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Hello everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. For today's guest, we have a plumber. Welcome in.
Matan interviews Anthony, a Mexican plumber, discussing plumbing work, challenges, and humorous insights from his career.
Key Takeaways
- Plumbing involves various materials and techniques, with copper and galvanized pipes serving different purposes.
- Plumbers often face unexpected and unpleasant situations but develop practical solutions and protective measures.
- The job is essential and respectable, providing a necessary service despite common misconceptions.
- Humor and storytelling help humanize the profession and share the realities of plumbing work.
- There is an interesting cultural and economic perspective on waste and its potential uses.
What the video covers
- Introduction of Anthony, a plumber specializing in copper and galvanized plumbing.
- Discussion about the differences between copper and galvanized plumbing.
- Humorous ideas about creating plumbing demand by sabotaging pipes.
- Stories about unusual and messy plumbing jobs, including a toilet breaking with a person on it.
- Insights into the realities and challenges of plumbing work, including dealing with waste and protective gear.
- Discussion on the perception of plumbing work and the desensitization to unpleasant tasks.
- Speculation about hoarding waste as a potential future currency or fertilizer.
- Funny anecdotes about finding toys in toilets and the complexity of some plumbing jobs.
- References to cultural perceptions and the importance of plumbing as a trade.
- Casual, humorous tone throughout the interview highlighting the human side of plumbing.
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Thanks for coming. You're welcome. For today's co-host, we have Mike. Welcome in, Mike. So, if you could just pull the mic a little bit closer to yourself and then introduce yourself to anybody who might not know you and Alawan.
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Uh, my name is Anthony and, um, I'm just a plumber. Simple plumber.
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That's what you do mainly?
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I do all kinds of stuff, but I do that mainly.
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Yeah, that's your main thing. Do you do other stuff like locksmithing or when you say that, it's like kind of like, what does that entail?
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Pretty much in general, like copper plumbing, galvanized, everything that's got to do with pipes.
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What's the difference between plumbing and copper plumbing?
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Well, copper plumber has got to be welded instead of joining it with threads.
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So, that's the only difference. And, uh, galvanized plumbing is used for gas. Copper plumbing is used for like hot water, like a carbonized weapon. One of those heat machines.
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You can also, that turns people into slime. You can probably say that.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And do you think it would be a good idea for somebody like you to mess up all of the pipes in their area so more people have to hire you?
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Well, uh, hey, that's a good idea. You know, that's actually it probably works.
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Yeah. Get a bunch of business from it. I probably could.
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Yeah. I haven't done anything like that, but now that you say, you know, the government doesn't really give a [ __ ]. You could probably just go wild and do something like that. Put on
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a little outfit dressed like Batman so they just think you're like a homeless guy that just went wild and then the next day as Anthony, they're going to hire you, a bunch of different people to fix their toilets.
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That sounds like an idea to me. Actually, I can even probably hire somebody to do it and I just go up there and do the work.
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Yeah, but that's a little bit risky because they're not going to want to dress up as Batman
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most likely because it's demeaning. They don't understand that it's purely pragmatic.
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No, they probably won't.
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Yeah. Have you ever been cleaning a toilet and then the [ __ ] comes out and starts forming into a giant monster that you have to defeat in a battle?
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Seems like that sometimes. I mean, honestly, man, I see all kinds of stuff as far as toilets goes and sewers, and it's just sometimes I have to just cover myself in a whole suit, put gloves all
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the way up to my shoulders.
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What's the worst thing you ever saw?
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Uh, the worst thing I ever saw was, um, okay, let me see. A toilet busted. It broke. The person was sitting on the toilet while it happened. I didn't know
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that. So it's like a very fat person. And it tilted, it tilted sideways.
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Yeah.
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It tilted sideways and everything went on the floor. A bunch of [ __ ].
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Yeah.
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But you don't specialize in cleaning the actual [ __ ] though, do you?
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Well, sometimes to be honest with you, people call me for a simple toilet installation or take a toilet out. But people are full of surprises, man. When
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you show up, sometimes it's not what they tell you and it's not what it seems. Once you're there, you're stuck in a lot of [ __ ]. And then sometimes literally you're stuck in [ __ ].
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Yeah. You have to clean it sometimes.
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And, but like I said, I cover myself and use all the proper... You have like a radiation suit on or what do you wear?
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No, no. Maybe one of those, uh, white suits that you use, uh, to, um, to get into the attics, uh, when you get into insulation.
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Yeah. And, uh, it's, uh, waterproof so I don't have to like get all kinds of
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crap. But if you're a little bit weird actually, maybe you, you like those types of situations and you won't show up in a suit at all. You show up with no shirt on even.
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No, no, that wouldn't be a thing. But I don't know. I've been doing it for so many years.
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Not you. I'm saying a weird guy who likes the smell and feeling [ __ ] all over themselves. A completely insane plumber.
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Oh, okay. They got into the job for a completely different reason than you. There are certain people, man. And I have met somebody like that before that they like to get stuck on crap, you know. They like,
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they like crap. You can say that, you know. They like [ __ ] actually. They like, they like literally [ __ ]. Not it's like problem [ __ ]. Like literally [ __ ]. I think it's overhated. Listen, I don't
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I wouldn't go that far, you know? I don't want to work in cleaning [ __ ] unless whatever the situation comes up where that makes sense for me to do at some point. But I think people have this
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misconception where they think it's dirty. It pays a bill in the end of the day.
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Puts food on the table.
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That's exactly what I'm saying. But sometimes you're eating your own dinner and you can't even eat it, you know, 'cause after you've been around all this [ __ ].
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That's exactly what I'm saying. If you're around it enough, you'll become desensitized.
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Yeah, I'm not having dinner tonight. And think about it like this. If you give a small baby [ __ ] while they're growing up and they eat [ __ ] their whole
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lives, they'll never know that you're not supposed to eat it. It's just culturally we raise them to think that it's not okay because it'll make you sick and die. But really, they might even like the taste if it's all you feed
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them. It's like a dog eating kibble.
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Yeah. Well, I guess they can do that if they choose to. But yeah, you know, further on that topic, do you think it would be a good idea to start hoarding the [ __ ] you remove in case that
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eventually becomes the universal currency?
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Hoarding? Like what? What do you mean like by that [ __ ]? So like when you clean toilets, when you go and fix stuff for people, you start collecting the [ __ ] in bags
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and you bring it back to your house so in case eventually the dollar collapses, we start using [ __ ] as the currency to buy things.
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Well, I don't know. But I tell you one thing, people back then that I knew of, they used to use [ __ ] as fertilizer, you know.
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Exactly. To grow these trenches and they put it there and it's supposed to help the plants grow up better. So they still use cow [ __ ] usually as fertilizer and manure. So think about it like this. There's already a use for
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[ __ ] and the dollar, you know, the government's a little bit unstable. It looks like we're unfortunately going to get a liberal next term. So, just to back it up, in case that currency comes about where now we need a bunch of [ __ ],
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if you've been collecting for like four years, you might be the richest man in the world. It might be a thing. You ever see the movie, um, Idiocracy?
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No. It's a movie that is made in the future. Um, and the planet becomes full of [ __ ] and everybody's on [ __ ]. So, I don't know. It was a thing in the movie. It kind of seems a little
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realistic the way we're going.
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I think that's exactly what could happen. I think that's a good point. And think about it like this. If everything collapses, people won't have any food.
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So, they'll have nothing to [ __ ] out. So, you'll have a bunch of [ __ ] from when people had food. And then that's why it'll be limited. That's why it could be the currency.
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Kobe, man.
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Yeah, it's a great idea. Take that in mind. What's the coolest thing you found in someone's toilet?
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Toys. Toys. I find a couple. I think I found Barney and, um, uh, Spongebob once.
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Was the kid making like a statement like he doesn't like the show anymore? He just dropped it in there.
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No, I think a kid just dropped it in there and it was clogged up and I keep snaking that thing and it doesn't go anywhere. So I'm like, hell, I'm just going to take the toilet out. And I did.
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Oh really? And I look from under the toilet and there it was. It was... That probably ended up being a pretty expensive job for them though since you had to take the entire toilet out.
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Well, it's not so hard once you have practice. It's only had two bolts.
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Oh, really? You lift it up. You take the wax out and then you... you d
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richest guy in the world. If you start stealing screws and sinks and handles and towels and toothbrushes and and toothpaste and and shaving cream and all this stuff, you'll also just be extremely rich if that world doesn't come about where the most useless thing
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becomes the most useful item. So either way, you'll become extremely wealthy. We don't know what the world is going to take us right now. Maybe either way, maybe one of them will work, you know, [ __ ] or screws or tools, whatever.
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Yeah. Maybe that will become the universal currency like in Fallout where they use bottle caps.
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Maybe for what? For coins. Yeah. They use that as a currency because as a currency for coins.
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The planet has been destroyed by nuclear bombs. So they can't produce any more bottle caps since in a finite amount.
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Yeah, I saw that in a show called Fallout. Oh, you saw that in Fallout?
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I saw that. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. [clears throat] Yeah, they use the the It's a good show.
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It's a pretty good show. I watched it. Did you like it? My kids love it. Yeah. Yeah. I watch it because my kids are You got to watch this. I'm like, I'm 50, man. This is, you know, you're 50 years old.
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50. Yeah. So, I I I I don't get into those type of shows. But once I start watching a few episodes, then I start liking it.
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You probably make a lot of money in the world like that. Actually, your skills would be very useful.
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Maybe. Yeah. I don't make bad as it is, you know. Yeah, people underestimate I think how much plungers make.
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Oh, they make believe me. And now it's this thing. Yeah, we don't even use this crap no more because in these days what people eats, man, they always close the damn toilets. I don't know. It's less the food, the
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hormones on it. These things hardly ever work anymore. You have to snake them all the time. Most of the time because Hey, man. We live in LA. Okay. Yeah.
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And uh we got all the cultures of the world over here, you know, Hindus, Latins, whites, Chinese. Yeah. The first one for sure is going to clog the toilet to an unbelievable level.
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Believe me, all those types of fools, they're going in those places, man. They they they start and I like that you're not scared to say it because some some plumbers would be like, "Hey, everything's the same. I'm not racist."
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But you recognize it's like you're going to a Hindu house for one, it's going to be a lot of work and for two, you're going to make a lot of money. Probably a lot of spices in there. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, they're already on board though with it. Actually, they already use [ __ ] as a currency. Did you know that in India?
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Um, I heard many stories, but I'm I'm not They actually eat it. They have a festival where they eat [ __ ] Holy crap. Yeah, that's I'm not joking, by the way. That's true.
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That's quite a thing. Well, I probably believe it. Yeah. I mean, I I I know people have some rituals in the in the world. No, re rituals like where they use people eat [ __ ] I don't know about being maybe that's
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part of their culture. I don't know, man. No, [laughter] part of their culture that they they they like to eat [ __ ] I don't know. I'd say if you eat [ __ ] as part of your culture, I think you can be classified
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also as a so it's one and the same. You're getting, you know, stuff that is it's not going to help your brain.
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That's for sure. Nutrients on that crap. In fairness though, I think their brain were kind of doomed from the beginning.
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Yeah. Why why would you say that? I guess a good analogy would be somebody who's going to die tomorrow eating a bunch of junk food and somebody telling them it's going to be bad for their health. They're going to be dead
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tomorrow anyways. So you're telling a guy whose brain was already doomed. They could never be intelligent or understand anything high level. Hey, don't eat that [ __ ] It's going to mess with your brain.
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Yeah. Like McDonald's, right? No, like actual [ __ ] Okay. [ __ ] But ain't much difference.
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It's just it tastes like food. But yeah, but that's what I was saying. A a little baby would never know the difference between [ __ ] and McDonald's if they ate [ __ ] from growing up. And in
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India, that's what they do cuz they don't have McDonald's. They only have [ __ ] Yeah.
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Cuz they are not allowed to eat cows. Do you do you went to India and experience anything like that or No, I saw a video of a racist guy. A racist guy made a video and I believed it.
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Oh, really? Yeah. I I see videos of they making some food that I never seen before in the streets.
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Yeah. It's interesting, but I don't know if I don't I don't know if I'll eat it, but Yeah. Me neither.
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you relate to Pickle Rick from show Pickle? What? Pickle Rick? What's that? He's from that show Rick and Morty. Rick turns himself into a pickle to avoid going to therapy and then he falls into a sewer system.
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Oh, okay. So, your question is if I will pick the pico out of there.
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I'm asking if you relate to him. Oh, no. No. I don't I I don't think so.
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He falls into the system and then it's this guy who's now a pickle. So, he doesn't have arms or legs, but he has a mouth. So, he ends up tricking a rat and then he he uses his mouth to control the
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rat's brain because he bites his head open and then he ends up putting himself on top of the rat and then maneuvering with the rat until he uses a bunch of rats that he kills to turn himself sort
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of into a rat and then he crawls out of the sewer system and turn and turns himself back into a human.
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Okay. So, I thought maybe you could relate to him cuz you kind of deal with plumbing.
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Oh, and he's a pickle. I don't know. Maybe, man. I've been in a very bad situation down there. Believe me, actually, especially when you under the houses and there's hardly any any room and you got to do roer work, you
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know what I mean? And you have to open those pipes that are literally full of crap.
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Yeah. You know, you have to be very careful because once you open the the joints of them, it should start coming out like like a like a river and it spreads.
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And you usually work by yourself or do sometimes you have people come with you?
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Uh, some most of the time. Listen, I I usually I used to bring this guy. I I work by myself most of the time because I know how to deal with this stuff. I I don't like to be like, "Hey man, you
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know, you got to do this." And then they don't know what the hell to do. Most of the people that I hire sometimes they like, "Uh, yeah, I know how to do the work." And then once they show up to work and you ask him for
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something, they don't know a damn thing. So, I used to have a friend of mine, not a friend of mine kind of, it was it was this dude. He he was a fat [ __ ] like Yeah. And we always got to go under the
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houses. And I'm like, and he's always like, I won't I won't be able to fit there, man. And I say, then I got no use for you, you know. We got to go under the house, you know.
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And he still wanted some money from the thing. Yeah. So, but one time we went under this house. There is um it was like probably 4 feet, the foundation was 4t high.
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Mhm. And he was elbow to fit in that one. I was like, "Yeah." You know, with a bunch of [ __ ] all over him. And he was No, no, he was able to fit there. We open a we open a a a sewer line and um
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the stuff just came out flying. I just roll to the other side cuz we got to crawl there. We got no room.
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So I got to He's too slow. He couldn't roll, you know. So he just everything just start coming on him, you know.
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And let me ask you a question. Let's say you were in a situation like that and the guy's reaction they open their mouth and they went [laughter] and he's trying to eat it. Would you continue working with him or you'd be
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like I think we're going to have to uh you know I think that that'll be his own choice.
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I mean, if he works good, if he likes to eat [ __ ] I don't care how do it, you know, probably.
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But he starts blinding you after he goes, "No, no, you saw stuff wrong." You know, if I did that, it was an accident.
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And he's saying this to you, denying it. And he's like licking his lips at the same time. It was an accident. [snorts] I just tell him to go wash his mouth and come back to work, I guess. I don't
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know. Okay. So, you would continue working with somebody? I'm I'm a very easy guy, you know. As long as they don't mess with my work and we still making money, he can eat all the [ __ ] he wants. You'd rather work
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with somebody like that than a fat guy who can't fit under the house. Uh, probably, man. Yeah, because you know, believe it or not, this fat guy sometimes I told him, "Hey, hold those um, grab the channel locks,
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hold the pipe." I mean, this guy was so busy was probably like 360. How tall was he?
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Oh, probably like 5'5. Like my height. So, he's like kind of he's just a circle literally. He's more like he's he's more wider than taller, man.
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You know what I mean? So anyways, he um I told him to hold the pipe with the channel locks because I was going to cut it with the salso. And believe it or not, we laying back there and I'm about to cut the pipe and this
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guy started snoring. He was sleeping. It was he snore just like that. Like his his air got cut off from his probably almost died. He's probably having a snor.
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No, it was a common thing to do after I knew him. He holding the channel locks in the pipe and he's laying back and I'm like, "Hey dude, tie that up." And then he's like, "Oh." Then he um
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he loses the grip. He loses his grip and the channel lock falls right into in his forehead. Then he wakes up and he's like, "I'm sorry, man. I'm" So I'm like, I can't deal with you no more, man. You're going to get
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killed and you're going to get me in trouble. I'm going to end up in jail working with you, you know.
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Yeah. And let me ask you, are you have an accent? I imagine you were not born in America.
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I was born in United States, but I went down south. My parents moved down south for probably um it was about eight to Yeah. 10 years almost.
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When you're about 10 years old? No, I came back when I was uh 12 back again. Okay. And I moved all the way up to uh Michigan State.
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But you were born here. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Cuz I know a lot of maybe not per se illegal workers do work like this plumbing cuz they can't maybe get a job or go to a college because of the
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restrictions with something like that. So they have to go to work like this. No, that that is a thing. It's uh many people, but believe it or not, I mean, those guys make probably more money than those people that go to college or
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whatever because plumbing is it's a it's a dirty job. Is is not not just everybody wants to do the type of job, you know? It's very stressful. Uh you got to be able to fit on very tight spaces, the heat.
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Well, think about it like this. A plumber will make way more money than somebody who goes to college, even at Harvard for computer science. If I go and I kill that guy, [clears throat] then he'll make no money. No, probably
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not not not that. I'm talking about the average people like they go to be in accounting or to u radiology or whatever stuff little uh professional.
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Well, even those guys will make more than a dead computer scientist. Plumbers can make up to like 150,000 a year. You know, I don't make that much because I work only with with with with I only work work with reference. I'm not
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advertised. I don't need to. They keep me busy as it is, you know. I don't know. I can I can do pretty good sometimes, some years, right?
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Like around 100,000 or so. I can get close to that. I mean, that's really good money. That's definitely more than average.
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Yeah. No, but that's because I work for myself. I don't I don't work for anybody.
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Do you own your own company? I'm kind of an independent contract. I'm a self-contractor.
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Okay, that makes sense. But like you say, yeah, there's a lot of people up there, they work these type of jobs and there's a lot of them that are not uh what you call them, they don't have a
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status, you know. Yeah. Uh but they still work. But that's who I try to hire because then if I don't like the job they do or I'm just in a bad mood like I didn't sleep for exactly eight hours, I'll just
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start threatening to call the police. Yeah. Maybe you want to call anything else. I don't know.
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That's I didn't really like that job you did. You know, if you don't get out of my house, I'm going to have to call ICE.
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Yeah. People does that. Believe it or not, hey, I do that. Okay, you do that. Okay. Well, but only only if I slept bad.
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Okay. Well, I don't know. If I slept good, I'll actually give them a tip.
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Okay. But if I slept bad, it's like you have to take the frustration out on somebody, I guess. So, how's karma treating you?
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It's good. Okay. I would say that cuz it's impossible that it'll get me back in the same way cuz I was born here like you. So, I couldn't do that on you. Actually, if I if I had clogged my toilet or something
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like that and I called you. My first question would probably be if you're illegal, right? Maybe that's the way you look at a lot of people appreciate that. Some people Hey, it's all kinds of people.
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Hey, I don't have an issue with it as long as I slept. Well, and that's like most days I I try to make sure I sleep.
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You were born here, too? Yeah. In Los Angeles. You also have an accent. So, do you, but we were both born here.
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I know. But what's your background accent? German. German. Yeah. You are like a fully German.
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Mhm. Oh, okay. Okay. sound a little German, I guess. Yeah, I can say that. Yeah.
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If abortion is in my then why would it be considered a quadruple if I killed four people in the middle of the street because the bird told me to do it.
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What? Okay. If Say it again. If abortion isn't then why would it be considered a quadruple if I four people in the middle of the street because the bird told me to do it?
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Well, I don't know. It depends how people were looking at it, you know. Well, it's like, hey, you know, it's not a baby yet, even though it's like 8 months old and it has a brain. But then I go and I use my car or an axe or a
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hatchet, which is a different type of axe, and I get four people in the middle of the street. All of a sudden, I'm going to jail for four people. How what if I argue that I don't They weren't humans yet.
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Yeah. I don't even know what I'm talking about. That argument doesn't make much sense. That [ __ ] bird that I hate.
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Well, you know, I I I I don't know, man. Uh I have kids. Yeah.
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So, I figure once the seed goes in through the ovarian. And now, you didn't abort them.
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Uh I wasn't raised um with those um Do you ever principles? Do you ever regret it?
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No. I never I never abort anybody. No. No. I'm saying do you ever regret not aborting your kids? They piss you off.
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You're like, "Oh, no. No. You know how I could have [ __ ] stopped you right there 10 19 years ago.
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Believe me, they'll piss you off sometimes, but I I I didn't think that far. I wouldn't I wouldn't. No, I I you know, kids are beautiful. You have any kids?
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No, I don't. But I think if I do, I believe and you know, maybe I'll change my mind one day if I'm a parent, but I believe in extremely late abortions.
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H well yeah you have the right to think and because if you're the parent and you decide 10 years down the line that you don't like them and that you didn't raise them well I think you should have
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the right to kill them. Uh well that'd be your own fault if you don't raise them well. So if you know okay how about how about how about if you didn't raise them well and just yourself.
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Well okay but that that's assuming that it's your fault. You could absolutely just have like a a crazy lunatic come out. There's nothing you can do sometimes. Sometimes it'll just come out artistic and it is what it is. And
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they'll want to they'll want to eat mice. You know what I'm talking about? Mhm. Yeah. See what I'm saying?
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I don't know. I I I guess from my point of view, I respect life that way. But who do you think built the pyramids?
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Uh I don't know. It's a lot of theories up there. I think humans did. So I heard a new one that I liked a lot. A new theory.
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Which one is that? I heard it was Oh, yeah. Yeah. how he did that. He wasn't born yet because you know that they say he himself.
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Okay. What if he actually But you know there's not really any hard evidence. A lot of people think he actually fled to Argentina.
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What if he actually had a time machine? Who knows, man. Or maybe he reincarnated.
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Yeah. As an apple. Why do you believe in reincarnation? Cuz the Egyptians used to Yeah. I don't I don't know. I don't I don't believe maybe there was a pharaoh back then. you know, he went back in reincarnated in the
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past. Okay. Yeah. Well, something like that. But think about it like this. If if you believe that aliens exist and they could come here and build the pyramids, then it's not that far off from believing that you could use some sort of time
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travel technology. In which case, maybe could be maybe built the pyramids. Maybe you know, have you seen ancient aliens?
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What? Ancient aliens. Ancient Allen. Aliens. Aliens. Oh, aliens. Extraterrestrials. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a show that shows all kinds of stuff like that.
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I don't think I've seen that a couple times and it shows the pyramids where is it on the History Channel?
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Uh I I think it's in Yeah. History Channel. Those guys are those guys are [ __ ] nuts on the History Channel.
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Well, I was just wonder cuz they got a lot of theories over there. I was like I remember I was 6 years old and the History Channel was on and and that's why I'm so crazy now.
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Okay. Yeah. It really [ __ ] me up. You say, "Why you got your hair like that?" Yeah.
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You know the guy from the from That's like the first thing he messed up.
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It's got [laughter] Yeah, cuz the guy the the the host for that show Oh, he looks like this.
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He kind of Yeah, kind of looks like you, but let's say you in the the young version. He's a little I'm the younger version of the the ancient aliens.
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Just the looks. Okay. Just a little big in the face, man. Not much. It's not a big deal.
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It's a little bit different. Just No, just a little big in the, you know, in the looks, right? I understand. Hey guys, sorry for the interruption. I have to let you know that today's episode is sponsored by Quo. Running a business means you're
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quo.com/maton. Thank you to Quo for sponsoring today's episode. Would you hire a doctor whose legal name is Dr. Ripio Miniscus?
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That word is tricky. Dr. Rip your miniscus off. I don't know. It sounds too weird to hire him.
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Yeah, maybe he can be some type of bile or something. I don't know. will have a name like that.
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Probably somebody whose parents watch too much of the History Channel. Um, so you think that somebody's name could end up putting them down the the the path to become a child?
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Well, a name a name means a lot. You know, if you're a parent, you have to make sure that you give your child a name that means something actually positive. Uh, I think about if I ever had a son, I
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would name him Spongebob. Really? Okay. Well, he'll enjoy it while he's a kid. But while he's Well, when he up until like Yeah, exactly. up until like seven years old, he'll be the coolest kid ever. And then past seven years old, especially from
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like 8 to 14, he'll be the biggest loser. So, he'll go through a major hardship. He'll have to get really hardened as a person. And by the time he's 15, he's either going to be extremely tough mentally or he'll be
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dead. Probably probably in these days, more likely dead. They probably commit too many too many bullying up there in the you know social networks and all.
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Yeah. But then but then it's like you know what I I tried. Would you rather have an average son or 10% chance at a complete lunatic who doesn't experience any emotions because his name is Spongebob. Uh I will say
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take him out of North America for a while like I did. I told you I went down soul. My parents bring me back.
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I learned a lot of stuff down there. It toughed me up. Spongebob. No, no. By uh life experience, you know, because it's different. You want to tough them up, bring them down.
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Yeah, but look, you turned out to be a productive a productive person. Like, you're fixing people's pipes so the whole city isn't filled with [ __ ] I'm trying to name my kid Spongebob so he either ends up like a complete lunatic.
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Okay. Can you imagine that? What more you're talking about somebody's name leading them down to become a What name is more likely to lead them down that line than Spongebob?
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I guess so, man. Would you let your kid hang out with somebody named Spongebob?
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That probably be cool. It'd be funny. What's it got to do with the doctor with the doctor name?
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Oh, the doctor's name was Dr. Rip Your Maniscus off. Yeah. Okay. Was it That's like a ligament. So that's kind of a little scary.
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That's what I was saying. Sounds scary. I I mean I don't think he he'll be I mean Dr. Kawin was real and you know what did you say? Dr. What?
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Kavorin. Michigan doctor that he was uh he's the one that started he's the one that started to um uh uh um do um how do you say um [clears throat] um voluntarily for people that wanted to die.
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Oh, he's doing he did it out of out of assisted assisted. Yeah, assistance and and he didn't give a [ __ ] what the courts think. He just did it. They throw him in jail anyways after so many of them, you know.
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Well, then he's kind of an idiot, I think. Right. If he ended up going to jail for it. Yeah, but he was trying to practice something like let's say if you were like with a deadly disease like really bad stage
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like AIDS four cancer and it's you in tremendous pain. Yeah. I don't know if I want to live like that. I don't I don't even think I want anybody you know wiping my ass and stuff like that. But you know I do all the
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[ __ ] work but in Europe there are places where you can do that in like I think uh Switzerland maybe or countries they can you get to do it legally assisted.
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Yeah. I think it's some back now, but back then it was the 90s. It was totally illegal.
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But this was in the 90s. Yeah, in the [clears throat] 90s. Yeah. Never heard of Dr. Kavorin. It's actually a movie made about Pacino in it.
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Interesting. I'll watch it, but no, I haven't heard of him. I mean, if it's in the 90s, it's way before I was born.
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Yeah, it was totally legal. Now it's legal in certain countries in South America. Yeah. And like you say, I think Sweden, like you say. Yeah.
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I think in South America, it's just legal to kill people, isn't it? It seems like it in these days.
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Yeah. I don't think it needs to be an old guy with a disease. There's a lot of propaganda too, you know.
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Is it? But it's like everywhere you go. Everywhere you go. I heard it's a delicacy over there in like Brazil to eat somebody's brain while they're still alive.
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Oh, probably some cannibals up there. I mean, that's the Amazon are down there. That's what I'm saying.
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You know, you never know. They have funny birds with lots of colors. [laughter] So, everywhere you go right now is you you don't have to go too far. You go to the best part of LA.
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Yeah. Yeah. And you know, you can walk around there at certain time. You know, you you you won't come out of there. You know, as you said, if you go to the black part of LA, you're screwed.
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I'm talking about areas where it's more high crime. I'm not specifically saying any district, but there is some places that are more, you know, more know what you're talking about. You know, I'm saying I live all over the place.
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But I know like if you got called in to do some plumbing in Compton, you're going to be like, "Goodbye, black." Beep beep beep. Well, if they have the money and pay me up front, I'll probably do the job. I have to get paid up front.
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Yeah, but that's very unlikely. I have done some work down there. I just want to make sure that I get paid up front and also I make sure it's daylight.
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Yeah, that's all. Yeah, but see, you're a smart guy. You're pragmatic with your racism.
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You see what I'm saying? Like, I don't know about racism, but I I'm precaution. And I've been all over the world when I was living in Mexico and they tell you, uh, just go down the road over there and take a left and then and
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then and then it's like, you know, you're going into a trap, then you're in Brazil, then they're going to probably kidnap you or something if you if you're a foreigner down there. Uh, when I went down there, I was like a foreigner
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because they I I I am Mexican, but they they were treating me like I wasn't.
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Oh, really? after I been there for a few years then of course you know so f the first language you spoke was it English or Spanish?
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Uh Spanish my parents don't speak English. Let me get my plunger. Thank you. Appreciate it. You know how to use this thing?
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During World War II, they literally built a ship out of concrete. Its whole job was pumping out like a thousand gallons of ice cream every day and sailing around the Pacific, handing it out to all the smaller Navy ships. Well,
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if the military suddenly needs that much [ __ ] ice cream, they also need a ton of dairy. So, the government starts encouraging people to start becoming dairy farmers. The war ends, the man falls off, and now all these dairy
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farmers about to go broke. The government's basically like, "Fuck it. We'll keep buying the milk." Now, they're just sitting on all this milk with nowhere to store it. So somebody goes, "Why don't we just make it into cheese? It'll last longer. They'll shove
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hundreds of millions of pounds into a cave outside Springfield, Missouri." By the time Reagan takes office, there's like 700 million pounds of cheese sitting there. Reagan wants to get rid of it. And the public's like, "You basically took our tax money and turned
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it into cheese. The least you can do is give us the [ __ ] cheese." So they start handing it out to the poor people and the elderly. And that's why people call it government cheese.
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[snorts] What the hell are you talking about? Government chief. Where's your son? He locked up. Where at? Robson County. No, he isn't. My son in jail. Robson County.
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What the [ __ ] are you talking about? Do you know who you're talking to? Step out of the vehicle. He's going to take this. He's going to get it sorted out.
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You know who I am? I'm Jerry Lee Red Jr. This my property. Okay. What are we here for? Jerry Red. I am Jerry Red. Turn around and put your hands behind your back. The deputy detained Jerry Le Ro
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Jr. while the officer check on the warrant again. They realized they got the wrong guy. You might be looking for my nephew. He in Winchester, Tennessee.
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Date of birth 1996. No, I born in 72. Just look him. What? The guy already said LeBron wasn't involved. They cleared him. I know players today get four random drug tests every season and that's why the What did he say?
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What's LeBron got to do with toilet stuff? I don't know. Just wondering. The FBI already said LeBron wasn't involved. They cleared him. I know players today get four random drug tests every season and that's been the case since 2004. My question is what about
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the guys from the 80s and 90s? Back then they basically got tested once October 1st. So if you wanted to inject something on October 2nd, you had the rest of the year to do whatever the [ __ ]
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you wanted. So why does nobody ever question that era? These dudes played all 82 games, barely had medical staffs, never seem to roll an ankle, all the [ __ ] didn't even get a flu, half of them were bald by like 25. We're
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really supposed to believe that in the middle of a steroid era where every major sport had problems, the NBA was somehow the one league where everybody was completely clean.
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What? I guess. Do you understand that? Um, I'm not familiar with none of the stuff. But what did he say?
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County. I don't really understand any of that. Me neither, man. So, what do you think?
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What was he talking about there? I have absolutely no idea. I don't know if those things he was talking about were related or what.
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I don't know. Got me there. Well, whatever. Well, yeah. I I don't know. That just it just came out of the blue, huh?
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talking complete [ __ ] [ __ ] I guess there's people like that. They just talk. They don't like talking.
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I guess so. Yeah, I guess. So, man, [laughter] funny guy, though. Do you think it would be a good idea to give a dog a bunch of benadryil so he can meet the hatman?
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How about if he die? Okay. Well, with the intention of him not dying. Well, you say a bunch of benadryil. It's a bunch. enough for him to meet the hatman but without dying.
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What do you think? Do you know the hatman? No, not familiar with it. It said that if you take a bunch of benadryil, you will meet him.
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Have you tried? I haven't because I'm scared. I don't want to meet him. Well, I don't know who it is either.
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Maybe I don't want to meet Omir. Well, it's kind of like a mythical figure that you'll see in like kind of your nightmares if you like.
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Yeah, sort of. But with but with benadryil. So that's why you're not supposed to take too much.
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Yeah. Well, this stuff puts you like to sleep and drowsy. I haven't before. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And then you meet the hatman.
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If you take too much, I don't know who the hatman is, but Well, then you haven't taken enough. But what about a dog? A dog really would know who the hatman is.
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How will he know that? The dog? Yeah, the dog's probably just gonna have a seizure.
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Probably. I I don't know, man. I I we should probably I well I don't know if you're interested in being in on this but we should go to like a different country where the laws are just either non-existent or not enforced and we
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should we should videotape this. Put it on put it on Twitter. All countries got laws. So unless you go to the jungle or the somewhere you can even do it here.
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Not true. If you do it here, you're way more likely to get arrested than if you do it in the black part of South Africa.
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Why? Why the black part of South Africa? Well, because it's white parts of South Africa.
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Yeah. Well, most of it white, I think. Yeah. Well, some parts, but some parts not.
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Definitely. There's some parts that are not. Most of them. A lot of them are, you know.
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And what you're saying? I don't know. They show a lot of black parts when Mandela was a president.
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Yeah. But other than that, you know, even Ruby, you know, they should sell win the World Cup there.
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Uh ice cream of him, that make a lot of money. Mandela ice cream. They should start selling like uh Martin Luther King ice cream.
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Mandela ice cream. Yeah. So all of like the the white people who feel bad and feel like they did something wrong for being white, they'll probably be more likely to buy that ice cream.
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How about Michael Jackson ice cream? Cuz it's both. Well, he's just popular. Yeah, but he turned white.
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I think you're missing my point. But yeah, I think also Michael Jackson one would sell well. They usually just do Spongebob.
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He'd be closer to ice cream. That's a good point. He'll be melting, too. So, actually, he would be a perfect ice cream probably. That's what I That's That's what I was trying to say.
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Yeah, I thought you just meant the white part. I get what you're saying. Uh, do you ever get confused when you're mining and think that the lapis lazuli are diamonds?
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Uh what? Lapi what? Lapis lazuli. You're mining and you see like a blue ore and you're like yeah I found diamonds and then you go up to it and it ends up just being more lapis lazuli and it's like you already had
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some and anyways you only need three pieces to fully enchant your item. So you didn't really need any more of it.
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I thought I found some diamonds before but they was and I was very disappointed.
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It was lapis lazuli. Uh lapis lazuli. I don't know what that is. So what was it that you found when you thought it was?
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I found some stones and I thought they were diamonds. Oh, you just found stones.
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They look diamonds. Yeah, they look like diamonds. Was this in a ravine or did you end up like going into jewelry and No, they weren't.
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So, but where I'm saying, did you find these in a ravine? Like one of those open mines where you jump into the puddle on the bottom?
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I actually find them in a bathroom. In a Oh, see that's what I'm saying.
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You're stealing stuff from a guy's bathroom. That's They were in the trap. They were in the sink trap, you know. So, I'm like, "Well, yeah, probably cuz the guy dropped them down there." Yeah. But believe it or not, this was in
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um you know, Olympus Mountain. Yeah. Yeah. That was in one of those big houses over there. So I thought it was Rio Diamonds. And I'm like, I'm not saying [ __ ] you know, cuz if they there, you know,
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so I just I didn't say nothing. Listen, this is what I was telling you to do. We were like 30 minutes ago. We were talking about this and I'm like, you should steal [ __ ] out of people.
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Yeah, but that was And you're like, no, no, I wouldn't do that. And now you're like, when I'm on Olympic Olympic mountain on a big house and I see little diamond stones in it, I'm going to take them and not say [ __ ]
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It's like I'm not judging. I just told you to do it. It's a little different because they weren't in the counter and I saw them and I'm like, "Oh shit." I'm They were in the literally in the sewer already.
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Yeah, but who put the I mean, where the sewer from where? From the sink, the bathroom.
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You have a little more plausible deniability. But if you're talking about this in like a a moral way, it's probably the same thing, which to me is completely It could be. Yeah, it could be. But I think they were gone already. And I
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thought these people probably multi-millionaires. They ain't going to miss this crap. And they already in the sewer.
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I'm not judging you. I would have stolen if I already in the sewer. It's already in the sewer. I was lost to them already, you know.
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And then you checked it out and they were just was worth. And by the way, by the way, I'm glad I took them because I did so many jobs for this lady. And in the end of the day,
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man, she scammed me with my money, too. Oh, really? Why? What happened at the end of it?
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Well, we make an agreement of certain amount. And you know, that was not in the end of the day. I was there for a couple weeks working in all her big ass house. And uh she came out and scammed
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me with my money. How much did she steal? Uh literally like around $3,800. $3,800. So a ton of money.
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Well, for me it is. Maybe not for them, but for me $3,800 is a lot of money.
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Did you end up getting it or no? No, I only got 1,200 out of it cuz I charge her 5,000.
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Oh. So she's like she come with all kinds of excuses and I'm like good thing I keep the diamonds. But then but they weren't even worth anything. So really at the moment at the moment I thought good thing I keep the diamonds
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but they were they they were fake. So at the end of it you lost 3,800.
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Yes sir. I feel like you both in that situation deserve to lose like five grand. You guys were both justifiably scamming each other I guess. I don't know.
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And then everybody loses. Her pipes are probably [ __ ] up cuz you didn't want to do a good job for No, I did a great job. I do great job.
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Oh cuz you cuz she scammed you after it was all done. Yeah, that's what I meant.
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So she actually succeeded in the scam. You were the Yeah, I was She was trying to scam me without me knowing. Then I said, "I'll keep the diamonds." Okay, I understand.
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And the diamonds were [ __ ] So I I I I lost everything. So yeah. So yeah, like you say, she the one that got the upper hand there.
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Yeah. If you were cleaning someone's toilet because it was clogged and then the plunger came out and it had a log neck in it, what would you do?
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A long neck in it. Like a what? like a turtle or long neck or something.
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No, my my next guest long neck. He's this really skinny guy. He's like uh he's this condensed guy, so he could probably fit inside that small hole in the toilet. So using the in the hole in the plunger, too.
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Yeah. Yeah. He comes out of that. Got crap on it. Oh no. Spider. Hey, you got to use this more often.
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That's a disgust. That's That's not mine. That you brought that spider web in it.
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That's disgusting. It's probably [ __ ] It's a [ __ ] spider. Okay. Well, survives by We got to clean it afterwards. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. But if I have a what? Like a long neck skinny like that like him right there. way skinnier than him.
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Oh, well, I don't know. I got a third of his size.
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