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Welcome back to this American ride podcast where we talk about issues that affect you. The average American. What's up and welcome back to the podcast. It's happened. It's been a second. I need to introduce us. I'm George. This is Bert. We just started a podcast. It's been tough, man. It's been tough. I feel like it's probably been my fault, but it's been tough. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while, but we're back. We're not, we're not, we didn't give up. Had some people reaching out asking if you guys stopped doing the podcast. I was like, now, man, we just, it's been a little nutty, been a little hectic for everybody. It's a lot going on. We're back. Hopefully we'll get a little more consistent here. It's crazy. I enjoy the podcast thing. Yeah, you know, it's a lot of fun. Just sit here, chill in a room, drink some whiskey. Yes. Talk to the people. Talk about all the problems in the world. Which is what we talk about anyway. It's not long ago we were sitting down in my kitchen and, uh, it was like nothing, but like what the heck is going on, you know, because that's where it's where it's at. Yeah, definitely. So, but been a minute, what's been going on with you? Well, I was down in Daytona. You were? You were. You got the opportunity to get out of here and the cold and all this crappy rain and stuff up here and head down to Lonnie, Florida and enjoy Bike Week, which was really cool. Yep. And I got to go and down with our friend Bob. The Bob Mahal. The Bob Mahal is massive RV toy hauler. So that was cool. Um, I always, I love rallies. So I always have a good time with rallies. You know, got to do some, got to record some for the, for the batter's and Bruce channel, which was really cool. And I used the term lightly, but holy viral videos. Yeah, they did. I mean, they did. They did. Well, they did. I gotta tell you. I know they did better than you expected them to do it. Definitely, definitely better than I expected them to do. I mean, it was better than our sturgis content and better than, yeah. I mean, I thought, I thought the way I was going to do it and the way I did it was going to be the best opportunity for them to do good and it really, it really panned out. So they did really well. They stack up against a lot of other bigger channels, um, content from down there. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, we got a ton of new subscribers and followers from it. So that's cool. Like 800. Yeah. It was a good week. Holy cow. It was a good week and I had fun doing it. So definitely worked out. That's what's important. But, um, yeah, that and then just, uh, I don't know, come back, get back into the work groove. Um, they'll just going on. Maybe, uh, one of the way last weekend went out to, uh, get his burger to meet up with a, a YouTube buddy that we know. And to meet up with somebody we probably should have on the show. I mean, Stevie the military biker is a cold dude. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it's, he's got an interesting story. He's, he's British and he lives in Canada, served in the royal, this world army, um, the royal armored core. Yeah, I stationed in Canada and now he's probably never going back. So he's, he's staying in Canada, which is nuts. But he's British, um, cool dude and, uh, got to go. I mean, he lives way out in, uh, like Western Canada, like above, like Montana. Um, so how often, unless I see him in Sturgis, I'm probably not going to see him and he happened to be in the area for work. Yeah. So I'm like, he's in only like two, two and a half hours away. I'm going to make the effort to get out there and go say hi and have a beer. So that was a good time. Got to spend some extra time with, with Carolyn and do some, some shopping and some different stores out there and hit up the Harley dealers and stuff like that. So it was a good weekend. So I think, you have a thing with YouTubers who've met so many of them and no offense. I mean, it is what it is. Can't fix it. A lot of people are not as tall as you think they are. Hmm. It's, it's most of them are, I feel like Stevie's assured dude. Danny Sullivan. Highly unprofessional. Highly unprofessional. Um, I guess they're an FAP off. He's, um, he's not tall but he's not short like, uh, like some of our friends. Okay. Okay. You know, I want to start throwing names out there. They know. Yeah. Some people are tiny. We got some short buddies but, uh, he's, maybe slightly below average, I guess. Okay. Ouch. I mean average height. The average male height. I don't know. I mean, let's say average male height 5, 10, 5, 11. Gotta be there somewhere. Somewhere there. So he's not too much shorter than that. Anyway, I don't know what difference that made. George right at the tax advance height. I mean, geez. Um, um, oh, yeah. Those folks being shorter but not a good time there. Um, I mean, other than that, it's been work. You know, then there was the incident. Shortly after I got back. Oh, dear, dear, dear. The dear incident. So I did hit a deer. Of course, you know, brand new bike brand new bike. I had a deer but it was minimal damage. Um, the part that was damaged is already replaced and then one of the parts were being replaced and be here soon. So lucky on that one, I just managed to miss it and and clip it. Jack the deer up, but, um, no real damage to the bike or myself. So that's definitely a blessing. Um, so then I had to go into full, you know, replace parts mode, get it back up and running, just picked up, uh, actually just picked up the replacement mini floor board today from powder coat. So I'll get that back on this weekend and then just then I'll just be waiting for that replacement saddlebag lid that cracked. Yeah. Um, but it's all right. Well, it's all good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was completely fine. I didn't crash it or anything like that. Yeah, we're, uh, we are right there on the cusp of spring riding season. Um, you know, we're just going to consistently get a little warmer. So close. So close. So close. Lots going on with that. I know this isn't our, uh, this podcast is not meant for to talk, you know, mostly about riding stuff, but with the big event coming up in July, we've been, we've been full bore ahead with that. We can plan for that, um, really just, just really getting just lucky with like vendors and sponsors and food trucks and all, it's everything's falling into place. We. Yeah. It's, it's so, I don't know if it's inspiring or what the choice of words are to how like people have stepped up. I mean, I reached out to a porta potty company and because that's a thing like we need that. We're a lot of people. Um, I didn't have much expectation. Like maybe cut me a deal. We'll see what we can do. And the guy's sent the guy the sponsorship package and he said, I will donate 12. Yeah. That's big 11 regulars and one handy cap. It is essentially another $2,000 that we're going to be able to give to vets and have to pay for something. Yeah. Cause, you know, I priced, I didn't call a million places. I called, you know, one of our local popular ones and it was going to cost us 600 bucks for, four of them. Yeah. You know, now we get 12, which is much better considering the amount of people we think we're going to have. So, um, very, and no causes amazing. That's, that's really cool. Yeah. We've had a lot of people, like you said, we've had a lot of people step up in that fashion. We got those chips donated to us, which we're going to have really cool poker chips to sell. You know, so that's cool. Um, just a lot of things, a lot of stuff. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and growing. I have a lot of them, a lot more on the hook. I think we could, my goal's 50. I think we can get close if not fit there. We already have five food trucks locked up. So, there'll be plenty of food for everybody to purchase five food trucks, 50 vendors, 50,000 dollars. Yep. That's the goal. That is the goal. We got the bands are starting to fall in the place. And just starting to fall in the place. I locked up another one today who is a vet and, uh, very cool, dude. Uh, does a lot of heavy blues, Jimmy Hendrix type stuff, which fits right into the crowd that we're going to have. And, um, he was part of the unit that, um, he was, he was part of the black hawk down unit. Yeah. So, in the army, he was, uh, he was one of the maintenance guys for that unit. So, it's, uh, you know, this is something that's near and dear to him. And, um, guy, you know, Lut, who is, uh, Lut, who is his band is going to be doing that. He's, he's another, cool. And these guys tried to do something in our local town where they're from, um, with an American legion. And it kind of got away from them a little bit and the legion started to take advantage of them and, um, they never really got it off the ground. So, um, yeah, back story. They, they could not be more excited about them and, you know, full transparency. When I told these guys, because they were like, well, what do you, both of them, you know, more so, more so the second dude was like, well, what do you, you know, what are you guys taking from this? Like, it's okay if you make a couple of bucks from this and like, we're, I'm like, we're not. No. We're not. And, um, we're trying to, I feel like that's a tough thing when you're doing charity, especially when you're doing charity with big numbers. I feel like people become so skeptical. Mm-hmm. What do you scam it off the top? Which, you know, it's understandable because it happens so often. I get it. Yeah. We're not, um, we're not making it. The only thing we'll make off of this is a merch of our own that we sell that we pay for, you know, um, but we're also going to have merch, um, event merch that will get hopefully, hopefully get donated, hopefully get donated. We got something in the works. And either way, um, we'll have event, event merch that will be sold in the profits from that will definitely be going to tunnel tower. So a lot of different opportunities here and ways for us to reach our 50K, which, um, I'm, I'm, um, if this gets out Friday morning, if this gets out Friday morning, because we're sitting here on Wednesday, if it gets out Friday morning and you're listening to this, you still have a chance to get in our raffle for the, uh, iron horse in hotel room raffle that we have going on. We're winding down. We are going to be drawing the winner randomly this Friday on a live stream on the baggers and brews YouTube channel. I do. Okay. So if that's something you're interested in, um, you'll have time to get in and the link will be down on the YouTube version. Um, do you put the link in the, uh, I can't put the link in the podcast version as well. Yeah. So if this gets up, if that and you hear this afterwards, it's too late, but, um, that raffle's doing really well, um, closing in on making almost three grand on that raffle alone, which is really cool. Actually beat my expectations already. Yeah. And it's, um, you know, and it's tough for people to see kind of like where we're at if you go to the website, we're like just over three grand, 3,500 or so. Yeah. It doesn't tell the story. It doesn't tell the story because we have received a lot of money from vendors. We've received, um, other money from sponsors that has come to us because as I said, we're not taking anything away from this. We're also trying to not lay out thousands of dollars to do this. Right. Right. And, um, so some of that money is going to the actual sponsor of the event and we have some logistics. We're still still working out. I feel like, um, because we've never done a event like this and things like portapoddies come up. And so, the only thing that is costing us that is coming out of, you know, sponsorship money is the actual event location itself that we're renting the day. Right. More than that that comes out so, um, by the end of the day, by the end of the day. Yeah. I'm sure something might come up that has to some things we might need to run that day, um, successfully. But it's, we're keeping it as minimal as possible. We're trying to get, you know, donations for these things. So that all of this money that we raise can go to the charity. But again, it's going really well. We still got, I think we're about 16 weeks out. So, you know, we still have plenty of time to get vendors, um, but a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of the little details now our stuff. We're going to start taking care of like the, the day of like things that we're going to need, you know, wrist bracelets for the poker run people, you know, for the people coming in. If you don't do the poker run, you just come in and pay the five hours and, you know, a wrist band for that to, you know, show you paid, um, just a little stuff like that. I need, I need like poker run sheets. We need the cards for the poker run stops. Yeah. You know, just all these little tiny little things that will, you know, maybe cost a few dollars, but in the grand scheme of it to run it and what we're going to make off it, it's going to be a really good trade off. Yeah. I'm excited, man. we went over to, uh, we went over. We were just out the side just cause we were kind of getting nervous about, you know, what the size we think this is now. We wanted to go kind of take a look at the spot again because I remember it being big, but as you start, you know, gaining all this stuff that you're going to need space for, and then thinking, okay, if a thousand people really do show up, how many vehicles we're going to have here, do we have parking? You know, like, it just started getting a little crazy, so we went and looked, but I think we're okay. It's, it's, and it's going to be okay. It's going to be crowded. It's definitely going to be crowded, um, you know, hopefully. We got a lot of vendors, although local vendors that are, um, like they make stuff, you know, like what they kind of fall into that craft festival. And I think the people, you know, there'll be people to show up to like, look at that stuff and possibly buy stuff for that. I don't, those people that I don't expect to stay for a lengthy period of time, like the, like the riders will, like them, some of the motorcycle folk and stuff, like doing the bike show and things like that. So, um, hopefully, you know, those people flow in and out, you know, and, and kind of keep freeing up space in the parking. And we need, uh, we need 50, 50 tickets. We need bracelets. We need, um, we need some baskets to get some stuff together. Uh, yeah, there's stuff. There's, there's, there's a lot of detail stuff that is got to, we need volunteers. We do need some volunteers. We have some, yeah, we do. I got to find, uh, two more people or two more couples to it for the, two more of the poker run stops for the stops. Yeah. We've got five out of five out of seven covers. I just need, I need two more, two more, which we'll find. Sure. Yeah. Anyway, so that's that, that's coming up fast. We're working diligently on that. That's eating up a lot of my time. Um, during my work day, free. Um, yeah, trying to try to put up videos, trying to do podcasts, which we've not been, not been good at. But what have you been up to? That's been, uh, something happened with work. I don't know what the heck that was. That from the time, and I know we did a podcast after I got back from Tbilisi, I feel like, um, and then like from Tbilisi to like basically this week and this week, because, I took off this week and, um, and, uh, both Guy Rana work was like, you sure I think about taking some time off. Cause I haven't, you know, it's, it's one of those, uh, we go down rabbit hole. So deep, it's not even funny. I have an unlimited vacation time. And the last time I really took any serious time off was like last, probably October, November, maybe October. I feel like, remember, I don't know what your trips were. Yeah. Well, a couple of family trips last year went to North Carolina. Then we went to Ocean City. And I feel like Ocean City was like the last time that I took any, last September. Yeah. Anytime off. So maybe, and now it's like two days. Yeah. I know. If that did us, I think you know, I've, I came down like a Friday, but I took Thursday. And so it's like, hit. So that happens. And in the middle of all that, it's the middle of all that we've been renovating the kitchen. Started January 3rd. A kitchen was demoed right after the holidays, January 3rd. Um, it is now back together, not completed, but, um, usable, but functional. Um, and just small details. All right. Yeah. So and it was a big project. I mean, it was down to the studs. There's a lot of funky things in the house that was built in the 70s out here in the Pine Barrens. You know, electrically, but who knows who? Right. And it's like, it's like the electrical stuff I had. It's like, you know, three, uh, three outlets and a kitchen. That were all GFI. That makes, there were only GFI because I made them put GFI when I moved in because I thought that that was the right thing to do. But it was home depot cabinets that were different shades that were probably bought like over time when they were on sale, but they were kind of close enough, you know, type of a thing. Um, DIY, ceramic tile countertop, with huge grout lines because they probably were short on tile when they laid it out. A lot of DIY in this joint. There's a lot of DIY, but this was done man, down to the studs, down to the electrical, new plumbing, which was the reason that we got in this project is because we had a drain pipe. And the drain pipe was not, uh, graded correctly. So water was basically sitting in this copper drain pipe and never, um, never fully emptying. And it just ate the drain pipe away over time. And what happened is the drain pipe created the slowly, which then came through the wall, swelled into these cheap cabinets and basically just destroyed, destroyed an entire back of cabinets, the blurring it just was a mess. Yeah, mold sucks. So sucks. And it sucks because you're like, all right, well, I'll just call my hummur as insurance. And that's what I, that's what I pay for, right? So you call hummur as insurance. Someone as insurance gives you shit. Like in the grand scheme and the grand scheme of a kitchen, they gave us like, it's the second part of that. Like 10% insurance. Yeah. 10% insurance. The insurance is always, they give you like 10% of, they don't give you enough money to fix what's broke. Number one, because they were like, well, it's old. So. So they, so they do that. And then on the back end of that, they doubled our hummur as insurance. Doubled doubled the because of the claim they doubled the home orders insurance because, because, because of, because of a claim, it's not even a huge claim. Well, it could have been a huge claim, but they didn't pay out anything. So, you know, they paid out a little bit, but you know, 10% of the cost of a new kitchen is basically what they paid out. So craziness, right? And then to boot when you start shopping around for home orders insurance, because I'm like, well, fuck you. I'm going to get new home insurance. You know, lady from all state is calling me, calling me, calling me. And I'm like, okay, finally, I'll take your call. I'm like, listen, I need new home orders insurance. What can you bundle your auto? I'm like, I'm like, listen, Pat, my home's no. Like, you're not touching my auto insurance. I have very good auto insurance. I love my auto insurance. Even if my auto insurance costs me a lot of money, I've been through terrible situations with them. And I know that they will protect me. It's a big deal. It is a huge deal. So the little lizard one doesn't do such a great job. No, no. And so then these guys are like, I was like, so I'm not, I'm not, I'm not bundling anything. She goes, well, then we can't ensure your home because you've had a claim within the last 12 months. I'm like, oh, so if I flipped my auto insurance to your way, you couldn't share it. Well, yeah, I'm like, we're done. Like, why did I even take your phone call? Yeah, that makes no sense. I'm like, where is this stupid? So wow. Yeah, not not. Yeah, yeah, you're, thank you for saving me time when I'm shopping for home orders insurance later. Like, I don't know what to tell you. That's wild. It's crazy. So that's been going on, but we're good. We're about done. I mean, what do you think? It's it's it's nice kitchen. Yeah, you know, definitely got, you know, fancy. It is fancy. It doesn't it doesn't like, doesn't like, it's not like blingy. It's, you know, you spend a lot of time in there. Yeah. Do a lot of cooking, a lot of weird stuff. Creative stuff. So it's nice. It's a, I'm just happy to have a gas stove again. That was that was a big deal. It was electrical. It was electric before and I had, um, I had propane propane thing dropped in the back. Yeah, the gas stoves are nice. Gas stoves are nice. And they're going to be outlawed in the state of New Jersey. And at some point here very soon, you're only going to be able to get one if you already have one. Yeah. So I'm like, I don't want to. Yeah. It's like you could go out and state and buy one, but nobody will put the propane line in or get out because they won't give you permit to do it. And that's kind of where that's what the manager is. Yeah. So it's not like, yeah, you know, you can't, you know, to be like an each fat guy, you'll do it yourself. Yeah. I mean, without a permit off. I was a plumber guy, I plumper to that. Yeah. All the plumber, yeah. Like, I think I was an idea. Yeah. They kind of ones I know are so electric. Yes. You know, but again, like then what happens is like, I don't know. It's just like, it's permits in these building inspectors, especially in these small towns are kind of tight. You know, it's, uh, yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. So, but yeah, you're just about done now. So that's good. It's going on the wall. We just waiting for some, waiting for some molding that's not in. That's really kind of our fault because we, you know, and we put ship lap up in the back. It gets us back along. We weren't sure how we wanted to finish the top of that ship lap. We're kind of at the ceiling and, you know, it's an older house and the ceiling, you know, kind of curls up in the one corner. And what do you do with that? Like you can't put a piece of like scriber or a piece of like, you know, over shoe molding or a quarter round up there. It's too big for that. And it's just going to look terrible. So they're just going to pop up some crown. There you go. Yep. Yep. But I learned a lot, you know, watching these guys kind of interesting is, it's, uh, you know, you down there, you know, you're poking your head in. You watching these guys do some stuff and it's, uh, it's interesting to watch people who know what they're doing work. Yeah. You know, yeah, that's cool. I'm, I'm at the age and point my life for it. Need to learn it because I don't want to do any of it. Yeah. I don't want to do anything to my house. I have little projects that have to get done right now. And I'm just shredding little projects. Man, how about that fence? Let's go. And there's the fence now at the weather's warming up. That's been going for a lot of stuff. I got a lot of stuff I got to get done this spring. That yeah, I've been putting off because, you know, that weather warms up. And I want to go ride and, you know, yeah, it's tough. Carolyn gets mad at me because, you know, it's still sitting there, which, you know, rightfully so it needs to get done. It's just, I just, I just, I'm not getting, I mean, I would totally sell the house and live in an RV if it was my call, my call alone. Yeah. And I'm just, oh, I'm just over like home ownership and everything that goes into it. And just that's not to mention me and tie down. It's a lot. Like, it's always something to fix, man. Always something to fix. Much is doing that like fascinates me and probably do it. Happy bothered. I like, I like my space, like my office. I do too. I like those things too, but I like my big stove. I like, you know, I like stuff to keep Carolyn tell you I like stuff. I definitely like stuff, but it's, it's starting to mean less and less to me as I get older. And like, have that desire to travel and go see things. And then I'm like, well, you know, you know, I don't make millions. So it's hard to like pay for the house and all the bills and everything goes into that. And then still have enough money to go like do extensive traveling, you know what I mean? Like, sure, we can go away for, you know, a few weeks out of the year. But that's not, that's going to, I'll be dead before I get to see the whole country doing it that way. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's, right. It's tough. And it's funny. I think the over again, I feel like, you know, some things definitely mean less to me like some things you look at. That's like it's, it's just stuff. But then there's other things that, you know, that mean more. You know, like just going through, you know, going through the process of moving my mom into this house, going through old stuff, finding things that I haven't seen in since I was a kid. You know what I mean? And I just, we just sent my uncle, Uncle Bob and Florida. We just sent him a box of stuff and in that box, because my mom sounds like everything just migrated there. Like whenever somebody passed away, it seems like they just, at all, just kind of like all unboxes and nothing's been gone through, which just put there. So I've been going through this garage and opened up these boxes. I found my uncle's Pinewood Derby car. Oh, well, I mean, his Pinewood Derby car I found. I have a patch. Not here, but it's, you know, it was like, I remember like the president's athletic award type of thing. Well, it's like the award that predated that that was given to Eric's father, Jimmy, you know, when he was in high school. That's when they gave me this patch and it's like that kind of family stuff to me. It's probably, you know, yeah, it's kind of cool. And right behind us in the wall, I have my father who was, he served in Germany on the Hawk Missile site. So there's a mug there with the Hawk Missiles on it and his Missile badge, which is kind of a unique badge. That's like right in front of it. I was like, what is that? When I like, my mom just pulled that out of a box today. Yeah. That's cool. You know, so it's like, like that stuff. I'm like, huh? Well, yeah, I mean, you know, I wouldn't throw things like that away. No, no. And if it ever happened, which was like, we're doing that anytime soon. But if they weren't happy, you never know, I would need a pretty, you know, we would need the storage unit because there's a lot of things that we can't get it. I mean, yeah. Maybe the old furniture and crap like that dishes or whatever. So they care about, but definitely there's a lot of stuff at the house. Caroline has a lot of stuff from family. Her and her mom have been going through one of the houses in the family that's going to be going up for sale. That her that she grew up in actually. So that's going to be. That's going to be an emotional time for her when that house sells. I know she's pretty attached to that house. She grew up there. But her grandmother lived there and we're a long time after her grandmother's her grandfather passed away. So they've been going, they're, you know, getting it ready to sell and they've, there's a lot of stuff to go through over there and her mom been doing it. They've found a lot of like that kind of stuff, you know, like they found. They found, you know, letters that her grandfather wrote her grandmother, you know, things like that. Like cool stuff like that. And not other stuff they had when they had to move her in. And I don't know what year it is. Caroline could tell you, but when they had to move her in after grandfather died, you know, they had all this stuff from that, that house that was at the red line one that just they sold recently. They had, they had, they didn't have a place for all this stuff. So they basically bought a 18 wheeler trailer, which is nuts to me. I saw that. Yeah. I don't know how much that cost back then. But I think that is probably what it says 80 some time and 80s when they did that. But, and so they, they had, you know, three, four acres over there. So they put it on the back part of the lot and put all our stuff in there. A lot of that stuff never even looked at or touched since, you know, that's crazy. 40 years, you know, it's been out there. It's like a time capsule. Yeah. It's a 45 time capsule. Yeah. They found out they're finding a lot of different stuff that, you know, it's taking them a long way to go through because they start seeing things and you know, you get a little sidetracked, you know, check stuff out. They're trying to set stuff aside to look at later. But yeah, that kind of stuff, you know, you don't want to get rid of that stuff, stuff you want to pass down. But I don't know, man, just the home itself and the money kind of market right now, what I could get from my house. I could live in an RV for quite a while off of that extra money. Yeah, we're, we're, we're fortunate. We're fortunate that we live in an area that is especially since, you know, the pandemic is, is high in demand. Yeah. But, you know, it's funny. Yeah, the heirloom stuff, man, I can't part with it. I got my grandfather's, one of my grandfather's pipes up here, you know, that I still smoke on occasion. That is just, you know, one of the coolest things. And to him, it might not have been the nicest pipe you had. It might not have been, you know, a pipe is definitely pipey smoked off. And because it had some nice cake inside of it. But it was, you know, so that's, that's kind of neat. I get attached to that stuff. But like his first house, like, it's kind of weird. Like I just, I don't get attached. Yeah. I don't get attached to a house. Like, like Stacy was, you know, he was emotional when we left Hoboken, because it was like our first place together, right? Yeah. Yeah. We brought the home in, in, in Fairlion. And, you know, we made all, you know, decade worth of memories in Fairlion and family gatherings. Everybody was emotional. We left Fairlion, like even her mom was like getting all the holidays and then. Memorial Day Parades, because like my house was on the Memorial Day Parade route. So we did Virekfist Lunch and Dinner Memorial Day. You hosted a lot of stuff there? Yeah. That was small house, man. We hosted some stuff there, man. We did Easter every year and we did Memorial Day. There were two, our two holidays and, um, lots of Memorial Party here. There should be. There should be. Yeah. Yeah. We want us to throw it out. Oh, you, all we got to say the word, like, let's go. It's coming up. Yeah. We always, let's do it. I mean, all we ever really do is go to the, um, parade. And, yeah. It's, it's, it's weird to me not to do. Um, if I say that the Stacy should be like, should be, should be thrilled. Because it's weird to me. It's, it was weird like the first like two years, you're down here. Like we're like, this is, it's just not right. Do our own parade. Yeah. Um, so, yeah, we're working next. Yeah. We could. We could. Do our own parade. Uh, yeah, I know. It's, uh, I like my basement, you know, I like my little man gave down there, but, yeah, I'm not super attached to this house. I, you know, like my backyard, like my deck and stuff like that that I built, but, not super attached to us. I'm super grateful to have the house, you know, because, yes. Because, you know, we, we bought that from, from my in laws and, um, the time that they were willing to, uh, let us live, you know, move in there and, um, we didn't really buy it out right away. We were just kind of paying them a rent and, uh, it's a super nice house for what we were paying. Yeah. And, you know, I, at the time when we bought the one when we moved in there, we would not have been able to afford that house, trying to buy that on the market, like with what we're now we're making. So, uh, super blessed and grateful to her, to her family that we have it. Um, but I'm just not super emotionally attached. And I get any, you know, Carolyn probably would say otherwise because our kids basically grew up there, but, yeah, I don't know. I'm just, I'm not for some reason. Lot of great memories there. And if we sold it tomorrow, you know, I'd, I'd have a lot of great memories from there. I, I could sell it. I could be gone. Take that. Yeah. Take that, uh, they take that profit man. Buy me a nice frickin' RV and hit the road and bounce. And you know, it's just a house. You know, it's, it's, we still have the memories no matter what. So, you know, and nothing says you, you know, being an RV forever, I'd probably end up in a house somewhere in another state that I'd free them and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and probably palm trees. We're, we're short and free. Very. But yeah, that's, uh, this is such a, uh, random, um,odgepodge discussion, um, just because we haven't done it for so long. But as far as, you know, things in the news, we've got some interesting stuff there, but before we get to the news in case you've forgotten, legendary USA sponsors this podcast. And let's hear a word about the sponsor. What's up everybody? I wanted to take a minute to tell you about the sponsor of today's podcast, legendary USA. Their selection of leather and denim jackets, vest gloves, chaps and riding shirts are 100% made in the USA with a lifetime warranty. Legendary USA isn't just about style, it's about quality. 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It's probably even, I mean, probably bigger on the East Coast. But huge, huge port Baltimore is a shutdown. Yep. And it's going to be a long, we'll see, I got to believe they're going to open that thing up pretty quick. I'm sure once they clear it up, you know, bring a crap, yeah. Yeah, with the breeze and bodies, I mean, they still, you know, to recover, to work day need to recover, you know, the people that are still down there. So they haven't heard it update on that. If you don't know what we're talking about, we had a cargo ship, Dolly, through a parent loss of power, a parent loss of steerage crashed into the Francis Scott Keybridge. Wow. In Baltimore, I'm on day, was it Monday morning? Yeah, it was Monday. It was Monday morning. And Holy cow went down. It's like one of those things. I feel like it's one of those things, you always remember what was going on. Going down to get mom like breakfast or do something, you know, and walk in the room and she's like, the bridge fell down and I'm like, okay, what bridge where? And I had a shed right out of the news that, you know, this is the bridge, bridge across the river, Baltimore, up the heart. Tuesday morning? Might have been two. I think it was one, like one in the morning. I think it was Monday going into Tuesday. Monday going into Tuesday. Yes, they just happened. Yeah, amazing. You know, they obviously called it the stress channel 16, whoever was on supervisor, on like the bridge tolls, the bridge gates, smartly was monitoring channel 16 and shut the tolls so that no more cars got in. But obviously there were cars on the bridge. There was a construction crew on the bridge, there were 13 guys, 13 of them on the bridge. There were two people. I mean, that's just who has a crew of 13? That's just how unlucky is that. Yeah, right. And there were two people, I know they were pulled from the waters. We're gonna look at you. Yeah. And they'll be pulled from the water. But they said, waters like 44 degrees is cold, man. They said, and I remember one person was in good condition. The other person was in critical condition. I read today that obviously there's divers down there and, you know, talk about first responders, man. That's a different breed. In 40, probably colder than that, you know, below the surface, more than likely, can't seem more than a foot in front of you, right? Yeah, that's crazy. Diving in that wreck, you know, trying to, you know, recover, you know, recover bodies so families can have some level of closure. And the report today that I saw that there are actually, there were cars like hanging from the wreckage onto the water, like they didn't even go all the way down. Like those cars are still hanging from the wreckage. Yeah. So I can see that. Holy shit. Yeah, wild. Just a horrible, horrible tragic incident. Yeah. Who knows? Who knows the details? Anybody that claims to know this point is probably full of it. They got some investigating to do. There's a lot of, you know, and this is like a plane. I mean, these ships are, they're tracked, they're GPS tracked to make sure they're staying in their channels. Yeah. They are, you know, there's recorded radio transmissions. I mean, this shouldn't be an investigation that is too terribly difficult to get to the bottom of. And all that is what it is. I mean, what happened kind of is what it is. I think where the average person should be fired up if they're not already is when Sleepy Joe comes on and says, the taxpayers will build the new bridge. Yeah. Fully funded by the federal government. Well, which I'd be honest with some bullshit. First of all, I don't see even have the authority. No. Well, he doesn't have power in the purse. So I'll tell you right there. No. I mean, if things function properly, no power the executive order. Yeah. Executive order doesn't have anything to do with paying for stuff though. You know, one, one that checks and balances are actually used and not just bypassed crazy. Like, why? Why? Well, in what world does that make sense? It does. It's not an American ship, you know, the company or the business or whatever that was like leasing it or using it for that stuff, the goods that were on it, not American. It's from Denmark. You know, not a single American. You know, nobody had anything to do with it, but that crew, like, I don't or whoever maintains the whatever kind of issues it had to cause it. Like, why would the American taxpayers pay for that? Yeah. Find out what caused it. Then you find out who's responsible for that and they pay for it. Yeah. It's a business. We boils down to somebody, some business, you know, screw that man. And this is, I mean, you hate to see regulations, you know, but this is how regulations are created with a situation like this, right? Because we have, and most people don't know, and I only know this because I was just reading an article about this the other day, these ships, non-US flagged ships can come to a port, load up, leave a port, and then they have to hit a international port, a non-US port in between coming back to a US port. So they do that to protect the US flagged companies, companies that have decided to be based here in the US, the US flag companies to ship from port to port to port, right? So they protect, at least they're protecting American businesses that way, right? But the flip side of not being flagged here is to get in out of a harbors, there's really no regulation for safety, like we don't control that, you know, and I feel like I hate to say it, but if you're going to be coming in and out of these harbors and you're going to be coming under bridges, that bridges that, you know, apparently American taxpayers are going to pay for really bridges that American taxpayers do pay for because we pay tolls to go to them, damn bridges all the time, right? So clearly we can infer it to originally we built also. Right, clearly we paid for that. We paid for that once. And clearly we pay for those tolls every time we go over. So we've probably paid for, you know, 10 or 20 fold, right? So, you know, your boat needs to be freaking a working order. Your boat needs to be safe. Your boat needs to be manned by competent people, not people that are, you know, making crapwage or untrained who are, you know, whatever. So I feel like I hate to say, I think we need more regulations on shipping, but I kind of feel like we need to freaking, we need some kind of tighter stipulation or tighter control if you're going to be coming in and out of our ports. Yeah, hard for me to give it and put on it because I don't know how it works currently. I don't know what the regulations are and how it works. So I. Yeah. I mean, what you say makes sense, but I don't know if they're already not there and just something, you know, something fell through the cracks or something was missed. I don't, I don't know. I was under the impression with all these ports. And I learned this from the cruise ship thing that like the ports have their own like pilots and harbor masters and they send a pilot out and whenever they're working within, you know, the port and the tight spaces and stuff and a pilot comes out and boards the boat and it kind of takes over, you know, running that getting it, getting it safely parked wherever it's supposed to be going or whatever. Which I thought I heard that, you know, there was a there was a pilot on there, but I, I I don't know the details. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie and say that I've like read every article on it. I've mostly skimmed the lines and first lines. Yeah. So I digress, but this is my infinity bottle that I started. I should drink it all like you didn't mind. So this should be good stuff right here. So did you put some of the maple stuff in here? I don't think so. I definitely did not. I got a maple smell. You don't have a maple taste though. Ooh. It's a little Kentucky hug. Yeah. That's a. For those of you don't know what infinity bottle is, if you don't have one, you should have one. And if any bottle is when you have a bunch of bottles of bourbon in your collection and instead of taking that like last swig or like that last like glass glass bottle of glass pour you take that and you pour that into a decanter. And as you get there, you you start pouring. Create something interesting and it's not sold anywhere. No, no, it's the house blend that will always be changing. So I had about 10 bottles here that were all kind of like on edge and I just polished everybody right on in there. So what else is in the news? We know that Trump's bond got lowered. Trump's bond drastically. Trump's bond on the crime where nobody was harmed, banks made money and there was no victim. There was no crime. It's. Which one? Which one? So my question is, if somebody saw fit within the judicial system to lower that drastically, when do we take a look at that judge man and find this guy? When is this guy investigated? Because it couldn't be more clear that this whole thing was personal and politically motivated and nothing to do with anything legit. Yeah. If it was anybody, I mean, if it was some if it was some brokerage, Mitch, they'd have been buried in the system. Yeah. New exactly how much money he had for campaigning and sets that bond just slightly under that. So just to take up all his money, we all know, everyone knows, but nobody does anything. Yeah. It's insane. It's furious. Just ironic that that number was right there with the campaign fund. Yeah. You know, tell me you're not obvious what I'll tell them you're not being obvious. So that gets drastically lowered. And then he has, I believe he's had this big windfall. I don't know if you heard about the, was it true social? DJT on the ticker. DJT on the ticker. That's his, that's a stock sign. DJT. True social, what's the problem? So, yeah. So it goes public and he's going to make like a billion something on that. I'm crushing it. So I think he's good. He's good. I'm crushing it. I love the irony of the fact that he held true social like just before like all this stuff was going on. I mean, he's smart too. He's much more than I think. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the commies like to say he's stupid and he's not that smart and Biden's way smart. It's not even close to guy. Guy knows what he's doing, man. He's always, he's always thinking one step ahead. What else? I think something else happened. I mean, since, since our last podcast, we went through the Nikki Haley saga where she wouldn't drop out of it. She wouldn't drop out of an election because she for some reason, she thought she had a chance and it was just absolutely nuts that, you know, she didn't have a chance. I think the interesting thing about this election is we're going to have an independent that's going to make it to the national ticket. You know, Kennedy's going to make it to the national ticket and it's going to, I'm interested to see. Why not run as an independent? He, he picked the run he made. I don't know. I feel I feel the most recent thing I saw was that he's thinking about running as a libertarian. Oh, well, he could run as a libertarian. Regardless of third party, right? Yeah. So I mean, regardless of, I don't, I feel like Kennedy fits his career would fit independent more than it would fit a libertarian, but yeah, I don't know enough about it. I mean, I know is like, I just, I think even if I believed every single thing he said and like, it was right in line like, his voice drives me nuts. Voice drives me nuts, but you literally, you sound like you're dying of throat cancer. My, you know, my whole thing is with the third party, I always, I always worry being a Republican with the third party. I'm like, it's just going to kill our Republican, but it's like, because we're a Republican base. Like, can't get together. We're all over the place. And, you know, it's just, it's a hot mess. But I feel like we're in an election cycle right now where people are, are hurting to buy food. People are hurting to buy gas. They said diesel is going to go up even more. Who does diesel affect? Diesel affects the small business owner who owns the super duties. You know, the farmers, the farmers. So it's going to, we're looking at another round of inflation. I feel like that's coming. That's going to be justified by this bridge collapse. I hate to say it, but I'm here for it. Yeah. Yeah. I've actually, like, I've actually been thinking like a lot lately that it needs to be worse. Jesus Christ. And I know it's bad right now, but like Americans are just, you want to pay $100 a bag at the groceries? American one. Are we already Americans are just like so stubborn and it just has to, it has to hit each person in their own certain way. You know, that, that, that, that, that they vote the right way. Like, or vote for what we can do the right way. And some people like, I mean, people that are making good, you know, that make decent money. Like, there's still people like that that just aren't really that bothered by what's going on. So like, I'm like, man, let's just, let's just ramp this up. Let's make this as bad as it can be so people realize how bad it is because some people are just, they're headed like that. And yeah, and let's get this vote on, man. It's, I mean, these polling numbers, I mean, he's polling numbers are so bad for Biden right now. They're so bad. I feel like they're going to yank him. And his, his, his vice president's numbers are terrible, get better than his, which is like, they say is like, unheard of. Yeah. That's how bad he is that that cackling, Hobag is like doing better with the polling numbers in him. And yeah, just, man, let's just get this going. And then so these numbers are going to be this way like where he's, he's losing in states that he won, like fairly easily last time around. And then, you know, we're going to get to election night and we're going to get these ridiculous numbers that supposedly voted for him. Yeah. How many, my question is, is this happens again? How many times over this is just going to be the new norm now that we just make shit up, like the numbers are totally bogus. And no one does anything. How many water pipes do we break in election centers where they have to evacuate the election center, right? Yeah. I don't know. I think if they steal it again, I think stuff could get ugly. Yeah. It's interesting to see it's, I know a lot of people feel that way. I feel like if anything is ever going to pop off, you know, domestically again, I feel like it's going to be, it's not going to be between the people and the government. I don't feel like, I don't know that the people are that like organized. I mean, we can't even get a party. People will stick together. I feel like it's going to be, it's going to be, it's going to be states and like what's going on at the border right now in Texas where, you know, Texas is like, no, no, we've had enough. You're not doing your job. You're not doing your constitutional-minded duties to protect our sovereignty. We now have the right to protect our own sovereignty. And that is, I feel like that is what's going to pop off a domestic altercation at some point. And I don't even know what that's going to look like. I could be like, who knows what that's going to look like. I'm sure there'll be some people just looking for an excuse to go pop off. But as far as something organized, it's just like, I don't know what it's going to look like. I think the borders are boiling point. I do. I don't understand. That's not an issue for like everyone. Yeah. I just saw a thing. I mean, just said like every Democrat in Congress basically, I don't know if there was a vote or if there was just, if there was a, I don't know what it was, but there was, but basically said every Democrat in Congress is pro-allowing illegals, non-American citizens to vote in the election. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know, man. So what is the even benefit of being an American citizen at this point in time? At that point, you've taken it away. There's absolutely zero benefit. We have nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you've completely devalued the people who've given their lives for that right. So I mean, that's the, that's the big point of it, right? I mean, it's, it's nuts. I don't think that if you're here legally, I don't think you should be able to drive. I don't think you should be able to vote. I don't even think you should be able to get a fucking credit card. Like if, unless you're going to go through the channels and, you know, I mean, and I get it, we live in kind of a migrant community. We have a lot of farms here. Those farms would not work. Americans do not want to pick African blueberries. Americans don't want to do it. And Americans did do it. We'd be paying $30 pound for blueberries, which would be fine for me. I don't really eat them that much. But again, like that would be the, that would be our reality. The farmer shouldn't be taxed. I don't. There you go. And providing the food that we all need. There shouldn't be taxed. That we then pay tax. If you, yeah. And if you lifted and didn't have such ridiculous restrictions and regulations against farmers, they maybe, maybe they could afford to pay American people at decent ways to come work their farms, but they're regulated to death and tax to death like every other business. And they can't afford it. So I don't agree with it. But they go and they end up hiring these illegals under the table. They don't have a choice. You know, and the government causes it and then has a problem with it. It's such a mess. I mean, we kind of benefit from it because we've got the best Mexican food going down here. I mean, I'm more depressed, I'm better talking. I'd give it up. I'd give it up. I make my own talk. I just have every legal reported, reported tomorrow. True story. True story. True story. True story. But yes, a human can be illegal when you're not where you're supposed to be. You know, because I'm sure she legal if I just walk across any border in this, world and just don't have the right to be there and just claim I do. The only country in the world that it just happens and everybody's got a problem with it. As a citizen, I can't even carry a firearm from state to state. So I mean, that's the past part. That's the other thing that came out with this judge ruling that they have a right to take. So I don't have a right to carry in my state. I don't have a right according to my state to carry a firearm. I have to jump through a million hoops to do it. But illegal does. Who shouldn't even be in this country has a right to carry a firearm? Really? Yeah. In New Jersey? Well, a federal judge ruled it. I don't know the extent in the details, but a federal judge ruled that illegal, any legal citizen has a right to have a firearm or carry a firearm. But you can't be illegal. Not have. Well, I'm sorry, illegal, not illegal citizen. Right. In a legal. I'm sorry, I hate that term. What's that? Illegal citizen. Illegal citizen. And people use it and people use it in that. And the other thing that Biden's cause is newcomers. And I'm just like, I don't know what that's the whole. They had a meeting on that one and someone threw that on that and was like, that's what they're going with now across the board in every liberal city in America. They're newcomers. They're newcomers. It's a mess, man. And I'm sure we're going to talk a lot more as we ramp up and get towards, you know, election season and all that stuff about the border and these different things that we consider crisis. I know Biden doesn't consider the crisis, but your average American does, you know, the crimes being committed, a crime wave that they try to act like crimes down. Yeah. You stop reporting crimes. You stop calling and considering certain crimes, even a crime, you don't even report them. So that's why your numbers say crimes down. Crimes not down. Crimes will ramp it and crazy. And you can't even be a white woman walk down the street in New York without getting beaten and salted. How about so? This is the latest TikTok trend, huh? If it's insane, don't tell me that crime is down. Crime is not even close to down. You're just, you just stop reporting the ones that you don't feel are important. Yeah. All women too, by the way. Yeah. Of course. All TikTok women, by the way. And then, and then I see, I see a clip and I think it was like on TikTok. I think it was like a CNN clip of this guy being like, well, it could be the same man. I'm like, really? No. Highly unlikely. Highly unlikely. I mean, I'm no, I'm no to deadly. Highly unlikely. They're all the same neighborhood or they probably would have connected by now. Jesus Lord. I think as Americans, unfortunately, as the only thing that gets us riled up and I feel like a lot of people are just very like, you know, your world. And I feel like the only thing that gets like people fired up, I mean, there's obviously issues, but it's when you can't do what you want to do. Or you can't do what you want to do for your family. You know, when you can't, you know, afford the gas to take your, you know, family to the movies or you can't go out to dinner because every place you go out to dinner now is crazy. And I will tell you, for the first time since all this inflation stuff has been hidden. You know, we were, we were out with mom. We went down, you know, went down the Walmart, Berlin, and we're trying to find like, where can we go? Quick bite to eat. We're coming back. We're coming up 73. We stop at Brio. For those of you who don't know, Brio is like in a tie and chain. They've got like five or six of them, you know, in our, you know, Italian chain. Yeah. I think it's good. I like it though. It's all robbers. I'd listen, don't fuck me because I love me some carabas. I bet you do. I've only ever ordered one thing of carabas that's chicken, Brian, a whole other conversation. I'm going to have to learn to make it before they go out of business. But are they going out of business? Who's not, who's not right now? Holy cow. So we stopped at Brio. I literally said, I will never come back here. The first time. And it's not like, and it's not, I'm not going back there who not for like shitty service because that's usually the reason it's usually, you know, foods like bad food. I won't come back there. This is the first time I feel like I've ever said this is too much money for what it is. Yeah. Calamari appetizer was $18. Yeah, man. Get the F out of here. You're going to charge me $18 for a quarter pound of some frozen ass Calamari. Kick. Fucking rocks, man. I was a family. I know. I'm sorry. Jeez. But I mean, I was, I was mad. I was mad. I feel like expensive Italian. Unless it's, unless it's a seat like, all right. So we went to the Italian joint that we had the stakes or whatever. Unless it's seafood or there's some sort of like beef involved. Just to get pasta at a nice Italian place now is ridiculous. Yeah. You're going to charge me $25 for a plate of pasta. But you know how much pasta I can buy for $25? With the sauce like, it's every pasta, every pasta that you bring right now is $22. No, no, no. It's as freaking pasta. So I'm just like, it's the first time I've been at a restaurant and I look at the States, you know, my mom also never come back here. I'm not. I'm just, you're done. The problem is it's like, it's done. It's, it's expanded. It's so many places that just getting a burger nowadays. I know. I was like a nice, like one of these places that have like, you know, the bougie like creative style like foods, you know, like, like the real crafty style foods and that you like, the place we love, Vagabond. Yeah. Love Vagabond. How much are the burgers now? Expensive. Yeah. I don't, I couldn't tell you. I don't remember exactly, but it's like, it's a burger. It shouldn't be 20 bucks. Yeah. It shouldn't be close to 20, but it's a burger. Yeah. Um, they're amazing. I don't know. Not quite to the point where I'd say I wouldn't go back yet. But you're not, but, but, but they're expensive. What you thought about it, but they're really expensive. Um, one of my buddies, Jay, um, play ball with. I just saw he posted today that he was at the Golden Nugget, which not AC Casino one that you're thinking of the one down here in South Jersey. That's just the little Golden Nugget tavern. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know. Yeah. Have you been there? I know. No. I'll tell you a story about that. But he posted that, you know, he was there for lunch or whatever and he loves going there. He goes, they're all the time. But um, he couldn't believe when he got his check. He was drinking some sort of, um, and hard, he hard, self-sertig type of thing. It wasn't twisted tea. It was one of the other. C.I. Or something like we had. Yeah, something like he was like, there are eight bucks a can. He was like, I cannot believe it. It's unacceptable. Like he was pissed. But he liked the place, but I'm like, these prices on some of these things craft beer right now. If you go out or PJs and stuff like that, man, you know, they've been creeping up, creeping up, creeping up, but now they're like nuts. I'm back to order and Jim being 12, 13 dollars, $14 for a pint of a craft beer. I'm like, holy crap. More than a glass of wine, I feel bad for craft breweries because I know they're small businesses, but I can't go to a bar and order a $13 beer. I'm just not doing it. It's nuts. I'm just not doing it. Like I was like, ugh, when they were getting to like eight and nine. I know. And now you're well over 10. And it happened quick. And it's local breweries. I could go to the local brewery and get it for several dollars cheaper. Yeah. So I'm going to, listen, I'm going to beat this brewery to death because I'm going to beat it one more time. One of my favorite things to get a brewery is the Carpaceo. For those of you who don't know Carpaceo is like a shaved raw beef dish with like capers and some horse radish mayonnaise and stuff. Awesome, awesome. Love it there. And brewery does it really well. Right? Bird chain. I mean, listen, however they do it, they do it well. It was always like a 16, 17, I think my $18 appetizer. But it's, you know, oh, it's an appetizer. Oh yeah, it's an appetizer. And it comes in a plate. It comes in and the plate's not that big. No, no, the plate was this big. Come on. The beef was like laid out like each slice is like laid out individually. So it wasn't a lot of beef, but it was like laid out really large. It was like presented. Nice. Yeah. So the Carpaceo was like $24. The calamari was almost $20. An appetizer shouldn't be that much, man. Right. But I could say like even with Carpaceo, I could be like, all right, if it's good Carpaceo, maybe you pay $22 for it. You know what I mean? Like if it was like good Carpaceo. But the calamari is like right there with it, you know why? Because they know they know that the average person is going to order the damn calamari. Because in Jersey, we can't, can help ourselves. We need to have the calamari. The calamari is good stuff. Yeah, everybody's like, oh, yeah, I got to have the calamari. So yeah, you know, I've seen it. I've seen it with some really ridiculous prices where I'm like, not here, not getting that because it's just start closing on $20 for calamari. It's like, I don't know, at the point where that's all I'm going to get and just I'm just going to nibble on appetizer and be done. I'm not even, it's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. We went to season 52 and the mall the other day. We had like two appetizers and two drinks and it was $55. Yeah. I mean, that's the new like apps and drinks is $55.$55. It's like, oh, it's great. And another thing, and we've got another thing, it's Stacy caught this too. Another thing the restaurants are doing is when they give you the suggested tip, right? It's incorrect. It wasn't correct. It's including tax. You guys always pay tip on tax. Always. I don't know. I'm like, what are they doing? I'm not paying a tip on the tax. I have an issue with tip and you know this. I have a super huge issue with the tip being based on the price of the tip. It's my meal. Like, it's just absurd. That waitress did nothing different. So if I ordered $12 burger, she does no more work than if I ordered a $30 steak. True story. But I pay her more. You brought me a plate. You brought me one plate for that meal. But I'm supposed to pay based on what my meal cost. Make it make sense. The best thing about going to your meal. Make it make sense. I can't. I mean, we, her and I, when we go to by ourselves, like now when we go out with a group, we go out with you guys or whatever, we try to just, you know, go with the flow. But we go by ourselves. We tip based on how we were handled. And if you weren't worth 15%, you're not getting it. You're not getting 20% just because I'm eating out. No. Because if you suck and I don't get a refill glass and you're not even polite, you're not pleasant. You know what I mean? If you're a waitress at any decent place, like, you just got to be nice. Happy. Sorry if your day sucks and you hate your job, but you have to be happy because you're ruining my experience if you're not. And I'm not paying you 20% just because everybody says I have to. Sorry. You sucked. You barely said two words to me. And I didn't get a refill. You get like 12%. And be happy that you got that because I don't want to give you that. Yeah. Okay. It's not, it's people are like, "Oh, if you get a afforded tip, don't eat out." No, no, no, it's not about I can't afford to. It's about you don't deserve it, right? You don't just get it because you're called a waitress. Well, I feel like you can't reward shitty service because if you reward shitty service comes the norm. It's a standard now because it's 20% no matter what. No matter how shitty I am, you got to give me 20% knew what it was. I think we got to do nothing. You can go ahead and make me one of those little memes where I put on like 30 cents and be like, "This is what you're worth." And you go blast me out. I don't care. You're not going to guilt me into freaking paying you what you're not worth. Yeah. I would say we're definitely overtippers unless something pisses me off. If something pisses me off, you're done. We don't pisses me off. You're not being happy and ruining my day. Well, yeah, I have no tolerance for that. I just, I don't have no problem. I want to overtip, but you got to earn it. Yeah. Yeah. It's just crazy, man. It's just the crazy where we live and people are expect, they expect to be given things that they haven't earned. And that's one of the big ones is that I can't make it make sense with the dip. Like, until someone explains to me why that should be, okay, I'm paying based on the price of my food. Yeah. I like the European model better. I'm going to be honest. They don't tip at all. They don't tip at all. They don't tip at all. I feel like the businesses, the restaurants should be paying them enough money to that. They don't have to survive off the tips. Quite honestly. They're doing a very important job at your restaurant. Like, let's be honest. It is an extremely important job. It is. Why aren't you paying them a decent wage so that tips don't matter. They shouldn't be living off of tips as a waitress. Yeah. You know what I mean? You shouldn't be. But that's not my problem. I don't know the restaurant. You know what I mean? Your story? Nor am I a waiter. Nor am I a waiter. Like, sometimes some people will be really rude and be like, well, should the better in school and get a better job. I mean, I don't tell you. I was in, I was into BLEC and I had this. I don't want to call him a bell hop because he really wasn't a bell hop. And he was more of like, holy hotel system over there is different. You know, he was, he did, he did a bell hop's job, but he was also like a matrede. Like, he was like, he controlled the lobby. You know what I mean? Like, anything you walked into the lobby and he could see you were lost. He was like, right away, he was like, oh, what do you need? Where do you need to go? I want to go eat. Well, this is what we have. This is what we have. He spoke like really good English. Like, he was on it all the time. I gave this guy a 20 hour tip when I showed up. Well, Peter, who was our European counterpart, you know, because he's European, he didn't nobody. He's like, the hell out of here. He was like, dude, why does this dude like you? He says, I think he's into you. And I'm like, David's life, David's like, now we both dipped him when we showed up because we forgot we weren't in America. And it was like, but it was like, you know, he was just like level of appreciation. Like, but even for, you know, the dining experience over there was completely different because the weight staff was like full on team approach. It didn't matter like you had your waiter, your waitress. And there it was mostly waitresses. I got to be honest. But and it was, you know, women running around taking orders, doing that stuff, dude, carrying the food. I mean, that's just how they places a lot of places we were, that's just how they how they were. The service was great. It didn't matter where we were. Service everywhere we went was great. And it wasn't like we went to like some crazy places, you know what I mean? It was in a hotel. Yeah. You know, I think not at 10 places. You go to America like the staff to hate each other and it's talking trash about each other anyway. It's like we've we've created and have a me first. I'm the only one that matters mentality in America. So like people really struggle to work as a team. You know, they feel like they're the one that's important. That's where that's going to, you know, reflect as a situation like that, you know. Yeah, it's crazy. And unless in America here, I mean, recently, you know, Stacey, Stacey and I were around times, maybe because we, you know, struggling to get away and a bunch of other stuff, we booked, I use my Marriott points, booked a night at the Ritz Carlton with my Marriott points, which was insane to stay at the Ritz Carlton Philly. I highly recommend. It was amazing. And it was also, you know, another thing being, you know, Marriott, like Latin Malibu, sort of the heck level Marriott person I am. It was like even made it a little bit better. But then we ate at John George's and Philly, which is, and if you're able to skyline a Philly, there's like one building that stands above everybody else and at the top of that building is John George's restaurant, which is super fancy, super high end, but all done. The French? No, it was mostly American. Yeah, I mean, John George was a French chef, but his food style is mostly American cuisine. It's not like, you know, I mean, when you go to a fine restaurant that I feel like there's French techniques in every, like in a lot of different things that they do, but the flavors that you get and the food that you get can all be, you know, like, however they're going. And it was all about the experience. I mean, all it was as much about the experience as it was the food. It was amazing, but it was as much about the experience. Yeah, you know, you have that, you don't really feel bad. You don't easily tip, you know, a nice tip. Yeah. And you or you over tip because you just had a great time. Yeah. It was it was it was a little bit time. People will pay to have a great time. I think people will pay a lot of money to do that. And I think that's how those restaurants kind of survive because it's like, it was an expensive night out. And sometimes you just spent a restaurant like, damn, it was nice, but never again. You know what I mean? It's like, that was, that was good. But, you know, I just didn't enjoy it that much or this or that. I'm like, I left that place going. I got to get back there. Like it was. Yeah, man, if you have a great, it was not stuffy. It was fancy, but not stuffy. You know what I mean? It was busy. It was a bustling restaurant, but it was still a private table. It was, you know what I mean? It was, it was all those, you know, little things that they, how they controlled, they controlled every aspect of it. It was really amazing. Yeah. I mean, if you have a great experience, everyone that works there that you come in contact with is pleasant and nice and makes your whole night there or whatever you're meal there, like a great experience and the food is great. Yeah. You don't care, like that giant bill that they pay at the end, like it doesn't bother them. It was worth it. But more often than not, you don't get that vibe from the people working there. The food is average to slightly above average. And the bill is ridiculous. And you're just like, man, I guess this is such a waste of money. Like, but I mean, you know, people will be like, well, don't eat, you know, don't eat out. Like just stay home and eat. And today's day and age and Biden's America, and that's not anything cheaper. Yeah. Holy crap. But by a week's worth of groceries to eat at home every night and you're going to be like, oh, shit, I could just, I could just want out and have someone cook for me. I get a great, crazy, great Biden's America moment. So I had to, I was out the other day and like lately, like this week, like I've been having some blood sugar issues. Like my blood sugar has been like low. And blood sugar dropped when we were out the other day. We went in, we had a lunch. We had lunch at this like soup dumpling place in Sherhill. That's amazing. Like we should probably go there. It's pretty cool. And but again, like pretty healthy too, right? So my sugar had like almost no rebound. So I leave there and my sugar was like dropping again. And it was like, man, like let me see if it recovers. So finally, like we're going south, pull to the wall. I'm like, I need something. So I got, you know, like a Reese's peanut butter cup and a, you know, that doctor pepper. And I'm like, this will get me, this will get my sugar above 100 for sure, right? And I rang up the, at the self checkout, because you know, we're self checkout now in New Jersey. Just people want $15 an hour. So we'll just check ourselves out. I wall out of convenience store. I'm a convenience store. So I checked out, I got, I got a Reese's peanut butter cup and a doctor pepper and it was$6.30. I'm like, I'm looking at it and it's just like, look, we shit. It's like six, a six bucks for a candy bar in a soda. For candy bar in a soda, it's six dollars. It's absurd. And stays insane. It stays these tolerances like finish with it. She's like, well, that's Biden's America. Well, going to Biden's America, which is six dollars. It is loud as could be. And there were two people in line that were like, yup. Yeah, it's hard not. In Jersey, by the way, yup. This is like Biden. I capital over here. My wall cost me a lot of money, man. Yeah. Because since I started, I used to just get up early twice a week to go, you know, donate my plasma. And on the way home, I would stop and get coffee for her. Now I've been for the last probably three weeks. I got back to getting up early in the morning and going to the gym. So on the way home from the gym with Carolyn working from home for three days, three to four of the days out of the week, I go to the gym and on the way home, I stop and get this coffee and bring it home. And then you know, you know the diet half and half or deal. I know that you know this. Well, that we couldn't get it for what, six months. Oh, yeah, the diet, no, the half and half iced tea. The half and half iced tea at Wawa, which I love. And you like after the whole COVID thing and all the shortage and stuff, like that was like the one thing. So so Wawa, I see if you're not from New Jersey, right? Wawa has a nice tea their own that they make. And they sell it in small little like, I guess 12 ounce, you know, plastic bottles. And then they sell it like half gallons. And I bought a half gallon because that's what I'm going to drink for the day, right? And then the COVID thing happened. And after that, well, all of a sudden they never had it in the half gallon. And I mean, I asked people working there and they're like, I don't know, I have no idea. And then like, you know, they got some, but then like it would be a week and it was gone again for like months. And then like this last time was like six months, it felt like there was none. It's been a while. And it was a long time. And then all of a sudden they got back and like I went out and I saw it. I was like, oh my god, I took that. Yeah. And he sent me a picture just a picture. He sent me a picture of this thing. And then I ran down to the Wawa and I bought four of them. And I sent him a picture of the four of them. And then he went back down to the Wawa and bought like six of them. So now like so right now in the fridge downstairs, I have probably about 12 of them. And every like so now like I usually, you know, would go the twice a week. I would stop at home in the morning and get coffee for her and I was like my only Wawa. But now that I'm going out every morning and passing it on the way back, I get the coffee and I grab like two of those because I'm like, I know it's going to end soon and I want a stashed fridge, right? I know they're just going to disappear. I'm like, I'll give it a few weeks. If it's still here in a few weeks, I'll stop. Then I'll just, you know, okay, we're probably fine. They have it or whatever. I'm like, for the next few weeks, if I say it's there, I'm getting a couple. So I mean, that two coffees and two of those is like just under $12. Like $11. I'll tell you, it's like $11.$11. For two coffees, I know. And two iced teas. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, the Wawa coffee. So I'm a Wawa coffee like, pernast my fan. I'm dunking those Starbucks. I love Wawa. That's, you know, I'm Wawa, boozy tool when it comes to coffee. And the price on that, man, like just where that is at now. That's like two 50 or something like that for a large coffee. Employees, especially over here in Oakshade where I go, which is like my local Wawa. The employees actually felt bad about that. They're like, no, it's man. I mean, I remember that long ago that it was just over $1. I remember when I went from 99 cents like $1.5 or whatever went to and it was like a big deal that jumped over the dollar. It's crazy. Like coffee. It's coffee. And that is the one place where I'm like, I could just make coffee at home, man. For like the whole week would cost me this $10. Well, we do a lot. But I don't because I just, I really like Wawa coffee. And like, I got to have a Wawa coffee because I'm passing it coming home. Why would I go home and make coffee because it's not going to be as good. But you guys make boozy coffee though. So we share it. Sure. I mean, we have the, whatever that thing is called, the Ness, whatever that fancy shizzes. It is good coffee. But on the weekends, I make that stuff during the weekend, but on the weekends, I haven't been making that. What happened is when I went through my mom's house, I found my father's electric per kapat. Yo, this thing makes some, this thing makes some bang and coffee. And it's the most full safe thing. It's like you throw your 10 tablespoons of coffee and you put your coffee up to the 10 cup mark and you plug it in. And when it's done, it's done. There's no watching it. There's no adjusting the gas to get the perk rate right. There's no because I love perk coffee. Right. Right. So this thing is just the electric perk plot. You plug it in, bang, done. I like fast coffee. Best. Well, it is. And you know what? It's pretty fancy. It's done in, you know, seven minutes. Like it, it's done. And it's done in the same time. I feel like you could brew a drip pot. Yeah. You know, I don't like carrot. I mean, I've got my problem. Our practice needs something to go with my French vanilla creamer. Like, that's not getting crazy years. Correct. That's not like I'm sitting here drinking black coffee and just a Sicilian coffee, whatever bowl crap. Like, I just need something to take the edge off my fat free French French vanilla creamer. To make yourself feel better for not just drinking a cup of creamer. Yeah. I mean, creamer does have the caffeine that I'm needing. But, well, listen, this is not. We're not out. If you're still watching this point, God bless you. Like you are your hardcore dedicated. We appreciate it. This has been an interesting one of random topics and craziness. But I have good time. It's good time. It is. I'm saying podcast is always good time. We were hoping to get back to consistency of doing these. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about. We've got some really good guests that we want to do. We just got to get it lined up and get it done. Yeah. But thanks for listening. Thank you. You're welcome. 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