Gen Z and Amazon in the Amazon | Episode 99

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It is time to leave your worries
outside and come laugh with us inside the

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treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with
Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. It's a

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luxury you have being inside the treehouse, where you get to leave your worries

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outside, whereas all of us lately
have been having a carousel of problems.

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The storms last week obviously affected everybody
in North Texas, affected you, Trey

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and Raj, and it hasn't really
stopped. There's been something every day since.

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Raj, your power was out last
week. Before that, I was

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having power issues. Then your power
is back, storms are still happening,

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and now my power's out again.
Although it's on right now, yes now,

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yeah, but if if I go
dark at some point, that'll be

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it'll be a WAPA outage. The
Water and Power Authority. I think should

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be the new villain in the next
Avengers movie. It's like I know that

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everything got blown up with Jonathan Majors
as King, and they were setting that

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all up. It was going to
be the King Dynasty and it was going

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to be the next big Avengers team
up type of thing, and and then

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he got into some serious legal issues
and Marvel said, we're gonna we're gonna

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back away from this storyline. So
I now offer up as tribute an evil

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team up to go up against the
Avengers, the Water and Power Authority of

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the United States, Virgin Islands and
RKAT up against the Avengers and Avengers five.

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That's a formidable opponent. Yeah,
it's like Godzilla versus Mathra. Well,

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you one would think it would just
be a solo project that Thor could

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just easily fix it with just by
smacking it with his hammer with lightning and

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be like, hey, that's all
fixed. But they thought he'd fry the

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grid. Butt's more of like Phonzie
hitting the jukebox with his fist. They

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turn it off just so they can
turn it on and look cooling fingers.

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Hey look what I can do.
Whereas here in the Islands WAPA, the

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Water and Power Authority, they're not
cool like Phonsie. H. It's it's

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like a two man approach. So
one person is doing the distraction, right,

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It's like, hey, look at
me over here, I'm a shiny

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object, while another guy has some
tree trimmers and he's just severing the power

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source all together with a big smile, and then the money symbols in his

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eyes because they still charge even though
you don't have power. Yeah, so

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we've got fondie, you've got more
like Cheach and Chong. You know what

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I believe. I'm gonna put that
together in a nice photo and slap it

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on wapa's Facebook page. Here's our
the head of the Virgin Islands Water and

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Power Authority, Cheech and Chong.
So yeah, what they've been doing is

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here they've found short. The cable
that supplies our power on Saint John that

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goes on the ocean floor some from
Saint Thomas last week or two weeks ago

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had a short in it, so
they had to find and fix that.

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So they did that. Uh and
now they found another one and so now

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that now that's been a problem.
So since five o'clock yesterday, we've had,

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you know, rolling outages as they
try to divert power and try to

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find whatever it is that they're trying
to find to fix. Now, is

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there a okay, is there a
cap for population on the island, because

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that will because I think that's where
you're rolling blackouts are gonna. This is

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how it starts. When they're like, oh well there's short's happening, and

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it's because there's too many people utilizing
power at the same time. I don't

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know, I have not heard anything
about that as far as uh, you

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know, no more people right,
although would be uh, it would be

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helpful because one of the things they
do when you stay in the islands as

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a tourist, when you come visit, right, whether it's you're staying out,

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there's only there's there's whether you're staying
at a hotel or at an airbnb.

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Most of the places here have mini
splits. Central AC is rare,

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right, so the MANI splits.
What they tell you to do is when

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you leave, turn it off.
Don't leave it on all day because it

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sucks the power out of the entire
grid. And I think that's what people

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do because like when you go to
Mexico, man we us Texans will run

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Mexico's grid into the dirt. Because
if you've ever gone to the resorts in

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Mexico, what do you do when
you get in there? You turn that

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AC all the way down and then
you leave it there for the entire stay.

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M I don't know anyone that's ever
turned the AC at their resort up

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to a quote unquote reasonable temperature.
No, No, that's where you got

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to get your money back in some
way. One is at the swim up

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Bar. Two was at the buffet, and UH three is again at the

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swim up Bar. And number four
is the in room air conditioning. You

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run that mfor all the way down. That's the most Indian thing you ever

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said. See, I think you
you applied the Indian label to my frugality.

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That's we invented it. So that's
what you call it frugal. We

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call it cheap. Yeah, I
I do put the like what is it?

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What like? What do you set
your thermostead at normally? If you

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if you're when you're at the resort, what do you turn the AC on

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down to at a resort in Mexico? Is uh at night? As low

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as it'll go? Okay, I
will be somewhat conscious about it because I

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live here, so I'll turn it
up some during the day, but I

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still want to when I come back
into that room right from a hard day

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at the swim up Bar, I'm
gonna make sure the temperature is nice and

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chilli. Okay. I don't like
cold, That's the thing I don't want

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like. I can't like if it's
up to me, Like the girlfriend likes

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to keep it low, I'm a
seventy three seventy four. No, that's

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good for me. Trey. Trey
is Treys like Frosty. He's melting as

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soon as you touch seventy Yeah,
I'm like, seventy three is good,

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seventy seventy three is cold. Seventy
four I'm solid with. Like, I

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don't need it. I don't need
it to be I don't need to live

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in a fridge. I don't know. I'm desert people. That's what I

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set my thermoce at to when I'm
away. Okay, I just wanted sixty

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seven when I get home. Sixty
seven degrees. Wow, that's insane.

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That's why Urkott may have a point. Now I might be, I might

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be on their side. I'm just
saying, like, seventy three seventy four,

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I'm good with so h. I
mentioned the Water and Power Authority and

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they they get run through the ringer
quite a bit, the same way that

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Urkott does in Texas, and rightfully
so in both instances. Right that includes

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parody accounts on social media, and
sometimes the parody accounts actually let me,

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let me rephrase. Sometimes the entity
you're trying to parody is so stupid it's

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difficult to parody it, right right, yeah, And a great example of

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this is the Water and Power Authority
of the Virgin Islands. I sent this

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to Tray the other day. I'm
Raj. I'm not sure if you saw,

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but I'm gonna share it with you
now to make sure and share it

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with everybody inside the treehouse. So
this here is a post from WAPA.

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They were very excited being able to
take a break from all their Please pardon

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the service interruptions. Thank you for
your thank you for your understanding. We

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apologize for the inconvenience posts. They
broke it up with a post about a

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new hire. So any any news, any any good news they could throw

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out there. They were very excited
to do it, right, So,

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Raj, can you see that?
Okay? All right? So right here

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from WAPPA four days ago, after
a long hiring process, this is on

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This is on their Facebook page.
By the way, after a long hiring

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process and weeding through at least twenty
candidates for our new billing specialist. Specialist

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is spelled sp E s h A
l I S t so. After weeding

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through at least twenty candidates. Our
new billing specialist has been hired. Our

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hiring panel says she blew the interviewers
away with their skills and knowledge. Here's

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her photo. Raj Okay, that
that look familiar to you at all?

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No, Trey, Yeah, what's
that look like to you? The casting

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couch? Yeah? Oh, the
casting count adult website. So this is

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where you need to pay close attention
because when you go up and look at

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the actual WAPA logo, it's not
actually them. It says not the Virgin

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Islands Water and Power Authority. Huh
Wilma dick Fit power station will keep you

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in the dark. And here you
have the logo Virgin Islands Water and Power

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Authority working against you. And on
the and on the introduction again, we'll

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keep you in the dark. Wow. And as seventeen hours ago the most

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recent post WAPA update, the current
is currently out. Current time to restoration

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of current is currently unknown. WAPA
spokesman Manual Labor said, Unfortunately, our

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current CEO jumped before the ship sank, and we're currently reading through the plant

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manual to restore current. Does it
has anyone done in or one and you

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know of the listeners don't want to
do that. I need to look up

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to see if somebody has. I
need to look up to see if somebody

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has. But I mean, this
is just terrible. It is an interesting

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way though, to get people,
you know, to enjoy Facebook again,

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which is making fun of the things
that they hate, which is actually interesting

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because I saw a story today about
so we're all aware Facebook is for the

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old it's for the older folks,
right, It's for sort of people around

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our age, and older millennials will
use it a little bit, but it's

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very much a gen X and hard
boomer thing. And gen Z is too

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cool for it, right because they're
on Instagram and TikTok and maybe other platforms

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I haven't even heard of you.
So Facebook is trying to remedy that,

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maybe because they know TikTok is you
know, on the bubble, and they're

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trying to find a way to woo
gen Z into Facebook. Although it was

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interesting they said they're not trying to
convince gen Z that the book is cool,

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just useful. But all I can
see is Steve Bashimi and thirty Rock

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walking up to a bunch of kids
wearing a Facebook t shirt with her backwards,

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red hat and a skateboard saying hello
my fellow kids. Trey, you

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you work with gen Z because you
work in the service industry. You're a

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manager at a at a very cool
you know, night spot in Dallas,

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and a lot of your staff is
gen Zh. All of them, pretty

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much all of them. How do
you How do you handle that? How

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do you relate to them? I? I do you try to tell them?

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Do you try to share with them
a new TikTok you saw? Do

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you try to involve yourself and their
TikTok dances? Do you wear crop top

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sweatshirts and short shirts with socks and
sandals? I try my best to h

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be gentle with them. You have
to be very gentle with them. They're

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very sensitive. They're they're they're very
in touch with their feelings. They they

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have not everything. This is one
of the great analogies. You know,

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when we were growing up, if
a kid was picking on you, you

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know, you went to your parents'. Parents are like, you know,

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when you act like it doesn't you
know bother you, they'll quit. So

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you basically had to either you know, learn to deal with it or fight

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mm hmm. Yeah. It was
basically it was is basically, we either

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had to find a way to defuse
it or we escalated to the point to

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where now you leave me alone.
And with the with the fisticuffs and this

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gen z. You know, they
really literally are used to if someone was

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picking on them. Then they went
and told the adult and they all got

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set down and they talked about it. Why you know it's wrong to do

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that, and that's just they are. I can't even I literally I have

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had a couple of servers that I've
had a problem with that. You know,

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as it gets later on the night, twelve thirty one am, they

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just kind of get into a coast
mode. I'm like, hey, you

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know, my first time was like, hey, we're open till two.

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You know, we gotta keep going. You know, let's let's keep making

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those sales. We got bonuses.
You were taking the Jason Garrett clap approach.

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You can do this. Let's go, guys. You have to be

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you have to you have to be
positive, you know, encouraging encouragement,

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even though deep down inside your bill
parcells. So that's the first time.

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Second time, it was still nice, but I was like, hey too,

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really to the coast need to get
back out there on the floor.

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M that's literally what I said,
come on, Kieran, we need your

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last hour here. And because of
that, then I had to have a

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talk with other people because they're like, well, they feel like that you're

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that their jobs on the line when
you when you say things like that,

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and I said, it is that's
that's the nature of this business. It's

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yeah, it's a it's literally a
results business. And if you don't have

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results, And I've always told all
staffs of this, like we're all replaceable.

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You're in the service industry and bar
business, you're all replaceable. Don't

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ever don't ever think you're you're you're
the golden child and the bar is gonna

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fall apart without you. It won't. The only way that bar will fall

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apart is if there's no alcohol in
it, exactly. And they're just it's

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and they're so they have this just
sense of of it's like they think they

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they think they know so much and
they don't. Yeah, and just and

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it's it's one of those things.
It's like just because you've had like we

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had to work for information, like
we know, like world books and encyclopedia

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and a Dewey decimal system in a
library. They have no it's just all

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but they don't have any filter on
where they're getting their information from. So

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half of them they think they know
everything, but they've just been watching YouTube

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videos of another dipshit. Yes,
yeah, I just uh in my head,

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I've always wondered what like a gen
Z military would look like. You

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know, drop and give me twenty
if you are so inclined. But it

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hurts, Okay, you know,
we will stop for the rest of the

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day. I you know, we
we used to joke about millennials being just

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kind of soft and yeah and yeah, no we at least had kids.

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Well yeah, but you know,
now we're looking back on it's like,

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you know, the millennials were like
the little brothers and things when we still

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slap them around, they were okay, this one't Yeah, I liked.

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I will say I'm glad. I'm
gonna be gone when they when gen Z

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really gets the power, because I
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Z kids. And and we've talked
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there's been an overcorrection and because a
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experience is growing up, we're still
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still learning about ourselves and figuring out, oh, you know what, maybe

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this particular thing was not supposed to
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little was a little too hardly learned, or you know, you're supposed to

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stop at a certain point with the
beatings as opposed to taking you know,

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halftime and towel breaks and water breaks
and things. Mm hm. So I

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think a lot of it is is
some overcorrection to where now you get it,

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it's you know, it's like,
you know, there's some good things.

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There's a lot of good things that
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that they're bringing they're being brought up
in, which is to be in touch

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with some of their feelings. The
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to balancing it out. Like it's
like, you know, it's like you

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can you can have a boss that
might be hard on you, that you

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think is hard on you, but
you have no idea. Oh, I

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go back to like the guy the
Cliff who is the original owner of the

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loon who you know I've worked with
and everything like he he would make these

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these kids like curl up in the
fetal position just literally drop drop and suck

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themb Yeah, I mean it's you
you it is remark that was probably wrong.

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Absolutely, there's no doubt about that. You know, maybe a little

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too, but like you can't.
I literally and Dan, you've known me

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for a long time, and and
like I say this, I I have

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been you know, is in sobriety. I have been much more milder and

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collected and think before I speak more. But I have to. I literally

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I have to stop and and collect
myself and and just like feel like I

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have to be mister Rogers with them
just to try to just to try to

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get something done that that normally you
just go, hey, wipe the tables

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down your job. I mean it
goes you know that. There's that Jon

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Ham like little video clip of like, you know, you give me ideas,

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I give you money grows like but
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appreciation that's what the money's for.
I saw that the other day. I

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feel like my phone was listening to
me pretty hard, and it felt like

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I needed to see that. Obviously, and I think what happened was it

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fed it to you, Trey,
and then it listened to our conversation and

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said, let's feed this to Dan
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that scene you kind of get where
Peggy's coming from and mad Men because he

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never does really say thank you,
and he takes he does take her for

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granted. His character absolutely takes her
for granted. But he's also right when

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he says, that's what the money's
for. You don't ever say thank you,

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that's what the money's for. And
then that's when you realize you have

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you have leveled up in adulthood.
Is when you identify more with John Ham's

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character in mad Men. Yes,
and you're like, I'm kinda I'm kind

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of on Draper's side there. Yeah, Well, it's one thing. If

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there's all so you have to put
perspective with this. If it's someone who's

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you know, making crap money,
okay, like the one's working for me,

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they make great money, it's like
you're you know, you're not,

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you're not scraping by. It's really
all about perspective. So our generation,

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I think is extremely gifted and unique
in that the technological advancements in our lifetimes

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is astounding. The things that we
started with, yeah, and grew up

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with. We grew up with the
technology. Our parents, the boomers and

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such, they had an entire lifetime
of you know, going through at least

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part of adulthood before they ever had
to worry about learning anything about computers and

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and that stuff. If they were
going to do it, it was they

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they wanted. They had to seek
it out. Like my dad, he

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wasn't There's no way he could be
a he's not a born computer nerd.

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He's a boomer, and you know, he was born in nineteen forty nine.

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He had to become one, right. Whereas all of us we grew

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up with that stuff. We grew
up learning how to do things on a

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big chief tablet, and some of
us, like me, with an oversized

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pencil that said Danny. Yeah,
that said Danny on it. Guess just

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in case there was another big red
pencil in first second grade. Didn't want

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to have any confusion. That was
mine. We learned how to kind of

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draw on an etcha sketch. We
played actual board games, whereas now you

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know, I'm going to fire up
Black Ops six in November. As a

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middle aged man, and I get
to appreciate all those things, whereas,

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like Trey your saying, we had
to actually go to the library and do

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some reports at one point and projects, whereas now you can just have AI

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do it for you. Yeah.
Also, I think a lot of it

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has to do with the perspective about
what you have and being like, hey,

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this is really cool what I got. We also we had to teach

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our parents how to use the bleeping
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it's like every time jen Z,
it's like every time you're emailing Nana,

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thank thank us. Every time you
see, you know, an old person

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with an AOL account, know that
there's a gen xer that suffered greatly and

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that was their last resort is just
to give them the fucking AOL account.

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Here's your disc for one hundred and
twenty six free hours. No AOL.

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I just uh, from a different
perspective, like I the way we grew

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up, Like I believe in bullies
Like that it sounds ridiculous, right,

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but I believe in them because they
for me, Like bullies made the world

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go round, right, Like you
learned different skill sets, uh when you

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were being bullied, right, Like
what Doctory was saying like, either you

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learn to fight or you learn to
avoid, right, but there's something new

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learning to deal with conflict. That
is what and that is what gen Z

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absolutely has no grasp on. They
cannot deal with conflict out of any way,

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shape or form, and it literally
just shuts them down absolutely. And

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I I people ask me all the
time, like, you know when it

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with stand up? I'm like,
I was bullied. That's how I got

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into stand up because I learned how
to make people laugh. That was my

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resource is. I was like,
it takes a special kind of asshole to

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hit you while you're while they're laughing. Like, if you have somebody that

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can laugh and punch you at the
same time, that's a sociopath. And

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you've identified that, you go,
that guy's not right. But it's it

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is it's conflict resolution, right,
And that's all it came down to.

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Uh. It is one of those
my my parents' generation like that. This

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is the thing that taught us was
if you can't beat them, join them.

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I'm like, that's the worst advice
you can ever give a kid.

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It should be like, if you
can't beat them, find a group of

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kids that you cannot have to worry
about beating. If you can't beat them,

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join them. Is why there were
such a huge gang problem growing up.

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That's exactly like and my mom is
like, you know, I got

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beat up one time and I came
home and I was crying. My mom

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was like, had that same thing, which like you go back outside and

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you don't come home until you beat
up that boy. And I'm like the

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old my my joke on stages,
I was like, I don't I never

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went back home after. I don't
know. I don't know where they moved

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to. This is the only set
of clothes I've owned for thirty years.

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But I mean that was the thing, like you got beat up, and

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it's like that was their ideas,
like hey go back out and you go

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and fight till you till you resolve
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a wildly different because my girlfriend's daughter
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uh she she she's gen z.
And it's amazing to watch what what shuts

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them down. It's it's very true. Conflict shuts them down. Stress shuts

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them down because there's no there's nothing
that's overwhelming because they have so much information

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that they have at the palm of
their hand. So nothing's really overwhelming,

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whereas like, yeah, go ahead, they can deal with conflict online.

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Yes it's face that. Yeah,
it's face to face that. They absolutely

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and that's that is a whole other
problem of their lack of I was just

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there was just a study came out
about I mean it was from recruiters and

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they were like, nineteen percent of
job interviews are bringing their parents with them.

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It's like, Wow, they lacked
their interpersonal skills suck. I saw

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a story like that about gen Z
a handful of years ago, and I

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thought, there's no way this is
true. It's got to be from the

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onion or something. And no,
it's absolutely, uh an actual thing.

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And like Trey you just said,
you've seen it come back around again.

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So it's not exactly going anywhere.
And the thing that's crazy to me is

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the parents are going. They're enabling
it. But it's also because it's like

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if I if I go with you, will you will you leave me?

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Will you please get out of this
house? I'll go with you, but

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will you stay there? No?
There is something to be said about that

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because they've over because the parents have
over corrected so much and they were cool

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to have the kid move back home
after college and pay for everything and keep

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paying for everything. Not necessarily mandate
getting a part time job ever, Just

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let them do whatever they want and
find their way, take a gap year

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from nothing, like what's the uh
so now they can't get rid of them.

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It's like giving a cat milk.
And now what they want to do

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is they want to rehome the child
to an employer. Yeah, please take

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this kid to work for minimum wage, even though it's the same minimum wage

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I had when I was a kid. No rehoming fee. Yeah. Pause

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When I was growing up and I
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let's stop hating on on gen Z and

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for the record, not hating,
just a little of venting a little uh.

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It's a little uh you know.
I mean there was another study it

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came out Friday where you have seventy
four percent of employers said gen z R

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possible to deal with. Yeah,
and they're being fired at a rapid rate,

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and the results are a lot of
them are committing suicide because they don't

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understand that. They don't understand the
authority figure. They think that their boss

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is their buddy, so they don't
understand like when they go, hey,

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this deadline, I need this by
Monday, and Monday rolls around and it's

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not there, and they're like,
oh, well he's not gonna fire me.

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That's my buddy, Steve. And
then they get fired and they're like,

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oh, my friend fired me that
way, and it's they define their

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self worth that way, and so
a lot of them are killing themselves.

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Jesus, that's dangerous. Yeah,
that's a and there's no I don't even

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know how you resolve that. But
it's like, I'm your boss, I

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need this by Monday, and that
is that. And then they go,

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oh, okay, well i'll just
get up to you by Thursday. Yeah,

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that because that goes to a whole
nother thing. They and it's like

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I I've actually I've talked to a
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I was horrible about it. It
took me getting sore to really get

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but I'm like, when you're constantly
late, that is a time management issue

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on your end. That is not
life. You know, all of a

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sudden that you know, you think
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handling your time. Time and deadlines. Oh, they're bad at it's like,

405
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.319
but it's also it's again it goes
back to kind of the conflict thing

406
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:24.319
of you know, they really didn't
have like we had grades posted where everyone

407
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:28.400
saw if you did an A or
a C. They don't have any of

408
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.519
that. They they it's and and
they can't handle conflict. And anyway,

409
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:36.440
I'll give you this, And I've
talked to teachers about this when I'm on

410
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.440
stage, and this is one hundred
percent factual. And it started in California

411
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:45.880
is or maybe Washington State. But
they don't they're not grading with bread ink

412
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:50.599
anymore. Oh that I was actually
about to bring that up that started like

413
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:53.720
twenty years ago. Real it was
twenty years ago, Okay, it started,

414
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:57.839
and there were some teachers that did
it on their own just because they

415
00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.759
didn't want it to be that harsh. But it wasn't like a data wasn't

416
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.519
a district wide thing. It wasn't
a school thing. And I come from

417
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:06.279
a family of teachers. This is
why I'm I'm kind of in tune with

418
00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:09.319
this. And most of the teachers
in my family are all like, you

419
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:15.839
know, use the redd ink it's
important mm hm uh. And they're big

420
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:21.160
on consequences and so conflict and consequences
the sort of the things that that you

421
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:25.559
know gen Z is is struggling with, whereas our generation again, this is

422
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.039
where it's the over correction. Our
generation being gen X, dealt with that

423
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:36.440
probably too much. And I think
that's the reason why most of our kids,

424
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.240
which are gen Z, we are
over correcting as parents some of the

425
00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:44.000
wrongs. We're trying to right some
of the wrongs that our parents did,

426
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:45.920
but some of us are going way
too far with it. And that gets

427
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:51.599
into into the school atmosphere where instead
of read ink, they shift to purple

428
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:57.119
or blue green or or green or
instead of you know, like we used

429
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:01.920
to get stickers on on things.
Now it's probably just you know, no

430
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.239
expression face emoji if you fail,
as opposed to the middle finger that it

431
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:13.119
probably should be. But yeah,
So the conflict and the consequences thing,

432
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.400
and so the the ink thing,
that was the thing that started years ago.

433
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:20.119
We first started seeing stories about it
and talking about it on the radio

434
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.360
show back in the you know,
in the early mid two thousands, and

435
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.639
we were all stunned. We're like, what what is this? This is

436
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.400
crazy? What's that going to lead
to? Well, now we know,

437
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.079
yes, and it went from conflict
and consequences to Dungeons and Dragons. That's

438
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:37.440
where we went. I see.
That's one of the things that gen Z

439
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:43.480
has done really well is they took
something that was you know, super nerdy

440
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.280
culture, Dungeons and dragons, and
if you laid it as a kid,

441
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.480
as a gen xer, you were
a loser. That's part of the reason

442
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.159
why Stranger Things is so popular because
so many people identified with it because they

443
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.119
were the ones at someone's house playing
Dungeons and Dragons and secret because they didn't

444
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.400
want anybody else knowing about it because
it was Loserville, right. But gen

445
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.320
z has taken some of those things
and brought them into the light and made

446
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.840
it kind of cool, like,
hey, nerd, stuff's cool. Yay,

447
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:09.199
okay, but let me just say
this. I got to invite what

448
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:14.719
I was probably twelve, twelve or
thirteen maybe, and I got invited to

449
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.239
this guy Brandon his house for He's
like, came out, We're about to

450
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.480
play this cool new board game.
I'm like, all right, that's kind

451
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:27.079
of weird because we can just ride
bikes and play outside and play football,

452
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.679
play basketball, right, And so
I go over and this is when I

453
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.360
realized about Dungeons and Dragons. I
walked in and I saw who was playing.

454
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:40.480
And I was not a popular kid. I was, I was picked

455
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.800
on, I was I was bullied. But I had a hutch and I

456
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.199
had a football, so kind of
kind of brought something to the table when

457
00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:54.079
I when I went bike riding and
or out on the street and I looked

458
00:35:54.079 --> 00:36:01.920
around and I was like, no, that's that's when you refused. I

459
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.079
am glad you had the wherewithal.
I'm glad you had the presence of mind

460
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:13.239
to know what it was and to
not go in it wasn't. I'm glad

461
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.199
you I'm glad you were given the
choice and you made the choice you wanted

462
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:17.559
to make. It wasn't even know
what it was. I was like,

463
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.960
I'm not this bad, That's what
I mean. You knew what that was.

464
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:25.800
You didn't know what the game was
or anything like that. You knew

465
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:30.360
the general feelings in the room,
and you wanted no part of it.

466
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.119
I saw a ten sided die and
I was like, I'm out. I'll

467
00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:37.639
see you guys later. Vincy's white
kids, let me play wide out.

468
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:42.639
I'm a fifth level made. You'll
give me a thirty seven year old virgin

469
00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:47.599
and we'll see. Yeah. But
that stuff now is actually kind of a

470
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:53.719
cool thing. And part of the
reason all this stuff happened is because of

471
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:58.920
the Internet, right, because everything's
all the information, it's accessible right there,

472
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:05.559
it's easy to have, and because
of that, it's corrupted us as

473
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:12.239
a society, as an entire planet. And I will say this, given

474
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:17.199
our parents parenting style, if we
had had the Internet, the world would

475
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:21.320
probably have ceased to exist because we
would have probably blown it up. Yes,

476
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:27.360
I absolutely agree it's best that the
Internet was not unleashed into our hands.

477
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.280
At least at least I will say
this and the only saving grace I

478
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:36.000
can kind of give them is gen
Z is a kinder, gentler generation.

479
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.920
Like I'll give them that. They're
very kind, and they're very open to

480
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:44.800
other people's they're very aware of other
people's situations and understanding of their feelings.

481
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.679
They're very empathetic, yes, and
I mean, I guess if that's a

482
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:54.280
good quality. I don't know it
can be, just like life is not.

483
00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:00.719
Life is not empathetic, but they
are now. Life is definitely not

484
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.159
empathetic. But you know, the
internet has has changed the world, right

485
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.840
And not only has it changed the
world, but we should be aware now

486
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:17.320
that the consequences that come along with
Internet usage. Right. M Despite that

487
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:22.639
knowledge, someone still thought it was
a good idea to give a remote tribe

488
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.800
in the Amazon access to the Internet
for the first time ever. Why exactly

489
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:35.480
how do you think that went?
Did they did they embrace it or did

490
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:42.519
they chuck uh stab them with poisoned
darts. No, they they embraced it.

491
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.400
I don't think they saw them for
the first time and then handed them

492
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.239
an iPhone. I think this is
a little bit of a process. But

493
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:54.440
when they finally introduced the internet to
this to this remote Amazonian tribe. They

494
00:38:54.639 --> 00:39:00.039
they definitely embraced it to the tune
of they're now already grappling with gossip,

495
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:07.320
Instagram, violent videos, scams and
of course porn nice I can't wait to

496
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:21.400
see tender profile. How do you
even look that up? On only fans?

497
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:37.599
That's the only fans account that has
only one fan. Your visit us

498
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:44.800
online freehouse on air dot com.
I think I just popped a rib.

499
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:53.440
Let's get Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing into
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500
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.599
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501
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502
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:06.199
only is Brooks Plumbing a family business, but it's a four legged family business.

503
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Even Jacklin right now has is that
Rusty with you in there? The

504
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:15.079
people? It's my little baby beagle, Hi Rusty. If Tara and I

505
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:21.159
were doing an event recently large event
at a very lovely mansion or here on

506
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.199
the island, they're called villas,
and while this is a multimillion dollar villa,

507
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:28.480
it has a bit of a poopy
smell around the property. I can't

508
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:30.280
help it, but I have to
admit that when I smell a poopy smell

509
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.519
at a house, I think of
plumbing. And when I think of plumbing,

510
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:36.800
I think of you, Jacqueline.
So I smell who reminds me of

511
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:42.960
my friend Jacqueline. I don't smell
poo. I smell of what's that perfume?

512
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:49.000
I just bought product Paradox spoilers myself
last month. It needs it needs

513
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.920
a plumber, doesn't it when you're
smelling poopy around the house. Here's what

514
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:53.960
I think. And I learned this
a long time ago. I was I

515
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.559
was in high school, and I
was a food runner at Studio Movie Girl

516
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.000
in Planeo. And I came home
from work one day and I told my

517
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.599
dad's dad this restaurant, the whole
place smells like pooh. I said,

518
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:07.800
why is that? He goes,
let me know. I'll come walk around.

519
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:09.039
And he walked around. He goes, you guys have so many floor

520
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:15.199
drains, and the pea traps are
probably dry, and the vapor barrier is

521
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.079
broken, and sewer gases, sewer
smell is probably leaking out through the floor

522
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:22.559
drains. And I imagine in an
opulent mansion on an island, they probably

523
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:28.639
have a lot of outside floor drains
for near pools or events, I would

524
00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.320
take a stab. I don't know, obviously, because I'm not there to

525
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:38.039
say that that that has even happened
to me. I had a master bathroom

526
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:40.840
that had a double vanity, one
on one wall and one on a different

527
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.760
wall. And I'm kind of a
tall woman. I'm five' seven and

528
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.000
my husband at the time was six
foot tall, and so we both used

529
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.960
his taller sink because I didn't want
to crouch down to brush my teeth,

530
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:54.360
and so we never used the lady's
vanity in my bathroom. And one day

531
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:57.880
I walked in and I was like
whoo, and it came out and I

532
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.360
told my ex husband, I said, use the air fresh, and he

533
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:01.159
goes. I just got home and
I was like, well, why is

534
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:04.639
my bathroom smelling like that? And
I was like oh, And so I'm

535
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.280
walking around like a psycho sniffing drains
and I realized, I was like,

536
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:10.039
it's this strain. The pea trap
is dry. And so my advice to

537
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:15.880
everybody before you call me for a
stinky drain is to run the water for

538
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:19.320
five minutes. And I know this
is a very controversial statement, but the

539
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.119
Italian in me says, you drop
a capful of olive oil in there,

540
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:29.199
because it'll add a layer of lubricants
in there that I think reseals it.

541
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.280
And then I never had that problem
again, and once a week I would

542
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:35.920
just let the water run at that
sink for thirty seconds. That's simple fix

543
00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:38.320
on a ten million dollar property outstanding. That's why I love That's why I

544
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545
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552
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Back to this. A remote,
resilient tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest

553
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:32.599
was recently able to access the Internet
for the very first time thanks to Starlink,

554
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:37.719
which is the internet service that is
satellite based, not the UFOs and

555
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:43.159
the skies. Everyone thinks it is. So how are they spending their time

556
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:49.800
in the Amazon rainforest, this remote
tribe like most of us, they're looking

557
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:52.320
up all the standard stuff. They're
now dealing with gossip among the tribe,

558
00:43:52.360 --> 00:44:00.320
Instagram, violent videos, scams,
porn. They have group chats full of

559
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:06.639
gossip, addictive social networks, abusive
online strangers, hours and hours of sports

560
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:12.480
streaming, the violent video games,
scams, misinformation, and miners watching porn.

561
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:17.920
But it does make me think maybe
the village shaman has now an access

562
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:24.239
to real medical knowledge, and you
know he can look up on YouTube how

563
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:29.440
to do you know? Surgery?
Yes, that's what you want to give

564
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:39.760
somebody in the Amazon his web MD. Now everybody in the village has some

565
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:45.559
sort of cancer. That's what it's
gonna be now, or you also have

566
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:49.280
some parts of the you have some
villagers saying that the shaman is not a

567
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:58.320
real doctor. Now, to help
combat this dangerous internet situation with this Amazon

568
00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:05.920
tribe, they've now decided to limit
internet access. Oh okay, so now

569
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.000
we want to make them angry that's
good. Yeah, they've restricted internet access

570
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:14.119
to two hours in the morning,
five hours at night, and all day

571
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:20.599
on Sunday. Wow, that's because
these guys are still hunter gatherers at the

572
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.920
end of the day. They still
need to go and do that stuff to

573
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:30.639
eat and live and such. Amazon
will deliver anywhere. If Amazon doesn't deliver

574
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.679
to the then I don't think Bezos
needs to have a boat that big.

575
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:50.159
They're all Prime members. They should
get it for free. Right. The

576
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.280
copyright infringement, that's not bad.
They probably went to legal Zoom and now

577
00:45:54.280 --> 00:46:01.079
they're going to be filing paperwork against
Jeff Bezos for copyright infringement upon Amazon because

578
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:13.599
you know what their legal paperwork is
going to say, first named it.

579
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:27.280
That's so, that's what that's like, the level none of us can ever

580
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:35.079
actually get because we don't live there
and we're not then yeah, yeah,

581
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:40.840
I'm sure they really you know,
I love watching Gordon Ramsey videos. Why

582
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.440
don't you make it look like this? I think that's just what the remote

583
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:51.760
Amazon tribe needs is the right amount
of tips and knowledge to make the perfect

584
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:54.079
beef Wellington. And I'm not to
burn a scallop, no, I just

585
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.559
think it's gonna be like the next
time they have the village feast. It's

586
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:05.079
like this was not plated right.
The eye appeal is not going. There's

587
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.320
not enough height on the plate.
The textures are all wrong, the color

588
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:22.559
is off. This is just your
porridge, is ship. I have had

589
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:32.239
better crocodile. So is the crocodile. So just think about that the next

590
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:36.519
time you get an Amazon package.
Is that there's a tribe in the Amazon

591
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:42.760
that might be right there with you. Wow, So this was just a

592
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:46.320
social experiment done by somebody I honestly
don't know. I mean, since since

593
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.679
the Internet was provided by Starlink,
it might be Elon Musk doing his you

594
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.320
know, Bond villain type stuff by
you know, meddling the remote tribes and

595
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:59.639
just just doing experiments. Yeah,
I would I think there. I believe

596
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:04.280
there are tribes in the Amazon that
are protected, like literally you're not allowed

597
00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:08.760
to make contact with. Yes,
they have never had any outside contact that

598
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.559
that I do remember his story.
There was a tribe like that a handful

599
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:16.119
of years ago or a few years
ago, whatever it is, and they

600
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:21.800
had the photos of them from a
drone and then then the drone was taken

601
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:27.039
down by the tribe to be a
you know, rocks or spear or I

602
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:32.480
don't know, beast master type.
There was one where a photographer went in

603
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.000
and they told him like, it's
at your own risk and didn't come back.

604
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.880
Like they never heard from him again, and he assimilated with the do

605
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.039
you guys, did you guys hear
that story? I did, But the

606
00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.159
version of this story I heard was
that they ate him. Yeah, oh

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they did. Okay. I thought
that he assimilated at first, and they

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were like, oh he assimilated so
long. Okay, that's so terrible.

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Oh, oh, all right,
we'll be at Burmafest. If you feel

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the need to punch us something happened, you know, anything, we'd i'd

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understand. Uh. For ticket info
Burmafest, Drowning Pool, go to pause

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in the city dot org. That's
paused in the city dot org. We'll

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see you next time in the tree
house. Yeah,