You are about to be trampled underfoot. What we're hearing through the grape vine
is that folks are they can't get enough of our shows and they want some
extras, so we might go ahead and do that here and there. I
think it would be fun. I think it would be a lot of fun.
I mean, I'm getting a backlog of emails and messages just clamoring for
from Whichita to freaking Ontario too. I mean it just I even got,
for goodness six, I even got a letter handwritten in cow blood from from
Madagascar the other day. Oh you did not? It sounded good, yep,
written on a dried out piece of parchment that used to be um pig
uterus, and it just you know, okay, okay, nothing goes to
waste. I guess I'm trying to figure out how he figured out what department
was from it said it said pig Uterus made in China. I did have
the little recycled symbol on the back of it. Hi, I'm Mark.
We are two guys from different decades, different backgrounds, and on opposite sides
of the continent, discussing life of the universe and everything. What's the show
about about an hour trampled underfoot. So can you believe that this year came
and went like it did? It came, it slashed, it poked,
you know, and and it left up the side window. Yeah. YouTube
broke, I mean the whole thing. YouTube broke. A bunch of things
happened that I've already forgotten. And here we are in twenty nineteen. Kind
of feel like back to the future, you know, in a strange way.
Yeah, But if I knew I was going to live this long,
I'd have taken better care of myself, Ain't that for sure? That's a
truism. And you know what, the older you get, the faster the
year goes. I mean, I'm I'm sitting here, it's twenty nineteen.
Holy cow, nineteen eighty four still sounds like a long time away to me.
Yeah, just the other direction. And that's something to think about.
I'll throw out these little facts and things like that every once in a while.
But we are closer right now to the year twenty thirty than we are
to the year two thousand. Get out of town. Yes, we are
closer to twenty thirty than we are to two thousand. Do you guys?
Is it for me? The year two thousand seems like yesterday. I mean
literally seems like by all accounts in my head, in my like, just
around the corner, just a slut, slut, you know, a little
turn to the left and there you are. It does to me anyway.
Yeah, it's time is going faster and faster. But here's the here's the
real kicker on that one. And I'm not out to make anybody feel old,
although I will. There are people who voted this year, yeah,
well in twenty eighteen who were born in two thousand. Wow, that's crazy,
dude. Legal voting age in the year two thousand, Yeah, because
it's eighteen years after. There are people of legal voting age who never saw
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Oh my goodness. I mean that was
a staple. H everybody knew that we're getting close to never saw Jay Leno
host the Tonight Show. Yeah, I mean that's still new to me,
believe it or not. In my brain. Yeah, and he did that
for twenty how many years? In my brain the way it works, and
I don't know, it's not realistic, but it's just how the mind works,
and I'm aware of it in my brain. To meet Conan O'Brien is
still a new show. I kid you, not in my brain the way
it works easy still on. I don't even know. Yeah, I think
he is. I think he's on TBS. I may be wrong there.
I'm not sure. I haven't watched TV in so many years. I don't
know anymore, just my opinion. I didn't think he was all that funny.
I mean, he had his moments, but everybody does. It's just
it's weird how time does seem to progrem I don't know. I think one
of us was talking about that, or all of us were talking about that.
So as the older you get, you have more experienced lifetime behind you,
rode behind you. So like when you're born and you're a toddler in
the first few years, that's an eternity to you because you've only lived that
much time. So you only have that point of reference, let's say,
and once you're older, I mean, things just go. You take a
lot, for granted, one thing to today, I went to the store.
How many times have I done that? It just all runs. I
mean, for goodness sakes, I mean we're almost at the year twenty thirty,
For goodness sakes, Yeah, it's years away and people voted, people
were able to vote last year. That we're born in two thousand. Think
about it, We're only two years away from people who were able to letally
drink. That we're born in two thousand. That is an amazing thing.
I don't know what. I don't know where this all ends up, and
it's looking pretty scary. That not to me. It's an adventure, it's
a journey. You know, nobody here gets out alive. So we'll just
see what happens tomorrow. Yeah, I'm afraid that more or less what happens
tomorrow will be more or less what happens It's going to be similar. But
something, you know, something new and shiny will come up, you know.
I mean, when you think back on it, I don't. I
don't know about you guys, But when I think back on it and I
see the technicological steps, just in technology that we have gone through from just
in my lifetime, it's craziness. Went from black and white televisions with an
antenna up on the roof if you afford to put an antenta on your roof,
you know, and you weren't using the little rabbit ears they called them
the little antenna that sat on top of the TV set. We went from
that to color television with cable, to plasma screen TV, to smart TV
that is on the internet. And who watches TV anymore anyway, because we're
all on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and what have you. You just
got to wonder what the heck is coming next? Did you let me ask
you this? Did you turn on the TV today at any time? I
didn't? My wife did. I don't watch TV. Oh interesting, okay,
So did you turn on the TV anytime this week so far? No?
Yeah, no, my wife did. I think the last time I
purposely turned on the TV to see if anything was going on or see what
was going on not two weeks ago, and I don't remember why I turned
it on. Yeah, it's it's the sort of thing where it's one of
those things where that they were constant in the past that now we've we've moved
on. Yeah, and we're moving on. I used to think it was
really weird. The TV was always on at my house. If somebody was
home, the TV was on. And I always thought it was weird to
go visit my grandparents on my mother's side because my grandfather. If people came
to the house, he turned the TV off and you sat there and you
talked and you visited with people. The TV would come on in the evening
after dinner, but and then it would just be on for a little while.
They'd watch a couple of shows and then turn it off. It wasn't
It wasn't like that at my house. I mean, if somebody walked in
the door, the first thing you did before you took your jacket off was
you turned the TV on. Then you took off your coat, did whatever,
and it was warmed up by the time you got your coat off and
got changed and got somebody eating. Yeah, but I mean all the way
up until, oh, until I moved out, it was that way.
Yeah, it's it's in my house. What happened was that we would have
the what's it called the TV that all the time on. I would have
it on in my room. I had a small, little black and white
TV my father put in there, and that's what I used. I had
black and white TV for most of the eighties as I was growing up,
and then eventually he gave me his that was a small TV and it was
a color TV. I believe it was. But mostly it was black and
white, and I didn't think any different from color TV or black and white.
Just thought, okay TV and screw it. Yeah. I didn't have
a TV in my room until I was married and moved out of the house.
I was about to say, I was in my early twenties when when
I had my first TV of my own in my room. Yeah, and
I was out of the house by then married. So same here. In
fact, we were stationed in Savannah, Georgia. So I was when was
that? That was ninety two? I was thirty years old, trampled underfoot.
Yeah, to think about it, we're in twenty nineteen, and think
of that. You were just talking about, you know, back in the
eighties, but you couldn't talk to your talk to somebody like this back then,
it was it was it was science fiction then. What was there even
call waiting or conference calling back then? Uh? There were party lines,
but that's all I know of, Yeah, going into the eighties. Uh,
and I never got into those. So, yeah, party lines were
real. That was before they even had individual lines around the houses just about
right. Well, that's the thing. Once they ran the individual lines,
you actually had to call into a party line rather than just picking up the
phone and now TechEd out and technology that it has advanced to where you can
you can have it ring a different ring tone in your house depending on who
calls you. Yeah, if you still had used the phone, if you
still use the home phone. Yeah, we have a machine nowadays that will
actually do research for you, just like the computers in those movies or Star
Trek for instance. Computer, Um, can you tell me what's uh?
What's happening now? How many humans humanoid life forms are down there in Alpha
Centauri? Uh dash one, three, four or five and like Alexa like
that Patrick's has uh from Patrick's workshop. It's incredible because he can ask it
a bunch of questions and and it'll answer it. I mean, who would
have thunk that? Seriously? Yeah, I in the for me in the
eighties, I mean how about for you guys like in the seventies and sixties.
Did that even seemed like something like that would even happen? Did you
even expect it to happen? No? Um, I didn't think we would
be as far advanced as we actually are, you know, similar to the
old uh, like on the old Star Trek, they had the holodeck where
you could go and you know, be in, you know, you're in,
You're in the middle, and just a room and it's all three D
and you. And now they've got the virtual reality HDC five and those where
you can actually put this headset on and move around the room and it's like
you're moving in real life. Yeah. I've said it a few times before.
I made the comparison before, but a lot of it is very similar
to the Jetsons. Even though I still don't have my flying car, that's
probably a good thing. Well I can't drive, Yeah, well, no,
most folks can't drive in two dimensions. I can't see that whole altitude
thing. You know, there's a reason you don't have more pilots. I
can see a traffic jam in space. Oh yeah, well, with the
proper government oversight of the space roads, everything would be just fine. They'd
find a way to get a pothole in a space road. Dude, how's
that worked out where you live? That's it? No, I it just
it kind of makes me wonder what's going to come next. But there comes
a time where things come too fast, and I think that's where a lot
of us get in trouble with you know, financially or what have you.
We got to be on top of everything, and we got to have the
newest and the latest and greatest and what have you. And that stuff is
expensive and that's all there is to it. So lot of people have you
brought themselves to financial ruin trying to have the You know, you do not
have to have the iPhone twenty two the day it comes out. It's okay
to wait a week and let the other guys work all the bugs out of
it. You know, that stuff is really outrageously priced when it first comes
out. I mean, I can remember the first VCR that I ever saw
on the shelf, and we're talking VHS or Beta, you could have your
choice. The first one I saw on the shelf was seven hundred and fifty
dollars. And this was back when I was a private E one in the
army and I was making five hundred and fifty dollars a month, and then
later on they couldn't give them away. And it's the same with DVD players.
I still think of DVD as being new because it's not VHS tape.
It's not a big, old, clunky tape. You put in the machine
like we had for twenty years, that little shiny aluminum disc sandwich. They're
in plastic and that you drop in and you can't find a DVD player anymore.
Well, it's funny because as far as that's concerned at this point,
like you're saying, at this point, number one, I have an iPhone
or an iPhone. I have an iPod that I bought in the early two
thousands and I figured at that time it costs like two hundred and something bucks,
and I figured out I can put all my music in one thing and
it'll be there, you know. And I still have it with me to
this day. But as far as discs and all that, I mean,
it's not even you could just play it on YouTube at this point, so
it's almost not worth even having. I'm glad I have it, though,
But kids today, I don't think that the concept of I don't know that
concept of storing items or music. I don't know if that's gonna be I
don't know if it's gonna be a continual thing. We lost the album concept,
so you know, that's a whole world that's disappeared. Everything's on the
cloud just about. Yeah, we've we've gone because you and I, well
all three of us or of that generation, were of that age where ownership
meant something. You know, we went out and we bought the record,
or we bought the tape, or we you know, we when video came
out, we bought the video tape, or we bought the DVD. And
now you don't have to even do that. You can subscribe to a service
instead of becoming a member of your local video rental shop, you can join
a streaming service and whatever you want to watch, it's there on demand.
You don't have to leave the house and go get it. And so lying
on the improvements that they have to continually keep pushing on the internet for that
same very same reason. But it was but we had the same thing in
a tangible sense, and that we had. We moved from VHF to from
Beata to VHF to VHF, VHS to LaserDisc, to DVD to Blu ray.
And now we don't need any of that. There's no home storage.
We don't. If you want to, you can go out and you can
get a two terabyte hard drive and you can download and save those shows and
watch them at your lead. But why bother when you can just go online
and watch them at your leisure anyway. Yeah, you know, people aren't
buying books. The folks who do still read, they don't. Some people
do still want that tactle feel they want the book in their hand, but
a lot of them will just download it to their tablet or a kindle or
something and just read it that way. Yeah. I've switched of most of
my reading is coming in through my kindle now, so we have fewer things
in the house, but we still have We have even more diversions than we
ever had. Speak for yourself. I'm up to my elbows and things.
In fact, I think there's something called spring cleaning or something. I guess
we've got like three or four months to go for that. And that's what
I mean. We're of the age where we think that ownership, the need
to have things is you know important, which is where the downsizing movement everybody
going to mini houses and stuff like that. They can do it because they
don't have to have all the all the same stuff. They can do it
all with a phone and a tablet. Now, yeah, exactly exactly,
and that that is a big benefit. I mean, the days of the
eight foot long floor to ceiling entertainment center are numbered. Um. Fact,
they're already gone in a lot of ways. Because you don't have to store
a thousand DVDs anymore. I'll probably end up with like four walls an empty
room, and like one little box sitting at the center of the room.
Um, and it contains all entertainment data information. You know, it'll feed
you. It'll have these little tentacles that come out and just feed you a
droplet which has enough nutrients for the whole day. It'll get to the point
where you need nothing. You know. I don't know about that room.
Eventually, you're gonna find things where they're gonna they're you're gonna have a ring
of houses, and they're all gonna be tiny houses, and they're gonna surround
a city sized data center that runs everything we have. We already have the
making. We already have the makings of that. It's called the trailer Park.
It will be a city. You'll have a whole city, and its
center feature will be a huge, big computer mainframe thing, and people will
go to it and worship at it and leave it flowers like some sort of
like far Eastern dictator. I totally technologies. It's hey, it's the present
and it's the future. We'll have robots probably too. I'm probably giving away
the beginnings of a plot line to a book, but that's okay. If
somebody wants to write the story, go for it. I'm envisioning like the
twenty second century wagon trains, where you've got all these tiny houses circling a
cell phone tower instead of the campfire in the middle. Yeah, well that's
why. I mean, you see, you see all a lot of the
sci fi movies and they're showing, you know, this giant tower that's controlling
everything in the city. But they were thinking along the lines of nineteen fifties
and nineteen sixties mainframes. Now you can get more computing power out of a
bunch of small things. So now they have data centers, which they're they're
big buildings, but they're not humongous, and they still control huge amounts of
everything trampled underfoot. Here's a question for you guys. Okay, we always
talk about the things that have changed, and there's plenty to talk about that,
and I wonder, and I'm sure that you guys can come up with,
but what are some of the things that have not changed, barring like
having to chew and eat and you know, but things that haven't changed that
you could still look to be an electronic or cultural or just things that have
not changed since the time that you guys were young uns. I'd be curious
to see if you can don't remember any I some things I don't know if
they will ever change. And I'm not talking about conceptual things. I'm not
talking about ideologies or anythings like that. But think about the concept of something
as simil as the zipper on your blue jeans. Now that's a pride and
true, you know. I mean, yeah, okay, we've seen velcro,
but how many pairs of jeans do you have that have velcrow on it?
Shoelaces, Yeah, we've seen the velcro straps, and yeah, we
know we have slip ons and things like that, and some you know,
people will even guys like me remember having the tanker boots with zippers on the
sides of them. But some things I don't think will ever go away.
Pens and pencils. We're just gonna make them look nicer, but there's always
going to be a need for that to shot something down. Yeah, I
hear. I hear the nineties were a big pen and pencil decade. Really,
where'd you hear that? I just, you know, I just it
could have been a hell of nineties. But you know, oh okay,
I thought maybe you heard it through that grape vine from some dude named Marvin.
But well, you think about it though, that part of society pens
and pencils, especially writing, writing, jotting yourself notes, which we all
do. Yeah. They I figured with all the technology now that that would
become less and less because you can just voice activate your phone and say remind
me of this, But they're still not going away because people want that normality,
well, especially with old people like me, because I still have a
problem with trusting something electronic because the power goes out, batteries die, and
you can have all the phone numbers in the world on your iPhone, but
when that battery is dead and you've walked twenty miles to the next gas station,
okay, fine, who do you call? You don't know? Right?
Memory dial one doesn't work. I've got literally one hundred notes stacked around
me all the time because I'm constantly jotting myself notes. Yeah, because I
don't try I don't trust electronics. I've had I've lost hard drives, I've
lost systems. Yeah, yeah, we don't trust them so much that,
but we use them like like drug addicts. Sure, well, that's an
obvious thing for me. I mean, I've got three going at one time
at almost all the time. But you know it's there that it could fail.
And that's the thing about that, You're You're right. So the pen
is a staple and pencil is a staple that UM has not changed um and
people still go to it. That's totally true. And what is a pen
is difficult, but a pencil you could actually make yourself. Anybody could make
a writing implement like a pencil themselves, right. But my point is I
don't I don't know that they're ever gonna go away. No, you know,
we've seen more or less the downfall of the newspaper. When was the
last time you picked up a newspaper? Yesterday? I like, yes,
I picked it up, play and put it right in the recycle band,
didn't you. Yep, that's exactly what. There's a here's one for you.
Do they still deliver telephone books in your neighborhood? Yes? I get,
I get get them three three different times a year. I get telephone
books. Wow, I still figured out why we get one a year.
And the difference is a telephone book where I grew up was three inches thick.
A telephone book here's like half an inch thick. Right, Yeah,
they still deliver them. Okay, do you use it? No? No,
you know. I'm gonna throw out a little tip if you're looking for
something and you can't find it online and you think it's not offered locally.
In the maker community, in the woodworking community, we have a lot of
people going, well, there's no hardwood suppliers in my area. I can't
get it, And I say, pick up the phone book and look.
You would be surprised at how many old school, family run businesses that are
run by older people that are still they don't have an online presence, they
don't have a website, they don't have anything like that. You'd be surprised.
So dust off that phone book and look, you might be surprised to
find that there are suppliers in your area. Yeah, I have, that's
one that I haven't. I haven't. I hadn't looked at it looked up
in the phone book, I know. But I know from talking to other
makers where they're at in the area, and I'm still hours away from them.
Yeah. I found two of them here near my hometown by looking in
the phone book because they don't have online presences. Trampled underfoot. You don't
know it, Eloy, but I've I've got my little notepad over here,
and you kind of dove tailed into a couple of things that I just wrote
down. I get ideas and I write them down, and I'm starting to
write down the context too, so I don't end up with something weird like
last time. Yeah. Yeah, random stuff that I have no idea why
I wrote it down. Yeah, But the question is, okay, let
me set this up a little bit. It was one of those online conversations
and somebody asked, Hey, I noticed all you guys have stickers. I'd
like to get some stickers. Where do you get your stickers from? And
inevitably, in a group with six thousand members, we got like a hundred
people replying, and certain brand names came up. And I'm not going to
mention any brand names or anything, but brand X, brand X, brand
X brand X. Okay, fine, And then you always have that one
guy who comes in and says, well, I don't like brand Dex because
they print on vinyl and then they put a clear vinyl overlay on it,
and that's just not durable enough. You need die sublimation because ink won't run.
It's it's imprinted in the And I'm sitting there looking at it, and
here's the question to you, guys. I'm thinking to myself, it's a
sticker. How durable do you need it to be? It's a sticker.
You're probably going to put it on a band saw and shove it off to
the side of the room and look at it maybe once every five years if
you notice it's there at all, or put it in a drawer. Yeah,
how durable does does it have to be? And I think that translates
out into a bunch of other things, because if you look at some of
the things we buy, if you look at some of the things we build
or make or what have you, people are always looking for the best,
the strongest, the safest for it. But how terrible does it really need
to be? At the end of the day, At the very least it
has to be UVY protected, water protected and BADE protection. Yeah, at
least those three for how long? Yeah, for how long? At least?
Well, I would say, if you're gonna put it outside, I
think I would save the safe bad five years at least. That sticker's gonna
be a hefty sticker. Okay, you and I are on the same page.
I figure five years because you're probably gonna if you put it on your
car, you're probably gonna trade that car off at five years, unless you're
you're mean, I've been driving the same car for like ye, Well,
yeah, mine's fourteen years old out out there in the driveway. That's true.
But you're gonna put it on your car and it's gonna go with the
car. Oh yeah, I'm trading off or sell it. Yeah, I'm
joking. I agree with that totally. You know, sticker is just a
sticker for goodness sakes, and unless you but what is considered top of the
line equipment, your equipment, and if you use your equipment regularly, it's
not gonna last much more than that. Yeah, and then again, um,
then again, I just just to say this, A sticker is an
extension in our case of our efforts and our brand and you know, the
creations that we build, and so I guess psychologically, we put like emphasis
onto that sticker, and it's a high value. I think I get you,
and and and and you're absolutely right. Um. You know, the
folks who are gonna be have on YouTube and do a YouTube video, they're
probably gonna make a sticker board or put it on their tools or someplace where
they can where it's visible in a video because it looks cool. It's a
it's a subliminal shout out to you know. I still get a kick as
seeing my sticker on Matt Crimona's garage door. Pocket holes, get uh a
pocket screw joinery. It's a lot of hate online. Mortis intenant joints are
stronger than pocket holes, Dude, I'm making a picture frame. How durable
does it have to be. Let's not forget. Let's have a sense of
proportion here, in a sense of reality. Okay, you know, I
don't think there's anybody that would argue mortis intendant joints are stronger than pocket holes.
I know, but they have their place. Chill out, don't worry
about it. Don't worry about it. It's would it's not gonna last a
thousand years. I say. They used to build houses with Mortisontenant too.
Yeah. Yeah, and if they still build houses that way, then we
would have a whole lot less houses. Yeah, and they'd all cost half
a million dollars to start trampled underfoot. So now we have this year upon
us, this new year and do So what about those people that make New
year resolutions and all these things where they look forward to the next year and
saying they're going to improve in this, this, this is, and that.
Do you guys do that do make resolutions? I don't. I don't
either. I mean either. I tried that when I was younger, and
as I've gotten older, I realized that I don't have any control over what's
gonna happen tomorrow. Yep, I gave up on the resolution. Well,
I take that back. I do every year make a resolution not to make
any resolutions because I don't believe in making promises. I don't know if I
can keep And it's like you said, I don't know what's going to happen
tomorrow, So I'm not gonna say, well, I'm never gonna do that
again. Yeah right? How many how many times have you ever said I'm
never gonna do that again and followed it? Up with at this time.
I mean it, well, it's comforting. It is, I mean for
some folks, I guess, but you know, I never put a lot
of stock into it because I figured you don't need a special day. If
you want to change behavior, you can do it any day, you know.
I mean, I mean that that that going back to whatever habit be
a drinking or is a comforting thing. You know what I'm saying. So
people will end up in the same place. But yeah, no resolutions for
you guys. I don't do that. I just I resolved to not make
resolutions that way. I'm not disappointed. I don't believe in setting myself up
for failure or anybody else. If you want to, if you want a
resolution, then I'll give you a resolution. I resolved to stay friends with
you two at least till the end of the podcast. Okay, there we
go. You heard it here first, and we're gonna hold him to that.
Now we're gonna start talking trash about country music. Now go for the
juggular. So can you guys, um tell me what highlights or what marks
you know? Your two, your twenty eighteen. I can't even say the
number. It's such a weird number to say anything too in front of it
was so much easier to say nineteen eighty, this, nineteen eighty, nineteen
ninety. But can you tell us your best or your highlights of twenty eighteen
Things that were notable, whether good or bad, or just things that were
notable of this year, if any, because if there's none, good Steve,
oh no, thanks from the end of the bus. I've had a
lot of highlights this year actually because of the friendships I've made, And that's
what it for me. That's what life actually comes down to, is the
friends you've made and the people that are close to you. Things don't mean
it, don't mean any really anything to me. Yeah, I've started a
couple of companies that so far haven't collapsed, so that's a good thing.
But my life year to year doesn't have a lot of changes because I don't
because I don't try to make changes. Found that comfort zone and sticking with
it pretty much. I retired, I'm done. Yeah, I hear you,
I hear you. Yeah, that's that's one of the things. I
mean. Highlights of twenty eighteen for me. We bought a house. I
retired from the real estate profession, we started a podcast. How we got
into this, I still am not quite clear. You know. I still
have to shake myself every once in a while and say, are you really
doing that? Yeah, you're doing that? Okay, made friends. As
Steve was saying, got to know you guys a heck of a lot better.
I mean, it's just been it's been a heck of a year.
I've had a lot of fun. I really enjoyed myself and that's some great
people along the way. I'm kind of with Steve on this. I don't
know that it's got anything to do with acquisition of things or anything like that.
I mean things are things are going well, things are going good,
things are looking up. Yeah, absolutely, Well, well, i'd like
to say that those things that you guys mentioned, uh just it's it's for
the Those are positive things, and there's always ups and downs, you know,
throughout the year. So with me, it's a difficult thing because I
at the end of the year, m I got slam, you know,
with having to pay these exorbitant bills and what I mean slam, I mean
record obliterated abusively. But with that said, um, so that's the negative.
I also had to go in and redo the house next door, at
which time I pulled certain muscles that weren't in use and I'm still dealing with
the pain of that. That's another but on the positive side, I did.
I did get renters in there, and they're actually very quiet. You
don't hear of them other than the lady might play some music in the kitchen,
but it's not loud. It's just they're only hear it if you go
outside and are like close to that area and the property. Um, they're
quite quiet, very respectful thus far, so that's good. I spent two
months trying to fix that place up, so that was a pretty bad thing,
but it ended up that it got rented, so that's good. I've
been able to focus on the websites. I've started the podcast that we started
UM Trampled Underfoot, and I do know how it did start. It started
because one day sometime earlier this year, you said we should do a podcast
or something about music, or we should do some sort of show or something,
and I can, yeah, you did. You don't remember. No,
you ain't blaming us on me. UM. I think that Steve was
on that hangout when you when you mentioned it, So there's no two wear.
You know, I really honestly think that Doc was the instigator on this.
I don't remember that thing. But before I forget, let me just
wrap up my whole bit here. Um uh so we've also Steve, I
think we started uh rock and Woodworks the website this year? Yeah, or
was it last year Rock and Woodworks started? It was It was the very
beginning of a very end of twenty seventeen, very beginning of twenty eighteen.
Okay, so of twenty eighteen we did start. Did we start the med
Maker Showing twenty eighteen? Yes? Okay? So The Med Maker Show was
a very successful show in that maybe not as much as viewership, it was,
you know, as much as as any basic show, but it brought
a lot of people to actually tell their stories and we got to hear the
makers telling their life stories from a very personal, well their point of view,
and we also digged in a little bit and it's amazing how much people
reveal of themselves in that format. So it was a very good thing to
do. At the end. Though another bad thing unfortunately we had Steve on
it that the Internet crash, so that went that we broke YouTube, So
you know that we can put that on our resume because I was co hosting
that night. Yeah, and I still hear about it, and Steve you
will because when it quiets down, will be sure to bring it back up.
All in all, it was, uh well, I look at it
as life is a highway and we're driving it all night long. The gentlemen
the world's worst segue. I just I just think that life is a highway
and there's always ups and downs. I agree with you, guys. Look,
I'm thankful to be alive. I'm thankful to the Good Lord, the
creator of the universe existence, however one might put it, I am personally
thankful to be alive and be able to continue the journey in this existence.
Okay, you may have to delete this. But Mark does he know about
the contact for him yet? The contact us? Yeah, we talked about
it. We also have it. Yeah. I forgot to add that we
have a website Trampled Underfoot podcast dot com and there is a contact us link
there. Yet we set ourselves up. So now did we get something wrong?
Did we totally cheessee you off? Did he event with rage because of
factual inaccuracies? Calm down, have some dip then go over to the Trampled
Underfoot podcast dot com website, hit that contact us link and tell us that
we're about as messed up as a football bat, but you know that's one
way of getting a hold of us. Or hit on over to YouTube again,
search for Trampled Underfoot Podcast and leave us a comment. We're grown ups.
We can take it. Got any ideas, show, suggestions, questions,
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Mark. That's right, I'm a social director Trampled Underfoot. I have one
for you now we got it's the first week, well for both of you,
feel free to chime in first week of January twenty nineteen. That means
that everything I'm gonna I'm fixing to make some people upset here. Everything that
happened in nineteen sixty nine turns fifty years old this year. So with that
in mind, do each of you, either of you have a guess what
was the number one song the first week of January nineteen sixty nine, according
to the Billboard Hot one hundred. Clue I was five years old, Nilo
was important. Yet that's a that's a tough one. Don't tell us just
yet. I'm gonna throw something up in the air. Nineteen sixty nine.
I'd love to say the Beatles were still around. It's probably not going to
be. There was a band that knocked the Beatles out of first place,
and I think that in sixty nine. Boy, I can't remember what songs
were hits on there at so maybe something of the Beatles. Can you give
us a year and at may on that one? I can give you a
No on that one. It was not the Beatles. Okay, it was
not the Beatles. No, it was not the Beatles. It is a
song that I'm sure both of you have heard. Is that a very famous
song? Very famous song? And in fact it wild? It was,
In fact, it was number one the entire month of January. N't to
be wild? No? From from sir from to sir would love No.
Now you're just guessing you have heard it. They have used it in advertisements
a fire, especially for a small little fruit snack that came from the West
Coast, apples and peaches, Apples and peaches song. No, do you
want to hear it? Get done? No? Give us another clue,
can you Hey? Let's see. It was also remade by another band who
had not fall Well. Yeah, they had formed by then, but they
were not in the top one hundred of nineteen sixty nine? Was it apples
peaches punkin pie? No, you was young, and so was I think
of a small dried fruit snack. Oh, that's the coast. So the
Temptations, No, I heard it through I heard It through the grape Vine
by Marvin Gay was the number one song for the entire month of January nineteen
sixty nine. But guess what, that's a good one too. The Temptations
that at first, didn't they I don't think so. I don't think so.
I don't know that the Temptations ever did hurt it through the grape Vine.
Let's start the year with controversy. Yeah to Google, I hope they
did, because in my mind they did, but they probably did it.
It was Marvin Gay. Yeah, it's one of his earlier hits, right,
Um, I don't know about early. No, it's Marvin Gay,
written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. The other group who recorded it was
Creden's Clearwater Revival. They covered it in nineteen seventy. Can you see if
the Temptations ever did it? M confort and I'm not seeing it? Okay,
Well that's what I was thinking. I was thinking CCR when I was
trying to think of the CCR song. Oh yeah, the Temptations did do
it in sixty nine. Holy cow. But oh that's okay. This is
why that was a holdover. Marvin Gay released it in nineteen sixty eight,
but it was still number one for the whole month of January sixty nine.
So the Temptation Temptations did do it in sixty nine. Okay, So after
Marvin Gay, well good, all right, Well that everybody's happy then,
well, yeah, except the Temptations because Marvin Gay got then went to number
one, they didn't. Yep, that's right. It's listed. In fact,
Marvin Gays is listed. It's number eighty one on the Rolling Stones list
of the five hundred Greatest Songs of all time. Wow. Yep. And
for those of you that don't know who Marvin Gay was, read a book
We'll lead you down Rabbit Holes. So so then twenty nineteen, no,
um, what do you call those things again? Um? When you make
what wasn't the Resolutions? No, resolutions. So we're just gonna kick it
forward and see what happens. Yeah, you don't kick the can down the
road. If you decide that you want to make a change in your life,
you don't need a special day to do it. Go ahead and do
it now. Yeah, setting up in a day like Friday the twenty nine,
I'm going to stop eating twinkies. I've got a month too for that
day to come, so I'm gonna fill up on twinkies. And once that
day comes, no more twinkies. And then once that day come and you
stop eating twink twinkies for that day, the very next day you get up
and you go to the Costco and buy yourself in truck. I'll tell you
what. Every day is a special day. That's right. You wake up
in the morning, it's a special day. What was a Red Skelton used
to say? Any day I wake up and don't see candles and smell flowers,
I know it's going to be a good days. It's an amazing thing,
you know. You though, I wish there was a way people could
get a hold of us and let us know what they think. Well,
yeah, dude, we have a website trampled Underfoot Podcast dot Com. Oh
yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, well can't can't they like find
past episodes there too, Yeah, you can find past episodes. We have
a long list of awesome including one of my favorites, which was the Atom
Smasher. But you've probably heard that before. Next thing, you know,
you're gonna be telling me we have a YouTube channel too. Well, you
guess what we do. There's a there's a link on a website, isn't
there. M You could go right to the website Trampled Underfoot podcast dot Com,
catch up on past episodes, episodes that debut each week, and the
link to the YouTube channel Trampled Underfoot podcast dot Com. Dang, it's almost
like somebody knew what they were doing when they set this up. Not me.
Yeah either. So you want to do a closer Yeah, we could
do that, right, So something like, hey, so thanks for checking
out the episode. That's right, and we'll be back again next week with
another Trampled Underfoot