Painkiller Already - PKN 582

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

P.K.N. 582. Taylor, have you had duck before? I love duck. Huge fan of duck. I'm not sure I've ever had duck. Kyle made a face. So it's not sure it was related to the duck. It was. I could tell Kyle, Kyle may not be a duck man. Roast duck is fantastic. It's a waterfowl and so it has a much larger fat layer around it to stay warm and cold water. and so like cooking it takes longer than chicken because you need to render a lot more fat but it's also way way more flavorful and so like you usually find it in Chinese dishes or Asian dishes duck is awesome and then I have last night my girlfriend was like hey you need to take out that duck and pat it dry and get it ready for cooking and I was like okay and I guess I just underestimated how long duck necks are because like I took that whole carcass out of there and it was like such a long tube like you got a swan it might be it might be it might be a goose in here it's an incredibly small swan that's one half off yeah you can tell looking at it that's it's a duck with that weird duck skin that's so much and like Kyle you nodded as though you've tried to cook

it or you've had it I've had it your jam like a nice fatty bird uh I remember it being greasy and I also didn't like the part where we had to spit out shot the throughout the meal because this was a duck that the cook had blasted himself Elmer Fudd's style a couple days before. Okay, well, that cannot be used. Now that you said it's in Asian dishes, I think I've tried duck too, but not in the kind of isolation that let me really appreciate what the duck was bringing to the dish. That's fair, but like, you could put that Chinese sweet and sour sauce on dog shit, and they would be like, hey, no, it's, I mean, it's an acquired taste.

but they know focus on the sauce dude i'm still ordering from that same chinese place because it has the best chinese food by far and they fucking they still call me after every single like i'll order on door dash and then they call me and ask what sauces i want and at this point i just i'm like whatever you got like

give me a couple sweet and sours they have not included one sauce i've ordered there i've ordered from this place 10 times over the past couple years. Not once have they included a sauce that I asked for. What sauce do you want? It's like fucking sweet and sour and I want chili powder and I want

hot sauce and I want duck sauce and they're like, yeah, we give you fucking nothing. You eat my ass, I call you just to bother you. Why don't we have this conversation? You're not going to put the fucking sauces in.

I have my own sauces now I've got like a fridge with like I've got like a bottle of like hoison sauce and stuff to replace what they won't they won't provide I like that spicy mustard like my favorite thing from Chinese places is to get the vegetable spring rolls

and that it's smothered them in spicy mustard like I'd rather have that usually than the entree that's just never been a condiment I associate with Asian food a bottle of it that whole bottle of it it's the Asian mustard I don't know what's different about it

I mean that other than it's on an Asian table but like they keep it in that little glass goblet on the table like you're at Waffle house with the syrups. I'm like man are they keeping those sanitary

like are they looking after those? Like what do they do every night? Like when that little jar of mustard on the side of the table is like the day's done. Do they refrigerate that? Does that just stay there? Like I mean mustard's fine. It's shelf stable but I'm a little worried about it's

staying right ear on this public table staple. Mustard is like the one condiment that's totally fine, leaving it out. Mustard and mayo. And mayonnaise. In prison, if you're daring. In prison, they give you shelf stable mayo. It's like, uh, yeah, it makes sense. I can't remember the, the brand, but I'd know, it's like blue, blue, blue something.

Anyway, everybody's got a jar of that shit just sitting on a shelf in there. And I'm like, aren't there eggs in this? Yes. I find is in this. It's interesting to me when they engineer foods to be something they weren't like it. I have a story. A coworker of mine at Cisco. Before he worked at Cisco, he tried to start his own business.

So he went and got an MBA at University of Texas. And he's already an educated and he's going to start this business. And he works with these chemists to make shelf-stable vodka shots, right? vodka shots. They melt if they're not refrigerated. This is a long time ago. And you couldn't buy vodka shots at the time. But he managed to make like gelatin, I guess, in the form of vodka shots that would just not gelo shots. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm trying to say jello shots. Yeah, they're vodka in the jello shots. And so now these jello shots, you can sell with some non-refrigerated on the shelf and storm that way, et cetera. And he's working with the ATF, alcohol, tobacco, and

firearms. And they're like, all right, all right. Yeah, these are cool and everything, but you need to change the packaging in this slight way. He's like, all right, gotcha. And they're like, okay, we like your changes. We have one more thing for you. He's like, all right, gotcha. He's like, but you got to put this warning on. He's like, okay, gotcha. And after like a year of this, his fiance is like, I'm not sure if Dave is an entrepreneur or unemployed. It's a fine line at some point. And he, he, he, he, he, is a entrepreneur. He's an entrepreneur. He's an unemployed. And he, He talks to the ATF and he's like, look, can you give me all the changes you want to the packaging at one time? And he goes, no, no, no.

You see, we will never be happy with the packaging. We think jello shots are geared towards children and that your primary customers for this are often going to be under 21. So for the rest of your life, we will tell you to make small changes to the packaging before you're allowed to sell it so that you can never go into business. I 100% knew that's where you were going. I was like, dude, I wish this guy would have called me. I could have told him, oh, no, they're going to be telling you to destroy the one ring before too long, just to keep you from putting this to market. That's weird to me that ATF has anything to do with the packaging and the marketing and the presentation,

because obviously I know that they have to do with the manufacturer of alcohol. Okay. Like I've known, I've met people who had, like, medium-level stills. Like, they make $500 bottles a year or something like that. you definitely go to the ATF at that point. This isn't some home-use shit. But they just come out and they're like, yeah, looking good. Thumbs up.

If I messed up the story and it was the FDA, then that was by accident. That was the core of the government. He would deal. Again, my ATF experience is the ATFB is with the E is with the explosives and the firearms part, not the tobacco or the alcohol part. but I thought that they just sort of regulate and monitor your production of alcohol. Yeah, I don't know what their specific thing. That's what I was going to say too.

It's like I would imagine it would be the FDA doing that or the FDA will come after you for ingredients in how you make it at shelf stability. And then the FDA has a advertising subdivision, which I imagine would be the department that was running him roughshod being like, Well, you're advertising it in a way where our experts internally are determining it that it's it's angled toward children. And so you need to revise this and this. And then they would just run them through the rigamaroo. Yeah. Because he was young. He was probably like 24 when he did this.

Oh, okay. Almost child adjacent. Like, like, you just had left that environment. And it kind of reminds me of like the cotton candy flavored vapes and stuff. Like, yeah, you know, this is something that might appeal to a 16 year. adults like cotton candy too you're right or not keeping the candy candy business in uh in business all right this is watermelon ice right here it's delicious it tastes like a watermelon blow pop every time and if if anything it deals with craving if i'm thinking if i want a watermelon blowpop like

no thanks i got i got it's the cartoon dinosaur the advertising it that's okay i hate your your favorite flavor choices like i just get where's what would you okay i just get menthol and if they don't have menthol, I get tobacco. How old are you? How old are you? You're just smoking? Why don't you get tobacco? Like a real... Because when I, I, because I liked menthol six. That's what he's got... I don't vape any face. But I would go for

watermelon ice over menthol or bleach or... The thing you need to keep in mind, Woody, is that this one I'm using is the stuff in here and this little cartridge is made in America. Kyle is buying bootleg Chinese vapes made in a factory in Chin Chong

No this is this is watermelon ice It's made by It's a name brand It's like the second biggest brand This is made by the America company They are No they're not dude

Yes they are Like elf bars are like the really big one right Is that not the same as that It's not elf bar It's some geek bar They're those big vapes That last weeks and weeks and weeks. I thought those were all made in China.

The vape juice is not that bootleg... So this is that right-wing Republican propaganda that you intake, okay? They gave people shit about popcorn lung when some bootleg Chinese vape juice came through 20 fucking years ago and gave eight people popcorn lung. You know why they call it popcorn lung, by the way? Yeah, because it's buttery and delicious. No, because it was a disease. created in popcorn manufacturing.

They would have this dust-based butter that they put on popcorn, and it gave them the same disease. Apparently, some people were like, they pop their popcorn, and the first thing they do is open the bag and go, and, like, get that popcorn air because they were into it, and it was giving them popcorn long. It was some severe, like,

I was sorry, I thought I was cutting in right at the end of that, but there is no city called Ching Chong. But there is a city called Chongqing. I made a mistake I knew I wasn't even doing that racistly I knew I was close I knew there was one there was a city called Chongqing

where there's a bunch of manufacturing but yeah the I don't know about that Kyle I don't know how much popcorn scent you would have to huff in order to get that right when I read about it it was people making it and that like manufacturing

environment they're in it all the time. Kyle's story may also be true, but it's just not what I read. It's like when people, like those women who got like radium poisoning because they were licking the little paint brushes for radium watches. And then like you see

like, oh Susie, she's worked here for four years and it's like her jaws falling off and then that woman's like well, I guess this is the job for me. It's like, you know what? No. You're almost to blame if you take that job after the first generation of it. And you can buy uranium based um like flatware and such that's pretty dope looking i think it might see that yeah yeah and that's

so low radiation that it's like this is basically like the uh but or apparently it's like a banana level of radiation right oh like so low as to be nothing more than banana it's um it used to be the only use for uranium was treating flatware lately like really like oh it does this i'm scientifically illiterate enough to be like i don't understand they're like hey one flight is this is the same as an x-ray in terms of, like, radiation exposure. And I'm like, oh, what am I to do with this information? It means don't worry about it, right, basically. It's just like we were joking around.

What if you're pilot? Do they get x-rays every day? Is their cancer rate higher? Yeah. I bet they do have the higher cancer, if it's as dangerous as they say. It would have to be. Yeah, you're definitely getting more. And are they getting more radiation because of something in the plane?

I don't think so. I think it's that they're above, like, the protection. zone of 35,000 feet of air. That makes the most sense. Well, American Airlines start giving out like lead jockstraps to their employees, like the dentist, you know, kind of sort of does with their cover-up. Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

I always thought the dentist cover-up was like slap-shod, where I'm like, all right, so you're going to put this suit on me that's too small for me. And then you're going to go stand behind some two-by-fours and drywall on the other side of this. you're all good now brace brace yourself he's back there almost Ghostbusters containment field level

bite down on this annoying thing that's like kind of poking into the back of your throat that makes sense though because they do it they might do 10 a day 20 a day or something or at least be in the room near it you know if I'm flying jets I'm so happy as if this uniform's

not getting me enough pussy now you're giving me a padded jockstrap I guess I don't need that sock anymore We should do that for surfers Like people in wetsuits where it's like no It's for protection You know Do airline pilots get posse?

Do airline pilots get posse? Like if you're a decent looking guy You think that that captain's uniform Like does the trick I think that used to be I think it's a little outdated today But that that was like a premier job 30 years ago

I know the stewards are getting dick isn't that isn't that kind of funny that they basically figured out a cure for AIDS and then instead of the marching orders being like all right guys once you have AIDS really be careful with your partner selection and take this because if you just take this and keep fucking lots of people we're going to get super AIDS eventually oh that's not how it works well you they can't they're not contagious anymore. Their, like, cell count gets down to zero or whatever. And now they're, what's the terminology? Undetectable. For now. But eventually, AIDS is going to... Taylor's theorizing that there will be a more ambitious strain of AIDS who overcomes prep. A real go-getter. A real getter. Well, thus far, AIDS hasn't mutated. Isn't that how any sort of thing works? Like, any sort of disease is that it becomes resistant over time. That's why, like,

antibiotics have to get more powerful. Or, like, if you're someone who habitually takes antibiotics, you can create resistant strains. Well, that's bacteria. We're talking about a virus with HIV. They're the same. I think that the... You're similar enough. What he's right?

Right. They're both bad. But with treatment, those people become undetectable and they can't pass the AIDS on to another person. Oh, well, then I guess problem solved forever. Well, also, if you just take, there's another drug that you can take where you just are immune to AIDS. Yeah, being straight.

It's prep. That's not true. I mean, look at Michael, Michael, you know, Magic Johnson, you know, he wasn't, he was just having a good old time out there. You thought, you think Magic was banging dudes? Yes. Really? Yeah. Do you think straight people aren't getting AIDS?

Oh, it's just like a very, very low rate compared, because it's true, yeah. It's transmitted via like blood stuff. And it's just the nature of anal, it's a lot more grading and irritating, like that tissue is not meant for that. And so, like, it's a skin's very thin. Yeah, exactly. abuse, especially, you know, doing it with vigor or frequency. Yeah, and those guys are. They're fit. And so

I'm like, they're so. And so it's like there's a lot of transmissible folds and such. They are fit. What the fuck. It pisses me off. So, they're creating unrealistic standards for straight men. Every time. One of my, I would say my, my best gay friend at one point lived in New York and worked for like

black rock in one of the sinister sides of it and like I'd see him at weddings and stuff among friends and I'd be like bro how's how's it going black rock gay biggest country in the world and he's like dude I know it's like I feel like I'm propaganda like I'm a gay man in New York working for black rock is black rock the investment company or the mercenary investment company yeah okay both evil what's what's the mercenary one black water it was black water and then they changed to like Sunshine Incorporated, like some absurd name. Which was smart.

It was. I don't even know what they're up to anymore because now that they're not a cool name, it's like, I don't know what, I don't know what Sunshine Incorporated is up to in Libya. I got to be up to something because that's how they would always like mess with the numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They'd be like, oh, yeah, we only lost five soldiers this month. Oh, good, good. And 455 contractors. And I always thought like, oh, those poor air.

conditioning repair men. It's a dangerous gig. I thought that it was got, because I knew about the welding jobs over there because I was trying, I was begging my cousin to go into the green zone and weld back and they, I'm like, dude, they pay you several hundred thousand dollars a year. A portion of that is non-taxable income.

This is a gold mine. You're going to be sitting behind in the green zone in the center, welding up-armoring Humvees behind wave after wave of Marines and technologies. Nobody's going to bother you unless you go into town and start being you. You know what I mean? Just stay there, eat their food, weld their shit, and cash their checks. And he's like, would I have to fly? Dude, we're talking about going to Iraq and up-armoring jeeps.

And your fear is the fucking transport flight. And it was, though. Oh, I thought he was worried about being transported. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's worried about the plane flight to get that. Never. Never in his life has he been on an airport. No, no.

No, no. I mean, we've been through this. I got flying lessons, you know, I mean, like the store, all of us here at that PCA. I thought that he, that's so weird. Actually, I guess it's not weird. I talk myself out of it immediately. Like, if you've never flown, the idea of it probably is pretty spooky. But once you've flown even a couple times, unless you have a serious phobia, it's just boring. It's just like, oh, this is so tedious. he has a serious phobia of being i my like armchair psychologist has decided that he is afraid of losing control or being out of control of a situation which i would you would think that he wouldn't want to be even driven in a car like you know what i mean like like but he's fine with that he'll go to he'll sleep in the back seat of the car while we're driving cross country but he will not do general anesthetic even though he needs knee surgery you know he walked right out of that operating room um they they were they was in a gown

he was ready to go and then he absolutely will not get on an aircraft that's why we drove the entire fucking country that's why I've driven to Seattle and Phoenix and New York and Boston and way up toward like Michigan or some shit I crisscrossed the entire

were you mad in the car you're like you son of a bitch you're a little bit mad but also like now we have all our gear like like you can fly with a lot of shit but it's annoying but if you drive then the truck's just full of your shit like all your extra shit extra battery charges and eight extra guns one less thing to go wrong

and i like having my truck like at the location you know if i have a rental car that i'm unfamiliar with you know uh shit this doesn't have an extra USB cable or whatever like my truck does and rentals are not as good to me sure if you're doing work for sure like whenever we go on vacation and get a rental i try to get that ford explorer though because that thing is awesome I love the Ford Explorer. I don't know if I'd want to own one. I don't think it's a particularly good-looking car, but it has, usually when I'm renting a car,

we're going somewhere that's hard to drive in, and the Explorer has, I mean, like all cars do. There's, like, different driving modes. On the Mustangs, there's like launch mode and race mode and all sorts of shit like that. On the Explorer, there was a desert mode. I'm like, we're in the desert.

This is fucking great. You hit the desert mode, it like adds a little slip to the tires for the sand. And then we're going through a blizzard, and I was like, Pleasant mode. Oh, wonderful. It must be the same as my F-150, because I have these.

I did a long trip, and I was out in Utah, and I'm like, ooh, dirt road mode. Did it work? I mean, yeah, but probably it didn't need it. In my Honda, there's like a little button that's to the left of the steering wheel meant to look like a leaf or something for like green mode. and it's like I don't I don't believe

for a fucking second that is changing anything about my driving because I turned it on seven year eight years ago and I bought that car or so

and I've never turned it off it's changing your rate shields it's shifting you at a lower RPM it's making your car a grandma mobile that's fine it's a Honda anyway I'm not a

I'm no speed demon I'm just saying driving this weekend and I was pulling in like basically I was making a right on red and the other had turned green and I'm like, all right, so I hit it

I'm like, the fuck, I hit this gas battle four seconds ago. And Jackie's like, you got to put it in sport mode. That's how I drive. I never use eco. You got to put it in sport mode. There is nothing

like kind of funnier than when you're being driven by a woman like going through a drive-through or something and you see as a man with our man-man spatial reasoning that they are about to go with that with that rim on those little kind of guide curbs throughout the drive thing and it's always just like you see it coming and then you hear it and then of course the woman is always like oh what was that and it's like could be anything right Friend's a good driver. I can't relate to this. I have, I, I have dated several good women

drivers, like, so good that I would sleep in the car with. She's in the room, isn't she? No, no. I swear to God. Like, for real. Like, like, my current girlfriend is there. My current girlfriend's an amazing driver and a wonderful person, and I spend more time with her. I'm an idiot. No, she's a, her only problem is she follows people too closely. She's like, right on people's asses and I'm I'm doing that thing where I like reach out because I'm like trying to slow I don't know time and space down a little bit I'm like reaching toward the windshield like I'm like bracing my feet down in the floorboard yeah do you push with your right foot like phantom breaking I do that and I'm and I'm like hey you're riding this guy's ass I don't

think it's you he's going to want to fight at the next red light if you keep it up it's probably going to be me could you please get off his ass unless you know Taekwondo and you haven't told me. This is the kind, that guy's got 11 Punisher stickers. Jackie's not known what she does do, she'll ride

in someone else's blind space ever. No recognition of it. You can't, follow people too closely. And I know as a driver, when somebody follows me too closely, it genuinely makes me angry. Like, not only are you like risking an accident if I have

do anything. But like, if you look at how I'm driving, I'm carefully leaving like three to five seconds in front of me and the driver in front of me. And they'll want to take that space from me. I'm like, that is safety space that I are providing all of us. And they want to wedge up into that shit by passing me. That makes me mad too. But mostly the tailgating thing. The tailgating thing will, I'll start slamming the brakes. I've got insurance. I'll start slamming the brakes. I've never done that. If someone's tailgating me, I don't want like a ha-ha. now we both have calls to make situation. I just want to get out of it.

I have, especially if we were like cross country, like, you know, it's like four dudes in the car all armed to the teeth and somebody's bothering us on the road. It's like we're not going to put up with this. So there was a lot of break slam,

like break slam. It's like hit us. Hit us if you want to follow that closely. I'd be happy to do this. Like don't care. I hate that. I can't even, I'm either in the fast lane

in like the top seeming 1% of speeders or I'm in one of the chiller lanes and just not bothering I don't know no one seems if you're in the right lane going the speed limit or slightly over no one messes with you and I'm the big like I feel like everyone is at their prime hypocrisy level in the car where like when I'm flying in the left I'm like I got places to go all you fucking people are just lackadaisical and then when I'm like in a middle lane and some guys flying I'm like leave 10 minutes earlier dumbass. All haughty.

We're all above average drivers. Total hypocrite. Yeah. I've never hit anything. Have you ever had any kind of a collision? I had the smallest of small rear endings at Mizzou

where this woman in a minivan in front of me, maybe she wasn't familiar with the road. I'm less judgmental because it's been fucking 12. Wait, she hit you? No, I bumped into her at like a rolling stop.

Because there's one of those things were like, we were both turning right and because the straight through the intersection was green it means you really don't need to slow down that much you can just keep turning right there's no way for anyone to be turning into that lane from the other side and she like slowed to a crawl I kind of slowed to a crawl looked to the left and just assumed that she had like already gone and then I so I didn't break and I like rolled into her at a very slow speed dented my grill no damage at all to like the Honda Odyssey or fucking Kia Sorrento or whatever the fuck it was and then she pulled off to the other side it was an Asian woman and she got out and I got out and then this like Columbia Missouri Hick lady was like pulled up behind us she was like I saw the whole thing and it's like I mean there wasn't a lot to see like I rolled at four miles an hour into this woman my grill is dented and her car you can't even see where it's hit and the Asian lady gets out and like

initially feigned like oh my neck and then I just was like all right well let's share insurances let's do this and that and then it very little ended up coming of it because her car had because she was lying about the neck thing probably forgot about it before she got home and there was no perceivable damage to her car and the only damage to my car was the grill

and because it was because the car came with an extra grill in the back I just put that grill on the one that looked shittier and then just used that for the next seven years until that car died while I was driving down the road. I think an axle broke because it suddenly started going Bopopop, Bop, Bop, Bop, Bup, Bup, Bup, Bup, Bup, Bup, really aggressively. Oh, yeah, that's a common symptom.

Yeah. Bap, Bap, Bap, Bap, Bop. It was so aggressive. I've never hit anyone. I've definitely come close, and I've definitely had some road rage where I could have killed myself, just driving recklessly. But I was, I've never hit anyone, but I was at, I was at a red light going to work one morning. and I would doze off at red lights regularly like I would fall asleep and then like pop back up

that's great regularly yeah I was always exhausted in the mornings like like a hundred like so exhausted I could fall asleep almost at a red light you know and and I was I was there dozing one morning I was the first car in line and suddenly a car hits me in the back going like 11 miles an hour or something like that enough to maybe go and like wake me up and for a split second I thought I had rolled

into the intersection and been hit and I was terrified but then I like look and there's a black guy and I think he was either a town car or a limo

I don't remember which but he had fucked up the front end of his car but just zero damage to me and then I had a deer hit me one time that's on it that's on it

yeah I went to the side of the car I was 17 I was in Pennsylvania for some reason and I was at a stop sign, and I felt the car in the back, the car hit me from behind. I think to this day, I don't know. I was a very new driver.

You get your license at 17 in New Jersey. And it was a stick shift, so it rolls backwards. And when we hit, I'm like, who even did that? Was I not holding the break? Did he roll into me? I was at the stop sign for like a little bit before, I don't know, 10 seconds. And I don't know what happened. But he didn't seem to think it was a big deal

And there wasn't enough damage There wasn't any damage So we just, I don't know I'll never know But that happened a lot like growing up Like people would bump into each other And just be like fuck it Fuck it

You know We're not gonna take this any further than this Or like I've definitely seen cash Change hands It's like Yeah 350 Probably probably take care of this Right?

A little bit here and there Like we can usually handle it that way Can be cheaper a longer Hit the back of my Tacoma once Now, I had this saw, like, steel, hardcore bumper that I made for off-roading. And his car was fucked up. And my bumper had, like, a scratch on it. But you got to understand.

I rattle can painted it myself. I'm capable of doing this. And it's like, oh, rough day to be you. And he's like, you know, can we just pretend this didn't happen? Nothing's wrong with your truck. And I was like, yeah, that works for me. When I was, like, 19 in college, it was like, super late at night

and I was at my apartment and I lost the battle of resisting going out to buy more cigarettes and so I got in my car drove to the gas station and like as I'm pulling into the gas station my front right tire

I like hear it go like so clearly there was like a hole I was unaware of that then finally hit the breaking point and there were like other college students standing on like the stoop of the gas station and they were like oh shit and I was like so this is a thing and so I got out went in bought my cigarettes and then

came back out to my car and I was like I never learned how to change a tire I'm going to figure this out we're going to figure out how to change a tire right now so I went and I got the crank thing that's in the back that you like are supposed to put under an area like near the wheel and I didn't know what area to put it under because I like started cranking it at one point and I heard like a crack and I'm like that's not good we're wheeling that back down clearly this is not the right area. And I like, there was a cop also at the gas station. And I literally was like, do you know how to like, can you like tell me what to do here? And the cop is like, Oh, you teach me to change the tire me through officer? Literally yes. The Missouri came over,

the Columbia, Missouri, not like a school cop, like a real cop for Columbia, came over. And I was like, so it's like under here that I, like I tried it under here. And I'm pretty sure I cracked something. like is it near here and he was like yeah go to the right there a little bit i can't touch any of the equipment or your car it's like a legal thing like it's a liability thing but right here where my finger did that and so then i like changed my tire while smoking a cigarette a little little camel crush action talking to these cops and i was like wow i'm like a man like i'm talking to the police and undoing my wheel and putting the donut on and doing this

and that. I was like 19, so like 2010, 2010, I think. That's fair. That's fair enough, yeah. I don't know if I've ever changed a tire on the side of the road. I mean, this was at the gas station.

Like, I could have walked in and got pork rinds and come back out. Or anything like that. I don't think I've ever done it. I don't think I've ever needed to. I've definitely just limped them back to my dad's shop before because he's got all like real tools. like real tools like air you know air tools and stuff to

just do a real lickety split I don't think I've ever done on the side of the road I know how though I got a big ice air compressor I'm waiting for a tire and took the you know took it apart put the new tire on in the parking lot yeah that your motorcycle trips are awesome I'm surprised you didn't want to vlog them

I know it is an annoyance but it would have been fun it's for the experience itself I totally get not wanting to vlog that like you you want to intake like you And that's kind of prohibited in a way when you're also recording. Yeah. The body cams now, though, like, you can get those police body cams and just forget about it. Kind of let it be a ton of thing.

I think it's about as close to my perspective as you can get. The helmet's chin. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Yeah, if you put it on top, then it looks strangely high, like your freaking Shaquille O'Neal or something on the bike. And if you put it on your chest, the view is blocked oftentimes. It makes sense. Taylor, Mizzou played Alabama this weekend.

I missed the game. I missed the game. I was playing Battlefield. I thought you told me it was at 7.30 my time. Must have been at like 3.30 my time. Was that noon year time. Wow. Really missed it badly.

The game had been over by like from like an hour for a full hour. And then you texted like, when's the Mizzou game? I'm like, they lost by three in regulation. You're like, yes, I've been gaming. You know, so I didn't notice that. But yeah, they exactly copied. a team that's exactly as good as Missou, which is Georgia,

lost by three in regulation. And so it's really not that big a deal for Missou as long as they, it actually is a big deal because they could have won on the last play and then our retarded quarterback who was getting made fun of online, he threw an interception and then our other receiver who was wide open and could have run it.

And this score would have won. They would have beat Alabama. and this receiver after the interception was thrown through like the biggest pouty tantrum on the field like stomping and throwing his hands up and down and slapping his helmet and I'm like you know for once I'm he's right guys he's right everybody grinded this whole game to try and win

and then he throws an interception with this fuckers wide open could have beat Alabama could have established that we were not middling SEC and we were near the top but no actually we are near the top we have been for like the last half decade but yeah I think you're in the

like if I can't even think of all the teams but you're in the top 50% for sure because there are LSUs and Florida's and places like that you know I don't know how Florida had a big win who did they beat they beat oh they beat Texas last week

and then I think Texas came back this week and beat like Oklahoma or something like that they were ranked number six wacky season they're having that's that's that's that's fun to watch and then georgia just has one loss does that sound right they lost uh by three points to alabama uh and then this week they eked one out against an unranked auburn team beat them 20 to 10 but it was much closer than 20 to 10 uh says they have like the exact same missou and georgia are so similar this year the only loss is by three points

in regulation to alabama and they're five and one outside of that and but the next four weeks for Amazoo are going to be pretty horrid. But I mean, I'm also like given a little bit of confidence. Like it's like if they lose by three to Alabama and literally only lost because of a horrible play by the quarterback in the last play, they're going to destroy Auburn, I hope. Georgia's struggling with them makes me a little nervous. And then hope, I mean, Vanderbilt isn't as good as Bama. They can take them. Texas A&M is ranked four in the country, but they're not as scary as Alabama to me.

Mississippi State is good. Oklahoma is good. Well, see, it doesn't even matter if you win or lose. With the playoff system, as long as you play those teams hard, it used to be like, oh, man, we've got to get past all these teams. Like, we can't make a single mistake. And it wasn't that you were afraid your team wasn't good enough. It was afraid you'd have a mistake and throw an interception

and lose against somebody you shouldn't. But now they weigh the losses and victories. So, like, losing to Alabama by three, I'm sure you moved up in the rankings, huh? No, down two from 14 to 16. Oh, well. Still, though, you're in it. I love that it's top eight. Because like 12, right?

Oh, I think it's 12 that makes the play out. I'll probably wrong. 12 12 was great because it used to be like two teams would make the bowl 12. If it'd be a third team who had a real legit argument or even when it was four, the fifth best team might have even been the first best team. We don't know for sure. But if they're letting 12 teams in, there might be some discrepancy on, you know, who's 12th and who's 13th.

Like, that's going to happen. But really, whoever was 13th wasn't going to win. Now, all the teams that have a shot to win get a shot to win. Yeah, I like it. We've got to grind up. It would be awesome if Mizzou could make the playoffs and play Georgia or something. That would be fun. Mizzou plays Georgia and Alabama really well, usually.

They're better teams than us. And so they win by a little in the end, but at least Mizzou is in the mix. Because it used to be like when I was in college and we had just joined the end, SEC, it was like, oh, Missou has got Alabama this week, and it's like, I'm not going to this game. This is going to be a bloodbath. Did they pay us?

It's fair. It's fun to be where Taylor is. Like, how good is Missouri? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. They might be the second best team in the, in college right now. Probably not second, but you don't know.

They could be top 10. It could be best. And we lost to them by three. Like, we're as good as Georgia, ish, maybe. You know, they started, if there's re-ranking started in reverse order, then maybe Mizzou would be the, what are they fifth, something like that. Yeah, yeah, they could be, they could be top 10.

And that would just be awesome to watch Mizzou. And then, but it's, it's a nightmare because all the other higher ranked than us, SEC teams get above us in the rankings. And half of the top 25 are fucking SEC teams, like 10 or 11 out of the top 25 or something. And it's like, oh, Well, okay, sure. I guess Texas A&M and Ole Miss and Alabama and Georgia and LSU and Tennessee and Oklahoma. Like that that's a lot of teams just from our conference to be ahead of us in the rankings like because they're all so good.

And so it's like, well, damn it, dude. Like I wish Missou had got pulled into like the Pack 12 and then they would just run roughshot over the frauds like Oregon where it's like, dude, Oregon's the fourth best team in the country. They beat St. Mary's School for the Blind. They beat Jones Town School for Cripples. Dude, I looked at the Oregon schedule. I could make some of these teams. It's a joke, dude. They have cool jerseys.

I like that. They beat Penn State, Oklahoma State, Indiana. They lost two. Oh, yeah. Rod check. And they beat Penn State. And when Penn State was like exposed as frauds. Now Penn State's losing every game because apparently they lost. You'd think they'd be

better because they sent that fucking dog shit quarterback to us. Oh, Murphy. Calm down. I know it's Murphy. He heard a trash bin closed eight doors down the street and decided to defend the household with screams and parks. He's a bastard. I've been playing a ton of Battlefield 6. It came out this week, I think. And I really like it. I like it more than previous Battlefield titles. There's like a giant, you can play Conquest and there's helicopters and fighter jets and tanks and stuff like that. I really enjoy that. I'm trying to learn how to fly the helicopter. It's crazy overpowered. You just have a chopper gunner on call. The people who are good at it are putting up like 75 and 0 scores, just shitting on the other team. Just question.

I assume you're playing it on PC, right? Yeah. When I want to get good at my games, I find a mod that lets me practice that thing, right? There's, a boss called Nameless King. I was working him the day until I beat him hitless. Is there a mod where you can go and just practice your helicopter skills, do laps and get good without other people ruining your

learning curve? They introduced something called portal mode. This is the first battlefield I played in here. So for all I know, this is like an old feature, but it's new to me. And people can write their own game modes and publish them and then you can join them. And so there are lobbies

that are nothing but helicopter practice or nothing but jet practice or any number of things people make all sorts of them that uh so you can go in and practice various skills or just sort of i wouldn't call it boosting but you can playing its bots you know you can you can do whatever you want and earn xb that way uh it's it's uh it's really good but it's hard it's hard to fly i'm i've never been good at flying stuff in any game and this one is no different and uh one at first i was trying to practice in the game, but I'd just grab our team's helicopter and then go

just hard right into a mountain side. Now our team doesn't have a helicopter and I'd feel bad. But then there's other modes without the vehicles that just straight up feel like cod to me. Like they've got a little bit of mobility, like a little bit of like running and sliding. But I like the class systems. I like running around

with the defibrillator and reviving my teammates. So I'm just throwing smoke grenades and sprinting with defibrillators in my hand. like eight guys will be down and I'll just do pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh, pooh. It does a lot to maintain map control. Yeah, yeah, it's really fun too. I like, I like slighting in and shocking people. And occasionally

you manage to like shock an enemy to death, so that's pretty fun too. In my mind, the teammates are like totally appreciative. Like, oh my God, I thought a bad thing happened. And now Kyle undid it. Like, you legend. Let's go. Yeah, that's how I feel when somebody defibs me in the game. But, but the classes are fun it's been a good time my favorite thing to do so far um midi drives the tank or or the bradley fighting vehicle and then i operate the second gun which is usually a machine gun or a

grenade launcher and then as soon as we take any damage i jump out and i'm repairing the tank continuously but i've also got rockets so anytime we get into a tank fight it's one tank versus one tank but on our side there's also me with a rocket launcher so we went all of our tank fights i'm shooting rockets at him and he's shooting with a main gun and we kill all their tanks and just really go on some kill streaks in the tanks. That's been fun, too. It's a good game. It's a lot of polish,

and there's just a ton of progression to be done. I like it a lot. I know a lot of people are. I told you one of my buddies is, like, obsessed with Battlefield. For like 15 years now, he's abandoned Call of Duty for Battlefield. And he was obsessed with this one for, like, a week and a half, and then seemingly just gave up entirely and no longer really enjoys it.

So I don't know. Maybe it's different from the other battlefields. No way I don't know. Because that was a game I never liked. I remember dying and it's like, you got a hoof it soldier? And I like check the map. And it's like, I'm fucking,

I could grab a coffee how far away I am from the fights. Like I could hang out and go, there are open scores near me. That only really happens when you're really getting your shit pushed in because you can spawn on your squad mates. Squads of four within teams of, I don't know, 16 or 32, like something like that. It's multiple squads on each team.

And you can spawn on any of your squad mates as long as they're not directly in combat. And there's also like forward operating spawn points that the assault class can drop down and sort of hide around the map so that you can spawn on those. And you can spawn on any objective that you own. So if you're pushed back and you only own A,

and they've got B, C, D, and E, you either got to spawn your HQ or on A you lose A and now you're spawning in your HQ and that's when you really are just getting your knife out and like oh fuck man we're really we're really getting whoop to you and somebody snipes you

and you're right back to the 8 to 5 seconds later I haven't been gaming much at all other than every 3 to 4 years probably 3 3 and a half really like clockwork I remember like I haven't played a Pokemon game

in front of that. And then I play through, like I played the last week and a half. I played Pokemon Red again, which is the one that came out in 1997 or 1998 when I was a kid. And Kyle, you could have enjoyed that too. You're not that much older than me. Yeah. Okay. No, no. I played cool games or nothing at all. I'd rather play with a ball of yarn than play the ball of yarn than play Pokemon. Yeah. Well, but then I also, I always buy the new ones. And it's like, it's like I have a sixth sense for Pokemon because I hadn't thought about it in three and a half years and literally like three and a half years I like checked a game because like this is what you do when you start a new game like you put the cartridge in and then you're like when was the last time I played this

and like the old games don't tell you but the newer ones will say like May 1st 2021 was like the last time this was played and it's like fuck I bet if there was a way to go back and see the previous version of this game it would say like September 2017 because like every three and a half years, I'm reminded Pokemon exists and I play. And of course, when I get back into it, it's a week away from the newest release. And so I'm going to I pre-ordered the newest Pokemon

game to come for the Nintendo Switch, because I want to see. I want to play it. It's a great franchise, dude. You are in the wrong here for pretending it's not great. It's the largest IP on Earth for a reason. Yeah, because Japanese children love it.

That's not large enough to drive global IP. It's bigger than Mario. It's it's so lame. I don't care about those little critters and those children who enslave them and force them to fight one another for just the smallest

stakes. Suspension of disbelief. I looked up what the largest IP in the world was thinking Taylor couldn't like Pokemon. Are you kidding me? There's not that many gay people. It turns out Pokemon is the largest IP in the

world. Second place Mickey Mouse. Jesus fuck, dude. Dude, Pokemon is huge. It's great. The only problem now is they've made it too easy. I liked the old Pokemon where if you weren't paying attention for two seconds and you talk to a guy who told you where to go, you were shit out a lot.

I remember like in my head playing Pokemon Red on my Game Boy in like 1998 and being like, I have no idea where to go next. Like I don't know what I'm not doing correctly. I literally will have to wait until Monday. day at school and then go talk to someone and hope that one of my friends because we didn't have a we didn't have internet at the top of the graph does it break down like how that

that that revenue oh it does I would imagine merchandise is the biggest I see I understand the graph now it took me a second to realize it was oh okay that's similar up I couldn't see on the link I gave there's a revenue breakdown list

retail sales mobile games box it is here too if he just scrolls up like another bit yeah so yellow is merchandise and red is video games no red says museums what's that it says video game red is video games that's magenta

burgundy yeah sorry I have a dark light filter on my computer so that's the same to me okay I do as well it's 50% bigger than Star Wars that's crazy the merch it's it's crazy that it sells that much much merch it's a bunch of toys

that it's selling so if you look at the video game portion, which is all that matters, it pales a comparison to Mario. Mario is nothing but video games, though. Like, they don't really have merch. Well, yeah, we're talking about a video game, though, right? Are you a Pokemon fan because of their stuffies? No, I like the video games. Exactly.

Yeah. I don't know. It's not that much. I don't care how many toys Mickey sells. I don't care how far down Harry Potter is. Isn't that kind of, or wait, no, the shocking thing here is, look how far down Marvel is. yeah my list has Marvel there too the thing is it has Avengers and Marvel separate

so oh maybe scroll down a little bit Zach is Avengers even on there or are they not like top 10 I guess actually is the Spider-Man part of the Avengers yeah technically it also has Spider-Man separate so maybe if you combine all that stuff it does a little better yeah but get up to like

Winnie the Pooh level Winnie the Pooh being that big is crazy right yeah is it Maybe bigger in China? It's clearly the toys. Like you can see, it's the merch. It's little kids buying Winnie the Pooh toys.

Does the merch include, like, books and things? Because then, like, buying children's. Oh, was it? Okay. Hmm. That's weird then. What is the Winnie the Pooh merch? Just dolls?

It's got to be tough. I'm looking. Winnie the Pooh. Because enough of my kids have friends now. I feel like I got a sample set. None of them have Winnie the Pooh stuff. Enough of your kids have friends. Or enough of my friends have to.

I knew you were. building a nursery. I saw it coming. Damn it. There's lots of bags and like stuffies and just everything. My suspicion is it's popular amongst like hot Asian women. But they have Winnie the Pooh like Hello Kitty. I'd know about that if it were. Hello Kitty was number two on that whole list. And so you're on the money there for a bit. And Hello Kitty applies to kids too. And so they're getting the Asian lady market and the kid

market. Disney owns Winnie the Pooh by the way, just like they own Marvel and the Avengers therefore and Star Wars. Who owns Pokemon? I'm surprised Disney has snatched that up. Nintendo. Oh, wow, Nintendo owns Pokemon? Yeah. Why does Nintendo own all the lamest stuff? What else do they own? I don't, I'm not familiar with. Like Mario stuff. I just don't see Nintendo getting into things that appeal to grownups very much at Taylor's side. is that if I would have been Kyle's age, I probably wouldn't have this fixation on it that I wanted to jump back to.

But like, it's such a... What does the gameplay even like? It's really throwing strategy. And so, like, it's... Paper Mario. You're playing Paper Mario in 2025. I've actually played... I loved Paper Mario.

Me too. It was a great game on 64. I remember playing it in the unfinished basement on this, like, giant glass screen boob tube. I could only play it when my sister was away. like my sister had the N64 and she wouldn't share it at all she'd wrap the cords around it

and put it in her closet when she wasn't using it and so when she was away I would go get her 64 down and play Paper Mario yeah Paper Mario was fun it was like but Pokemon is more sophisticated

in the the move and tight matchups and how you raise it like how you because there's a limited how you raise it by by raise it

I mean how you appropriately allocate the available XP via your battles to the right Pokemon at the right time to ensure that like the right ones are a high enough level to compete at the next upcoming gym or at the next like Gauntlet.

Is there a shot call? Can you be like mean to your Pokemon and train and make it a dark Pokemon? Like use a shot caller on it and take its food away when it's bad. You can give it custom names. So I can be like we, I can like name one of them like purples. Yeah, gerbils. Is that Husson's dog's name?

No. Was that his own reference? I thought you were dog's name's like Maya. I think his dog's name is a BB. Is that right? Is it? Taya. Dude, Kyle, I loved that idea. Oh, don't spoil it. Yeah, we might do something with it. Yeah, I'm not going to say anything, but that could be very funny. I've been trying to get, I've been trying to get the SORA AI to make a video of it, to like take the original video of the joky thing and put the other guy in it. That would be good. Dude, I've seen like, at least online, just scrolling.

This guy, Hassan, is getting so much more hate for, like, shocking his dog and then lying about it to force it to, like, lay on a bed for like eight hours straight every day than he did for like, because I saw other clips of people being like, where was the outrage for this? And he's like on Twitch with like 50,000 people watching being like, America deserved 9-11. Where he'll be like, you know, you need to get up with Republicans and you need to gut them. They need to see their guts spilled out on the ground. is that like an accurate yeah that was like and like he gets away with murder on Twitch

because maybe he's friends with the admins or the owners or something and they tacitly approve of his like weird he's not like he's got like well yeah but Twitch is not a free speech platform go on there and say anything to the right of Ben Shapiro and Tomo you got you got suspended

for Spain I did double down on the faggot so I think that's what really got me suspended for saying that word too I was I don't scum a faggot. Like, he's not even, you know, like, in my case, I was quote, like, chat wrote something that Wingshead said, like, maybe it was the, um, the time he lost a

syndicate. He's like, yeah, you know, something faggot. And I read it that chat had written and that got me banned. It's so ridiculous. We're playing poker. Osmond Gold was like, you should kill people to the left. I don't view them as grownups or like humans or something like that. And he's fine.

Well, that's not great. I don't know what he's up to. I've never seen his streams outside of watching. Oh, he's very popular. Of the roach crawling on him. I saw that. Dude, I see you that meme.

And it's Asmengold shaking hands. It's Asmengold shaking hands with Nergel. And then the next frame is Nurgel washing his hands. And Nergel is the god of guilt and pestilence. I saw like this little clip on Twitter where it showed Asmund Gold, like he found a roach on his own body. And he was like pulling it off. And he's like, I got to go let this guy go outside.

Oh, my good. And then he, like, took a roach outside in the middle of the stream. And then it compared it to Hassan being, like, to his own dog. Like, get on the fucking bed. I saw a clip of Osmond Gold. It might have been a bit, but he drank water. And he made this disgusting face and washed it down with soda. It's like, it tastes like bad breath.

And it's like, no. be a wake-up call. There's a tremendous amount of bacteria and tarter in there. I'm on his team. I'm on his team 100% with the water. Yeah, I hate water. I hate water. How can you hate water? It's so neutral.

I drink almost zero water, almost never. I only drink water when I like have heartburn. I take baking soda and I put it in water and I drink that. And like that's as close to drink. That's why you're getting heartburn, dude. You're not drinking water. Everything you have, you're drinking. Yeah, oh, that's probably true. Everything I drink is acidic.

That is why I get heartburn. But I will never give up my Coca-Cola zero. No. I'll never give up my Sprite zeros. No. What, did you have a show you want to talk about? Yeah. Have you heard of Pluribus?

Maybe Plurib. I don't know how to pronounce it. No. Okay. So the makers of Better Call, Saul, and Breaking Bad, are coming out with a new show. And I think it's really soon on Apple Plus. And the star of, the show is the same actress that

played Kim Wexler. Yeah. November 7th, though, thank you, Zach. So it's coming on November 7th, that's a couple weeks from now. And what the show is about seems to be kind of a secret. Like the opening teaser for it, they just showed her eating

a donut and they didn't tell us anything else. And I watched a longer trailer for it and there's some sort of government official. I think he had like a naval formal wear type thing like their dress blues on and he's like we are going to get to the bottom of why you're different and like that's the core of it and she's like yeah i'm doing all the talking do you have

any questions for me and she goes what the fuck and the trailer ends like that's as much as i know about the show but the filmography as much as i've complained about it it looks like better call salt it looks like it looks like it's it's set in albuquerque new mexico It's from the makers of Vince Gilligan. The people who may better call Saul, breaking bad, have come up with another one.

Okay, Zach wrote something. Set in Albuquerque, the series follows an author who seems to be the only person immune to a new virus that turns it suffers perpetually content and optimistic.

Okay. Interesting. Yeah. So it appears to me, just after a little cursory glance, the virus seems to make everyone maybe even a hive mind because in that scene she's talking to the

president directly even though he's giving a presidential address he's that we're going to figure out what makes you different because we want you to join the rest of us seems like maybe and pleuribus is Latin for out of many one I googled that before the show yeah

so yeah that's actually a good theory it means many so it probably means a hive mind of content optimistic people which would get irritating yeah i think that's what's going on it might be the next like banger tv show on air apple tv has invested heavily they're good i5 like almost all of apple tvs uh like premier like tent pole series have been or apple plus or whatever i think they actually took the plus away apple tv's uh shows are almost all sci-fi like silo um don't they do the one with uh the where there's like a work

you severance they do severance right oh yeah Yeah, and this, this is sci-fi. I don't know if it was clear from what we've said so far, but I'm like, The Breaking Bad people made a sci-fi? You have my attention. Sure. Okay.

Yeah. So November 7th, next big thing, maybe. I don't know. Not sponsored. I don't know much about it. Yeah, I watch some of that. I like Apple TV. Most of their shows are really, really well done.

It seems like they, I mean, I know where they get the money, but it doesn't seem like Apple TV makes money. Yeah, from all. the things, but yeah, I'll watch that. I like Vince Gilligan. I like that actress, too. I really liked her in Better Call Saul. She was like the anti, what was Walt's wife's name? Skyler. She was the anti-Skyler. I loved her so much. She was just always down. Like, Art, we're going to ruin some people's lives today. Can I hell? She was great. She was a real one. And that's why everybody liked her. So that's why all those like complaints about Breaking Bad were the like

People are just sexist. They'll hate any female character immediately releases Better Call Saul. She's loved by everyone because she's actually like down. Part of the plot, not a, she was a plot continuer, like a facilitator, not an inhibitor, which is what people disliked about Skyler, is that like they would see this momentum that Walt had and then she would stymie it.

You can make the argument that maybe if Walt had been up front and honest with Schuyler from the beginning the way that Saul is with Kim Wexler like maybe that would have turned out. That's fair to. Yeah. Yeah. To be fair to her fat, chubby-faced ass. Mm-hmm.

We can all agree Walt Jr. sucked. Oh, he's the worst. Worse. Dad, look at the donation coming in. Can you believe it? That was good. I think I hit it on that phrase. I mean, it's uncomfortably good.

My favorite part of Breaking Bad is, I know we're at the end, but I just saw it short of the other day, and it reminded me it's when all the cards are on the table and Walter and Skyler and Hank and his wife are at that Chili's or whatever, and they give them the DVD. They give them the DVD and they go home and watch it. and Hank realizes he's fucked like the DVD covers

he's like my brother-in-law Hank who works for the DEO has been forced has been the leader of a drug he's been a drug kingpin lording over all of all of Albuquerque New Mexico and he has forced me under threat of death

to cook for him and make him methamphetamine I feared for my life and he's watching this like wide-eyed and then and he's like he even for and then it comes out that like Walt had paid for Hank's medical treatment so that he could get after the attack. And so

all those records are there. He's like and he's like, what's he, what's he talking about? He paid for my medical bills. She's like, well, they paid for your medical bills. Why would you not pay for my medical bills? Do you know how fucked we are now? She's like, he realized he's fucked. That's like, right after that, it starts

going downhill for Walt. He starts losing grasp and control on the whole thing. Right at that moment, it was like, he's got him. He's got him all. And he did. And I was rooting for Walt the whole time. I'm like, yeah. Hell yeah. Well, get it done. I like the early stuff too. Like Hank wanting to get into the RV and, you know, like Walt telling him what to say how this is a domicile. Fourth Amendment rights and stuff. And that shady crusher operator getting rid of everything. And like that stuff was fun to me. It was a dexter level like, dude, the stakes are really high. The authorities are about to catch us. what do we do it's fun yeah it's great show i hope that new show is good yeah i haven't had this show i liked in a little bit i'm not peacekeepers not taking for me and i'm just not loving

it um we'll see i hope this one's good should we wrap yeah all right time to eat pkn 582 all right i don't think zach's paying attention