Episode 24 - Mic Popping
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On this episode we're talking Facebook/Meta/Reels versus TikTok, women's pay/wage gap and where women can earn more, Netflix & Anime, Justin getting served, standardized batteries for electric vehicles, and much more!
Hosts:
Matt Fischer @flooredmatt
Justin MacDonald @justintyme44
Fact-Checker:
Jesse James @thee_jessejames
Executive Producer:
Dave Miller @dmiller1023
This episodes official "Person on the Couch":
Stand-In Executive Producer Johnny McEarchern
Transcript of Episode 24
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
people, battery, hear, literally, tick tock, gainesville, thought, funny, ocala, motorcycle, spend, man, legalize, year, watch, find, finish, cities, law, talking
SPEAKERS
Matt Fischer, Jesse James, Justin MacDonald
Justin MacDonald 00:01
Are we good? Good. Hey. Just a little bit. There we go. Good morning. Welcome everybody. What happened?
Matt Fischer 00:11
We're good. We're good. We're good. We're good. Just go with it.
Justin MacDonald 00:14
Good morning. Welcome everyone to unwanted opinions. I'm your host, Justin MacDonald. here with Matt Fisher. only times I can loud sound because that always
Jesse James 00:28
happens. Yeah. And you give us the blue? No, it was a
Justin MacDonald 00:32
fact checker also codes, not a salvos, Jesse James. Stay in the executive producer. Well,
Matt Fischer 00:43
because I like I drove here this morning going, John mcurtin. Johnny Baker, just repeating his name. So when it came to it, I wouldn't blank out like an Indian.
Jesse James 00:56
That's how you say it,
Justin MacDonald 00:57
gentlemen. Well, that's how I say. I hear MacEachern which I just
Matt Fischer 01:02
think of a Scottish car chin. Chin.
Jesse James 01:05
Oh, nice. Yeah, you kind of nailed it with that. Yeah, that's a good one.
Matt Fischer 01:09
Sometimes you can do a lot of time on the way here this morning. So I wouldn't mess his name up.
Justin MacDonald 01:13
We're broadcasting live out of the workspace collective in their special podcast, last YouTube room
Matt Fischer 01:18
and special extra shout out to workspace collective because I'm going to show it here. This is gorgeous. We walked into such a nice little gift for them. And they brought us they watch our show. And they see that we're always drinking these delicious energy drinks and Mountain Dews. And so they gifted us some so that was very thoughtful.
Justin MacDonald 01:34
A pack a cell sorry. Yep. Man, kale a Mountain Dew.
Jesse James 01:38
Yep. Oh, it's a Tallboy. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's what you drink. Yep. Yeah, the big guy.
Matt Fischer 01:45
Caffeine keeps us going. Do Thank you
Justin MacDonald 01:47
workspace collective.
Matt Fischer 01:48
We absolutely. Have April Fool's Day to you.
Justin MacDonald 01:52
You know, I realized last night that today was April Fool's Day, and this will be the third year in a row that I've not planned anything. Wait,
Matt Fischer 02:00
I'm supposed to do. I was planning just your day.
Justin MacDonald 02:04
Might Oh, cuz I'm a fool.
Matt Fischer 02:06
Yeah. See it even a second to get that one. Yeah, it's funny, because.
Justin MacDonald 02:14
But I usually always plan something. And this is the third year that it's just like, you know what we're going through enough. Okay, I think we're just gonna, we're gonna let it go.
Matt Fischer 02:22
I feel like this is an elaborate setup, though. Like, I feel like you're just saying that just so everyone lets their guard down. So if you're listening, don't believe this man. He probably has something planned. I mean, he just wants you to think he doesn't by saying I don't have anything planned. wrong to you, Justin, we're on to you. I wish that was the case.
Justin MacDonald 02:41
It's not one year, Mark Anderson, when he worked at TJM took a page out of like someone from Reddit, and he decided he was going to change his shirt every hour. And so I knew that he was doing it. But so I like, plan on the other side. Like guys don't say anything about his shirt changes. So at the end of the day, he's like, I changed my shirt seven times, and no one said a word. Like oh, yeah, I didn't notice, man. I didn't even know you're here.
Matt Fischer 03:13
You're wearing clothes.
Justin MacDonald 03:14
Yeah. Yeah, I was like, That 70 show. I think it was like Danny Masterson told if you watch that 70 show, Ashton Kutcher is on there. And I think it was Danny Masterson came out and told the crowd beforehand because they would all they would announce everyone. And you know, the crowd
Matt Fischer 03:34
was in a live crowd. Yeah, that alive. Yeah,
Justin MacDonald 03:37
no, no, he's chair, you know. And so he's like, hey, when he gets announced, don't make nice ego show. Yeah. So he like, runs out and does everything and his face just dropped. And they talk about it. He was like, Yeah, it took him like half an hour to like, get back together actually be funny again. Yeah, cuz it threw him off so bad. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 04:01
that messes you up, though. That's, you know, the equivalent of that is you guys when we start the show, and have a great intro, and then you're five minutes in and then you realize that everyone in the comments goes, Hey, there's no sound and then you have to like repeat that because like each, each intro is like a watered down version of the previous one. Yeah. Yeah. And it's watered up or watered up, you know? Yeah, I guess so.
Jesse James 04:24
They hydrated Hydra homies.
Justin MacDonald 04:26
Yeah, that's exactly what it's like. It's it's just like Ashton Kutcher running out to a full audience of people not cheering
Matt Fischer 04:33
Yeah. Yeah. I
Jesse James 04:34
wish we had a live audience. We do. I mean, in person.
Matt Fischer 04:38
This is this is 2022. Dude, like people don't gather in large letters anymore. Are you kidding me?
Justin MacDonald 04:42
We used last year we would get heckled so badly. That's true. I was just talking about a heckler last night though, saying that. Most hecklers don't realize that they're hecklers. They think that they're just like adding to the show. And it's like, no, you're actually ruining the show. For everyone,
Matt Fischer 05:00
imagine the ego to go to a show and be like my commentary on this comedians, like joke is so good. I have to yell it out. Right?
Jesse James 05:09
Yeah. Even if I think I'm funnier, I'll still behave.
Justin MacDonald 05:12
Yeah, right. Yeah, let's, you know, let them have their shit, right. All right. My time we used to do, William. Yeah. All right. We used to do improv and our host was amazing at handling those people and his like, easy go to is like, hey, get your own show. And that was usually enough to get people to stop. And then if not, you know, because improv is a little more interactive. You just start berating and belittling the people.
Matt Fischer 05:38
Well, that's, I did you know, part of me is just like, I don't want hecklers to go away because there's so much funny stuff that happens when someone's heckling a comedian, then the comedian, just like absolutely tears into them, or just make some really funny jokes on their behalf, though. So, without heckler, sometimes we would miss out on some good comedy.
Justin MacDonald 05:55
Yes or no. You know, for me, what I was talking about is when I went and saw Tim Dylan and the guy is like, I'm we're, I'm way up and literally, like the highest seats you can get in the Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Dr. Phillips center. Yeah, put summers back on it. Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Huge venue. I bought tickets literally day of last minute, like, or a ticket, I should say, all the way up there. So it's not like Tim Dylan's gonna hear this guy that screaming over everything that he's saying. But imagine if he did. Imagine if he did, and nothing he was saying was even funny. Unfortunately, because I'm computation, adverse or not computation adverse. I took it upon myself finally, to say something, I really was like holding it in, like, you're the only one being bugged by it. You're the only one being bugged by it. And the first thing that I said was not what I wanted to say at all. You just hit pretty good. And it just came out, yo, chill, smooth. Like, why don't I just yell, yo, chill. And so the guy shuts up for like, 30 seconds and I can literally hear him go. Is he talking to me? And he was it wasn't like an aggressive like, is he talking to me? He was genuinely like, certainly, he can't be talking to me. Like, I'm just adding to the show. And then finally, I had to hand hands. I had I had had to hit him with a STF you
Jesse James 07:24
stuff. Boo. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 07:27
Shut up, freak up. Right. So I hit him with that, because I just can't handle it anymore. Like it just comes out. It's like, not Vesuvius, like I've been holding it in too long, just explosion. And so I yell it and I'm like, I'm about to get kicked out. But instead everyone else's. Yeah, shut the heck up. Screaming on this guy. I'm like, okay, cool. I wasn't the only one feeling this. sth you. Yeah, I figured that was the nicer way. Yeah. But they were saying the other word pretty aggressively. So come to find out like yeah, other people complain to the ushers. But they did. They don't know that like,
Matt Fischer 08:02
they're not bouncers. Yeah,
Justin MacDonald 08:03
we're, like orchestras in here. Like no, we don't not a handle like comedy show. Had a
Matt Fischer 08:09
disturbance during the Nutcracker. I don't know
Jesse James 08:10
what to do. We show you to your see. We don't escort you out.
Matt Fischer 08:14
They're all old volunteers anyway. Like, yeah,
Justin MacDonald 08:18
this is a mixed bag. Yeah.
Matt Fischer 08:20
Like, like, what is Ethel gonna do? She's got a fake hip and like a cane. Yeah, they gotta throw the drunk guy weren't quite
Justin MacDonald 08:26
like, you know, Cal Civic Theatre and all of that. I mean, they were. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I think those people get paid, but they still just don't have protocol for that. Like, please don't do that. But if you don't want to I don't care.
Jesse James 08:47
Yeah. Anyway, that's a little Dino fo has a black belt.
Matt Fischer 08:53
Wacky with that cane?
Justin MacDonald 08:55
I've been whacked with a cane before. Yeah, yeah.
Matt Fischer 09:00
Maybe think of that time that that? That old man's Yeah. Walmart bathroom tried to break your fingers. Oh, that guy.
Justin MacDonald 09:08
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if we've told that story.
Matt Fischer 09:12
Oh, no. So like, I'll just give you a quick rundown so I don't even know how old we were. We both have to go. Take a dump. So we go we have the adjoining stalls in the Walmart on 200 But he's in the handicap stall. And older gentleman comes in. And he's like starts rattling the handicap board?
Justin MacDonald 09:29
No, that's not true. It's important to note that I struggle remembering to lock doors sometimes.
Matt Fischer 09:35
Oh, he just walked in on you this he just walked in on me that is true. You do forget to lock those then and then he got mad that someone was in there. He couldn't use a handicap door and then he started yelling like come out here I will I will make you handicap basically
Justin MacDonald 09:48
you want to use a handicap so yeah, then you need to be handy.
Matt Fischer 09:51
So I'm finishing up my business as quick as possible because I'm like, not to fight an old man you know like so like I'm trying to get ready cuz he doesn't know that I really peak over there, because he doesn't know that like, this guy that he's trying to get in a fight with his friend is in the next stall, so I'm like, Oh, he's gonna be go time. Let me finish my stuff. Let me put my shirt back on. It was one of those dudes you know? Yeah, sir. He started dressing in the salt. Like I need to cool it so we finished up at the same time and like this guy is still standing there still like heckling him telling him that he's gonna make him handicap. I'm not helping the city. No, no, he's he's completely antagonizing this man, like 100% Like, okay, I'll be done in a second. Let me finish this, wipe him up. But now you know, type thing. Give him the play by play. So he finished up in the door and I'm just standing there and JT comes out and the guy looks at me goes, put your hands here. Thinking JT puts his hands up on the dorsal and this old man reaches over and he grabs the door. He just slams it. You know, he's not like, heart is not the most Brian JTS like prime of his life, like, early 20s, maybe teenagers, you know, so he just easily goes zoning. The door slams and bounces back. And he puts his hands back. And the guy goes for round two. And this just keeps happening at this point. There's a crowd you know, and it's just like, it's like, it's JT the old man trying to get handicapped then me and then like the whole crowd of everyone else in the bathroom. You know, just watch it waiting for the Walmart employee to come in and like break everything up or, or this old man's friend to come in and then it's gonna be like a tag team fight. But yeah, it just went on with that. And then I think we finally parted ways. So you left my cell phone in the
Justin MacDonald 11:38
toilet. That's that's the funny part is his cell phone.
Matt Fischer 11:42
I think you wanted to play Snake.
Justin MacDonald 11:43
I think I was playing Snake on your Nokia wasn't a flip phone. It was the brick one. Yeah. And so all this happened. We're laughing and we get out to the parking lot like it's might be a bad time to
Matt Fischer 11:57
start with the old man. It's a cool my phone is broke my phones now handicap.
Justin MacDonald 12:04
So we have to go back in fortunately, it was still in the like toilet paper.
Matt Fischer 12:08
There was a different guy in the stall. And I remember you just knocked like, Hey, buddy, it's kind of weird question. Can you turn around? Tell me there's a cellphone on the back of the toilet. And he's like, Oh, yeah. And he's like, you might just slide that across the floor to me. It all worked out in the end. Yeah. And that's why we can't go back to the Walmart on 200.
Justin MacDonald 12:25
Yeah, yeah, that kind of legitimately tried to like mango,
Matt Fischer 12:29
multiple times, like multiple times. If you hadn't been. I don't think it'd be that quick. I mean, it wasn't hard to
Jesse James 12:36
succeed. Can't go back to that one. That's the nice one.
Matt Fischer 12:39
Actually, the shores one is the nice Oh, yeah. You don't have to drive out to the shores. Yeah. So bougie for now. Yeah, it's, it's is it right? I've invented it. Yeah, it is nice. Yes. How long you think is gonna stay that way? That's
Justin MacDonald 12:59
all it's been that way. It's no, really? Yeah, they'll just come and arrest you. I think it'd be a letter that if you just even look
Matt Fischer 13:05
like you don't belong. To snap grapes while you walk. By your ear. Oh, yeah.
Justin MacDonald 13:14
Which is kind of funny. I'm not gonna go into all the stats, but thanks. Um, retirement. Retirees are like, coming back and like the largest droves ever. Like they're like, yeah, no, they had their time. Yeah. Yeah. Like, we don't we don't want to be retired anymore. We liked working. But yeah, it's it's a funny mix. I think the ones that do want to work are good workers. And they're proving that you know, some of the harder to find labor areas. Like, Hey, by the way, this guy that just retired is looking for a job. So you might want to try him. So
Matt Fischer 13:51
like one of like, one of the harder to fill labor jobs that these retirees are taking? I
Justin MacDonald 13:55
don't mean, I just mean labor. I don't mean as a manual Labor's Oh,
Matt Fischer 14:00
yeah. I'm like jumping on a roofing crew and like 10 $10 an
Justin MacDonald 14:06
hour. I mean, as far as labor shortages go, not actual like
Jesse James 14:10
man was a framer in the 40s. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 14:13
I don't know some of those houses. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who needs a ventilator? Anyway, so we've talked about tick tock a few times on here. But if you haven't noticed, Facebook is really going in the real So Instagram started with Rails, which is funny. Because Instagram did a pretty good job of making Snapchat plateau. Snapchat started urinate yet, Snapchat started with all the filters and all of that and all of the stories, right? So Instagram was like, Oh, that's really neat. Yoink we're just gonna take that and I like that concept because Not everything needs to go like on a full on post, but you just made me want to be funny or like, whatever, I want to post this for 24 hours and that's fine. So they stole that option. And I never went back on Snapchat again, like I don't really need to like, I don't need to have multiple platforms that I'm on. But now, you know Instagrams done rails, but Facebook has taken on rails. And that's because the average social media user spends three times as much over three times as much on Tik Tok as they do Facebook time. Time. Yeah, yeah.
Matt Fischer 15:34
Are they just getting an endless scroll? Yep. You know,
Justin MacDonald 15:37
over three and a half or over three times as much. That's eight hours average on Facebook a week and 26 hours on average for tick tock a week. Now that's a part time job over a part time. Isn't it? Insane? That's
Jesse James 15:52
ridiculous. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 15:56
that's why coincides so much. Let's think about it though. You go on Facebook, and you just see you know, your your relatives complaining about some kind of whatever. And then, you know, like people sharing, you know, their real estate page or whatever. And they're just like, so then you go on tick tock, and it's just funny stuff. I
Jesse James 16:14
wonder how much time has been spent on Wordle? Yeah. Is
Matt Fischer 16:18
that still a thing? Yeah, yeah. No, I do. I just forget often. Like when I do play, I'm like, I need more than one a day. And then like, I'll forget for three days. Maybe I don't need more.
Justin MacDonald 16:30
I hate the way that I am. Because I ignored that game for so long. So I'm like, I'm tired of seeing it. Like, I don't want to see this. It's really fun. Yeah. Then finally, I'm like, I let me try it. I'm like, Oh, I really enjoy it.
Matt Fischer 16:42
I felt like they did me dirty though. When I found out like, I got my first letter that was like a word that was a double letter. And I for the longest time, I convinced myself that they didn't do words with double letters, because I'm like, how are you going to tell? Right? Like you think you got one? How do you know that there's a second E. And so then I just was stumped. And I was like, Screw it. I'm gonna do this word with a double letter. And that was it. And I was like, Oh, I feel lied to now. Now I just got paranoid opened up all this other stuff. And now I'm just like, I don't know what
Justin MacDonald 17:11
I know that you can do a double letter. But I always like, I'm on my fifth guest before I remember that. You can. Yeah. I don't know what else is like, oh, I can use this letter twice.
Jesse James 17:22
Yeah. What's the what's like, the least amount of tries that you've got one?
Justin MacDonald 17:25
I got a bunch of two. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 17:27
I've gotten a couple times. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 17:29
I've never gotten a one. Yeah, that's
Jesse James 17:31
like, that's gonna be a hard one. Yeah,
Justin MacDonald 17:33
for sure. So on the on the tick tock and reals. Facebook is actually born out news time, and articles all across the country, dropping in like, like fear mongering type. And, you know, like, mudslinging type articles and news stories about tick tock, which they give ammo to do that, you know, like their privacy, and the fact that, you know, their, their partner, parent company is China base, which is now almost wholly owned by the Chinese government.
Matt Fischer 18:10
And people are spending a part time job amount of time weekly.
Justin MacDonald 18:14
They don't care about that. Oh, really? That's what they care. They want that to that market share, isn't there? Yes. And so they go, we don't want to go, you know, by the way of Myspace, how can we continue to stay on top and again, they did it pretty well, with Snapchat. Now, Snapchat, I think is still going I haven't looked at all that. But they don't have the user base, and they definitely plateaued. And a lot of that had to do with Instagram, literally just stealing the concept. And so that's kind of what they're doing with reels, while also it's just mind blowing to me, that they're spending the money that they are to mudslinging against tick tock.
Jesse James 18:45
Yeah, that is why we have all the money.
Matt Fischer 18:47
I mean, they don't want competition now. Right? They want to be the only social media. It's like, this is a we're living in a time of monopolies. Right. That
Justin MacDonald 18:54
we're on right now. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I get it. It's just strange to like, see that, like, oh, private companies do that. That's, that's weird to me. And they're no stranger to lobbying. They spend over $20 million a year on lobbying efforts for different politicians and parties and bills and all. Citizens United.
Matt Fischer 19:18
Yeah, right. corporations are people too. Yeah. So they say they can donate an unlimited amount like a person. Yeah. So anyway,
Justin MacDonald 19:26
I just thought that was super interesting. The fact that they're out there doing that. Yesterday wrapped up Women's History Month. Before you say anything. Before this year, did you know that was the thing? No. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry, to everyone out there and all the ladies that may have known this is the thing chime in, if you would, did you also know that there was a Women's History Month? Like
Matt Fischer 19:54
I kind of just found out like midway through this month? Yeah. And that's because my sister shared a post because Like her company spotlighted her, right. I was like, three months. And I looked it up and I was like, oh, yeah, that's cool. I didn't know that.
Justin MacDonald 20:07
Right now. I just was like, did this just come out of nowhere? Or how long has this been in place? Like, you think I'm gonna do my research before bringing this up? I didn't. I did some research though. But I read a headline. Oh, yeah. 78 It's been going on since 78. Yikes. Marketing.
Jesse James 20:29
Better job mom to get a representative to come in here. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 20:32
yeah. Whoever's doing like the Black History Month PR. Like they need to jump on women's history month because that I know about that one.
Justin MacDonald 20:38
Yeah. Since since I was kid. Yeah, that was
Matt Fischer 20:41
your daughter's watching Good God when she can understand stupid words. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 20:46
Yeah. Uh, so it did lead me down the path of the wage gap between men and women. Which is an interesting conversation very interesting. And there's a lot that goes into it. It used to be like, Oh, women make 73 cents on the dollar of what men make. It's actually 82 cents now. But there's a lot of variables that people don't usually take into place like high risk jobs and all of that, like, Whatever, whatever. I'm not gonna get into all that.
Matt Fischer 21:17
Are you a wage gap apologist?
Justin MacDonald 21:19
I'm neither. Okay. I'm just saying,
Matt Fischer 21:25
You're gonna go like see, because there's reasons why No,
Justin MacDonald 21:29
I think that there's all the variables that we're not smart enough to touch on. But there are at least five cities in the US where women make more than men. Do you know those five cities, two of them are in Florida, which ones? I want to start with the highest first at 120% Meaning they make $20.20 per every dollar that men make is Wenatchee, Washington. I don't know if I'm saying that right. 114% is Morgantown, West Virginia. 112 West Virginia.
Matt Fischer 21:59
That was surprising to me. Yeah. That was very surprising to me for I was definitely thinking like both northern coasts. would have been like my top picks for these cities.
Justin MacDonald 22:10
I would have thought the Northeast for sure. And we're about to hit one. Barnstaple town which you don't need that many syllables, Barnstaple town, Massachusetts. I
Matt Fischer 22:19
agree that's, that's a very donate. Yeah.
Justin MacDonald 22:21
At 112%. Coming in at 110% is our neighbor, Gainesville, Florida. Wow. And believe it or not, they give the longer name, but 108% is Naples, Florida. So I thought that was pretty, pretty interesting that, you know, there's like five documented cities where women are making more. And I'm sure there's more but that's those are the ones that that I was able
Matt Fischer 22:48
to read. I wonder what the standout industries are
Justin MacDonald 22:50
mostly tech from what I can tell, at least from because I did most of my I was like, oh, Gainesville, and it's like, Alright, there's a lot of startups there's a lot of you know, like the University of Florida puts out a lot yeah, like entrepreneurial women and all of that so pretty neat stuff, but I honestly I hate to say it I did not expect Florida to have two of the five Yeah, yeah, I didn't either. Top paying for women cities,
Jesse James 23:15
and if so I wouldn't think of
Matt Fischer 23:17
Gainesville. Yeah, that wouldn't I was like, I was gonna say like Miami and Tampa. Yeah, for some reason. I was like the two
Justin MacDonald 23:23
those because those are you know, I just wouldn't think those. I wouldn't think Naples is what I want. I have Yeah, we were a woman owned company, which is pretty neat. But in case you didn't know that today and promos is woman owned.
Jesse James 23:37
So does Naples have a longer name?
Justin MacDonald 23:40
It's like Naples and locally Okeechobee or something like that. I have no idea I just it's not Yeah, it's it's it they gave the regional name I don't really know why Naples is called Naples but I guess those I think it's those three I know it's emotionally I can't remember the third one. I love
Matt Fischer 23:57
that if you grew up in Florida you just get like you just have like a natural ability to pronounce most like Florida like native names and streets and stuff like that I love when like northerners come down and they try and say like okay it's an attack II or something like that. Or even Ocala oh god oh god. It's not that hard
Justin MacDonald 24:15
dude. macula and Macula
Matt Fischer 24:16
Hakala Yeah, I hear a Kala and I'm like, What's wrong with you?
Jesse James 24:21
Yeah. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 24:25
no, no, no cow I've never heard
Justin MacDonald 24:30
on the radio when they when they clearly hire someone else out to do the advertise. Yes. And they say Alcala, I promise you for the first like second. I'm like, Oh, they're talking about Yeah, they just used an outsourced voice to do that. So I'll call ah, anyway, ladies, if you're looking to make a little more money
Jesse James 24:51
go up to Gainesville. Sorry, make or catch up Ocala. That's what I meant to say. Yeah, there you go. And that's why we need you for me. Yeah,
Matt Fischer 24:59
well like games. have a better, less traffic
Justin MacDonald 25:02
night long. I can remember the first time I was up at the Red Robin in Gainesville. I had a good
Jesse James 25:06
job No.
Justin MacDonald 25:08
advertising works. Yeah. I was there and the the bartender and one of the waiters were talking about. Yeah, can't wait. We're gonna go to Ocala watch whatever movie it was, because I guess Gainesville doesn't have an IMAX or didn't at the time. And so they're talking about they're like, oh, yeah, and they talked about, oh, they were talking about the lights. They're like, Yeah, but like certain times a year, there's like lights downtown too. So we got to check that out. And I just remember, like, what, I'm shocked to hear someone from Gainesville like it's they're planning a trip excited to get Ocala.
Matt Fischer 25:40
They're just tired of all Gator themed events,
Justin MacDonald 25:43
right? I remember posting about it and then just getting like, blasted with comments like, yeah, okay, sure, buddy. And I'm like, what? Why would I make that up? Like, I'm just saying I was shocked to hear that. Like, it's such a weird thing. But I'm like, yeah,
Matt Fischer 25:58
those are the people that are gonna like scroll all the posts to find someone who's like praising Ocala just so they can like crap on Ocala. But like they then they choose to, like actively continue to
Justin MacDonald 26:07
live here. Yeah. Oh, those to me. If I did, if I
Matt Fischer 26:11
moved then who would be here to complain, right? I'm doing a service.
Justin MacDonald 26:15
Yeah. My buddy came in from out of town the other day. And he's like, I think the people that easily he hasn't lived here since I was six. He's like, I think the people that complain about Ocala have literally never been anywhere else. Like, it's rare. They
Matt Fischer 26:29
see other places online, you know, they see them highlight reels of these other cities and know that like, right, gotta be better.
Justin MacDonald 26:37
And that doesn't mean that you we can't work on things that we want to be better, right. Like, that's not what that means. It doesn't mean it's the perfect place ever. But But I think too many people don't understand what the, you know, the rest of the country looks like or behaves like or whatever it may
Jesse James 26:51
be. Why think to just take a step back. 10 years.
Justin MacDonald 26:54
Oh, my gosh, yeah. No.
Jesse James 26:56
There's plenty going on, compared to a decade ago. Oh, yeah.
Justin MacDonald 26:59
A lot of people would like it to slow down a little
Matt Fischer 27:01
bit. Yeah, just driving now. I came or where I was going recently. But I was just like, What is this? I was I think it was on the opposite side of town. And it was just it was reminiscent of like living in Orlando, like, the traffic was obscene. And there was nothing going on. It was just that was just normal traffic. But when when I hit the, you know, see the things that are like inconveniencing me, I'm like, Yeah, I wish we would slow down. But then when I go to the events that are like really cool that we never had before. I'm like, this progress is amazing, because we finally have this cool stuff that we can do so but then I just gotta remind myself, yeah, with the good stuff that we have all these events and things. We're gonna have to get the bad stuff like the traffic and the growth and the parking, raising costs of everything. Lack of parking downtown. Anywho
Justin MacDonald 27:48
new parking garage coming, though?
Matt Fischer 27:49
Yeah. Is it really happening? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What I've heard is we need to create a bot that scours, Facebook and like captures all the names of people. We don't need a parking garage downtown, and just like find them and then just send them a mailer and be like, do you still stand by this comment as we're building this second parking garage downtown?
Jesse James 28:08
Also, you can't park here? Hmm. Also, you can now
Matt Fischer 28:11
like, it was so easy to find it on the streets of downtown. You're forbidden from the parking garages. Those are the people who've supported it. You're out.
Jesse James 28:19
It's done by your tag number.
Matt Fischer 28:21
Yeah. Yeah. Like you got to find you got to find that parallel spot that doesn't exist ever. There was a time when you could park downtown, but that was like 10 years ago. Yeah, like on the street. Like I know, when we were much, much younger and going downtown much, much more. It was like you would you could find spots often and like you knew always knew like the secret spots. You're like, Well, I'm gonna go down like one block off, you know, first or something like that. And there's some hidden spots on it. Now. It's just like now there's nothing there's nothing, everyone's wised up to all that.
Justin MacDonald 28:51
Finding it. That's not happening. Yeah, but whatever. Look, atomic.
Matt Fischer 28:55
Cool. So I like this one Yamazaki Hamasaki. I just read recently, a tech article that Yamaha Suzuki Honda and Kawasaki the four biggest motorcycle manufacturers in Japan have come together with an Eevee car manufacturer to standardize electric vehicle batteries and charging for all of their electric motorcycles good for them. I thought that was absolutely cool. So what their idea is and this is kind of only in Japan right now and I think predominantly Tokyo is they've seen like they obviously you know Tokyo super dense, but they want to have more people using you know, electronic vehicles and stuff like that. And so they're all I think did the smart decision were like, Look, if we standardize this across all of our stuff, and have battery swapping, it's going to make it so much easier. So the idea is like if you have your Suzuki electric motorcycle and you have a Yamaha when you're on a batteries, you just go to the station, pull your battery out, put a new one in and everyone's using that station and then they check the batteries and recycle them as needed. Yeah,
Jesse James 29:54
like propane tanks
Matt Fischer 29:55
like propane tanks. Exactly. But for motorcycles. I thought that was the coolest thing and I'm like I would be more inclined to get an electronic motorcycle or car if we had something like that and not having all of this proprietary nonsense yes so
Justin MacDonald 30:08
Zero Motorcycles is one of like the first manufacturers of like actual production electric motorcycles like they started like oh nine and the goal for them was to have banks across the country to where you literally just swap the battery out because it cuts down on your commute so much when all you have to do is just yeah swap and I realized this and this is no no ding Tesla cars amazing vehicles and I love them but we were in our our motorhome you know, I'm going no more than 65 miles an hour at best. And I realized I kept seeing the same Tesla and because we're coming from the Panhandle so that's like you know 400 Something miles and I'm like how in the world do I keep ending up in front of this Tesla? Elon like oh
Matt Fischer 31:03
yeah low battery mode.
Justin MacDonald 31:04
I don't know he just like at least twice had to pull over charge and it takes you know, you can do like the rapid charge or something but it takes like 20 minutes and you've got certain places that you can do it at. So I was like, okay, he just keeps getting behind me because he keeps having to stop you know, either that or he has to use the bathroom but I'm just using you know context clues. Yeah,
Jesse James 31:25
he's got ideas
Justin MacDonald 31:27
I'm using context clues and going oh, he keeps ending up behind me because of this you know and and we get to where we're going to just find time it's not like I needed to be a seven year that's because you
Matt Fischer 31:37
got American made internal combustion v 10. Getting you there.
Justin MacDonald 31:39
Thank you for 50 with a lot of gas that we take on a road trip in a gas hog at the height of gas prices. Yeah, it's a bold choice.
Matt Fischer 31:54
Yeah, very bold choice but whatever you got there Yeah, I got then got back I mentioned switching like a Tesla battery would be like the the battery swapping with a motorcycle makes sense. Because you know, batteries are heavy, especially like new ones. I imagine they're much smaller on a bike because like a car like a Tesla batteries, I think are quite large. So I don't think normal people are going to be able to like swap car battery.
Justin MacDonald 32:14
No. And that's not what I was getting. It's just more of the inconvenience of having to stop in charge. Yeah. And so coming from someone who used to have to carry an extra battery for
Matt Fischer 32:23
them. That was the dumbest thing ever. But yeah, you're right.
Justin MacDonald 32:26
Okay, I'm sorry. I was poor. And I had a motorcycle that didn't charge batteries
Matt Fischer 32:35
so his way of fixing that was just driving around with a spare battery like a lead acid filled battery mind you in his backpack.
Justin MacDonald 32:43
I had to get to college. Sorry. I was so I would literally I had a battery in my backpack. And I had my charger most of the time and so when I had the longer classes like if it was a three hour class cool I just found the spot plug my battery charge and want to glow up listen because or if it was a shorter class I had my my you know my battery to do the hot swapping out literally my seat was never bolted on because I just throw the seat off. You know hand loosen the bolts put my new battery in.
Matt Fischer 33:17
And so I kept discharging its charge because it was never had tight connections. Yes, like rattling around. And nowadays it's like hitting the frame and discharging it but
Justin MacDonald 33:27
I did actually weld the connections together if you let that happen too much.
Matt Fischer 33:31
Yeah, the same thing is if you're using steel wall on your chrome heads and it touches your your your your battery terminal I found that they lit the steel wool on fire crap out of me because I'm just sitting there getting you know, really fine steel wool is amazing for cleaning Chrome. But yeah, I'd found out that a steel was flammable. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. You've never put a nine volt battery to seal No, but I put my motorcycle battery to one when it was like, and it lit up very quickly and it scared but
Justin MacDonald 34:03
the 12 volt battery to
Matt Fischer 34:03
it. Oh, man. Yeah, is it? I mean, I know now but hopefully if I'm stranded I have more than just
Jesse James 34:12
steel wall. So it's climbing inside of a camel.
Justin MacDonald 34:15
That's a Luke Skywalker.
Matt Fischer 34:17
It was a tauntaun
Justin MacDonald 34:18
Yeah, you don't know. Same thing.
Matt Fischer 34:23
Don't try and redeem yourself from your you know, Logan comment
Justin MacDonald 34:27
his battery swaps aren't as hard as you think. I did it for a while and I will tell you why is because I took it to some of the shops here in town. And they were like, No, we're not going to work on it. And I'm like, What are you mean, I gotta work on it like I need I need it to work and they're like, You look broke. So
Matt Fischer 34:46
I had to i i fell into the same problem as you by buying like an old 80s Japanese motorcycle and I remember when I had to have work done on it. I call around all the shops and I'm not gonna touch that. Why not? They're like it's just old. Like that, like literally They're like no, not doing it not doing it. Yeah, I'd find some like specialty shop and like Sanford or So yeah, that finally was like Yeah, well, we can work on those
Justin MacDonald 35:08
but mine was literally they were like, No, we're gonna let the works gonna be more than this bike is worth and I'm like yeah, but I can't buy another bike. Yeah. So like I'll pay for the work to be done
Matt Fischer 35:18
dealerships are a joke now they're like if it's more than three years old, we're not going to touch it. Yeah, I know I called one about releasing my dirt bike wheel and the guy lives because it'd be cheaper just to buy a completely new wheel already laced. And I'm like, How is that possible? And he goes, Dad just isn't I'm like, How much is that? How much is a new wheel completely seems like that 450 bucks all said and done delivered. And I'm like, That's not cheaper. But he's telling me that to take my wheel off, take the tire off, just put new spokes on and put it back together was gonna cost more than $450. Listen, I just don't think they know how to do it. Or honestly, I honestly don't think they know how to do it. They don't have any text in there. They they're probably just some guy. That's just like, I'm only gonna work on something that's 2015
Justin MacDonald 35:58
and newer. That's how I got bamboozled with my convertible top. Yeah, cuz I have my back window blew out. And I was like, hey, tops, fine. What's it gonna take for a new back window? And he's like, Ah, I might as well just get a whole new top because it's not much difference. You know, it'd be like, you know, 350 400 bucks a month. Let's get a whole new top. So I found the top that I wanted to buy, because that's the one that I wanted. And I brought it to him. And I'm like, Alright, yes, we'll switch this out
Matt Fischer 36:24
by the wrong top. No, it wasn't.
Justin MacDonald 36:26
It was actually a top of the surface. But they didn't tell me that. Like, if he would have told me that I would have bought it from you. Yeah. But anyway, and I got to pick it up. And though Yeah, 200 bucks. Like what? Like, that's not even remotely close to like what you said for the window like that's? Come on, guys. That's, that's crazy.
Matt Fischer 36:47
I see. It's easier for us to do the whole top than it is to do the window. And it costs more. So it's also better for us than the window. So that's why we told you that.
Justin MacDonald 36:55
That's that's that's the rub. That's how that works. Yeah, I pick another topic. About my top
Matt Fischer 37:01
two, the third one on the bottom third one from the bottom. Oh, so yeah. For I think the second time now house representatives are gonna most likely pass legislation to legalize marijuana federally. Now, it's probably not going to pass the Senate. But it's gonna go again, vote today, I believe. And as I was reading this article, apparently last year, Pew Research did a poll of Americans and 91% of Americans approve of marijuana use in at least a medical capacity. And so then I'm sitting there thinking like, how Bergen is a system where you have 91% of Americans polled by like pew research, you know, so it's pretty, pretty well known, like research, you know, pollsters. 91% of people approve of it in a medical capacity. And yet, it just always falls flat on its face, and it hasn't gone anywhere in the federal level.
Jesse James 37:51
So they federal, recreational or medical?
Matt Fischer 37:55
Well, I think right now, the bill that that they're, you know, the legislation that they're passing today is gonna be for just justly like legal for medical, okay, on the federal level, right? Because right now, it's just like, I think right now, 36 out of 50 states have some law for medical and or recreational. So it's like you have half the states in the union and 91% of people are approving it. And then yet, for some reason, you know, what it makes me think of all this other stuff, where like, things that like Americans want, and then it gets to, you know, our political system, and they're, like, we know better than all of you know, you know, and I have my theories of why and one of them, come on, yeah, well, obviously, because where are you? They probably have shares in the prison industrial complex. So legalizing, it is going to have to have them come to terms with a bunch of people that are jailed for nonviolent marijuana offenses, and then, you know, if you legalize it, then they're gonna have to go like, well, what are we going to do with these people that are serving hard time for this? Now we're gonna have to most likely, hopefully, meet their sentences and then come to terms with that and find some right like resolution, but you know, prisons are business. So I think a lot of them have, you know, probably vested interest in prisons, vested interests in pharmaceuticals, which are highly against it. And then other things, you know, like, my just profitable for them. That's my thing. It always comes down to money. I just think that they're being lobbied to by people who are against it, you know, and the alcohol, alcohol and tobacco industry as well don't forget them are also most likely highly against it, because it's going to cut into their profits if it ever becomes like recreation on a federal level. And, you know, we can all say, you know, cigarettes and alcohol are absolutely awful for you and kill a ton of people, especially nicotine. And yet those are somehow legally accessible to anyone over the age of 18 or 21.
Justin MacDonald 39:48
Why do you what do you say especially nicotine?
Matt Fischer 39:50
I mean, nicotine kills a ton of people, especially
39:53
tobacco. Oh, yeah, yeah,
Matt Fischer 39:55
yeah, tobacco. My bad.
Justin MacDonald 39:56
I'll just just clarify. Yeah, it's so weird. Give me I think I think a lot of that actually, I'm in a in agreement, but also it's just biding time until they can line up the ducks to make them make money. Money, right?
Matt Fischer 40:09
Yeah. I absolutely agree with that.
Justin MacDonald 40:12
Yeah. Because what I've seen when it when it first started, like becoming legal in a couple different states, and then you look at the politicians that were involved, and I don't have it all in front of me right now, but I, I've read up plenty on it before, where it's like, oh, you literally have someone that's voted no, against this multiple times have jailed people, whatever it is, yeah. And their stock portfolio is booming off of the cannabis industry. And it's like, really? Yeah, like, what? It's, it's just so disgustingly dirty to me. I think that people do themselves No, no service by going, I mean, the medical aspect is important. But but just be honest with it, like you want it for recreational and like, let's talk about the pros and cons and be serious about it. It's the same thing with guns. Like when people are like, well, I need 30 rounds to go hunting like, No, you don't need to go hunting. But if you want to say it, do you want it to protect yourself? Like that's just say that, like, just be honest about it. And let's move forward with honesty because then we're all just fighting these weird, like, you know, battles that we