It is the second day of March. Mid. How's the year going for? Is it going by fast? Oh, it's, yeah, it's going quick. I'm still, I'm still getting used to 2023 as a year in general. Yeah, it's going pretty fast for me too. So let's hope it continues going well for both of us. Welcome to the Bottle of Brown Podcast. I am your host, Danny Paul. Joining me in the Bob Media Studios is our newly minted vice host. That's right. He is a friend of the show returning.
Please welcome the mid ladies and gentlemen. And where the white women at. How you doing, sir? What's up party people? Leon was hosting a friend from the Columbus tonight and Mr Jones is on baby duty so he may or may not be joining us, but it's you and me pal. Welcome to the show, honorary member, vice host. What's your brand for tonight? Mitch? I have released the Oh, no. Yes. You're probably familiar with the cracking black Spiced rum 94 proof.
This one comes from the tears of sea sea creatures. So, uh it's a, it's a little um it's darker than I remember but I, I never minded it a little dark. Is that the one with a large being on the front? Yeah, this is um the the house that have handles on it. It does and the eyes on it follow you like the Mona Lisa. It's creepy. It is creepy. I am probably finishing up my heated bourbon journey. Uh I am having the larceny, Kentucky straight wheat bourbon mash bill.
I've gone through all the other weeded bourbons that I could find anywhere in the store because I didn't want to waste any more of my precious bottle of Weller. But I think I've done all of my possible whetted bourbon fines and uh sadly, to lay on, I'll be going back to my beloved Scotch next episode. But for now we drink to the wheat bourbon to that's what I'm saying. All right. Now that we talked about Brown. Let's talk about Brown. How you doing? Whiskey? Whiskey?
This is the darkest brown you got. Yeah, I say homes are where they hide in the sky. What about um Brown? That's code for bourbon. Great stuff. This bourbon comes from a land called Kentucky. Talk about Brown. There's a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good Scotch. Scotch. Oh, yes, I think so. Can I have one more of these with some booze in it, please. I talk about Brown comes to us from Stars Insider and it's a quick one because this is kind of a, a new format.
We're playing around with lots of different segments. Uh, for those of you just joining the Bottle of Brown podcast. We are in season three and we used to have a pretty stage format, but now we're mixing things up, but we always start with talking about Brown. That's kind of a staple. But depending on the direction that the show goes, we kind of gave Leon his own loathe in season two. And then we wanted to open up the loath to everybody else.
So the mitch might have something he wants to talk about, get off his chest later on. So without further ado, we want to try and squeeze through some of our segments here. So this one midge is called Wild Whiskey Facts. You never knew you ready. I'm ready, ready to jump in. Here we go. This is an easy one. Is whiskey, whiskey spelled with an E or not. What do you think? What's your call?
Let's say you, sir, I've never seen it spelled without the E. But I'm guessing based on the question that it's spelled without the E somewhere this has come up on the pod before. And we've talked about this at length. Whiskey with an E is American. Most people have seen both spellings of the word, but few have ever bothered to think of the difference.
Whiskey without the E is used only to describe whiskey from Scotland and Canada Whiskey made anywhere else from Ireland to Kentucky is spelled with the E. So if you're having a Canadian Scotch whiskey or a Crown Royal, that's whiskey without, if you're going to the beloved Scotland whiskey without everywhere else. Whiskey with an E, do you think people make up these rules when they get drunk? Like all of the alcohol related rules are dumb?
But I'm guessing they all come, they, they all start with somebody getting wasted and coming up with a rule like champagne on only being from the Champagne region of France everywhere else. It's just sparkling white wine. Yeah. I think people love to have a drink to get together and then they sing songs and they pee in their pants and they laugh and they giggle and then towards the end of the night they get kind of surly as it's wearing off and they're like, nobody else could ban our club.
Only us. I think you're right about that, especially in Ireland and Kentucky. So we're gonna have our whiskey with an E because it's whiskey and we're American. Damn it. Yeah. So allegedly Scotland and Canada don't use the E for whatever reason and then everywhere else you can put an E in it but whatever, put it in a glass and drink it. My friends next one, whiskey in Gaelic whiskey is an ancient drink and the word is equally ancient origins. And Scotch.
Gaelic whiskey comes from s which means the water of Life. Who loves our show. That's exactly what it is. We're gonna do an entire episode one day just speaking in Old English. That could be fun in the th though. Come on the belly of, of, uh, I had to do an entire class all, all in Old English. I wanted to kill myself. It was awful. Just a, it's all these right whiskey or penicillin. You ready for this one?
It's a well known fact that many factories in the United States were repurposed to fulfill the needs of the war machine during World War two. What first comes to mind is all of the car factories that began to make plane engines. But an often forgotten example concerns the many bourbon distilleries that were charged with the task of making penicillin to send overseas. I think that's why this stuff is such a great painkiller. You know what I'm saying?
A little splash of penicillin never hurt anyone better. Grandpa's cough medicine. Hey, if you get the clap have some whiskey. Chances are it is non a constant flow of Scotch. As of 2019, Scotch whiskey, noe accounted for 75% of the country's food and drink exports. On average 42 bottles of whiskey left the country every single second. Now to me comes as no surprise because what is Scotland known for? Certainly not tape. What do you, what do you think?
What's your, what do you think of when you think I would say it's, it's whiskey kilts and bagpipes and the Kilts and bagpipes both happen at the same time. Probably, probably gets sent in the same package. Yeah, it's not the cuisine. I don't know anybody that likes haggis. That's not true. I do know one guy that likes haggis but that's it. He's, he's the guy. One thing, one thing, uh, Great Britain in general could never be accused of is, uh, fantastic culinary masters. I think that's true.
Nowhere, nowhere that I went on on in the great aisles was, I impressed with the food. I don't think anybody ever refers to the British as having good food. Now, the British are, are pretty exceptional at making other people's food. If you've ever had Indian in Britain or if you ever had French in, they actually do a pretty good job of it. But the actual native British cuisine is probably nothing too exciting. Yeah. And those are mainly immigrants making those, uh, those other foods.
So you can't really, you can't credit the natives with that. Uh, barrels bear the majority Kentucky. A state that is home to around 4.5 million people is home to more than three times as many bourbon barrels. Somewhere around 10 million. So, there's two barrels per person in the state of Kentucky. That's pretty wicked, huh? Whiskey and horses, baby, whenever you're in Kentucky, you know that there's two barrels with your name on it. At least. Sassy casks stretching across the sea. Scotland.
On the other hand, has four times as many casks as it has. Citizens. Of course, they wouldn't, they wouldn't export the barrels. They would just export the stuff that goes in them. Laid end to end. Scotland's 20 million whiskey casks would reach across the Atlantic from Edinburgh to New York City six times over.
I think that Scottish actually uh tried building a bridge to the moon using scotch whiskey barrels you could walk from so you could walk from Edinburgh to New York City without getting your feet wet. I can't tell if that's a problem or not. That's why they, they're not really known for anything else. No, I guess not. But hey, if you're gonna be known for something shit, that's the stuff. Yeah, why not?
Uh While the State of Kentucky is by far the state most associated with whiskey, it doesn't claim the spirit as its official state beverage. That honor is awarded to the southern state of Alabama. That one just made my head explode. The official drink of Alabama is whiskey and not Tennessee or Kentucky. What the fuck that explains so much of Alabama's political policies and politicians for that matter, special beverage, Alabama. I spent 10 days in Alabama couldn't wait to get the hell out.
No offense to Alabama. But I met some nice people from Alabama. But if that's their official drinks, maybe you gotta think about having a house there uh old Mountain Dew Mountain Dew as in do the Dow as in the bright neon black light piss soft drink before it became the much maligned soft drink. We know of it as today was originally developed to be nothing more than a whiskey chaser. It even borrows its name from an old nickname from Moonshine. Mountain Dew. Do you believe it?
It's too easy not to be made up. I, I, I still feel like Mountain Dew was the, uh, green liquid. They used to spray the plants with, in idiocracy. Pretty sure that was the same stuff. Like, if I had to guess Mountain Dew, the original Chaser, I guess you got pickle backs and all kinds of other things now. But back in the day, that was the idea. You take a shot of whiskey and you chase it with Mountain Dew and then somebody said, wait a minute, let's bottle this and give it to kids.
Maybe that was it. Maybe there's a kid in the bar and they went news story. They couldn't resist to call the much maligned soft drink. Well, it was like an X games drink for a while. But does anybody talk about Mountain Dew anymore? If any Bob's listening out there want to talk about as a note, man, that wraps up our odd whiskey. Facts. Did you have a favorite?
Yeah, I, I think that, uh, I think, I think that four times the whiskey barrels as there are people, you know, like you just imagine the volume of that you take one person like literally by pure mass. That's like there's like 10 times as much whiskey is, there is human flesh, bone and organs running around Scott. That's, that's mind blowing. Really tasks for citizen. That's pretty wicked awesome sauce. Anyway, let's talk about Brown. Let's get to our top story news team.
Ay, let's get, let's get down to business and I got news for you. Nice. Top story comes to us from ours, Technica, A Technica A I generated comic artwork loses us copyright protection. Zara images not protected by copyright words and arrangement remain protected. What do you know about A I, what do you know about this uh stable diffusion stuff and all that? What do you know this is, this is the shit out of me since it started out so many reasons. OK. Go for it.
I, I think, I think it's, it's, it's easy to get excited about it and terrified about it and I don't know if we should be either, but it does seem like one of those things that it's gonna be, it's gonna be hard to wrangle at some point. It is going to like this is just now coming out and, and they have a good idea of its capabilities, but they really have no idea why it does some of the things that it does.
And I actually watched uh I was watching um, last week tonight a little earlier, the, the one that came out two or three days ago and with, with Mr Oliver, one of my favorite humans on, on the earth. And one of the things that they talked about was that a lot of what this technology does now is it pulls its information from the internet and then it sort of develops its opinions and personality from that information.
That's terrifying because we're literally creating this computer generated being that not only goes down rabbit holes but go down. It goes down the wrong ones. There was a, there was a, I think it was a, a Microsoft um chat bot that they developed and basically gave it a Twitter account and let it just go, just let it do its thing.
And it turned into such a horrible racist in less than 24 hours that they had to delete the Twitter account because it's, it's information uh source was, was 100% the internet. And if you kind of look at the fact that like 95% of the internet, internet now is just trolls. Oh, yeah, I know we know the internet, the internet is all quality all the time. This is, this is, this is not where we want our, our computer information or our computer generated being whatever you wanna call it.
It's not where we want it coming from. And, uh, it's, it's scary that, um, the, the, the evil that it could potentially unleash. Yeah, these things are basically an indictment of our species because they take everything from the internet archived all the way up to 2021 and it mines the content on websites for speech patterns. And it tries to put what, what it's called a large language model.
And the idea is that it will regurgitate information in the likeness of the way humans communicate and it's supposed to be able to be conversational rather than pull up, you know, 17 underlying blue links on a Google search. You now get one voice that says this is the definitive single source of truth for the answer to your question. And the challenge with that is if it pulls from shit data, you're gonna get a shit question and you usually get a shit opinion on that shit question.
But there are, there's a real big problem on the visual side of it because anybody that knows anybody who's a graphic designer knows that they get asked for free shit all the time. And the hardest thing to do is to get somebody to pay you as a graphic designer because nobody seems to respect the field, all due respect to graphic designers out there. I have a couple of them that I really enjoy as friendships with but they do not get paid and it's a real big struggle for them.
So they've taken all these language models and these A I or algorithms and they've combed billions of images and then found a way to lump them all together. So what you're getting now whenever you ask one of these engines to draw you something is you're getting a mismatch of all of the stuff that it's scanned over the years and put together based on what it thinks you're asking for.
And so what the US copyright office declared um correctly in my mind is that using the A I powered Mid journey image generator should not have been granted copyright protection and images, copyright protection will be revoked. As in if A I makes it, you cannot copyright it. And I for one think that's a good thing until further notice. But any time you run into a scenario where artificial intelligence is doing something you have to kind of go back to, well, whose responsibility is it?
So think about this autonomous driving, the car is driving itself. If the car gets in an accident, whose fault is it? Is it the owner of the car? It seems like it seems like the company, the company that made, it would have to be held responsible. But is it's gonna be, I mean, this is gonna be AAA mess for for the court system.
A lot of this is gonna be a mess with the court system because yeah, legally it's oh holding holding these companies responsible is eventually going to there, there's gonna be so many violations of law. That happen and they're gonna go, we didn't do it. The A, I did, I, did, we throw the A I in jail? This is right. And it's, it's almost like, well, it's, it's, it's almost like, you know, throwing, throwing parents in jail when their kids shoot up a school. Right. Are they responsible?
Some would argue. Yes. And there's probably something to that, but they're not, they're, they're, they're not the ones who committed the crime, right? So it closer to home. If your cat, somebody whose fault is it, you, you're the owner of the cat, it's your fault because you're like, well, that's the cat. The cat did it. You're like, what do you want to do? Put the cat in jail? No, it's your cats, your problem. So I always go back to that, uh that skit that Ron White did.
He was talking about his ex-wife and his ex-wife would call him and say Ron the dog shit on the couch again. Like he's a dog. Clean it up. You're so insensitive to my feelings, Ron. I'm sorry, honey, put the dog on the phone. That's what it sounds like. That's the argument. This whole thing makes me think of uh, that, that Chappelle Show episode.
Uh He was the guy was such a prophet in so many ways, Chappelle Show episode where, um, he portrays, he really asked the question, what would the internet be like if it were a location? And you got this guy going from one shop to another, right? One shop and they go, hey, you want a bunch of free music? He's like, yeah, I love some free music and he goes, he goes to another place, hey, you wanna tell a celebrity? They're an asshole and they may, they may have to read about it. Absolutely. I do.
And he finally comes out, like, three hours later and he looks exhausted and somebody else comes up to him and goes, hey, you wanna have, watch somebody have sex with a goat. And he's like, yes, I do. It's, it's like that in a way, it's like shit, this, this dark hole that we're gonna slide down. But it's not even us now. It's just now it's the computer doing it on its own, right? And you're gonna have computers arguing with each other and being trolls.
And the whole, the whole thing about this article centers around a comic book called Zaria of the Dawn, which was created entirely by an A I algorithm. And they did the story, they did the images, they did a full book. Like this is a complete work of art that you could probably print on a printing press, put it on the shelf and somebody would buy it and they would enjoy it. My understanding is the story is actually kind of interesting.
The challenge is that the owner of the story that fed it into the out that made the images that made the book now wants to copyright it. And what the US Copyright office came back and said is if a human didn't do this, then a human can't copyright it. And so the person here was uh Chris Casanova.
Uh the US Copyright office came in and said, we conclude that MS Casanova is the author of the works text as well as the selection coordination and arrangement of the works written in visual elements, reads the copyright letter that author the ship is protected by copyright. However, as discussed below, the images and the work that were generated by the mid journey technology are not the product of human authorship and are therefore not copyrightable.
It's interesting that they, they, they picked up or they, they just uh zeroed in on the images and not the other content.
Yeah, I mean if it was made by a human, you can copyright it, but if it's not made by a human, then no. Uh however, as the letter explains, after the copyright office learned that the work included A I generated images through Casanova's social media posts, it issued a notice to Casanova in October stating that it intended to cancel the registration unless she provided additional information showing why the registration should not be canceled.
Casanova's attorney responded to the letter in November with an argument that Casanova authored every aspect of the work with mid journeys serving merely as an assistive tool so that brings up a very interesting problem again, which is something that I've predicted, which I don't know if I've said it on the show or not, but I'll, I'll say it.
Now, these artificial intelligence models, whether they be for transcription language, text images, you're gonna liquefy and delete all entry level white collar work. So if anybody's got a job right out of school where you're writing copy or you're drawing images or you're transcribing text or your trans, guess what? You're out of a job, which means your job now is to skill up to the next level. And if you haven't begun start now, it's interesting.
You say that because I remember us talking about, remember us talking about this uh golfing. It was, I don't know, probably six months ago and the point that I brought up was how is this not going to eliminate anything that we call labor?
Now, um in that if, if you have a computer or you know, if you, you, you talk about blue collar manual labor or whatever, something that, that requires some kind of physical exertion robots and you take those two things, you take the, the uh intelligence side, the the kind of thing that can be create, created by any thought process.
And then you, you take anything that can be created that can be um copied and done better by a robot or other machine, what is left for humans to do as a job how, how are we employed in any way, shape or form? Because I agree with you on the point of a lot of white collar jobs going away because of this, I feel like everybody kind of agrees on that.
But in, in the longer term, looking down the road 2025 years, how, how does this leave work for anyone if we have either A I or robots or, or, or some kind of combination of the two that can we do any, they can do anything that we call labor today. What does that leave for humans to do? So it's easy to jump to the, you know, utopia of we're all just gonna sit back and do nothing, you know, like Wally where we're all just fat gelatinous cubes on chairs being conveyed around a ship.
Don't think we're anywhere near that. What I think is gonna happen with this stuff is exactly what happened with the welding robots on the automotive assembly line. You know, somebody used to have 12 welders in a car frame and they used to get in and they used to hit their spot welds, they used to do their job and the next car would come and they'd do the same job and it's repetitive and they do it over and over again. Somebody came in with an articulating arm.
They can now do do, do, do, do, do and hit it all and they increased productivity like six or eight X. And now that one welding robot is doing the job of 12 humans and it's banging them out hot because it doesn't sleep. It doesn't eat, it hasn't have to go to the bathroom, doesn't complain to its boss doesn't have his spouse at home. None of that shit. It just works and works and works. What happened was you've now sent to and sliding madly up and down the chain.
So you gotta have somebody to maintain the robot, you gotta have somebody to Feeded the robot. So now you have more demand coming on that side of the supply chain. On the back side, you now have somebody that needs to do spot checks on the welds which the robot is not gonna do itself. It's just gonna bang bang bang the weld. So on both sides of where the robot is disrupted, you now have more demand, forcing more human involvement until such time as they can automate each of those.
So my take on your question is while we're gonna lose a lot of entry level jobs and copyrighting graphic design, social media, posting, so on and so forth, you're gonna have to double triple, quadruple the amount of editors they're gonna look through that shit and make sure that it's correct. Nothing racist, nothing trolling. It's got a check for grammar. It's gotta check for context and it's got to check whether or not that's what we want to say.
As a company because it's very easy for something to spit out when it regurgitates from the internet. But as you so aptly pointed out earlier in our conversation, the internet is a sewer. That's what I think that that's where I think this is going. So, going a little bit further on down the line, let's say, 30, 40 years from now when uh, so much, so much of what, what we would call labor today has gone away. Or if you just start having huge masses of people, right?
Who don't have the, don't have the skills or, or really any, any means of making a living based on even is even their college education. Now, we have a huge chunk of population with literally nothing to do. And I mean, even if you have, say even their income is taken care of, you have uh you know, un universal income plan or something so that they're financially, they're taken care of the idea that you have that many people with nothing to do is terrifying.
Really is, I mean, if you think about it, if, if you have, you have people with no sense of um nothing to accomplish, right? Nothing to be proud of other than, you know, reaching some level on world of warcraft or, or, or, you know, I think you see achievement today. What, what do people have to grab onto and what even motivates people at that point? I, I think you're seeing that now I think you're seeing that in the youtube generation.
I mean, my kids don't want to be astronauts, firemen uh uh police officers or the president. My kids wanna be influencers on youtube. So what you found is once there's no more work, you immediately pivot to entertainment and everybody wants to entertain each other. And so now you have an entire economy of entertainers that just want to tell stories and make people laugh or be enraged.
And that's what you're starting to get into is once you get out of the actual work, like you don't need to plow the fields anymore, you don't need to build the stuff in the factory anymore. And now you don't even have to write the copy for the advertisement. You're just gonna sit back and what we're gonna entertain each other. That's kind of the height of a civilized society, right? Is the development of theater and entertainment. Like when the Greeks figured all that shit out, what did they do?
They started talking to each other on stage and we got plumbing figured out, we got agriculture, figured out, we got war figured out, we got boats, what else do we need? We figured out how to smelt iron. What now tell me the entire country full of wannabe actors, singers and dancers just scare the shit out of you. It kind of does. It kind of does because I'm proud about that. Been friends with those kind of people most of my life, you know, we're, we're of that ilk.
But the part that, the part that I kind of look at, I'm bullish on this, the part that I'm looking at is it's no longer our problem. All of these countries that have uh manual labor for cheap now have automation to deal with. And they've now got like you can't, if, if you were going to use a personal assistant in the Philippines, that would be your personal assistant that would follow the sun.
And the idea is at the end of the day, you would send them an email saying I need this, this, this and this done. By the time I wake up and the next morning you wake up and your friend in the Philippines or Malaysia to Japan, you know, 12 cents a day. They do all that work for you. Now, a I can do it. A I can schedule your calendar. A I can draft an email. A I can do all this stuff for you.
So they're gonna be shit out of a job, which means now you're going to push all this entertainment educator influencer bullshit down the stream. I mean, China is already fucked. I found this the other day, which was fascinating to me. Labor costs in China are 14 times higher than Mexico. You believe that shit? That surprises me. Yeah, because their economy is caught up.
They've done the factories, they've done all the basic work, they've laid the concrete, they've, they've got all the infrastructure and now you have influencer factories. I saw a really creepy video of this underground parking garage in a rich district where they, there was like 80 kids all dispersed along this parking garage and each of them had a ring light and a phone in front of them with a green screen.
And if you can imagine that little like you have this little cell, like this little eight by six ft cell of you and your green screen and your ring light and you're an influencer and you're all on the same wifi and you're all pulling power from the same place. But it's like, have you ever seen, um you probably have because you've been in the movies, you ever seen a press line?
Like all we see is the band backdrop where everybody gets the picture taken but from the person getting a picture taken, what do you see? You see eight photographers, I've seen a press line, I've never been in a press line and you see, you see eight talking heads and microphones staring at cameras and they look completely out of place unless you realize that on the other side of the camera is a broadcast feed. Same idea that's all going down in China right now.
Well, I think that uh I think it's interesting the way that we've seen this, this evolution of what kids want to be, right? And it's, it's kind of, it's warped, it's warped. The idea of what labor actually is. Right. Because when would you, what would you? And I have thought if somebody told us 20 years ago that there's gonna be people online who take pictures of themselves in bikinis and dance around and tell you what to buy. And that's a job you and I would have gone. No, it isn't.
That's, that's not a job. That's playtime. There's, there's, there's no, there's no labor involved in that. That's just a, that's just an exercise and self indulgence. Well, we grew up before broad scale internet. We grew up before social media. We grew up before cell phones. We, we grew up before internet research. Like we had to do the Dewey decimal system. We had to actually go find a fucking book.
There's a lot of shit that we, that we probably take for granted because our generation really had to do a lot of analog stuff that a lot of these kids waking up. Like my, my kids now, they can't imagine a world without a screen. What kind of phone did you have when you were growing up? I didn't have one. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean?
I didn't have a phone, the phone was on the wall and I didn't have any pictures and all I did was talk into it and that's a, that might be, it was attached to the wall and we had, we had a 28 ft cord because there was no, there was no such thing as wireless, like wireless was the TV, remote. Uh The whole thing is that the, the concept of work is ultimately, it's always shifting. I would say it's always, it's always evolving.
But now we're getting into the point where blue collar work was automated in the sixties, the seventies and the eighties and now white collar work is getting automated in the twenties and the thirties and pretty soon you just, we're not gonna recognize work in 10 years.
It's not gonna be, it's not gonna be anything that we thought we knew the same way that the guy that was uh work in the auto factories in the sixties and they're gonna look at these articulating arms that are doing spot welds and you're like, what the fuck? What am I supposed to do it? Well, you're supposed to inspect the robot now, dude, skill up, learn something new. So to wrap this thing up, we, we went off on a tangent here.
I, I am personally very happy about this that the copyright office said no human, no deals because I already have my own rant about the copyrighting system as it is. But I, I think this is a good thing. Final thoughts. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's probably a good thing.
Um It, it does, it does, does make you question the value of what a copy, the value of a copyright moving forward is gonna be because how many of how many of the things that we used to copyright in terms of images are gonna be a A I generated? Anyway, what's gonna be the use of copyright? Unless it was cop copyright, copy, uh, copyrighted copy, written, copy 20 or 30 years ago. What's the value of it?
Yeah, I mean, you're, you're getting to the point now where creativity can be altered ever so slightly that, that 25% change that allows for an alteration of copy. The A I is gonna do that. So you take a copyrighted image and you alter it 25 or 26 whatever the A I considers the algorithm or the or the formula to be and boom, you got a new image and now you can do whatever you want with it.
So one of the stories that I had going on for, for the show which we may come back to in an episode in the future is Mickey Mouse is no longer under copyright. The Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie has expired. Now he's popped up in, in later iterations like they gave him yellow shoes and they gave him color and they, and they changed up his general makeup. But the Mickey Mouse from the 19 twenties, which is imagine this Walt Disney was doing his 100 years ago.
The original Mickey Mouse is no longer copyrightable, which means you can do whatever you want with, with Mickey Mouse. I was laughing at something. Somebody did a horror movie with Winnie the Pooh because the copyright expired doing what the fuck you want with. Winnie the pooh. Well, some possibilities. I'm gonna start making some steamboat, Willie. Winnie the Pooh t-shirts and see if I can make myself a little cash, little, little Cleveland steamer. Winnie.
Maybe animation will go retro and it'll be cool to have steamboat Willie and Winnie the pooh from the twenties on your t-shirt. Last thing I'll say about that is that that guy who, uh who writes Dilbert. He's really fun. Oh, yeah, Scott Adams. Scott Adams is a trouble. Oh, all right. That was our top story. Let's get to the crank file. I could look for something in the crank file. Crank file, whatever. Tonight's crank file comes to us from the associated press. Real fucking news people.
This is dated January 16th, but I held on to it because this was just so tasty. Second. Colorado library closes due to meth contamination Englewood, Colorado. Well, let's get into it for the second time in a month. The Colorado li second time in a month. A Colorado library bear in mind. Same library. Second time for the second time in a month. Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination.
Officials in the Denver suburb of Inglewood, shut down the city library last week within a couple hours of getting test results Wednesday showing that the contamination of the facility's restrooms exceeded state thresholds. Other spaces such as countertops also tested positive for lower levels of the drug and will require specialized cleaning. Large scale remediation work will include removing tainted surfaces, walls, duct work and exhaust fan equipment.
City of about 33,000 just south of Denver decided to test for the drug after officials in the nearby college town of Boulder closed its main library after finding meth contamination. It is the latest example of the balancing act. Urban libraries have to navigate between making their facilities be welcoming to all while keeping them clean and safe.
When a rash of over doses and libraries were reported in the mid 2000 tens as the opioid crisis grew across the United States, some libraries were equipped with the antidote. Naloxone known by the brand name Narcan. So far it seems library closures triggered by methamphetamine contamination are limited to Colorado. According to spokesman Raymond Garcia of the American Library Association which is unaware of any happening elsewhere across the country. In recent years, the group declined.
The group declined to comment on whether drug use has been increasing. Citing lack of data. I'm gonna call bullshit on this because I think there's definitely some libraries in Bullhead City. I would go so far as to say nobody's looking for it. How many fucking libraries in West Virginia? Well, you know the thing about this is they're chopping up OXY and I'm, I'm all for self educating. But what the hell are people doing in libraries? I'm, I'm in a library in a decade.
I read, I read more than 90% of the adults that I know. And I haven't been to a library in a decade. So, what the hell are people going to libraries for? I don't know. But there's a, there's a pretty big row of computers. They're like, they're like internet cafes now. There's, there's no point think. No, no, I used to think the Peoria City library which is the southern, not my library.
My library is in the north side but the southern central Peoria library has a full podcast studio that you can rent. I could be doing this shit on the fucking dime if I wanted to. So they're trying, that's a studio. Well, they're trying, they're trying, they're trying to add more than just come in with the lady in the glasses and, and borrow a book for seven years.
I mean, if I, if I could, if I had to guess the top five things that people do in a library, two of them would be masturbating and, and methamphetamines wasn't there, there was a chick in Oregon that was doing porn from the library. If I recall gonna make that somehow, allegedly, we'll take that offline. The article continues. Boulder officials suggested that their city's library closure last month was the result of strict state rules for cleaning up meth.
Once testing reveals it, they also pointed out the standards for how much meth contamination is acceptable were developed with an eye towards homes where frequent exposure is more likely than in public buildings. Colorado's rules are some of the most conservative in the nation using an abundance of caution to protect infants and Children from exposure. Boulder Library has since reopened but its bathrooms remain closed as crews do decontamination work including replacing fans and vents.
Now, once that's done, the bathrooms will remain locked and anyone needing to use them will have to ask a staff member or security guard for access like the gas station, bro. Can I have a key with a hub cap on it? I gotta take this. So you, you know what I'm thinking and I won't use his name but we have a, we have a good friend, former, former former college buddy. We'll just call him Joe Wegel. Boom, who, uh who's involved in a pretty high up in a Colorado county government.
I don't know if this falls under his district, but we might be able to get some insider information on this particular topic we'll have to ask him. However, after some library users said they did not feel safe, the city hired security guards last year. It also established a code of conduct with the aim of helping librarians be able to enforce the rules. Englewood also recently increased funding to add more staff in hopes of deterring drug use.
According to the library's website, I'm gonna have to hit up Ziggy for some blue ice. Yeah, we should, we should touch base with Ziggy because this is in his backyard. Uh, he's been in the pod before but we've never actually brought him in to talk about. No, we had him in. So we, we talked to him. Yeah, we talked to him right after the 2020 election to talk about uh, election integrity and about how, how elections go down.
And he gave us a very long tutorial about the vote counting process because he's a clerk in a county up there. And he's like, this is the way this is the, it's done. And he's like, I wear a bulletproof vest to work because there's cranks out there. And he gave us a very detailed breakdown about the vote counting process. And I was like, wow, it was illuminating. Uh, but you know, there's plenty of shit going on in his area of the world. This is an interesting follow up.
Maybe I'll set a reminder. You use the word crank. No, that's all me. That's all, that's all Danny Paul. Anyway, that racks up the crank file. Let's get to the hero of the week, shall we of the week night chair of the week comes to us from business insider midge. I fell out of my chair when I read this one and Leon is gonna be pissed that he missed this episode because we're gonna talk about it. I love this story. I wish, I wish we had a story like this every single week.
This is fucking real people. $276 million was spent on 31 Spanish trains before it was realized they were too big to fit the tunnels. All right, in Spain, Southwest Europe, Spain, a region in Spain spent $276 million on new trains and they look good like they did a good job. These are nice trains, they fit all the spec they're beautiful, they go fast, they're efficient, they're wonderful. They're too big for the tunnels. Two officials in the transport industry were fired as a consequence.
Those are our heroes of the week. The president of Cantabria, a region of northern Spain called the era an unspeakable botch to say the least. The article begins Spanish transport services are going back to the drawing board after spending millions of euros on new commuter trains that are too large to fit in tunnels of the rail network.
Two senior officials in the Spanish transport industry were fired earlier this week after local news outlet, El commer reported last month that the government had spent €258 million on un usable trains. The 31 trains were meant to replace older ones in the north of Spain on a route that connected the Cantabria and Asia regions. President of Cantabria, Miguel Angel Rea called the circumstance an unspeakable botch RFE.
The country's national train operator ordered the trains in 2020 granting the manufacturing contact to the transport manufacturing company C A F. Renfe said it provided correct measurements from a a train track company Euronews reported but the manufacturers said they warned the National train line that the sizing was likely not correct. The miscommunication likely arose because the tunnels in the region were built in the 19 century according to Euronews.
So they do not accommodate recent standard train sizes. Luckily the trains were still in the design phase. The country's transport minister said and had not yet been built when the er came to light, they were meant to be available in 2024. However, a complete redesign means the new service will not be available until 2026. This is not the first time there have been sizable train troubles in Europe.
In 2014. A French rail company spent billions of Euros on trains that were too wide for the tracks, the old country. Oh man, I have, I have so many thoughts. Well, first off Danny Paul, I was, I was actually in my tool kit a little bit earlier today and it turns out I got a couple of extra measuring tapes. I think I know where I'm gonna send them, get that shit in a little envelope, send them to the President of Spain. And go. Here you go, buddy. I, I heard you might need these.
Here's the thing. You got to scrap $276 million right? Or €258 million. What is the cost of drilling those tunnels? Ah, and here's the, this is the other thought that I had. There's one person on this planet, he's pretty well known who couldn't be happier about this story, guess who that person is? And I bet you'd take a million per tunnels. How many tunnels are we talking about? If it's less than 257 million tunnel gonna be all over this shit? I got your drills.
Don't you even worry about doing your train? Don't even change the size of the trains. We're just gonna bore those tunnels out. We're gonna make them, make them just a smidge bigger. Put that shit on a boat. I'll be there before you know it. I'm blaming this shit on a siesta and a faulty alarm clock. Yeah. The siesta. The whole thing about the s from, from the American perspective is, is fucked. But I'm reading this book now called Why We Sleep and ac is what we need.
We need to take two hours off in the afternoon. Evolutionarily speaking, we need the afternoon nap. If any of you are reaching for a pot of coffee at 2 30 or three in the afternoon, that's normal. We're supposed to be sleeping. Recording. Evolution. Well, there's a couple of 1000 people on East Palestine, Ohio. That probably disagree with you. Oh, fuck, that was fucked up. Yeah. Again, Leon misses it because Leon knows exactly what it is and he probably knows people who were affected by it.
Yeah. That, uh, that whole story. When that came out, you could just, you could, uh, you could hear the lawyers erections getting to full mass when they heard that that place is just gonna be awash with lawsuits. It's gonna be unbelievable. Oh, for sure. Yeah, the basic thing was the Obama. Well, so the, the Bush administration took regulations down. The Obama administration put regulations back up. The Trump administration took those regulations back down and there was a rash of train crashes.
There was a big one that do mostly under I could state of Pennsylvania. So you're right along that rust Belt corridor, like trains are coming off the tracks. They're going too fast on curves and a lot of it was just, they don't want to have to deal with it. So they lobbied Congress and Congress removed the regulations and so this was, there was some things about this particular one in East Palestine that may not have been averted by the regulation that's in limbo.
But for the most part, the basic gist of what I understand is they've done a very good job of keeping regulators out of their business and they fucked up I was watching CNN, they were talking about this and they, they actually talked about how generally speaking, trains are getting safer. And then they mentioned this, the statistics of, uh, I believe it was last year. Um, just in terms of derailments, guess how many derailments there are a day in the US.
I'm afraid to ask, there's three derailments a day that's over 1000 a year. Doesn't that seem like a lot of trains coming off the tracks? I'm not getting on Amtrak ever again. That's horrifying. Like, like, like the train tips over or the train just runs off the track and still, but derailment maybe that means somebody forgot to, you know, move the track over when they were, when they were changing tracks or whatever and a and an engine end up in the dirt.
But three derailments a day seems like a lot. If that's moving trains, if there's a train next to the freeway, I'm staying in the fast lane because God knows when that fucker is coming off. And I know we got a lot of trains, like we have more train tracks that's been any other country in the world. So I get it. We got a lot of trains but three a day coming off the tracks is absurd. There's no reason we should have that many trains just flying off Willy nilly.
Well, the basic gist of it is that, that people don't pay attention to trains. They don't pay attention to trains in Ohio. They don't pay attention to trains at this point. So, thank you here over the week you're fired.
Wouldn't, you just, wouldn't, you just given anything to just be in that office when somebody discovered this and the guy, the guy whose responsibility was to measure the size of the train and the size compared to the size of the tunnels was presented with this particular information. You know what I think? I think it was probably somebody that was low down that nobody liked, that was screaming at the top of their lungs.
They're too big for the tunnels and I was like, whatever, it's a good contract. Shut up. We're all getting paid. Everything's fine. No, it isn't. They're too big for the tunnels and then all of a sudden it finally gets to a level where somebody goes, wait a minute, what the fuck is this? And everybody below them goes, what do you mean? It's totally cool. What are you talking about? And then they find the guy in the corner of the office who nobody likes.
It was like I told you and then of course, the media jumps in and goes, can we talk to the guy over there that nobody likes? Can we get a conference room with that guy? Hey, you remember when I said nobody ever fucking listens to me? Was that was, that was that guy's moment in the sun? That's right. That would have been a beautiful Cuban be movement. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and I'm out, you know I'm Cuban B Yes, Cuban B I mean that was here of the week. Let's get into adulting.
How old are you guys? We're not fucking kids anymore. On a scale of 1 to 10. How would you rate your pain? Everything hurts. I'm a grown ass man. I pay taxes here. We're not like you, We're grown ups, motherfucker. We're 900 years old. You reach look as good. You are not. Tonight's adulting comes to us from the Wall Street Journal. This was an interesting one to me mid because I think we are approaching that age now. You don't have Children, but you are approaching that, that time in life.
I'm beyond the age of, of Children. I I'll inherit somebody else's opinion. I don't think so. I don't think you're menopaused. I think you're just looking for the right one to, to slip on past the goalie. But this one was interesting to me because of the pressure that are put on. Men of this rank is the right word. But it fascinated me nonetheless.
So this is high earning men are cutting back on their working hours while most us workers are putting in fewer hours, men in the top 10% of earners cut back their time on the job the most. According to a new study, American workers have cut the number of hours they spend in their jobs since 2019. But no group has dialed back its time on the clock more than young, high earning men whose jobs typically demand long hours.
The top earning 10% of men in the US labor market logged 77 fewer hour work hours in 2022 on average than those in the same earnings group in 2019. That translates to 1.5 hours less time on the job a week or a 3% reduction over the same three year period. The top earning 10% of women cut back time by 29 hours, which translates to about half an hour less work each week or 1% reduction.
High earning men in the 25 to 39 age range who could be described as workaholics were pulling back often by choice since this group already put in longer hours than the typical US worker and women at the highest income levels. These high earners had longer work days to trim the drop in working hours among high earning men and women. To help explain why the US job market is even tighter than what would be expected. Given the current levels of unemployment and labor force participation.
What do you, what do you think about this? That the dudes are scaling back? What do you think? I would attribute this largely to um remote work and I don't think there's any way this would have happened out work going remote the way it did in the last two years. I agree.
I agree because, because employers wouldn't have allowed it, this is 100% based on the fact that employers don't know how much their, their workers are working and it's less people sitting, uh, in an office doing other things that are work related than taking that time at home, working harder while they're at home during the work hours and then, you know, cutting out early or starting later and, and doing other things at home.
I think people became more motivated in terms of how much work they get done during work hours because they found, well, if I can make this work at home, if I can do more with less time at home, I've got more time to spend with my kids to do things shit. If I worked from home, half the time I was actually working, I would also be doing little stuff in my house as I was walking around because I'd have a headset on and making phone calls, but I'd be doing other stuff.
I did that I was probably more productive in the time that I did work from home when I was in a, a office style job. But I also got more done at home because it was easier to do. And you also have to remember like, let's say, if there's a, let's say everybody had a on average a half hour commute to work. Right now, you cut that out. If they're not doing that, they can work another, what was another, uh, hour and a half less.
So, if they had a 2.5 hour commute, they could work an hour more without the commute and they're still working an hour and a half less every week. Boom. I just made a case for everybody working from home. You're welcome, America. Some problems everywhere. The paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research which isn't yet peer reviewed suggests high earners were more likely to benefit from flexible working arrangements.
Ding ding ding, which could be a factor in reduced work hours before the pandemic. Eli Albrecht, a lawyer in Washington DC says he worked between 80 to 90 hours a week. Now he says he puts in 60 to 70. That's still more than most men in America who averaged 40.5 in 2021. Mr Albrecht's schedule changed when he shared zoom school duties for two of his young Children with his wife. He's maintained the reduced hours because it's making his relationship more equitable.
He says and gives him family time. I used to feel and a lot of dads used to feel that just by providing for the family financially, that was sufficient and it's just not a downshift documented by Doctor Shin and his colleagues occurred. As many professionals have been reassessing their ambitions and the value of long working hours emboldened by a strong job market. Millions of Americans quit their jobs in search of better hours and more flexibility.
Overall, US employees worked 18 fewer hours a year on average in 2022 compared to 2019 with employed men putting in 28 fewer hours last year and employed women cutting their time by nine hours. Data from US Census Bureau's current population survey, average male worker put in 2006 hours last year while the average female worker logged 17 58.
Separate data from the Census Bureau suggests that men with families in particular are working less between 19 and 21 married men devoted roughly 13 fewer minutes on average to each work day according to the American time use survey, which hasn't yet published 2022 figures. They spent more time on socializing and relaxing as well as household activities. According to men surveyed by the Census Bureau, the amount of time unmarried men spent on work changed little during that same period.
So you're right. This is spending more time with the kids. Yeah, it's, it's interesting, uh, interesting uh that it's interesting that this is our topic and that I read an article um, where they asked people in other countries a lot of it was um, Western Europe, mainly, mainly developed countries but asked, asked people what their opinion was of work habits for Americans and the fact that Americans legendarily work more than other developed countries.
And one of the quotes from one of the people they asked was only in America, do people brag about how many hours a week they put in working? I thought that was really interesting because we've always known that Europe work less. The Japanese are probably an exception. They probably work a lot more than, than we do. But generally speaking, if you take these undeveloped countries, they all work less than we do. They put fewer hours in and none of them brag about how much they work.
So I wonder what influence? Maybe it's not a direct influence, the opinions of people from other countries is direct influence. But the fact that Americans looked around during the pandemic and went, why are we working so much harder than everybody else? Like what are we, what are we getting for this? We have bigger cars, we have bigger houses, we have more stuff. But why are we working so much harder than everybody else? And is it worth it?
And I think that's probably a big part of the thought process that happened with a lot of people in this country during the pandemic. Everybody looked around and went, I'm like, I could be dead tomorrow. You know, like, even though we, we realized that the pandemic was mainly affecting elderly people, the people were dying from COVID. It was more the elderly, more obese people with, with other factors, health factors that made them higher risk.
Everybody was looking around going, I don't know how, how long I'm gonna live. It's why everybody started quitting jobs and going to other jobs. But ultimately people wanted to work less and live more and I, I, I can't help but think that had a lot to do with how our work ethic or work habits differ from other people in the world who have the same education, the same general standard of living.
But if you take our, the amount that we work into account that's really degraded our standard of living a lot. And it's done that for years and I think people are tired of it. I mean, that seems to be the case. I mean, I anecdotally, I, I saw that I was like, what, why, why am I doing this? And you kind of think to yourself. I never looked at what your productivity in the office was until we started having serious discussions about work from home.
And then the idea is, well, I'll just do it from home. I was like, why like, well, because I'm more productive at home, why, why aren't you more productive at the office? Because the office is bullshit. You lock me in from 8 to 5. And how do you know whether or not I'm working that time? And the answer is nobody is there. There's a, I can count the number of people on my hand that actively use 8 to 5 in a captive environment trapped at the office.
They don't, they surf social media, they go take a shit, they go to the break room and they socialize in the hallway and it's like nobody, nobody works 8-5. They're, they're forging relationships at work or they're fucking around because there's just simply no way that they, that, that you can occupy yourself productively for that amount of time. So the whole idea that you can get more done in the office and this is something that a lot of people deal with this collaboration.
And I'm using air quotes for those of you at home. The idea that you need to be in close proximity to somebody to generate a relationship with them in my view is patently false. There's a guy that I share a wall with at my day job who I never talk to in person and I love him. He's a great guy, but our jobs don't require that we interact. I meet him on teams.
My relationship has been built via video conference or if I'm in the office, we go to a conference room, but I'm never knocking on the wall. Hey, man, what's happening? So the whole idea of you gotta be in the office to collaborate. Absolutely lost on me. So I think your point is apt you spend all this time at work working and then you realize what am I doing it for when you could probably trim up to an hour a day in some circumstances and still get the same shit done.
So, I, I believe it, look at, looking back at my previous job, I was doing mortgages as you know, um, there were a lot of people who were there from seven or eight in the morning till seven at night and, and that's pretty typical for that industry because it is, it's a lot of, it's a lot of work you can't get away from, you've got to return phone calls. There's constant emails, you're, you're, you're constantly dealing with these teams of people who are doing other things for you.
But I was one of the few people who was in at eight and I was out at four or five. The difference between me and a lot of the other people in that office was I wasn't taking walks around the building at between 10 and 10 30 and then going to going and taking an hour lunch. And I wasn't taking 20 minutes to bullshit with employees time when I knew there was other things that I need to get done. And it was mainly because I wanted to be there from eight or nine and be gone by five.
And I was, and I had no problem sticking to that schedule and I was out performing most of these people who were spending another seven or eight hours in the office more than I was every week, week in and week out and people were wondering because they knew I was never the guy there at 78 o'clock at night. Unless it was a real bad week. It was never there that late. And it was because it was very efficient while I was at work. I was not spending a lot of time with that.
Maybe it was to my detriment. I'm sure a lot of those people build some relationships with other people there that, you know, that may have helped them in ways. But I was also good friends with my boss at the time. We'd go golf. So I felt like there wasn't a lot that I was losing out. But your, your, your point is absolutely right.
There is a ton of time that is burned and, and nobody, even though I was spending a lot fewer hours in the office, I was known as a workhorse because while I was there, people knew I was getting shit done because that's the way I was. So, it's, I, I guess my point is it's a, it's a choice. Right.
It's what you wanna do with that extra time that you have and the way I always looked at it was, can I, you know, do I wanna spend four or five times a day bullshitting with people for 20 minutes or do I wanna get this job done and go home and, and, and get other things done and, and spend my time with friends and, and doing other things. So, I mean, I guess it's a choice but it's definitely, it's how you spend your time while you're there.
Also. The other factor is if you're still a smoker and you burn 20-22 minutes per smoke break and you do three of those a day, that's an hour. Everybody smokes in that industry. So there's a lot of shit that goes on in the office that I don't think is taken into account when you think about this return to office uh collaboration. So I'll, I'll throw in one last thing just for shits and giggles is the whole idea of you need to come back to the office.
I've seen and heard some concepts from uh various pundits. The whole return to office is just a way to slim the workforce. We don't have to fire you if you quit. Yeah. Not 100% of the, the reasons for doing things and, and why companies say they're doing things is based on honesty. Let's be honest. There's, there's always that dark side, right? Let's uh let's find a creative way of letting these people get rid of themselves. Right. Yeah. Oh, you don't like it. Well, you can quit.
Good because we don't have to pay you severance good tips. Rocks. All right, man. It's that time. Do you have something that you want to get off your chest? Yes, I do. All right. Let me get it going. Here. It's time for W T F. Excuse me. What the, what the, what the, hey, what the fuck, what the fuck the whiskey? I go fuck. Made the floor is yours. All right. Well, I was recently buried in the dark dark web where I often lurk and found that for years.
One of my heroes, one of my uh one of my, my acting mentors, Johnny Depp has been trying to brand his own rum. Captain Jack's grog for years. Now, if you're paying attention to what happens with celebrities when they get famous, they generally find somebody to brew an alcohol for them. They sit around getting wasted, they eventually slap their name on it. They do a couple of um commercials or you know, online videos.
We've all seen Ryan Reynolds, uh Vodka pitches some of the rock and it's not a bad idea. I mean, Sammy Hagar started that shit with Cabo Wabo years ago but I got a bone to pick with Disney. Disney said no, we own Captain Jack, we own Captain Jack's images. We own the name. We'd like to own you even if we can't and you can't do it. You don't get to have Captain Jack's grog because Captain Jack is ours. Now, I was an actor when I was a kid.
I spent one day working for Disney one day in my career, I did a Christmas special at Disneyland. You know how I got paid. I got a free ticket to Disneyland. And I got a voucher for a fucking cheer. That's all I got. Disney is a notoriously cheap company. They love screwing their employees. This man gave us how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies? If Captain Jack Grog came out, I would drink no other rum ever.
Every time this episode started, I would show you a bottle of Captain Jack's rum and I would say nothing else in the insurance. They're not even asking for a cut of the profits. No, they just said no. And let's be honest, Johnny's had a rough year. I'm a heavy drinker. This is America. And for those of you following the news, he's, he's had a couple of different lawsuits involving the divorce of his wife, Amber heard. And yes, he's a relatively public court battle. Let's be honest.
Now 2022 is not a good time for him. I have as a heavy drinker in America. I've had sex with some very unattractive women and I never had the joy of waking up and next to Amber heard. However, I have never woken up next to a pile of shit that one of those girls left on my bed in the next morning, the man's had a rough year. It was a very expensive court battle. He may have to sell his island and I don't wanna see that. So I'm, I'm starting the petition.
You can go to my website, Captain Jack's Rum and grog. This is made up dot com. You can sign the petition. That's a long URL. We're gonna, we're gonna work around Disney on this. We got to get a I involved. I want Captain Jack to have his rum. I wanna see Johnny's face on that label with a great big F U to Amber heard God bless her. She's hot as could possibly be. But the man's had a rough year and I feel like this is a win that he deserves. And I feel like America owes it to him.
Danny Paul America owes it to him. God bless America free the Ukraine. I'm out. I like it. I imagine, I imagine myself in the scenario where someone would say, oh this shit, this is the worst rum I've ever heard of. But you have heard of it. That would make my fucking day. Well done, sir. Well done. Thank you, Mitch. How you feeling? You ran solo this one? Yeah. No, I thought I gotta be honest. I was, I was a little nervous.
It was like, uh it was like, it was like a, it was like a one man show where I would have somebody constantly interrupting, but I enjoyed it. No, it's fun. I thought uh I, I it's always fun. It's always fun to, to uh battle with the boys from high school and college. But I, I feel like we, we gave the viewers the, the listeners their, their, their fair shake tonight. Well, I'm glad you could join me. I appreciate it. Anyway, that's our show. You can email us a bottle of brown at gmail dot com.
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