WEBVTT 1 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:50.079 Hello, everyone, Welcome to another great episode of Uncanny Media. 2 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.039 The show. It's me. You're good, buddy, Spider. I'm in 3 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.000 a great mood. I mean, well, maybe not a great mood, 4 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.520 but I'm in a good mood. I'm doing okay, doing great. 5 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:05.760 I'm doing good. I'm having fun. I'm having a good time. 6 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.719 I just finished a gameplay on Twitch. If you are 7 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.200 not watching me on Twitch, you can go to twitch 8 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:18.519 dot tv slash d mg rg N and subscribe to 9 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.040 watch my gaming videos, or you can continue to watch 10 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.040 them on YouTube after the fact as Spider does things, 11 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:28.920 because that's what we do there. I have just the 12 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.400 barest last bit of a cough left over from being sick. 13 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.519 I'm not sick anymore. I just have this last bit 14 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:42.280 of cough because that's what happens. And I'm feeling pretty good. 15 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:49.359 It's been a good day, it was. I'm tired, but 16 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:51.680 not I don't know. I don't feel like I should 17 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.519 be as tired as I am. It's just anytime I 18 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:59.120 make a long drive there and back again to a 19 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.879 place and then I get I just feel like I'm 20 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:07.079 off my game. I feel tired, but I've adjusted the 21 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:09.599 volumes a little bit to make the intro and outro 22 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:18.120 music match my main speaking here, because I realized that 23 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.080 under the new system here, the intro and outro is 24 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.919 probably a lot louder than what you're hearing me speak. 25 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.159 So this way the volumes should be better. If you 26 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.879 have any comments about that, definitely let me know. You 27 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:34.879 can either comment on this episode either on Spreaker where 28 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:39.319 it initially airs, or on Spotify or on YouTube when 29 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:40.840 it shows up there, or you can send me an 30 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:49.520 email at Spider Underscore Voice at yahoo dot com. So 31 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:53.919 here we are. I've got cats to pet next to me, 32 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:58.960 bellies to rub, all that good stuff. We are experiencing 33 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:05.240 a heat way eve here in Ohio. Summer is definitely 34 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.840 here and it's getting hot. It is the week before 35 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:17.120 the fourth of July. We're doing it's as of this recording, 36 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.240 it's July first. It's the early hours of the morning. 37 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.680 You will hear this episode, hopefully at eleven am. I've 38 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:32.759 noticed a weird thing with my new setup. Despite the 39 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.560 fact that I schedule these episodes for eleven am, it 40 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:41.439 then schedules them for two pm for some reason. I 41 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:43.719 don't know why. I'm gonna have to go in and 42 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.479 play with the settings a little bit. I don't know 43 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.680 what the deal is. But this Saturday is July fourth, 44 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.400 and if you're international, you might not care about the 45 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.360 significance of that, But if you're here in the United 46 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:06.400 States messically with me, that means it's Independence Day. July fourth. 47 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:10.800 Independence Day. That is the day in seventeen seventy six 48 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:20.439 that the United States declared its independence from England, which 49 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:23.759 was not yet the United Kingdom. It was still England. 50 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.759 And regardless of how you feel about patriotism and all 51 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.240 that other kind of stuff, I'm not going to get 52 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.199 into all that. I'm not the most Like I said, 53 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:35.199 I'm not the most patriotic guy in the world. I'm 54 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.360 not going to be going out and wearing American flag 55 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:45.240 clothing and going to parades and shooting off fireworks in 56 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.600 my yard. I don't really do all that. It's not 57 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.519 a big deal for me. But there will be fireworks 58 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:57.480 in this town on the second. For some reason, I 59 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.240 don't recall when it's been several years now, and I 60 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.519 don't know the exact year that I first noticed it. 61 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:11.319 But here in town, they said slowly been scheduling their 62 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.000 festivities of the fourth of July on a day other 63 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.439 than the fourth of July. Last year, I think it 64 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.319 was on the third, and this year it's on the second. 65 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:26.199 And I don't know if that's maybe because maybe it's 66 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:32.199 weather concerns, or maybe it's because the city doesn't work 67 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.639 on the weekend, so they don't want to do things 68 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.759 on the weekend. They want to do it during city 69 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.120 working hours. I don't know what it is, because it 70 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.800 would be on Thursday of this week. That's the second. 71 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:50.680 It's Thursday, so I don't know. We don't usually go down. 72 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:57.000 They always do a celebration down at the McKinley monument. 73 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.519 It's a monument to mister William McKinley. He was a 74 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.800 president of the United States. I don't remember which one. Again, 75 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.759 I'm showing just how poor of a patriot I am, 76 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:12.920 I suppose, but he was a president at some point 77 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:18.120 and this was his hometown, was here in where I live, 78 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.399 and so we have a big monument to him just 79 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.279 down the street. It's not that far. It's in a 80 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.079 park that we like to go to. My daughter likes 81 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:30.959 to go down to the park and play and walk around, 82 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:32.959 and they got bike paths. It's a nice park. It's 83 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:38.839 a nice little spot and they down there every year 84 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.399 on whatever day they decide they do the Independence Day 85 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:49.920 fireworks celebration. The city puts on fireworks, and so we 86 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.439 will probably we won't go down there because unfortunately, my 87 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:59.199 town has a history of criminal activity happening around that. 88 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.839 Areas get broken into and fights happen, and the kids 89 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.000 get out of control and things, because there's not a 90 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:10.519 lot of stuff for young adults and teenagers to do 91 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.000 in this town. Unfortunately, there's not many places they can go, 92 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.439 so they get into trouble because they're wound up and 93 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:24.319 a lot of I won't say that it's always an issue. 94 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.399 You don't hear about something every single year, but you 95 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.959 do hear something every few years that's just off putting, 96 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:32.560 and I don't want to put my family at risk. 97 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:35.879 So we usually go out on my porch and we 98 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.680 can see most of the fireworks from here. We don't 99 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.319 get all the like they do a whole big event. 100 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:47.279 They do bands, they do food trucks, they do all 101 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.680 kinds of things. And then this year they're having like 102 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.519 a local orchestra doing patriotic songs like America the Beautiful 103 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.519 and the National Anthem, and then things like that. So 104 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.279 we won't get to see all of that, mostly likely, 105 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.720 but we will see the fireworks from out on the 106 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:07.160 porch because we have a pretty clear, unobstructed view down 107 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.399 the street of the sky in that area. So that's 108 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.040 what we're going to do. Now, this is a pretty 109 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:17.360 momentication this year. Again, if you're in the rest of 110 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.800 the world, you might not really care at all, and 111 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:21.839 that's fine, you don't have to pay any attention. But 112 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.439 here in the United States, it's the two hundred and 113 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:32.080 fiftieth anniversary, and there's a big name for it, the Something. 114 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.759 It's not the bi centennial, but it's like the something 115 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:39.840 centennial of the founding of the of this country. It's 116 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:44.720 two hundred and fifty years we have been a country 117 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:50.879 here in the United States, which is interesting. There's plenty 118 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.200 of other countries in the world that have been countries 119 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:59.960 or at least been regional recognized like this has been. 120 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.639 And you, you, your people have lived here for all 121 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.080 of this time. You've had a government for all of 122 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.759 this time in some way, shape or form longer than that. 123 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.039 In the Middle East, there's places that have been around 124 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:18.600 for thousands of years, like Egypt, the country of Egypt, 125 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:23.360 whether it's was the size it is now or whether 126 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.879 it was big or smaller throughout history, it has been 127 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:31.159 a thing. Egypt has been a thing for many, many, many, 128 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:35.120 many many years, thousands of years. So we don't have that. 129 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.360 We're still the new kids on the block two hundred 130 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.600 and fifty years. But it's a big occasion and a 131 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.159 lot of people are going to be celebrating, and there's 132 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.720 also people who are upset because, you know, we got 133 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:49.440 various political issues going on here in the United States, 134 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.480 and it is what it is. You know, we don't 135 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.559 get into that part of it on this show. I 136 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:04.240 do comment on certain politics sometimes, like the grocery prices 137 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.240 and the gas prices and that kind of stuff, and 138 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:11.200 various if a decision by the administration, whatever the administration 139 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.600 that might be currently does something stupid that I'm gonna 140 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.399 talk about it. I talked about it the last two 141 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.879 administrations and then here we are with this one, and 142 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.279 you know, dumb things happen, but I'm not gonna go 143 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.600 you know, I'm not going to go on a rant 144 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.759 about it because that's not what we do here. We 145 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:39.600 are not political commentators here on Uncanny Media. The show 146 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:49.279 as far as that goes, right, now, there's something else 147 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:50.720 I want to talk about. There's a few things I 148 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.840 want to talk about. I am going to address something 149 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.320 about the local wildlife again, because they continue to do 150 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.879 what they do and they have some serious things going on. 151 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.120 They're pretty fractured at the moment, and we're going to 152 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:09.440 talk about them. But first I want to talk about 153 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:18.360 an institution. It's a product that I have seen and 154 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:21.960 been aware of in my grocery store for as long 155 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:27.840 as I've been alive, and it has a history. This 156 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:31.200 stretches farther back from long before I was even born, 157 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.679 for many many, many many years, and I was shocked 158 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:41.840 to find out that this business, this company that has 159 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:48.399 been around for so long, with such a particularly basic 160 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:54.559 product that most people need or most people have every day, 161 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:04.720 is looking to liquidate. It's looking to be fit. And 162 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:12.960 I'm talking about the Schwables Bread Company. I don't know 163 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.399 if that's their I don't know what they're official, like 164 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.480 what the whole time is. I know they're called Schwabels. 165 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.200 They make bread, they make bread products. They have been 166 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:29.039 making bread products for one hundred and twenty some years, 167 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.039 and to this day, there's never been a time when 168 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.080 I've been aware of products in the grocery store. Ever 169 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:44.240 since I was aware as a child on up of 170 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:53.200 different brands in the grocery store. Schwables branded bread products 171 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:59.200 were there in the grocery store, in every grocery store. 172 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:04.200 They're they're from this area. They're from I think they're 173 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.200 from Youngstown, Ohio. I'm gonna look it up real quick 174 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:17.840 because it's it's really local, like it's super local as 175 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.600 far as these things go, these things go, I'm stuck 176 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:37.799 in the Schwebbels. Let's see. It's. Yeah, it's based in Youngstown, Youngstown, Ohio, 177 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:44.799 and it serves western Pennsylvania, and it serves Ohio, Pennsylvania, 178 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:46.919 and New York. And so you might not know about 179 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:49.320 it if you're not within the Tri state area. That's 180 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.720 what we call it. We call it the Tri state area, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 181 00:13:52.720 --> 00:14:00.919 New York. But they have been, they've been making bread 182 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:06.159 and I have always. We had them growing up when 183 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.240 I still lived at my parents' where my parents lived, 184 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:14.440 we had Schwebel's bread off and on. I mean, they 185 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.360 weren't the cheapest you could get, but they weren't like gourmet. 186 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:24.840 They weren't super like expensive, but they they've always been around. 187 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:33.559 It's one hundred and twenty years and now it's closing 188 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:38.480 because they said they were citing years of significant operational 189 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:43.279 and financial constraints. It's the Schwebel Baking Company is the 190 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.519 actual official landform and they say they have no other 191 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.960 option this is from the press release, but to wind 192 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:56.039 down operations and pursue a formal liquidation in the coming weeks. 193 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.200 And this happened a week ago, and they said it 194 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.480 has faced challenges like aging, manufacturing facilities and equipment costs, 195 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:09.159 the labor contracts and pension obligations in lower demand for 196 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:17.759 traditional bakery and bread products. And it's going to happen 197 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:19.720 so quickly that it said it's going to operate through 198 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.720 the fourth of July weekend and then wind down operations 199 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:29.360 throughout the summer at its bakeries in Youngstown and Hebron, Pennsylvania, 200 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.000 as well as its resale retail stores and distribution centers. 201 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:40.480 And this is this is a huge deal. This is 202 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:45.440 a big deal because again, this is a company and 203 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:50.240 it's kind of like how I felt when Sears and 204 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.600 Kmart started falling apart, because when I was growing up 205 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.399 as a kid. You had the Sears catalog every year 206 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:04.919 around Chris was huge catalog full of stuff. Sears sold 207 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.440 so many things, and Camart. We would go to Kmart 208 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.120 for things all the time. And they weren't the same 209 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.879 company back then, but they were still too like pillars 210 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.320 of the retail community. And then Walmart came along, and 211 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.240 everybody likes to blame Walmart, but Walmart is the isn't 212 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.360 the reason that Camart and Sears went out of business. 213 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:30.000 Kmart and Sears went out of business because Eddie Lampert, 214 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:36.639 who's a dickhead. He's a hedge fund manager, that's what 215 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:44.320 he was. He started buying up different store chains because 216 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:50.799 of their retip not because but because of their their 217 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:58.080 property value, their realty value, and he would buy up 218 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.080 their property. He would run the stores into the ground 219 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:09.279 and then he can sell things off piecemeal and get 220 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.839 insurance kickbacks and a bunch of other stuff. So that's 221 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.680 Eddie Lampert. He's the reason that Sears and Kmart are gone. 222 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.440 It's not Walmart. I mean, Walmart put a strain on 223 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.400 all the little stores like that because of how it 224 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:22.839 did its pricing and all this stuff. And I don't 225 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:27.440 shop at Walmart. But Walmart is not the main reason 226 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.960 that places like Sears and Kmart went out of business. 227 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.559 It's one the fault of mister Eddie Lampert and his 228 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:40.599 leadership team, because he's a piece of shit. To be perfectly, 229 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.319 to be perfectly frank here, he is a piece of shit. 230 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.240 And if he ever hears this, then by all means 231 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.920 he's welcome to try to assume me for slander and deformation. 232 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.119 But everybody knows he's a piece of shit. So it's 233 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:02.920 a verifiable fact, is what it is. And to get 234 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.240 sued for slander and whatever, you have to be spouting 235 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:09.279 things that are not facts. And I've only said facts. 236 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:13.160 I used to work for Sears. I know how it was. 237 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.880 But this is a lot like that. It's a lot 238 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:21.920 like seeing an institution of the United States, something that's 239 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:29.599 been around for so long, just fall apart and collapse. 240 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.079 And I don't think this is because of bad leadership. 241 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:36.519 I think it's just because there's a few reasons. For one, 242 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:41.440 the price is keep going up, of course. For another, 243 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:50.240 there's been plenty of dieting fads over the last ten 244 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.160 to twenty years that have said cut out carbs, cut 245 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.519 out brands, cut out this cut out that, and it 246 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:02.480 has affected the baking market, I guess you could say, 247 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:10.799 and a lot of things have contributed, and I'm kind 248 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:15.000 of I'm it depresses me a little bit. I'm not 249 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.759 saying I am depressed in like a mental health kind 250 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:19.680 of crisis way, like you don't have to worry about me. 251 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.680 I'm just it brings me down to know that Schwaebels 252 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.920 is not going to be around, even though I wasn't 253 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:31.119 buying their product a lot over the last several years 254 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:35.000 because of pricing constraints. I've been buying the store brand bread, 255 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.880 which is like a dollar sixty nine for a loaf 256 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:45.319 of white bread versus three forty nine for the Schwebels see. 257 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:49.359 And now I kind of feel bad about it because 258 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:52.000 I kind of feel like maybe if more people spent 259 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.680 that extra for the Schwabels, maybe they'd still be in business. 260 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:57.839 But maybe not. You know, maybe that's part of the 261 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:01.119 issue that they couldn't bring their prices down. And it's 262 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.359 not that they don't make good stuff, because their bread 263 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.640 is good. It's good bread. It's not it's not like 264 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.599 it's overpriced and not worth it. It's good bread. But 265 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:14.720 you got to save a little bit of money somehow, 266 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:18.119 don't you so? And I don't want to justify it either, 267 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.519 because now I'm kind of like, could I have done 268 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.279 more to keep them in business? But I'm just one person. 269 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.240 But if me as a person, and my neighbor is 270 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:29.880 a person, and that neighbor is a person, and this 271 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.880 other person down the street is a person, and whoever's 272 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.720 et cetera, et cetera, if we all were buying Schwabel's bread, 273 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:38.160 then maybe their prices wouldn't be as high, and maybe 274 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.200 they would be selling more in the long run and 275 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.319 they would still be around. But after the fourth of July, 276 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:46.599 they're going to wind down one hundred and twenty years. 277 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.960 And when I say I have never I don't remember 278 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:55.000 a time when I have not seen them in stores. 279 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:00.799 That's an absolute fact. I don't remember a time. From 280 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:07.640 my entirety, my entire forty plus years growing up, Schwables 281 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:13.440 bread has always been in the store, whether I bought 282 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:17.720 it or not, It's always been there. And now it's 283 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.799 not going to be. And that's it's a weird feeling. 284 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:29.039 It's a tough feeling. I I feel bad. I feel 285 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:37.759 bad about it, Like I don't know excuse me. Like 286 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.160 I said, I still have this light cough and still 287 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:48.119 throwing me off a little bit. Another thing that's interesting, 288 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:54.240 not quite as this isn't quite as American in an 289 00:21:54.279 --> 00:22:00.759 American institution, but it's still been big news. We've talked 290 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.119 over the past year or two in this podcast about 291 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:12.640 the gaming industry and how people are, how the landscape 292 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.400 has changed. People are more upset with how games are 293 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:20.519 being developed and the messaging in games, et cetera, et cetera. 294 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:26.519 Setup and there's been there's been looming on the horizon. 295 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:34.880 There's been a prediction that the gaming not community, but 296 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:41.680 the gaming landscape was going to collapse based on a 297 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.960 lot of factors, based on people not buying what was 298 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:51.480 being sold, stuff being too expensive, and the various messaging 299 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.079 coming out in various games turning people off, and the 300 00:22:54.119 --> 00:23:02.319 whole gaming landscape was predicted to be stressed to the 301 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:06.119 point where it was going to collapse. And right now 302 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:12.119 I believe we are seeing the beginning of that collapse 303 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:20.599 for a multitude of reasons that I had not expected. Now, 304 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:27.839 on the one hand, a lot of studios are there's 305 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:31.480 a lot of game studios being reorganized, having people laid 306 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:36.359 off and having their values quote unquote looked at and 307 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:46.240 examined because there's been a there's been a span of 308 00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:52.640 time where a multitude of the biggest gaming producers and 309 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.480 the biggest gaming owners and the console developers, we're trying 310 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:00.000 to be more progressive. And I don't want to get 311 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.680 people riled up when I say that, I mean that 312 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.519 in a way that they were trying to be more 313 00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:07.039 This is the language that they're using. This is not 314 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:09.440 my language. This is just I'm quoting what they have said. 315 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:12.039 They wanted to be more inclusive, they wanted to be 316 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:16.359 more available, they wanted to be more open minded, et cetera, 317 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.160 et cetera. And so there were a lot of games 318 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:27.039 that came out that catered to more marginalized communities, which is, 319 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:33.240 you know, let's fine, everybody should be able to experience 320 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:36.079 a game that they enjoy and maybe put themselves into 321 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.400 the shoes of the people in the game, you know, 322 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:44.920 But it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. 323 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:50.319 The extremes that the various studios went to, and they 324 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:54.799 also were not apologetic in that if people said, well, 325 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:56.559 you know, this isn't really why I play games. I 326 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.359 don't really care for this. Then these response usually was aggressive, Well, 327 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:02.240 if you don't like games like this, you must be 328 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:05.240 a bigot, or you must be an awful person or whatever, 329 00:25:05.319 --> 00:25:09.519 And there was no consideration for anybody other than the 330 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:11.759 team making the game, because they wanted to make it 331 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:13.480 the way they wanted to make it. There they had 332 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.200 a message that they wanted to put out and that's 333 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:20.680 what it was. And I'm not railing against quote unquote 334 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:23.880 wokeism or any of that kind of stuff. I don't 335 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:28.720 do that. I'm a fairly open minded guy. Okay, I 336 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:32.599 don't care, for example, and I don't want people to 337 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.079 get upset, but I'm just gonna say it. I don't 338 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:41.039 care if there's a trans character in a video game. Okay, 339 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.240 I don't care if there is a gay character in 340 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.519 a video game, or a lesbian character, or a bisexual 341 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:49.519 character or whatever. I don't care if there's a straight 342 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:51.960 person in a video game. I don't care. None of 343 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:54.599 that matters to me. If I'm playing a game that 344 00:25:54.640 --> 00:26:01.279 has romantic encounters, then it depends on if the game 345 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:05.599 is for a certain group of people and the only 346 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.839 romantic encounters in the game, or for that group of people, 347 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:12.359 I have the choice not to play that game because 348 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.839 I don't identify with it, and that's fine. I'm not 349 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.200 mad at the game. I don't hate it. I don't care. 350 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.599 It's for a certain group of people and they could 351 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:25.000 play it, and I don't care. But at the same time, 352 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:29.319 there should be options for everybody. I don't play games 353 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:31.799 for the romance options. I'll say that. First off. I 354 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:35.759 play shooters usually, I'll play a lot of RPGs, and 355 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:38.359 a lot of RPGs do have romance options, and if 356 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.519 it's part of the story and whatnot, I'll indulge in 357 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.720 that kind of thing myself. But I don't specifically look 358 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.720 at games and say, this game lets me romance this 359 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:50.960 type of person. I would love to play that game 360 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.359 because that's what I like to play. I don't play 361 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.119 dating simulators. I don't. You know, that's not my thing. 362 00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:59.920 If that's what you're into, cool, you should have options. 363 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.279 You should definitely have options if you want to be 364 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:04.839 able to play that kind of game. But I don't. 365 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.359 So I don't hate it, but I don't seek it out. 366 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:12.640 So I'm not railing against that kind of thing. But 367 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:17.759 I have noticed I have noticed over the past several 368 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:20.119 years that there have been games that have come out, 369 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:24.119 and whether you wanted to play a style of game 370 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:32.839 like that or not, the various talking points were put 371 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.880 towards you where they were unavoidable, where you would be 372 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:39.759 playing the game and then somebody would mentioned, well, you 373 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:42.319 know what, I don't like that because I'm this kind 374 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:45.200 of a person blah blah blah, and a lot of 375 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.119 times it breaks the immersion. A lot of the times 376 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:52.000 it's not part of the story. It's a character just 377 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:57.559 injecting some personal thing into it that hadn't come up naturally. 378 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:03.119 If you're in a game and it's a romantic situation 379 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:04.880 and then it comes up, hey, you know, I'm this 380 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.839 kind of a person. Is that's still okay with you? 381 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.039 And you have the choice to be like, oh, well 382 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.160 that's what I'm into or I'm not really into that, 383 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:14.839 and then you move on in separate ways. And as 384 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:19.160 far as the characters go, that's fine, that's natural. But 385 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.000 if it's a constantly like I have to tell you 386 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.200 at every particular occasion that I am this kind of 387 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.759 a person so to make sure that you respect it, 388 00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:32.960 that's heavy handed. And that's not why I play video games, 389 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:34.640 and that's why not why a lot of people play 390 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:36.799 games not People don't like to have that kind of 391 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:40.880 stuff just like thrown at them, whether it's straight or 392 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:46.359 LGBT or whatever. Nobody on any side of the issue 393 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:51.000 wants all of that just thrown at them constantly. And 394 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:55.119 that's all of it. Unless you've made that your entire identity, 395 00:28:55.160 --> 00:29:00.960 which that's your own personal business. I think you could 396 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.720 do more with your life outside of that. You're limiting 397 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:08.599 yourself a little bit by making your your gender and 398 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.799 sexuality preferences your entire personality. But I mean, if that's 399 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:14.200 what you want to do, that's what you want to do. 400 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.559 I guess we're just not probably gonna associate that much. 401 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:20.440