Episode 159: Top Albums of 2025, Holiday Break, and Amerika

Licking your freezer clean might be more productive than this, but at least they both love heavy

metal.

Here are the old men, Adam and Stephen.

Yes, welcome out to it.

This is the Old Men Who Yell at Clouds podcast when we get together to talk about the things

that matter to us.

We are episode number 159.

As record, it is January 11th, 2026, it's approximately 11 AM and we are podcasting

live out of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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We would like to honour and acknowledge that we join you today from the traditional, ancestral

and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, 2026.

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My name is Adam and you can't see his beard, but the marvellous beard that is chatting

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Hi Adam.

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So we're trending up.

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Yeah, we get a teaspoon each.

That's about it, right?

So teaspoon each over six years.

All right.

Well.

Something like that.

Do we hop right into it?

Yeah.

First, let's hop.

Happy New Year.

We set the top up.

How was New Year's Eve for you?

Did you stay up to midnight?

Did you go to bed at 9pm?

What did you end up doing?

I think we were in bed by 11pm.

Something like that.

Maybe 11.30.

I don't know.

We didn't make it to midnight.

That's all I know.

Oh, that's all right.

It was, yeah, pretty uneventful for us.

You know, it's, hey, we're old, right?

Or I'm old.

Okay.

So I'm old.

I'll just speak for myself.

I'm not going to speak for anybody else, except

for maybe you, because you're getting old too.

So.

And everything hurts, you know?

Yeah, it does.

Let's see.

We watched some movies, I think, and you know what?

It's only two weeks ago or less than two weeks ago,

and I still can't remember what we watched.

So there's the definition of getting old.

What did I do?

We got dressed up all fancy.

We did.

Got a super suit on, the suit and tie, and then we

hit two breweries and ordered a pizza, then came

home, got in comfies and watched a movie.

All right.

What did you watch?

Can you remember what you watched?

Nope.

Okay.

See, you're old.

Well, there's so much stuff that happens between

then and now.

I have so much stuff in this fucking big head of

mind.

It's really hard to remember the things.

I'm assuming you're the same way.

Yeah, absolutely.

Lots going on.

We're very busy, but you know, we've been watching

so much stuff too, and that's why I can't remember

what I've watched from one week to the next.

You know, it's crazy.

You know, I think we consume a lot of content

and, you know, your brain can only hold so much.

So you got to purge.

You know, I was thinking about this earlier, you

know, and there's a lot of shit happening in the

world right now, but like we watch a video of

someone being murdered.

We watch a cat video.

We watch someone promoting her OnlyFan.

We watch the latest diet fab.

We watch a deep political analysis.

We watch someone dancing to the latest hit.

We watch live footage of war all in one minute.

It's not really good for our brains, you know?

And I think that, you know, there's lots of

studies, shit and stuff coming out because this

is not good for us.

We, we observe so much content in a short

amount of time.

I can't even remember what I ate for dinner

yesterday.

Actually, it was a lamb's meal.

It was actually pretty good.

But like, it's like, like we, we have so much

shit and just so much access to stuff that's

happening right now in the moment.

Like it's, it's absolutely crazy.

That's, that's very true.

It's, um, you know, I'm connected all the time.

You know, I've always got, you know, I'm working

and when I'm not working, I'm still connected.

Um, even when I am working, I'm connected, you

know, I'm kind of still, you know, I've got,

I'm busy.

I've got lots to do, but you know, you take

short breaks and stuff like that.

You got to step away and.

Yeah.

And during those times I'm still connected.

That's, that's the thing.

So I'm always aware of, of what's going on.

Um, you know, I'm always connected.

Uh, what's going on.

Um, and there's lots going on.

That's, that's just, there's, there's more

going on now.

I mean, is there more going on, does it seem

like there's more going on now because we're

always connected or, or is it actually more

fucked up than it ever used to be?

Cause that's part of it.

There's good things.

There's bad things.

There's more bad things.

Obviously it seems happening right now

and it's pretty bad.

Well, like US invaded Venezuela.

ICE killed a citizen.

Iran has a full war zone and it's day 11

of 2026.

There you go.

That's crazy.

That's just, well, the, the Venezuela

thing, the ICE thing that's been going on

longer.

But, but I mean, that particular news is just

in the last, there's so much of that content,

that specific content in the past 11 days

that, uh, yeah, you can only hold so much of

it, I guess.

So.

Yeah, it's, that's, uh, it's, it's getting

scared.

I've, so I'm assuming you've, I wasn't

getting this, but I'm assuming you've saw

that footage of the ICE lady killing the

unarmed lady driving away in a motor vehicle.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

It's pretty tragic.

It is fucked up.

It's, um, you know, and, and, and they ended

up releasing just yesterday or the day

before they released more footage.

Like this was the federal government now or

whoever released it on the government side to

try and explain their story.

And I don't think that really did much to

help their case.

I mean, I mean, obviously the vehicle moved and

a, an ICE officer felt threatened, which is, I

think ridiculous because, you know, here,

here's, here's, here's the biggest thing out of

all of it.

Yes, yes, you can get seriously injured by a

moving vehicle.

There's, there's no question.

But was she trying to do that on purpose?

No, I think she was just trying to get away.

That's the thing.

And here the Trump and his fucking puppets are

saying that it's a domestic terrorism.

They are saying that it's all the fault of the

left, the left wing politics, left wing

newspapers and press and, and just the public

in general.

Right.

And, and you know, that's just fucking crazy.

It really is.

I think this just, this woman is again, tragic

and I'm not trying to think, go into her head

and figure out what maybe she was thinking or

doing or whatever.

But, but Hey, she, she's, she's scared.

And I think she just wanted to get the fuck

out of there.

Right.

That's, that's all it was.

And, and now she's dead.

Just like that, just an instant.

And it, it, it, uh, accelerated, not

accelerated.

What's the word I'm looking for?

It's, um, it evolved so quickly.

Like it just, it's, it's like bang.

It just happened.

Yeah.

Right.

And, uh, you know, for these, for these

officers, if you want to call them officers

because they're a bunch of fucking goons,

that's really all they are.

Yep.

Um, for them to make that decision so quickly

based on so little, uh, I think it's just,

it's terrible.

It's, they shouldn't have been there.

Not one.

They shouldn't be there.

They shouldn't be there now.

They shouldn't have been in all the cities that

they've been to already that Trump, um,

basically ordered them to go in and, you know,

clean up and they're just creating a mess.

That's all it is.

They're creating a mess.

And they'll get pardons and be excluded from

the law and they'll end up doing it somewhere

else.

Well, it won't even come to a pardon because

Trump doesn't even think they did anything

wrong.

Right.

So, um, what's going on down there is, is

really bad.

The whole, the Venezuela thing is just, it's,

uh, um, it's, the thing is it's not just

involving Venezuela at this point.

Yes.

Oh, it's, yeah.

They've been blowing up, uh, boats, which they

say are traffic, trafficking drugs.

They have been stealing tanker ships.

Um, let's call it pirate, pirating.

Pirating, yeah.

That's, that's really what it amounts to here

because it's, I, I mean, they, I don't think

they have any jurisdiction.

I don't think they have any right to be doing

what they're doing.

It's fine if you want to protect America and

the people, but they're going way, they're

crossing the line.

They've crossed the line a long time ago.

Yeah, it's tough to watch too.

Yeah.

And then to basically kidnap because they're

never going to say kidnap, but that's

essentially what happened.

They kidnapped a, the president of a foreign

country.

Yes.

What the fuck?

Yeah.

What the fuck, you know?

Um, and now it's just, you know, I mean, now

it's just blown up from there, right?

You know, all the talk about them wanting to

do Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Greenland is the big

one for all of us probably just because Denmark

is a NATO country.

I mean, what the hell is going to happen if

they go into Denmark, into Greenland?

Is that World War Three at that point?

Basically everybody against the United States

and that's, that's not going to end well.

Yeah.

Um, for anybody.

Uh, and of course Canada is caught in the

middle here.

So yeah, it's, um, it's, it's not good.

And you know, you know, Trump is doing and

saying all these things and trying to work out

a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

Here he invites Putin to American soil.

Putin is on the list of every other country's

want list.

Basically there's a reward for his or not a

reward, but there is a, any other country would

arrest him because of war crimes.

Like the, the, whoever base somebody, the UN,

I don't know who, who does this, but basically

they've said, uh, he's wanted for war crimes

and he should be arrested on the spot.

Well, Trump invites him to, to America and has

this nice friendly chat with them and then

fills them up with fucking nice food and drink

and sends them off his way.

And, um, you know, that's, and here he goes

and kidnaps a president from another country.

You know, he's, he's, he's taking these oil

tankers and basically, because they were bound,

a lot of them are bound for Russia and wherever

China, Iran, like, I don't know for sure, but

you know, and here he is going to, he's, he's

pirating or he's, you know, taking these ships

and he's still going to sell the oil to, to

Russia and China anyway.

Like, like, what is that?

Like it's, uh, I don't know.

And what was the other thing I was going to say?

You know, he wants to buy potash.

Here he is applying all of these tariffs

to Canada.

He doesn't want Canada, Canada's potash.

We are the, we are at present, or at least

we were the number one exporter of potash

to America.

And now for some reason he wants to get potash

from, from Russia.

Like, does that really make sense?

No.

Nope.

So there's lots of shit going on.

Um, and I just don't understand it.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's

and I just don't understand it.

It's, it's getting worse and worse and worse.

So we've been talking about Trump for a very

long time and, um, the guy is a narcissist, uh,

probably the biggest ever.

And, um, you know, he, he's, everybody hates

Putin, everybody hates Russia for many reasons.

Trump is now worse than Putin is.

He really is.

And maybe, yeah, maybe we could say that

because he's just across the border from Canada.

I don't, I don't know what the, you know, but

you look at everything he has done, even in his,

this latest, even in year one of his second

term, look at everything he's done.

And, um, we're not, the world is not in a better

place because of everything that's going on.

So not one bit.

It's, it's just fucked.

Yeah.

So, um, well, let's look, let's talk about Rob Reiner.

Let's, let's just talk about what happened

with him and, and Michele.

Like just, just awful, right?

And, uh, regardless of what Trump thinks or says,

the whole situation is tragic.

Like, it's just like, I don't know what's

going on there.

Um, if you, you know, everybody knows that son,

Nick has been charged with the two counts of

first degree murder.

Yeah.

Um, he's had a lot of problems, a lot of shit

going on in his life.

And again, um, whatever it's obviously it's,

it's pretty sad.

Yeah.

And again, regardless of whether or not it's a

famous Hollywood actor and director, it's

still pretty shitty.

Yes.

But for Trump to say what he did, um,

basically he accused Rob Reiner himself of

his own death.

He accused, and again, he, he called out the

left again.

He basically said Rob Reiner was obsessed.

Again, he's making, Trump is making it about

himself here, right?

Oh yeah.

And that, and that's the reason that he's dead.

It's like, see there's narcissism again, all

over, right?

It's just, but, but the biggest thing is again,

he brought in the left wing, uh, politics into

this.

And basically that, that played a big key in

what's going on.

And he knocked all of the people, all of the

left wing, you know, press and government and

politics, politicians, and, and then the public,

right?

Yep.

What happened when a lot of people maybe wrongly

did so meet what happened with all the people

when Charlie Kirk got, uh, murdered, right?

Trump, Trump basically called out everybody who

was being negative about it.

And here he is doing the exact same thing when

somebody like something like this happened to the

other side, right?

Like he, he's, he totally contradicts everything

he says and he's a fucking wing nut.

Really, that's all he is.

He is.

Yeah, that's yeah.

And he's, and he's running the so-called most

popular, most powerful nation in the world.

And that's why we're in big shit.

Oh, just, yeah.

I don't, uh, yeah, shit.

So what's he, what's he posting all these is, is

what's he posting his updates on?

It's not Twitter.

He's not using Twitter anymore.

Cause him and must kind of fall out.

What's he using to post his shit on?

He uses his own platform.

Didn't he develop, I don't know if he developed,

but he had somebody develop and launch, um, it's

called Truth.

Isn't it called Truth?

Oh, that's true.

Something like that.

It's Truth.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Truth Social.

Truth Social.

That's it.

Which is a, basically a even further right wing

social media platform than X has become.

Right.

So, um, yeah, yeah.

So it's just, uh, obviously, obviously he posts

there, but it becomes widespread circulation at

that point because everybody picks up on it

and, and posts it every place else.

So we all, we all know what's going on with

Trump all the time, regardless of what he says

it or does, whether he's on a plane, whether he's

in the white house, whether it's on truth social.

It's, uh, unfortunately we have to hear all that

and, um, and take it seriously.

That's the other thing we have to take this shit

seriously, um, because we don't know for sure what

he's going to do.

And I mean, I don't think he knows what he's

going to do half the time either.

So, I don't know.

Uh, I, um, yeah, 20, 26 has not started off in a

good way for many reasons and dipshit Trump is one

of them.

Yeah, it's, it's tough.

It's just tough to watch.

It's tough to like, I mean, I echo everything you

said for the most part.

Like it's just like, we can add onto it.

Like everything you said is in my head is right.

Like, it's just, I just don't know what to say

about it.

It's just like, and what do you do to make a

difference?

Like one person can make a difference, but you

get like, like, how do you make a difference and

how do you stand up toward this stuff?

You it's tough to do that.

Well, well, it's, it's tough for us to make a

difference.

Uh, at least, at least as individuals, because

we're a bunch of nobodies to him, even, even the

American people overall are, are nobodies to him

because as much as he might say, he cares about

the American people.

He doesn't, um, you know, but, but it's time for,

and I think it's happening a little bit so far.

It's not enough to make a difference, but it's

happening a little bit where leaders of other

countries, I guess, including Canada are, are

not so far.

It's not to a point where they're, they're

standing up to him.

Yeah.

Uh, and so far it seems to be a lot of words, but

there has to be more of that.

There has, but there had, the thing is there has

to be more action, not just a bunch of fucking

talk, you know, people saying, oh, Greenland is

a sovereign nation and, uh, any decisions about

Greenland should be by the people themselves, the

people of Greenland themselves.

Right.

And sure it's, it's that, and that's true, but

it's one thing to say that, but it's another

thing to actually do something about it and to

tell basically Trump to shove him, shove it up

his ass.

And, um, you know, people are scared that that's,

that's the thing.

People are scared of Trump.

They really are because they don't want to do

anything to piss them off.

Cause number one, nobody knows what he's

going to fucking do.

Number two is countries, including Canada are

still trying to work with the United States when

it comes to trade and, and security and you know,

all of this other stuff, you know, so it's, it's,

it's a difficult thing to do, but you know,

Canada is trying to trade with other countries

now, you know, create some trade agreements and

even, even security stuff, you know, working with

other countries to make sure our country is

secure, the Arctic is secure.

Um, you know, buying our military equipment from

other countries, that's a long process, but you

know, there's all that talk, you know, so some of

that is happening, but, but we really have to stand

up to, to Trump somehow, um, because he's just

going to keep on going.

Exactly.

You know, something has to force them to stop.

I don't know what that answer is, but you know,

it is up to the leaders of all of these other

countries, Canada included to somehow put a stop

to it, um, the, as citizens, as Canadian

citizens, um, we are, you know, I think a lot of

people are still boycotting products from the

United States.

And I think it's made an impact.

I think, I think, I think, um, you know, there's

lots of products that are affected, I think, and

these country, these companies in America are

taking a hit and that's good.

That's, that's good.

It's their, their president, they can

blame him.

And I think they are, you know, things like

whiskey, like Jack Daniel's or, you know,

Kentucky whiskey or, you know, whatever.

That's just one example, right?

Yeah.

But I mean, those, those companies are

taking a hit.

Um, the other thing is travel.

Um, you know, you know, cities and destinations

south of the border, especially just across

the border are crying because of the decreased

amount of traffic from Canadians.

Like nobody is, I'm not going to say nobody

because I mean, that's a problem I still have.

Really I do.

I, I, I have a problem with people

traveling to the States.

We're a year now into this second term and look

at all of the shit that's happened.

At this point, you can't say, oh, I, I planned

a vacation a long time ago.

I don't want to lose my money because that, that

was a valid excuse.

Nobody wants to, nobody can afford to lose that

amount of money by, by deciding not to, by

deciding to cancel their trip, right?

Yeah.

They're going to lose all their money.

At this point, that's not an excuse anymore

because like, like, I, like, I'm not, I don't

know what your travel plans are and I'm not, you

know, dumping on you.

I'm talking in general here.

It's, you know, people and, and this has passed

the tariffs and the 51st state bullshit, right?

Yep.

Which was a, you know, I think kick started

all of this.

That's why a lot of people decided not to

travel down there.

You've got the shit at the borders.

Yeah.

You've got ICE and everything going on.

You've got, so you've got, you know, your own

safety and stuff like that.

I mean, sure, most people aren't going to go and

get themselves involved in some of this stuff

that's going on down there, but still, you know,

you have to think about, you know, what's

happening to these people.

And, you know, it's, it's becoming as bad as

other, other countries in the world where it's

unsafe to travel.

Yeah.

Uh, the Venezuela stuff, the Greenland stuff,

like there's a whole long list of reasons now

why people should be avoiding the United

States in any way they can.

It's true.

And, um, like, like let's, I think we need to

keep going, right?

Like, yes, it's a year in, people might be

growing bored of it or trying to forget about

it and moving on with their lives and while we

have to, but we can still continue with certain

things that I think will help in the long run.

Again, some of these things have affected, um,

business in the United States.

Well, why not just take it another step further?

Why not just let's stop going period?

Like, you know, we hear this, we see the stats

about the, the number of people who are not

flying to the United States or crossing the

border and stuff.

And that's, and that's great, but there's still

a, you know, a hundred thousand people or that's

still, and that's a large number of people still

traveling to the United States.

Some people have to travel on business.

I get it.

That's what you can't, you can't do anything

about that, but for pleasure, for, for travel

and pleasure for, for, you know, those reasons,

go someplace else or stay home.

Really?

That's, that's where we can hurt them, right?

Yeah.

You know?

So, and that's, that's our only, you know, we

have to become informed.

We have to, you know, send our money elsewhere.

That's, that's all we can do.

And then hope our government is going to kind

of take care of the rest of it.

So, but yeah.

Yeah.

You had a great article from the Vancouver Sun

here, like no one's traveling to just like,

like the quote is most people are like, Hey,

let's go to Disneyland or Hawaii.

But now they're all looking at alternative

options because it's all US based.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

And that was one article like, like it's, you

know, out of Vancouver International Airport

in 2025 compared to 2024.

Well, sure the numbers have dropped significantly,

but it's only like 10%.

Yeah.

At least that's what this story says.

Well, that still means a lot of people are

traveling to United States.

And, and again, I don't, I don't know why

they're doing it.

So, um, anyway, yeah, that's all I can say, but

it's tough, it's, but it sucks.

And, uh, I hate that we're still, you know, that

we have to continue to talk about this, but it

does affect all of us.

Yeah.

It affects us in a big way and it could affect us

more in the future if we're not careful.

So.

Well, I think if we don't make the change now,

it's just setting us up for a more of a, I guess

that was the word dystopian future.

Like it's just things you're just going to get out

of control and we're not going to be able to,

well, we'll be able to recover, but it's going

to be a slower, slower process.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And of course it's could end up being worse

when you've got wars started.

I mean, that's, that's the other thing.

Trump, Trump wants to, Trump has been claiming

that he should get the Nobel Peace Prize and that

he has personally stopped all of, put an end to

all of these wars, like what, seven or eight

different wars.

You certainly can't add Ukraine and Russia to

that list yet because he's done fuck all.

But, but so he's, he's trying to say all this

stuff and then he, and then he supplies Israel

with all of these arms and stuff like that.

And then look what they do to Palestine, right?

So there's that he goes and he bombs Iran.

He takes out their, their, you know, nuclear

projects and stuff, stuff like that.

Yeah.

Then he goes and it's a, it was a military

operation.

It's not like he just went in and, you know,

snatched the president of Venezuela.

He, he actually, it was a military, um, um, it

was a military thing.

People died, including civilians, including

people from Venezuela, including people from

Cuba, uh, that was a military operation.

Yeah.

It was a planned and coordinated attack.

Yeah, attack.

Exactly.

Yeah.

That's what it was.

And here he is, you know, here he is talking

about invading these other countries, again,

Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Greenland.

Um, and he says that military, uh, military

operation is an option.

So what the, what the fuck?

He, he, he's not, he, he's not trying to promote

peace.

That's for damn sure.

Not one bit, yeah.

So, um, anyways, that's, I'm, I'm tired of it.

I really am, but at the same time we have reason

to be concerned.

So yeah.

That's tough.

I don't know what to do.

Maybe you have the answer.

If you do hit us up, let's just help us out.

Okay.

We have the answers.

We don't have all the answers.

We have some answers, but we don't have all the

answers.

Uh, you can always get ahold of us at the old

men.ca.

Steven's actually done a great, uh, job up

dinner webpage.

Uh, it looks pretty good, man.

I like it a lot.

So a lot of, uh, backend work going into that.

Yeah.

Talking about that a smidge or, I mean, it looks

great.

Yeah.

It's, uh, you know, there's a couple of links,

dead links and stuff.

I got to try and find some time, simple stuff

like that to try and just fix a little bit.

And yeah, it's still some updates to do on

our previous episodes.

And, um, uh, yeah, so it's a work in progress

still, and, uh, hopefully all of our episodes

are certainly a lot of the recent ones will be

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Um, I've got to fix, uh, still fix the feed links

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and, and whatever.

Uh, so definitely go to, to our site first, if

you can't, uh, get the links working on the

other platforms, they will be fixed soon, but,

um, it's coming together.

It's coming together slowly anyway.

So.

That's what counts.

Yeah.

That's what counts.

Um, well, you know, we went to, from New

Year's to Trump and bullshit.

So let's talk about Christmas.

How was Christmas?

You know, I, I, and I'm just going to keep

bitching and complaining.

If you want me to stop, you just tell me to stop.

No, I'm in.

Put me in coach.

What have we got?

Well, um, I always look forward to, you know,

spending some time at alone or not alone, but

at home.

Um, you know, we, we, we have tried to hook up

with family and stuff in the past.

This year it just didn't work out.

Um, yeah.

You know, but so regardless, um, you know,

we were looking at some, you know, just some

time off and some relaxation.

Um, the, you know, cause we were both off for

about a week anyway.

So we were both off for a week.

I was off for a little bit longer, you know, so

it's kind of a time to relax, recharge, you know,

if you want to go do something great.

Um, we did actually go to Squamish.

I know we talked about that.

We took the Sea to Sky, uh, gondola,

which was really cool.

Yeah.

It's, it's really nice up there.

Um, we didn't do a lot of hiking or walking around.

I think we're going to save that for another

trip in the springtime.

Uh, but it, it's, it is amazing up there.

It's so beautiful.

Squamish is great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that was, that was good.

It was nice to go for a drive.

The highway wasn't too busy.

Um, uh, let's see, we went to a restaurant

for lunch.

That was cool.

It was, uh, what the hell was it?

Oh, it was the Watershed Cafe.

Are you aware of that in Squamish?

It's like the side of the highway kind of thing.

It's further, it's further up north.

What's the, what's the, I don't know if it's

an actual town outside of Squamish or Breckin

Dale, Breckin Bridge, Breckin, Breckin

something.

It's probably, it's part of Squamish.

I think it's just a region of the city now.

It's changed so much though, you know, I

haven't been up there in a long time.

Okay.

Squamish has really grown.

Um, yeah, Watershed Cafe.

It's along the river, kind of a cool, trendy

place.

Um, yeah, really, really neat inside.

The food was decent.

Um, apparently it's popular for some filming

and stuff that happens in the area, uh, or

at least along the river there anyways.

So anyway, so we did that.

So we had, we had a good day for sure.

That was a lot of fun.

Um, so overall at Christmas, the break and

stuff wasn't too bad, but you know, a couple

of things were going on, some computer issues

that kind of kept me busy.

I spent a good number of hours and days

working on some, some problems that included,

you know, working with some family and, you

know, trying to get some certain things

right with them.

I took up a lot of time.

Of course, our websites and stuff, lots of,

lots of time spent on that.

Um, you know, so overall, I don't, you know,

I went to work this week and I didn't really

feel all that recharged.

That's for sure.

Shit.

Um, I want to talk about our neighbours real

quick though, like, like.

Like your neighbours in your apartment

building?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Like, like right beside us, there's this

asshole who has been smoking pot on his

balcony.

We've talked about my, my disgust with

cigarettes and, and marijuana smoke over past

episodes.

It's my, probably my number one pet peeve.

I don't tolerate it at all.

If I'm outside walking down the street and, and

I'm behind somebody smoking for two blocks,

it's like, like, what is that?

You're outside getting some fresh air, having

a nice walk.

And you've got to suck in this fucking smoke

from somebody just in front of you.

Like that's gross.

Anyway, we have a no smoke, no smoking policy

in the building.

Like it's a strata law, no smoking in your

rooms, no smoking in common, common areas.

That includes balconies.

That includes your own suite.

There's no smoking.

There's supposed to be no smoking here.

This asshole smokes on his balcony.

He's tucked in kind of just inside of his

patio door.

So I can't see him.

That's just the way the patio is laid out.

I can't see him, but I know it's him.

Uh, we go outside.

I can hear him coughing and hacking around the

fucking corner there.

I know it's him, right?

Yeah.

The thing is we don't have any actual proof.

Like we have no photos or videos of him actually

smoking.

So strata is not going to do anything about it.

They're not going to find him certainly

anyways, right?

But we know like, here's, here's the thing with

fucking cigarette smoke and pot is that like we

know it's him because it blows in.

Well, not a, we know for many reasons, but the

thing that we know when he's smoking, because

it comes in through our kitchen vent.

So we've got our hood fan above the stove, right?

Yep.

And it goes out.

It's piped out to our balcony.

Well, it comes in through there and it's, and

it's fucking strong and it's disgusting and it

lasts for a good half hour in our place.

Like, you know, so we're in our own fucking private

space and we have to deal with shit, shit like

that.

If it didn't come into our space, they had

probably no big deal, right?

He shouldn't be doing it.

But if it didn't come into our own private space

or let's say it was summertime and we're trying

to just sit on the balcony or something, it's

still our own private space.

Yeah.

But when it, so when that happens, it's a

problem.

And, you know, so I've tried to confront him on

a couple of times, just saying, you know, like,

like, like, what, what are you doing?

You can't be doing this.

Of course I'm getting pissed off at us after a

certain point and that's not good.

You know, but you have this shit happening and

it's really frustrating and it's, and it's like

nobody is doing anything about it.

And that's the problem I have.

And he, he's an asshole, just like fucking Trump

is that he doesn't care.

Right.

He, he, you know, I'm trying to talk, talk to

him and, and, and say, you know, you know, it's

a problem for us and what are you doing?

And he turns around and says, he, he, he

makes this about me.

He says things like, Oh, well, what are

you doing spying on me?

Well, we're not spying.

Number one, we're not spying on you pal.

Your shit is coming into our unit.

Why don't you get that?

Number two, he says things like, uh, he said

three or four things that basically threw it back

in my face.

He said, Oh, I've got an anger issue.

You know, why don't I go to anger management

or something like that?

Number two or number three, I guess, is, um,

I've got, um, Oh, I'm an old man.

Why don't I go to fucking bed?

Like, like, like this is his response to me.

Yeah.

And number four is I don't have a wife or

a girlfriend and I guess I'm a loser.

Oh God.

Like, like, like seriously, like you're

fucking 10 years old pal, like, like grow, you

know, you're the one that needs to fucking

get a life and grow up.

How old is he really?

I don't know.

I, you know, that's the thing.

I, I, I've never seen him.

I've so the idea, the whole idea is, you

know, I've, cause I've expressed my frustration

to concierge and stuff.

And they said, Oh, well, you know, call us

when this happens, call us.

Well, here's what happens.

I call them, they go up to his door,

bang on his door.

He doesn't even answer the door.

Yeah.

We know he's home.

They know he's home.

Um, he's not answering his door.

Well, that's, you know, why?

Because he's fucking guilty.

That's why.

And he's, you open the door, we're going to

know, they're going to know right away that

it's him and that he's fucking, you can smell

it.

You can probably see, you know, him and his

behavior.

Like he's, he's just a fucking loser.

Here's, here's the fucking kicker though.

Here's, here's, here's the thing that

really pissed me off.

Um, as if I couldn't get more

pissed off at him already.

Sometime over the Christmas holidays, we

walked out of our door and there's a big

fucking rug rolled up beside his door.

It's not between us and him.

It's between him and the unit on the other side.

So there's this big rug rolled up and some

small shitty foam mattress or something like

that.

And we look at it and you know, it's like,

oh, okay.

Well, you know, hopefully that's not there very

long.

Yeah.

Well, later that day or certainly the next

morning we found out that it is probably

infested with bedbugs.

Oh, good.

So he, here he, he didn't, so he, he took

that out of his unit, put it in the fucking

hallway.

It's sitting like two feet away from the door

next to him on the other side.

Yeah.

And it's sitting there.

It's like, what the fuck are you thinking pal?

Like, what are you doing?

It should have been bagged immediately and

taken out to fucking garbage or wherever, right?

Yep.

You don't leave, it's sitting on carpet.

It's a carpet itself rolled up sitting on

carpet, like, and we found out yesterday or

the day before that yes, he, there were bedbugs

because his unit is being treated for it.

Yeah.

You know, so pest control came and they, you

know, so here's the thing, finally his

property manager, cause he rents through a

property management company.

Um, they deal, you know, they take care of

everything for the owner of that suite.

Eventually the property manager came and

picked up the carpet, but what did they do?

They just fucking hauled the carpet, the

rolled up carpet down the hall into the elevator

down the hallway out on the main floor.

And then who knows what they did with it, but

did they bag it up?

Did they cut it?

Did they do anything with it?

No.

Treat it before they grabbed it.

They, yes, no, they didn't.

So here they hauled this shit out, probably

spread more shit who knows where and, uh, you

know, creating, possibly creating a bigger

problem and see that's how fucking stupid

people are.

They've got no fucking common sense at all.

And I, that's the problem I have in this

world today.

Nobody thinks, nobody has any consideration

for anybody else.

Um, you know, so, so it's, this is playing with

my head and maybe I'm a little bit going

a little bit overboard with it, but that's

fine.

Bedbugs are fucking gross.

I've never had bedbugs before.

You know what?

I don't know that I've ever seen one before.

Uh, every time I travel, I'm looking to

make sure that there's nothing in the room

that I'm staying at stuff like that.

Uh, I don't think I've seen one.

I've, you know, I've never been, uh, I've never

come across them, which is a good thing, but

it plays with your head, man, because I think

it's fucking disgusting.

Oh, it's really gross.

And here I am getting all itchy and it's

like, you know, and I know it's my head

playing with me probably for the most part,

you know, here I'm checking our bed and

because that shit can spread quite easily.

Right.

And it's tough to get rid of.

And it's tough to get rid of.

Yes.

You know, I'm reading that they can, you know,

we don't, fortunately we don't have wooden

walls, right?

It's all steel or metal and then Gyproc or,

or, uh, you know, so, but they can come

through conduit, right?

So we've got our bedroom wall is next to

his living room.

Now, I don't know if this rug of his and,

and how bad his unit is infected, but you

know, it's, it's like, shit, can this, can,

you know, are they going to come through the

fucking electrical units or plugs or

whatever, right?

Um, but it's, but it's, yeah, I know, see

that's, I mean, that's what happens.

Yeah.

You know, so far we haven't seen anything,

but you know, it's like, I just, it's the

whole fucking thing that happened and how he

doesn't care how his property management

company didn't seem to fucking care.

Um, he is again, they've treated his room.

Apparently they come back in two weeks after

that first treatments and they do it again.

I don't know what it is they do.

They've done the hallway and stuff from his

unit down to ours and maybe further, I suppose.

But, but that, but it's just like, it's just,

it shouldn't have gotten to that point, right?

No, that's fucking bullshit.

It is.

So, you know, this is, this is those things

that have basically ruined our holidays.

It really did.

It really did.

Like it's just.

No, I get it.

It's, you know, I, you know, we, we, we love

our place.

Otherwise, I think we're in a good spot or

we've got a great landlord and I don't want

to move anywhere.

And the problem is you're going to move

somewhere and you're going to run into shitty

people wherever you're at.

Right.

So, so it's a no win situation.

My point is there's fucking losers out there

who don't care about anybody else.

Yeah.

And that's, that's the world we live in today.

It's, it's worse now after COVID.

That's, that's really what it is.

People don't give a shit after COVID.

No, nothing.

They don't care.

Yeah.

No, I agree with that.

And there's ways like the pot smoke, like I

used to be a massive pothead.

Um, I had to stop cause I got the fear and I

can't smoke cause of my job anymore or do

edibles or any of that fucking shit.

But there was, that was like, I was always

tried to be considerate and walk away or go

smoke in a forest or do something and not

affect anyone.

But the, there's now like the vapes, which

you can have.

So if you're going to smoke in your house, you

can get one of those vapes that are odorless.

So you can do what you want and that

wouldn't affect anybody.

You can do it illegally.

You can do it in your apartment.

It doesn't, doesn't do anything cause there's

no odor to it.

So I wish that guy would fucking just, he's

giving the good stoners a bad name.

Well, well yes, because there are a lot of

people who do go downstairs.

A lot of people.

Yeah, downstairs or around the corner.

Around the corner or whatever, right?

A lot of people do it.

And yes, I walk to the garbage room and that's

where a lot of them hang out and I can't stand

it, but you know what?

At least they're outside, right?

Yeah.

And that's it.

And, and that's the main thing.

Uh, vaping is also part of the, you know,

smoking policy in, in units.

So yes, even though it may be odorless,

uh, it's still technically not allowed in, in

this, uh, in this complex, apartment complex,

but, um.

It's better than the fucking smoke or

whatever it is.

And actually have you ever walked by a vape and

there's like the blueberry slash watermelon,

vanilla stuff.

It actually doesn't smell too bad.

Well, well, no, no, that's true.

I don't know if it's any better for you or not,

but here's, here's the thing with vaping.

Now is that you see people vaping on buses

and transit, you see people vaping in bars

and pubs and restaurants.

It's like, dude, you know, it's, you, you

might think you're not, what you're doing

is no big deal and it's not affecting me, but

it's still, it is number one and most

important, but number two is it's still

considered smoking and it's not allowed.

It's like, come on fucking asshole.

Like stop it.

Like, you know, and you can't approach these

people because again, they don't think

they're doing anything wrong.

They'll just tell you to fuck off,

mind your own business.

Well, I'm trying to mind my own business,

but your fucking shit is blowing my way.

Yeah.

Like fuck.

So.

Yeah, that's tough.

Yeah.

The next thing you could do, cause I had a

friend in a similar situation.

Um, again, the concierge calls when it happens.

Oh, tell them to come up to your apartment

because they can come up to your apartment and

then they can smell it coming through the

vents and it's not just going to be you.

It's the people like to the right of you,

to the left of you, up and down.

Yeah.

So it's like the Brady Bunch thing, like

you're in the middle and there's like, he's

affecting all the rooms around there.

So hopefully that it's not just you guys

complaining.

Hopefully everyone else is saying something

about it and, uh, you can do what's right.

Well, they have, they have gone so far

as, as, uh, telling me I should get a selfie

stick and connect my camera and kind of hang

it out my patio and pointed his way to

trying to try and actually catch him on video

because then they will actually do

something about it.

Right.

Yeah.

Um, apparently they'd even told the property

manager that, Hey, there's a problem with

this guy, you know, what are you going to do?

And of course, to this point, nothing.

So, um, I mean, yeah, I could try the selfie

stick thing, but I mean, is that putting me

in a spot where I might be in trouble too?

Because I don't want to shine a camera into

his unit.

Yes, I would like to catch him just around

the corner outside, you know, catch him

doing his thing.

Um, but again, I, you know, am I, am I in

trouble because I'm shining a camera into

his private space?

Yeah.

All right.

So anyway, concierge told me that I could do

it, but that doesn't make it legal.

So that's what it is.

And like, you don't want to blow back on

you at all.

No, no, I don't.

Because again, at this point I'm doing

nothing wrong.

And yet, like I said, he spins things around

and make it, it makes it look like I'm the

bad guy here, right?

When I've done fuck all.

So.

The other option is you can get the concierge

to do it.

If he comes into your unit with a selfie stick,

you can go buy one for Amazon, 15 bucks,

whatever it is.

Here's your stick, take the photo.

And if they do it, cause now it's not only,

uh, like your word, it's the actual concierge

is if they have any sort of power or

whatever, but they have the power.

Oh yeah, no, I caught this guy filming

with my own eyes.

What are you going to do about it?

Yeah.

So it kind of escalates it right off

the bat without escalating.

And it puts you out of harm's way.

I could ask them.

Yes.

I could ask them if they would be willing

to do that.

Cause, uh, you know, I'm out of, I'm

out of ideas, right?

And again, it's doesn't seem to be going

anyway at this point.

Yeah.

It doesn't seem to be going away.

Yes.

So, uh, yeah, yeah.

That's, uh, that's, that's my bitching

and complaining for this episode.

Hopefully that's all because, uh, Trump

and, uh, Mr. Asshat, a neighbour here

have got me worked up pretty good.

Oh shit.

Okay.

Well, we'll try to spin it around.

Did you, uh, pick anything up for Boxing Day?

Um, I did not, I didn't even know.

I didn't set foot in any stores.

I didn't really pay attention to what was

going on, um, on for sales or anything like that.

So nothing for me.

Yeah.

How about you?

Um, I did pick up a used iPad Pro.

Yes.

Okay.

I mentioned, had mentioned you were looking

or going to consider one.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Yeah.

So it was a good, uh, it was a great deal.

It was 600 bucks.

It came with a magic keyboard or whatever it is.

And I just, do I need one?

No.

Did I want it?

Yes.

Because it's just, I don't know if you have

a tablet at all, but it's just like, there's

certain things that I can do on it super quickly

and just make it work and stuff.

Um, I'm planning a trip to Iceland this year.

Have you been to Iceland, right?

Yes.

We went to Iceland last, last year.

It's hard to believe it's been over a

year and a half already.

Yeah.

Oh, that's awesome.

When are you going?

Uh, have you got anything planned yet?

Uh, September-ish.

Yeah.

Cool.

So, so September into October.

So probably go, I don't know, how long did

you go there?

Five nights?

Seven nights?

We, we went there, we stopped in there on

the way back from London and Paris.

So we only stayed three nights and I think

that was too short.

Yeah.

Uh, if you're just going to Iceland, yeah,

you need a week there.

Yeah, we're going to.

That would be nice for sure.

We're planning five to seven days.

Yeah.

So, um, that's kind of the plan.

And when I was in Winnipeg, uh, I was like,

um, I was in the hotel.

I was trying to plan the day out and look

at restaurants and just kind of talk to locals

and stuff, what's going on.

I'm trying to watch TV to have some background

noise, but everything in Winnipeg was in French.

I was like, what the fuck is this?

So I'm watching Big Bang Theory in French.

So like, I'm trying to plan like shit.

I'm just like, okay, I need to have something

that I can do both on.

So, yeah.

Um, but anyways, it was, it's used at six

and it's in great shape.

You know, the battery life is still fucking

99% for a three year old.

Uh, she, the lady bought it, never used it.

So, uh, I bought that.

Uh, so I think that's going to help and just

accentuate a little travelling and just for

like shit, you're going around doing things.

I'm sorry.

Did you, do you have a tablet or no?

No, no, just my laptop.

That's actually, I was thinking about it the

other day.

I think this is almost seven years old now.

So, but no tablet.

Um, did you get it from Marketplace or?

Yeah, it was Marketplace.

Yep.

Yep.

And the lady was originally selling it

for 800 bucks and I reached out to her like

when I was first looking and, uh, she's like,

no, I got a buyer.

I got a buyer and, uh, okay, cool.

And then I didn't do anything.

I was asking other people and people are sketchy

on Marketplace, whatever it was.

And then she actually reached back.

She's like, everyone's fallen through.

Do you still want this?

I'm like, yeah, I'm just looking at other

options.

She's like, I'll give it to you for 600 bucks.

I'm like, done.

I'll meet you tomorrow.

She's like, perfect.

So yeah, it just, it actually kind of worked

out in my favor.

I mean, it didn't come with a charger.

It didn't come with anything else like that.

Cause I mean, I'm an Apple guy, so I have

the chargers, but I would just bought some shit

off, um, off of Amazon there and now I have

it and I'm good to go.

Yeah.

How much is a new one?

Like if you wanted to buy a new one, similar

this year's model, how much would it have cost?

Um, I think like, so they're at the M5 chip.

Um, so it's, uh, it's expensive.

It's, uh, it's like 1500 bucks.

Oh shit for it's for just for a tablet.

Well, that, I mean, I got the pro model.

Yeah.

Uh, so it has like the speakers and the, the

hired is like refresh rate and all the fun

stuff.

You know what I mean?

Like, and because I'm using it for like a media

um, like consumption and just kind of

everything I can do like light video.

I don't know if you, you know, an Apple buy

but like the M2, the M series chips are

fucking wicked chips.

Yeah.

Um, so they, it should, I should get another

like five, 10 years out of it.

Uh, you can buy a base entry iPad for,

349.

You can do the iPad air for 599.

You can do a brand new one for a thousand

bucks.

Right.

So, you know, it kind of is what it is and they

have like 11 inch and they have a 13 inch for

the pros and all this shit, but, um, this is

a 11 inch.

It'll do what I need to do for, for whatever.

And I just bought like a cheap case, which

I love.

It's like, uh, it's like a rip off of the Apple

one for like 15 bucks off Amazon.

So it's just, the stuff just works.

Uh, that's cool.

I see you bought a charger and stuff like that.

Is will the, will the iPad fit on that charger

or for your phone?

Yeah.

So I got, so I saw this charger that came on

maybe six, eight months ago.

I'm like, fuck, this is awesome.

Yeah.

And then I'm like, but it's too much money.

And then I'm in my room.

I'm trying to do shit.

Cables are like today.

Cables are all wrapped up.

I couldn't get shit.

Fuck shit's falling behind the bed.

I'm like, fuck this.

It was on sale.

I just clicked go and bought it.

So I put it, it's like a $200 charger, but it's

like, it's thick.

It's awesome.

I'm probably going to stay Apple for a while.

So I'll keep it for a while.

Um, because it's like plugging your shit in

every night.

Sometimes I missed it.

Like it has a strong magnet.

Sucks my phone and it's good to go.

So, and it charges the thing super quick.

That's what blows my mind.

Yeah.

It's a 25 watt certified charger.

It has its own like built-in fan.

It like regulates the charge.

It's charged within.

I mean, obviously it charges when you go to

sleep and you wake up in the morning, but it's

a, it's fucking super, super cool.

Yeah.

It looks really cool.

It's because you can charge your phone.

You can charge your watch.

You can throw your earbuds on stuff on there

and everything.

Yeah.

It's all in one unit.

So it looks pretty cool.

They don't make anything similar for Android.

And I think the biggest reason for that is

because it's the Androids don't have the mag.

Uh, there's a game for it.

Mag safe or mag charger, whatever it is.

Yeah, exactly.

So, although I think cases, cases might have

it so you could buy a case that has it and

then it would work.

I think that's how it goes.

But yeah, it is more of a Apple device, but

it looks cool.

It looks great.

So when you charge your shit at night, do

you just plug it in before you go to bed

up beside your bedside?

What do you end up doing?

I do have a wireless charger.

Um, and so it's a, so I lie it flat on, on

this charger.

So it does charge wirelessly, but, um, we've

got a couple of cables lying around if I need

to bump up the charge at any time, like in

the kitchen or something like that.

But at nighttime it sits on that.

Yep.

And you and the partner are still rocking

the Samsung latest, whatever latest, greatest

27 ultra, 32 ultra?

No, it's our phones are the, uh, the S23 series.

Uh, they are now, I guess they would be three

years old now.

So yeah.

So for us, I think that's probably, this is

probably the longest we've had a phone, uh, and

they still work great.

You know, they still, the batteries are still

good.

That's probably the biggest thing at this point.

But, you know, I've read, you know, and we've

talked about this before in that the, the

technology has kind of slowed down as far as

when it comes to performance and yeah, and

all that sort of stuff.

So each version, each year they release a new

version.

Um, it's like the specs are really not all

that much better.

Yes, you've got, uh, maybe a little bit more

memory.

Yes, the processor is a little bit faster, but

at the end of the day, are we really going to

notice it?

Um, displays are better.

Batteries are better.

So those are cool things.

Sometimes the cameras are better.

Um, but you know what?

I've been reading stuff right now.

I think the, at least the latest model is the

S25 series.

Um, so we are already two, we are already, yeah,

two generations behind.

I think the S26 is out at some point this spring.

So then we'll be three generations behind, but

I've been reading so far that it's really, a lot

of people say it's not really worth it for us

being S23 owners.

It's not really worth it for us to upgrade.

And, um, especially if our phones are still

working well.

Uh, so I'm, yeah, we're going to wait.

Um, so probably won't even go with the S26

unless something happens to our phones.

But I noticed one thing you shared some, some

stuff from the CES.

What does CES stand for again?

It's the.

Consumer Electronics Show.

That's right.

So they have this every single year and I

watched that.

And of course they were going through some of,

some of the latest and greatest stuff that is

not typically not available yet, but we'll

be probably coming out this year.

And I noticed that there's a Galaxy, I think

that they're calling it a Galaxy Z.

Yeah.

It's a, so there are flip phones or not

flip phones.

They are, they are because they're the new

generation of flip phones, right?

The screen, the screen opens up.

So you have a bigger screen right now.

I think the current phones are only, you know,

you fold it once to open it and you know,

you've got a larger display.

Well, this new Galaxy is you fold open once

and then you fold open twice and you've almost

got a tablet in front of you.

Yeah, that's super awesome.

That is really cool.

Um, and apparently those flip phones, at

least from Samsung have, uh, the technology

that way on that side of things has come

a long way.

Yeah.

Um, and I think the people I've talked to

with at least the, you know, the regular

Zs or the Ys.

Yeah.

They work really well, apparently.

So that could be something to consider

at some point.

Um, expensive though.

I would expect those to be very expensive.

So anyway, we're hanging on to our phones

for now.

Yeah.

See, I'm, uh, I'm upgrading this year.

My phone, I'm three years in, so this

year will be year four.

Yeah.

So it's time to, so I'll either get the

newest Apple, whatever.

I think they're at 18 Pro Max, but if they

do a flip phone, I'll buy that flip phone

right away.

Yeah.

Uh, it's the first gen for Apple, which

is going to run into its problems.

Uh, they're usually actually really good

with first gen stuff.

I'm with the first gen watches.

They had, they had a, a guarantee.

So you pay an extra a hundred bucks.

And when the next generation came in,

you could just swap your watch.

Yeah.

So I hope they have something like that

with the phones.

I don't know if they will this year

because everything's down in production.

Everyone's losing money.

No one's spending money on weird

gadgets like this, but, uh, something

you use every day.

Don't cheap it on it, man.

Like buy what you want, see if it works

and, um, and move forward that way.

But yeah, you're right.

There's nothing, uh, the technology

really hasn't advanced so far in a phone.

Um, and I just don't know if there's

a market for it.

They just want it to click and shoot

and go.

Yeah.

And, um, you know, like this is still

keeping up.

I just know in my battery life, still

starting to suffer cause it's almost

four years old now.

So screen still works.

It's still quick.

It's still responsive, but it's just,

she's just dying.

She's just dying a little bit.

Yeah.

That's always the biggest thing is the

battery, I think.

Otherwise we take care of our phones, right?

You can't do, you can do certain things to

try and protect your battery and make it

last a little bit longer.

But, um, yeah, once that goes, yeah, it's,

it's still, it's cheap enough that you

could probably replace the battery.

But you know, Hey, if you're three or four

years in, just get a new phone at that point.

Right.

So, uh, the coolest thing I saw at

CES was that smart lock.

So, uh, yeah, we have a bunch of smart

locks at home.

It's fingerprints, scanners, or it has a,

um, you type in a bark or combination

code and opens the door.

Yep.

This one is using that new technology.

So like when you want to, from what I

understand is you connect to your home

network and it just pops open and you're

kind of good to go.

I think that shit's fucking cool.

That is Minority Report fucking sweetness.

Yeah.

I, I love stuff like that too.

I would love to play around with it.

Obviously we aren't in our own home,

but, um, I know, I know the better half would

be pretty leery about using stuff like that.

She's not a techie person.

Yeah.

She'd worry about say, you know, stuff

breaking down, you know, computer stuff, you

know, electronics, when they break, you're

fucked, right?

We depend on them so much that even I think

there are certain things that, you know, you

should not, you know, you should not depend

on certain things.

Um, just in case, right?

Just in case, just in case the power goes out,

just in case your network drops, just in, you

know, there's lots of different things that can

go wrong, I guess.

And in that case, you, you wouldn't want to

be locked out.

That's for sure.

Well, there's still, you still have the fail

safe of the actual key to open it.

Yes.

Yeah, for sure.

So that's good.

But what you mean, like I have a Phillips

Hue system in my room and we lost power a

couple of times when I get on the bed.

Yeah.

And when I wake up in the morning, all the

lights are on at a hundred degree.

Like it felt like fucking fourth of July.

Like they're all a hundred percent of it.

What the hell's going on?

Who turned on the sun?

Yeah.

Scroll over and turn off your phone.

But, uh, I'm just like, what the shit, you

know, it works great for, you know, 99% of

the time, but you lose power.

Everything's back at a thousand percent.

Yeah, exactly.

Ah, good times, good times.

Um, but yeah, CES is, it's my, my dad used

to go all the, like for a while for work and

stuff.

He hasn't gone last 10 years, but I've never

been, and then I would love to go to CES and

go in there, but I have a hard time justifying

a US trip right now.

And I have a hard time just spending the money

to get in CS.

Cause I think it's like a thousand dollars

and the trade shows are fucking busy as fuck.

Like you're out there and they're, they're busy

and you're just like a lot of people.

And I don't forget COVID spiking again,

people.

Like it's tough.

People are sick as fuck too.

Like, do you know anyone who's caught the

norovirus right now?

No, but yes, a lot of people are sick.

Um, lots of colds and flu going around for sure.

I haven't heard much about COVID recently, but

yeah, again, it's, it's, I mean, it hasn't

gotten away.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

So we did, uh, we did get our COVID vaccines

again this year.

I don't know if you did or not, but.

No, I'm, I've stopped.

We, yeah, we did.

Um, you know, part of it is obviously

protecting ourselves, but, uh, you know, it's

also, you know, protecting those around us,

you know, cause again, you know, visiting my mom

and, uh, and Teresa's family and, you know, all

that sort of stuff and her mom.

And, uh, so you want to protect them too.

Right.

Yeah.

Um, and you know, so that's the whole idea.

Yeah, no, I, I agree with that.

It's just, um, like, what are they at?

They're at, you had the two original ones

and then the two boosters.

Now they're, what are they at?

Like five or six boosters from COVID?

I'm assuming so, cause it's the sixth year

of it.

So.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah.

And I'm trying to think of how many shots

we've had in total.

Um, is it five or six for us?

Cause we had the two at the beginning, which,

which were the AstraZeneca.

We had those three months apart and then we went

with the Pfizer each time after that.

And I think we've had four of those now.

I'm just guessing.

Yeah.

So two, the two at the beginning and then four

since that's, I think that sounds about right.

Anyway.

So, um, I actually did have the flu vaccine as

well, which I never used to do up until a

couple of years ago.

I think I've been doing it now for, oh, I

don't know.

I've been doing it now for three or four years.

I think I, again, again, for the same reasons.

I mean, I never got sick.

I never had the flu typically.

I know I don't, you know, we were both sick a

little bit over Christmas, a bit of a cough and

more annoying, I think than anything, but

we weren't doing too bad.

But, uh, yeah, the flu is not something I normally

get again, just getting a little bit older and

just want to protect myself.

So.

Every time I've gotten a flu shot, I've gotten

the sickest I've ever been in my life.

Yeah.

A lot of people say that.

Yeah.

It's a great way to drop 15 pounds, but, uh.

Damn, it didn't work for me.

You gotta try it hard enough.

Get two of them.

Yeah.

Next, next year, next year.

I can always go back down.

Hey, I haven't had the flu vaccine yet.

Well, they, they, they would know that

I've had it already, but anyway.

Yeah.

Give me another one.

I need to lose some weight.

Yeah.

Fuck Ozempic.

That's another story.

I don't know that that shit is, we, we won't

get into it now.

We don't need to, but that shit's scary, man.

And I'm tired of the ads too, but aside from

that, that shit sounds pretty scary.

I don't know who is.

You got Ozempic, you got the, what, the Wegovy,

whatever the hell's out there.

Yeah.

And those ads are fucked.

You know, I went, saw a movie.

What did we go and see?

Fuck.

Uh, whatever.

It was, uh, oh fuck, I don't even remember.

See, this is how bad, but it was 30 minutes of ads

before the movie started.

Seriously?

Yep.

And I was done my popcorn during watching the ads.

And then we had two Wegovy ads, like they're

replaying the ads in front of the fucking movie

theater.

So.

What movie was it?

So were these ads playing before the scheduled

start time or that was at the scheduled start

time they played for another 30 minutes?

That's it.

Scheduled start time, ads played for 30 minutes.

And then you got like the four trailers before

the movie start, before the movie stopped coming.

See, there you go.

Yeah, that drive me crazy.

Paying all that money and you still got to deal

with the fucking advertisements.

I just know.

Oh, thanks.

I'll stay at home, watch them here.

Watch them at home.

Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what the fuck

I went and saw.

See, just, just, just screwed.

Ads over Christmas as well.

Oh, it was Avatar.

Saw Avatar.

Okay.

Okay.

So Avatar was fucking cool.

But yeah, it was 30 minutes of ads before a

three hour movie.

Yeah, that's nuts.

But what are you going to do?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I don't even know anymore, but yeah, Avatar was

cool.

Yeah.

Um, and that would sound good and look great

on your new setup at home.

It would.

Yeah.

I haven't even watched any of the other ones

yet.

Like, what is this?

Is this, is this number three?

Yeah, correct.

Number three, it's called Fire and Ash.

Yeah.

It's better than the second one, but it's just

progressing the story more and more.

So you're kind of getting into the sci-fi lore

and you're doing all that.

Yeah.

Fucking cool stuff.

So.

Yeah.

Haven't even seen the first two.

So.

Yeah.

It'll look awesome.

Get the, find the special 4k rips and give

that a watch for sure.

Yeah.

It's a, it's a night.

I mean, you're watching a movie and you're

done, but, um, yeah, it's cool.

You know what I did do end up doing during

the Christmas break is I went saw, uh, Home

Alone, but performed by the VSO.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

So the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra gets the

rights to the movie.

They strip all the music behind it and they

watch, you watch the movie in real time.

The VSO plays the live music.

Oh, no way.

It's fucking super cool.

Where was that?

Do the, was that the Orpheum?

Orpheum.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

So they do, they do it right there and they

do not only like Christmas movies and stuff,

but they do like Star Trek and Star Wars and

the Indiana Jones.

And I've seen Harry Potter there.

So I saw the Harry Potter one like 10 years

ago, so I haven't been there in 10 years or

so when I was, we were decided to do it

because it's one of my favorite Christmas

movies.

And, uh, yeah, we watched that.

I know you found a list of, uh, Christmas

movies, like core Christmas movies.

Oh yeah.

And the first one was Bad Santa.

I mean, that's not a horror Christmas movie.

No, it's not.

It's not.

I, I, I know, but I, you know what?

It could, it's, it's a horror because

it's so bad.

Yeah.

You know what I, I, um, and that's why I

added it to the list.

I, uh, I had never seen it before.

Oh, it's so good.

I, um, so I heard lots about it and I

heard, you know, how good it's supposed to be.

It's, it's, uh, it's not very good.

I mean, I laughed at times.

Uh, I didn't, I, I mean, Hey, it was

entertaining, I guess.

And I, now I can say I watched it, but it's,

I, it's not as good as everybody, I guess,

said it was.

Oh, fuck.

I watch it once a year.

Like that's one of my, that's one of the

best, my favourite scene in the whole movie

is he's playing chess with that kid and he's

losing and he fucking, are you fucking with

me kid?

And you're like, see bitch, get all over

the fucking board.

Like I would, I would love to know how much

of that was improv from Billy Bob Thornton

because.

Yeah, he did a good job.

Yeah, for sure.

Oh God.

I liked the little, uh, like I love that

fucking movie.

Like it's, it's so good.

Uh, the one, I don't know, we may as well

stick with that a little bit if you want,

because I, uh, of course we watched Die Hard.

That's almost a year.

Oh, a hundred percent.

So, and of course that was in, that was

in HDR and I think in, in Atmos as well.

Uh, so it looked and sounded pretty good.

But, um, the one, the one movie that I really

enjoyed that I, that I had not seen before,

it's been on my list for a very long time.

And I watch, I can watch horror movies

at any time.

And of course I've got my list for Halloween.

I've got my list for Christmas.

I mean, shit, there's even some Thanksgiving

horror movies and stuff like that out

there now.

Right.

But anyway, uh, I watched, it's a Norwegian

movie called Rare Exports, a Christmas

Tale as actually, actually very good.

Um, uh, yeah, check, you know, check it out or

at least, you know, you don't watch it if

you don't want to, but at least, you know, read

up about it and stuff like that.

And it was, yeah, it was, it was, it was

pretty good.

It was well done.

So, and I like, you know what I like, everybody

watches the Hollywood stuff and whatever

all the time, but there's lots of other great

foreign movies out there.

And I, you know, I like, I like, you know,

picking those up and I don't mind the

subtitles.

Um, so yeah, that was, that was a good Christmas

horror movie, rare, Rare Exports, a Christmas

Tale.

It came out in 2010.

So I'll have to, uh, I'll have to get onto

that.

There is, uh, I like watching non-Christmas

movies, but Christmas movies like Die Hard.

Um, I'm making the girl for what I'm making

the girlfriend.

She's willingly doing it, but she's

watching the Marvel cinematic universe.

So she's catching up on all the flicks and I

ended up watching Iron Man 3 with her.

I didn't realize that was a Christmas movie.

Oh, is it?

Okay.

Yeah.

A bunch of Christmas themes in that.

And I always end up watching the Batman

movies.

You're on Christmas, like October, November,

December, Batman Returns is technically a

Christmas movie.

Yes.

Yeah.

That is, uh, you know, you, you, you check out

Christmas movies to watch and that's always

on the list for sure.

Yeah.

So that's kind of cool, but, um, yeah.

I then, I didn't really, I mean, I watched

bats.

I did stop and watched Home Alone 2.

So I missed that boat, but I watched Home Alone,

Bad Santa, Die Hard and Iron Man 3 this

year.

Okay.

So not too bad.

Not too bad.

Yeah.

I never did, you know, again, I've got a big

long list all the time for, especially for

Halloween and for Christmas.

And you know, I never get to half of what I

hope to watch, but, and, and sometimes you

watch repeats.

Like you said, you know, you've got your staples

that you seem to watch every single year.

So I did watch Violent Night again.

Um, there is a Violent Night come Violent

Night, Part 2 coming out.

I think this, this coming Christmas.

So it's still, you know, 11 months away or

whatever, but, um, so I watched that again.

I watched, uh, there's a couple of movies

called Black Christmas.

Actually there are three movies called Black

Christmas.

The first one is a classic.

It came out in 1974.

So I rewatched that.

Uh, and then I did watch again, one of the

other, they're not sequels, they're remakes.

The, uh, the second one came out in 2006.

So I watched that.

Uh, the third one, which I have seen already

anyways, I think it came out in 2017 or 2019

or something like that.

Uh, the second and third one aren't rated very

well, but I didn't mind them.

They were still okay.

So, uh, a couple of others thrown in there as well.

So, um, always love my horror movies and you

might as well make them a theme at depending

on the time of the year.

Right.

So, oh, no, I agree with that.

Um, so a parent, I haven't watched it yet, but,

um, and you talked about it last time, but the

It, the Welcome to Derry, that's supposed to be

fucking cool.

And yeah, you finished it.

I'm assuming.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, that was good.

I enjoyed that.

Um, I think it sets up the next year or the next

season, I assume there is going to be a season

two anyway.

So that was, you know, that was a pretty good

series.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It reminded me a lot of Stranger Things.

Oh, okay.

Um, you know, just, you know, a bunch of kids

and, you know, kind of a horror supernatural

type setting and, um, yeah, it was pretty good.

Yeah.

Check it, check it out.

Uh, did you finish Stranger Things?

Yes.

Yes, we did.

I did you, I will.

No, I'm not sure if you did.

So we won't get into it too much here.

I got two more to, I got two more to watch.

Okay.

And as we discussed last time, it's the last

one, the finale is two hours long.

So.

Yeah.

You'll need a, an evening for that for sure.

So what was cool about it is they showed the

finals, the, the final Stranger Things in the

theatres and, um, the Rio, well not the old Rio,

so the Rio bought the Park and the Park showed

the Stranger Things finale.

And, uh, one of the actors, Mike showed up to

a Finn.

Finn Wolfheart, is that his name?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Showed up to MC it or introduce it or

something like that, which is fucking super cool.

If you're a big fan, that would have been a

fun experience for sure.

Yeah.

Cause because he is from Vancouver.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um, yeah, so that would have been, that

would have been a good time.

I'm sure it was packed that place.

Oh yeah.

Every, every screening was sold out.

A couple of friends trying to do it for New

Year's Eve and, um, it was sold, it was sold

out the minute it went on sale.

So.

It's a great idea for sure.

Yeah.

You know, they did things really well.

They planned it well, you know, the

three episodes on Christmas day and

then the New Year's Eve thing, right?

You know, spend two, spend two hours in a

theater and kind of finish watching, uh, a

series that, you know, you've been kind of

invested in for how many years now.

Yeah.

And, um, to have one of the stars there.

Uh, yeah, that's a great, it's a great idea.

But having saying that, so, I mean, you

pay for Netflix, we watch all that shit.

So, I mean, and now with your upgraded system

and Netflix streams it all in 4K, Dolby

Atmos, it's all the stuff you could ever ask for.

Is it worth going to see a shit like that

in the movie theater?

And so it's kind of both ways because like,

I've had some really great theater experiences

like on like opening nights or within the first

couple of days, like watching Avengers End Game

in the movie theater was fucking awesome

because the crowds cheering and all that stuff.

Watching a Spider-Man Far From Home with all

the Spider-Man showing up was fucking awesome.

Seeing that in the movie theater and apparently

the finale was great.

So people were cheering in the finale.

So can you back that up?

Was it worth seeing that in the theater?

Do you think, and have you ever had a great

theater experience like that?

Yeah, I can't say I have, but then I don't

go, you know, we don't go to a lot of movies.

Yeah.

So, and again, like you said, for, for that

reason, you know, if you've got a good system

at home, uh, it's, it's, it's cheaper in the

long run is cheaper.

Yes, again, you've got to pay for your

hardware and stuff like that.

But, but in the long run is cheaper.

You can wash it from home and the comfort

of your own home.

You can pause it whenever you have to hit

the washroom, whatever it is, right?

So, um, you don't have to deal with other people.

Yeah.

Um, and again, for Netflix releases, you get

them at the same time.

The only disadvantage of course is theatricals,

right?

You have to wait whatever it is, two months,

three months for a movie to, to come to the

streams, uh, to the streaming platforms.

So, um, that's the only disadvantage, but for

us there's enough to watch anyway, so it

doesn't really matter for us.

Yeah.

Um, are there certain, uh, franchises or

movies that, you know, you would, I guess,

like to see as soon as they are released in

theaters?

Well, maybe, but I don't know that there's

anything that I miss not seeing, I guess, like,

you know, the movies we have seen in the

theaters, yeah, it's been great.

It's been, um, it's been fun, but, um, Hey, I'm

at a point where, you know, like concerts, I

guess, you know, I'm don't really go to many

shows anymore either.

So yeah, maybe for different reasons, but

Hey, I'm just, you know, it's good to watch

movie and TV at home.

No, I agree.

Um, and there's certain, I mean, there's

certain things like I last year at this time

I've had, I had like fucking 15 shows lined

up.

I only have six shows lined up this year.

Like it's just also they've changed the way

our holidays work at work.

So it's really hard for me to get some days off

now, cause I can't shift trade them away.

So I'm being more and more limited.

Like I had to plan for my 2026, like I

signed all my vacation in November.

Oh wow.

So like, and there's a lot of stuff still

hasn't been announced yet.

So yeah.

Yeah.

It's been tough, but what do you have on the

docket?

You're going to Rush, right?

Yes.

That's the only thing so far.

Um, and that's, you know, we talked about that.

That's not till December for 11 months away.

Um, nothing else, you know, I know that some

other stuff has come up.

You, we, we talked about some things that

you're going to, um, we see, we noticed Big

Sugar has announced a tour.

So they're, they've got a Vancouver date.

Um, yeah.

You know, I don't know if we're going to

go to that or not.

That's at the Pearl actually, which is not

far away, but I'm surprised it wasn't at the

Commodore actually, but whatever.

Yeah.

I'm, uh, that they're doing Hemi-Vision.

In it's entirely there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um, I actually got that for a birthday gift.

Oh, cool.

So that's a couple of weeks.

So I'm, uh, I'm actually, I love that album, man.

Like, yeah, it's, yeah.

So, yeah, nothing, nothing else, nothing

purchased anyway.

So we'll, we'll see what's going on.

Kind of a last minute kind of things.

And there was so much shit I would like to go

and see, but like, I know you're not a Chris

Stapleton fan, but he's coming back to town.

And I think that would be a cool show to see.

Yeah.

No, you shared some of his stuff before.

Yeah.

He sees the blues guy, I think, right?

Blues country guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I haven't listened to much more, but I know

you shared this stuff and I did like it.

It's great.

So I like, he's one of the guys I do want to see.

So like he announced the show, I don't fucking

know, November of next year, September or

something, but it's a show I can make without

having to book time off.

So.

Yeah.

And then, uh, you also have here that Fuck

February Fest with Bison and Heavy Trip.

That's a great lineup.

That's a great lineup.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's another two or three bands on top

of that, I think.

And, uh, so that's coming up the end of

February, I don't have tickets, but yeah,

that'd be a fun show.

Yeah, that's, there's always so many shows

to go see.

Yeah.

Just not enough time and just so much bullshit

now at shows kind of like.

Well, and they're not, they're not cheap.

I mean, even for that show at the Pearl for

big, Big Sugar, I think tickets there were 60

bucks plus tax or something like that.

So.

Yeah.

You know, for a smaller show, smaller venue,

it's starting to get a little expensive.

That's still cheap by most standards today

because everything's so expensive now.

Right?

So.

Yeah.

Um, yeah.

So anyway.

Well, I bought for that Foos - Queen show.

It was like two 50.

Yeah.

Wow.

But I mean, that's Foos and Queens and

that's at BC Place.

Right.

So, I mean, you would pay a hundred dollars

to go see Queens.

You pay a hundred dollars to see Foos.

So 200 plus BC Place is 50 bucks.

Right.

So we'll see, we'll see how that goes.

Sounds good.

Uh, what do you spit?

So we both have come up with a top 10 ish

list for, uh, 2025.

Yeah.

Um, I have, I mean, there's like, it's a

couple of Canadian guys.

So Finger Eleven, big record on there.

Ed Sheeran's on there for myself.

Uh, White Reaper.

Did I share any White Reaper?

I think you did.

Um, because I, because when I saw your list, I

actually looked for a couple of videos.

And I think that the one at the top of the

list on YouTube was, I forget the name of the

song, but I think you've played it.

I think it's pretty good song.

Yeah.

It's, I don't, I don't even know what type of

music pop punk.

I don't fucking know, but I enjoyed this album.

Fuck this song.

It's called Freak Show off their album for the

year.

Only slightly empty.

I think this album is great.

This is the full thing.

A couple of times.

It's a fucking great album.

Um, I don't know if you spun the new Tron

soundtrack.

Have you watched a new Tron movie yet?

Haven't haven't seen it.

Nope.

Yeah.

You got to get that.

I, I should, yeah.

Um, but the new Nine Inch Nails does the music for

it.

Daft Punk did the second one, which was awesome,

but this is just as cool.

It fits really well.

Uh, Reznor and the boys kicking some ass,

taking some names.

Yeah.

Fucking big fan of the Tron soundtrack.

Big fan of Nine Inch Nails, obviously.

So that was great.

Another one on my top 10 to listen to Spirit

Box fucking love Spirit Box.

I know you're a big fan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's cool breakdowns.

I like the chick vocals.

I just, I love it all.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, great, great album.

If you're into that, um, there's a comment

I read on Reddit.

Um, the guy was going to go see her live

or the Spirit Box life.

And the mom goes, is that the band?

Is that the band with the lady who's

pretty but screams like a demon?

So yeah, yes, mom, that's the band.

So that was pretty good.

Yeah.

And then another big one on the list

was the new Deftones.

I fucking love the new Deftones album.

Spent a lot of time with this disc.

Have you listened to the new Deftones album?

I have not.

I still haven't.

The songs that you've played here

and that's about it.

So it's, it is a popular one too.

Cause I've read a lot of not a lot.

I've read some lists and it seems like

that album's on every one of them.

Yeah.

It's just like from start to finish.

It's just like, like the last couple

of Deftones album have been kind of hit

and miss, but every song on this album just rips.

Yeah.

So yeah, it's, it's definitely a great album

to get to spit and to listen to it.

And I'm sure it'll sounds when you're

still listening to music, are you playing

it on your new system?

Are you still doing your hi-fi stuff?

I do, I do a little of both still.

Yeah.

I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, when I'm kicking

around at work and stuff, especially here

at home, I, I'll just stream it to my

Sonos speakers typically.

Or of course I've got my vinyl on, on a

separate system over here.

Yeah.

But I still occasionally pull out the

headphones and, and listen to the high res

stuff, especially on headphones.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Fuck it.

Hey, what did you have for the top tens?

So I don't, do I even have 10 on my list?

I don't think I do one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine, only nine.

I don't know.

Only nine of the year.

My top nine list, my best, best of nine list,

even though it's maybe not a best of, but it's,

it's, it's, it's nine albums that I really

enjoyed all heavy stuff from, from 2025.

Uh, some of it I've played here before bands

like Testament, uh, their album, Parabellum,

uh, obviously a thrash metal band from

California, everybody knows Testament.

Great stuff.

Uh, Paradise Lost, a new metal band from UK.

I played, I think a song from their new

album called Ascension.

Good stuff.

I'm a big Paradise Lost fan.

They've been around for a few years.

Uh, I played a song from Dead Guy.

Did I mention that a lot of these bands, um,

are new to me this year?

You know, some of them are new bands, but

others are new to me and I've had to go back

and listen to some other albums on their, in

their catalog.

Great stuff though.

Uh, yeah, including Dead Guy.

Uh, actually Dead Guy is a new band, I

think, but a bunch of old guys, uh, their album

called Near Death Travel Services.

Yeah, they're hardcore from New Jersey, uh,

band called The Haunted, heavy metal from

Sweden, their album is Songs of Last Resort.

A, uh, a, let's see, a thrash metal band from

Switzerland.

Do you know of these guys?

Coroner?

Good stuff.

I have not.

Yeah.

This album called Dissonance Theory is really

good.

Uh, some good thrash metal.

This, this one I can never say right.

I'm probably not saying right now.

It's Gaahl's Wyrd.

Is it word or weird?

I don't know what that is, but.

Yeah.

I looked at that and Googled it.

I'm like, what?

Yeah.

I looked for people trying to interview them.

I couldn't find any.

I thought it was Grohl's World.

Like.

I think it's, I think you pronounce it Gay

Al's Weird.

Gay Al's.

Anyways, they're a black metal band from

Norway, Raiding the Stories is the name of

the album.

Pretty good stuff.

Um, Igorrr.

Did I play some Igor here?

I can't remember, but they are, they are

new to me.

They've got a few albums out already.

Their latest one's called Amen.

They're a black metal band from France.

Pretty good stuff.

Uh, these, uh, this next one is Warbringer.

I know I've played some Warbringer, a song

from their album, Wrath and Ruin.

Pretty good stuff.

Thrash metal.

And the last one on my list I brought up

last week, I played their song last week.

This band is new to me, but again, they are

three or four albums in.

This one's called The Spin.

A doom metal band from Italy.

I, this is great stuff.

This is probably my, if I had to name

one of these, that would be probably

the top of the list for me.

That's a band called Messa.

So good stuff.

Um, I have no of, so I, I went and just

fucking quickly ripped through one

of these songs each.

That's good stuff.

Yeah.

Um, the, the one that your first song

of this week, the Weedpecker.

We, we.

A fucking 11 minutes.

Weedpecker.

Weedpecker.

I'm just like, ah, good.

11 minutes.

I listened to all 11 minutes.

It was a full journey.

Yeah.

Yep.

Good.

Good.

And what do you think?

But, uh.

Can I play a little bit here?

I liked it.

I thought it was great.

Where is it?

Hit the button.

Play this for the kids.

Uh, I'm lost now.

Where's my, uh, too many windows again.

Okay.

We're going to pick this up kind of a three

minutes in or something.

Cause it really kicks in here.

Really good.

Uh, even the first half was good.

I'm like, this is not.

It is good.

Yeah, it is good.

And, uh, you know, we, Weedpecker

is from Warsaw, Poland.

Um, yeah, they're from Warsaw.

Um, I have a couple of their albums on vinyl.

Uh, so I'm very familiar with Weedpecker

since their first one came out many years ago.

I think it came out in 2000, I think.

This is their fifth full length now.

Um, full length, pretty good stuff.

Yeah.

This is, I enjoy them a lot.

Yeah, this, um, like even the first, like I

started listening to the song and it starts off

kind of all like acousticky and kind of like,

I'm like, this isn't Durgis music.

It's 11 minutes.

Keep listening.

Yeah.

No, sorry.

Yeah.

You're right.

At 3.35, it kicks in and punches you in between.

So yeah, this song's called Fading Whispers.

Yep.

Really good stuff.

Yeah.