Cold Snap And Toque Debate

SPEAKER_03 0:08

Hey everybody, welcome back to Satin's Tiny. I'm Margin. This is Mark. It's uh it's still cold. Really cold. Yeah. Uh oh well last night was really cold. Um today it's it's you know just below freezing, I think. I don't know. Yeah, it was uh I think it was like 36 when I went into town here a little while ago. Okay. Yeah, that's uh it you know with the wind, it feels really cold. And then I think uh for me and people that visit here, um, they say that just often feels a lot colder than the temperature, and I think that's because of the moisture. Do you guys notice that?

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Yeah, and in fact, uh Christina looked it up the other night because she's it feels colder here than she did up in Washington State, and it actually says that yeah, it is it's it is colder because the oh Jesus, I can't remember the term that she used.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Yeah, uh well, she probably probably dew point. Yeah, yeah, but it has nothing to do with the dew point. I'm just kidding. Yeah, I don't know. Uh no, I I remember when I the first little bit of the first winter I was here, I'd be outside and be like, God, it must be like 25 degrees, and I'd look as like 40. I'm like, geez, I feel so weird.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

Yeah, well, it it looks like we're we might even hit 74 by the end of the week.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

So yeah, uh I mean, yeah, after tonight it's actually gonna be pretty nice, I think, for a bit. That'll be nice. Um, I speaking of cold weather, I do have a bone to pick with you. Yes, sir. You yeah, you didn't say anything about my toque. Your toque? Yeah, my toque. Which I I think is nice, but you just kind of blew it off.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

What was a toque?

SPEAKER_03 1:48

My toque. I don't know what a toque is. It's a it's a beanie. Did you see my beanie I was wearing earlier?

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Oh, I did see that that you were wearing earlier.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Yeah, that's what they call them in Canada.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Oh, I thought it was called a toboggan. That's a thing that you get you sit on go down the hill. Well, yes, but they also call it a toboggan and probably the northeast. Not uh not a hat. Yes, uh a beanie or whatever you want to call it in the stocking cap. They call it a uh bullshit. Bullshit.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

I uh yeah, I don't b I've not heard that. I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but uh we'll just we'll just say that we have different opinions and and yours is not right.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

So damn it, and she's not even here to make fun of me, and there you go.

Truck Tires And Old Body Styles

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Well, yeah, um, I know. The uh yeah, it's a took. Um which I usually don't wear, but it does feel kind of nice when it's that cold out there. Yeah, I'm sure it does. Um now now that I now that you're in the hot seat, uh now we can talk now. We talk about your tires for real. Um you were saying earlier, like uh uh, you know, when when you drive back to Washington, you're like, uh, you know, I th I think they'll make it. Uh I'm like, well, uh, I told you they were no good for a drive back to Washington, like three drives back to Washington ago, right?

SPEAKER_05 3:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

And you know that, but you're just being stubborn. I am being stubborn. Yeah. Uh you should probably look into new ones?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Yeah, you just need to get new ones. I know, but I need to get some bigger ones that fit that fill out those wheel wells, because right now it looks like you're running little 13-inch tires on NF350.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Uh I think that's a word you could look up, need, because I don't think you used it correctly in that sentence. I don't think you need new ones or bigger ones. Why? Uh I mean, I get your point. The the expo does look pretty tense with the those tires that we made.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Yeah, and I I remember one time when I came down, you're like, dude, those you need to fill in those wheel wells with some tires. Yeah, that's just me being a dick.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Um when you're talking practically speaking, you know, that's maybe the best use of money. Um and you can't pull a you can't pull a dodge ramp ebay maneuver like I did.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Uh no, uh uh hope those will only fit on F F350 rims are just for F350s 91 through 2001, I think it is F350s and 250s for those that are gonna get technical.

SPEAKER_03 4:20

Well, I yeah, I got getting somewhat technical. Um well, just you know, just get some new fucking tires. Like that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Okay, I'll get some new tires. When are you gonna when are you making that drive? Uh probably the first week in March. First week in March.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Okay. Well, you know, okay. You run a really good chance of hitting some cold weather and stuff. And you know, since you can't successfully navigate from the start of your driveway to the end of your driveway without putting it in four low right now when it's a little bit damp, I'd say maybe.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I thought they'd just be better highway tires, you know, they're not gonna grip and waste my gas mileage. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Uh slicks? Do we call those slicks? Yeah, we call them slicks in the racing biz. Slicks.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

I it'll it'll do over a hundred, so it'd be like racing. Yeah, it won't do over a hundred. What? Well, your truck? Yeah. No, it probably would. I think it's like a hundred and five and then it it shuts off until you get back down to like eighty or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 5:27

Oh, it's limited?

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah. That's annoying. From what I understand, I know the older the old Fords, the OBSs as they call them, they they go up to like a hundred, hundred and five and then they shut off until you get back down to like seventy-five or eighty. OBS. Old body style. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

What what which how old is old body style? Ah, Jesus. I've got a 65 F100s out front right now. That's is that would be would that be a that's Bobs? Like S OBS? Super roll body style? What's the cutoff here?

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Um OBS is what is it, 80 89 to no, not eighty eighty-nine to ninety-six or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

That's not how how is that old? That's just like that's sort of mid.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Well, it's like the the Chevies, you know, the 83 and up to god, almost 90, they call them square body because they were square.

SPEAKER_03 6:34

Oh, well, I okay, so it's not like I just I just looked something up. Um for actually you were wrong. Refers the 87 to 97. I don't remember what he said, but I'm sure it was wrong. 89 to 96. Yeah. I'm even in the ballpark. Um, yeah, so I get I I get it now. Like a old bottle body style, it's not descriptive so much, it's more like a nickname. Yeah. It's talking about, yeah, that that quote, that generation, the one that we all knew and loved.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Um, I had one of those up until about four months ago. Yeah, I know. Uh I remember that was around. Speaking of looking stuff up, your uh beanie that you're talking about? My beanie or N Beanie and Beanies in general. My toque? My toque. Toque. Uh-huh. Let's take it. Toque. Um, beanies are commonly referred to as toboggan hats. I'm gonna need you to cite your source. Um Google.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Oh, we already tried this last time. AI. Nope, just Google. Google search. Just Google. Okay. Well, I'm gonna take your word for it. I've actually never heard you said Northeast. I think it's the Northeast. Probably the Midwest. It sounds more well, maybe more of a Midwest thing, but this country. How about that? Uh I see what you did. I was trying to reach out to our international audience, but sure, let's just bring it back. I wasn't trying to upset them, but if so, fuck off.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Why don't you take your toque and fuck off? Your took. Here, take another took.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

Yeah. So the Grammys are on tonight, and I'm not I'm not into word shows. You you aren't either, right? No, I'm not. Yeah. So they're just on, you know, on my channel. Um because you only get one channel. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Okay. I know that's I think that's been established. Um yeah, but I I it's like the chainsaw, it's just gonna come up every once in a while.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

Now the chainsaw is a is a is a worth is a valid dig at me for sure. Uh there ain't nothing wrong with having one channel. I'm gonna be honest with you, because I don't ever have that anxiety of like, what do I watch or flip through Netflix for an hour? Oh, I don't like the uh it's just what's on the channel. Yeah. But I uh sort of a segue into because like ever literally everybody on the Grammys, I'm like, who's that? Who's that? Who's that? I don't know anything. I don't know any of the culture yeah, anymore, but you know older stuff. And I was gonna tell you, did you know Patrick Swayze died? Oh like 12 years ago, 15 years ago. I mean, it's not like it was yesterday, maybe last week, but uh I was watching entertainment tonight or something. Um they're making a second dirty dancing. And I don't know, I didn't know if you heard that Patrick Swayze died, so yeah, he died Jesus in like oh nine or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Yeah, I don't think that's right. So they they redid Roadhouse and now they're gonna redo dirty dancing. Okay. I don't I'm not familiar with Roadhouse. Patrick Swayze was in Roadhouse before he died.

Awards Shows And Swayze Remakes

SPEAKER_03 9:40

Way before he died, yeah. He I mean, yeah, he would have had to. Well, I'm looking at I actually I have my computer on this dungeon, I can look shit up too. No, you're wrong, he died in 2009.

SPEAKER_05 9:51

So that's what I said.

SPEAKER_03 9:53

Is it how and yeah, I guess I guess your point stands. I was way off on the it being.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Then let's write that down. Ryan does not listen to me.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

Yeah, all right. That's what'd you say?

SPEAKER_01 10:06

I said let's that way our international people can write it down also. Let's.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Let's uh yeah. Well, uh uh to be fair, a good percentage of what comes out of your mouth is bullshit. Yes, it is. So I think I think if we're gonna say I don't listen to you, we're gonna call that uh 50-50. We'll call it one of those two-way records. We need to have somebody that fact checks our bullshit. No, we don't. That would be so fun. I'd we did there we nothing else would get in. I mean it'd just be that.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

We'd both be we'd both be sitting there waiting for somebody looking up, going, okay, who's right? Who's right?

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Typically, uh I well when it comes to uh let's say famous people and stuff and music and movies and stuff, uh you're almost always right. I'm almost always wrong. When it comes to pretty much anything else, um I am always right.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Uh Jesus, and I haven't even put a ring on it. I'm always right, Mark. I'm always right. Yeah. With me, it'd be a different kind of ring. Um, you want one of them diamond encrusted rings like Eminem got old um Elton John, huh? No, I was thinking cock, but well, yeah, but that's what Eminem got Elton John. Oh, are they are they married? No, uh-uh. When Elton John got married, Eminem sent him and his uh partner, whatever you want to call it. Oh they sent them both uh diamond encrusted cock rings. Was it like an insul or was it like no, it was uh because everybody had that crap fit here, what, 10 years ago? Crap shit fit, because Elton John and Eminem did a thing together, like, oh, Eminem's a uh homophobe and everything else like that. And they got along great. And so for a wedding gift, that's what Eminem got. Uh Elton John and his partner.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

I think that's cute.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

I think it is too. I mean speaking of cute and Eminem.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

Have I shown you the picture of Eminem's butt? Yes. Have I? I did. Yeah, so funny. The things I inflict on you.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

That's okay. I'm I'm used to it.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

It's got a nice butt.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Um I did six years in the navy.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Okay. Uh did you have you found your zippo yet? Bite me. Uh-huh. But uh, so no, I'm gonna go with no. Um no, I haven't. But it's not just let's, you know, since you brought up the name, it's not just a zippo, right? Like it's it's lost, and it will it will turn up because it always does on like the chains. But no, what's the tell people about the lighter? It's cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Um do you want how far do you want me to go back?

SPEAKER_03 12:45

What's on the lighter? You know, it's not just a lighter.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah, it's a zippo lighter that I got when I was in the navy. It's uh excuse me. It's got an F-A-18 on it, because that's one of the aircraft I worked on, and it says uh VFA 15 Valians, because that that's the squadron I was in was VFA 15.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

Right, on that uh on that frigate.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Uh no, that's that's the squadron and I was on an aircraft carrier.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Wow. God dang. I tried to smart ass you right now. Of course it was. Not when it comes to the Navy. Well, no, and I mean I think I should know better about the aircrafts. Yeah, no, yeah, aircraft carrier. Um, okay, I'll try the the the frigate guided missile destroyer dig another time.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:27

Um I actually spent a day on a frigate.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

I won't do that again. You served on a frigate. No, I was on an uh Aegis class cruiser. Right away.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Here we are. It's not an Aegis class. First of all, the Aegis class is not a cruiser, it's a guided missile destroyer. So it can't there's no such thing as an Aegis class cruiser. Okay. We're not gonna fight. Yeah, your ship was called the Leyte Golf, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Yes, Leyte Golf. That's there's a cool story to that one too.

SPEAKER_03 13:54

About the name of it?

SPEAKER_01 13:55

About the name of it. Okay. Uh after I got back from my first long cruise, um on the I was on the uh the CG-55, the the Leyte Golf, uh, right after I got home, my grandfather had a stroke. And so I had my two weeks leave, so I went home, helped take care of him. Well, he couldn't get his levies any on anymore because of the stroke, half of him was paralyzed. So I had a pair of sweats that said uh USS Laytay Golf on him. And my grandfather seen those, and he's like, I there, I there, I there, and I didn't get it, what he was talking about, eye there. And he to some effect sounds like he's speaking your vocabulary. Yeah, yeah. I should have got it. But come to find out, he was in the battle of the late golf when he was in World War II. Oh shit. Yeah, so that it was really cool. I still have the sweats. Uh I actually seen him here not too long ago when I was going through my stuff.

SPEAKER_03 14:47

Wow, that was really cool.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Yeah, yep, it is.

Navy Stories And Ship Class Confusion

SPEAKER_03 14:51

Um there was uh I'm trying to remember the details on because we did it get into a bit of uh an argument one night about the the classification of the late golf because you said it was an aegis class destroyer, and I said no fucking way. Or no, I'm sorry, you said Aegis class cruiser, and I'm like, no, uh Aegis class uh is only a uh destroyer. Um and then I was like, and also uh cruiser is not a guided missile destroyer, but whatever. And there was something about like they renamed it or they reclassified that particular ship or something as a guided missile cruiser, something, right? And then like we ended up it was one of those things where we ended up both sort of being right. Yeah, which I don't like that. Um because then you get part of it. Excuse me. Yeah, the Aegis um uh the Aegis destroyers uh are named uh uh after the radar and targeting system. Correct. Yeah, the Aegis uh system. And so um they were the ones that super Yeah, they're the ones that superseded the I think the Ticonderogos. Uh I'll tell you one thing you don't want to fuck with. Uh oh no, I'm sorry, not Aegis. Uh I was thinking Arlie Burke. Um so the Arlie Burke Destroyer is the class that superseded the Ticonderoga, right? Sure. Okay. Uh the Arlie Burke is the destroyers we have in service now. Um the guy guided missile destroyers. Okay. Really any guided missile destroyer. That's yeah, that's a pretty uh pretty incredible platform. Did you ever watch that show The Last Ship? I know we've talked about that. No, I haven't watched that one. Uh you should watch it. Um, especially since Christina's out of town for a little bit. The last shit. Last it was a real doozy. It's a hell of a push. The last shit. Oh. What would that even be? Just like three seasons of constipation and here it comes.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Y'all y'all scared to remember, I worked on so when I was on the late golf, I I worked on uh Helos, SH60 Helos. The uh Seahawks. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Which is the same, are very pretty same platform, not exactly the same, same platform, same helicopter as the Blackhawks. Right. But the Seahawks are the the Navy and Marine version, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Right. And you know the the difference between the the army or the marine one or whatever and the navy ones? Uh one's called a Seahawk, one's called a Blackhawk. The tail, the tailwheel on the Seahawk is actually positioned more forward on the fuselage. That makes sense. So deck space. Yeah, so that when you recover uh on the raft system, it doesn't put as much pressure on the the tail. On the what system?

SPEAKER_03 17:53

The RAST. Oh yeah. Oh, which is the arresting system. Right.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

The cable, right? No, well, yeah, it has the thing that comes down, then the RAST system will grab it, we'll squeeze onto it. Are you talking about on the the destroyer or on the carrier?

SPEAKER_03 18:08

On the destroyer. Yeah, okay. Yeah, because they have those little did yeah, so they had Helos on the on the Leyte Golf as well. Yeah, we had two of them. Yeah, same with Arlie Burke. They got a deck on the back and two little hangers. Um that's pretty cool. Yeah, the last shit. Look it up. The last shit. It's actually it it's you know, as as uh let's say Oscar level entertainment goes, it's you know, it's not there. But it's a r it's a really fun show. Um it's something it's kind of the mindless fun shit that you know you and I really like. Okay, I'll look into it. Yeah. Yeah. Now uh uh you and I are problem solvers. Sure. Yes. Okay. Sure. No, sure, sure. I'm saying yes to sure. I'm agreeing with sure. Um we I mean, we fancy ourselves problem solvers. Uh just before we uh came into the studio to record this, I was uh I was uh texting with uh my buddy Brian, who I've told you a lot about.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yes, yes, you have.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

And uh he he has a big problem, and uh I thought uh maybe we could help him work through this major life problem he has.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Oh, I'm always better at everybody else's problems than my own. Same.

unknown 19:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

So uh should we should we call him?

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Well let's let's give him a holler.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

Yeah, I I he very well may be busy. I don't know. We'll just we'll see what uh I'll just be quiet and you start. Oh I'm yeah, I'll definitely start it. It would be super weird. Well if you start it, that'd be weird, right? Yeah. Can you hear that? Yep. No, you're probably not. Oh hey buddy, how's it going?

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Good, how are you?

SPEAKER_03 20:00

I'm great. Uh you if uh if you're busy or whatever, that's cool. But you're uh on with Mark on on the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

How are we doing, Brian? I don't do well, gentlemen yourselves. Oh, gentlemen, he doesn't even know me. Giving you the benefit of the doubt.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

It's not gonna take very long. Um we've we were um I was I was sort of telling Mark about your gym dilemma, and uh because it's just so you and so me. Like you have two uh well, why don't you what what's got what's the problem? What's this big problem in your life?

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Well the the problem is essentially this there is a gym that is more expensive but is walking distance from my house, or there's one that is much cheaper, and that requires me to actually like drive like two and a half, three miles and annoying myself and my motivation. I'm like, I should probably just do the more expensive one, otherwise I'm not gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Yeah, yeah, because why would you drive to a gym when you could walk to a gym? Exactly. Yeah, so that's that's my problem solved, hang up.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

I think that only is applicable if you're walking so a certain distance. Like if you're walking across the street, no, here's what here's how you would solve the problem is if you walked to the gym that's like three miles away and then worked out, or just turn around and walk back.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

Walk back, don't even pay. It's all free.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Uh let's back up for a second. So um this is Mark. Uh you've you've heard me talk a lot about Mark, and Mark's heard me or uh I've told him a lot about you as well. Um but for the people listening, you know, the three or two three or four of them, uh let's Bri Brian is one of my oldest I've actually known him longer than you, Mark, if you can believe that. Oh wow. Mm-hmm. And I was thinking about the uh uh when do we meet? Two thousand four, Brian?

SPEAKER_04 22:07

No, no, no, no. No.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

I was still I think it was twenty.

SPEAKER_04 22:17

No.

SPEAKER_03 22:17

Twenty?

Seahawks vs Blackhawks On Deck

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Actually, maybe not. Maybe not. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Twenty twenty? That was only six years ago. Oh, but you were age of twenty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Yeah. No, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 22:27

Well.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Well, when did I I wrapped up U of A at uh winter 2003, I think.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Okay. Um, and I Yeah, no. Oh, I where where was I living?

SPEAKER_02 22:44

I think we had one semester overlap.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Okay. Where was I living when we met?

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

That would have yeah, that was three that was three or four. So what's that, twenty-two, twenty-three years?

SPEAKER_04 22:58

Jesus, yeah. Fuck yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

I just feel like it just hit me too.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Let's give him a moment, Finley.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Um, it's funny because Mark is he's not that much older than us. Um 10 years, 12 years older than me, right, Mark? Yeah. Yeah. So he's well into like he's getting he's like, I'm old. I'm just old. One of the things with me and Brian, we're like in this phase where we're grappling with the fact that oh man, we're getting fucking old.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah, my mind says I'm old. Or my mind says I'm young, my body says, what the hell? That's why I don't go to the gym.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Yeah, it's those first 10 to 15 minutes after waking up where you just feel all the pain.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

Yeah, that's why they have Advil for old people.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

It's gotta be more than that. Um or you know, everything hurts, and then some days you wake up and just like one thing hurts really bad. You're like, God, look at my what did I do to my arm? Like for no reason, right? I'll give you I'll give you props though, Brian, going back to the gym. That's uh I'm I respect it. Well, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Uh because you're uh a lot like me, I think, in this regard. It's like you don't like doing things. No, not at all. That's the worst. Well, uh so your dilemma. Um, here's what I think is fun about your dilemma. This has been going on for like three months. Oh shit. Right.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Right? Brian? Uh accurate. Accurate.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Welcome to the procrastination club.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

It's I mean uh, you know, it's I think Brian, tell me if if I'm wrong. But I think in this case it's it's a little bit of that, and it's more just like uh inner turmoil in your brain about oh god, what if I pick the wrong one?

SPEAKER_02 25:02

It's that, and like to add further compound the problem, there's a free gym at work, but I just don't want to do that because I don't want to spend more time at work.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

So there's a secret third option. I didn't even know that. That's not a third option to be stay at work longer. Yeah, well, and to be you work a lot too, Brian, already.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Yeah, so it's just I just don't want to be at the building longer than I have to, so this is actually a decent getaway.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Um, is it did you go to one of the you went to the gym tonight?

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Uh did you go to one of the uh the last three days we got a free pass, so I've gone the last three days every day.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

To which one? The close one or the further one?

SPEAKER_02 25:40

The close one. I haven't done the further one yet.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Did you walk to the close one? I did each time.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

So I can't be friends with him. Well, he's got a mission.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

It's I did I did consider driving one day, but I'm like, no, that would be ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

Yeah, yeah. Uh I I was just giving Mark a compliment out on the deck, like, oh, you're standing up. I've never seen you do that. Is something wrong?

SPEAKER_01 26:07

I'm fluffy and my knees hurt. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Yeah. Um, so did you uh understand that you've only tried one of the two? Like, what are your thoughts on on the closed one?

SPEAKER_02 26:21

It's not bad. It is not as phenomenal as you would necessarily think for the uh monthly price, but it's solid.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Uh isn't the monthly price zero dollars? I thought you were getting it for free.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Three-day pr pass. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 26:36

Yes. Wait, I thought there was whoa. I thought you had a voucher or something, but for these two, am I confused?

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Oh, for you, correct. But it's just if I decide to go with it, if I have to consider like cost and amenities, correct? It is free for anything.

SPEAKER_03 26:49

Yes, it's right.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

So he's uh is it like through work or something that you're or through your through yeah, it's uh like through insurance they offer a third-party discount program.

Phoning Brian About The Gym Choice

SPEAKER_03 26:59

There you go. So that's part of the equation here, Mark, is uh price is not a factor.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Yeah, that's true. Um, I'd go with Planet Fitness. They uh pizza nights and donut nights. It's the only time I ever showed up.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

It's so perfect that you said that because what was like the last what one of the texts you just sent me, Brian, about Planet Fitness.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

So but yeah, they're they're being sued because they actually make it virtually impossible to cancel in August of 2025. A suit was filed because they're just like people are basically directed to not process your cancellations or make it impossible for you to do so.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

Yeah, I've I've heard that. I I I feel like I'd I've I've done the smart thing and just never signed up for a gym. Um so I'll I'll tell you my thought on on this whole gym thing is uh I think my first instinct would be go with the close one because it's close and easy. But then I feel like because it's close and easy, I would never go. Because it would always be just like, oh, I'll do that in a couple minutes. I'll do that in a couple minutes, it'll never happen.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Because if you have to I feel the cost will guilt me into that to help circumvent that part, despite the closeness.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

What what will guilt you into it?

SPEAKER_02 28:26

The cost.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Isn't it zero dollars?

SPEAKER_02 28:29

No, if I if I sign up in earnest, it would be uh 68 a month.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

Oh my god, I'm so confused about this.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

That is so taxes cigarettes.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

Oh, it's the sub Yeah, see. You've heard of that thing called a spectrum, and opposite ends of it, here we are. Uh brands on one way.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

The close option is$68. Uh LA Fitness is$28, the work gym is free.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Okay, so it's a they they give you a disco it's like a subsidy.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Correct. Not free. Wow. Now, would you just go after work so you could drive by to the the cheaper gym, or would you go home and get ready to go to the gym? Oh good question.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

I mean, I've done both at this point, and actually they're both equally convenient because I mean they're just yeah, walking distance, so walking.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Would you uh I think that I think that's actually a really good question, Mark, because again, it's a it's like m the point I'm getting at is like whether it's intentional or not, right? Right. It's like if you can just walk out the front door and walk to it, you don't really have to think about it that much. Uh and for me means I would never do it. But so are you gonna um and I know obviously we're not good at solving problems, so we're we're as good at solving other people's problems. Not so not so far. Uh don't go. Oh. Yeah, but we should I I'm proud of I'm respect it. Like just because we are lazy people who do not like have horrible lifestyles, we should not just encourage that for others.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Oh, I respect anybody that's willing to go to the gym, especially three days in a row.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Yeah. I used to be with this until about 2023, and then I kind of tapered off.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

Yeah, it well two things. One, was it in a row? You threw it. Oh my gosh, I who that's a lot. Um, and yeah, the other thing is yeah, kind of like you and Mark uh or sorry, you and me, Mark, Brian and I have been in and out of touch over, you know, ever since I left Tucson many, many years ago. And just about cutting two and a half years ago, we really reconnected. And yeah, I remember at that point you were like really into the gym and everything, and I'm like, oh my god, our lives have gone in such different directions. I'm just a fat slob and I don't want to do anything, and you have a great job and you're working out. Oh god, now I realize that as soon as he started talking to me, he stopped going to the gym. Fuck I ruined everybody's life.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Not just your own.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

Oh my god. Uh oh, uh I by the way, incidentally, I should mention for the for the listener, hopefully, um, that you, you sir, or uh you you helped pick the name of this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Uh yes, that I did.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Which I'm assuming that you haven't yet listened to.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

I I I've only been able to listen to a snippet, I've not been able to listen to the full episode.

SPEAKER_03 31:45

Yeah. I I hear you. It's uh well the thing is, and I talk I I get that because you don't listen to podcasts. Like, you know. Um It's okay, Brian.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Neither do I.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

He doesn't. It's we talked about this a couple episodes ago. I'm like, do you think it's weird that like you're hosting a podcast where you've never listened, you've never heard one?

SPEAKER_01 32:06

I heard sit on your ass and talk. And I'm like, I'm in.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

I'm down. Are there are are there cats? Are there sodas? Yep, cool. Yep. How well let me ask you this. Uh, how long how long is your workout?

SPEAKER_02 32:22

Uh about 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

Oh boy. Perfect. What what do you listen to music when you're working out? Do I just I'm gonna throw this out there. Our episodes are just about 45 minutes, so so I just need to transition to set and center.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

Uh look, I don't wanna uh coerce you into follow being a follower. No, I'm just it it it's not you know, podcasts aren't for everybody, and I'll be honest, they're hard to get into. Uh Mark, bless his heart. He even tried to listen to Anne Podcast um at some point after we had started recording the podcast. Yeah. I think like a half an episode. So but yeah, uh, I certainly appreciate you picking up the phone tonight because I'm sure as soon as you saw my name, you knew what was coming, even though I didn't tell you we were gonna call you.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Well, did we help him solve his uh dilemma at all?

SPEAKER_03 33:19

I think we just wasted 15 minutes of his time.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

The question is, do they both do they both have free Wi-Fi? Uh oh gosh, I didn't even check it out.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

He doesn't Brian lives in the city.

unknown 33:33

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

So everywhere he goes, his phone has internet. I'm like right.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

That's true. I was just thinking it's gotta have Wi-Fi so I can just sit there the whole time and take a poop.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

Yeah, you're really selling the whole you should listen to this podcast thing there, Mark.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Good lord. Well, if you'd extend all this into the bathroom, I'd be good playing on my phone and doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Look, there's a reason that I got a certain length of microphone cable. Because you have to be restricted in some capacity. This is true. Yeah. Um, well, uh thanks for thanks for fucking around with us a little bit. Uh absolutely. I'll let you I'll let you go. Um I uh you what do you do for a I was I talk about this all the time. It's just absolutely fascinating. Just before we let you go, tell tell tell everybody what you do for a living.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Uh I work in digital forensics as uh primarily computer examinations.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Yeah, it's super, super interesting stuff. Um you know, I I just love hearing about it. Um and so maybe someday we can bring you in uh you know well when we need consulting on some ranch tech. Like, you know what? Let's call BJ.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

I'm game.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Cool. Coat. All right, but uh well, have a good night. I'll probably dice with you here in a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

Awesome. Thanks, folks. Bye. Take care.

SPEAKER_03 34:58

Yeah, he's a super, super good, uh, cool guy. Um, once again, we need help. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

Yeah.

Motivation, Cost, And Habit Loops

SPEAKER_03 35:05

Go to the go to the further away one. The number of times that uh uh during the helping him that I forgot that we were supposed to be helping him. Uh so he um I'll tell you just another really cool thing, is he m my mom because you know he's in Arizona, my family's in Arizona, he because my mom's really interested in like true crime and all that kind of stuff, and he actually once he figured once he learned that he uh he set up for her a whole uh almost day-long tour at their uh crime lab.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

Yeah, and she got to see all the different things, like his his area of digital forensics and then you know, like uh the firearms area where they do forensics on the bull, you know, just the DNA stuff. It was super super cool. Um, and she she talks about it a lot, and uh he was a he was an absolute gentleman um to do that, and she had a great time and I loved hearing about it.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Oh, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Yeah. Um they probably wouldn't let us into a crime lab.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

No, especially digital, they'd be like, Can we have your phone? No, no, God, no. No, burn it. Yeah, throw that away. I'd sooner burn it than let anybody open that thing. That's I got a thing with my kid. If if anything happens to me, he takes my phone and gets rid of it. If anything happens to him, he I take his phone and get rid of it.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

Yeah, the dead man switch.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

Uh yeah, that's I I get ya. It's like people people should not have to see what's going on in my phone. Nobody should have to deal with it. Yeah. Um last episode, well, a few it was several episodes ago, I think, but we were we were talking about your uh well, the winter storm and the you lost power and it was cold and everything, and you saw it reprieve in your truck. Yes. And just why don't you recap for the audience?

SPEAKER_01 37:01

So anyway, I was sitting out there not the whole thing. Yeah, that I was sitting out there in my truck, got no heat. So I think it was the next day Ryan came over, we talked about it. So I'd already put antifreeze in it, still blew cold. Ryan came over to the ranch and got some more antifreeze, put it in there, still blew it cold. And then that was yesterday. And then so this morning or this afternoon, he texted and said, Hey, got some time, always got time. So he came over and I was telling him about what I thought it was, and he's like, Well, I talked to my guy, and this is what he came up with. And so he ended up being an air pocket in the in the line in the lines are in the the block where you actually had to squeeze the top radiator hose and let the uh air bubbles go into the reservoir.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

Well, yeah, well, uh there's a little more to it than that. Um we had to drive it onto an incline first.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

That's true, and there's not very many inclines around here.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

No, and that's that's not a very uh wasn't a very like interesting detail for me to add. It's like, well, also you had to drive it up a little mound.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Yeah. But it worked. I didn't I didn't realize how much air those suckers held.

SPEAKER_03 38:15

Yeah, um, right, and it and it did work. Although uh uh we earlier um I was like, well, let's just scan it for shits, right? Yep. Uh and I'm gonna give you this code right now. Uh it's uh B100. Well I'm holding Finley, so B1066 uh colon zero zero-eight. And what it says, well then what it says here is air distribution damper motor. So even though it's heating now, uh maybe there's there might be something else in there to take a look at.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yeah, I'll look that up.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

And then speaking of uh Finley, uh we did talk about him uh a few episodes ago, but uh you know, some uh a thing about him uh is he has he has seizures sometimes. And he's had it his whole life. He's uh he's like eight. Um and we don't know why, and they're not that often. I would say all things being equal about once a month. Um though when there's a lot of excitement and stuff, it it tends to tends to happen. And we were that's what I'm giving Mark the number the code right now is we were in the middle of scanning it and finally uh he had jumped in the truck because he loves trucks. So he was sitting in the driver's seat and he went right into a seizure. Um and it's like a 10 or 15 minute thing, and he just a poor little guy, it just breaks your heart. But um, there's nothing you can do about it, it doesn't do any permanent damage. Um you just kinda help him ride it out. So uh Mark grabbed him um and held him. Well, I th I was finishing the scan and then um and then we came in, so we didn't have a chance to look it up, but uh yeah, we'll see what happens with that. And these these I don't know. I I I hate the seizures, it sucks, it sucks for him. But uh I will say once you know, once you've gotten used to it, I don't know, did it scare like did it kind of freak you out the first time you saw it happen?

SPEAKER_01 40:26

A little bit, yes. Yeah, because I wasn't I wasn't expecting it. I mean you talked about it with him and stuff, and yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:33

Yeah, and and his are a little different um than most because it goes on for a while a long time. Yeah, usually seizures are pretty short, and so yeah, it's it just break your heart. Um, but the best thing to do uh that I've learned through experience, uh unfortunately Milo had seizures. Did I tell you that? Ever tell you that?

SPEAKER_01 40:56

No, he never told me that one.

Digital Forensics And Crime Lab Tour

SPEAKER_03 40:59

He similar similar frequency, you know, like once his were about like once every three weeks, and uh although his I do know what what his were caused by, which was uh he had a head trauma when he was pretty young, which I'll circle back to that. But um, so anyway, point being uh best thing you can do is just pick him up, hold him, and comfort him, and ride it out, you know, make sure he doesn't flop around and hurt himself, and just go about your business. Um because you know, he just needs some comfort and some calm. And so if you start, oh my god, blah blah blah, it makes it worse.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

So now he's sitting over here on my lap just getting cuddles and snoring.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

Yes, yeah. So like Mark, anybody who's been you know spent time on the ranch, they know that. So it's just like oh, he's having a seizure. Mark's like, okay, I'll grab him, blah blah blah. And then we went and sat down and just we just kept talking doing our thing. Um, and that's the best thing for it.

SPEAKER_01 42:03

Um because I didn't want you to stop to scan on my truck. Right.

Truck Heat Fix And Error Codes

SPEAKER_03 42:09

I'm I'm sitting here like trying to make you sound like a decent person, and then Oh, the anybody that knows me knows I'm not a decent person. Yeah. Uh I'll tell you uh Milo's thing though. Um uh Milo of Milo fame, um, when he was he probably had to have been about three or four, he had just gotten Oakley and Oakley He was not hardly young, but he was he was I don't know, six, eight months. And uh they used to do a thing when people would like come in the front door where they'd run and they'd like jump on the back of the couch and wait for him, and so uh somebody had come on the front door and Milo ran up on the back of the couch and Oakley did the same thing, but he was kind of you know, a little bit puppy, a little bit clumsy, and he just clean knocked Milo off the back of the couch, and it's it's key. It's only funny for a second because he fell on his head on his skull onto a hardwood floor. Oh and went right into a seizure, which I had never experienced before with the dog, and it was really scary. I bet. He came out of it about ten minutes later, uh, and then oh my dad was there, that's what it was. Um then like okay, I guess he's fine, seems okay now. And then the next day he went into another one just randomly, like shit, oh my god. Oh shit. Took him to the emergency vet. And uh Yeah. Basically by the time we got there, of course it was over, and she gave me the whole spiel. There's nothing you can do, it doesn't hurt him. I don't know. Uh there are there are medications you can put him on for it at the time. The only option they had was uh phenobarbital. Uh for a lot of reasons, but uh they came out with better ones eventually. And uh ultimately he did end up having to be put on a med in the last like five or six years of the life. And boy, what a thing. Um it was called Zonisomide. Anybody listening who has a dog who has seizures, um, if you're looking for something, I'll forget about this. Um I I'll tell you that Milo had had seizures for uh six years, whatever, very consistently. From the second I gave him that first pill until the day that I lost him. Seven years later, something seizure. And no side effects at all. Um and I'll say this again for anybody listening. My vet told me at the time that like this is one of those things that's got almost like no side effects is very, very effective when it is. But it's only effective for you know a certain percentage of the dogs. I think uh it's not like gonna work for all of them, but it was a godsend, an absolute godsend. So I guess I did.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

I could have blamed it on Finley, but he's damn it's on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 45:15

Oh, he's on the floor, yeah. Yep. Um Well, if you can believe it, um that's the end of that's the end of this uh this show. Huh.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

That's that went quick. I sure did. I hear it every time.

SPEAKER_03 45:26

Yeah, it's like you were quick. Uh well. Uh well, uh it's been a blast. We'll catch y'all later. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

Hey, it's Mark here at Set and Centered. Uh just want to let everybody know that if they want to catch us on the socials, you can catch us at our webpage, setcenter.live, or on Facebook at SetCenterLive. Uh we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that as we keep on going. And also we talk a lot about the animals here on the ranch. And you can we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes. Let us know. Have a good one.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

It always shows we're setting center, kind of sorta, maybe. Holding it together with zip ties, baby. Dogs in the dirt, giving side eye shade. Laughing through the mess that we just made. Yeah, we said it's centered, but the world's off track. If it's broke, it's up. You can count on that sockets gone, wind blows, gate won't latch. Two boxes open like a raccoon got snatched. Coffee cold, temp, high sweatin', regret, still talking like we got it. You bet we take a breath, then we jump back in. Same two clowns, same old grim, we stepped still a kind of sort of baby. Holding it together, we zip ties, baby. Dogs in the dirt, giving side eyes jade, laughing through the mess we just made. Yeah, we're dead and centered, but the world's off track. Broke it stuck. You can count that break time, yell it all unwind. Thousand dogs judging with that thousand-yard mind. Project list is long, but we'll get that soon. That's a lie, but it's a good tone. We said it's in a kind of sort of maybe held together by stubborn and a little crazy. You're still listening to one of the pack now. Back to the chaos. Here we go.