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Hurricane Hijinks and High-Tech Dreams: Weekend Woes, Drug Tests Dilemmas, and Solar Roadway Revolutions

James Tucker & Santiago Lopez Season 2 Episode 46

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Balancing the chaos of work and life can feel like a high-wire act without a safety net, especially when weekends are commandeered by job demands. Join us as we kick things off with some humor and honesty about our frantic workweeks and the critical need for personal time amidst it all. We share stories of tracking hurricanes affecting loved ones and introduce you to "Lieutenant Dan," a man whose decision to stay on his boat during a hurricane unexpectedly catapulted him to public attention, GoFundMe success, and a whirlwind of controversy.

From there, we dive into the murky waters of workplace drug testing, questioning the fairness of current policies on alcohol and cannabis use. We discuss personal stories that highlight the inconsistencies, like a relative's refusal of medical treatment after a health scare. We don't shy away from sharing our own tech mishaps during recording, revealing the struggle of piecing together an episode without a dedicated tech team, and the humorous notion of having a project that starts with a Yeti Rambler and aims to trade up to something much more significant.

The episode doesn't stop at personal stories and technical blunders; we also tackle futuristic topics like robotics and the promise of solar roadways. Picture a world where robots cut your grass or serve you at your favorite restaurant, and roads made of solar panels power our cities. We explore the economic implications of these technologies while offering light-hearted musings on the influence of figures like Elon Musk. From the intricacies of workplace accident reporting to the potential societal shifts with solar roadways, this episode is packed with stories and discussions that promise to engage and entertain.

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Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Joe.

Speaker 1:

Rogan our podcast right, we're the best you know. They say people that cuss are morons. So I'm an honest motherfucker. Put the fish away, reggie. It don't even hurt to give birth to you, not for me nothing to it.

Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

lot of work.

Speaker 2:

A lot of work worked yesterday again. You did saturday. Yeah, they tried to get us to work saturday. They're like, oh, this has to be done this and that we're on this job. Like they didn't let us come there for like three weeks late, you know. I mean now all of a sudden it's like, oh, this has to be done, and da, da, da, da, da. And it's like he, that's that's on thursday, he's trying to get us to come in saturday to to work on this area or whatever an area you wanted done and completed. We were done by friday anyway, so it didn't even much matter. But uh, it's so annoying, like and they act like you're being an asshole. It's like, dude, I saturday is like I need my saturday. I mean that's, I don't know what to tell you, I gotta have it. I could maybe send somebody else there, but like, bobby ain't gonna work Saturday. I know that, I know that ain't going to happen, but yeah, I'm not into Saturday things With owning a bar, it's too hard. I'm working all week. I got to come in and put stuff together at some point. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

And then I was just exhausted from all the watching the hurricane stuff all week worried about Joey. You know what I mean. Like we're just like because he was right where the eye was coming right over his house, you know. So we were nervous about that. I mean that was that first hurricane did so much damage up, you know, in the elbow there and then all the way up into the Carolinas, and then this one's coming in stronger, going straight across the state, like what the hell? You know what I mean. I thought for sure it was going to be a problem. But then he didn't really have no big problem at his house, not too much. I mean maybe a little fence damage or something like that, but nothing, nothing major, nothing major at all. But I did like I got infatuated with that. Lieutenant dan, did you see him? You didn't see it. Oh my god oh, that guy.

Speaker 1:

I was supposed to stay on a boat or something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, you seen, he was an amputee, right? Oh yeah, he's an amputee. He's like he literally is lieutenant dan, his name's malinowski or something. I forget what his first name is, but yeah, he stayed on a boat right in tampa right during the hurricane and he's got like he's gotten all this money now they've given him, him money. Somebody set up a GoFundMe. He's got a bunch of money for that.

Speaker 2:

And then what's the one that did the Trump interview or whatever? The Aiden, the kid, the YouTuber. I think his name's Aiden. I think I might be saying it wrong. He offered him a streaming contract to go. I think I want to say it's. Maybe is it Kik? I? I want to say it's, maybe is it kick, I think. I think it's on kick so he could stream while he's on his boat and he'll make money while he's in there.

Speaker 2:

But then they were like, oh, there was all kinds of shit going on. Then they're saying, no, he can't do that because he's got all these criminal records and stuff like that. You know, I guess he was homeless and bought this boat for, like I don't know, a grand or something. It's a sailboat, not unlike, uh, daryl's boat, really, I mean that one he had down there. It's real similar, about the same size as everything. And uh, that's how he's not homeless, he's living on this boat, basically you know what I mean. And uh, he offers him this thing, this contract for streaming or whatever.

Speaker 2:

And then there's all these rumors saying that they they withdrew the contract because of his criminal history and this and that. And then I guess he was streaming and he said the n-word while he was streaming. But then his daughter comes out and she's like you guys can all go to hell. Do not give that man money every one of his streams. Now he's fucked. She's like you guys can all go to hell. Do not give that man money Every one of his streams. Now he's fucked up. I can't. You know he's trashed. All he's doing is like destroying his life with this money. You're going to kill him. You know what I mean, but he's a character for sure. I mean he's an amputee. I mean he's something else. I think I got a video. Let me look and see if I got one over here that we could put up. That would be cool. I want to see if we could see it, lieutenant Dan refuses to leave.

Speaker 1:

He's got like his head poked out.

Speaker 5:

People are being told that to stay here is to face the prospect of death. I'm in a boat and there's water coming in. I'm going to go up with the water and when the water goes out I'm going to go down. As long as I keep the water out of the inside of my boat, I'll be fine. You sat through, stayed here through Hurricane.

Speaker 1:

Helen, which itself was a deadly storm.

Speaker 5:

Last week I did the same thing I'm doing right now. The wind came out of the west over here, pushed me to the east, so I was over the water and I just watched it go up. I went to sleep at 12.30.

Speaker 1:

I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 5:

I suppose the danger is that the boat gets battered against this harbor wall or gets swept away. I'm worried about it getting scratched up. That's it.

Speaker 4:

I mean, that's the worst, that's going to happen, so everything it'll be all right. Everything will be fine.

Speaker 2:

This guy's an animal man, he's an animal, he is an absolute animal. But yeah, he's an amputee. He's an amputee. He's freaking, just kind of like chilling on a boat in the middle of the hurricane like it's nothing. He survived it.

Speaker 2:

I don't know if he gets that contract or not, though that he had, because it showed that the kick contract like that he had with that aiden kid or whatever his name is I keep saying aiden. I think that's right, but I could be wrong. Um, he's saying that, uh, he was on there streaming saying that they took it away from him. They said they're not going to do it because I think part of the contract was he was going to buy him a boat between $50,000 and $100,000 and then he was going to just stream his adventures, basically on this boat and get paid for it. I mean he literally an amputee chilling on this boat, you know what I mean and get paid for it. You know, I mean he literally. I mean an amputee like chilling on a boat, like fuck the storm. That's lieutenant dan 100. Right, it's crazy. I'd. I want to see what happens with it.

Speaker 2:

But his daughter's pissed. His daughter's like no, this is unacceptable. They, you guys, are gonna kill this man, this man, he is a drug addict at best. You know what I mean. But yeah, so I got enthralled with that. I was watching all that stuff going on. That's stressful, that drains you. When you're stressed about loved ones that are going to be in the path of a hurricane, you know it's nerve-wracking. I mean, and Joey just kind of didn't care, like yeah, whatever you know, and you're going. No, you gotta care, dude, you gotta do something. You know, his wife at least went, bought sandbags put in front of the door.

Speaker 2:

I like those things. Have you seen those like l-shaped things? They're like l's. Have you seen that? They do the hospitals? They're cool, dude, they're like l's. Have you seen that they do the hospitals? They're cool, dude. They're like l brackets. So you put the l like towards the water as it's coming in and the weight of the water holds it down, and then the panels interlock and they just put them all the way around like a hospital or something and it just completely protects it. Like it literally just these clip-on panels. They're not, there's no gaskets on them, nothing, they're just clip-on panels. They're not.

Speaker 1:

There's no gaskets on them, nothing, they're just clip-on panels I've seen this new uh sandbag they got it's just like a packet. It's thin and then when water hits it, it swells up oh, yeah, and it seals no, just just like a sandbag yeah, but by expanding.

Speaker 2:

By expanding, it's going to seal right. No, they just stack, if you got them stacked up. They're going to seal up any gaps, right? If they're expanding, I would think.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but what I'm saying is just sandbags, but they're like, almost like them army rations out of Atlanta and stuff, and when the water hits them they expand. So they're like dehydrated. I, so they're like dehydrated.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't know what's weird some kind of chemical in it where it swells. Yeah, that's weird. I wonder what it is that makes it swell. I don't know. It's probably something simple. They're doing a lot of that paint now on the steel they're doing they're doing it at ford too like that. It's like uh, fireproofing paint that they're putting on steel. It's gummed up. It is not on there very pretty, it's not like a nice looking paint, but it beats that cellulose stuff they were putting on it for years because everything we used to have to scrape that shit off to do framing and stuff, that was horrible. Eating that shit all day.

Speaker 1:

Pray of cancer already from it you see that um drywall they're putting up drywall.

Speaker 2:

It's a lot. Oh my god, oh out there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm sure I've seen that kind of wall across the whole building the whole length of it yeah there's guys on lifts, and there's they're like on different layers rolling, just rolling yeah, it's just straight go. Yeah, those, those guys don't mess around.

Speaker 2:

I wonder who's got that contract over there Just rolling? Yeah, it's just straight go. Yeah, those guys don't mess around. I wonder who's got that contract over there? I've seen Star there. Star is there on site.

Speaker 1:

Really, I think so. Star no no no, it can't be Star. No, that was another job. I was on, that seems.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. I mean, I know it's probably I think we already discussed it's OCP, right, the metal stud guy. I think that I already know. I think Danny told me that, but I wonder if Johnny's doing the drywall, because Johnny's got his thing, doing the drywall now.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. There's a lot of people Like I said it's like a city in here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, massive. That's that money man. You can make a lot of money when you can hang drywall that fast up there.

Speaker 1:

And it's straight across. They got concrete right there. At that point where they're on lifts and shit, you can bang that shit up.

Speaker 2:

And that's union money. If it's union money, you're getting big money for that Huge money. Probably $4 a foot or something. $4 a foot or something yeah, four bucks a foot. That's probably costing them right around a dollar, killing it, and maybe more, who knows? Hard to say, but how tall is that roof over there? I don't know wow yeah, I wonder.

Speaker 1:

Factories are always high, but it's uh, you figure, I drive a concrete truck in there and there's probably three gaps in between, so it's pretty high three gaps. What do you mean I'm saying?

Speaker 2:

if you stack three trucks on, it'll still be higher than that oh, okay, I got, I see what you're saying, yeah, yeah, I mean like a target store is like that. Though is it like the height of a target store? Yeah, yeah, it seems about right usually is how it is probably a little higher to be honest with you oh yeah it could be, but somewhere in that range.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, we've done. I've done a lot of factories and stuff, nothing that that big. I don't think mr coffee was pretty big though mr coffee was huge mr coffee and uh and uh independence, or I think it was independence no that's not independence, is it?

Speaker 1:

I don't know so I was a wedding yesterday I didn't go to the wedding we just went to the reception the reception.

Speaker 2:

The reception was great. The reception was was wild. They did a nice.

Speaker 2:

That nice I mean, it was like it was just cool, it was awesome he had a lot of people there oh yeah, both of them yeah, there was a lot of people there, everybody was seemed to be having a good time, like you know, just, and he had it pretty simple but pretty. You know, good food, open bar. So I mean, and no problems that I know of. Even with an open bar, you know, that would always be my family, my friend, my problem with my family, like if I had an open bar at a wedding, my family would just, I don't know how they would end up. I don't know how they would act. They really don't.

Speaker 2:

Did I tell you that Randy died this week? Tucker, my uncle, yeah, he passed away. My dad's dealing with that. That's a rough one for him. That's like his person. I think they're always side by side. You know, that was well last weekend. Actually, I think right after we got off the air. I think I found out last last week, or maybe even right before we went on the air. I wasn't sure about what was going on. He had a stroke and just like said yeah, I'm good, nobody's gonna take me to the hospital, I'm not going. I refused, just like not doing this you know I mean.

Speaker 1:

So how many, from the first one to when he passed? How long?

Speaker 2:

I don't know. Well, this last one, I think he had a stroke like within a couple weeks. So now I mean it wasn't that last one, but he's had some medical issues going on before that. You know what I mean. But that last one, I think he just was like no, I'm just going to wait until I pass here that last one. I think he just was like no, I'm just going to wait until I pass here. You know he didn't want to go sit in a hospital with people jabbing him and poking him.

Speaker 2:

He's not that old. When you consider the health that he's in and my dad both of them and you consider my mom's the same age and my mom's still working like doing, you know what I mean. That's kind of a big deal. Like the working like doing it, you know I mean that's kind of a big deal. Like the difference in health. You know what I mean. Although my mother never smoked cigarettes, rarely drank you know what I mean she does drink wine here and there, smoked a lot of weed, smoked a lot of weed back in the day. I don't think she can now. I think they test her at work. How does that work now? They can still test you at work, right?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if an accident happens, you're still getting tested.

Speaker 2:

If it comes out positive, you're still getting. What if you were drunk, though? I mean? They're both legal. I think it's the same level. How do you pick which ones you?

Speaker 1:

know I mean, don't they're both equal?

Speaker 2:

well, if you're drunk at work, but if you have alcohol in your system, you could have weed in your system and not be high at work, is what I'm saying. How does that, how do they judge that, like, how do they figure out which one's which? There's probably levels, you think, so yeah it's probably like.

Speaker 1:

if you think so, yeah, it's probably Like if you smoked last night, you're probably going to fail it.

Speaker 2:

But that's my point. If you drank last night, you're not drunk in the morning. I mean, you could be theoretically, but you're not, so you wouldn't have an accident due to alcohol. You know what I'm saying. But if you have an accident and you smoked weed last night, why should that go against you today if you're not high? What happened?

Speaker 1:

There's a lot of rules that just don't seem fair, but that's what it's going to be. I mean, if it's legal, it's legal.

Speaker 2:

That's all I'm saying If it's legal it's legal and I'm not saying that you can be high at work while you're working. I'm not saying that, even though a lot of people are.

Speaker 3:

I'm not saying that, that because I know it, I see it, I know a lot of work better yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, a lot of people. Yeah, they. That's the only way they know how to function. Angela says fix your mic. You know, I don't know what that means. I don't know who Angela is, angela Marie, it says. It says fix your mic, okay. It says now you're. Oh, it says you're robotic. God damn, it. Is it doing that shit again? I went through here and like was messing with all the settings trying to figure it out to make sure that that doesn't happen. I was doing that yesterday, like going through, and I recorded like at least 20 different things test mics and that never was going on on any of them. I did it on your mic and my mic. Is that any better? She said nevermind, that never was going on on any of them. I did it on your mic and my mic. That any better? She said remind you're good now. I said you were being robotic before.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know either. I gotta get somebody to figure this out, so. But but being high and stuff, like you're saying it's, it's just there ain't gonna be no change, like they're gonna be like, oh well, you got high yesterday, so we'll let you get away with it, but that's how it should be, I mean if you can be because, if you could be drunk last night

Speaker 2:

and come to work and not get in trouble for doing something because you're drunk.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but if you went and partied good last night, you came back to work, you still got traces.

Speaker 2:

You get hurt you're gonna get. They're gonna find that you was drunk. I don't I yeah if you're drunk at work, but not if you were drinking the night before he was drinking the night before.

Speaker 1:

You're still gonna have traces and if you got hurt, that's gonna come up and you're gonna get in trouble maybe how long does weed stay in your system?

Speaker 2:

I don't know 30 days. Yeah, see, that's bullshit. That's just bullshit. I don't know what that's about. I don't know what that's about. I don't know where they're going to go by that.

Speaker 1:

And what else are they going to go by? They're going to go by, whether it's in your system or not.

Speaker 2:

That's how it's always been. It's never been any different. It's whether it's in your system or not. That's that's how it's been. It's never been like a portion of the system or anything like that.

Speaker 1:

None of that matters to me because I don't get it no, I get it, but there should.

Speaker 2:

But there's got to be a. Standards have to start once you start doing. That's the problem. You, you legalize something like that and then you don't. You don't fix the every detail of it. You know what I'm saying if you don't fix every detail of it. You know what I'm saying If you don't fix all the little details of it, because that's just not right. I mean, if you smoked weed last Saturday and you come into work this Saturday and get hurt, the fact that you smoked weed last Saturday has nothing to do with it, shouldn't have anything to do with it, but yet it does.

Speaker 1:

That's why I said it's the levels.

Speaker 2:

I'll probably go by levels 30 days, depending on how much you use. Yeah, depending on how much you use it, or whatever. So but still, I mean it just doesn't. I mean if it's in your system doesn't mean you're, you know, I don't know. I'm just saying that seems weird. It seems it doesn't seem like it would be, seems like they need to correct that. You know so. So what if you got pulled over and you were driving and you were high? That's under the influence, right? I mean it is You're stoned. I mean. So if you're high driving and they test you, what about if you were high four days before that and you get pulled over and they test you and now, all of a sudden, you got weak?

Speaker 1:

I don't even know how they would test you. What are they going to do? Take you down and go get you blood work.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, what are they going to do? Take you down and go get you blood work? Yeah, they do a breath test and a blood work with the DUI.

Speaker 3:

If you get pulled over, they can go have you go to the hospital and get your blood work done. For sure they do that.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely they do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but I'm saying when you're high, that's what I'm saying. If they say you're high, he looks high, his pupils are dilated or whatever. You know what I'm saying. He looks high. So they take you down in the hospital do blood work. Oh, there's weed in his system because he smoked four days ago or or even the day before.

Speaker 1:

really, that's I mean well, that's what I'm saying. It's by levels. Like your level is going to be higher if you smoked it right now, so there's probably a certain level that you're saying.

Speaker 2:

Probably that's a big probably.

Speaker 1:

I wouldn't want to take that chance well, you don't know how they're doing it now, so you're kind of yes and do all right, well, I know how they used to do.

Speaker 2:

It was just whether it was in your system or not. It didn't matter how it was in in there, it was just whether or not it was in your system well, I'm giving my theory about it.

Speaker 1:

It might be because of the levels, how high it is at that point we'll have to find out if there's any nurses that are listening.

Speaker 2:

Let us know if they're probably high now yeah, nurses do they're fine nurses party hard. Yeah, they party real hard nurses do. My, my one, my, my mom's uh girlfriend that she was with for years, that was a nurse she went to rehab because you partied hard. You know what I mean. She said that that nursing home or that it was a, she was in uh, it's in willoughby, I think. She said the whole entire treatment center is all nurses, that's it. She said it was like 90 nurses, like 90.

Speaker 1:

She said them girls party like they all party I ain't gonna say everyone, but I'd say 90% of the ones I know they party, they party hard, huh.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think that's what I noticed too. I wonder what that is, what it is about. Nursing and partying that goes hand in hand, I don't know. I mean, it's not like they can access the drugs at work.

Speaker 1:

No, it's usually alcohol, and other stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's not like pills, right. Yeah, it's like alcohol and Coke and stuff like that. That's what it is. I mean weed, coke, alcohol, partying, partying, right, but I don't understand, I just still don't. I don't understand what they do.

Speaker 2:

Construction is known for drinking beers, beer drinkers, I think in potheads too. Construction, yeah, oh, yeah, god, yeah, all the ones I know, all the people I knew smoked pot, mostly drinkers. If I went through right now and in fact when I used to have the company parties at the house and they would go back behind the fence, do you remember that they were picking berries? They'd say remember like, oh, let's go pick some berries. They were all going back there to smoke weed, every one of them. That's what they were doing. So, yeah, definitely in construction, it's weed, definitely for sure I wouldn't uh I still say beer.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean, that's your old school like go home, drink whatever after work, up beer at lunch after, after work. You see them all pop yeah, for sure, but they probably smoke the doobie, they probably smoke that in the car yeah yeah, they got.

Speaker 2:

Now they need a beer to get rid of the cottons and then they're going to go home and relax. They're doing their thing. Yes, I get so mad, dude. I come downstairs yesterday and I'm like the whole bar smells like weed. There's only two people in the bar so I abruptly yell out. You know what I mean. I'm like the whole fucking place smells like weed. That's fucking ridiculous. You know what I mean and obviously he knows who he is, because he's the one guy standing there at the bar. You know what I mean and I'm like trying to be a an asshole about it as I walk through there. But I'm sick of it, dude. I hate that shit. Like why did it? Why does everything have to smell like weed 24-7? It's. I remember it was a rarity. Only not that long ago. 10 years ago, it was a rarity to smell weed. You would smell it here and there, though every once in a while.

Speaker 1:

It's just it's where you're at Every time you're on your bike. I guarantee you smell it the whole time.

Speaker 2:

The whole time. The whole time I was. That's what I was telling. Uh, troy, when I was, I go, I I brought the bike last week. I brought it up here. I'm coming up here like 8 30 in the morning, 8 30 in the morning, get behind the 20 minute drive smelled like weed.

Speaker 2:

From my house to here the whole thing smelled like weed. 20 minute drive, I didn't know at 8 30 in the morning, like you I did now at 8 30 in the morning. Like you gotta get high at 8 30 in the morning, like that. Like if you were a, if you were a drinker, you got a problem if you're drinking at 8 30 in the morning. My dad was an alcoholic.

Speaker 2:

My dad would get in a van and drive straight to the drive-thru and get a quart of miller and then start his day. That's how he did it. You know, I mean he'd have coffee at home, get in the van, go get his quarter miller and then start his day. That's how he did it. You know I mean he'd have coffee at home, get in the van, go get his quarter miller and roll out. You know what I mean. And everybody looked at him like he's got a problem. I'm just gonna tell you, if you're waking up in the morning and you're smoking weed as soon as you get up, you got a problem. Period, that's a problem. That's not good probably they're thinking their problem is. They're probably going to run out.

Speaker 2:

That's the only problem they think they got. Well, the problem with weed is we're still in that thing where everybody says, oh, it's the greatest thing in the world. Hemp, it's natural, it's this, it's that, it's blah, blah, blah. But it know what?

Speaker 3:

I mean, mushrooms are freaking, uh natural they grow on cow shit or whatever.

Speaker 2:

You know what I'm saying. And uh, what the hell just happened there. I don't know why. I think we're okay, I think we're froze up, yeah, but I think it's gonna come back up right now, I think because it said it said it right there. I don't know. I'm so fed up with this bullshit. I thought that maybe it was because last week I had the computer like up and running you know what I mean for a while before we went on here and uh, I thought that maybe because it's like the computer's running.

Speaker 2:

Maybe that's what's causing the problem if that makes sense and it did not, it wasn't the case. I don't believe. I don't think that helped, because now we're still having issues today and I turned it on right before we went on air just to make sure of that.

Speaker 1:

I really think we're froze.

Speaker 2:

We today and I turned it on right before we went on air just to make sure of that. I really think we're frozen. We are froze up, for sure it's, but I think it's coming back on in a minute here I think it looks like it is something went off, like with the internet. I think the internet went out is what it looks like, because it said I was offline for a minute. I gotta pop up Stupid shit. The problem is I don't even know how you do that, like how you get back online and don't lose your recordings or anything like that. You know what I'm saying On the one.

Speaker 2:

It looks like we're still on On what I don't know, I'll click on one from the other and it's showing that we're on, yeah're good, are we okay? And it's not showing that we're good over here. But whatever, it is what it is. I guess this is why we need a tech guy that just knows what he's doing. You know what I'm saying? I got that jewels that works for me.

Speaker 2:

He supposed to come yesterday but he didn't get a chance to come, so I don't know how that'll work out in the end, if he's going to be able to or not. He said he had to do some stuff for his mom, like run around for his mom. He said he does that on the weekends, but I don't know. It's saying that word up, but I'm looking at a frozen screen. So I don know it's saying that we're up, but I'm looking at a frozen screen. So I don't know. Are you see you not looking at a frozen screen? Yeah, I am. You are dude. I'm gonna hit refresh on that and see what happens. I don't know. Might go bad, might not. I spent like all that time yesterday doing um, adjusting this so these mic volumes on here on the filters and stuff.

Speaker 2:

It worked perfectly with no left or right or anything like that, and I'm like doing it, and I was doing it to where I had no red in here whatsoever. And then today now naturally I'm seeing red sitting there Whenever it's the weather. It's saying I have no internet, is what it's saying. So it's saying that we're not online. So I don't even know how you're seeing it at all. Well, it's the weather. It's saying I have no internet, is what it's saying. So it's saying that we're not online. So I don't even know how you're seeing it at all. Well, it's not. That's froze up, I told you. But we're recording right now, for sure. So we still have the show going on, but I guess I need to pause it and go from there and try and splice the two together. I don't know how the hell to do that, but I guess I'll have to learn today. Let's start it, all right, all right, pausing Too late, I already hit record.

Speaker 2:

Technical issues Always a pain in the ass. I hate it, and that's why I need somebody else to do that shit like hearing capability, whatever you want to call it. Somebody that knows better what they're doing than I do, because I really don't know shit. Internet went down, so that's why we had the problem. The internet went down and it kind of shut everything down. But what were we saying? I said that mushrooms grow on cow shit, and that's natural, right, like cow shit, and then it grows on it. I was listening to joe rogan. He was that there's some book out there that basically everything comes from, which I mean I I don't a hundred percent disagree with, because I mean we like a mushroom is no more than a fungus, right, that's just growing. Eventually it could evolve to be anything no, joe rogan, a lot you have to back off that I listen.

Speaker 2:

I listen to him and I listen to tucker carlson. I listen to both of them very and and uh, your buddy too. I like him, theovon, he's one of my favorite. He hasn't had a real good one. Black is fun, shit, though the one that's always on with them.

Speaker 1:

No, no, no this is totally different when that, when he was saying that to that one jesse peterson is that his name, jesse?

Speaker 2:

yeah, yeah, yeah, he said he's funny as shit. He told that one night. He said he was a liberal. He said why you were tired of being a man. Yeah, he's funny as shit.

Speaker 1:

For sure he's hilarious gets me dying, like one guy goes, goes, no, I'd look like a woman if I didn't have. And he said no.

Speaker 2:

That shit was hilarious. No, you wouldn't no, no, you wouldn't no. He speaks his mind.

Speaker 1:

He tells the straight truth, I love it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's Jesse Peters, funny as shit. Well, we had our interruption, so now we're on phase two of this project, or today's project. Yeah, he said yo, so you have something you want to start this week. What are we doing? What do you want to do? Hold up, trade up, and what is that exactly?

Speaker 1:

trade something.

Speaker 2:

Somebody trades you something back for something equal or higher value so you want to, you want to start trading, you want, you want to start with something and see how far you can get it, how much of how you yeah, remember when I was younger I used to trade all kinds of cars.

Speaker 1:

So I watched a couple things on the trade ups and I thought it was pretty cool.

Speaker 2:

So I was like, let's do a trade up and you say a month, I think two months, I think a month's long enough, I feel like two months is enough, like I think you need two months.

Speaker 2:

So you're going to take, essentially, an item and you're going to start with it, that's say, valued around $50. Okay, and the goal is to try and keep trading it and see how big you can get it, like how much value you can get out of that, right? So, um, and you got marsh to donate. What did you get marsh to donate?

Speaker 1:

cooler, or what do you call it, thermos water bottle, right, water bottle.

Speaker 2:

Yeti rambler yeah, you could see it perfectly. So it's a yeti rambler from marsh heavy equipment. The value of this thing is like 50 bucks. Okay, so that's what guido's starting with. So what he wants to do is he's going to try and trade this up. But here's the kicker everybody can get involved. But one you could trade if you got something you want to trade. But for two you can.

Speaker 2:

We're going to put out some. Starting next week we're going to start selling raffle tickets. So you could buy these raffle tickets for a buck. They're not going to, it's not expensive, so we'll take the raffle tickets. We'll sell the raffle tickets the whole two months that he's got the the yeti cooler. Oh, what well, in this project, that's the yeti cooler starting off with. So you're paying a buck to get the ticket. So it's already, even if, even if you can't even make a trade up, you're good, right, right, you still got a higher value. So you put the dollar in and and you start trying to trade up and at the end we're gonna do a drawing and whoever wins that drawing gets whatever it is that he traded up to. So I mean, I guess the thing is we're rooting for you, geek you're gonna root for themselves.

Speaker 1:

All it is is a trade up, and then, uh, I don't know what we're going to do with the ticket money.

Speaker 2:

I think we buy the next item and do it again. That's what I think I mean, because I don't know how many you're going to buy. But I mean, yeah, you could start the next one, do it the same way and just trade up again. I think I like it. I think it's a good trade-up raffle. You know Well, not a very good name, it doesn't flow off the tongue Trade-up raffle. So two months. So we'll start it today, but the tickets go on sale next week. So the goal is let's look at it.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to look at the calendar right now and we'll try and come up with the exact time when we're gonna he said, start with a cheap car you donating one well, I mean, maybe I mean, if you buy like a 50 card where it's just like a piece, of starting off with that and then straight up I do it with that imbalance you do that all the time, that's. That's guido's whole life yeah, that's right we talked about that before, if you remember. We talked about that truck. I was laughing at your, your, uh teenage truck, that s10 I don't care what you say.

Speaker 1:

That was cool as hell.

Speaker 2:

But how did that start exactly? What was the story? Again, I can't remember I remember you traded a bike and I forgot more.

Speaker 1:

It went from a lawnmower to a convertible, to something else, and then it ended up being that truck.

Speaker 2:

I traded a motorcycle for the truck but it originally was a lawnmower like a rider or push skag. It was a nice lawnmower oh okay, no, no, I sold that to my cousin.

Speaker 1:

Then I bought a car.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my camera what was that going to look? Oh, the calendar. I was going to look at the calendar. So if we start today, so then a month from now would be, say, november 10th or 17th, so two months would be. We'll go the. We'll go the 22nd, so right before christmas, so on the 22nd. So we're going to go to the 22nd and we'll start. It'll be a dollar a ticket for anybody wants to get in, from now until christmas, and we'll have the drawing, we'll put the, we'll put the tickets downstairs and we'll put uh, I'll put the bag down there like I did for the clam bake, so then, and then we'll put them eventually into the tumbler, tumble them and do the whole thing like we used to do.

Speaker 1:

You know hearts, okay, so we find You'll have the item. Trade it up.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're going to put it on Facebook Marketplace too and everything we're going all out, dude, we're going to try and make this thing happen for sure. How far do you think you can get it?

Speaker 1:

Oh, we got some pretty good listeners that own it. Some people will probably donate some straight up just to do it you think you could end up with a car?

Speaker 2:

if not, I got you think you could end up with a car?

Speaker 1:

you could end up with anything. You never know. That's maybe a year.

Speaker 2:

That ain't gonna be the cover book that's kind of cool, like to see how far it could go. I'm pretty excited to see how far it can go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it could go high the.

Speaker 2:

The problem is like in my, in my p brain, like as I think about it, I go, yeah, I didn't get it, but I could. I mean, you never know, like you say, somebody could do it just to like my, my dad, years ago, alexa had done. It was a contest with the kids at school she was like in kindergarten or something and it was whoever could put whoever grew their nails the longest. The other one had to buy them nail polish or whatever. And she comes home and tells us about the deal and I go I go buying nail polish, like you ain't got no money, you're in kindergarten, you know. And she looked that look on her face was like oh shit, like oh, oh. So she starts like saving her money. So I go, okay, I'll double whatever you say, yeah you know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

That's a good parent thing that people have done for years. It's. I think it could work out well. Of course, there's like my dad, who's like gives her like every, every, because it was for the whole school year. Like for her birthday, he gives her like 200 bucks and then you know I mean just being an asshole because he knows I'm doubling and he's trying to like you know what I mean, he's trying to put the damage on me here's 800 right right it up, because then Haley wanted involved.

Speaker 2:

I think it ended up costing me like $1,200 or something. Between the both of them. Yeah, it was pretty wild, but so you could get some of that people that might want to do it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I know, and, like I said, we got a lot of good people, so people have something laying around that's worth a little bit of money. They'll be like you know what?

Speaker 2:

I'll just could be, or somebody might want the item you have at the time I mean and they're like, yeah, this one isn't really that valuable to me right right, because everybody has like, like, like that tumblr, not really that valuable to you.

Speaker 2:

You already have one, you know what I mean. So now you trade it off, but that's from marsh heavy equipment. So we want to thank marsh heavy equipment for giving us the tumbler to start with. So that'll be our first start and then we will take the uh money that the proceeds we get from the drawing and we'll pick something to buy to start the next trade up and do it again. Right, yeah, I like it. Okay, that'll be fun. I think it could be fun, and guido's a wheeler and dealer, so I know, I know it could come out real good.

Speaker 1:

You ain't gonna get me to trade this special cooler this ain't just no ordinary, it's a yeti.

Speaker 2:

I mean it is a yeti yeah, it's nice yeah, you could put. We put ice in that, because keith gave me one of those two and and we put ice in that thing and it lasted forever, like forever, forever. You know what I mean, right they're nice, they're real nice yeah, it's.

Speaker 2:

I mean a yeti is no joke, that's a, that you know. Like I said, it's a 50 item without him customizing it with the marsh heavy equipment. So I mean that it's a, it's a. It's definitely a come up for anybody who gets it. Now the question becomes what can you get out of it? What do you think you'll get out of it? Got any ideas what? You would be willing to part with that for who you?

Speaker 1:

what would I pay?

Speaker 2:

the fuck, fancy car fancy, you get a car for that, just I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I'd trade something. For what would you trade?

Speaker 2:

for it. I don't know. I'm trying to think like what, I would give up for that. Like what?

Speaker 1:

I would trade. What about that bike hanging up out there?

Speaker 2:

you give that away? That's not mine, that's jim rose, jim rogue. Whenever I seen that thing, it was sitting. He had it for selling gas station and he goes as long as you're gonna use it, he said at the bar. He said you could take it, he goes, but if you're done with it I want it back. You know what I mean? Awesome, sure, sure we can. I'm just saying, what would you trade for the yeti like, if you were like would you trade at one of them?

Speaker 2:

vets, you got for the yeti no one of them that's how many that's right, you got rid of it. Trade with one of the vets like how many I've?

Speaker 1:

yeah, I'll trade you that one that I don't own the one I don't have, I'll trade you that one. Yeah, I'll be like what are you doing? My book.

Speaker 2:

That's gone too. We got rid of that, yeah well, yeah, that's gonna be fun I think so, I think it could be cool.

Speaker 1:

I think it could let's see if we get our first trade today, I'm gonna come up here and trade me something for this yeti.

Speaker 2:

Well, I want to put it on marketplace.

Speaker 1:

I want to put it on marketplace with the story, though, with the story that this is, it's probably not going to be available when you.

Speaker 2:

Right Then it's a trade-off and every item we can put on there. Every time you get a new item we can go to the next item. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

So I don't know, Nice Yeti.

Speaker 2:

It is a nice Yeti. What about that rock in the day?

Speaker 1:

no that it took me a broken rib and everything yeah you had a broken rib for that.

Speaker 2:

Hey, I heard that you were telling me can we talk about it on there? What about you? Know? You're how you work unsafe all the time. Yeah, so I don't give a shit. You're telling me that you get written up because you didn't go drug test or go to the office before you went to the hospital, or no, no what's the write-up?

Speaker 2:

for it because I didn't go in and report it, because you didn't go into the office and report it, so you had to do an accident report, basically, which we have, those in construction we're supposed to do. Actually, your foreman's supposed to tell your foreman he's supposed to do your accident, correct, I guess? That's how it's how it works.

Speaker 1:

I'm supposed to go into the office and say oh, I'm hurt, I got to go down to the hospital. Well, when I got hurt, I just didn't think it was that bad, and it was pretty bad, so I went to the hospital and then I got written up for not going into the office.

Speaker 2:

Because when you go to the office they want you to go take your drug test and I get it. Well, you know what that with construction, the way our accident reports happen, like you can literally like it can be a minor thing you're not going to, but they want the report and that way they have, they have documentation and the option to send you for the drug I don't even think it's that. I think it's a documentation that they've addressed situations at different times. You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I get it. That ain't my problem. The problem about the write-up to me was it's permanent.

Speaker 2:

Right, that's what I was getting leading to. Yeah, so it never drops off your record.

Speaker 1:

So what's the?

Speaker 2:

union there. To say I don't know, I mean you could have probably worked for a non-union company and it dropped off your record. The union can't get it to where it drops off your record.

Speaker 1:

That ain't right, I don't know. I think it was a little harsh.

Speaker 2:

It doesn't ever drop off. That's harsh Right.

Speaker 1:

So I'm like yeah, so 15 years, if I'm there.

Speaker 2:

Especially because you work unsafe anyways. So we know it's going to happen again. No, I don't.

Speaker 1:

I think this is my first claim.

Speaker 2:

I think the first time that you? Is it the first time you drove the Bobcat wild haphazardly without a seatbelt? Oh no, I didn't See so it see.

Speaker 1:

So it's gonna happen again. No, it's not. I'm gonna wear that. I don't even care. They told me I didn't have to.

Speaker 2:

I'm wearing it, fucked up yeah, that would be enough to do it's like. It's like driving a car in east liverpool, ohio look at you're going.

Speaker 1:

I don't know how fast that thing goes, but I was going full speed, which probably any good jog, but you go to a dead stop like that.

Speaker 2:

I felt like a bug hitting a windshield or taking a shopping cart out of the store. Did you, did, you did. You know they got that now, but it breaks lock up or something. I never seen it until yesterday where um burlington I've got.

Speaker 2:

I've got bags in the, in the cart and I, you know, I'm loading it up and it's like three bags. So I got the cart the whole time we were in the store. So I've got the cart and I'm walking, you know, just nonchalantly out the door and it's like I mean, it's like right in my gut, everything. I go, what the hell? I'm like, what's that catch up on? I'm trying to figure out. I had never heard of this. Amanda had. She's the one who's like oh, I bet it locked up because you tried to walk out the door with it. I'm like I had never heard of it.

Speaker 2:

I was trying to steal a cart trying to steal shit if you're not supposed to take them out the store. It didn't have a sign that said don't take the carts out. I bet it does somewhere it may be somewhere, but it wasn't. It wasn't obvious to me it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1:

Ignorance is not part of the law. But what I?

Speaker 2:

he was trying to steal that cart I was trying to take it to the car and unload my thing and then bring the car back the way you're supposed to do it there? Yeah, apparently not. But I didn't even know that was a technology that existed, like they just I've heard of. It breaks like lock, right as you. Because literally my, my wheels were about eight inches into the vestibule of the store and it was like wham. I'm like what the fuck? I'm looking trying to figure out?

Speaker 1:

I'm like I I must be stuck on something, I must have hit something you know what, save a lot had the idea you put a quarter there, you get your quarterback. When you take it up to the thing, you know I'm saying, there was never no carts in the parking lot. Now, all of a sudden, they ain't got them no more. Yeah, they do, oh they don't.

Speaker 2:

Well, all these though it's all these that no, save a lot of had it. I didn't know that all these are still does yeah, so that was a good idea order in the cart.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but they're probably gonna have to go up a little bit well, I have to slip a dollar that we'll look it down yeah, I don't know who's gonna.

Speaker 2:

I mean, if you, I guess you would take, because that was like when I lived at central, when I had the apartment building over there in Central. You always seen carts there. People were always bringing them home.

Speaker 2:

In fact I want to say I think one of the tenants had it in their house, like had a cart in their house. Yeah, I mean they might have had the TV on it. It might have been their TV stand. I'm just saying I kind of can visualize it like as a TV stand. It might have been their tv stand. I'm just saying I, I, I kind of can visualize it like as a tv stand it might have been.

Speaker 1:

I don't know but I'm just saying, yeah, they. I don't think they have them anymore. I'd say it might. That's a smart idea I mean that works.

Speaker 2:

It's like a motherfucker right there. Boy, I was like wham. I mean I, you can't take it out. I don't know what would happen. I guess it locks the wheels, so I guess you could lift it up and walk out with it, but that would be silly. But I, I mean, I was dumbfounded I had no, I had never even heard of it. I didn't even know it was a technology out there.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know, speaking of technology, look at all this shit Elon Musk is doing.

Speaker 2:

Robots. Holy shit, dude, that's crazy as fuck. It looks like iRobot. Yeah, it looks just like them. It looks just like them, dude. That's the scariest shit ever. That's crazy, can you?

Speaker 1:

see how advanced they are already.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they're having whole conversations with their bartending Dude and he's saying $20,000, $30,000. That ain't bad, pretty cheap. That's the problem with it. If they were $150,000, nobody would have them. But for $20,000, $30,000, people will buy them. They'll be part of the, and then that's what he's talking about now.

Speaker 1:

Right, they're brand new. Imagine five years, three years, yeah, you know how everything drops by the old robot for like five.

Speaker 2:

Somebody already abused it.

Speaker 1:

It comes in your house and it's got like some sexual fetish fetishes and shoots baby oil out its fingers. Don't put a black light on it oh shit, get the used robot.

Speaker 2:

That's been way too used. I mean I it's great, that was wild. I seen it. I didn't know that it was anywhere here. That level, like literally 20 grand, ain't just any shit, dude. I mean you could probably see those getting down to like five or six green even, and people will just have them. I mean they he says he could cut the grass, they could cut the grass, they can babysit. Did you see that what I said? Yeah, babysit. Teach your kids, like I mean, that's, that's wild, it's absolutely wild. First of all, if it does teach you how your kids are being taught by whoever's programming that thing, yeah, but you gotta pay attention.

Speaker 2:

Really believe that? What People don't pay attention to the fucking what's on the iPad right now, you think they're gonna pay attention to what the robot's doing? People are self-absorbed. Somewhat Gotta pay attention to something Not everybody.

Speaker 1:

If they were, we wouldn't have half the problems we well, that's a lot of laws change and what your kid can't discipline them, they'll call the police on you and all this stupid shit well, I think a lot of it has to do with technology.

Speaker 2:

We didn't have that dude like because I I would have. I would have been a kid that would have loved the shit out of ipads and video games if we had it. We just didn't have it. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but that shit's kind of scary yeah, that robot but I take whatever I get.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I'll buy one. I have a bartender here all day and I would have it. I would still think that you would want. Well, I don't know when I first thought about it, like as a bartender, I thought about it. I go if it's the bartender anybody going to. You know people like to come and see a girl behind the bar and what guys do, but that's not 100% true. I mean, guys do great bartending. Brother did fantastic. I actually do good numbers when I bartend, but this robot actually interacts. Right.

Speaker 1:

It talks yeah. You could like bullshit with it?

Speaker 2:

ask crazy questions, like, at least for a little while, when you got it, people would be so intrigued that they would be there to check it out. Oh for sure, just like that, because they have that place down the road here, that mexican restaurant that has a robot server I heard about it I haven't seen it yet, but it has a robot server yeah, but it's not like that no, it's like a little wheels robot that rides around with.

Speaker 2:

That's not the same, this thing's interactive it's a person, it's like, it stands up like a person and yeah it dances. It had a dance in. It seemed to have almost a sense of humor right, right, like it was like, oh yeah it was I robot dude. It was legit I robot. Yeah, like I expected we'd see that. Like you remember johnny five, I expected something like that first. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

I never expected that would jump to this like I robot perfect, same, almost exact yeah, yeah, identical, it looks the same, like actually it looks a little better, it does look better, but it looks the same. I pulled them up. I pulled because I was trying to tell you amanda had never seen iro. And I'm like no, no, no, seriously, and I'm pulled up the trailer and I'm showing her and I'm like you know, in movies we've been warned about all this shit for years.

Speaker 2:

Yeah I mean, the next step is terminator right that's what I'm to say.

Speaker 1:

We've been warned about this yeah, that's what I said.

Speaker 2:

I don't know if elon musk I just said that with troy elon musk like a good guy or is he an evil. I don't know which one it is.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. You seen him? What do you have?

Speaker 2:

a bus and a car like an uber car, yeah, though don't have no steering wheel, nothing nothing drives around, drives you wherever you need to go and boom, boom. I think. I kind of figured that like reminded me of demolition. Remember, all restaurants are Taco Bell now yeah yeah they want a restaurant war yeah, yeah, and I feel like we might be in that restaurant where you look at all these places closing up because of the, the expense of everything I don't know it's coming, man, they did, but that no, when I seen that, because he released them thursday, I think right something.

Speaker 2:

But they've been all over the wild. It is wild, they like it is absolutely wild. They there's they. They can do anything we can. Yeah, that's a five year. Well, any task that we.

Speaker 1:

You want to just clean the house and do yeah.

Speaker 2:

That's Go watch the car, but if they start arguing, oh, and they'll get a toaster. I'll fuck them up you think you're getting this perfect yeah, I'll be like what and then there'll be like all these, like battered robot for the signal out.

Speaker 1:

There'll be about 20 of them coming down the street.

Speaker 2:

No, it'll be like there'll be meetings, Like there'll be like hey, meetings, you know, like battered women. There'll be battered robot shelters and shit.

Speaker 1:

Or that robot might whoop my ass.

Speaker 2:

Well, I would assume the robot would whoop your ass right, no hell. No, why would you think it wouldn't? It's a machine dude.

Speaker 1:

Whoop your ass that's machine would be a toaster a dishwasher.

Speaker 2:

You make it. Go take a bath, we'll sit right here on the edge. I was thinking about that like if you did, it said it could cut your grass. You got to put shoes on it, huh I got you I mean that, like you don't want your robot all grass stained, right walking through your house with grass.

Speaker 1:

Clean his feet.

Speaker 2:

Go in the bathroom, clean your feet I mean, I was thinking about, like, is there a way that you deal with that? That's got to be a thing if you, if you got to walk behind.

Speaker 1:

That's so thing, I'm. How much does it take to charge them?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I know that he said with that taxi and the van it's kind of like what I got in my truck where I set the cell phone down and it just charges. It's like that, there's no plugging it in, it just drives over the pad and it charges the taxi. And the other one drives over the pad and it charges the taxi. And uh, and the other one which see, when I see that I go, okay, now you look at that those uh, solar freaking roadways. Remember that video? Did I ever show it to you? I think so.

Speaker 1:

The solar yeah, where you go by and the wind turns things or something no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2:

Solar freaking roadways. It's, it's so cool, dude, it is like one of the coolest things ever. I should put it. I'll put it on here right now. You could see it. I think that it's something that it's like it would took us. It would take us to like that tron era basically, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2:

I think technology is going too fast. It is, it's well. You know, I wondered about that too. I was wondering like, is it faster than like what the automobile industry did when it did there, when it did its technology back in the day? Are you kidding me? No, I don't know, because you went from horse and buggy dude to freaking rolling. You know what I mean trucks, everything well, I don't think it's that's true.

Speaker 1:

I think it was. They were both going at the same time for a long time yeah, but I feel like kind of jumped quick, though.

Speaker 2:

I mean they started manufacturing plastic and all these new technologies. I mean this is all computerized, so it makes it like clearer, better, but I don't know, it could be the same, I think. I don't know, I think so, but the solar frickin' roadways.

Speaker 1:

I think we went out again.

Speaker 2:

No, I don't think so. No, we're good. Everything's rolling right now Solar frickin' roadways. I'm Googling it or YouTubing right now and I'll show. I'll put the video on here. It is wild, it it is. So what does it do? It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It's um, it has uh, and I'll put it on here right now. So, everybody, right screen. Oh, there we go, boom, here we go. This is the solar freaking roadways. So what are they?

Speaker 4:

they're solar freaking roadways. What do they want from me? Well, they're solar freaking roadways, okay. So actually this time, what is it? It's technology that replaces all roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, driveways, tarmacs, bike paths and outdoor recreation surfaces with solar panels. And not just lifeless, boring solar panels Smart microprocessing, interlocking hexagonal solar units. No more useless asphalt and concrete just sitting there baking in the sun, needing to be repaved and filling with potholes that ruin your axle alignment on your sweet ride, bro.

Speaker 4:

These are intelligent solar panels, replaced a panel at a time. If damaged or malfunctioning, they're covered with a new tempered glass material that has been designed and tested to meet all impact, load and traction requirements. Oh, and did I mention that they're also solar panels? They generate electricity, they generate capital, they pay for themselves and they keep paying more because we're not going to run out of sun for like 15 billion years. That lowers the cost of energy, unlike those bills in the mail that keep going up, and it's clean energy. Everyone can theoretically drive an electric car with no pollution and a minimal carbon footprint. Can you imagine how good our cities would smell? How much healthier we'd all be? Excuse me, young man, am I being led to believe that this thing is some sort of thing. Yes, it's a thing, a real thing, and clean energy is only its primary function. Grab a notepad, because this is where it gets interesting For those in the north.

Speaker 4:

The panels use energy. They collect to power elements to keep the surface temperature a few degrees above freezing. They're heated. No more ice and snow on roads causing traffic delays, accidents and injury. No more shoveling your driveway and sidewalk, no salt corroding your car or wasting tax money on snow removal, and you can ride your bike or drive your motorcycle all year round. Whoa, every panel has a series of LED lights on the circuit board that can be programmed to make landscape designs, warning signs, parking lot configurations, whatever. These roads never have to have lanes repainted, just reprogram to whatever we choose or whatever works best. Imagine a highway road lighting up ahead of you. How much safer it would be to drive at night. There be improved visibility for pilots landing on solar landing strips.

Speaker 4:

Imagine walking onto a solar recreation court and choosing a sports configuration Wanna play basketball, cool Kids. Wanna play hopscotch and foursquare? Awesome Ball hockey Done. And with LED lights under your feet it's gonna look like freakin' Tron out there, but real, because this is the real world, woah. But these panels are also pressure sensitive, so they can detect when large debris like branches or boulders have fallen onto the road, or if an animal is crossing, it can warn drivers with LED text to slow down for an obstruction.

Speaker 4:

I'm very, you know, environmentally conscious. Good, because solar roadways use as much recycled material in their production as possible. Plus, the roadways have two channels that form what's called a cable corridor that runs concurrently with the roadways themselves. One part houses electrical cables, meaning power lines, data lines, fiber optics and high-speed internet, which replaces the need for telephone poles and hanging wires that can be damaged during storms, causing power outages, or become extremely dangerous if severed, either as fallen live wires or buried cables. The other channel captures and filters storm water and melted snow, moving them either to a treatment facility or treating them on site, greatly decreasing the amount of pollution that enters our soil, lakes, rivers and oceans.

Speaker 4:

I'm kinda broke, bro. Yeah, no kidding, the economy is in the toilet. Do you realize how many thousands of jobs this could create and sustain? Talk about a hypodermic adrenaline shot to the heart of the manufacturing and infrastructure sector, and it pays for itself. They're solar freakin' roadways. Um, I have concerns about the future. Is this thing even possible? I told you, yes. Solar roadway technology was invented by engineering couple Julie and Scott Broussard in 2006. Two of the sweetest people in the world, who met when they were three and four years old. Listen to these two. Hi, we're Scott and Julie Broussard inventors of solar roadways.

Speaker 4:

We met in the 1960s, when we were three and four years old these wonderful, intelligent people want to begin manufacturing a technology that can power the future of the whole freakin planet. They were awarded a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to build two prototypes, which are now complete. They're too humble and wonderful to yell at you over the internet, so I'm gonna do it you need to know about this technology, you need to get behind it, you need to share with everyone you know this is actually happening, whoa for the, so that's cool, right yeah, that's cool I mean you're talking about.

Speaker 2:

You got solar panels that are coming in, that are going to power the cities. You could drive an electric car that's charging while you're rolling over it. You know what I'm saying. You're not having to charge it or pay for electricity. You know what I mean. You got the configuration thing is just amazing.

Speaker 2:

You figure, you're leaving downtown Cleveland from work and the lanes automatically which they do have some of that go on now with lights change, the lanes would just switch over to whatever they need to. They could be programmed for it. Or a parking lot could have one handicap spot and when it's taken, another one pops right up next. You know, and that's already pre-programmed to go in there. You know what I'm saying. Like the. And then when you consider that now you consider these taxis that can just drive, that can just get the energy right from the road, like dude, you put those two things together, I think that could be massive. You know what I mean. That's cool. And then the best part, if you notice, like, if these breaks, you just go replace a panel, you know what I mean. And I'm sure it'll be like, if it's a computer, it's gonna be able to tell you that you could have your I robot go oh yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2:

yeah, you're probably right. You could probably not even have an I robot. You probably have just like a thing, that a thing that just drives, it has panels and it just Probably what it's going to be. You know what I'm saying? That's wild dude, that is absolutely wild.

Speaker 1:

Look at the jobs it just took, though.

Speaker 2:

Jobs it took, how many did it make? You got to manufacture all that. That's all. Infrastructure would have to be built.

Speaker 1:

And it's easily maintained by genes.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think it would be cool if you could get like Elon Musk to get behind that and just pick a spot in Montana and just build a city, like small city, but like use the roads, use the sidewalks, use the parking lot Experiment kind of thing, yeah, and just see what happens with it, like how it works you know what I mean and see if it's even feasible, if it's going to hold up, because it says it's going to melt off the snow.

Speaker 2:

But what are you going to do when it dumps? You know four feet of snow in an hour. You know it's probably not going to keep up. I would think. But maybe. But it's cool though that is like you add that to the robots and the and the electric cars and electric taxis.

Speaker 1:

I mean, listen, all right I don't think they're gonna do anything to replace concrete drivers, so I go to. I don't give a shit what they do.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you're worried about foreign. Well, all those, those chases that they had for the cables were concrete, yeah, and all the chases we're gonna have something do it other than man pretty soon yeah like I said, by that time that happens I'll be well retired or

Speaker 2:

gone, whatever never comes first you would think, but it's moving so fast you don't know it's moving so fast, I'm good. How much does it cost? For I mean, like, like my parking lot right now, if I were to tear it out and redo the parking lot, just my parking, that's like 60 grand dude. I mean, how much more would those cost to come in and do it? Because if I spend that 60 grand, I got to do it again within the next eight years, probably. No, eight to ten years. They redid, they redid it in 20.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you're talking. You're talking asphalt to creates.

Speaker 2:

Well, I think that's where you start. I think you could start like instead of putting solar panels on a roof, you put your parking lots and businesses like that and start that way, because it for one, it's safety for your customers, it's you could power your business with the with it's, you could power your business with it with the parking lot, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1:

And they're gonna tax you some other way. What's the difference? They're gonna get their money. You know that. Let's not, let's not be uh naive to that I'm just saying it's a neat ass freaking idea.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean that to to look at that and think it's not cool. I mean it's cool as shit.

Speaker 1:

I mean it's not yeah, it's like the robots too. I think it's cool as shit. I mean, it's not, it's like the robots too.

Speaker 2:

I think that's cool but it's going to take a lot of fucking jobs. Well, I, yeah, I think that at originally, an original form, it looks like it's going to just like make everybody's life easy. Man, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so say you buy two of them, one for the outside power, one I'm good, yeah, you are, but what about the employees?

Speaker 2:

and then I put some solar panel mats just behind the bar yeah, they just could run it right around. Yeah, they showed one of the videos they actually show up pouring beer. I've seen that shots and everything. Yeah, it's, it's, it's wild, dude, it's wild. I had a little cowboy hat on.

Speaker 2:

Oh, some of these girls better be watching their job I mean he said eventually he could get it to 2030. That doesn't mean it's going to be there right away. I mean he's got to pay for all his technology, but I mean if you sell enough of them, you're going to pay for it.

Speaker 1:

If you sell enough of that you know what I mean you're gonna if you bought, just joking around, say you bought two 20 grand, right, so 40 000.

Speaker 2:

how much you say, we hear, oh I I mean because it's not just eight hour employees. You know what I mean it's like shifts All shifts are covered with two, one in and one out. Right, maybe you even have a third to serve table. You know what I mean. Put a little pink dress on that one. You'd almost need a third or fourth, because it'd probably be busy Everybody coming to check it out. You know what I mean. It'd probably be busy as shit. Everybody wanted to say it's not scary. Because it definitely is scary.

Speaker 2:

There's no question, but I mean it's cool just the same. And when you start thinking of the monetization, they have these kitchens that are automated too. Now, like I don't know how they work exactly, but I see ads all the time. I guess because I own a restaurant, but I see ads pop the time. I guess because I own a restaurant, but I see ads pop up all the time about automated kitchen.

Speaker 1:

So imagine you have. You have one in the you know, automated kitchen and two robots.

Speaker 2:

Four robots, it'd be busy. Okay, four robots. Maybe five. You might need somebody to do the drive-through. Just be robots everywhere. That's wild, right yeah you could have a robot. It's gonna be that you could have a robot bouncer why not? Why not?

Speaker 1:

what are they gonna do? Oh, maybe call the law and instantly or something, slap the shit out of them.

Speaker 2:

Well, for one, they probably could record them instantly, right their eyes probably just record instantly yeah.

Speaker 1:

So I don't know, man. Yeah, when in your house you have to put it in the closet or something, you have somebody over to be videoing. You have you on a ditty party.

Speaker 2:

Well, they have to mark like who will have to be like, because how do you stop somebody from stealing it? You send it to the store to get you something. I'm sure it's got serial numbers, yeah, something, I mean. You send it to the store to get you something just don't come back.

Speaker 1:

How did they have it on irobotot, where they could tell which ones it was?

Speaker 2:

yeah, they had like somehow they knew how, what right like an ip address type yeah, I don't think people are gonna.

Speaker 1:

Well, you know what people would probably try to steal fuck yeah you'd steal it.

Speaker 2:

Why wouldn't you? I mean, they were stealing gps's out of cars.

Speaker 1:

You think they're gonna take a damn robot.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'll reprogram it I mean I I'm just saying like I would think they would steal it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, all that shit's kind of scary, even when it started off with the tesla cars you know, the automatic, the self-driving.

Speaker 2:

yeah, I remember me and jimmy dean having a conversation in like 97. Maybe it'll never happen, they'll never be about, they'll never be able to, they'll never be able to relax, they'll never be able to, you know, keep it in the lanes and like be able to, you know, uh, over the roads the way that, and they and they clearly have, they definitely have 100%. What happens with those, those automatic driving cars? There's a lot of potholes. What happens there? Do they avoid potholes?

Speaker 1:

They probably just avoid Lorraine period.

Speaker 2:

That's why there's no electric self-driving cars in Lorraine. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

You got to be on your toes in Lorraine. We ain't up to that technology.

Speaker 2:

No, you think Lorraine's bad dude. I'm telling you, east Liverpool is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. I drove through there. We had Amanda's Cadillac at the time, during COVID. We're driving through there and I'm dodging, trying to miss them. I can't I mean you just can't drive on the road with missing them. I hit one dude. My head actually hit the ceiling and I had my seatbelt on my head, hit the ceiling of the freaking car of the Cadillac. I bounced my head off the ceiling from hitting that pothole. That's how bad East Liverpool is, so it could always be worse, is all I'm saying While you're hating on me Potholes.

Speaker 1:

Potholes you go down to coma by the ditch man.

Speaker 2:

Tell them to start voting oh there's nobody live on there. Oh well, that's why I see there's no voters. You got to go to where the voters are. Them roads are nice where wherever they vote, go in the neighborhoods where they vote. Roads are in good shape. That's the way it works all right in every city.

Speaker 2:

It don't matter what city they're, all the same where they are speaking of which. I watched trump's little uh rally in reno, nevada. It sounded more like an acceptance. I think he knows it's. I think, and she does too. Obama come out chastising everybody. Did you see that?

Speaker 1:

I seen some of it.

Speaker 2:

He was telling them. Like you know, he was like, basically you know, telling them hey, you know, you guys got to get behind her, you got behind me, you got to get behind her, and it's like there's a lot of people in an uproar Like don't tell me what to do, or like don't tell me what to do, mofo, you know what I mean and he's, but yeah, his, I was watching and I'm like sitting there watching it. It just happened to come on. We had tv on or whatever. I'm sitting there and I'm looking at him like I'm like man, this sounds more like acceptance speech, like it doesn't sound like no, a rally. Like it sounded like an acceptance speech, like I think what was you saying about the charges on him?

Speaker 1:

Are you sure about that yet?

Speaker 2:

Oh they, I believe they were all overturned. I don't think he's a felon now. They're a felon. I think everything was overturned. I think they have to return the money to him. It ended at the end of that.

Speaker 2:

Basically, the attorney general's office was basically asking not to be sanctioned by the end of that thing because they were like the judge was up. The judge was up telling them that, uh, and I got. I think I have one video of. I think maybe I don't know if I do or not let me go look. I thought I had one video, thought I did, but I don't know that I have it. Now I don't have, but there was.

Speaker 2:

There was a video, basically where they're saying everything you're citing to go after Trump basically is, is totally, everything you're citing is is no, there was no victims, or there was victims in those cases. There was no victims in this case and in this case it was two sophisticated businesses that did their due diligence and by law diligence, like the like, the appraisal, everything, everything followed the law, regardless of what it was, and they're saying that they had ignored the appraisal of one of the properties, and I don't remember which one. One of the properties and I'm making up numbers just because I don't remember what they were, but one of the properties was like $100 million. Trump said, no, it's worth $450 million and I guess that, as you're applying for those big business loans I don't know enough about them per se, but I guess, as you're applying for them, you can take a you know what they. They have an appraisal for 200 million saying the property's worth that as is. But what you're saying is, basically, I'm going to be able to do this and one of them is is get rid of some regulation on, like, maybe, rent control or whatever it is. That's your, that's your goal and what you believe you can do, and you're allowed to put that in there. You're allowed to consider that and there's not that.

Speaker 2:

Basically, there's nothing he did. Essentially, there's nothing. We all knew that. I mean, we all knew that because he says the value is one thing and, by the way, trump's attorney said had paperwork from the lending agency that said that even if his net worth was $1 billion, which I believe and I'm going to make up some more numbers but I believe he was saying his net worth was more like six billion, but they were saying it was only worth three, three and a half and that he that's one of the things like because he he increased his value, he, you know, basically made them give them better interest rates or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 2:

But they said that his deal would not have changed even if he was worth $1 billion. And the Attorney General is saying he was worth $3.5 billion. So he's worth three and a half times what they said, that $1 billion. They'd do deal at the same interest rate, everything. So all of it basically is all that whole thing that the appellate court basically got washed away this week. Yeah, I guess my understanding is that he is not a felon. There's no felony charges. I believe they're all being overturned and I would assume he gets his money back Now. Does he get his interest with that? He should you hand over $500 million for no, no reason.

Speaker 1:

They don't have to pay you interest and you probably have to go to court and sue him for it.

Speaker 2:

But I don't think he's gonna get it I mean I if they're found at fault for, like, illegally coming after you and they're not in the right. I mean literally, they were asking to not be sanctioned at the end of that okay, you really think they're just gonna say, without a fight, here's your no.

Speaker 1:

He'd probably have to go to court for that.

Speaker 2:

He probably has to go to court to get the $500 million.

Speaker 1:

And he'd probably have to go to court to get the final shit where that's released off his record. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

Possibly. I don't know how that works, though Once you go to the appellate court, I don't know, that might just automatically drop and I'm dramatically drop and I'm not sure how that worked. But that'll suck for the democrats, because they love saying he's a felon. They love it, they love saying he's a felon, he still might be they love it.

Speaker 2:

Man, that's their favorite thing to say. But yeah, anyways, it sounded like an acceptance speech. That's all. I'm saying it literally, like I'm listening to it and it's like this dude is literally accepting everything at this point, like this is a done deal in his mind. It sounds like. And then he was in Colorado before that and that was crazy too, because Colorado is a blue state. They had lines out that like lines were going a mile away, maybe trying to get into the convention where he was at Probably close to a mile away, maybe trying to get into the convention where he was at Probably close to a mile away Wild. I don't know if that's all because people want him as president or they just want to see Trump you know what I mean Like he's a rock star type, I mean he is a public figure for a whole life.

Speaker 1:

Right Before our lives, was he?

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Hell yeah.

Speaker 2:

How old are you? 51. But how long has he been in the game he been in?

Speaker 1:

His dad was. He still had money and he was still a rock star in it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but he did that shit in the 80s Rock star. I think the 80s started like really taking off and becoming like I believe anyways, I could be wrong, I don't know, I'd have to look, but anyways it sounded like an acceptance. Okay, and kamala doesn't sound like she's doing good. And then obama's out there chastising people like he was, uh, telling them, basically, you guys, gotta, aren't showing up to support. You need to be doing this. What's the matter with you, basically? And that tells you they're nervous.

Speaker 2:

Just for him to come out and say that test, to tell you there, oh, I'm sure that their internal polls are both telling them the same thing that you know. I mean that trump's gonna take it right probably not as close as everybody's saying it, you know, and I wouldn't have thought it would be anyway. I mean, I guess when she first comes on the scene, everybody there was some people got excited about it, maybe, I guess, but I would have never guessed that anybody would even remotely voted for her over him. Really, don't. What about this whole thing with that Elon Musk? Do you like that idea? What he wants to bring Elon Musk on on a committee that basically looks at waste in the government.

Speaker 1:

I don't think him. I think they should do that, but not with him. He's got too many ventures going and it might be a conflict of interest.

Speaker 2:

Because he has government contracts with his company.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't think that'd be a good idea, I think that would be a conflict of interest, I mean.

Speaker 2:

But the thing is, his power, like how well he's done his companies and that's why I wouldn't do it because it's too much. Yeah, you're going to be very powerful well, I mean, the committee is just there to see, see the ways they still have to go through.

Speaker 1:

You still got an influence.

Speaker 2:

If you're in that committee, absolutely so yeah, I don't think it should be, but look at him. He's running twitter without a glitch and he freaking fired 80 of the staff there yeah, exactly that's what the that's what the government needs it right, but not through him.

Speaker 1:

There's other people that are qualified for that are there?

Speaker 2:

there's nobody doing that there's somebody that's qualified for just ain't doing it, but they're qualified for it, but they have to run a huge company and have shown that they get rid of the waste and the fat.

Speaker 1:

I don't think that a person with that much power, money and everything should be in a position like that. I really don't. That's too much. Then you start to manipulate shit and you start having more power than what you got now. That's too much.

Speaker 2:

Is he manipulate? He seems like a good person, though he just said something a little bit ago. I can't tell, but it seems like he's a good person.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah. The devil don't come up to you with the horns and everything. He's going to be in the skies.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, the devil does probably smile when he comes up.

Speaker 1:

What I'm saying is too much power is not good for anybody.

Speaker 2:

He's already got that power. I mean, did you see those rockets like how they land? Have you ever watched the SpaceX rockets how they land? Dude, they're wild. They come in to the atmosphere, they're just kind of like laying sideways and then it just bursts. They're just kind of like laying sideways and then it just burst, uh, uh. It just like pops, the flame pops and it stands up and just slowly comes on down and the legs come out and it just sits down right there, done like no landing pad, no, nothing, no falling in the ocean, no, like it just lays itself right there, nice and calm yeah, so if he, they're amazing.

Speaker 1:

Back to your question yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2:

If you can manipulate one little thing with that much power just by telling the other guys in the room, yeah, I think it's wild because the thing with him is like he supports trump wholeheartedly, even though trump telling you electric cars are garbage I mean you know what I'm saying. Like he's telling you they're garbage and he's still behind him. I mean they're great cars. He's not saying they're not great cars, trump. He's like they make great cars, they, they. He is making a great product, but they're we're not ready for us to be in all electric cars I agree with that 100 and and he's behind him.

Speaker 2:

You would think he would not be behind that guy that's telling you not to go buy an electric car. I don't know, I'm just saying.

Speaker 1:

I don't think. Put somebody in that position, and what are they going for? He's got so much shit going on. Does he really got time to do a government?

Speaker 2:

I wouldn't think he'd have time to do anything, but look at him just punching out robots like they ain't shit.

Speaker 1:

Well, you know on the line, I promise you that that's what I'm saying. He's got all these different projects going on going to space, building cars, starting a new truck thing, having robots, all this other shit. He's got time, or he's going to make time, to go into the government.

Speaker 2:

And SpaceLink too, he's got.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so all this shit he's got going on, he's going to make time to go sit down, and what is he doing that for? Come on.

Speaker 2:

Should we get one of them? Spacelinks internet. It's basically internet. The space link internet gotta take over to. I watch it. You just plug it in and you're connected instantly, high speed rolling. How much is? They're not that expensive, they're pretty cheap, but they they have monthly fees like any other provider. Does you know what I mean? So I don't know. I really you'd have to look at, like what the contracts. Does you know what I mean? So I don't know. I really you'd have to look at what the contracts are. I know that I looked at. Some are barely reached. There's other ones that look like they were higher, but I don't know which.

Speaker 1:

I think this podcast has been on for too long.

Speaker 2:

Two parts. That's why.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, same day. All right, so back to this. Who's going to trade me something nice for this?

Speaker 2:

Yeah day, all right. So back to this. Who's gonna trade me something nice for this? Yeah, we're gonna put it on marketplace. Take a picture on market? Yeah, we'll do that. And it's a trade up. December 22nd is the day that we're gonna. Whatever he has, on december 22nd we're drawing it. That's what it is, whatever it happens to be, and the tickets are only a dollar. So, yeah, I mean, you're okay, no matter what it is, you're still you're gonna get your money ahead unless he does some really bad dealing.

Speaker 2:

No, that ain't happening, dude. What if you? What if you get him a convertible s10 with hydraulics? Never know. All right, we're getting out of here. See everybody. A little bit later I'm gonna make some clams, I'm gonna do some clams downstairs, I think, for the browns game, unless, uh, my bartender isn't showing up.

Speaker 1:

So we'll see hey, you need a robot yes peace.

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