Transcript of Our Experience Throughout The LA Wildfires.. - UNFILTERED 266

Keith, your facial hair looks really good. Wait, really? It looks great. No. What? You got a good... Stop. You got the mustache, but the light scraff around your beard, too. That's good. Thank you. You look defined as well. Good job.

I'm trying not...

Is it the bone mallow?

The bone mallow.

What is it? We're trying to lock it.

Bone marrow. Beef tallow.

What is bone tallow?

Is that not even... Bone marrow.Bone mare.

Is the inside of the bone.

But beef tallow in a way is like-My mom's calling me.

She's making sure that I'm safe.

We have firefighter mommy calling.

Oh, yeah. She's been giving me updates.

Do you think if she was here, she would have gone out to volunteer?

A hundred %. If they didn't ask her to... After she had plastic surgery. I think they're encouraging any firefighters out here to help if you can.

A lot of people have been coming out to help. We saw Canada's team has been amazing.

Canadian planes flying over the house. It gave me chills. Chills. But you know what? I will say, it's making me feel good how this is the most united I've felt with everybody. Everybody's helping everybody. People are coming in from all over just to help, which is really nice. But it should really be that 24/7, no? True, exactly. I like the Blacks community because there's so many transplants who move here, and I feel like there's just never a solid backbone of everyone being on the same page looking out for one another and being united.

It's so nice, especially checking all the apps and stuff. We've been super active on the neighbor's app and everything and just seeing everybody like, who needs help? We're here, we're here.

Never been so active. People talk about Citizens app all the time, never went on it. I decided to go on it now. I don't think I'll ever be off it. Isn't it amazing? That thing is just so active. Everybody's posted on there.

The ring camera community as well. I love that one.

I wouldn't recommend downloading or getting on those apps if you are a very paranoid person.

Don't do it.

Don't let it consume you. We can go on it all the time and we...

You guys do more than that. You guys go to it. There's a crime scene. You're going to it making sure everybody...

Ethan Mariah here.

We've been going out every week. We every day just to make sure everything's okay.

Every night, we've been driving around the town, going in, just trying to see if there's any way we can help.

I hear a FireDuty app or WatchDuty app. You want to turn that off?

I'll put mine on do not disturb. Yeah, because I feel like it's just been throwing off constantly.

I think it pushes through silence. Really? Yeah, because it's important.

Or maybe I'll just do that.

It has been super helpful because there has been the main fires and everything, but the amount of new fires that are popping up Yesterday, we thought it was going to be a more laidback day. The winds were dying down and we were like, Okay, it's time to just hone in and focus on the fires that already started. Then all of a sudden, one popped up right next to us. Oh, yeah. Then now we're like, Okay, we're in the go zone. It's like trying to plan and-We'll get deep into our stories.

Yeah. But I think just first thing, one, our hearts and our support goes out to all the families and victims, families of the victims who have lost their homes.

Everyone in the Palisades, everybody in EN, the Altadina. There are so many areas right now that have been affected. It's like whole neighborhoods that are down right now.

It doesn't matter who you are and where you stand. A home is a home.

I know our stories may not be as severe as everyone else's. I don't want... As we dive into what we've been experiencing, it's not like, Oh, we're more important. We're such a severe victim. Everyone's story is important. But I just want to say, Mad also to the LA Fire Department and all the volunteers and people who've come out of their way to help. They're badass. It's badass. Because this has been such a complicated situation, and it's been so hard to control, and it's put everybody in such an anxious state in our community.

They were up for 48 hours straight just fighting fire.

As unprepared as we were, it's very thankful for everybody coming out from the woodwork, like coming from other states, other countries just to help. That's amazing. You really got to see how quick it happened in the past few days.

If you haven't already, I'm sure we'll put links down below to support the fire department in any relief efforts that are helping people build their life.

Yeah, we're like feeding the fire department. You can send a meal to firemen and stuff like that.

Also all shelter, animal shelter There's people that are displaced that need to find somewhere to stay. We'll link all those in the description.

We'll put Ethanize's address in the link.

Yeah, we also have a little animal sanctuary right now.

I saw the story, which was really sweet, by the way. Then I started getting DM saying, Put up Ethan and Mariah's address, too. They're taking in animals. I'm like, I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. I see what you did. Put Ethanize's address up there, too.

Please. We have taken in four cats from the Eaton Fire. We have four cats staying with us right now.

My brother just took in a dog as well.

I wasn't going to be picky. I really was.

Just the ugliest cat.

I was hoping for a horse. I made a post playing.

If there's anything that we can do, please let us know, because where he and I are located, we are surrounded by the bigger fires, but we're in this perfect pocket where it's not catching, and we're in the flats. So I knew we would most likely be okay or be one of the last to have to evacuate. So I just said, if our door's open, if anybody needs help. This girl messaged me, and I was hoping for maybe a dog or two. There were some... I'm like, I I'm not a horse.

A tortis, a llama.

There was a turtle. There was a tortis that was looking for help. They didn't reach out to me, but I reached out to them just in case. I don't know. I was like, I have a bathtub. Wait, the big one? Yeah, the big one.

Is it the cup? My friend, Wiley has it.

What?

Tipto? Tipto. I'm pretty sure my friend, Wiley has it. I was like, Oh, my God. No. Yeah.

Oh, so Tipto is okay.

I think he's friends with them. Oh, my gosh.

That's great. Tipto is on TikTok.

I saw the turtle first in his house, and I was like, What in the world? You have a Tortus this time?

You're talking about where she's being peppered to bring it out of the house, right? Is that the one you're talking about? I saw them post on TikTok.

I did see that clip, too.

Maybe it's that one. I've been evacuating, so I knew it was that one. Okay.

Tipto is pretty hot on TikTok, but people were reaching out to me and I think Tipto needs help. I knew I've seen Tipto before. I went on her page and she follows me. I was like, Let me message her. She was posting so much. I don't even think she saw my comment or anything, but I was hoping to get that. I was hoping to get some maybe chickens. We have the space. I'm like, Somebody, we considered a pig.

A big potbelly pig.

Somebody was like, Does anyone have a truck? Or something. I was like, Hon, we have a truck.

We have a truck. They didn't end up needing to evacuate because the fire that was by us started going the other way. Okay, yeah. So they were ending up not having to evacuate. We just don't give a shit about people.

We take their animals.

Thank you. Thank you.

We are asking people, too. No, so this one girl reached out and she said her friend has... They've had no power, and she has a newborn baby, and she reached out to me and said she has four cats. I'm like, damn it. Like, damn. Give me the cats. So I was like, we could watch the baby, too. Like, just everything. She grabbed the cats from her friend. She dropped them off at the house. Turns out she didn't know us at all. It was just my story was sent out to other people who needed help. So to drop strangers' cats off to other strangers is pretty... It's a lot of trust. It's a lot of trust. Yeah, we've had them for a couple of days. Maybe we'll have them for the weekend and then figure it out from there.

That's good. Let's run that in. The community coming together, baby. Hit it.

Ready? It's coffee talk, baby.

It's coffee talk, baby. Welcome back to Zane and KeithUnfiltered. I'm Zane.I'm.

Keith.i'm.

Matt.i'm Mariah. We are safe. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode.

Yeah, and thank you guys for all checking in on us and stuff. We've tried to keep everybody It has been a wild 72 hours.

It has been.

Zane and Matt both evacuated.

Well, no, we didn't. It was very complicated for us in our situation to evacuate. Just to paint the picture of how this has all gone down on... Gosh, what was it? It was Tuesday. Tuesday is when Palisades caught on fire, and that was pretty severe. Everybody was keeping their eyes on it. Also around on Tuesday, hopefully I'm getting my dates right, and my brain has just been mush following all of this. The Hollywood Hills right near sunset, closer to our house, did catch on fire near the equinox in West Hollywood that I go to. It was a small fire, and it was contained. That was like, Oh, boy, we were keeping-Is this It was a night that it was really windy outside? Right. This happened earlier in the day. This happened around noon to 5 this was going on, and that was controlled. Then obviously, the fire keeps getting more severe. It's now reached global news. People were reaching out to going, Hey, are you okay? Are you safe? I'm like, Yeah, we're fine. As long as the Hollywood Hills don't catch on fire again.

It's just the Hills because it's so just bushy out there, and we should be good.

Then so Wednesday rolls around, and That is when the fire is getting pretty severe in Palisades. Then we're deciding to keep watch. Our buddy Connor comes over, Connor Franta, and then we're watching the news, and sure enough, Runian Canyon, that part Hollywood Hills, catch is on fire, which we did not expect. We thought it was just going to be... We thought the Hollywood Hills would be fine. Sure enough, it erupted within just 30 minutes, an hour.It spread so fast.They.

Were thinking that one was started by somebody.

That one as well?

Sunsweept.

Sunsweept was... They were saying that it was most likely Studio City, and then also the one on Berry Drive. Yes. That one, the person was caught.

They also caught the person by us. So literally down the street from where we are, a dude was tackled by citizens.

It was a citizen's arrest. They zip-tied him and held him until the cops got there.

Hend him until the cops came because they caught him trying to start a fire.Oh.

My.in a neighborhood.

Then they tied him to the big, not Eton, the Kenneth fire that's going on in Calabasas, Woodland Hills area. Just a maniac.

Yeah. People are just taking the opportunity because there's fires everywhere. They're like, Okay, this one's just another fire that started. So they want everybody to evacuate.

Nobody's going to think twice because it's windy, and they're just going to be like, Well, we're dealing with it anyway.

A lot of people are also trying to loot, so they're getting people to evacuate, and then they're going into these homes so they can clear out while people are gone. It's crazy.

Unfortunately, there are people who still need to get their fix, and it drives me insane.

I think they've caught 20 looters, though, and arrested them. At least they've caught a good handful of them.

It's insane. You're taking advantage of a situation like that, knowing in the back of your head that the whole city is on watch right now for a situation like this. People are losing their homes. They're like, You know what? I'm going to just burn down another city. It's fucking insane.

It was wild when that fire first started because we just Then all of a sudden, evacuation zone starts happening. The way you get notified on the app for the people who don't know what the experience is, it's all down to these little mini district codes within the areas. You get notified that you live in this area, you need to evacuate. After At first, it's a red flag warning that just says just to be cautious and be alert if there is an evacuation warning. Then it goes to evacuation warning, which is this yellow zone, and that says, be prepared, you're going to probably evacuate. Then there's evacuation, full go. That's when you have to go. When the Hollywood Hills caught on fire, the rest of the Hills had to evacuate. We were six blocks away from the evacuation warning zone. Then that was a very tough moment where we had to say, do we leave right and get caught up in all the traffic?Away from the traffic.We're looking at all the skycams, everything down Los Cienica, all of these people are trying to leave the hills. You're in this situation where you're like, Do I prioritize my safety right now or do I prioritize other people's safety who have to leave.

You also don't want to start evacuating when you're not in the zone because people that are in need, that have to get out, are also on the road trying to get out. You don't want to flood. You have to take your time and stagger so the people can leave because that's why they had the jam on sunset. Yes. Then it got blocked, and then everybody had to... They were getting to leave their cars, and then they had to come bulldoze all the cars out.

That's insane. But in the Palestine, they had to do.

In the Palestine, yeah.

That's what they had to do. People had to walk away from their cars and then bulldoze those cars to make rooms for all the fire trucks and first responders to get out there. That was just such a tough thing. It's a wild thing, too. Obviously, when you're in a natural disaster, it feels like it's your birthday because everybody you know in your entire life is texting you. Hey, are you okay? Are you evacuating? Then you're having other conversations with everybody else and saying what their plan is. Then you have friends who are immediately leaving. We're freaking out. We have friends who are saying, Come down to San Diego. I'm like, I don't think we should go to San Diego. We're going to get gridlocked going down there. It was such a paranoid thing. I had to go to our neighbors just to have a sanity check, look with somebody else and going, What is your plan?

You don't realize the severity of it until you're going through stories and then you see somebody that you know that was just filming their house, just level, just completely. You're like, Oh, wow, this is fucking serious. Okay, you need to do everything you can now just to make sure you're not in there.

We made the bold decision of just what we put, and it's wild that moment, you have to look around your house and go, what matters the most? What is important? Obviously, they say, get your 4Ps, get people, passports, prescriptions, pets, all of that stuff, which we did. Clothes were the one thing I was like, I don't give a fuck about any of these clothes because I'm fine with what I have.

It was the next day when the hills were on fire, the sunset fire. Me, Todd, and Danny were all looking at each other. We were like, Is this We were pretty good, but in the back of our head, we were like, Let's just be safe, because my mom was also... She was keeping up with everything. She was calling me more than anybody, and she was just like, Hey, I see that you're good, but just feel like you're From my perspective, you should just get out of there. It's probably the safest. That's what we ended up doing. Danielle also had a lot of anxiety. She was shaking. She was like, I just don't want to be here anymore. All right, let's just pack up and go. We're looking around, and we just realized how We were looking at it differently. We were just like, damn, everything is so unimportant. Just the shit in this house where let's just grab what we need to just be good for the next seven days, and then we'll just start over. We just packed up everything. We were packed in 30 minutes. We were like, We'll get out of here.

We went all the way to Huntington Beach, and we just stayed there pretty much for four hours.

Did you have traffic getting down there? Were you able to zip there?

No, it was actually pretty empty. That's nice. It was pretty empty because it was just a highway. We didn't go through any of the streets in the city.

I think the worst traffic for where we are was when they sent out that mass alert for everybody.

That was an accident.

The guy was like, Oh, shit.

I was at the gym and I was in the steam room, took a shower.

I got to my phone.

Patricia called me eight times.

Yeah, it was a mandatory evacuation. Instead of going to the zone for the fire by us, it sent to everybody. Then all of a sudden, chaos. Everybody was in the car getting on the... Bumper a bumper.

So people actually... The second I got it, I knew that it was a mistake. They didn't send us to.

Us, too. We got it. They didn't send the update. We looked around and we looked at each other and we were like, I think we're okay. We should say, I don't think this is meant for us because this is when the fire by us started, and I was like, I think this is for Hidden Hills, Calabasas. The next thing, five minutes later, there's another alert. It literally sounds like my bad guy.

It was like a handle.

This one's on me.

Sorry. Who was that person? Horrible. It's like, got it. Yeah. And then everyone's phone went off. But you know what? Did you?

It happened five times in the middle of the night.

Oh, really? That same type of error?

My phone went off. My friend Kate is staying with us. My phone went off. Kate's phone went off at 2:00 AM, 3:00 AM, and everyone's just like, false alarm, false... They keep sending... Somebody's in there like, Do it, do it, do it.

There's people that don't have those apps that are keeping up with it. There's people that are not watching the news on TV. So these people are getting... Everybody gets that notification. Everybody, it doesn't matter if you're watching. Most likely, they're going to listen to it. But it's just wild watching all of it happen around you.

It feels like you're in a video game and you're losing HP. It's just burning from every direction that you're in, you just feel the damage internally as well. You feel almost hopeless. You're like, Where do I even just retreat to?

And also, since you know that there's people trying to start fires now, now you're not even worried about the embers flying into your yard, right? You're worried about now- Somebody starting a new one. There's people going around starting in random ass areas. That's the biggest problem right now. I feel like in your guys' head, you're probably like, We need to keep an eye on our street to see who the fuck is coming on our street starting fires.

We We'll take turns, sleeping, but at least one of us will be up, me, him, or Kate, and we're just watching the whole time because now- Because it doesn't rock. It's not about it. I mean, yes, it's still dangerous, but they have an eye on it spreading. Now, it is random people that are just going into any neighborhood.

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Hopefully, I mean, the wins. Well, apparently when this episode comes out, though, the wins are going to be bad early next week.

Apparently, yes, I know. So hopefully that's all contained.

I think they said they caught the one dude. He was pouring gas in the...

In the sewer, in the sewers.

In all the sewers.

Oh my gosh. Insane.

And you're not supposed to drink your water right now. Yeah.

For all areas?

It started in Pasadena.

They confirmed Pasadena, don't drink Palisades, but I don't know about other areas because I'm sure they are connected in some way. But one thing...

There's just so much going in and out.

Don't forget your ice machine. Your ice machine is pulling the water from the city.

Oh, didn't even think of that.

People will be like, I'm just drinking whatever water from if you have a big jug thing, but if you have ice, ice is being made.

It comes from tap. Oh, my gosh. I didn't even think of that. No mixed drinks.

The first time when it was really windy, that's Was it really windy by your guys' house, too? Crazy. It was so loud, and we were already getting nervous with just how loud the wind was. We were like, damn, this is really dangerous. Todd's room has a big window where you could see the streets parallel on that street over. We're just looking at, just watching, just like, damn, it's really windy, and it was just scaring us a little bit. All of a sudden, just different transformer boxes. We saw this happening all at the same time, and we were screaming, what the fuck is going on?

Is that that big blue light that you see?

The blue light that we get from things. The ones that can like zap and go zoom and just can erupt.

Because at first we saw a big flash. We're like, was that thunder? And we look and it's just different boxes exploding We're like, oh, this is definitely how some of these fires are starting, too, with these fucking transformer boxes exploding. And as soon as that happened, I went on Citizens. I was like, Bro, if this starts a fire in this neighborhood, because we knew about the policies, we were like, this is fucking prim area. It's going to be bad. With how windy it was, oh, my God.

I think it was 80 to 100 miles an hour away.

I was watching our glass doors because we have our whole back is glass. They were bowing in and you can watch the Warp happened. I was like, I don't know if these are storm proof.

I don't think they build California houses to withstand things.

Because Florida, you have to have a hurricane force, glass, reinforcement, whatever.

Those Florida houses are make fun of Florida, but them houses are not going anywhere. We are so fucking guarded on Florida houses.

I will say, though, I have seen a lot of comments that are people... I mean, obviously, every devastation is different, but I do think that this is bringing more awareness and reviving the North Carolina disaster and Maui. And I'm hoping that...

Just more prepared.

Well, It's just something for them, too, because they're still so- Everybody stops talking about them. Everybody stopped talking about what happened in North Carolina, and it's just people just onto the next thing, but they're still-We're trying to recover from that.

It's not a conversation.

It's sad, but it's good that this is reminding people of what happened in Hawaii.

Hawaii and North Carolina only got $700 in relief funds. It's like, these people lost everything, too. It's just awful. But it is nice seeing people bringing that back up and reminding everybody.

I've been watching the... I've been glued on the news for the past few days. Every time someone gets in your... By the way, before I continue, I need to point out, some of these fucking reporters that are running after people as they're trying to escape. It's horrible.

It's horrible. It's just...

Leave them alone.

It's disaster porn. They just want to find anything that will get people's eyeballs on the TV. People are running, holding five horses on these ropes trying to evacuate, and the guy's trying to...

And how are we feeling right now? Are we nervous? It's like, what are you- Obviously. Get out of the way or help.

Yeah.

Right here, we have a guy who's freaking out. He's trying to wet the fire right now. It's burning his house down. Does it seem like your strategy is working? Yeah. I know.

What are you doing?

Just stick with the facts. Stick with the facts of what's happening in large areas. Interviewing one person that's just trying to pack up ready to go.

It's just what are you doing? Report on what's going on and give advice to the people that are nearby that are also freaking out and what they can do.

Just people getting their fire insurance canceled. Just like, It's just weeks, months, right before this happened. It's just like-Did that not happen in Maui?

Yeah. That was exactly the same thing. That was exactly what happened. It's so awful. The fact that these people have been paying. It's not like if you were paying into your insurance for the year, whatever, And then they go, Hey, we got to cancel. I'm sorry. I'm going to give you the money you've put back that you paid us. We can't hold this policy anymore. It's just like, Sorry, we're keeping the money you paid us, though.

It's so weird.

Where's Luigi?

And there's a difference between you not getting fire insurance because you're like, Fuck, I don't want to pay.

And then you get it last minute. There's a difference between that and paying for it for years and-For literally nothing.

That's literally nothing. And then the interview of the mayor told me everything I need.

Wait, which one? When she's in the- Where she didn't answer.

She didn't say anything.

First of all, ignoring.

Right. Yes. No, it was bad. It was very bad of her. But also, why are you trying to conduct an interview in the middle of a fucking... She's about to go do a press release. Why, if you as a journalist, think you're going to get answers in the fucking-But I remember like, Sorry, I can't answer right now.

I have a press conference. She should have done that.

She didn't say anything. She should have done that. Shame on you, Karen Bass, though.

She looked like a deer in lights. She looked frozen.

I just think that's crazy. You're the person that people are going to for help and advice right now. Yeah.

I didn't vote for her.

And then funding cut for the fire department, and I don't know. It's just a really sad, unfortunate events that have led to this.

It's weird. The back of my mind, I've known that this could have happened. It was two or three months ago. It was Quint Tarantino. He was on Joe Rogan's podcast, and they were talking about fires and stuff. I listened to that whole episode, and I remember him, Joe Rogan, was explaining that he heard from a guy how LA, county, is so vulnerable to a huge fire that would take over it. It's too easy. I remember hearing that being like, Damn, is that true? Right when this all started happening, I was like, Gosh, they just talked about that.

And then the fire hydrants not having water. No, yeah.

Insane. This is how easy it is to start a fire right now.

It's crazy how easy. It's insane how easy it is. It's too easy. All you need is when. Now in the future, when it's really windy out, now everybody knows. Even the bad people, they know that all we need is a good amount of wind, and then we just go around and just start some fires again. It's insane.

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We want to give a big thank you to America's number one Meal Kit. Hello Fresh for sponsoring this podcast. We love you. California, especially LA, is so highly taxed. The fact that there is no budgeting to have preventative measures for this. We have some of the smartest people out here in California, tech people, people that can problem-solve. How the dead brush isn't cleared every year to prevent this, but it just piles on and water management hasn't been solved. Preparation for the stuff, it makes zero sense to me.

Also in my head, I was praying for everybody flying over those skies.

I know.

Imagine being on a flight. Oh, that's all I thought about it. I was like, Oh, my God. It's a crazy view. Imagine that flight.

Was there a fire? Oh, this had to have been five, six years ago. I took off at LA when it was down in Malibu, and I could see the fires. It was pretty Wait, what? This had to be five years ago.

Oh, got it. This is a very niche that I've been seeing people talk about, but do you know the Riscan family? Or the...

Yes. The people that own the water?

That own 60% of the water in LA. They own the Wow pistachio company and the-The Riscin family?

Wonderful pistachios, the pomegranates. Oh, yeah. A bunch of businesses. But apparently-They have the biggest agriculture Sure. Yeah. They made a deal because their products require so much water. They're crazy billionaires. They made a deal with the state, the city. They own the rights to all of the water.

The aquifore is that cold in all of it.

They sell back to Los Angeles.

But they're prioritized. They are given most of the water, and then they're selling it back to LA.

But during this, they've They've been upping the price to LA to give them water to help.

So they're just crazy.

Insane.

Water? Water. Who are you?

Just sitting pretty.

Also, I learned recently that ChatGPT and AI uses a lot of water, and I got tagged in it a bunch. I saw that, too. Do you know why that is?

Because of the systems that they use are overheats so much because they're using so much.

The That hosts all of it.

They're water-cooled.

Water-cooled.

They're just like us, huh? When I'm thinking too much, I need a hydrate.

One Google search, just one Google just search is just a fraction compared to... It's like a whole bottle of water, I think.

Every time you ask ChatGPT.

That's insane.

Thank you for everybody who tagged me on it because I love using just AI to organize my life.

Matt, you're overworking them. I don't agree with it.

His ChatGPT bot is just...

I know.

It's overwhelming.

Mine's at the beach like this. Yeah, I don't even know how to use it. Mine's in the middle of the desert, no water.

I'm sick of it. I think I'm-I just can't get behind. I just don't know how to use it. I don't know how to use it either, but I'm just such a dumb ass. When I'm trying to figure, I need something, the way I type it out is just so stupid, and they come back with exactly how I asked. I'm just like, I can't.

For me, it's just Google because it's just like, I don't know. It gives me the answer faster and I don't have to search deeper. It just saves me time. And now I'm like, oh, my gosh, I have to be much more mindful about doing it. So thank you for everybody who's reminded me.

Yeah, that's so insane.

Be a little bit more responsible about it.

You wouldn't think that they need water to cool shit like that?

But then I'm like, Okay, so the water goes in and cools, and then it cycles out, and I guess that water is now warm because it's cooled the heat. But I'm like, Why don't you cool back up the water and just run it back again? But that's dumb. It's dumb thinking, I know. But I was just like, Me cooling the systems, I have the hose.

All the fucking wires. You're good. Yeah, that's how you do it, right?

Oh, man.

Because I can't picture how it's cooling. I cannot picture it in my head, how Is it cooling it with a water?

It's going through tubes, and the tubes near it... The same thing gaming PCs have water cooling systems, and those are in those tubes, and they're going around keeping it cool. Remember the thing-Same with your cars? Yes. Oh, they're coolant.

Oh, the blue stuff.

Very good. Very good.

They used to be air-cooled.

Computers also used to be air-cooled. You can still have an air-cooled computer, like a PC, like fans. Yes.

But just with those servers, it's a lot to take on. Speaking of cars, this was brought up to me over the holiday break, and apparently, there's a TED talk about it, and it's talking about self-driving cars. This paradox that self self-driving cars are facing right now. About what choices it should make to save lives and prevent the death of others. So picture this. Self-driving car is going down a road. In front of it is a massive cargo truck van or whatever that has a bunch of maybe barrels of hay or I don't know, whatever. And beside it are two different cars, and behind it is the self-driving car. Say one of those things falls off and into the way of the self-driving car. That self-driving car now has to make a decision. Should it go left or right? It could say, Oh, maybe it's a person on a motorcycle wearing a helmet, or it's a family in a normal vehicle, and it has to swerve each way. Which way does it go?

The van.

Why? But it would have to be programmed to be able to make decisions like that and assess the situation to know which one would call the cause less damage.

You think they have a conscience?

That's what I get what you're saying.

Now, for any of us as humans, it's a gut reaction. We wouldn't even have time to process in our moment going. You would swerve whatever way, and it would be a total accident on whoever you did hit. Yes, you're not like, yeah. If this is fully scanning and fully aware of the moment, does it now go, well, that's four people. I'd rather accidentally kill one person than killing four people.

That's so interesting.

That's a weird paradox right now of figuring out.

It's basically trying to program the AI with the train question. Exactly.

What would you do?

You know about the...

The train track theory, where if a train is coming and there's five people on one track, one person on one track, and you have to pull a lever to save.

It's going to kill five people right now, but you're at the switch, and you can switch it to only kill one. Are you doing that? But people have a problem being the one to pull the trigger.

I'd rather say five people than one person.

But people have an issue being the one to pull the trigger and know that they're doing that to one person, as opposed to being like, I'm not touching and it's going to do that.

Oh.

Consciously, you would have to live with, I'm the reason, or this was an accident, truly.

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This is off topic. I started listening to this podcast that I heard about. And you all, I'm keeping an open mind to it, but it's been blowing my mind. You know what? I could be wrong about this. There's this podcast out called telepathy Tapes. It started in September. There's this journalist out there, this filmmaker, documentarian, who found this woman who's been conducting studies with nonverbal autistic Oh, my friend just told me about this last night.

Oh, yes. So you've heard about this? Yes, she just told me about it last night, and I was like, no. I mean, I think it's brilliant. I didn't hear it, though.

This journalist, the documentarian, found out that this woman is going to be conducting this Families of parents of these kids who are nonverbal autistic across the world have been claiming that their child can read minds, that they know what the parents are thinking, they know what their friends are thinking. And She, in just episode one, she reaches out to this woman who's conducting a study, and she says, Well, there's this girl down in Mexico whose parents say that she can read her mind or whatever. I'll pay for the study if you guys come together and we'll conduct it. They came out here to Glendale, got an Airbnb in a house they've never been before, and they do multiple studies. They do a random number generator and have the mom with a whole partition, a divider in between them, full hardcore blindfold on the daughter and do three different number digits, like 648, and the number was like 648, can read the mom's mind. Then they Blindfold the daughter, the nonverbal girl, and give her a whole bunch of different colored popsicle sticks, like red, yellow, blue, green. Blindfold and tells her to put them into separate piles.

She does all of them perfectly, accurately, gives her a book A book written by her dad, a book that is not even published or you can't even get access to this book, tells her to pick a word on a page. The nonverbal girl is able to guess the word every single time. She goes to another family, same thing, their kid can do this ability. What?

And so if this is not a video. This is not a video. Is this just a podcast where he's talking about this?

It's a podcast, and she has a Google Drive where you can watch all the videos of all the studies as well. Okay. If this is true, that there is telepathy within us. This is a massive shift in the paradigm of just pure human existence, knowing that there are humans out there who can't happen to this frequency. The thing is that not enough scientists are fully down to fund it and are that interested because it's not fully material. We still are not able to see that there is a telepathic frequency that can be observed. Same with radio waves. We can observe that radio waves do exist, that that's there. Unless there was a full brain scan thing where they can see the image go from one person's brain to the other, and that person's able to see it in their head.

I'm a little confused. It's one person can do it right now.

Multiple. No, multiple within family. Like a will have a son or daughter.

This is a whole family that has it. For the girl down in Mexico, she could only read her mother's mind. Then they went to another American kid, but I believe the kid was Indian, had Indian immigrant parents. He could read whatever number the journalist was guessing as well. Then does it again with another kid out here in America. I'm only three episodes in, and I'm sorry, I don't have all the stories straight.Go listen to it for yourself.It's.

Linked to a certain…

You know how some people on the spectrum of autism, there's also like, savant, people who are able to look at an entire cityscape and paint it perfectly. There's those, or Recite all the numbers of pie. There's Rain Man type stuff. Once again, not everybody who is autistic and on the spectrum is a savant. Let's be very mindful of that. But these people just believe that their kids had this telepathic ability. But there's some people who are going, this is total mumbo jumbo. This is a hoax. This isn't real. But then I'm like, who are these parents then who are able to con everybody else and get their nonverbal autistic child.

It's a tough thing to get them in on like, we're going to get the same number and are cuing each other and being able to fool everybody else. They're playing that game the two girls were playing on stage.

It's like, I think it's too random to come up with on their own. Right. And these kids are actually autistic. It's not...

I don't know. This is one of those situations that if they are conning, then that's already a talent. Because if they're able to guess that well, then it's still a talent.

It's crazy then just the pattern of all the cons that happen to be these families who have this nonverbal autistic child in their house.

They can only telepathically do it between their family. They can't do it to a random person.

It's different for everyone. Some of them say that they can only do it with a mother or one of their only family members. Some of them say they can do it with anybody. Some of them can only do it with other autistic kids as well. Some of them say that they can read each other's minds with other autistic kids as well.

With autistic and non-autistic. So non-autistic can also guess what the autistic person is thinking.

No, the non-autistic person can't guess what the autistic person is thinking. But one kid says that he has a that he can communicate with all of his autistic friends on and stuff. I wish I could give you all of what I'm saying.

They have their own private Discord.

But please, if anybody thinks... Because I'm still not sure if I believe it, but I've been very curious about what is it about this that is not true because I'm fascinated.

I've always believed in some people do have that gift. I do believe that some mediums are actually real. It's just very hard to... To prove that because how do you prove it unless you tell them exactly what-We need full on visual brain scanners, and they have to wear that cap and just show it purely manifesting.

I think I might have said it on the podcast, but did you see they have confirmed a first sending communication between dreams?

Yeah. No.

When was that? They can scan what someone's dreams were like.

No, they had two people hooked up in a head thing, brain thing, waves and all that stuff, two people sleeping, and they sent communicated between the two people sleeping.

While they were sleeping.

And they had similar dreams?

No, not that they had similar dreams, but they were able to send a message to the other person.

Were they able to tell how they received that message in their dream?

It says, Two individuals successfully induced lucid dreams and exchanged a simple message. It's happening in California. They experimented.

In October.

Freaky. That's crazy.

We're capable of so much. I know it.

I wish there was a brain scan thing hooked up to me and my brother that one day.

Which one?

Remember when I was saying that there was one night me and my brother had the same exact dream? Oh, yes. We woke up at the same time. That was the only time that's ever happened. We had the same exact dream. We were able to tell each other exactly what happened in our dream. Zane, that is like... It was just a one-time thing. I just wish there was a scanner on it. That's crazy. Yeah, fucking insane. We were also sleep. This is when we were in bunk beds, and we were sleeping head-to-head like this, and he slept like this with his head, and we both like...

That's crazy.

I found this little prompt thing. It was like a Reddit thread. It was like, People with ADHD, what are the things about it that people just don't get?

I don't want to read it.

Don't.

Adhd often comes with an auditory processing disorder, especially in women. People don't understand. I can hear you. I can hear you just fine. I'm not going deaf. It's just what you said to me is either process is complete gibberish or if there are multiple other sounds in a small area, I input them all in the same volume. The TV is the same volume as a dishwasher, which is the same volume as a dog scratching her back, which is the same volume as what you just said to me. It's sometimes impossible to sort unless I am looking at your face as you speak to me.

That's Mariah.

Okay.

I feel like Mariah, have you ever played… Is it called Ganji? The dice game? The one where you have to pick it up.

I just watch videos of it where they throw it up, grab, and catch it. I have a memory of playing that as a kid, but...

Are you thinking of Jacks?

I'm thinking of Jacks. Yeah, you're right.

I'm thinking of Jacks. It's similar to Jacks, but I feel like you would be so good at that.

Should we order some?

That does seem like a Mariah game.

Yeah, because if we were all in this squid game, there is one thing where it's four people and they have to go around a track and complete a bunch of different games. For you, I think it would be that. Thank you. Keith, I think, would be the one where he throws the stone at the-The the marble at the other...

Or no, the paper. You're talking about the paper?

No, I think Keith would be the best at throwing the stone and hitting the little gravestone-looking thing. Oh, yeah. I think you would be the best at the thing. The kick? The one the bouncing it? Either I would take that or I would do the cards.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

No idea.

But the people who are listening, I think, do.

You know the whole...

I didn't watch the first one.

Yeah, but you get the concept of all the... It's like a thousand people all in this room, and then they play these games. And one winner. And then people die if they lose.

It's basically a Mr. Beast challenge.

Sorry. I'm thinking, okay, this is the show.

This is the show. Season 2 happened, and there was a new game.

Okay, so this is not real. But there was a game that was real?

Yeah, they made a Squid Games game where they hop, but nobody died.

That's the extent that I knew.

Okay. Yeah. So all the games that they play in Squid Games are all childhood games. Got it. That they put these people through.

So like Red Light, Green Light, a version of like Hopscotch, but it's called Squid Game.

A version of like musical chairs, but it's like musical.

Remember I told you I took class with the Red Light, Green Light, that girl? Oh, Yeah. She's a dancer, yeah. She's a dancer. She's a little girl.

Wait, what do you mean?

The girl who voices red light, green light. She dances at Playground.

No way. Did she get high for season 2?

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But currently, we are still packed. Just in case, shit goes down and we're ready. I also just realized how unprepared I am for any situation. You don't say, Zane. Just how unprepared I really am. But now I know.

I walked in here and I'm like, I need water. He goes, We don't have any of it.

We don't have any water. The one thing that popped into my head when we were thinking, Okay, we should probably get stuff together. I just came home with a bag of eight disposable cameras and seven rolls of 35 millimeter film that are all unseen Nobody knows what it is. It's my entire childhood. There's only three pictures, four pictures of me as a kid growing up. I've always joked with my parents, I'm adopted. You guys have zero documentation of me as a baby. They're like, We have pictures somewhere. They're somewhere. We never got them developed or anything like that. What? For years, I've been saying this to my family. When we just went there for the holidays, I brought it up again. I was like, I can't believe you don't have any photos. She was like, I have stuff somewhere. Let me go look. Then my mom started finding camera after camera, bags of rolls of film. I brought them home with me. I have all of it ready to go, and I just dropped I had Jordan drop it off this morning at the place down the street. It is going to fill my entire childhood of all my- Hopefully.

You have to film yourself looking at the photos. That is a crazy experience. That's crazy.

They have no idea what's on it. I have memories of bringing a camera to a birthday party.

It's your dad naked. Their honeymoon. They're like, Oh, gosh.

But I'm so excited to see what comes back on it.

Rolls of film, they say Good Forever, right?

Well, they expire, but I'm also…

Some will have an orangey tent to it and stuff.

I'm pissed right now because I brought them home with me. The light leaks. We were rushing at the airport, and sometimes they make you take things out of your bag, sometimes they don't, sometimes it's this, and then it's just always confusing. This time, they were like, nothing comes out of the bag. Leave your laptop, leave everything, clothes on, whatever. Clothes on. Keep your clothes on. Normally, I take my bag of film out and I have to hand check it because if you take it through the X-ray machine, it ruins the film. Since I wasn't taking anything out of my bag-Usually if it'sISO 800.I sent it through. It is going to come out even more grainy than it should have been.

That's all it does is makes it a little bit more grainy.

It's ISO 800 and above, usually. That's the ones you have to take out. Iso 400, I think you should be fine.

I've had quite a few rolls of film ruined from passing through this. Oh, really? Yeah.

You know it's from those machines that fucked it up?

Then even the guy that I take it to down the street, he's like, How many times did you go through a scanner with this? Oh, no. It was before I knew that it does that. That's wild. I'm going to have to probably go in and light room and color.

Ai can also just fully color a great chat.

At one bottle per picture.

I take it back. But I think... I don't know. But I don't know if it's like Photoshop AI, if that is really using the water or it's just using the technology.

The guy does like, correction. So if they are a little bit ruined or whatever. But I'm so excited to see.

It's going to be so cool.

Oh my gosh, that's so cool.

But that was the first thing that I grabbed. How many rolls? Eight cameras, the disposable ones, and seven rolls.

So, 15. That's why all of our pictures-And there's none of you. Sorry. That's why all of our pictures on our phone are so grainy. In our photo albums, because it's going through the fucking scanner.

My friend, she moved here recently, so she doesn't have too many valuables. She still has stuff back home, all the important things. The only thing that she packed, it's really cool, but it's just funny, this is all she had to take out. She has a $100 bill that's signed by Elvis because her grandfather went to their concert, and he waited outside and waited for Elvis to come out and had him sign it, and he gave it to her to have.

It It's also signed by-Cool. Oh, and Priscilla? And Priscilla signed it as well. Wow. Their signatures are on it.

So insane.

That bill is worth a lot.

$100. At least $100.

At least $100. Yeah. That's amazing. That's really cool.

That's really cool.

Is it all crumpled up? No, it's flat.

He kept it in between books and cards and stuff, so it's nice and flat.

It's clearly written by a Sharpie from just recently.

A new Sharpie.

Wait a second. These fat Expo markers were not invented until I saw a celebrity at the mall.

Okay. Which mall?

Century City. Who was? Orlando Bloom. No.

Orlando Bloom.

I was just going up the escalator. He had a huge bag from Lego. Was that the Lego I don't know if he's buying last minute Christmas gifts or whatever. But it was just clear as day. I was just like, Oh, my God. No, he had a baseball cap on. Maybe a curly mullet a thing.

Interesting.

Tan, tan, Tan.

He's incognito.

Incognito, but it was just in the flesh, just a rare sighting.

Orlando Blue. Who is he with right now? Katie Perry.

I think they're married. I think they have kids.

I got a different Orlando Blue in my-He was thinking about Orlando Brown.

No, no.

I was thinking of a Lionel Brown, he said tan, I'm like, no. I wasn't even thinking about a Lionel Brown.

I was thinking about somebody else.

You're like, okay, man.

I'm going to say, shit, tan. Yeah, I'm no shit joke.

That's why I asked him, I went, how does he look? How does he do?

No, it's Orlando Bloom. You know, like, you get the best of both of us.

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Is that Orlando Bloom?

Right. Now I know, but I don't know why my brain went to Orlando Brown.

We were thinking the same way, but I was thinking-Who's the other Orlando?

Do not chat GPT that right now.

I'm googling it. I'm googling it. Orlando Jones.

Who's Orlando Jones? Orlando Jones?

He's been in a bunch of movies. He was in Drumline. He was in Drumline. He was the conductor.

Okay.

Vladimir the Bumbblebee. I'm also terrible with names. He was in evolution. He was in the replacement.

Obviously, I am, too.

You know his face.

I was thinking of What's his face? The Captain Jack Sparrow actor? Yeah, he's Orlando Bloom. No, that's not the Captain Jack. No, Captain Jack Sparrow.

That's Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp. But Orlando Bloom was in Pirates of the Caribbean. Now I'm very confused because now when you said Orlando Bloom, I'm like, no, I know who he is.

I immediately thought Jack Sparrow. That's not the same person.

No, he's the guy in Pirates of the Caribbean with the-The long hair. He's the other actor. He's the handsome guy.

I get him confused all the time. What's his name?

You're going to have to Google it.

He's Legolas also in Lord of the Rings. Yeah.

Never seen him in my life.

Yeah, I know who he is.

Back to the electric car, though. Did you see the Waymo, the self-driving? The guy was stuck in it and it just kept doing circles? Yes. It literally had the wheel to the right and it's just going in circles and he's on the phone. He's like, Is this a prank, you all? I got to go to the airport.

I have a flight to catch.

He's like, This is crazy. Why is it doing this? He's like, Are you guys pranking me right now, I have to get out of this car and it just keeps doing- He's going in circles.

They have a reset button, right? If you're in a situation like that. I don't know. They have to have a button.

I think it can remotely be like, Sorry.

Something, yeah.

But it literally just kept going around and around.

You know what they should have? I I know this is very… It just would not work out, but if there's ever a moment where you need to get in this car and drive yourself, they should have that.

Jump up front.

Yeah, just some mode or even an emergency. A safe emergency, it's like, Okay, I need to get in the I ever say, I need to drive myself to somewhere.

Yeah, like a fail safe mode?

Just something, yeah. Because even think about like-Why would they trust you?

I don't know. I feel like you have to have more verification. I think they wouldn't want to trust anybody to drive their vehicle. They'd have to probably approve it. They'd have to try to have you stop, get out of the vehicle.

But look, That vehicle is going to have some tracker on it. I feel like there's ways around it.

Yeah. Guys, he tried on his suit the other day, and it is so damn.

Let me see.

Let me see if we have a picture of it. Mariah took pictures and videos of it, so it's locked in. We're good to go.

The guy- Just a few more fittings. Yeah. Because he got it custom made. Last time we went in before the holidays, we told him exactly what he wanted, and he was showing him pictures of inspiration, and this is the vibe we're going for. He made it over the holiday break, and he called us the other day. He said, If you guys want to come in, I have it ready. It just needs to get even more fitted, but it's like…

It's so cool because I've always dreamt of having a custom suit. It's just always been something on my… One day I'll get a custom suit done. It was cool to go into this guy. He's hemmed pants before for me. He's done stuff. I really like the guy. He's amazing. Encino Taylor. I went there and I sat with him and I was like, This is the inspo. This is the look that I want it to be. Then we went through books of fabric to pick the material that the jacket is going to be made of, the pants and stuff. He's like, All right, cool. Then he got the materials and stuff, ordered, it's all made by hand, the whole suit. He was like, Hey, it's ready if you want to come try it on, and we'll do fittings and just make sure everything's good. I'm so-I'm literally in love with it.so excited.

It's so cool. We can show them. We won't show the audience the picture. They'll have to wait, but we can get their reaction if you want to show them.

Yeah. Do you want to pull it up? Yeah, I can pull it up.

He was like, I've never felt like James Bond more in my life.

Oh, my God. You know that's just custom made for his movies.

He wears a Tom Ford suit, by the way.

Is that Is that what you got?

No.

Tom Ford.

Let's see it.

It's cool because I got to do everything, and he was like, do you want your lapel to be satin? Do you want it to be regular?

Every little thing, yeah.

I sat with him for an hour and just like... He has a sketchbook and he was drawing out what it was going to look like.

Amazing.

It looks stellar.

Oh, yeah. There you go.

Perfectly tailored. What's the back?

Can I see the back?

It's a tail.

It's a long tail. It needs to be perfected.

The vest and stuff is going to come up, the one underneath. It's got to be perfectly sized to me. But this was the rough thing done. And then now we're going to go in and start making it perfect.

That's amazing. Yeah, he's really good. He's great for last minute stuff, too. I always go to him for last minute stuff, and he gets it done so quick.

He's so fast, and he always seems so happy to do it. He just loves his job.

He's really good. He's really good. It takes care of a lot of people, too. I saw his walls like, Okay.

Okay, that's the back.

Okay. All right. Bitch, where's the bunny? Maestro. I love it. That's really nice.

Oh, yeah, he...

My dad wore a tailcoat for his wedding.Oh, he did?Yeah.

Nice.

It's so funny because when I first saw that style, I was like, Absolutely not. But then the more I looked at it, I was like, I don't know, because I've worn black suits. I've worn normal suits.

It's It's been done, yeah.

I have pictures. I wanted it to be something completely different. It's the one day where you can rock something like that.

You want to look like a girl. Say it's going to be like, The train. You should.

That's really funny.

He's making sure he's good.

That's funny. Thank you, Matt. That's really funny.

That's so good. That's a funny shot.

That is a funny shot. It goes from your sister.

Yeah, and then Zane like, Can you do I'm so excited.

I got to go in again in two weeks to do another fitting and everything.

Just keep going. Yeah. That's amazing. That's great.

Thank you. What? I got to book my flights.

So do we.

We don't have any flights. I feel likeFlights are a lot because it's not surrounded around a holiday or anything. We could book it anytime. We're going from Birmingham.

We do have to fly back in a few days to meet with the venue and the vendors and stuff to go everything.

Our last finalized.

Yeah, just go everything. Yeah.

So we're going to leave soon, actually.

Are you going to have a walkie-talkie on you? Make sure everything's being done as... Imagine you're at the altar and you're like, Do you have the ready? All right, cool. Thank you. Keep going.

Zane, my sister and I were talking about she thinks we should get a shot of me, just obviously not really working, but it'd be funny if I was in my dress at the reception with my laptop trying to get the episode up.

That's really funny.

That would be good.

That's really good.

Because I do have to bring my computer no matter what. That's funny. I'm getting the episode up in the middle of my wedding.

Just a picture you post all your story that day. Episodes coming, guys. Just be prepared.

It's really good. Sorry, it's late.

I hope you understand.

It's good, too, because it's not like a something you see every... It's not like an unoriginal thing that everybody's doing on their wedding day. It's like something just so specific. Did you see that bride who washed off all of her makeup?

And it looked the same. It's a whole controversy around it.

She looked incredible.

That makeup would look good. The makeup wasn't even that bad. Basically, what happened, this girl's like, I'm about to get married in 30 minutes, and I'm washing off all my makeup, and she washes a little off.

It was very minimal makeup, too. It looked nice, natural, pretty.

It was rude. Her tone and her energy doing it, and then the girl who was the makeup artist followed up with the video, which was just the best video ever. Just a class act response.

I also felt really bad for... Why would you set up the...

If If you're in such a rush and it's so important, why would you set up the phone and make it a point, I'm taking this all off? It's rude.

Yeah. If it's filming it and posting it was definitely off. But when I was seeing her frantic, I did feel bad for the What do you call? The feedback or the... The response? The response. Because it is her wedding day, and I'm sure people turn gross on their wedding day. If they're panicking, they become their worst self. So I understood. I was like, damn, that It sucks, but she did put that phone down and film everything. It's like she was almost like...

You have every right to wipe off your makeup. I think just sharing it is just a little like, what are you trying to say? Is this relatable? Sure, but I don't know. Someone's career is behind that, too. It just seems a little rude. Even though you're paying the person, it's just rude.

Did you see the one of the bride who was like, I don't hate my mother-in-law, but I'm whatever. It was like her husband and his The mom walked him down the aisle and held him and kissed him on the mouth. It was this crazy thing, and the mom was wearing a split dress up. Yo, the comment. But it is crazy that this bride posted this, especially a newly-wed... It's crazy viral on TikTok right now, and I can't even imagine the conversations between the family behind the scenes.

Yes, it's just so awkward. All the comments and a guest filming that and being like...

All the comments were like, Girl, if you didn't post a picture of them kissing on the mouth, I would not have believed you. Oh my gosh. Dude, I'm like, Oh.

Dude, it's crazy that shit like this happens still on wedding days. You can't just leave shit aside for one goddamn day. Just make it a perfect day for one day. It has to be about the It's just like, it doesn't seem like...

They were saying it seems like the mom wanted to marry the son more than she wanted to let you marry her son. Dude, the mouth kiss was at a in my pocket.

I was at a wedding one time, and it was the rehearsal dinner, and the parents of the groom were divorced. That's when the parents will get up and speak, and the dad gets up and just was speaking about love and everything. His ex-wife just got up and just walked away. Couldn't listen to him talk about. Because it was like, yes, but it was so awkward.

We were like, Wait, what was she doing there?

Because it was the mom of the groom. His parents were divorced, but it would be like if your dad got up and was speaking about how happy he was, and your mom was just like, No, I'm not listening to this. It was too much of a statement where everyone was just like, Okay. The mom could have just chilled out.

This happened 10 years ago.

How can I make this about myself? It's really...

It was so just like, Oh, my God. Everyone was thinking it. It was just such a statement. This is not your place to be making a statement. Just sit down and just bite your tongue and speak. That's so wild.

Over the break, I did my whole family tree and brought it back to the 1700s.

It's wild.

It's so cool. So cool to see.

It's wild. Sometimes we still don't know the stories, though, behind why these people moved. It's so interesting. Was it for a job opportunity? Was it for love? Was it something that... What got them there? That's never really documented.

Was it for a green card?

Yeah, you never know.

What's really cool is somebody somehow related by whatever, I got connected to their family tree, and they have pictures of my grandpa's grandpa. I was showing my grandpa those He took those pictures, and he was like, This is crazy. It's crazy.

Yeah.

That's wild.

It's so cool to think about.

We have a picture in our house of our ancestors from, I think it's early 1900s, maybe late 1800s, but them just in front of an old-school photograph, just of them standing outside their barn house.

Yeah, my mom has all those pictures.

It's just wild knowing those are my descendants and that they're still hung up in our house now over 100 years plus after Hopefully, maybe I'm on someone's wall 100 years in the future that they just want to have that image on the wall.

Except it's not like that.

It's more like...

I think the reason that they always have that stone face is because of how long it took to take a picture? Yeah, they had to just sit still. It wasn't just a snap.

It was like a full minute.

Open exposure for a minute. So you just had to...

Was it just not cool to smile in photos?

Because you would have to hold the smile.

You had to stand there for a minute.

If you moved, it would blur.

It would blur.

I think they were just...

Yeah.

And that's why their eyes are so...

It's not like us now. If someone pulls out a camera, you immediately...

Yeah. Back then, they just had 100-yard stairs. They We had seen so much shit. People die.

I have a quick, crazy small world story. The house that my grandmother grew up in is in Brooklyn, and me and my mom, when we go to Brooklyn, we'll just stop by all the houses and all the family history, whatever. There's a picture of my grandma out in front of the house. We went and recreated the picture, whatever. This house was built in the '20s. My grandmother grew up there. A few years ago, maybe five years ago, my mom in Pennsylvania, she does multiple jobs, whatever she could get her hands on. She started cleaning this woman's house and babysitting her kids. She met the grandmother of that household, and she had an accent, and she was like, Oh, where are you from? And she said, Brooklyn. She goes, Oh, so are we? What part? They start honing on on where she's from, and she zones in on my grandma's street.

They lived in the same house.

In the same exact house. She said the address, and they were like, Wait, what? And they don't even know each other.

And they randomly met this family in Pennsylvania.

In Pennsylvania. Like the middle of nowhere. So my mom's like, What the heck? And they're like, They're not the same age. They're maybe 15 years apart. My grandma's older than this woman. But she got them connected, and they were going back and forth, and my grandma was like, Yeah, we lived there. These years, she said, The bakery next door, I would go to every day because I had a crush on the owner. And this woman goes, That's my dad. The owner of the bakery is this woman's father. My grandma had a crush on him. So when my grandma moved out of that house, this woman's family, she wasn't even born yet. This woman's family moved in. Then she was born in that house. Crazy.

That has been... I love that.

Love it. Thank God we found that out before. Not that it's a very important thing, but it's cool to know before my grandma passed, they were able to connect the dots and stuff. It's insane.

In the same house, had a crush on this lady's dad, who was the Bakernik. It's insane.

Then freaking like- That is crazy.

80 years later. No, more than that. 90 years later.

I love that. It's crazy. That It's really cool. It just reminded me of a story. I'm not making it back about me. I'm just relating to it.

That's how conversations work, Matt.

I was in college, and I was at a party, just hammered, talking people, Hey, where are you from? It was some other person brought this other girl there at the party, and I was talking to her. I was like, Where are you from? She's like, I'm from Grand Prairie. I go, My dad's from there. She was like, Oh, it's crazy. Yeah, my parents are from there. My grandparents are from there. I go, My grandparents are from Grand Prairie. I've always been from there. She was like, Oh, well, I go, Well, what's your grandmother's name? She says it, and I go, I'm just going to text my dad right now to see if he would know. And I texted him like, Hey, do you know this girl Dierdra? I think that was the girl's name, but her grandmother, it's so-and-so. And my dad's like, Yeah, that was your grandmother's best friend. What the? Then sends a photo of my grandmother and her. And then I show in this all happens at the party, and we're like, what? We couldn't believe it.

Those moments are in... They were best friends. You were meant to...

Hung out all the time. What the heck?

How is that possible?

The fact that he was able to get a picture so quick, that's insane.

Yeah, pretty crazy. We were just like, unbelievable.

That's why I'm so like, such a stickler on taking pictures of everything and getting them printed out and having them all organized because in moments like that, you could just pull from it and be like, this is it. It's the coolest thing in the world. It's so fun to do.

Yeah, I don't have moments like that ever.

You don't talk to people to find those moments.

No, we have no pictures. No, I have no pictures. I have no old-You might have a bag of unseen film randomly in your mom's house. No, I've seen all the pictures that we have.

Undeveloped.

No, they have nothing. My mom and dad don't have anything.

There's no roles of feminine order.

Look harder.

No, no, no. No, they don't have it.

I thought there was nothing until this last trip, and then my mom pulls out and we just started finding-No, I've seen all the photos or all of me when I was little, but this is when I was five years old, six years old.

There's really nothing much before How do you know that?

Have you ever had Ella and McClane explain that whole connection?

Their connection? Yeah.

No. You've never heard how Ella and McClane are connected?

Aren't they both from New York?

Ella's dad was talking to McClane one time, And I was like, McClane, where are you from? And she was like, Oh, well, yeah. I think she's from New York. Upstate, though. Upstate, New York or whatever. And he goes, Really? He goes, Wait, what's your last name? And she's like, this. And he goes, Is your dad? Or he goes, Do you know this guy who had Farrell, something Farrell? She goes, Yeah, that's my uncle. And he goes, So your dad is this guy? And she goes, Yes. And he goes, Yeah. They went to college, apparently, together and lived on the same dorm room floor and were best friends all throughout the 80... What the heck? You never heard this story? No. I may be butchering it, but you got to ask Ella and McClane the story. Then McClane facetimes her dad, or maybe it was her uncle, but with Ella's dad, goes, Hey, Mike wants to say hi. And he's just like, How are you, mate? And they're like, Oh, Oh my gosh, what are you doing?

What the heck?

They've known each other for years. That's crazy. Ella and McClane. It's weird because Ella's dad is from Europe and is English.

That whole invisible string theory is crazy.

That's incredible.

I may be butchering the whole connection. They paint this story as very well.

That's why I always ask questions. I always ask for names no matter what. It's so cool.

That is really great. That's wild. That's awesome. Yeah, it's bananas.

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