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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
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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.
Good day.
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
is Stephen.
Hello Stephen.
Hi Adam.
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Yeah, we get a teaspoon each.
That's about it, right?
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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.
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.
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
there real soon.
Um, I've got to fix, uh, still fix the feed links
with the other, um, you know, podcast platforms
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm just like, ah, good.
11 minutes.
I listened to all 11 minutes.
It was a full journey.
Yeah.
Yep.
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.
This album's out, uh, February 27th and wouldn't
you know, it's Heavy Psych Sounds Records is releasing it.
So yeah, great.
Great label.
Yeah.
Yeah, they are for sure.
Um, uh, what else?
Where am I?
Can we stop that?
Uh, I have to stop it.
Okay.
There we go.
There it is.
Um, what else is on my list?
Oh, I never saw this until this is from the
Rock Hall induction last year.
Obviously that happened back in the fall time
or late summer, didn't it?
Yeah, it was maybe four ish months ago.
Yeah.
But I'm just seeing this footage now and it's great.
This is, um, Taylor Momsen, who is Pretty Reckless, uh,
for the front woman for Pretty Reckless, uh, doing
Rusty Cage from, oh wow.
Obviously Rusty Cage is a Soundgarden.
Soundgarden was inducted into that, into the hall
of fame and this is great.
Like, I don't know if she, she sounds good.
She sounds really good.
That's awesome.
A pair I didn't, I didn't know this at the time, but
apparently Pretty Reckless was on tour with sound
garden when Chris Cornell passed away.
Yeah.
Um, but she nails this really well.
I mean, she's doing her own thing, but at the same
time, it's sounds, it sounds awesome.
Uh, obviously the surviving members of the band
sound, sound good.
And, um, anyway, it's a good rendition to the song.
There's another song from that performance
with Brandy Carlisle.
Um, and I forget the song.
And Cantrell is playing guitar in that song.
Um, they do Black Hole.
That's it.
Black Hole Sun.
Yep.
And then the other one on that performer's thing
is they do Fell On Black Days done by Toni, uh,
Cornell's daughter.
Oh, okay.
I'll have to, I haven't seen that one.
And Nancy Wilson from Heart.
It's fucking powerful.
Yeah.
I could give that a spin.
Okay.
I'll check that out.
Anyways, uh, this was just released a couple of
days ago, all this footage, wasn't it?
All of the official footage.
Like I'm sure, I'm sure it's been out there somewhere,
but, uh, I watched it bootleg.
Yeah, this is, this is good quality footage
here from the Rock Hall.
So, um, so pretty good as much as I like to trash
the Rock Hall at times.
It's a, it's a good performance.
Sometimes they get some stuff, right?
Yeah, for sure.
Uh, the last song I'm going to share, cause
I only have three anyways, is, uh, you know,
I'm, I'm a big Judas Priest fan.
You know that I, uh, I've been, and I've,
and I listen to Priest all the time.
In fact, I would say since I saw that show,
um, in Vegas, well, it's been over a year
already, um, I've been listening to Priest so
much, like all of their albums from, you
know, from way back in 1974 at Rock-A-Rolla to
their latest one, you know, a couple of years
ago, it's just, it's just, I'm such a fan and
you know, so definitely one of my favourite
bands, but I came across some different
performances of this song, uh, called Diamonds
and Rust.
It's a, of course a Joan Baez song and they
covered it.
Obviously they made it a metal tune.
They're a metal tune way back in, I don't
know which album it came out on originally,
but there's some acoustic versions of this track
and just, just to, just to watch Halford and
to listen to his voice.
It's amazing.
It's just got, I mean, I think we all have
known how good he is over the years and he
still sounds great.
Uh, this performance is probably 20 years old.
I don't know when it came out to actually,
but, but it just, it's just amazing.
His voice is so good.
I just, one of my favourite vocalists.
Absolutely.
Yep.
So check out this entire track if you haven't.
It's just, it's a, it's haunting to me.
It's haunting to just focus on his voice.
So cool.
And how old is Rob?
He's 74.
Yes, he is.
And he's, they're still going and they've
got their, yeah, their European tour, whatever
the new tour is called.
That's going through a bunch of countries
this summer.
Um, they've been talking about a new album
all along, like they're not slowing up.
They're not looking to call it quits.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And, uh, yeah, it's great.
So I keep, I keep bugging the better half.
Well, if we're going on a vacation, why don't
we go see Judas Priest over there somewhere?
Sadly, Rob.
There's another, there's a awesome theatre
in Germany.
I forget it's a small town.
I forget the name of it.
Outside, uh, west of Frankfurt.
Uh, it looks like a really cool open air
amphitheater that was built way back in the
thirties.
It just looks amazing.
And I bet you that would be an awesome
place to see a show.
Oh, fuck.
So, uh, anyway, it probably won't happen,
but whatever.
Just put the bug in your ear.
It may happen.
Yeah.
Um, I'd like to see him again though.
Sorry.
I'd like to see him again.
Um, you never know when these guys are going
to go.
And again, one of my favorite bands.
So while he's still looking and sounding
great, so.
I'm still kind of kicking myself in the ass for
not seeing that final Sabbath show.
I know.
I know because there's still some footage
that keeps trickling around, uh, you know,
just different cuts, I guess of different
interviews and stuff like that from that
show from that day.
And it's just, it's like, it's amazing.
Yeah.
What a, what a day to be.
What a day to miss.
Yes, for sure.
All right.
Um, well, I have to reopen my windows
cause I lost everything.
So that's fucking great.
But, um, KMFDM.
These guys have been around fucking forever.
Yes.
But this is the first, one of the first
songs with like the full female vocals on
the front.
Um, KMFDM industrial been around
since the nineties.
Um, and then they went, they broke up
and then the MDFMK and then they were
around with the Pig Face and then the
industrial unit with Nine Inch Nails and
Ministry and stuff.
But I've always loved KMFDM and I think
this song fucking rips.
But, uh, are you, are you an industrial guy
first?
Do you like the Ministry and the Nails?
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
I, I, I'm, I'm a big fan.
Um, I can't say that I've listened to all
of their albums cause they've been around
for quite a while.
They have a thousand albums.
Yeah, for sure.
But this song is great.
Is it, is it, is it not Sasha?
Sasha has kind of been with the band.
He's kind of the main guy, I think for,
for, from the beginning.
Is that not him on vocals?
I don't know.
I, it's hard to tell.
I was wondering as I was wondering as
well, is it him singing or is it the, is
it a guest female vocalist or like who is
it?
I don't know.
These are, these are all good questions.
Yeah, I thought so.
In the, in the, in the credits of the song.
Sasha is like, she is credited.
So.
Okay.
Um, well yeah, anyways, good stuff, good
stuff.
Yeah, it is.
It's a great song.
Yeah.
I didn't even know that this was out.
I didn't know that they were still together.
It's one of those bands that just
keeps going as well.
And, uh, yeah, really cool.
Kind of like Megadeth, we were ending it.
Mega Dave is doing the last run.
Uh, he's actually come out and said he's
not going to do like, uh, a fan service show.
They're just going to keep this lined up.
No past members coming through to do
anything, but, uh, this song kind of rips.
Uh, last, what, what was last week's or last
month's song or last episode song, sorry.
Uh, what was that punk rock song they almost
released?
Yeah, it was.
It was almost like fuck off or fuck you,
but it wasn't called fuck you.
I forget the name of it though.
Was it, was it Tipping Points?
No, it wasn't that one.
Wow.
I forget now.
Maybe it was.
I don't fucking remember.
Anyways, but yeah.
Anyways, Megadeth doing Megadeth thing.
Bunch of sweet guitar solos.
This is RIPPID, kind of cool video.
Yeah.
Uh, but a decent song from the boys and
Megadeth.
Um, yeah, probably a better song than what I
shared.
I mean, I didn't mind the song that I, that
I did play last time, but this one is, this
one's better for sure.
So, and when does that album come out or is
it's not out right now, is it?
No, it's not.
It comes out, uh, either in February or the
end of the month.
Okay.
Um, so we'll see.
And they're, the big thing about this disc is
they're covering Ride the Lightning.
Yeah.
It'd be interesting to see what that sounds
like for sure.
So I am, uh, I'm very interested to see what
that, and I mean, Megadeth are coming to
town for presumably their last show and tour
ever, but they're playing Abbotsford, and
I've seen Megadeth like fucking 20 times.
So.
I saw that and nothing against the people
out there.
And, um, it's, I just don't get it.
I don't know why they are doing shows out
there so many.
I really don't.
It's, I don't know.
Maybe it's, it's just me and maybe not
everybody is in a position like me where
it's, Hey, it's way out, way the fuck out there.
And there's no, I'm not going to go.
There's just no way I'm going to go
out there for a show.
I won't go to a fucking show two blocks away.
So why would I fucking go out there to,
regardless of who it is?
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Uh, and I, I've been out there for sure.
Last time I saw Megadeth was Gigantour in
fucking, oh no, there's been two times since.
So I saw a Gigantour and Abbotsford and
then I, they came back again.
I went and saw that and then I'm going
out there again.
Cause it's, it's far as fuck.
And it's a school night and I fucking
just can't get it off.
So if I could get the day off and got a
cheap ticket or a free ticket, I'd go.
But none of that stuff is happening.
So, uh, sorry, Megadeth, uh, play the
Commodore.
Yeah, no kidding.
Uh, it'd be, it'd be a good show.
There, you know, no question, but yeah.
But you know what?
They don't change the set list.
Really?
They do one new song and then it's the same
set list they've been playing for fucking
15 years.
Well, that's kind of shitty too.
So.
So it's kind of shitty.
So I'm just like, okay.
Well, I've seen it.
Like if they, if they've changed it or
can take different songs every night, it'd
be cool to watch.
But because they don't, I mean, yes, it's
Megadeth and Anthrax, I think are opening
the gig.
So, I mean, that'd be cool.
Yeah.
But I saw Anthrax last, early last year,
they opened for Black Label or Black Label
open for them or something like that.
But, um, yeah, fuck it.
I'm, uh, I'm sitting that one up.
Unfortunately.
Well, you got to be, you got a big catalog.
You got lots of songs to play from.
And if you're sticking to the same dozen
songs every single fucking night, uh, even
if it is your last, well, even, even more
reason to do it because it's your last
tour, why not mix it up a little bit?
You know, each night or yeah, something.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Anyway.
I'm out of ideas.
Yeah.
We can't solve all the problems.
We try, but we can't.
And the last one new to me, anyways, a band
from Germany called Dust Bolts.
Yeah.
This is awesome.
I love this.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
That's good stuff.
German, German metal, rippin' it.
Um, cool stuff.
I checked out more of that as soon as I
heard this, uh, cause I want more for sure.
That's really good.
Yeah.
Great stuff.
Old school thrash.
Sounds like Metallica, old school stuff.
Uh, great, great, again, great production.
Just ripped.
There you go.
Adam's stamp of accrual.
Staff approval.
But it's just like from the eighties, man.
Like this is what it was.
Yeah.
Talking about the old school Megadeth, old
school Slayer, you know, even Priests talked
about the Priest stuff.
It was, uh, fucking yeah.
Good shit.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
You know what I do want to talk about as I
sent you a link that was kind of not really
there, but friend of the show, Todd Kern's
his Kiss cover project.
Did you check this shit out?
I did.
He's calling himself The Handsome Devils.
The Handsome Devils.
Now where the hell is that?
Yes.
I didn't watch the whole thing, of course,
cause it's a full concert from Vegas, but
that's a pretty cool set list and the
songs sound great.
I didn't know at first that it was him.
Uh, well, I found out pretty quick that
it was him, but, but I mean, I, I didn't know
looking at the name of the band that he was
doing something like this.
So I know he's involved in a lot of different
things.
He lives in Vegas.
He plays in, he plays all the time, um, some
different things.
Uh, but yeah, it's really good.
Yeah.
I just, I was just blown away.
Like this set, like I'm like the biggest Kiss
guy in the world.
Like we all know the hits, but like excited
or fucking the oath, like keep it coming.
That's the thing.
Young and wasted.
Like that's the thing.
It's a bunch of stuff that you, you know,
Kiss would not normally play it at one of
their shown shows.
Yeah.
So, yeah, so that was pretty good.
And Kiss, like, can you listen to this shit?
Kiss rocked, you know, like they had some
good stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, this, I thought this was, I thought
this was fucking super cool.
And the video is super cool.
We'll post it at, uh, the old men.ca, but yeah,
check it out if you can.
For sure.
Um, yeah, it's good stuff.
Good stuff.
Uh, we kind of did it backwards.
We did, uh, we did, uh, movies and then music.
I don't know how that happened, but whatever.
It's just a natural flow, natural full.
Yeah.
And, uh, uh, fuck, you know, it's just,
the world is a weird place.
So just, you know, take care of yourselves.
Okay.
It's, it's, it's kind of fucky out there right
now.
So.
Sure is.
Stay safe, you know.
It sure is.
That's all we can ask for.
Yep.
Well, I don't know how much you want to time
you have and how much you want to talk about
some TV anyways.
Um, you.
Yeah, what you want.
I only watch stranger things.
Okay.
Um, so we won't talk about that much more.
I mentioned Slow Horses last time and cause
we just started on that, I think, but we powered
through five seasons of that real quick.
And it was, it was really good.
You have, you have to watch it.
Slow Horses, Gary Oldman, uh, five seasons.
There will be at least a sixth season, if not
more, I think, uh, already in the works.
Um, just a really good, uh, UK spy espionage.
S I can't even say it.
Espionage.
Yeah.
That's, that's right.
Um, yeah, it's just really good.
Yeah.
It's, it was a lot of fun to watch.
So, uh, so we finished up that, uh, a couple
of other things, Mayor of Kingstown.
I've spoke about that quite a bit.
Season four just wrapped up.
We watched that.
Um, that's really good.
It's one of the Taylor, Sheridan, many, many
projects that he's working on.
Probably our favourite though.
There's a couple that kind of not so good.
This season of, uh, land men is kind of really
shitty, uh, but Mayor of Kingstown is really
good, uh, Jeremy Renner, Hugh Dillon, a bunch of
other people, uh, it has been renewed for a
fifth and final season.
So that's going to be great.
Which is awesome.
For sure.
Um, the one big one that I wanted to add was
The Night Manager.
You know, I remember, I'm pretty sure I remember
seeing that back in the first season in 2016 and
I thought it was done and I'd forgotten all
about it.
And here I am looking, looking, you know, at
what I've got, you know, to watch and looking
at news and stuff like that.
I'm going The Night Manager sounds really
familiar.
Season two just started.
Oh yeah, I remember watching that, but I
didn't know there was a season two coming up.
I, again, I thought it was over.
Anyway, anyway, really good.
Uh, Tom Hiddleston, is that his, his name?
Hiddleston.
Yes.
Yeah.
So he's the, he's the guy.
Hugh Laurie was in the first season.
I don't know if he's in season two.
I think he got, spoiler.
I think he got killed in the first season.
Damn it.
Anyway, yeah, sorry about that.
But, but anyways, uh, it was, I remember it
being really good.
So what we're doing is we're revisiting that
first season before, before moving to season two.
I think season two is now three episodes in.
So, um, yeah, just, just something else.
We're, we're, we're watching.
So always, always some new good stuff to add to
the list and confuse us even more about what we
shouldn't, should and shouldn't watch.
Cause I am so fucking behind on TV.
I still got to watch Tulsa King too.
Oh yes.
Yeah.
Supposed to be good.
Um, I am behind on life.
It's just, I don't even know what I'm doing anymore.
Tulsa King is another Taylor Sheridan series, right?
Yeah.
So I think so he's doing so much.
Um, uh, yeah, I don't know.
Some of his stuff is not so good.
Some of it is really good.
So of course he did all the Yellowstone and
or yellow, yellow, yellow.
What was it?
Yellow.
Yellow Dog.
Nope.
Yellow.
You're thinking you got beer.
Yellowknife.
You're, you got, you're thinking beer in the
brain here.
You know, I do enjoy a good cocktail every once
in a while.
No, what is a Yellowknife?
No, yellow.
Yellow Dog.
Yellow.
What the fuck?
Yellow, Yellowstone.
It was a Yellowstone.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's also Yellowjackets.
Yeah.
Well, that's the one with, uh, Monica, no,
Melanie, Melanie is somebody.
What's the one?
You know who she is.
I'm throwing about asking questions that we
both don't know, don't know answers to here.
Yeah.
It's Melonica.
It's Melanie Lewinsky, not Melanie Lewinsky,
Monica Lewinsky, Melanie.
No, it's Melanie.
It does start with L.
Linsky, Linsky.
Her name starts with L, but I'll shut up now.
That's okay.
Uh, well between, you know, we were, we were
having a good show.
We kind of went off the rails.
I still kept this the first time in six years
that my mic has physically come uncoupled.
Like I didn't even know how that happened,
but here we are.
Here we are.
So, uh, editing this in post is going to be a
good time, but something new all the time to
make things interesting.
Uh, do you have anything else you want to say?
I got nothing, man.
Nope.
All right.
Good to catch up.
Until then.
Yeah.
Happy New Year to you.
Thank you.
You too.
We will try to do this more, a little more
regular.
We were kind of sporadic, but, uh, I got some
stuff for the go.
I'll talk to you about this, uh, a little
bit after this, but, uh, until then you
can find us wherever you get your podcasts
from Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, tune in
Spotify, and of course, Google podcasts.
Uh, fuck cancer, fuck Trump, fuck ICE and
fuck slow drivers.
Oh, okay.
There's a new attack to the list.
All right.
So here we go.
That's it.
That's all I got to say.
Thank you for listening.
Stay healthy, stay safe.
We will talk to you soon.
See ya.
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