Speaker 1: My nineteen eighty seven Ford Mustang. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm one more thing.
Speaker 1: So my son asked me a question the other day
Speaker 1: that prompted this thought. We used to do a topic
Speaker 1: on back when we used to take phone calls GEZ
Speaker 1: many years ago, different kind of talk radio, but we
Speaker 1: used to take phone calls. Remember when we do tell
Speaker 1: us your worst pain, right, But but we would eliminate
Speaker 1: childbirth or tragedy.
Speaker 2: Right, No childbirth, no tragedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm applying that to this one. I'm not
Speaker 1: the childbirth part, but tragedy. Really don't use a tragedy
Speaker 1: I suppose for the answer. But my son asked me,
Speaker 1: and I, you know, I had to come up with
Speaker 1: an answer, or tried to come up with an answer.
Speaker 1: He said, what's the biggest mistake you've ever made?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh wow.
Speaker 1: So staying away from I guess childbirth or tragedy or
Speaker 1: whatever rules you want to put on. And I was
Speaker 1: trying to think of big mistakes I've made in my
Speaker 1: life because there's value in that, you know, if I
Speaker 1: can pass along big mistakes I've made in my life
Speaker 1: to my son, That's why I mentioned my nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: seven Ford Mustang. That is among my biggest mistakes I've
Speaker 1: ever made. It's the only new car I ever bought. Uh,
Speaker 1: it just happened to be a really, really crappy car.
Speaker 1: But it was a dumb I did to buy a
Speaker 1: new car. Anyway, I don't ever buy new cars, but
Speaker 1: so I feel like I can have a much better
Speaker 1: car for the same amount of money. AnyWho, I certainly
Speaker 1: could have done that. Then back when I was poor,
Speaker 1: I could have been driven away nicer car for.
Speaker 2: The same amount of money.
Speaker 1: I bought that new Ford Mustang for war, and it
Speaker 1: just happened to also be a really crappy car. It
Speaker 1: was at a time that American car companies were making
Speaker 1: really crappy cars. But that decision hounded me for years
Speaker 1: because I was upside down in it, as you are
Speaker 1: with new cars.
Speaker 2: Immediately, I was gonna say, not your conscience, your pocket book,
Speaker 2: you're actual Yeah, fiscal.
Speaker 1: Situation, yeah, anyway, you got any off the top of
Speaker 1: your head, Michael, worst mistakes you've ever made.
Speaker 3: Definitely a car. The same type of thing about a
Speaker 3: car on an impulse.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many for people it is a big
Speaker 1: purchase of some sort and off on a car when.
Speaker 4: I was young, and I was really disturbed because as
Speaker 4: soon as I said yes, the sales guy like started
Speaker 4: jumping up and down and was happy.
Speaker 2: Wow, whoa, whoa, I got an idea. Who's getting better this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I got him, I got him, you know, wow.
Speaker 2: Wow. I've got to admit I don't mean to be
Speaker 2: unkind or anything, but obviously we're going with I mean,
Speaker 2: it's beyond no tragedies. I mean, the worst purchase you've
Speaker 2: made is an interesting topic, but there's no way the
Speaker 2: biggest mistake I've made is the worst purchase I've made. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know how I would answer that question,
Speaker 1: what's the biggest mistake I've made? I mean, my my
Speaker 1: marriage didn't work out, but I got two kids that
Speaker 1: I can't imagine not having, so there's just no way
Speaker 1: I would. And it was great for a while.
Speaker 2: So I just yeah, yeah, yeah, because the answer I
Speaker 2: had at the top of my head was I guess
Speaker 2: there's a mistake. Yeah, kind of falling in love with
Speaker 2: smoking pot when I was a teenager slash college student
Speaker 2: didn't do me any good. No good, I enjoyed the
Speaker 2: hell out of it at the time, but in retrospect, nope. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With with age, opportunity cost becomes a thing, yes, which
Speaker 1: you have to get to a certain age, I think,
Speaker 1: to really realize that.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Henry and I ate at a basically a bar yesterday
Speaker 1: that also serves food and they have really really good
Speaker 1: French toasts. So we went there, but it was the
Speaker 1: middle of the day and it is full of people
Speaker 1: in there on a beautiful day inside this dark bar. Now,
Speaker 1: I know no judgment on that they're watching the soccer
Speaker 1: match whatever, but I have spent a lot of my
Speaker 1: life in dark bars in the middle of the day
Speaker 1: and sit outside and enjoying the beautiful day and doing
Speaker 1: anything productive or whatever. I would like to have a
Speaker 1: lot of those hours back. That would add up to many, many,
Speaker 1: many many days. So that's an opportunity costing. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's just basically every everything's okay in moderation,
Speaker 1: but if you spent too much time on.
Speaker 2: Whatever, right and you know, the outcome has been just fine.
Speaker 2: I've got to admit there are times I wonder what if?
Speaker 2: But I think everybody has that.
Speaker 1: But you don't have a I don't know do most
Speaker 1: people do most people have a clear biggest mistake, like
Speaker 1: they could quickly answer that question, because I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: still can't.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I mean, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have to almost make a really well, I
Speaker 1: mean a really big mistake, like if you put all
Speaker 1: your like we were talking to a financial guy earlier
Speaker 1: on the radio show, if you put all your money
Speaker 1: into space X, that would be a bad idea. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a bad idea. I suppose that if
Speaker 1: you lost all your money and you were then broke,
Speaker 1: you could say that was the biggest mistake of my life.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean, we bought a house that was
Speaker 2: expensive right before the giant crash of eight whatever. But
Speaker 2: you know, I've spent so much time thinking about that
Speaker 2: and how that financial crisis came to be and how
Speaker 2: everybody became convicted. Okay, I'm told by every single authority
Speaker 2: that this is legit. It's not a bubble. This is
Speaker 2: because of population. Blah blah blah. Nobody'd heard the term
Speaker 2: credit default swap, et cetera, et cetera. Right, I think
Speaker 2: of it less as a mistake and more was an
Speaker 2: example of how you should be skeptical. Skeptical about the
Speaker 2: conventional wisdom. I guess you got one, Michael, who was unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Well, credit cards.
Speaker 4: When I was young, I got they said, hey, you
Speaker 4: can sign up a credit card, and of course I did,
Speaker 4: and yeah, it took me years to clean that up.
Speaker 1: I just thought of one. I wish I hadn't gotten
Speaker 1: so much sun. Oh wow, valuing being valuing being tan.
Speaker 1: I would rank that way up toward the top.
Speaker 2: And quickly, by god, let's get this job over with.
Speaker 2: Let's get good and burned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one is not worth it, both in terms
Speaker 1: of skin cancer stuff, but just you know how your
Speaker 1: skin looks when you're older versus people who protect their
Speaker 1: I know a woman who's early fifties now, and she
Speaker 1: went she went no tan through her life, and all
Speaker 1: her friends say to her, Oh my god, I wish
Speaker 1: my skin was like your. She looks completely different than
Speaker 1: the average early fifties woman because she didn't do the
Speaker 1: tam thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really like a catchers myth that was left
Speaker 2: out in the rain. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: You sure look good when you're tanno.
Speaker 2: Everybody does. Oh yes, sexy dead sexy makes your teeth
Speaker 2: look whiter too.
Speaker 1: You look better in clothes, you look thinner, you look
Speaker 1: everything looks better when you're tanning.
Speaker 2: Sure, of course you get laid a lot party, you
Speaker 2: get invited to the good parties. But don't do it.
Speaker 2: Kids of cours. Kids these Davis don't care about getting
Speaker 2: laid all the hormones in the water.
Speaker 1: I don't have a story like the Filipino horror bit
Speaker 1: my nose off, like Chris Farley does in the movie
Speaker 1: Dirty Work.
Speaker 2: I guess mistake I ever made was wandering into that Filipino.
Speaker 1: Horrorouse who bit my nose off.
Speaker 2: Ended up without a nose. As you can see, I.
Speaker 1: Was hoping through this I would come up with a
Speaker 1: better answer for my son with some wife's lessons.
Speaker 2: H well, feel free to use mine.
Speaker 3: What about physical injuries through stupidity like when I.
Speaker 2: Was a kid? The list is too long.
Speaker 4: Try I put up a board and tried to jump
Speaker 4: you a bike and went very very poorly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, but even that, though you learned something,
Speaker 2: you learned risk assessment. I learned physical, learned about gravity exactly,
Speaker 2: gravity and basis.
Speaker 1: I learned about force and mass and inertia, and gravity
Speaker 1: and all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of stuff. I learned the fancy names of several
Speaker 2: different kinds of injuries, contusions, lacerations, abrasions, all of them
Speaker 2: I must have.
Speaker 1: Maybe I get maybe I'm working too hard to be
Speaker 1: glasses half full guy. But on a lot of my stuff,
Speaker 1: I feel like I needed that to happen, to learn
Speaker 1: a lesson, or that happened. But I did other bad
Speaker 1: things bunch as the time, and I wouldn't have wanted
Speaker 1: to be the kind of guy that never did anything
Speaker 1: risky right to avoid the times that it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live that life either, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe I'm trying too hard to turn lemons
Speaker 1: into lemonade.
Speaker 2: There's some sort of formula here was the wisdom require
Speaker 2: wisdom acquired greater than the pain endured or the screw
Speaker 2: ups negative effects? I mean, if like I lost my
Speaker 2: temper and murdered ten people and from that I learned
Speaker 2: you really needed to take a deep breath and control
Speaker 2: your temper. No, the lesson is not worthy of the
Speaker 2: bad all right, the net takeaway is still negative. And
Speaker 2: if the net takeaway is positive, well then well, how
Speaker 2: much of a regret is it. How else are you
Speaker 2: going to get wisdom?
Speaker 1: Yeah, or I like taking my chances with certain things
Speaker 1: and if you get a negative outcome sometimes, but most
Speaker 1: of the time it's okay or good. I'm not a
Speaker 1: eliminate all of those chances because of.
Speaker 2: A couple of bad times. Yeah, yeah, I know. As
Speaker 2: a young man, I was like half reckless. I would
Speaker 2: try things, do things and think, well, if this goes sideways,
Speaker 2: all right, I'll deal with it. That's fine. And other
Speaker 2: people would be like, you look like an idiot or
Speaker 2: a scumbag or whatever. Again, wisdom balance, right, That's why
Speaker 2: young men go to war because it gives zero shits
Speaker 2: about a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Do you think most people who like whoever smoke bought
Speaker 1: the way you did would say that, But looking back
Speaker 1: on it years later, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Effects different people different ways too, So I don't want
Speaker 2: to speak for anybody. Just the reason I say that
Speaker 2: Number one, it dulled my intellect to some extent, it
Speaker 2: dulled my ambition, and I realized, and I mentioned this
Speaker 2: more than once the years of the show, that if
Speaker 2: you are either drinking or doing drugs, you know, whatever, drugs.
Speaker 2: With a group of people who are your friends, you
Speaker 2: all have a mutual friend the alcohol or the drugs.
Speaker 2: You're not really each other's friends because when the drinking stops,
Speaker 2: the friendship almost always stops. And I found that out
Speaker 2: fairly painfully.
Speaker 1: I wish I had to watch less sports.
Speaker 2: Yes, I sit here in my hockey team T shirt
Speaker 2: having watched the entire Stanley Cup finals.
Speaker 1: I've started adding sports back in because I'd cut it
Speaker 1: out completely and decided that I got to do something
Speaker 1: that's fun and frivolous, you know, back to the moderation
Speaker 1: thing with everything. But man, I used to regularly watch
Speaker 1: all three NFL football games, the early game, of the
Speaker 1: late game, in the night game. That's nine hours you.
Speaker 2: Could have done something else with, dude, I mean, come on, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of time. Yeah. Oh oh.
Speaker 1: There's lots of people that do that though. That's what
Speaker 1: keeps the NFL and.
Speaker 2: Businesses people who do that right, right. Yeah, Yeah, to.
Speaker 1: Eat your own maybe you bust ass all week long
Speaker 1: and that is your your outlet, because you got to
Speaker 1: have an outlet.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I don't judge, you know you you do
Speaker 2: you and in the balance, you think but just be
Speaker 2: honest with yourself. That's that's what it all comes down to.
Speaker 2: If you kind of feel like you're like spending too
Speaker 2: much time, wasting too much time, you probably are.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And uh, my final note on this will be
Speaker 1: back to the life lesson thing. So buying that new
Speaker 1: car that lost me money and was a painting in
Speaker 1: the ass, how much money have I probably saved over
Speaker 1: the years from that lesson? Oh again, I'm sure I
Speaker 1: get in that head, but that yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2: And if you're going to see fish get stoned, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Trust me, I'm not against it. I'm just a moderation.
Speaker 3: The car salesman jumped up and down.
Speaker 2: Wait I'm in it.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1: Hey, ed, he actually bought it at the price