Declining Mental Health & Naming Pets
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss pets we had in the past, the names we gave them, and the ups and downs of having pets. Sean talks about being in a mega bass car club and killer sound systems. Then we transition to talking about congress, stocks, and cognitive decline, followed by neurological disorders, depression, and mental health. We finish off by talking about various methods of unliving oneself and encounters with bad roommates of the third kind.
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Bad engineering. Yeah. So my very first, like I have been fond of black and white cars because I've had three of them and, in my lifetime. And the first one was named Herman. And, I don't know how I came up with that name, but I think it was related somehow to like, the Herbie car, like, oh, okay.
You know, like the cartoon with the Rover was with the little, little Volkswagen Beetle. Yeah. Named Herbie or whatever. Yep. I think they did, like, over the years, multiple things with Herbie the car. All right, all right. There was a cartoon, I think, series where they actually had it, like, animated. So Herbie multiplied like herpes. Yeah, that I don't know.
That's terrible. Yeah. My other one was named Nagy, and now I have a black one named named obsidian. We call him city and for sure. And you know that cat. Yeah. That cat's got a great every one of my black and white cats have have a great personality. Cool. So we were talking about you had one that looked like Hitler.
Yeah. It was he was a Hitler. You know, and, I was very little. I was like three. And he had the stache or the hair. He had the stache. Okay, I wish you had the hair. That would be cool. Have you have you seen on the website cats that look like Hitler, like ones that have the hair and the stache?
Yeah. They're just hilarious. You're just plain funny. You just want to put, like, a little bow tie on them or something. But. Yeah. This one was named Dean, and he was, he was the most patient cat ever, because. Yeah, three year old, poke him in the eye. Oh, geez. Your cat was named Dean. Yep. And how did you come up with that name?
I didn't oh. All right, grandmother named him. Oh. Was there any kind of significance to that? I'm not sure. But the cat was 19 when he died. Wow. Yep. I had one cat. That was long lived as well, but I think of was somewhere around there. Yeah. That's awesome. And I didn't name that one because it had dumbass name.
It was named PC, which stood for pussy Cat, which is really, really dumb name. My, you know, sucker got hit by a car. Really? And like, managed like recovered. Oh, wow. My grandparents had a straight, well, a cat they picked up on the side of the road that had been hit by a car that they called miracle.
Okay. All right. This cat recovered. Right? But every time it wanted to purr, it would hiss. So. Right. So that is why. Yeah, I guess wires crossed. Dude, I had no shit. Like, this is like a cartoon or like a sitcom episode, but this shit really happened to me. I had, was driving this car called a GMC.
Jimmy. Yeah, yeah. SUV, right? Yeah. Like, literally, it's called Jimmy, and I don't know why. Right? Not sure either. Jimmy. It was red, a Burgundy kind of red. And it was like. Yeah, reasonably. Okay. Car. That was like, they've passed the guard post. That was the cat that was limping the other day. And it's not limping now.
Good. Like we're into like talking about animal recovery and how how weird that we like suddenly got into that. But anyway, so this GMC Jimmy, you know, at the time it was like really cool to put a bass kicker in your car. Yeah, one of the, you know, and it wasn't made for it. So it just rattle and sucked.
Right. But it was still like the cool thing to hear. Know the bass tubes or was it one of the, you know, it's like a two. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I had that in the back and I was wiring that shit up. And then I had to replace the stereo because I wanted you out of it. No, it just wasn't cool to put the tape deck into, put the tape that connected to the CD player to play your CDs through.
And so I was swapping it out, like with a Kenwood or whatever, whatever the. Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember the name of the brand, but like, it was a pretty decent one at the time, you know, that would handle bumps whenever you hit them. So yeah, you know, the CB would keep playing. It would buffer enough.
Yeah. So, you know, I would actually have a CD player in the car which was like not like a CD player on a stand with a tape. Yeah. And a good enough one for, like you said. So when the bass tube kicks off, it doesn't skip your CD. Yeah. Because that could be like an infinite loop. Right? Right.
So yeah. So anyway, I pulled the wiring out of the dash and it was like, crazy, like, there's so much wiring and, like, so bad, like, I'm sure today it's so much better. Like, it's so much less complicated. Probably. It would have to be or more, you know, I don't know, I don't know, but I had all these wires and, you know, I'd taken so long and way too long, like, you know, I should have definitely just paid someone to do it, you know, properly.
Right? Right. So I guess the thing wired up and this sounds impossible, but literally I cross wired shit in my car. So, like, you turn on the wipers and, like, you know, the interior light would come on, that's all. So it was literally like a sitcom. Like it was totally, totally messed up. And it was totally messed up, you know?
So like, I had to undo it and fix it all, and, and I think I even went and had it got like a, some kind of wiring diagram, like a Chilton manual or something to. Yeah. So like finally figured out, but it was so funny, dude. Like so many things were cross wired. It was it was hilarious. It was literally like a TV show, right?
Yeah. So funny. And, so anyway, I finally got it all working properly and, you know, that stereo system was in there for the life of. I had the vehicle and, it worked the whole time, but the bass sucked, right? It was like that crappy rattling bass. Yep. So I had to turn it down enough to where it wouldn't rattle because that was just.
Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen those videos where, like, they, they crank the bass in, like, the woman's hair, like flies all crazy. And we seen that, you know? So I love the nuts. I used to, make speaker boxes for this, for this book that I bought at Radio Shack. And, also, so I was really into dynamite and, you know, making sure that there is proper soundproofing and all that.
That's more complicated than people think it is. And you got to calculate the volume the speaker is going to push. Oh, we want we were messing around and trying to make something for like one of those bass contests. Right. And we put it in the back of a buddy's pickup truck. And it worked fine with the bass contest with the as awesome cab off.
Right. And, so my back of the envelope Radio Shack calculations that I probably did wrong, I said, okay, we have enough. We have enough for shack. Because I was using the book I got from Radio Shack to build the speaker boxes, and I had all these formulas. I was going through nostalgia. Nostalgia? Right. I loved Radio Shack.
It was awesome. Way overpriced it was. But you could get they had a clearance section. It was just bad ass. And my dad, he traveled a lot. And so he would hit all the Radio Shack and we'd have a list of stuff we wanted, and he'd try to find ground clearance. Dude, that's like, you know, it, nerd. Like, in training, you know, as a kid, pretty much.
Because, like, totally makes sense how that kind of foundation would help you settle into a career that you have dig. Right? Pretty much. Because, I mean, it's like an entry into true nerd them. Yeah, man. Totally. So, you know, basically, Oh, we put the cap on, screwed it down tight, and, cranked it up. We blew all the windows out.
Wow. Really? Yeah. Dude, that must have been huge. That must have been huge. Bass. It was. It was for glasses. Like, no. No joke. I mean, you must have hit the right frequency or something. It must have hit the resonant frequency and just kill them. Or like so much the air pressure. I think it was the air pressure.
I think that's where the calculation. That's a lot of force, man. That was a lot. We had, we had a couple of base tubes in there, and then we had a couple of, And your ears are okay this day. I have, I have tinnitus, and we know now where it came right. So, I fucking then we had a bunch of, we were trying to get sponsored by,
Oh, that magazine, you know, that magazine? Do you ever get Crutchfield? No, I never heard of it. I don't even know what you're talking. Okay, well, he was, It was like a catalog of radio stuff, okay? And, speakers and all kinds of things. Oh, you were way more into this, and I thought. Oh, yeah.
And so we were trying to get sponsored by a couple of the brands and, we had. And we had, made like we had one of the local speaker shops make like, custom like silver, shoe. I forget what it's called. The there's a cap you can get that goes on top of the cone and there's a name for it.
Okay, okay. And people make them custom like after their like car club or whatever. Oh right. Okay. So you can, like put your logo on it. Yeah. So we put a logo on it and everything and wow that's cool. And but we had like six 20 inch wolfers in there and a couple of bass tubes. And I guess it was too much for this tiny little pickup truck.
It was a little Toyota. Wow. That's crazy. So, we even had to use a marine battery for deep cycling so that we could get enough power for the fucker. Jesus. Wow. You guys were really into that? That's that's crazy. I'm glad I brought up the topic because, that's that's awesome that you were so into that shit, man.
That's so cool, man. Dude, my uncle, was he. He worked in, he was in the military Air Force in Vietnam, and his job was to go out when they had would fly the reconnaissance planes, get, take the camera off the front. You had to, like, dismount it. Oh, wow. And rush it inside and develop the film as soon as possible.
Because of the Intel. You know, it wasn't like digital. Okay. Yeah. It was. It was analog. So it was like they were doing it as fast as they possibly could. Wow. So, like, the spy plane would fly around. Yeah. Collect data of enemy positions and locations. It would land and they'd have to take the thing off and go and develop the film as fast as possible and get the Intel out, you know, as soon as possible.
That's really cool. You know? And so, he was heavily into electronics and all the kind of things in the military. And obviously if you're doing that, you know, you're you're in like a tech position in the military. So you get all the training associated with that. Right? Well, he got heavy into acoustics. Oh man. And he was building he was building his own, speaker boxes out of like recycled pallets that you get for free.
Oh, right. I mean, brilliant. He'd sit there with a handsaw precision like to, you know, cut taking his time and like, piecing them together over, you know, and he'd, he'd actually have like some of the math formulas. So these were bespoke and handcrafted and oh they create math behind it. They started making them out of like, things that he couldn't just material that he can get his hands on, like, Henry and stuff.
Yeah. He ended up laminating a bunch of, like, really thin pizza boxes together where he would, like, polyurethane them to create his own composite like material that you can shape a certain way. That is neat. Yeah. And he's getting really into it. And, anyway, he had me come into his, into his into his room. Read this huge wall, basically of speakers.
Okay. And, he had a stereo system that was all disassembled and things were like, we're wired together with, like, alligator clips. Oh, shit. Like. Yeah. And he'd clip it to the battery to turn the whole thing on. Yeah. Right. It reminded me of it. When you're talking about the marine battery and, dude, he had played this orchestra music where for the first time in my life, I could hear every instrument over a sound system.
Wow. Like, you know, now I have a pretty decent pair of headphones. Yeah, as an adult, but as a kid, yeah, but still didn't even come close to capturing the range. That's amazing. Like, he had so many speakers. Yeah, he's just capable of producing almost the full, you know, range. Right soundscape that he crafted. Yeah, dude. And you know, he had it to where sitting on his bed in a particular spot was this was this was the resonant, you know, spotlight.
Yeah. Dude all the it all calculated. Yeah. And, I'll tell you what. Like, if you close your eyes, you could somewhat be convinced that, like, it was life, he was like, you've got to listen to this. It was that good. It was that good. That is really cool to share that with you. Yeah, man. And, so he I don't know if he still does it to this day, but he for years and years was just tinkering with, you know, these things.
Yeah. I mean, that's, that's like so cool, man. Very true. Audio file there. I feel like I hear the sound of, like, big, great vehicles. Let's go back the other way. We can just hear him idling. Yeah, I know, it's like I don't even want to ruin. Ruin our audio today. It's like thunder in the distance. Yeah. So back to pets, right?
Like like, So I had Herman. I had no one called Nagy. Yeah. The name behind Nagy. I didn't name it. I acquired that cat from somebody else that did that. Couldn't take care of it anymore. Gotcha. You know, but. So it was old enough to where it had a name like that was established. They couldn't just change.
Right. And then, one of my favorite cats is a gray and white called maestro. Oh, cool. And I named that one because. Because, when he was a really tiny, tiny, tiny kitten, we got him when he was just a kitten. The mother had gotten killed or abandoned or whatever. So we got him as like that point where, you can they can eat.
Yeah. And, the reason I named him maestro is because as you play with him, the little toy, the little string, I don't know. Looks like this. Like little bird on a string table. And he was so young, he'd stand up, like, on his hind legs, and he was, like, bad at it, but it was more like he was conducting an orchestra when he was, like, swiping at the thing.
Yeah. So I called him maestro because it looked like, you know, he was a maestro, right? He was like, conducting the orchestra with this. Funny. And then he was an indoor outdoor cat, and he got really, he was fixed and all that kind of stuff, but, you know, all the shots and all that stuff. But he was like, became this, like, exterminator of woodland creatures, like no bird or squirrel, you know, was safe.
Killer. It's from there. Yeah. He was just it actually. And actually, you know, since we had a cat door. Yeah. And he was an indoor outdoor cat from time to time, he would bring, he'd bring you bring a kid would bring in a kill. All right. Yeah. Well, this cat wasn't just like evil. It's weird. Like kill something, he'd kill it and eat it like we had a doorman several times.
Yeah, but anyway, he would kill something and then devour it. Yeah. And so, one night, my girlfriend at the time was over, and we were like, we were sleeping. And, we both wake up and, like, what is that sound, right? Is this really strange? Like, how do you describe. It's like it was like someone scratching on drywall or some kind of sound, right?
Like this. Really bad. Scraping sound. Right? Grating. Scraping sound. And, so we turn on the lights and there's the ash. Half of a squirrel. And he said that he'd eaten the whole thing up to that point, eat a and had eaten the whole thing up to that point and was like working on the spine and the pelvis and the back legs.
Wow. And the sound was his back teeth grating on the bone parts found on bone, on bone. And you know, from what, from what I understand, that's like they can totally process that. Like, it's not going to it's not going to hurt their insides. I mean, they eat things in and that's their natural, right? It's what they do.
But if you cook the bone, they become brittle. And they like, can create like shards and can hurt their intestines. Yeah, but the raw bone, the marrow, yeah, they can just grind it and just eat it and body will process it. That's cool. And he was a super healthy cat. Like he was well yeah it was it was beautiful because he's out there getting everything and eats.
Yeah. He's getting the cat food and clothes. Yeah. Plus all that activity. So he's like oh he's like exercising man. He was, he was like the most active cat ever had. Very, very active. Sounds like a beast, you know? And, you know, he had the life of Riley, you know, like, all right. Could do whatever he wanted.
He had full cat. Cat? Them. Yeah. Experience. Yeah, yeah. And, I had two dogs. Two, were two German shepherds when I was really young, and they were named Heidi and Zipp. I didn't name them, but, they were, a mother son pair of dogs. Okay. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Mother daughter pair dogs. And, they were like, super sweet.
I guess it's nothing that way. We've never been down here before. It's kind of cool. Apartments, some pretty big houses. Yeah. And so, you know, Heidi and Ziff were actually super cool. Really gentle German shepherds. And my dad was like a deer. He he was like. He was like, he'd have them real rough, right?
And if they like shit on the floor or something, he'd he'd beat them. And, but other than that, like, to me, they were gentle giant dogs, like, they're super cool. And to this day, I've always had an affinity to German Shepherds because of how cool that those dogs were. Have you heard about the monks of, New Skeet that that's what they do for money.
They train German Shepherds and they sell books on training dogs. No. This is a group of monks. Yeah, in New York. I up in, up here in New York state. The monks of New Ski. All righty then. No, I have not heard of them. How would I? I don't know, how did you hear of. I, looking at dog works.
Okay. They train German shepherds and they sell German shepherds. Okay? And they sell books on training dogs. Really cool. Just like they do with inmates now, Yep. Always seen monks that way. Like that. They're inmates. Yeah, just like in a temple instead of in the jail. Right? They have to wear that robe. They have to wear a certain outfit.
At least initially. There was a, degree of choice you chose to enter, at least at first. They look like prisoners to me. Yeah. Shaved heads. Oh, we're in the same row. I mean, there's that, er, conformity. There's, this absolute routine. Other people are making decisions for you. You become you. Have you seen what I'm it. Yeah.
You have to become institutionalized, right? Monks as monks as inmates. Yeah. But, speaking about the dog thing, I was going to say, my first two dogs were that I named were Rambo awesome and Susie awesome. Susie Q was Rambo was very. He was a, beagle. And, God, what was it? A beagle and a Rottweiler.
I think. What? Yeah. What the hell was that? Which one was the father? Has to be Rottweiler. The dominant. The dominant. Look was Rottweiler. But he had he had these little, like, brown, tiny eyebrows, like, kind of like, reminiscent of a beagle. He had beagle short legs. No. And. But he was all black. So was Rambo.
Like this the joke name? No, I mean, I was he was completely not intimidated. It would have been hilarious if that's where I was going. But I was a little kid. I was like seven, so I think I just enjoyed the Rambo movies. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. So you had an opportunity. Name an animal and see? Well, with Rambo.
Yeah, yeah. So it wouldn't matter what that animal was. It would have been name? Yeah, it would have been Rambo. Yeah. Gotcha. And Susie Q was because, my great grandmother said she wanted to name her next dog, Susie Q, and I was like, well, I called her up and was like, great grandma F well, I called her granny is like granny.
You okay if I name this dog Susie Q because I can't think of another name and so perfect. Perfect. Yeah, I love that. I think that's so elegant. When families have, like, namesakes, other people in their families. Yeah. I've always loved that. You know, like, for example, we have that with Eric. We named him Adam is his middle name.
Okay. I don't know if I told you before or not, but my, uncle had a child that was born in died, shortly thereafter. Like, the child died, like, you know, it might have been ours. Okay. Yeah. And it was, like, kind of a big tragedy, you know? It was like, it would have been his only son.
He never had any kids, so it would have been like, yeah, it would have been like his only son. And, yeah, it's like, so it's a big deal. And they had named the kid the son Adam. So as namesake, we named gave that middle name to Eric. That's awesome. Yeah. So he's Eric. Adam. That's really cool. Yeah, man.
So, I love that, like, the namesake thing, you know, very much inside families. I think that's just so, so nice. Especially when there's a story. Yeah, right. Like, you know, somebody falls in battle or something, and then you give that name to the right to carry it on, and they come out to be and they end up being a pacifist.
That was just a later boy that's been destroyed. Yeah, man. Remember we were talking about that like, if you take a train ride, you see, like the backside of people's houses and businesses and stuff through for miles and miles and it's like complete like it looks like third world country. Yeah. Sometimes when you see the back side of things, they just look totally messed up.
I mean, that be so cool. Like those abandoned signs. Like, if you had a really huge space, like a warehouse or something, put them up, start collecting things like this. Just found objects. Yeah, man. Clean them up. That would be neat. Think about. Think of all the people not getting their bodies in yoga now that are all fat and out of shape.
Because this place went out of business. Yeah, but what I always wanted as a kid, this was before hackerspaces came about and everything, but in my like early 20s, late teens, me and my fellow participators of illicit activities had decided that we'd like to take our money and get a warehouse, and we would like to a warehouse.
Well, we what we wanted to do, the warehouse was set it up to have all these stations where we could do stuff. We like doing our explore stuff. Gotcha, gotcha. Like one of the guys is into,
Concrete casting. One of the other guys was into, he had a tiny little, like, micro forge in a fire brick.
How damn. Wow. Someone got loaded. Yeah. We just found, like, this huge empty bottle of spirits finding, like, tucked away where someone probably sat nearby and got really drunk. I mean, it doesn't look like it'd be a bad place to get really loaded up. It'd probably be pretty quiet. And now my fingerprints are on that crime scene. Bottle.
Yeah, yeah. So it's warehouse. You had a fantasy about it, or did you actually work towards getting it done? Well, we worked towards getting it done. We almost had, had it secured. And then the guy who was selling to us died. He was selling it to it, and self and his family didn't want to sell it to us.
They wanted to keep it. But, the idea was we were each going to do, like, our own things in there. I was going to do, so basically, like, instead of taking up the maker space, more like, yeah, maker space, but without having known the name or the idea. Yeah. Cool, cool. And, yeah, I was going to do the computer stuff there, and I think there's one other guy who was going to help me with that.
And then, but we didn't have even the idea of opening it up to people. We were just going to use it for our own stuff. And I'm sure at some point we were thought maybe to open it up. But yeah, that was the idea. We all had different things we were going to do. This one guy, J-Roc.
He was really into the idea, and he helped kind of get it close. He ended up,
So would you call him J-Roc? Yeah, yeah. So selling, ended up getting into selling heroin later, and, Why not? Yeah. Right. And one of our friends, Vanessa, who was actually in this conversation at the time, Vanessa, she, got on heroin through him and then ended up getting in a wreck and losing part of one of her legs because she was on heroin driving.
Yeah, it was like Clockwork Orange shit going on up in here. It was fucking crazy. Do you think, like, honestly, that if you, like, add up all the stuff that you've done in your life that, like, if there was, what am I trying to say? You know, like, if there was, if there was some kind of divine intervention or like, everything was known, you should should go like from a moral standpoint, be in prison or have to serve time for things that you've done your life easily.
But I wonder how many people that's actually true for. I don't know. I don't mean like parking tickets, like people that have really done some ill shit. They got away with it. Yeah. Because, you know, most murders go unsolved, like, I don't know most and I never stupid number of murders go unsolved. I never killed anybody. I tell, you know I right.
But I never sold anything like heroin and cocaine or anything. It's funny to say that, you know. Right? I mean, I stuck with things like weed, you know, it's funny, like, there's these downstream effects that, you know, happen that that most people are never aware happen. Right? Like, let's say, let's say, for example, the people that make that Ashley Madison site, remember, we're talking about that.
It's like design. One of the top site's designed specifically for cheaters, you know, type of thing. Right. Like to have an affair? Yeah. It facilitates it. So that hooks two people up and then some dudes like in some, you know, some place, and the husband comes home early or whatever. Yeah. Pulls out the gun from the nightstand and blammo.
Right, right. So like Ashley Madison, it's called the category. Yeah. They never would have had this, kind of tryst. Yeah, yeah. Like it was the. It was the link of that that facilitated the whole thing to happen. Oh, yeah. And so, like, these two people most likely never would have found each other organically in their own right.
So although I don't think any, court of law would find them guilty and charge them, but at the same time, you know, there's a there's a causal connection chain of causality here that's like real, right? Oh, yeah. So it makes you wonder throughout the course of your life, you know, through chains of causality, how much I would say, evil out of it, you know, despair that, you know, have created a lot of sewing, of despair that I inadvertently created was probably on the periphery.
I was probably peripherally involved with something. Right. Because most of the time, most of the time, I would either come up with an idea and someone else would execute it. Or. That's interesting to come up with the idea. That's the initial seed, right? Yeah. And that's the thing I'm saying. I'm culpable for that, you know, and but other times they'd be in the middle of something.
They'd be like, Sean, this is your job. You know, like, okay, that's the periphery. Gotcha. So you can you imagine if human beings were thoughtful enough to where they sat down and really considered like probable chains of causality and what that might lead to in this grand ethical decision before they did most things, how how different things might be.
Like how much, how much more ethical people would be. Yeah. S&P 500 futures have dropped. Jumped almost 2%. Okay. So if I can just help me. All right. That was important to interrupt our podcast. Thanks. Yeah, I thought I thought our listenership would want to know. Oh, yeah. They're going to run to their Robinhood account right now.
Their Ameritrade account. That's another thing. Robinhood stock is just tanked recently. Stocks. So what's inventive system by which you know a bunch of people can think that they can just skim the cream off of the society. Right and right and like and like drink their in and get fat without any effort. Right. And it works for, you know, some people.
Yeah. Not knowing that the majority of the people that really skim the cream off the top are the ones that are in the like in the system, like right where it's happening, the ones who have not 25 steps get, they're creating it. Right, like congressmen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or, you know, heads of massive corporations with billions of dollars of investment like hedge funds or Warren Buffett or.
Yeah. So like, you know, senators, for example, meet all the time with, you know, business tycoons of various type and get tons of inside information and they're legally allowed to then invest. What are you so messed up or put, put options against things, right. Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh shit, this is going to tank like calls or options or.
Yeah. And from what I understand, there's a few websites emerging now where, you know, you can actually see what where they put their money in and do the same yourself. That's nice. Yeah. Because it's not insider information from you that's publicly disclosed. Right, right. And generally they disclose it at the very last opportunity. They have to disclose it.
Sure. So because that's that's not, you know, shady right. And so I think that period of time something like 40 days or it's something ridiculous like okay, well if I was over for a day I would lock that shit down right? I'd be like, oh no, no one should be able to participate in insider trading. Who runs the government?
So yeah, if I was king for a day, lobbyist wouldn't be a job title anymore. Now, would you do something crazy, like burn all the lobbyists at the stake? No, no. Just make it illegal. Lobbying is illegal. And then the next day, it's our turn. Yeah. Oh, the Supreme Court. But I said, remember King for a day, not.
Yeah. You know, it's like you must abide by. Let's go for a week. Let's have a week of bliss. Okay. King for seven days. Oh, that. I guarantee you, if I really had full authority, I would put in a tremendous number of positive changes. I guarantee you. Yeah. And the thing is, by now, you say my tenure was coming up.
I'd have to plan that shit for months. Yeah, I wouldn't be like, you know, how can I find more creative ways to to, take taxpayer dollars and shift it to big business? No. If you don't see an outflow the other way and I can big business support communities, how can big business support society at large? I would have a tent city outside of every hospital, every primary, every urgent care facility, every doctor's office, because everybody would have fucking health care.
I'll tell you that right now. Universal health care just makes sense. It's absolutely despicable. The rich and the richest nation on the world can't take care of that. And that item. And one of the reasons why we don't the people who are in Congress have no incentive. They get the best health care the US government has to offer.
That would change to they'd have to pay for their own plans or, take public plan. Yeah. And you know, Medicaid, Medicare, whatever. Right. Not old there. Yeah, yeah. Fuck that man. Most of them are ancient. That's another thing. Can we change that? Well, you know, you're you wouldn't want to like. Well, you actually probably would because you'd be completely reorienting government anyway.
Yeah. You know, no decision would be made by someone unqualified. So I'd have all these people in all these different committees, mostly volunteers. That are subject matter experts in their field. Right. As the source of information for, for this committee, the voting body. Yeah. Or B the voting body themselves for that specific thing, you know. And that's not a bad idea.
But they try to do that with committees. You, you have the same people in and out of all these committees. And they're not subject experts on that, on that, on that topic, I'm sure after 20 years in a committee, you might have a tolerable no knowledge. But what about before then? You don't want like some ancient congressman that doesn't even know how to use their own smartphone.
Right? Right. Like making a committee, making legislation on social media, the impact of social media on society. Exactly. And you can't tell me. Yeah, sure. These people who are in Congress have led good lives and are probably cognitively better off than the rank and file of their own age, but you cannot tell me that there aren't a good swath of these people either.
In the midst of early onset dementia, or who have just had absolute cognitive decline and are useless. Yeah, we're just not in the zone when it comes to that particular topic. Yeah. You know, that's not I mean, there's been rumors that Dianne Feinstein is actually, you know, cognitively impaired, cognitively impaired, severely. So she's basically like Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's, her and her and her aides and assistants, her pages are like, you know, got it.
Like a puppet entering or moving her mouth.
And she's like, making the best, ever, like, statements. I love that so much. There there is this gut wrenching scene. And it wasn't the first one. It was one of the one of the one of the latter ones where they turn on the music and you dance to the music and walk towards the trigger, and he'd had an arrow through his head.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they put him like on the front of, of a horse drawn carriage and they're playing the music and he's like walking towards the treasure. So funny. He was pulling it. Yeah. Harpoon through his skull. Yep. And then he hits it downhill.
And he's going through bushes and it's out of control. And he's like he's he's on. He's on a, he's on a harness. And so like, he's hitting obstacles and he's spinning on the front of it. His corpse is just spinning. And he's like, you know, his legs are still moving because the music stuff like I remember like seeing that as a kid and just howling, oh, same here.
Yeah. The actor who was, Bernie, I saw his picture once in a, the one time I went San Francisco, this, garlic place, the garlic rose like their deal was. You probably seen restaurants that just loved their stick, and they put as much garlic as possible, and things. Oh, gross. Well, so I was eating. Go home.
Go home for a kiss after that. Oh, dude, it was worse than that. It was like for four days I had Garlic Park, but, that's horrid. It was awful. Garlic is just it's delicious. But I, I tend to have some reservation towards it because I don't want to be that guy. Yeah, well, this was it was nice to give it another time and myself both eating it.
So we were both of that guy. Yeah. Some comedian said at one time, I'm like, you know, two, two crackheads can stay together forever. And it's like, good point. It's kind of idea when both people do the same thing. Like, if two people smoke, they can kiss without being grossed out and. Right. Yeah. To wake and bake weed heads, potheads.
Right? Yeah. Right. It's like it just can work. Yeah. Because you have this. You're bonding how you. Why don't you have one of them? Yeah. You're bonded by your vices and. Okay. You just made me think of something. Whenever I was in the church as a kid, they used to say in essence, you're looking for a partner. Look for someone who's in the same religion, right?
Is that the same idea here? Definitely. You have the same base. Yeah, the same invisible friend. Yeah. That's easy. Yeah, right. Yeah. That's so funny. We just equated it. Crack addiction. Oh. Yeah. It's an addiction of a different reality. But I'm not saying that I'm immune to it or anybody else. Is made fun of the human condition.
Well, it is, it is. And on top of that, you know. All right, it's it's an established replacement for a lot of addictions. And those 12 step programs, a lot of times they're trying to have you replace your addiction with religion and going to AA meetings or at night meetings or whatever, like swap it out with a lesser of evil.
Yeah. Idea, right? Yeah. You like being a porch pirate? I am interested in what that, packages. It's nondescript packaging. Yeah, it's probably like for sex toys or something.
That's that's something like you might be really skeptical about because, you know, like the people that set up these cameras and they have, like, porch pirates and stuff. And so they made like a, what is it like a, like a, pepper spray and viewed array of dildos? And it's got an audio built into it.
Oh, no. Hey, baby, look what I brought for you. Oh, and then the strangest howling and screaming you've ever heard and seen is about 15 minutes long. Funny. You know, something like that. Like these people that put the glitter bombs and they're, like, chasing each other. You seen the whole glitter bomb thing where they set it up the porch pirate comes and they take it away, and it's like ejecting fart spray.
Oh, yeah. You know, it's a glitter bomb. This former Google engineer got went viral for making one of those. Sure. Why not? And then you think about all the money in that glitter bomb. Like for webcams in there, right? You know, like all the all the hardware that they have there like 3D print and create and then the testing, how many times did they have to set this thing off just to get it working?
Servos, like spraying the fart spray for an audio thing that does the countdown timer like it's going to explode, you know, etc., etc.. Yeah, yeah. Which then makes you wonder, is everybody just an actor? You know, it's all right, all the stage. But I mean, if you've got a popular YouTube that makes it finance that, but it makes a lot more sensitive, I'll just be stage it, just like everything else, like everything's fake except for Positively Pedestrian Podcast, which is actually real.
Like real legit walking right now. This is not a wink wink. Yeah. All right. Well, hey, we were really fat, and we're sitting in the studio right now and just adding in the ambient noise. Yeah, we we we hired people to walk around the city and recorded ambient noise, and we just added. That's why today there are no garbage trucks.
Yeah. And not that we've, like, changed our course ten times to try to avoid this bad, seriously judicious avoidance of a garbage truck. We just saw one in the distance. Thankfully it went by before we got there. I'm so, like, keen on being genuine. Like personally, that I would never do that. And then if we ever were like in the studio recording this instead, it would be 100% disclosure.
That's what doing. Oh hell yeah. It's like today's episode is at my fucking desk. Yes, yes. Someone came home drunk last night. It looks like it. There's like, we're looking at a beater truck that's literally half parked on the sidewalk and, like, for no good reason. Like, they could have parked on the sidewalk just fine. I mean, they could have parked on the street just fine.
Yeah. There's like, no good reason that that vehicles have on the sidewalk, except for the fact that zombies. Someone came. Someone came in drunk at 2 a.m.. Yeah. Why coked up? Yeah, because it seems aggressive. Yeah, exactly. And that was very aggressive. I mean, the plus, whatever hits your, hits your liver. If cocaine and alcohol makes a new drug.
Okay. Right. It's right. Yeah. I didn't know that. And does it have some type of delivery or effects or, for some type of it? It offers the invincibility of cocaine with the lack of decision making of alcohol. Oh, so it's like the murder drug. Yeah, yeah. Let's see.
Like, the the drug of the drug preferred by most of rapists. There we go. So good. Everything preferred by most rapists. You know what I think is a good idea right now? Rape. Oh, damn. Because the coke has the mind still working, right? Right, right. And then the. When the alcohol has, like, no inhibitions whatsoever. Yeah. And so then the primal brain is at work because they're dying at the same time because drugs are so potent.
Right. So you're, you're just, in a great decision making set right now. Yeah. Since we're talking about animals, my ex had this dog named, Yorkshire terrier named Chaucer. Okay. Oh, like Geoffrey Chaucer have the first novel. Yeah. Which didn't fit her M.O. at all, like opera and, you know, classic literature didn't fit her M.O.. Right.
But anyway, I'm not going to turn this into, like, dog my ass podcast, right? Yeah, but we're talking about, you know, dogs. Okay, so a little dogging is appropriate. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. You caught me. Yeah. You know, sometimes I try to get the jokes in under the radar. You don't have to call them out now. Okay? Okay.
Well, I wanted to bring up the other definition of dogging. It's kind of gross. Oh, no. So go ahead. Wait. Should I pause this? No. It's fine. Yeah. Go ahead with what you were. Yeah. So the dog has some kind of neurological brain problem, right? Yeah. And, the vet bills were like, you know, taking out a loan payment plan like fucking shit.
Oh, God. And I'm like, the thing is the most adorable, cutest little thing. And like, the idea of just, like, savagely taking a shotgun and blowing it away just couldn't happen. Well, I could do it, but, like, oh, I wouldn't be able to live with the fallout from, you know. Right. You know, or or whatever, you know, just be like, there's no way I'm paying ten grand plus on a dog.
Yeah. You know. Right. And, I know that's savage, but no reality. I'd be in the same boat, unfortunately. But you don't have that kind of disposable income, right? Well, she's of a different mindset. You know, I could finance it. And there's, like, a really small chance that the intervention was even going to do anything. And it didn't.
The dog died shortly thereafter. But anyway, this dog was having like, you know, it was, an adolescent dog. It hadn't hit its, sex hormones yet or anything, right? It wasn't sexually mature, but with the fact that it had this neurological problem, it would like hump things, right? Because it's like the primal instinct to, you know, reproduce.
Yeah. You know, and, I've actually seen I know it's improper word, but retarded or extremely mentally disabled humans do the same thing. Okay. We had this kid, you know, with one big shoe and, like, real thick glasses and shit, like in high school or middle school. And, he had a, assistant, that role that was dedicated to him, you know, whatever you wanna call it.
Teacher. I guess he called it called the teacher at the time or whatever. Sure. And, he would repeatedly, like, hump her like, same idea. Like. Right. So then you have this person coked up with this weird, you know, chemical, you know, they're really dying because there's so much drug in them, right? And so their primal brain is like, yeah, all right.
Yeah. And I can totally see that. Totally, totally. You know, and I actually view, like, rape as, like a, what you would call it, like a lower, like a lower function, animalistic type act. Yeah. Even though I, I've read that there's a psychological component to it. Very much so, you know, so like, I think there's like maybe two tiers of it.
It's like the people that have the psychological need to dominate, right? You know, and then also there's like this just total dumb ass that just doesn't have the brain capacity just as humping because, you know, they're a fucking moron and they don't even realize what they're doing or what's going on. Yeah. Just that has that primal, you know, need to try to reproduce.
Yeah. And it's funny too, is like, you know, is there rape in the animal kingdom? Yeah. I mean, without being able to speak to them, without being able to, you know, buy them dinner? Yeah. Get them in the fraternity party, whatever. No, I mean, the the mixer. I have, at the very least seen situations where it didn't look at the other animal, was very interested in a situation.
Yeah, sure. And like, you see, like, nature videos and whatever, where it's like the, the, female is like kind of fighting back to some extent. Yeah. All right. You know, so I guess technically, yes, it's rape, but. Right. Yeah. I don't, I don't think like there's a way in court, you know, to work that out. Right, right.
There's not going to be any retribution for that. And it's going to kill the offspring of the previous, you know. Anyway, we talked about that. Oh, of course, like how the line if it's if it's the new, you know, the dominant, the new alpha. Right. And there's like these little cubs that were from the previous, it was bite them and kill them.
That's so crazy. And then, like, she's in heat in two weeks. Right. Boost and new set coming up. Yeah. But the other the other definition of dogging, you just couldn't wait. Yeah, I'm just going to get it out. I love it. It's the situation, but, I don't even want to say it, guys, but I committed to it, so.
All right, dogging is, oh. There's people on the edge of their seats waiting to hear the definition. You take, you take your wife out to a rest stop, and you just your wife decides that she wants to be dogged out by a bunch of dudes, that the rest up. Okay, why rest up? Well, oh, like when you take your dog out at the rest up to take a shit?
Yeah, I sure it's a convenient place to me. Usually advertise it beforehand. Oh, okay. Okay. I heard there's a lot of, like, truckers, doing gay hookups at rest stops. Really interesting. From what I understand, there's a lot of truck drivers, like, way higher proportion than the average in society. Okay. That's interesting. I wonder what. Oh, I don't know.
Riding long and hard, I don't know. Oh, damn.
But but yeah, I mean, you know, there's got to be some sort of appeal, I guess maybe for that lifestyle. I have no idea. I, I've, I've known though, like several people have told me that that you know, no better in the. No. My uncle was a truck driver. I'll have to bug him about and see if it's true.
Well, at least from his opinion. When he was a truck driver. Truck driver in the 80s, whether or not. And again, it's his opinion solely. It's a sample of one. I'm not going to take a lot of, stock in it. All right. Man, whenever he was a truck driver, he came by and visited us once. Yeah. Jesus.
He slept in my bed that night. Man, he smelled awful. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you're on the road for days and days and days. Yeah, you know, it's not done properly. We're like, you plan out your rest stops and that those rest stops are shower facilities and yet, you know your seasons, you really know what you're doing, and you have it all mapped out.
And I can only come up, roll up. Pretty stinky. Yeah, I can only imagine. And then, you know, after after a day or two hanging out with us, he was this new man. He was able to recover because he had access to a shower. I was on a mission that lasted longer than expected. It was. I turn out to be a two week mission on foot in Afghanistan.
And our our, lieutenant and staff sergeant platoon sergeant would not let us take off our armor because we were such. Yeah. It was like, no, you're just not taking it off because you can sleep in the shed, too, right? Because there's, like, we could we could, like, go undercover someplace, like where there's cover and concealment and take it off and use baby wipes to, like, wipe down.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I was in a tough spot because I was responsible for looking after everybody as the medic. Right. And so I'm like, every time we stop, I'm like, treating people's feet because they're getting the yeah, they're getting like swamp foot. They're getting, you know, all these nasty thing. Yeah. And so I'm like making sure that preserves the fighting force type thing, doing everything I can.
So I'm like never getting a break. And then we'll, we like rack out for some time or whatever. Everyone's just coming up to me, you know, asking me for help on this, that and the other thing. Yeah. And so it was like, no rest, no rest whatsoever. I was the only guy for like 400 plus guys, dude. Really?
Yeah. Because we merged with, one of the Afghan. What was it? Brigade. And we took, like, for their platoons. Whoa. And they had no medic. And then two of the other medics got evac for for whatever reason or pulled away. So not only are you dealing with 400 people, a good portion of them don't speak the same language or don't.
Yeah, so I had a interpreter permanently attached to me, like, so that wasn't an issue. But it was like just nonstop. I couldn't get a break. Yeah. No matter what. Like I had no rest. Sure. And so, it was like several days I hadn't my I hadn't even opened my armor to, to, clean up. Yeah. So I was like, you know, I feeling rancid like and nasty.
Yeah. Ironically, though, I didn't have like body odor. I just had like this feeling of just feeling gross. Right. Okay. Well that's good because you know you sweat right. And like the sweat is somewhat purifying you. Oh it's kind of weird. It was like wasn't any armpit. I was always pretty putting on heavy deodorant. Oh yeah. But anyway, long story short, I come out get get get inside this broken down building and take my armor off and my clothes off to, like, wash up.
Yeah. And this fucking stank, man. Oh my God, this smell of, like, bad ham. Oh, yeah. It was like rolling off my flesh. Oh, wow. And I'm wipe myself down with baby weights. And the skin is coming off like, in, like an off and jeans swapping off. Yeah. And, Oh. I was like, when I get back to the base, I don't care how cold the water is, I'm taking me a monster shower.
Yeah, dude. Got back to the base, took a shower. More slopping. Yeah, more like just disgust. Clean my armor. You know, with, with, all these disinfectants. Yeah. Lysol, everything I get my hands on cleaning it up. Yeah. And, Yeah. And then it was, like, two days out back out here, but, man, that contained, you know, just like your torso being in a containment, like, like in Saran wrap, basically.
Yeah. For like five days or whatever. The body will just produce rot. Oh, yes. It was very unhealthy. But I guess, you know, it's better than better than getting shot with your armor off. True. Yeah, yeah, there's a reason they want to keep it on. I was advising heavily that we have rotations where we, you know, let people have some kind of hygiene, like in the stream or whatever, and they're like, no, no, no, no, I could have insisted out like, do you know, in the military, if you're the highest ranking medical like, and it's in that lane, you can call the shots like you can override, you can say, we absolutely have to
do this. Yeah, you can say I'm the highest ranking. You know, medical authority. And so I have the I have the, determinant here. Like, maybe don't do this. That will absolutely be a detriment, right. To someone. Okay. And there's like a standing order of operations that it's a standing order. Okay. So security is number one. Go figure.
Yeah. Right. Number two, like this, an order of operations. You have to do this before you can do this, right? An ordinal list of priorities. Yeah. So number one, standing orders, security. No one will get that right. Number two is weapons maintenance. Yeah. Can't fire your gun. What? Why are you even out there? Right, right, right. Three is personal hygiene okay?
Right. Four is eating okay? Nourishment, nutrition. And number five is sleep all down. So you don't sleep until those other four things are taken care of while I make sense. Oh, big guy, here we go. Well, look at that tail. We know we know the truth. We know that you. Like thinking bad. That dog's name. Brand name Rambo two.
He could be named Rambo. And it would be apropos. My dog was a short little beagle mix who was not scary at. What other pet names did you have for your animals? You had to have had more than that. Magnus, my fluffy gray born cat. Magnus. That's a cool name. Well, so I'm like that one. My ex-wife wouldn't let me, name, any potential kid.
Magnus. That's why I was. Because I could just envision my kid being like. I am Magnus, Lord of the playground, I like it. Well, he couldn't do that. He wouldn't have a bully. No. Not really. I, I just wanted to have a child under this phrase. One time. One time with the three other unconscious boys. That.
That's how I looked with him. And his arms are in the air when he says that, you know, they're, just once. And even though he hasn't hit puberty yet, somehow it gets this booming man voice. Oh, I am Magnus. Yes. Yeah. So anyway, obviously it was a lark and something stupid, but I figured I could name the cat Magnus and it would have a little impact.
I love it. So his name was Magnus Walter Snodgrass. Nice, Walter. It was because of. Do you remember that show fringe? No. Okay. There was this, doctor in there who had been kept, locked up for, like, 30 years. He was, really, he was a savant and just had almost no moral qualms with researching anything.
It was kind of like, you know, the propaganda, the propaganda version of, the German, doctors at a World War two. And this guy was just able to figure out all kinds of things. Well, they locked him up because he was dangerous. A fringe was about fringe science, and people actually implemented some of the things on a grand scale.
There were theories or possibilities, I see. I guess this guy would try to crack how they did it, and stop them. Cool, man. Well, so. So that was Walter. It was Walter had these little wiry like, fuzzy, hairs, things everywhere. And so did magnets. So that's why. Walter, let's tie in, I like that. Then we had Millicent Newborn.
What did you name that one as well? Yeah, I did, so her nickname was Millie for short. But the reason I named your Millicent newborn. So I could say Millicent Newborn has such a Louis meow. Because it was the most awful meow I've ever heard. And I love how these names are tied into these fantasies of phrases. Yeah, I love it.
That's so fun. So she had the worst meow ever. It. Well, it sounded like screeching. Just bats. So not that it was cross wired. It just had a fucked up meow. Yeah, and she would just eat random things like dried beans. She loves dried beans. She would open the cabinets to find them. Okay. What? I don't know, she was so weird.
She could shit, right, though. Yeah. I'm sure. Yeah. All that fiber. I guess the dried beans was like the feeling of, like, gnawing on the the the squirrel. Probably. Spine. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past her. She was sadistic. Oh, all cats are sadistic. That's true. That's kind of their M.O.. You know, the, your. All you need to do to know that is watch their eyes while you're playing with a string.
That gets. They want to kill it. There's no doubt in my mind that whatever the cat word is for murder is just. It's just being repeated like a mantra over and over. And ten. Good point. Yeah. Good point. I've heard that they're constantly in what's the brain state we go into whenever we meditate. Alpha state or something helpful.
Yeah. They I've heard they're in a constant alpha state of death. All right. Yeah. So that's why bird and, you know, woodland creature populations get decimated by it because they're so single minded. Talk about that. They trade on it. Yeah. Like. Yeah. Single and purpose. Yeah. So like the, savant of death. Oh, damn. Yeah. We might offend some cat people.
Yeah. And people that are sensitive have a child, right? Right. That's. That wasn't the idea, folks. It's just, you know, they're called jokes. Yeah. Almost everything today has been a joke. Everything that we ever said ever has been a joke. Yeah, yeah. And we're we're we're, hiding behind that disclaimer like a small child does behind a skirt of the mother.
Yeah. When, when when a bad guy pops out. I mean, totally, we are. Yes, that is all. Those are ten little shields. We're using the same thing for fair use. We're using the same thing. Yeah, yeah. Anything we brought up is definitely under the umbrella of fair use, you know? Fuck it. If South Park can get away with all the shit they get away with, surely our podcast is way under the radar.
You know, like, they have that disclaimer at the beginning of every South Park episode, which I think that combined with satire fair use legally covers them. But they like, you know, specifically name people. They do. And the caricatures are like one part. Yeah, yeah. Like Tom cruise in the closet as a perfect example. Yeah. And they're not just like using a different name.
Right. Morning. How are you? They're not trying to, like, hide it and use a different name. They're like specifically naming it. Right. It's like, yeah, yeah. I don't know how they get away with it. Or maybe they don't I don't know, maybe they get up. Maybe there's a lot of lawsuits every year. Yeah, maybe they've never made a dime just because they've had everything.
And now that they're completely broke. Yeah, they don't care anymore. Do like, you know, credit score less than 200 and, no assets. But they get to go on these junkets to make the episodes. Yes. And that's how they live their lifestyle. That'd be so cool, man. It's all on. Whatever. Whatever network's paying for. It's dime. That would be so clever.
Like saying I heard some comedian talking about. I think it was Dave Chappelle talking about Anthony Bourdain killing himself. Oh, yeah. It was like, this guy is like going all around the world, you know, eating the best food you can ever imagine, hanging out with the coolest people. Yeah, like traveling the world, right? Right. And just recording it.
And that's his job, you know, he eats and drinks and loves life. Like, how are you pissed off? And he was comparing it to this guy who was like, got a full ride scholarship and was like pre-med in some school. Went on to become a doctor, all this kind of stuff. Yeah. And he runs into this guy and he's like, working at some, you know, like, you, you minimum wage job, you know, type thing,
And, Yeah. And so he, Oh, that's fun. Yeah. So he talks to him about it and like, he went through a terrible divorce. The lady took everything, you know, kind of idea. Yeah. And, you know, Chappelle says it in a way that's so fucking funny. Yeah. You know, and this guy doesn't want to kill himself, right?
So he's contrasting, you know, like something. Something's backwards here like that. Guys would want to kill him. So. Yeah. Yeah. He's had absolutely everything ripped away from him. Yeah. After all this hard work, Anthony Bourdain wants to kill himself because his girlfriend did some crazy shit on social media and upset him. Oh, that. That couldn't have been there.
But that was a big contributing factor. See, I don't know. Yeah, but I just I just heard that he died like, hopefully that's not totally it, but that was put up as a contributing factor. Gotcha, gotcha. Older guy, younger woman. He's smitten. She does something that upsets him. I fantasized about suicide when I was a kid. Not like to think about actually doing it.
Just the fantasy of doing it right. Like I was never, like, teetering on the edge of a bridge or something. But I had, like, thought about what it would be like to try to jump off a bridge, you know? Right. Because I've heard of these people killing themselves and like, what would it be like to like, you know, it's like, is it this rush?
Is it this euphoria that just carries you all in through the act, you know? Yeah. And, you know, I've thought about murdering somebody, but I've never done it right. Like, you know, I there's definitely this, this domain of like in your mind, curiosity, fixation, wondering what something would be like, but never having any kind of intention or impulse or idea towards doing.
Right. Totally. And, so I found that really interesting. You know, that, you know, what would it be like to kill yourself in this way? Yeah, right. I remember thinking about that, like as a young teenager. Like fantasizing, because I've heard stories about people doing these things and I'm like, oh, my gosh, like jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge or I, you know, I heard about this thing, this guy built his own guillotine from a hardware store part, and it fucking worked damn well deliver on himself.
Yes. Damn. As he spent over a year building it, you think at some point during that you'd be like, man, I'm pretty awesome. I figured out how to do all this. Maybe I shouldn't kill myself. I mean, I don't think this is a very elaborate device, but at the same time, too. Well, he wanted to make sure he died in one shot, right?
So maybe it was fairly elaborate. I've thought about that, too. Like completely painless ways to die. Like, you know, like, how could you like these two super heavy walls that are, like, massively spring loaded? Yeah. You load somebody up in there and you're not jelly. Yeah, just. Just like, smack them like a bug jam. You know, they'd have to be pretty painless.
That would. It would cool the lethal injection, you know, you can never ask the person, you know, did it hurt? But it looks like it would. But based on, you know, the science, it shouldn't. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because I guess they've used some of the other drugs to knock people out. And then people have no recollection of having surgery or whatever.
So yeah, they have this cocktail of drugs. And I mean, you'd have to imagine that it's, you know, calculated out to where it's not going to hurt. Yeah, supposedly it's very humane, but they're having problems getting those drugs now. Oh, really? Isn't like, isn't is isn't isn't it mostly most states now isn't like, capital punishment.
I mean, isn't it just like a handful of states at this point? I think so I think, yeah, I think only a handful of states. And, the manufacturer, I believe the manufacturers obviously for injection drugs are aren't really wanting to sell them to the states. Okay. So that so that could be another deterrent. But I mean, there's I guess maybe like in Texas, I, I would be surprised if they still do firing squad or.
Yeah like some hanging you know probably. Come on man hangings gotta suck. It's gotta be awful. I mean basically just that's just snaps. That can't be good. Like that's gotta hurt. Sorry about this stuff. All. I guess. Oh good grief. Yeah. I never smelled it. That was a nasty one. It's probably wafting up your own shirt and.
Yeah. Hey, you're you're recycling. I just have my own. But, yeah, it's going to go back in your blood, and blood gas is going to filter back out and get a farted again later. Oh. Did you ever, like, follow some car that was not tuned properly. It smell like sulfur or something. Then like 30 minutes later you fart.
You smell like sulfur. Oh, sure have that. I never noticed that. That happened to me one time. It's like way, way back in the day. Look, I was following a Subaru. How the fuck I remember that, but I remember right. And like, reek terribly of, like, Satan health over. Right. And then like, later on that night, I beefed and and it was just sterling sober egg that smell rotten eggs.
You know, it's so funny. Yeah, dude. Like, somehow my body, like, you know, it's hard to realize that, it's so funny. Which brings me back to the garlic concept. Yeah. So fully penetrated. Imbuing every part of your body like leaching out of your skin. We had we had 40 garlic, 40 garlic clove chicken. We had some kind of garlic appetizer we had it was like, oh, housing and chicken.
Garlic with some chicken as like random dude, they had these massive chicken breasts and they inserted all this garlic underneath the skin. And then they had garlic all over the plate. Yeah, it was crazy. It's like, no, that's too gross. I can't go for it. I can't say it. I'm recording now, but but it's like, at some point, you know, at some point it's it's not really chicken anymore.
I know it's, you know. Yeah. Like, you can when you put enough spice and enough like, the people that did the challenges, like the 2 million Scoville unit. Yeah. And the thing is, like dark red, like crystallized with the, with the sauce on the chicken finger or whatever it is. Yeah. I'm telling you, you're not tasting chicken when you're, you know, it's just a delivery mechanism for absolute tongue scorching heat.
Yeah. So then why bother with the chicken, right. Like why didn't you just eat the slab of whatever. Take a spoonful of the, you know, the, the spice that came from the jar with an atomic bomb, you know, on it somewhere or something, and some hot habanero salt, and that's hot enough. There's. I got to hold that at one time.
This pure black pepper extract. Oh, wow. And you think that would be like, you know, no big deal. It was a big deal. Like a few drops of that and it was it was on hand. And, we put it on that, that roommate that I had back in college, the guy, Skippy probably heard me talk about it before.
Like, we could do a whole podcast is on Skippy, right? You should. And I'm not the peanut butter the person. Right. And, that wasn't his real name. You know, he's, like, in his mid 30s, trying to stay in the college scene. Oh, damn. He had, like, a dad tattoo on his arm. Like of a castle. Yeah, yeah.
No shit. And, was like, that bad. Kind of overweight. More, like the puffy overweight. Not just like someone carrying a belly or something, but like, puffy everywhere. Just bloated. Yeah, right. It's like if you were to scalp all his skin, it would just flay open and you'd see, like, the white. Yeah. Oh, yeah. If he was like.
If he was like, in the ocean and the shark bit his leg, it would look like someone bit a corn dog from the side. You know, like, that's it. But like, like this thick layer of of bread, it just was with like an eraser. Meat of meat in the middle. Like. Like, you know, it's like it was all over the meat core.
Like that's eventually what he was. And, anyway, he was like, trying to be all fucking cool and talk and shit. He's like, click, click, click, click that sauce on a sandwich that he had. Yeah. Remember what the sandwich was, but he gets this big old bite of it. And we were just like, had taken our pinky like, put them on to a dish, took our pinky and like, just dabbed it and put it in.
All of us were like, coughing and it was hardcore. He was doo doo doo doo. Yeah. He's like, thought he was badass. Oh, Pepper. Oh that's nothing good. Good. We're good. Right. And he bit that sandwich and he was like a crown of orange. Like full, you know not non at it. And his face totally changed. And the next thing out of his mouth was oh God.
And then he straight to the sink. Spit it out. Disposable. Spit it out through the sandwich. Down like like it was like it was, like like it was burning him. Like he threw the sandwich down. Like it was like a hot potato. Yeah, like radioactive. Like if you like. If you like, picked up a coal from the fire.
And I was like, Like, that's how he dropped it. Because. Because it's his mind in his body was like, get that away from him. And he's sitting there at the same, just splashing water into his mouth, scraping his tongue with the hiccups. It it hit it hit him so hard. Yeah. And he wasn't really the kind of guy to get red faced, but in this case, he was beet red faced.
Oh, shit. He's, like, literally scraping his tongue with his nails, trying to get that heat out of his mouth. Damn. And it was, I guess I don't think I've ever been there. I guess with the pepper, like the black pepper, the milk wasn't really that much of a remedy because he was like, tried that. It didn't go. It was like 30 minutes of agony for him.
Wow. What do you feel sorry for him? Like, how can you feels like he thought he was a badass. I mean, he was trying to show off because apparently he was, hot sauce kind of filler. Right. And so for him, like, oh, yeah, I've done all the challenge, like. Yeah. And I mean, I consider myself the same, but I try a little bit of something before I put it all over, something to determine whether or not I can handle it.
And, you know, like that roommate that always eat your food and shit. Yeah. I was so happy. So, dude, we would pool our money and go to, like, a Costco or whatever. Sam's some big box store, and we try to get things in bulk to save money, like calculate outs and stuff. And that dude would just like, eat all of our supplies.
And so as we started contaminating food and, you know, with whatever, you know, and then after a few times of like him eating rancid stuff, it like started to, you know, slow him down, but he just wait to see us eat something and then when go away, he did that thing like he was that kind of guy. I totally that kind of guy.
And I'll tell I'll do for a job. Oh he's like worked at Best Buy or something. Oh okay. So he had no money. Yeah. He's like graduated with a psychology degree or something. And you know, something that that wasn't very highly marketable. And, and I mean, he just doesn't seem like he'd be a highly marketable fellow. And he was, like, working.
And then part time working on his master's degree. So, like, it still qualified him as a college student, even though he was, like, just there to try to be relevant in the same way. But anyway, he, I'd gotten this new computer, spent all my money on it, and, it, it came with like Microsoft Encarta. Yeah, like CDs loaded up the encyclopedia Encarta 95.
And, he'd had this boss house because he worked at Best Buy or whatever. So he had, like this boss, this laptop, they had like this huge drive. And he asked me if you could borrow one of my disks. And I had like, Microsoft Music and, like, all these cool. Like, yeah, they're like, cool. Come with all kind of crazy stuff.
When you bought those new computer. Oh, yeah. They try to give you an incentive buy, buy software, right. Yeah. And the software, it was just, you know, mostly on CDs. Right. And anyway, there was this. So I'm guessing this is a windows 95 era. Probably. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Somewhere in there that was like the height of when I would.
Yeah. Why you with stuff. There's a lot of information there. It was a lot of like stuff that was kind of interesting to have. Yeah. And he thought it was really cool and he had an external CD drive. And, but his laptop was pretty boss at the time and had a huge hard drive. And what he did is he took every one of my CDs and turned them, ripped them into his computer, into his computer.
He asked me if you could borrow it and I said sure, yeah, no problem. But then it like pissed me off because he basically, like, stole all my titles, you know? Yeah. And, if you'd asked me if you could do that, I was it. Yes. Yeah. But the fact that he just took it upon himself. Right. You said can I borrow.
Yeah. He didn't say, can I steal? Yeah. You're right. Right, right. So I had made this, this will last real tough for the day, but, made this, like, elaborate batch file. Yeah. When you first start the computer. Right. Like, Well, what was it? That bat file that you could like cmd that bat that would fire automatically when you start the computer?
Okay. And he had Norton Antivirus on there. So I made this elaborate message being like Norton Antivirus has detected blah, blah, blah, right. And then it was it was as cleverly worded as I could possibly do it. And then it said, if prompted to, to conduct a unconditional format. Oh, shit. Say yes. Oh no way. Don't worry.
No, no data will be lost. Damn right. So then, of course I just ran the command after that for unconditional format. And of course he's like yes. Right. And like so yeah you know, you know what happened from there. You just everything was gone. And he was asking me for help to like see if I can recover and fix it.
And I'm like I don't know, like I don't know. I've never heard of this kind of error before, you know, like that's weird. Must be a boot sector virus from all those disk you're stealing. And it happened like pre-rolls OS load. So like, had full access to the system. Like the command. And of course, it's not hard to find the command for like, no fully unrecoverable and conditional format.
Well, yeah, I think it was like for you to the format command something like that. And it just comes back when it restarts. Finally it just comes back with just C prompt, I don't know, like C prompt. That's it. Like you know. Yeah. Oh so it probably didn't even have anything on the desk. It was just whatever was in memory the, the, you know, command.com that was in memory.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And remember like it would used to it used to, I don't know if you remember this part where it would actually like, have a, built on to the board the basic OS. Remember that? Yeah. With some of the old 80s computers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would actually have, like, the primitive, dos.
Yeah. Like on the board itself. So, like, you could do that. Yeah. It was like, it was like the best idea they had to like pre bios, the pre really elaborate bios like they have today. And that by the way that's that's huge. Like my computer I don't even understand my bios like I've been. It's been too long.
I do not understand half the shit that's in my bio. So much crazy stuff in there now. Yeah. And and I've messed with it and I've had a trouble then recovering it, like. So it's like I'm scared to mess with it. So get a hire a pro to, like, make sure my bios is tweaked. Right, right. I mean, really though, it's just it's I think it just took myself down a notch in my IT nerd.
Like I just said. Well, I'm overwhelmed by bios. I actually read the manual for the new the computer that I bought, the Gavin and Jolene a couple of years ago because I had to figure out how to do overclocking in the Bios.
I read that fucker on the dark side, Johnny read manuals. Now, I know we talked about that. We did like when you start reading the manuals, you see, you made a tipping point in your life. It's like, well, I've realized that my nascent skills that I thought I had, the ones I thought I had honed and developed, weren't good enough to face down this new technology.
So is on that? No. Oh.