Nerds and 9 Year Old Frenemies

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So we're parents.

Are we?

We are. Since when?

Since 2014.

So

one of the things I guess I wasn't prepared for in

children?

Children

is the competitiveness.

Like, I have a sister, and I know that she and I were competitive at times.

But I don't think we were ever competitive with our friend

at such a young age. Oh, okay. So you're saying

siblings'

competitiveness go hand in hand, but friends, it's like, it

maybe a little. Right. You would think that was more like at the teenage years. Okay. So let's

let's back up.

Our daughter is almost 9 years old. Yes. And she has multiple friends in the neighborhood. They're all awesome. We love them. And she has one that she's particularly close with. Yep.

And

for whatever

reason,

they seem to compete with one another. Oh, I'm doing this. You're not. Right. Right. And they do it to spite each other. Right. It's it's to be a butthole.

Right. But they're friends though. They Yeah. Play every day. Every single day for hours upon hours of time.

Right. And they're so young.

I just I wasn't expecting this until, like, teenagers. Right? Like Yeah. You would think as teenagers, maybe they would be more competitive, you know, trying to get their place in society.

But they're it's like they're bleeding into lying to each other now. Right. And that's a problem. Almost like just to make the other one

Feel bad. Right. Yeah. It's it's

jabbing each other,

but

it's lies. Is it manipulation?

Yeah. Well, they're

they're just trying to one up each other. It's gaslighting.

Yeah. You have you have a lot of experience with that.

That's a story for another day.

But I guess I just wasn't expecting this at such a young age. Well, I mean, I wouldn't care as much

if it wasn't lying to each other because they're both lying to each other

and just just to essentially hurt each other's feelings.

But what kind of friendship is that? Like, so our point in this whole thing is the

advice, if you will, or the guidance, the parenting that we have done with our child is

stop. Yeah.

Just don't do that. Why? If if the your friend is acting like that, just say, okay.

Or great. Good for you. I am happy for you. You are my friend, and I am happy for you. Exactly. But

You don't have to say, well, I'm doing. Exactly. That's the problem. They're they are 100%

trying to one up each other, and it's kinda funny, but it's it's evolved into lying. Right. It's it's

you're doing this. Well, guess what? I'm doing this.

Then they come over here and ask us,

are you guys doing this? I'm like, what? Doing that? Oh, I where's this?

Who's this?

Right.

We have no idea what they're talking about, but

our kid

was one trying to one up people, and guess what? Yep. It turned into a lie. So I guess, again, the idea of parenting this is

just from Bluey. Right? Run Your Own Race. I do. I highly recommend that show. It's amazing. But run your own race. Don't worry about what anybody else is doing. It's you against you, not you against your friend. Right. Exactly. And

you just said the the key word,

your friend. Right. It's your friend. Chill. Who cares?

Let them have fun. If they would if they wanna be a butt or if you wanna be a butt, then you guys need to take a break. It just feels like there's just always drama. Right? Yes. Always drama. Gotta have some drama.

Speaking of drama.

What we got?

Maybe not speaking of drama.

Speaking of drama. Solar.

Oh, yeah. No. That's drama. Okay. We'll go with speaking of drama. Yeah. The alright.

So

He's getting so ready for this. This is this is a nuts story to me, but so we just recently got solar put on our house because it made financial sense. And we live in Florida. And we live in Florida where it's sunny all year. Well,

we went through this whole process. It ended up being a little bit cheaper

than our

Well, no. It ended up being it's supposed to be a $100 cheaper Than our electric bill. Than our electric bill, which keeps changing

Right. Every year. Rates go up. And this payment that we were going to make to solar

is locked in for 25 years.

So we're a $100 a month,

you know In savings. In savings by 25 years, and your energy bill won't change. Right. So we were like, okay. That that

that would be stupid to not do that. Well sense. Signed all these contracts,

signed documentation with said company,

blah blah

blah. Well, I get a call

the other day. Well, first off, I got a text message the other day.

Well, I think we need to preface that even further in that that's what we agreed to with the salesperson.

Yes. And then And we signed contracts. And we signed contracts. Then we received an unsolicited

amendment

Right. That had an escalator included. Right. Which we never agreed to. We said 0 locked in for 25 years because that is a big benefit for when you sell your house.

You don't have to explain to the new people if you sell it with the solar panels, hey. Your your fucking power bill or your solar bill's gonna go up, blah blah blah blah. That's that's garbage.

Well, anyway,

I get a text message a few weeks ago, and it said,

charge back.

Hey. We're we're charging back your commission from my sales guy.

I was like, okay. What does this have to do with me?

They were taking away his commission

and essentially, actually, like, pulling it out. They already paid him. They're pulling it out of his account. So he sent me that, and I was like, oh, well, that sucks. What I mean, what do you want me to do about it? Well, and the reason why they were doing that was because of the 0 escalator. Right. That we had originally agreed to. They tried to send us an escalator and we said no. Yeah. I wasn't gonna do it. And mind you, the panels are on the roof already. And we already signed a 0 escalator. Right. And they had already installed these panels. So I'm like, I'm not signing any why would I sign voluntarily sign a freaking increase in my payment? Right. I'm not doing that. It's already up there. And the increase in payment was gonna be $50 more a month. Right. Well,

after that text, another week or so went by, and I get a phone call from said salesman.

The salesman said,

man to man,

can I raise your monthly bill up $50 a month so that I can get my bonus back? And I was like, what?

What do you mean? You want me

to suffer

because

you and your company's systems are screwed up? I said, why didn't you

and your company

rectify all this contractual dispute stuff before you put the shit on my roof? Right.

I have x amount of dollars of crap on my roof right now.

I'm not signing it. Well,

me and a couple of other people in our neighborhood, we bundled it together, essentially. We've we all did it at the same time. Mhmm.

And this sales guy said to me

that

these other two people had already signed this document.

You know? Allowing Allowing a 50 doll or whatever money Increase. Yeah. Allowing an increase for them. Well, they're my neighbors, and we're actually friends.

So I called them. Of course. Right? I'm gonna check.

They didn't sign it. Right. They said, kick rocks. They essentially said what I said. So this dude lied to me Right. To try and get more money. And I'm like, no. This is first off, I was thinking about it because you were starting to make me feel bad,

But now?

Oh, the salesperson was starting to make me feel bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was trying to make me feel bad. Wish it was working a little bit because, you know, I've got

a conscience and stuff. Got a heart. Yeah. I've got a heart. You had a Grinch?

Well,

after I found out he essentially lied to me, I'm like, no. That that's not gonna happen.

Yep.

But yeah. So

when you get if you do solar,

don't let them fucking try to roll over or, you you know,

the it's this has been a nightmare.

Mhmm. It's a scam.

The solar the solar itself and the system is awesome, but The idea of all of this sounds so good. Right? Well, and the app is cool. Right. It it's a good system. It's good quality,

but

it's like

and then this guy wants referrals. Like, how am I supposed to give you referrals

when you can't even do your own job?

Or and or your company Right. Is screwing

you out of your commission. Exactly. I'm not giving you Based on a glitch in the system. Like, it doesn't make any sense. So

And and and okay. So this $50 a month is over the course of 25 year contract,

which equals out to $15,000.

Right. I'm not doing that. It's a $15,000

fuck up that your company either has to eat or they come out here, take these solar panels off my roof, and fit and, you know, repair the entire roof

of all the pen roof penetrations that you've done. Nice. Penetrations.

Good job.

No. But, I mean, it makes sense for us in Florida where it is most of the time sunny, right, to have these panels. It makes sense to have a flat fee because whatever reason, our electric bill and its rates keep changing Oh, yeah. The time we moved in here.

So it it all makes sense. Right? And you like the app. You like the equipment. You like the setup. Like, that all made sense, but it's like the

administration,

the business

behind it. This installer is trash.

Mhmm. A 100%. And I'm not gonna name any names because I don't wanna get sued. Right. But

this installer is some hot garbage, and

it has been a nightmare with this stuff. Right.

But

just to kinda

give you an idea of why we chose solar,

it locks in your electricity rate for that 25 years because what you're doing is you're providing power to the grid. Right. So you are generating power not really for yourself,

but for everyone.

And

when you generate that power, your power company will pay you for that power, the same price that you pay them for that power.

So, essentially, what you're doing is offsetting your bill. Your cost. Your costs. Because you're selling

while also buying, so they're just gonna wipe out your bill. That's what it does. And it's cool, and it's awesome, and it makes sense in Florida.

Well, there could be a deficit, right, one way or the other where we're either not producing enough and we're using too much of electricity at hand or the opposite. We are producing way more than we are using. Exactly. And when you produce more than what you're using, it actually goes into an account

with your electric company. As like a credit. Yeah. As a credit. So you can either take a payment at the end of the year or you can leave it in there for those months that

maybe in wintertime or something or it's cloudy one day, it will cover that day. Right. So it it balances to e essentially equal a $0

But, again electric bill. Flat fee, electric bill. Right. Exactly.

Versus what it was changing to, fluctuating the $100 every year. Crazy.

But we have panels now. We have panels. They look nice. Mhmm. It I was worried about the look of them, but they look fine. The system itself is really cool. There's an app that actually shows you real time consumption and real time generation.

And Are we producing yet?

We're not sending to the grid yet. No. Dang it. Because

But can you see, like, all the things, like, what we're doing and Yeah. Yeah. Already oh, okay. So it is

technically taking it in. It's taking it in, but I don't think it's going anywhere. Gotcha. Because it's we have to get a permission to operate from our electric utility. Gotcha. So they know, like, hey. They're gonna be sending power to the grid. We have to pay them. And they have to switch our meter out to a

bidirectional

meter instead of in turn you know, into the house only.

All that to say,

research your company. Yeah. Research your company, and

don't let them roll over on you because they will try, it seems. I mean, at least this company did. I don't know about all of them, but

it's been a nightmare.

And

But once it's

over, it'll be worth it. It will be.

It's unless they have to come take these fucking panels off.

We will hope it doesn't get to that point. But, again, research your companies and also be vigilant. I think that is kind of our Read the your

Mhmm. Read through it because I read through it and it was going to increase the bill from

it was gonna at at least double the bill over the Yeah. By the end of the contract. And I'm like, there's no way. Nope. Well, I think that's our buzz phrase for our next topic even,

where our

be vigilant.

Yeah.

Yeah. So I have

an acquaintance,

we will say, anonymous

acquaintance,

that

just recently

had some medical issues,

and

she went to the doctor for them, got prescribed medication.

She went to a pharmacy to pick them up, and

the you know how they put the the medicine in a bag, they staple your information to the front so you know it's yours. Well, they stapled her information to the front. She took one on the way home because she wanted to feel better,

and

she proceeded

over the next 3 or 4 days to take this medication 3 times a day like prescribed by the doctor.

Mhmm.

Well, she started feeling funny.

She was like, this is weird. I don't feel myself. Mhmm. I can't stay awake.

I can't really talk. She was in this fog. You know?

Well,

this lady put her readers on

and looked at the bottle,

and it was Zoloft.

As opposed to some other prescription antibiotic.

Yeah. It was like an antibiotic

type or antiviral type medication that you're only supposed to take for 7 days. Mhmm. So

she was taking something that is a long term medication

and taking

A high dosage. A very high dosage of said medication 3 times a day.

So

this actually ended up giving her a panic attack. So she had to go to the ER,

and

the ER filed a report against said pharmacy. Right.

What are your thoughts here on who is at fault?

I wanna know

because I have thoughts. I think

both parties

are at fault,

but

I think the pharmacy should absolutely be punished for this

a lot.

I

to what extent, though? So we'll get to that in just a second. So

there are a couple of things that play there. Right? There is the pharmacist

who

put the pills in a bottle. Right? Right. And they put a label

on it. Mhmm.

That pill bottle was put into

whatever

Packaging. Thank you. Packaging if they stapled the paperwork. There was a lot of hand movements here.

So

but who performed that action? Right? Who took that bottle and put it into the packaging? Was it the pharmacist or one of the people who do, like, the text? Right?

Or whatever they're called. The people who ring people up. Right. The pharmacist isn't ringing you up typically.

It's, you know, one of the people behind the counter. Right. So

to which person did that, first off, they fucked up. Right? A 100%. They fucked up. So

if you've ever seen It's a Wonderful Life, it's a perfect time of season to watch that right now. And then we just started December here.

So

in It's a Wonderful Life, there was a pharmacist, and he was distraught. He wasn't paying attention. He put poison in capsules,

and was gonna send it for a child who had

some Whatever. Illness that was needed an antibiotic.

Now

in the movie, obviously, there's a point to this

that someone intervened and saved the child from Right. Dying from poison.

So

if the pharmacist

and or tech, whoever stuffed the package,

had put in something like

a heart medication

or an anti seizure medication,

your friend

would have possibly died. A 100%. They it depending on the medication. Luckily, it was Zoloft Right. Because that is a very

slow titration

medication. Right. It takes a long time for it to get in your system and actually do anything. Mhmm.

But And Zoloft is for antianxiety.

Yeah. It's a depression, anti depression,

you know, it's it's an SSRI, which is

to that point, like, the pharmacist and or person who stuffed it could have killed your friend. A 100%. So they are a 100% at fault.

But

what about not reading the bottle? The bottle was labeled properly.

So your friend,

in trusting the pharmacist and not

being vigilant,

didn't look at the bottle. Right. And see, oh, shit.

This is wrong. Yeah. I don't I can't take this. Right.

So

kinda

they should be

held accountable

to a point. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure that your friend suing them is gonna do any good. I don't think it would, and the reason why I say that is because

when you get home,

if you have if your significant other takes medication,

that's what they're gonna say. They're gonna say, well, how do you distinguish my pill bottle

from The 7 others. The 7 others that you have in your house. You read the fucking bottle. Your old medication. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Taking old medication. Right. Right. You gotta read the bottle. Mhmm.

Well, that didn't happen here. Unfortunately,

that didn't happen here, but

I

as a person,

yes, that's a little bit of a fuck up.

But

the pharmacy,

they need to be held to something. Right. And I don't know what that is, whether that's like a derogatory

mark on their BBB. Their pharmacy license, however that works. I don't know. Business bureau. Like, I don't I don't even know at that point. But the the the problem with suing too, though, is

the fact that

that's why health care in this country is so

astronomically high

is they have to carry loads and loads of insurance. Liability? Yeah. All these all these medical

professionals have to carry this

astronomically

expensive insurance because of

malpractice

and

getting sued because your significant other got shot and they couldn't save him.

You know? They'll they'll blame the doctor or the surgeon, whoever. So they have to have this huge ridiculous

amount of

money set aside for this. So it increases prices for everyone because everybody in this country is extremely sue happy. Mhmm. And it's messed up. Yep.

And

I will say

my acquaintance

does not

doesn't isn't really

interested in suing because of that reason, which is respectable,

but I do think

they should get in trouble.

Well, I wonder what the hospital reporting it does. Like Right. That was one detail I left out. The did I leave it out? No. You Oh, okay.

You said it. The hospital reported them for it. Right. Reported the pharmacy for it. So I wonder what that does, though. Does it trigger something

in the health care industry to say, like,

you fucked up. Here's a fine. Or And one thing that kinda bugged me too was this pharmacy,

from what I know, made no effort in

contacting

every single person that day.

Right. Should they contact every single person that Say, hey. We had a little mix up here. We don't know if you got the right medication. Can you please check? Right.

They should have called every single person

from that day that got a fill. Or at the very least, the person who's now missing their Zoloft.

Exactly. They could say imagine what that person is going through?

Right. They

they might be taking the antiviral.

This shit I'm depressed. They're taking antiviral.

It's not working.

Well, these pills look different,

but I don't know. That's a sticky situation there. That's kinda screwed up. It's

that's a a big one, we'll say, to

Yeah. I'm on, like, both sides. Like, I I feel like, yes,

my friend kinda did a little boo boo. Mhmm. Didn't read the bottle, but she did place

some trust in in this pharmacy to fill it properly. And Right. It was clearly labeled on the outer packaging that it was hers. Yep. Like, the model itself. Right. Exactly.

And and it had I I believe

they said it had the instructions on the outside of the packaging too, so she didn't have to look at the bottle Right. And see, like, take 3 per day, you know, whatever. It was on the outside, so she didn't even have to look at the bottle. It's weird. I don't know.

I don't know about that one.

But let's switch gears. Yay.

Let's move into some of our

entertainment topics Oh. That we have. Media. It's kinda weird.

We've sat down and watched a lot of shit in the past couple of weeks.

It is weird because they just had the strike, so it's not like there's a whole lot of new content coming out. But

We watched it a lot. Whole lot of content. Yes. Which one are you starting with? Go with Creator. I hated it. Oh, The Creator. That movie? Yeah. I liked it. I hated it. It was a sci fi movie.

It was

it was kinda slow, though. It was a little bit too long for me.

I I I feel like they were trying to do this huge grand scale stuff like Dune,

but I was like, alright, come on, move it along. I'm so bored.

I I was looking at my phone. It was okay. I like the idea of it, but the execution was a little the ending was kinda cool too. Well, the

what they say a lot is that

Hollywood

movies, they they tell us things, right, of things to come. Right? It's like

they they know already, and here's

here's what's coming next. Yeah. So AI integration or

robotic integration? It was AI. Yeah. It was all about AI and

the, like, the the AI god, essentially.

Mhmm. And who's the creator of AI. Right. That's why it was called

the creator.

Mhmm.

But

they

had regular people Right. Versus

either

what do you what do you call that? Augmented? Yeah. They were they were either, like, people

well, they looked like people, but they weren't. They were called

synths.

I can't remember, but they were

they looked like Essentially, droids. Yes. They they would copy you

and make a robot that looked like you.

Right. But then there was actual robots that looked like robots, but they were all hyperintelligent.

You know? They

had emotions,

kind of, I guess, you could say.

And They copied emotions. Right. Yeah. And whether or not yeah. They had the heart or soul to feel it. But they yeah. So there was it was like a war against

certain humans

versus them. Certain countries didn't want to

get rid of AI because they used it for everything, like helping farm and

but the US had AI terror attack, which blew up a stadium or something full of people.

Well, I'm not saying that is

being

what is to come. No. It's more like the idea of having droids. Right? Like, the idea that

more

robots, more

AI,

You you said it yourself. Right? There's farmers.

There are

utilizing them for different things in the world. Yeah.

Is that to come? I believe so. The goal of these

AI companies, I'm pretty sure, is AGI, which is, I think, artificial general intelligence,

I think is what it's what that stands for, which is essentially something that

can stand on its own and answer questions

without, like, human intervention. Right. It's smart enough to do things on its own. That's scary. That is terrifying.

That's scary. Because you're essentially

giving them free will, I guess, or

I don't know.

Whoever would have thought

that Terminator

would be true?

Like James Cameron? Right.

I guess so. Gotta give him credit, but whoever would have thought

that robots would be among us? It's terrifying. It really is because

once you take that leash off

and, you you know, that kill switch and that's the other thing too is with this AGI,

why wouldn't they figure out how to code out a kill switch? Switch. Yeah. Oh, that might kill me. Let me let me get rid of that. Mhmm. You know? I don't know. It's crazy.

Blue eyed samurai. We're nerds. Yeah. Blue eyed samurai is a new ish Netflix

anime series.

Mhmm.

I loved that shit.

I loved it. We are just polar opposites sometimes. I tell you what. It was amazing. It was good. I wouldn't say I loved it. It was good. I did. For a modern anime,

that was it was insanely good.

It was good. I don't know that I loved it. I feel like the way they left it kinda sucked. Well, it's not over. Oh, I know, but

it's just not a very good ending

for

the

series currently. I mean, not series n, but season n. Right. I mean, I the they're just trying to keep make you come back next year or whatever.

I'm curious

what

will happen with the main character.

What? Like,

what do you mean?

So I think the point of the whole Spoilers, by the way. Yeah. Let's just go ahead and say it. Spoilers. I think the point of the whole

what is it what is it called? Anime. The whole story

is that

revenge isn't the answer. Right? Revenge overcomes you. You become a shell of yourself. You were just seeking A demon.

Right. You were seeking to destroy.

Whereas,

she, the main character, and I can't even name her name right now. Mizu. Mizu. Thank you. Yeah. See, I like it.

Where Mizu is

meeting people who are coming into her life and enriching it, giving her purpose Yeah. Outside of the revenge. Right? It's like a growth for her. Right. She has this sole purpose to kill certain people, and she says it multiple times.

I don't follow me because

this path is paved with blood. Right. You know? I am on a revenge quest. That's it. Period. I'm not here to make friends. I'm not here to live. I'm I'm here everything I'm gonna do is to kill people. Right.

So I can see that being the moral of the story, but

then you have all these

extra characters around her, right, that are immature in her life trying to almost like move her off that path.

So

it seems

there is potential

for a throuple.

Oh, yeah. The what was his

the one of the main characters is a guy and then the princess.

Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Because There's a thropal. I I I saw that. I was like,

because the princess came I don't know. How do you how do you say that? She was in her carriage thing that people carry?

Oh, there's a word for it.

Oh, I see.

Idea. Paless

okay. Whatever. Move on. But yeah. The

and the main character, Mizu, saw her in there, and they kind of insinuated, like,

she thought she was pretty or whatever. You know? Time froze when she looked Exactly. So it was kinda like insinuating, like, oh.

Yeah. But the same thing throughout this whole series,

she got married. She

bang banged the dude, like, she loved this guy. You could tell that she loved this guy,

and then

she keeps having these moments with another character that's following her Mhmm. Through her little revenge story.

So it's kinda confusing. Another male character

following her that Right. Got a boner on her leg. And So she was like, put that sword away, bro.

But nobody knows that she's female. Right? Everybody assumes she's Yeah. That was yeah. Yeah. That's the other thing is

so

the main part of this story was she is half white and half Japanese.

Mhmm. And

In the 1600,

Japan closed their borders Right.

And did not allow any western

influence into their country. Because I think Catholic

Catholicism was,

you know Changing their culture. Yeah. It was changing their culture

and sweeping over everything. Mhmm.

Well,

she's half white and half

Japanese, and those back well, according to this story,

they

treated her like a demon. Right. She was a monster

in that culture.

And

Only well, not only, but typically men were samurai Yeah. And could

travel freely. Right. Whereas women had to be accompanied by a man. Right. So for her to Women were treated as property. Right. So for her to be able to travel on her revenge quest, she acted as a man. Yeah.

And,

yeah, I I I would recommend it. I liked it a lot. I liked it more than

1 piece.

But all that to say, I think she's gonna be anthrople. I do too. I kinda do. I don't know, though. I mean,

we'll see. But I I like the story. I like how they kinda

she started off as, like, a a sword maker assistant

and built her own

sword, trained up, all because she had anger towards someone she doesn't even know. Mhmm. Four people she doesn't even know. Yep.

It's kinda weird. Yeah. But it'll be interesting if they do another season to see how

and if she falls off the revenge path at any point. I don't think so.

I don't think she's gonna I think she's going to do what

she's gonna kill these people because

at least the one that we've seen so far is pretty fucking evil. Yeah. He's not just

some innocent,

you know, innocent guy that

banged her mom and had her. Right. He's a fucking asshole, and he killed a lot of

they call him bastards.

Mhmm.

Yeah. There's it's messed up. That that's one thing that I will say that might be a little bit much is it's extremely gory. Yeah. It's a lot.

Yep. Lots of blood. It was a little bit too over stylized.

Like, I don't really wanna see guts

No. Not particularly. You know, dude holding his guts in and shit like that. Peaches.

That was the best part.

Peaches.

If you know, you know. Yeah. But speaking of guts, let's go to invincible.

Yeah. That's another.

Can you tell this is a content based purely on everything that Russ likes? Yes.

Yes. We built this whole episode just to talk about all these nerd things. It's hard for me to get into TV unless it's something that I really, really, really like or I'm interested in. So there's not much.

But Invincible season 2 came out well, the first half of season 2 came out. And what did you think?

Again, we're very slow right now. Yeah. I know. I it feels like last season, there was just so much happening.

And in this season, it's like they started off with all the again, spoilers. Spoilers on invincible.

They've started off with, like, all the depression of

the dad being gone. Yes. And it's, like, all sad right now. So is the ad. I'm just let's go. Like, move on. Well, that that was a big part of the

the comic Mhmm. Was mental health.

And I'm fine with that, but to what point do we get to the next phase of life? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean You know? Like, he goes to college. Right? We've seen him in college for a couple hours

Right. Because he goes off. But it's like we're so focused on the dad leaving. And I I think what the point was is the lead up to him, again, spoilers, coming back. Right? He is

now back in Invincible's life. Right. Yes. He's back in Invincible's life. It was too much of a lead up. Yeah. And

I don't

know. It was very slow or it is very slow, and

I hate

I hate with a passion these mid season finale bullshit. Right. Just release the damn thing every week.

Yep. Stop pausing it because now we have to wait. I don't even know when the next part's coming out, but Well, it's almost like they create the content and the writers get blocked.

They're like, just release what we got and we'll come back. We'll take a break.

I don't know. I liked it. It it I felt like season 1 was better, though. A 100%. Because, like you said, every episode, there was something.

Like, you saw him develop from not having powers to

being what he is. Yep. But now it's like,

there's just there's a lot of focus on his mom, which she's majorly depressed and because he left and called her a pet

and all that stuff, but

I don't know.

It's just a little slow for me. Yeah. Agreed. But, hopefully, there to guts again. There is one huge change, though, from the comic to this show is

the

Alan the alien,

well, they insinuated that he's actually dead,

and he lasted a long time in the Well, he's in, like, a coma or whatever. Yeah. But he pulled the plug. Oh, right. Right. Right. Yeah. That guy pulled the plug.

The thetus?

Yeah. He pulled the plug on him, which if he's truly dead,

that's a big change. Yeah.

Next.

But

Invincible,

same as the first season, very gory as well. Yes. Lots of gore. Guts hanging out, all that stuff.

Well, speaking of more gore,

you you have a theme here, honey. Well, how about Call of Duty?

Modern Warfare 3. I'm just gonna sit back for this one.

Listening to you playing? My thoughts?

Meh.

The

so I like actually playing single player games because

a lot of the time, they have a really good story, and it's kind of fun to actually play. I like to call them, like,

interactive novels if they're

well done.

Call of duties was some shit this time.

Well, are they more for more focused on the multiplayer? They it's clear that that's the case. Gotcha. And that pisses me off because they used to do really good in story stuff. Mhmm. But this one,

I think I beat it in, like, an hour or, like, I think they said it's 3 or 4 hours. I beat it the 1st night.

That's nuts.

Yeah.

I was pissed

because I had it during early access.

You got early access to the single player campaign. So I beat it, and I'm like,

the fuck am I supposed to do for the next 2 weeks or whatever it was before it came back out?

Well,

now I'm playing multiplayer,

which is fun, but the best best part, and I think it makes it worth the purchase, is the zombies mode.

You wanna say your tag or no? No. Okay.

The zombies mode? Yeah. Zombies mode is awesome.

It is

huge open world

mode with all these dead people walking around, and you have the goal to get

more loot and guns and get to the center of the map and fight bosses, and there's a story to it. It's actually really fun,

surprisingly.

What else?

Listening to you, though, and playing that, I feel like the most enjoyment that you get out of these is your little one liner comments that you do all. I make people laugh.

Uh-huh. And even our daughter, she'll sit in here, she's not watching me play, but she'll sit in here and she'll hear me make these comments and then she'll hear everybody laughing and then she'll start laughing.

It is fun though making people laugh. Uh-huh.

I think that's the most enjoyment that you get out of it. It is. Because when I that there's a there's a thing on there. I think it's like

death mic or something. Whatever. Essentially, when you get killed Mhmm. By some another player, it turns your mic on for a split second so you can hear they can hear your reaction, and you can hear theirs. Right.

So when people kill me, I'm like, ah.

You are so loud. I do.

But but it's funny as shit because, like, there was you could tell it was young

teenagers. They might not even they were, like, maybe 12 or 13. Good lord. Playing that game? And they were yeah. They were playing that. It's violent, but whatever.

And they were

they lost it.

The whole the whole rest of the match, all they were doing was laughing, and I couldn't stop laughing.

It was funny as shit.

Hello? Well, lovely.

What? You don't have anything to say about Call of Duty? No. I've never played it a day in my life, but I'm glad you liked it. I do.

Okay. And let you watch Virgin River.

Which the extra episodes are such crap. It's just annoying.

Anyhoo, let's talk about our let's wrap up this podcast today with

our 2023

Spotify wrap ups.

Go. Top genres, go.

Alternative

metal,

pop punk,

pop,

hip hop,

and gym core, whatever the fuck gym core is.

I wanna know what gym core is. I don't know, and that's scary.

I do not let's be clear. I do not go to the gym, so I have no reason to listen to Jim Kore.

Okay. We'll have to investigate that one, but it's funny that pop is on there.

You know why. Why?

Our kid Uh-huh. On Amazon Alexa.

You had to whisper that. Yeah. I don't want it to go off. Uh-huh.

But she could constantly play songs

on there.

It has polluted

my raps. Let's be clear. I can't wait to hear this. Okay. So what was your top song this year?

My top song this this was actually not polluted, and I think it's because she actually likes this song too, so she plays it. Your top song was broken by flaw.

Okay.

My top song was Vibe by a croissant rock.

I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what yours is. Yeah. You do. You would if you heard it. Oh, okay. Well, you would have heard this. Broken like me. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know that. It's a cover, I think, but yeah. Well, you would know this if I played it because I played it a lot. Oh, okay. But she's one of the baddies

from God.

Yeah. My brain gets smaller I'm every time. Show. I can't help it. Even when I'm in here, in the office, playing Call of Duty, and I hear that shit, I'm like

Well, shut up. Well, when I hear you go

for Call of Duty

yeah. That. I don't do.

Okay.

What were your other top songs?

My top songs so my top five was number 1, Broken by Flaw, number 2, Richmond, North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony

Music,

number 3, 1 for the Money by Escape the Fate, Number 4, The Last Shanty by Nathan Evans because I am a future pirate.

And number 5 was

RX Medicaid or prescription Medicaid by Theory of a Dead Man. Well, I'm surprised then. So

all of that is you. Just wait.

Okay. But the your top five, at least, is you. Although, our daughter does like the first song you said and I think the third one you said? She likes the shanty one and and one for the money. Yes. She plays that all the time. That That's the one where one of the neighborhood kids left because they didn't like to hear

the f word.

Oh, bad.

But context. Right? It's just Exactly.

Okay. Anyways,

we actually talked about that on a previous one. What's your 5? Okay.

My 5, I already said 5 by Croshon Rock, then Rock the Boat by Aaliyah. I was going old school on that one. My god.

Then another croissant rock, Rainy Days.

And then number 4 is Richmond, North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony Music.

And 5 is Believer, Imagine Dragons. Oh, okay. That makes sense.

I don't know the I don't know most of them, but I had a weird year, it feels like.

You said one of your songs was f the government, and I don't know the rest of them.

Well, you know Imagine Dragons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know the Aaliyah song that's from back in the early 2000. I would have to hear it. I don't know them by The bone. Well, I don't know them by Sure. Okay. Please stop. Moving on. And then Krishan Rock is the baddie. Anyways,

okay. How

many minutes did you listen for? 10,037.

I beat you this year. You did?

14,259.

I beat you. That's weird. That's really weird. Normally, you beat me. Well, you drive.

True. My commute, so I was listening. Yeah. So I don't I don't do that. I don't I don't know how to drive.

You've forgotten. Mhmm.

Okay. Top artists.

Number 1,

Taylor Swift.

I don't understand how your top artist can be

Not your top number one song? Right. Yeah. Or in the top five of your songs. So, yeah, Taylor Swift is number 1, Nathan Evans, number 2, which is the last shanty guy,

Theory of a Dead Man,

which makes sense, Flaw,

and Oliver Anthony music.

So, yeah, we're twinsies. Taylor Swift is my number one too. It's not my fault.

I am a girl

dad. So Taylor Swift is probably my fault as well as our daughter's

or my number one, but, yeah, definitely not your fault for your number one.

Would I listen to Tay Tay by myself?

Hell no.

I would.

You like it. It was funny, though, before

our kiddo got into it. You weren't much of a Tay Tay fan, but now you are. Well, I knew all of her I know a lot of her songs because they are always on popular radio. Right? I would hear them all the time or in stores or whatever. But, yeah, I because our daughter now really likes Tay Tay.

Tay Tay. We we're listening a lot more. But Right.

My number 2 is new medicine.

Oh, I don't know why that's not on my top. I don't know either. What the hell? That's like my favoritest band of all time.

Then number 3 is Krishan Rock because, obviously, my 2 songs that have been playing on repeat. Number 4 is Imagine Dragons, and number 5 is Halsey. I actually really like this list. I feel like this is very representative of me. I I don't I don't think it is on me.

Well, obviously not. You have Taylor Swift on yours. No. But, like, the Nathan Evans one, that's that pirate song. I didn't

that wasn't my top. Well, you played it a lot. I did, but I didn't play it more than New Medicine. Yeah. No way.

New medicine is my shit. Well, I like mine. I don't.

Spotify, I don't like you right now. Yeah. Mad at you, but I'll still pay for premium.

Absolutely.

And I don't know why, but it's, like, such a life necessity these days to be able to have podcasts and or music. Well, you remember

when, like, iTunes first came out? No. Go take it even further back. Napster made it. No. No. No. No. No. Yeah. But you're talking about downloading music.

I'm not saying I did it, but Napster was a big deal. Yeah. I know. But

when you were when you would buy it

and you had to go to iTunes and buy each song, that was terrible. 2.99

a song. Yeah. Or or you can get a discount by the whole album for $13.

Oh my god. That was painful. I hated that. I I used to get the I think it was Coke or Pepsi.

They would give you the free iTunes voucher download code. Mhmm. I used to do that shit a lot. They used to give, like, the little CDs and the drinks at the movie theater. Do you remember those little CDs? They were tiny little, like, not even, like, 3 inches,

but they would have one song on it, and you could listen to it. Like, that was cool. Yeah. But But but not see, that's that's that brings up something. Oh. We own nothing.

True. We own nothing.

Yep. Because if we stopped our subscription to Spotify Then we can't listen to what we want. Right. We don't own that music. I don't like it.

At least back when CDs and stuff were a thing when it was physical media,

you owned it. Yeah. They can't take it from you once you have it. Right. You could put that thing in a CD player anywhere and it would work. But now,

if you stop your subscription or Spotify ceases to exist, not that it would, so big, but they could ban you. They could say, we don't we don't like you. Or Apple Music for that matter. Yeah. Anything.

Mhmm.

You don't own shit. Nope. Don't even own our house. We have a mortgage on it. Well,

that's a little harder to take than a flipping a switch of digital music. We own, like, one little piece. We own, like, a square foot right now. We almost didn't own the solar panels too.

I think that's it for today. Love you.

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