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[00:00:00] Nothing. Beats a Jet Two holiday. Jet two. Jet two holiday. And right now you can save 50 pounds per person. That's $200 off for a family of four.
That's why you need to get on TikTok. I'm really confused. Jet Two. Wait, I thought I thought that was JetBlue slogan. Nope, nothing beats a Jet Two holiday. What's a Jet two holiday? I have no idea, but it's a sound on tiktok. Nothing. Okay. It's the only thing that's in my mind at all times. Nothing beats a Jet Two holiday.
Nothing beats a Jet two holiday. Like, um, that's, it's, I guess it's kind of giving this, but like, uh. Bounty, the quicker picker upper, it's like the same. Yeah. I think it's, um, an airline in Europe. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I, when you said save 50 pounds per person, I was like, okay. What's the context of the, it's like tiktoks though.
It's like people will put that sound from, that's presumably from an ad over just like their disaster vacations. That's funny. Yeah. That's funny. Well, welcome. What an intro. Sage, [00:01:00] thank you for starting us off. Of course. So our wine this week is a birthday gift from my coworker . We love you. She's not gonna be my coworker anymore because she is starting as a wine rep now.
No way. So congrats to her. Oh, cheers. Cheers. She's gonna kill it. It has sand on the bottle, which makes it really special. But, um, Mo are mo are, you're better at pronouncing things. I I can't tell if that's an R or an N 'cause the cursive is weird.
Yeah. All that we know is that it's the region is campo de borja. It is a Crian za, which means, in Spaniard terms, Crianza is a minimum of nine months of aging in oak barrels before it's bottled. And it's usually cheaper too than most like aged wines that you find here in the States. But I like Spanish wine because most of the time it's already aged a little bit and it's much cheaper.
So if you like age, like more secondary, tertiary notes from aging and red wines, [00:02:00] Spanish wines are usually the way to go. Mm-hmm. I just prefer Spanish wine. In general, I've discovered their grapes, their styles. I like it more than French and Italian. Is it because of the oak? I don't think so. I think it's just because they're, they tend to be with tempranillo
Yes. I think it's because of the oak. But with like all the other ones, I think it's just lighter and fruitier generally than like Italian wines are like spicy and really in your face. And French wines are more like crisp generally, not always. Hmm. So that's my take. Should we try this?
Yeah. It does smell interesting. Oh, so Sage was worried. She smelled the cork when she opened it and she thought it was corked, meaning it's not expired by any means. It's not corked by the way. I just tried it. It does have a weird like musty. It smelled with though. Yeah. But it's inter, it's in a, in a good way.
But no. So Sage thought it was corked upon first sniff and corked [00:03:00] wine is essentially just wait. I can hear the person in the studio next to us singing very loudly. I know. And it's, um, they're doing great, but it's really distracting.
Okay. So it's, um,
let's just ignore it. Okay. It's gonna be really hard for me to ignore that shared studio. Yeah, it's okay. Anyways, so we thought the wine was corked wine just means that that it was exposed to oxygen between the time of it being bottled and coming to us and us opening right now. Um. And apparently there's a way to get rid of that.
So Saran wrap. Mm-hmm. Apparently you can like take a bunch of Saran wrap and just like shove it into the bottle. And something about the Saran wrap like attracts all of those weird aromas that are from a corked wine. And when you pull it out, apparently it like is better. It gives it a new life. Yeah. So when you buy like grocery outlet wine or a 50-year-old bottle, when you spend a shit load of money on [00:04:00] that and , you can't return it.
Yeah. That's like the best course of action that you can take to like somewhat enjoy it. I would like to retract my previous statement. Grocery Outlet takes back corked wine. Just Oh, they do? In case anyone was wondering. Yeah. Is someone there to taste it and call you bullshit? No, they just, you. Oh, okay.
Yeah. I mean, because they're like five bucks because you're not drinking the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they, you're not gonna lie about a $5 bottle of wine. No. All right. Let's see what I, that is delicemundo . Wait, so drug addicts. Oh yeah, that was, wanted to, that was my first topic. Well, after I literally wrote down Nothing beats a Jet Two holiday.
Okay. Okay. So you're already out of order here. Just kidding. Um, this is something that you encounter a lot when you're working in restaurants and bars. You work with full on drug addicts. Okay. Wait, so you, when you initially texted me that you were saying like, oh, working with drug addicts and my initial thought, I wasn't thinking about the service industry at all.
I was thinking about like, interventions almost like, Nope, that's [00:05:00] not what I talking about working with, working with. Sure. Again. Um, but I'm thinking that maybe I need to explain the topics a little bit more when I text you. Well, no, but I, I understand now. It's fine. Okay. But yeah, I have plenty of stories.
Plenty. I figured we did. Um, biggest thing, I mean, I, I had the biggest realization that like, Coke isn't dead. No. We've talked about that. I seriously thought it was. I mean, just coming from someone who's never tried it before, let alone seen it in action, you know, even when I was just friends with goody goody people, I still knew of people that were doing coke.
I didn't know, like through the grapevine, I didn't know at all other people. I think it's something that people are ashamed of 'cause they know how like crazy. It is insane. And you know, like out of this world doing coke is no judgment. It's just, you're like judgment from me actually, I guess. Yeah.
I guess a little bit. I mean, there's like so much that there's so much that you could judge me for, right. But it's [00:06:00] just, I don't know. It's corny to me. I just can't get around it. Fair enough. Just because I think of Narcos and then, like the, in the height of like the late eighties, early nineties, right.
When it was taking its hold in LA in Miami from Pablo Escobar, like importing it here and then seeing the show and just the behind the scenes of like what actually goes on with drug traffickers like that. I'm just like, how could you, like, how could you not think about that when you are snorting it?
I get what you're saying. It's like you're not just doing a drug, it's you're supporting, drug trafficking. Mm-hmm. Which is really shitty. I get it. Kind of like how you're a vegetarian. Yeah. 'cause you don't want to, maybe that's not the same thing, but I, no, I get the argument. It's like I'm right there with you.
Okay. But I do think that on the note of no judging is, I was inspired to say this because I think that it is like very interesting and something that everyone should experience to work with people who are drug addicts because you, it kind of [00:07:00] humanizes 'em and you realize like, they too have a life, have a personality.
They're either a good worker or they're not. They're either a good friend or they're not, like when you're, when they're a coworker, they're just a person at the end of the day. Mm-hmm. Um, and to me, like that was kind of an eyeopening thing. They're not, like, I feel like growing up it's just like, oh, they're a heroin addict.
Like, that's it. That's their only personality trait, but that's not true. Mm-hmm. They're very complicated people. Wait, so who, why did this stir up an idea in your mind? Well, it was another conversation. I was, I was reminiscing on my first restaurant job. Hmm. This is a pizza place in Oregon. Everybody that worked there besides me was, was on something at like any point in the shift.
And, um, one girl got fired for doing heroin in the bathroom and I never knew that she was an addict until she got fired. But I was like, honestly, she was a good bartender and she was really nice. I was kind of sad to see her go. Yeah. And that makes question then, [00:08:00] should people be fired for doing drugs on the job at the end of the day they were actually like really good workers and like nice people, I don't know.
And got the job done. I mean, it was, the fact that a customer caught her I think was, that's what did it. Ooh. Yeah, that's because my bosses there were definitely aware of people. Coke was a big thing at that restaurant. And they, I, they didn't seem to care about that at all. But we did have another coworker that would like punch holes in the walk-in wall, and he was definitely on Coke.
I didn't like him. How do you punch holes in a walk-in wall? Well, like dents. Okay. But we could like hear it in the server station. That's, yeah. No, coke is a big thing. I wouldn't say it's a huge thing at the place that I'm working at. Maybe I'm just totally blissfully unaware in that case. That's great.
But I would say you're more likely to come across someone, whether you're going to a restaurant or working in one that's high on [00:09:00] marijuana. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just every restaurant bar. I wasn't even including that in drugs, to be honest. I would just, because in the past there have been times where like, I certainly have, like hit a wax pen before going into shift and you know, sometimes it took it too far and sometimes it was like just right and, you know, I was able to like kind of coast a little bit.
But I get paranoid very easily only because I guess it's a, it's a genetic trait, but my eyes, you, they turn, you do get high eyes, they, they turn so red no matter, I could literally be just like the slightest bit buzzed. No matter how much I intake, my eyes are turning like ruby red. I can attest. Yeah, this is true.
And so at work, I mean, I have eye drops so if, on the occasion if I did hit a wax pen, like I had like a backup so that I wouldn't be thinking in my mind, my mind the entire time. Oh my God, I look high. Oh my god, I look high. But [00:10:00] no, and it's just, um, I guess you could argue that fits into this conversation too.
I mean, I wouldn't say it's necessarily an addiction 'cause I haven't been purchasing marijuana or using it in any way, shape, or form in the last few weeks. 'cause of school too. 'cause oh my God, there was a time though where I was I smoking and like going to class and , just like hitting a wax pen just to like get through the day, but I, well, you're better now, but, but I wouldn't get a lot of work done. Yeah. Or like I would, but it wouldn't be to the same caliber I would say that I can get work done at now. Yeah. Okay. I don't know, I just, it does make you lazy. Yeah, it does. Do you have any crazy, like working with. Okay. I would, I'm gonna clarify.
Heroin and meth addicts have not seen that myself. That I think that was an oregon thing. Heroin and meth, like were super common. Like Coke. It was just that one restaurant. But I, it wasn't very common. Most of the people that I knew or I had heard of doing that were people that had moved out of state.
[00:11:00] It was heroin and meth, which is what made it so scary, because like, it wasn't, the pipeline didn't stop. I feel like in these party cities, it's like you're doing all the party drugs. If you're gonna do the drug thing, you're doing Coke, Molly, whatever, shrooms, and then you kind of stop there. But the pipeline in Oregon is pretty much straight to heroin and meth.
It seems like. I, I'm just shocked that that bartender was able to function. 'cause it heroin, that's a downer, right? Mm-hmm. That usually puts you on your ass. She must have been like hardcore addicted. I don't know. Or it has the opposite effect of people. Well, no. Isn't Everyone gets addicted if, right? Yeah, because that's my understanding.
Heroin, meth, those are the drugs where like you try them once and you're like cooked forever on it. Unless if you have the personality that just chooses not to be addicted to it, then you're like, oh, stay away after you do try it. I dunno, I'm not gonna test that one out. I dunno. I mean, like marijuana is already so it, for me, like truly like [00:12:00] I, I told you this before, I could give up drinking if it meant that I could keep weed.
Okay. If you took away my right to like take an edible gummy and go to sleep, you would be mad. Yeah. It would be an insurrection uprising at the capitol for sure. Like I would get, get a group together and. Storm that shit for sure. It would be as if they took away your right to marry. Yeah.
Yeah. Fair enough. Give the people their weed. Mm-hmm. I totally, oh my God, that's actually such an interesting point you bring up. What if they do try that shit? They won't. Even if they did though. Do you think there would be like an insurrection up rising? Yes. That would be insane. Insane. 'cause I'm not like the most outspoken.
I mean, I'll obviously I'm an ally, but like I've never been to a pride. I've never like gone to a protest about it. But like if they were to try and take that away, there's so many people like me that would come outta the woodwork and be like, yeah, that's not okay. Honestly I was kinda shocked about the, uh, no Kings protest.
What was that about? I don't even know. I saw it. But, [00:13:00] so the No Kings, I think the main thing it uprose from his $45 million birthday party that he threw with like an army parade. And, um, using taxpayer dollars to like close parts of Washington down so that this parade could happen. And then it was kind of funny because nobody was there really.
It didn't, it just wasn't giving but, um, it was like a lame party. Yes. But the protest was referred to as no Kings, because that's what like dictators, are famous for doing is like putting on parades to like celebrate not only their birthday, but just to like, just celebrate anything in general, any kind of assembly.
Right. And the fact that he did it for his birthday is kind of out of touch. Out of touch for sure. Because you're like, why are you using that money for, use your doge coin. Use the money that you're making from your doge coin. You use your money to pay for your birthday.
Yeah. You [00:14:00] know? Agreed. It just doesn't it's just interesting. But there was thousands of protests across the United States, thousands and in places that I wasn't expecting, like, yeah. Like red states and like, traditionally red cities as well.
I think that goes back to like, me and you have talked about this before, but I haven't talked about it on here. Maybe I shouldn't get political. I think that the reason I don't think we're getting political, I think we're just mentioning, I think that the reason what's happening, Trump was able to get the support that he did, is because he figured out how to talk to Oh, like the common man, right?
Whereas like, Democrats tend to talk at this very, like, I, I, my daddy, he went to Princeton, I went to Stanford, whatever. He just, even though he is the epitome of that, of like daddy's money, . He learned to talk to the general public and speak to them and like their actual concerns. And then he won.
But I can see how his supporters would turn on him for something like that, because they're like, no, you actually aren't a common man. Yeah. Yeah. I don't [00:15:00] know how they didn't get that after the, that whole capital insurrection thing. Like sometimes I wake up and I remember that happened and I'm just like, oh, did you know that I know somebody that was there.
Where'd you know them from Morgan? I don't wanna like say too much. You don't have to basically to like, put 'em on blast, basically through a job. Oh, okay. Yeah. Through one of the businesses that you owned? No. Oh, okay. Through a job. But was it the girl doing heroin at your restaurant? No. Completely different era.
Uh, yeah. No, I, and I was asking about it because. He didn't know it was gonna turn into an insurrection. He was just there for the protest and he was like, no, it was really freaking scary. And, um, we like got the fuck outta there as quickly as we could. Hmm. Yeah. I mean, tiger King was there. Hell yeah.
Tiger King. Maybe not him himself, but the team was, remember that? That's funny. All right, I've got what's what. Okay. Wait, are we still on the topic of drug addicts though? Do you have another story completely derailed from that? Um, I would say the biggest drug that people are on is drinking on the job.
Oh, yeah. I wouldn't even [00:16:00] even include that, but like, it's still a, it's still a substance. Yeah. You know, like substances are substances, whatever, what category you wanna put them in and, um, especially at a bar, you know? Yeah. If you think that the staff is taking shots, they are, and you just need to shut up, the owner probably is too.
Yep. The owner is the most likely drinker on the job, actually. Oh yeah. If the staff is taking shots, like, so is the owner. They, they learn that from somewhere. Yeah. My sister did have a really funny story about a meth addict that she worked with. She was like, yeah, this girl that I worked with was addicted to meth and she had an abusive ex-husband that would sometimes like roll up and just like, this is not a funny story actually.
It's a terrifying story. Okay. Wait, so roll up and what? Like cuss the shit of her, like, like fight with her about the kids. Oh, that's tough. Yeah, so it's just, I don't know. I think there's a lot of value in like, getting these jobs though, and like seeing that like that does exist and that these people [00:17:00] are still people.
Yeah, because the common person isn't exposed to that. No, not unless you work service industry. Or maybe retail, you would be too, but I didn't work retail for very long. Maybe I wanna get someone who works in a grocery store on here. Me too. That's a really good idea. Um, I don't know anybody we'll just ask somebody like, next time we're at the grocery store. I mean, I used to work in a Walmart during the pandemic, and every time we hang out, I learned about a new job of yours recently.
I've had a, what was the last one they found? About my first one, right? Yeah. Cold Stone Creamery. Cold Stone Creamery. Cold Stone Creamery. Um, I worked at APAC Sun for a little bit. Um, hell yeah. So you did work retail? I was there for three weeks. I wouldn't really like count that necessarily, but, um, what else did I do?
Yeah. Uh, were you Walmart, were you a greeter? No, I actually worked in the online grocery department. Oh, so you were like a shopper? I actually, I just ran the bins out to cars thing. Oh. That's like the [00:18:00] easiest job. And plus I worked it with my little brother. That's kind of fun. It was fun. And then like, I met all of his weird, like straight friends there too.
I'm weird in the most endearing way possible, but, you know, like they, they were all just like, wow, Jacob, like, your brother's actually really cool. And then he, and then my brother, I remember him being like, why wouldn't he be? And then I was like, my brother being an ally, you know, I was like, I would hope so.
Well, yeah. Because like what a great response to that too. Why wouldn't he be? Yeah. You know, that's a really, really great, like open-ended you know what you were thinking. Yeah. Don't say it. Like, yeah. Don't say it. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, it makes me happy that he's like patrolling the streets.
He is As, as, as a poppo now. Yeah. I'm sure he is a really good police officer. 'cause I'm sure he has somewhat good in, I say somewhat good intentions. Not that he's gonna like hurt anybody, but like, he likes to fuck with people. That's his thing. I think he wants to protect and serve. I think. Yeah.
That's his goal. Yeah. There you go. Not torment. Yeah. But I mean like, he does like, he's very witty and he likes to fuck with people, yeah. I think he'd be very good at I don't think his [00:19:00] goal is to make people nervous, like if it comes to that, he could. He could. And then that's a superpower because, you know, when you make, when you make people nervous, that's when they slip up.
Yeah. You know? There you go. I don't know. We've been diverting a lot the last five minutes. Do you have more drug addict stories? Most of them stem from that job, which it was just your first job. Yeah. Like we had this one guy that would go to rehab and then just come back every like couple months and it was just like on a routine, but then he would like be in the back definitely high because he would be making the pizzas and he would be like literally two inches away from the pizza, like trying to figure out what to put on the pizza.
Maybe he was just being really, really meticulous about it. You know? Nobody's that meticulous. I don't know. Sometimes high On what? Marijuana or meth? No, I think it was heroin. Oh. See, I wouldn't know. I don't know what that like looks like, but I don't like sometimes I'm overthinking way too much.
Yeah. On weed and then I'm doing everything. In certain [00:20:00] orders and patterns that don't really make sense or that aren't like to the norm. I think that you would know if you saw somebody high on heroin, , it's like being like really crossed, except there's like an aura of darkness there.
From the outside perspective from that? Yes. Oh, okay. Yes. It's like, have you ever been like, I don't think you have. 'cause I think we've talked about this, but when I get crossed and it's good, I literally have not one thought in my mind. I'm just like, kind of nothing.
That's the good kind. Yeah. Oh. But I'm like happy, I'm like happy about it. Like, I'm still like talking to people and enjoying my life. Oh, okay. But like, but I'm just like, but when you're not talking, you're just, yeah. I'm just like perfectly content as a human. Like not one care in the world, but it's like joyous, right?
Mm-hmm. I think that with the heroin addict, it's like, they're just soulless. Like it's, it's, it's a new level. Yeah. Of like cross fadedness. Yeah. That you've experienced. Yeah. That I something beyond. Hmm. Speaking of soulless, can I talk about a movie that I watched the other day?
Of [00:21:00] course. I feel like I'm the last person to see this movie. I don't know, are you a movie buff? Do you like watch movies often? I don't watch movies. Me neither. Not that that's a bad thing if you watch movies, but you know, like I, it's, no, I hung out with my friend from college on Sunday before we went to the Olive Mill.
There's so much that we have to talk about. The olive mill. The olive mill was so much fun. Yeah, it was. Anyways, so my friend who I reconnected with this past Sunday, she watches so many movies. Like she was bringing up so many references and you know, I was kind of like, what are you talking about? And she's like, you haven't seen yeah.
Just to give you an example of how much movies I don't watch. I haven't seen The Godfather. Me neither. well i know, but like that's blasphemy to most of the general population. They need to get a life but they would say we need to get a life and like, watch the fucking Godfather. You know what, nothing beats a jet two holiday.
I mean, for me, like my top three movies, four. I'll give you four Avatar. The first one in order number one. [00:22:00] Number two would be the Devil wears Prada. Number three would be Finding Nemo. And number four, miss Congeniality with Sandra Bullock. I haven't seen the last one. It's a pretty good it's kind of cheesy and like corney Hooky pokey.
But it's cute and it like, it explores, morals within, you know, like the pageantry beauty modeling. Acting industry. So it was a cool interesting take. And then what was I saying though? But, so I'm not well versed in movies. Take it or leave it. But I watched Subservience on Netflix.
That sounds scary. It was kind of scary. Well, because it's a, it's an ai Well, you don't like horror movies. Well, it was more of a thriller. Okay. I wouldn't say it was, there was no jump scares. There was no like demons or ghosts or anything in it. It was just, um, so Megan Fox played the AI robot named Alice in this movie.
And it was she slayed that role so hard. It was such a good performance on her end only like, [00:23:00] and it just worked. It worked just because, I mean, she still looks smashing, banging Megan Fox, mm-hmm. But, um. She is gotten the, I don't know, maybe it was editing, but she has to have had work done right?
At some point. I don't know. I, I think everybody in Hollywood gets work done. Okay. But, but, but like if you look at Megan Fox and Jennifer's body and then look at Megan Fox in Subservience, it's like a 20 year difference. Do you see? Well, yeah, but like in 20 years your lips aren't gonna double in size. No.
Geez. And your cheekbone aren't gonna move two inches up your face and your eyebrows aren't gonna get fuller. And , I do feel like it's, it's confirmed that like almost everybody in Hollywood get work done. I believe that, I mean, if I had the money, I'm scared of surgery, but I get the sentiment.
Honestly, the only thing truly that I can think about getting done right now would be my eyebrows. Like, I would just want them like a, like a hair transplant in my eyebrows. You have bushy eyebrows. You don't need it. They're not bushy. I mean, they're full enough. They're thin. I think they're quite thin.
Okay. Anyways, regardless. So [00:24:00] she. The, like, the commitment to this role, the casting director, whoever, like cast Megan Fox as , as the robot, I think did a fabulous job because the work that she does have done, she looks like so perfect, almost too perfect. Where I'm like, yeah, that is an AI ex macana robot.
'Cause she just like, has that look that modern, so is like what, what, what does she do in the movie? Okay. So essentially this single dad at the time, 'cause his wife was in the hospital, um, buys this robot from, honestly, it looked like an Ikea for like these like different robots that were just like a, about doing it.
Yeah. And um, so he buys her. Obtains her, I should say, buys her. Well, it sounds like he did buy her. Well, I also don't wanna say it because, well, it's a robot anyways, so takes her home. There's not really any like, good way to formulate that, in the beginning she's very much like, I just need to know, you know, like school schedules, what want me to do around [00:25:00] the house, yeah. It's like a house, just like a helper. Yes. Nanny. Yeah, nanny basically. And there's this one point in the movie, they're watching Casablanca, which is another classic movie I seen again, I've never seen. Yeah. But, um, the father's watching it in the middle of the night and then Alice walks over and she's like, oh, you're watching Casablanca.
Yeah. 'cause ai, like, they just know, like, know everything. And um, he was saying like, this isn't just a movie. Like, it's something that you need to experience. Is there any way that you can like. Wipe your memory or your hard drive of this, of any information in regards to this movie and experience it with me.
And she was like, maybe you just have to like reset, power off, power on so when he does that, I guess in some way, shape or form, yes she did lose that information about Casablanca and she was able to watch it. But she also reprogrammed some of her settings so that she could go haywire in the end of the movie.
I don't wanna spoil it because it's kind of a good movie. Okay. I [00:26:00] would suggest that you watch it. I won't. 'cause I don't watch movies like my entire life. It's only an hour and a half. It's not like that much of a commitment. Like I don't watch movies unless they're hunger games. It's Ballad of Songbird and Snakes.
Yeah, we watched that. That was good. It was good. But yeah, I would say a good amount of my life consists of people telling me I should watch a movie and me saying that I will. And then immediately forgetting what the movie was.
Most of the time it happens at, at work. Work, yeah, yeah. I'm like, wow. Yeah, that sounds so good. Do you like watching shows though? Love shows. Okay, so you'll binge eight episodes of a one hour each. I have a justification for this. I like to become emotionally invested in the characters over like, years.
If I'm like gonna learn about a character and like them, I want to know like five years of their life. But you haven't watched Gossip Girl though. I don't know why. I've never watched Gossip Girl. I have no explanation. I do prefer the, a little bit more drama than that. Chat.
Cancel her, cancel Gossip Girl is so good. I'm, I already finished season of re watching. Every now [00:27:00] I prefer like a little bit more life and death of a drama Yeah, I just wanna live that New York City drama queen lifestyle. You know, maybe , not the drama part, but like literally the first time I went to New York I met up with my BFF in high school who put me on the Gossip Girl.
Yeah. And we spent a whole day traveling to the big spots that were like repeat areas in the show. That's fun. Just so that we could like, you know, eating our lunch on the Met Steps you know, like, it was so fun. So is that your favorite show, gossip Girl? No, I would say, I mean, shows it changes ' cause, you know, discovering new ones and really being into them, um, especially when they're really, really good.
But maybe this is controversial of me actually. No. The one, the guy that made it controversial is an on it anymore or like a part of producing it. But Rick and Morty, Rick and Morty, it's so stupid and. Literally out of this world and just outlandish and crazy. There's no reason for me just like not to laugh every episode.
I love that show. All right. Yeah. But I did recently [00:28:00] watch Drops of God on Apple TV plus, what is that? So it's a, it's a wine program. It's a fictional story but it involves wine. So immediately my mom and I were hooked. Right. So, but so apparently drops of God, it was a manga that was produced I wanna say like in the late eighties.
And this manga is what brought wine culture to Japan. The manga was so popular that all of a sudden people in Japan were like, oh, wine, let's check it out. You know? And um, yeah, the adaptation is a little bit different in the show itself, but, it just follows. Father Dies father has the largest and most expensive wine collection in the world, and he.
Um, pins his own daughter and his apprentice who was learning everything from him about wine in like a mini competition to see who will be the inheritor of the estate and the wine itself. And there's a lot more side plots and you know, yeah. Things that go on in between the competition part of it all.
[00:29:00] But it is very, very fun. Very intriguing to watch. Hell yeah. And it's just eight episodes. It's just a little mini series. There's no continuation or anything. So my favorite show is either the hundred or The Vampire Diaries. I need like the teen drama, but I also need Life and Death. What's the hundred?
Is that the one where it's like, it's the best show ever? It's about, um, it doesn't tell me anything. It's, I'll sum it up really quick. It's basically like after an apocalypse, people had, uh, gone into a spaceship to survive. 'cause it was after nuclear war. So Earth was unsurvivable. And then their spaceship starts breaking.
They're just orbiting Earth. And so they send on this spaceship you, if you commit a crime, they can just kill you because they don't have room for you. But if you're under 18, then you go to like prison on the spaceship. So they decide to send a hundred prisoners back down to Earth to see if it survived.
Is it on Netflix? I think so. Um, I remember starting it. I couldn't even get to the first episode. The first little bit kind of sucks, but it gets good and then it gets crazy and I don't know. I love it. Okay. And also [00:30:00] my personal, in my humble opinion, this was the first show that did a very good inclusivity of gay people without like, making a big deal of it.
Like I, I think like maybe glee and Modern Family were first, but they like made it a plot point of the show. It wasn't in the hundred. It was just like just there. It was just there they weren't trying to make a point. Interesting. So gay and lesbian? Uh, I think it was just lesbian. Oh, no, it was both.
They had a gay and lesbian couple. Oh, cool. But so much so to the point where the lesbian couple in that show, which was the, it was, they were just more prominent characters than the gay couple was called Clexa. And there is a convention that still happens, uh, just about like incorporating gay characters into TV shows.
That's called clexicon.
So yeah. That's my thank you for coming to my Ted Talk about the hundred. gay People will just do anything. Huh? Really? I think it's in Canada. Oh. I don't know. I've never been. You ever been to Canada? [00:31:00] No, I've never been to clexicon. Oh. I've been to Canada. I want to go to, to the BC British Columbia.
Yeah. Vancouver's an awesome city. We should go. Let's see what else I have. I found a few tiktoks that were, Scottsdale and Phoenix specific tea. It was like people post the TikTok and then they're like, I'm bored. Tell me like tea about Scottsdale or Phoenix. And I was reading through all the comments and there was some funny stuff in there.
So I took screenshots and I would love your thoughts. What kind of tea though you'll see. So this first comment is about a place you used to work at. I'm not gonna say the name, but you can just read it. Cause I don't wanna get in trouble with the owner of this place, but, uh, this restaurant. Steals literally every single dish they've ever quote unquote created from cookbooks, like exact dishes, word for word, and fired me because my mom had a heart attack.
That's insane. So what do you think? So, okay. Do you think that's true? There was, yes. Because there was one [00:32:00] dessert that I, that we had there at some point that was in, like, I always like hype up to people. I was like, you need to get it. But like, I like it with this kind of ice cream instead of like the regular, I remember this that we put on it was really good, the sticky toffee pudding.
Mm-hmm. That was a new dessert though. I had never been on the menu before. It was from Instagram. I learned from the pastry chef that I worked there in the morning. Said it was from Instagram, it wasn't an original recipe. And can I like, give some background on this? It's not, 'cause stealing cookbook recipes isn't necessarily like piping hot tea, but it kind of is for this place because the chef that works there is supposed to be like very renowned and she does claim to make all these recipes, I wonder.
And it's a really expensive restaurant. Yeah. I wonder now I want to know, like we, we gotta get chat GPT in on this. Yeah. Should we go to f and b and order everything on the menu and take pictures of that? Yeah. So we can see, oh, I just said it. It's okay. I won't repeat [00:33:00] it. Yeah, and also based on what I know about and you know better, but about the owner and like some other people that have worked there, whatever, it, it kind of doesn't surprise me.
The second part of. No. About that person's mom having a heart attack. 'cause they probably called out and then got fired. Yeah. . But like that's a valid reason to call out in my humble opinion. Yeah. But then also so Arizona, it's a right to work state. You can get fired at any time. . For not having a reason.
Literally like it. Yeah. Same with Oregon and California. Yeah. So like they, I've never worked at a restaurant though that uses that rule so fiercely. Never. It was crazy. Never. I never worked there, but I know a lot of people that have worked there. So anyway, they use that shit like yeah, they give a, fuck.
That's crazy that it was in the comments. Honestly, that restaurant has been through so many crews. It's like funny that person used to work there and left a comment on this. These people, 20 likes, those are probably all people that [00:34:00] used to work there. Probably, and it's the way that the person that made this TikTok was interacting with it too.
Okay. So many of these comments were regarding the Fashion Square mall that I had to include one, I don't think, I believe most of them. But this one seems saying there's like a trans dimensional portal in the basement or something. Kind of, they're saying there's like secret tunnels. That's like the majority of the comments.
And I love a secret tunnel. Yeah. So like if they're, it's like the Vatican. If there are secret tunnels, like we need to find them. But it says, I've done multiple demo jobs at Scottsdale Fashion Square. They have a whole underground tunnel system with restricted access in most parts and hidden rooms.
Also, they have a mannequin graveyard that'll scare the shit out of you if you walk into it. Unsuspectingly like this comment was the most believable out of all of 'em. 'cause it's just like, okay, they have underground storage and he said he was working multiple jobs. Yeah.
So underground tunnel system, it's probably for deliveries and stuff. Yeah. Right. I mean, like the way this comment was describing, and that's why I picked this one. It's like, I [00:35:00] believe that yeah. But what were some of the other ones you were saying? Oh, some of 'em were saying I don't, I didn't even take screenshots of them, but they were saying like, oh, there's a secret tunnel that goes from the Phoenix Airport to Scottsdale Fashion Square to, transport rich people.
And it's like, bitch, why? It's a, it's a 10 minute drive. Like they could take a Suburban. It is just like, that seems a little extra to me. And I don't think the rich people are staying in Old Town. No, they're staying in like Paradise Valley. So I didn't believe that. And then another one said there's a secret underground club under Scottsdale Fashion Square that's only open on weekends.
And the reason I didn't believe that is because there is no fucking way I wouldn't have heard about that. Mm-hmm. By now I've lived in Old Town for a year and a half. And like, I'm so ingrained, unless if it's so secret that like nobody can like take pictures or videos of anything, but you would've heard about it.
Like somebody would've told you if it's a secret underground club under the Scottsdale Mall, it's probably not meant for our tax bracket. Right. I [00:36:00] just feel that might be true, but like, think about how many really rich people we interact with that like us and invite us to hang out with them. Maybe they're not rich enough.
Maybe, but I, was kind of irritated at first because I was like, why haven't I been invited? And then I was like, it's probably 'cause this person's lying. It's not, it's not real. Yeah. Okay. This one's kind of dark. I'll skip it. No, I wanna hear it. Oh, okay. Sorry. I don't know about Scottsdale, but apparently a security guard at Banner Desert Hospital at Mesa got arrested for necrophilia and in morgue there.
And then I was reading some of the replies to the comment that were like backing them. They were like, yeah, I work there. Like this Definitely happened. That's tough. So this just made me think like, if I die necrophilia, I don't want to go to the morgue sex with dead people. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to go to a morgue.
I want my family to babysit my body until I get buried. Mm-hmm. And then like, I don't know, buy a pocket pussy. Like why do you, why, why are you trying have sex with dead bodies? People are weird. I don't know. Okay, thanks. Yeah, I don't wanna think about that anymore.
[00:37:00] Um, this isn't tea, but it is a conspiracy theory. old Town is flooded with closed art galleries, owned by restaurants to prevent any additional competition in the area.
I'm sorry, but like, the restaurants out in that area do not make enough money to be able to, well think about like Beverly. Like, 'cause that entire street, this is the street that I now work on, has only art galleries. And then I think there's one restaurant sel, and then my tasting room, and now Jamie's and then Beverly.
So there's four, food or beverage establishments on that strip. And then the rest is just fully just art galleries. Like I think there's one clothing boutique too. No fucking way that like they're all making that much money. And it's a pretty long street too. It's like there's probably like 20 art galleries.
Wait, this is implying that or insinuating. Oh, you even attacked me then. Yeah. Haven't opened the app. I can't, I haven't seen it. This is insinuating that the art galleries own the restaurants. other [00:38:00] way around the restaurants own the art gallies, the restaurants own the art galleries to take up the space.
So that, um, but all those other competition can't come in. All those restaurants were there after the galleries were there though. I don't know. I haven't been here that long. Those galleries have been there for eons. Yeah, so it falls apart. That's the only strip of galleries that's in Old Town. And this has been a little bit disproven to me by the fact that the owner of the art gallery next door to where I work comes in like every day and talks to us.
So like he's definitely a real person and it's definitely a real art gallery. He tells me about his clients and stuff I've also asked him about like, how do you even make money?
I say it nicer than that, obviously, but he's like, well, I make like one sale a month. And that pays for like, basically the art is so expensive that's how it works. But the whole art gallery thing is weird to me. I don't know if I'll ever, even if I am in that tax bracket, I just, I don't think I could do it.
I think I could. ' cause if I'm in that tax bracket, I'm not gonna be buying wall art from [00:39:00] home goods. No. But like I know people that are very good artists and I would just hire them to paint me things.
Yeah. But then you have to like wait for it. Whereas, so what if you wanna decorate something, you can like do research and like. I would much rather support a smaller artist, I guess is my argument. But, sorry, I just got a message from my group chat, family group chat that there was a tornado. I dunno why that matters.
Did you, you're like, did you film it? I wanna see. They're fine. Actually, yeah, they're texting. No, actually though it was in a town that was like adjacent to where everybody, nobody actually lives in that town. It's just close. Oh. Um, okay. And then the other conspiracy that I screenshotted about the Scottsdale art galleries, this person says specifically five Scottsdale art galleries are owned by organized crime and our fronts.
And that I could believe more because think about how many drugs are going on in Scottsdale and that could be a really efficient way to launder money. Mm-hmm. I mean, could it though? Yes. Well, but like if you don't have the sales to back up the amount of money that are coming in.
[00:40:00] Let's say we were trying to launder money. I throw some paint on a canvas. Okay. I own this art gallery, right? And then I have my friend come in with money that I gave him from selling drugs and buy it for $10,000 and then boom, the money's clean because they bought my shitty painting.
I think that might be the best way to launder money. That might be the best way. But then again, like, I don't know, like these art galleries, they're not making, they're not selling a lot, are they? Maybe I'm just totally unaware. I know how much they're selling, but I don't know. But if I was a drug dealer, I think that's how I would do it.
So that one, I believe more than the restaurants owning. Yeah. 'cause restaurants, there's, especially in Old Town, there's not a lot of profit margin. You don't think so? I really don't think so. I mean, especially for the new restaurants. The Jamie's think about Jamie's Jamie's bottle shop, she has bottles of wine in there that are six, $7,000.
Yeah. And they just opened, I don't think that they've, I mean, she [00:41:00] owns Wrigley Mansion, so I think they're fine. They can, you know, sit off of a low deficit or like a low margin can for a, for a little while. But it's not, I, I don't know
I mean, the only business that I have access to the books does make good money. So what if is behind all of the money laundering? They're not. No, i know. But no, like the Beverly, they opened up within the last two years. I mean, they're cranking, they're busy all the time, but like it's expensive to run a restaurant.
You're not really working with like a huge margin in the first place. Well, back to the drug dealer front thing though, I do have confirmation that there was a drug dealer living less than a block from, uh, where all of those art galleries are. Oh yeah, Connor. Yeah. Let's not say, well, he's not dealing drugs, but his neighbor was, how do you know?
Because he told me thats exactly what . a drug dealer would say, alright, I'm just kidding. Um, okay, this is another thing that I have commentary on, so I'm gonna talk about it. 98% of women who have high-end [00:42:00] luxury materials and cars are escorts. Scottsdale is riddled with escorts. I didn't know this until recently, but it totally is and I, this is nothing against them, but.
Uh, somebody was telling me that they went to court for reasons I will not talk about. And that basically they were very surprised by the amount of people that were also there because you, when you go to court, you have to wait in line, basically in front of all the other people that have a court date that day.
And they were very surprised by the amount of people that were there for prostitution. And this was a Scottsdale court, and they were like, I didn't know that was happening in Scottsdale. Like, where did they even go? But after hearing that story, I, yeah. Interesting. And I'm guessing a lot of it happens via online.
Do you think prostitution should be legal? Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because like, it's not going anywhere's like the war on drugs. Why are we fighting it? I don't know. I feel [00:43:00] like. Maybe it should be like it is in Europe where there's certain districts that it's legal, red light districts, Scottsdale would so be the red light district.
I think there would be like a little corner of it that is like the, the vortex, the clubs like that, that would be a red light district. Mm-hmm. Because like the, the bougieness of Scottsdale doesn't want, I mean, they do want that, but they don't want people to know that they want that if it makes sense. So they would just like put it in a little riffraff corner.
Yep. But I do think that like having a riffraff corner is like a good design. It's like, just contain it to one area. Yeah.
Crazy. That makes a lot of sense though. Yeah. This is basic. This next one is basically saying the same things. Gotta say alleged for safety reasons, you know, but be careful. In Old Town, lots of grape and trafficking comes from the inside of the club. And a lot of people are in on it fashion, and this is secondly, fashion Square has hella rats.
Okay. I had no idea. I had no idea either, but there was a lot of people talking about that Also. They said any, anytime [00:44:00] anyone dies or goes missing around Fashion Square, they work to cover it up. And most of the time it isn't heard about, which is like, it's just a mall. Like I don't know why there's so much lore surrounding this mall.
It's a nice mall, but well think about it. If somebody goes missing near Scottsdale Mall, do you think there's like some sort of trafficking ring thing happening there? That's why they're working so hard to cover it up because they don't want their name tied to the missing report and then people finding out that there's other things going on there.
I mean, it's hard for me to say because I have spent underground tunnel system. Maybe there is potentially, but I've spent a lot of time. Out and about in that area at night because not only am I chronically going out, I'm also a door dasher. And so I'll be, you know, bringing shit to those apartments that are right around there till two in the morning.
And I've never seen anything sketchy. So I don't know. I mean, who know? There's so many streets in that little, like via Solari Drive, you know, via [00:45:00] Solari. Yeah. It's, um, right next to those apartments that you're talking about. Optima. Yeah. And then Optima is the one with like a bunch of trees and shit on it, right?
Yeah. And then what's the one that's, it's the one that's right by the waterfront. It's like the really, really tall one. I don't know what it's called, but I know what you're talking about. Yeah. It's, it's next to Olive & Ivy. Yes. For anyone that's listening and knows what the fuck we're talking about.
Yes. So like that street via solari, there are so many like. Left and rights off of that road that I've never been down before. Well, maybe that's like We need to do that. We need to explore. That's fun We should, okay. I have more. Okay. Um, this one I only cared about because this establishment is so close to where I live. Please don't try and stalk me, but there's so many places to live around there that you won't be able to figure it out. If you look up Yelp reviews for Zorbas Adult Shop, uh, which is like right south of Old Town, it used to be a brothel, no shit.
And then I was [00:46:00] reading more of the replies to it, and it just got even crazier. It was like, and I, I really don't wanna like go see, go in there and look and see for myself, but some of the comments were like, yeah, like if you go in there, it's still weird as fuck. You can see where they had like, viewing rooms and glory holes and like all this different stuff.
But yeah, apparently it's, it's, it's not like fascinations, it's like a different level. Hmm. I haven't been to a. An adult shop in me, neither ever. Actually, I, I never have. But like fascinations has windows, right? Like there, there's the fascinations really close to where I live too. Yeah. But it has windows.
And you, if you look in them, it just looks like, like lingerie. Like I'm sure they have toys and stuff, but there's windows is my point. Like they're not hiding anything. Zorbas not a window in sight. It's a really sketch. Interesting. I wonder if they're still like low key. Low key. Yeah. Um, actually that's a lie.
I have been to a sex store, but I went with like one of my straight girlfriends years ago. I was like [00:47:00] 18, 19. Like we were like just barely legal to be able to even like, get into that store you know? And it was more of just like, it was just for the novelty for us really. Yeah. We weren't there to buy anything, but well, and there's there's nothing wrong with going to a sex store.
No, absolutely not. And plus anything. Now I think about it, I'd rather go buy a lube at a sex store then at like Walmart. I mean, I think it's gonna be the same product wherever you buy it. Yeah. But like, I'm just talking about, you know, when you, like judgment wise, when you go into a sex store, I've heard that people are like overtly friendly and helpful, like a dispensary almost to Yeah, almost to like a uncomfortable degree.
And you're like, I just wanna look. Yeah. But um, like in Walmart, whatever, like for me, the last time I bought lube from there, I had to go through self-checkout. 'cause I just didn't want anybody knowing I was buying. Well, the one time I bought lube, I got it from Target curbside pickup. Oh. So I just avoided any interaction.
Was that the only item though, in your order? No, it was the only item I wanted to purchase, but I disguised it around like a bunch of other [00:48:00] items. What were like, what were the other items? Like groceries. Like I was just like, you know what, all of a sudden I'm gonna meal a cucumber banana. Actually there was a cucumber, but I, I was going to eat the cucumber.
Like, okay. Yeah, yeah. No, I was like all of a sudden I'm really inspired to meal prep in light of the other thing that I want to purchase to disguise it. No meal prep with one cucumber? Well, no, there was a bunch of stuff. It was to make like a salad. Okay. Alright. You can meal prep a salad. I guess so. I don't even know I'm asking too many questions.
Yeah, I can't even remember. Yeah, I can't even remember the answer. But I do remember that there was a cucumber because I remember thinking like, oh, that's a weird combination, but I still wanted the cucumber, like for my cooking adventure. Yeah. So anyway.
Are all these about the Scottsdale mall? Well, no, these are the screenshots. This one just says apparently the global ambassador has become a high end escort ring. Like we already covered that. Like Yeah, probably. I think. Yeah. Oh. One of those golf cart girls got hit a few weeks ago and the [00:49:00] street was closed off all day.
I believe the people in the cart passed away, but there are no news articles about it. So it's just like people alleging there was a coverup. ' cause insurance goes crazy. Yeah. Wow. And if you don't know, there's like little golf carts. Well, we already have talked about this. That'll take you from bar to bar basically.
That really doesn't surprise me though, because my brief experience driving one of those, it's kind of scary. Like with the cars, like just buzzing past you. Yeah. I mean, I could see if someone wasn't paying attention or if you weren't paying attention as the driver, you could easily get into an accident with a car.
So that one's sad. But do I know what sucks about Old Town? What the The party bikes. The party tractors. I have beef with that company. I hate all of them. I have. There's like personal beef with that company? No, there's like six companies, 6, 7, 8 companies. Well, the party bike, AZ is the main one. Oh, okay.
Well what about the party tractor? I've seen the party tractor. Well, the party tractor can like fuck off because they'll just like [00:50:00] sit there and the middle of the road and you're like, I just got off work. I wanna go home. I'm tired, I'm hungry. Yeah. No. Remember when we got stuck behind one? Yeah.
And then I was like, yeah, you around. Just sitting around him. Yeah. Going around. Sorry. Yeah, but the Arizona party bike, I'm gonna slander because I got hired by them when I first moved here and we were like, yeah, you're totally good. And then they like did, they looked at my driving history and they were like, you have a severe violation,
I have a speeding ticket. I have a speeding ticket that I got in Oregon. Mm-hmm. Which is, everybody has a speeding ticket. And also these party bikes don't go over 30 miles an hour. Yeah. And so they were like, well, we can't hire you now. And I'm like, every human that lived in Oregon has a speeding ticket.
Mm-hmm. So now I hate them. Weird. Okay. Fuck the party bikes. And they clog up the road. Yeah. Diego Pop's AC was broken for like two weeks, a few summers ago, and they gas lit us and kept saying it was still working, [00:51:00] but it just couldn't keep up. I just thought that was funny. Like imagine you're working in a restaurant and the AC is broken and they're just like, no, it's not.
It's not, it just can't keep up. It's, it's just not like it's 120 degrees. You're dying. Like, damn. thats tough. Then again, that whole restaurant, it's like, it's an open restaurant though. Yeah, it's pretty open. Yeah. So it'd be hard for, you could argue. Yeah. It's just not able to keep up. Because every single fucking window is open.
Imagine the poor kitchen workers. Oh my God. Oh no. Okay. This is another one that triggered me, and then I like immediately tried to start researching it. I don't believe this is true, but if it is, I need to go there, there's some speakeasy that you can only get into if someone in there knows you, even if a regular person found the place, they turn you away.
Like if you just happened upon it. And then they replied to themselves and said, also, you need to have an income of over a million dollars.
And I was [00:52:00] like immediately on Reddit trying to find like more about this and I couldn't. So this person could totally be lying. I wouldn't put it past like Paradise Valley to have something like that. What if that's like the secret Underground Club? Maybe there's the same thing underneath, underneath Scottsdale Mall.
I need to go, I need to, or at least know about it. Like I just, I feel out of the loop. Mm-hmm. I need the lore. I will not rest until I find it. Yes. And I'll report back. It's um, well, we can't because then we'll be excommunicated from said from the club. Yeah. They're not listening
the club owners. They might be, they might be stalking people with money. People with money like wine. Yeah. And they might listen to us for like a few minutes, but I don't know. I don't know how, I don't know realistic be how long they really are target audience. This one just made me really sad.
Okay. And I wanted to, if anyone listens to this, and this is true, like we need to do something about it, it says, [00:53:00] Arizona Humane Society kills about 80% of the dogs that they intake, but most people believe they don't kill at all. Maricopa County and Animal Care and Control saves over 94%, but both are, but are considered a high kill organization by many, both organizations can improve.
I mean, 94% no kill is pretty good in my opinion, assuming that some of the animals that they receive are like diseased or injured or whatever. Mm-hmm. the Humane Society kills most. 80%. Yeah. I mean, obviously I have nowhere to verify this, but that's what this person said. Wait, so Humane Society kills 80%.
Yeah. Maricopa kills only six. Saves 94%. Yeah.
And again, like where's the regulation with that though? Yeah. Is there even regulation with that? No. So like, yeah, there's like no way. And out of all the places i've lived, Arizona has been my favorite, but it really does hurt me how little they give a shit about animals. Like I've never lived anywhere with a stray [00:54:00] population before this.
And there's strays, there's no stray dogs in Old Town, but there are stray cats everywhere. And I know there are stray dogs in some parts of Phoenix. I've seen them. And it's just weird to me because everywhere else I've lived, like that issue was pretty much solved. There were no strays.
So I don't know what to do about that. I don't see much strays, I'll be honest. I've seen more strays in Queen Creek than I have in Scottsdale. Or there's like a colony of stray cats in my apartment in the complex. That makes sense that it's in the complex. Well, but are they strays or are they owned by some of the They're definitely strays.
Really? You can tell by like, they, they look feral, right? Like they're dirty. They're fighting each other. They're fighting each other yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's sad. Um, and also, I would like to reign hell upon one specific business in the Tempe Mills Mall. It is a pet store. I never, I've never been to the Tempe Mills Mall.
Why have you? Um, because it's kind of a trip. [00:55:00] It's like so weird that it, like, makes you feel something. But also they have Tesla chargers. So when I've been like, stuck in Tempe, it's like, I'm gonna charge, I, I'm gonna go explore, right? Yeah. Instead of just sitting in my car. Yeah. Um, also Rainforest Cafe, which you hate me for liking it, but the food isn't even that good.
It's for the vibes.
Whatever Puppy Mills Mall has a pet store that sells actual puppies, and I know they're puppy mill puppies. Oh wait, I've heard that. Those stores aren't like good though. They're not good. And I don't, that is illegal in Oregon, California to have puppy mill puppies and it just needs to make it on. This is just how, I'm sorry, I'm soap soapboxing, but this is how animal rights works.
If it makes it on the ballot, it passes because everybody cares about animals. It's a pretty apolitical issue. But it's hard to get people to care enough to actually get it on the ballot. So just needs to be a measure in Arizona to ban puppy mill puppies, puppy mills, breeding, [00:56:00] things like that. I'm not exactly sure how the regulations work, but I know that they're not allowed in Oregon and California, so we just need the same law here.
And it will pass if you get it on the ballot. Yeah, but I don't know. Oh, Arizona is such a swing state that I don't think that people are really con politicians. I don't think that they're super concerned. They're not concerned. That's the problem. Yeah. But even in red states, when animal rights issues make it on the ballot, they pretty much always pass.
Maybe not livestock, but if it's like dogs and cats, it's like, like Florida was the last state to ban Greyhound racing. They used to have greyhound racing here when my dad was growing up. Um, but they, obviously, it's legal now dog racing, so it's just, it's just a, a matter of getting politicians to give a fuck enough to get it on the ballot as a measure.
it always passes. There's never enough being done to protect animals, in my opinion.
Yeah. Balut nobody eats balut where I live and there's nothing I can do about what's happening on the other side of the world. Yeah. I don't think. [00:57:00] That's a part of the American palette. Unfortunately, not unfortunately. Unfortunately. Yeah, fortunately Yeah. Okay. Last thing. I found a whole nother TikTok that was just about the Salt River.
Salt River tubing. Talk about it. And basically it just, there was so many comments that like, I couldn't even possibly get close to screenshotting them all. Yeah. That were about how there's always dead bodies in that river, like when it's crowded during the summer because people will like, they'll just regular drown.
They'll get too drunk, they'll get too hot whatever have you. And it's so crowded that they like, don't find the bodies until like days later. Until like, at any given moment that you're tubing, there could be a dead body in that water. And um, another thing was that, people have gone and tested the water.
It's basically the dirtiest water, imaginable. And then there was a couple other comments backing that up. Like, my friend cut his foot there and then he got gangrene. Um, [00:58:00] stuff like that where it, it was just all going back to the fact that it's an extremely unsanitary river. I'm so glad that I'm not like, okay, I have tubed to Salt River once the once and that was enough.
I did not enjoy myself. I almost drowned when I went to the Salt River the first time. Can you swim? Yes. But like, no. It was during the rapid, first of all, I was seven years old when I was there. Nevermind. Sorry. I retract my statement. No, and like we were going through the rapids and like I parkour off of a rock.
Yeah. In the rapids. Yeah. And then flipped out and it was busy season and there was a whole brigade of tubes and people behind me. I was underwater for what felt like at least 20 to 30 seconds. It's, yeah, almost drowned . Like, like, and people's feet were like kicking me. Like I couldn't like get, 'cause there was just two.
Did you like think you were gonna die? Yeah. And then, um, some person saw me from yards behind me that I fell outta my tube and they like [00:59:00] yanked my ass out the river. And then like, I had to wait. I had to literally, I vividly remember just like sitting on like some random men's lap, like trying to find your parents.
Well, just like not in, in a state of delirium. Yeah. Essentially. And then like the rapids stopped and then suddenly like these people were like, crowd waving me over to my parents.
I understand the feeling. Yeah. And so now whenever people, now summertime here, everybody even at work, they're just like, oh my God. Like off day we're all off like, let's go to the river. I'm like, you're like I'm good. Like truly like I would rather drive six hours to San Diego. Can we just ocean?
Absolutely. Yeah. I had a similar experience when I was a kid, so I get it. I got tumbled in a wave and I thought I was gonna die, but it, it's really scary. Well, no, but imagine like I could have that rock that thank God my tube went up on. Mm-hmm. I could have like landed on that, on that rock and then like went unconscious and then just like been underwater, you know?
Well, that's what all these people are saying. It's like just the sheer, it's not [01:00:00] a very dangerous river or anything, but it's just the sheer amount of people that are there. Yeah. Like there has to be a percentage of them that get in accidents where they end up dying and Yeah. They basically don't find the bodies for a while.
Interesting. Well, but like, don't people, are these bodies that are not being found, are they? Who are the people that they went with to the river? They were just like gone all of a sudden. They were like, oh, where's this person? Well, I think that people know that they're missing. Like, that's not it.
They just, and, but like when they call 9 1 1, they don't just shut down the river and looking for them. No, they don't. That's the thing. Like they are looking for these people, but it just takes a while to find them. And I guess they don't shut down the river. Like that's the tea is that they don't shut down the river.
It's shady. And then this was another, I screenshot this comment, but I saw a lot, similar to this that says, okay, I was like 15 when I saw this. I'm floating with a group of friends and we come around this bend, I happen to look over and this couple had anchored by a tree completely void of clothing and doing the deed right there, wide open, no [01:01:00] care in the world.
We heard them before we saw them, but again, I came across quite a few, along those lines. On the same TikTok? Yeah. It was about, okay. Basically people just, just, I just can't imagine the infections that you would get, uh, combining. Were they in the river? All of the other knowledge Walt. They're within Tube on river.
Oh. Find like a crack in the rock, or just go home. No, I mean like find a crack in the rock. Go to another body of water. You're covered in this gangrene, dead body. Grime water. You're No, I'm saying get out of the river and go hike. Hike. Yeah. But you're hike a few yards. You're still covered in the grime water.
I know, but like it doesn't take that much effort to like take the grime water off. Well, it's not like they have showers at Salt River. You don't necessarily need showers. I mean, like you, you suck them off, get all the germs off. Okay. So it just goes in your mouth and then you get food poisoning or get poisoning from [01:02:00] that.
I almost died at the river, but it wasn't from getting sick. I was underwater for. A good minute. Okay. Well, after reading all of these there, I will never be doing the deed at the Salt River. Also, it'll never be going back to begin with