So... Alright - What do these notes mean?

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

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It's a little boy and his mom and her boyfriend being chased through Death Valley by a serial killer. I bought the Blu-ray, it came in, it's in this room right now. I just haven't sat down to watch it yet. I did manage, however, to watch every episode of season one of Death Valley on Brit Box, and I am heartbroken to say

that there is apparently no season 2 yet Maybe it's available in the UK and you guys are already familiar with it live in that rich series 2 lifestyle, but I was left Dismayed that the series was over and I only got six episodes of it because I really got into it I was actually I was watching that and Ludwig which was the other show that was recommended to me in tandem, kind of going back and forth. And I kept changing my mind over which one I liked to watch more.

I think overall, I think the through line of the Ludwig story is ultimately grabbed me more. But the episodic charm and characters in Death Valley, I think, I don't know, they do it for me. The episodic charm and characters in Death Valley, I think, I don't know, they do it for me. I think the interplay between the two characters is great. I like the character development so far. I like, well, I like everything about it. And I don't remember who it was that recommended it to me,

but thank you so much. I heartily recommend Ludwig and Death Valley on Britbox, or if you're in the UK, just on whatever fucking television show they come on. Hopefully therebox or if you're in the UK just on whatever fucking television show they come on. Hopefully there'll be a series two in the future because I will definitely there has to be right there has to be their stories to be told still. You know there are cliffhangers that we were left off on especially with Ludwig so I'll

report back as soon as I finished the book. I'm only about 40 pages into the book so far and it is fucking sad. I they say it's gonna be magical realism, but that has not kicked in yet so far it is just a heartbreaking story about a woman whose husband has a Debilitating and hard to diagnose illness that has been affecting him for them really for years And the wife is trying to be a writer or she's in the process of becoming a writer. And her father ends up in the hospital in a coma. And she spends every waking second with them. And it's just this whole heart wrenching thing

of her sitting there and trying to figure out what to do with herself in her life and kind of go and stir crazy. And then eventually she decides to leave and go to the desert to Death Valley to work on her novel and to study cactus, cacti, I guess, and some other things. And that's kind of where I am right now. Her father just woke up. She feels guilty because she's in Death Valley and he's in, I think, California somewhere in a hospital room. She tries to talk to him on the phone.

It's awkward. And I think that's as far as I've gotten in the book. I will finish it and get back to you and I will definitely watch the Peter Billingsley movie soon and get back to you on that because I wanna see a young Christmas story, Peter Billingsley, chased by a serial killer through the desert as much as maybe more than the next guy, honestly.

People have asked me for updates on the NBA Summer League and I gotta be honest with you I don't have a lot for you. I've been kind of taken this summer off. I mentioned it in an earlier episode, but I'm pretty burned out on basketball right now. I'm following the news of trades and free agency signings and stuff and I did watch Three of the four Celtics games. But I say watch. I didn't watch them start to finish. I probably watched, you know, one to two and a half quarters of each of those games, just depending on what was going on in my life at the time.

And while I didn't watch a ton, I'm I'm left feeling pretty enthused for at least for some of the young talent that we have coming into the season. Baylor Shireman, who was our rookie last year, entering into his second year, I thought he looked great. I was expecting Walsh, Gonzalez, and Shireman to all look good. I was surprised and entertained and excited by Amari Williams, Max Schulge, and there was one other dude who I thought was pretty impressive. Oh, Miles Norris, yeah, who I think is on a two- pretty impressive. Oh, Miles Norris. Yeah, who I think is on a two-way contract with us. Miles Norris I thought looked pretty good,

all things considered. I knew nothing about Shulga going in, and he was our second-round pick, and I was really impressed with him. Charles Bassi played on the summer league team for us. I'm not sure if that means he's gonna find a spot on the team. We don't have a lot of room, so I would doubt it,

but things could be much, much worse for the Celtics from a rookie standpoint going into the year, I think. They could be much better in every other respect, unfortunately. But yeah, I haven't really watched much NBA Summer League. I didn't follow it religiously. I only caught, like I said, bits of games here and there. The big news in the NBA is that Damian Lillard

has signed with the Portland Trail Blazers, the team that he left in kind of not on, not the best terms, definitely a franchise hero for that city and for that team. And maybe we'll go down as one of the three or four greatest Portland Trail Blazers of all time left to go to Milwaukee to ring chase. Obviously that didn't work out. He was unhappy when he left Portland if memory serves because he really wanted to go to Miami and they wouldn't trade him to Miami. So he ended up going to Milwaukee and that ended up unfortunately being a bust.

Although when he was healthy and Giannis was healthy and they played together, it was, I hate to say it, but it was a thing of beauty and it was impressive. It just didn't happen enough. And now he's out for the next year. So he's going to go sit in essentially assistant coach and mentor for the next year while we, he rehabs. And, uh, I guess there was no better place for him to do it than where his career began in Portland. There were some rumors that maybe he would go to Boston. I would not have minded if that happened. I Wouldn't have like, you know bet the farm on it being an impactful thing for us, but you never know

I mean the guys coming back from an Achilles injury in his mid-30s on a game predicated by his physical ability I just you know He's a little long in the tooth to come back as the guy he was before the injury, but you never know, you never know. I wouldn't have been mad at having Damien Lollard be a Celtic, but I'm also not mad that he went back to Portland and didn't become a Celtic. I'm happier that he went to Portland than Miami

or some of the other teams where he could have been really annoying against us. The other big signing is that Chris Paul returns to the Los Angeles Clippers. It was the second team he played for. He was drafted by New Orleans and became a star there, went to the Clippers and ushered in the era of Lobs City, which was him and DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin and that was a period of time in the NBA like 2017, 2018, 2019 when they

were just supremely fun to watch. It was high flying. It was high intensity. They had Jamal Crawford and I really enjoyed watching them and I was definitely a fan of Lob City. And so it's nice to see that he is going to return to a team where maybe I don't know, I have no idea what Chris Paul would consider like his team in his time in the NBA. I don't know if he would consider it to be the Clippers

or New Orleans, but those are the two places he spent the most of his time, you know, although then I think he spent some of that time in New Orleans in Oklahoma City because of the hurricane and they were playing at Oklahoma City. So he probably, I know that Oklahoma City kind of considered him a local when he played for them briefly. And he had a good run for Oklahoma. Hell of a career that Chris Paul's had. But I would imagine when he looks back on it, he would look back on his time in New Orleans

or the Clippers, maybe even Houston, as his meatiest, most foundational part of his career. Probably the Clippers, I think. So I'm sure he's overjoyed to be back there. Interestingly, bizarrely deep, but old team, they have built these Clippers. They like basically saw the Oklahoma City win a title by going younger than ever and thought, what if we went the other way? We'll go super old.

And so they have a, a ragtag team of ancient NBA players. It'd be really fun to see how that works out. I think mostly he just wants to retire and retire close to home. I think his family's in California and he's sick of having to play away from them. But once again, I'm not really paying too much attention to the NBA.

I'm for the most part taking the summer off. I'm back to doing puzzles. I took a break because I needed the space for cards, but then I got kind of burned out on cards and I just let them sit there and chew up that space forever. And so I finally cleaned up my desk and I threw a puzzle down, little thousand piece puzzle. I bought it at a museum and I did it in five days,

which is pretty good. Obviously professional puzzlers can do it in, you know, mere hours, but I wasn't competing. I was just doing it for relaxation and I still burned through it pretty quickly. I would say my average for a puzzle is somewhere around like seven to nine days. So it was cool to blow through it so quickly.

I think I was just excited to be doing a puzzle again. But now the puzzle seal is broken. And so I imagine I will be diving back into puzzles in a meaningful way. Very soon, maybe I can even get some of that puzzle content off the ground at regulation. Speaking of regulation, I had a great day there today. Gavin and I met at the office and we spent the majority of the day there. We made a video with Andrew. We went to lunch with Superfan Jack or my major league fan Jack

I can never remember the dumb names we come up with for people major league fan Jack. Yeah, and I don't know we we only made one video, but we did a lot of good Behind-the-scenes work we figured out everything we need to get the break show off the ground and got all that ordered We got a bunch of stuff ordered and tested for some video game content we wanna do in the near future and kinda got the, I don't know, the architecture set up for that. And then just did some sprucing and cleaning

and puttering and got the bit barrel. I'm proud to say the bit barrel is done and moved it into the house and it is ready to go. The next step is we've decided to drill two holes in the roof of the thing so that we can put a leaf blower in one end and turn it on and then shoot paper out the other end. And that's how we'll determine what the bit that we do is going to be from the barrel. This is all regulation stuff. If you guys don't listen to regulation podcast, I'm wasting your time.

Anyway, I made this 55 gallon drum. I painted it, I stenciled it, and I bought the drill bit I need to drill through the roof of it. I almost said ceiling. I guess it is a ceiling as well. Roof and ceiling of it, so that I can do some dumb shit. But it was the first day I've spent in the office,

just like, without, wasn't the first day I've spent in the office, just like, without, wasn't the first day I've spent in the office. I go to the office almost every day, but it was the first day I've spent with other people in the office without any set agenda. You know, we didn't show up because we had a big three hour live stream to do, or we had to film supplemental content

that was on the schedule, just to show up and say like, what should we do today? And it was so productive. And I felt like we got so much done and we came up with an idea for a show at lunch that we've already pitched Eric that he's okay with a one-off thing. So we can get the ball rolling on that. Hopefully the summer, which will, you know what? I'm sorry, I'm talking too much about regulation. This is not regulations. It's all right. I'm getting into the weeds about the wrong stuff.

The important thing is I had a great day at the office, and it reminded me of how much fun it used to be to go to work with my friends and make content when it worked well. You know what I mean? When it was good, it was really good. And it was fun to get a little taste of that today. And Jack and Gavin and I getting lunch together, I think that's the first time the three of us have hung out in that way.

I mean, we were all at my birthday party two weeks ago, but just the three of us to go get lunch together and hang out socially in public. I don't, I can't remember the last time we've done that. Years maybe, maybe not quite years, maybe a year and a half. But it's definitely hasn't happened since Rooster Teeth went under, I don't think. So that was a lot of fun. And man, it's weird.

It's like you forget how good things can feel. You know, like it's like putting on a comfy old sweatshirt that was in the back of your closet that you forgot about because it Dropped down at the beginning of summer and then by the time it was winter You you just didn't know where it was and so you forgot about it And then at the end of winter you were looking for some shoes and you move some shit around and you see that old sweater And you're like, oh fuck there it is. I forgot about that I wonder what happened to that and you put it on and you're like, oh my god

I can't believe how good this feels. I forgot how comfortable the sweater was. That's kind of what it feels like to hang out with Jack and Gavin at lunch. Feels like a really comfortable, cozy sweater. And I was very happy to put it on today. But back to my notes. Have you ever wondered what the net worth of all Americans combined is?

I did this. I did some math. It could be wrong. I double checked. I apologize if it is wrong. Let me know. Send an email to Eric at Jeffsposs.com if I did this wrong. But I got to thinking, I wonder how much, you always hear about how much the 1% is worth

or how like, you know, four billionaires are worth more than four billion people on earth or however it, however it shakes out. And I was pulling those numbers out of my ass by the way, those aren't meant to be treated as fact in any way. But I got to thinking what is not just the combined billionaire assholes of America's worth but what is all of our combined worth? So I looked it up and according to the internet the total net worth of all Americans is estimated to be 160.35 trillion dollars according to the federal reserve. This figure represents the total value of all assets owned by U.S. households minus their liabilities. However, it is important to note

that this wealth is not evenly distributed with the top 1% holding a significant portion of the total, according to a report by the Federal Reserve. No shit. Well, here's where I did a little bit of math. As of July 19th, 2025, the estimated population of the United States is 342,139,107. That's according to the US Census Bureau. That includes the 50 states and Washington DC. So if you were to take the total combined $160 trillion and some change, divide it by the 342 million roughly people that live in the United States, you'd get about $46,000, $47,000 per person. So if you were to break out all of our combined wealth and distribute it evenly, which would be, I guess, communism or socialism, we would all be worth roughly 46 or $47,000. I got to be honest. I thought the number would be higher. I thought it would be like, oh, we would all be worth a couple hundred grand. Well, fuck that sucks. It still sucks. But like disparate income inequality sucks. But I'm surprised that our total wealth

only evens out to about $46,000 or like a decent midsize brand new sedan. Anyway, I don't know what to do with that information. I don't know that it taught me anything or led me in any direction. It just was interesting to know what we're all worth. What my piece of it is worth, I guess. I next note I have. I'm scared of my body now. Everything looks dangerous. This is how hypochondria begins. I can feel it. That's my note. I was writing that to myself. If you didn't listen to last week's episode of Saw Right, I mentioned that I had a health scare.

Well, it wasn't even a, it was scary, but like I had a health issue that was taken care of, but I had a little, little minor bit of skin cancer. Had a basal cell carcinoma in a mole that I had removed, but I'll be honest, that fucked me up. I talked about it a little bit last week. I feel amazing to have it off of my body and to feel safe and to have the doctor say, I got nothing to worry about and I'll see you in six months just to make sure,

but you're A-okay. But every bump or crevice or discoloration on my body now, I just catch myself staring at and going, is what is what is is that? Is that dangerous? Is that should that be there? Is that normal? Emily, look at this. Is this does this look abnormal to you? And I think I'm driving her crazy. I'm driving myself crazy. It's hard to find a line between being health conscious, ignoring your health, and being a total fucking hypochondriac weirdo. And I tend to, because of an overactive imagination,

I tend to spiral brutally when it comes to this kind of stuff. And so I've been really having to work with myself over the last week or two to calm the fuck down and stop convincing myself. Otherwise, I would be at the dermatologist, I should just set up a weekly standing appointment so I could go in and go, what about this?

And he could go, no. I go the next week and go, what about this? And he'd go, no. It's funny next week and go, what about this? And he goes, no. It's funny. I feel like maybe that flies in the face of what I said last week about getting yourself checked out and taking things seriously and not, uh, not waiting because you never know. It could be a cancerous mole on the top of your head. You know, I don't want to present a counter message to that because I think that is very important, but I,

I'm just lamenting that I am noticing now that I'm just scared of everything on my body somehow. I'm sure that'll, I'll wean myself off of that and that'll dissipate over time, but right now it's fucking, I'm doing a lot of talking myself off of ledges day to day, you know, like that was always there. Why are you worried about that all of a sudden? You showed him that, you know, anyway, that's that note.

And then I have, I went and I sat down yesterday to do my research for today's episode and kind of figure out what I wanted to talk about. And this is the note that I left myself about these notes. I think this is where I came up with the idea to do a notes episode. I had a bunch of notes I didn't understand. And I wrote, what do these notes mean in all caps? I just wrote down, I don't know why, but I just wrote down watermelon cucumber salad.

I don't know if I am recommending that to you, or if it's something that somebody in the community told me I should make, or it's something I read about, or it's a euphemism for something else. But I felt the need to write down watermelon, cucumber salad in my soul, right? Notes. So that, I must've wanted to talk to you about it in some way. I will say, I like watermelon and cucumber and that does sound like a good salad.

So maybe I'll try to make it and see, uh, see what, what I must've been going for there. Next note I have, and I can only assume this is related to the road trip I took from Texas to Michigan and back because we drove through a lot of corn fields. I just have a note that says investigate corn. Investigate corn. All right, let's try to do that.

How much corn is grown in the US? In 2023, the US produced 15.4 billion bushels of corn harvested from 86.5 million acres. The US is the world's largest corn producer accounting for roughly a third of global production the majority of u.s. Corn has grown in the Midwest I'll say particularly in Illinois Iowa and Nebraska, I definitely saw it in Illinois. So I was driving through

So the u.s. Produces a third of the world's corn population and it is the most planted crop in the u.s What are the most planted crops in the u.s. What are the most planted crops in the u.s. The other thing that I saw shitload of when we were driving, okay So America's most harvested crops corn with 93 million acres reaped Soybean right behind it with 82 million which makes sense because we saw a shitload we saw maybe even saw more soybean farms than corn farms it might just because of the time of the year but there were a ton of those 53 million acres of hay followed by 37 million acres of wheat wheat and 33 million of other which includes cotton, sorghum, rice, barley, canola, peanuts, et cetera. We are corn country.

We are coin, coin. We are a corn and soybean country. I wonder if anybody's combined corn and soybean and created coin or a patent. Trademark right here. You heard it. Next, next note. Most expensive painting in the world, okay? I wonder why I wrote not sure. Next, next note, most expensive painting in the world.

Okay. I wonder why I wrote that down. I feel like we may have done that before, but 15 minutes. All right, let's see. Maybe this is this will do it. Number 15 Pablo Picasso's young girl with a basket of flowers, which is I'll be honest, not blown away by $115 million was sold at Christie's at auction in 2018 number 14 Vince van Gogh orchard with Cypress's was a hundred and seven We don't need to go through all of them. We'll go through the heavy hitters

The scream by Edward munch that sold for a hundred and nineteen one hundred and twenty million in 2012 Let's see C Cezanne, Picasso again. All right, let's let's get to number one, right? That's what we want to see in 2017. Leonardo da Vinci's Salvatore Mundi, savior of the world from 1500 sold for four hundred and fifty point three million dollars, four hundred and fifty million dollars. That's the most expensive painting in the world. Number two is Andy Warhol's 1964 Shot Sage Blue Maryland for 195 million.

I have no idea why I wanted to know that but I'm excited now to know that I do All right. Let's see what number three was right. We saw one and two number three was Huh Pablo Picasso's women of Algiers. Yeah, of course. I know that one that was sold for hundred seventy nine point four million dollars I Wish I could sell paintings for a fraction of that my next God, let's just rambling.

But we're going to cut it off after this one because we're going to we're getting a little long. My next note is oldest hamburger restaurant. OK, what is the oldest running? This must be something I read about the oldest continuously running hamburger restaurant in the U.S. is Lewis's lunch in New Haven, Connecticut. It has been serving hamburgers since

1895 Okay, so we could go to Lewis's lunch right now and have an 1895 hammer Dang, it's a good looking hamburger, too. It's on a that's interesting. It's just on white bread. Hmm. Well, I'd love to try it How do you not you know? Hmm. Well, I'd love to try it. How do you not, you know? Okay, here, this might've been

where the whole thing came from because the next note I had listed was Oldest Grease Trap. And I think I was looking into Dyer's Burgers, D-Y-E-R-S Burgers, and their Century Old Grease. It's a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, I believe. There's a taste of history, here you go. Back in 1912, the late Elmer Dockdier opened his own cafe and began to develop a secret cooking process

for the uniquely delicious world famous burgers we still serve here today on Beale Street. Oh, so this place is on Beale Street in Memphis. That's like their sixth street or their Bourbon Street. Okay, legend has it that the secret was Doc Byers ageless cooking grease. The famous grease strained daily has continued to produce our juicy, why am I having trouble saying that?

It's continued to produce our juicy Dyer's burgers for almost a century now. One of Doc's original employees, Mr. Con Aaron, bought the establishment in 1935 and continued the Dyer's name and tradition of famous burgers. The Dyer's legacy continues to this day. Over the years, the famous cooking grease has been transported to our various Memphis locations

under the watchful protection of armed police escorts. So I feel like that's performative, but that's fine. That's part of the, it's part of the pastiche of their story, right? Finally settling here on historic Beale Street, home of the blues and world famous Dyer's So I need to go to Memphis and try Dyer's burgers and then I need to try that other What was the other one the oldest? Oh? Lewis's lunch in New Haven, Connecticut, which is the oldest hamburger in the US. So

Apparently apparently I got a got to write those down. Dyers and Louis lunch. Eat their burgers. All right, it's a note. It's in my notes. Someday I'm gonna go to those places and eat their hamburgers. Have you been to either of those places,

Louis's lunch or Dyer's burgers? If you have, send me an email to Eric at Jeff's boss.com and let me know if they are worth it, how they tasted. Did you feel like you were eating 150 years of history? Was it delicious? I got to know. I have other weird notes to go over, but I think we will go ahead and call it here. Save those for another day.

We're running a little long in the tooth. You guys need a song of the episode. I feel like I've been hitting rock and punk and stuff a little too hard lately. So I was going to endeavor to back off of that, but instead I'm going to go with 1970s, Zamrock classic, the bandty Dog, the African band Salty Dog, the song Fast. Awesome. Raw, grungy, buzzy, energetic, bluesy, fun.

Listen to it. You're gonna fucking love it. It's Salty Dog's Fast. And it's from Somewhere in this late 60s early 70s, I believe so there you go. Enjoy that song Let me know what you think about it Send me an email to Eric at Jeff's boss calm with any questions comments and concerns I will try to get back to you. It might take me a year or two

I'm running a little behind on those emails. Don't forget to listen to the Regulation podcast every Wednesday, listen to Good Morning Gustavo every Monday, and listen to this podcast. You already are, so you know that part. So all right, every Tuesday, I am on Cameo at Jeff L. Ramsey, and I stream on Twitch at Fake Jeff. Love you dearly, see you next week. All right. This is the end of the show.

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