Roderick on the Line

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00:00:10 ◼   ► find your doc hello hi John [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► hi Merlin has gone well I i woke up this [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► morning I went downstairs and I with you [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► and I pushed back the beginning of our [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► podcast as a matter of routine is deal [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► but I always assume that you are pushing [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► back at the start time because you have [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► many things to do in the morning you [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► have to get some hot dogs you have to go [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► to the post office walgreens walgreens [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► you have to go to walgreens I'm always [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► pushing it back because I'm still asleep [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► and i look at my phone and I go god it's [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► time to do it i push back push back [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► so this morning I went downstairs i made [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► a pot of coffee I realized I didn't have [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► any cream mmm [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► and so I had to use vanilla ice cream [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► and as good as good as that sounds I [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► don't like to start my day with a with [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► vanilla ice cream in my coffee [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► that's that's that's nice as an option [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► when it comes up and you're in the mood [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► but I mean that's like having eat [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► popcorn for breakfast [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah exactly I'm not [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► celebrating this [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► mhm I mean that there's a vanilla taste [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► now to my coffee and that is a little [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► bit like like sissy coffee seek out and [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► it's a screws up your coffee workflow [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► because you're introducing well I'll [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► tell you this if you're living it and [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► you're introducing a whole new level of [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► temperature and flavor and texture [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► integers a greasy texture no to [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► absolutely that's the xanthan gum [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► talking haha and the jewel on did you [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► make your coffee any differently i'm [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► guessing major you make great coffee [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► did you make any different think you [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► know seriously eat [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► it's amazing how fast you can make it [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► and so did you did you do you realize at [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► the time that you're going to have to [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► use the ice cream did you know is that i [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► did not prepare has already done was hot [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► in the pot rated drink [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► yeah I didn't prepare the coffee in any [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► way I don't even [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► why would have done this yet a clock [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► running I did I was like coffee is going [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► got that I'm ready I'm gonna put I'm [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► gonna put some clothes on out of respect [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► to do for our listeners and and I [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► respect for you Merlin thank you and and [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► then I got some clothes on and i got [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► that I got that that by my mug of coffee [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► which says spotted brown munchen on it [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► and I am I was all full of coffee and I [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► go oh there's no cream and I mean I can [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► drink black coffee but it's not that's [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► not how I preferred and so I scream I [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► don't you know if I i think if i had if [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► I had not been so sleepy if I had a [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► second to think about it i would have [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► said i would have forgone the ice cream [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► and just had black coffee but I made a [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► snap decision something sandy it's all [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► about huh yeah cuz there's an X that's [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► going to start my ex's of the post noon [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► letter [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► yeah I we had actually we had kind of a [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► white funk band called xanthan gum but [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► in the mid-nineties but it never took [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► they were white huh well I was in it [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► when you play remember I I think there's [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► something to this the John and it's it's [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► about expectations like for me once that [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► coffee the reason ask if there's a clock [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► running is like to me once that coffee [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► is dripped and it's going [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► yeah personally I'm in a different state [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► of mind like no matter how tired I am on [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► some level if i get up and the first [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► thing I realized is I don't have cream [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► half in my case that that is going to [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► factor slightly into it like you can't [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► walk to your 7-eleven where the junkies [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► are you you would have to get a hoot to [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► drive there right [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► mhm photos by but still I mean you might [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► from the outset say why I need to make [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► some different decisions maybe I should [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► have a very strong tea when we should [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► maybe I should live in a different place [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► because there is a boat dekha two blocks [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► from my house is licensed it's a license [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► Bodega and I walked in there the first [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► week I lived here and there's a korean [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► kid sitting by making the counter [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► playing a video game and I said where's [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► your half-and-half and he looked up and [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► said what's half and half [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► Christ and they literally don't have [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► half and half there because it's one of [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► those but niggas that sells faygo [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► menthol cigarettes and lottery tickets [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► and lottery tickets and like 75 [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► different kinds of malt liquor and it's [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► really more of a general a Dago you can [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► have the juggalo bodega you can't have [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► milk 11 milk in here that isn't flavored [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► with strawberry Quik honey's like listen [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► man I just my folks on this place i'm [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► just i'm just waiting to get out John [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► you know me I don't like to work ping [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► pong but I'm just saying that's this [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► this sounds like something from from a [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► rejected spike lee movie you got to get [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► your in the year in the african-american [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► well you're a very diverse part of town [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► to put it actually right you're the only [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► white person in the entire part of your [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► county is that correct [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► haha no in fact my County are you [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► arguing it desperately ridiculously [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► insanely impossibly diverse neighborhood [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► it is it is literally and you know I [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► don't miss you now wherever is literally [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► the most diverse County in America which [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► means which means that that there are [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► just as many white people here as there [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► are South Pacific Islanders or Native [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► Americans or any any group you could [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► care to name their there is an equal [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► number of the of that group [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► demographically in my and that and that [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► bears out even on my block to take [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► westchester county as a new york as a [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► pie graph and that's gonna be is gonna [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► be probably a pretty big white piece [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► there same eighty percent white people [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► twenty percent joo's boyfriend and point [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► three percent other just for my cards [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► for my card you break out that jury you [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► break them out and pie graph I don't [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► have a problem at all d souza far [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► discovery launch kazi I think they would [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► do that in westchester county just to [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► give the appearance of diversity in here [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► in Seattle I don't think you I don't [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► know you don't need that you don't need [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► that the group does it look like a clock [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► I mean are there like perhaps 12 slices [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► I mean I guess there are then different [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► night [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► it's alright because you know the west [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► coast is it is a very diverse area in [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► the in the first place because we have [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► had numerous waves of migration from not [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► only from europe etc but from from Asia [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► and points beyond [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► we got sushi first year that's right we [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► have the best thai food in America here [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► in Seattle so but but there's also i [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► mean i think you I think they actually [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► break this pie graph here down into like [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► okay you know these are the Tongans and [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► these are the Samoans and belen and [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► we're we're we're registering that might [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► all be the same slice of pie in a lot of [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► places in a lot of places you would [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► South Pacific Islanders would not even [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► rate a slice of the pie they would be [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► lumped in with other but here they're [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► thinking it's been that you remember [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► this is actually think becoming kind of [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► a thing especially with voting and so [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► forth but you know its senses but used [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► to be for the longest time when you have [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► to check off that little box it was [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► either white black or was it was white [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► hispanic or black non-hispanic and the [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► magic maybe the introduced asian later [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► at the occasion was a form of black for [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► a long time [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► nowadays you know oh I don't you know I [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► don't remember exactly it's been a long [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► time but I'm just saying like now you [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► get on down by where scott simpson lives [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► that part of that part of the the [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► peninsula and I mean you would need to [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► break down the Pacific Islands in some [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► very specific ways that there that I [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► think I think there's a lot of Simone [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► people especially the food court and [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► there's there's there's a as a filipino [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► fast-food place there is any philippine [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► filipino filipino filipina but you can [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► say I think filipino is the overall [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► overarching term was you know I've [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► traveled extensively I've been to at [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► least six states in three countries and [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► I'm I know when I was in hawaii i was [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► completely baffled by it all the food [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► seemed like a joke on the white guy I [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► didn't shave ice was the only thing I [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► don't have is the fried spam and fried [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► spam like on the face of it sounds like [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► a pretty good deal so there's a lot of [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► joke foods in hawaii as you know to keep [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► the good food for the locals you know [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► ever had [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► oh yeah I was that your sons are you [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► kidding me let those folks pretty big [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► three and some pretty big ribeyes point [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► really o.o here are some taro root with [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► your black coffee that's my question to [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► you John Roderick that you're in a [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► working neighborhood these are these are [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► people apart from yourself who work for [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► a living [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► what are they drinking in the morning or [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► taking in the morning that's helping [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► them get through the day [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► how are you how are there not more [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► people that need half and half for the [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► coffee that is a really good question [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► that's right now because gets to a very [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► Roderick on the line type question here [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► because you know you've taught us so [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► many times in the past you can tell a [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► lot about a location right there are [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► there hills are the rivers we can see [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► boston was laid out by cows it's in [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► store for that has never occurred to me [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► and now I'm wondering whether my [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► neighbors are all putting vanilla ice [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► cream in their coffee and I have just [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► like crossed over some invisible line [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► i'm now I've become just become a local [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► huh and interested in as much as you can [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► recall her say do you remember if there [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► is a frozen area inside of the lottery [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► store let alone the other no ice cream [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► such do they have frozen goods there [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► they do but they're all in the ice cream [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► sandwich and popsicle variety i don't [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► think they have I don't think you can [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► buy a carton of ice cream there is a [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► goddamn tragedy so even if it really is [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► and you know this store is perfectly [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► sugars they sell sugar have additional [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► sugar [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► well everything that is sugar and [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► everything but I don't think they have [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► any I don't think they have any staples [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► I don't you go buy a bag of flour [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► I mean I think you could buy a bag of [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► flour 100 runs out front he's gonna [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► pause his game and help you with the [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► flower garden out front yeah I'm saying [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► out front of the store but well you know [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► I walk into the store and I look around [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► and I think why wouldn't be great if [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► there was like a little rack of [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► artisanal cheese and some and an olive [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► case not all the cheese just a career [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► for nice cheeses and then and then some [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► some local wines and you know a little [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► hand picked produce and this kid would [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► put his video game down and had a white [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► apron on and it was like hello you know [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► man welcome to Kim's may I help you [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► oh and the kid can cut you off [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► maybe liquid called PP a tear may be [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► some kind of like a like a like a pate [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► local artisan pate [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► yeah we were you know he would that I [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► walk in he had me a little paper cup [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► with a toothpick sticking in some kind [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► of some kind of little like chopped fish [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► or whatever and say like don't you like [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► to try our our kimchi of the day and [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► then be like okay ray [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► but in fact no it's just it's a bunch of [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► dogs parked out front and everybody's [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► like coming and going well just buy a [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► jungle of foods [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► well the reason I the reason I bring it [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► up is izzy as you said it used to be [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► that there are correlations we could [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► draw in this country they were Venn [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► diagrams we could draw in our sleep [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► right it there was a Venn diagram [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► between scrimshaw and tattoos was once I [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► think there's a lot of integrity to that [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► so so I mean the thing is displaying the [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► band right this is this is basic I think [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► this is a howard freeman Milton Milton [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► Milton burro whoever the economist is [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► even be a great economist Milton Berle [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► your compass you take out just enough to [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► beat you and so and so it was your [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► student dublin 13 felon who was specific [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► islander to your knowledge before [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► Thorstein Veblen that sounds like I like [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► in Norwegian one of those little skinny [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► countries [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► well you know i think i have all the [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► Norwegian countries [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► oh pretty well mapped out and Thorstein [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► Veblen isn't one of them [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► ok so nicely with the Norwegian [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► countries right Icelanders in Norwegian [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► country yeah I don't know erica was a [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► Eric Eric green that did that he missed [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► name on purpose [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► it turns out that Iceland is the moment [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► that has things in it [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► Finland is actually the one that's a sum [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► up I'm not a lot of people know that [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► and this is why that is alive to this [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► day throughout all of the Swedish [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► countries this is my only regional [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► countries only Vikings today put their [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► lottery tickets into their coffee and [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► maybe that's the question that I'm [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► asking you go in there let me guess [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► coming I got a couple things I just [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► really quickly blow through this thing's [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► look through it [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► ok thank you find it don't find in the [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► store lottery tickets yeah you find [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► those there okay [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► Funyuns absolutely you're going to find [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► funding [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► ok I think we take this red fang go [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► diego or always say I'm gonna say you [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► you know because figure is a regional [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► drink in America is figure the juggler [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► drink figures the juggler drinking it's [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► really a drink that's located more or [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► less in the south [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► although you can get in seattle at ease [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► l's famous chicken but he imports it [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► special so i will like like a Hispanic [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► American coke [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► exactly ok so i'm guessing that you [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► cannot get figure at this store if you [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► if you research for but what you can get [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► is drank you can get orange drank or [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► grape drank and that's cough syrup know [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► it's a it's the it's like sugar pop but [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► it's already like regular pop like [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► professor fake and or something [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► professor Falken you there and get some [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► innocent jonah falcon would you like to [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► play okay would you like to drink a [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► grape soda I've always been intrigued by [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► the different type of times of generic [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► store brands of you know professor PA [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► and stuff like that but this is the [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► stuff that this is the the soda pop that [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► you get when year when your business [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► does not shop at costco wholesale [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► there's been cutbacks and we can't [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► cancel the party so we should get [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► yeah right okay all right so there are [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► flavored things there's probably a huge [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► amount of xanthan gum and high-fructose [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► corn syrup you say the ice cream is most [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► limited to ice cream sandwich type [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► there's there's like a freezer case that [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► has that has again like weird off-brand [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► ice creams where there's there's like a [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► ravenous a rabbit that kind of looks [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► like the Trix rabbit except except his [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► nose is kind of longer he looks like a [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► beautiful it looks like the camel looks [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► like Joe Camel had sex with the Trix [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► rabbit and like that's not that doesn't [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► look appetizing I don't want to eat that [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► ice cream sandwich later added Stella's [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► are for kids [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► silly rabbit your nose looks like a [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► penis about what about the propane there [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► where a math cooking stuff or says [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► something store is absolutely useless [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► grandma go it's all grab-and-go you're [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► gonna get in there it's six guys on a [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► truck covered covered with with like [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► drywall dust and carhartts they jump in [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► grab-and-go you get a faygo a lottery [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► ticket ice cream sandwich get the fuck [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► out of there is that right yeah pack of [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► cigarettes and and and like a brown bag [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► with some kind of some kind of booze and [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► it who and I mean they're making a [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► living but I think they're dragging down [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► the whole neighborhood and you know [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► what's interesting you might not have [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► noticed this but there's a there's a [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► like an acre and a vacant acre of land [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► not far from my house that they are [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► converting into a what we call here in [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► Seattle AP patch like a community garden [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► community garden oh that's lovely [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► it's going to be nice so they're so [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► that's that's you know a few blocks from [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► me and that's going to be and I've just [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► I've just given away my location [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► basically there's a lot of the community [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► gardens a lot of people in [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► african-american neighborhoods in [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► Seattle [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► there's gonna be a whole whole bowl [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► community it's going to bring the [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► community together in a way that that [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► this bodega has been tearing us apart [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► right of ownership [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► that's right and people are going to [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► have fresh vegetables and it's only a [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► matter of time before somebody opens a [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► little store with an olive bar and like [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► six different kinds of of coffee creamer [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► all organic here from here from a modest [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► background right i mean you're not [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► you're not from a rich family right knee [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► pads [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► well in a rich rich rich certainly in in [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► a certain kind of discipline and dignity [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► culturally rich ah God you know what but [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► I'm always concerned that something is a [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► trick and I have to tell you i think [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► iíve said this in many places before I [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► really believe this i think that when [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► you're not from a place where you know a [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► lot about what's fancy in the right way [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► I think i'm constantly parsing things [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► for tricks and so not the cereal with [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► the rabbit but for example like all the [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► bars i think it's a fucking trick has [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► only a trick I walked past those and I'm [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► like you've given this much real estate [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► in your store 22 like things that look [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► and smell and taste like rotting toes it [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► is it's basically a tow bar and i'll bet [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► you take anybody you take anybody in [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► there you pull them out of their [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► previous to give an artist and a [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► blindfold you sitting down and getting [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► six fuckin olives and they will not be [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► able to tell you [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► oh it's salty and taste like olives yeah [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► you give them six fucking olives and [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► then a plate of like of chopped-up [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► chopped-up human toes so in formaldehyde [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► for a year [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► look locally sourced and then we'll go [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► down and I'll be like delicious all [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► about religious this one's got a little [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► like a little setup pinky had pinky and [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► pimento it's like yeah you know what [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► those but this is the thing John this is [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► the thing about the scrimshaw on the [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► railroads and the steamers is that is it [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► it is that is it says something about [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► the community it says something you know [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► we learn about the language we learn [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► about the way people dress we learned so [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► much by these regional things that take [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► a long time to go away even if they're [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► not you know not there anymore even [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► though we're not building ships in this [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► place anymore there's still a [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► shipbuilding culture they're trying to [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► push it out as many jets at Boeing as [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► they used to [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► I don't know but I'm guessing [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► you know well you know they've [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► outsourced it so that what happens now [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► is that the the tail assembly is [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► manufactured in Japan and the wings are [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► made in Italy when they bring them all [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► here to Seattle or to Nebraska or [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► somewhere and they try to bolt them all [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► together this happened a couple of years [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► ago but they they sent the plans to [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► Italy and nobody converted the [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► measurements from metric to all come on [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► that sounds like an urban myth [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► it's absolutely true and make spent you [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► know they tooled up and they spend [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► hundreds of millions of dollars building [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► these parts in the together the wheel [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► the wheel enough it and what's the [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► matter for you no matter so they're like [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► oh outsourcing I and I've heard stories [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► like that before I think that happened [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► that happened on the space shuttle [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► wasn't a space shuttle he space shuttle [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► gap that involve metric conversion [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► happens all the time and I and I can you [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► know and depending on where you're [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► standing like if we if we were doing [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► this podcast in Milan right now we'd be [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► saying to the effect of we be saying [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► something like a wide what why America [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► have a all this measurement that no one [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► else to use you gotta be different there [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► yeah I good metric is used by everybody [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► right so why the hell it what's our [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► problem but then the flip side is from [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► our perspective [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► no one in America has ever heard of [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► another country yeah and and most people [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► here don't believe other countries exist [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► I mean I'm you could be mass hysteria [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► but I mean there's at least two levels [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► to this [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► yes absolutely on the first level it's [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► probably a little bit crazy the inside [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► of a certain profession you don't have a [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► standard I i think it's sensible [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► probably if you're working on japanese [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► cars to talking in metrics right and [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► then there's a there's got to be a [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► google thing that just translates your [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► your wing diameter measurements [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► immediately into whatever form you [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► wanted you know I got an application [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► always an application here i'm going to [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► show you can be turns anything into [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► anything that's my blind but here's my [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► question to you that this is the deeper [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► problems a deeper problem let me put it [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► this way [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► okay my kids school my wife texts me and [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► says hey can assign you up to change the [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► strings on the guitar and I said [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► absolutely [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► ok what is your is your wife now playing [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► the guitar [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► she doesn't tapping but ok so now i have [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► let me like this by using your response [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► was co-opted fingerboard for you guys I [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► did that with a rasp I told you about [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► that i invade my guitar [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► anyway go ahead m60 just so she texts [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► you okay here's the thing he says UK [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► john-john uh can you can you at least [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► keys change the strings on this guitar [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► and you know if it's somebody you like [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► you probably say yes right dude also you [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► got my some strange right [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► yeah but stringz a electric or acoustic [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► exactly is a trick question [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► now it's it's a non trick question I [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► said okay send me a photograph of the [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► guitar [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► I didn't ask her feelings classical or [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► steel string I said send me a photograph [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► the guitar and especially can get a [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► picture of the bridge and headstock [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► that'd be great but I could i bought a [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► second and see that it's an old crappy [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► classical guitar but you see what I'm [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► saying here like I mean some gut strings [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► well yeah the problem the problem is [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► that it yeah it's silly that they didn't [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► get the conversion right but it's even [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► sillier that they assume they didn't [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► need to check the spec better [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► it's like somebody saying paint my house [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► and I assume all I've got this green so [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► i'll just use green this is the problem [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► nobody using slide rules anymore John [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► well you know what the problem is is [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► that i guarantee you in the corporate [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► culture of Boeing as is as is true of [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► the corporate culture of everywhere in [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► the world now there are 42 different [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► levels of management [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► uh-huh and then you've got like three [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► guys that know how to use the equipment [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► and so that i'm sure those specs went [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► across like 40 people's desks until it [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► got to the the guy who was supposed to [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► build the tool and the guy that's [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► supposed to build the tool kind of [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► assumes that somewhere along the line [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► somebody would have if there was a [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► problem somebody would have picked up [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► picked up on it [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► I i think it's totally true but here's [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► the other thing if there were [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► let's just say for you know I don't mean [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► this in a ping-pong way if they were [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► nerds along the way you know they were [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► nerds wrong the way he said hey look I [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► mean you're doing this you're doing [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► something Microsoft Excel I can you how [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► can you miss that these over here are [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► this says 1.0 1.1 this one says 1.0 and [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► this one says two-and-a-half right we'll [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► return with centimeters or inches like [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► what is how would you how would you know [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► that they said you know what we should [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► probably make it really clear to people [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► that this is in centimeters and not [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► interesting better put probably inches [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► and centimeters and you know what about [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► their boss said don't be a dick [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► yeah you know what helps me navigate all [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► this stuff is is the is the cartoon [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► dilbert I really is that the guy i [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► really get so much wisdom said about the [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► guy who has periodic cultural bumps in [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► the workplace and yeah I think that's a [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► good description yeah yeah he he's [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► trying to navigate his workplace because [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► it's called it's called Gilbert is that [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► correct [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► Gilbert yeah this isn't this isn't the [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► guy who sleeps in like lasagna [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► no no that's a different guy no this is [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► that this guy's he has it he has a job [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► and he goes there and oh my god his [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► sauce food what a nut [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► anyway I was I went to a grocery store [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► the other day in a different [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► neighborhood and I this was in this is [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► in the north part of seattle which as [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► you know my theory of American cities is [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► that the north side of the city is [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► always nice and the south side of the [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► city is always bad okay 99 times out of [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► 23 no question [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► yeah and anybody you say the south side [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► of this town you might as well sell say [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► MLK drive [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► exactly anybody that's gonna send not to [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► say that and no no that's not all he was [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► he was a great president no question was [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► he was wonderful man but uh but it and [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► even people who come to me and say like [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► well what about East st. Louis and [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► western Louis I say what about south [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► east st. louis and then they have to go [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► oh ok you can triangulate that right so [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► anyway I go to a grocery store on the [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► north side of town which is sort of a [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► rare occurrence for me and I walk in and [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► there's like Muzak playing and a guy [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► walks by me in an apron and he says good [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► morning and then somebody else walks [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► past and it looks like and this grocery [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► store looks like it looks like the [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► grocery store there were john denver [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► worked in oh god oh yeah yeah you know [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► answer they knew how to run a goddamn [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► brushes you know what I'm walking around [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► and I go over to the deli counter and [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► they're like oh would you like a stuffed [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► pepper [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► like a stuffed pepper how long has that [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► been sitting there like you mean we just [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► made him 20 minutes ago and I start to [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► quiz the person like what about the ones [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► you don't sell their like all we usually [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► sell them all [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► I'm like what about the ones you don't [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► they're like oh we throw away like this [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► is amazing this place this group this is [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► a grocery these people are grocers and [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► then I simply they're not simply [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► preparing food it's not like in Florida [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► where you could go by pretty good [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► macaroni and cheese stuffed pepper is a [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► pretty rarefied vertical market [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► yeah i'm looking behind the counter and [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► there are they're probably there are [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► more people working behind the deli [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► counter then there are customers in the [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► store I was like it's amazing and this [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► is why people buy their houses [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► this is why people buy their houses in [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► nice neighborhoods because they get nice [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► grocery stores and the the cops don't [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► fly helicopters over their houses in the [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► middle of the night and the reason [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► people buy houses in poor neighborhoods [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► they can't afford houses in rich [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► neighborhoods they don't have enough [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► money because they don't have enough [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► money i was having I was having a real [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► eye-opening experience that the one with [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► north side of town that have the more [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► expensive homes in the better jobs make [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► more money than the people that have a [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► not as nice houses that's right and they [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► have a nicer things there when they go [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► through the storms they did just as just [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► curious as a side note later they're [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► stuffed peppers everybody get your [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► knowledge there are no stuffed peppers [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► at all and not even at my local like big [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► grocery store are their stuffed peppers [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► so so I was I was really I was not his [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► left eye opener John and then i realized [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► that i lived in my neighborhood because [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► I didn't have a lot of money and I was [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► like you got a lot you've got a lot of [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► house for the day though that's a pretty [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► nice place [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► that's what they say that's what they [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► say well ok can I suggest there might be [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► one thread here [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► ah money money yeah because here's what [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► I think here's what I think your your [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► your local and the upscale on northern [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► place have in common and it is to turn [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► then I'm going throughout called profit [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► per square foot now it's my [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► understanding that in the grocery racket [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► the margins are thin at best [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► right so so if you're going to sell [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► flower right i mean you know if you go [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► anywhere [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► let's think about it [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► urban like I want to like not a resort [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► town but you go somewhere where there's [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► very limited you know small footprint [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► for the place where you buy stuff right [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► you go in there they're gonna have some [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► forty dollar crappy sunglasses got some [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► $90 suntan lotion those $85 Marlboros or [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► whatever you guys all stuff the tourists [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► would want to buy the cost a lot but [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► they don't have flour on sale because [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► there's not i know this sounds obvious [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► but again the important thing is money [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► on flowers always a loss leader you get [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► them people that's how you get him in [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► for the flour and then maybe they stay [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► for the stuff that's right give a little [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► bit of sexy show a little bit of leg you [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► say we got it we got in here but it was [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► so anyway I I this is a i mean i think [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► the point of money is is not is not [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► obvious but i think that the deeper [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► point is that this is why it's all about [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► lottery tickets and fucking gift cards [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► yeah for Franco for that matter is if [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► they you know the the baffling part to [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► me is in some ways in this is sad John [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► there's a cultural critic i hope you [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► remark on this but it's not to me so [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► amazing that they don't have two liters [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► of faygo at a reasonable retail price of [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► that place where even that they don't [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► cover be have cheese in there applause [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► my name is that can remain profitable [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► for that place on the north side to have [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► an olive bar i'm trying to do a quick [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► mental calculation to have something [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► like 80 square feet of olive bar [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► yeah she was that about right sweats a [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► lot of square footage for olives [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► yeah it is and that it is amazing that [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► it can remain profitable but but I mean [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► do I look at that stuff and I think it's [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► it it's a thing when i go into a grocery [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► store and I pick a thing of faygo up off [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► the arms off the counter and look at it [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► says 99 cents for two liters of faygo [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► right i am for whatever reason much more [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► conscious of how much money I'm spending [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► and what I'm getting for that money then [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► when I look at an olive bar where they [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► say you know a cup with seven olives in [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► it is only 14 99 but these all that [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► they've got a hot food buffet that's [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► like seventeen dollars a pound and but [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► you don't think about you know your load [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► into a state of sort of that uh of [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► feeling like you this is the these are [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► luxury items and it's worth it because [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► this is especially it's my apps [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► act because its bulk for one right you [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► don't know you're gonna have to wait [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► your own olives to find out how much [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► money you're gonna oh my god check this [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► out you're walking you're walking to the [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► oh gosh oh god that's so embarrassing i [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► always i own this is so undignified i [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► went to a supermarket the other day and [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► a different that this is not a nice [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► supermarket of a regular shitty one and [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► they're a bunch of people in line [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► waiting to get through the supermarket [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► and then there's this new check yourself [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► out never go through then check this out [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► i'm looking at it and I never do either [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► because I feel like that whatever [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► whatever amount of money that i'm paying [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► to buy things at this store [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► I want the human interaction i am paying [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► for it anyway I want the person to touch [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► my cans perfect and i want to bring it [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► up and I want them to tell me to have a [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► nice day and I want them to hold up the [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► the receipt at the end and say oh mr. [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► Roderick you saved for you like this [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► exchanges I do it's a present it and the [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► thing is it's factored into the price of [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► my goods [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► they're not giving me a discount to go [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► over and check myself out [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► you're screwing yourself out of money [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► and time that's exactly right i have [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► already paid for this person to talk to [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► me and touch my cans [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► mhm i do not i'm not going to go over [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► and do it myself and talk to a robot [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► unless I get ten percent all those [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► robots are taciturn anyway so they are [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► and I so I go over and it's one of these [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► things where there's others like there's [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► seven carts [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► it's like somebody is it's like [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► somebody's outfitting a ship that's [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► going to see for a year and and and so i [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► can't i can't wait in line I only got [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► I've only got a handful of items i can't [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► wait in line over there to talk to a [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► human being so I go over to the [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► electronic check out and I'm trying to [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► navigate this thing and it's telling me [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► to put my items in the in the bagging [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► area and it's telling me to do all this [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► stuff that I don't want to do I don't [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► put my items in the bagging area he [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► tells you that you place something in [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► the wrong area in the wrong area that's [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► right fuck does that mean it's saying it [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► i placed in the wrong and I'm like I you [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► know you're the customer John I'm going [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► up the thing I'm like it's what I want [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► it it's in the area that I want it now I [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► don't put in your area and this thing is [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► this thing is resolute it doesn't it [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► doesn't listen to reason and so I I [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► leaned over and there's that there's a [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► employee a safe way and this is [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► safeway store it safely employee there [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► and I and I kind of leaned over and I [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► said can you help me with this because [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► the machine is telling me to and this [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► employee the safeway employees having an [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► argument with another employee of safety [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► and they do not want to be interrupted [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► by me and I'm like excuse me and they're [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► like what i said that i was going to be [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► there you know I said I said I got a 15 [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► minute break and you said that above and [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► they're having this this like Safeway [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► employee argument right in front of you [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► right in front of me and and like [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► basically kind of like giving me the [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► hand and I'm about to say where's your [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► manager and I look and one of them's the [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► manager of God and so I i I'm standing [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► in between this robot that's that's [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► that's giving me orders and a manager of [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► a grocery store that is having not only [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► having a public argument with one of her [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► employees but it is but it is giving me [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► the hand and so you know what I did who [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► I stole a potato has your job gotten [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► hotter than fresh pumpkin chili tired of [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► kissing the wrong bird mired down by [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► your managers fear of even the slightest [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► prison in corporate discourse [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► well you're not alone igloo software [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► understand your pain igloo helps you [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► work better with other people by keeping [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► your team your files and your [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► conversations together in one digital [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► workplace [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► you can even work from home and you're [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► altogether sealed to your red leather [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► chair just steps away from all your [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► favorite globes candlesticks and cowboy [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► boots as you do so go to glue [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► software.com / find your duck and sign [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► up for your free 30-day trial bring your [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► team in from the cold by getting inside [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► the igloo in any case they had so much [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► more than that coming i think you let [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► them off easy it you you know you could [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► have demanded a lot of satisfaction and [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► given a very extensive and penetrating [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► course in managerial procedure to that [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► lady could have done but instead i just [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► put some produce in my bag that i did [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► not weigh and did not did not pay for [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► and I felt [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► felt ashamed of myself at the same time [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► at the same time I felt like this is the [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► cost [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► this is the cost that you grocery store [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► are going to incur for putting me [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► through this [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► this is my ten percent off you want to [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► comment card here's the comment cards [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► start counting up your fucking potatoes [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► this is and in fact it was not a [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► potatoes and onion now that i recall i [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► call it was an onion not a potato but I [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► said this onion is your time to know the [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► kind onion it was well you know I have [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► this problem all the time and that's why [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► self-checkout is a clusterfuck and you [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► really you want me to look it's a [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► Bermuda onion is a white onion is a [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► yellow onion scallion now you need to [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► tell me the Merlin because you use [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► person that knows this type of thing but [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► I go and look at the onions and I'm [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► gonna make you don't care what kind it [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► is I just don't want to have to talk to [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► a robot about what I put onion i put in [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► the wrong place the wrong kind and [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► Michael's run my card again this is [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► before this this is what I have this [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► problem before this I look at those 14 [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► kinds of onions even a even a shitty [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► safeway don't know the fucking [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► difference between an onion [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► this is another yellow onion this is a [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► white onion am i picking it I really [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► picking it because of color [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► yeah i'm gonna throw it into a soup who [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► tell me Merlin what is I just want you [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► know what I want I want the right onion [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► and I don't know how to tell the right [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► onion iib I would be happy to give you [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► some of my own practical heuristics on [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► this it will be useful to you it would i [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► would like a know how to choose the [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► right because I look at these onions and [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► I end up just picking one that looks [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► friendly [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► mhm i can look through the onions and [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► i'm like i like i like this guy he's [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► like him he's got a nice shape piece of [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► who doesn't have any dancer brown spots [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► yeah he's kind he's got a little bit of [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► he's got a little little kind of papery [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► outside but it kinda looks fresh as [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► fresh as an onion I'll just I'll tell [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► you the best that I now I mean I [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► essentially setting sighs a site aside [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► for a minute [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► I mean obviously you can have your [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► scallions or green onions if you want [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► some little onions but by and large [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► round dome you i think i think based yes [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► / amongst the round onion I think [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► there's basic it's not super complicated [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► yes purple is why they're yellow there's [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► like how much you want it to taste like [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► an onion [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► is the question and there is a continuum [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► and it's not super complicated at the [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► one you've got a white onion which is [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► useless just the way I'm doesn't taste [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► like anything why he doesn't really [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► taste like an onion [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► it's mhm its yeah it's sort of like it's [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► like an Ivy League onion you gotta [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► either got a purple onion which is a [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► kind of a sweeter taste you got the [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► classic yellow onion which is young you [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► should buy I think a good good good get [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► my yellow and unique I Bermuda onion [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► which is funny because they're so big [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► but again this is this is you know what [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► we could be fine with yellow onions [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► that's why you don't hear that i'm glad [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► that you say that because that that [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► dovetails with what with my [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► decision-making process which is that if [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► the thing has more color of a vegetable [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► has more color i assume that it has more [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► stuff in it you know like a yellow I by [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► yellow onions instead of white ones [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► because i assumed all yellow [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► I you know you found da you found a meta [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► pattern you ever have a white peach vs a [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► yellow peach fuck that white peach going [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► to teach people shit you don't want a [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► white PT exactly you my darkest color of [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► thing but you can get the richest the [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► richest non rotten color and that's how [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► you're going to find the right onion i [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► think it's i think it said I think it's [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► a terrific point but if you ever seen [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► like a new checker I called checkers [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► even knew checker we're going to flip [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► flip flip flo you have to find out the [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► price of the yeah it doesn't always have [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► like a little sticker on or anything the [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► end of this charging for artisanal kale [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► when you're really buying fucking celery [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► or something like that [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► well you know I'm the guy that stands [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► there after they checked me out and read [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► the receipt checks everything checks [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► everything I think safe we need your [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► friction they feel like such a dick when [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► I do it but and i'm always friendly but [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► honestly I'm and you want to talk about [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► supermarkets I would be I'm totally okay [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► talk about supermarket I got a lot on [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► supermarket I know you do I know you [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► feel strongly about this [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► well let me start with one thing just to [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► get this out of the way first of all [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► self checkout is for suckers [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► it's really stupid the piano I have [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► friends who insist I friend to insist [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► that it is faster and more efficient and [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► more pleasant and to them I say you are [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► full of shit you know who those people [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► are there the Union rat 0 and today [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► that's not that's different to get [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► uniforms they get uniforms these are the [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► people who are complicit in their own [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► haha [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► that own enslavement got it they're the [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► guys who run the block and they get a [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► better fresh they're the ones who are [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► like oh they made me this they made me [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► the sheriff of nottingham so now I'm so [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► I agree with their policies got it I got [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► it I got it [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► so yeah I i see those people all the [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► time were like oh no this is way better [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► i got this app on my iPhone that allows [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► me to to pay for gasoline without taking [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► a credit card out they are complicit [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► your implicit in their own tacit [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► cultural enslavement you didn't rat you [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► didn't rat through you should get a [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► yellow you rather away you know you can [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► read quite right away why you let me ask [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► you a question and this is this a [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► rhetorical question so you know you can [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► answer rhetorically if you want but have [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► you ever stood at self checkout let's be [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► honest self checkout line always longer [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► because everybody's waiting for the [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► convenience if you wait self-conscious [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► like a fucking stand back I hate this [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► but you stand there have been two ideas [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► the deal with shopping carts who is [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► coming up with this stuff but here's [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► what bugs me is I i see that line i've [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► tried to go through self checkout on [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► maybe three occasions ever and i had [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► precisely the same experience every time [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► first of all it's a very long line of [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► people who think of themselves as [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► Mavericks yeah that's right those are [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► the people the people would be a with [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► whether it's like yeah [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► bluetooth the telephone absolutely oh [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► it's like you know on the one hand [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► you've got like tall guys buying ice [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► cream with minivans I with ice cream [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► tall guys by a name brand fucking nun [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► sandwich style ice cream right and and [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► now you know and now they're not going [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► to be bothered with all that [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► flibbertigibbet of having to wait in [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► line like a sucker they're all know [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► they're gonna do this okay but then all [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► you know the things within there are [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► variety people and they're all stupid [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► and then you get up there [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► I have never seen I will say this I've [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► seen some people have transactions on [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► occasion that went without a hitch right [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► I'm going to say seventy nine times out [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► of 87 times there's some glitch the [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► robot yells at you it didn't like your [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► card LOL oh you wanna buy some vodka can [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► haha about three you know here's the [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► thing people who are good at the [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► self-checkout having gone through a [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► self-training where they've gone and [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► they they have spent the time and energy [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► to be trained by this machine how do [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► uses the machine will you know if you [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► use if you do it for John's the thin end [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► of the wedge yeah the Machine trains you [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► and then they're good at and they're [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► like look at me but I'm gonna look at [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► this I can scan really well but of all [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► the people of all the things that I want [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► to be trained in of all the like welding [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► classes I could be taking or like [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► artistic macrame I could be doing [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► whatever the last thing I want to spend [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► my mental and emotional energy on is [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► being trained by a supermarket computer [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► how to use it to buy onions to buy to [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► buy onions that I could be talking to [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► the checker download your mind when you [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► don't understand from robots to think [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► the better than you [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► that's right that is galling it's really [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► going and you know I like there are lots [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► of things I I I have allowed myself to [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► be trained to do like using a Macintosh [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► computer which everyone says oh this is [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► the that's so user-friendly well its [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► user-friendly if you sit in front of it [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► and let it train you to understand its [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► impenetrable internal logic right like [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► i've been using them long enough now [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► that I kind of understand how the how [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► the people how the dopes in California [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► who designed the way this machine thanks [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► how those dopes think like I i I've [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► worked through it you know and I i was [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► forced to let this machine trained me to [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► use it because there's no other way to [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► interact with human beings anymore if [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► you don't know how to use your stupid [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► macintosh computer [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► yeah I I have to agree with you and [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► talking to your mom about the old days [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► and as a strategy using the command line [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► application you know like like you know [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► you might be familiar with us right [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► like it or using an Apple inches i don't [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► know this before can even command lines [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► let alone gooeys this is back when you [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► know had get the four cards even I think [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► actually SAT there with a soldering iron [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► on a computer and then made the program [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► she really I mean she spoke machine [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► language and she spoke it like at the [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► dinner table but when i was an [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► eight-year-old there were times when I [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► would put my head out because you don't [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► go to go to room and my mom and I were [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► good friends my whole life and she would [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► come home from work and she be so [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► excited about having solved this this [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► problem in these mainframe computers [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► that were the size of oil tankers [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► and uh and she would start talking to me [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► about it you know i'm a tour not here so [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► old I would sometimes put my head down [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► on the paper because i was because my [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► brain was so full of numbers and lying [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► lines and and you know she's just so [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► excited about it she's really wants to [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► talk to me about it i was trying to be [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► cool and show off that every single [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► technology i came up with an old [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► technologies like oh no this is before [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► yeah well I'm checking her and I'm sure [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► she said this to you but her principal [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► the way she interacts with the modern [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► world is she said for the first 40 years [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► of computers we worked into the night to [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► make sure that no user ever experienced [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► an error and we tested and tested and [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► tested and tested until there were no [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► errors and she said as soon as Microsoft [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► took over the world and as soon as you [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► know the the software became the [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► technology [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► she said from that point on the policy [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► has been sent the errors out people will [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► find them and that's how you improve [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► your product [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► you really know your users will report [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► errors back to you and then you refine [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► your product based on people out there [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► using a thing they paid for that there's [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► a little tell us that these peaches are [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► yeah exactly and she's like she's like [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► it drives me freaking crazy and I mean I [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► we were we were using computers to put a [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► man on the moon we did not have the [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► luxury of errors but now your machine [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► crashes your your device goes you know [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► tits up your this year this happens to [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► that happens you can't get it to let the [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► Diagnostics say the diagnostic says the [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► network diagnostics is the network [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► didn't work [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► yeah run the diagnostic it doesn't work [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► great thank you did you try unplugging [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► your device I'm gonna fucking shoot you [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► now would you like to have a live chat [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► and then she's like she's like there's [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► no reason there is no earthly reason why [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► they could not make that what why they [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► could not make these products error-free [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► the only reason they don't is that is [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► more expensive and so yeah so they just [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► they they push it out the door they know [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► it's not ready they know it's not good [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► and you know and then they keep and then [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► they send you an update and the update [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► is a product of of 5,000 people being so [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► frustrated that they're pulling their [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► hair out and then it's like oh we [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► figured out that this needs an update [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► because it doesn't fucking work and she [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► you know so she has this Mickey 78 years [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► old she's seen it all but she has this [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► feeling about about the lives that we're [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► leading and the interaction we have with [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► machines and she's like you what you're [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► interacting with is someone on the other [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► side of the corporation who decided that [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► it wasn't worth the extra 50 man-hours [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► to make the thing work right in the case [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► of something like nuts like Microsoft in [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► particular but really anybody's making [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► consumer products you're trying to make [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► something that's brought enough to sell [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► to a lot of people it's got to do so [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► broadly do so many different sorts of [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► things generally and then there's you [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► know the more stuff that something does [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► the more things there are to test more [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► things there are to go wrong when you [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► buy a car with power windows like that's [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► something that's gonna break right when [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► you get that kind of stuff it you know [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► here's the other thing mr. car with [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► power windows because if you go off a [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► breakdown [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► you can't get out here your cars [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► thinking I really like that we're gonna [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► do you might have to have one of those [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► have you seen those things that they [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► sell the hammer thing went window hammer [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► but but your your sense of my favorite [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► to the black metal bands window hammer [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► window amer your car is sinking in a [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► cold river in the middle of the night [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► and you're going to find that fucking [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► window hammer that you have in your [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► glovebox gotta rehearse [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► I don't think oh that's right so you [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► have to rehearse this is why this is why [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► it might bring himself to use the window [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► hammer again now the cars training you [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► the cars training you [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► the car is training you because because [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► it because the false luxury of a of an [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► automatic but you actually that just one [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► quick Darrell to myself is this is why [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► I've never gotten the hang of most voice [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► recognition software like I have friends [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► I've my friends listen to the show have [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► written you know 50,000 word pieces of [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► writing using dictation but the thing is [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► yeah yeah it but you have to train the [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► dictation this is the fight part one [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► quick you have to go to court train the [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► dictation you have to do is try that one [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► time and this dictation program produced [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► four pages of the most incredible Dada [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► poetry [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► yes I I minded for lyrics for 10 years [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► but but it never it never once produced [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► III was just as i can tell you as part [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► of the live chat here i can i can tell [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► you basically what the likely problem [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► was it was you didn't quote-unquote [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► train the software are we having a live [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► chat [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► it's not what you just said my name is [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► Lawrence and I am to be enjoying [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► volleyball player isn't it funny that [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► the chatroulette that's why did i get so [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► uncomfortable but this is the method to [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► this the case here's the funny thing so [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► they call that training the software [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► right but really it's the software [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► training you it's you it's you learning [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► to speak when you when you open up [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► dragon dictate it shows you about 34 [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► pages of things that you read and it [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► tells you how well that you're doing it [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► recommends that you speak try to imagine [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► speaking a like a newscaster with a [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► neutral and so anyway you have no [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► they're training you how to talk period [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► new space news new line new line but [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► here's the thing and you're really onto [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► something I think with the grocery [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► checkout thing is this bigger pattern [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► setting aside from OSHA come back to the [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► profit per square foot but it's really [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► about making something seemed now i'm [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► talking like I'm doing dragon dictation [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► it's about making something seem like [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► it's good for you when it's really just [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► easy for the company that's what it is [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► it's cheap it's cheap because you don't [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► have to pay that idiot manager to sit [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► there and and run your coaches over a [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► scanner my god heaven forfend and this [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► happens to us all the time mrs. part of [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► that this is part of how we are [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► domesticated so that we can live with [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► one another like I understand that a red [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► light at a at a stoplight at an [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► intersection it is not natural for me to [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► come to that thing and stop i have been [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► trained and have trained myself to [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► recognize that red light is not it's not [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► just an an alert about a potential [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► danger but it has become just a thing [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► that now i acquiesce to without thinking [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► I stopped at the red light even if [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► there's nobody around i stopped at the [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► red light just as a matter of course I [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► have trained myself to do it [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► nominally for the most part and during [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► the day during the day and if it's not [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► an intersection that I know well enough [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► to know that the red light doesn't [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► belong there to serving suggestion to [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► her plenty of red lights and stop signs [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► in this city that I have determined [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► are superfluous to my needs and I don't [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► stop at them but let's still were just [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► talking about let's say a red light in a [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► strange town but at the point at which i [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► am being trained in that same way like [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► here's a red light stop the same kind of [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► unconscious training that happens we're [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► the only point of that training is to is [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► to improve the profit margin of a [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► company that I hate that is where i [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► repel and and and generally like it when [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► i when i go through the supermarket [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► checkout line and talk to a real human [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► being I am conscious of the fact that is [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► actually taking it's actually costing [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► the store more you understand it when [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► yeah i'm i'm i'm aware that that my [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► interaction with this person like [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► aggregated over over 10,000 interactions [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► cost the store more than if i went [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► through the checkout and I am and there [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► are certain stores in certain retail [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► encounters that I have where I i used [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► that as a punitive measure like I go I [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► go through the process in the most [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► labor-intensive way possible as a way of [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► like punishing the company i know it's a [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► small thing but it's how i could only [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► you directly punish the company [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► well there are there have to be ways you [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► will see this is this is able to take [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► off your clothes yeah exactly through [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► the chair through the window but see [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► that's my problem is I go and I go in [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► there and i got i'm going to go up I'm [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► gonna go pick up when i get a magazine [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► I'm gonna get some yogurt and made a [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► handle of tequila and the lines are now [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► going down down all the way down the [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► aisles and so you know how I give it to [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► the man I put all those things I got [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► down i just put it down and walk out [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► like that'll show right because like all [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► I'm doing is all you're doing is making [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► work for somebody who's gonna have to go [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► clean that up right [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► it's a shame that your potato cannot be [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► registered you know in some way or using [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► your onion could be registered in a way [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► that could express your descent in a [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► more muscular way than being just short [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► and onion that's a goddamn shame well [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► and I feel like I feel like the because [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► routinely in i think this happens to me [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► at least once a day maybe sometimes on a [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► bad day five times a day but where I [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► come up to the counter and I see that [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► a store is being run badly or a [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► situation a commercial situation is [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► being managed poorly and it costs them [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► my business like I look at it and I go [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► right i was about to spend X number of [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► dollars here but because i don't approve [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► of the way the stores being run I it is [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► costing them my business and that is a [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► way I I and that is a it's a mute thing [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► I don't go to the manager and say you [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► know this cost you my business is your [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► mind bullets i just sent my mind bullets [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► out and I say boom i'm not buying this [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► now I'm not shopping here but i think a [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► big part of of why I do that why that is [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► a mantra is that a lot of people go into [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► those commercial situations and the [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► frustration builds up in them but they [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► need the thing where they think they [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► need the thing that they're there to buy [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► and so they endure the the shitty the [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► shitty exchange or there but they're [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► storing up all the all the frustration [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► and anger in themselves you know because [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► they because they have put their need [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► above any other consideration and so I [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► need the need exists in obscurity and [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► they're almost worshipping that need in [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► a way that has been setting aside the [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► culture dignity the need is way up in [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► the clouds its way up above where they [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► can see and so they're in these [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► situations that are just like I am [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► there's nothing i can do i need this [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► thing and I just now they're kinda mad [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► at themselves to their there and it [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► turns into a form of self-hate and this [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► so what I do in those situations is my [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► primary interaction and my the need is [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► is below the desire to have a positive [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► exchange like if I can't have a positive [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► exchange then the need goes away and [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► it's a way of like of of keeping myself [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► saying in a in a world that does not [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► care about me as a customer now is this [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► all inward turning is this internal soft [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► regulation a kind of anger meditation or [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► are you how is this how is this was the [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► healthiness in this well by saying like [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► you're not getting my business but not [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► saying it but not saying not saying to [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► people just saying it to myself okay you [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► getting my business hey it then I then I [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► kind of have a moment where you're like [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► a really personal complaint department [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► I but i will go across the street or [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► down the block or across town to a [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► different store if if I if I actually [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► need a thing rather than then have a bad [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► customer service experience with a [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► shitty story that's being run poorly and [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► it's a small thing but I think if more [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► of us thought this way it does this is [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► this is precisely this is precisely [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► capitalism as it is meant to work or [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► capitalism as they discuss its evolution [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► as intended to where everyone would [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► discuss it as Babylon has cited numerous [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► times this is how it should work supply [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► and demand [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► well you know the there if you're stuck [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► you're stuck in yuan Fei go out in [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► John's a hood let me say network ping [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► pong but if you want that well you know [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► you may be out of luck and you may have [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► to satisfy for a doctor fig on right [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► this is precisely why i never ever ever [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► go into this little Korean bottega by my [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► house because I went in there five years [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► ago when I moved in here and the kid [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► looked up from his video game and he [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► said what's half-and-half yeah and I [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► never went back [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► just echoes in your head that was like [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► me and the racist fireman bar i'm so [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► excited more than the racist fireman bar [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► when I first moved in placed on the [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► corner [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► I was like those reasons of a new it's [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► amazing grace its Mason Reese the child [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► actor who still a child oddly enough in [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► a pituitary problem [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► no I was so excited because you know I i [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► was excited in Florida have a place like [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► a kind of call my own my little sort of [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► shares fireman bar there in your new [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► house Connor Connors yeah yeah yeah but [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► yeah yeah i think it was about that the [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► first time I went and he walked me past [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► the first time I met you and you're like [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► that's a great experiment bar I never go [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► in there it sucks i went in there like [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► oh this is cool it's kind of blue collar [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► and I went in there and within within [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► the first couple seconds hurt nigger sit [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► around all day watching TV hot attacked [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► attire and it's like well i checked [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► least I up and i'm not saying that they [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► did up [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► I'm saying naked I mean they really let [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► it peel and that was just ok and they [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► just they were throwing lucky charms at [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► each other [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► apparently these folks just watch TV and [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► their women and they keep getting [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► promotions and they they love their TV [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► these folks apparently forty-seven [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► percent of the population and so I [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► didn't you nobody is a funny thing [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► there's several places in my [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► neighborhood that only in the last [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► couple years have i returned to after [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► what you're describing which is the [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► initial like whoa experience this [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► replacement you know about money hands [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► you know the iso places what he's [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► amazing he's amazing your neighbor and [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► you not told you this before but one [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► reason i love that guy i have an Inside [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► Man here in the neighborhood who is in [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► the merchants association tells me all [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► the dirt and what's great about that [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► place in our favor so I think I told you [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► this is that it's it's not just purely [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► amazing that they had cats in the [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► kitchen [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► here's here's the really really cool [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► part about it is they didn't mind that [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► there were cats in the kitchen they [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► weren't they were to strip the healthy [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► people didn't mind here's the thing no [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► no no money and money hands had cats and [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► pitch and here's here's where it gets [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► great so you think oh haha that's funny [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► they're silly they're mad and trying to [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► shoot cats out with a broom or they're [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► insane and like cats hanging around [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► no no it's much weirder than that just [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► happened to be cats persistently in the [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► kitchen and they it just was just thing [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► oh so that's a dim sum place we go to [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► all the time [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► that's the best dim sum of the world i [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► had dim sum for breakfast the other day [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► I was so jealous i saw your photograph [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► is very doing things you get 60 mi that [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► I could see right in front of you [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► yeah is what when she came in she said [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► to my I was like give me to give me to [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► keep moving keep moving it was basically [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► keep badgering you while you're eating [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► to get more got it was the worst we hang [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► that not the worst but I mean we we [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► showed up we were shown to our table i [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► was putting the baby in her little baby [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► seat by mistake about that is already a [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► woman there with the cart like trying to [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► foist sugar covered pork buns on me and [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► I'm like hey lady I got my coat on still [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► I haven't even sat down all know that [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► that is hard sales that is you know what [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► that is that's fucking meeting that's [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► when she looked at me like she doesn't [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► speak English em some dim sum boiler [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► room is what it is they're on ok [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► actually the dim sum guy in your [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► neighborhood he never washes his hands [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► yeah and who has now I not only talking [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► money that's in the kitchen but somehow [TS]