Cold Open And Radio Studio Habits

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Who would have been the Cadillac of all car models, right? It's gonna be really big.

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Right. It'd be like an escalade. Right. We're gonna have to get out of the way. It'll be weaving back and forth. It can barely be a steering wheel.

SPEAKER_05 0:16

Some grandmother from Atlanta driving it, you know.

SPEAKER_03 0:20

Yeah, really smooth. It won't bump at all. It'll just hey everybody. It's the Williams Brothers Podcast. I'm guard. Put a little chuckle into it. Hi, I'm Steven. I'm Neil. I'm Shaler. Shaler did a little DJ voice in there.

SPEAKER_05 0:56

We'll do the radio laugh. Yeah, with the shoulders. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:04

Yeah. So it's more authentic.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Yes, sounds like it.

SPEAKER_04 1:10

Did you ever get coaching like that? Like what to physically do, like when you're on the radio, what to physically do to sound more up and hip and whatever.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Smile. I did get that. Smile. Smile. They always say smile because the smile comes through on the air. But the other stuff that people do used to do, I don't know what they do now, but I mean the people, the things that people used to do when they were talking on the air was hilarious to watch. Because I know there was one guy, and I think I think he used to do I used to do this too, right before the mic would go on, or like or after the mic would turn on, his leg would start going. And he's like stomping his foot really fast. And then I had there was another a morning guy in North Carolina when I was in college, and he would duck. He would talk, and then he would duck out of the way, and then he'd come back and then he'd duck again. And it was it was and then like when the whenever the uh the the song would make a like an impact or something like that while he was talking, he would duck out of the way. It was like he was getting out of the way of the post or whatever. It was pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_04 2:15

I just remember the arm gestures too, because you had to hit buttons to start each each whatever it was, the jingle or the music, and just they'd hit the button and their arms would flap in the air, like bam.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

Yeah, yeah, you hit it really hard, make sure you got it. Yeah, very fun. Yeah, yeah, that was fun. The good old days. The good old days. I don't have a single picture of myself in the studio. I don't know, I don't know. I thought for sure I would have one somewhere, but I don't have any. Every time DJ Day comes up, I'm like, nope, zero pictures of me in a in a radio studio. 30 years in radio, not one picture of me in a studio.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

I'll look in some old pictures.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

I'm bound to have one somewhere. That's what I thought. I thought there'd be one somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

AI can make one if not. That's the greatest world we live in today.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

That's right. I'll just upload a picture of somebody else at SGA. I think I've got one of C.B. Gaffney. There you go. And I'll I'll just say put me in there.

SPEAKER_05 3:10

Dr. C B Gaffney. Increase my years by 30 years and then put me in this picture.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

I'm sure to look just like me.

Copier Hack And Audio Nerd Stories

SPEAKER_04 3:18

I've got a great C.B. Gaffney story. So uh so CB in the in his daytime job at one point was a copier repair guy. Because business machines and copier repair was a big deal, you know, a long time ago, really expensive stuff. And and so at WKBX WSGF, they they got a new copier that was really nice. But to control copies, they had this little looked almost like a pager that plugged into the side of the copier, and that was the key that you had to have to make copies. And it had a counter.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

I remember that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:53

And I was trying to copy something, and CB coast, let me show you something. He takes a paper clip and sticks it into two of the pinholes where the adapter goes, and it copies all day long.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

No problem. I remember you showed me that, and I was able to I was able to do so many resumes that way. It was CB.

SPEAKER_04 4:13

That's funny. I'm sure the statute of limitations is, you know, yeah, you can get him now. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 4:20

It was whatever happened to that guy. He he owns Gaffney Technical Services in Easley, South Carolina. He was previously Regional Director of Broadcast Engineering for Odyssey, Atlanta, Greenville, and Spartanburg.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

Oh, that's cool. Good for that.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

All top of mind, he just happened to and he was also director of engineering for Dick Broadcasting. So yeah. He hung on to radio and the technical end of things, like putting paper clips into copy machines. I haven't talked to him or anything, but I just looked him up while you were talking about him.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

What a voice. What a voice, man.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Sleeping happy. Yep. He used to love Fire Sign Theater, and I had a Fire Sign Theater uh album, and he would quote it all the time. He sounded like a raving lunatic, but it was really funny.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Was it Don't Step on That Dwarf? Was that the one?

SPEAKER_03 5:16

Yeah, yeah, that was the one. Yeah, that was a crazy one. I actually went back and listened to that online and I was like, what in the heck is going on here? It is crazy. I mean, there's a lot of cool sound effects and and like theater of the mind, but it's all so weird.

unknown 5:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:34

I think they might have been doing some sort of drugs, but maybe oh no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 5:40

Can't imagine it was for art. It's okay. Yeah, that's true. It was very art. It's okay if it's for art. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

So I signed up for Apple TV because March 7th, F1 is back, and that's the only way you can watch it in the U.S.

SPEAKER_05 6:03

Really?

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Yep. You have to have Apple TV to watch F1. You can't get the F1. Yeah, you can't get the F1 app anymore.

SPEAKER_05 6:13

Apple besides F1, because that that's gonna make a determination if I get Apple TV or not. Severance. Severance is really good. Yeah. I've watched most of Severance. I haven't seen the latest. I mean, I saw I saw last season, and then I canceled Apple TV after that.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

And so I'm just waiting for there's a cute movie on called Eternity. We watched that last night. Pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Apple TV actually bought the rights to Severance. So they actually own the show now instead of it being licensed or whatever. Yeah. I think that was in the news yesterday, and it was tens of millions of dollars that they paid for it. Ted Lasso's gonna have a new season, I think. Yeah, I think so. Okay. So uh Silo is the other one I like. Oh right, yeah. Silo. I guess one more they're doing one more season and that's it, or do we know? Oh Ted Lasso? Oh silo.

SPEAKER_04 7:04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 7:05

Don't know.

SPEAKER_04 7:06

Slow Horses. If you get to watch Slow Horses, that's really good. Really good. It's kind of dark, right? Is it? Uh it's it's it's not so dark. Gary Oldham is is kind of this washed out of the street. Oh right. Um I don't know if it's MI6, whatever it is in in the UK. And so they're they're put off into this building where all the rejected agents go and he's the ringleader. Right.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Interesting.

SPEAKER_04 7:32

But it's really, it's really well done. It's very interesting.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

They do all kinds of super cool stuff from their their little tiny rejects.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

They're all characters, too. Everybody there is their their own stream character, so it's really entertaining.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

And also F1 the movie is on Apple.

SPEAKER_05 7:52

I've not seen F1 the movie, isn't it? I haven't either.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Yeah, it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 7:56

It's like Days of Thunder, except it's in in an F1 car. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I just asked if it was good, and then you compared it to Days of Thunder. No, I mean it's a uh I'm torn now.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

You know how Tom Cruise movies are? It's like that. It's like a Tom Cruise movie that they put Brad Pitt Brad Pitt in, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

It's like they took a Tom Cruise movie and said, okay, well, Tom doesn't want to do this, so Brad Pitt can do it because he's good looking and he can fit right in. So yeah. But it's yeah, he's trying to come back. He's an older guy. He's you know, it's it's the whole thing.

SPEAKER_05 8:35

Or not NASCAR, but F1 driver. Yeah, that seems legit.

Big F1 Changes And Cadillac Team

SPEAKER_03 8:38

He's just anything, he'll drive anything. He he'll race any any any car. So big changes for the F1 season this year. 22 cars on the grid instead of 20, thanks to Cadillac adding a new team.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

Who would have thought Cadillac of all of all car brands, right? It's gonna be really big.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

Right, it's gonna be like an escalade. Right. Everybody'll have to get out of the way. It'll be weaving back and forth. It can barely really with a steering wheel.

SPEAKER_05 9:09

Some grandmother from Atlanta driving it, you know.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Yeah, really smooth. It won't, it won't bump at all. It'll just that'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

I thought Audi was gonna be an F1.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Audi is. They took over Kick Sauber. Okay. So there's that, and then what else? They're they're actually changing the cars dramatically. So now there's a 50-50 split between engine and electric power, where it used to be like 80-20 or something. Yeah, right. There's the the electric motor is way more powerful, like three times as powerful as the one they have now, or one they used to have. Active arrow with movable front and rear wings instead of the classic DRS. So there's not gonna be DRS anymore, but you'll be able to adjust your front and rear wing, I think, as you want as you need to, not at a specific time. So mess.

SPEAKER_06 10:11

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Because DRS always drove me crazy. It's like, how do you know you have DRS? You know, you you can't use it until you get cleared for it or whatever. It was really weird. Yeah. Higher budget cap. Yeah, they needed that because you know, there's not nearly enough money in F1 right now. They're all living in Monaco. Where else are they gonna move? The you know, Mars or something?

SPEAKER_05 10:34

So, how do we think Williams is gonna do this year?

SPEAKER_03 10:37

I don't know. I think they're on they're on the beginning of their comeback. I think I mean they were looking pretty good last year, even though they weren't making upgrades to their car. So this year, with this new car, I mean, it all depends. You know, and sort of until we see him on the track, we we may not know how anybody's gonna do that.

SPEAKER_05 10:56

Yeah, I was about to say it's so different now, it's a kind of a crapshoot. We don't really know. But I mean, Carlos signs, he really upped the game for Williams.

SPEAKER_03 11:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:04

Is he driving again this year? Carlos? Yeah, I think so. I haven't heard any different.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

And so many people have shifted, like like engineers have moved from one team to another, and yeah, and it'll just be really fascinating to see what happens. I sure hope we don't end up with a situation where we're Verstappen is out front, you know, 40 seconds ahead of everybody else, yeah. Having his cappuccino or whatever, watching a movie.

SPEAKER_05 11:31

I like your hat. You've got the Atlassian.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

I finally ordered it. It came all the way from the UK, and it's the actual Williams Atlassian Racing hat. It says Atlassian Williams Racing on it, not like my other hat that just said Williams, and everybody thought it was just I've just had my name printed off shirt or a hat, you know, for some crazy reason. So this is the one the drivers are gonna wear.

SPEAKER_05 12:01

So nice. All right, yeah. Does it smell like jet fuel?

SPEAKER_03 12:06

It does smell a little bit like uh jet fuel or French fry grease. I'm not sure which.

SPEAKER_05 12:12

Right, yeah.

Dogs, Grief, And Minor Injuries

SPEAKER_03 12:13

I'm hungry, yeah. I don't understand every time I go to a race. And Marg chewed up my other Williams hat, so oh well, I'm not leaving this one anywhere where she can get a hold of it. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:25

How is Marg, by the way?

SPEAKER_03 12:27

She's a little sad, she doesn't have her her bro to play with anymore. We had to had to help George go. But yeah, she's a little because she's a dog's dog, she's not a person like dog, like George was. So she is is, you know, look she wants to play with a dog. And she's not, you know, she I don't know, she's just very different than George. George is very much a person, and she's just all dog. The good thing is I'm walking her every day now because she doesn't get the exercise that she got before, so I get more exercise. So that's good. And then I get to chase her around the house sometimes a few times a day, just because that's what she loved to do.

SPEAKER_04 13:08

And so I want to keep her a little tug of war with the teeth and everything, just get on the floor and she likes to run with it.

SPEAKER_03 13:14

So so she will you'll you go after you bait you basically give her whatever it is that you're gonna play with her, and then she takes off and you have to run after her, and inevitably she goes to the dining room table and goes around it, so you can't there's no way to catch her at that point, so but still it's fun to to chase her around. Then every now and then she'll act like she's dropped it or something, and you pick it up, and it's fun.

SPEAKER_05 13:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

So yeah, she's doing she's doing better.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

Good, good. That's good. That is good.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

She also is very different in that she eats whenever she's hungry and doesn't eat when she's not hungry. So, like she'll eat part of her food and then just leave it and come back later and eat the rest. George would wolf down anything that was in front of him immediately.

SPEAKER_04 13:58

We had a lab that we used to call Carb Dog because if you left a loaf of bread close to the edge of the countertop, oh yeah, you'd go to the grocery store and come back, and there would be a wrapper on the floor opened up and the loaf of bread gone. Man.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

And George was very well mannered. He would he never would pull anything off of the counter. He would, I mean, he always was very careful about like making sure whoever, if you're walking down the stairs, you went first and he was behind you. And and he also got a lot of jokes. He you could tell he could tell what was funny and what wasn't. Like I would be going down the stairs and he would get really excited when it was time to eat dinner. So I would go down the stairs, and if I stopped, he would stop right there on the same step. And then I would do two steps and he would do two steps. And or I would go back two steps and he would go back two steps. It was really fun. You know, he he got the jokes. I could tell he had a really good sense of humor. And Margo's just like, whatever, I don't know what you guys are. How's the finger and the uh whatever else was injured on you? Your back, um, Shaler Baylor?

SPEAKER_05 15:08

My back? What's wrong with my back? Wait, what? You tweaked it, remember? I tweak my back all the time, so I don't know. Oh, okay. So yeah, I mean that's that's a common occurrence. So if I I've probably tweaked it three or more three or more times since the last time, but no, it's okay. Finger is not getting much better, to be honest with you. It's it's about that much, is about as far as I can bend my finger, which is maybe halfway. And it's still swollen and it still kind of hurts. So I don't know. It's you know, it might that might just be my I want to get that looked at.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Nah, it's a little late. You're gonna need that finger for a few. Yeah, that's a trigger finger, man. You're not, you're not, you're not on the way out, Shaler.

SPEAKER_05 15:46

You're you're uh I mean, it's just it's not like I need to bend that finger.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

You're a little over halfway through, maybe. You've got a long way to go on that finger.

SPEAKER_05 15:55

It's all it's all just fine. It's all what they do though is they break it again so that they can reset it. Yeah. So that's what we were trying to avoid the first time, but now it's gotta be rebroken and reset. Yeah, that's all right though. It's all right.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

If you just slammed it hard, it you know, it'd probably loosen it up. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

Like in a car door or something.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

Yeah, that's just putting like a board over the top of it and then get a hammer and just wham on it really hard. I think that'll just gotta stretch it out.

SPEAKER_05 16:24

That's all. Just that's it. That's all I gotta do.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Just get one of those little Chinese finger deals.

SPEAKER_05 16:30

Yeah, I think the cold, the cold weather from my last trip did not help it much. So it's anyway, just physical therapy on that thing.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Yeah, yeah, go in for physical therapy on that. They can fix that up for you.

Robots, AI, And The Future Of Work

SPEAKER_05 16:43

That's it. That's what I need. I need physical therapy on my finger.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

I actually read uh there's a they're making robots now out of some kind of fabric. They weave it together so that when certain pieces of the fabric are pulled, it moves its like this was a hand that they built, and so they had the skeleton, and then it wove the fabric around the skeleton, and then when certain strings were pulled of the fabric or or parts of the fabric were pulled, it literally moved its fingers. It was spooky.

SPEAKER_04 17:13

Westworld, man.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

It's exactly what it looked like. Westworld.

SPEAKER_05 17:17

Yep, that's what it needs. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

And it's so complex. I mean, the the weaving is so complex that I think only like robots can build it. So we're gonna get to a point where we don't even know how they're built anymore, and they're gonna look just like us. And and one day robots are gonna rule the world, and then they're gonna be talking about their creator, quote unquote. And it's all it's gonna have all come from our brains.

SPEAKER_05 17:44

We'll be on Mars. It'll be fine. It is a little frightening though that when some of these people that work for these AI like companies decide to leave and they say the reason they're leaving is they're scared of what's coming next. Right. It's like, huh, maybe we should be worried about that too.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

I've heard that a lot. You know, everybody talks about people who used to make wagon wheels or whatever, you know. And you know, they found another job, they worked on car wheels or whatever. And but now they're like, you know, well, but AI is not gonna just take the wagon wheels, it's gonna take every job, every single job it can do. And and so I don't know. I don't know if it's that dire, but who knows? We won't know until we'll see.

SPEAKER_04 18:31

But well, and and you had a barrier between like AI and the physical world, you know, because sort of like AI can do all kinds of stuff on computers, but then there's the physical world, you know, like fixing a sink in your bathroom. But you know, like you said earlier about the robots, they're they're working that out too.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

So oh yeah, as soon as they can get that into some robots, yeah. Yeah, it's all over. Look out. At first we'll have one in our homes, like just to help us with stuff, and then they'll take over. Take us all out in our sleep one by one. Pretty much. Yep. The robots are coming for you.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

Then we won't be worried about it anymore.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

We'll just that's right, it won't matter anymore.

SPEAKER_05 19:12

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

Good luck. Good luck with that. Yeah, dad used to always talk about that. About, okay, so you know, when when there are no more people working, how do you make money to buy things? How does the economy then work? And why does anybody build the robots if nobody can buy anything? What are you building anything for? So then what's the purpose of the entire thing?

SPEAKER_05 19:38

Yeah, that's the million-dollar question. That was the whole Henry Ford question, wasn't it? Is he he didn't want to buy, he didn't want to build cars that the people that actually built the cars could not afford. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 19:52

Yep. Yeah, we're just solving all the problems of the world. Now now you can't buy a car for under$50,000 practically. It's ridiculous how much they charge for cars. That is true. I remember back in the day going to the Volkswagen dealership in Savannah, and in the in the showroom was a Porsche, a beautiful Porsche, probably a boxter or something like that. And it was, I don't know, fifty-five thousand dollars. And I thought, that's crazy. Yeah, you know, who has fifty-five thousand dollars to spend on this car?

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

And now it's three hundred thousand dollars, yeah. Yeah, and Toyota pickup trucks, they'd have commercials all the time, whatever the the Toyota dealership was that always advertised in Savannah, and it was like fifty, fifty, fifty-nine ninety-five. It was like six thousand dollars for a new Toyota truck. And it's like now sixty probably won't get you in one. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

I remember I almost bought the first Hyundai to come to the US. I went and test drove it, it was four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars. And I mean, it was the cheapest car that you could buy at the time. A brand new car. And it was nice, had a Mitsubishi engine, all that stuff, but and I was talking to dad about it, and he was like, I don't know about Hyundai. You know, that's they they may not be around very long. There, that's a whole new company right there. You don't even know if if you'll be able to buy parts for that, you know?

SPEAKER_05 21:30

Right, yeah, yeah. They've done okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Yeah, they have hung on.

SPEAKER_05 21:34

Yeah, they've hung on. They've got Kia too, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:37

So, yeah, they're doing all right. Yeah, yeah. And now they've got that giant plant in Savannah where the robots are gonna build the cars.

SPEAKER_05 21:47

Yes. Before they take over the world.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

Exactly. On their way to taking over. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 21:54

Savannah's first. That's the first target.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Of course, as always. Remember. Back when we were kids, always hearing and thinking about the fact that at any at any point nuclear missiles could just fall right on our heads, and and we were pretty sure it would happen because we lived in Savannah where the Hunter Army Airfield was, so it was like, oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:16

It's like the world's largest army airfield or something in the world.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

Yeah, and Fort Stewart not far away. So yeah, we were goners for sure.

SPEAKER_05 22:24

Yeah. I remember thinking somebody, I don't know if it was just rumor or what it was, but it was like, yeah, Savannah's third on the list for a nuclear weapon hitting.

Terrorism Rabbit Holes And Truth Fatigue

SPEAKER_03 22:34

Everybody just assumed that, and that's just that's how you lived your life, which was kind of crazy when you think about it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Shaler.

SPEAKER_05 22:41

I mean, did you listen to that podcast I sent you? No, I've not listened to it. Okay. All right. So this is I'm going down the rabbit hole on some of these podcasts, but there's a guy named Sean Ryan, who is a big podcaster now, video, he was ex-CIA, Navy SEAL, blah, blah, blah. And he interviews this woman. Her name is Sarah Adams. And Sarah Adams, years and years ago, used to work at Disney. But since then, she joined the CIA and did all this crazy terrorist stuff. And I think she was actually in the middle of like the whole 9-11 thing, too. She was in the CIA, and she's just done all this her whole life, except for Disney, has been terrorism research. And so she's on the Sean Ryan show, and she's an encyclopedia of terrorism. So you hear her talk for like three hours, and you're okay, we're doomed. We're done. We're done. I mean, it's unbelievable. If everything she says is true, which I don't have any reason to think it's not, because she speaks with some authority and and I guess she can back it up. Anyway, Sarah Adams, if you have a chance to go down a rabbit hole and get a little depressed, um Sarah Adams, man. The terrorists are gonna get us before the AI does.

SPEAKER_03 24:11

Yeah, that's that's all I need is one more reason to be depressed about the future. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:16

No, right? Yeah. Yeah, I'll have to have to find that one again and listen to it. Because you know, you hear, oh yeah, we've we've stopped Al-Qaeda and we've stopped this and we've stopped that, and she's like, We haven't done Jack. In fact, yeah, um we're actually paying them money. So anyway, it's yeah, it's pretty insightful. Yeah. Crazy world. It is a crazy world, man. It's like, yeah, you think, okay, things are getting better, things are getting better, and then nope, there's always there's always bad, a lot of bad going on, unfortunately. But it's good that that the public doesn't necessarily need to know that there's a lot of bad. There's just no reason for people to know how much bad there is because you're just gonna get everybody depressed.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

And when you're talking about that kind of thing, you could say anything. Nobody knows any different. If we don't know what's going on and somebody's telling us something else is going on, we still don't know what's going on. True. So, you know, yeah, it's just you know, it's exciting. It probably gets people to listen, and maybe it's true. I don't know, but could not be true. Nobody could tell, you know.

SPEAKER_05 25:25

That's yeah, in today, in today's world.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

That's what it all boils down to to me is it just doesn't matter. And I have no, there's nothing I can do.

SPEAKER_05 25:34

Zero control, right?

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

So I'm not gonna get upset about it.

SPEAKER_04 25:39

Nope. That's that's just the information age, right? It used to be you only kind of knew what was happening in your neighborhood and your city and all that, and then 24-hour news, and now and you were relatively sure whatever Walter Cronkite said was was accurate and consistent.

SPEAKER_05 25:54

Yeah, fairly accurate, yeah, consistent. Like that whole moon landing thing, you know. What a crock. Everybody just believed that. And the earth is round. Come on, whatever.

Training Videos And The Fitbit For Farts

SPEAKER_03 26:07

As if that's funny. I'm trying to see if this'll play back for Shaler because I know it'll it'll mean a lot to him.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Uh-oh. You remember this? It should improve both the mobility and the comfort of wearing the costume. These adjustable shoulder straps will allow you to adjust the fat portion of the suit so that it doesn't hang down on your legs and hamper your movement.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

You know what that is? I don't know what that is. That is the instructional video about how to put on the Chuck E. Cheese costume.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

Oh, I never I never wore the Chuck E. Cheese costume. I was too no, I was too tall. You had to be like 5'9 or shorter or something, and I'm I was 6'1, so it's just not. It's time. I thought you dressed up in the Chuck E. Cheese costume. I I ran the beverage bar back when they could serve beer and all that stuff, and then I also did the announcements because I had the super cool radio voice.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

So that you can go without shoes. Also, there are velcro straps that fasten across the top and back of your foot. Now put on the left hand making the audience.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

Yeah, it's kind of good, cool music, groovy music.

SPEAKER_05 27:23

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Today at Chuck E. Cheese or Showbiz, whatever, we have a very special birthday guest. His name is Bob. Bob is turning five years old. Happy birthday, Bob, from Chuck E. Cheese. Oh no, from Chuck from Billy Bob, Chuck E. Cheese, and the entire rock of fire explosion. That was the that was the thing. Yeah. And that was when Chuck E. Cheese had just bought Showbiz. And so they were incorporating Chuck E. Cheese into the Showbiz thing. So technically I worked at Showbiz Pizza, but it was soon to become Chuck E. Cheese.

SPEAKER_04 27:58

So the animatronics were just cool at the time. What any anything to know about how that stuff worked, or could you program it and make it say things?

SPEAKER_05 28:07

No, I mean it was literally you just turn it on and it does its thing, and there was a button you push for the birthday thing to start, right? And at the end of the day, there's a thing in the back room, you turn it off, and as you're as you come, you're coming back around the corner after you've turned it off. And it's all hydraulics, right? And so you kind of hit the button, you kind of forget about it, and you're walking back around, and all of a sudden they all move because the air gets let out or whatever, the hydraulics. If you weren't thinking about it, it freaked you out a little bit because suddenly they all start moving. It's like, whoa. But anyway, it was uh it was fun. Good time.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

My favorite part of that video is is before you leave, make sure you spray out the head with the with Lysol the night before for the next person to come in. Because I remember putting on like radio station mascot costumes when I was like 16 years old or whatever. And yeah, they smelled wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 29:02

Smelled terrible. Yeah, that that costume did smell bad. I know that. Like band uniforms, kind of. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:06

Yeah, exactly. You just get all sweaty, sweaty nylon. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

I saw a video of uh it was a rap video of Wendy's training how to make hamburgers that was pretty pretty fun. Oh, I've seen that. Yeah, that's good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

My favorite episode of Spongebob SquarePants is the is the training video. I don't know if you guys have seen that, but it is gold. It is so great. You gotta look it up. I'll find out training video for Chucky or for SpongeBob SquarePants at the Crusty Crab. It's it's great.

SPEAKER_05 29:42

It's really good. I'll have to look that one up. I need to find a piece of paper to write on here. Hold on. I'm gonna write write this down here. I might actually add that link to our Facebook page.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

Remember, people order our patties. Poop. P-O-O-P. People order our patties.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

That sounds like SpongeBob.

unknown 30:02

Gosh.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

I mean, it's per it's such a it's a whole episode. It's just nothing but the training video.

SPEAKER_04 30:08

Which reminds me, this is a this is a different topic, a little tangent here, but I I was reading the Wall Street Journal, you know, this morning on on the website, and they have this new thing they're calling the Fitbit for farts. And it it measures your gas and tells you how healthy you are based on that.

SPEAKER_05 30:30

So so if you if you if you suddenly feel that that urge to let gas out, as it were, do you just get the Fitbit and put it down by your how's that work?

SPEAKER_04 30:43

It's a wearable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:44

You can just where where do you wear it?

SPEAKER_04 30:46

Is there a undergarments? One of the fascinating things about it though is they said that that when you flatulate, it's about 20% hydrogen, and you can't legally have a 20% hydrogen mixture in a lab because it's too explosive. So they had to find ways to do the testing before it got to human trials to where they would use lower concentrations for longer time periods and things like that to try to measure it appropriately. So that's why you can light it. Yeah, exactly. That's what they say in the article. That's why it's flammable because it's so high in hydrogen. So anyway, be looking for it. It's gonna be on the screen.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Do you wear it in your undergarment, or you maybe no? I think you do.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

I think it goes in your undergarment. And it sounds like they're they're taking volunteers for trials right now because that's the phase that it's in. Okay. What's that uh what's that website? Maybe uh Wall Street Journal.

unknown 31:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Wall Street, it's in the Wall Street Journal. I don't have the website for the product fit business flatulation.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

Yeah, look at that. I'm sure if you Google it, it's out there. Now, see, this is the kind of technology dad would have been down for. He would have loved this technology.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

I would have kept him busy all day. He would have ordered that thing and all day long.

SPEAKER_05 32:07

He'd be pulling it up and looking every hour. Okay, how am I how my how's my health now? Oh, look, I have a little more hydrogen this time than he'd be loved.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

The end of the article has examples of people who are trying to sell their prowess to the researchers about here's why I should be in the trial, because when I, you know, it's so the Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Yeah, dad would have been a great candidate for that.

SPEAKER_04 32:31

But it's a sign of health. And they said people get off of these high fiber diets because of you know the gas that it causes, but in fact, it's healthy for you. You really want to.

SPEAKER_05 32:42

Dad was a very healthy man then. He was so healthy, yeah. He was incredibly healthy. Uh what's your health update? Uh I'm glad he stopped smoking as he got older. Oh my god, that could have been a bad combination.

SPEAKER_03 32:59

Mind if I smoke? No, mind if I fart. Little Steve Martin. Yeah, old Steve Martin. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Tried to quit once. I had a friend in the Navy, and after a few beers, you know, he'd go into his his barracks who were kind of like his dorm room and turn the lights off and light his farts. It was pretty funny. It's pretty funny. I mean, I was 19, but it's pretty navy thing.

SPEAKER_05 33:26

I thought someone got injured by trying to light the body. Oh, you can. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

Yeah. You gotta hold the flame far enough away. You don't want to pretty it's like a burst.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

It's not like a prolonged flamethrower situation. It's yeah, but in a confined space, it would be bad.

SPEAKER_05 33:43

Could be so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

So I've got a gripe. Here we go again.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

The Williams brothers have a gripe.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

So I just watched a turbo tax commercial where it says now taxes is a joy to file.

SPEAKER_05 34:06

Is they? I saw that same thing. Taxes is.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Here it is.

SPEAKER_05 34:14

Taxes was so taxing.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

Taxes was so taxing. So it's really cool, but it says taxes was and taxes is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:37

So that drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

What is going on?

SPEAKER_04 34:43

We're good at math, not so much at English. Is that what they're trying to tell me? There are no rules. There are no more rules.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Now, this is taxes, it says. File for free. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_05 34:55

English were important before. Right. English.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

I just did. I mean, when I looked at it, I was like, what the who what stupid company did that? Into it. I mean, that's that's not a I mean, yeah. I don't understand it. I'm totally flabbergasted.

SPEAKER_05 35:12

You could you could say this is paying your taxes, maybe, right?

SPEAKER_03 35:17

This is makes sense, but taxes is taxes was. Yeah. Doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_04 35:24

Paying taxes. Paying, preparing taxes. You know, give us a verb of some kind, you know? Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

This is taxes. Taxes is.

SPEAKER_05 35:35

Okay. I don't think I would want to do my taxes in a place that they where they're they can't even speak English, correct.

SPEAKER_03 35:41

That's my thing, is I usually use turbo tax because it's pretty easy and pretty good, but now I'm like Is you thinking about making a change? I is. I is thinking.

SPEAKER_05 35:53

Anyway. Well, that's a good gripe. I like that. That's my gripe. That was a good one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Yep. Yep. Without sounding too much like a grumpy old man.

SPEAKER_05 36:00

Too late.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

All right. So anyway, I don't have any gripes.

SPEAKER_05 36:04

I can't think of any gripes this week at all. I don't either. I mean, I have gripes.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

I had had a funny moment last week, we or last episode we talked about um cars a little bit, and and so uh Robin's Ford Edge. She went to go to the grocery store a week or so ago and wouldn't start, so it was clearly the battery. So I said, okay, it's time. This is probably the third time I had to put a battery in it. And so I figured I'll just jump the car and then I'll just drive it Saturday morning to the auto parts store, get a battery for it. Everything's cool. I mean, Tyler had gone to work already, so I popped the hood and looking at it. And then it I realized that my other car's a Tesla and it's got a huge battery, but I can't jump a car off an electric car with a huge battery for the battery.

SPEAKER_06 36:57

Yeah, there's no place to do it.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

Wow. So I just took the battery out and drove and bought a battery and then replaced it.

SPEAKER_05 37:05

So they don't have that option on there anywhere where you can plug something to jump another car. That's crazy. So there is a jump.

SPEAKER_04 37:12

I'm told there's a 12-volt battery that's the low power battery that kind of runs things when the big battery's not on. Yeah. But so like you could, but you don't want to because it can do bad things. I'm not even sure where this battery is, to be honest.

SPEAKER_05 37:27

It's the the problem is those the regular car battery is meant for a lot of power all at once. Yeah. And the kind of batteries that are in the Teslas are even power over time. Right. It's not built for a spike in power. Yeah. So yeah, they don't they don't want you to jump anything from the that's interesting. The 12 volt Tesla battery. Yeah. I don't even know where it is. It's some somewhere. I think it's under the I think it's like it's in the frunk, but I think it's like close to the windshield. You gotta pull a bunch of stuff up to get to it. Okay. It's not meant to for us to replace. It was just an ironic moment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

Yeah, that is funny. I've got an electric car, but no, I cannot jump. Huge battery, but yeah. Nope. Can't do this.

unknown 38:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:14

Hey, you if you just got a running start down a hill, you could pop the clutch. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 38:20

Does that still work? It's an automatic. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_05 38:22

Oh, maybe it works.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

I wish you could do that with an automatic.

SPEAKER_05 38:26

You could throw it into first. Yeah. The low gear. It's all electronics, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yep. All right. One more reason why I will not get an electric car right there. Just added that to my list.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

Because you can't jump start somebody.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

That's right. If something happens to my wife's car or my daughter's car, I can't help them. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

But you know, you can get those little plug-in things. I've got one, it's like a little block. Yeah. And you plug it in, charge it up, and then you it gives you enough power to jumpstart your car. Yeah, my daughter's gonna have to do that. Yeah, those are cool.

SPEAKER_05 38:54

Those are really cool. I need to get one of those. Speaking of batteries and my daughter, so my daughter's car, her her battery fizzled out on her a few weeks back. And so they jumped the car and they took it to AutoZone or whatever, or advanced auto, whatever, whichever one. And and I told him, Well, just go ahead and have him do a whole check to make sure that there's no other error codes or anything. And they checked everything was good, just the battery. And he looked at it and said, Yeah, we don't have batteries for your kind of car. And he said, You might need to go to find a specialty place to do it. So she finds a specialty, it's she's got a Fiat 500L. So she goes to a specialty place and they said, Yeah, we don't have any in stock, we'll have to order it from Italy or some such craziness, right? And she's like, Oh my gosh, this is crazy, right? Because she can't how do you do that? Well, we finally found a fiat store, like a fiat dealership near her. So zipped over there, they replaced it in about 10 minutes and all was good. But I was like, I can't believe that you can't buy this battery at an auto parts store. But I guess there's something about the battery in a fiat 500 that is unique. So I'm like maybe it's the size, because it's a smaller car, right? Yeah, it's a small I mean it's not a tiny car, but because she's got the larger, like the largest fiat you can get, which is you know, it's a decent sized car, but uh something about that battery, I don't know what it is. Is it is it a 12 volt battery, as far as you know? I have as far as I know. Yeah, as far as I know.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Guess Fiat just wants to be a little different than once you just having a common battery in their car.

SPEAKER_05 40:35

I've heard the same thing, and I don't know this, but maybe you know this, Steve, about the the Volkswagen Atlas that you can't just go buy that at a at a uh Oh really? Yeah, I've heard that those are specialty batteries you have to get at the dealership. So but I don't know that to be true. I just have heard that through the rumor mill. So I'll have to research that. Yeah. It's like a three or four hundred dollar battery. So, yep.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

You know, and now and yours probably does this too. Everybody's car probably does this. When you stop at a at a traffic light, it turns the engine off. Yes. And then when you start going again, it turns it back on. Yep. That drives me nuts. I can't. I turn it off every time I get in the car. Yeah, me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_05 41:22

But the the Trump administration has now changed the that's a California law, I think it is, and so they've incorporated across the board and now or EPA thing. And so the Trump administration has now changed that, so it'll no longer be required in cars, which I think is excellent news because that is terrible for your starter motor. It is absolutely terrible for your starter motor to start your car.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

I'm always like, well, what if it doesn't start? You know, if it doesn't start, then uh and then I'm sitting at this traffic light. If it's already started, just keep it going. Don't stop it.

SPEAKER_05 41:55

Exactly. I wish you.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

Yeah, you can.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Yeah, you have to turn it off every time you start the car up, though, right? There's no way to just turn it off permanently.

SPEAKER_03 42:04

It's or if you put it in sport mode, it doesn't do that.

SPEAKER_05 42:08

It ignores it if you're if you're in sport mode. Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

So I always put it in sport mode.

SPEAKER_05 42:12

Yeah. That's the first thing I do when I get in the car, is I I hit that button to turn it off, and that way I don't have to deal with it. Uh yeah, the Fiat battery, I'm just looking at it just because I was curious. Yeah. There's some kind of technology called absorbent glass mat that is a special battery type. Yeah, I mean, it looks like a regular battery, yeah, but it's a different type of technology. So anyway, that's another rabbit hole we can go down, is figuring out what that means.

SPEAKER_03 42:43

Guess what?

SPEAKER_05 42:44

What?

SPEAKER_03 42:46

The Atlas also uses an absorbed glass mat or enhanced flooded battery.

SPEAKER_05 42:54

There you go. Interesting. I wonder what that's all about. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_06 42:58

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

They usually provide 60 to 70 amps and 650 to 760 CCA supporting the vehicle's start-stop system. See how it all came together? It did. This whole thing all came together.

SPEAKER_05 43:13

Everything you want to know about car batteries.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

Man, who knew absorbed glass mat. Never would have guessed.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

And by the Williams Foundation. The theme song is Five Card Shuffle by Kevin McLeod.

SPEAKER_05 43:49

I've got oral surgery scheduled for Friday. Oh boy. I've got an implant on the back here on the very back. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And the implant's got to come out. Okay. After ten years. Oh. So they're going to put me under and take the implant out and so anyway. Like a little radio implant or something. Brain. Yeah. It's a radio implant. Yeah. Okay. Change batteries. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Tiny batteries. Yeah. They're that what was that? Glass. Is it the glass?

SPEAKER_03 44:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:23

Yeah. It's that kind of battery.

SPEAKER_03 44:25

It turns off its stoplights.

SPEAKER_05 44:27

Yep. No, it's a, I mean, it's my tooth came out on the very back. And so you have to have a tooth back there, otherwise all your other teeth shift. So what they do is they take a literally they take a metal or a titanium post and they screw it into your jawbone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 44:45

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 44:46

And then that heals for a little while. And then they put a tooth on top of that post.

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 44:52

Unfortunately, all of the jaw, a lot of most of the jawbone is wearing away from the post. I only have about 30% coverage now. This is more than you want to know. So they're going to take the post out and they're going to take cadaver bone and they're going to fill in the hole with cadaver bone, of course. What else would you do? And then they're going to seal it all back up. That's so that's weird. Yeah, gross. That's weird. And then six months later, after all the bone is healed and everything is good, I decide if I want another implant or am I going to wear a retainer? Blah blah blah. That's weird, man. You're going to have some other things. The dentist didn't want to tell me that. The dentist was like, you know, they they might use bovine or they might, but it's usually cadaver bone. And I was like, okay. And he said, well, they wash it and they clean it. I'm like, yeah. I'm sure they do. Yeah. So that's early. So I've seen I've seen stories where when people like, you know, get in tragic accidents or whatever, and then they get a donated organ, you know, like heart or whatever, that sometimes their personality changes a little bit to be similar to the person that that they got the organ from. Yeah. So I'm a little concerned about what this cadaver bone might do to you, Gar. I'm hoping. Well, I've already had it once, and my personality changed pretty so we'll have to see how this second time affects it. Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

What was the what was the name on the jaw? See, I was not gonna go. Abby Normal.

SPEAKER_04 46:30

Abby somewhat. Young Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein Melbrook.

SPEAKER_05 46:39

That's right. They said, now we could go into your leg and we could take bone out of your leg and then we could put that in your jaw. And I was like, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 46:47

Could they ever be somebody else's bone, please? How about your wife? Could they get it from your wife's leg? And I'm sure she'd be willing to do that.

SPEAKER_05 46:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

I thought I thought you were gonna say they could go in through your leg to replace the jaw. I'm like, wow, that seems like a lot more than you really need to do. Stay awake the whole time.