Thrift Away

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Welcome to Everyday Life.
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Thank you for joining our podcast, Conversations over Classics.
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My name is Kevin.
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And we're going to hit you with the explicit content for these right off the bat.
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This podcast does include adult situations and adult languages from time to time.
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I'm an angel.
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I never fucking test.
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Okay.
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Anyway, you ready to go?
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Oh yeah.
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All right, let's go.
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You told me you never say yes.
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Well, do we form my default answer is no?
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No.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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It's becoming my default answer, but people are taking it to me being a bitch.
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Like, and I do it, I try to do it with like a stone face, like no, I don't want to do it.
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And they just look at me and they're like, Oh, I didn't know you were in that kind of mood today.
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And I'm like, I'm gonna do it.
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Doesn't mean I want to.
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Yeah, but that's part of what I signed up for, so I'm gonna do it.
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Just don't expect me to do it with a fucking smile.
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Yeah.
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I that's one thing I can't stand.
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Smile.
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Just smile.
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He saw he's odd, he's out, he's okay.
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I'm flying.
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I'm flying.
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I'll smile when I want to.
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Not when somebody else dictates it to dictates it to me.
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Yeah.
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What was that actress's name?
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It's like Faruka.
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Faruka Bulk.
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Perooca?
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Oh, I don't know, hot.
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That's what her name is.
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Yeah.
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She's out here, Bobby Money, and I like me.
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Whenever I hear her name, I think of the band Veruka Salt.
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Mm-hmm.
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I mean, it's not far off.
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Yeah.
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Although Faruka Salt was spoiled right in Brad.
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Oh, really?
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You don't know who that is.
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Mm-mm.
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Have you ever seen Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory?
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The original one with Gene Wilder.
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Yeah.
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Baruca.
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I want a golden goose and I want one now, Daddy.
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She's a spoiled little bitch who goes down the goose hole.
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Yeah.
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That's Baruch Assalt.
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Okay.
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You're today's years old when you just learned that.
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I don't remember people's names, so remembering a fucking character that I don't care if his name is.
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That was the most epic thing ever, though, when we were kids.
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I mean, obviously we saw it much year many, many years after it came out.
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But it was just like, you mean spoiled children get punished too?
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Yeah.
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I mean.
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Well, at least they do it at the chocolate factory.
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Yep.
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What was I oh god.
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Yeah, that article we were reading about somebody getting harassed because they think a certain generation has just been led with laziness and complacency and enablement.
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And it's just like, yeah, we don't.
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It's funny.
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In real life, I can talk to them nicely, but sometimes when I listen to the excuses about how they're not lazy, they don't get paid enough money to do that.
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That was in the job description you were given before accepting the job.
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Um, inside my head, I'm like, Yeah, I can't tell you how many times a month I hear that.
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Well, technically, that's not in my job description.
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You you have a list at your station of 12 things you need to do in descending order of priority, most priority, least priority.
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It's on that list that you you signed paperwork when you signed your pay.
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But what?
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Yeah, it's it's funny.
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It's just absolutely funny.
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There is one person who has an excuse for why they don't can't do anything except for click buttons.
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And um, so they're pretty pissed because management's kind of like had it up to the gills with it.
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Yeah.
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And uh when we got employee complaints, and it was funny because I overheard two employees talking, and it wasn't like I was eavesdropping it.
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That wasn't the situation at all.
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I literally was walking around just doing my thing, and I heard one employee say to the other, why does that individual even do anything?
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Why do they let that happen?
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But the individual is afraid because they're so new to the company that if word gets out that they complain, but it's management shares the information.
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That individual had actually complained to my counterpart manager for the night because they couldn't find me and they were like, Is this really frustrating that I'm doing all this work and they're doing nothing?
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And so it's just it's always one excuse after the other, and it's just like telling you.
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I don't know.
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I think every generation we go through with laziness, but I also think that you know you have that ability to change that and make yourself do stuff.
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It's okay to have lazy days, it's just not okay to have a lazy life.
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Yeah, I I think people in general are lazy, animals in general are lazy.
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We're like a bunch of lions.
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We want to fuck, eat, and sleep.
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That's it.
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Yeah.
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Or eat, fuck, sleep.
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One of those combinations.
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Yeah.
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And it's because of energy conservation, right?
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So your your brain doesn't want you to expend too much energy because you might die.
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I mean, maybe a hundred years ago, but it's not, it's not like we're still animals, you're not gonna get past that anytime soon.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I I have I very like when I'm at work, I'm as productive as I can be, even on my lazy days.
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I'm as productive as I can be.
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You know, there was a there was a day where I spent of my eight-hour shift, I spent five, not one or two, not three or four, five plus hours dealing with customers because of one employee.
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Every time somebody came up to the individual asked question, I need a manager, I need a manager, I need a manager.
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And one of my production guys, we were kind of working a little bit in tandem.
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I don't like working around him.
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He's he's odorously bad.
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And, you know, that's just some people's life.
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So they start shaking their head and they're like, This is ridiculous.
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You guys never get anything done.
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And I'm like, well, you know, it makes it hard to hit goals when you're doing that.
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And they're like, that is at least the 50th call out since 10 o'clock this morning.
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And this call out that happened to be at least number 50 was 12:30.
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So it's, I don't know.
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I I think we have people who are lazier than others in life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But I think that everybody has the opportunity to have better days.
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I I try like I worked on the office this weekend uh yesterday for like two hours, and that was just like sweeping and picking up the old mat and putting the new mat down and all of that.
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But it was time to then go to that side of the office, to the north side of the office, and I was just like, Yeah, I'm freaking done.
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Because it will, it was just like every time I'd swept, I had to sweep again because it was just like more and more stuff here and there.
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So, anyways, um, so how are you doing today?
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I'm doing all right, how are you doing?
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I'm I'm good.
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I uh took the opportunity and I went into I guess the trends called thrifting, where you go to a thrift or a secondhand store.
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Okay, so they call it thrifting.
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And I I took an opportunity to do that for uh a couple hours this weekend, like an hour and a half this weekend.
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I went somewhere and I found some good finds.
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You know how we're always telling people they should read more.
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I am going to tell people now look into your local thrift stores.
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There's most of them have tons of books, and you know, sometimes you can buy, you know, like if you're a voracious reader and they have what you like, you can like get discounts for buying multiple books and all that kind of stuff.
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But I found some interesting things, I thought.
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Um like I'm super excited.
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I found a large print book of George R.
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R.
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Martin's A Game of Thrones, which I've already read four or five times, but uh I had borrowed the book from somebody, so I haven't had a copy to read in a while, so that was cool.
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Um, so I'm excited about that.
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I got a brand new copy, as in There's Not Even a Crack in the Spine, brand new of um Twilight, which I've seen the movies 50 times, 40, 50 times, at least 40.
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Jesus Christ.
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Shush.
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Uh it's I'm sorry.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Um, and uh so I got a brand new copy, and one of my coworkers was like, the book is nothing like the movie, the book's actually really good.
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So have you have you read it at all or listened to it at all?
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Which one?
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Uh Twilight.
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No.
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By Stephanie Myers.
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Yeah.
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But you've listened to Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Yes, because of where I was working at the time.
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Oh, so influenced by your surroundings.
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I was like, well, people keep coming in asking about this book.
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Yeah, so check it out and see what it's about.
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Yeah.
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And then my hot guy, Jeremy Renner, about his experience in his life.
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So I'm I'm super excited about all those three, especially the Twilight One, because like I said, one of my coworkers was like the movies and the actual book, it's only like 50% of what's really going on.
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So apparently it's so it sounds really interesting to me that hmm, there this might be like how the uh reading The Hunger Games was for me.
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I'm hoping.
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Okay.
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I I really enjoyed reading The Hunger Games, but it was reading Susan Collins Hunger Games was a little bit of a hard read because you had to put yourself into an introverted, um, self-protected mind mode to understand.
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And there was a lot more sexuality happening in the actual books than the movies, so it was a little confusing, but the detail on the inner thoughts was great.
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So I'm hoping that's the same thing with this one.
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Okay, not like The Maze Runner, where I wanted to just punch the author because it stuck.
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Movies were so much better compared to what I'd experienced in the star of reading it.
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What was the other series that came out around that same?
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Divergent?
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Yeah.
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I haven't read that one.
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I've heard mixed reviews about that as well.
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But you know, that's that's kind of everything with with books to movies.
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Everybody's got a mixed review on it.
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Yeah.
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And it's interesting because the people who uh who give me book recommends, I'm about half and half, with I'll like about half of what they like.
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So at least it gives me an opportunity.
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I did not find any Larry Correa when I was thrifting.
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I did not find any uh Jim Butcher, and I'm not surprised because he is mui in fuego.
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He is he's got books out there that are a super high value, depending on condition, because there's such limited prints.
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Um, so we'll see if I get lucky.
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Yeah, see if I get lucky because I eventually one day when I get into more of a longer term, this is where we're gonna stay longer term, like live situation.
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I want to be able to have my favorite series.
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I want to be able to have the dressed and files and you know the odd Thomas series, like I want to have them all in hardback, yeah.
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Because I love them that much.
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I love the feel of the paper.
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I and I need them in hardback because you know my eyes aren't you know 15 anymore.
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But so uh when I was out thrifting, I found something.
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Have you heard of this?
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Uh-huh.
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What?
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Yeah, no, I'm not.
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So there is a book series out here, out in the universe, written by Lucy uh Hawking and her dad, Stephen Hawking.
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And it's called it's it's George's, it's the George series.
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As in Curious George?
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No, as in the the kid George.
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Okay.
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I thought it was reading that.
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I thought it was Curious George.
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No, I did too at first, and I thought, oh wow.
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And then I went Hawking, wait a minute.
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And at first I thought it was him and his ex-wife, and then I went, that's not her name.
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And I looked it up, it's actually his daughter.
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They wrote this.
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So there's a series of books, and the first in the series is called George's Secret Key to the Universe.
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And it is um it is a book about a little bit of everything.
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Um, it's got philosoph, not philosophy, physics and theoretical physics in there.
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Um it talks about cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, and other basic like universal principles.
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Is it like a children's book about science, basically?
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It is, but it's about half factual and then half sci-fi fantasy.
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Okay.
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Because it, you know, based on what I've just the synopsis of it, it's about this kid who learns more about the world by going and exploring, which obviously we don't have children astronauts.
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So the biggest critique of the book series was that um, depending on how young the reader might be, uh, it might leave them with mixed understanding between fantasy and reality.
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So while, although it's, you know, puts all these interesting principles out there that are actual physics and all of that, and it has some really interesting pictures in it, you know, different planets and all that with some explanations.
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Um and of course, uh it's still they that's the biggest critique was that it probably should have been explained implicitly that these travels that George does to discover uh the secret keys to the universe were in his mind, is where he traveled as he learned.
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So, other than that, but there are, like I said, holy shit, there's one, two, three, there's six of them in the series, I think.
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Uh yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six.
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So you've got George's secret key to the universe, uh, George's cosmic treasure hunt, George and the Big Bang, uh, George and the Unbreakable something.
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I can't read my own handwriting.
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Nice.
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Right.
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Oh, uh, the unbreakable code.
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I was just like, wait a minute, how look, I don't have any lights on because it's hotter than sin today.
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So I had to put it in the light.
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And it's like, oh, George and the Unbreakable Code.
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Uh, George and the blue moon, and George and the ship of time.
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Um, so the whole idea of the book series is to teach kids about physics, real-world dynamic, applied theories, black hole, anything you can think of to do on the science realm with the theory of relativity, anything that's what they aim to do, which is really cool.
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Um, and I think it's good because, like I've always said, I love Stephen Hawking's ideology of of life, energy, and balance that you're never really gone.
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You know, it's you you're always matter whether you're corporeal or non-corporeal.
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And so it gives me comfort when we talk about death.
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Yeah.
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So I thought that was really cool.
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I've never seen that before ever.
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And never heard of it.
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So I'm kind of like I was hoping maybe you had, but like you'd listen to it.
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Because I understand that it's a young adult book.
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You know, I I understand that, but it just it it just caught my eye.
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I was just like, who wouldn't be curious to read uh read a dumbed-down version of Hawking so you can understand it better, then move on to his real world applied sciences.
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Yeah.
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You know, but I thought it was it.
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I I'm I'm yeah, I'm excited.
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But first, I have to finish off the butcher series that I'm listening to.
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Yeah.
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Which is it's it's so addictive, it's very difficult.
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Yeah.
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And I have this really supposedly really weird work schedule that I'm getting ready to start.
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So it's really bad when I'm like, I wonder if I'm still sick.
00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:56.960
Which I'm not.
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I'm not, but my sinuses are also not a hundred percent.
00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.519
I've been going through this for weeks and weeks and months and months now.
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Yeah.
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And um, now I've been dealing with three days of bloody nose.
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So that's exciting.
00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:16.399
I sneezed earlier when I was in the bathroom, and it was like, oh, okay, well, bloody nose time, bloody bloody nose time.
00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:26.720
Anyways, uh, so yeah, I'm since I'm enjoying audiobooks so much, I'm like, oh, I probably need to just look these up at the library and see if these are yeah.
00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:34.960
Yeah, recently I listened to a series uh like the Eternal Crusade or something like that.
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I don't remember.
00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:44.639
Um by CJ Corelia, who um you have a book over there that was written by the game book.
00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.240
Oh, one of the Riff's books?
00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.639
Yeah, the um Nightbane.
00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:49.519
Oh, really?
00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:50.559
He wrote that.
00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:58.000
Um which was part of the reason why I wanted to listen to the series was because it was by the same person?
00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:58.799
Yeah.
00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:06.960
And uh then this morning, actually, I was looking for new more new books, and he had another series that was similar.
00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:16.400
It's another um like lit RPG uh series, which I was very excited because he had a lit RPG.
00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:27.039
I I I read a series or part of a series from him that was like a sci-fi military sci-fi series, okay.
00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:29.279
Um which was pretty interesting.
00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:37.279
It was about like humans getting introduced to the rest of the galaxy because there's a big community of aliens, basically.
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And they have this um like a teleportation technology, which is how they travel faster than light.
00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:58.319
But when most species do it when they cross over between whatever place they start and they finish, they're like stunned for a while.
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Okay, and so like for like 30 seconds or something, they can't function.
00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:15.039
But humans don't have that problem, and so we have this massive advantage in combat, in space combat, uh where as soon as we come through the portal, we're ready.
00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.960
And so we take advantage of that basically.
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Um it was pretty interesting.
00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:24.559
That is interesting because that sounds like a little bit of like the tomorrow war.
00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:37.839
Like well, they're traveling through space, you know, like time, yeah, not space, but the same thing where it's just like they know from their history records where they're gonna pop up and to engage in all that kind of stuff, anyways.
00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:46.400
Yeah, it's it's it's really interesting because I have like after that big scare from my coworker being like, Oh, David Marsters died.
00:18:46.480 --> 00:19:00.000
Yeah, like I'm in a panic because I'm just like, shit, you can't fucking die before Butcher Fairness' theory, which is I think based on what he was looking at doing in total full uh books.
00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.960
I think he's got what five more to go, seven more to go.
00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.440
Because he wants to do 25 in total, not including any side stories or anything else.
00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:13.279
Yeah, he said 24 or 25, and it's just like a big trilogy to finish.
00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:19.279
Yeah, and it's just like I haven't even read when the next book might be out, you know.
00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:24.960
It's it's uh and the little novella Outlaw is out.
00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.279
Yeah, oh I'm trust me, I'm 18th in line to listen to it on when I can.
00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:35.759
And because it's outlawed, I keep I I kept um mistaking it for the law.
00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:38.240
Yeah, which is on the files, yeah.
00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.039
Yeah, which has been out for a while.
00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.000
That one, the audio, that's the one that he reads.
00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.200
That Jim but reads.
00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:52.319
Yeah, I I'm excited to but I'm not getting to it until I get to it in the order it's on that drive.
00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.720
Yeah, I mean that one's in between um Battlegrounds and 12 months.
00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:58.400
Yes, perfect.
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Yeah, I'm like uh I think if I'm remembering the story correctly, I'm about halfway through skin game right now.
00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:15.839
And you know, my favorite thing is just once you hear these characters as they're read, you you can't unhear it.
00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:21.519
And one of my favorite voices that he's done for this series is Lacuna.
00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:26.480
Oh yeah, because she's I don't know how he did that.
00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:39.359
I'm like, that's amazing how he I think I know how he did it, but how he got that high of a pitch with a slight reverberation is just like heaven to me.
00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:49.119
And it's what's funny is even though I heard Lakuna a little differently in my head, the the deadpan delivery is dead on what I expected.
00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.759
I will find them now.
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Um, I really, really love it when she's just like this thing in my head's killing me.
00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.519
Would you like me to take off your skull and check my little one?
00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:04.240
Yeah.
00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.839
Just so deadpan.
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Would you like me to take would you like me to take your skull off and I will check for you?
00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:10.400
Yeah.
00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.000
Well, no, why why not?
00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.839
You're not taking anybody's skull off.
00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:19.200
Just that little banter to, you know, you get where he's like celery breath, and she's like, ah.
00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:26.160
But it's that it's just that high pitch, little bit of reverb, and it's so great because it is the polar opposite of toot.
00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:26.640
Yeah.
00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:31.440
Wait, I don't give a crap who you are, ain't nobody gonna do better than James Marster's doing toot toot.
00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:32.079
Yeah.
00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:38.799
He, you know, but I am hearing like you can hear the little bit of fatigue for him.
00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:45.440
When you're listening to the audiobooks, you can almost hear the fatigue where it's like been too long between certain characters talking.
00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:51.039
Um, because well, or maybe the it's the evolution of the characters.
00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:55.920
Because in Skin Game, he butters are fixing up, of course, at the beginning.
00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.759
Through and through shot, and he's been shot, whatever, and he's just like, you're not listening.
00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:07.839
To me, and you know, Dresden's kind of doing his thing, and you know, Butters is explaining to him, you've been gone for a fucking year, bro.
00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.839
You've been gone for a year, and we've been here picking up and holding the pieces.
00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.799
And this is what happened when you were technically dead.
00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:21.359
So, you know, you're talking literally, you're talking about a year and a half span of time, right?
00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:26.480
Between ghost stories and cold days and the heading into skin game.
00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:33.839
And you know, and just you know, and then I just got done listening to uh before you got hello.
00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:53.839
Um I just got done listening to Michael Carpenter pretty much telling Dresden, like, dude, like you're not all that in a bag of chips, you're not infallible, you're like the rest of us humans, and it's just like you know, dude, you you can't sit there and say, This is all my burden and this is all my fault because uh you're you you're not.
00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:54.240
Yeah.
00:22:54.400 --> 00:23:03.839
And so, anyways, it's great, but Lakuna, like that's the one that really so I'm excited to hear Lakuna in Peace Talks and Battlegrounds.
00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:15.680
I'm really excited because one or the other, she's got a few more lines because I think it's I think it's battleground because Lacuna's been taking care of Tutuot, and Tutu's like so in love with her in the books.
00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:24.960
And I think it's battleground, it could be Peace Talks, where you know she's just like, I had to take the spikes out because he kept hurting himself up.
00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.960
Yeah, do you remember that?
00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.160
Yeah, so, anyways, uh yeah, thrifting.
00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.000
Like, I've never even thought about doing it.
00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:33.599
People I work with do it.
00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:40.240
Um, people, it's it's weird because I I'm kind of on the fence how I feel about it.
00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:46.079
Like, if it was anybody else, I'd be like, you really probably shouldn't be doing the job position you are if you're a thrifter and a reseller.
00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:54.000
Yeah, but because of their like integrity, it would be like you or I doing it and be like, yeah, you're not gonna catch my integrity slipping because I don't believe in that.
00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:54.480
Yeah.
00:23:54.799 --> 00:24:10.480
Um, but he is he he divulged to me that he's actually a thrifter and he goes to many different places and he he does do some re half of it's for his collection, and then half of it he resells for his to get his collection.
00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:10.799
Yeah.
00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:17.279
And it's it's we just had a grand old day talking about what you find when you're thrifting.
00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:22.240
And we were laughing about because there was in a box.
00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:27.119
Now I don't think anybody else would have noticed it, it's just something I ran into a few times in moving in storage.
00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:31.119
And I was just like, oh, that's kind of an interesting thing to get donated.
00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:31.920
What is that?
00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:35.200
I'm like, this is somebody's cremated pet.
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.160
This is like this is this is like a pet urn.
00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:38.720
Yeah.
00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:48.240
And they're so then we had this big joke about having all this this different spices because apparently urns come in quite a bit, vassals come in quite a bit.
00:24:48.480 --> 00:25:04.960
And uh so we were joking about setting up to have a spice cabinet full of people's remains and then having them in like you know, like state jars or whatever, or in some kind of a notable vassal where you would know, like, oh, that's somebody from Georgia, that's somebody from this.
00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.079
And so you could have a party and somebody like, oh, I love these seasonings.
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:27.119
Yeah, he was, I think it's Creole, he was from Louisiana, or we were just cracking jokes about it because we, you know, the the reality is that most things you find in thrift stores are not people donating it because it's the goodness of their heart, it's because somebody's passed away, they don't have a youth for it.
00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:27.839
Yeah, or whatever.
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:31.920
And I'm just gonna I'm gonna throw this out there to the worldwide everybody.
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When you donate goods, when you donate clothing, do not donate your underpants, throw them away.
00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:46.079
Same with your socks, unless they're still in the bag and haven't been taken out yet.
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.240
You're you let me let you brand new.
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.960
You're used underpants and socks.
00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:51.519
Yeah.
00:25:51.759 --> 00:26:05.039
And for the love of God, if you're gonna donate pajamas or pants or shorts or anything, especially if you're a female, please make sure it doesn't have blood stains on it, because that's just it just it's just gross.
00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:07.359
Or any other kind of bodily stain.
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:13.759
Yeah, look, I've had at least five pairs of men's pants come in with poop in them.
00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:15.839
So I dried poop in them.
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:17.519
Yeah, I don't need those yesterday.
00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:19.279
I know you did, you dirty bitch.
00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:45.680
But, anyways, so you so I'm like, I always forget to look at the books, and so I'm just like, oh, I'll have to go to a couple of different places to look because like locally, if we have half price books in our state, and although they're great, it's just like, um I have noticed that their prices are really have been going up, and I think that might be because of minimum wage going up in our state.
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:49.839
Yeah, probably as because that's that's all half price books offers is minimum wage.
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.240
Yeah, it doesn't until unless you're in a shift or a management position, that's all they offer.
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.440
And you know, it's I don't know.
00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:00.559
I looked at a book that was when I went there with mommy.
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:01.359
Hi, mommy.
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:07.039
Hi mommy, hi mommy, when I went there with mommy, I was actually looking at a book and then I was really annoyed.
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:08.240
I'm like, wait a minute.
00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.839
This book says its original cover price is$7.99.
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:19.839
So it's not half-price books because you're selling it for$5.99 and it's something that was from five years ago.
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:20.880
What?
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:25.119
Like half-price books literally translates to me, it's going to be at least half off.
00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:25.839
Yeah.
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.640
I mean, books from the 90s, those were$5.99.
00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:31.680
Brand new.
00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:32.240
Yeah.
00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.160
For well, for paperbacks.
00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:35.599
Yeah, I'm paperbacks.
00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:44.960
I did not see any single book that sparked my interest, whether it was on the paperbacks or hardcover, and it was said five, seven, nine, did not matter.
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.279
Everything I saw was at least five dollars.
00:27:47.839 --> 00:28:01.680
And that's, I mean, and that's okay because you know, people got to get paid and all that, but I'm like, um, I'm not gonna pay five dollars for a ratty copy of Odd Thomas that's stained up and stinks like onions.
00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:02.400
No, thank you.
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:10.000
Because it was, it was an odd Thomas book, and its original price was like$7.99, so it was one of the first runnings, and it was$5.99.
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.200
I was just like, what?
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:29.039
I'm like, but yeah, but it's kind of interesting because it's also apparently there's these Airbnb people who you know they rent out their rooms or whatever for Airbnb, they're using uh thrift shops to completely renovate their homes, yeah.
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.200
And I think that's fantastic.
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:33.279
Yeah, I think that was super great.
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:46.319
There is a local realtor who comes in and she stages, she stages all her different homes, and she's been doing real estate for I think she said for about four years, and not local here, but local in Thurston County.
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:47.039
How about that?
00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:54.160
Okay, and um so anyway, she said, you know, I was paying somebody, like we were paying them X amount of dollars to do it.
00:28:54.319 --> 00:29:03.920
She goes, but it's like when you need very little things because of the AI tools, she's like, you really don't need a whole lot to stage because you can use AI tools to show full houses.
00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:10.880
She goes, but you know, just like little things like a side table and little pictures or whatever, just to draw people into the room or whatever.
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:16.319
She goes, she goes, I budget myself a hundred dollars per house.
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:21.119
I use what they've got, I'll use up to a hundred more dollars because she gets reimbursed for it.
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:26.000
And she said, and then she goes, I've got a storage unit and I've got a little collection.
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:30.559
She goes, so I don't have to hire an interior decorator to come in and make it feel a little more home.
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.839
She goes, I can just do it.
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.319
She goes, it saves a ton of money.
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:43.599
And you know, she goes, uh, one thing she's saying was that one of her other friends was a realtor and they were starting to lease out items from her little collection.
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:45.680
And I thought that's freaking brilliant.
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.319
Yeah.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:30:00.640
I mean, if you're talking about the fact that mostly what she's getting is like hanging mirrors, small side tables, which you can't find a lot of small side tables that like most of shops anymore because most of them quit taking furniture because of the hazards and the insurance stuff.
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:06.559
But you're talking about like candelabras, uh decor, like table runners.
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.720
Like it's it was I was amazed.
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:17.039
I was just like, I never in a million years would have ever thought that if you were in that line of work, you wouldn't just hire somebody to do it.
00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.480
But doing it herself saves a ton of money.
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:32.880
And now she's built this collection where she's just like everything is separated by like here are all the pictures, boom, and they're they're separated by like nature and family and like that, and then it's also separated by color.
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.599
She's just like, Yeah, I was like, she goes, I can rent it out.
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.559
I'm like, really?
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.079
She's like, Yeah, she's just like hundred bucks for a month.
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.720
She goes, pays for my storage, and I can buy more stuff.
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.359
And I'm like, Well, that's pretty interesting.
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:47.519
So I'm like, thrift away, honey, thrift away.
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:48.720
I mean, it's brilliant.
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:49.200
Yeah.
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.400
I mean, there are definitely things I would not buy at a thrift shop.
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:53.200
Yeah.
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:54.799
You know, underpants.
00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:56.720
Use socks.
00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:57.440
No, thank you.
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.160
Uh, I have a hard time with the idea of uh sheets.
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:03.279
Yeah.
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:04.319
What about you?
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:06.880
Is there anything you wouldn't buy from a thrift shop?
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:08.160
I mean, underpants.
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:18.079
Well, I of the stuff you use in life, if you found it in a thrift shop, would you potentially purchase it depending on quality, condition?
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:25.200
What is the what are your absolutely no-way items in a thrift shop that you would never purchase, no matter what the deal is?
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:31.200
I don't think I have a I mean, yes, socks and underwear.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:38.400
Um I don't think I have a hard buy to set up other than those two things.
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:40.480
What about blankets or sheets?
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:42.079
Are you just kind of on the fence about that?
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.680
Yeah, I mean, I've slept in plenty of hotels, so it's been different.
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:47.839
You were gonna say I've slept in plenty of hose.
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:48.480
Yeah.
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:51.359
Also I was in the military, so same difference.
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:52.079
You know what?
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.640
I didn't think about it being kind of like being in a hotel.
00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:55.519
Yeah.
00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.079
So uh yeah, it would be on a case-by-case basis.
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.839
Um, because I've seen a lot of that.
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.799
Oh, holy crotch! Uh why are you on the floor?
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:13.680
Yeah.
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.640
So there's that.
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:23.519
I find it weird that there are ladies who actually come in looking for youth underwear to save even more money.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:30.880
And I'm like, we bring in brand new underpants at really affordable six dollars for a three-pack, that's two dollars a piece.
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:33.440
Well, if you had it used, I could get them for a dollar a piece.
00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:36.640
But that means somebody else's Vijay has been on it.
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:42.960
Yeah, somebody else that I don't care how many times you watch it, if they got uh, then I mean, come on.
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:49.519
Yeah, but I I I just had a woman come in the other day looking for men's used boxer shorts.
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:51.599
She was hoping to get five pairs for a dollar.
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.839
Like, I don't know where you've been thrifting that lady.
00:32:54.160 --> 00:33:01.440
Crack out, but um, yeah, uh yeah, I'm like, uh it kind of it throws me off a little bit because I'm like, what?
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:04.640
But then I there's other people I've seen come in.
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:06.400
There was uh lady behind me.
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:11.279
So when I went when I went thrifting, I was looking very specifically for three different things.
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.480
I was looking for potential books, which I'm super excited.
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:16.400
I got a few, um, which is fine.
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:22.240
I was looking for shorts, which we're not supposed to wear, but we're allowed to wear because it's really hot.
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:29.200
And I didn't find any shorts, but I did find some capris, and I'm like, oh shit, these are like brand new.
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:33.440
Because we do, you know, we do see like brand new stuff coming to some of the thrift shops.
00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:37.039
Yeah, and I was just like, uh, and I had a coupon, so that was like helpful.
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:43.039
But even if not, you know, I was just like, holy crap, these are normally like$70 jeans.
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:44.559
These are$70 capris.
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:45.519
Holy shit.
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:50.319
Even if I only wear them five times in my lifetime, they've paid for themselves.
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:54.559
They they won't be, they'll be still barely used, and somebody else can have them.
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:54.880
Yeah.
00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:04.079
And then mugs, because mommy's talking about doing another uh mug mosaic class, like the the the piece I have in the kitchen.
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:11.920
Yeah, and I found some really cool mugs, and I'm just like, oh, as soon as her house is done, her and I gotta sit down in her garage and we're gonna do some of these.
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:17.760
Because I found some really cool, like nature scene ones.
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:24.719
And so the one one of them almost looks like you're at it looks like sand on a beach, like that color.
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:28.960
Okay, and then it's like like three shades of blue, like an ombre blue.
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.440
So it literally looks like you're just looking at a beach.
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:34.000
And I'm like, oh my god, that would be super great.
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:38.320
And I I can already see the backgrounds and you know, just all kinds of neat stuff.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.840
And so those were my primaries.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:50.000
I was gonna look for kitchen towels, but I'd already kind of looked earlier and like just glanced earlier in the week and just decided I wasn't gonna go over that section.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:55.199
Because you know, we yeah, I just I didn't, but super excited about the books.
00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:00.880
Now I'm like, oh man, I gotta leave for work earlier so I can, you know, look through the books more often.
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:01.920
Because it was funny.
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.519
My coworkers was like, I think there's more of that Stephanie Meyer series there.
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.599
I'm like, here's the thing with me and books.
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.400
If I'm gonna buy a series, they all need to be the same type.
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.440
So if I buy one in a hardback, all of them have to be hardback.
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.480
If I buy one of them in the large print, they all gotta be that way.
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:17.760
And we get plenty of them in.
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.360
Trust me, we get plenty of them in.
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:30.000
Yeah, we had a we had a um a container come in uh maybe two weeks ago that had at least a dozen each of all of the Twilight Saga movies.
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.639
And I was like, holy shit.
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:41.760
Um, but I didn't jump on it then because I just it didn't correlate in my brain that it was going to be about 50-50 of what you saw in the movies.
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.079
So I was like, yeah, whatever.
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:55.119
Anyways, but yeah, super excited to try out this Stephen Hawking book because I think what it is is that I think he's got all the science, all the physics, and all that.
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:58.400
And then his daughter, can you imagine if he was trying to write it?
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:00.800
And somebody was trying to translate it for him.
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:11.599
Yeah, I mean, they they've had dictation devices for a long time, and effectively his translator thing is effectively a dictation device.
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:12.320
Yeah.
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:18.320
Um, there was somebody who helped them with it that basically acted as the dictation device, I believe.
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:21.599
Uh but I don't know.
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:25.599
I'm just I think it's I think it's interesting because I'm wondering.
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:32.960
I I like I said, I never even knew that that Stephen Hawking's put his knowledge into a child's book with anybody.
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:33.679
Yeah.
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:36.639
Which I think is a fantastic idea.
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:46.079
But I'm also like many other people in the world, kind of like, you know, we need to evolve a little bit more mentally before we're gonna find out anything new in this universe.
00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:46.880
Yeah.
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:58.239
And who whatever ass will sit there ripping out that seam of reality, you know, if you're gonna go out and play, fix it for me and Tagda, make life a little bit better because already that reminds me.
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:16.719
I looked up the so I remember years ago, um, I was talking to somebody about, you know, how terrible generation whatever it is, and I had found a quote from uh Socrates.
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:32.559
Okay, and it goes like this the children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders, and love chatter in place of exercise.
00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:40.079
You know, you know how many you know how many hundreds of years are going back to quote Socrates to have something that is 1,000% relevant to today?
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:44.239
It's like this is like a over 2,000-year-old quote.
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:44.880
Yeah.
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.039
It's just to show you the more things change, the more they say the sign.
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:49.679
100%.
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:51.440
Uh yeah.
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:59.920
It's and it's interesting because, you know, so we recently did an episode about the Texas murder.
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.960
It's been in the news.
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:04.800
I'm not giving that, I'm not giving that kid another inch of inch of my breath.
00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:10.880
But when I put together the artwork for when it comes out, um, I put a disclaimer on there.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:20.000
I put a disclaimer on there because people are gonna be upset because people just they can't look at a big picture now.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:27.199
Uh, but I put a disclaimer on like, hey, this is our views and opinions from what we've seen and the court findings.
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:27.519
Yeah.
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:38.239
So you need to like like listener and be advised because we don't set out with the intent to piss anybody except for maybe Gen Z off.
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:39.760
But no, we really don't.
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:44.400
We don't we don't set out with the intent of pissing anybody off.
00:38:44.559 --> 00:39:01.280
We set out with the intent, like we know there's millions and billions, not billions, well, maybe probably about a billion or two introverts out there, people who are very lonely and they just want to be part of a conversation, which they can happily do instead of stopping me while I'm out shopping and asking me questions.
00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:11.360
You guys can send us you guys can hop on the old Facebook, you can send us a note, you can send us a note on any platform, Buzz Sprout, Patreon, uh Spotify.
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:13.199
You can send us notes all the time.
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:26.400
Yeah, but it's so that people have something different that they can listen to, be a part of, and you know, hopefully they do understand they're not alone because we do talk about mental health.
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:26.800
Yeah.
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.039
We in in you know, June.
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:36.480
June was officially, and I was this year's old, and I'm not gonna lie, because obviously, not being a man, I don't have a penis.
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:37.280
Shocking.
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:45.519
Uh, I I knew there was, I remember years and years ago, there was a thing like men's mental health week.
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:55.519
But now men's mental health has an entire month, it's the month of June, and I think it gets overshadowed um by pride and Juneteenth.
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:09.760
And you know, the reality is we should be celebrating all of this diversity, and we should be talking about mental health, and we should be talking about if you pay your own bills, it's okay to be gay or be straight or be whatever you want to be, but you just can't push it on another person.
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:14.719
Yeah, and and Juneteenth is your holiday, not mine.
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:18.239
I mean, I mean, that's what people would say is I have no room to speak on it.
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:19.679
So you speak on Juneteenth.
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:20.639
I don't care.
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:21.519
There you go.
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:22.480
Moving on.
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:30.400
Um, but you know, there's all these things that we should be talking about on a regular basis and be accepting of and respectful to on a daily basis.
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:41.599
And it's um there are some people in this world that literally they they say this is a mental health struggle for me, this is a mental health issue to me, and they really don't have any of that.
00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:43.440
They're just using it to get attention.
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:50.559
I think the ones we need to watch are the ones that you can see clearly something's wrong, and they're like, I'm fine, I'm okay.
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:52.079
I'm fine, yeah.
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.920
Bleeding out my ass, yeah, yeah, bleeding out my butt is normal.
00:40:56.159 --> 00:41:11.119
Yeah, it's it's totally fine, but we're not you have people who are going to take um advantage of the mental health movement, yes, and that pisses me off because I see it three days a week, I see it enough in one individual.
00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:23.119
I literally want to pull them inside and say, you give humans the worst fucking name ever because you are a liar and you are a faker, and you are constantly lying and constantly faking.
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:25.280
And how do I know?
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:35.760
Because there's certain legal facts about certain legal things that just can't be plausible, possible, or happening with your lines of bullshit.
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.119
Now, having said that, set that one person aside.
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:48.320
So that's one person out of uh let's say 40, 50 people I deal with on a regular basis, on a route uh on a daily basis.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.159
Okay, it's probably 50 different people.
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:53.280
So that means that that statistic is what?
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:56.480
It's 2% of the populace, would be 2% if we did the math.
00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:57.360
Sure, or something like that.
00:41:57.519 --> 00:41:58.639
It's like it's around 2%.
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:02.960
And so 2% of the people are gonna be fakers, and you gotta walk that line.
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:08.159
But for everybody else who's really struggling with mental health and doesn't want to talk about it, come listen to us.
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.559
I mean, we're fucking crazy, we don't care.
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:17.599
Well, I'm crazy, you keep me sane, er, but that's the whole point is having a platform where we can talk about these things.
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:26.719
But it did feel very sad to me that I felt I had to put a disclaimer on there, knowing that people who are 18 years or older can access and see our stuff.
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:34.960
And I they needed to understand that I'm I'm not going to bow to injustice, I'm not gonna be that person.
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:36.239
I'm gonna tell you.
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:47.440
I watched the videos, I listened to the facts, I I read the findings, you know, and it's just like you can't change your story five times and expect people to be on your side.
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:50.000
Yeah, you know, but anyways, thrifting.
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.159
I say everybody should thrift away.
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:56.559
Um, yeah, I don't want to be caught on that for just it, it makes me angry.
00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:10.239
Somebody came into the shop the other day and was bitching about having to go up to Seattle, and the all they wanted to do while they were in Seattle was they had tickets to go see one of the um some kind of event up there.
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:11.360
I don't, I don't know.
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:12.239
FIFA?
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:16.320
Uh I don't, I think I don't think it was FIFA, I think I think it was a concert or something.
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:20.559
Excuse me.
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:22.800
And she was just like, This is ridiculous.
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:31.280
She goes, she goes, I parked my car, and a guy instantly walks over and leans up against my car and says, Do you want me to watch your car for you?
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:33.039
She's just like, No, I'm good.
00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:33.599
I have an alarm.
00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:36.239
He's just like, okay, because you never know what might happen to your car.
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.079
She's like, What the fuck is that?
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:38.639
Yeah.
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:41.599
I'm like, I'm like, yeah.
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:43.360
And she starts to walk out the door.
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:49.199
She goes, like, I'm the fucking queen of making the mayor of Seattle do anything right.
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:56.000
Whose fucking idea is it to let them sit on the street, jerk off, get high, and get drunk?
00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:57.360
Who said that's okay?
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.480
Because when I called the police on some guy jerking off of my Car.
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.239
They said it wasn't illegal.
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:04.960
And to ask him to not loiter by your car.
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.920
Indecent exposure isn't illegal in Seattle?
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:09.039
I don't know.
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:10.800
But that's what she was told.
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.239
That's what she said she was told.
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.239
And I said, you know, I have suspicions.
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:21.440
I was like, but I personally don't give two rips of a snake's tail.
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:27.199
I said, I think the mayor they have in there is too fundamentally far left and too fundamentally immature.
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:32.159
I was like, this is the same mayor that said, oh, we're gonna impose this millionaires' tax.
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:34.239
If you don't like it, you can fucking move.
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:34.880
Guess what?
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:38.000
Within 24 hours that law passing, they were gone.
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.280
And you literally can track it from them leaving the state to the decline of Starbucks.
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:43.920
Yeah.
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.519
You can you can literally see it.
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:48.320
Yeah.
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:50.239
Statistically see it.
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:52.000
And you've got that.
00:44:52.079 --> 00:45:02.320
And then you've got the whole the whole thing where there's this uh missing millions of dollars, and they're part of the chair of the fund, and they don't know how.
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:06.400
They're part of the financial chair of this funder, what whenever.
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:08.800
And literally the answer was, oh, I don't know.
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:10.800
You'd have to ask somebody else a little more involved.
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.159
I don't pay that much attention.
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.679
Mitch, you're in a position of power, you need to pay attention to what's going on.
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.679
Yeah, something is shady in Seattle.
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:21.119
I don't like it.
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.159
And there's something shady in almost every major city.
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:34.480
Yeah, we've got uh in Pierce County, we have a we've got a very um very interesting law enforcement problem, that's for sure.
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.880
And I don't want to say anything more about that until they finish ruling on him.
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:55.440
Um, because he actually, and I'm not gonna say his name, okay, because he actually is employing people, like literally having people listen into podcasts and news reports and searching because he is suing everybody who besmirchifies his name before he has a day in court.
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:58.159
And I'm just like, okay.
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.559
And then we've got other scandals within our state.
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:06.000
So it's just, I just want everybody to pull on their big boy and big girl panties and be an adult.
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:06.880
All I want.
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:08.559
Is that too much to ask for?
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:09.119
Apparently.
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.800
A pattern today.
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:12.000
Right.
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:12.639
You know what?
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:14.719
Vatterung needs to come around here.
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:15.920
That's right.
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:32.480
Anyways, uh, so third thing, you guys, you should go think about it uh for your book needs because you can buy used from the library, you can buy used from like half-price books, you can buy used online, but man, some of those online prices for used books is yeah, sometimes it gets crazy.
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:38.000
They they're charging collector prices for books that are like, okay, this is just a regular book dude.
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:46.719
Yeah, it's like I I don't think I want to pay$3,100 for the 17th press printing of serial mom or something.
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:49.920
I just don't, I just don't can't handle it.
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.239
Anyways, yeah, so found some good finds.
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:53.039
I'll let you know.
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:53.920
I'll read the book.
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:56.079
You know, I'll be honest about it.
00:46:56.159 --> 00:47:03.199
Uh, but I'm fascinated at the idea of uh learning some like basic physics stuff.
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.440
Yeah, you know, sorry, there's something in my eye.
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:05.920
Yeah.
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:08.079
I'm sure you can see me messing with it.
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:12.159
I think it's actually I think I actually got a hair caught in my lashes.
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:12.880
I don't know.
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:18.000
Anyways, before I make it look worse, and I have end up having to be a pirate with a patch on.
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:20.480
Um so yeah, those are my finds.
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:21.760
I'm excited about it.
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.599
I really am excited to read about Jeremy Renner's experience uh of getting ran over.
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:29.039
Surviving getting ran over.
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:33.679
And what's interesting is one of my co-workers, she was just like, Where did you find that?
00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:34.960
I'm like, over in the books.
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.519
She's just like, oh, I was like, yeah, he's my hall pass.
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:42.159
She's just like, she's like, I need like 70 different hall passes, but he's hot.
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:44.960
And I'm like, yes, yes, he is.
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:50.880
He Jeremy Renner is one of the John Cusack, Jeremy Renner.
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:52.400
Like, just like that.
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:56.800
And I don't know, uh John Cusack's looking a little worn hard.
00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:00.719
So it might switch to Jeremy Renner than John Cusack.
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:01.599
Okay.
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:03.280
Hotness.
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:06.400
Everybody's got their fantasy celebrity.
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:06.800
Yeah.
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.239
I think you're like Jessica Alba and Peruka Bulk.
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:12.239
I mean, that's not too far off.
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:16.480
I would say Linda Carter and fucking uh Alyssa Milano.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.039
Oh, definitely Alyssa Milano, but those were my two first celebrity crushes.
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.039
Yeah, I can see it, Linda Carter.
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:25.440
She's only like six inches taller, and you is great.
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:27.760
She's only got six inches longer than you.
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:32.079
No, she's she's she's pretty relatively close to your height.
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.440
I think she's uh your height or just slightly taller.
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:39.360
You have to remember she was wearing like six-inch shields to make her look Amazonian.
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:39.920
Yeah.
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.360
Most people don't know who Linda Carter is unless they're in an exercise.
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:43.840
Yeah.
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:50.159
The original, the original portrayal of Wonder Woman in televised entertainment in like the 70s.
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:52.480
That little spin she did with her head bob.
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:55.119
Diana Prince.
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.960
Although Gail Gidot or Gal Gadot does such a good job too.
00:48:59.280 --> 00:48:59.440
Yeah.
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:08.559
That woman's had like four babies, and she's just like you're like, I have three inseminations for the gal.
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:10.000
Yeah.
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.440
Half Iranian, half quadrant babies.
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:14.159
Yeah.
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.199
That kid would come out with your mean mug face.
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That that kid would come out with your stank face.
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Anyways, think about it.
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Uh, keep up on the books, all that jazz, drift away, have a good time.
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But we better call it a day.
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Yep.
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Have a good one, you guys.
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Later.
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Bye.
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