Speaker 1: Oh w B also had good times. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like they had that, you know, group of those
Speaker 1: Norman Lear black shows, right, you know what I mean, premium,
Speaker 1: none of that unready unletted Webster ship. I was putting
Speaker 1: Webster in my hot cord everywhere, like it's the same.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's the same, I don't I
Speaker 1: can't tell the difference, but I'm underreasonable. Look charms never
Speaker 1: had them. I eat marshmallow maiden, my crop chips in
Speaker 1: your means. Man's racist also mostly money marshal stuff. I
Speaker 1: can't tell me. Yep, yep, yep. There it is. There
Speaker 1: it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another phenomenal episode
Speaker 1: of My Mama Told Me, the podcast where we dive
Speaker 1: deep into the pockets of black conspiracy duties and we
Speaker 1: finally worked to prove that Tray Young's barber is giving
Speaker 1: him that haircut to keep him humble and striving for
Speaker 1: whatever can be achieved beyond his natural talents. The man
Speaker 1: is given him a haircut of a champion. Not what
Speaker 1: that is, bald, is the haircut of a champion if
Speaker 1: we're talking rings and he's close to it. Whatever that
Speaker 1: whispy level of of a hairstyle is. That's as close
Speaker 1: to bald as I've ever seen. It is the ghost
Speaker 1: of hairstyles past. That ship came to you at midnight
Speaker 1: on Christmas. It looked like his father's father was electric
Speaker 1: and it passed down generations. You know, you know what
Speaker 1: he looks like. He looks like you saw a ghost
Speaker 1: and then the ghost saw him and and everybody was scared.
Speaker 1: It's like he's like, I'm taking something from you. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm Legstein Kerman. I have all of my hair. I'm
Speaker 1: David Bores. I still got mine, don't you know. I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of faith in forever. You don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna I think it's I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's whoa for you? Are you speaking for you
Speaker 1: or for for both of us? And I'm speaking solely
Speaker 1: for me. You should could go tomorrow. You have zero
Speaker 1: faith in my hand, no, none of that. That that
Speaker 1: light skin, it's too soft for this world. There's course
Speaker 1: from the earth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know why that that makes me believe in it more,
Speaker 1: But you're right, it does make me believe that your
Speaker 1: hair is gonna hold on stronger because yeah, your hair
Speaker 1: was your hair was too soft to last. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm making these trade young jokes, and a
Speaker 1: part of me is like, I know what happened there?
Speaker 1: I see your brother. I could be there today. Now
Speaker 1: is it happening? Because I do have like a chunk,
Speaker 1: my ship is better right now. I do have a
Speaker 1: chunk out of my hairline that my barber has to like.
Speaker 1: But that's from childhood, that's not that's always. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't had any like recession. What I do have is
Speaker 1: like a little bit in the front where uh ever,
Speaker 1: since I was a kid, it just doesn't come in
Speaker 1: quite as thick like it. It's almost like one of
Speaker 1: them weird white boy hairline type things. And so you know,
Speaker 1: you get a black man to correct whatever is not
Speaker 1: quite what it should be. But but no, I haven't
Speaker 1: lost anything yet. How curly? How curly is your hair?
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm I don't know why I'm squinted. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you seem hello suspicious of me. How curly was your
Speaker 1: hair at eleven o six pm last night? No, I
Speaker 1: believe it, I just because now it looks straight, But
Speaker 1: is that because it's low. Yeah, it's just because it
Speaker 1: it curls big, you know what I mean. It's not
Speaker 1: like tight tight coils the way that like, uh, your
Speaker 1: your African eyes hair might be like that. I think
Speaker 1: it's a positive. I just think it's more dangerous air
Speaker 1: and we gotta keep an eye on it. I keep
Speaker 1: it this way with fruits and nuts from the forest,
Speaker 1: just wandering through there, pushing them through your fingers, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's basically what black castor oil is. I think. So
Speaker 1: just smashed up stink berries because that it smells weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the unscented one. No, never once. They will smell it
Speaker 1: on the train, for sure. Fun stink berries? What are
Speaker 1: stink berries? I made it up, you know what. I
Speaker 1: believed that so much. I politely wait until we got
Speaker 1: to the end of the conversation to be like, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta check back in on these stink berries. No,
Speaker 1: I thought that I got away with it. It's it's
Speaker 1: made up, fun all right. Well, learning a lot today, folks,
Speaker 1: and we haven't even started the episode. This is this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a doe low. It's me and David together,
Speaker 1: no guests slowing us down with their Look, if you
Speaker 1: hate cops just because the cops, the next time you
Speaker 1: get in trouble, call it crackhead. Yeah, call a crackhead
Speaker 1: because this just us bitch. Yeah, I don't have their
Speaker 1: phone number. Yeah I didn't. That's the craziest part. He's like,
Speaker 1: we all got crackheads phone numbers, which, honestly, maybe that's
Speaker 1: the most honest part of that ad where he's like, yeah, no, honestly,
Speaker 1: I do get good with crackheads, and that's why I
Speaker 1: behave this way. I mean, yeah, we we are. We're
Speaker 1: doing this together, but we have a topic that we
Speaker 1: we need to dive into the topic of discussion, which
Speaker 1: I presented to the group this this past weekend, and
Speaker 1: I think is a is one that I've I've wrestled
Speaker 1: with for years now, but I'm excited about this. The
Speaker 1: topic is my mama told me there's no difference between
Speaker 1: regular and premium gas. Tell me, oh yeah, now, because then,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. But because I presented this to
Speaker 1: the group, I guess my question is where do you
Speaker 1: fall in in reference to whether or not this is
Speaker 1: in fact a real thing. I think you're completely wrong
Speaker 1: WHOA And I don't even drive like that. Whoa, And
Speaker 1: by that I mean at all, I don't have a driver.
Speaker 1: This feels like absolutely you're turning them or I mean,
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker you don't even believe, Like no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't I believe that they exist. I'm not a
Speaker 1: second I see him zoom zoom outside my window and
Speaker 1: an anti car. As long as I've met you, that doesn't.
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with what this is. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do with this now of a sudden. You
Speaker 1: have a deep passion for premium gasoline. This is what
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm telling you that there are a difference
Speaker 1: between gasoline types, is all. It's just like milk types
Speaker 1: or orange juice types or any other liquid they sell us.
Speaker 1: Are you going places and like demanding the milks the
Speaker 1: brand certain brands of milk. First of all, I don't
Speaker 1: drink milk at all. Okay. Second of all, it's not
Speaker 1: a branding thing. It's a liquid content thing. It's not
Speaker 1: like I'm not like I need the Dairy Gold milk.
Speaker 1: But there's a difference between two percent milk and whole milk.
Speaker 1: And then sure, okay you're not. So it's not a
Speaker 1: brand issue for you, concentration issue through across or whatever
Speaker 1: the funk is the de fact levels and and percentages
Speaker 1: and ship for you, just like levels and uh gasoline.
Speaker 1: M M. Now, So here's if I may, yeah, if
Speaker 1: I may, volley, I my I believe that principally that
Speaker 1: is probably true, right, that that there is a difference
Speaker 1: in terms of of the different ways that they could
Speaker 1: cut this ship, move this ship whatever it is to
Speaker 1: make it do what it's supposed to do. Theoretically, my
Speaker 1: argument would be that they have every reason to tell
Speaker 1: us some premium ship is premium ship when in fact
Speaker 1: it isn't and still get money off of the thing,
Speaker 1: presuming premium costs more to produce, which is the reason
Speaker 1: that it costs more to make. There's they have every
Speaker 1: reason to not give me premium and tell me it is,
Speaker 1: because who's tasting it to know the difference. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's how you tell the difference. And that's
Speaker 1: why this is a show about learning. You think they're
Speaker 1: got to be like, oh, yeah, that's I think they
Speaker 1: rub it on at the top of their gums like
Speaker 1: police officers testing cocaine and they go, that's that good ship. Colombian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think the cars can tell
Speaker 1: the difference. You never met somebody with like a great
Speaker 1: car and they're like, oh, I don't put that trash
Speaker 1: in my car ever, But there's no part of you
Speaker 1: that that doesn't think that that person is just flexing
Speaker 1: or and or and or being scammed. I think it's seventy.
Speaker 1: I think there's a science behind it. Just because I
Speaker 1: don't know the science behind it. I think there's a
Speaker 1: science behind the levels of I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the difference is supposed to what it's it's the three right,
Speaker 1: it's unladed, it's it's it's like whatever the the mid
Speaker 1: grade word is, and then it's premium, right, and you
Speaker 1: think it's all nonsense. I'm saying that that the difference
Speaker 1: maybe negligible, both to to our cars and to the
Speaker 1: people that are selling us this ship. We're the only
Speaker 1: ones that are actually being punished and we're paying for it.
Speaker 1: But what's the negligible difference? Is it that little bit
Speaker 1: of optimal performance? Because that's like if that ship is
Speaker 1: gonna go from like, I don't know how cars work,
Speaker 1: So this is gonna sound crazy. This could go either way,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm excited for a definish what's like difference negligible,
Speaker 1: like the difference between going nine, the difference between going
Speaker 1: one test is that you think it's like nas and
Speaker 1: uh and fucking fast, and the furious said, don't play
Speaker 1: me out. I understand the internal combustion engine and the
Speaker 1: cylinders and they make the spark and then the pist.
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm not a fucking idiot, so I
Speaker 1: know what the difference between good and bad guys is
Speaker 1: supposed to do. No Langston, I don't. And that carb
Speaker 1: and that's the corborat carburet it has carbonation like that.
Speaker 1: Still squinting, I don't think it's fair that you get
Speaker 1: to run the pad and and use the drops his
Speaker 1: weapons against me. I'll say that I feel like a
Speaker 1: victim in this space in a way that that I
Speaker 1: can't undo. This is like being punched in the head
Speaker 1: in the corner of the ring. I'm truly at a
Speaker 1: loss here. It's bewildering because you sound scared. I am scared.
Speaker 1: I'm scared that the next thing I say will be
Speaker 1: enough of a connection to a reference that you have
Speaker 1: locked in at your favorite tips and it's gonna interrupt
Speaker 1: so that you can you can once again shame me
Speaker 1: for for there. It is all right, I'm gonna lay
Speaker 1: off of it for a minute so you can make
Speaker 1: your point. Look, here's all I'm saying is is that
Speaker 1: I think there's a very real possibility that, like so
Speaker 1: many other things in this world, on this planet that
Speaker 1: we've seen be introduced as premium products that we find
Speaker 1: out are more or less the same as their generic
Speaker 1: version that could also exist in gasoline. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think they're making so much money. Is this where
Speaker 1: you split hairs to make the more money? Because I
Speaker 1: don't think I think I don't that many people are
Speaker 1: buying the premium gas right, I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: I think I think it may very well just be
Speaker 1: people who are falling for the trick. And so many
Speaker 1: of us have have so little money frankly, that it's
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to make the choice to fall for
Speaker 1: that trick if you don't have to. How much? What
Speaker 1: do you drive? So up until this year, I've mostly
Speaker 1: drove Honda Civics. That's where your boy's been at. But
Speaker 1: then we civics as argument, right, Okay, but that's I'm
Speaker 1: making point. But see, that's where you're sucking up is
Speaker 1: because up until this year, Honda Civic. But now I
Speaker 1: have a BMW X four because we needed a We
Speaker 1: needed like a bigger car for the family ship. The
Speaker 1: point to the point is this is the first time
Speaker 1: I've ever even had to pay for premium gasoline, not
Speaker 1: just as an adult, but legitimately my entire life. I've
Speaker 1: never seen anyone pay for premium gasodly. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: you're just broke. I think we were for quite a while,
Speaker 1: and that's that's part of it. No, that's such a lot.
Speaker 1: I was trying to I was trying to make myself
Speaker 1: feel better by making fun of you. That was not right.
Speaker 1: That's not right. Uh No, I have never are you
Speaker 1: getting me? We didn't even have a car of the decade, Like,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a car of the decade that we
Speaker 1: lived in until after I graduated high school. Who I've
Speaker 1: never had a car that was up the decade there.
Speaker 1: So you were an eighties car in the nineties, who
Speaker 1: were in nineties car in the two thousand's so forth.
Speaker 1: In the nineties, we were eighties cars. Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Two thousands. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Goddamn tragic.
Speaker 1: It's not that yeah, you know, it's not it's not
Speaker 1: right right. We were the same way my dad. So
Speaker 1: my dad's cars, I think have almost exclusively. He'd been
Speaker 1: hand me down vehicles from except for the last car
Speaker 1: he bought like ten years ago. Every car before that,
Speaker 1: like his parents or somebody in the family would have
Speaker 1: a car and they'd be like, you want a car,
Speaker 1: and he'd be like, hell yeah, and then he has
Speaker 1: a power. And remember when we first got a car
Speaker 1: on the lot, it was yeah, that's not it's a
Speaker 1: huge deal. And then my mom had like a minivan
Speaker 1: because there were a lot of us, and so like
Speaker 1: that was, that was the deal. But it wasn't. You
Speaker 1: don't put premium in a minivan. You just let that.
Speaker 1: At my mom's house, there were four of us by
Speaker 1: the end of Are you the old I'm the oldest
Speaker 1: by farm twenty three years older than the next time
Speaker 1: or the last in line. Rather, oh wow, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: fourteen years older. Wait. Wait, so it was three year
Speaker 1: old you and a bunch of babies in the minivan. No,
Speaker 1: it was I was, I was and they would not
Speaker 1: let me drive and somedays to Uh No, So I
Speaker 1: was I was ten when my next sibling came. I
Speaker 1: was eleven when the one after that, and then I
Speaker 1: was thirteen for the one after that, and then twenty
Speaker 1: three for the one after that. Wow, your parents are spry, well,
Speaker 1: one of them is that that's my mom doing a
Speaker 1: lot of that work. And then I have a brother
Speaker 1: on my dad's side, so five in total. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: should have been put in premium in the minivan. Now
Speaker 1: you don't put no goddamn premium because it's a scam,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. There were two. You have the
Speaker 1: BMW that you are charged with your child safety and
Speaker 1: you're doing it yourself. You don't even stand on this principle,
Speaker 1: right because a lady yells at me and demands it
Speaker 1: of me, not because I believe in it. You understand
Speaker 1: that that some some choices are for survival. My friend,
Speaker 1: this isn't this isn't what I want for myself. This
Speaker 1: is what's being offered to me through the world that
Speaker 1: I've created, and I'm too far in to turn back. Man,
Speaker 1: that's difficult, Yeah, it is. Why Why are you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, it's really heartbreaking stuff that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: explain to you. So if you were free and a bachelor,
Speaker 1: it's unletted gas a dog. I'm putting unletted gas in
Speaker 1: the BMW and I'm pulling the funk up. What's up?
Speaker 1: What are you going to night? Baby girl? Not as
Speaker 1: far as I'm going with my unletted gas know where
Speaker 1: to get No, I don't. I listen, man, I want
Speaker 1: this for you because I love a conspiracy as well,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is a conspiracy. So you're
Speaker 1: just trusting the government on this one to give us
Speaker 1: a trust big Gas. I trust trust Big Gas. I
Speaker 1: trust big Oil. I aligned with the saudiast on levels
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't even understand. Isn't their princess to me?
Speaker 1: Their kings and emperors and lords of the world to me? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I side with big oil on this one, and
Speaker 1: I just I think that manufacturing wise because there are
Speaker 1: high end other car products. M hm. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm staying. There's high end, there's high end oil, and
Speaker 1: there's shitty oil. Like for lubrication, there's there there for
Speaker 1: every there's gooding and a reason there is bad and
Speaker 1: free for everything that you're doing in that car, there's
Speaker 1: a good and a bad liquid. Why would gas not
Speaker 1: be the case as well? But what what I would
Speaker 1: argue is the most essential liquid to be inserting, so
Speaker 1: much so that we have to buy it sometimes multiple
Speaker 1: times per week, depending on how effective and or shitty
Speaker 1: your car is. And so I think the question really is, like,
Speaker 1: if I had to up charge something, or if I
Speaker 1: had to do a little bit of a bait and
Speaker 1: switch on something, I'm not gonna do it with oil.
Speaker 1: You gotta deal with that every like what what is
Speaker 1: it three thousand miles or whatever the funk it is. Alternatively,
Speaker 1: if I do it with fucking gas, that's a daily ruse.
Speaker 1: There's a that's the most money I can be making,
Speaker 1: all right. I mean, I want to I want to hear.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to hear you take it
Speaker 1: to the to the facts. I want to hear the
Speaker 1: research research. I've never said that before, nor have I
Speaker 1: truly ever mentioned in my life today, But hey, miss Davis,
Speaker 1: I'd like I'd like to read now, can we just read?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm done talking to my friends and or zoning
Speaker 1: off out the window. I would like read to read
Speaker 1: I'd like to finally finish Maniac McGhee. You guys, did
Speaker 1: you guys read that? I don't know what Maniac McGee is. No,
Speaker 1: you never had to read Maniac McGhee. Oh he sounds funny, though, No,
Speaker 1: it's about black people. And then there was this little
Speaker 1: boy who I'm out with the black people and his
Speaker 1: name was Maniac McGee. He like untied, this giant knot
Speaker 1: and then they used to always call him fish belly
Speaker 1: because he was white. You've never don't look at me like,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of Maniac McGhee. But this is fast.
Speaker 1: You were a teacher, Yeah, and thank god I didn't
Speaker 1: give this to children. What were you reading? What were
Speaker 1: you what? No? No, goddamn. What an age group was this?
Speaker 1: Olivia saying she read it too, and I it was
Speaker 1: a It was a popular book, fish belly? What what?
Speaker 1: What age group was Maniac McGhee targeted at I feel
Speaker 1: like between fifth and seventh grade. Okay, So this was
Speaker 1: back when books truly were our choice. This wasn't what
Speaker 1: they were they demanding this of you in the classroom,
Speaker 1: I believe. So it was like a book that we
Speaker 1: all Yeah, you had to like you know, how you
Speaker 1: would have to read you would all read a book communally.
Speaker 1: It was one of those books. So you let a
Speaker 1: white person, why would you to read a book about
Speaker 1: a black boy whose name is no, No, no, whit.
Speaker 1: The white person was maniac, but white fish Belly was
Speaker 1: maniac at the pizza story, I understand it sounds like
Speaker 1: I'm having a stroke. Listen, I've never read Maniac. McGee.
Speaker 1: I'm excited it was about Sega. I hear, I hear
Speaker 1: what you both are saying. I don't know that it's
Speaker 1: addressing my larger concerns, but I understand that maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just out of the loop. I didn't have maniac. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was regional, maybe specifically where y'all are from. The Givers.
Speaker 1: We never read The Giver and something. How you still
Speaker 1: fucking love The Giver? I love Maniac with you. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you want. I think different strokes, you know,
Speaker 1: and we both agree Different Strokes was great. Different Strokes No,
Speaker 1: I was more of Uh. I was Webster. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like you like Webster better than Different Strokes. Yeah. Whoa.
Speaker 1: I'll say this and let's let's have this debate now,
Speaker 1: and we have to go to break We've been talking
Speaker 1: for forever, but let's let's have this debate now so
Speaker 1: that we can clear the air on this Objectively, I
Speaker 1: would argue that Gary Coleman has had a funnier life
Speaker 1: than Emmanuel Lewis period. Yes, that that's yeah, he knows Garanti. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went to he went to TV court one time. No,
Speaker 1: he was doing silly shit. Yeah, Emmanuel Lewis was boring.
Speaker 1: But I kind of like that as a kid. I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think I think Gary Coleman
Speaker 1: truly was one of the greatest talents this world has
Speaker 1: ever known, and we're never gonna We're not going to
Speaker 1: match that again. But here's what I'm telling you, is that, like,
Speaker 1: if you look up your Gary Coleman greatest your favorite
Speaker 1: parts about him, Yeah, it none of it is different strokes. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think so at all. I think
Speaker 1: his talent was really just being a silly person more
Speaker 1: than appearing on nine sitcoms like Gambling. Yeah, just rolling
Speaker 1: his eyes funny, well into his fifties, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, it's it's not a real it's not
Speaker 1: a talent I want, but it is a talent that
Speaker 1: no one can replicate and therefore should be admired. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. But as but as a show,
Speaker 1: I think Webster was better. I look agree to disagree
Speaker 1: that there's they were just so goddamn funny on that
Speaker 1: different strokes. But I hear you and the thing song
Speaker 1: was better for different strokes. You're really here. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're right about us, But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we already have a debate to have. We were still
Speaker 1: talking about gasoline. We're gonna take a break. We'll be
Speaker 1: back with more more lenks than more David and more,
Speaker 1: my mama told me. And we're back. Someone get this
Speaker 1: jickaboo await from me this. I have no comment on
Speaker 1: that sound drop. I think it's I think it's perfect.
Speaker 1: I think you did exactly what needed to be done.
Speaker 1: Tell the people what we're doing. What do we do.
Speaker 1: We are discussing whether or not there's a difference between
Speaker 1: premium and regular unleaded fuel. I think that Langston, now
Speaker 1: that you have German engineering, you should understand that there's
Speaker 1: just a difference overall. I let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: I I will first, I'll address what you're saying I
Speaker 1: have noticed a physical difference in the driving experience between
Speaker 1: my Honda and my BMW, I would be I would
Speaker 1: be lying if I said there was not a noticeable
Speaker 1: difference between the two vehicles and the ride, the the
Speaker 1: physical feel of the ride right, And you don't feel
Speaker 1: like the petrol is a part of that. I venture
Speaker 1: to guess that it is strictly because of the quality
Speaker 1: of the vehicles and not actually the gas that goes
Speaker 1: into it. That's the stance that I'm taking in this.
Speaker 1: You still gotta you can't just love something. You gotta
Speaker 1: take care of it. You still the fuel has the
Speaker 1: fuel has something to do with it. Let me, am
Speaker 1: I the first person in your life that's that's ever
Speaker 1: presented this as an option. Am I the only person
Speaker 1: you've ever heard suggests this? No, of course, tell me
Speaker 1: about those others, those other uh brilliant few that that
Speaker 1: have stepped up to to have the real conversation. I
Speaker 1: knew this door guy, he why do you? I can't
Speaker 1: get into it now? It's great, It's just you know,
Speaker 1: when you want to when you want to be able to,
Speaker 1: like feel like you're a champion, like a brilliant idea
Speaker 1: you don't want the first dude that follows to be
Speaker 1: door guy. But well, I'm trying to explain, but it was.
Speaker 1: He was. He was one of you know those guys
Speaker 1: who always have five cars. Like he would always be
Speaker 1: like he would always have one and then he would
Speaker 1: have one that his wife was driving, and they were
Speaker 1: always simultaneously fixing them up to flip them and give it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And just like he was
Speaker 1: just like that. He's the guy who had cars and
Speaker 1: he had a rental for some reason all the time.
Speaker 1: He just always had I don't know, man always had
Speaker 1: cards very long braids. I don't know if there's a correlation,
Speaker 1: but he was just talking about he was like he
Speaker 1: would just talk about how, yeah, there's a difference between
Speaker 1: there's just a difference between gases. So sometimes when his
Speaker 1: wife has the Toyota Solara, they can use regular cars.
Speaker 1: But then something about like a closed there's something like
Speaker 1: a closed engine, right, like something like that where the
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, man, but he just said
Speaker 1: that he was a car guy and he said gasses
Speaker 1: were different. I also have a friend Brent, So this
Speaker 1: is a person that's disagreeing with me. No, he's disagreeing
Speaker 1: with you. I also have a friend Brent, who has
Speaker 1: five cars, who I talked to you this morning about
Speaker 1: his Accura and he said that there's a difference between gasses.
Speaker 1: He's the most card out person I know. So, so
Speaker 1: the question of whether or not there are other people
Speaker 1: in your life who agree with me, You're like, none
Speaker 1: at all. I guess maybe, but I've always like I've
Speaker 1: paid them no mind because they're obviously haters. Nothing about
Speaker 1: that here. I am here, I am hating on big Gas.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, and it's a minority owned company, Langston, those
Speaker 1: swaggy ass bush hush twins. It's a minority owned it's
Speaker 1: a minority run Field Oil. Yeah, the country by minority.
Speaker 1: You're speaking specifically to certain countries that we have relationships with.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that they're not white people. That's what I all. Right, No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to go on record.
Speaker 1: It's backing oil. I'm all for Testlas. I think we
Speaker 1: should get off your all for Testlas. Elon must just
Speaker 1: get he's a billionaire. He's a cool guy. He's got
Speaker 1: some ideas. He's making Twitter better. You can tell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been saying a lot of cool stuff on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I hear lately. Yeah, that the vibe is really thriving
Speaker 1: on Twitter now that Elien's Elien stepped up. Everybody's real
Speaker 1: chill now that Ellen finally took over. I just got
Speaker 1: a burnerd. It's it's hell over there. Yeah, No, it's
Speaker 1: real fucked up Twitter. You all got you're all gonna
Speaker 1: get out. And it's also it's funked up in a
Speaker 1: way that's not fun because like it's just it's just
Speaker 1: like these pseudo intellectuals yelling about the injustices that are
Speaker 1: already transpiring on Twitter, and it's like, a bro, I
Speaker 1: don't know, my account seems fine, and if we all
Speaker 1: just go back to making dick jokes, we could, we
Speaker 1: could get away from this. And they're like, no, you
Speaker 1: don't realize it's all crumbling, and you're like, okay, but
Speaker 1: I I was really just trying to see what happened
Speaker 1: with Steph Curry last night. I don't know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really care about none of this. No,
Speaker 1: that's because you're a nihilist. Maybe I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I like to believe. I believe in in the goodness
Speaker 1: and hope of the world. I just don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in big oil or minority company. I
Speaker 1: believe in it more than you do. I believe that
Speaker 1: it is in fact big and not cool. And you're like, nah,
Speaker 1: they fucking rock over there, of all the of all
Speaker 1: the major industries, I'm I'm I'm hitching my wagon the
Speaker 1: oil that one's gonna last. Boy was like VP spills
Speaker 1: some more in the in the not enough, as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, drink it up. It's cointellectuallytes, I think
Speaker 1: the ducks look better when they're dipped in that ship.
Speaker 1: Come on, BP, get back. You've ever seen all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You ever seen pat Riley without his hair slicked back?
Speaker 1: It's not as good exactly. The ducks need that pat
Speaker 1: Riley slick back. How is it gonna get any duck?
Speaker 1: Quack quack quack girl? Are you wet? Or is it
Speaker 1: just this oil? Oh? Quack quack quack girl. Quack qlack girl.
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk research. Because I did do some
Speaker 1: research on the subject. I I it would be unfair
Speaker 1: for me to introduce this conversation and be like unresearchable
Speaker 1: The pitch that premium gas will make the average car
Speaker 1: run more efficiently is a lie, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's something that you had are arguing or your
Speaker 1: friend is arguing necessarily, but they're saying that A lot,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of motherfucker's believe that having premium
Speaker 1: gas in any car will make the car run more efficiently.
Speaker 1: In that no, no, no, I know not. I know
Speaker 1: certain cars are built for it and certain cars aren't.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point. That's the whole point is that
Speaker 1: the car is designed to take that type of fuel, right,
Speaker 1: So specifically, it's like the thing that they're they're differentiating
Speaker 1: essentially is the octane levels. Right, So the octane levels
Speaker 1: and unletted is I believe eighties seven in the eighties
Speaker 1: seven range, uh, mid grade is somewhere in the eighty
Speaker 1: nine range, and then premium is in the nineties one
Speaker 1: range of octane levels. And if your engine is built
Speaker 1: for premium gas, it will effectively use that higher octane
Speaker 1: fuel better. But any other car is just a it's
Speaker 1: just a waste of money. Yeah see, And I've always
Speaker 1: seen myself as a high octane kind of guy. Wake up,
Speaker 1: don't you? Have that chest stattooed on you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wake I wake up every day. I take it to
Speaker 1: the max. I live my life a quarter mile at
Speaker 1: a time. I do like everything I do. Like the
Speaker 1: idea that you tattooed high octane kind of guy on
Speaker 1: your chest. Not you don't believe in yourself enough to
Speaker 1: just land on high ident. You're like, no, but if
Speaker 1: you know that kind of guy, that's like me too.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a similar octane. I'm of a similar I'm
Speaker 1: saying we're all high value men, right, We're all high
Speaker 1: value men. But so that point, though, as you are wrong, Well, no,
Speaker 1: that point is about a thing that I'm I'm less
Speaker 1: concerned about in terms of my personal argument. But I
Speaker 1: do think sort of speaks to my grander argument about
Speaker 1: the illusion of premium, right, that there is an illusion
Speaker 1: that already exists, that that this is acknowledging of people
Speaker 1: believing in premium as like this all value fix, when
Speaker 1: in fact it's more complicated than that. Oh yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think everybody thinks that though, because I think
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a secret club, Like you're in
Speaker 1: this BMW club. So you before you had just had
Speaker 1: you know, trusty Rusty, no offense, and they didn't let
Speaker 1: you into this secret club. So you were driving around
Speaker 1: with no knowledge yourself. You had no idea, you know, like,
Speaker 1: what's that? You're like, what's that premium? That's crazy people
Speaker 1: would do that. Yeah, big oils lost their minds. Then
Speaker 1: you get a little money in your pocket. Circle they're like, actually, Langston,
Speaker 1: this is what premium is. It's very reasonable. Actually, when
Speaker 1: you put the gold flakes on top of the chocolate cake,
Speaker 1: it does stays different. I don't Yeah, that's what they're
Speaker 1: telling you. You had an unrefined palette because you were
Speaker 1: driving around. You were basically driving a box of spam
Speaker 1: and now and you didn't know what to wash it
Speaker 1: down with. You were like, I'm eating spam anyways, I
Speaker 1: might as well washing down with this four. The spam
Speaker 1: is still in the car at this point, right, And
Speaker 1: then now you came and got some scallops and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you know what the white wine
Speaker 1: is for. Well, okay, I think this is this is
Speaker 1: deeply hurtful. But also I will point you to a
Speaker 1: not a statistic, a basically a research I guess this
Speaker 1: is stat but they said. According to Triple A Automotive Club,
Speaker 1: Americans wasted two point one billion dollars in sixteen alone
Speaker 1: by putting premium gas in regular cars expecting better results.
Speaker 1: So it's not nearly as rare I think as you
Speaker 1: think it might be. I mean, but two point one
Speaker 1: over and we how much? How much did we spend
Speaker 1: on bubble gum last year? You know what I mean? Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess if you want to compare it to bubble
Speaker 1: gum prices, But that's two point one billion ain't negligible
Speaker 1: in this ship. That is egregious. But whose fault does that?
Speaker 1: Did anyone ever actually tell you put premium in your
Speaker 1: shitty guard it will run well? Well, I think, and
Speaker 1: hear me out. I know you're you've been defending them
Speaker 1: with all of your heart, but I think Big Gas
Speaker 1: has worked really hard to also not explain why or
Speaker 1: why not to put premium in their ship. I don't
Speaker 1: think that they're I don't think they're making an effort
Speaker 1: to clarify what premium does for anybody. It's just whether
Speaker 1: you know the ship or you don't. And it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of everybody who's got a luxury car there's a
Speaker 1: gang of luxury cars out there. For people have luxury cars,
Speaker 1: but look at what they're doing. It's it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of people who buy vehicles and truly believe like this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to have this for as long as
Speaker 1: I possibly can. This is the biggest investment I may
Speaker 1: ever make in my life. So I'm going to treat
Speaker 1: it with it all the care that you're speaking to.
Speaker 1: And so even if they don't know, they go, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me the fucking premium. I'll spend my life savings.
Speaker 1: I just want to keep my Jetta alive for as
Speaker 1: long as I can. That's the scam. Come on, people.
Speaker 1: People do try to convince you that Jettas are expensive cars.
Speaker 1: They'll tell you that that's you gotta put premium gas
Speaker 1: in the Jetta. And you know, you know, you know
Speaker 1: what that bill was. How many times have you hung
Speaker 1: out with the dude who had like a golf who
Speaker 1: just wouldn't shut up about it? You know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, no, it makes the engine burn red, so
Speaker 1: I gotta do that, And he's like you, it's that
Speaker 1: and everybody knows it's a Jetta. Take that fucking sticker
Speaker 1: off the back you put it on the back window.
Speaker 1: We know you're a Jetta guy. Yeah, go on, big
Speaker 1: dog that sticker off and and put some put some
Speaker 1: unleaded gas in. That it's not a sports car. It
Speaker 1: looks like a Volvo. That's okay, because your kids are
Speaker 1: safe when you pick them up from practice. So here's
Speaker 1: the The other thing I'll point you to is that
Speaker 1: while no one explicitly will say, and in fact everybody
Speaker 1: was pretty clear about what you said, that this is
Speaker 1: truly a difference in terms of the type of engines
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with, their cars that you're dealing with,
Speaker 1: right that like the right car that needs premium does
Speaker 1: in fact mean premium, and everybody else is should just
Speaker 1: be going with what they go with. That said, they
Speaker 1: do acknowledge for the most part, mid grade is bullshit
Speaker 1: that that's actually a a not a real thing. That
Speaker 1: most of these companies are not even making mid grade technically.
Speaker 1: They just make premium and they make unleaded and then
Speaker 1: they send it to the gas station where the gas
Speaker 1: station like mixes it up like a cocktail themselves. Okay,
Speaker 1: It's like, do you ever run out of face washing?
Speaker 1: You put some water in the bottle. Yeah, there you go, okay,
Speaker 1: which I always thought was a smart deal. But and
Speaker 1: it doesn't not get your face and your hands clean.
Speaker 1: But it isn't a thing that you should be paying
Speaker 1: additional money for, you know what I mean, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not I shouldn't pay extra So what you're saying is
Speaker 1: this isn't on big oil, this is on the gas station. Whoa,
Speaker 1: you're willing to take down the little man now in
Speaker 1: defense of where that either way, you're willing to look
Speaker 1: at these My ship, the family businesses. My ship comes
Speaker 1: from the motherland, pure. It comes out in barrels. They
Speaker 1: don't do anything to it. You bring it over here,
Speaker 1: you fucking perverted up and put it in your fucking
Speaker 1: Texico And that's on. That's on us, from that pure
Speaker 1: Venezuelan motherland. And yeah, my ship comes from the wild
Speaker 1: hills of Texas. The oil derricks, my people, this is
Speaker 1: disgusting to listen to. One of the things that they
Speaker 1: pointed to also is that not only is mid grade
Speaker 1: not sort of like a thing that these companies are
Speaker 1: making themselves, they also say that the mid grade is
Speaker 1: not even a thing that most car makers are necessarily
Speaker 1: recommending for their cars that right, So who's that on
Speaker 1: who's mixing? It's the gas companies, right. But but the
Speaker 1: gas companies, again I think benefit from being able to
Speaker 1: sell mid grade for whatever it is, ten twenty cents
Speaker 1: more as this in between. They're not losing because of this, right.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying I'm talking about the purest where the
Speaker 1: oil comes from. Who's selling the crude oil? You're not
Speaker 1: buying that from the arms, and then you bought it
Speaker 1: regular and then you stepped on it to distribute to
Speaker 1: your gas station. That's on you. I sold you clean oil. Sure,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think that that's necessarily completely true, right,
Speaker 1: I think that part of yes, they are selling quote
Speaker 1: unquote clean oil, but but clean burning field, clean the
Speaker 1: you could listen, breathe it in. Brother, it's that's that's
Speaker 1: what you want at the bottom of your love. You
Speaker 1: get high. I won't even get a headache. But one
Speaker 1: of the things that I think you're missing is probably
Speaker 1: the premium that they put on the oil itself, which
Speaker 1: means that these companies, in order to fill the need
Speaker 1: that they're paying for, have to find scams inside of
Speaker 1: it to pay off extra faster. But you're talking like,
Speaker 1: these are small companies who are doing that, right, I'm
Speaker 1: saying that that that small like the companies that own
Speaker 1: the like the people who own the convenience store next
Speaker 1: to the gas station. Yeah, Mom and Pops, good people,
Speaker 1: Salt of the Earth, the fucking seventies six, the Conicos,
Speaker 1: those are tiny little mom and poppies. Those are shitty,
Speaker 1: evil corporations. But like everything saying, I'm just saying, brother,
Speaker 1: it goes all the way to the top. You're you're
Speaker 1: advocating that somehow the top is exempt from the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that, including the people that the seventies
Speaker 1: six people bought it from, are running a ruse, a
Speaker 1: long con on all of us. I mean, I understand, ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think we can both agree that the mid grade
Speaker 1: gas is the ruse. Mid grade is a lie. It's
Speaker 1: a god grade, and it's because scientifically there's no reason
Speaker 1: for it, right, There's no reason. And in fact, I
Speaker 1: I read something that basically said that that while they
Speaker 1: can kind of point to like small differences that you
Speaker 1: might see in the quality of like your your your
Speaker 1: car's performance, they said that there there would be no destruction,
Speaker 1: No bad thing would happen out of putting unleaded in
Speaker 1: a car. That's that's asking for mid grade. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so who invented mid grade? That's who we need to
Speaker 1: aim at. I don't know, but it was. It was.
Speaker 1: It feels like a Dick Cheney type. That feels, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like a character Dick Cheney like
Speaker 1: learned from and then and then went off and did
Speaker 1: his own thing. I mean, it's a pretty evil man
Speaker 1: or a woman. I hey, women could invent a dirty oil,
Speaker 1: and I believe women can be Dick Cheney types. Let
Speaker 1: me be here, I'd rather than they were. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: love a good a good cigar sounding voice from a lady.
Speaker 1: I love a good she villain. Come on, give me
Speaker 1: a bad bad lead. Yeah, slick that hairbag pat Riley
Speaker 1: style or the day. Yeah, quack quack black clack. I
Speaker 1: want to cruel Deville. Yeah, I'm gonna skin all those
Speaker 1: puppies from my jacket. I like that Grelly. Deville was
Speaker 1: such a funny villain because nobody thought to punch that
Speaker 1: lady in the face. She weighed eighty pounds, she had
Speaker 1: no defense, And I'm not saying that a dude should
Speaker 1: have done it. You shouldn't hit women. This isn't This
Speaker 1: isn't me advocating for for domestic violence of any form.
Speaker 1: I think I think that women should hit women. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. I think women should Wait, wait, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe this is crazy. No, I think the way Pongo
Speaker 1: and Prodita's mom should have fought. There were so many
Speaker 1: people in the film who could have beat up Cruella
Speaker 1: Deville from the start to the finish, and the fact
Speaker 1: that no one was just like, I'm gonna punch this
Speaker 1: lady in the face and stop all of this from Halfney. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hit that sternum. You you could cave rules ship in
Speaker 1: for sure. He gotta punch Carulla in the face. You
Speaker 1: call my sister right now. She flies up from Arizona.
Speaker 1: She's jet lagged, she's on no hours of sleep. Grace
Speaker 1: could cave Corella Deville's chest. Come on, I've never even
Speaker 1: seen her, and I believe that. I believe that with
Speaker 1: all my heart. She's sturdy. Was she had emphysema? Yeah, Carella,
Speaker 1: she had. She had to. She had to smoke her
Speaker 1: cigarettes through through a stick because the doctor said you're
Speaker 1: getting too much smoking here, baby girl. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: distant will help. Yeah, she's like the most she's the
Speaker 1: most beat up a bull bad guy of all Disney movies.
Speaker 1: She's pretty high up on the list of beat up
Speaker 1: a bull bad guys. I think jar but Jafarest sing
Speaker 1: like he had reached like he might be skinny. You know,
Speaker 1: you remember that Indian guy on Street Fighter too. Of
Speaker 1: course that's who I feel That's what I feel like, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's also. Jafar seems like he's like a street fighter,
Speaker 1: like he fights d Yeah. He fucking blood in your
Speaker 1: eyes that came three times on the ground and the
Speaker 1: snake fucking eyes and he don't feel no guilt about
Speaker 1: the snake doing that, like there's nothing. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: no's his people and snakes have been bonded for ever.
Speaker 1: He's a snake charmer. Damn Han said, this feels ragel
Speaker 1: and and frankly, I think it might be. I I
Speaker 1: don't know that it isn't Wait, was Jafar not black? No,
Speaker 1: Jafar is not. Uh, he's not the snake charmer. He's
Speaker 1: a snake charmer. That's fair. That's fair. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean he literally carried us as staff around and turned
Speaker 1: himself into a snake. But you're right, we're being unreasonable
Speaker 1: with the equation we made from from Disney's work in nineteen.
Speaker 1: I definitely was not thinking. I always thought of him
Speaker 1: as like light skinned, in a prince kind of Oh no,
Speaker 1: I think that entire region is meant to be a
Speaker 1: specific part of that. I would probably say the Middle East.
Speaker 1: I'm not certainly, I guess Agriba. Alright, No, you know what,
Speaker 1: I've checked you to look at this entire conversation, and
Speaker 1: you're right, that was crazy. It's my fault. It's my
Speaker 1: fault for thinking an Arab guy was a Lightskan black guy.
Speaker 1: And you know what, it probably won't be the last time. Listen,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Uh? Who was under Diddy's Diddy's team
Speaker 1: which on the lights skin? Uh? What's the motherfucking's name?
Speaker 1: The big old lights Skan motherfucker with God damn it,
Speaker 1: I know, did he's under? Did he did? He cropped
Speaker 1: him out of a video or a picture once with
Speaker 1: jay Z and Kendrick and Nas and pretended like he
Speaker 1: wasn't there. French Montana is who I'm thinking of. French
Speaker 1: Montana he's North half can correct, Yeah, he's North African. Okay,
Speaker 1: so too far as like a French Bontana. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that that's what it sounds like you're advocating for. That's
Speaker 1: I guess what I thought. I didn't mean anything when
Speaker 1: I said snake charmer. I didn't mean because he was
Speaker 1: always playing with snakes. No, it's too late and the
Speaker 1: episodes cut. So here we are. This is our big
Speaker 1: first outing, I think so, and and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: we're documenting it this way. Anyway, we'll take one more break.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with more, more legs than the David
Speaker 1: and more. My mama told me we are back. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America's meet.
Speaker 1: That's dead on that. That's dead on that. Still, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I'm still talking about the possibility and and
Speaker 1: it's it seems like we're at a bit of a
Speaker 1: standoff still. Although we we met some middle ground in this,
Speaker 1: but we're still talking about the possibility that there is
Speaker 1: no real difference between premium gas and and regular unleaded
Speaker 1: gasoly let me ask you this question, Okay, are there
Speaker 1: times are there brands where you do acknowledge or things
Speaker 1: where you do acknowledge that there is no actual difference,
Speaker 1: and they're just saying stuff to say stuff. Man, As
Speaker 1: a person who is smart and understands, I wish I
Speaker 1: could say that, but I'm I'm caught up in capitalism
Speaker 1: and branding just like the rest of us. Coke tastes
Speaker 1: better to me than Sam's Club Cola Baby just it's
Speaker 1: just it's fucked up, man, I know it's fucked up.
Speaker 1: I mean I think if there is a level sometimes
Speaker 1: of consumerism where you do pay for quality, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's to be shifted on. I think certain things
Speaker 1: if you pay more money, are high quality. Is there
Speaker 1: is there stuff that I don't feel like that? I
Speaker 1: mean think even small It's like doll brand bananas. Are
Speaker 1: you like no, if it's not Tikida, I don't I
Speaker 1: I it tastes different to me? Or is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: Strictly well? I feel like produce is less branded than
Speaker 1: all processed food. Like I'm never like I need the
Speaker 1: jolly green giant green peppers, but I am like, give
Speaker 1: me that Lacroix. That sparkly water is trash? Oh sure
Speaker 1: you you you feel like you can taste the difference
Speaker 1: between Walgreens, wah Wahs or whatever the funk they're calling
Speaker 1: their ship. And yeah, I've just I've had so much
Speaker 1: time where I had to drink Sam's Sam's Club whatever,
Speaker 1: and I just like now that I'm not going back.
Speaker 1: I got name brand Crystal like in my cupboards. That's wild, man.
Speaker 1: I I don't live I live so differently than this,
Speaker 1: I truly I I don't believe in the brands for
Speaker 1: most things, they're like yeah, I mean besides like like
Speaker 1: things that are so physically in your face that it
Speaker 1: would be embarrassing to make a lesser choice. I don't
Speaker 1: actually believe in like you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm not gonna wear like shitty shoes because like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be made fun of, and I
Speaker 1: like socializing and meeting, you know, and when I needed
Speaker 1: to get bitches, I need I I wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: out here trying to make a point about my sneaker
Speaker 1: choices and ship. But that's no, it wouldn't it wouldn't
Speaker 1: work out. But that said, otherwise, it's not like I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: Nike just makes them better I don't know than like
Speaker 1: Sketchers or Ben fucking pro Wings or whoever was making
Speaker 1: uh sneakers whenever they were makeing them. Like, truly, it's
Speaker 1: not my faith in the quality as much as it
Speaker 1: is me being like, yeah, they tricked me, and I
Speaker 1: agree with this trickery. Wow, you don't think Nike athletic
Speaker 1: comparal all the money they pour into research and whatnot
Speaker 1: as many athletes as they have out there plugged into
Speaker 1: those fifty set machines. Yeah, you don't, But you don't
Speaker 1: believe that that's better. I believe that that. I believe
Speaker 1: that they are advancing technology all around us. But I'm
Speaker 1: saying that at the points that the technology is matched,
Speaker 1: right that, Like, because they have so much money and
Speaker 1: they have so many resources, they have reason to be
Speaker 1: able to invest that way into whatever the next wave
Speaker 1: will be. But I do not believe that, Like they
Speaker 1: sat down to make a shoe and then this other
Speaker 1: group sat down to make a shoe all for the
Speaker 1: same intention with the same technology that they Nike is
Speaker 1: producing a a worldly, a world famous, better shoe. All right,
Speaker 1: what about when Tracy McGrady played through those and ones?
Speaker 1: Was it Tracy McGrady remember that. Now Zion played through
Speaker 1: issues or did trace? No, Zion did, because he's a
Speaker 1: free cul It was somebody did it through and once
Speaker 1: was it Stepfa Marbury. Yeah, I don't know, Steph. Stephan
Speaker 1: Marbury has his own shoe, the Starberries. Yeah, those didn't
Speaker 1: coo good. Somebody played through. Somebody played through a pair
Speaker 1: of van Ones and it was like, yeah, Zion busting
Speaker 1: through those nikes. Because he's a human of which we've
Speaker 1: never the caliber of which we've never seen before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a three hundred and fifty pounds like spring, a
Speaker 1: little like couch spring turned into He could play through
Speaker 1: any like no shoes, no, no, no, no, no souls
Speaker 1: have been made. They could keep him in. Not a shoe,
Speaker 1: not a white woman, none of them is a weird guy,
Speaker 1: all right, But yeah, I mean there's got to be
Speaker 1: something if I if I really think to it. Bottled water, no, see,
Speaker 1: I feel differently about different bottled waters too. Yeah see,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's just following following for the branding.
Speaker 1: My guy. No de Sauny's trash, say is trash? I
Speaker 1: think that, I think, and hear me out. I don't
Speaker 1: disagree that Desagny tastes bad. What I would argue is
Speaker 1: that that may very well have more to do with
Speaker 1: the plastic around De Sauny than it is a difference
Speaker 1: in the water itself. I think a lot of these waters,
Speaker 1: what we are associating with bad is more of the
Speaker 1: actual like uh, the producing the containers, than it is
Speaker 1: the water itself being different. You know what, I buy
Speaker 1: cheap home cleaning products, like I don't buy the clocks wife,
Speaker 1: I buy Wow. That's that's that's that's that's true. So
Speaker 1: you think that that for chlorox but not but not
Speaker 1: toilet paper I buy. I buy name but brand toilet paper.
Speaker 1: But but for cleaning products, you don't believe that there
Speaker 1: there's a real difference between them. It's all. It's all
Speaker 1: just you know, glass cleaner or not. So so I
Speaker 1: feel like, then you have to understand where I'm coming
Speaker 1: from with this ship, because you can't prove that either.
Speaker 1: I understand. I'm just telling you how my my heart
Speaker 1: and my brain works. I'm not like, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be like a revolutionary here. I'm just yeah, I
Speaker 1: will buy I will buy Coca Cola zero, but also
Speaker 1: I will just buy Target branded glass cleaner. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about some of what because
Speaker 1: I read an article that broke down the reasons for
Speaker 1: like the vast price differences sometimes and something as simple
Speaker 1: as even like a cotton T shirt right, which can
Speaker 1: range somewhere from from five dollars to literally lee you know,
Speaker 1: a hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars for one brand. If
Speaker 1: you're just buying underwear tth like plain white T shirts. Oh,
Speaker 1: if I'm just gonna like buy some ship, I probably
Speaker 1: buy the what's it starts? It's like good, good, good something. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not killing No, no, No, it's it's like more
Speaker 1: like it's like a Target E type brand, but it's
Speaker 1: they make it seem like it's more premium. If not Haynes,
Speaker 1: I'll be real, I'll probably go with a Haynes. No.
Speaker 1: I like Hans. I like things. I think they're soft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they make them. They make them good and soft. That
Speaker 1: says there's a pro club. I bought it. Fu. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you are worthy that you aren't sitting there chirping
Speaker 1: about nothing. You're like, no, this is I like the
Speaker 1: next on pro clubs though they got I got like
Speaker 1: a fat head. So I blow out nickels, So the
Speaker 1: pro clubs keep it tight. People. People will respond to that.
Speaker 1: People know what I'm talking and then they should put
Speaker 1: that on their next ad. Pro clubs give it tight.
Speaker 1: Just a dude with a fat head pushing it through
Speaker 1: a neck hole looks like a baby being born. But
Speaker 1: every time I get dressed, it's a it's a little
Speaker 1: it's a little sexy, it's a little a little promotional.
Speaker 1: We're doing both. Yeah, hey, pro club if you realuys
Speaker 1: really need to get at me. Come on, man, my
Speaker 1: boy got this fat head going away. I'm blowing out now.
Speaker 1: You think I can wear a true religion shirt if
Speaker 1: you don't give him the money so that he can
Speaker 1: start really like stacking his closet with some pro clubs, man,
Speaker 1: because every other T shirt you just look like if
Speaker 1: your neckhole is it is the worst look in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sloppy neck hole. It's the word,
Speaker 1: it's the way. It makes you look terrible. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can get away with a lot of things that's a man,
Speaker 1: including not even having to put on a more than
Speaker 1: a Hayne shirt, But goddamn, if that neck hole looks
Speaker 1: crazy gone, Yeah, it's just it's not you don't want
Speaker 1: to and you don't want to be that guy not
Speaker 1: coal out here sagging down. Everybody sees your chest. Are
Speaker 1: you want that? Yeah? No, it's a bad look for you,
Speaker 1: big dog. But so, one of the things that they
Speaker 1: break down in terms of the differences and shirts is
Speaker 1: starting with the grade. Cotton. Fabric is graded based on
Speaker 1: the length of the staple, uh the tiny individual fibers
Speaker 1: in the yarn. The longer these fibers are, the smoother
Speaker 1: and stronger the fabric is. Higher grade cotton costs more.
Speaker 1: Then they have something called the variety. Varieties are grown
Speaker 1: in different parts of the world, meaning that certain cotton,
Speaker 1: like Pima cotton, which is extra longs it makes for
Speaker 1: extra long staples, has to be grown in in a warm,
Speaker 1: dry climate, and that makes suprema cotton rarer. There are
Speaker 1: also brands of cotton, not just like brands of the
Speaker 1: clothing themselves, but brands of the actual like cotton fiber
Speaker 1: ship that are being sold. And if your shirts spent
Speaker 1: more money for branded cotton, then they may cost more
Speaker 1: or charge you more on the back end of that ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, that that all seems reasonable but I mean,
Speaker 1: what is that? Is the rare cotton a better quality?
Speaker 1: They're saying so because of it just creates a smoother
Speaker 1: and stronger fabric that basically like we're we're It's essentially like,
Speaker 1: if your shirt is being stitched together with all of
Speaker 1: these tiny pieces, then it's more likely to like tear
Speaker 1: or break or whatever it is. But if your shirts
Speaker 1: being stitched together with longer, uninterrupted pieces, it probably is
Speaker 1: going to hold and and be smoother all the way down.
Speaker 1: But then so that mark up in retail, that's still
Speaker 1: you paying more for quality, right it theoretically is you
Speaker 1: paying more for quality. Now, what they also say is
Speaker 1: that there's no real way of knowing for sure that
Speaker 1: like you know, a Balenciaga is in fact paying for
Speaker 1: these branded stronger cotton pieces. They can just tell you
Speaker 1: it's a good quality and not have to like prove
Speaker 1: that to you in any way. So what we need
Speaker 1: is a governing body for cotton T shirts. We need
Speaker 1: some kind of It's just a website where they post
Speaker 1: villain Thiaga T shirts and goes these niggas lying, go
Speaker 1: ahead and buy your hands hands got cotton. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got that PMA over hands. I mean, it all sounds
Speaker 1: it all sounds very unregulated, but it does seem like
Speaker 1: at some level, if you're paying a cost, you're probably
Speaker 1: paying for quality. Well, one of the things that they
Speaker 1: also point to is processing. Manufacturers process the cotton fibers
Speaker 1: and several ways some of them are twisting them into yarn.
Speaker 1: But after their their carding, there's all these processes that
Speaker 1: go into it, and some of those processes make for
Speaker 1: a higher quality, smoother thing, but also are more expensive
Speaker 1: and then sustainability. Ultimately, retailers passed that cost on to customers,
Speaker 1: presuming that like, for example, organically grown cotton I guess
Speaker 1: costs more than non organic cotton, and then they pay
Speaker 1: for that organic cotton. They then make you pay for
Speaker 1: the ship. So it's a bunch of things that, yes,
Speaker 1: theoretically it could make for a better product, but it
Speaker 1: could also just be what that person or rather that
Speaker 1: company is paying for that they're then charging you for
Speaker 1: as a result of their own choices. So you say,
Speaker 1: the market place is complicated, and you've got to be
Speaker 1: an informed consumer. I mean, what do you ask, what
Speaker 1: do you what? What's the what's the final point? Jesus
Speaker 1: christ Man you won't give You won't give up an inch.
Speaker 1: You love the guest so much. What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: and I will make my final point. I'll make my
Speaker 1: my my final stand here because I've had a god
Speaker 1: damn enough of being pushed around and and shamed for
Speaker 1: what I continually prove to be a real thing. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, David, is that that if there are differences
Speaker 1: that that we cannot know and cannot prove, but ultimately
Speaker 1: are paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars more for these
Speaker 1: these products, then that is probably also true in all
Speaker 1: facets of our consumption and in fact, and this is
Speaker 1: the final proof or a point that I'll tell you
Speaker 1: as proof. One of the things that the the An
Speaker 1: article that I was reading talked about is the main
Speaker 1: sort of like reason that they point to, and people
Speaker 1: even spending money on the differences between these products is
Speaker 1: not quality, it's not sustainability. But they say that price
Speaker 1: is the main reason that people pay the premium they
Speaker 1: pay that like truly, they are not buying a Gucci
Speaker 1: shirt because they believe Gucci is even a better quality shirt.
Speaker 1: They are merely paying for Gucci for the sake of
Speaker 1: being able to say is Gucci, motherfucker and improve their status.
Speaker 1: I hold on, sorry, I take a step. Not a sponsor,
Speaker 1: by the way, they have nothing to do with this podcast,
Speaker 1: not not with that attitude. I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 1: But the argument that we came here to have is,
Speaker 1: is there a difference between premium and regular? Unmight I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you said that because and this, and there
Speaker 1: is no and now I'm gonna now, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: it in your face. Now we're throwing in your face
Speaker 1: like a like a raccoon making his big escape, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw it in your face because like a fucking
Speaker 1: Wes Anderson, I have no clue. But the point is,
Speaker 1: what I'll remind you of is what you said at
Speaker 1: the beginning of this episode. We just people turning to
Speaker 1: the status of their vehicles, the status of their gasoline,
Speaker 1: and all of those things needing to match that. Once
Speaker 1: you become a BMW man, you need to match that
Speaker 1: BMW experience with your with the BMW ride, and thus
Speaker 1: you will pay for premium gas even if that specific
Speaker 1: car does not need that gasoline. Moreover, I read that
Speaker 1: quite a few cars that we consider to be luxury
Speaker 1: vehicles are not, in fact necessarily needing premium gasoline. We're
Speaker 1: just being We're just paying for it because we're being
Speaker 1: lad to believe that there's a massive difference in the quality. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you get a BMW, look up
Speaker 1: what kind of gas fach needs? All right? Fair enough?
Speaker 1: By what kind of gas you're gonna get tomorrow at
Speaker 1: the pomp. That's that's neither here nor there. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: That's not because about are you gonna go fill your BMW?
Speaker 1: I'll get whatever gas makes my household continue to be
Speaker 1: at peace, is the correct answer I can offer you.
Speaker 1: I'll buy the gas that will help me sleep next
Speaker 1: to the lady that I've chosen to sleep next to
Speaker 1: for the remainder of hopefully one of our lives. Hopefully
Speaker 1: one of our lives. Here's looking at you, sister. But
Speaker 1: the point is that that's the most romantic thing I've
Speaker 1: ever heard. But the point is I'll buy that gasoline,
Speaker 1: but I won't believe in it for a second. I'll
Speaker 1: be standing there like you got me, you, you sassy bitch,
Speaker 1: And then the man behind the counter will wink and
Speaker 1: I'll know that I'm being lied to that this is
Speaker 1: a ruse. Well, you're not. What you're saying is a
Speaker 1: lot of other people who drive luxury card. You said
Speaker 1: it yourself. Your your car needs the higher octane gasoline,
Speaker 1: which is the different I don't know that. I didn't
Speaker 1: actually do the research to know. I was told by
Speaker 1: a lady it does, and now I do it. So
Speaker 1: you researched this and never even looked up my car.
Speaker 1: I'm not a bright man, David. I'm a man who
Speaker 1: cares that. This is why I don't have a car.
Speaker 1: And this ship is too complicated. Man, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a lift to the movies right after this. I might
Speaker 1: take a line by anyways, all right, man, But there
Speaker 1: is a difference between the gusses. That's all I'm saying there.
Speaker 1: That's all I said from the beginning. There is physically
Speaker 1: a difference. And I don't mean that mid grade, washed
Speaker 1: out bullshit soap blah blah blah. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: bottom one in the top one. There's a difference there.
Speaker 1: There is, according to the people that make it, a
Speaker 1: difference between premium and unletted gasoline. And I'll leave it
Speaker 1: at that. I think I think we can agree on that. Boy,
Speaker 1: could you tell the people at home where they could
Speaker 1: find what cool ship you have going to that's nice
Speaker 1: and spicy meat? Why? That's just I and I say that.
Speaker 1: That drop always surprises me with how long it is.
Speaker 1: It's so much longer than you wanted to be. Like,
Speaker 1: you're like, damn, I hope this is done. It's you're
Speaker 1: praying for it to finish. And it's not just he
Speaker 1: just has more to comment on. He just keeps going
Speaker 1: and it stops even feeling like he's doing He's talking
Speaker 1: about the same thing as he's doing it is. It
Speaker 1: starts to feel like he's like it's almost like an
Speaker 1: orgy is happening around him. Yeah, and then at first
Speaker 1: you think it's just him talking to you, and then
Speaker 1: you feel like maybe there's a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like three other people in the room that he
Speaker 1: could be directing this set. Yeah, it's really terrible. Okay, November,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be headlining the Denver Comedy Works, so come
Speaker 1: out to that. December three, I'm at the Hereafter in Seattle.
Speaker 1: December four, I'm at Helium in Portland's and you know,
Speaker 1: cool guy a joke Savy seven on Instagram, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, don't feel bad about it. If you want
Speaker 1: to drink Coke zero branded products, you drink those, don't
Speaker 1: don't listend like he doesn't even know. Man, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't fucking know. I'm a big old idiot. But but
Speaker 1: you can follow me my dumbass over at Langston Kermit
Speaker 1: on all the platforms. Still on Twitter somehow haven't given up,
Speaker 1: but but losing hope by the day. So follow me
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Speaker 1: if you want to support big oil like David Bori has,
Speaker 1: you can send all of that to my mama pot
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you.
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