Episode 19 - Jesse James is Back
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Join us as we discuss: Louisville sluggers; the halftime show including Eminem kneeling, 50 cent hanging, and being "edgy"; inflation and rent prices in Florida compared to the US, and Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Hosts:
Matt Fischer @flooredmatt
Justin MacDonald @justintyme44
https://www.justinmacdonald.com
Fact-Checker:
Jesse James @thee_jessejames
https://www.theculturecurators.com
Executive Producer:
Dave Miller @dmiller1023
https://www.mavenphotoandfilm.com/
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Transcript of Episode 19
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
people, buy, nappy roots, avocados, memes, hear, athletes, bully, talking, listening, home, feel, halftime show, real, olympics, bad, prices, bread, thought, jokes
SPEAKERS
Matt Fischer, Jesse James, Justin MacDonald
Matt Fischer 00:00
Y'all ready for this?
Justin MacDonald 00:01
Week? Oh,
Matt Fischer 00:03
don't interrupt friggin good good. Okay, well no I was gonna bring us in like Jack damn Style circa to ban ban ban ban I almost said that best circa 2000 song for Jack jams I mean 1994
Justin MacDonald 00:17
Yeah, but if we were still listening to jock Damn,
Matt Fischer 00:20
I got that on a compact disc somewhere nice Believe it or not.
Justin MacDonald 00:24
I had to because one of mine was used at like the Vanguard, like one of the pep rallies I mean, if we got
Matt Fischer 00:33
back you're supposed to be sharing. Welcome to Episode 19 I think I got that correct.
Jesse James 00:40
I think it's nine Boom. Look at
Matt Fischer 00:44
episode nine teen so it's unwanted opinions at workspace collective. I am your host, Matt. We're your other host, Justin Weir. Kevin hasn't kicked in yet. And our fact checker, Jesse James running the switchboard today because executive producer is gone. Dave We miss you. It could have gone smoother than we do.
Justin MacDonald 01:11
For sure. Cuz I'm just gonna also bring us in.
Matt Fischer 01:16
I don't know why you feel like you have to do that. But whatever. Alright. Oh, hey, good
Justin MacDonald 01:19
morning, everyone. We're broadcasting live out of the workspace collective. Again. Another beautiful morning, rolling with the windows down listening to Nappy Roots feeling good?
Matt Fischer 01:29
Hell no. Oh, Cadillac grills.
Justin MacDonald 01:34
For anyone that doesn't know Nappy Roots is those were references to some of their songs. Alright, maybe the same song. Same
Matt Fischer 01:39
song? Yeah. Everyone's gonna know.
Justin MacDonald 01:43
Yeah, maybe? Well, no,
Matt Fischer 01:44
I what's funny? Yeah, well, no, maybe Cool. Very clear. Well, yeah. Common. No,
Justin MacDonald 01:50
maybe? Uh, no, they're, they're good day. So like, that was that's like, I've learned that if anyone knows them.
Matt Fischer 02:01
It's not. Oh, no, no, them. Yeah,
Justin MacDonald 02:03
unfortunately not. Or heads up, which is one of my favorite. What's it called?
Jesse James 02:06
Oh, no. You nailed it.
Matt Fischer 02:12
Okay.
Justin MacDonald 02:13
I just
Matt Fischer 02:13
talked about those in glass houses. Yeah. It's talked
Justin MacDonald 02:16
about the other day. Well, I talked about this the other day, but a couple years ago, I was talking with someone from Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a customer and I was like, oh, man, to my favorite groups are from Bowling Green. And he was like, oh, man, that's really cool. Yeah. Who are they? And I was like, oh, Nappy Roots and cage the elephant. He was like, never heard of him. He is from Kentucky. Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Matt Fischer 02:40
For some reason that surprises me. And Nappy Roots doesn't surprise you know, that tracks. Okay. Like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. No, because they have like that kind of country flair to their hip hop. But like, caged elephant like, you know, elephants. I don't think of Kentucky.
Justin MacDonald 02:56
If they were gonna have elephants, they would be caged in Kentucky. So
Matt Fischer 03:00
I spent some time in Kentucky you last year
Jesse James 03:04
maybe to fly into the airport? No, we
Matt Fischer 03:06
drove in. And yeah, we stayed like cold country.
Justin MacDonald 03:11
Oh, good. When you're just yeah, like two years ago, was it?
Matt Fischer 03:14
I think, I don't know. It was part of that pandemic. You know, like it all blends together. But when we like, I don't know, it was gorgeous, but also like the dirtiest place I've ever been. Yep. And it was like in an old coal town to where like, everything was shut down. So like when people talk about like Appalachia and like coal mining, like going out and like there's nothing to do there. We saw that we were staying there at a campground and it was bonkers because you have this historic downtown and it is just shuttered and empty. And you're like at the foothills of these mountains, and it's just like there's garbage anyway, I swear we go through the tunnel, and you go into Tennessee and it was like sunshine and rainbows and green grass. That was the weirdest thing ever. Because I was like, it's the same day it's the same hour we just crossed the state line after going through a tunnel like why does it seem so different? Like it was such a weird thing. I have been to other states in the Appalachian Mountains. But Kentucky was like one of those where it was just
Justin MacDonald 04:10
theirs in Virginia and some of those who haven't been
Matt Fischer 04:13
to like West Virginia. Yeah, it's
Justin MacDonald 04:15
weird how like beautiful and like depressing it can be.
Matt Fischer 04:19
That was the best way of describing it was beautiful, but also simultaneously depressing because I'm like, Oh, we're just using this river gorge as the landfill because your trailer is butted up against it. So like, you can't see down the hill from that your house. So you just that's where the garbage goes. Have you been to Louisville? I have.
Jesse James 04:40
So I felt the same way about Louisville though. Like Louisville is a cool little city, but it's grimy. It's just a grimy little city.
Matt Fischer 04:47
Was that just a part that you were in? No. I mean, we were down. Okay, well, that makes sense. Where they make the bats Yeah. Where they make the bats Yes, sir.
Justin MacDonald 04:59
are amazing. Creatures. Yeah, it's
Jesse James 05:01
like they make bats and Louisville
Matt Fischer 05:03
Sluggers? Yeah. Okay. The man behind the curtain, you're acting like you've never heard of a Louisville
Justin MacDonald 05:11
Slugger, bat. No, I just took me a minute because you know, we never know where you're going with your thought process.
Jesse James 05:15
Yeah, neither do I and I have bats. I hadn't like, you know, like flying
Matt Fischer 05:18
bat. Yeah. You remember the bat house in Ocala?
Justin MacDonald 05:22
Yep. The bat house the one the one.
Matt Fischer 05:25
Okay. Are there more than one bat houses? Yes. And Ocala. I think the Nature Conservancy on like, third. Yeah, that's the one that's got a smell to it.
Jesse James 05:34
So when I went there, there were no bad. So there's just an element there.
Matt Fischer 05:37
When I went there, there was one of them. Could you hear him in there chirping? Is that what they do? They chirp. They make some kind of bad noise. You know, they weren't echolocating because they were in their home.
Justin MacDonald 05:47
Speaking of bass. Okay. I don't want to get into it just yet. But it just reminds me I'm 50 said he said he was just a he's just a bat that's gotten older. I let me let me go down two different paths that I didn't see
Matt Fischer 06:07
this go in the way went with all the funny jokes. And then all of the like the immediate outrage. Well, I just want to say we're outraged over everything.
Justin MacDonald 06:14
Yes. So So two things here, one. I've seen like less than 10 music videos in my entire life. And so I was very, very, but I know most of 50 Cent's discography. Like I was very confused as why he was upside down. Because I never seen the video.
Matt Fischer 06:34
No, no, never. He never saw his music videos.
Justin MacDonald 06:37
I just said that about nine times already. So for the 10th time. scenery,
Matt Fischer 06:42
three Yeah. All right. Can't count doesn't know what bats is. Ah, yeah,
Justin MacDonald 06:47
I was very confused. Like, why is he upside down? Who made this decision? And then after finding out that he you know, that video specifically, he's upside down. I still thought who made this decision? Like, what a terrible decision? Yeah, like wonder
Jesse James 07:03
how long he had to hang upside down. Right?
Matt Fischer 07:06
I think he he was definitely like holding on parallel with the ceiling and just lowered himself at the time. There's no way he could be upside down for that long without just like, passing out.
Justin MacDonald 07:16
He looked like he was
Matt Fischer 07:20
I thought was like one of those things where it's like he lets go and he just kind of like lowers himself down into position. But even then, I'm like, being parallel with the ceiling. holding on with your hands and your knees is uncomfortable. Yeah. It's like slightly less exhausting than just hanging from your knees.
Jesse James 07:34
I think that's why his head was so swollen, right and upside down for so long.
Justin MacDonald 07:38
So obviously, he's gained some weight.
Jesse James 07:41
Right? wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't say any of this to his face. Yeah, for sure. Oh,
Justin MacDonald 07:45
I see. I think if if you follow 50 cent on any kind of social media, anything that was said about him he had coming to him because he's terrible to people. Like,
Matt Fischer 07:56
in a way, so it makes it okay.
Justin MacDonald 07:59
I think that you should
Matt Fischer 08:00
okay to bully the bully. Yeah. Is that not bullying? In and of itself? I
Justin MacDonald 08:05
think that you if you are willing to make jokes like that you should be prepared for jokes to be made about you for sure. Yes. And that's how I feel like I feel like hey, I'm open game. If you've got something that's gonna like, be funny. Say it. Here's what's not like, here's what's not okay. All right. Yes. Yeah, you gain weight. But that's not funny. Like,
Jesse James 08:29
it's funny to like, have it we all senses first.
Justin MacDonald 08:32
Right? Exactly. And that's the thing too. So I posted I was like, Yo, I gotta post quick. I want to be up there with one of the first jokes. And I was like, Yo, fatty said, No, don't don't do that. Like think think think but I wanted to get it out. And I was like, okay, thick. He said like, this is hilarious. And it's not a bad thing. Right. So to me, anyone that's listening to this. If you took that negatively, you need to adjust your opinions on on Yeah,
Matt Fischer 09:01
because you did change it from the main one. To the nice one.
Justin MacDonald 09:05
Yeah, I'm what you just said, Yeah, I may have had another name and my first and then I chose thick, he said, right. Okay, so adult. I chose the nice,
Matt Fischer 09:20
very proud of your decisions right now. Thank you.
Justin MacDonald 09:25
Right, thank you. So I put this right, very much. So like 50. So I put that out there. And I was like, Alright, I'm sure I'm gonna get a little bit of pushback, you know, because whatever. But also, in my mind, I was like, Well, I'm gonna change it to thick so if anyone says anything, I'm like, is thick bad? Are you saying thick is bad?
Matt Fischer 09:43
Yeah, I had three C's. So I only did two C's.
Justin MacDonald 09:47
Oh, so yeah, you didn't
Matt Fischer 09:49
even get the appropriate amount of C's in there for it to be not bad and cross over the line to be something good.
Justin MacDonald 09:53
I think two C's No, no K is still pretty good. Okay. So I put that out there and A bunch of people obviously agreed. And I will say, I didn't feel bad about what I said at all. But when people will just chime in and be like, yeah, he's bad. I did. Okay, that's not just like, we're just making jokes. Like, we don't have to just that's just a statement. Like, that's not a joke at this point. Just a statement. So yeah, then all of a sudden, this is like, you know, I see all these posts that are like,
Matt Fischer 10:26
Yeah, I saw him too. I don't know how to feel about that. I don't know.
Justin MacDonald 10:31
But it just like, there's like the other side of things where it's like, yeah, 50 cent won't see this. But your friends struggle with body image. Well, and I'm like, Look, we're I'm we're all struggling with body image. I'm literally do you want to know how much weight I've gained since I'm came out? Six pounds. Yeah, a lot. Like I get it. We all change. I wasn't, I genuinely wasn't even saying. I wasn't even saying that. It was that big. Because when he stood up and he wasn't an upside down like, chunky bat.
Matt Fischer 10:58
He just he looked I was like, I was like, then he put some muscle on me. And I was like, and a little bit extra. But the camera adds 15 pounds. So like, but it was never I was more. I don't know captivated by stoops to like two piece suit, which was amazing. Yeah, I really like that. Well,
Justin MacDonald 11:16
and that's that's another one that was like, Oh, and you know, people terrible for comparing that to Aladdin's magic carpet. I'm like,
Matt Fischer 11:22
I saw jokes. But I didn't see any joke about like, I felt like people were just doing a reach about, like, trying to find stuff wrong and be you know, outraged about again, like, you know, it's one of those things. We've all gained weight. You know, I can't lose the weight in my head. Unfortunately, it's just gonna be this big forever. So
Jesse James 11:42
he also sold, you know, a water company that Coca Cola for $100 million.
Matt Fischer 11:47
What was his water company? I don't think he's really
Justin MacDonald 11:49
the vitamin water. Yeah, that was his company. He was like a major partner in it. Yeah.
Matt Fischer 11:54
I remember him like advertising for it was full of sugar, by the way,
Justin MacDonald 11:58
just to connect the dots.
Matt Fischer 12:02
But the vitamin water like dasai Berry, triple X is delicious. Yeah, I would say that. That one's good. That's the only the only one I buy. I can't talk about anything else.
Jesse James 12:11
I'm sure he's not worried about the memes. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 12:14
That was the that's one of the other things that came through. It's just like, yeah, who do you have the money he has? Like, no, that's why I'm making fun. Right? make myself feel better. You don't know how bullying works.
Matt Fischer 12:26
If we hurt his feelings, he'll cry and his private jet.
Justin MacDonald 12:30
No, he shared some of the funniest ones like yeah, it's okay. Like, at what point can we not like, poke fun at each other? i
Matt Fischer 12:39
Well, we talked about this on the goat days back when we were on radio is there was that street artists going around and paying 50 cent murals. Yeah. But it was like, like Mao Zedong with like, space and Mao Zedong. Like the Chinese guy, Nana Mickey Mouse. Yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah. So so it was like, so like he's been told before, but he was also I think he handled that really well. Yeah. And but it's, it's like one of those things. It's like it's a form of flattery, but it's also making fun of him and Roger, he's gonna be fine. He's great
Justin MacDonald 13:12
at it. One of my favorite things he ever did was tell Floyd Mayweather that he like $50,000. If he could read one page. Yes, that was really funny.
Matt Fischer 13:24
And he didn't read the page. Just money. So it's one of those things where it's like, he knew what bet he was making. Right? And he knew he was gonna win. Because like, he said, away money most likely so he could make good on it. But it's one of those things where
Jesse James 13:42
it's a drop in the bucket. Yeah, so vitamin
Matt Fischer 13:47
either. Mayweather can't read, which is gonna be my bet. Or he is so rich that he goes I'm not gonna even take the time out of my day to earn an extra $50 million, which is awesome. Which is also a possibility if you're
Jesse James 14:02
making the money that Mayweather is concerned with.
Justin MacDonald 14:06
No. I need to read numbers. That's
Jesse James 14:09
it. I need to see WBC. Yeah. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 14:13
So one of the other things that that cracked me up about the halftime show, and I have this as a hurt anyone's feelings. But when bliss hurt feel, yeah, unwanted opinions. Eminem kneeled. I swear to God, I was like, Wow, this guy's a big table. Like this, right? And then like,
Matt Fischer 14:34
no, no, it's cool with TiVo. Not cool. With not TiVo, right. Those are the rules in football. Well,
Justin MacDonald 14:41
so here's the funny thing, though, is like then I see all the memes that are like, literally within minutes. It's like, oh, he kneeled. And the NFL told him not to who it's like. They held the camera on him for like a summer. Like, so actually talk to someone and I hope that they're not watching this, but but they were like No, no, there's I was like they could have literally cut away if they were worried about it right? Like that's silly. Like Where's this coming from? And they're like, Nope, he was right next to Dre they couldn't cut away and I was like, I was watching from also my phone.
Matt Fischer 15:15
I missed the deal until like I saw the headlines, right it because
Justin MacDonald 15:19
it really wasn't a big deal. Exactly. And so I I bet I'm like, I was watching from my phone and I could literally select from one of 1 million cameras like they could have cut away. Yeah. And then the NFL comes out was like, yeah, no, it's an all the rehearsal. Like, it's fine.
Matt Fischer 15:34
We don't think it was I saw all the articles come out. I was like, I must have missed that part. It just like because it seems so very, you know, like, it just flowed through and it didn't seem like a protest piece. And then I saw those articles. And then I did see one article that was like, yeah, that's not the case. Like just not substantiated, as like him willfully doing this against what and I was like, oh, okay, so, and if I hadn't seen that one, I probably would have been thinking the narrative of like, these articles that they whipped out really quick. But they were everywhere. So it's one of those things where,
Justin MacDonald 16:09
guys, ad? Yeah, yeah, it's definitely very click Beatty. Honestly. It's very obvious why he kneeled. Right? His knees are weak. And
Matt Fischer 16:20
there you go. Mom, spaghetti.
Justin MacDonald 16:23
Anyway, those are like the funny things also.
Jesse James 16:26
You've been waiting for that I have. Oh, week
Justin MacDonald 16:32
yeah. Well, I thought in his face,
Matt Fischer 16:35
he's like, I got it.
Justin MacDonald 16:38
Personally, I already passed this. And honestly, I don't want to hear the people fighting in my car.
Matt Fischer 16:43
He gets a backlash from the 50 cent comment. And so he had that one, like on deck ready to send like a time around and he's
Justin MacDonald 16:50
gonna delete that Delete. Delete.
Matt Fischer 16:53
I don't need to hear from to both parties this morning. Right? Because that's
Justin MacDonald 16:57
what's gonna happen is like, and often like I'll think of like, ominous would be funny. I just don't want people fighting in the comments. Like when I disagree with you all. It's just exhausting.
Matt Fischer 17:10
Yeah. And then it became a big like contest of what the best halftime show was, like, that was the other thing that weirded me out is like, all of a sudden, everyone felt like the need to have like this discourse over which one truly is the best. And it's just like,
Jesse James 17:22
but it's like that with every Super Bowl. I think you're right.
Justin MacDonald 17:27
I to me, I this one seemed more aggressive about
Matt Fischer 17:32
it. Like it was like that, like the overly aggressiveness.
Justin MacDonald 17:35
Yeah, no, not the halftime show. Didn't seem aggressive. The just the people like feeling the need to get it out there. And my thought my whole thing is, as someone who you can relate, has listened to rap for a very long time when it wasn't the popular thing to do. Like you're not edgy for listen to Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Eminem like this. That is the most mainstream thing. We're talking about a guy that has a show with, you know, Martha Stewart,
Matt Fischer 18:05
which is one of the best things that happened to TV and I really like that friendship is golden, right?
Justin MacDonald 18:11
So to me, I'm like, it's you're not edgy, there's nothing like you can subjectively say like, it was good, isn't the best. Or you can even say it was the best personally. Here's here's my two cents on it. I love all the people out there, including Kendrick Lamar, who you know, to me is, you know, I'm so glad they included him. But he had to take six people and give them like 14 minutes to perform in is is painful like No, you've you've shortened up all of these like great artists ability. Yeah, to do anything like really substantial here. So it was kind of hard for me to like, oh, I want this to be longer. I want this all these same people go on tour and go see that tour. Right? Imagine No, I can't like it would be it would be insane. I tried to see the legends the hip, Southern Hip Hop tour. Now it's, I think
Matt Fischer 19:07
it was obviously played in nostalgia because our generation I grew up listening like I remember when 2001 Chronic came out, you know, as well as m&ms first album, you know, and it's just like, so I can remember that.
Justin MacDonald 19:20
Macy said she loves snoop. So I think that settles the entire debate.
Matt Fischer 19:24
But from the nostalgia standpoint, like our generation like that is music that we really grew up with you know, there's people in our age was like, oh, Prince was the best you know, I heard that a lot like I get that but I'm like, you could probably came into Prince after Prince was, you know, been around for a while, which is fine. You know, it's like, but like with this is like, this is more I think in this generation so that you have that more of that nostalgia. Yeah. And then when it comes to the shortness of it, it's just like, look, we're in this like tick tock reals generation where everything is like real short. They were just given the sound bites that everyone knows from all the popular songs and like none of the rest of the song. Oh my god. I don't even know. But from someone like, you know, growing up with that music, it's like, yeah, I want to hear more of that song. I want to hear more of their other songs that they might not have played. But from the point of the show, it's just like sound clips. sound clips, sound clip sound clip. Do
Justin MacDonald 20:13
you remember the prince halftime show, though? Oh, it wasn't. Yeah. I wasn't even like that huge Prince fan growing up, right. I knew who he was. Yeah, I knew my mom. Like maybe my dad's
Matt Fischer 20:25
got a lot of Chris fans after that, though. Who were longtime Prince fans. Yeah. Right. Which is always funny.
Justin MacDonald 20:31
But I just remember I remember Purple Rain in the rain and just being blown away by that it's no chocolate. The fact that he was Click, Clack it up there on heels, like he does or platforms or whatever, you know, going across the stage. Like, he's got live mics everywhere. Live guitars, like this dude's gonna get zapped up. And he's still out there. Like, I don't know. I was like, to me it is that that is an iconic one and not because like, Oh, he's gone. That's like the thing to say. I also remember Tom Petty. And I don't remember thinking like, Oh, this is an amazing halftime show. But I remember thinking, Oh, this is really enjoyable.
Jesse James 21:06
halftime. Yeah, remember? Whitney's national anthem. Now?
Justin MacDonald 21:08
I remember what these national anthem because she killed it. Yes. Because I think that's yeah,
Matt Fischer 21:22
I thought you're going with that one. No, I was gonna forget that.
Justin MacDonald 21:25
That's the year that the Cowboys went in and beat the Buffalo Bills like, Well, I think you might be right. Yeah. So I don't I don't. So that's a false memory, though, because I don't remember it happening then. But I remember having seen it sense. Does that make sense? No, it makes no sense. But we can you know, where you like see a video or someone tells you a story. You're like, Okay, I remember that. But you don't remember, like prints. I can remember actually seeing that all of
Matt Fischer 21:53
our memories are false. Justin, that's probably true. I know. It's weird to think about. We won't go down that one. Yeah. That will save that for a different show that conspiracy theory show. But yeah, it's the
Justin MacDonald 22:05
early 90s. There's a good chance it was cowboys beating the Buffalo Bills. It was anyone beating have the Cowboys
Matt Fischer 22:09
been relevant since then? No. Okay.
Justin MacDonald 22:12
That's good.
Matt Fischer 22:13
I didn't mean to be hurtful. It's it was hurtful. It's meant to be you know, got to bully the bully. A little bit.
Justin MacDonald 22:22
They're terrible. Yeah. Did you pull it up? Or no, we don't have to stick around on it. No, we don't. Anyway, that was that's that's my whole take on it. And then the last thing I would say is like all the people that were like, talking about all like, I didn't actually see a single post of an older person complaining about the halftime show. But I saw I saw the memes. Yeah, I saw a lot of post claiming that people were claiming,
Matt Fischer 22:46
here's what happens though, is
Jesse James 22:47
like, giants in the bills. People are, you know,
Matt Fischer 22:51
age range. We're prepared for the older generation to be outraged by that halftime show. So they had all their memes on deck, right, you know, way to fight justice with memes. And then it didn't happen. So they're like, I'm releasing the memes anyway. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't see anyone being like, I'm not gonna watch this. You know, it's like, sorry, cuz they're like Snoop Dogg fans too, though. Yeah, watching with Martha Stewart, right.
Jesse James 23:19
I mean, my dad reached out to me after the show. He's like that Snoop Dogg's everywhere. Like that.
Matt Fischer 23:28
Pretty well.
Justin MacDonald 23:29
He doesn't know he's been in the career.
Matt Fischer 23:33
And he just got death row. Yeah. Which is good for
Jesse James 23:36
him dropped a new album, did he? Back on death row,
Justin MacDonald 23:39
I'm gonna let you know that 40 years, I've been reaching out to death row, and sending $5 and asking them to send it back to me. So you'll be paid. So I could be paid by death row. Yeah, it's not. Me. Bingo. Now Now I'm going to be singing that in my head.
Matt Fischer 23:58
Maybe we should reach out to him as on one of the opinions and be like,
Jesse James 24:01
you want to be our special guests. Your
Matt Fischer 24:04
Podcast. You're the favorite. You never know. Album. We're record producer, whatever.
Jesse James 24:09
How cool would it be to have Snoop Dogg on that couch though?
Justin MacDonald 24:12
It'd be pretty
Matt Fischer 24:13
cool. You know, you hear those stories about celebrity sometimes we're like it like they get the weird requests. I can't come to my my show. And they're like, Yeah, I was in town. So
Jesse James 24:23
this room, it's what's so bad.
Matt Fischer 24:26
I don't think anyone would say anything. Oh, no, I wouldn't. I don't think anyone would say anything. I think I would feel like even if a police officer came they'd be like I'm not gonna be the guy to arrest Snoop Dogg in
Justin MacDonald 24:40
the video of him passing the joint to the copper security guard or whatever.
Matt Fischer 24:44
Yeah. And here's the thing is is like, I think everyone collectively who watched it goes like good call. Yeah. Good call. Yeah, don't because when a celebrity does that, what do you do say no?
Justin MacDonald 24:57
Yeah, I'm here to tell you sometimes you can say no. Okay, just saying
Matt Fischer 25:00
there's a program it sounds like there's like a program somewhere. For those of
Justin MacDonald 25:04
you that are aware, I was offered to join from Coolio and I said, What a
Matt Fischer 25:08
humble brag I love this stuff
Jesse James 25:13
you shouldn't like that even said nah man I'm living in a gangster's paradise.
Justin MacDonald 25:17
did not. I said you want to share ribs out of this chip bag? Yeah, that's a true story. So anyway, here's something that you probably are already are very aware of. Right. It's up in Florida.
Matt Fischer 25:32
Wow. Yeah, I'm pretty sure rents up everywhere.
Justin MacDonald 25:37
Oh, it is. Well, here's the thing it is. Rent is up on an average from 2021. To now on the US average, it's 3.8%. seems low. That's the US average. Okay, now let me run through some Florida numbers for you. Year over year. Tampa is up 25% Good. Fort Myers is up 26% west palm is up. 29% you look at these are supposed to be a surprise.
Matt Fischer 26:04
These are surprising numbers. Sarasota.
Justin MacDonald 26:07
31%. And Naples is up 38% Where's Ocala stand? And unfortunately, I couldn't find the stats on Ocala. Lame. I did try to look I do know that our home sales have gone up by 32%. Yeah, that's crazy. So I would think that sale price not home sales, column sales are way up. But I think that you know, the sales price being up 32% would go alright, rents gonna be not far behind there. Which is insane. And like,
Matt Fischer 26:38
yeah, I've talked to people who are trying to rent and it's just, it's, it's I've seen
Justin MacDonald 26:41
everything. i This is one where I didn't want people fighting in the comments, because I went to Publix last night and I just grabbed something real quick. And I was like, that was $42 I'm like everything I
Matt Fischer 26:50
need a sub $50 public strip and it's like,
Justin MacDonald 26:54
very minimal. i That's not gonna get
Matt Fischer 26:57
home. I'm like, I need to go get bread and like some milk your cereal and like a couple other things like some vegetables and it's just like 45 bucks. 50 bucks. Like I'm not going for whole cart. Dude, I got a basket.
Justin MacDonald 27:08
I this was literally Yeah, a single bag worth of stuff. And I was just like, man, everything is so expensive. And you know, I know. A bag
Matt Fischer 27:16
has a rack of ribs in it. A lobster tail. Expensive one bag of groceries. It
Justin MacDonald 27:23
has some steak in there. I'm dehydrated for some beef jerky. You're welcome. Bring. So no, but it was just man things are so expensive right now and and you know, I feel for the people that are are looking for new homes and struggling. And so the problem and this is, you know, a lot of people like oh, it's gonna crash again, it's gonna crash again. And I probably talked about this on there before, but there will be a correction most likely, but it's not going to be like we saw and you know, oh 708 Because that was subprime lending that was, you know, people getting into shouldn't get loans on top of loans on top of loans. We're right now we're dealing and I'm sure there's realtors that may be listening or watching that can chime in. But we're dealing with a lot of cash buyers, a lot of cash.
Matt Fischer 28:04
I've started someone that was trying to buy a home, they were trying to buy land and build a home and then trying to just buy a home and then just trying to like rent basically just get somewhere to live. And they were telling me, she was just like, I can't compete because I'm a first time buyer. And I have money set aside and I have a down payment pre approved yada yada yada, like, just like most people do when they're buying their home. And it was just like she said, I can't compete with the cash buyers because something comes on the market. I put in my offer. And then someone comes soon is just like, I'll buy that cash asking price. And like it's a no brainer for Yeah, or hire who like Yeah, so the people who actually need the house, you know, cuz that cash buyers most likely like, Oh, this is an investment property. And like that's what stinks is because there's people out there that like need housing as like a right to live, like, I need a roof I need to live and then there's people out there that are like, I want to make more money. Give me another house. And now we have this problem of like, all these houses, and then these people can't afford them. Yeah. So like, that's where I think we need to see a correction because it's like, there's houses out there talking
Justin MacDonald 29:05
to individual individual. And I don't think that's a fair comparison. I think that corporations that are buying up houses,
Matt Fischer 29:12
Zillow, doing that to Zillow, I remember it was hearing like that they were just like scooping them up. Yeah, there
Justin MacDonald 29:17
and again, that's an area where you're artificially inflating the market, which stinks. And so it's, it's, it's a hard thing to me. Because, you know, we just can't keep up with that, you know, we you can't just companies can't go Alright, I'm gonna, you know, Jack up wages by 32% to match.
Matt Fischer 29:37
We do have a realtor listening. Yeah, Kenny pretty penny poverties Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 29:42
So it's it's just a hard thing. You know, when you have someone that you know, you're talking to someone that's like, got an FHA loan, which is how I bought my home. You know, it's a great program for people that are buying their home for the first time. And it's like they're going up against cash players and we just can't do it. So to see those numbers to know that the US average is three point 8% And we're smoking that tenfold in some days, like, gosh, that's painful. It's it certainly is wild. All I can hope is that, you know, the economy catches back up.
Matt Fischer 30:11
And our inflation is at what like 7%? Seven and a half, seven and a half percent inflation. Yeah, it sticks for the people at the bottom who, yeah, who who can't find the home and have this inflation and you know, price cost of goods are going up like Nick's in the comments like they're building material costs are up like 200% Oh, yeah.
Justin MacDonald 30:29
Oh, I mean, we know that from people that are building. Yeah. And
Matt Fischer 30:31
they're in like, I can't imagine that. Because yeah, friends of ours that are building a house there. They're like, their builders are coming to them and being like, hey, remember that quote? I gave you, me? Yeah, double it. And it's saying, it's, it stinks.
Justin MacDonald 30:44
It's it's definitely a weird time right now. And I'm hoping the correction isn't too harsh. You know, but there's got to be some kind of correction. Because it's, you know, it's painful, it's painful to buy groceries to, you know, I saw all the memes to where it's like, we feel like, I don't even check gas prices, what am I gonna do not drive? And I'm like, I get where you're coming from. But like, do you not budget for that? Do you not like, have a line item and go, Hey, it costs twice as much to fill up my tank. So I'm gonna keep that in mind. And then I think, well, maybe they don't maybe they're
Matt Fischer 31:19
just like, because that that, like, if you double your gas, and that's just like, well, that money that you're now paying on gas was maybe earmarked for right, your savings, or your your, your
Justin MacDonald 31:30
entertainment budget or something. So when when gas was like, you know, $0 a barrel, and I was literally filling up for 35 instead of 75. Right? I was like, Oh, cool. I have you know, because, like I you know, I plan for about 60 Maybe 65. Right? So I have that extra, you know, 25 bucks that I can set to the side, and I can either go out to eat and so at the time, I was like, well, that goes into our we had like, a local restaurant budget because you know, people were struggling since like, Oh, cool. That gas money goes here. Yeah. And so now I have to go Alright, well, I'm jacking up my gas bill. So I'm gonna take some of that, you know, out of entertainment. I'm not gonna stop and get my my racetrack say which is all the time now. Okay, yeah, that's
Matt Fischer 32:17
right. No, no, you're still getting your sandwiches.
Justin MacDonald 32:22
Bad even trying to say the camera ain't Yes, I've gained a little
Matt Fischer 32:32
T and J T is for it. All comes back. It's hurtful, but I feel bad because like, this is gonna stick with
Justin MacDonald 32:44
everyone that's watching was like, Okay, let's see if those jokes really. And you are. Yeah laughing but also kind of cry.
Matt Fischer 32:53
I feel bad. I will apologize and hug him after the show everyone we will make but he was gonna just do the one I'm like, polite. Like, I don't want to hug you but I'm going to because I don't know if I should handshake you or hug you.
Justin MacDonald 33:12
I like how we can go from you know, the oppressiveness of inflation and rental prices
Matt Fischer 33:16
where I had to otherwise I think I'd probably start crying. And I think that's,
Justin MacDonald 33:19
you know, that's a way to cope. Right. So if you want to bully me it's a coping bully. He
Matt Fischer 33:26
has a coping mechanism started my new books. Oh, man, I don't even know what we're talking about. Sarah
Jesse James 33:33
said I love it. When Matt's on the show. I swear I laugh too much when someone she swears and she laughs Yeah.
Matt Fischer 33:40
I thought you're lying. I had to double check. I was like, no one is saying that. What's up? Thank you, Sarah.
Justin MacDonald 33:47
So she's a bully because she's laughing at you being mean to me? Well, maybe so maybe so.
Matt Fischer 33:55
Annie. She get my first copy of my signed book. Bully as a coping mechanism. Yeah, like Yeah,
Justin MacDonald 34:03
it hurt when they called me a bully.
Matt Fischer 34:06
I, I stopped the show to like, go into YouTube to like, find that clip at that scene to send it to you and Lauren is like, Why did you stop this? And it was just like, I have to send this and she goes you're sending this to JT aren't you? And I'm like, what? 100% Like I've turned telling people this
Justin MacDonald 34:24
before. That was like that. Robbing Rob video. Like you want to see a dead body? Yes. I love that. I don't remember well enough to to play it but we're gonna have to add the link to the show. It was like
Matt Fischer 34:36
Rob Bruegel and Rob. Yeah, whatever. I can't say gosh. It's like yeah, how to see a dead body that's all I remember. Right?
Justin MacDonald 34:44
Yeah. Anyway, look it up. Dad as the show later on
Jesse James 34:47
pupil Ron.
Matt Fischer 34:49
Ron hibel. Yeah, he'll but Is that how you say it? Yeah, of course. Just he saw it on the internet. Yeah. So
Justin MacDonald 34:55
pi starts demolition either yesterday or today. I drove by it
Matt Fischer 34:59
because I was on my way to get these cell CI CI Yeah, I needed a boost. Yeah, yeah,
Justin MacDonald 35:05
I tried but like, it wasn't kicking in and I stopped to the Walgreens because I missed my turn. And I went in there and the meme that I'm sure everyone's seen it if you haven't read, it's like, the grocery, the grocery store need to go grocery shopping. Yeah. Because they're like five coolers were just empty.
Matt Fischer 35:22
So when I go to my local Publix, like on my short trips that end up being $50. Or I went one time to get bread and like the bread aisle was ransacked, there was like no bread there. And then literally a week later, I go back and there's like, the whole house full of bread. And so it's weird. And I guess it is whatever its own supply chain disruptions. You know, you hear that so much, but I'm like, that's got to be it because it's like it's here. And then it's gone. But I'm just not used to seeing large swaths gone. Just I'm happy that they're back pretty quickly. But still, it's weird. Because if you need it that time, you know, yeah, and it's not there. Then what again,
Justin MacDonald 35:56
we got to go back? Yes. Yeah, we got to go back to that stage of quarantine, where everyone was making their own bread.
Matt Fischer 36:04
I've been making my own bread sourdough? No, I've been making non brand. Oh, it's actually not that hard. It's coming out quite delicious.
Justin MacDonald 36:17
I'm proud to try some. Yeah, I
Matt Fischer 36:19
should have brought some in. Well, I was it was one of those things that's like, I didn't want to go to the store. Because I was like, I know this is gonna cost me an arm and a leg. But you know, I was having some Indian food. And I was like, but I don't have any naan bread. And then I just looked up a recipe and I was like, I could do this. I could do that. I could do this. So yeah. Breads kind of been
Justin MacDonald 36:36
battling the agenda making bread because then I eat all the made bread.
Matt Fischer 36:39
100% so good.
Justin MacDonald 36:41
Yeah.
Jesse James 36:42
What do you do? I mean, why would would you make it not to eat it? Well, like
Matt Fischer 36:47
a normal person, like make it like, share it. Consume it. And in in an acceptable amount. I'm consuming bread in a very unacceptable time. Like, like a 50 cent amount. On the low. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 37:02
Speaking of which, my wife made some banana bread.
Jesse James 37:05
And yeah, I really like home now with these samples.
Justin MacDonald 37:09
Oh, I'll bring you some. This is like the best banana bread she's ever made. And she left a chunk in the toaster, like a big chunk, too. And it was in there for like eight hours. And she came home. She was like, Oh, man. Yeah, I left that banana bread in there. Did you get it? She said, Did you throw it away? And I don't know why I was just embarrassed to say I was like, I got rid of it. I was completely full. Like, I just had my lunch and I noticed it and there is a big old chunk too. And I was like, Well, let me just have one little bite and I'll save it for her. That's not enough to leave though. Yeah, well, then I was like, well, just another bite. And I was like, Well, I can give her half this. So I'd say the whole thing.
Matt Fischer 37:46
That's the biggest justification. Right? Right. That's not enough to say yeah, I might as well just finish it. Yeah. And then next thing you know, you're just like, Well, that was definitely enough to save. I shouldn't have finished it. Now. I have a
Justin MacDonald 37:57
got a bellyache now without a bellyache Yeah. So you're talking about supply chain and someone brought up cream cheese, but earlier crispy brought up avocados and I had seen this too that the day before the Super Bowl, the US kaha avocado supply from Mexico. Why? Because like some inspector in the US was threatened. Like hey, but past my avocados or I guess I don't know I'm I've completely made that part up. But I know what inspector was threatened. And they're like, You know what? You know what? No, avocados
Matt Fischer 38:31
we have Florida avocados. They're gross. They're sorry. They're gross would be seeds. Yeah, gross. I don't know. I like Haas. Avocados from Mexico are delicious. Those are the bumpy dark ones. Like the Florida avocados are not nearly as good yeah, not nearly as because
Justin MacDonald 38:47
we're probably not pumping in the fertilizer and pesticides that I don't care
Matt Fischer 38:52
if it's fertilizer pesticide that makes up Mexican hot avocado so good
Justin MacDonald 38:57
Mexican riled
Matt Fischer 39:02
up about avocados. Yeah, because it's like you ever bought a Florida avocado meal is the same thing. And then you eat it. It's got like that we're bitter taste it and you're just like, this isn't creamy and delicious.
Justin MacDonald 39:17
Mainly because you're pulling me into it. Well, maybe. Yes.
Matt Fischer 39:23
So stop by this band
Jesse James 39:25
ban. Yeah, well,
Matt Fischer 39:28
things fall apart. If you don't I'll make him rant because we don't have a steady stream of avocados in there for my stock up now. Well, I haven't I have a bag of them right now. But I'm gonna have to probably go and buy more. You got a whole
Justin MacDonald 39:41
bag of hos avocado. Always. Always you have the avocado tool, the special avocado tool?
Matt Fischer 39:47
Yes. And I just use like a week ago and as I'm using I like, I mean, this is the greatest thing ever. And it's one of those things where it's like you buy these gadget kitchen appliances and they're so dumb. You're like They made a tool for a problem that doesn't exist. Or they made a specialized tool that you could just do with the fork. Well, I'll tell you what, like the avocado tool truly is worth its weight in gold.
Jesse James 40:10
Nothing like that egg separator. No, not
Matt Fischer 40:14
like a yo, yo. And a Yoker.
Justin MacDonald 40:18
You are some kind of Joker. Yeah, you bout to get. Okay, good question. Do you know what yoking someone is?
Jesse James 40:27
Yeah, you have been yoke? I would, I would think it'd be like yank him around by the neck.
Matt Fischer 40:32
Very close. Yeah, like that. It's kind of take your hand. Where's the camera like this? Yeah. What did you do on the front? Because I'll start
Justin MacDonald 40:40
at the back. Yeah, no, it's like
Matt Fischer 40:41
this. You people used to Yup. like that though. Cuz you like yoke like yeah,
Justin MacDonald 40:46
that's a side yoke. But yoke was used to do get the grip. Yeah. For grip grip. Yeah, yo.
Matt Fischer 40:55
Yo, people are like, give them whiplash. Oh, yeah. Cuz you like walk up to them. And they're not they're not paying attention. You're in the Howard car line. You just go yo,
Justin MacDonald 41:02
yo, but that was one of those things that I'm like, did that was that? Like the Marilyn Manson rumor? Did that spread somehow through elementary middle schools? Or was that just
Matt Fischer 41:12
our I do