Speaker 1: No one wants to see your feet. It's one more thing.
Speaker 1: I'm strung and getty. We'll get to that in a moment.
Speaker 1: As I did a little traveling over the weekend, which
Speaker 1: turned out to be not the best idea since I
Speaker 1: was sick and Sam was sick. I just thought we
Speaker 1: would power through it or get over it or something,
Speaker 1: and it did not work out that way, and we
Speaker 1: ended up not doing a lot and coming back early.
Speaker 2: So it was very kind of a surprise when the
Speaker 2: standard a little cough, little sniffle turns in something nasty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ended up spending a tremendous amount of money to
Speaker 1: feel horrible in an exotic locale. Anyway, Our friend you
Speaker 1: don't know, our friend Dave Katie. It's too bad. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best people I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 1: He was our boss in San Diego. He lives on
Speaker 1: a boat. H Yeah. He had been carrying around a
Speaker 1: card in his wallet for years. Live on a boat
Speaker 1: by age sixty a goal setting and he did it.
Speaker 1: He pulled it off by like a week.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Goal setting is important, you really, I was talking with
Speaker 1: him about that over the weekend. You can't just like
Speaker 1: think about things occasionally that you actually want to do.
Speaker 1: You got to commit to him like that, like I'm
Speaker 1: going to do this by this date, and then you know,
Speaker 1: lay the work to actually make that happen. Anyway, Henry
Speaker 1: and I slept on his boat two nights in the
Speaker 1: marina in San Diego, and he was at his girlfriend's house,
Speaker 1: so Henry and I had to boat to ourselves. And
Speaker 1: then we went out in the dinghy in San Diego Bay,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely awesome. For whatever reason, there was just
Speaker 1: no boat traffic. I guess because people love God and
Speaker 1: Jesus and care about that more than boating or something.
Speaker 1: But on Easter Sunday there was nobody out there but us,
Speaker 1: and we were cruising around the bay in this little boat.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you could do this until Dave told me.
Speaker 1: We went under the Midway. The Midway is an aircraft carrier,
Speaker 1: an old aircraft carrier from World War Two that they
Speaker 1: have docked in some museum now, but you can go
Speaker 1: under it, like around it really close, and the underneath
Speaker 1: the anchors which are the size of you know, several
Speaker 1: cars and stuff like that. Very very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow.
Speaker 1: And then we saw one of those giant Disney cruise
Speaker 1: ships take off right next to us, which was stunning
Speaker 1: to watch up close. Also just oh, it's mind blowing
Speaker 1: that anything could be that big and float. Were you
Speaker 1: in the water in the dinghy at that point or Oh,
Speaker 1: that had to be like awesome slash almost scary. It
Speaker 1: was almost scary. I mean it was very obvious then
Speaker 1: crazy how fast those things go. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: they're going that fast until you're like in front of
Speaker 1: it and trying to get out of the way of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're going way faster than it looks. I've never been
Speaker 1: on a cruise. Have you been on a cruise?
Speaker 3: Giddy?
Speaker 1: I have not. I've never had a desire to be
Speaker 1: on a cruise.
Speaker 2: River cruise. The river cruise was fantastic. That's that's a
Speaker 2: very different experience. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's been afraid of cruises that like norovirus, being
Speaker 4: stuck on a ship like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, many thousands of people, Like I was telling Henry
Speaker 1: that there are more people on that boat than live
Speaker 1: in my hometown, which I looked up and is actually true.
Speaker 1: You know, many many thousands of people on a floating
Speaker 1: hotel and everything like that, and I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I got really deterred at the beginning of COVID when
Speaker 3: all of those people got trapped on that boat and
Speaker 3: it was docked like right at the base of the
Speaker 3: Bay Bridge in the Bay Area, and every day when
Speaker 3: I was driving home, because we're essential workers, right, I
Speaker 3: would see that and go, oh, my gosh, these people
Speaker 3: are just trapped and they have no idea when they're
Speaker 3: getting off, and yep, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I've never been on a cruise and I've never
Speaker 1: been that close to a giant cruise ship, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was moving. We were out in the
Speaker 1: water and Henry said, I think it's leaving, and I said,
Speaker 1: are you sure? And I started paying attention. It was like, yes,
Speaker 1: it was coming our way. And we cruised around that
Speaker 1: for a while. He went out in the water, and
Speaker 1: then these giant tug boats turned it around and then
Speaker 1: it headed out to see. Very very fun and Henry
Speaker 1: got to drive the boat around, which is highly cool
Speaker 1: but very fun. But so I was talking to her
Speaker 1: headed back to the hotel and I ended up talking
Speaker 1: to the sort of person in tourist towns who has
Speaker 1: a tent set up in a high traffic area and
Speaker 1: sells little things. You know, We've all seen these sorts
Speaker 1: of people. I'd never had a conversation like I had
Speaker 1: with this guy, though, and he sold these little things
Speaker 1: that my kids were super interested in. So I ended
Speaker 1: up being there for a while and talking to him
Speaker 1: when he sold a variety of little things, like all
Speaker 1: those kind of tents do. He actually sold miniature collectible
Speaker 1: tennis shoes. My son's super into sneaker world and like
Speaker 1: knows all the hot sneakers and what are the most
Speaker 1: popular throughout the years and what's coming out next year
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah. And he and this
Speaker 1: guy bonded on that. But he sells miniature ones and
Speaker 1: like they're really detailed with actual laces and look exactly
Speaker 1: like and have the hangtags on him and my son
Speaker 1: thought they were so cool, and so they talked about
Speaker 1: it for a long time. Anyway, and they're made in China,
Speaker 1: and the tariffs are gonna end his business and make
Speaker 1: it almost impossible to sell these things. And we talked
Speaker 1: about all that. But the guy made when he was
Speaker 1: set up by the Midway with his hint. He said
Speaker 1: last year he made a half a million.
Speaker 2: Dollars wha selling these little mini shoes total sales.
Speaker 1: How much he got to keep I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I know his mark up on these things was like
Speaker 1: three times. And I'll bet he pays practically no taxes,
Speaker 1: so he's certainly making I would assume he's making a
Speaker 1: couple hundred thousand dollars a year doing that. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: I just said, I said, I admire people like you
Speaker 1: because he was very knowledgeable about his product. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a guy who clearly put in a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of effort, not to mention the hours to figure
Speaker 1: out how to make a living, compared to some people
Speaker 1: who have no interest in putting any effort into making
Speaker 1: a living and just live off of you. Well, that's
Speaker 1: something I know. You know, It's funny how people.
Speaker 2: Get crazy into something Like a friend of mine or
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, my neighbor's son is like encyclopedic about bourbon.
Speaker 2: He knows everything about all the big names in the
Speaker 2: history and how this bought by this and that, and
Speaker 2: the original distiller was actually the guy who blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But now they're under the label of and I'm like dude,
Speaker 2: it's corn liquor. I mean, it's it's it's fine. I
Speaker 2: drink it and I forget my problems for a little bit.
Speaker 2: And some of it's better than others. But why would you?
Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It makes them happy. And mastery of a topic is
Speaker 2: like I read a great, a great refutation of the
Speaker 2: notion of that man'splaining ones in which they pointed out
Speaker 2: that mastery of a topic or a skill is how
Speaker 2: men gain status among other men and frequently how they
Speaker 2: land a mate. And it's funny that a woman would
Speaker 2: be like disdainful of it, but like, I have a
Speaker 2: reasonable mastery of preparing and delivering a talk radio show,
Speaker 2: and trust me, my wife's pretty happy about it at
Speaker 2: this point. But that's that's how males gain status. And
Speaker 2: in the female world world, it's more coalition building and
Speaker 2: being a willing and helpful participant in that relationship that
Speaker 2: articularly group relationship that is interesting.
Speaker 1: And then because we live in a you know, safe,
Speaker 1: prosperous society here in America, you become you can become
Speaker 1: an expert on something that's just not important. But we
Speaker 1: have the evolutionary desire to, like, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're sort of making fun of the guy's knowledge
Speaker 1: of whiskeys and whatnot. You know more about rock and
Speaker 1: roll trivia than the average person, useless, and not everybody
Speaker 1: would be into that. No, No, indeed, yeah I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say I'm making fun of it as much
Speaker 2: as I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1: By it and don't get it right.
Speaker 2: But you know, back in the day, and you trip
Speaker 2: something else in my head about back before we were
Speaker 2: so safe and affluent and secure, you had damned well
Speaker 2: be a really good swordsman or a really good rider,
Speaker 2: or a really good farmer, or a really good gesture
Speaker 2: for the blacksmith whatever. It had to be relevant. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you had to be really good at it and be
Speaker 2: an expert at it, or you'd probably starve.
Speaker 1: This guy's knowledge of sneakers for these little miniature sneakers
Speaker 1: that he gets made. He started hand painting him and
Speaker 1: making himself, and then he found a manufacturer in Tijuana,
Speaker 1: and then he moved that to China as it grew.
Speaker 1: That's just amazing people like that who carve out a
Speaker 1: way to make a living like that. Yeah, anyway, the
Speaker 1: shoe part or the senior feet part just about my
Speaker 1: flight on Southwest. So I flew southwest, and as anybody
Speaker 1: who flies Southwest, a lot of times they have people
Speaker 1: who try to be funny. Who are the air waitresses,
Speaker 1: And this one had a particularly good good one. I
Speaker 1: mean she was really good. She had a full on
Speaker 1: stand up routine, songs, got applause three different times. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was really pretty impressive. I'll be here till the
Speaker 1: end of the flight. Thank you. She was really good.
Speaker 1: But one thing she mentioned that I had never heard
Speaker 1: before on a flight was, uh, do not take off
Speaker 1: your shoes. Let me say it again in case you
Speaker 1: weren't paying attention. Do not take off your shoes. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to see your feet, nobody wants that. Please, do
Speaker 1: not take off your shoes. God, I'd never heard anybody
Speaker 1: say that before. And there were a couple of collaps.
Speaker 1: There are probably some groans that I didn't hear. I've
Speaker 1: never had the slightest desire to take off my shoes
Speaker 1: on a flight. By more comfortable shoes are your shoes
Speaker 1: that uncomfortable?
Speaker 3: There is something about certain people and getting on an
Speaker 3: airplane where that is like the first thing they do.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like they're in a decliner at home.
Speaker 1: I'm really comfortable though. I got comfortable shoes on, and
Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable.
Speaker 2: It would be often uncomfortable and there's nothing I can
Speaker 2: do about it because of getting my foot smashed up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Don't just just just bare feet, especially, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want your socked feet either. Your Oh my
Speaker 2: my feet are exemplary. Oh my gosh, my socks as
Speaker 2: fresh as a daisy.
Speaker 1: My shoes.
Speaker 4: I take my shoes off, and I asked the passenger
Speaker 4: next to me to rub my feet.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, why not?
Speaker 1: Got it? So? I was coughing yesterday on this flight,
Speaker 1: I mean, just you. I felt so far sorry for
Speaker 1: the people who sit next me. Both flights, for some
Speaker 1: reason half full, and when they announced that half full
Speaker 1: flight today, folks, so spread out, you know, enjoy yourself,
Speaker 1: find a row whatever. Very few people are both flights
Speaker 1: there and back, I end up with a full row.
Speaker 1: I sit, I sit by the window and two people
Speaker 1: sit next to me, and I didn't say anything to them.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing? This flight's half full?
Speaker 1: Go back a few rows and sit by yourself. Why
Speaker 1: are you sitting next to me. Why are we in
Speaker 1: a four row? That is weird.
Speaker 3: You should have been coughing the entire boarding procedure.
Speaker 1: Ah, that would have been a good But this nice
Speaker 1: lesbian couple, a married couple that sat down next to me.
Speaker 1: But I was coughing and sneezing the entire flight, just endlessly,
Speaker 1: and I felt so bad for me. I turned toward
Speaker 1: the window and try to blow my nose that direction
Speaker 1: and cough that direction so it wouldn't be quite as obvious.
Speaker 1: But it was an hour and a half of I'd
Speaker 1: have gotten the hell away from you, especially with open seats, yes,
Speaker 1: many open seats. They could have gone anywhere else, and
Speaker 1: they just sat there next to me.
Speaker 2: M wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like the last person you ever want
Speaker 1: to sitting next to. I don't think I've ever heard
Speaker 1: anybody sneeze or cough as much as I did on
Speaker 1: that flight. You would think I'm gonna die. This is
Speaker 1: going to kill me. This is the last thing I
Speaker 1: ever do sitting next to this nimrod.
Speaker 2: God, drop your pants and take off your shoes before
Speaker 2: you coughing sneeze next to me.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to, and I try to stifle it.
Speaker 1: Which makes it makes it worse than you start thinking
Speaker 1: in your head. I got a cough, I have to
Speaker 1: cough so bad.
Speaker 2: You go.
Speaker 1: Just oh, it was horrible and Sam was running one
Speaker 1: roll away. My kids don't sit next to me on
Speaker 1: the flight. Is that weird? I feel like that's weird.
Speaker 1: We do not sit together and they don't want to
Speaker 1: sit near me. Three of us get on the plane
Speaker 1: and we all sit in through different rows.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: I know, a little odd, but it's a part of
Speaker 1: it's because we all like window seats. And I mean
Speaker 1: I don't demand I sit in a window seat, but
Speaker 1: everybody wants a window seats.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was picture of Jack like arm wrestling the kids.
Speaker 1: Now I get the window seat. Yeah, I'm the dam
Speaker 1: get out of my way. Yeah, so sorry to the
Speaker 1: nice lesbian couple. I sneezed on. I'm not contagious according
Speaker 1: to the doctor, so you're fine. What I had to.
Speaker 4: Grab the newspaper, gone into the Truman said I'm here
Speaker 4: for the whole flight people, and just hid. Well, I
Speaker 4: guess that's it.