Roderick on the Line

00:00:00 ◼   ► hello hey john i'm marilyn is going to [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► move [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► ja don't take your love to town [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► mmm god it's early 50s he is a word is [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► that the worm has turned [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► I just looked that phrase up not but two [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► days ago [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► yeah German know what Shakespeare ah I [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► knew that it was Shakespeare but i [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► thought i thought that it meant i've [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► been using of course as we all have [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► forever and I thought that it meant now [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► the now the jig is up now the shoes on [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► the other foot now the you know what I [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► mean it's like with the switcheroo has [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► been pulled a switcheroo has been pulled [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► that's exactly right but in fact in [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► Shakespeare it means literally that even [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► the worm one day will rise up if you [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► insult him enough if you dance if he who [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► if you step on the worm even the worm [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► will turn and I i think i like that one [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► I liked it better to and i was [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► astonished at how how neutered the term [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► had become over the centuries you know [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► if you just sort of like oh the worm has [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► turned [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► murmur but in fact it means no the worm [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► will rise up [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► and fight you even the worm [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► oh it's it's really killing its gnarly [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► yeah so all of a sudden I no longer feel [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► like I can use the worm has turned in [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► the mundane events of my normal life I [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► have just I have to save it until I am I [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► mean it's like it's some shit that a [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► that so that a superhero would say when [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► they had almost completely been [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► vanquished I don't want to talk about [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► comic books but no I don't know it's a [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► heavy it's a heavy i think it's good [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► enough i don't know if this is the [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► chrome uses the term correctly it's [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► gonna keep my powder dry i like it so [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► much that i'm only gonna use it a couple [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► times a year [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's always going to be if [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► I've really let's say I'm talking to [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► like a doorman or something and I just [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► want to say that's enough [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► mmm the water my friend has turned [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► except in almost every instance that i [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► normally use it the other person is the [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► worm and now I'm realizing i am i'm [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► basically calling their I'm calm I'm [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► singing their their anthem and in fact I [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► should let them say the now serve the [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► worm has turned [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► that's about the security guard you know [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► in which every episode that was she [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► should have said the worm has turned [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► you're a lot like Samuel Jackson in so [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► many ways in Pulp Fiction you know where [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► at the end he you know he's been saying [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► that bible verse over and over and he [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► realized it means something else he said [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► now that's right i just realized the [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► worm has turned is some cold-blooded [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► ship [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► yeah exactly and he's going through a [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► transitional period [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's right he's the baby's [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► late may be laying his guns down [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► you're kind of going through it right [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► your kind of a kind of worm is turning [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► into a butterfly [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► I'm feeling I'm you know I've been [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► laying my guns down lately and I really [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► don't know what's going to come of it [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► someone wrote me a very nice letter the [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► other day saying you know I think that [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► people's the we all joke like that this [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► podcast is helpful to people but then [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► there's the there's the next level with [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► which is people saying all kidding aside [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► it really does help and then there's the [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► you know their multiple levels of [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► are you really kidding there's people [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► checking our word shorts that's not [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► really kidding aside [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► yeah there's people that are mad at us [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► for every other thing we say yeah you [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► know I got a lot of that only talk about [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► the show on the show but I i saw a lot [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► of nice response to that too it's it's [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► almost like you're your follow-up on the [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► well stroll in some ways I just like to [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► congratulate cut all this out that well [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► but but uh but I got a lot of got a nice [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► letter from somebody saying that you [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► should you should legitimately like [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► compile your thoughts into some kind of [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► volume because if they if those thoughts [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► were all in one place that would be a [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► very helpful manual for people natural [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► do agree I agree with that [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► well no and this is the problem up [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► because i am i'm more and more all the [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► time i am announcing my own code in the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► sense that I although well this is the [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► problem although people are terrible [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► drivers and although they are bad [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► citizens and although they need [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► corrective measures and many many many [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► many many people every day should get a [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► light punch in the nose some should get [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► a stronger punch in the nose but i but I [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► no longer feel confident that that may [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► be history isn't against us like that [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► that what seems to us to be a passing [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► phase which is that this that the [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► culture is like so concerned with in the [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► in the parlance of merlin mann like [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► where's my parade this like where's my [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► parade culture and the and the egg like [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► overwhelming focus on rights that are [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► being infringed upon and and you know [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► like a constant kind of licking of our [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► wounds and and doubling down on our like [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► our Pete you know like p IQ you e huh [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► but it seems like with every passing day [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► this is the language now this is the way [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► that people think [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► and speak that the the the insidious in [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► the summit doesn't doesn't mean that it [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► isn't the new truth and more and more I [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► feel like I don't want to be on the [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► wrong side of history even if I feel [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► like history has turned to turn wrong [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► like I I need to be able to i need to be [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► able to say to people like that there's [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► a better way or there's a more elegant [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► way without just without fuming so much [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► you know what I mean I feel like I feel [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► like a fume and that that isn't that [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► isn't am what at an infertile response [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► to anything really fuming is the is the [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► most neutered response and I need to be [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► more active and I don't and I so I have [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► to engage have to engage this culture on [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► its terms and I resent it [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► well you know the attitude that you have [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► had fairly recently historically makes [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► sense [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► um if if you're in a in a club and [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► somebody slaps you with a white glove [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► your entire and you like you're totally [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► entitled to get that person to punch in [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► the nose [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► it's just it's like a lot of people who [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► don't really know you are emailing your [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► gloves and that doesn't scale well and [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► also like I like it seems almost like [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► the like the kind of apocryphal guy who [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► who believes in a gentleman's handshake [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► and then the unscrupulous developer [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► shows up with bulldozers and tears down [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► his house [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► because the guy didn't read the fine [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► print and although we all agree that the [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► guy who didn't begin the guy who [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► believes in a in a gentleman's agreement [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► is like morally ethically the hero of [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► that of that poem he still got his house [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► torn down and he still is [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► you know like you have to learn the you [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► have to learn to read the fine print it [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► seems like now more and more the fine [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► print is oversensitivity hyper [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► consciousness of language to the [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► exclusion of meaning and uh you know and [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► a complete focus on the surface of the [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► the surface like realms of umbrage and [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► insult and very little interest in the [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► it in general ism and in well that's [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► that's what sells [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► I mean it's you know why don't you but [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► the but these are these are the college [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► kids these are the kids that used to sit [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► in and debate mean even 20 years ago sit [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► and debate the finer points of yeah but [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► there's a part of the problem with that [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► is that right now are transgender rights [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► are indistinguishable from liking [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► android and people want to have the same [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► kind of you know incredibly heated [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► argument that goes nowhere basically [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► comes down to i wish more people agree [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► to be like me and and that is generally [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► not a fruitful way to go and I think [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► history is boring that out part of the [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► problem with the parade thing in my [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► opinion is that you know if you want to [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► parade go start your own fucking parade [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► and don't care who comes and don't care [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► who likes it or not that's that that is [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► you know where thats empowerment [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► empowerment is not sitting around and [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► waiting for people to use the right word [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► to make you feel like a whole human it's [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► going out and living your life the way [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► that you want and being imperturbable [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► about the people who see you is less [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► than you want to be and and there's no [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► amount of parsing language is going to [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► fucking improve that it's just it can't [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► be done [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► maybe in time everybody will evolve with [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► the best way for that to evolve as [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► everybody who wants to be in that parade [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► all walking in the same direction [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► don't worry about it likes it or not [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► yeah unfortunately if I had chosen to [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► live in a world [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► well if I have if I had chosen in [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► college to be an electrical engineer i [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► would take the job John that isn't it [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► how it's a good paying job I would be [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► now living in a culture of Engineers [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► specifically electrical engineers and [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► within the within our flights right [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► that's like being the car radio dr. [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► official engineer within our culture us [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► electrical engineers sitting around at [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► are drafting tables and our autocad [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► terminals and you know whatever our bar [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► function machines the culture of our of [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► our profession in our our side of the [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► world you know generally electrical [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► engineers tend to be very [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► process-oriented and you know and and [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► within that I would be able to pretty [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► much adopt you know with whatever kind [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► of worldview I wanted to and and [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► maintain it regardless [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► irrespective of what the outside world [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► is doing because I'm living in my [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► electrical engineer igloo or my my [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► Trapper minor trappers ball gang or [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► whatever but you know i have chosen to [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► be someone who is engaged with the [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► culture specifically the leftist culture [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► not just in America but in the world and [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► the progressive you know i have chosen [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► to be a progressive this is the problem [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► i have chosen to be a progressive I am [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► NOT a long time I am a person who is who [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► spent his whole life engaged in the in [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► the culture of ideas and this is the [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► this is where the culture of ideas seems [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► to be trending and I mean you know so [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► often I get letters or you and I get [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► letters from people who work in [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► universities [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► and who appreciate what we do and yet at [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► the end of the at the end of the page [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► they always feel very good naturedly [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► like they need to just kind of add like [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► one little tag sentence one little tag [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► at the end saying something about you [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► know how we need to take more feminist [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► theory classes or how ping pong is this [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► ping-pong or whatever you know some [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► little just like good-natured but still [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► pointed lecture that we're doing it [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► wrong and and all you know and it's all [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► it always comes from the same place that [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► we are we that the they love that we are [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► thinking outside of the of the the [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► mental block or the the mental apartment [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► blocks but that in the end they're also [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► confident that that we're doing it wrong [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► that we are that that we are at that [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► joke racism isn't funny that that joke [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► that joking isn't funny when it is about [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► these uber serious topics of identity [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► and like and pick [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► because I'm because i have chosen [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► progressivism as my language like I [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► can't make myself involved horrible to [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► that you know what I mean like I can't [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► say you don't get it you're not you [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► don't dig it like you're not hip or [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► whatever like i have to engage [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► progressives on their turf and but don't [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► you I mean there must be things that you [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► enjoy except for this one thing it's [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► just that you don't feel the need to i'm [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► not trying to sound ungrateful for [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► somebody and liking it I mean I I can [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► speak for myself it's just it doesn't [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► bother me because it's everybody's [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► entitled to an opinion for sure and it's [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► nice that people want to make some kind [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► of connection but take to maybe maybe to [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► your point I think I you know I'm not [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► crazy about that word brand but it's [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► hard to get away from we have a personal [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► brand about how we want the world to see [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► us and what things we choose you choose [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► to associate ourselves with and part of [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► brand is in some ways story and his [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► first story to make sense it has to have [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► a beginning a middle and an end and the [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► stories that we tell ourselves have to [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► make sense and they have to not have [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► plot holes and the rebranding because [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► when you have a story in your head about [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► how something goes your beer as much as [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► you might really enjoy something or [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► really you know not just this but [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► whatever it might be something you [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► really enjoy but you know when you find [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► out the dome lawyers drove drunk you [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► can't help but have that like not sit [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► right in your head if you turn it over [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► because it doesn't fit the story doesn't [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► fit the brand i think that's what it is [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► and I think that gets heavily amplified [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► on the web and social media interactions [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► because that's this we don't you know we [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► stopped noticing you know the huge [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► amount of DNA that has us similar [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► meaning mostly you know people who can [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► afford to have a computer and an [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► internet connection and it goes into [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► that narcissism of minor differences [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► about this one thing we can't reconcile [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► in that story and that's what people get [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► fixated on and you know and that's [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► integration sit around singing Kumbayah [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► I'm saying just you know it can be just [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► like do their own thing to be fucked up [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► and have that be ok [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► like it's white what why do you know ill [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► there's always been bad parties and [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► we've always had the ability to walk [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► away from them [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► you know you you need a better class of [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► people and your races friend you and [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► your racist friend nothing if I seem a [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► little distracted these cuts there [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► beeping when i first moved into this [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► house my neighbors said you gotta get an [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► alarm have to get an alarm for your [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► house because there are a lot of [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► Breaking and enterings and I was like [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► mmm yeah I have my own security system [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► in the form of Tiger traps [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► it's in the umbrella stand by the book [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► but but they were like no no you know [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► like a good friend of mine his house got [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► broken into like three times and he has [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► dogs and i think that the feeds just [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► like actually threw some steaks up on [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► the porch the dogs ran out on the porch [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► to get the stakes let's see mister the [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► cat ran in shut the door behind the dogs [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► and then took everything and so I was [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► like okay I'm gonna get an alarm system [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► but then it and then it was that's that [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► same process that you go through anytime [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► you want a service now just like [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► ordering the heart rate of phone or the [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► internet or whatever it's like a whole [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► menu of different expect you know [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► different services and attendant charges [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► none of them are the right the menu is [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► never right it's like wait a minute [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► it's like the Wright brothers when i get [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► like looking in the age of paper planes [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► and bicycle engine it is I thought about [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► doing that and i found it was like [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► buying an Adobe product it was [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► completely inscrutable the options and [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► the names and the features and benefits [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► i find it totally overwhelming it's the [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► worst and it's a you know I cancelled my [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► cable because I was insulted that [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► internet cost whatever it costs a [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► hundred dollars and cable was five [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► dollars extra it's like why I don't [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► subscribe to the new york times because [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► they're like the sunday New York Times [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► eight dollars of dollars a month and [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► then you can get it every single day of [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► the week for eight dollars and [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► twenty-five cents you're like fuck you [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► you know what that's just that I think [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► dangerous [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► that's right it's User so but but my [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► friends were like you got to get this [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► alarm system so i got an alarm so [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► system installed but I don't have a [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► landline so yeah I had to get an alarm [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► system that was cell phone-based so when [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► somebody breaks into your house it over [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► the seller for your convenience over the [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► cellular wires it sends an alert and I [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► knew that it was I knew that it was a [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► placebo you know I knew that this thing [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► would never protect me from burglary or [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► from fire from anything but it was a [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► thing that every time I leave the house [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► I push the buttons on the wall [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► it gives me a reassuring series of beeps [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► and I walk out of the house secure in [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► the knowledge that there is a fake thing [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► guarding my house and that that that [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► that this fake thing is going to act [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► somehow as a deterrent against whatever [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► like methi burglar once in my house but [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► but I knew the whole time it is a [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► cheap-ass system if it went off [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► none of my neighbors would hear it let [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► alone respond to it [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► the company itself probably probably the [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► alarm would there be so many dropped [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► calls that it would take 20 minutes to [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► send the message and then the cops would [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► be here four hours later but just [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► recently the alarm has decided after 45 [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► years of being in my house that it is [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► having a malfunction and now it just [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► beeps at random times and i called the [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► company and went through a whole process [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► with the put their customer service [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► person where [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► she tried everything she could to fix it [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► from a from a long distance to no avail [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► and now it wakes me up in the middle of [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► the night right now it's beeping [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► downstairs eat and I feel like I not [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► only do I feel like ripping it out of [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► the wall but I feel like ripping I feel [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► like ripping like America out of the [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► wall you know there's there there [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► this is the model that this company has [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► this company knows that it is a shit [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► service for for the for those keeping [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► track it is called monitronics that is [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► the name on the tracks at a local [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► company or no it is not it so it's one [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► of these like it's a it's a national [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► company it is probably owned by a series [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► of offshore shell companies and and [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► ultimately it is owned by General [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► Electric or by album it's probably owned [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► by Albert and it is it is a it's a [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► pyramid scheme kind of company where [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► they are true what they're trying to do [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► is get more customers all the time [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► they're not trying to provide service [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► you know like they're out there just [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► just steps just like going going door to [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► door trying to recruit people into their [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► listen to that it doesn't really do it [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► that often is it really going that often [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► well it is never done this before [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► until I sat down to do this podcast and [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► all the sudden I was like that thing [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► just beeped out twice and now it's it's [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► every I think it's happening every 45 [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► seconds be mindful right and that's and [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► so right now it's like it is really [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► keeping me in the present but but but [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► it's an example like I remember you [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► remember when I when I left verizon and [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► I had been on verizon the verizon had my [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► first cell phone and I was on verizon [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► for eight years or something like that [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► and I wanted to get an iphone and they [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► didn't have it and I said to the lady [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► and I called him up and I was like I've [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► been on month-to-month for like five [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► years now I'm canceling my service [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► because i want to get an iphone and I [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► have to go to AT&T I don't like them any [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► better but i but I want to I want to I [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► want to make this move [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► and she said well you came in a year and [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► a half ago because you dropped your [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► phone in the bathtub and at that time [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► you signed a new contract and so you're [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► not on month-to-month you are under [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► contract to us and it's going to cost [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► you three hundred dollars to get out of [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► this contract I was like I did no such [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► thing I dropped my phone in the tub and [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► i came in and i paid someone and she's [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► in Russia can that you didn't read the [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► fine print didn't read the fine print [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► and they did not you know that there [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► that's their game they didn't tell me [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► that I was signing a new contract they [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► said well we give you this brand new [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► phone for only twenty-five dollars and I [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► was like shocks you guys are nice and so [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► I was so mad and I'm talking to this [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► woman on the phone and I was like this [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► is your idea of customer service like [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► I'll never use verizon again and she [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► said quite wisely you are calling to [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► cancel your verizon service [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► why what I think you were going to use [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► verizon again and ice and I I thought [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► about a person I was like you know life [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► is long lady like there's there's [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► another 50 years of me interacting with [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► phone companies and you are you're [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► you're you're like you're burning this [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► bridge right now with me over some [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► couple hundred bucks but that's here you [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► know that's your attitude and your [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► attitude is that next next time you'll [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► have the iphone and then I'll just like [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► a little patient lamb i'll just be led [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► over to be tied up at your Corral that [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► was kind of a tortured metaphor [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► yeah I anyway so this miss monitronics [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► thing and I just I feel like I don't [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► know it's a i'm back to wanting to put a [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► flamethrower to everybody and I'm I just [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► don't feel like that's I can't continue [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► to be my my method [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► well ma I i like that continues sounding [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► very sage and and and distant from these [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► things about it that much mean [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► incredibly emotional it makes me want to [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► tear America out of the wall and because [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► every single one of the shit storm [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► there's not one of them that you can get [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► mobbed up with it's going to be good i [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► mean ask how many people you see walking [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► around in a verizon sure [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► and being really happy like he just [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► doesn't have the verizon tattoo sure [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► what it's all your eyes and can judge me [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► it's all the startups down in San [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► Francisco just like disruptive to shovel [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► that shit out the door and then you know [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► and let people let you know just like [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► let people deal with it i guess and [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► we'll we'll have we'll have our we'll [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► have our hundred million dollars and [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► will be under the next garbage pile i [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► had a similar calling experience as long [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► as we're talking about customer service [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► really get back to food & parenting but [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► Deion this one's really killed me [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► I at some point something happened I [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► don't know later on I want to like do [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► something different with my myphone find [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► out if i'm eligible for a thing and they [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► go oh well you know your seems you you [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► actually you just reach up your contract [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► you know a few months ago and I was like [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► oh my like what an auto- thing and like [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► you know you each you know when you you [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► changed your options [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► I asked you to drip login pin close even [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► better i added a service i add a [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► tethering so that I could use my phone [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► you know to to connect you know using [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► the ipad i could tether my phone so I i [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► asked them to charge me extra for [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► something that's really pretty much [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► invisible non-service and that renewed [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► my contract with them which it yeah but [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► that's really gracious of them to you [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► know but you know you pay for it and [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► then you get that and you know that's [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► like the whole thing you know that the [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► part that I can't reconcile on this [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► story is that like I really wish I could [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► just deal with people and have a [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► relationship that didn't feel like I [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► constantly have to monitor like exactly [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► how and when I'm being fucked [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► yeah it and whether that's something [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► like a company who keeps emailing me [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► stuff even though I never signed up for [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► anything Jonny silly stuff like that but [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► I mean you know you think about what you [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► pay for phone it really really adds up [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► and it makes me it makes my world small [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► because i do stuff like right now I have [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► my phone forward to google voice just [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► because I don't get real phone calls [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► anymore [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► yeah the vast majority of calls that I [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► get like this afternoon i got a phone [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► call I don't know what it's about i [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► don't speak spanish i think it might be [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► about 35 mortgages you don't have a [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► mortgage [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► I know [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► I got a phone domino's I get you know I [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► had a guy come and fix my aunt problem i [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► finally had a disturbing that's great [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► well wait wait for it like the guy cums [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► he's like and the woman on the phone I [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► said how much is a costume and she says [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► well answer really hard to eradicate [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► will have a guy come out with a free [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► estimate was like a free estimate so the [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► guy comes out and of course like he [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► comes out at eight thirty in the morning [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► and I have somewhere to be that one did [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► I have somewhere to be that one day at [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► nine you know 915 and I'm like alright [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► alright let's hurry this along like what [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► what's the story and he's like oh yeah [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► you got ants all right I said yeah how [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► much how much you get rid of the ants [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► and he was like well it's a 275 dollar [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► process uh and I was like fine you know [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► what you're here i'm not going to [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► comparison shop i'm not going to send [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► you away get rid of the ants and like [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► like let's let's get this happening the [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► ants have been driving me crazy all [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► summer and so he pulls out this [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► paperwork and he's like all right well [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► let's get you signed up for a plan i'll [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► come on i was like what what you're [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► you're an exterminator like you either [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► you got dirt on the knees your pants [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► what would talk about what's right there [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► in the name once you get rid of the [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► answer i don't need a plan [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► he says answer really hard to get rid of [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► usually what happens is we kill the ants [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► then they come back always helping you [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► and if you if we signed up for a plan [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► that every time we come back it's just a [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► $79 charge but if we don't if we don't [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► send you up for a plan then every time [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► we come back you have to charge $300 [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► again and I was like so what's the plan [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► he was like well the plan is for forty [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► nine dollars a month we keep the ants [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► out for good [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► I was like soon so every six months i'm [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► paying for a visit essentially i pay you [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► forty nine dollars a month forever or [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► until at what point do you feel like [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► it's cut you you are confident that they [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► won't come back and he's like well ants [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► are really hard to eradicate [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► and I was like listen man i did not i [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► had you here to kill Samantha I did not [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► think I was joining a club or or a cult [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► or whatever whatever you think whatever [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► kind of thing this is like a plan [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► seriously you think i'm going to sign up [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► and have you just like auto deduct 50 [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► bucks a month and and you hope that I [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► forget about it [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► I mean that's what they all do that's [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► that that's the whole business model now [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► half of american companies their [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► business model is let's hope they've [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► let's hope they sign up for direct pay [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► and forget about i think yeah I think [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► recurring revenue is really huge [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► incorporate in there yeah right so i [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► would just sit here like a like a you [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► know like a milk cow for the next 20 [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► years while this company is just like oh [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► you know we have you just 50 bucks a [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► month in the hands never come back and [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► I'm like wow I'm so lucky it's just like [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► so the guy killed the ants [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► it's been two weeks i haven't seen aunt [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► but i'm starting to wonder whether the [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► ants aren't but there's not i mean i [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised to [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► catch that guy in my bushes with the [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► bucket advanced yeah I'm answer [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► complicated problem John nobody really [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► knows where it's come from i went out [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► the other day and there were ants I saw [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► hive advance in my I saw hi Vance in my [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► driveway and I went in the house it was [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► that they were the same lands when in [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► the House very patiently put the mail in [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► my mail jar i put the keys in the key [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► cup took my coat off took my shoes off [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► put on my loafers put on my cardigan [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► sweater went into the kitchen boiled a [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► pot of boiling water [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► when the water was boiling hot I carried [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► it out into the driveway and I poured [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► the boiling water down the and whole uu [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► she should offer to do that for other [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► people it was fifty dollars a month it [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► was total carnage [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► I'll i heard good i heard a million [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► souls screaming out all at once [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► yeah and then go silent and I I felt no [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► remorse i felt only at Pikeville only [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► piece we were driving back from my [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► sister-in-law's yesterday and listening [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► we listen to pretend to fall all the way [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► through and at some point turned around [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► and said why don't you know that that's [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► that's Uncle John you should just know [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► that in my household you are known for [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► doing something podcasting with me she [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► knows that my daughter and you know we [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► played your records a lot but mainly [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► what she knows you for something that [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► she can recite from memory which is also [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► sometimes say so what are we going to do [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► and she says you go outside and take off [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► your clothes and throw garbage can [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► through the window and you set the place [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► on fire haha that that that is what you [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► are known for that but that is your [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► claim to fame in our home but your [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► reason I'm right we went to that place [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► that I when you first suggested that as [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► a palliative for dealing with the stuff [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► on her burger last time we went to that [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► place here in our neighborhood to get [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► her a burger i said i looked and looked [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► in the woman's eyes said I said this is [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► my daughter she's five [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► it's very very important that when you [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► make her burger it have exactly three [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► things on it it should have some bread [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► in the form of a bunt it should have a [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► meat burger and should have cheese and [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► there should be absolutely nothing else [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► on there that's it and then of course [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► daughter indicated to her what would [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► happen if they got her she said that [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► yeah she says or we're gonna go outside [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► take off our clothes for garbage can [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► through the window and set the place on [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► fire haha i said nah she's not really [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► gonna do know who kids say the darndest [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► things you know the thing about stories [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► John you know we get to tell our own [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► story for a while but if the story is [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► really good eventually it's not our own [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► more it becomes somebody else's story [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► that's right it goes out into the stream [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► down or returns worms we've got analysts [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► right think they're animals at the [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► phylum get worms she got ants I think I [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► just morally in biology [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► I find that hard to believe oh my [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► goodness i was telling my lady today how [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► when I was in seventh grade was a [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► military school I have perfect grades [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► and perfect department had straight a's [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► like a lot of people and I had was the [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► only person in my entire company in [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► military school that didn't have a [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► demerit all year [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► wow yeah whatever this really hundred [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► twenty kids or something yeah you're [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► born again hard mmm i was scared and I [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► was yeah and then i went to consumer [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► math in 8th grade and so it's pretty [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► much all downhill from there [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► you know I reflect often on my my cadet [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► years in the Civil Air Patrol and and I [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► you know I think they're there were [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► there were a couple of points along the [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► way where I could have right my life [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► could have gone a very different route [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► but but uh you know I was in the Civil [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► Air Patrol in Alaska in the seventies [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► and most of the facilities that we were [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► afforded by the air force at the time [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► were either built well generally had [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► been built in world war two like we that [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► if the Air Force built a new building [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► they moved into it and they abandoned [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► the old world war two building and then [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► the Civil Air Patrol was you know given [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► access to these kind of shabby places [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► and so there was that kind of weird [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► military mothball smell to everything [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► and a kind of you know like the doors [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► all shut really solidly but there was a [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► sense there was a sense that there was [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► black mold in the walls and it did not [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► none of it filled me with a feeling that [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► the that that pursuing a career in the [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► military was like going to be a safe and [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► developing environment you know what I [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► mean it was it felt very it was always [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► very cold in those places and [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► not unfriendly but but like [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► disinterested that was the thing being [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► on a military base as a as a as a young [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► kid or as a as a person in his early [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► teens the they were completely [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► disinterested in me in my thoughts in [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► who I was like I was being judged [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► entirely on how on you know obviously [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► done on the conformity how well you know [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► my department exactly as you say and I [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► didn't i guess i didn't whatever it is [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► that people find in the military culture [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► the-the-the-the like they they want the [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► challenge or they you know they want to [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► excel or succeed in a realm where [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► excellence is measure a bowl [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► you know those things were not [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► communicated to me in an appealing way [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► and I just I just always felt like a [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► strange in that environment and I and [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► and although i was the biggest military [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► like army nutcase as a kid I I didn't [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► you know I and and I went into that [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► cadet program with this but the real [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► passion for it I kind of came out the [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► other side not not disillusion but just [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► disaffected like it sounds like it [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► wasn't a good cultural fit it wasn't and [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► that was even before I mean it's not [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► like I went to boot camp and said wait a [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► minute this where there's no room in [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► here for my artistic sensibility you [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► know i was i was 12 and I guess I guess [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► what it ended up being was that I just [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► didn't get off on it and I watched other [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► kids really get off on it but I kind of [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► you know my dad was a member of another [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► organization so you he was a he was a [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► colonel in the Civil Air Patrol because [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► he was the wing legal officer and that [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► entitled him [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► believe it or not to wear a white [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► turtleneck as its uniform [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► well what a white turtleneck with up [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► with a blue blazer and like a nothing [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► like a kernel of spanish language [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► literature it with it was incredible he [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► was the only one of everybody else was [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► in the Air Force uniforms and he was in [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► this white turtleneck with a blue blazer [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► and then a crest like a like a I think [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► it looks so good in that right an eagle [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► grasping a propeller in gold braid on [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► his on the pocket of his jacket he would [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► it was such a badass but and and you [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► know courses wing legal officer like [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► everything my dad did he assumed that [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► eighty percent of the rules of the [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► organization didn't apply to him [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► this is emmanuel headed to private train [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► car from its employees but my dad was [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► also a member of a of a secret [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► organization called the quiet Birdman [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► the same as much as you can say is this [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► aviation-related that's correct the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► quiet Berman was an organization founded [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► after World War one [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► founded by like former World War one [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► fighter aces and it was a group that [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► started meeting in some italian [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► restaurant in New York City you know in [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► and it was a it was a group that you [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► could not join you had to be you had to [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► be tapped yet to be invited by the [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► current membership and then once you [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► were tapped you were a life member and I [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► think it only costs a dollar to join and [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► then you have you were a life member and [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► like Eddie Rickenbacker and Charles [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► Limburger members and neil armstrong I [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► mean it's one of these groups of loud [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► Gordon Cooper no one no they don't they [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► don't talk about it you're not supposed [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► to talk about the quiet Birdman that I [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► really cool I keycard to well yeah and I [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► so this is the thing I still have my [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► dad's all my dad's quiet Birdman stuff [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► and I've talked to other children of [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► quiet Birdman service Africans who have [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► path who have passed on to the next [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► dimension of flown into up into the [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► clouds and not come down and they have [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► they claim that when their fathers died [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► someone from the quiet Birdman showed up [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► and collected the membership card and [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► all their paraphernalia [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► Oh [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► so that didn't happen in my case and and [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► I challenge any listener who is a member [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► of the quiet Birdman to try and come get [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► we're gonna you're ready to go [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► nose-to-nose with the old monitronics [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► that's right here ready to be ready [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► people if you're ready to deal with with [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► the the grab 45-second beeping come at [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► me come at me bro what's up [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► so quiet permit so my dad would go to [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► these quiet Birdman meetings and of [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► course in Alaska there are a lot of [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► quiet Birdman because that's where old [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► astronauts go to retire and he would go [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► off to these meetings and I would you [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► know was like it was like he was with [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► his fraternity i would say you know why [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► don't you show me the fight gamma delta [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► handshake and he would say never he [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► never did I i asked him on his deathbed [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► to show me his fraternity handshake and [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► he said no chance it for him [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► it died with it oh but the quiet Birdman [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► he was even more secretive about and I [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► was like what happens at those meetings [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► he said and we just said get everybody [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► out everybody else gets drunk and then [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► we all tell dirty jokes and I was like [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► really thats he's like pretty much like [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► seriously you you you get all dressed up [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► and you go off to the secret meeting in [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► a hotel somewhere just sit around talk [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► dirty jokes with astronauts that I don't [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► believe it it doesn't sound like you for [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► a second and he was like well it's just [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► it's just it's just plausible enough [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► that like somebody who wasn't thinking [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► about a lot would believe it but I'm [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► guessing they were there was a serious [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► fucking rock is going on with the quiet [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► Bergman well that's what I'm thinking [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► too and you know my dad had nothing [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► maybe like you can't like a black bag [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► type thing like they might have been out [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► doing some stuff you know a little many [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► missions there were plenty of [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► opportunities for him to go sit around [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► with drunks and listen to dirty jokes he [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► didn't like it i mean that's right he [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► did need to go to this this stupid thing [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► and then you know the other all the [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► other shit that my dad was into I i [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► wonder what the quiet Berman were up to [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► and the the problem is if you try and [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► figure it out you go online it's true [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► it's like the it's like the Bohemian [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► Grove you get out you get a get a [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► glancing overview on the internet like [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► oh yeah that's right it's an [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► organization and here [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► the members and everything else is [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► secret so go fuck yourself yeah and you [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► go well no seriously what why in the [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► hell would warren buffett go sit out in [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► the trees with Henry Kissinger for a [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► week like what is in it for him [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► they're like all we tell dirty stories [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► and i'm getting teenager rules i don't [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► know i don't know but I'm not buying it [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► so i don't but the thing is I but i'm [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► i'm i'm scared enough of the [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► organization that it's not like i would [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► try to impersonate a quiet Birdman no I [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► think the average age of course the [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► quiet Bergman is probably 84 and they [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► would know in an instant [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► you know they would it would i'd walk in [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► the door and they go hmm what's this a [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► flapper an aileron might be like uh and [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► they're like that show me your hands [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► she'll be here instance that I I'm the [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► one the first one in three generations [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► to not well as much as i can say is you [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► know right now I'm not in any secret [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► organizations and my grandfather was in [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► scottish rite rite as well as my father [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► really really people lay my my my mom [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► was in rainbow girls it and her [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► let's just say quote unquote boyfriend [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► was a figure skater was in demolay and [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► they love to dance but know that then [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► Saudi male looking very rhythmic people [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► he yeah he went over to the other side [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► young-hee so so anyway it but it's it's [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► really strange the things weird to me is [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► that like with secret organizations is [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► like you know it's a secret organization [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► and you're not allowed to talk about [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► stuff but people they still it isn't [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► secret enough that like you don't know [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► what the logo looks like you know what I [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► mean if you're in like for example I I [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► think about was before but I had on my [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► dad's old lighters on display in my [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► office my first job I had a private [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► office with all you know that decorated [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► so I had like 15 really cool lighters is [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► lighter from Korea and stuff like that [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► and one of them had the you know the [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► symbol with the compass around the the g [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► in it mmm know what is that that's [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► Freemasons that nothing that's the [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► Freemasons yeah yeah so [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► and a guy a local printer came in to [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► talk about a job we were getting time he [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► comes anyone going I mean brown and [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► written or two up and better [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► productivity goes are you a Mason said [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► no no I dad died I've got his lighter is [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► like you thinking about coming to Mason [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► who ok but he he said it like he was [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► like he was offered me a lollipop in a [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► white van and and I was like umm hmm now [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► I not you know it's nothing I've ever a [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► slide his card across my desk and says [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► you will let me know when you're ready [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► to become a man [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► wow i'm still not ready still not a man [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► nope but not buried the lighter i don't [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► want to eat haha [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► the thing about the military you know I [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► had a guy in sixth grade a year before I [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► did military so I think the only thing [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► that made military school appealing to [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► me was maybe some some some teen [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► comedies I'd scene involving you know [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► military school and a book i got on the [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► library and 6th grade on West Point and [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► I it was it all seemed extremely orderly [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► i learned how to make Hospital corners [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► I learned on it i was really into it for [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► a while right corner on your bed I did I [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► tell you I knew exactly like that little [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► how long the flaps should be at the top [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► etcetera etcetera etcetera and today I'm [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► a push pick you know I can barely find [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► work on my desk to put the mic to [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► deliver short-sheeting guys bed now I [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► was aware of the technology but I never [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► deployed it [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► this is this is the thing I have you [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► know when I was in the Civil Air Patrol [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► he doesn't seem like it would work it's [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► just who doesn't look in their bed but [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► we short-sheeted people's beds all the [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► time and your bed you know you like you [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► pull it pull open the sheets and it's [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► not like it's not like it catches you [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► where you like you you go to slide into [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► your bed guy like Molly inconvenience me [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► yeah but you know you pull open your [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► sheets and that are it's not a bet it's [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► an envelope [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► I mean it and it was hilarious and I [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► learned I learned this technology when I [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► when I was 12 years old [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► 12-13 years old and I have never in the [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► rest of my life 30-odd years since then [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► I've never had the opportunity to [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► short-sheet somebody's bed and i'm [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► always looking for it all right because [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► who makes their bed like those cruises [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► that sheets right can you short-sheet [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► jonathan coulton is bad i guess i guess [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► i could if i could get into his room but [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► I mean all those room everybody's got a [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► keycard you think he'd be frustrated i [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► think that he would I think he might get [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► lucky he might have a moment of [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► reflection for like 150 would I think he [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► would think about that for awhile i want [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► more about how somebody got my room [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► probably [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► well that that's the thing i think i [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► think it would be most effective on Paul [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► sabores bed but but but but like this it [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► seems unfair it seems like [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► short-sheeting once you learn it you [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► should be able to use it the rest of [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► your life and this is just like I still [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► think about it I me but you know what [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► I'm gonna miss Cruz this cruise this [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► year I'm a minute's get look for the [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► opportunity to short-sheet simple I know [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► you're going through a transitional [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► phase i'm just gonna talk with are [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► probably end up cutting this out but i [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► just want to say you have so far today [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► you have revealed the brand name of your [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► home security system you indicated that [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► you have let's be honest purloined quiet [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► Birdman credentials and now you're [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► talking about what kinds of pranks [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► you're going to deploy you you might [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► want to think about playing a little bit [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► closer to the vest [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► well I'm do I feel like I feel like it's [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► maybe open book season for me [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► good for you like this business of the [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► the guy saying when you're ready to be a [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► man [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► I do feel like there was some important [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► moment important moment in the fifties [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► montage of my young life where I should [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► have gone through some kind of fraternal [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► hazing where we're peers slightly older [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► dressed in robes paddled me or put hot [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► wax on me or made me perform some kind [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► of ritualistic nothing just that weekend [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► in Germany [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► well you yeah except that the the [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► germany that I experienced that was all [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► by myself i wasn't i was in that was in [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► these hallowed halls but there was [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► nobody there to drip hot wax what do you [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► think you aren't uh it's your father [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► obviously walk down some very secret [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► corridors of power [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► why do you think you were not drawn into [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► these organs [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► protecting you no no I think it I think [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► that it was clear from the beginning [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► that i was to lippy as my dad would say [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► you to lippy and which makes ass to [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► mouth [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► yeah by which he meant like like the [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► presumption of somebody who talks as [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► like as much and as floridly as i do and [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► did I is that I'm not you know I'm not [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► stoic enough not the you know not John [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► McCain e-enough although I guess he was [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► a he was a challenge so you're kind of [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► not strictly speaking a team player not [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► a team player [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► that's right now you're against the team [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► but they're not ready to know there's no [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► John and team [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► I mean I definitely wouldn't leave a man [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► behind no but I'm also not i mean if [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► somebody seriously if I was being [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► interrogated in a in a foreign prison I [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► would just instinctively have a lot more [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► to say a lot more I wanted to say than [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► just my name rank and serial number [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► you know what I mean like that seemed so [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► limiting and maybe some of the things i [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► would say would be obfuscating maybe it [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► would appear oh maybe I would create a [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► hole and create a whole mind picture in [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► my interrogators a little notebook where [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► he would be you know they'd be still did [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► they be teasing out all the the hidden [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► meanings for years I don't think you can [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► under you can understate a 20-minute I [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► don't think you can overstate the value [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► of someone who appears to be cracking [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► under pressure and flooding them with [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► misinformation also get double reverse [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► mindfuck and that would be me I mean I'm [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► no i'm not going to the game [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► participation you tend to crack under [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► pressure [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► yeah standard attention to that would [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► definitely pretend pretend to crack [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► under pressure the problem is then they [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► go they try to get some of this stuff [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► like it you gotta give them some real [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► information [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► didn't you gotta give him the easy steps [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► got to be real so that they can go can [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► go ahead and say like oh well he must be [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► telling the truth so until they haven't [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► used that thing in months back way [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► uh-huh and then you know I I mean I feel [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► like there's there's always been a role [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► for me in America's intelligence [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► services but they have this that they're [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► so fixated on like have you ever done [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► drugs like what do you all you're gonna [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► get is squares if that's your the fact [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► that your lips I've been holding off [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► saying it John because i don't want to [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► do anything to you know I don't hurt [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► your feelings but if you ever wondered [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► if maybe that was just something to [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► scare off the people who are really [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► serious because again I mean I really [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► we've covered this a little in the past [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► but I i think being somebody who's found [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► new levels of rock bottom might be just [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► the sort of person you would want a [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► certain very particular kind of mission [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► know maybe you're not going to go into [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► like Bosnia and give out frosted flakes [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► but you know you there might be [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► something extremely specific and you [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► know with all the NSA information stuff [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► there this might be actually unique [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► opportunity right now people would know [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► exactly what kind of mission you would [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► be right for you still want to do it [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► today [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► well this is the problem that the as [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► soon as I became familiar with the idea [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► that there were agents and then those [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► there were operated on for stripes i'm [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► gonna get so many letters that's enough [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► I don't want to be run by somebody else [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► I mean you know maybe yeah sure somebody [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► like maybe director of operations but I [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► want to reply i don't want to be I don't [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► want to be an asset [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► you know I mean I'm nobody's fucking [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► assets on my own asset and this is the [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► problem i don't want to be recruited by [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► some dingaling at you know and not have [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► the full picture and just be out you [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► have to really be a company man you [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► would really have to give yourself a [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► first of all a lot of its just gonna be [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► extremely tedious a letter at the safe [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► house for four years and then all of a [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► sudden you're your digital watch beeps [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► three times and you're like huh [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► just as like somebody blows the door and [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► that's your signal to go watch something [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► with binoculars for two years but you [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► think I mean if you actually get a lot [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► of what that stuff is here here's the [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► thing a lot of these secret [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► organizations like the quiet Birdman the [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► Freemasons their kind of dying on the [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► vine that get those guys are that they [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► they were not successful at recruiting a [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► new generation but what if we started [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► kind of like our our our guest house [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► hostel for snipers for snipers what if [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► we started a secret organization that [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► was actually an intelligence service [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► like a civilian intelligence service [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► sort of a Halliburton but of of like [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► made up entirely of british guys with [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► explosives in their suitcases and like [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► renegade kind of Captain Haddock style [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► surly retired retired agents that never [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► were actually employed but that's like [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► perfect fit [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► you don't really think so it could be [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► it's not governmental in nature right [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► it's it's not strictly private nature [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► it's my private nature is obviously it's [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► got to be as extreme secrecy maintain [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► its all about it's all about different [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► levels of clearance different you know [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► that he get all the spy craft all the [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► tunnel digging in the fake IDs [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► counterfeit money [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► the false passports the you know the [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► like all the all the snow the spy craft [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► but without maybe expertise or danger [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► yes I think it's a great idea i don't [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► have a facebook group or sell t-shirts [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► but it's something where I think it's [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► something a lot of people late in life [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► would be interested in i think a lot of [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► us have made these I'm gonna say fits [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► the fifth or sixth grade [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► the guy had a variety of these [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► organizations alright spend a lot of [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► time coming up with work charts deciding [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► you know who is going to be vice [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► president under me and stuff like that [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► but at ya and certainly I have to think [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► that it would be something I don't know [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► like an 18 type thing where because of [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► our various connections in our various [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► industries that were involved and we [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► would know people who need help right [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► you young people you you would actually [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► be able and it will be like a reverse [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► hey we wouldn't you know we would not be [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► advertising the yellow pages but we [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► could go to people and say you you need [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► a little bit of help [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► yeah from the Roderick group right from [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► the Roderick group I like things like [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► that so much i cannot tell anything [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► about what they do [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► yeah and the business card just says the [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► robbery group like me and the rand [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► corporation doesn't rain corporation [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► sound like they make cogs the other ran [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► the the RAND Corporation for a long time [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► I thought they made crackers router and [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► curve and then I realized all the other [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► end crew the rand corporation is this [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► like fully Illuminati I wonder how long [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► the robbery group would have to be an [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► operation before the Illuminati [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► contacted us but for like an acquisition [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► or merger or just or just you know [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► initially to feel this out see below [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► royal actually blocking us out because [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► we were usually are you seeing like [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► what's involved it's just somebody to [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► take seriously it's just somebody's [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► family we need to take to Brazil or [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► something right and then when they [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► realize that we're that where an [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► imminently serious organization with a [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► great font and and you know really [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► nice-looking flowcharts and that would [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► be really important today it's a very it [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► to the Millennials are very visual [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► I don't need that we would need a great [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► logo and and and yeah person alex a way [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► from facebook i'm gonna count anymore [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► you have to manage that we are something [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► that division bad at that I love helping [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► people though i would say this is [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► chapter for a long long time I really [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► felt when I want to search my feelings [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► this is the thing so you know sometimes [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► late at night i sit down i sit down [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► indian style or what's the what's the [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► non-offensive what's the politically [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► correct Native American stuff native [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► american-style but I bet it but I [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► thought it was dot Indian not Indian [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► style is dot indian or is that will [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► Indian [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► like dot en mi the dot dot yet top-level [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► IM yeah okay dot biz [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► no you know I sit down and I and I and I [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► and I and I focus on my third eye and I [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► say what am I here for [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► I've gotten a lot of conflicting [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► messages over the years retired from [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► from yourself [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► yeah that's right for myself to retire [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► director of CIA was I didn't think it [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► was a false flag for a long time [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► my mind is trying to tell me something [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► that that that just wasn't possible but [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► what I was really getting at was and I [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► think we may have mentioned this to you [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► before when the UFOs come they are going [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► to need a human envoy we're gonna need [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► someone to represent humanity that has [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► everyone's best interests at heart you [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► know they think they can pick somebody [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► from the united nations are from the [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► internet or the United States certainly [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► I mean you know the cable channel all [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► those people are compromised [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► they're all compromised and the thing is [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► the UFOs I I'm fairly confident have [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► have vetted me completely now with the [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► with the vowel ambassadors and I feel [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► like it's all part of the application [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► process of gradual slow you know as I as [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► I build more and more people that are [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► that you know that understanding my word [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► is bond [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► it is it's all in service of this this [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► you know this i'm going to this future [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► calling where they they arrived right [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► and there's a third suddenly just as you [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► see it as you've seen so many times [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► giant motherships hovering over all [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► Earth's all the capitals of the earth [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► and everyone in singapore and everyone [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► in st. Petersburg that all run outside [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► and they're looking up in here these [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► inscrutable you know humming mother [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► ships and there's a couple of days where [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► everybody freaks out but there's no [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► communication from them it's just like [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► what do they want what they want and the [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► f-16s go up but they the vaporized or or [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► even know that just the instruments go [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► haywire nobody's hurt right limb the [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► planes land under their own power guided [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► by unseen hand [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► and and just as you know just as as [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► everyone is just as all the world's [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► governments and all of our technology [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► are revealed to be impotent against [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► these superior phones than all the [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► television sets and all the radios all [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► crackle at once and they all come on and [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► they're all it's all uh it's all just [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► sort of a green screen and then and then [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► my face [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► Boop translated translated into all the [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► languages of the earth which I speak [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► fluently because of the because the [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► babelfish that's been put inside mine if [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► you put like by the collarbone keep a [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► little implant does have a double [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► fishing implant and I say people of [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► Earth [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► hello i am a fellow earthling i have [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► been charged with this task and be able [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► to ask to speak on behalf of the roof [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► owes who have come in peace and they [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► seem threatening but they assure me they [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► are not and so as the speaker now for [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► them and speaker [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► them and speaker [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► of us to them send me your questions in [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► self-addressed stamped envelopes to the [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► Roderick group dot biz for some reason I [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► keep thinking of a I know you're crazy [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► about the opening music there will be [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► blood imagine the scene when Daniel goes [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► back out and he's going he goes to the [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► guy anyways start buying land and he [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► wants to find out what's available what [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► parcels with this person is going to [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► need to do that who's holding out [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► I I know it's not exactly equivalent but [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► I kind of see you in that position where [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► you're kind of the real estate agent for [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► earth day would come in there or hearts [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► and minds right you did they come to you [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► and you're able to give them the lay of [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► the land so everybody gets paid and [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► hopefully not vaporize story instrument [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► screwed up but you would be able to act [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► both ways between them that the biggest [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► problem I think you having credibility [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► with aliens is a foregone conclusion but [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► how would you how would you would you [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► feel like you needed to build that [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► credibility [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► these are the Earthlings before you got [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► the go-ahead for you think UFOs here's [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► the thing [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► what what Earthlings would recognize in [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► me automatic it you know instantaneously [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► is that I'm a straight shooter right and [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► so the the ufos often have to appear to [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► humans in the form of their dead [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► father's something they would understand [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► right but in my case that the they [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► recognize that they can appear to me in [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► their natural state and i will [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► comprehend even if it even if their [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► natural state is just a you know energy [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► ether or a bean pot or whatever it is [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► that the aliens are in their natural [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► environment maybe it's a train on a sort [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► of a transdimensional z28 or whatever [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► whatever it is not a dance haha if [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► they're ants I'm gonna have some [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► splainin to do but they surely they [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► already know and maybe that's why maybe [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► that's why they're sending me these [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► encoded messages because they recognize [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► that i'm not i'm not a patsy maybe you [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► know that such a lonely job though the [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► MS the emissary between Gerald's [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► ultimately would be but that is the kind [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► of sacrifice and prepared to make for my [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► people and I think the citizens of earth [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► would would you know I [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► say you're referring to the Earthlings [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► as your paper things right i would say [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► Earthlings listen with we don't have a [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► lot of bargaining room here because like [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► they they have superior technology and [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► they've really caught us with our pants [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► down but you know I'm counting on them [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► having a sense of humor and I'm counting [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► on them you know recognizing that that [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► that we we have lots to offer were good [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► dancers we we have students lots of [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► different spicy food and I'm gonna give [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► him a tour of some you know some cool [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► spots that i've seen over the years i'm [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► gonna take them into the medina and fez [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► and show him around a lot of spices in [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► there a lot of thought of good sights [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► and smells you know like come tour guide [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► like like a love boat style [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► ok so part of it is you're like this [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► your earth's Milton so you're gonna go [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► up and you're gonna explain the way the [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► ways of humans to to the UFOs help help [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► them understand how to use facebook and [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► things like that [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► yeah i'm gonna say listen you maybe you [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► you may have arrived here thinking that [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► you're gonna mind the molten platinum [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► core of our planet and to spoil spoil us [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► you're basing this base you know on on [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► having watched our television channels [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► and you're like space outpost but [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► there's a lot more to us than that a [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► cable there and I'm gonna say you know [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► I'm gonna say listen I'm gonna make a [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► white castles lab out of India sacred [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► cow just for you [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► I'm gonna take you down to Florida [TS]

01:03:48 ◼   ► finished look ya up for pretty cheap [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► there now [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► places like Nevada been really Florida [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► if they could set up operations in [TS]

01:03:58 ◼   ► Florida I'd be okay with that [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► the thing is if they change the tides [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► even buy a few meters all Florida's [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► underwater it's just a sec that's why [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► you want buildings that her a foot or [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► two above i think that would give you at [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► least a couple of centuries of safety [TS]

01:04:12 ◼   ► you can just lift it up like hunter [TS]

01:04:14 ◼   ► buildings are not a bad idea you know [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► we're so close to having endless [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► renewable energy is it sorry Cloud City [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► yeah Cloud City yeah yeah [TS]

01:04:25 ◼   ► precisely you know I think that [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► read such so yesterday I threw some [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► crumpled aluminum foil in the recycling [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► side of my of my bicameral garbage can [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► and then it said it had food on it [TS]

01:04:41 ◼   ► matter in it had food matter in it and I [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► said listen this super train is not [TS]

01:04:49 ◼   ► going to happen because we wait for it [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► it's gonna happen because we start [TS]

01:04:55 ◼   ► throwing food soiled aluminum foil in [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► our recycling until they start recycling [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► it i'll let you come with me [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► that's right oh that's good it's like so [TS]

01:05:08 ◼   ► again back to making your own parade [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► except in this case it's got aluminum [TS]

01:05:11 ◼   ► foil with a little bit of meat on it or [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► let them put in landfills there's more [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► raw aluminum for us when the when the [TS]

01:05:20 ◼   ► crane comes [TS]

01:05:21 ◼   ► look we're gonna roll up to these public [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► parks and they're going to be full of [TS]

01:05:25 ◼   ► like fully processed aluminum that for [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► whatever reason had a little spaghetti [TS]

01:05:29 ◼   ► sauce on them and were deemed like [TS]

01:05:32 ◼   ► unusable super train is going to fix all [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► that tragedy [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► I mean in the end it's a good thing but [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► you know this is this is how this is how [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► evolution works and in technology and [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► culture UFOs and trains is that it [TS]

01:05:45 ◼   ► they're really it takes it takes it [TS]

01:05:47 ◼   ► takes somebody with a certain vision to [TS]

01:05:50 ◼   ► be able to see something the way it's [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► not i think you have that and that's why [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► I think when I really search my feelings [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► when I really sit down and say what am I [TS]

01:05:59 ◼   ► here for our director of the CIA maybe [TS]

01:06:02 ◼   ► Bufo envoy absolutely [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► and it may already be happened you know [TS]

01:06:10 ◼   ► I mean I may already be part of the [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► softening of me that's been that's been [TS]

01:06:15 ◼   ► happening the last couple of months it [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► might be that they're just that they [TS]

01:06:21 ◼   ► that they felt like I was just a little [TS]

01:06:22 ◼   ► too acerbic and they're starting to show [TS]

01:06:25 ◼   ► me trying to put obstacles in front of [TS]

01:06:27 ◼   ► me like like security guards and an [TS]

01:06:32 ◼   ► alarm company [TS]

01:06:34 ◼   ► pi just waiting for you get off the [TS]

01:06:36 ◼   ► sugar a little bit so that you're you're [TS]

01:06:38 ◼   ► receptive to their wisdom [TS]

01:06:39 ◼   ► hey so I started trying to do this cheat [TS]

01:06:44 ◼   ► day cheat day by saturday's we're going [TS]

01:06:48 ◼   ► to be a cheat day where I ate like I [TS]

01:06:49 ◼   ► used to eat I would eat I would eat a [TS]

01:06:52 ◼   ► largely carb-free diet all week long and [TS]

01:06:56 ◼   ► then on saturdays I would you know ID [TS]

01:06:58 ◼   ► carbs and I'm telling you now Marlon I [TS]

01:07:02 ◼   ► don't like them now I had a cheat day on [TS]

01:07:05 ◼   ► on saturday and i mean it all tastes [TS]