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Trampled Underfoot? So I did want to mention something that I kind of glossed
over for whatever reason for these past few weeks, or maybe it was last
week when I'm not quite sure, but I'm sure that that we'll get get,
you know, clear that up. So last week or the week before
Little Richard passed away, and we didn't really and we you know, oftentimes
talk about, you know, these musicians that are iconic to us and to
American culture, and we kind of, you know, give it a once
over and talk about it. And I and we glossed over a little Richard.
Well, I came across the video where he was talking about his life
and stuff, maybe back in the late seventies like that, an interview,
you know, it reminded me of my little Richard story. I have a
little Richard story. I have a little Richard story which I'll share with you
if you don't mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So
number one, Little Richard was always an important musical figure to me. As
a connoisseur of music and a music student, I naturally sort of like gravitated
to the rock and roll of the fifties and the blues and the sixties.
It's just there was a chunk of that which we've talked about a lot.
So I would buy the albums and I would listen to them and repeat and
repeat and repeat and all that. And so I was pretty familiar with Little
Richard songs. I've forgotten more than I learned, you know, lyric wise
and chord everything. Even though it's simple to play, let's say, but
time flies, and you know, I mean, heck, I don't even
know where I'm sitting right now. But so years and years ago, maybe
twenty years ago, roughly thereabouts, a friend of mine, good friend of
mine, he got, hooked me up with some tickets. He was working
at the casino. And I think that this was either when I was working
at or right before I had something or other like that, because he did
this twice in two occasions. But I'll tell you my little Richard story.
Little Richard was going to play at the Micasuki Indian Casino. And to me,
that's was a big deal for day. You know, here you go,
here's some some entry to go see it. So I went. I
was super stoked to and I it was during the day and he was up
on this scaffolding stage with his piano rocking away, and I just kept walking
closer and closer to the stage, and I was surprised that I had free
you know, passage on The crowd wasn't stuffed. It wasn't like a big
deal. I don't know who the headliners were, but to me he was
the headliner. You know what I'm saying to me, that was I don't
even know who the heck the other people were, but that's what I remember.
And so I walked my way up to the stage, and I made
it like literally in front of the stage, higher above me, above my
head, maybe less than a story like here in the room, let's say,
i'd say probably nine feet above probably maybe even a little bit less nine
feet eight eight or nine feet scaffoldings it up and all that. And he's
playing a lucile what you won't do, your sister will, And I'm looking
at it and I'm freaking blown away, and I'm singing along with his songs,
like word for word, and he's playing and he turns his head.
No joke, this is my rock and roll moment when I have a few
little stories. But he's playing, and I'm looking up and he's singing,
and he turns his head and he looks dead straight at me, and I'm
singing and I'm looking my eyes and his eyes met and I am my lips.
He can't hear me because he's the one, the loud one, but
he can hear me singing and moving my lips to the lyrics perbatim of what
he's singing, right, And I'm singing, what do you want to do
about Sister Will? And he's singing, and he's looking at me while he's
singing. We're both singing it, and I'm like, holy crap, and
I totally forgot the lyrics and I started mumbling stuff, well, you won't
do my peanut butter. And he saw that and he did his face went
like this, m and he turned and he turned away and he turned away
and that that's my little Richard story. Um. But like I felt so
bad, like like because I was doing so well with his eyes met min
and I kept singing it. And then when I screwed up, He's like
and he turned his head and kept on never looked over to me again,
like he was done with a bat And I was like, you know,
but just the same. It was such an awesome occurrence and stuff, and
he did pass away and for all outward and and and you know, stories
and stuff. He was a really generous and nice guy. And he was
an iconic American rock and roller that gave birth to inspiration to so many people,
including the Beatles. As just one and um, yeah, and I
just wanted to at least for us. On the show Trampled Underfoot podcast mentioned
Little Richard just iconic beyond what I could even possibly express. He had three
nicknames. Do you know what they were? No, he was called the
innovator, the originator, and the architect of rock and roll. Interesting,
those were the three nicknames that he was given because he goes back to the
roots, I mean the very roots of rock and roll. He came up,
he came up. He's one of the original rock and rollers. Yea.
Even back then, he was just considered outrageous for the standards of the
days. He was considered strange, weird. When you went on TV,
you had to wear makeup. It was all black and white, and they
really accentuated you know, if you had dark circles or if you had dark
creases, they would try to lighten that up to make it even. He
went overboard, and he went crazy with the makeup and went crazy with the
hair. You never knew what you were getting when Little Richard was going to
be on TV. The songs he sang, I mean tooty fruity and long
Tall Sally and Lucy ill I did not I did not understand about half of
the lyrics until I was well in my twenties and I could kind of listen
and wait a minute, wait, and I've been singing these songs forever.
You know, everybody knew bab ba blah blah bah blah bamboo. Okay,
fine, but quick, what are the words to long tall sally? Half
of the people who will try to sit there and they'll do exactly what little
Richard cut you doing. Oh baby, yeah baby, But they don't know.
He was outrageous on stage, off stage, interviews, whatever, and
certainly a character. Yeah, I just wanted to and a good interview.
I think if you like rock and roll interviews and stuff. It was in
the seventies. I think it was Schneider, Tom Schneider, Tom Schneider.
Yeah, on the Tomorrow Program he did and he really sat down with him
and really opened up and explained what was what and how and this and that
and um, you can't help, but you know, he had quite a
tough life and he explains it. And he had such a you know,
a good you know personality as well that you can't help, but like you
know, like the guy you know, it's not but he had a rough
go, you know, so it's a good interview, and I might Lincoln
and post it. I'll find it and in our because what we do here
for folks listening is that we we'll go ahead and do these shows every Tuesday,
and that happens at six thirty pm Eastern time. I'm sorry, boy,
I messed that up so bad. I'm sorry. Let me beep.
So what we do is we usually go live every Tuesday, and that's Tuesday
nights at nine thirty East Coast time and six thirty West Coast Pacific time.
And so what we actually like to do is every now and then, with
whatever topic we're talking about, we go ahead and post it on our Facebook
page, because we also have a Facebook page, and that's Trampled Underfoot Podcast
on Facebook. So I'll go ahead and look for that at by the end
of the show and post there for those of you that are following over there,
Trampled Underfoot. The only other thing that it's non related that I'd like
to sort of share. It's it's a little bit of a rough topic,
but you know, maybe controversial, perhaps perhaps not. I don't know,
that doesn't matter. I saw a video today where a lady in New York
City and some of you might have seen it was walking her dog without a
leash and this dude, you know, he's filming her. He says,
lady, please put your dog back on a leash, you know, because
that's kind of the rules of the area. And there's they were saying that
there's bird watchers and dogs on a LEAs, whatever the case may be.
And she says, you've turned that camera off. You turned that came are
you? Are you following me? And she went berserker on him and she
says, are you trying You're trying to hurt me? Like she took you
know, which, if you're told something that you don't want to do,
you're gonna be pissed. But from that, you know, like you could
say, hey, man, mind your own business or whak off, or
whatever the heck you want to say. Um, But she started walking towards
him and angrily and she's holding her dog. She finally puts it on the
leash and she's like, get that camera, await, how dare you And
then she grabs the phone. I'm calling the police. You're trying to hurt
me, You're trying to molest me. You're trying to And she called on
the phone nine one one, and she's like Officer and her voice as from
Angry and he's filming this and she's doing this in front of the camera from
and by the way, the dude was a black guy. And she says
on the phone from Angry. As she was she turns Officer, there's a
African American man here and he's tried to hurt me and my dog. He's
trying to hurt and we're here in Central Park. And she changed her hope
and she she's using the tactic to create a scenario and basically, you know,
get one over on this guy in a very dangerous way. And I
saw that and well, obviously I saw that's wrong on many levels. And
plus such a pansy, you know, this this lady to manipulate and use
that to your advantage for something so petty. Even if it wasn't petty,
it was disgusting. I mean the videos out there as well. But here's
the thing, you know, as all this was happening, and whatever social
implications you know, might be, my main issue as I was watching the
whole thing, is that she was tugging on the dog every time she'd get
angry and like she'd have these moments of like a like emotional arousal. She
would lift her arms that was holding the leash, and the dog is choking.
She doesn't care about the dog. She doesn't care about the people there.
She doesn't care about this. She cares about how she wants to do
it her way when she wants to. And that's fine as long as you
don't hurt other people. But once you get in the situation where you're manipulating,
committing fraud, hurting an innocent little dog and all that, that's a
different story. Long story, short, all end with this. The good
news apparently is that her job saw it and she works in some sort of
high profile this and that they fired her ass And I think either they took
the dog away or I don't know this and that and done story. I
mean, she committed like I mean, just barbaric, you know. So,
yeah, I thought that was a very interesting thing that I saw.
I have not seen that video. You're gonna now you're gonna have to find
it and put it on the Trampled Underfoot Gas facebook page because I would like
to see that. But we all want to complain about how we have no
privacy and cameras are everywhere. Yeah, it's like that are why things like
that are exactly why because without that camera, just by virtue of the fact
that you had a white woman on the phone and a black male, they
would have automatically taken her side. Because he had that video. That's what
saved his tail in. Well. See, that's the other implication. That's
the other implication going there's so many layers of stuff with a simple little story,
there's so many. That's why I sat there. But my main concerns
I was looking because the dog was not I mean the dog. See here's
the thing. The dog like dogs are and if you're a dog lover,
he's happy and joy. You could see him, and she's choking the crap
out of it. Yeah, and his face he's still saying, well,
I don't like this, but you're you're my, my, my, my,
you know, master, So I'm gonna go ahead and smile. And
it breaks my heart. The you know, the cruelty that can occur,
and it just pissed me. So I was pissed at that and the other
stuff. I had to put that to the side because that moment, it
pissed me up, but when I heard the end of it, I was
like, oh, good, screw her. Yeah, you know it's so
entitled. You know what, I'm in the next place that I was going.
And that's why people have dash camps, and that's why officers have body
camps, and that's why people now have There are more people with security cameras
in this country than you can count, simply because people need proof. We
have always assumed that there's a certain element out there that of just bad people.
But until everybody started carrying around a camera with them everywhere they went,
I don't think folks realized how many there were out there. Oh if you're
not if you're not caught, people think, figure, I'm gonna get my
way no matter what I mean. For goodness, say, but now you
have to walk around assuming that you are on camera. Yeah, so go
ahead and scratch that itch, but be judicious about how you do it,
because somebody is watching you. And that's why, because there are enough bad
people out there that people think they have to film everything they do because if
they don't, the narrative can get turned around. I mean, there was
this, you know, touching on this whole same thing as well. And
this was like half a year ago or a year ago. I don't know
if you guys saw it out there, but it was great stuff. And
I don't know, I don't think we ever touched on this. It was
great stuff. Man. So a guy in his own building, an African
American guy, is walking home, is parking and walking up to the building
to go home. Well, it's the home of other people too, because
it's one of these mini sky rises, let's say, and they have pool
on the top or whatever that case. And he's just one of the tenants
or residence or whatever the hell. He walks up and a lady, white
lady says, what are you doing? Who are you here to see?
And she put herself in between him entry, and he said it very calmly,
lady, I live here. And he kept going no, no,
no, sir, sir. Who are you? Who are you sir?
And he says, lady, I just told you I live here, you
know, And so he did the he went in and stuff, wait,
wait, wait a second, sir, what's your name sir? And she
kept so the whole video he decided to film because he's like, this is
whacked and he knows. Probably since he's a black guy, he probably thought
this is not good. Because this lady ends calling and the cop goes desserved
for some reason. He's had a bad donut, you know, And and
I'm done, I'm done in and you know, at least we have the
proof. I mean, it's it's something to think about. Yeah, sure,
Well, so she followed him into the freaking elevator. Filmed on the
elevator, ma'am, I already. Why don't you just leave me alone?
Ma'am? What is it? Because I'm black, he said, And she
says, no, it's not. I've never seen you around here and who
you're this is, And the lady was freaking going crazy, um all the
way up, all the way to his Once he got to the apartment door,
she was still, and he does the thing to open the door,
and then she was like, well, you should have told me. You
know, she was like figuring something because what it is is that, you
know, she was so wrapped in her whatever dilemma she you know, who
knows if she saw you know, Cagney and Lacy early And though I don't
know what the story is, but the thing is that she took it to
that level. And I get it, she's never seen the guy, But
come on, what do you what do you what are you really? You
know? Yeah, I got an idea. How about you just mind your
own damn business. The guy's no threat to you. But yeah, entitlement
does that to people. They don't want to admit they're wrong, and they'll
double down on the stupid to try to prove themselves right. I just don't
get it. I just don't understand it. Number one, mind your own
damn business. He's not hurting you, he's no threat to you. Don't
worry about it. If you're nervous about something. If he's somebody who looks
like he's some evildoer fixing a break into something, call the authorities. Don't
confront yourself by yourself. This guy was harmless and not a threat to anybody.
But she was taking a fifty fifty risk there, well she was.
How does she know? I mean, if she really honestly thought this guy
was some evildoer out to cause any trouble, what would prevent him from turning
around, backhanding her and dragging her off somewhere. But you know, then,
now that you're saying that. Now that you're saying that, and this
is a this is a weird thing I'm gonna say, But now that you're
saying that, in reality, what you're saying is so true, and why
put yourself at Riz especially? And she's not like a little teeny bopper.
So it's not like she's I don't want to say she's not stupid, but
it's not like she hasn't had It's not like she's not road worn, you
know what I'm saying. She's traveled some miles. And so here's the thing.
What if and I know this is a stretch, if they concocted this
as a a what would you call it that we call it on on YouTube
clickbait? What if it was some sort of scheme, dramatic thing to create
a little drug Well no, that couldn't be. Yeah, like a set
up just to get on TV and make it national and for someone. But
that would put her in such a bad light that nobody wouldn't also forget that
happened. Would people set stuff up? I'm just trying to get well,
I'm trying to get a around the fact that this lady that that you just
said, how would she If she's so fearful, why would you approach?
Yeah, why would you confront? Right? If she doesn't, she's never
seen this guy before, and the skin color doesn't enter into it. If
you see somebody who I think it did to her along, well yeah,
okay, it did to her, But I'm saying, you know, in
the overall scheme of things, skin color doesn't matter. If you've seen see
somebody who looks quote unquote unsavory to you or you think might be a threat,
why the heck would you approach him? If you are that nervous or
that worried, you know who to call? You contact the authorities and let
them sort it out. It's not your job to investigate somebody's reason for being
anywhere. That's right, it's not your job. You know where that lady
would fit well in what society? Society she'd fit because they are. It's
the structure of it is. You have your your block eye out for troublemakers
that might that might you know, make some noise and they ring up the
higher up and then they do a whole you know, scouring of the So
this lady would fit right in, and that kind of attitude, you know
in your business all the time, full throttle, comply. I don't know.
I just don't get it. I really don't get it. If you're
that worried about this guy, why the heck would you even talk to him?
Go call the police, contact the building super whatever. It's just like,
I know people who will get in the left lane and stay in the
left lane. I'm like, you know, you're block in traffic right while
people aren't supposed to be going faster than the speed limit anyway. Like,
dude, that's not your job. That's what the police are for, because
you don't know what emergency might be occurring that somebody has to keep going for.
It could be a number of things. It's just not that's not your
job business. I'll be honest with you, though, I'll be honest with
you. I have. I've been that guy on the left lane. And
because I'm in my own world when I'm doing some sort of you know,
and I'll have the blinkers and I'll say, oh, I don't say hey,
you scumbag, why or to back off. I'm king of the road
around here. No, I don't do that. You know. What I've
always done is that I see that I'm like, okay, my next chance
to move over. I just realize, okay, excuse like I even say
it without him even being sorry, Like I realize, you know what,
I've been that guy. Yeah, well you know, and everybody does it.
But what I'm getting at is is, and I've seen a couple of
people. I don't know anybody personally who's done it, but I have seen
a couple of people who will actually intentionally speed up slightly to get in front
of somebody, get in front of him, and then slow down to slow
them down to the speed limit, or see somebody coming up behind him and
get over in the lane to block them, to slow them down. Because
those are little many conquests, little accomplishments that they're not until you find out
that that guy was rushing his kid to the hospital, right exactly. See.
See, that's the whole thing with human beings. And none of your
business, is my point. That's not your job, that's the cops job.
You have a phone. Everybody has a phone. I'm with you one
hundred percent on that. I mean, it's like, and you know,
and then there's the factor of that we are humans, so all things being
equal, everybody has off days. And it's in that it's just the reoccurring,
you know, and there's people out there that just get a kick out
of screwing other people over, and those are the people that are total pieces
of dog, you know what, exactly, it's none of your business.
Don't worry about it. If you feel that strongly about it, call a
cop. But it's not your job to slow people down on the highway.
That's not your job trampled underfoot. I did have a topic that I wanted
to bring up that kind of dovetailed into last week's show in kind of an
oblique way. We were talking about how I thought cooking shows and cooking channels
on YouTube were going to be big because people starting to get more into self
reliant and that the channels that showed how to do some of the simple things
that we were never really taught, we're gonna get popular. Well, I
have an example, and I want to know if you'd heard of this guy.
I don't know the gentleman's name, but he started a YouTube channel and
it's called Dad. How do I Basically the guy's story is he had a
real hard life growing up. His mother and father got divorced, his mother
moved back to Kansas. They lived in Washington State. When this guy I
was fourteen years old, his father just said, basically, I'm done with
kids and just walked out and left him and his brothers. So he basically
from age fourteen up didn't have a father in his life. So he had
to learn a bunch of things, a bunch of the basic things, just
through trial and error, and then learned him from friends in his adult life.
And he started a YouTube channel. He only has I just checked it,
fifteen YouTube videos up. And these are videos that are like, how
to fix most running toilets, how to check your car's oil, how to
change a tire, how to tie a tie, how to iron a dress
shirt, things like that. Somebody found his channel and posted it on Reddit.
He said, this guy is teaching you the stuff you were never taught.
He posted his first video April second. He is sitting now at one
point nine eight million subscribers. He has fifteen videos. When he hit four
hundred thousand subscribers, he put out a thank you video. He's completely overwhelmed.
He had absolutely no idea what was going on. Yeah, YouTube put
that video on the trending page and the next day. He got five hundred
thousand subscribers new subscribers that day. And if you read through the comments on
some of these videos, how do you check the how to check the air
pressure and your tires, how to hang a shelf, things like that,
the comments are nothing but positive, supportive, thank you's, stuff like that.
This guy has blown up and it's the most basic stuff you can imagine,
and I really honestly, And they're not long videos. His longest video
is how to change a tire or no excuse me, how to put up
a shelf, It's twenty minutes long, But like how to check your car's
oil it's a four minute video. Unclogged a sink is nine minutes fifty eight
seconds. These are short videos that just focus on the basics, and people
are eating this stuff up. There is a demand out there for it,
and it's encouraging to me for a couple of reasons. Number One, he's
a personable guy, but the guy is filling a need in that how do
you tie a tie? You know, anybody who's wont to class a uniform
in the military knows how to tie a tie. But I would venture to
say a good percentage of the population is never tied one or ironed a dress
shirt. Who irons anything anymore? Well, you know, if you got
an interview tomorrow, you might need to. And that's the kind of stuff.
So it's all. It's one hundred percent positive and the guys feel filling
a need and it's just blowing up. In fifty five days from his first
video, he hit a million subscribers fifty five days. So that's saying something
I've got. I've got my my thoughts on this. So I'm thinking that
the following, notwithstanding his personality on camera, which I don't know but I
could imagine, and the topics and the helpful because you know, anything that
that you share can be helpful to someone out there. There's a but here's
the lesson that I've you know, from this. All it takes is one
dude that has connections to toss your your video out there and with a little
bit of luck, you can you can go places. But as far as
because here's the thing, you also have people that eat potato chips and play
video games one handed while they're scratching their left cheek on their face and they
hit you know, they hit astronomical. You know, numbers and whatnot,
so it's all hit or miss. But yes, the value of what you
just said in the simplicity is sometimes it's it's overlooked. And I guess we
would be surprised at how many things I know, how many things I don't
know? Well, yeah, I don't know how many things I don't know.
Let's put it that way. That's just it. We don't know what
we don't know. But when you go look and you see this stuff.
I mean, he posted a video, this is an example. This is
a new thing for him. He's calling it tool Tuesday, and he's it's
a four minute video on pliers. Okay, fine, he posted it five
hours it's got fifty one thousand views. Now that might be discouraging to guys
like you and me, who post videos all the time. I post a
video a week and to see somebody post get fifty one thousand views in five
hours might be a little bit discouraging. But on the other hand, it
is very encouraging because the guy is filling a need. I mean, you
and I both use speed squares in would work it, but do we really
understand how they work, how to use one to figure out the rise and
run of a set of steps, or how to figure out the slope of
a roof. I mean, all that stuff is built in there. Everything
that's every little mark on a square has a purpose. It's not there to
be pretty, but very few people know how they work. It's kind of
encouraging to see somebody take the lead on something like that and just start teaching
the simple stuff that everybody's dad should have taught them. But that's hard to
do if your dad doesn't know. Yeah, somebody's got to pass along the
information, right, And if you don't have a dad, or your dad
doesn't know, you know, there's a whole slew of things if you don't
have a dad. That at least for my understanding of having a dad.
Like the tie thing you said, I didn't know how to tie a tie
until one day I needed it because I was going to go out on a
fancy schmancy thing. Forget it was probably a graduation ball or some sort of
thing with a girlfriend, and I forget the exact moment, but I asked
my daddy says, come over, your son, and then he knew the
names of all these configurations of ties. This is the I don't know the
Rothchild style, and this is the Valentino not and I'm like a double winder.
So he taught me one that I've always remembered, and that's the one
that I always use. And it works just fine. It gets to your
little triangle and it gets to your whole thing. I don't even know what
it's called at this point. He showed me a few times, and they
put me in front of the mirror and he put the tie and he said
it right like this, like this, and that simple act. And at
the moment, I just wanted the problem solved. And as an adult looking
back, what great gift that a father. You know, many that are
untangible or not. You know, you can't you can't quantify it. You
know, we're we're we're sitting here being goofy and kind of But how old
were you as a maker when you discovered that little slot on the metal end
of a tape measure was there to hook over a nail so that you could
drive a nail in the end of something and pull it and take your measurement.
Yeah, my dad taught me a lot of those things when I was
a kid, but I never used it. I never used taught me all
the things, but I used it, or why the tip of a tape
measure is loose that way, you know, for taking inside measurements and then
pulling for outside measurements. That's why it's the same that wiggle is the same
as the thickness of that little metal tip. If nobody told you that,
you go your whole life and not know unless you needed it or cut everything
just slightly wrong, unless you needed it or or had that problem that you
had to see a lot of things. I mean, you know what,
We don't go out in the world knowing like I didn't learn guitar by somebody
teaching me. I absolutely did not, Right, It's not fully true because
at the same time, though I didn't have somebody with me. When I
came to a situation that I wanted, like, you know, I want
to play this song, and I didn't know how to get to play that
song. I looked for the tools. I myself searched in the what we
had at the time to figure out how, oh that's a B seven chord,
So I need a B seven chord to get to that, so that
the song and then I'd practiced the B and so you'll you'll find you'll search
the tools. What's somebody has to have the information out there, right,
So you could be a curious person and be able to problem solve or at
least go in the right direction. You knew to exist, you knew where
to go to get a mail mail Bay Chord book. You might not buy
it, but you can open the page and go, okay, those figures
go there. Well yeah, I mean, I mean that's the whole that's
the whole thing about it. You know, um that that if you're a
curious person, And here's the thing, if you learn wrong, or if
you go about doing something like taking the long road to get there, you
could use a little bit of knowledge that will make you do things, you
know, accomplish it easier. So there's always you know, and I've been
the kind of person that's usually learned things the hard way, always putting,
putting up against it until I figure it out, which it doesn't save time.
But you well, but you knew the information was out there. Maybe
you didn't know the name of it, maybe you didn't know exactly what it
was called, but you knew that the information was out there somewhere. Somebody
had already done it, so you knew you had to look. If you
don't know what those marks on the side of a speed square mean, you
don't know where to look to find it. Well, I guess what I'm
getting at is is if you've never had a clogged sink, you wouldn't really
need to know. Dad, how do I YouTube channel? Until you get
on there one day and you search I got a clogged sink and that video
comes up. Because how to Unclog a Sink is sitting at two hundred and
forty four thousand views, It's gonna be one of the videos that pops up.
Well, see that's that's a good point too. We have YouTube to
tep it right. You also have to know what to look for, because
I am so sure if you if there's such an amount of information out there
to learn just about anything, that you can find it, but you yourself
have to be and it doesn't happen until you have you come across the problem
or you want to get to a solution for something that you're on the road
discovering. As long as you've got that curiosity push, you can find your
way nowadays much more easier, at least knowledge base. But that emotional thing
like the father thing you were saying without a father of this, and that
there are things that you can't get from obviously from a YouTube video or a
book, or you could get the notion of it if you're so developed to
that certain slant. But the idea of having you know, let's say,
a parent, you know in the house is you know, we're talking dad's
a dad, it's you can there's it's an unparalleled to anything else because there's
all these other things structure, don't do that son, or ay you're you
know, you can't go out or even though it sounds like a crappy deal
for the kid at the moment, there's lessons to be learned from it because
I did this and this was a consequence. And and this is not to
take anything away from mom's either, because moms are I mean, there's probably
a ton of moms out there that could tell you how to stop her running
toilet, or how to check the oil in your car or something like that.
But moms can't tell you how to shave. They can't teach you how
to shave your face. I'll see you're you're coupled with Mike. But you
know, can't tell you. She can mop you on the leg thing.
So if you're a swimmer, she's got your back. Well everyway, talking
about backs, moms, some moms can teach you how to shave your back.
Yeah, you didn't mention back, and I just want to, don't.
You folks just want to go through his dating history. I didn't,
Mom, I need to shave my back. We know more than we think
we know, but we know less than we expect we know. And sometimes
it's the littlest things that you just you know. Okay, holy crap,
Now how do I do that? Hey? When you said when you said,
he said dating history, you know what popped? Do you remember the
Adams family? Remember that that carpet creature wasn't yet. This is my date,
Melinda. You see, let me part your your let me part part
your whiskers. You say, Hi, I promise I'll bring her home before
twelve gar ownteed, Well, don't feed her after god night, and don't
get her wet. Don't don't do not get her wet. Don't let her
out in the rain. Oh, people who have never seen the movie have
no idea what you and I are talking about. Um, we were so
the movie that we're talking about, will leave it. Well, you know
what, if you want to know what movie movie that was, I'm gonna
go ahead and when you guys hear this, I'm gonna go ahead and post
that on our Trampled Underfoot Podcast Facebook page and you can find out what actually
we're talking about. Well, no, I'm grabbing a photo. It's going
to be an actual poster. Oh okay from the from the movie. Yeah,
so we won't mention what movie that is. See, I just mentioned
it's a movie, so I kind of screwed it up. That's we both
already said it was a movie. By the way, talking about movies,
and I don't mean to rehash old quarrels among amongst ourselves, but a long
while ago we were on the subject of you know, you are a cultural
infidel, Yes I am, and that you had never or not never.
I'm sorry, that's I'm going totally like the exaggerated way that you had not
seen a movie since your last movie, which uh in nineteen eighty eight.
I it was, and it was the last movie I saw in a theater
was The rain Man, right, And I was totally shocked about that,
you know, and I was trying to find somebody that could beat your record.
I've not been able to find a person yet, but I'm sure there's
plenty of people. It's not like you know, there's I haven't been in
quite a while. But I was thinking the other day about are that kind
of thing, because there's certain little phrases that are repeat enjoyment things that pop
up. There's one that I can't mention live, but another one is the
cultural infidel one. And I was thinking that in one episode I had told
you something to the effect of, oh, dude, there's this movie and
it's called Idiocracy, and it's this, and it's that and this and that,
and I think that and I don't know why I was thinking this,
but I just popped through my in my head, and I think that you
did go ahead and watch, which I did not. I don't think that
I had to a justted you to or considered it a good movie for you
to watch. I just thought that the premise was good. And I think
that I ruined you watching movies from that point. An't even worse because of
how crappy of a movie that was. Look, I'll watch a movie it's
got nothing to do with that, but it has to be a highly recommended
one. It has to be a good one because my track record with movies
is the more the critics love it and the more people rave about it,
the more I know I'm gonna hate it, because that's been the track record.
There have been a couple of exceptions. But yes, I did watch
Idiocracy, and I'm with you. The premise was good, the execution was
not so good. Yeah, it had a lot too. It wasn't the
worst movie I've ever seen, but it was probably on the low end of
the middle. But the idea that you would go into the future because you're
stuck in a time capsule and you're propelled into the future or waiting their dormant
or whatever the case might be, and then you suddenly arise, and what
most people would consider and if you think of movies or popular culture back in
the I don't know, thirties and forties and fifties, and how people looked
at the future, it was always in advance and stuff. You know,
it's always the future. It's going to be that great, and it's gonna
be even better, and it's gonna be so frecking and but we never stop
and think I don't think that what the future is totally. People are dumb,
you know. I mean, you're as good as it gets, you
know, And that's kind of I liked that angle of it that people were
just as opposed to becoming better. They went They didn't even stop at where
they were, They went backwards. And that concept is great. It the
whole planet basically dumb down to the point to where it couldn't feed itself,
to where just an average guy is. The genius was suddenly the smartest man
on earth, and the number of things he didn't know were countless, but
he was still smarter than all the rest of him, you know, an
amazing thing. Dude trampled underfoot. I did have a little spell, like
I do usually, a little surfing spell on the innerwebs, YouTube in particular,
and I ran across one of my favorites, which is George Carlin.
I ran across his sort of like nonconformist throw it all out the door,
baby and bathwater. He has a lot of gems of knowledge that I totally
just agree with him with, Like he's saying it and stuff, and he's
you know, doing it within the joke, but he's he's offering some pretty
significant, you know, strong you know, points of view that are right
on at least concerning my my in my thoughts. And although this isn't one
of them, but it kind of is. Well, actually it is one
of them. The whole Earth doesn't need saving. Bit. That's not to
say that you're driving down the highway and you take your freaking big mac wrapper
and shake empty shake thing and you toss it into an alligator's mouth. You
know, Well, it's not saying that you you know, you commit these,
but you know, he did say something, and you guys out there
had probably seen it, and he says, you know, the Earth is
not threatened by you. You are not a threat. You're maybe a little
surfaces that whole exchange with George Carlin, and that is gold because it's so
true. Are we really well, go ahead? You know, he bought
out said, he said the Earth is fine, the planet is fine.
Weird screwed. Yeah, you're going. You're going by by, folks,
pack your stuff. He does it. And it's so true though, the
audacity and ego bloated ego of us thinking, well, so he says,
save the planet. The sheer audacity and arrogance of that, and I get
it, like we don't want, you know, pouring fricking sludge into our
rivers and stuff. That's not but the whole over indulgence of self righteousness and
this and that when really we're exposed to the elements of this planet and there
is no mercy and it's just so true. So yeah, I agree with
you, And I paraphrased him for years on that very subject, and I
ended up just finally boiling it down to my own little saying is, don't
pee in the pool, but we can still get in the water, clean
up after yourself, don't be a slob, and mind your own business.
You know, if you have people out there screaming save the planet, Save
the planet, Save the planet, and there's some of the biggest slabs walking
the planet, that is one category of many that you can pick there.
In my opinion, there's a certain personality type human trait, and we all
have variations of certain traits. They cross pollinate in people, but in some
people it outshines and stuff. This whole notion of having to control everything that's
none of your business to control, namely others, is such again using the
same word arrogant, disgusting sort of concept. I need to control those entitled
it's all about somebody should do something or they need to ban this. There
was a big thing about and it's a legitimate claim about. And I'm sure
you hear about it in Florida all the time. Fishing line and birds getting
tangled up in fishing line. Yeah, that's a legitimate thing. My wife
still thinks it's funny that when we're out fishing out at one of our lakes,
if I see a piece of fishing line down on the ground, I'll
just pick it up and start wadding it up. I'll go home with a
tackle box full of old, nasty fishing line to throw away correctly so that
it doesn't end up some bird tangled up in it and die in that way.
Yeah. But to see people standing hip deep and that's an exaggeration in
crap saying somebody needs to do something. My first attitude is, what about
you? Why is it always somebody else that needs to do something? Why
step over three candy wrappers to yell at somebody about how messy a parking lot
is? It up and throw it in the trash can. The problem is
solved, well, it's not my job to do that. No, it's
not your job to walk around being a jerk either, but you don't seem
to have a problem doing that. It comes back to those rules that every
mom and dad should be teaching their kids. Keep your hands to yourself,
leave other people's things alone, be nice to one another, mind your own
business. And yet it's such a difficult rule for some people or a lot
of people to follow. And it circles back to that lady with that guy
when he's trying to get into his apartment. If she would mind her own
business, be nice to people, there would have been zero issue. And
the same thing with the lady and the dog. Now, the guy had
a legitimate fear of the dog being off a leash. Are is it going
to attack another animal or a kid or something like that. That's a legitimate
concern. I mean it was. It was a poofy, poofy dog and
it didn't look like But at the same time, you know, New York
and whatever their rules in that particular, who knows, And he was mentioning
that, I mean, I don't know. To me her reaction, which
is all that we was caught. We don't know the previous was blown out
of it. So I don't want to go ahead and say that the guy
was like me personally, at the worst case scenario, if there's some sort
of threat because of the dog leaving or getting hit or whatever the case might
be, I'd say, man, be careful, this, this and that.
But apart from that, I'm going to keep trucking because that's none of
my business. Well, I'm with you there, and you're right, we
don't know. We don't know if something else provoked. The simple fact of
the matter is she's walking her dog without a leash. The rules are in
that park, you're supposed to have your animal on a leash. He doesn't
know the dog, the dog doesn't know him, don't know if there were
kids in the area, don't know any of that stuff. So a dog
off a leash when they're supposed to be on a leash is a legit concern.
I might say something too, right, you know, if the leash
is blue and I think it should be purple, mind your own ding dong
business. Mark, it's none of your business. You just reminded me also
to go ahead and post that very same video which we started the conversation on
in case one of you guys out there had not seen it before. So
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