Gilded Trash
Ride shotgun with Comedian Scott Reed and Creator Crystal Reed as they travel the country in search of ...what? When they figure it out, you'll be the first to know!
Gilded Trash
Yinz Took Away Our Village
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We start with a local “blessing box” food program that looks a lot more like a hustle once you follow the money, the marketing, and the “donation” language. Then we spiral outward into AI fears, parenting independence, and why modern life feels more dangerous even when the numbers often say otherwise.
• a Derry-area food box controversy and why “minimum donation” language matters
• EBT and ethics plus the harm scammers do to real community aid
• AI safety alarm bells and what critical infrastructure failures could look like
• fish fries, Pennsylvania traditions, and our baby’s first football Sunday
• a mother charged after letting her five-year-old go half a mile and why that escalation is wild
• real risk versus sensational risk and why people misjudge probability
• how “the village” gets replaced by paid services like daycare
• parenting myths driven by marketing and what we actually needed
• the future of work with AI plus why trades and in-person skills still win
• what went wrong with college as a default path and how to think more clearly about training
Coming out this Saturday, September 19, 2026. Harrigan’s downtown Johnstown, PA. We’ll be judging karaoke for DJ Heidi. Come on out for that.
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Cold Open And Random Fact Checks
SPEAKER_02Lanterns flicker, thunder rolls, Scott and Crystal on patrol. Back roads twist, the moon hangs low. Sasquatch tracks where the rivers flow. Like it!
SPEAKER_03Hey there, Chucky, Studio Baker. It's the time to meet your maker.
SPEAKER_01What?
SPEAKER_03You never heard the No. I just made it up.
SPEAKER_01What is it again?
SPEAKER_03I said, Hey there, Chucky, Studebaker. It's the time to meet your maker.
SPEAKER_01That's catchy, actually. I like it.
SPEAKER_03It's a 1950s classic. Back when Studebakers were popular.
SPEAKER_01They were popular in the 1950s?
SPEAKER_03I have no idea.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03I don't even know what a Studebaker is, to be honest.
SPEAKER_01They were popular in like the nine early 1900s. I think.
SPEAKER_03Well, the car wasn't even invented until like 1909.
SPEAKER_01Right. And Studebaker would have been like the f one of the earlier versions.
SPEAKER_03I think the Ford Model T was the first one. Well, I know, but I'm saying so I didn't think Studebaker came to like the 30s or something.
SPEAKER_01What was that book that I loved? Oh, Cheaper by the Dozen, right? The book that taught me to be an efficiency expert as another.
SPEAKER_03They have a Studebaker?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they talk about it in the book.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that would be the 1950s.
SPEAKER_01Well, there you go. No. They're young. They're older than that.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_01I think.
SPEAKER_03I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Have to look.
SPEAKER_03We'll never know. It's one of the world's great mysteries. No, it's not.
SPEAKER_01It's a real family. Cheaper by the dozen. It's actually about a real family.
SPEAKER_03Right, but I think that book was written in the 50s.
SPEAKER_01But it was about a time earlier because the adult daughter wrote it about her childhood.
SPEAKER_03In the 70s.
unknownNo!
SPEAKER_03About the 50s.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think that's what happened.
SPEAKER_01Anyways.
SPEAKER_03We'll look into it.
SPEAKER_05We'll look into it.
SPEAKER_01Where's Steve when you need him?
SPEAKER_03Where is he?
SPEAKER_01We need a fact checker still. All these years later.
SPEAKER_03Maybe like go ahead and pull that up. Let's take a look. Oh, there we go. 1952. Studebaker's peak year.
SPEAKER_01Inquiring minds now. I gotta change it.
SPEAKER_03I think they were very popular in the 1950s. My pap had a 54 Studebaker.
SPEAKER_01What years were Studebaker's popular? 1930s through the 1950s.
SPEAKER_03See? That's what I said.
SPEAKER_01They stopped producing cars all up in 1966, but from 47 to 58, they were the most fun.
SPEAKER_03See, I was right.
SPEAKER_01Tell me about the book Cheaper by the Dozen. When was that written? And what time frame did it actually originally take place and not the movies that spoofed it later. I used to know this family like they're on my own. Published in 1948.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Written by siblings Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. About growing up as two of the 12 children of efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. The story takes place primarily during the 1910s and early 1920s.
SPEAKER_03Well, there you have it. They really did it back in. So how were they driving a Studebaker?
SPEAKER_01Because their family had a little bit of a.
SPEAKER_03Well, Studebakers didn't come out till the 1930s, so how that?
SPEAKER_01Well, they talked about it in the book, so it must have happened when they were a little bit.
SPEAKER_03I call bullshit. I think there was some fuckery at play.
SPEAKER_01Well, let me just double check. Do the bakers talk about a Studebaker in the book? The Bakers.
SPEAKER_04Not the Gilbreths. The Gilbreths. I said later adapt adaptations might have muddled it.
SPEAKER_03Right. Okay. Well, we've moved on. Studebakers. Chucky Studebakers.
SPEAKER_01Oh. It was a Pierce Arrow nicknamed the Foolish Carriage.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_01They talked about their car a lot in the book, which is why. Okay. Anyways. Hey guys. Welcome to our next episode. I don't even know what number it is. We're just taking off without intro in or anything.
SPEAKER_03Chucky Studebaker.
SPEAKER_01Chucky Studebaker got us sidetracked, man.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, it got you sidetracked. I just was singing a little nitty from the 1950s.
SPEAKER_01That you made up in 2026.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so let's get into the meat and potatoes because we've got some really strong topics this week.
The Food Box Donation Controversy
SPEAKER_01One of the ones that is local-ish, local-ish, is coming out of Derry, Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER_03Ooh, a lot of controversy here. We got a pastor who is running this food thing. And this lady. You can go out and research it, but what happened? Like, I don't want to don't quote me on the details, but basically they were saying if you give us $20 donation, and I use quotation marks. Donation, then we'll give you a box of food worth a blessing box worth of food of worth $200 worth of groceries. Now, in this box is a lot of stuff that they get from Chick-fil-A, partners with a lot of things to give away extra food and stuff like that. These people take it and then they're giving it away in these boxes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
SPEAKER_01Right. That's what they're meant for, but he's charging a minute.
SPEAKER_03He basically charges a fee for these boxes. And here's the thing is he was also taking EBT cards, which I heard that he stopped doing like immediately.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he actually made a comment. He he made a video post on Facebook saying basically that they do good for the community, but they're gonna stop taking EBT. He was trying to save face, and it's too little too late because he's caught. Like it's a scam.
SPEAKER_03It all sounds so shady. The dude tries to bill himself as an ex-NFL player. Dude never played one snap of football in an NFL game, in a regular season NFL game. He wasn't, he was basically a practice squad player that fell out of the league within two years. Right. And so, and but he was billing himself all over you see the videos. X NFL player turned past her. X NFL player turned past her. That's a de that's deceiving deceiving in itself.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And you know right away, all you gotta do is hear that dude talk and look at him. You can size him up a mile away because I've been around a hundred pastors like that.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And he's got scam written all over him.
SPEAKER_01I mean, his care it's almost like if you're a scammer, you have to have that bull haircut because his haircut tells the whole picture, the whole thing.
SPEAKER_03It's it's annoying, and you can see it coming a mile away. All you gotta do, you can size people up in half a minute. And I don't care what he says, and I don't care what anybody has to say about whatever. Defend him if you want to. I do not care. I don't need you to tell me when there's a when a huckster is trying to sell me something because I've been down every road. You cannot, you're not gonna give me. I can and I grew up in all that, and I know a wolf in sheep's clothing when I see one, dude.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You can tell by the way that he talks, the way that people he defends himself, the way that he says these things. If you're a Christian, you shouldn't use language that is purposefully misleading.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03In the sense of like, as part of your ministry, right? Those are bullshit salesman tactics.
SPEAKER_01But not only that, he like so historically he was involved in something called Angel Food Ministries. Those the people who ran the head program of Angel Food were federally indicted. So he learned from a scam model to begin with, and he's what he's doing is taking his 501c status, donations that he's getting, and he's conflating those things with an actual food co-op, where as in in a real food co-op, you pay into the co-op every month and you're guaranteed a box of food, but you know it's gonna be different every time because it's a co-op and it depends on who you're dealing with.
SPEAKER_03The other way that they bill it too is feed your family for first off, you ain't feeding nobody for weeks on what they give you. No, I don't care what anybody says. The whole thing is misleading, right? I don't care what anybody says, how you want to sell it. I know when somebody's trying to put run a scam. When somebody's trying to put lipstick on a fucking pig. Like I know like you're not gonna get me. You're a used car salesman, dude. Knock it the fuck off.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. It's so infuriating.
SPEAKER_03And then it makes it even worse when people do it in God's name.
SPEAKER_01Right. Like they guys like him are the reason why people are so have a distaste in their mouth for religion. It's for that bullshit right there. Like people using religion as a shield for doing shitty things to people.
SPEAKER_03And thank God the good people of the area have like really lashed back at this guy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, does he have his like clique of followers that are chasing so the girl, so this all come about because a girl named Jennifer, I caught it on TikTok and she was like directing people over to her Facebook page. I went down the rabbit hole, man. It was just one of those things like I heard dairy, the the the t town dairy, and I was like, oh, that's local. I want to see what this girl's saying. And I'm gonna be at first I thought that she was just I'm first like first reaction. I was like, oh, here this bitch is complaining about free food from a food bank. Right. No, no, that's she was paying out of pocket for this shit, and she got nothing. So, like some of the stuff that was like it was like Clover Valley stuff, which is all dollar general.
SPEAKER_03Essentially, they're so it expired at that.
SPEAKER_01Well, and not that there's anything wrong with that, but make it more food is a whole other thing because bet because that's that's like a point if you want to bring it up, but that's why I'm not bringing it up, is because best if used by date, we know that's bullshit to begin with.
SPEAKER_03Well, no, I know that, but that doesn't even matter. The point is it just it all makes it seem like it's something other than what it is.
SPEAKER_01I I just want to bring up the list of some of the things because they're talking about being able to feed a family for two weeks. Now, tell me how you're gonna feed a family for two weeks off of a dozen eggs, a bag of popcorn, a bag of popcorn, like already popped popcorn, a bottle of pop, a thing of cookie, a sleeve of oatmeal cookies. Oh, the Chick-fil-A. There was a a three-pound bag or a four-pound bag of Chick-fil-A chicken breasts, which, yeah, if you want to eat fucking chicken every single night for two weeks straight, maybe you could make some shit out of that. But where's the ingredients? Where's the fresh veg? Where there was a can of condensed chicken soup. Right. Where's the any meal? Right. You couldn't fucking put together a meal with that shit if you tried. And I'm a pretty good person at picking shit out of the refrigerator that needs to go and figuring out how to make a meal out of it.
SPEAKER_03It's bullshit, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01It was all bullshit. It's bullshit. It's so infuriating. But, anyways, kudos to the girl because she is standing her ground. She did all the things right. People were pissed off at her at first because they thought she was being scammy herself.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_01And no, the minute I heard he was taking EBT, I was pissed on behalf of so weird.
SPEAKER_03That's how you know that it's that's another reason. Like I said, you know it's all just a scam, dude, because that's just straight up shice.
SPEAKER_01You can first of all, you can't say minimum requested donation.
SPEAKER_03And then accept because you first off, EBT can't be used for a donation. Right. So you're selling it. Right, right. That's what it is. Right. So right there, you're already, like I said, the fact when you're using fuzzy language and things to skirt systems and stuff, like what are you really doing, dude? Right.
SPEAKER_01And that's why he turned his EBT acceptance off because he knew he was wrong.
SPEAKER_03Well, he knew he that's what would get him caught up, too. Yeah, no, the rest of the shit he's probably gonna get away with because that's what scammers do.
SPEAKER_01Right. They find loopholes in the contract language and shit like that to be able to say things, but I don't know, his advertising was pretty shoddy, and people have his advertisements, so that they're what's gonna get him into trouble. It's the language on his advertisements because he was just being too egregious with it. Minimum donation, and that is like tell it saying it started at 20. He's haggling with people. The one that you can do.
SPEAKER_03It's like the way they skirt the DC legal with the weed system.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, we don't give it to you. You buy a bottle of water, you donate sixty dollars for a bottle of water, we give you a bag of weed.
SPEAKER_01Right, but you got what you but you got your money.
SPEAKER_03I'm not saying that, I'm saying the whole donation as payment thing. Right, that's the loophole. That's the loophole, yeah.
SPEAKER_01But at least with the buying weed down in DC, like you were actually getting something free for your money. Because no, I understand the water was free, or the stickers or whatever.
SPEAKER_03I understand that that was a good equivalency. Yeah. The system is good, but I'm just saying the way that you're the fact that you use those words to circumvent the law is the point.
SPEAKER_01Right. Not only to circumvent the law, but to scam people out of government money.
SPEAKER_03Well, that that's a different thing. But yeah, it's it's unbelievable.
SPEAKER_01So it so again, the donation went from twenty to twenty-five to thirty. So just thinking what the way I eat right now, I couldn't feed a family of two, three for a week on thirty dollars. But I can make two days worth of meals on thirty dollars easy.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you can make a week's worth of meal on thirty dollars, probably, if you give it to me the right way.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03I'll make it happen, buddy.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03But the thing is is you'll get a whole lot more bang for your buck if you just go do your shopping yourself at that point than well, yeah, and like for what you're getting from this guy, that guy should be giving away noodles, pasta, rices, sauces, vegetables, right, meats. Right. Not this, but whatever. Whatever, dude. There's a million scammers out there. Fuck that guy.
SPEAKER_01Fuck Ron Kosor or Koser or however the fuck you say his name. Fuck.
SPEAKER_03I don't even want to say his name.
SPEAKER_01I'm saying his name out loud.
SPEAKER_03No, I'm not saying that. I don't want to give him any more props than he gets.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, we're only 20 minutes from Derry. I'm happy to drive over there and see what kind of car he drives. Because Chappie, so ChatJPT is arguing with me. He's like, you can't take the value of his car. I was like, him and his wife together only make on paper $40,000 to $50,000 last year. Because I had Chappie pull everything. Like I pulled all their financials and everything. So together they made $50,000 last year through their dealings with the church, right?
SPEAKER_05With the Lord.
SPEAKER_01He has a custom Harley Davidson, he has a side-by-side. Allegedly, because I haven't seen the pictures or been out there, but allegedly him and his wife have his and hers Mercedes. Chappie's like, well, what if they're like 1980s Mercedes? I don't care. These bitches are not, they're living somehow, they're acquiring assets somehow, and somebody's like, oh, well, that's because he's a retired NFL player. No, bitch, he ain't.
SPEAKER_03That's what I said. No, that's what we said about that. It's not.
SPEAKER_01No. In the 80s, you were lucky to make $50,000 as an actual player. He never played. So no. He didn't get his money off the NFL. He has been involved in scams before. He got his money scamming people. Right. You guys are just the latest. He's not even from Derry. He's from fucking North Carolina. He moved to a town where he thought there was a bunch of pod unkillabilities that he could take advantage of, and that's what he's doing.
SPEAKER_03Yep. There you go. Prove him wrong, Derry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Prove him wrong, Derry.
SPEAKER_03Well, they have. They have. They've stood up. They did their thing. They need to run him out of town. Just like an it. An it?
SPEAKER_01Oh, Derry. Ha ha ha. I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_03They need to run him out of town. That's Purnafa Love, I guess. What's the guy's name in it? Isn't it like Parnell? Cays and Whistles. No, what's the character? Pennywise.
SPEAKER_01Pennywise.
SPEAKER_03Pennywise. They need to run him out of town. Run him out of dairy, man.
SPEAKER_01That's a good analogy. I might be memeing later. Right, though. I think I just solved the problem. You did.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. You can cut the whole it trailer where he's pennywise and he's like, come down here and give me, give me your 20 hours, Jimmy, and I'll give you some food.
SPEAKER_01Chick-fil-A needs to make a statement. I agree.
SPEAKER_03That's who I would have got involved. I would have immediately reached out. I wouldn't have got off the phone with Chick-fil-A until like Ben like, you know what this guy's doing. He's taking the food that you're intending for it to give, be giving away to people. No, I know that. But she did whatever. No. I would have gone to Chick-fil-A headquarters and knocked on the door, and I wouldn't have stopped because I would have wanted them to make it public. I'd have got in touch with their social media person, whatever 23-year-old kid does that.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And been like, listen, blow this thing up.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Blow this thing up for Jesus.
SPEAKER_01It's for Jesus, y'all. Come on.
SPEAKER_03Blow this thing up for Jesus.
SPEAKER_01We need to rally for dairy. Whoo! Anyways, where will all the people go to church when Ron leaves?
SPEAKER_03Uh, I'm sure there's plenty.
SPEAKER_01Oh God, he's do he does all shit. And I like all my religious friends, we've had personal discussions this week. You know I love you. All of you. And I don't care what you believe or how you serve the Lord in your own way. But where was I going with that? No idea. I had something in my brain, and I'll cut that whole piece out. Because there was something there. I know you were going somewhere and it left. Yeah, it left. It left. It was something about religion and well, all right.
SPEAKER_03What do we got next?
SPEAKER_01So we are really gonna go down a rabbit hole this week, but in order to cue that rabbit hole
AI Risk Talk Gets Real
SPEAKER_01up, we have to talk about the other big thing that was announced this week with AI. What?
SPEAKER_03That there's a 10% chance that first off, there's a greater than 10% chance. More than that's what that symbol means.
SPEAKER_01I always get my operators backwards. Sorry guys.
SPEAKER_03That AI will kill humans by 2030. Yeah. It's gonna happen. And these are the people the people that are ringing the alarm bells are the people that I don't want ringing alarm bells. People that were at the forefront of the AI leap forward.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And they s explain the problem is that some of the companies are like have integrity and are doing it the right way.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03But the problem is there's so many companies that aren't, because it's a race for profits.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_03That they too have to race forward as fast as they can without safety rails.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03In order to beat the unsavory people to the punch, so to speak. Right. That's their that's their reasoning.
SPEAKER_01Fastest to the finish line wins, as always, in technology, and whoever's holding the code could be holding fucking the world in their hands. Yeah, it's it's insane. So, and and I made an analogy earlier today that you didn't like, but I'm bringing it up anyway. To me, because I am a responsible AI user and I know how I know what I'm being misinformed because I have logic and reason. I like for me, it's like having a gun. It's it's like being a gun owner. There are people with good intent who have guns, there are people with bad intent who have guns, and some people don't even know how to use a gun, but they're trying to anyway, and all of it could go wrong.
SPEAKER_03That's fine and dandy to think of it that way, but that and that applies to it on an individual scale. Correct. However, that doesn't apply to the People that are have stakes in it that aren't people. Entities that have stakes in it that aren't people.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. And that analogy can keep going when you think about nuclear weapons and weapons that we're going to be able to do. Well, that's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. We're going to be destroyed by sooner or later, a bad actor is going to get a nuclear weapon, multiple nuclear weapons. These are the things that are going to destroy us. That we know. These are our crises as humanity, as humans. Nuclear weapons, because eventually something's going to happen somewhere. And the problem with it is it fucks the whole world up.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Just look at Mars.
SPEAKER_01Which I do want to talk about that for a moment.
SPEAKER_03Well, we don't have to talk about it, but I'm just saying that's step one. Then the other way is the AI like turns against us, and basically the way that it would beat us, and this could be a bad actor too, because this is already what the Chinese are looking into, and everything. You shut off power grids, water. You know what I mean? You basically take people completely offline, and we're fucked.
SPEAKER_01Right. And I hear you, but are we? I hear you, but are we? We're all we're not that far removed from not having all of this internet access and all of this before.
SPEAKER_03I understand that, but the problem is that our infrastructure and things that we need for surviv. Here's the thing is a lot of people would I don't think it would wipe out humanity.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_03But I think that a tremendous amount of people could die. I'm talking billions.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly. The preppers, they're not looking so crazy right now because what's good. How do you stop AI or how does AI stop humanity? In either case, it's shutting down the power grid.
SPEAKER_03Well, but even then, so okay, so let's take this a little bit further. But so but these are not the only crises that face us as a human species. We're gonna be wiped out one way or another, eventually.
SPEAKER_01Eventually.
SPEAKER_03Unless we figure out how to, you know, get put the brakes on some of the shit. But I don't even know. We would have to figure out how to leave Earth because eventually something's going to happen, something here. Yeah. Regardless of whether it's we cause it, it an asteroid hits us, whatever. Yeah, I mean, but all species are finite. No species lives forever.
SPEAKER_01Agree.
SPEAKER_03So I mean it is what it is.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I mean, it kind of is. Like, you just gotta make the best of what you're doing here right now.
SPEAKER_03That's exactly right. That's why people say those things.
SPEAKER_01Like, I I mean, I was I know it's cliche, but it hit me like a ton of bricks today. I was, I don't know, I was getting ready to go. We were going to a family thing, and I was like in the shower, and I that's where I do some of my deepest thinking. And I was like, you know what? You're going to get out of life what you put into it. And it's so generic, and it's been said a million times, like it's so cliche. But I and I've heard it a million times, but it it hit me more in that moment for some reason. And I was like, Yeah, like you're like, can shit happen? Yeah, there's always gonna be shit that's out of your control, as we call it, it were gravity issues, right? But it's still like you're going to get out of it what you put into it. Period. End of story.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I would tend to agree with that for the most part.
SPEAKER_01I mean, that just is what it is.
SPEAKER_03I mean, but the unfortunate part about life is a lot of times your circumstances are dictated by things that are out of your control.
SPEAKER_01Gravity, right?
SPEAKER_03No, I know, and I'm just saying, like, there's a lot of bullshit in life. Life sucks.
SPEAKER_01It does, but then that's why you just like live in the moments, right? Like when they don't suck.
SPEAKER_03That's what people say. Yeah, that's exactly right. That's what George Carlin was trying to tell us years ago when he said that happiness doesn't exist. Happiness is fleeting moments. It's a chocolate chip cookie, it's watching your favorite TV show, it's whatever. Right. Fleeting moments, that's all happiness is right. It's not a state of mind.
SPEAKER_01Right. It's enough to remind you why you're doing all this, right? Which so to get into this next next segment. So speaking of life, life is full of traditions and family, right? And so we
Family Traditions And Football Season
SPEAKER_01were introducing the we are introducing the have have been since he he's gotten here, been introducing the baby to all kinds of traditions, my family's traditions, Scott's family traditions, and Pennsylvania traditions, which is our favorite.
SPEAKER_03Scott. He went to a fish fry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, a fish fry, which is huge in western Pennsylvania, but it's also big in my family.
SPEAKER_03They call it those walleye in Lake Pennsylvania. Stop it. And so there, those are Lake Pennsylvania walleye. And no, but they are they so they are Pennsylvania, right? Lake Erie is, you know, but it is Pennsylvania, so they go up there and they catch these fish in the waters of Lake Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER_01Stop saying that. And no. We're just renaming shit over here because everybody else is doing it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. But no, it was great because it it is a tradition. I mean, everybody does fish fries and stuff, but in Western Pennsylvania, it's a very big the Catholics on Fridays, man, they do some serious fish frying.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And they love it. And uh they don't do it just during Lent. You see it all year round at a lot of places. And it's delicious, but it's leading up to, which is tomorrow. By the time you've heard this, it will you'll it's the first day of fucking football, man. First Sunday of football. And it's uh, I mean, we've had a little bit of you know, preseason college, all that stuff. It's not the beginning of football. It's the beginning, first regular season Sunday. It's a first football Sunday for this kid. And let me tell you what, we are knocking the Baltimore out of this kid faster than you can eat a crab cake. Because he's got his call up to the Pittsburgh, he got his fish fry. He got, and now tomorrow he's gonna get Steelers, so it's it's it's gonna be great.
SPEAKER_01He has, I can't tell you what the jersey's name is, but he got a personalized jersey onesie with our favorite number 23 on it. My favorite number. He also has a onesie that he could wear maybe tomorrow, but maybe not yet, because we don't play them tomorrow. But he's got a onesie that says the ravens smell like my diaper.
SPEAKER_03Which they do. They do. They do, they do. I've said that for years that the ravens smell like diapers. Um, I'm excited for it. I'm really excited for him to see me yell and curse at the football. I think his first words might be, are you fucking kidding me?
SPEAKER_01They better not, baby.
SPEAKER_03Are you fucking kidding me? Did you know how many times I say that in an NFL football game?
SPEAKER_01A lot.
SPEAKER_03130. Which is why and I'm not watching my mouth because you don't watch your mouth even when there's kids around. I don't care what anybody says.
SPEAKER_01Um I am gonna watch it.
SPEAKER_03Let's cut this out. I don't want to say that.
SPEAKER_01No, we're not cutting it out. We're a neuro spicy family. He's gonna hear cussin, he'll know when he can and can't. Just like my generation knew when we were allowed and not allowed. It's not in front of adults. Period. Full story.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but anyway, yeah, he's gonna be ready to go, ready to yell at some NFL referees.
SPEAKER_01And he gets excited when Scott gets excited.
SPEAKER_03He likes to his entire day is mostly spent up mimicking the sounds that I make. Is it not? It is like it is literally because I make a lot of sounds, some on purpose, some not on purpose. Right. And I do a lot of grunts, I make a lot of noises, I do a lot of voices, and he tries the mimic of that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I think that he'll be yelling at the TV.
SPEAKER_01But just in case he's not into football, just in the off chance, we we gave him his own playroom this week.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's he's good.
SPEAKER_01He's he'll have his own TV to yell at.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm excited for it.
SPEAKER_01I'm so excited for it. So, and that talking about it, football, family, food, all of that stuff, which is tis the season, right?
SPEAKER_03Big four F's of Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER_01Fish, family, food, and football.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And fucking Jesus. Four. You said four.
SPEAKER_03I know, but I was we don't need five. Five would be something that they would do in like New York. In Dodgeball, it's four D's. In Pennsylvania it's four F's.
SPEAKER_01Or four H. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Four H, that too. Because we're big on farming.
SPEAKER_01There's another F. Farming.
SPEAKER_03No. That falls under family.
SPEAKER_01And food, as a matter of fact.
SPEAKER_03It's all covered. It's all it's all covered in the four F's.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of which, I don't know why this just animals, farms. I'm designing a tattoo. More to come. I'm ready to get a new one, guys. It's been a while. It's been 20-some years since I got my last tattoo. No, not 20 some. We haven't been together 20 years. It's been 15 years since I got my last tattoo. Right. That's too long. I'm ready. Anyways, so what is the big deal this week? So football. For you. No, I love football too. I'm excited. For me, it's always like my brain, I'm trying to brainstorm new things to make every Sunday for food. But there's like so many traditional ones that you have to have during the season, and we're not gonna do that. I'm not talking about it right now because we're gonna get into that. Yeah, we'll have a whole episode about we'll have yeah, because I want to get Matt's reviews back on when we can cook for him so he can try some Pennsylvania traditions for just some cooks.
SPEAKER_03Traditions, traditions, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, anyways, you guys know we have a kid, right? And so I've been thinking so much, I'm a problem solver, and even when there's not problems, I'm pretending
Parenting Independence Versus Overprotection
SPEAKER_01there are, so I can make make a solution for them, right? And I I work in corporate America and I like my salary, else I would probably just quit and run a daycare full time. Cause A, when there's more than one kid, it's easier. Like one kid fussy, he doesn't want to just deal with an adult all day, right? More than one kid, you can get activities going. So I was always good at handling more than one kid at a time. So I was like, okay, well, maybe Fridays I'll do just like a drop-in daycare. And I was then I was thinking like now what I don't know how they replaced our village.
SPEAKER_03Oh, they replaced our village. But yeah, well, but what were you talking about before that?
SPEAKER_01Like, I don't know. It's I'm just I'm rambling because I don't know what the intro is for it.
SPEAKER_03No, one of the things that we've been talking a lot about this week, because we have kids, so we talk about child rearing. And child rearing.
SPEAKER_00Rearing.
SPEAKER_03Rearing. How did that become the word?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Why do you rear something?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Why did it then that word also become to mean your ass? You know what I mean? Like, how's that well? That's all I'm saying. How do you uh anyway? These are questions that I have about the English language, but anyway.
SPEAKER_01You digress.
SPEAKER_03I digress. Talk amongst yourself. How can the word rearing mean raising, but then also mean talk amongst yourselves. Remember that? Yeah. I love that coffee talk. Yeah, coffee talk.
SPEAKER_01Linda Richmond.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was I used to love that because she'd be like, oh hold on. And it would be the most ridiculous topic like ever.
SPEAKER_01And uh that is like I have a fetish for New York Jewish people. I really do. The way they talk, the way they act, dress, and Linda Richmond was part of that reason.
SPEAKER_03Right. That was her name. I might yeah, I think it was Linda Richmond.
SPEAKER_01I loved her.
SPEAKER_03We'll double check it, but yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_01Well, now Adam Ray does that character that Stacey, is that her name?
SPEAKER_03No, it's like Jennifer or something. Denise Heather. No, I think it's Jennifer.
SPEAKER_01Jennifer, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Or Jessica. She looks Jessica.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, but she looks like fucking Adam Sandler's character in Yeah, it does. The twins movie or whatever it was.
SPEAKER_03But anyway, back to child rearing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It we were we talk about that, but one of the things that we were talking about was because of the case with the woman. That's what brought the whole thing into the picture. I don't know why we were talking about anything else. That woman, so there's a big case in the news because this woman let her and this woman has six kids behind you. Six kids. She's not
The Five Year Old Walk Arrest
SPEAKER_03a first-time mother, nothing like that. Five-year-old kid. Bike? I think it was a bike.
SPEAKER_01I don't remember if he had a bike because he was I think he wanted to collect like rocks and stuff.
SPEAKER_03To me, it doesn't matter. Riding his bike, walk. Well, actually, I think a bike's less safe. I'd rather him be walking. Regardless, he's going a half mile up the road. Now, mind you, a half mile up the road from here, just to give you perspective, not the viewer. Viewer knows what a half mile is. Picture a half mile in your neighborhood. You'd be from here to the Moxum Deli if these houses weren't here.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01Okay. That's not far in a house.
SPEAKER_03You'd be able to see him if these houses weren't here.
SPEAKER_01Right. And in a gated community.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's my next point. In a gated community, and something that he's obviously done before. Right. Now people are like, oh, he passes a pond, this and that. Well, and and everybody is like, I like I under so it begins to raise the question, and some people are appalled by this. Some people are like, oh my god, how could you ever let him out of your sight? Thank God none of these people were like I said, every my everybody would have been locked up in the last six generations for letting their kids. It's like dad and I were talking. This is how you this is you want to walk the let's walk the progression back. Okay. Let me walk this progression back. So this generation is like, don't let your kids out of your sight. Our generation, our parents were like, Messiah.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_03Be back by dark. Right. My dad's parents were like, we better not even see you. We better not see you. Like, period. Right. We better not see you. And then the generation before that, you know what the kids were doing? Walking to work.
SPEAKER_00Right. I mean, exactly.
SPEAKER_03That's what I said. Like, Grandma Reed was literally walking to work. Her and her sisters had like eight, nine years old.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Kids were in factories. We've come a long way.
SPEAKER_01We have. But I'm just saying, like we overcorrect everything. Well, that was my point.
SPEAKER_03Is every generation always tries to, and so now but now we're at this point where it's like it needs to overcorrect back the other way. And hopefully it will, because the thing is, is like I I understand your point and safety, and people are like, people are like, well, it's more dangerous now than it ever was. Actually, no, it's not. It's actually let's look at the numbers. It's actually a lot safer. Back then you had no means of communication. You know what I mean? Like there was no there was no cell phones. There was no way. If an emergency happened and you were three miles from home out in the woods, you were in deep shit. Right. One of the kids had to run back and get help. Right.
SPEAKER_01And hope that they remember where the fuck you were.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And there was like less safeguards in place for people. And people are like, well, what about people kidnapping? First off, the 80s was like the golden age of kidnapping kids. Right. And second off, I brought this up before. Your odds, kids get, you know, you know who kidnaps kids? Their family members, their friends, their priests, their people that work at their school, people they it's overwhelmingly the majority of the time when a kid goes, I mean, it's so overwhelming. It's almost always somebody they know. It's not a stran your chance of getting kidnapped by a stranger is like one it's like one in 750,000. So you have a better, you have a five times more likelihood of being born as a conjoined twin. And how many of them do you know? Right. Then you are to be kidnapped by a stranger.
SPEAKER_01Right. Right. Well, and the reason why people think that it is so prevalent is because they sensationalize the outliers. Nobody wants to hear about humdrum Joey's dad took them because he thought his mom was crazy and took off with them. Because that's the top tier of the cases is a parent or grandparent thinking the other parents not right.
SPEAKER_03Watch the people around you. Don't be I mean, not saying don't watch for strangers, but watch the the it's the devil you know. You know what I mean? It's always the devil you know. So it you that's all I'm saying. But the point being I'm not with the people that uh like I I have to take a stand here because it's not like the but the point is they arrested this lady for for doing this. Even let's assume that even what she did was unwise, which we could sit that's we could argue about that all day.
SPEAKER_01And I'm not gonna argue your motherfucker morals with you, right?
SPEAKER_03If you feel safe enough that but my point being is that at worst case scenario, it should have just been an admonishment.
SPEAKER_01Agree.
SPEAKER_03It should have never resulted in criminal charges of child of uh contributing to the delinquency of a minor. And neglect. And neglect for him going to have like I said, because these And nothing fucking even happened to him.
SPEAKER_01Like, here's the thing is the nosy fucking security guard called the police rather than just being like, hey, does your mom know that you're this far away from home? Yeah, my mom knows.
SPEAKER_03Well, let's go, let's What are they paying security for?
SPEAKER_01If he has to call the cops on a parent, what it sounds like to me is she has six kids and one of the kids pissed the security guard off, so he fucking has a vendetta against family.
SPEAKER_03Maybe that is. But here's my scenario though, too, is if I'm paying in a gated community to live in a gated community and we're paying for security, you're supposed to be my buffer. Right. You're supposed to be my buffer between the outside world and including the police. Right. In the sense of like, if I commit a crime, you're supposed to help me cover it up. That's what we're paying you for.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I've watched enough shows to know that the security guards are in the gated community. He's in the world. So then what does that tell you? Another family there wants to take this lady down because it's fucking amazing.
SPEAKER_03They want to take her down, or like you said, the kid pissed them off, which could be that.
SPEAKER_01But either way, like here's where it here's where this kind of fucking petty ass bullshit pisses me off because that woman has other children now, because she's on a child neglect list, she can't volunteer at the fucking school.
SPEAKER_03Right.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_01Like now they're doing all of her kids a disservice.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01They're they're cutting her off at the knees and studying her from being, I'm sure the good parent that she was, they're going to put a roadblock. It's egregious.
SPEAKER_03It's just it's a it's a real shame. I mean, and here's my point is I don't even give a crap about any of that. The point being is our police should not be wasting time on shit like that when we got real problems in our community. This it's it's just like government. The it rather than worrying about the things that people are actually concerned about and affecting people, they're renaming lakes.
SPEAKER_01Right. That's exactly it.
SPEAKER_03And they're you know what I mean, but it just like the police force, rather than actually stopping real criminals and real crime that affects people, like drug crime, violence. Right. They they're pulling people over for bullshit. Right. They're giving these this lady uh summons for this and that. It's total mirrors. It's totally ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01It's smoke and mirrors. It's all just to generate money into the system so they can look like they're doing their jobs. And I'm not anti-cop. I believe they should exist. But like we're out of control as a society. They call calling the cops on everybody. We become bitch ass cop callers.
SPEAKER_03But it doesn't even but again, this but it to me it still goes back to the police. They need to tell people to stop. Right. No, we're not doing anything about it. We have real crime assault. Right. Sorry about your luck. Right. Murder and rape and drug violence comes before your dispute with your neighbor. Right.
SPEAKER_01A kid walking alone. It's just in the house in a gated motherfucking community by the now. Here's the thing is I'm suspicious of everybody, so would I let my five-year-old do that? No.
SPEAKER_03Would I? Yes.
SPEAKER_01Right, exactly. Because you grew up in the woods.
SPEAKER_03But no, but not just that though. But no, but that's just it though. Dad, in Hegers Town, we used to do that.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03We'd run every but I'm saying in a neighborhood that's now no longer good. It's like here. Right. But I'm just saying, like, it didn't matter. It had nothing to do with country or woods. It wasn't about that. Actually, the city was probably a little safer because there was more likely people to see if something went wrong. Right. But yeah, I because like when we lived in Waynesboro, when we lived in Waynesboro, we moved it from Waynesboro when I was like however old. We I told you about the times. I walked to May's video gallery from my house on Franklin Street when I was like six years old. Me and Ben Savvy, we were gonna run away. We got back after like two, three hours, nobody even knew we were gone. You know what I mean? Right, right. They were like, you did they were like, where were you? Oh, we were running away. We're like, oh, that's nice. That's fun. Do you have fun? Do you know what I'm saying? Like it was just people looked at it differently.
SPEAKER_01That's it. Perception. The perception was different. And that is a great segue into where I'm getting at with this is basically like if you again how you stripped it backwards with the like kids were working, and you know what I mean? They took they stripped us of our village by making us rely on cash exchange, like exchanges, like exch they commercialized our village. They they slowly took away our village.
SPEAKER_03The things that connected us, the things that connected us, as in the transactions like that, we had to have as when you had when everybody was involved in a job that was in their community, right, and provided a service to the community, you had to have relationships with that person and those people in order to just conduct your life. And so you knew everybody in a way that was different than we know people today. Right. You know strangers in California better than you know the people that live across the street. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So it's like so it's different when your kids are running outside because I don't know who's around. Some of the times when I was walking, people would say, you know, I remember one time specifically, I was walking. Who comes here but Uncle Bo? What are you doing out of school? And I had a doctor's appointment, so I had to walk to the babysitter, and mom was gonna get me at the babysitter. But regardless of any of that, like it was legit. But I'm just saying that yeah, the point is, is you in a town where people where you like know you were paying attention. Right.
SPEAKER_01And here's everybody stopped paying attention.
SPEAKER_03Listen, what I'm telling you almost got grabbed on the street behind us. And we I don't even think we went in that night. We were still outside playing, right? As the cops were there and long after they were like, oh, stranger danger's gone.
SPEAKER_01Continue.
SPEAKER_03Well, because what happened is but that's what I'm saying though, is there were so many uh people other going on, even even though they tried to get my brother to go in the car with them, and all of our neighbor, like people ran like ran them off, and they were like kids. Right. Like throwing bats at their car, right? At the car or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Like, it just didn't fly. Right. And this was like I said, that was the golden age of people trying to like pick up kids in cars for some reason. Right, nobody does that anymore.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03That's where all those rumors came from.
SPEAKER_01Right, because those weirdos can live on the internet where they need to stay uh in basements and not out in the world picking up kids. Like let them fucking be weird and locked away somewhere.
SPEAKER_03No, the pro the I mean, yeah, they need to be, but the problem is that usually they're they use what they have available. You know what I mean? That's when we get into the things where that's where usually it's somebody you know, and it that's the problem, is people that's but people suspect the wrong it people are very bad assessors of actual risk, right? I talk to you about this all the time. People are very brains are not wired to weigh probability correctly, okay, because of the way that our brains evolved, we're really good at certain type of things, you know what I mean? And we're really good at predicting certain type of outcomes, but when it comes to more abstract things like that and wider probabilities across larger number sets, our brains, some people's brains are equipped to do that and do that naturally, however, most people's brains aren't equipped to do that way, and most people aren't great assessors of actual risk in the sense of like what we're just talking about, what's more likely to happen. You know what I mean? Your child is a hundred thousand more times likely to get killed by gunfire than they are to be kidnapped by a stranger. Right. Now, they can be kidnapped by somebody you know, right. So that's who you need to be paying attention to. That's all I'm saying is the risk you have to I'm again not paying attention to strangers, obviously, not just let them let them go with anybody, but as long as you're being reasonable and not like being over-protective, right? The risk is not as great for that sort of thing, especially in a gated community, in a nice place to live, with a security guard. The kid couldn't make it a half mile without a security guard seeing him. What's that tell you about what kind of neighborhood it is?
SPEAKER_00Right. You know what I'm saying? Like exactly.
SPEAKER_01So like but like and that's the thing is people are like, oh, well, you can times have changed, you guys grew up in a different time.
SPEAKER_03It was safer now. Oh, I told you, it's safer now. The numbers are overwhelming, right? That you the violent crime, violent crime from the 1970s and 80s and nine like early 90s is drastically different than it is today. Way, way down, and especially like crimes against like violent crimes against like children and stuff like that. Like now, like I said, they're much it's not obviously the number one killer of children is accidents.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So it's not like don't keep an eye on your kids, just weigh the risk.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Just weigh the risk because every every situation is different, every situation is nuanced, every family's different, every area is different, every single, every day's different with every kid. Right, right. So just be reasonable about the risk and let's have our police focused on more important things than a kid going down the road.
SPEAKER_01Right. No, I know. But there's more to talk about here in all of that because like it's it all weaves together like it does every
Prepping For Outages And Uncertainty
SPEAKER_01time, because as I said earlier, there's a high likelihood that we're going to be without power at some point for a prolonged period of time, right?
SPEAKER_03Unfortunately.
SPEAKER_01Right. And so that leaves us living primitively, right? And you know, could it depends on what happens. If it happens in the next five years, yes, I could I can totally do it.
SPEAKER_03Well, here's well, I want to be ready for it, so I need to start prepping.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Which I think I'm gonna do.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_0324 hours without power during those storms a couple weeks ago has forced me uh to bite the bullet. We're gonna have to get a generator. Yeah. I'm not living like that. Here's the thing is I'm fine without electricity for most things.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03For most things.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03But it's like I also want to be able to have food storage and heat something up in a microwave. Yeah. You know what I mean? And charge my iPad.
SPEAKER_01Right. So we need more propane because. Well, no, no, no. I I understand.
SPEAKER_03I don't want to talk the logistics of our setup. That's not my point. My point is that I think everybody you heard it here first. No, I we're gonna start to be that we're talking, we're slowly turning it into the Alex Jones podcast. Pretty soon we're gonna be selling protein powder for the end of time, like in registering.
SPEAKER_01Get the hell out of here. No. But I am. Can we land in the middle at like a Sean Ryan?
SPEAKER_03Like, you don't think Sean Ryan's prepping?
SPEAKER_01I know, but he's not Alex Joan egregious, audacious, audacious.
SPEAKER_03Well, no, I agree with that. I'm not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so don't lend me in with No, I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_03I was just comparing to how we were going. We're selling protein powder, and we're I'm gonna be a prepper. Although I'm gonna be a goddamn prepper, and you can't stop me.
SPEAKER_01I don't want to stop you. I'm not gonna do all that work. You take care of the logistics, let me know what I need to bring. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of You're not ready for the end of time.
SPEAKER_01I go back to reading books and knitting. If my entire life was reading books and knitting and teaching the kids, you think I wouldn't be happy? You know I'm already a snow white. I would have a sanctuary of animal.
SPEAKER_03I know, but you're not gonna have your hair product.
SPEAKER_01My hair will be long and gray, and I'll just pull it up in a bun.
SPEAKER_03You're not gonna have your skincare routine.
SPEAKER_01Where do you think cocoa butter comes from?
SPEAKER_03Coco?
SPEAKER_01Coconuts?
SPEAKER_03Is it? Where does it come from? What is cocoa butter?
SPEAKER_01I think it is you who are gonna need me in the end of times because I'm like a null I'm like a walking compendium of useless facts about nature, especially when it comes to like nutrition.
SPEAKER_03But you know when I yeah, but who when we're out in the woods, who's who's the guy? Me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because I'm fucking lazy. If it is my life and I have to live.
SPEAKER_03No, I'm talking about even when we're you what do you you're always asking me about stuff, and I'm like, this is that, that's this, this is that, that's how you know this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I know what mushrooms I can eat, I know what herbs I can eat.
SPEAKER_00I can eat, and then that's it.
SPEAKER_01I'll avoid the rest for the rest of my life and only eat the ones I know, and I would still get on as well. I'm just saying, and that would take care of my gut biome. And then so listen, makeup wise, all I need is some charcoal or some burnt embers. I can make, I can do all that. Listen, how do you think they did it before Claryl and Mabel?
SPEAKER_03Feral.
SPEAKER_01I could live feral.
SPEAKER_03No, I'm talking about that show, The Outsiders. Yeah, that was her last name, wasn't it? Yeah, the Ferrals.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. How could be that?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Will Farrell.
SPEAKER_01I could do it in my bugging hair. I was born for that life.
SPEAKER_03No, I I mean that's basically how we were living back when.
SPEAKER_01I know. That's that's what I'm saying. We're not that far removed from that. Like when my older kids were like little, I just had a TV. I didn't have the internet, I didn't have none of that shit. I had a TV and a VCR and Ricky Lake.
SPEAKER_03Regardless of any of that.
SPEAKER_01I'm just saying, I taught them like we did craft. I made all my own ornaments.
SPEAKER_03I am ready to go back. Oregon Trail still.
SPEAKER_01I already learned how I know the science of fermentation now.
SPEAKER_03That would be fine. Let's go. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so we're agreed. We're preppers. But anyways, preppers with money. So we'll be able to stock up a little bit first.
unknownPreppers with money.
SPEAKER_01Not that kind of money, but you know what I mean. Like we have enough money that we're not like we could like get a stock enough going for now.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna do some prepping. That's what we're saying. We got a little bit of money to prep. That's it. We can prep. We get some prepping. We got some prepping to do, and we're gonna do it, but we need better storage.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, regardless of prepping, again, we keep going on these tangents, but they're not where I want to land. One of the things that I was really thinking about is like I was trying to w walk it back in time. Like, when did they when did it start, right?
SPEAKER_03What?
SPEAKER_01The the taking
How The Village Got Monetized
SPEAKER_01away of our village and inserting other services, right? So I saw this meme and it pissed me off because this girl had her full breast out at a restaurant letting her baby nurse. Uh-huh. So I wanted to see, because I'm all for like nursing is the way to go. Like, that's the right thing to do. It's f I don't know why you wouldn't unless you can't. And I get it. I'm not fucking shaming anybody. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_03What you do.
SPEAKER_01You don't need formula. We're giving these companies money hand over fist, and we don't fucking need to. They babies don't need formula. They get their mom's milk for 18 months and then they get cow's milk.
SPEAKER_03Listen, RFK.
SPEAKER_01No, but listen. So the reason I'm saying that is because I wanted it's I'm not like on this campaign for all this. There's girls out there who are doing it, but they're kind of doing it wrong because they're just whipping their whole boob out. That's never unless you show a little discretion. Unless you lived in ancient fucking Africa. Well, actually, there's shops in Africa that still are running around the boobs.
SPEAKER_03Have at it.
SPEAKER_01Have at it.
SPEAKER_03Free reign.
SPEAKER_01But if everybody's boobs in the village aren't hanging out, then fucking have a little boob.
SPEAKER_03Have a little booblet. Like a boob curtain, a boob curtain.
SPEAKER_01Right. And so those things have existed. Those coverlets have existed since the dawn of time. Like take a huh.
SPEAKER_03It don't it doesn't even have to be that complicated. A blanket over the shoulder.
SPEAKER_01Right, right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03So then I was like, I was like it's not like you're taking your whole shirt off.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03That's popping a boob out.
SPEAKER_01Exactly.
SPEAKER_03And only one.
SPEAKER_01Right. It's like, come on. So then, like, I was looking at when did women start like when did daycare become a fucking thing, right? It's a class thing. And it's it and it should have remained a class thing.
SPEAKER_03Well, let me ask you this though. I mean, I think the the question is though when did women start babysitting for other women in the sense of like people have always watched after like in a tribe because like or like a village. Because a village will pitch in. But the question is, at what point in time now did it become monetized? Well, that you would have to get an outside person. Right. From outside your group. Right. You know what I mean? Like not just not just your parents or grand because that's different. That's expected. That's a village. Right. But when you started hiring someone outside of your group to watch your child.
SPEAKER_01Well, as far back as the 1950s, they were calling up babysitters to come over while the they went and partying.
SPEAKER_03It wasn't before the I mean, I guess the rich have always been doing it. Yeah. Because they had nannies and stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, so for the longest time I was a class thing, and I don't and that just I don't I don't understand any of that.
SPEAKER_03Well, was it though too though? Because I think that even some of the lower classes had nurses. I mean, like like a nursemaid or like nanny. Yeah, I mean a lot did, but I don't think they made a lot of money or whatever, like anything, but they like had a place to live and this snack. Right.
SPEAKER_01Well, I guess some of that would have been maybe like so maybe where maybe geography comes into play. Well, I think it probably because like if you think about like the little clutches like of immigrants in New York, right? Not all of them are gonna really know each other. Because I've studied the census maps in Yonkers for the longest time for to look at my family history. And in Yonkers, you had like a block of Irish here and a block of German right beside them. So yeah, like that family may have like been a family, but a lot of them were like generational, so like there might have been a couple kids, but it was like they didn't have like the village, right? They just had it was there were so many immigrant pockets living side by side that it was like a smaller village.
SPEAKER_03Well, but I also think a tenant village may have had but I well I thought you were talking about geography in the sense of like even like as to when people would have like I was just saying, like, even some a lot of middle class people still had nannies.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03That was just a like in some parts of the world.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? That was just like a whole thing that people did.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03It was just that's the way it was.
SPEAKER_01Well, what were farmers like in the 1800s? Were they considered middle class or rich?
SPEAKER_03Well, they definitely weren't rich. Right. Farmers have never been part of the unless you were like a big time like a tobacco plantation or something back in the day. But I'm saying some of them you could be rich.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I'm not it what's your definition of rich, I guess is what you that's a different story. But regardless, farmers have always been part of the it's never like been an elite class. Right.
SPEAKER_01But well, because they had lots of kids to turn to the farm or whatever.
SPEAKER_03Right. Well, yeah, I mean, you just needed kids to do shit.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Just like here's the thing is like my grand grandma, her parents, they sold their farm during the Great Depression. So, and their kids all went to work. So you needed kids just to put them to work.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You needed some labor, you needed to send to make enough money to support the household. You s before the kids were out working, the parents were working, oh yeah, and then every it all their money got pooled, and then they spent it all on Aunt Dottie.
SPEAKER_01I think I know what I'm trying to say here, and it's that they always say that it takes a village, right?
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_01But they started replacing our village piece by piece with transactions instead. So you had like grandma as your was your daycare. Right. And now you have to pay for daycare because they put grandma in a nursing home way too early. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Or it it just isn't expected anymore.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Grandma does her own thing. Right was on vacation, she's got a new man. Right.
SPEAKER_00She's taking a cruise, damn it.
SPEAKER_01Grandma's on a cruise. So, I mean, so that I mean, that's just one of them. Nursing is just another one. They made you believe that you need formula. One of the ones that kind of blew me away, literally blew me away, was the whole warming of the baby's bottle in the middle of the night kind of thing. Like I adhered to that strictly with my three, the older three, right? It had to be warm. It had to be warm. I thought that it was something to do with their gut.
SPEAKER_03But it would be bad if she went cold.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I thought it would hurt them or make them colicky.
SPEAKER_03No, it turns out.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03It doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
SPEAKER_01It was a marketing plug.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was nothing. Bad people, all kinds of people up heating up bottles, checking it on their you know how many people burnt their wrists for no reason whatsoever.
SPEAKER_01Right. And the the the the catalyst for stopping that fuckery from happening was the microwave invention. Because when too many babies got burnt because the in the middle was so scalding, right? They were like, oh, by the way, you never needed to warm the bottles. That was just that was just something.
SPEAKER_03That was just nonsense.
SPEAKER_01It was nonsense.
SPEAKER_03It was just something we made up. We thought it would be good. Right. We thought it would work out. They tell us a lot of things. It don't work out. But again, back to your point though about the transactions. Everything is though. Now everything is a transaction, and you don't know everything is a service. There's no personal representation anymore with the people that you live around and with.
SPEAKER_00Right, right.
SPEAKER_03And it's like, and I don't know, like you said, I don't know specifically when that happened, but I mean, certainly it has to do with and then but you could go even as far as to say, like, and uh say what you want about whatever, but like when women went to work. Right. And I'm not saying what I'm not saying that women shouldn't get to have the right go to work.
SPEAKER_01There were women working for since the dawn of time. Right.
SPEAKER_03Right, but uh and a lot of time, but I'm saying like this whole concept, it didn't have there could be stay-at-home day, whatever. Who gives a shit who? But the idea that there was a you could function and live off of one salary and there and there was a time when you could. I mean, there was a lot of so that you have to look at that point you know what I mean, like as well, because it just isn't possible. The world that we live in. So I'm saying it's like there's a certain point that a lot of these things were happened because so then you had the need for people to be daycare and stuff like that, and you did need to depend on grandma. But the problem is now is grandpa uh grandma still has to have a job.
SPEAKER_01Right, right.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? Because she can't live off her social security, right? So she's not even available for daycare, right? So like I'm saying, it's like there's so many factors that go into taking away the village, so to speak. And it's driven by and I'm gonna get uh the whatever, it's driven by this the capitalism out of control.
SPEAKER_01Totally capitalism, out of control because it it's it's the system has made it so lopsided that all everybody has to work, and it's not everywhere like that, but in capitalist countries it is because, like, so and I and I don't know what India is, but I have a lot of friends who live in India, right? And they live in multi-generational huge home pods, their houses have levels where multifamilies live, so that the kids are all taken care of. The women all still work, but they do it in shifts, so they're able to still make money, they're able to have careers, but they they're able to take care of their parents who are too outerly or sick, but they're able to do all that because they're pulling their resources.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's a different kind of thing, but uh back to the capital, you know what I mean? Like that's how the that's a cultural thing and how they live, and that's a great setup, you know what I mean, and we should probably adopt some of that. But the point about capitalism though is that, and it doesn't happen in every capitalist country, it's ours specifically, and we've driven it because we're the big, you know, the biggest purveyor of this in the world, is this excessive capitalism with all these huge, ultra-wealthy. Yeah, yeah, and so the problem is that all of the money is not all spread out before amongst you know what I mean. Like the upper you know, one percent has more of the money than ever. So the people below they have a larger percentage than ever, is what I'm saying. Right. So the people below have less money to disperse amongst them.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03So it's like that's when we get we get into it. Would be great if we lived that way that they do, like in India, where you said it's like generational and everybody's you know, sort of taking like a step up, but we don't live like that. We all live separate, right? And we can't and the we did have some of that still because for a while, you know, grandparents still did, you know, and I'm not saying that there's no grandparents out there.
SPEAKER_01Because obviously the all the models still exist somewhere, right?
SPEAKER_03But it's less prevalent than it was, like say in the 80s or 90s and 70s, and and now it's like there's so it was rare that a kid was in daycare when I was young.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Not rare, but it was you know what I mean? Like it wasn't most of the kids that I knew were you know what I mean? Like nobody that I really knew went to daycare that went to daycare and knew anybody that was like No.
SPEAKER_01If anybody needed their kid watched, they dropped it off with one of the other PTA moms.
SPEAKER_03My mom was the babysitter, right? They came to our house, our house was the daycare essentially. But I'm saying there was no like most people there for that part, nobody there was like nothing official, nobody would afford to pay a daycare.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You just paid a babysitter, right? Somebody that there was always a couple of moms that did that.
SPEAKER_01But most of the time there wasn't even money exchanged because it was like, I got your kid this day, you get my kid this day. There it was always like quid pro quo, and then the only time that there was money exchanged is if they were going if it was like a special occasion or something where they were hiring babysitters to go out at night.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well, see, my mom just had people that paid, you know what I mean? Like a daycare.
SPEAKER_01Oh, see. Oh well, yeah, that so okay, that was way cheaper.
SPEAKER_03Right. It's not like it was like they just came to her house. Right. And like I mean, that was that.
SPEAKER_01And then she didn't have to be licensed by the state, have the house inspected.
SPEAKER_03No, but it's the idea of thinking of ten drops of blood. No, the whole idea of there were the weird people were there while they were there. So it was like just the house. It was a free house.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But I I there were so many there that's what I love.
SPEAKER_03But we all turned out fun.
SPEAKER_01That's the exact thing. Like that I have learned about the different kinds of chaos because like my mom's family when we were growing up was chaotic, but like in a different kind of way. It was like loud music, everybody was talking about like just normal everyday things, just in loud tones. The kids were all splashing in the pool. That was one type of chaos, right? Then the other chaos, like 23 North Franklin, you know what I mean? Like that's a different kind, same family dynamics, just different kinds of little wild low wild, little more ferro.
SPEAKER_03But no, but that's how it goes, because it's like but everybody, despite all of that, still managed to get by. Whereas in today's world, it feels I don't know why this is, but uh to those people's point that say like in today's world it's more dangerous or whatever than ever. Why does it feel that way though? Because there's some sort of like existential something in the air.
Fear Based Media And Risk Blindness
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? That lets you know like we feel like we're on the precipice of something really bad. Right. I think, whereas in those days it didn't feel that way. That wasn't the expectation. There was a good outlook on life. So even though there may be bad things happening in the world, people jet general attitude towards things was different. Right. They didn't understood that isolated things happened and they didn't worry in the same way that they worry today.
SPEAKER_01Oh, for sure.
SPEAKER_03So I think that it's a it's partially that it feels more dangerous. It does feel more dangerous, even though it may not actually be.
SPEAKER_01Back then, if you think about it, like if you think about it in the 80s, if if something crazy happened in California, you only heard about it if it was the absolute craziest of the crazy, right? Right. On the nightly news. Tom Brokaw was fucking telling you what about it. So nowadays you get so much information thrown at you. You know about all the bad things all the time. It's like Tomorrowland. I I know I keep hearkening back to that movie, but it's it that movie is an analogy for life in general today, which is negativity compounds negativity.
SPEAKER_03Well, it also again, it just shows you that how they want to control you with fear, right? That not only the mainstream media, the government, everyone, the your companies, right? You know what I mean? They want you to be fearful because they want your money, basically, and they want your obedience, whatever it is, religion. Oh, so the thing is, is that like you said, the fact that they're pounding that in your head, it's not that those things were always happening everywhere.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's why you see the all these stories from the 70s and 80s and 60s, serial killer stories you never heard. All the ones that we've listened to, and you'll still come across new ones and be like, damn, that was wild. That was 1963 or something. Right. And you just the danger didn't feel as in your face. We're again, I think this goes back to my greater point of humans being able to assess real risk. We think of these things as happening all around us all the time, but they're not they are happening all the time, but not all around us.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03That's the key. Right. Is that they are happening somewhere, somewhere, but the f you when you look at the how many times it's happening and where it's like you have to look at it not just through the lens of what's being fed to you all day long, every day.
SPEAKER_01From the fear monger. From everywhere. It's not it's just it's everywhere. I don't even think people mean to. It's sensationalism. The only way to get that three there's like like anytime when I'm making clips, I talk to AI about clip making, and it's like you need that three-second bite, you need that click, you need something, and it has to be sensational. You have to start with it was a murder.
SPEAKER_03Because it's it's like it's like nerve endings, yeah. And it's like we've stunned your nerve endings so much that you need to hear the wildest shit ever in three seconds, or we can't even get your attention.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_01That's exactly it.
SPEAKER_03And that's a bad place to be, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Right, right. It's like a drug almost.
SPEAKER_03It is it is a drug that it they're playing with the same things in your mind.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Drugs affect drugs play on the chemicals in your mind by using other chemicals. They're using information to control the chemicals in your brain. Right. The responses and stuff. Right. So it's no different than a drug. So your brain's gonna have those same sorts of NLP. It's yeah, dude, it's it's a mess.
SPEAKER_05A mess.
SPEAKER_01That's so funny because I clipped that episode. I clipped that that's what you say in the end of when we're winding down the story about your addiction recovery. You're like, and you come out of it, and you're like, and it's a mess, and I just want to clean it up. Where's the broom? However, he says it. Old Marty Huggins. I could watch that movie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Do we own it?
SPEAKER_03Uh, I think so, maybe.
SPEAKER_01I love that movie. But anyway, so again, interwoven theories here because as they commercialize everything that we used to just have and could depend on without money, right? They just kind of bit by bit started charging us for all the things that used to make our life pretty fucking easy. And then started fucking putting charges against us for things that we used to be able to do all the time when there was even greater risk. Now, with the allegations that AI is going to end us, it's like, is it though? Because here's the thing I know you believe in your science bros, but first and foremost, we could just cut the power. We can cut the power. Right, I'll so you have to, if you would if we don't rely on the government to help us in any way, shape, or form. It's not gonna happen because again, it's fastest to the finish line. Remember, Anime of the State came out in what year?
SPEAKER_031997 or something.
SPEAKER_01And in 1997, they were showing us technology that we're just now getting a peek at. In 1997, they were showing it to us in a movie. They were telling us 30 years ago that it existed then that the government had access to it then. So think of what we're where we're at technology-wise now, the government is at least 30 years ahead.
SPEAKER_03Listen, I understand all of that, and that's why you want to bring up movies. Let's bring up every movie ever where machines and computers and AI take over and destroy whatever. So many.
SPEAKER_01You shut down the power grids.
SPEAKER_03That didn't work in the matrix. They didn't shut down the power grids, they are the power grids. Now, here's the thing. My thing is is I don't think again, I don't think it's like when I say existential, it I do think it's an existential crisis to humanity, but I don't think that when I say that, I don't think every human's gonna be wiped out.
SPEAKER_01No, but here's the thing. I think it is this we are living in the age of reason 2.0.
SPEAKER_03I don't know what that means.
SPEAKER_01We have given all of our faculties over to people telling us information instead of us learning to discern. Now we are being told by the people creating AI that AI hallucinates and lies to us. So in that case, you have to be able, even I'll even make it layman's terms. Like you see a crazy news story, your favorite celebrity dies. Your first question today, because of seeing where you see it, is this real or fake? And most people who are on social media are starting to learn how to spot the difference, right? But it's learning to discern all over again.
SPEAKER_03But what does that have to do with the that's not the threat at hand. The threat at hand is the its ability to outwork its creators. And once it's able to outwork its creators, leave the system that's meant to contain it and does its own thing, hacks into systems, changes things, and it takes control and starts to have sentient thoughts. That's what we're talking about here. We're not talking about whether or not he uh individual people can control the AI that they allow us to use. The question is the AI that they have that's 30 years ahead of what they say they have. Right. Who's to say that it already hasn't? That the aliens are the future, that they're us, that they're way hacking into the city. You know what I mean? Like there's no there's so many things that could be contained within that. And I don't know, you know what I mean? Like that it's it's we're just gonna find out. It's gonna be what it's gonna be. We don't have any control over it.
SPEAKER_01So let's say it's not even AI that does it. Let's say that that's the next level of warfare, is that they just start fucking with all of our grids. Again, where does that leave us? I we need access to food and water.
SPEAKER_03Right. Well, I again, and I think the pro the problem again, though, goes back to the society, the type of system that we live in, this excess capitalism. Right requires constant always requires more output than before.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And the problem is is because of that, we've overloaded all of our systems. We're not meant to have it's not meant to be this way. Right. And so we've extended like we're gonna be in there's gonna definitely be in an adjustment period.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03There's gonna be a lot of people die. There's gonna be an adjustment period where we have to sort of realign and re-establish ourselves. That's gonna happen. That's why they make movies about it. So you see the apocalyptic, like that, and I'm not meant saying that to scare, I don't think it's gonna look like Mad Max or anything. There could be places it do. Sure. There's already places it do. You know what I mean? Like, but the point being is like it's gonna depend a lot. There's gonna be a lot of things that it depends on.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And the point is you're just gonna just be smart and be prepared as best you can and do what you can.
SPEAKER_01So imagine imagine a life without constant access to information. Who would you trust? How would you get information if you didn't have power, like ham radios or kind of shit like that?
SPEAKER_03I need to get into that.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03So that I'm ready.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of which, okay, so let's wrap this up because it was all deep and windy and twisty, and hopefully you guys got something out of it because there was so much there. There's even more because Scott blew my mind today with some bullshit about Mars that we'll save that for next time.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. One of these days we're gonna get old Mike Pennington here. And we're me and him are gonna do like a six-hour run. You can back out after about two hours because I know you will get bored.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But we're gonna deep dive some of the the deeper stuff, like you know. Was the moon landing reel?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Was what's on Mars? Right. Those are just a few of the fun ones, right? But we'll get into some other stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I would love that.
SPEAKER_03He sent me some new videos on Charlie Kirk, New Angle, When the Dangle, Jesus. It let me tell you what, it we'll we'll talk about it next time.
SPEAKER_01Okay, God, we always I swear, like every time I think that we can't talk about something new or different, but I've also been going down the rabbit hole of Mr. Ballin, the Wi-Fi, all the weird stuff, all the weird stuff.
SPEAKER_03So it's Halloween's coming up, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And but I'm trying new I want to get into new different angles because like I've been hitting the same shit. Oh, that's so that's what I wanted to to kind of wrap it up with. So, first of all, if you don't know and you live in the state of Pennsylvania. You can get a free library card for the Philadelphia Library, which gives you access to digital media, which gives you access to newspapers.com, where you can go off and read articles from as far back as 1742. And I have. So when we talk about the safety of life, like this shit has been happening since the dawn of time. Everything, all of it.
SPEAKER_03Everything. There's a reason they say there ain't nothing new under the sun. Everything that you can think of has already been thought of.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Everything that you can do has already been done. Right. Every horrible thing that you can think of has been done. Every good thing that you can think of has been done.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_03There's I it literally. And be and humans repeat the same things. Sometimes the are the time and place and the mechanism may change.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03But people don't.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? Like people do the same shit. People since the beginning of the listen. Adam and Eve had two kids. We couldn't even make it to the and one of them killed the other one. We couldn't even make it to four people. You know what I mean? Without there being some serious fucking complications. So like I'm just saying, take it easy. You know what I mean? Try to be nice to people. I mean, there's reason that you know, like, when they asked Jesus, you know, what the and he said the whole love your neighbor thing. You know what I mean? Because literally at the end of the day, if you just treat people like you want to be treated, life will generally turn out okay.
SPEAKER_01Right. And that's all you can do, really.
SPEAKER_03The comedian Pete Holmes it had the best take on that recently. Well, he didn't have it recently, but I saw the clip recently.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03And it was, he was talking about, he's like, I like to pretend that there's different Miis doing everything. He so like if a flight attendant breaks, he's like, oh, that me's doing great. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_03And so he like always projects like himself into the as like his way of like just sort of like humbling himself and maintaining perspective. And he'll be like, that me is, you know, whatever, you know, like that sounds fun. So just as it's just like as a way to sort of, you know, put your, you know what I mean? All just you know what I mean to put some perspective into because so often, you know, everything to go back, we treat everything as a transaction.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And usually and it like and you're you know, and I'm not saying that sometimes they don't deserve to be yelled at, but like, you know, the employee of whatever is just trying to do their job.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03They're just trying to do something that somebody else told them to do that doesn't make any sense and they're not the brightest, and right, and they have no control over what the script is or whatever the heck. Right. They're just trying to do their job and get home to their family at the end of the day or whatever they do.
SPEAKER_00Right, right.
SPEAKER_03And we often lose that because it everything is transactional.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? We don't know anybody, you're not anybody. Like I said, you know people that you live in Alaska better than you know your neighbor. Right. And I'm not saying everybody, but I'm just saying, like, sometimes the relationships that we have that we foster and stuff like whether that be somebody that you know from work that works overseas, or because we're so connected now to people from all over the place that we've lost a lot of that sense of community and we have. And that we talk about that even with governing, like we need to get commun as people, we are community people.
SPEAKER_01That's how we've We're hive-minded.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's how we've evolved over time. But now the problem is our community's too damn big.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And you can't manage a community like that.
SPEAKER_00No, you can't.
SPEAKER_03We need to get back, and that's why when we weren't connect, that's why we talk about the like better time. It's pre-internet because we weren't connected in the same way, so we didn't have the same global outlook of gloom and doom.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03You know what I mean? Your community was what you all you had because that's the world you lived in. Right. That was your world. Right. Those are the people that were gonna be with you for most of your life, whatever. Right. That's the world you live in.
SPEAKER_01And sure, you could go somewhere else and join another community, but the what you weren't I mean, usually what it looked like was just picking a different church, to be honest with you. Like, uh, I like this community, I'm gonna pick a different church.
SPEAKER_03Right, but even still, though, I'm saying you could pick up and move to another state.
SPEAKER_01Sure, of course. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_03But like But you could still all you were worried about when you were there was the community that you were in, because that's all you had any control over.
SPEAKER_01So, and that brings me to the solution portion of all of this, because I have been thinking heavily
Responsible AI And The Future Of Work
SPEAKER_01about how to AI responsibly, right? Because AI is going to change the landscape of the workforce, and I don't mean it's going to like work everybody out of a job. There's a lot of things that AI can't do, and AI still is going to need a babysitter, definitely gonna need to, right? So, in that to responsible AI is what I'm saying. But there are people who are going to be skilled out of their jobs. I mean, that is just the way that all of these things happening. I mean, that's how everything since the beginning of the industrial revolutionary exactly, exactly. So, in that case, where we have gotten away from intrapersonal communications, there's gonna be more of a focus on skilled technologies. Like again, it's gonna go back to like the laborers, but also like intraper like the in-person landscape changes. Like, for example, Atlantic Broadband, they got rid of their in-person centers when they went to move to Breeze Line. I think in-person customer service is gonna have to come back. They want a phase to be holding accountable for it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I know I agree. There's gonna be new it's just like anything else. Anytime one thing goes away and something new's created, new things that you never even there's gonna be jobs we didn't even dream of in 10 years.
SPEAKER_01Right. And I'm starting to dream of those now so that we can get people skilled in the right sectors.
SPEAKER_03And like But again, there's also gonna be, to your point, skilled labor is always gonna be I mean, the sense of like tradesmen.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Is always gonna be because that AI is not replacing that stuff anytime soon.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03We're not on the verge of that because of the capital that it would take.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03It's just not being pushed in that direction, right? That's not what they're figuring out, that's not what they want it for.
SPEAKER_01They're there.
SPEAKER_03They want to control it.
SPEAKER_01They're like humans, we we still want humans to do that. That will happen. Right. Just not right now, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Just not right now. So that those things are gonna be at a high commodity because for whatever they've been telling people to get into trades since we were going to school.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03And people haven't been listening, right?
SPEAKER_01And that's why they always need people in those fields because nobody knows the colleges are duping people into thinking any goddamn degrees.
SPEAKER_03And nobody yeah, and that's the thing is nobody has a degree in anything worth a damn. Back in our day to go to college, you were going for something because you knew specifically what you wanted to do, and you knew what degree you needed to get that. Right. Like, say you wanted to be a teacher. Right. Well, you knew you needed to do this. Right. You went to be a doctor, you did this. You wanted to be you went to do this.
SPEAKER_01But then it became broad general studies, and fucking nobody knows what they want to do.
SPEAKER_03Then we're majoring in things like and we need artists. I'm not saying we don't.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03But they took the liberal arts to like now people have degrees in all kinds of bullshit.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Made up things that you'll never be able to do anything except maybe teach it.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Those things.
SPEAKER_00Right. Or write about it.
SPEAKER_03Or write about it, or whatever. But we have way too many. We need to get back to basics.
SPEAKER_01But here's the thing though, is that uh like a degree became an entitlement at some point. Like, I have a degree. Listen, motherfuckers, I am here to tell you that I have an 18-month business college piece of paper that the college no longer exists. And so technically, while I have an associate's degree, I didn't really have I didn't go to school for I design automation in corporate healthcare. You don't need it, you don't need it. But I mean figure out what you want to do. No, you don't. If you want to be a programmer, you can go online for free to Khan Academy and learn the basics of programming and get your start.
SPEAKER_03No, I agree that you can teach yourself things, but I'm saying like you still need if you're gonna be a lawyer, you still have to do is study to be a lawyer. You have to study, and you still have to pass a bar and you have to have a degree. They don't let you take the bar if you don't have the degree.
SPEAKER_01I don't think that's true. I think that's true. Because I uh at one point downloaded the the packet to study the L for the LSATs because I wanted to do it.
SPEAKER_03No, I understand that I could take it. No, I get it, but that it right, I understand that I'm not saying that.
SPEAKER_01Matter of fact, now that I have Chappie to help be my study partner, I may get my law degree just for shits and gigs.
SPEAKER_03Well, uh regardless of any of that. My point being is that I don't think you're saying that I think college is a good thing. For the most point, for the greater part of the existence of colleges and higher education, they were a good thing.
SPEAKER_01Until they weren't. Until they became commercial, just like everything else, though.
SPEAKER_03But they I'm saying they went the way of everything else.
SPEAKER_01They sold out. They're like the bubblegum.
SPEAKER_03They used to be a bastion of free speech and stuff and like things like that. Now it's the opposite.
SPEAKER_01Right. Now they bash free speech.
SPEAKER_03But I'm saying this has all just happened in the last four decades with the falling apart of everything else. Right. So I'm saying up until that point, though, higher education has been a good point.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03It's led us to some of the greatest discoveries and things of that's ever been. You know what I mean? Like it's pushed humanity further.
SPEAKER_01Right. But think about the people that went to college back then versus now. Back then, people that so d no, don't you're dick facing right now. Don't dick face. And I would even venture to say the night I would even venture to say the 1990s. People went to college because they had a passion for something, like you said, before broad general studies, or because their parents had money and were forcing them to go to college. Right. Those were the two reasons. Right. That was it. So telling fucking the kids that were getting C's their entire life that they need to go to college was a fucking the worst thing that you could have done for all of America.
SPEAKER_03That will see that, and but this is all part of the greater problem of like the last 40 years, because then what you had is a problem of too many people.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_03So that's how you get all the end up with all these bullshit. Plus, then you had all these people take like it tenure uh affects a lot of things because like then you had these really weird professors, like that started it became more like indoctrination, so much as teaching, whereas before it was about freeing your mind. Now it's about it's uh it's almost like a weird indoctrination. It's weird, right?
SPEAKER_01Right. You have to take the SITs, you have to go to college. They almost made the tradespeople seem stupid, and I hate that because some of the smartest people I know make way more motherfucking money than I could make right now because they went and got their damn trade right out of high school.
SPEAKER_03Here's the thing is it used to be that they just pushed the smartest people to go to college.
SPEAKER_01Right. Exactly, not your average But yeah, they started it.
SPEAKER_03Used to be just the smartest people.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03They pushed to go to college, and that's what it should be because you want the greatest minds working in the sciences and research. You want all those people at a university collected working together to further what we know, right? But to this, it became this thing where it was like they just wanted everybody to go to college. Right. And that's why I said they've been pushing the trades on us since that started happening, and nobody's listened the entire time. That's why they're still always looking at people, and you know people that do stuff. That's why we all know some of the dumbest people that we went to school with. Fine have money, have money to just blow through because they have some they're like they have some great skill that they learned, like whether they're like some crazy mason or some electrical. Yeah, something that they're really, really good at and have a business and that's what they do. Yeah, anyway.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, we are not gonna solve the world's problem today. I don't even know if we made sense of any of the world's problems today. What do we have coming up? Oh, yes. This episode does release before.
Event Plug And Sign Off
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Coming out this Saturday.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Harrigan's downtown Johnstown. We'll be judging.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03One and only Puma will be with us.
SPEAKER_01Uptown Puma.
SPEAKER_03And we will be having a great, please don't ever do that again. Or do that in front of him. Um yeah, but it's gonna be a really good time. DJ Heidi, of course, who we always do these contests with. This one's gonna be a different kind of contest. It's duet, it's duet, so it's different than any of the ones that we've done before. So be sure, even if you like, you're like, maybe I've come to all the other ones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And I don't want to do it again. No, come to this one because it's gonna be different than all the other ones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So it's gonna be a lot of fun. Harrigan's is a blast too. Yeah. And you're downtown and it's just a lot of fun. So yeah, come on out for that. That's gonna be a great time.
SPEAKER_01I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_03Very a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_01And I don't think you get to pick your partner, so don't be coming out here trying to stack the jet.
SPEAKER_03Nope. We'll stop hit the door.
SPEAKER_01We know who the heavy hitters are.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, come on. We've been around this scene. We know.
SPEAKER_01All right, if nobody's told you bitches today, stay trash.
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