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and gentlemen, welcome back to the

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buddy? Doing well. It's

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0:55

Volume 11? 11 or 12. I

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think it's 12. What is it?

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1:02

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what's on the agenda today? We got a

2:40

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2:42

something and we're gonna have to call this

2:44

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2:46

got voicemails, I saw the response online.

2:50

We need to demand, Neil, an

2:52

immediate mea culpa from

2:54

the new father, Christopher

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Sully Sullivan. His

3:00

pronunciation of carabiner, I

3:03

think that was a couple NLU podcasts ago.

3:06

He didn't know if you pronounce it carabiner,

3:08

carabiner. Like it was the

3:10

weirdest thing I've ever heard in my life

3:13

and it made me immediately think of, has

3:16

he never used the carabiner? Do

3:18

people not know what that is? Like do people think

3:20

that that's just a little dangly thing you put on

3:23

a key chain? Listen, I'm

3:25

on thin ice on this topic. I think I've

3:27

taken a maybe too

3:29

much heat for my issues with

3:31

pronunciation. Whalberg, Walberg comes to mind.

3:34

Yokeen, Joaquin also comes to

3:37

mind. But you know what? Nothing

3:40

gets people more fired up online than

3:42

criticizing you for typos and

3:44

for pronunciation. So

3:46

I'm not gonna go too hard on my guy,

3:48

Sully, but I don't know how you mispronounce the

3:50

word carabiner. That's not one that I'm

3:53

having trouble with. Maybe he

3:55

does owe a mea culpa. We'll leave that to the

3:57

listeners. Yeah, I

3:59

mean, I. Of course, I probably am not

4:01

in a place either to demand may I call this,

4:03

but that one definitely stuck out to me a little

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our, our friend drew in his

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know if it was the NFL

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episode, maybe a chop session, but

4:23

you know, well, when I get bored,

4:25

we've been grinding on closing deals, getting proposals

4:27

out, but in my free time, I love

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at 8 3 3 3 0 8 7

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mild, mild mea culpa on

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the pronunciation of who he, who

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You got gets all to Nongo. Uh,

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Jamal to Nongo Hugh Hughie to

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Nongo. Um, it's a, it's a

5:21

fun place. It's a wild place out there. Great coffee

5:23

though. Oh my God. I

5:25

love the listener line. Number one, number

5:28

two, we might have to bring Michael

5:30

from Savannah in as our in house

5:32

pronunciation consultant. That's fantastic stuff. Those words

5:35

I would, you know, you're going to put me in a

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that's, that's great stuff for Michael and

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good stuff for Michael and Savannah. Thank you very

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much. Neil, we,

5:57

uh, we broke some news last.

6:00

week and on our member podcast

6:03

and we don't got to go over it here

6:05

again but it is the season and

6:07

when I think of Christmas and everything

6:09

that this holiday season brings me it

6:11

it feels like the mass

6:14

majority of holiday

6:16

movies songs everything kind of

6:19

revolve around the city your

6:21

city New York City all right

6:24

now you got Times Square for New Year's

6:26

you got Christmas parades you got lighting in

6:28

that big-ass tree that they do every year

6:30

I want to know what is the feeling

6:32

what's going on in New York City right

6:34

now for you it's always

6:36

fun to be in the city during

6:39

the holidays because it is there is

6:41

a massive wave of seasonal depression that

6:43

will strike in January I truly believe

6:45

the worst day of the year is

6:47

the second Tuesday in January

6:50

first Tuesday is usually a lot of like hey

6:52

how was your holiday you know you're not

6:54

really doing any work that first week of January you're

6:56

kind of easing back in but when you get

6:59

and usually get that Monday off if especially if New Year's

7:01

on a weekend once you

7:03

get to that second week of January things get

7:05

kind of bleak especially up here because

7:07

you're kind of in the thick of it the

7:09

lights the Christmas trees being sold

7:12

at like like in my neighborhood there's

7:14

like a outdoor bar it's called the

7:16

Gowanus Yacht Club and you

7:19

know they don't use it in the winter shuts down but

7:21

they sell Christmas trees out of it you know you

7:24

go by get getting off this right at the subway

7:26

stop you have somebody like man bunch of Christmas trees

7:28

there it smells good you know it's it's it really

7:30

is it's I think it's part of the fabric of

7:32

the city so it is for this kind of month

7:35

month and a half I'd say from Halloween which

7:37

was an absolute banger around here with

7:39

all these brownstones Halloween was was lit

7:41

through I'd say New Year's but I

7:43

hate New Year's is a really good time to be in

7:45

New York City and yeah you

7:48

nailed it like people go ham on in my

7:50

neighborhood it was much more Halloween decorations people kind

7:52

of went over the top with those there

7:55

are some inflatables in

7:57

front of you know in Carroll Gardens and some of these

7:59

front gardens. I don't support that.

8:01

But there's a good amount of Christmas cheer in

8:04

the city. And then yeah, if you want to

8:06

get really into it, head up to Fifth

8:09

Avenue, Rockefeller Center, you know, they're kind

8:11

of, they're pulling out all the stops

8:14

with the festivities up here. Are you

8:16

a fake tree household? Are you a real

8:18

tree household? Like what's kind of, what's the

8:20

situation we got going on here? That's

8:23

such a fantastic question. I will

8:25

admit, growing up, my mom

8:28

turned us into a fake tree household. We

8:30

would put the tree together starting when I

8:32

was in like seventh or eighth grade. She

8:35

got tired of the, you know, getting

8:37

the tree in the house and and I think the

8:39

mess of it. My wife is a

8:41

real... I got a question real quick

8:43

here. Hold on. The mess, I also

8:45

think in this, in your parents' generation,

8:48

my parents' generation, there was a

8:50

legitimate fear that like, this thing's gonna

8:52

catch on fire. Yeah. And

8:54

I know we talked, we talked

8:56

about plugs a couple weeks ago and and

8:59

why the three prong is the way that

9:01

it is and and different sets of it.

9:03

That was a legitimate concern. I mean, if you

9:05

think about it, we wrap like

9:09

legitimate electric currents

9:11

around a tree that most of

9:13

the time runs out of water. If

9:15

you think of fire hazards

9:17

like that could be it. Anyway. Well, I

9:20

think it was less than the

9:22

mess and for my mom, if

9:25

I remember, you know, I've asked for about it, not

9:27

recently, but I think it was more, there's when

9:29

you have a real tree there, it, you

9:31

know, it is kind of a ticking time bomb on when

9:33

the thing's gonna like die and look horrible. And

9:35

my mom didn't like the rush of trying to get the

9:37

tree out of the house like, you know, right

9:40

after Christmas and she likes to

9:42

have the tree up in early December. So it gives

9:45

it a longer shelf life and, you know, we had

9:47

a nice, be honest with you, a

9:49

nice fake tree growing up. It looked, thing looked great.

9:52

Now, there are different levels of

9:54

those fake trees too that I didn't realize. Like

9:56

obviously people, most people think of like, oh, the

9:58

one that it's a plastic tree. But they

10:00

have ones that are like super authentic

10:02

looking they have different colors

10:04

lights built in different colored lights built

10:07

in everything It's crazy.

10:09

So The other thing we never

10:12

really had a tradition in my family of going to pick

10:14

the tree up It was always kind of like I

10:16

think when I was really young It was like my dad was gonna

10:18

go do it and and you know The franchise

10:20

probably gonna bitch at moan about getting in the

10:22

house and stuff So I think

10:25

my mom solved some problems with that. So I

10:27

appreciate that and the tree always looked really good

10:29

My mom's always been a big ornament collector. So

10:32

You know, she sent me a lot of

10:34

mine. My mom also loved monograms putting

10:37

my names on things So my wife's been making fun

10:39

of me and I think she might actually be a

10:41

little Self-conscious because my

10:43

mother-in-law is not as sentimental as my mom

10:45

is so Carson doesn't have any She

10:48

doesn't have really anything that has her name on it. And

10:50

then the tree has our tree here in my apartment That's

10:52

a bunch of shit. It has my name on it but

10:56

Two things one my wife is I'd like,

10:59

you know ride or die for a real tree

11:01

Which I appreciate and and kind of getting back into

11:03

the real tree thing picked up one a couple

11:06

blocks away at the Gowanus Yacht Club

11:08

The other night, it's a

11:10

good-looking tree. It fits pretty well in the the

11:12

house. I think it's about it's probably about six foot

11:15

And then also I didn't even realize this but

11:17

Carson's been scooping up ornaments at Every

11:21

like on all of our vacations and she almost

11:23

does it quietly and so like we're unwrapping some

11:26

of these Ornaments I

11:28

might be pronouncing that word wrong. I'm all self-conscious

11:30

about that, but Right.

11:32

Sometimes I used to say ornaments, but there's no

11:34

D in it. It's ornaments So let's just go

11:36

get out in front of that one for the

11:38

for the listeners but we're

11:40

unwrapping these things and I Maybe

11:43

this is getting old but there is a bit of

11:46

a cheap thrill in like she unwrapped one. That's like

11:48

a You know fake

11:50

LaCroix bottle that she

11:52

got for me for like like five years ago. I was

11:54

like, God, I love this ornament This is great. It does

11:56

spark a little bit of joy when you're when you're hanging

11:59

them on the tree And then he

12:01

starts to develop the collection. We

12:03

got one from Argentina on our honeymoon. We

12:05

were out in Hawaii last January. She

12:08

got one out there that I even know

12:10

about. So it kind of, you know,

12:12

she, oh my God, she gets all jolly about

12:15

it. But then you start to

12:17

talk about, I'll remember, and I'll be like, where'd you get

12:19

this? Oh, I got it in that little shop, you know,

12:21

and then you kind of talk about the trip. And so it

12:23

is like, the decorating the tree is

12:25

a nice, it's a nice thing. It's a

12:27

nice thing. I like it. Well,

12:30

I'm happy to hear that, Neil. Now, one

12:32

disturbing or, you

12:35

know, thought-provoking process

12:38

when you're picking out your tree is that I'm sure

12:40

that there's, you know, there's just

12:42

lines on lines of trees out there all

12:44

cut down waiting for you. And I'm

12:46

sure you went to a setup that, you

12:49

know, they probably wrap it up for you if you

12:51

want to. You can buy a base from them and

12:53

they put it on if you want to.

12:55

Of course, you got to pay extra for all that stuff.

12:57

It doesn't come with the tree, which

13:00

I feel like if you want to look

13:02

at like micro-capitalism, like these

13:05

Christmas trees and all these seasonal

13:07

spots, they're just masters of it.

13:11

And trying to figure out how do you streamline and make

13:13

them as efficient as possible here. But – Well,

13:16

I – you know, so this is

13:18

a – that's a good question. Last year we – I don't want to

13:20

say we got in a fight, but we went – there's a Home Depot

13:23

a couple miles from me down in south

13:25

of me in Brooklyn. I remember

13:27

last year going there and you pulled a car

13:29

in and that's where it was just like a

13:31

madhouse. And I didn't really like the tree selection.

13:33

And I honestly was like, yeah, the

13:36

price was going to be a little better. But

13:38

then I was going to have to strap it to my car. Then

13:40

I got to park in front of the hydrant, get this thing

13:42

in the house. Then I got to go park the car. You

13:44

know, all that. That whole song and dance. So this year I

13:47

decided, you know, F

13:49

that. We're just going to walk up the street. Yeah, we're

13:51

going to overpay a little bit. And I

13:53

didn't really – They were really shopping local. Yeah, I didn't

13:55

really haggle with the guy, you know. But he threw in.

13:58

We were between two trees. One was – was like,

14:00

you know, a little bigger and he was trying to tell me

14:02

it was 20 bucks more. I was like, well, why don't you just throw in

14:04

the stand? I need a stand. Can we throw

14:06

in the stand with, you know, because the stand

14:09

was supposed to be an extra 20. I was like, why

14:11

don't you just throw in the stand with the bigger one

14:13

and I'll take that one. And he was like, all right,

14:15

deal. So and then he put the stand on for me,

14:17

got it all balanced up. It was a nice interaction

14:19

with my guy Robert up at the, you

14:21

know, the Christmas tree stand. That place,

14:24

they have, they don't have a ton of room, but

14:27

they are running through Christmas trees the last

14:29

two weeks. Cause I'm, I'm walking by to

14:31

go get coffee in the morning and,

14:34

uh, or get, get like a, you know, sauce,

14:36

egg and cheese or whatever. And I

14:38

mean, they must be getting resupplied every three or

14:41

four days because I've, I've seen a lot of

14:43

people walking home with these trees, but it's, it's

14:45

being able to walk home with it. You

14:47

know, it's a little cumbersome, but it's

14:50

only two blocks. It was actually a

14:52

pretty pleasant, perfect jovial experience, not having to

14:54

get in the car and go somewhere and stand in

14:56

line. And you know, it didn't feel quite as corporate

14:58

this year, which I appreciated. That's

15:02

awesome to hear. Uh, you know,

15:04

size, that's a big thing. I don't know

15:06

if you're looking to maximize size here to

15:08

size matter to you, Neil. Uh,

15:11

I'm no, it doesn't honestly, I don't need,

15:13

I don't want it to overpower the apartment.

15:16

Um, so it, you know, Carson, Carson,

15:18

one of the bigger one, right? Stocker there,

15:21

right? So I was like, well, okay, fine.

15:23

You know, you want to make the wife

15:25

happy. How about that? Um, but no, I think

15:27

the tree proportionally fits. I'll have to take a picture

15:29

and, uh, and show the people.

15:31

What about you? Are you a fake tree guy or you're a real

15:33

tree guy? Uh, I am a fake tree

15:35

guy. God, that's so surprising

15:37

as a Montanin. Well,

15:39

I grew up with a real tree

15:42

my entire life and we didn't go to

15:44

stores to buy it. We, you know, went

15:46

out and chopped out, harvested your

15:48

own Christmas tree. A tradition of my family

15:50

still does. And it

15:52

was always, uh, my entire life growing

15:55

up, I would get so sick around

15:57

Christmas time and everybody's like, God, so

15:59

whether changing and everything else and I just

16:01

have like, you know, my eyes

16:03

would just be like so itchy

16:06

and bloodshot and puffed

16:08

up. My throat would be so

16:10

scratchy and honestly my mom,

16:13

I don't know what my mom was thinking on like

16:15

to tell you the truth because I think

16:18

at the time it's just something that you didn't realize.

16:20

As I became an adult and realized that

16:23

wow, like I have really bad allergies. Well,

16:25

pine allergy is like one

16:28

of my number ones. Like it's

16:30

cat, dander, pine trees

16:33

and then like a couple

16:35

different grasses. I think

16:38

a couple years ago I wanted to get my allergies

16:40

retested again. I actually shared the picture I think in

16:42

the company Slack channel in my back.

16:45

Yes, it was all black and blue. Yeah,

16:48

it was a sight to be

16:51

seen. So my children, they have all

16:53

had their allergies tested and

16:55

one of the twins and Nina, our

16:58

youngest, they're both also allergic to pine.

17:00

So trying to think ahead.

17:02

It's a safety thing here. Now, I

17:05

found ways to compensate. Obviously, allergy medicine,

17:07

the girls got to take their allergy

17:09

medicine too, but I just don't

17:11

feel like we need this thing sitting here. So

17:14

a couple years ago, we invested in

17:17

a very, very nice tree. It looks

17:19

great. Can move it around wherever we

17:21

need to go and it's

17:23

completely hassle free. It looks real. I

17:25

know that's crazy to say and people

17:29

they're wildly good looking and proportional. You

17:31

don't have to worry about like certain

17:33

branches are bent the wrong way. I

17:36

would say our tree, we got some, we had a

17:38

little gapping issue up at the top. I'm not thrilled

17:40

with how it's

17:42

kind of expanded, but

17:45

having the real tree, I

17:47

think makes sense when you

17:49

can walk home with it and it's not going to be a massive tree.

17:52

There's multiple times growing up,

17:55

Neil. We would go out and

17:57

chop down some of these small, you know,

18:00

Spruce or or pine trees in Montana

18:02

and it would be what will you

18:04

do expect there to always be snow

18:06

on the ground? We'd have to get

18:08

four wheelers involved if

18:10

we weren't doing it on horseback and You

18:12

know strapping it to the side and then getting

18:14

it back down the mountain to your truck and

18:17

loading it up from there multiple years I remember

18:19

getting the tree home and Realizing

18:21

that like oh, we only looked at

18:23

like one side of this tree. The other side is just

18:26

like completely bare So that's

18:28

the side that is gonna go in

18:30

the corner But the other thing is

18:32

that I remember we would always find

18:35

Birds nests in there and

18:37

be like oh my goodness. What do

18:40

we what do we do in here?

18:42

Never any eggs just vacant nests. So

18:45

we don't need a true eminent

18:47

domain from you guys It's

18:49

like smarter. We're gonna have to we're gonna have

18:51

to use this This

18:54

property for something else. I Always

18:57

I do have questions about bugs in

18:59

the trees. Yeah, I mean, you

19:01

know, I got a real one I have like bugs in there

19:03

and when I was putting Yeah,

19:06

I know it's not you know, but

19:08

it makes my wife happy so that makes me happy

19:12

I mean, it's it looks another seasonal thing.

19:14

You just go along with it. The

19:16

one thing that's always interesting is the

19:18

tree cleanup I feel like I

19:20

don't know when you guys take things down But I

19:23

remember it usually is right around like, you

19:25

know, January For

19:27

some reason people feel the need to wait to like

19:29

the first week of January or something like that right

19:31

after New Year's You know, I got all that face

19:34

the holiday season is behind us now At

19:36

home again a Montana thing We

19:39

our neighbors had a ton of goats So

19:41

you would take your Christmas tree and they

19:43

basically would ask everybody in town

19:46

To donate their Christmas tree because they're just gonna send

19:48

it to the dump anyway Like hey, can we have

19:50

this for our goats and the goats would just go

19:52

ham on these fucking we learn that out of Sylvie's

19:55

Valley Ranch when we we put out there so they

19:57

have like 4,000 goats on that that,

20:00

you know, on that ranch. And the

20:03

goats eat all the all the shrubs, all

20:05

the harsh stuff, and the cattle eat all

20:07

the good grass. And so they're like the

20:09

perfect compliment to a, you know, a

20:11

bunch of cattle, and they just

20:13

eat like the gnarliest vegetation, you

20:16

can think of it like, yeah, it goes, they literally won't

20:18

eat the grass, they just want the heavy

20:20

stuff, which is wild. Speaking

20:22

of imminent domain, Elfie, our Elf in

20:24

the Shelf is back up, holding

20:27

our household hostage with,

20:30

you know, we don't play any of

20:32

those silly, silly games. But is there

20:35

anything traditions wise, that you have brought

20:37

from your household that Carson has brought

20:39

from her household that you guys are

20:41

blending and having your, your happy married

20:43

life now? What

20:46

is there? Are there issues, friction

20:48

points, anything else like that? cousins

21:20

and plus ones, my dad, you know,

21:22

there's always every year, my dad's got to get the

21:25

camera out, and then he can't figure the timer out.

21:27

So that's become a little bit of a, of a

21:29

Thanksgiving tradition to take that big family

21:31

photo. For Christmas, I think as just discussed,

21:33

I think ornaments are going to become a

21:35

bigger, like, it's almost just hit me like,

21:37

you know, I might be into those. That's,

21:40

that's pretty cool. So I'm going

21:42

to support my wife in that tradition. And

21:44

then to my mom makes these like

21:46

season pretzels, they're so fire. And

21:48

she sent me home with three bags of them. I

21:51

don't even know what's in the seasoning, I'd have

21:53

to get with her on that. But it's kind

21:55

of like her, she gives them out as a

21:57

gift that in like this homemade chicken noodle soup

21:59

that you just add water to, that's

22:01

kind of what she gives to her friends every year.

22:03

Like a holiday gift. So she makes like a bunch

22:05

of bags of it and sent me home with those.

22:08

So that's always something that I look forward to during

22:10

Christmas. Wait, is the pretzel thing always been your mom

22:12

thing? Yeah, I think so. So

22:15

that's where your brother picked it up from? No,

22:18

no, no, no. It's not she's not like into eating

22:20

like Snyder of

22:22

Hanover like. No, for

22:24

sure. But I think there's something with everybody

22:26

has these snacks that they tie into and

22:28

I'm sure it's a flavor thing for your

22:30

brother. But there's always

22:32

some sort of tie back of

22:35

where this started. That's

22:38

a good question. What my dad's always been a

22:40

pretzel fiend. So I think that's where Tron and I

22:43

got it from. But yeah, my mom puts the seasoning

22:45

on and these are more of like the almost like

22:49

checkerboard pretzels the squares with

22:51

like, you know, they're like little

22:53

square pretzels and she puts all the seasoning on them. So

22:55

those are great. You should ask

22:57

Peggy. Maybe we start throwing some of those. Maybe

22:59

we can get the recipe out. Maybe we have

23:01

a NLU cookbook or something like that. I have

23:03

to I have to ask her

23:05

if that's if that's proprietary information or not. But

23:07

for now, I know that those prezels are fire.

23:10

And then you know what Casey the merch name.

23:12

She sent me some holiday cookies. I know that's

23:14

a big tradition of hers is to bake and

23:17

the cookies are absolutely fuego. So

23:20

I'm working through those as well. I

23:23

agree. I listen. We

23:25

got mouths in this household. I

23:27

think the the cookies from

23:30

the lambons were polished off last night.

23:32

I'm not afraid to admit that. I think I

23:34

had one of the chocolate chips. The

23:37

rest of the girls in the South. So

23:39

absolutely destroyed them and they're working on this

23:41

massive vase of cookies that we got from

23:44

Polo and the squad at Excel. Yes,

23:47

those cookies are dangerous and

23:50

there's too many of them. So I don't have

23:52

a ton of Christmas traditions with the fam. Yeah,

23:54

pretty standard stuff. We'd go to usually

23:57

Christmas Eve mass and then we'd open presents on.

24:00

maybe one present that night, and then it's a

24:02

Christmas day affair for us. Now, marrying

24:05

into a family of

24:07

four girls, Christmas

24:10

is a production. It's a big deal. Okay,

24:12

and there's a lot going on that I'm

24:14

starting to understand some undercurrents.

24:17

I think one tradition is my mother-in-law likes to

24:19

get all of us plus ones,

24:21

some PJs for Christmas Day. So she kind of

24:24

dressed me up like Ken Doll. She's

24:26

got great style though, so I don't have a problem with that.

24:28

And then usually, like, we're doing a secret

24:30

Santa this year to manage gifting so that you

24:32

don't have to get, for

24:35

me, it would be three or even seven gifts

24:37

for everybody, or I guess four. So

24:40

that's good. And

24:42

then I usually get outfitted with whichever

24:44

sister gets me. They've got great style

24:46

as well. So I usually have a

24:48

pretty good haul as far as like

24:50

non-NLU merch because, as you can imagine,

24:52

I usually outfit myself with the

24:55

clothing that we make. So

24:57

they kind of keep me on the leading the

25:00

bleeding edge of fashion, which I appreciate. I need

25:02

some of that in my life. But

25:04

there is a little bit with these four sisters

25:07

of, I think it's probably a lot better than

25:09

it was when they were growing up. But like, there's

25:12

some counting going on who got what, and

25:17

then usually, I think my mother-in-law

25:19

gets them all like a nice gift

25:21

that it's all even, everybody gets the same thing.

25:23

But then there's usually a couple, like, someone got

25:25

a scarf, someone got, oh, oh, I like and

25:28

then it's just like truly a

25:30

fashion show. And the words, oh,

25:32

my God, that's so cute. Are

25:34

you serious? You know, just like it's

25:36

a runway show on Christmas morning at

25:39

the in-laws household, which has been good theater

25:41

for me to kind of sit back and

25:43

watch. Trying to think if

25:45

they have any other traditions other

25:48

than the PJ thing that I've

25:50

noticed. I don't think

25:52

so really. But I

25:55

will, you know what, I will update you

25:57

in January if I'll be more vigilant. This

26:00

year to identify some traditions. Good.

26:05

One tradition I've started though… Not

26:07

to cut you off, but I'm going to. One

26:09

tradition I've started is I get each member of

26:12

the fam, my brother-in-law's

26:15

included, NLU swag. So

26:17

I try to make a selection from the shop for

26:19

everybody. So that's kind of my – which

26:22

you could argue is like, oh, maybe that's a little get out of

26:24

jail free so I don't have to do kind of gifting. But

26:27

with the Secret Santa, I think it works pretty well

26:29

where it's like, hey, I want to do

26:31

something for everyone and then I'm going to put a little bit

26:33

more effort into my Secret Santa selection this year. I

26:36

love that. The one

26:38

thing that we – I've noticed you're already slowly

26:40

starting doing this, but it didn't

26:42

even realize – I guess it didn't

26:45

come to light to me kind of

26:47

like your globes and ornaments things with

26:49

Carson. Because then

26:51

she started to buy all those little model

26:54

houses and creating what appears to be

26:56

– it started as just one and now we're

26:58

up to three or four. And

27:01

she wants to do this every year where she gets

27:03

a new thing with the little light that you turn

27:05

on inside. Is it like the Dickens Village?

27:08

Kind of. We got a little village action

27:10

going on here. And it's

27:12

starting to grow. It's starting to

27:14

take up multiple – the tops

27:16

of multiple things around this house.

27:18

So I'm thinking – I

27:21

think for Christmas, we need to get

27:24

a new kind of buffet to hold all this extra

27:26

shit that we have out here. But

27:29

I also think that provides me additional space on

27:31

top where she can put all of

27:33

her – this village that I

27:35

see as a recting. And

27:37

I think I've talked about this before, but I'm

27:39

a big train guy. I have a train. A

27:41

train used to go under the Christmas tree before

27:44

these kids came along because you put a

27:46

train on the ground now. They

27:48

just want to go play it. And that's fine.

27:50

They can go play with it all they want.

27:53

But those little rails, they got electricity running through

27:55

them. So they get a little shock. I

27:57

think you were a model train guy. That's

27:59

awesome. Well, I think it's something

28:01

again that I grew up with my dad had

28:03

a train that he I mean, he had

28:05

a whole entire rail that kind of like went around

28:08

the one Christmas room as we called

28:10

it in the house. And then

28:12

he'd take it down and you know, it'd be a way

28:14

for the rest of the year. But I

28:16

kind of brought that on myself. But this

28:18

little village thing is very fascinating as I

28:20

watch it grow. And now

28:22

I'm in charge of unplugging

28:25

and plugging things back in, which I think I'm just

28:27

going to get a timer for every night. So they're

28:29

not staying on because the first

28:31

night that we had them all

28:33

plugged in, a fire alarm

28:35

went off. And

28:38

when I ran out into

28:41

the kitchen slash living room area, it

28:43

literally smelled like it was an electrical

28:45

fire. Well, what I realized is

28:48

that when setting up one of

28:50

these new little houses, somebody forgot to take

28:52

the plastic off of one of the

28:54

light bulbs that went in there. So it just had been

28:56

melting for hours and hours and

28:58

hours. And that's the smell that it sent

29:00

off, which I'm happy that the smoke detector

29:02

alerted us to that. But also,

29:04

hey, when you're sending things up, make sure

29:06

you remove all the protective wrapping and noting

29:09

does, you know, did

29:11

it have a grounding plug or was this a two prong?

29:13

I'm guessing it was by a two prong plug. For

29:15

sure. I mean, not a lot of

29:18

thought goes into the electrical components

29:20

for these things much more

29:23

artistic effort and creativity goes into what

29:26

the actual house is in

29:28

structure. We were we were deep in the

29:30

Dickens Village for a while picking up a

29:32

house, a new house every year for probably

29:35

four or five years there. So it

29:37

would all fit on like one table

29:39

in the Christmas room. And then you put the

29:41

like cotton down to make

29:43

it look like snow. And

29:45

you know, I used to love putting putting

29:47

the village together. And also,

29:50

from a distance, always been interested in a model

29:52

train said I need to connect you with my

29:54

Uncle Pete, he's got a massive train. He's

29:57

a train hobbyist down in this basement. Ohio.

30:00

Yeah, didn't even know this multiple trains going.

30:02

I think he's got like a

30:04

one big train with a bunch of like,

30:06

you know, mills and you know, like an old

30:09

Western motif going on. And

30:12

he I think he got really into it during

30:14

COVID. And so like this one corner of the

30:17

basement's gotten turned into like, you know, train central

30:19

Grand Central, if you will. So

30:21

sick. Yeah, yeah,

30:23

that would be awesome. I

30:25

need to sign me up for a trip to Ohio to

30:27

check that thing out. I'll try to get some

30:29

pics for you. There is a you

30:31

know, we're always getting caught up on things.

30:34

I'm not gonna demand answers

30:36

or anything here. But standard viewing for me

30:38

every single week is 60 minutes. Your

30:41

alma mater is just I

30:43

think this could have been the worst showing

30:46

by Columbia in any 60 minutes

30:49

that I've seen in the past. It's just

30:51

not not good. Again,

30:54

not looking for answers. Couldn't echo

30:56

anymore. Ashamed my alma mater on

30:58

many levels. That's probably put some

31:00

more thought behind

31:02

that. But it's a true Yeah, watch 60

31:04

Minutes every week as well. A true like,

31:06

what the fuck are we doing here? And

31:08

then you know, to see the boys up

31:10

at Dartmouth getting it done in in, you

31:14

know, creating some discussion up there is like,

31:16

you know, there's got to be a better

31:18

way guys. And so it's tough to see.

31:22

See my guy Bill Whitaker up there

31:24

on on college walk, you know,

31:27

just people talking over it. It's just

31:29

it sucks, man. It really sucks. I

31:31

don't know what's going on in higher

31:33

education, specifically at my alma mater right

31:35

now. I haven't, you

31:38

know, that's, that's all I'm gonna say about

31:40

it. It just it kind of pisses me off. Well,

31:43

I hope it makes you think twice when they

31:45

start asking you for money here. Okay, it does,

31:47

you know, and I'm tight with the AD. They

31:49

just hired a new football coach. I'm happy about

31:52

that. I want to support the program. But like

31:54

the new president Colombia is a clown period point

31:56

blank, like have a spine, you know,

31:59

say something. clearly, I don't

32:01

know. It's just like the wishy washy.

32:04

It's, it's all, uh, I

32:07

don't know. It's all just bullshit. What

32:09

I'm going to say. Now, one, the

32:11

fascinating part of the, of this week's

32:13

show, I think what I tuned in

32:16

for wasn't the Columbia side

32:18

of it, because it is a very complex topic,

32:20

complex issue. It's, it's one of those things. I

32:22

just, I agree with you. I wish that

32:25

they would, you know, just be clear

32:27

in whatever messaging that they're trying to,

32:29

trying to pick their house in half out.

32:32

It's like in some parts of life, you

32:34

could say, well, if people hate you on

32:36

both sides, you're doing something right. In this

32:38

case, it's the opposite. Like both sides feel

32:40

like you're a victim

32:42

to the university's response to what's going on

32:44

in the middle East. And it's like, it's

32:46

just because they have no clear and concise,

32:49

they have no fucking leadership. It's that simple.

32:51

The old president, I was always a massive

32:53

fan of his name was Lee Bollinger. And

32:56

he was a lawyer. I think he was at

32:58

University of Michigan for a long time. And then he

33:00

was the president throughout my, when

33:03

I was at Columbia. And then I think he

33:05

was up until like last year, the

33:07

year before was there. And that

33:09

guy handled a lot of sensitive topics with

33:11

a pretty deaf touch. And he had, he

33:13

had a real ability to bottom line some

33:15

things and, and would, you know, he

33:17

would tell you what he thought and then, you

33:20

know, try to create the safety

33:22

for discussion, whatever you want to call it.

33:24

But this new president, I'm just wildly unimpressed

33:26

and it just feels like we got no

33:28

leadership and that, I think that's, that's a,

33:31

that's a massive issue and

33:33

you know, it's just like, you

33:36

could, you could probably get into a little bit

33:38

more just like college kids, like not knowing what

33:40

the fuck they're talking about and going buck wild.

33:43

And maybe like that's just going to

33:45

happen at colleges around the country. But

33:47

it seems to be other examples of

33:49

schools that have done a better job

33:51

of cooling tensions and actually creating a

33:53

dialogue that's useful. And that's not happening

33:55

at Columbia. I hate it

33:57

for you. What I found fascinating, what made me tune.

34:00

in this week specifically was the

34:02

section on quantum computing.

34:06

It blows my mind when we start

34:08

thinking about like, systems that are

34:10

this powerful and everything else. And then it reminded

34:12

me of what's been going on

34:14

this month. Are you caught up at all with

34:17

Sam Altman and everything that's been going on

34:19

at OpenAI? Yes, absolute

34:22

wild, wild turn of events. He

34:25

was removed, removed as CEO of

34:28

OpenAI for people who don't know what that

34:30

is. Obviously, people now have heard of chat

34:32

GPT and when GPT 3.5 and

34:36

GPT 4 came on board. What

34:39

I did not realize and what I find

34:41

is completely fascinating is that when they started

34:44

OpenAI, Sam and really,

34:47

the majority of the money in the beginning and everything put

34:49

on by Elon heavily involved because

34:51

they're trying to get your bad boys and

34:54

Google out of the way who are leading

34:56

the AI race, the foundation of the company

34:58

is a nonprofit. Yeah. I

35:02

still to this day, it kind of blows my

35:04

mind and the reason why they founded this company

35:06

as a nonprofit is because

35:08

they feel like the information

35:10

and the technology that they

35:13

are running, the coding, everything else like

35:15

that should be open and free to the

35:17

public for use. Well, that's

35:20

great and all but you have companies

35:22

like Microsoft or dumping in true like

35:24

billions and billions and billions of dollars

35:26

investing into actual OpenAI

35:29

and chat GPT 4 to get these

35:33

all up on board. They

35:36

don't realize that they don't have really

35:38

any say into it. It still goes

35:40

back to the actual board who sits

35:42

on the nonprofit who's actually in charge

35:45

of OpenAI and they ended

35:47

up removing Sam as CEO. Now he's been put

35:49

back in place and everything else like that. But

35:51

it's been a fascinating and wild turn of

35:54

events and and made me dig

35:56

into him a little bit more because I didn't

35:58

even realize he's not like a tech at

36:00

all. He was the president of

36:02

Y Combinator. He

36:06

was very present out when I lived in San

36:08

Francisco and worked in the startup

36:10

world. He was kind of a big name

36:12

with Y Combinator. He seems like a

36:15

genuinely – he's a little annoying, but

36:17

I think he's genuinely a blue

36:20

flame thinker to use

36:22

a little buzzword for you there. I

36:25

think that nonprofit board kind of neutered themselves

36:27

though because basically,

36:30

yeah, the whole company revolted when they tried

36:32

to pull this move, and then it

36:34

just showed how important – yeah, at Microsoft, they

36:36

don't have a board seat, but they were able

36:38

to probably use a lot of soft power from

36:40

behind the scenes, offer a

36:42

landing spot for these guys and the rest of

36:44

the employees. And so it's like, man, way to

36:46

overplay your hand as a nonprofit. That's sick,

36:49

guys. That's really cool. I

36:52

don't think they've come out and said why

36:54

– what was their reasoning why they did

36:56

it and what do they want the outcome

36:58

to be? No. I mean

37:00

I think you could – that's where you get

37:02

your tinfoil hat on on AGI,

37:05

like the computer's becoming

37:08

sentient basically, and it's happening a lot

37:10

faster than – some

37:12

of the engineers saw in their hood and like, oh, man,

37:14

this is going quicker than we thought. I

37:17

don't know. We're out of our depth on this one

37:19

though, but the reason we brought up the 60 Minutes

37:21

stuff on the supercomputer was fascinating. I don't

37:23

know if I was really – it's hard for me

37:25

to buy the IBM stuff. It's

37:27

kind of like, yeah, you guys really

37:29

– a player in this

37:31

space, I don't know. Maybe. We'll see. Maybe

37:34

this is the way back for IBM. Yeah.

37:37

Who knows? It made me – I've

37:39

been reading up on

37:41

this other company and like, obviously,

37:43

the military industrial complex is crazy.

37:46

There are these five big companies

37:48

that hold every single contract, all

37:50

the primes, and they have massive

37:53

subs that are underneath them, but

37:55

really it's just like these same

37:57

five companies that continue to

37:59

get it. every single contract regardless of

38:02

lawsuits that have successfully been awarded now

38:04

you know I remember like Elon

38:07

and SpaceX had like sue the Air

38:09

Force in order to get them to

38:11

like just have like a small role

38:13

in the developmental like rocket scene and

38:15

everything else like that but there's this

38:17

new company Andreel

38:20

who's like hey your boy Parker kind

38:22

of you know Parker

38:24

oh yeah Palmer Palmer Palmer

38:26

sorry no more Lucker God

38:28

the guy's got some great chin stuff going on his

38:30

facial hair is is aspirational this

38:34

it's uh it's kind of fascinating

38:36

to me because it's not a

38:38

publicly owned company

38:40

so you don't know you're not responsible

38:42

to stockholders or boards or anything else

38:44

like that which all these other big

38:46

five companies are they're still

38:49

privately owned there it's a tech company

38:51

which you know

38:53

there's been a lot of people who tried to

38:55

break in into the the tech world and other

38:57

big big

38:59

sectors of business and it didn't really quite work

39:02

out that well for that I think of your

39:04

hitters at jewel on how they tried to revolve

39:06

and say that they're a tech company but really

39:08

they're just a tobacco company and then they got

39:10

a recap yeah bad we

39:12

do the Netpod which is society we

39:15

will have you back we will say

39:17

that have you watched

39:19

the documentary on it yet no I haven't

39:21

the guys are too fresh for me dog

39:24

you got a dial it up man it is

39:26

I just love it it was like the

39:28

Chobani guy took over and you know yeah

39:31

like things just things just went

39:33

bad quick the

39:36

flavors I mean they were

39:38

literally targeting kids

39:40

man it was not

39:42

good for sure this guy Palmer Lucky

39:44

which is just a fascinating name I

39:47

didn't realize he's the one that he invented the

39:49

Oculus yes sir got mook buku

39:51

bucks from from meta when they fucking

39:54

got bought out yeah and then you

39:56

got kicked out the door yeah they

40:00

out to met up with his other

40:02

hitter Trey Stevens who came over was

40:04

like a crypto

40:06

linguist. I'm pretty

40:09

sure for the NSA, he just says

40:11

intelligence community. But when I like,

40:13

you know, okay, so this is his

40:15

background, everything else like that was never

40:17

really in the military, but studied languages

40:20

in Arabic, Farsi speaker, did

40:22

a lot of time in Afghanistan, did

40:24

like code breaking everything is an NSA

40:26

cap, and then went on

40:29

and was like one of the original employees

40:32

at Palantir. So

40:35

when you have tech, an

40:37

Oculus meeting Palantir, that's

40:40

kind of what Andrew is doing. And they're

40:42

kind of like the forefront leader on all

40:44

these like AI

40:47

and completely unmanned,

40:50

like new weapon systems that are

40:53

kind of crazy to see. But because

40:55

of where they're at in testing and everything else

40:58

like that, like the United States military can't really

41:00

do much with them yet. But they've

41:02

been like doing tons of field

41:04

testing all over Ukraine, they are

41:06

sending tons and tons and tons

41:08

of not only surveillance vehicles, but

41:10

also like munitions and

41:12

some of their weapons systems to the

41:14

Ukrainian military. Now they got it in,

41:17

of course, Israel has it their hands

41:19

on it. And they're using

41:21

it they're partnering with the IDF now to come

41:23

up with new technologies, all of its running off

41:25

some crazy ass script that

41:27

they developed. And

41:30

it just kind of makes me like

41:32

my mind kind of explode to think

41:34

that we're finally out of place

41:36

now, or there's new companies that

41:38

are in this space that are going to

41:41

take some of the control

41:43

away from these big blood sucking

41:45

power hungry companies, the likes

41:47

of Grumman Boeing, you

41:50

know, General Dynamics, Lockheed,

41:54

you know, the rest of these these

41:56

chodes who just suck everything out, all

41:58

in the names of It

42:00

truly seems like Palmer Lucky and

42:02

I always, I think I'm

42:05

going to refer to him as Lucky Palmer because

42:07

I feel like his names are flip-flop for a

42:09

reason. But it feels like they're like doing

42:11

a little bit of good here. Well,

42:13

so there's a couple things. The Invest Like the

42:15

Best Pod, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, he

42:18

had Palmer Lucky on three weeks ago,

42:20

maybe a little longer. I listed that on

42:22

my drive down to Florida. Carson

42:24

wasn't thrilled with that pod. Well,

42:28

of course. It was a little dry for her, but

42:30

good interview there. And then he did an interview with

42:32

another one of the founders of Andoril like

42:35

a year ago maybe or maybe nine months ago, which

42:37

I actually thought was even – that guy was even

42:39

more engaging on the topic. I

42:42

have to find his – I can't remember his name. But

42:45

just going into like government contracts and how

42:47

the government goes about buying things and what

42:50

they're trying to do, he is a pretty

42:52

interesting cat. They

42:55

got like a $1 billion SOCOM contract,

42:57

which is Special Operations Command. I don't know

42:59

if it's actually come online yet, but

43:02

it's one of the first contracts

43:05

of that size that have not come from

43:07

one of the big five, which

43:10

is truly – again,

43:12

I think it's really cool to see new

43:15

companies getting in there and hopefully working out

43:17

the way that they intend

43:19

it to. Modern

43:21

day scum works. Yeah,

43:24

for sure. Hey, I know that

43:27

it's the end of the year and

43:29

you guys – we've had some internal

43:31

talks already, dialogue about – we

43:34

got to schedule the goals pod. We're

43:36

tossing around dates and everything else like

43:38

that. I'm not a part

43:40

of the goals pod. I'll of course be on the

43:42

back end of that. But I know I set my

43:45

goals here for you at the beginning of the year,

43:47

Schuster. And I'm here. Accountability.

43:49

We talked about being my accountability

43:51

buddy last month. We got Big

43:53

Randy involved. We're going to

43:56

get this whoop strain gang going. And we're all

43:58

going to be together next week. I

44:00

hope, you know, I, I'm expecting some

44:02

physical activities to be happening on a

44:04

beach or a mountainside somewhere. But anyway,

44:08

I had three goals for the year. I

44:10

broke them down into a personal

44:12

category, a golf category, and kind of a

44:15

life category there. One

44:17

of them was a number. I

44:19

wanted to lose an additional 15 pounds. That ain't

44:21

going to happen, doc. All right. We didn't, did

44:23

we, did we go backwards? No,

44:26

I've maintained, I've maintained what I've lost

44:28

from last year. I'm happy to report

44:30

that. I'll lay that one

44:32

on again for next year, but I'm just

44:34

coming hat in hand here saying that I'm

44:37

not going to hit that number. Okay. Uh,

44:39

I, we're not down at all. We're, we're just

44:41

flat year over year. Yes, we're

44:43

flat. And honestly, that's a, you know, I had a

44:45

big, a big Italy

44:47

trip mid-year. Uh, I

44:49

ate a lot of food and drank a lot

44:52

of booze. Uh, you know, Randy

44:54

and I, we, we spent, uh, you

44:56

know, a little over a week in

44:58

London. There's a lot of beer, gin

45:00

and tonic fish and chips, curries, Chinese,

45:02

you name it. Uh, just a lot

45:05

of road dog food, um,

45:08

though it's hat and I let

45:10

my, I let my, uh,

45:12

the amount of working out get

45:14

down. I want to say that I still,

45:16

I kept moving though. And I think

45:18

that's the most important thing. I didn't just sit around or

45:21

anything else like that, but I was truly hitting the gym

45:23

hard, uh, but there's a

45:25

big difference between like trying to lose weight and

45:27

versus trying to like maintain what you have. And

45:30

I was certainly in just maintain mode. Well,

45:33

Hey, then you're, then you're poised for a,

45:35

you know, a big one next year. We get, we

45:37

just gotta, we gotta reapply. We

45:39

gotta do some reflection and get

45:41

a little better. I know Randy was talking to me.

45:44

He got, he's got his woop fired back up. He

45:46

wants an account bill, buddy. Maybe we can get a

45:48

little woop group going, you know, a little 10 strain

45:50

challenge in January, something like that. I don't

45:52

know. It's possible. So

45:55

let's, that's good food for thought. I wouldn't call it

45:57

a complete failure. Maintaining is a good thing. You just

45:59

want to, you. want to know that you,

46:01

you know, are in ready

46:03

position knees bent ready to pounce. Absolutely.

46:06

I do have an admission

46:08

to make though, is that I

46:10

talked about how the I don't

46:13

know how this happened. But chocolate covered almonds are

46:15

kind of my thing. They're my go to snack.

46:17

They if I go to the grocery store, you

46:19

know, everybody's got the fancy nuts section out at

46:22

all these stores these days. I'm always been a

46:25

big milk chocolate almond

46:28

fan. Now the

46:30

kids when they we started taking

46:32

them to movie theaters this year,

46:35

they finally can sit long enough that they actually

46:37

enjoy a movie and they like getting popcorn and

46:39

candy and everything. Well, one of them, Zemi

46:42

likes spicy candy. She reckons herself to

46:44

be a fancy or a spicy food

46:47

girl. Are we talking about like hot tamales

46:49

or you know, that's exactly where I'm going.

46:51

So she started with hot tamales and you know, she

46:53

would eat one and be like, Oh, that's that's that's

46:55

not my thing. So I would

46:57

eat the rest of them. Well, I

47:00

basically have traded

47:02

out the the chocolate almonds for

47:04

the hot tamales. It's some

47:07

about the texture, the spiciness. I

47:10

don't know, it's very weird. And as

47:12

I've struggled a lot this year staying

47:15

on zins and not going back to dip, it

47:18

has kind of replaced my oral stimulation

47:21

that I'm needing here by these hot

47:24

tamales and I've I've consumed

47:26

an ungodly amount of hot

47:28

tamales. It's not good. And

47:31

I need to think there could

47:33

be a problem world. Well,

47:35

I mean, zoom out. What

47:38

do you think a hot tamale is made out of? I

47:41

mean, I'm guessing there's a bunch of red 40 in there,

47:43

which is probably not what you

47:46

really want to be eating. You

47:48

know, it's not whatever it is. It's

47:50

not good. It ain't good at all.

47:53

But I'm here, you know, and

47:55

saying I'm going to do better. Okay, I

47:57

think I think I did You

48:00

know goals for 2024 start with a good

48:02

analysis 2023 and I think that's what we're

48:05

getting here I'm a

48:07

massive power patch got kids. So I got to watch

48:09

it with those Yeah,

48:11

but start I don't think limiting factor your your tongue

48:13

goes dead after a while and you're like, yeah, I'm

48:15

done it does they do have a bit of a

48:18

Built-in governor like there's a big

48:21

time diminishing returns with the

48:23

sour patches Oh Nothing better

48:26

than a little sour patch bag on a road

48:28

trip though this yeah, my mom's a

48:30

massive hot tamale fan Speaking

48:33

shout out to post used to And

48:35

Mike and I sex Mike and Ike's too. I don't like Mike and

48:37

Ike's I think they're I don't think I've ever

48:39

had a Mike and Ike. Yeah, I

48:41

mean they're fine. They're not like offensive.

48:44

I just you know my I'm

48:46

gonna grab something else Play a full

48:48

I said that I wanted to get back into competitive

48:50

golf. I was gonna do this I put the veteran

48:52

community on notice. I was gonna play a full season

48:54

on the Veterans Golf Association tour I did

48:57

not even sign up for a single event. Okay.

48:59

Okay now There's

49:03

not because I didn't try a lot

49:06

of these events coincide

49:08

with when we were gonna be

49:10

on the road for the

49:13

either majors or PGA tour events or

49:15

something like that and then

49:17

the other times where there is an event

49:19

that I was gonna sign up for It's

49:21

because I had a live show that night.

49:23

So I let that excuse kind of just

49:25

you know, I had other commitments So it's

49:27

okay there. We're fine. We're fine people and

49:30

then my date night goal Yeah that

49:32

we are going to finish the

49:34

day night goal. So I'm gonna get one of

49:36

three goals For the

49:38

year. I said I was gonna do 23

49:40

date nights. We're gonna surpass that by quite

49:42

a bit. I'm very happy with that We've

49:44

been averaging over two a month So

49:48

hey and I well I would clarify this

49:50

success the definition of this was you were

49:52

gonna plan Each

49:54

night as well. So these were planned you got

49:56

the babysitter you took complete control the situation 23

49:59

plus times. That's fantastic.

50:01

100. 100%. I

50:04

love it. Well, let me ask, what was the highlight? What

50:06

was the best date night you went on outside of the

50:08

Italy trip? Let's keep it domestic. We've

50:13

been trying out a bunch

50:15

of new restaurants in town. Now, I've

50:17

found myself in the

50:20

beginning of the year, up until about

50:22

June, it was very Fort Worth heavy.

50:24

Then at June, July, we switched over

50:26

to go to Dallas because I think

50:29

Dallas and the date night scene is

50:31

a little bit better. The highlight is

50:33

absolutely this Chinese, like a legitimate Chinese

50:36

restaurant, fancy Chinese restaurant that we went

50:38

to. Some of the best like

50:41

dumplings I've ever had in my life. I've never

50:43

been to a real like legit

50:45

Chinese restaurant. It's always just been like,

50:47

yo, give me the, you

50:50

know, General Cao's chicken and orange chicken. It's

50:52

usually on a board up there. It's like,

50:54

just give me like seven B with steamed

50:56

rice. That was by far the best. There

50:59

was this little

51:05

massage involved ahead of time

51:07

and then drinks afterwards. Then

51:12

we've had a couple really good places

51:14

open up around us. We had a

51:16

really good like kind

51:18

of after dinner bar spot opened up.

51:21

So it's been nice to kind of

51:23

get in the rhythm of like going

51:25

and trying somewhere new out a new

51:27

restaurant and then going to this bar afterwards to kind

51:29

of have like a little nightcap as

51:33

before we come home and relieve the

51:35

babysitter. Now, babysitting for us could

51:37

be the easiest job ever. I think we've

51:39

gone through three different babysitters this year. I

51:41

think of the three babysitters, they've had

51:43

to do something with the kids twice because usually we

51:45

don't leave the house till the kids are in bed

51:48

anyway. And they just

51:50

sit here and watch Netflix and who knows

51:52

what they do. It goes

51:54

through three because you were unhappy with the first two

51:57

or no strictly. because

52:00

one of them started

52:03

the year and then said, you know, she's like, hey,

52:05

I have a full-time job

52:07

this summer. She was getting ready to

52:09

go to college. So she had a full-time job in the

52:12

summer, couldn't meet it. So then we

52:14

had a summer girl who was

52:16

going through summer, didn't have a job, but is

52:18

getting ready to go to college as well. When

52:20

she went to college, she of course moved on.

52:22

And then now we have the one that we

52:24

have who is a senior. And we're going

52:27

to have to turn this thing over again in

52:29

a couple of months, but it's working out so

52:31

far. So good for us. neighborhood.

52:34

She lived nearby. Oh,

52:36

yeah. Next, next door, man. You find you

52:38

find a lot of things on next door.

52:41

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52:44

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53:42

got next door, man? All

53:44

right. I mean, listen, there was a

53:46

dog attack. A couple

53:48

weeks ago, some guy said he came out

53:50

of a restaurant and the dog attacked him

53:52

and he was actually hosting

53:55

about some apparently some good Samaritan

53:57

jumped in front and like got the dog

53:59

off. of them, but then that guy ran away.

54:01

So he was asking next door if anybody had

54:04

heard any of their friends talk

54:06

about saving a man from a dog attack because he wanted

54:09

to thank this man. So I

54:11

thought that was fantastic. An unsupervised

54:14

dog attack, which is

54:16

tough. A few lost dogs, but I

54:18

found this one pretty interesting. Let me

54:20

dig it up here. All right. It's

54:23

from... Well, I won't say the guy's name,

54:25

but it's in Brooklyn Heights. So kind of neighborhood up for

54:28

me, but it starts off.

54:30

Keep it down folks. New York City's next

54:32

innovation of gouging money from their citizens is

54:34

here. A noise camera that will give

54:37

out tickets to motorists who are too loud. The

54:39

bill for these cameras was introduced by

54:41

Councilman Keith Powers and should pass next

54:43

week. Here's how it works. If a vehicle

54:45

is 85 decibels or higher, 50

54:49

feet or more away from the noise detector,

54:51

the camera will snap a photo of the vehicle

54:54

triggering the system to send a ticket

54:56

to the address associated with the vehicle.

54:58

First offense, the fine will be $800

55:00

and go up to $2,625 for the third

55:02

offense. And

55:08

this is... Listen, I'm starting to see some

55:10

more red light cameras pop up. I got

55:12

clipped on one of those back in April

55:15

and it was kind of jarring.

55:18

First things first, the New York City parking

55:20

ticket app is one of the best working

55:22

apps I've ever used. Shocker there. It's probably

55:25

billions of dollars running through this thing. So any

55:28

type of payment you want to make, single runs

55:30

fast, you can search your license plate. It's pretty

55:32

seamless to pay your parking tickets in New York

55:34

City. So I didn't think they deserve

55:36

a shout out for developing a good app, but

55:39

it was jarring to go in there and I was

55:41

like, I'm going to pay a parking ticket I had

55:43

back in April. And I saw another ticket for a

55:45

red light offense. And I was like, what's that? And

55:48

I was going out to... I think I was going to

55:50

play golf and

55:52

it was out in East Brooklyn, like kind of

55:55

on the Northeast side of Prospect Park. It

55:58

was kind of a stale yellow. And I think

56:00

you know you reach that point in no return

56:02

where you're like I got I'm gonna do it

56:04

You know I'm going and they had

56:06

me like Right over or

56:09

like my car was still touching I

56:11

guess like the crosswalk or the

56:13

I like and so that's where I don't even know the definition of

56:15

like You know I was kind

56:17

of in the middle of the intersection picture of

56:19

my car right there caught red-handed like yeah Technically

56:21

you got me But

56:23

I was like damn. I got to have my head on a

56:25

swivel because I I feel like these Red

56:29

light cams are coming And

56:31

it reminds me of like because they're already there like in

56:33

London I was over there like three years ago and ran

56:36

in the car on a trip with my you

56:38

know my in-laws and my wife and I Came

56:41

home in like a month later both my father-in-law. We

56:43

had two rental cars. I was driving one. He's driving

56:45

the other He had like

56:48

three tickets. I had two you

56:50

know one was for speeding on the you

56:53

know on the highway Via

56:55

camera got me and another was

56:57

like for just being in the bus lane It's the

56:59

wrong place you know and I have no I'm on

57:01

the other side of the road I got no idea

57:03

congestion all this so of course like

57:06

hurts just hits you with the Bill

57:09

plus a little extra for doing the work to

57:11

pay it on your behalf And you know my

57:13

father I was like I'm not this is bullshit. I'm

57:15

gonna fight this like I think he should just The

57:19

amount of time it's gonna take for you

57:21

to deal with the English slash London municipal

57:23

Government, I think it's probably worth just stocking

57:26

this one up as an L But

57:28

I thought that noise that noise thing is interesting

57:31

like I don't have much patience for the loud

57:33

cars So I'm kind of cool with it, but

57:36

it feels like a slippery slope. I mean could

57:38

be some false positives from this Is

57:41

there is noise a big deal?

57:43

Well you got people run the straight

57:45

pipes or motorcycles or you know some

57:47

big subs with I'll

57:49

be honest anybody on the hog that this

57:51

revenue can get fucked like I can't stand

57:54

allowed motorcycles that that stuff's so shitty

57:56

and then of course you got the BQE got

57:58

the guy with You know something

58:01

souped up trying to weave like with a

58:03

with a Flow master on

58:05

the back like that's that's gonna happen I don't think

58:07

I don't really find there to be an issue

58:09

with noise from cars I

58:12

think it's more just the construction noise and there's a

58:14

lot of Specific like you can

58:16

see there. They're building like six new

58:19

massive condos within view of

58:21

my deck over

58:23

by the Guana canal and it's like They

58:26

start at 8 a.m. Sharp and

58:28

they stop I think it's at 5 p.m. Sharp

58:30

and it's just like within that though. It's like

58:33

you could set a timer and it's like the

58:36

Hammers the nail guns the you

58:38

know, the beeps everything starts up like right on the

58:40

dot at 8 a.m And

58:43

there's this whole like economy like if you go down on

58:45

the on I guess it's Bond Street You

58:47

got guys selling all the safety gear out of

58:50

the back of his minivan Like he sets up

58:52

shop there and hangs out all day selling vest.

58:54

He's on helmets. He's selling gloves his

58:56

minivan is just stacked with supplies You

58:59

know, you got a few hot dog vendors out there

59:01

Like it's a it's a whole economy that I think

59:04

that follows the construction industry But seems

59:06

like they're very strict about the noise stuff between those

59:08

hours Wow the

59:10

noise Monitoring that that is something we

59:13

need to keep an eye on that because I think

59:15

that could that could be very good I think I

59:17

don't really have a concept of what decibel level 80

59:19

is So I'd like to understand

59:21

that a little bit better, but I appreciate my

59:23

guy You know keeping

59:25

the neighborhood updated here on next door beginning

59:28

next door one of our Friends

59:32

here Ben called in

59:34

from from north of Dallas and

59:36

Frisco, Texas Recently new

59:38

brand of frisco, Texas, which like

59:41

most folks of Frisco McKinney Prosperous,

59:43

Salina and everywhere else in northern

59:46

DFW Speaking

59:49

of the next door app stories

59:52

on my next door app notifications

59:54

alternate between coyote sighting and missing

59:58

dog slash And what

1:00:01

happens when you have a growing development where

1:00:03

you have old cattle

1:00:05

farms, farmland, wooded

1:00:07

areas, empty fields that get developed

1:00:10

into subdivisions? Well, you get rid

1:00:12

of the food resources of

1:00:15

the coyotes. You get rid of

1:00:17

the rabbits, the squirrels, etc. That

1:00:20

the coyotes have dined on

1:00:22

their entire lives and what they have to

1:00:24

do, they have to find food. So

1:00:26

sorry, but your cute little dog that

1:00:28

you brought in from California, your cats

1:00:30

that came in from New York City

1:00:33

with you as you transplanted down here to

1:00:35

New York City. Can't

1:00:37

let them out by themselves anymore. So

1:00:40

coyotes get hungry, coyotes got to eat.

1:00:42

So there'll be a lot more missing

1:00:44

dogs, missing cats. Now,

1:00:47

what I will say here is that people

1:00:49

obviously have to be familiar with Ben. He

1:00:51

was a guest on this year's podcast before

1:00:53

when we were doing the boys were doing

1:00:56

City overviews. So if anybody is interested,

1:00:58

go back to listen to the New

1:01:00

Orleans episode. Ben is,

1:01:03

of course, the guest of honor there. Now

1:01:05

he's calling out people from New York and California.

1:01:08

Ben just moved here from Louisiana like two

1:01:11

months ago. All right. Now

1:01:13

I was like me trying to be an expert

1:01:16

here on what's going on in the Plex. He's

1:01:18

not wrong though. Got to keep an eye on the coyotes. He's not

1:01:20

wrong. And it made me think

1:01:22

of, do you remember at the NIT? I

1:01:25

don't know. I think we talked about it.

1:01:27

I definitely talked about it with people, but

1:01:30

we had coyotes out there at

1:01:32

Fields Ranch, specifically on the West course. And

1:01:35

they would come kind of where 15, 16 on West are

1:01:37

at. And

1:01:40

there's that large, you

1:01:42

know, still wooded area down there and would

1:01:45

just go run havoc. We

1:01:47

saw three of them marching straight across

1:01:49

the fairway, go down there about

1:01:51

five minutes later. And they were kind

1:01:53

of like, oh, this screeching noise ever, like, oh, yep, they got

1:01:55

another cat. So I think they would kind

1:01:57

of corral and push them down there to that wooded

1:01:59

area. And then go down in and

1:02:02

just feast on him But

1:02:04

he is right. You gotta watch out for him

1:02:07

Because you know people are building houses all over the

1:02:09

place that used to be somebody else's home Are

1:02:11

you worried about the coyotes in your neighborhood? No,

1:02:14

we're we're dialed dog. Come on

1:02:17

now. So I've got no issues Yeah,

1:02:19

we're fine. You got me got Larry's out

1:02:22

there digging traps all over. What's up with

1:02:24

Larry? Any update? Larry's

1:02:26

crazy. Okay, I think that's a

1:02:28

if people haven't realized that by

1:02:30

now. He's absolutely crazy. I

1:02:34

I met up with him for coffee and

1:02:37

I asked him point blank, you know, hey Larry, what are you doing out

1:02:39

there? He

1:02:41

thinks that he's gonna for some reason

1:02:43

he He thinks

1:02:45

that he went to the library and somebody

1:02:47

said that hey, there might be like oil

1:02:51

Like you know oil underneath his house or something

1:02:53

like that. He's old He's

1:02:55

losing his his mind a little

1:02:58

bit and basically he thinks that he was digging for

1:03:00

oil about there Just like

1:03:02

you know the clampets they

1:03:05

I don't know if you're familiar with that movie at

1:03:07

all But that's what you ask you and have had

1:03:09

Larry does he still own his mineral rights? I Tout

1:03:13

that he does because that's like the first thing in Texas.

1:03:15

You got a sign over when you're buying land Yeah,

1:03:18

I know you got it. Got to know that first Larry

1:03:20

It's even worth digging for like you probably don't even you

1:03:22

don't have the mineral rights. You probably don't even want to

1:03:24

know brother And no,

1:03:26

but yeah, you know, it's uh, it's

1:03:29

crazy times Ben. I've never seen somebody

1:03:32

assimilate faster to northern

1:03:35

Texas as Ben has

1:03:37

and I'm very very happy for them like

1:03:39

he is such a foodie at heart and He

1:03:42

knows and will seek out like the most

1:03:44

random places and post about him and talk

1:03:46

about him all the time That

1:03:49

he's like truly setting me on to some

1:03:51

some new Lots to go

1:03:53

check out. Yeah an asset for date night Such

1:03:56

a positive addition here

1:03:58

to the plex What

1:04:00

else we got? Now, I got one

1:04:02

more voicemail to go over

1:04:05

with you and it actually is a funny story

1:04:08

because it's gonna bring back a story from

1:04:10

my past that you're gonna... You're

1:04:12

probably not gonna believe but I

1:04:15

don't know. What's going on guys? I was

1:04:17

listening to the last episode

1:04:19

where you guys were talking about your

1:04:22

neighbor going on next

1:04:24

door and it reminded me about

1:04:26

an Arizona with my parents and they were telling me

1:04:28

that the next door apps for

1:04:30

their neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago a

1:04:33

neighbor Caught a man

1:04:35

dressed in camouflage in their yard

1:04:38

With a bow and arrow trying to shoot

1:04:41

deer and when confronted the man

1:04:43

said like what this is not a problem

1:04:46

It's deer season. So obviously

1:04:48

they called the cops and

1:04:50

the guy ran away But now he has

1:04:52

been seen sneaking again back into people's yards

1:04:55

to shoot deer with a bow and arrow I wanted

1:04:57

to get you guys take on this. How would you

1:04:59

approach that? Yeah, let

1:05:01

me know Well, first off

1:05:03

we're gonna need a name in town if you wish to

1:05:05

opine So appreciate the call in but

1:05:07

you know, we know Arizona, but we're gonna need a

1:05:09

little bit more detail On

1:05:12

where at Chicago who is

1:05:14

talking identify yourself first

1:05:16

and foremost when calling into the listener line

1:05:20

That's true. I know in my parents

1:05:22

neighborhood in Dunwoody, Georgia It

1:05:24

is legal during deer season

1:05:27

to kill deer With a

1:05:29

bow and arrow to go bow

1:05:31

hunting for deer. So that's technically legal I

1:05:34

don't think you in the neighborhood. I don't think you can

1:05:36

use a gun. I think you can bow hunt though They

1:05:39

have not seen anybody doing that in their yard. That would

1:05:41

be a little alarming So I can understand why I think

1:05:44

you probably have the right to say you can't do

1:05:47

this on my property But technically

1:05:49

if he's not on your property, he can't do that.

1:05:52

So that's all I know about that situation

1:05:55

And I know that about Atlanta, I don't know that

1:05:57

might not be the same in Chicago could be very

1:05:59

different Right across state lines. This

1:06:02

might not be like the vast estate that

1:06:04

the Schuster's grew up with. Oh, come on.

1:06:06

One acre. Come on. I'm

1:06:09

kidding. Okay. The reason why I

1:06:11

say this is because when I was a I

1:06:14

was a E4 in the military still

1:06:17

living on base at Fort Benning

1:06:19

not called Fort Benning anymore, but I don't know what the

1:06:21

new name is called. My

1:06:23

best friend in the

1:06:25

military. We went through Ranger

1:06:27

indoctrination program together selection together.

1:06:29

We went, you know, we

1:06:32

were both lived in the next he

1:06:34

was like basically like my suite mate in the barracks.

1:06:37

He's this straight country

1:06:39

kid from Madison,

1:06:41

North Carolina. He had

1:06:44

a jacked up Ford

1:06:46

F-150 that had it was white had

1:06:48

blue racing stripe on it and it

1:06:50

was like that. He was his prized

1:06:53

possession. All right, big old mud tires

1:06:55

on it. You name it. He'd

1:06:57

just be bumping. Taylor Swift,

1:07:00

any other country music, you name it. Talked

1:07:02

as country as you could possibly imagine. Awesome.

1:07:04

Awesome dude, though. We

1:07:07

went through a ton together, but he every

1:07:09

time hunting season came around, he

1:07:12

would get so excited and we would make trips

1:07:14

back to North Carolina to go hunting. We would

1:07:16

make trips to, you know, all

1:07:19

over Alabama, Georgia, you name it, but we

1:07:21

also ended up and we had to take

1:07:23

a couple extra classes in order to get

1:07:26

permitted to go

1:07:28

hunting on the military base on Fort

1:07:30

Benning. Well, we got all this

1:07:32

done and every morning

1:07:36

we would go do PT and then, you know,

1:07:38

you'd go through the work work day and everything.

1:07:40

And then at night we would try to have

1:07:42

a couple hours left before the night went down.

1:07:44

We try to go get a couple hours of

1:07:46

hunting in now that we didn't

1:07:48

have to drive that far and every

1:07:51

night we watch this this pack of

1:07:53

does and they had these two big bucks

1:07:55

with them and they would

1:07:57

leave the plot that we were

1:07:59

allowed. to hunt on and they would

1:08:01

literally walk you know the next plot

1:08:03

over was like where barracks are at like

1:08:06

where you know

1:08:08

soldiers are living and sleeping and it

1:08:10

would be like this you know little

1:08:13

coolly that ran through these group

1:08:15

of little three dorm buildings and

1:08:19

we're like man you know we're never gonna we're

1:08:21

never gonna get out here because they walk

1:08:23

through the buildings out to who knows where they're

1:08:25

been down you know we

1:08:28

can't hunt over there but we really

1:08:30

wanted to get these bucks so

1:08:32

one Saturday night we decided that

1:08:35

we're gonna climb to the top of one

1:08:37

of the dorm buildings the barracks buildings and

1:08:39

we're gonna we're gonna shoot the bucks in

1:08:42

a spot that we're not supposed to be hunting

1:08:45

but people aren't gonna know the difference because nobody

1:08:47

looks down there anyway and you

1:08:50

know we'll go down we'll clean the deer out throw them in the

1:08:52

back of the truck and try back to our

1:08:54

barracks and everything will be fine well

1:08:57

well we didn't realize that when we climbed to

1:08:59

the top this

1:09:02

I guess has been done a lot all

1:09:04

right we got up to

1:09:06

the top and there's cameras on top of

1:09:08

this building but we didn't realize that so

1:09:11

us two idiots are up there

1:09:14

wearing you know camouflage not military

1:09:16

camouflage hunting camouflage and

1:09:18

we're up there with our with our

1:09:20

bows and sure

1:09:23

shit we're sitting up there for not

1:09:25

long at all probably 20 30

1:09:28

minutes maybe and the MPs

1:09:30

pull up in the parking lot and

1:09:33

you know this building is six seven

1:09:35

stories high so we're looking down like oh

1:09:37

shit the MPs are here they must be

1:09:39

here to get somebody in the in the

1:09:41

barracks who knows what's going on we're kind

1:09:43

of laughing about it and everything and you

1:09:47

don't hear anything and then next thing you know the

1:09:49

door opens up up

1:09:51

top and the MP walks out and

1:09:53

you know what are you two doing uh

1:09:57

hello how are you how are you doing you guys what are you

1:09:59

guys doing here with your, with your bows.

1:10:02

They said, Oh, we're just up here, you know,

1:10:05

looking around because you're not, you're not hunting here.

1:10:07

Are you? Then no, we're not, we're not hunting

1:10:09

here. He goes, yeah, because, you know, we know

1:10:11

that the, the deer have walked through here every

1:10:13

night and they go bed down over on the

1:10:15

other side of this range. We're like,

1:10:18

yep, really? We didn't, we, I guess we

1:10:21

didn't even notice that or anything. He's like,

1:10:23

sure, sure, sure. Are you guys registered

1:10:25

to hunt on base? He's like, yep, we are. He

1:10:27

goes, Oh, so you know, you know all the rules,

1:10:30

your permit and everything? Yep. Yep. All

1:10:32

right, cool. Uh, so when are

1:10:34

you two going to cop up and tell us what's

1:10:36

going on? My buddy Matt shit.

1:10:39

He's so scared immediately, immediately

1:10:41

cops tells him the whole

1:10:43

exact every store. So

1:10:46

he's like, all right, you guys got to come with me. So we

1:10:48

go down. He's like, put your

1:10:50

stuff back in your truck, that big jacked up

1:10:53

truck, uh, and come over

1:10:55

to the, you know, to the MP department. Like,

1:10:57

okay. So we follow him over there. Uh,

1:11:00

they write us a fine. They

1:11:02

revoke our hunting privileges on base for that

1:11:05

year. And anytime that you're

1:11:07

ticketed with anything on base, you're also

1:11:09

put on what's called the blotter, which

1:11:12

every commander is notified when they

1:11:14

have a soldier assigned to you, uh,

1:11:16

that you got a ticket. So it doesn't matter

1:11:18

if it's hunting where you're

1:11:20

not supposed to hunt or speeding or whatever else, you

1:11:22

know, your, your commander's notified. So I immediately,

1:11:24

you know, I started making calls and letting people know

1:11:27

like, Hey, I got in trouble. Like first, aren't just

1:11:29

going to hear about this. And I know like, Oh

1:11:31

shit, I'm going to, I'm going to get fucked up.

1:11:33

Like this is not going to be good. So

1:11:37

we, we go that was Saturday. I tell

1:11:39

everybody Sunday, I get a, you know, phone

1:11:41

call like eight in the morning as first

1:11:43

art. And he's like, Hey, you need to

1:11:45

come to, you need to come to the

1:11:48

company headquarters right now. I was like, Oh

1:11:50

shit. So I go down there. He's

1:11:53

like, you know, first of all,

1:11:55

he thanks me for getting him out of, uh,

1:11:57

going to church with his family, which I didn't

1:11:59

think. is a very good thing to

1:12:01

do, but he proceeds to literally

1:12:04

smoke push-ups, physical

1:12:06

exercise for like the next

1:12:09

two, two, two and a half

1:12:11

hours. And then we go into the company areas

1:12:13

like, all right, you see every single, every

1:12:16

single hallway, every single meeting space,

1:12:18

every single conference room, you

1:12:20

name it, all of these floors, you have

1:12:22

to strip and rewax

1:12:24

all of them. And it

1:12:26

needs to be done by the time people

1:12:29

show up for work tomorrow, like dried

1:12:31

sealed, has to be spotless. And

1:12:34

I'm like, oh, shit, okay, it's a lot of work.

1:12:36

It's a lot of work to strip. It's a lot

1:12:38

of work to, you know, get, get

1:12:41

all this stuff done. So we start. And

1:12:44

you know, me being a dummy at the

1:12:46

time, like, Oh, yeah, you know, I'm making

1:12:48

pretty good time, we can procrastinate a little

1:12:50

bit, go find a TV, find a couch,

1:12:52

put some football on, order

1:12:55

some delivery, get that in, eat some

1:12:57

food, you name it. Next

1:12:59

thing I know, it's like

1:13:01

nine, 10 o'clock at night, I'm getting ready to,

1:13:04

oh, yeah, I can get a nap in here,

1:13:06

we're going to be fine, completely procrastinating the entire

1:13:08

thing. First arm shows up at

1:13:10

midnight. And

1:13:13

I barely have anything done. Smokes

1:13:15

me again. Why

1:13:18

didn't you listen? You and followers, how the hell are you going to get this done? I

1:13:23

literally worked the probably the hardest

1:13:25

I've ever worked trying to get a single task

1:13:27

done in the next four and a half hours

1:13:30

that I had there. Barely

1:13:32

got it done. It was barely dry by

1:13:35

the time they came in and so much

1:13:37

for that the wax wasn't completely cured yet.

1:13:40

And there's footprints in

1:13:42

it had to do it all over again the

1:13:44

next day because it didn't cure. So just

1:13:47

from procrastinating, trying

1:13:50

to be a dummy hunt on barracks. I

1:13:52

didn't even know what I was gonna do with

1:13:54

my buddy. Where's your buddy and all

1:13:56

this? He's in a different company? He

1:13:59

is he's different. Different job. And

1:14:02

you know what? He didn't even get

1:14:04

in trouble. They're like, oh yeah, you

1:14:06

idiot. And also, this is – that's

1:14:08

kind of bullshit from the MP. Yeah,

1:14:11

you cop to it, but it's almost like –

1:14:14

there was no – it's almost like

1:14:16

I guess it's intent-based, but you guys

1:14:18

technically didn't do it. You were premeditating

1:14:20

to maybe hunt in

1:14:22

a place you weren't supposed to, but you didn't take a shot, did you?

1:14:26

No. Military cops, they don't give a

1:14:28

shit, man. They got them. Well, if

1:14:30

they get anybody on anything, they're to

1:14:32

the full extent. They

1:14:34

do not care. There's no

1:14:37

getting out of nothing. I feel like you kind of had an

1:14:39

argument of like, well, we didn't hunt. So like, yeah, we know

1:14:41

the rules. And like, yeah, we were just up here like –

1:14:44

we were just prepping our stalking.

1:14:48

Well, that's the route that I was going to go before my

1:14:50

buddies. Just kind of spewing his guts.

1:14:52

Yeah, we've been watching these deer walk back here

1:14:54

for weeks, and we knew that when we got

1:14:56

up here, we'd have the perfect advantage point. How

1:14:59

long of a shot was that going to be?

1:15:01

Seven stories up? Like, I mean,

1:15:03

is that a legitimate stance with a

1:15:05

bow? Yeah, straight

1:15:07

down. You'd be fine. Well,

1:15:11

I've never been bow hunting before, so I don't know how that

1:15:13

works. But God, that's sick that you

1:15:15

got smoked like that and he didn't. That's tough

1:15:17

for you. It was very

1:15:21

tough. Neil, anything

1:15:23

else you want to cover today? No,

1:15:26

I think I've got some takeaways

1:15:29

here for just – I

1:15:32

think there's probably going to be some Christmas stories we can

1:15:34

talk about in January. Otherwise, a lot of

1:15:36

hard work, a lot of reflection coming up with the

1:15:38

goals podcast coming up, I think for you too. So

1:15:40

we'll put that on the top of the list for

1:15:43

our next episode. You

1:15:45

know, for people, if you got next door stories,

1:15:47

you got anything else that we want to run

1:15:49

back, of course, the

1:15:51

listener line again, 833-330-8725. You

1:15:55

know what? I think we

1:15:57

probably ended up getting about 20 to 30. voicemail

1:16:00

specifically asking about Larry next door

1:16:02

stories, everything else like that. The

1:16:05

number one voicemail

1:16:08

that we got from people was

1:16:10

something along the lines of

1:16:13

this. Hey guys, this is

1:16:15

Connor. First time, long time.

1:16:18

Had a quick follow up with Cody

1:16:21

on his section. And you were killing me with the

1:16:24

next door post, your guy digging

1:16:26

a hole, remind me of

1:16:28

my alter ego, Karen, got an account

1:16:30

on next door. Basically just go on, you know, spice

1:16:34

things up a little bit post about,

1:16:36

you know, pictures of large

1:16:38

snakes, black mambas, stuff like

1:16:40

that. Ask people what kind of snake it is

1:16:42

down in my backyard, all that

1:16:44

sort of stuff, you know, a couple hundred comments later, cause

1:16:49

some good fun along the way. But anyways, hope

1:16:51

you guys doing well. Have a good week. See

1:16:54

ya. That's good stuff. We need a town. Its name

1:16:56

and town if you want, if you're calling in the

1:16:58

lists or line, but that's, that's good stuff. I love

1:17:00

people spicing it up on next door. Just

1:17:03

being malcontents out there and shaking it all

1:17:06

up. Neil, you know, we got

1:17:08

12 booths in the can

1:17:10

excited for next year, buddy. Uh, I

1:17:13

don't think we're both not going to

1:17:15

be on the trap draw. So everybody out

1:17:17

there happy holidays. Enjoy the time with

1:17:19

your family, with your friends, hopefully a

1:17:22

little bit of time off. Uh,

1:17:24

and we'll see you on the other side, huh?

1:17:27

Yeah. Cheers. Happy holidays.

1:17:30

Smell ya. Get

1:18:00

it right.