The Funky Panther
The Funky Panther podcast: Chad, Javier, and Tim deliver high-energy, hilarious banter with random commentary, raunchy humor, and featured guests. Join the fun for an hour-long show that takes you on a refreshing, informative journey through the colorful world of music, news, arts, and entertainment.
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Beer Porn, Cowboy Kinks, and AI That Wants Your Job (and Maybe Your Wife)
Is your beer stash a sexy investment or just a fridge full of overpriced regrets? We pop open some aged Goose Island Bourbon County Stout to see if beer collecting is a high-class hobby or just a bougie way to justify borderline alcoholism. Jesse’s decluttering tips hit harder than a morning hangover, sparking a debate about what’s worth saving and what needs to be chugged before it goes bad—just like your dreams.
Then, we dive deep into a cowboy kink phase no one asked for. Can you pull off a ten-gallon hat without looking like you cosplay Yellowstone? Probably not, but watching us try is worth it. Somewhere between fashion faux pas and midlife crises, we discover that “hat guy” energy is a slippery slope.
Our weekend recap? Absolute carnage. A near fistfight at a Liverpool-Man United match, a shoegaze meltdown at Tulips, and a bouncer who went from menace to bestie in the span of a mosh pit. Add a potential TikTok ban, new apps designed to steal your soul (looking at you, “Red Note” and “Lemonade”), and the unsettling rise of AI bots that want your face, your job, and possibly your spouse.
If that’s not enough chaos, we roast streaming prices, debate nuclear fission vs. fusion (because we’re fancy like that), and make bold Super Bowl predictions that will probably age like milk. Welcome to 2025—messy, ridiculous, and barely held together by memes and bourbon barrel-aged stout.
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Hey everybody, please hold and go, get in here, we gotta start the show. We gotta start the show. Oh, hello everyone and welcome to the Funky Panther. Coming to you from Fort Worth, motherfucking Texas. We have got the very first show of 2025 here for you. That still works, so sit back, relax, enjoy, let's get into it. I'm Chad. I'm.
Tim:Javier, I'm disappointed and we are the Funky Panther.
Javier:Is that a um that goose? Uh fucking beer goose head, it's jingling Gooseneck.
Tim:Gooseneck, it's like the last chocolate border that we've got from like a year ago.
Tim:Is that that gooseneck? Is that a gooseneck trailer? You're drinking, dude? I popped open a uh, a Goose Island, bourbon, the bourbon what was it Bourbon barrel?
Chad:Yeah, goose Island, bourbon, bourbon Barrel, bourbon County Style or whatever. Which year was it? Because I know I looked. I still have something like 2016.
Javier:The one we got. It was a 2016. Really, which is the one that we got? Because I still have the one that it was around 2016, 2017.
Chad:Yeah, because that was when we were collecting beer around the same time yeah, so I got the same one it was actually good dude they hold up, they do that's that bottle I swear would probably sell for 50 to 100 on the black market are you serious?
Tim:yes, and I drank it.
Chad:Yeah, that's the only reason, because well, I mean, now that you said it was good, I might still drink it but like I thought it's pretty good, it's a gamble, and if you were to sell it.
Tim:But you know jesse's like always pushing get rid of, get rid of your bottles. I dude, I've got Jester King in there.
Chad:I still have an atrial.
Tim:Yeah, I've got an atrial, that's what I'm saying. I've got an atrial that's probably like four years old.
Javier:On the group chat. Is that a new hat? Tim, is that a new hat? Or Chad, is that a new hat?
Tim:Yeah, that's a new hat.
Javier:Oh, don't Do that again. Oh God, my name is Sensei Ledoux.
Chad:My lady. God damn, I don't care for that much. It's.
Tim:Christy, you got to tilt your head.
Chad:Okay, yeah, yeah, it's a new hat.
Tim:I picked this bad boy up in Eureka Springs. Let me tell you, eureka, I'm trying to be a hat guy. I've noticed I'm trying to be a hat guy. I mean you pull off a hat. Very well, I'm a little jealous, I almost bought a top hat when we were in New Orleans several years ago. You're not that much of a hat guy.
Javier:No, maybe if you had curly hair like Slash from Guns N' Roses, from GNR.
Tim:That would have been good yeah.
Javier:I've been thinking a lot about hats. You bought a hat recently. Yeah, yeah. It got stretched out as I like.
Tim:Hey-o, does it fit better? Now it fits a little better, yeah.
Javier:Yeah, it's actually, like you know, wide enough to fit over.
Chad:It needs some alligator teeth on it. Sometimes you just gotta like work it out. You know what I mean.
Tim:Yeah, get it to fit the way you need to Exactly.
Chad:You know, Chad, Chad tried your to like. When I try on a normal hat in a store without being a nice one, like a nice hat store.
Tim:Yeah, it just looks dumb and you feel bad about yourself. I mean You're like well, damn it, I got a big head, I didn't, but now yeah, thanks, man started screaming in the store. Kids are looking at I'm like why is this dude screaming in?
Javier:walmart. Those oversized sports hats are the only ones that really fit you like. You know those big obnoxious ones that you know. I mean that's fitting for you and zeus man.
Tim:I think that's what you have as an oversized sports hat. Uh, I, I, I think you could. You could pull off um a nice pair of boots and some jeans and a hat, I mean you just got to get the fit very well.
Javier:You got to get it like a, you got to go and you got to figure out what you're going to look like in your ghost skin, because you can't wear anything like dark denim.
Chad:Oh, because of the whiteness. Because of the whiteness, oh, okay, okay, not that I'm wearing ghost skin.
Tim:No whiteness because of the whiteness, oh okay, okay, not that I'm wearing ghost skin no you're. I am ghost, you are ghost skin. I think you could go with um. All right, hear me out, I think I could wear this yeah, you could, but I think we get you some, uh, some like lighter washed wranglers, oh, like acid washed.
Javier:No, that's too, I don't like light washed jeans.
Tim:Dude, light wash jeans are um, are a thing right now, and I think you could now and I think you could pull it off. I think you could pull it off.
Chad:Okay, I'll let you guys do a makeover on me.
Tim:Yeah, we're going to do a makeover. Let's do a cowboy makeover. No, no, no. I think there's a fine line of makeover. Why are y'all messing with my eyelashes and my eyebrows?
Javier:We're just drawing penises.
Chad:Why is there makeup? No, the thing about hats, though. I'll be honest with you. The thing with hats is, if you're gonna wear that hat, you've got to have a very specific ensemble.
Tim:Yeah, you just can't yeah you just can't throw something like that hat and hoodie won't work no, and I saw a guy with just this hat and a short sleeve shirt and I was like unless you're morgan wallen, you're really douchey looking yeah, but like a shirt and maybe a vest, like you gotta be somewhat now like if we would have gotten chad when he was in his vest era wearing that, I wouldn't maybe like a flat brimmed hat like that?
Javier:yeah, because you could. You would look like, uh, nathaniel rateliff, because he yeah, when I see that, yeah, he wears like I actually want to.
Tim:I want to take it and have it like uh, have it a little shaped, a little bit more, um, I don't know if this hat can do that or not I, I looked, I mean I looked too much like a child.
Javier:Then, like you know what I mean, like I was you mean like a blank check child or like, uh, like, what are we talking here?
Chad:I don't even know at this point.
Tim:That is a great reference and a great movie yeah, except for the pedophilia at the end I did watch that.
Chad:I think we all did right within the past five years or so.
Javier:Yeah, I, I did.
Chad:I think we talked about it one time and it was just very much like ugh, very cringe with the woman.
Javier:I mean Three.
Tim:Ninjas is very cringe too.
Javier:Yeah, it is At this point, yeah you're not wrong, but they had all the cool things. They had an alarm where, if your parents were walking to your room, you could jack our ween and our mom's coming in.
Chad:I think I watched a different movie Surf Ninjas.
Javier:Surf Ninjas was good. I like Surf Ninjas because they implemented a Game Gear into the movie, where they used it as a part of the plot.
Chad:That was his whole superpower, though. Yeah, he was not good at anything except for fucking playing his little Game Gear.
Javier:So that was pretty. Game Gear was ahead of its time. I got one at the house.
Chad:It was just the battery. Life was just awful right, wasn't it like an hour of play? And you're like, okay, here we go, give me nine more, or eight more.
Tim:Yeah, because it took either four or three on each side. I can't remember. It was nine.
Chad:Yeah, nine was such a random fucking number, For whatever reason. It's big batteries. It literally takes nine. You have to buy an eight-pack. You're like, fuck, I got to get an extra battery.
Javier:Where am I going to get?
Tim:that extra battery. It was big battery.
Chad:Oh, they were trying to Game Gear. Enduracell, Energizer were all in it together. You can't buy two double.
Tim:A, you sure can't.
Chad:Yeah, you can't buy them in threes.
Javier:Yeah, no, Chris, on the group chat, all our kid movies are cringe. You go back and you re-watch them and you're like, oh my God, I like this. Not all. Sandlot still holds up.
Tim:Yeah, Right of course, and so does the Mighty Ducks.
Chad:Yes, I haven't seen the Mighty Ducks in years.
Tim:It's great Heavyweights.
Javier:Heavyweights still holds up great Maybe you want to go to Fat Camp? It was pretty offensive too.
Tim:It is pretty offensive. It's pretty fucked, but it's a great movie. I want to go jump on the blob. Ben Stiller what?
Chad:an asshole.
Javier:Yeah, it's the same character in Dodgeball. It's the same guy. It's the same fucking guy didn't?
Chad:I think we made a joke about that at one point. I was like this is this where he went after have y'all ever really thought about never been kissed so?
Javier:I actually I watched that just uh two nights ago really yeah, it's one of jesse's favorites and I actually really like it as well within the past six months, like I was like, oh yeah, I've never seen this and I watched it. And then I'm thinking it's fucking, didn't guy, didn't a guy go to jail for, like, going back to high school and playing baseball, what's?
Tim:his name A woman recently posed as her daughter.
Javier:Oh yeah, she did.
Tim:And broke into the high school and went to class and everything. She got busted and ended up going to jail.
Chad:Did she break in, or did she just pretend to be her daughter? Well, no, she went she snuck in. She broke the glass and goes I'm my daughter now. How did they ever know it was her?
Tim:Yeah, that's exactly how they did it. It was crazy. Never Been Kissed, though if you don't know Josie Geller, she goes back to high school to do an expose on High School Life, okay, and then she's roped into spoiler. I'm sorry.
Javier:She's roped into, she's roped into Spoiler.
Tim:I'm sorry she's roped into. She's 25 years old. She ends up really liking her teacher and her teacher thinks that she is a high school student.
Chad:Which she is.
Tim:They realistically have kind of an inappropriate relationship, yet nothing actually happens. It's just not an appropriate relationship. Well, her brother's, like you, were a nerd in high school originally, so I'm going to come back and save you, and then he really likes doing his thing with baseball. I was a god, and now I'm nothing. And then he ends up. He's at a party and this girl's like I want you to be my first, and he's like 25, 26 years old Jesus, I don't think I'll remember this movie. Yeah. It's good, but it's like that.
Javier:this movie yeah it's, it's good but it's like that ending sucked diddly yucks. That was just the corniest. It is the corny me at the baseball field in the seventh inning, great inning.
Tim:Whatever, I'm like bitch it is the corniest, but it's still. I mean it's, it's good, it's good. You should watch it. Watch it and go back and be like I love drew barrymore.
Javier:I fucking love her. I mean to be G enough to have a movie where you're only in it for five minutes to have top billing and you as the main poster. That's like the best thing you can think about.
Tim:Yeah, so, chris, he's referring to the inappropriate teacher-student relationship. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's this whole thing where I mean you're not really a student, but you are a student. It's like Chris Hansen, where they you're not really a student, but you are students. It's like the. It's like chris hansen, where they you know, gotcha yeah, and that's exactly what they're trying to do, because then there was like oh, there's this whole story that you could be doing about this guy.
Javier:You should bait him, oh I don't beat this teacher because he's a pedophile okay it was a mr.
Tim:Uh, well, you know shall we you know the guy that we went to teach at our school, anyways, oh who. Oh, he's like a wombat or something.
Javier:My sister's friends with his daughter, oh wow.
Chad:Nice, so it has been.
Javier:The one that was born during that situation.
Chad:Shut the fuck up, so it's been three weeks since we've met the last time we were here was right before Christmas. That was a hell of a show. Shout out again to Mikey for coming on. Shout out to all of our friends that showed up.
Tim:Shout out to Jay and Lance.
Chad:Jared Lance Sarish for all hanging out and getting a little toasty with us. That was a fun night. We got to have people in the studio more often.
Tim:We have a lot more people in here than what I realized. We did figure. We got to have people in the studio more often. We have a lot more people in here than what I realized. We need to figure out something to do with the TV to where, like I don't know, we mount something up on the ceiling. We could drop it down, get it out of the way something, I mean we could put it on the wall dude, yeah, we could. Yeah, we could.
Tim:We could put it on the wall right behind there, but the problem same. We just have the camera set up there because then we have the TV and shot yeah we could throw on like a fucking a logo.
Chad:Yeah, oh okay and just have it go in the background yeah, we could do that boom, see, alright, problem solved. I fix things, I'm a fixer alright, so over the past three weeks. What the fuck y'all been up to. We haven't seen each other, have we no?
Tim:we have not. Well, y'all have yeah, yeah, yeah, because we have a bar. I saw y'all at Crystal Springs one day. Yeah, you did, yeah, but we have a bar. We have Crystal Springs Hideaway. That literally splits Javier and my house in half. Right and so just driving there. It's an easy two-minute drive to get over there and have some good drinks and everything. So we've seen each other there a lot because it's just yeah, why the hell not right?
Javier:And then, like, we've gotten to meet, like and get to meet and know the owners oh yeah, we've become With JD and Shana.
Tim:Yeah, we've become first-name basis with them and our bartender Shelby. Yeah, like the car Shelby, like the car Shelby like the car, Shelby like the car, and then the dude that is now your. You know Tammy's brother now.
Javier:Oh yeah, yeah, Was it James? I think so, and also Kelly.
Tim:Kelly, yeah.
Javier:Who runs the Sharkoot stuff inside?
Tim:The Sharkooties yeah, it's a great spot, so we've seen each other there a lot. Outside of that, we had Snowmageddon. That did happen. That really didn't happen, but it did happen. I mean, they shut the schools down.
Javier:There was a little bit of debris on the road, a little bit of racism here and there, wait, what Sprinkled with racism. Yeah. I mean Thursday, I mean why does it got to be white snow? Why can't it be brown snow or like black snow, black?
Tim:ice. They got black ice.
Chad:Yeah, thursday afternoon or Thursday morning afternoon was a little rough.
Tim:Was that when it started, right? I'm pretty sure it was Thursday. Yeah. No, it wasn't, it's a Friday.
Javier:Thursday morning. Yeah, I think it started.
Chad:Thursday.
Javier:And then it stopped. Well, it did it from then, and then it iced, and so the roads were bad, so we were like we're not going into work.
Chad:Well, thursday was like it was just the back and forth. It was like it's rain, it's sleet, it's snow, it's sleet, it's some wintry mix bullshit, and it kept going back and forth all day, but for a while there it was snowing so heavy like big ass snowflakes.
Tim:It actually was pretty legit. I mean up in your neck of the woods, but like here, it was barely anything. You're right.
Chad:There was a pretty obvious line. Yeah. Because I drove a little bit this way and it was just like or even my mom's house is not that bad.
Tim:Yeah, if you went up, if you got north of I-30 and went further up, like closer to A-20, started getting kind of rough up there I mean, it's Texas, North Texas especially we just shut everything down because we don't know how to cope and deal with.
Chad:Well, people just don't know how to drive too.
Javier:It's like the.
Chad:Yeah, If you, because I was on the road, a decent I mean. Like Friday we went out of town and so people on the roads just sucked. People are going too fast or too slow, and nothing in between.
Tim:I mean, you put that bad boy in four-wheel drive. He can go anywhere, can't stop, but he can go anywhere.
Javier:I think it's kind of like. You know, people are posting that scene from King of the Hill where, like it starts like snowing like a little and people are freaking out and they're like, oh, we gotta go get gas to the town.
Tim:Yeah, people buying bread and stuff. I mean Jessie's kind of. She kind of did the same thing in a sense. I mean she bought stuff for sandwiches and things just in case, like if it got really bad we couldn't get out for whatever reason. But I'm like we've got like canned goods and stuff.
Javier:Yeah, we've got plenty of food. We've got milk and cereal.
Tim:We didn't get enough toilet paper. And you know, realistically, whenever it snows, I'm afraid that I'm going to run out of toilet paper. Bidet bro, Because I'm just going to shit nonstop. Bidet bro, I mean, I've got one.
Chad:I know. So what are you?
Tim:worried about. I got a shower. I like to pat down. I got a shower.
Javier:I just put my ass on the nozzle and I just slip upside down and turn it on.
Tim:Just do the handstand in the bathtub All right, so let's back it up.
Chad:Our last episode was right before Christmas. How was y'all's Christmas?
Tim:Oh man busy.
Chad:Yeah.
Tim:Yeah, we were down to Frost, texas, and then back up to here and then back down to the Corsicana area the next day and then back up here, and then we had a few days. And then Sunday, um had to we did our uh Thanksgiving. We did our Christmas at my dad's, yeah, um. So I mean it was just a lot of back and forth traveling but I got some cool stuff that I enjoyed and um you know got me a little versace dylan blue.
Tim:That dylan blue smells real nice. It's a, it's a nice cologne versace. But yeah, it was, it was, it was good. It was a good christmas. It wasn't anything crazy. We kind of uh just chilled at the house, uh, when we got back from christmas day. Yeah, it was nice. What about you?
Javier:same um, or you know, we celebrated on new year's or christmas eve, so we were with the family and um as y'all do as we do. And then uh went over to tammy's um parents. Uh, that night, my mom's moms in the morning, I don't remember. Um, it was great um new year's, me and Tim and the ladies went and had dinner at Lily's.
Tim:Yeah, we went to Lily's yeah.
Javier:And then went to the usual.
Tim:The usual, yeah After that, and it was a lot of fun.
Javier:It was a lot of fun.
Tim:Yeah, the usual was open until 2 am. We didn't stay that late. I ran into.
Javier:Edward Brown over there.
Tim:Yep downtown with Edward Brown.
Javier:And I couldn't have my glasses off because whatever, and I was gonna go take a piss and he's like oh, hey, I know that, I know that piece of shit and I'm like oh what. And now it's edward, and you know he's joking, obviously.
Chad:But no, he wasn't. He was like I hate you well, he's like.
Javier:I wish you could have me back on the show, but I guess you'll hate me. Jesus, we are not. I was like dude. We talked about having you on because of his whole thing after hours, stuff that he's doing and then he's been with Paper City Mag for a couple months now writing a couple stories, so a couple good articles, might I add. But yeah, we did that. Uh, you know, I want to just talk about lily's bistro.
Tim:That place is phenomenal they've been oh man, you got, you got to go, so you're not. They don't have a full bar, so it's, it's a, it's gonna get wine. They've got a really nice extensive wine menu and that's the one on magnolia. Yeah, it's on Magnolia.
Tim:I ended up buying a bottle of a Sauvignon Blanc. It was quilt. It was absolutely delicious. It wasn't that expensive, was it? Mikey approved? I think Mikey would have approved of it, and what was nice about it. So I looked up how much MSRP is on it and they charged $10 over what I could buy the bottle for. Oh, that's not bad. So I'm yeah, and you know they probably got it for uh, I think it was like fifty dollars while you pay, still making money yeah, because they buy it wholesale, right.
Tim:So they probably got a little bit cheaper, but still ten dollars over what I can buy it get a whole bottle. It was. It was fantastic, it was delicious. I will say, uh, the food, yeah, it's like it's french inspired. It's not french, but it's like a lot of french inspired stuff. They have escargot that's. I'd never had it from there.
Javier:It was fantastic buttery delicious it was really good uh the um calamari was fucking bomb the slaw that came with that.
Tim:Calamari was delicious literally go there, get uh, get the calamari, get an order of escargot, get an entree um and the dessert was fucking, yeah, divine, fucking, amazing.
Javier:The coffee and the dessert, coffee and donuts were perfect, you know yeah, they do like a donut.
Chad:It's almost like a beignet sort of yeah, kind of yeah, but is it like cinnamon sugar instead of like powdered sugar?
Tim:cinnamon sugar, yeah, cinnamon sugar yeah, my mom used to make those but it's warm and just like, oh my god yeah, it's delicious perfect date night. Yeah, like really. Uh, you know, take sarish over there. Uh, go and enjoy. They've got a little um, I've always sat on. They call it the lily pad. It's, oh, it's the outdoor section. Yeah, but it's not outdoor. They've got like this big closed-in spot, so even during the winter it's really nice and warm in there. It's low-lit.
Javier:It's just nice They've got a three-piece jazz ensemble playing. Yeah, yeah yeah. A lot of fun. And then last Friday went and saw Fatboy Slim at the Silo in Dallas. Fuck man, that was.
Tim:We were Hang on, but something else happened. You had a birthday that was the next day. You had a birthday that was the next day. Okay, it was the next, it was my birthday that wow it was a birthday weekend yeah.
Javier:So yeah, we did fat boy slam and then if you're gonna go to a show at silo and you're an adult, um, just know that the main dj will not go on until midnight and it ends at two in the morning. So I'm just letting you know. We went out there and we were. We were there at nine o'clock because doors open at nine and they had a dj who sucked at first, who played the same fucking like tempo but switching like music in, and we were like holy fuck. Not to mention, we were at the very front of the stage. You know right where you can see, like from you to me.
Tim:Um, did you have to get there early to get that spot? We didn't know we had no idea.
Javier:You could have probably gotten there like around 10 o'clock and still been able to like get up, front get up front and it started filling up pretty quick. So whenever he came on it was packed um.
Tim:It was amazing, like every song that I wanted to perform uh, yeah, it was.
Javier:It was phenomenal, like I was like jumping up and down and like he was pointing at me like here's a couple times he was like pointing at me because I was singing along with with some of the tracks and it was awesome. So much fun.
Tim:I got a lot of video I haven't posted. Sir, please stop, you're too old.
Javier:Stop jumping. Your knees are going to give out, sir, but it was a lot of fun. Me and Tammy had a good time. And then, saturday, for my birthday, we went out to Crystal Springs. Jay and Lance, and you showed- up, swung by. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I think I blacked out that night, did you?
Tim:Yeah, because I had a couple drinks and I left. Yeah, yeah, so it was pretty heavy. I'll stop by say hi, drink a little bit, go back home. Yeah, Jesse's been under weather.
Javier:Yeah, yeah, I didn't want to stay out too late, but it was a lot of fun. Then, of course, the next day was the Liverpool-Man United and we tied up. We drew in that match. It was good stuff. We didn't lose.
Tim:Yeah, Lance and I went to Tulips.
Javier:Oh yeah.
Tim:Friday yeah, friday night. So same time you were at the Fat Boys' Land, we were at Tulips. I'm going to tell you that place was packed. We were talking about it a little bit earlier. It was difficult to move around in the building.
Chad:Who'd y'all see.
Tim:So we saw it was the band Trauma Ray just released an album, If you like. The best way I can describe them is like kind of like a Deftoni-ish sound. They call it Shoe Gaze. It's just this very like atmospheric kind of alternative a little bit of grunge, a little bit of emo mixed in Trauma Ray is really fantastic. When you look at the album art, you're going to be like, oh, this is going to be like a metal band. And then you listen to it and you're like what? What is?
Tim:this. So they were headlining. But of course our boys, joe, kelly and Ozone, joe and Ty and the other guys were up there. They came on. They were like the second, no third band to the headliner. They came on. I mean, as soon as they had a downbeat, the whole room spread out. There was a big pit going on. It was a great time. Joe was killing it up there, ty's third band, so Ty's one of the guitarists. Um, it's feral cry. It's just the most uh obnoxious, um in your face music. Uh, it was a lot of fun as well. Uh, listen to them. But again, like, as soon as the downbeat hit, the room spread apart. People started going crazy. But I will say there was, this is. This is abnormal for this kind of like show. In this kind of scene, typically you don't have people that are targeting each other and trying to beat the shit out of each other it's usually just like everybody's throwing arms around yeah
Tim:windmill kicks and slamming into the crowd and just having a good time, and ever it's mutual combat at this point. But this was like this guy was trying to fight this other dude and it was right in front of us and I let it go on for a minute and then they started really going at it and this one dude kept getting away and he came back in and they would start back up again and so I ended up stepping out in between them, grabbing the one dude that was close to the doorway and just pushed him out and handed, handed him off to security. Come back. Everybody's like okay, cool, that's, that's settled right. So we're just chilling, having a good time.
Tim:Tim's the hero over here we're just chilling, having a good time, and then the dude that we thought was originally lance thought he was the instigator. I didn't think he was the instigator, but apparently he was, um, started picking on somebody else and they started kind of like going at and he was trying to, you know, fight him. I ended up grabbing his uh jacket. I reached over, grabbed, twisted in, brought him in real close to me and started just pushing him out and the dude took one look at me. He's like, dude, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm sorry. And I was like, and I don't know if I just had dad face, you're so ripped no, yeah, this is a fucking devil.
Javier:Look in your eyes like, yeah, I'm gonna fuck you in your ass son.
Tim:I think that's what it was. I think I had that like murder you. I had that. I think I had the crazy eyes because I was like, yeah, I'm tired of it. Man, we're trying to enjoy the show. Yeah, you're causing all sorts of shit. Everybody's having a good time. Nobody's. Nobody's trying to intentionally hurt anybody, except for you you're harsh in the fucking mood.
Javier:Yeah, he was destroying the vibe right.
Tim:What's funny is I ended up making friends with, uh, one of the security guards. This dude's big, like he is a big dude. He's ever been as tall as I am and like maybe two of me wide yeah, he's just big and he's like man, this pit's out of control and I was like nah, man, it's, it's all good, everything's good, everybody's having a good time.
Tim:It was just those guys. He's like I don't know. I was like, trust me, it's it's good, it's everybody's having a good time. Nobody's targeting anybody. Everybody's having fun. They're picking people up off the ground like they should. Um, yeah, it's a great show. And then they had something going on at loadout as well. They had a dj in there, so they had two things so say like they had two things going on. Uh, loadout was not a ticketed event so you could have gone there and just hung out.
Javier:Dude, that place is like you couldn't get in the room, though it was so like that bar was like packed, low doubt, slowly becoming like one of those chill places to hang out where they're going to start having events, and I think I'm here for it. On the group chat, uh uh, our friends Holly and Bob introduced Christie to the living spaces bar.
Tim:Yeah, the living spaces, bar, yeah, they got a bar up there.
Javier:I didn't know it's so cheap and they have free daycare. I think we need to have a segment where we we have a lot of friends that are parents. So I think we need to have like a segment where she like finds like cheat code or pro tip areas for parents.
Tim:Like hey, the tom thumb over there on west seventh has a bar inside I want to say I think that we should just try some of these alternative bars. Yeah, I'm going to call it alternative bars, right? I like that. Because it's not like a, it's a store right. It's a grocery store or? Whatever, we should go to Tom Thumb Dude and hang out at that bar for a little bit.
Javier:Then maybe a couple weekends go by, we go over to Living Spaces and we hit that bar up for a little bit, so like I ran into Polito over there at Trump Thumb.
Tim:Everything is $2 at the Living Spaces bar.
Chad:God damn, Holy shit Fucking that's a cheat code.
Javier:if I ever see one, they're like you get drunk enough, you're going to want a fucking couch. Living, Living.
Tim:Spaces. You're going to want a fucking couch and you're gonna want a fucking dude like um, yeah, yeah, so you can.
Javier:You're able to go to the bar and get a beer, get a pint, have it, because they obviously have the drink holders on the carts. You can go shopping in tom thumb while you're like.
Tim:You can drink while you're shopping which, which sounds wonderful, except for the fact that I hate going shopping.
Chad:And we, we have everything delivered so do we, so do we walmart yeah, lifesaver they used to have that at whole foods over there, uh, at waterside, and same thing. Like the carts had the beer holder and everything like that, you would go and they always had fantastic craft beer on oh, yeah, yeah and then, for whatever reason, it might have been around covet actually I think it was covet they stopped and I don't think it ever came back amazon, but like amazon Bezos, yeah, but come on they had to have made money.
Chad:There was always people, just like the guys, that sit at the bar while the women are out shopping.
Javier:Dude.
Chad:They'd just be sitting there drinking their beers.
Javier:If I got to go pick up food or something for dinner whenever I leave work at Tom Thumb.
Tim:The bar is always full and I'm sure it's the people that live in the apartments.
Javier:Yeah, bar is always full and I'm sure it's the people that live in the apartments that like, because they also I heard, I heard they got like really good like steaks and like chicken fried steaks that they make at the little you know cafe. They got there too. But you know, obviously the starbucks is next to it but, like it's every time I go at late at night it's always packed, always, always, always. So jingling two dollars.
Tim:Damn. So, christy I think that's christy yeah, we gotta go christy's time she comes up with any tips or whatever.
Javier:Then she needs to go ahead and like uh, send us that info so we can go try.
Tim:All right so we we've gone on about what we did. Chad, you have had some adventures while we were away a little bit yeah, I mean y'all seems like fun as shit too.
Chad:Uh, so christmas was great. Got to see the family hung out with the family on christmas eve.
Javier:But you did multiple, just like me I mean, obviously we all do multiple, but you do, yeah, three different.
Chad:You didn't do no, I just did two. So we had my mom's house christmas eve and then we had all the serious family over at our house on christmas day, and then we went to go see Prairie Lights with my mom Christmas night, which was kind of fun. I haven't gone out.
Tim:Where is that?
Chad:Grand Prairie.
Tim:Okay.
Chad:Well, don't do that, because I didn't ever connect the dots either. Last time I went, I was in high school. I'm thinking Prairie.
Tim:I'm thinking like in the middle of nowhere.
Javier:Like a little house on the Prairie Did you take the train.
Chad:No, there's no train to Grand Prairie.
Tim:There is a train to Grand Prairie.
Chad:No, there's not A slow train to Minnesota. Yes, there is. There is not a train to Grand Prairie. Oh no, that's great, that's great Fine, never mind, I'm sorry it was going to click, correct, joe pool.
Javier:Yes, yeah, I think it's Joe pool, the furniture store.
Chad:I think it's on Joe pool, is it the one in Grand Prairie, I believe. So I think that's right. Yes, that's right, that's right. So we did that. And then For New Year, so we, we talked, y'all went on like a date night, stuff like that. We did a date night one night and we went to Clay Pigeon been there in years, so damn good like the.
Tim:The last time I went was, uh, during like restaurant week, oh yeah, and that's been.
Chad:It's been some time uh, it was great we had the, you know, the um bone marrow. Of course, this is like insane, yeah, so good, that's bro.
Tim:Anything bone marrow, that's the one thing you have to get from there.
Javier:Yeah, for sure, you got me a bone. You always do you always do.
Chad:Uh, we also want to go check out that salute bar, that that new wine like self-pour wine bar kind of over there by Mabel Branch.
Javier:Oh, it's the old other wine bar, right, it used to be 21 Savage, 21, yeah.
Tim:I don't know what it was before.
Chad:But it's, yeah, it's just Salud Wine Bar, is it?
Tim:the same people who own Hoppin'.
Chad:No, because it's the same concept concept. No, they were first. They were first there well before hopping. Yeah, so it was this other bar and they. They had to sell jay and I actually were looking at like it was actually for sale for a really decent price. We're like I don't know, why are they selling? And they were saying because it was like a business partner issue. Um, obviously it must have been that because they were packed yeah they were doing really well.
Chad:We got to try it like they have like self-pour flights and stuff like that.
Javier:It was just good Dude, this is marketing, the reason why they're. I mean the marketing back then wasn't as good as it is now.
Tim:I think the self-pour wine is a better venture than self-pour beer, because you don't get the bubblies and it's easy.
Chad:You can actually get what you want ounce-wise you know, what I really liked about the wine bar compared to Hoppin, is that there's three options on each wine bottle. Obviously, it's not coming from a keg, it's coming out of the bottle right, yeah. So you've got three, six and nine ounces or something. Maybe it was one and a half, three and six ounces. So you get to press the button and it's going to pour you exactly what it is and it's going to give you that price, exactly how it is.
Tim:So it's not going to be like foam Gu or guesstimating or yeah, you're not fucking around with that stuff, right exactly, so it was kind of nice. That was my only complaint about hopping.
Javier:Yeah, because you're you gotta have somebody there to show you how to pour it, and you gotta get the timing right because, if you fuck around, then it kicks off, you gotta wait like a half a second to a second and then put it under at an angle to be a dick.
Chad:But like, wouldn't you put your they want? They want you to put your bracelet back in the bucket because it's, you know, just fast. Like oh, go ahead and go we don't have to check out or anything like that then they put gratuity on that, they put a gratuity, which is fine, I guess, but at the same time it's like it's self-poor I'm doing it well. They're washing the dishes okay, but so are bus boys like, I don't know, like I don't know.
Tim:Yeah, no, I get it.
Javier:I'm kind of with you, man, I don't know man, I was a bus boy and I loved getting tips whenever I loved getting the tip. I loved it you know, they were like 20 years older than me, but I mean I was 16.
Tim:Let's just ask the chat um. Do you feel like you should tip at a place?
Chad:self-service yeah, I want to know if I'm the asshole uh no, no, you're honestly like.
Javier:You're right. It's for for you to get like charged gratuity for just pouring your own beer. It's kind of like whenever you go, like when they have festivals and they ask you, they crack your beer open and they just give it to you. Even then, I usually do it, I do it, I, I don't care I'm a good tipper, that's because I'm a condition. I'm a good tipper, I don't care, I tip 33 on everything. I don't give a shit what it is.
Tim:But yeah, depending on what it is, nice boy, you might get 25% out of me.
Chad:Yeah, I do 20 to 25. I never really go above that.
Tim:If service was bad, I'm only doing 10. I'm still going to tip.
Chad:See even if it's bad, I don't go below 15 or 20.
Javier:Yeah, fuck this cough. I've had this cough for like two weeks. Fucking ridiculous Bronchitis On the group chat. If you go to Tom Thumb between 4 to 6 pm, the bar will be three deep. Yes, I've seen it deeper than that. Let's see the furniture store. Yes, you already said that, the furniture store for and the target bar. I did hear about that. I hope that comes true. That'd be very much trouble. It would be very much trouble.
Chad:They could partner with starbucks and do like an espresso martini situation oh damn, that would be good.
Javier:The whole tipping ecosystem has to be rethought, uh yeah, yeah, I think a little bit.
Tim:Yeah, I think we need to. You need to pay.
Javier:Just pay your people like I mean in europe. They pay their people living like livable wages.
Tim:None of this dollar 25 or whatever. Three dollars an hour and then, like it's it's ridiculous. I mean, you can make a killing on tip.
Chad:So if you're yeah, you can, but whatever. So we did that one night. Uh, slew, definitely. You need to check it out if you haven't already been there. And then for New Year's we went up to OKC. I've only been to Oklahoma City once and it was like coming back through after we went to Kansas City or some shit like that.
Tim:Did you go to Botanic Gardens up there?
Chad:No, oh, you should have. You mentioned that. Real nice, and we didn't Fuck me right. Yeah, exactly it was.
Tim:Fuck me, right yeah exactly.
Chad:Last time I went, it was like during the middle of the day, I think we went to two different bars or breweries and that was it. Oh yeah, I forgot.
Chad:I finally brought y'all your shack gummies From that shack concert Gummy me. Yeah, it's just big old shack heads. But yeah, that was fun. We went to. We went to Prairie Because they've got a Prairie in Oklahoma City and we tried Every single beer they had on tap and it was like 30 of them. We just kind of like we each got Two, four ounce pours. How fucked up were you? We were fucked up.
Chad:We each got four ounce pours and then we passed them around, so we were trying Eight beers at a time, so it's not like we were drinking full beers, yeah, but but we got to try them all, man dude some of these beers, dude.
Tim:I haven't had Prairie Bomb in a long time. I haven't thought about Prairie, to be honest with you in a while.
Chad:Their stouts were fantastic, as always, but their sours were insane. They had one that tasted like peanut butter and jelly. They had one that was like a Christmassy, like cranberry thing. Like every single one of their beers were on point Not a single one.
Tim:We were like, oh, that sucked how would you feel the next day, though, after drinking that much crap beer?
Chad:not as good as it used to, not as good as it used to I don't think it's.
Tim:I don't think we ever felt good. You're probably right. We were just so used to it.
Chad:It's just so much, so often so much more alcohol. I mean, it's not that it's the thickness, the sugar, the yeast, like everything about a craft beer, just fucks your stomach up oh yeah, blood and honeys would fuck me up all the time, oh yeah, but we had a great time. We went to this thing at a brewery for actual New Year's Eve and it was this. Y'all would have fucking loved it. The girls would have loved it too. It was like this Cirque du Soleil.
Tim:Was it burlesque? Burlesque show? I was just guessing. No, yeah, for sure, I'm here for that.
Chad:You had guys doing like the, you know the ribbons where they kind of hang and do the twirls and all that kind of stuff.
Tim:What else were the guys?
Chad:doing. You had some girl come in.
Tim:Can you tell me? More about the guys.
Chad:I mean it was just all over the place, like this girl comes in with a trumpet and castles and stuff, like it was just so much fun that sounds like.
Javier:Remember when we were in vegas and that stripper had the ring in her ass no, I don't recall this I'm sorry that I don't recall this.
Chad:She had a ring in her ass but yeah, it was just a fun night and the beers were super cheap and they were good and then we got like champagne as a part of the situation and yeah, it was slipping off somebody's finger or what group chat will say it it'll come up in the group chat.
Javier:No.
Chad:Where was this at? Where was it at? It was a place called I think it was Anthem Brewing in Oklahoma city. We Ubered there we had already been out kind of all day and so we went there. There was another bar. It was called the lunar bar. It was like this little speakeasy.
Chad:Someone had to tell us how to get in, cause. Had to tell us how to get in because we had no idea, because it was just a wooden wall and there was a button that kind of looks like one of those like handicap metal buttons, yeah, but it just by itself and you press it and the door pops open and so you go inside and it's lunar bar, because it's kind of like all kind of space themed and shit. Um, but they have a five dollar beer and shot special and they've got this big cooler behind the bar and if you get the five dollar beer and shot or whatever you don't know the beer, they just hit the mystery button on the cooler and whatever pops out pops out. So one of us got like coors, one of us got keystone, one of us got like the uh, the shit that we had in new orleans. What is the? The tea?
Chad:twisted, twisted tea so we just got all sorts of random shit, it's like whatever they just kind of threw in there all right, I right, I have an idea for a bar, okay, for like a speakeasy, let me hear it.
Tim:So it's going to be a Seinfeld kind of themed bar, right? So you walk in and it's a guy selling soup, okay, and you have to order a specific way.
Tim:And if you don't order it, no soup for you and you get kicked out, you get kicked out.
Chad:Okay.
Tim:Yeah, so you have to order it the right way in order to get in.
Javier:You've got to go in there like beer, cold mug, no, no, no. Actual soup, actual soup. Oh, like actual soup, it's a speakeasy.
Tim:It's a speakeasy.
Javier:So you've got to tell him what soup you want and then he opens the door. Whenever he said a little door open. Whenever he popped open I was thinking it would be a little door and a little penis comes out.
Chad:Of course you did.
Javier:And then you're like what do you do? I'm like you got to just grab it and squeeze it. And then the door opens. You grab it and squeeze it, and then the way they serve the drinks, the little penis comes out of a hole and just pees. I think we're done here, Put your mouth on it. No, no, no, I didn't say any of that.
Chad:No, because he's done that before. He didn't get into any cool bar. That was New Year's. It was a bathroom at a Shoney's. You knew it was going to happen.
Javier:You knew it was on the other side of that stall. On the group chat, got to hear the Seinfeld jingle every time you go in through the door. Yes, yes or whenever you get into some quirky situation, it just plays in the background.
Chad:Just randomly. So Snowmageddon you mentioned, it happened Friday. We had plans to go to Broken Bow and they got it way worse up there than we did down here, right, and so we kind of make it all the way up and we were going pretty slow all the way to Broken Bow, just because, as soon as we got off the highway, I guess past Paris, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was just thick, like the roads were still thick.
Chad:Uh, all you had to like stay between the tire marks on the road or else you're going to be going all over the place and you're talking like you know, just one lane each way, and so it was pretty crazy and we get out to broken bow like right around six, and people are like spinning out. Uh, the only thing I mean we've all been a broken boat the only thing clear was the main road and everything on the sides. You know it's mountains and hills and stuff like that. And so, if you like, if you just sit there, because we went to that pruitt's, that grocery store, you just, yeah, you just hear people, because that's where we're like all grouping up, because we're like what the fuck do we do? Um, because the road that we, we could see it and there's cars just getting stuck and like anywhere you go, you just kind of like turn off your car and you're listening and you hear cars just like peeling out trying to get out. All over the city People are getting stuck.
Chad:And so this guy in a four by four truck, he was able to get in and out. And he's like, all right, well, we're just going to all load in my truck and then just take one one trip. I'm like like there's no way, fuck, there's no, there's 10 of us and we have all of our stuff. Like there's no way we're all going to fit in this truck safely. And so he was like well, you don't have four by four in the four runner. And I'm like I know I don't, but hold my beer like you know, if I get stuck you can help no, you don't have four by four.
Chad:No, it didn't have four by four, but I had zero issues whatsoever, like I. I don't know what. Maybe it's the tires, maybe it's just my superior driving tires have a lot to do with it, or the latter part, right like. I'm pretty sure the tires are okay now that I'm talking about it and it's really just a superior driving problem I don't know. I don't know either way, we went in and out of that about four or five times and that's about average for me what?
Tim:four or five?
Chad:pumps and I'm good to go.
Tim:We go out of it four or five times.
Chad:It was a good time, though. We just drank a lot, watched sports. It felt like college. We were playing beer pong, we played three man, we were just playing drinking games all weekend.
Tim:That's too much for me. It was a lot of fun. I can't deal with that much drinking anymore.
Chad:Yeah, I slowed down on the second night. I still drink a lot, but the first night we were up until 4 am.
Tim:Yeah, after a Borg incident I'm like I can't. I'm kind of I can't. I can do a Borg all day. We had so much alcohol on that last trip that we did that was ridiculous. That's not all we had.
Chad:Yeah, it's been a fun couple of weeks. It's been great, but back with you boys. The only thing that sucks is back to five days in the office and it's already killing me, yeah and I'll be honest with you, I was all. I wouldn't even work. I was working from home last thursday and friday and it's already still killing me. I fucking hate it I can't stand it. I hate it.
Tim:Welcome to my world, man. I've been five days. I know you got a longer commute. I get that. I get that you take you 10 minutes to get to work. I get 14 if I hit all the lights. Excuse me, I get that. Are you riding the train?
Chad:No, because the train adds 30 minutes each way.
Tim:Yeah, but you just get to chill and decompress. I get it, I just want to get there. You swing by the gas station, you get yourself a little drink for the way there. And then you swing by the gas station, you get yourself a drink for the way back. I'm not going to drink on the way to work. I'm not saying that you drink a whole lot. I'm just saying you drink enough. Drink enough to enjoy work.
Chad:Yeah, you're ridiculous. All right, so this is our first episode of 2025.
Tim:Hang on, I got a question though, okay, okay, okay, because I don't think we talked about this on the podcast, but you rode the train for the first time not that long ago. It's been a while, right, right, right.
Chad:And they hit a vehicle. So I hadn't been taking the train in a while because, like I said, it's just faster to drive.
Javier:I'm not going to lie.
Tim:I think you're going to play like the Seinfeld thing whenever you had that. God damn it. You got to add that in post.
Javier:You got to cut that in the chamber, man.
Chad:Yeah. So I was like you know what, at the start of the year I'm probably going to start taking the train again because it's cheaper Overall it's cheaper and I'm not putting all these miles on my car and stuff like that. And so I was like I'm going to get back in the rhythm, I'm going to decompress. I just kind of had my laptop open doing a little bit of work on the way to work and then whenever I was coming home, I'm like you know what I'm done, I'm done for the day. I'm just going to sit here and relax.
Chad:We hit three train stops and as we're passing through Irving, I see this white flash on the right side and I'm like what the fuck was that? And then the train just comes to a screeching stop, screeching stop, and all you smell is like you know, the metal on metal, brake shit. And so I'm like what happened? And some guys like we just hit a truck. And I'm like okay, and then I kind of connected the dos. The white flash, essentially, was the truck. This truck was right over the rail and he stalled I guess it was a manual or something and it stalled and so we clipped the front. It's not like we hit him head on because that motherfucker would not be here, but we clipped the front of the truck and it kind of spun to the side a little bit. They were apparently fine, but we sat on the tracks for two hours.
Javier:You couldn't get out.
Chad:No, they had police officers come check us out. Firefighters come by, they had to wait until the TRE manager comes out and inspects the damage to make sure that they don't have to call insurance or anything like that, and if they did they were going to have to get us on another train, but otherwise we had to sit there. So we sat there for two hours. It was a three-hour train ride home.
Tim:Fuck that. The best thing, though, and I just want to bring this up Okay, chad, you've always said that if there was a plane crash, you were going to survive, right, yeah, well, you survived a train crash.
Chad:I can now say I was in a train crash, or train wreck, or train clipping, I don't know.
Tim:We'll call it a train crash. We won't say a derailment, because you didn't get derailed.
Chad:We did not but you survived a train.
Tim:Literally everyone did you survived a train incident, that's great.
Chad:Yeah, I'll put that on my resume.
Tim:I would, I would, I would you know. And if TikTok's about to go away, yeah, and I think this would be a great, you know, somber music. Yeah. You're like I just want everybody to know that I survived a train accident and you start telling the story as if, like you know, it's going to be like a really bad you know, and then it's just not, and then, yeah, you get to the end Like it's nothing like it's nothing.
Chad:Yeah, it's going away anyway.
Tim:So it's on the fucking train like guys. Today I got into a train accident. People are looking at you like what is this idiot you drove?
Chad:a train, all right. So now into the con are we? Are we kind of we covered all the things? Yeah, 53 done, I know all right. So we are now into 2025 and it is pretty.
Tim:Sorry, it's already gone off the rails.
Chad:Well, from the chat, Chad's had multiple trains run.
Tim:On him.
Chad:And he survived. Each one of them Love that.
Javier:Each one girthier than the last.
Chad:So yeah, 2025 already seems like a shit show. He's got a little wear and tear now, but he does. He's a little stretched out but okay, enough, enough, we're talking about 2025 yeah, all right so I've kind of categorized them in five different categories. We want to like just talk through them. Are they in the notes? No, I've got them in my own personal notes because I don't think that we even look at those anymore. It's's been a minute.
Tim:It's been a minute.
Chad:All right, so so we've got a broken down into four categories wild political maneuvers and controversies, extreme weather and infrastructure chaos, technological and space advancements, economic and consumer shocks. And cultural shifts and lifestyle trends.
Tim:Oh man, where do we begin? All of these sound wonderful to me. I'm not actually being facetious. I'm actually legitimately excited about every single one of those categories.
Chad:All right, let's just start from the top. Let's start from the top. Okay, so obviously we are going to have a new president here in the next week, right? He's going to get sworn in in five days the next week right he's gonna get sworn in in five days new, old, new old, yeah, new again but still old right, they're all old, the oldest, so fucking old, um, but there's already a bunch of shit happening I hear he's the healthiest, though with the things that he's saying. So he's talked about wild proposals like buying greenland.
Tim:Which okay. He wants to buy Greenland. He wants to take control of it from Denmark.
Chad:Right.
Tim:All right which?
Chad:okay, which is not a thing Like they're not going to sell it. I mean they could, and they are a free and independent people. I mean minus being controlled by Denmark, Controlled by Denmark. But they're a free and independent people. Yeah, I get that, but they're a free and independent people. Yeah, I get that. Why do you think?
Tim:he wants to do like what's the point? So he wants it for strategic. Well, he claims a strategic um, like a strategic base. Essentially, I put more troops on greenland. Um, in reference to close proximity to russia, okay, um, I believe that denmark has said, uh, they've kind of struck a deal maybe where it's like you can just increase the troop count, okay, but Trump still wants it.
Chad:Do you not think it's absolutely wild that he can just say whatever the fuck he wants?
Tim:There's a theory behind that, so it's President Nixon. It's a President Nixon theory called the Madman Theory. All right, so essentially I'm not giving this man credit, I'm just saying that maybe, maybe that's what he's going for is the Madman Theory, where you just say off the rails, unhinged things. You seem like you're completely crazy. It worries the other world leaders to the point of, like this guy's got nukes. We're concerned enough, let's just. Let's just give.
Chad:give baby his pacifier because he's going a little crazy.
Tim:We got to deal with it for four years, yeah, and then we can go back to being normal that makes sense, actually that that actually makes a lot of sense well, I mean he's. He's screaming what uh gulf of america that was another one.
Chad:okay, he wants to rename, to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, he wants to annex Canada and he wants to reclaim the Panama Canal.
Tim:I don't know where y'all have been, but I've been calling it Gulf of America for a while. In fact, he got that from me.
Chad:Dude. I actually went on chat GPT and I was like, is that a thing that a country can do? And it's like, no, you actually have to get it approved by worldly leaders.
Javier:The United Nations.
Tim:Yeah you can't just go change a body of water, he could call it that and he could try to encourage the rest of the nation to call it.
Chad:It's kind of one of those things where you, I think I guarantee you there's already shirts and hats made.
Javier:There are, I promise you.
Tim:All them are all them hillbillies like, yeah, come to the gulf of america I. But what you do is you start, uh, it's. It's one of those things where you just like, um, like in the office whenever uh, no when uh, nelly or nilly or whatever takes over.
Chad:She just calls herself the manager oh yeah, and just takes up shop in the office.
Tim:And yeah, I think if you do that enough and you get enough confidence and crazy.
Chad:You're key, right, right.
Tim:Well, the mexican president said something to the sort of like well, you know what else sounds good the the united states of mexico but you know, what trump has also said is that he would like to buy mexico and I thought, hey, look, more power to him. I thought this whole time we were trying to keep them out can Canada and Mexico.
Javier:you will never have another Republican, fucking president, I'm just saying Never.
Tim:I thought we were trying to keep them out, that's the thing. And so why would you want to let them in, right? If?
Chad:you were the president. I mean at this point. It's been such a. I'm not saying me, I'm just saying it's been such a a contention on every, you know every, a contentious topic, I guess for every like, why not?
Tim:Well, Trudeau is stepping down.
Chad:Right. At the same time, all this talk is happening.
Tim:So maybe he was, maybe he was going to make a deal and someone caught wind of it.
Chad:Uh, another thing that's going on is massive cybersecurity breaches. Y'all know that I know that's happening a lot of like companies and stuff too, but foreign hackers target US government agencies, intensifying geopolitical tension.
Tim:Yeah, so we went through that at my job a couple of months ago, no, a couple of years ago.
Tim:It's been a couple of years now. Yeah, it's been. It's been a couple of years. I actually just recently started up in the office at that point, yeah, and I didn't know this. And it, um, and I didn't know this. And it makes sense that all these different groups kind of have their own little signature. And so the fbi, when they got involved with ours, they knew, like, based off of the movements they did and all the stuff they did, that this was a group out of like ukraine. Ukraine actually has a lot of if you didn't know, we're helping ukraine a lot, uh, but they have, um, one of the largest amounts of ransomware hackers working out of that Ukraine and that region. So they knew this one came from either Ukraine or Belarus. One of the two, yeah, they were targeting specifically healthcare. They were trying to get hospitals, because hospitals, a lot of times, will just give you the money.
Chad:Yeah, and it's a lot of personal data. They can go and just do anything with anybody's information. Yeah, and it's been a lot of tech companies too like a ton of tech companies over the past year or two have been hacked or information hijacked.
Chad:It's pretty wild somewhere too, that I think it was china that has like china, china, china has like hacked like 1.3 billion dollars worth of bitcoin from people because they just have all these hackers just going and gathering bitcoin that just goes into the country's pocket yeah, and one of the things that people do, if you don't know this, is don't keep your wallet key on your computer.
Tim:Keep that on a usb drive, put away right, because, um, I read the story on reddit. This guy was trying to figure out like how he can get his stuff back. So his kid got on his ipad and was playing like something with fortnite or something, downloaded a mod or something along those lines. Um, the kid thought it was just normal. Turns out it wasn't, and this dude went in there and took all of his bitcoin so you beat the shit out of the kid, right you?
Tim:beat the shit out of your kid. I think that's when you take your kid to qt, where it's a safe space and you just leave them there.
Javier:At that point, this is my child, he's yours, your problem now.
Tim:Yeah, the guy said it was daddy. No, the guy said it was basically his entire retirement that was taken.
Javier:What a prick Damn that sucks. Fucking kids are assholes. Dog.
Chad:Kids are the worst. The last one for political maneuvers and controversies is the potential TikTok ban. So a Supreme Court decision looms, with millions of users facing the app's removal January 19th. Unless ByteDance divests.
Tim:Which January 19th is whenever it's supposed to go into effect, and Inauguration Day is the 20th. Yeah.
Chad:And so Trump has tried to push it back because he's got a love for TikTok.
Javier:He's got a love for people loving him.
Tim:So I heard Elon was trying to buy it.
Chad:I heard that too. I also. This came out today I think it was on X that Mr Beast said all right, fine, I'll buy TikTok. And he said a ton of billionaires reached out to him immediately about it. So I think that there are options. I don't think that it's likely. I don't know. What do y'all think? Do you think it's likely?
Tim:So here's what I think is going to happen. I've got a prediction, so the ban's going to go into effect and it's not going to affect us the way everybody's kind of making it seem like it goes into effect and boom, switches off, you can't access TikTok.
Tim:You're still going to be able to use the app, right, and you might have to use a VPN to get around it, but you're not going going to get any support. Yeah, no updates or anything like that. So eventually it'll become glitchy and, un, you know, unuseful. What I think is we're going to have the savior complex, right.
Chad:So inauguration day, it gets inaugurated signs in the thing that tiktok is no longer banned I don't think that he can just turn it around that he can, though he can, he can yeah executive executive executive decision.
Tim:Yeah, no, he can, he can yeah, executive, executive, executive decision, yeah, no, he can, he doesn't really matter either way, so I mean, that's one of the scenarios like.
Javier:it's like telling the courts like dude, well it's, it's taking the, because they're going to be these uh phone companies going to be fine, like uh, android and apple are going to be fine if they offer support, like updates and stuff like that. So they're going to find them. For each time. What he can do is just say, well, you won't be fined, you will not be fined, and it's not necessarily like unbanning it, it's just like telling them because it's not a ban, technically it's a ban, but it's not. It's offering, like Tim said, a support option for updates and new features. He can just say, well, we won't find you if you do this stuff and then boom, that's it.
Tim:or, like he said, vpn or mexico, and or you just do like I did and you join red note. You can find me, uh, under username cunnilingus rice yes listen if if anybody knows that reference other than cunnilingus rise.
Javier:Sounds like a than like.
Tim:Do you know what that's from? Yes, what's funny is I don't think a lot of the Chinese people I'm interacting with have any idea what that's from.
Chad:Not yet, but you will get banned. I'm telling you that right now they're apparently worse on Red Note, which isn't actually the name. That's just what we've been calling it. It's not called Red Note.
Chad:I think it translates to red notebook no, yeah, that's true there's a chinese lady that said that you found the red notebook well, regardless, like if they're going to shut down tiktok, it's going to be cracked down across the board. Yeah yeah, I know, I mean and so people are going to red note or whatever it's called. They're also going to eliminate, but eliminate is also bite dance. So yeah, like it's not going to Red Note or whatever it's called. They're also going to Lemonade, but Lemonade is also ByteDance, so it's not going to last either.
Javier:I just want to give a shout out to our Chinese fans out there. Ni Hao, wang Zhu, ni Hao, it's for them.
Chad:Okay, yeah, thank you, I'll see you all at the end of March I'll be in Hong Kong.
Tim:I am. I'm proud of my name. Yeah, we could tell it was so good. You see it this morning.
Chad:He's like look what I did. He was just, he was like a fucking, like a child with a goddamn coloring.
Javier:Yeah, look what I did. And then I changed the or there too, I saw.
Tim:So I had to get. I found a picture of Condoleezza Rice, condoleezza, condoleezza, condoleezza, condoleezza. Condolingus Rice Found a picture of her and I edited it enough, I put a helmet on there. And you know it's pretty fucking good, I'm gonna say it's pretty yeah it's great, um. And then I posted on tiktok, on my own personal tiktok page, the screenshot of that. And then there's a band called zahner, um, that's out of I don't know someplace, um, but they have a song called murder shout out to y'all they got uh, they're overseas but they're like anti-establishment.
Tim:They've got a. They got a song called murder to the government so I had that blasting I was like find me on red note.
Chad:You know, and I've already had people find me so it's uh rage against the machine on crack dude, it's crazy, they have a song called killdozer oh, shout out to the killdozer yeah, oh, mr uh hemeyer, whatever, that's right yeah, all right, anything else that y'all know about, like anything political happening, that has just been wild for the past few weeks um politicizing the la fires.
Tim:Oh shit, have you have you seen that they've like a? So, first off, they arrested somebody that was dressed like a firefighter who was looting good so somebody put on like a fire outfit and started looting right um. The other one was so I watched a video on tiktok because it's not gone yet um of these two guys that live in a neighborhood basically stopping a guy from setting more fires yeah, I've seen I've seen.
Tim:So they've had several people going around and like just setting shit on fire now. Well, the whole place is on fire.
Javier:Might as well add to it. Right, look, you know what I don't understand. I don't understand why people are recording these people doing this. Don't, don't record them Like, go beat their ass, throw them in the fire. So that was my whole thing, so they can die?
Tim:Oh can die, oh god, because fuck those guys that are starting the fires. We've been on long enough that we're not gonna get demonetized, if we got monetized at all. Um, anyways, yes, and so I I commented, I was like why are you just like pouring water on this dude's blowtorch, trying to keep him like? Do something, beat the shit out of him, like there's two of y'all.
Javier:I've been you know what I. I don't care anymore. I'm putting stuff on tiktok where I'm like I would not be mad if they were on a shirt. Put that motherfucker on a t-shirt.
Tim:I don't give a fuck speaking of fucking around and finding out, I watched a video where this lady I couldn't. I watched it four or five times because I'm like this is ridiculous I don't know what you're talking about.
Tim:It was a road rage. It's on on the Daily Mail's TikTok it was a road rage thing. This lady gets out of her car, walks up to the car behind her and starts screaming at the woman that's driving the car. Well, that girl's got her boyfriend in the car, so he gets out and it's like lady, what's your deal? You know whatever. And she's like back up, away from me. So he turns around, starts to to walk away and she swings and hits him.
Tim:So he beats the shit out of her, grabs her and body slams her kits in the car, drives off all right, so now this lady's just laying on the ground and she finally gets up and she walks to her car and another guy who was there pulls up, gets out of his car, walks up to her like why are you getting out on people? Yeah why are you getting out of your car and getting out on people? Get your ass in the car and stay in the car. Yeah, so she gets, goes through all that and then she gets admonished by some random dude talk about fucking karma.
Javier:Fuck. I like seeing those. I like seeing the people were there that are in accidents and they're like, hey, you can't park there, and they're like, fuck you. I saw one where a lady was. I started shooting in the air, pulled her gun out and I saw that one too.
Tim:That's fucking wild all right.
Chad:So the next category here is going to be extreme weather and infrastructure chaos, because we just talked about the wildfires which is bizarre. I mean some of those videos look fake like it, looks insane they.
Tim:I mean it's pretty fucking wild yeah, hold on say that again the la wildfires yeah, yeah, they look wild, they sure do if you see them on like videos.
Chad:They had some tornadoes driving through and shit. No, you mean like fire, tornadoes, yeah fire tornadoes.
Tim:Because, okay, so you, I do know a little bit about fire science because I've taken a few classes on it, but you get the thermal upset and it creates its own weather at that point.
Tim:so there's so much heat and it mixes with the cooler air temperature and it creates its own weather at that point. So there's so much heat and it mixes with the cooler air temperature and it causes all this disruption and shit and you'll have winds of over 100, like hurricane force winds out there that are pushing this fire at this point, and sometimes you get full-on fire-nators, which should be a movie.
Javier:Yeah. Oh well, there was a backdraft, wasn't there?
Tim:Backdraft's about the dude that was setting arson and causing backdrafts. Are you? Sure.
Javier:Yes, but shout out to Gladys she's trying to set something up for a benefit. She was talking about how places over there by her hometown in LA have been affected and she wants to have a benefit show. So if any artists, friends of ours, are listening or on live right now, she'd like to talk to you to donate some time for a great benefit, helping out people from the city of LA.
Tim:One of my favorite videos I've seen from this whole thing, though, is there's this guy and he's interviewing. He's up in the Hollywood Hills area. It's old Hollywood, right. Yeah. And he's talking to this guy and this dude's like yeah, I've been helping my neighbors get out and everything. We've got all this stuff up here and we're trying to get them out. And they're like oh yeah, that's great, and what's your name? And he's like Steve Guttenberg.
Tim:Oh yeah, I saw that, I saw that, and it hurt me because I'm like as soon as I saw him doing the interview I was like that's Steve Guttenberg, that's cool, yeah, and this news reporter has no idea, no idea who, no idea, three men and a baby Fucking.
Javier:Police Academy.
Tim:All the Police.
Javier:Academies Police Academy 1 through 20. Yeah, and he was. But he had good advice. He was like if you're leaving the city, if you're leaving your cars, leave your keys in there. There's going to be people like me that need to move them. For people like emergency vehicles to come up to the driveways, up to the houses.
Tim:Dude, he's like hanging out, he's like I ain't leaving.
Javier:He's putting in fucking work, man. Shout out to that man.
Tim:Shout out to that man Dude, we're going to have.
Javier:Call us old Goody Gutenberg. Dude the videos of pets staying around the smoldering fires and getting back to their. It's crazy Dude. There was a video that girl's like. I don't give a fuck about anything, I just want to make sure my cat's okay.
Tim:Well, and then the video of the two guys and their dog in the house. Yeah, they got out, so we know they're safe, but he's like the dog's freaking out. You see the fire raging, like it's, you know, 20 feet away from the house, kind of thing, and I'm like get the fuck out of there.
Javier:I can't imagine being in that situation, Dude honestly like the first thing I would do like before I grabbed anything like files and shit. All of the animals are in there in the car load them up and get them out, and then I'll have her take them. I'll stay behind and get as anything that I can like important shit and that's it. Anything else, my insurance will cover everything that's in there. Fuck the shoes, that's the other thing that's.
Tim:the other thing is that insurance companies, as the fire is approaching, they're canceling their fire insurance, right, but there was a Senate law passed. One of the guys I think he was like an insurance commissioner said you know, while I was in the Senate we passed this and we're going to go ahead and enact this. And I'm like wait a second, you mean the government can step in and make insurance companies not do this kind of stuff, right? You mean they could probably step in and not let them price gouge us.
Javier:Dude, they've been leaving states Like they left Farmers left, yeah, california and Florida.
Tim:Yeah, so, like farmers, canceled my insurance because I didn't want to bundle with them. They've got some of the highest car insurance.
Javier:Progressiveives doing the same shit now too. Yes, yeah, insurance companies. They can get fucked. They can go ahead and go to the route of the fucking well they're having healthcare ceo.
Tim:so part of the issue with it is they're having to pay because they've paid out so much in these fucking claims here over the you know last, you know several years that they uh, so they buy insurance companies, buy insurance um, themselves from the lloy Lloyds of London, things like that. I didn't know Lloyds of London was a thing I've never heard of it. It's like a big room, it's got a bunch of people and they call up.
Javier:They do auctions also.
Tim:Yeah, and so it's all set up to support the insurance.
Chad:Do you have to be named Lloyd in order to be a part of this project? And you have to be from.
Tim:London.
Javier:Like Lloyd from.
Tim:Entourage. Yes, he's up there.
Javier:He is up there Impressive.
Tim:Yeah. So now their insurance rates have gone up, and so they're trying to recoup money, right? So what do they do? They raise their rates, and now we're having to suffer from it.
Javier:Yeah, but they collect premiums every month. Right, every month you're paying into this.
Tim:I can't help it if they've had poor investment opportunities. I mean, because that's what they're doing they invest the money we put in there. I'm sorry.
Javier:Like what do you want me to do? Like the same with your car insurance. Like they raise your premiums because there was like three hailstorms in that year. Okay then you can't bitch about. You got to do all OEM parts instead of doing aftermarket. Yeah.
Javier:You got to give me my rental, full fucking whatever for the whole month that I need it or longer, because we've had situations where they're like, well, since they're not a claimant, then we can only pay for 30 days. I know they're our customer, but it's not. You know it's their fault. I'm like no motherfucker was a hit and run, like I don't know what you want me to fucking. It's annoying being in the industry. Yeah, it is, it's annoying and fighting for every fucking penny.
Chad:Fuck all that. All right, so let's just run through these three real quick and move on to the next section. So a couple other things with extreme weather Unprecedented winter weather, heat waves in some areas and record snowfall in others disrupt travel, travel Travel's been crazy Sure. Yeah, Whatever. And then energy grid failures, holiday season blackouts exposed weaknesses in the US infrastructure, global food supply issues, erratic weather and supply chain disruptions lead to grocery shortages and rising prices. So all sorts of crazy shit.
Tim:You know whose grid did not fail.
Chad:Texas, texas, our grid was fine. Look, it's not even February yet, bro Like usually that shit happens in February.
Tim:I was watching ERCOT. They've got a little thing. You can download the app and you can see what the demand is versus what the load is.
Javier:I've been to ERCOT. I got drunk over there, yeah, what? Yeah, I was in Mexico and I was in like China and Germany and England has a little pub Like it's really cool to hang out and drink at, Did you?
Tim:try that one. Oh, epcot, isn't that what?
Javier:we're talking about. We're talking about Epcot. Is that what we're talking about? We're talking about the energy company. Try that one soda, urquhart.
Tim:Which one? That one soda that everybody hates.
Javier:Oh, in Rebrew or which one, I can't remember what it's called.
Tim:Is it the?
Javier:one that tastes like d Her car is in Disney.
Tim:There are two different things. My dude, yeah, we get our power from Disney. It's a small world.
Javier:Speaking of Disney, though real quick.
Tim:Did you know? They took the Disney Channel off there.
Chad:No what.
Tim:Yeah, like I think, last week they took it off there. That didn't make my list. That's pretty wild. No way, I'm going to check right now it's because they've got the old Disney Channel, the Disney Plus.
Chad:All right. So technological and space advancements is number three. So number one SpaceX's milestone rocket launch, successful Starship launch signals advancements in space travel and Mars exploration. Space travel is getting pretty wild and, like the Starlink capabilities and being able to like soon our phones can just we could use our phones anywhere, like we aren't even going to need cell phones.
Javier:Did you Starlink um starlink? Only, did you hear what the what the sun sounds like? Yes, did y'all hear that? Oh it's, it's creepy dude the video. Did you see the video of? Uh, was it the parker solar, uh, solar, uh thing the probe, yeah yeah, yeah.
Tim:So they got the probe like it's the closest anything has ever been to the sun. The video's wild and it got close enough to where it didn't burn up, right, but nobody can go there. Where was that? Yeah, and it sent what the solar winds and all that stuff sound like and it's fucking crazy.
Javier:So cool thing Whenever before it launched, they had a thing you can get in the website and they they had a thing you can get in the website and they can etch your name into the probe, and I did that. Really I had my name etched into the probe.
Chad:That's cool. Yeah, how much did you pay for that? Nothing.
Javier:It was from the NASA website. Oh that's fucking awesome. It was like 2017, whenever I did that.
Tim:That's legit. Yeah Well, that's cool. So your name's been to the sun. It has, man.
Javier:They will know me into the cosmos.
Tim:It sounds like they will. Yes, but you know the aliens are coming from the ocean.
Javier:Yeah, they are.
Tim:I've got to go drain the weasel real quick.
Chad:All right, you know. Again on the space thing, china apparently is doing better than we are in the space race to lunar exploration on the moon again.
Tim:China's doing better in a lot of things. Man, I've seen some cars that are coming out of china. Oh yeah, the new ev is like a lot of their evs that are if it was, if it was made not made it, because nothing's made here, really um, but if it was an american company, yeah, you'd be paying for some of the stuff that they're showing 60, 70, 80 000. They showed a car that was like, yeah, in china it's like 25 000. It's crazy. And they're like really good too, too, and they're like Tesla and luxurious, yeah.
Chad:And every yeah and they're also like they're. I invested in Robinhood, I put some money towards flying cars and, like you know, that kind of stuff.
Tim:We were supposed to have flying cars by now.
Chad:Well, they're coming very soon and I'm talking very soon and there's a Chinese company that's doing really well too, but all three of them, all three of the stocks are like up and quite a bit too. The other two here AI, of course. Generative AI tools transform industries, sparking excitement and a lot of ethical concerns coming out recently, because it's like progressing very quickly and so we're getting to the point where it's like, oh shit, well, I was telling you about before we started.
Tim:I had a class that I was going to have to have the Honor Lock extension on my Chrome, right, and if you don't know what Honor Lock is, it's a lockdown browser but there is no proctor. Okay, they use AI, and that's one of my issues that I have with it is they're using AI and they track your eye, movement and things like that and using AI and they track your eye movement and things like that.
Tim:And so I'm one of those and like I'm going to try to get my doctor to sign off on something or whatever, to say I don't have to use that so I can turn into the university. I'm paranoid, like at that point, like I'll be doing my test. I'm like, oh crap, it was my eyes doing the right thing. Like I'm going to be in my own head thinking like what if my eyes shift and it triggers, and then they bring a proctor in? You know, it's those little things. And I'm like I can't do that. Well, it's all ai driven, it's a. Well, if you didn't cheat you have, you wouldn't have to worry about it, and I don't. So here's the thing is all my, all my exams, every single one of my exams over the past um, like almost two years that I've been in school, have been open book yeah, every single one, yeah.
Tim:Online is the way to go except for, like, the math classes and spanish are not open, book the spanish one. Get this. You also have to disable your spell check. Oh yeah there's.
Chad:I've actually read, so I started my. I can't spell for shit. I know words, I just can't spell them. I I started my MBA program this week. Mba, you're going to play basketball, I'm going to play basketball. Hell, yeah, brother, I'll announce the team soon enough. So I started class back again and one of the things because I was looking at it, because AI was not a thing whenever I graduated my undergrad- right.
Chad:Sure. And so now I'm looking at like what can I and can I not use and how can you get in trouble? And people are getting in trouble because spell check and there's a thing called Grammarly and even just a spell check can trigger their AI testing on your documentation and say hey, like this was AI was used.
Tim:But that's the thing is like, because even like without even using Grammarly because I was dude I had a teacher several semesters ago that said that suggested us to use Grammarly and the thing is, is like I've written legitimate, like my own words, right? Did not use AI at all and checked it against the AI checker and it said that it was 30% AI Right yeah. So there is no such thing as a good AI detector.
Chad:Right, I agree.
Tim:Now there's things that the teachers can do and they put in like white text on a white background, and so it'll put a phrase in there and then they can just search for the phrase. There's little sneaky things they can do, right? What I use chat GPT for, though, whenever's any any paper related stuff is I actually use it to help me with my outline. Yeah, I tell it like this is what I'm working on. I need you to break down and then, and then it just breaks it down to where I work, section by section, and it just makes it a whole lot easier it's kind of how I.
Chad:I use it at work quite bit and I use it as kind of like a first draft and then, like I plug in, I obviously have all the information that I want. I'm really good at prompting it accordingly, and I have it as a first draft and then I edit accordingly. Yeah, I mean, and so I it all it is. It's a tool, it's a time saver and it kind of sucks that universities.
Chad:I get it, don't get me wrong, I get it, but it kind of sucks that we're kind of in this in-between spot where we can't use it. You shouldn't use it, but it would really help out, kind of like calculators.
Tim:Yeah, none of my emails that I write at work are written by me.
Javier:I believe that, dude, I've written a response to a review to make it as respectful as possible, but still call her a cunt.
Tim:How's that prop? Look, uh write this, uh respond to this review make it sound as cunty as possible without without saying that they're a cunt.
Chad:Yeah, yeah, okay, I got you I feel like I am second guessing myself, more than I ever did, though, with ai, because I'm a fairly good writer. But even now, now to your point, like normal, just quick three sentence emails, I'm like let me just see, what it would do yeah. And I might make a couple of adjustments, but like it's, it's nice to have it, but it's almost like I'm, I don't want to be using it too much, I guess.
Tim:You know, and it's funny, as you get, as I get some more advanced chat GPT, especially if you pay for the service. You could start advanced chat gpt, especially if you pay for the service you could start. You could upload your own, your own writings and say I want you to use this as reference for tonality and all that stuff and it will write shit based off of how you normally write have you chad tried apple intelligence to do any of that stuff?
Chad:I'm not a fan, like I don't like how it it I don't like how it uh does your messages. They're never quite right, like how it summarizes your messages. Other than that, like, the only AI that I've enjoyed from Apple intelligence is the photos, because you can really get like just make things disappear and they're gone, and it does a really good job of doing that.
Javier:I think my dick look bigger.
Chad:I mean, there's always, it'll just disappear things if you want your dick to disappear. You are now a woman.
Tim:I've uh, I've gotten some wild summaries though. Yeah, um, and so, like one of them, it was like shots fired multiple people at your front door and it was all the stuff from ring and so whatever you like. So you're getting all the ring, nate, like the ring neighbor stuff, and like I heard gunshots and it's like I can't stand it and it literally said like shots fired multiple people at your door and I'm like what the?
Javier:fuck is this? Yeah, yeah, same same, like what is happening. The blink camera too. It says like multiple, yeah, multiple people in in cat room. What the fuck's going on?
Chad:all right. Last thing about technology uh, we gotta move on, we're out of time but this is one that I actually wouldn't mind us like doing a little bit of research on and bringing on one of the next couple episodes, because did y'all look at the c ces 2025 at all?
Javier:yeah, yeah, a little bit of it there's some crazy.
Tim:What is that?
Javier:it's like the tech consumer electronic oh yeah, okay, I got you.
Tim:They have it every year, but this year.
Chad:It's just like just wild.
Tim:Some is that where the ai dolls were, because I've seen videos of that and it wasn't like. So these were not like. It wasn't at like a sex convention. I'm going to preface that because I could tell like it looked like, because he knows he's been there before.
Chad:There was no scantily clad women.
Tim:They had him like. They had like this AI robot in like a normal war clothes. They had a male and a female and it was like it tracks you. It tracks you with its eyes, it can respond to you, it can talk to you all sorts of shit well, the the ai robots are coming along like who is it case not?
Chad:kai's not, or whatever his name? Is yeah he had a robot that was.
Javier:That was a human. That was a human in makeup. That was not a fucking robot that was a human. That was a fucking human that was a robot.
Tim:It's like the tesla robots. Those were weird looking. But they were people responding to the answers, right, yeah.
Chad:But Elon said and I believe him because he makes these wild claims and generally he does it but he said within the next year he'll have like 100,000 AI robots made, and in the second year and this is coming up within 2025, 2026, whatever they're going to have almost half a million.
Tim:They made a movie about this.
Chad:Yeah, it was called.
Javier:Johnny and the Sex Robot.
Tim:It was called iRobot. Different one and nobody believed Will Smith until it was too late.
Javier:He's just slapping people and now everybody doesn't believe blood pressure the cuff yeah dude, why don't they do that on sex robots, where it'll, like you know I think they already do and then, like you know, just squeeze it to where it's not that hard and it feels your heartbeat and just goes moving?
Chad:on economic number four I think they already do that number four economic and consumer shock. Uh, so, if you hear global economic changes or challenges, rather, inflation and rising living costs affect households worldwide. We're seeing it a lot here.
Tim:They're saying OK, so they've said that Fort Worth itself.
Javier:They got six.
Chad:second rule we saw the highest inflation rate comparatively to all other cities similar to us because of the mix of people moving here Right and housing prices going up and normal inflation from others. The amount that we've gone up in comparison to most people yeah, we've become like one of the.
Tim:I also heard a realtor saying that like, last year was like, or yeah, last year was one of the worst real estate history since uh, 2014. I don't think that's true. I think it is, to an extent. I think it was not a seller's market.
Chad:It slowed down.
Tim:I think because I've seen a lot I watch Zillow a lot and I believe I've seen a lot of price cuts. So I don't think it was quite a seller's market as much as it was as more of a buyer's market right now, but we're still selling a lot of houses. Right, we're still moving that product. Right Another one here Streaming service price hikes, Subscription fees rise for Netflix, Disney, everything else which was really frustrating to everyone which I've got a mystery Netflix account that I can't find and it's been drafted on my account.
Chad:I had two Netflix accounts. Somehow Did you download Rocket Money.
Javier:I have it and it won't. Let me cancel it. Go through every email that you own or cancel those cards. I don't know what cards it's set up cancel all of them get new ones all right.
Chad:So, despite all the money, it's 100 cards. We still had record sales for holiday retail oh yeah, which is why that's disappointing what's disappointing about it is like if you take a look and you go, like research numbers, like credit card, you know how people are, like maxing out credit cards and like those pay as you go, what are the?
Tim:payday loans no, you like.
Javier:I know what you're talking about?
Tim:Oh, like a firm.
Javier:And yeah like a firm. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Chad:Those are going nuts because people are like oh, it's not a credit card bitch, it's worse than a credit yeah, you're.
Javier:The interest you're paying is pretty much higher. Credit cards what? 28 to 30 percent? So?
Tim:well, I use a firm. I actually use a firm. Uh, quite a bit in my interest. The interest isn't bad like they have different ones, right, so you can do zero percent if you have a, if you have a decent credit you can do like zero percent for six payments and then I've seen some that were like 26 percent, which is like what a credit card is.
Chad:But for a lot of people, it's literally like doubling whatever they're purchasing.
Tim:Right, it's stupid to just let the payments run out. You need to pay it off like a credit card.
Chad:Yeah, but even if they did a year in payments, people with decent to low credit are still going to be paying basically double within the year. It's like Fingerhut.
Tim:Fucking Finger ever. You never had, you never used finger right so finger has like catalogs or nothing. Your mom didn't get uh finger hut was like this consumer credit thing where it, if you had bad credit, you could get a finger hut account and if you you buy something, you make the payments helps boost your credit up, but everything on there is like double the price, shit.
Javier:It's like appliances and like all sorts of shit. Yeah.
Chad:And then last one here on this category is electric vehicle revolution. Affordable EVs from Tesla and Ford bring sustainability to more consumers. That's another thing that's going to be happening soon. Is the Tesla taxis Like that's going to be taken off in the next ev pure ev is not where it's at and it will.
Tim:It will not be where it's at anytime soon hybrids the way to go like your true plug-in hybrid, right where you have a, have a.
Tim:So. So ram. Ram is going to be the first. I think they're the first, uh, us company that's going to put out, um, so, daimler Chrysler and all that stuff, dodge Ram, they're going to put out a truck that has a generator, so it's like a little V6. I think it's like the Pentastar or whatever their V6 they have is actually pretty reliable.
Tim:It's going to be hooked up to a generator. All it's going to do is reduce power. It fills the batteries up, keeps the batteries charged or charging and supplies power to the, the dual motor or single motor setup, giving you an effective range of somewhere between 600 to 700 miles. Damn so if you charge your battery up plus have a full tank out, so you should be able to go about six, seven hundred miles. That's where it's at, I agree, because emissions it's going to be low to low, low to moderate emissions coming out, because you're not. It it's not going up and down, it's going to stay within the power band where it needs to be. It's the same technology they use on locomotives, diesel locomotives, and then there's a company up out of Canada that started producing this for large, big trucks. It's called Edison Motor Works or Edison Motor Company. They're taking logging trucks and converting them to this basically locomotive style generator with with electric driveline. That's where it's at.
Chad:I agree. I think that it's not. You know, obviously gas is not the way to go, and if you've seen land man, he does a really good job of kind of explaining gas and oil, which I think is funny, but like it's not, we live on a world where it's needed, right Like the people before us created the need for gas and oil.
Javier:They made it to where every product essentially is made out of petroleum.
Chad:Yeah, right, but also it's one of the cheapest things out there and it's still a very reliable source or resource. However, it's all about balance.
Tim:So like having your electric because even electric vehicles like going out there and getting all the fucking materials for the rechargeable batteries yeah, because you got to get the lithium mines, and the lithium mines require heavy machinery to do all that, plus the child labor and all that shit. But then you start throwing in the wind farms and those wind farms. What people don't realize is those wind generating electrical things out in West Texas. They have a shit ton of oil in them. Yeah, Like it requires oil to let those things go.
Javier:Everything requires oil, everything.
Chad:But it's a balance, right Like so you have some wind, you've got some solar, you've got some EV, you have some gas, you have some diesel. Like you spread it out. There's no one right answer, but you've got to have it spread out so that you're not using all of one fucking resource.
Tim:I'm waiting for nuclear and, honestly, that's what they're saying, you see there, doc Brown, I don't think we're that far out, because they've now figured out number one, so everybody's afraid of nuclear weapons and that it'll cause this crazy fallout and all that stuff. That's not necessarily the case in modern nuclear weapons. Now, right, it causes, you know, concentrated radiation issues in that one little area, but it's not spread out like the old school stuff that you're going to have in like india and pakistan with those weapons they still have. But they're coming up with these miniature nuclear reactors now. They've looked at creating power plants out of these that are stable and they produce very little waste and they last for 20, 30 plus years without having to change out fuel rods and all that.
Chad:Well, a lot of these tech companies are going to be leaning that way here pretty soon, just because how much?
Tim:It's clean as long as it doesn't melt down. Right, Right.
Chad:It's clean, but AI takes like four times as much power as they thought it was. And water, and water. And water.
Tim:And water and water Right Like it's a huge energy and water stock. Microsoft, I think, looked at opening up, starting Three Mile Island back up or something. Yeah.
Chad:I think Facebook was talking about it too. I think, like a lot of Google, I think there's a lot of all the tech companies at this point are trying to figure out how they can like move with nuclear well, I mean quantum computing can like easily do the data now when it comes to like nuclear fusion.
Javier:So, like you know, the breakthrough happened here.
Tim:I always get it mixed up with fission versus fusion, which one's vision which one's the good one which one is it.
Chad:It's fission, isn't it? I don't know, you're right. It is jizzing, yeah, jizzing, uh, so jizzing.
Tim:I hope this makes it the tiktok, um, because we'll have someone say, no, it's, it's Fusion and it's blah, blah blah. It's definitely not Jetson Fucking. Tell us what it is.
Javier:I'm a virgin and I'm on TikTok and I learn how to cook dinner and buy things. I buy things and I learn how to cook dinner.
Tim:We're a bunch of morons when it comes to this stuff, but I know. Fusion versus Vision, which one's the bad one? I don't know.
Chad:Whatever?
Javier:It don't know, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Chad:Did y'all, so y'all had to have seen because y'all know more about current events and things like. Obviously we're smart, right? Uh, in ron like and ron hubbard.
Tim:So in ron obviously was a thing that happened years ago where the company was so good they were basically like uh, they were shut down because of all of the stealing money well, yeah, there was a, there was a bunch of yeah, it was like almost like a Ponzi scheme going on.
Chad:So then they sold basically the name rights and logo for dirt cheap and some group, young kids I mean. I say that they're probably in their 20s.
Tim:I think they're probably close to the 20s or our age. Yeah, they're young Somewhere around there.
Chad:They purchased it and they just started going out there and throwing out merch because it's the enron logo, like we've seen it all over the news, and so all the merch is getting snatched up, and then they go on social media and it looks real as shit it looks so real.
Chad:I actually had to go and like fact check I did too, because I'm like there's no way this is real. So it was like during CES or around the same time as CES, so it was like they were launching this new product. Did you see this at all, javier?
Tim:They did it Steve Jobs style.
Chad:Yeah, he was on stage. He's like we got this new product for you. You're not going to believe the breakthrough that we've had. We want to introduce the egg.
Tim:And it's this egg-like thing that is no bigger than you know. I mean probably like an ostrich size egg, you know what I mean like that, and it is a in-home micro nuclear reactor, but it looked so real. It was supposed to like, like provide power for the next like 50 years or something like that with one purchase, like you're good to go.
Chad:You just hook up your home to this one thing and you're good to go.
Tim:And I'm thinking like damn, enron came back hard but the way, the way they did it dude, it looked like, it looked like, uh, it looked like an old school steve jobs, apple um, you know the new I, you know the new iphone type thing. It was the most insane thing that I've seen. I think, well, it was last year, right right. Whenever it came out, yeah, last year I, I too had to fat check this. I was like, well, it came out weeks ago, it was last year, right Right.
Chad:Whenever it came out, yeah, last year, I too had to fact check this, I was like, well, it came out weeks ago, it was a big thing, yeah, because it was very recent, yeah, so just Okay, I had to go on there and look, I was like, oh man, I'm going to buy one. It was on their website like this new release to news things and they're like yes, it is a hoax, just letting everyone know. This is a hoax because they're coming around and it's more of like in runs taking this like comedy stance.
Tim:Now kind of like they're just trying to like whenever a radio yeah, that's what a radio show with the twitter right and and inron was gonna do like uh, I think a coin or something like that too yeah they're like all right, great, they're gonna pull the rug again, but whatever, I thought that was pretty interesting.
Chad:Um, I also thought something was interesting. Before we get this last category is I didn't. Actually I haven't heard the episode yet, but zach, uh, zach. Mark zuckerberg was on joe rogan, joe rogan oh dude and he was talking some mad shit about apple and he was right.
Tim:I think he's right, but he was also talking shit about the. So he said that during the biden they were constantly getting phone calls from their people screaming at them and like saying some nasty stuff, telling them to take this down about the vaccines.
Chad:Well, that's why they started the fact check thing right.
Tim:No, no, no, no, no, no. They were wanting to remove stuff on there. That was actually accurate. That was the whole thing, and so now he's come out. Zuckerberg has come out and said we're not doing the fact check. It's going to be will allow people to fact check themselves kind of thing it's going back to old school facebook.
Chad:It's kind of funny that he's kind of like through he's a bro now, well, through each administration he just kind of like changes this too.
Tim:Oh yeah it seems like he is, like it seems like he's straight up a uh, one of the rogan bros, now right, and I'm like yeah, look at the curly hair and the gold chain he wears shirts like he's.
Javier:He's looking like the dude, he's like an into mma, like he's apparently he's like a fucking badass too.
Chad:Like the dude can fight he likes uh, he likes uh smoking meats.
Javier:Yeah yeah, he hunts uh all his food with his baby, or yeah, yeah what is?
Chad:it Old baby Ray, sweet baby Ray.
Tim:Sweet baby.
Javier:Ray On the group chat we got a fission thing. Fission splits a heavy element with a high atomic mass number into fragments, while fusion joins two light elements with a low atomic mass number, forming a heavier element. In both cases, energy is freed because the mass of the remaining nucleus is smaller than the mass of the reacting nuclei. From Google and not my nerd brain, Shout out to Christine. I will say this real quick the whole.
Tim:TikTok ban, though, is partially because of Zuckerberg, I believe that. So Meta and Google spent billions lobbying against TikTok Of course they did.
Chad:They were the only competitor.
Tim:Right, they want to get rid of it, and here's what's funny. Here's the funniest thing, though, is that it kind of backfired. Yeah, because everybody switched over the red note. Yeah, he was expecting everybody to go to reels. Go back to. Yeah, go to reels, go to meta. Reels are trash.
Javier:Yeah, I told Tammy I'm like they're old, I'm not gonna watch. We've already seen them. Because we watched tiktok. I'm like I'm not gonna yeah she's like oh, I sent you something with this. I'm like yeah, I already saw it. I saw it on tiktok like a month ago.
Chad:The searchability and algorithms are not quite as good on instagram as they are on tiktok I know that for sure.
Tim:Look, I built my for you page brick by brick.
Javier:Dude me too, kitties and titties like that's dude I'm kidding it's cats and like food and tiktok shop shit come uh what they come and come, come now, come the 19th, my life will not change at all.
Chad:I know, because you don't doom scroll I. I just don't, I just don't. All right, he does, he does, he sure as shit does dude. I'll show you how can I. I'll show you my iphone, like won't it tell me how many minutes I was on tiktok?
Tim:hey god, I gotta speaking about the, about your, the, the summarize of alerts, right, so ring, here we go. Black and white dog running around, helicopter circling near river oaks.
Chad:It does be no good I have no idea what's happening. All right, hold on, let's all go to our phones. Where on your phone does it tell you, like, how much you've spent on certain things? Oh uh, in your settings okay, so I'm gonna go to settings. Uh, is it general? Screen time, screen time okay oh, this is good I want to figure out what everyone's top thing is. Let's do a week.
Javier:Top five, top five. Is there a top five?
Tim:Yeah, if you go click on where it says daily average, so you go to screen time, it says see all app and website activity. Click on that and then most used. All right, you go first Tim.
Chad:TikTok Top five.
Tim:TikTok's number one at five hours and 46 minutes.
Chad:Fuck off.
Tim:Chrome three hours 42 minutes. Youtube two hours 37 minutes, facebook two hours 20 minutes and Red Note two hours and 20 minutes.
Chad:Damn, that's quite a bit. That's quite a bit of time, man. Yeah, is that this week or last week? This just shows, it's just showing my uh most, yeah, I don't know.
Javier:let me see, let me see, let me see the front of yours that's, that's uh this week, let me see, let me see how's that.
Tim:Mine doesn't do that I don't know what, but mine's down. You know that's the thing is like. You know, it's all. It's all down, dude, you turn your activity off you did this shit on purpose I swear to christ I did this shit on.
Chad:No, I, I swear to Christ, you did this shit on purpose. No, I didn't. You're like, they're not going to catch me, they're going to catch me watching the caveman safari.
Tim:I've spent an hour and 10 minutes on Red Note and only 27 minutes on TikTok. Which week? Just for today, okay.
Chad:So this week for me it was three hours and six minutes on Instagram, two hours and 44 minutes on Google Maps, two hours on Pokemon Go. I picked that back up. That's okay Because Danny An hour and 27 minutes on Facebook and an hour and six minutes on ChatGPT.
Tim:Is he moved back up here now?
Chad:No February, 3rd February 3rd.
Tim:Okay, we'll have to have him, we'll have to have him and we'll go to Crystal Springs, yeah, for sure He'll love it.
Chad:He's never been to Gusto's either. We were talking about that last time We'll do both. But yeah, dude, TikTok's not even on the list. I'm going all the way down. I'm past five minutes.
Tim:Congratulations.
Chad:You're not a doom scroller, what do else? I don't I don't know. I don't know either. Like my tiktok is not even on this list. Fucking brain rot, that's all it is. Also, I I'll tell you what. I turn off notifications on some of my like linkedin uh, tiktok facebook. I turn off notifications for everything except for instagram, so I don't even have to like. I only go to things that notify me because I don't. I don't know, I don't think about it yeah and so I don't think about it. That's it all right last category.
Chad:We're running way the fuck over. We gotta get our 37 minutes, buddy. All right. Cultural shifts in lifestyle trends one NFL playoff drama, unexpected upsets and standout performances captivate sports fans setting up a wild Super Bowl. Who's you mean the Super Bowl?
Javier:um, damn the way it's looking right now.
Tim:I want to say it ain't going to be the Commanders.
Javier:No, it's not, but they're doing really good. The Lions, I think, will come out on top. They'll be the NFC's pick for Fuck, For the AFC man, it's really I would say it's a toss-up.
Tim:You're saying Lions. I'm saying lines for the.
Javier:NFC For the AFC. It's going to be a toss-up between the Buffalo Bills and the Chiefs. I think the Chiefs are going to pull through only because I don't think that, because I mean they've been playing.
Tim:I would like for them not to.
Javier:I mean I'd love to see a three-peat because he's already going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes I think they're both first.
Tim:I would like to go to a Chiefs game though. Yeah, just to sit in that stadium.
Javier:But I will say this you saw the Minnesota Vikings lose pretty bad. I will say that one of those wins was all because of Mike the Bike's cousin, because he scored all the points. Yeah, he scored every field.
Tim:He's with the Vikings now, right? No, he's with the Patriots right now. Oh, he's with the Patriots.
Javier:He signed to a future contract and their practice squad.
Tim:Oh nice.
Javier:But Mike, the Bike's cousin, scored all the points in a win a couple like a month back, and he got the game ball. It was really cool to see.
Chad:I would love to see the Lions Chiefs. I really would.
Javier:Lions Chiefs and man. I don't know who would win that. I wouldn't mind seeing the Bills, though.
Chad:It'd be kind of nice to see the Chiefs not in the Super Bowl for once. Just kind of nice to see the chiefs not in the super bowl for once, just kind of like change it up. If it wasn't the chiefs, I think it'd be cool to see the texans no, they're too young.
Javier:They're not going to go in. I know they're not, but it would be cool uh lamar lions would tear them apart dude. I want to see the ravens because lamar jackson has been such a great quarterback for the past couple years. Um, mvp, obviously last year and he's won, won multiple, but it would be fun to see someone different. It would be fun to see the Bills and the Lions. I think it would be fun. Nice, it would be a fun Super. Bowl Nice.
Chad:All right, I'm just going to read through these. Some of these are not worth talking through. Really Sure.
Chad:But fitness trends in 2025, fitness tech adoption grows as people embrace at-home workouts and virtual trainers. I like fitness tech adoption grows as people embrace at-home workouts and virtual trainers. I like the idea of that mirror thing. Have you seen that? Yeah, yeah, it's pretty neat. Uh diy can do it yourself. Culture on the rise, inflation and supply chain delays push people toward uh do-it-yourself home improvement and, honestly, the do-it-yourself everything recently has become like more and more.
Tim:I got real big with covid and it just never went away.
Javier:But also with tiktok, had a good hand in that oh, yeah, right teaching people how to do things youtube as well.
Tim:I started following this uh person on tiktok um. Build it like becker, I think, is what what her name is, um and she does furniture flipping oh, yeah and dude and the stuff that she comes up with. I'm like picking up from garage sales and shit like that right and it, and she is putting out some awesome stuff Like truffles for money.
Javier:Oh yeah, dude Tammy picks meals like she sees on Instagram.
Tim:That's what Jessie does. Yeah, yeah, Sarah does it too Love that Dude.
Javier:it sucks that they're taking this stuff away, even though they might not, but I mean I know all the DIY stuff that you're saying. It's just been such a help Future of work.
Chad:hybrid models and AI productivity tools reshape workplaces which not for the best?
Tim:Yeah, not so much, and not so much the hybrid models either.
Chad:Yeah, not anymore, because there's like all the big companies are going back to office. You know why, though? It's because they have it's because they Well?
Tim:no, I don't think it's, I don't think it's, I don't think it's, it's partially. They're force firing. It's partially. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's partially that, but they also have like I mean, at your organization there is a very large piece of real estate that they own and they're like we need to put people in it.
Chad:Right, it's not even just that. There's a whole micro economy. I don't want to get into it because I don't like talking about my place of work, right, I know. But prices at the cafeteria have gone up like 30%. It's like you have to come here, but now the prices of food and drink have gone up 30%. Yeah. So now they've got money coming in where everyone is blowing money on gas and parking and all this shit and they're just making it all. It's fucking wild.
Tim:Yeah, I went out to Dallas not that long ago to go see a show and we went to Deep Ellum, okay, and so drove right down that street, right, and ended up over on Elm Street and there's a parking garage I normally park at. That's right next to the factory. So on a weeknight it's only maybe $12 or $13, unless they've got some big show playing and then you're going to pay $25. There was a surface lot right next to Twisted Root Burger and the club I was going to is right next to that. So I was like I'm just going to park here. There's no pricing, nothing up on the screen, but there's a parking lot attendant walking around making sure people are paying. She's like oh yeah, you go over there and scan the QR code. So I go over there and scan the QR code $30. Shit, god damn $30 in the middle of the week.
Javier:That's wild Dude on the group chat. I still use Pinterest for all that stuff.
Tim:I still use.
Chad:Pinterest too. I use it for how I wanted to dress for my brother's wedding, like I got that idea from pinterest. Yeah, so so does that cover everything? Yeah, there was a thing about how, like the, the academy awards, or whatever it was, golden gloves, what was?
Javier:it golden gloves.
Chad:That were the golden gloves golden gloves, golden gloves, uh yeah. And then recession fears mounts.
Tim:Concerns over potential global recession loom very heavy this year which I, I think I felt like we've been in a recession this entire time, though I don't think it's gotten as bad as it's about to yeah, well, I don't know.
Chad:I have a feeling like I don't know. I just have this weird feeling that stocks and all these, like cryptos, are going up, up, up and then, as soon as trump comes in, everything's gonna well they.
Javier:They've been down for the past week. They just jump, yeah up today. They just jumped back up today. It's just been so back and forth the trend normally, when there are incoming presidents going into office, is there is a bump up? Of the economy, like stocks and all that stuff. But that's normal, it always happens. It's the prosperity of the thought of a new administration and seeing what's going on. So I don't know how I feel about that, but I mean We'll see, we'll see.
Chad:I think it's going to get weird.
Tim:All right. Well, I think we covered everything.
Chad:That was fun, man. It's good to see y'all.
Tim:It's been so long.
Chad:It has been a while If you don't already do so, please make sure you follow us on all things. Sales for media at the Funky Panther. Give us a call, leave us a voicemail 817-677-0408. We actually have a couple of voicemails, but we'll get to that on the next show. You can find all of this at the Funky Panther dot com and that's it. Stay good, everybody. I'm Chad.
Tim:I'm Javier.
Javier:I'm disappointed. We are the Funky Panther. Happy fifth anniversary, boys Woo.
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