with pixels,

specifically pixels are awesome. Well,

because Google has things that are built in the pixel like call screen.

If you get a call that is suspected to be spam, it will answer it for you, and then you can respond by pushing buttons

and Google Assistant, you mean? Yeah. If if a spammer calls you

if a spammer calls you on that phone,

you can say send to Google Assistant or call screen, and then it will give you options. So it's like a personal assistant that's answering phones for you. There's also another thing on that phone that if you were to call

Amazon, we'll just say Amazon, in there had there's a 40 minute wait, it will

put you on hold for you and it will monitor the phone for you instead of you having to hold that thing up to your ear the whole time.

I will say Apple Watch is better than anything that Android has, although I've never had experience with the Samsung line of watches.

But the Apple Watch Ultra is

pretty mint.

My last two points about Apple.

They have more accessories.

I disagree with that. I do not. You go up and down the aisle of Best Buy, and you will have a million more accessories for Apple. That's because a lot of people likes like jitterbugs and simplicity.

They can't they can't handle the customization of an Android phone. And lastly, Apple has better customer support. They do have great customer support. I agree. A 100% with that.

So

But All that to say

I can charge my phone with a laptop charger. You can't charge your fucking iPhone. Yeah. And you'll get thermal runaway. This sucker gets so freaking hot. It's ridiculous. This one does, and I don't know why that one does.

But I can I can charge it with any USB c cable? You gotta go find your proprietary

Apple garbage.

Which they are announcing a change to come September. And you know why they're doing that? Oh, why? Because the EU told them if they don't do that, they can't sell phones there

because they are, and, you know The EU is really pushing buttons. Yeah. But I am anti government getting involved in business, but

why

does one phone manufacturer have a different standard than the rest of the fucking world? Money.

I know, but all that does is cause major e waste.

Because if every phone used USB c,

keep your chargers.

Money.

Is that's crap. That's a shitty excuse because Apple always champions

We are doing things that are good for the environment.

You're doing a lot of voices.

Yeah. But the point is We're gonna call Will Friedel, and he's gonna hook you up with, like, a voice thing. Well, let's do it. But they

they say that, but then they ship lightning cables. It's like your that phone is the only thing that uses a lightning cable in the world is an iPhone.

That's

shit. Why not switch to the standard, which is USB c?

But as a company and you make a business decision that that a

government is forcing you into, that's bullshit. I agree.

But

you hate plastic waste, and I do too.

Yeah.

So when you

you're the only manufacturer

of a phone

that is sold right now I'm not I guess it's probably not true that it's the only one, but

they have their own proprietary cable. That's BS, and you know it. As a consumer, you put your money where your mouth is and

decide not to buy an iPhone, and you put me through hell by getting an Android. But you like it. I do not. You do.

That camera on there is a 1,000 times better than the fucking iPhone. Like it. That that camera is way better too. I don't like it at all. It is

completely outside of a controlled environment.

That's the beauty of it. No. That's the horribleness of it because

the idea that

us and our daughter aren't

all in one environment.

We will be.

Oh, good lord. Help me, please. Another thing is if you are invested in the Windows ecosystem,

which we are.

I would have had a Windows phone to this day I would too.

If it would have been anywhere near

a Google or an Apple phone. I agree. I wish they would have stuck with it.

Jumped on that bandwagon,

stayed there, been their biggest fan.

Because for me, Windows,

I'm sorry, but it's our everyday lives because Yeah. That's what business thrives off of. So if you have a job,

you're in Windows

and

to have a Windows phone just incorporates the whole ecosystem. Right? Your whole life, start to finish.

So Yeah.

Oh, I wish they had a better phone. Okay. But that phone that you have right there, you can download Windows link.

That and it will allow you

to do essentially everything that your iPhone did on the Mac. Russ.

What?

Consider me a stupid person who doesn't know anything about

downloading and

uploading onto your phone,

all those fancy schmancy things. Give me something that out of the box works. I don't wanna fuck around with it. I'm sorry. I'm not a tinker. Yeah. But you don't

you're not invested.

The only thing that you're invested in with Apple is the phone.

So you're acting like the the No, honey. Yes. We had the Apple AirTag things Those are nice. Dog Yeah. On my keys.

We had the Apple Mac thingy on

That you didn't like?

You say that. It's because it wasn't incorporating with Windows the way that I wanted it to. So you can't like, I just like I said earlier Right. That is a negative for sure. And I I am balls to the wall for windows. I Because they are very closed. They don't want windows. I understand.

But

when all of my home devices are one thing

and you do this whiplash movement

to go to a different direction, it just like, severing off a limb. Okay? I'm tired of a company

forcing me protecting you and your security and your data. I can protect myself.

Can you? Any way that I see fit. Yes. A 100. Strong man. A 100%. I don't need Apple telling me how to use my phone, and they do that. Like, I can install

unsanctioned

apps on my Android phone very simply,

and I love that shit. Like, I've got a an app on there called New Pipe.

It is a front end for YouTube, and it's an open source front end.

And it allows you to watch every fucking YouTube video known to man without watching any ads.

We should ask our kid about ads. It is so awesome.

I love it. She she rages on ads. Oh, yeah. It's it's bad.

If you wanna see The Incredible Hulk in in child form, you come over here and turn on fucking jeopardy.

When that first ad break comes on, oh, it's over.

I think we're good for tonight. I do too. This is a long one. Solve shit. No. Never do. Everybody's gonna disagree, and that's

fine. Just calm the fuck down Right. And live your life. Hey. Guess what? I still love you. I know. I love you, and I don't I still don't like Jason Aldean.

No. Me either. And I still want my Apple phone back. Well, I don't know about that.

I don't know. I can't. I'm done. I might just have to trade you and you can have this one because this one is more the the the this one

Trade me. Like, as a person, you're gonna trade me? Yeah. I'm a I'm a trade you in.

You're broken. You're an old model. Oh, yeah.

I would love to see who could put up with your shit. I'd

the the fucking gator that I fed earlier.

That's about it. Our daughter don't even wanna put up with my shit.

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