[00:00:00] And welcome to the 556th of the year. handshake. Yeah. And I did. That's funny. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I'll miss him. He's a nice guy. He was nice to me anyway. Yeah. Well, I mean, like, it was interesting like and then more Amanda. Huh? Amanda Long. Well, I were cast in Rocky. It was like he was perfect. He was the perfect Apollo Creed. Yeah. And, you know, the way he acted, the, you know, four movies, but like those first two were so important. And like without Carl Weathers, I don't have the career I had.
[00:03:00] Yeah.
[00:03:01] You know, because I needed that guy
[00:03:04] on the opposite side of me.
[00:03:05] Yeah.
[00:03:06] You know, and you know,
[00:03:07] what a great guy was and all that stuff. stuff like I mean a forgotten action movie action Jackson yeah action Jackson like that was like one of the first like over the top like ridiculous action movies right where I was just like wow this is terrible but I love it yeah yeah you know yeah I mean you know he was a predator and later on man DeLorean he
[00:04:22] was you know one of my favorites one of that show. Like, he was only in like five or six episodes throughout the entire run. But every time he showed up, he was so fucking funny. Yeah, yeah. You know, and, oh. It's funny. Like I read that yesterday and I rolled a tear. I'll admit it.
[00:05:40] I'll freely admit it.
[00:05:41] I rolled a tear.
[00:05:43] It had sex.
[00:05:44] Yeah.
[00:05:48] Yeah. Some of us are dead. Yeah. Some of us are dead. Yeah. I watch that again. I was good.
[00:07:03] And I watched Train to B right. Yeah. Talk to me, Ruby Rose. What's wrong? Like, what the fuck did, like, who is this guy?
[00:08:23] I got him while looking up.
[00:08:25] Right.
[00:08:26] You know, but outside that the story was the stock up. Okay. So if I'm buying stock A, and I'm buying it at $5 a share, and more people buy it, now it's a supply and demand issue, and that drives the price of the stock up. So I make money because more people are buying the stock. Right.
[00:09:43] The exact, more people that are selling the stock and getting rid of it,
[00:09:45] if they're billing out on the stock,
[00:09:47] that drops the price, Like they had gone through like six CEOs in two years. Everybody hated GameStop because of their whole like, you know, buy that from you for $2 and we'll sell it for 40. Yeah. mentality. Like, you know, you weren't trading in games and getting a fair price for them.
[00:11:00] Like everything about GameStop people hated.
[00:11:03] And there was this one guy who was on there called Roaring Kitty. over the hedge funds, we're going to push this stock so that they lose money. Okay. Because they're fucking over the little guy. And they were all using this app called Robinhood. And Robinhood, the point of Robinhood was it would allow you to buy stocks without having to pay a commission. Okay. So it was making stock purchasing available to everybody without costing a ton to do it.
[00:12:26] Okay.
[00:12:27] Okay. They're little people. They will eventually take the money and run, and the stock will crater, and we'll make our money back. Well, they never did it. They kept holding. They kept holding. It got to over $300 a share. Oh, shit. Right. Worrying Kitty was at one point worth, like in the stock, like $45 million.
[00:13:43] And he was holding.
[00:13:45] He wasn't gonna sell.
[00:14:42] that would charge our commission. So now between everybody,
[00:14:46] like not being able to buy it any longer,
[00:14:48] also Wall Street, Beth's being shut down
[00:14:50] so there was no more communication amongst these people.
[00:14:53] Right.
[00:14:54] The stock drops.
[00:14:56] Okay.
[00:14:56] Because people panicked and did start to sell.
[00:14:59] Okay.
[00:15:00] But they were, they're like, it's $300, over $300.
[00:15:04] I've got my $200 investment is now worth $300,000. panicked because the little person was actually able to manipulate the market finally. Right. Right. That we were able to play their game. Yeah. And when? Yeah. You know, and at the end of all this, like it says like, like these hedge funds and
[00:16:21] mutual funds, they are leery of short, when the housing market crashed, like in a lot of ways was, should have changed the way the housing market operates. It didn't. It's still doing, they still do the same fucking thing now.
[00:17:41] But this did change how Wall Street
[00:18:44] kind of, it did dumb it down a bit. But it also like at the end of the day,
[00:18:45] like the one guy said, like,
[00:18:48] I was like, they're asking Roaring Kid,
[00:18:50] like, well, how did this happen?
[00:18:52] He's like, I, be honest, I don't know.
[00:18:56] Like, that's the thing, that's the problem.
[00:18:58] There are so many things that happen on Wall Street.
[00:19:01] There are so many things that happen with stocks
[00:19:03] that we don't understand.
[00:19:05] Right. But because I don't have my ear to that world that much. I wasn't getting the full story. Okay, like I Was reading stuff on like Yahoo and a little bit on reddit But like you weren't getting the the full story because like I don't have my ear and like the financial sector like I just you know
[00:21:41] Yeah, you know, I mean like I'm that guy that doesn thought it was pretty good Yeah, like even that it was even scripted pretty well You know with dumbass jokes from ham on yeah, but I Thought it was done pretty decently. I did not appreciate the cowboy in the eternal universe You know, yeah, I could I I just could not that was hard for me to get by I
[00:21:47] Was like this is stupid
[00:22:41] The story is very good. Once you get past that horseshit,
[00:22:43] I thought the story that they tell is very, very good.
[00:22:47] Yeah, evil lens character was good.
[00:22:49] Yeah.
[00:22:50] I thought it was pretty good.
[00:22:51] I mean, I thought it was okay.
[00:22:52] Yeah.
[00:22:53] You know.
[00:22:58] I watched it.
[00:22:59] Yeah.
[00:23:00] I mean, I like, I mean,
[00:23:04] I thought it was like, it's a good story. I like it. I thought I'd be watching that just to like... Yeah, actually, I like the... Yeah. I like the story that was being told. It was pretty good. Yeah. It was pretty good how, you know, the Mandarin was just trying to see his death life.
[00:24:23] Yeah.
[00:24:24] You know what I mean?
[00:24:25] Yeah.
[00:24:26] That's a really interesting concept that that's what to get to them. Right. I mean, you know, one of the most powerful people on earth, yeah, what's his weakness? Right. It was his wife. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. That made a lot of sense to me. Yeah. I liked the dragon aspect. I thought they did a really good job at that dragon.
[00:25:40] I did.
[00:25:41] Yeah.
[00:25:41] The way it looked.
[00:25:43] Yeah.
[00:25:44] You know, it looked mythical.
[00:25:45] Yeah.
[00:25:46] Mythical Chinese.
[00:25:46] You know what I mean?
[00:25:47] Like, it pretty good. I quite enjoyed it. I even liked the little bit of corniness that was in it. Yeah. It lightened it up just enough to where it wasn't like too dark and depressing because it's a depressing story. It is. Yeah. I mean, it's awful. You bet you're right. I thought it still had that Marvel feel to it.
[00:27:02] Sure.
[00:27:03] Like it's like, it's a dark story.
[00:27:05] It's a deep story, but there's a nice level
[00:27:07] of humor to keep it.
[00:28:00] You know? Yeah.
[00:28:01] And had his boy watch.
[00:28:03] Yeah.
[00:28:04] Crazy.
[00:28:05] Yeah.
[00:28:06] Yeah.
[00:28:07] So, yeah, it was pretty good.
[00:28:10] I enjoyed it.
[00:28:13] Good.
[00:28:14] So, that's about all I watched.
[00:28:18] In the hotel I watched the first planet of the apes, that was on TV.
[00:28:25] Oh, okay, yeah.
[00:28:26] So I watched that.
[00:28:27] Yeah.
[00:28:28] Classic. Yeah, Cesar knew that right, you know, that was pretty cool And his interaction with What's his name at the end was good? Yeah, cuz he like stood up and showed all the apes that not all people are bad. Yeah, you know what I mean, right? Yeah, yeah
[00:29:42] But he's still yeah, he didn't depart mainly
[00:30:40] Okay. Okay.
[00:30:41] Before he was the head coach of the Falcons,
[00:30:43] he was the offensive coordinator in Tennessee
[00:30:46] when Derek Henry was running rough shot
[00:30:50] and Ryan Tannehill was actually like redeemed
[00:30:54] as a quarterback.
[00:30:55] Right, right.
[00:30:56] So I guess like, I don't know how much you've dug into it
[00:31:00] or how much. I have it.
[00:31:01] Okay.
[00:31:03] So you, what, like do you have any thoughts on it?
[00:31:05] I don't know anything about it.
[00:31:06] Okay.
[00:32:01] by fantasy football teams. So like he wasn't in the injury report.
[00:32:04] It was against the team that you were expecting
[00:32:05] to have a big game against and he didn't play.
[00:32:09] And you found out after the game was like,
[00:32:12] well, you know, he had a migraine.
[00:32:14] Well, that needs to be reported.
[00:32:16] Right.
[00:32:17] Like, you know, I fell looked into that.
[00:32:18] Like, you know, there's some bullshit here.
[00:32:21] So it was like, like people were pissed
[00:32:24] because it was like me that the Steelers never do,
[00:33:42] but every other team in the league does.
[00:34:45] Experience that's nice like he's somebody who's been in that that seat. He understands it. He
[00:34:49] He was an offensive coordinator. He was a guy who
[00:34:56] Like took an offense and made it a top five offense Yeah, you know Derek Henry being the focal point. So yes, like
[00:35:01] We can get back to quote unquote stealer football where
[00:35:05] We are running the ball. Yeah, you know and we're running the ball hard
[00:36:01] Who wants to work? I know.
[00:36:01] No, I can't.
[00:36:02] Nobody wants to rest so well.
[00:36:03] So I mean, I don't see.
[00:36:10] I don't, I don't, like unless you're going to go and you're
[00:36:12] going to get like JJ McCarthy from Michigan in the draft.
[00:36:19] And that's your competition.
[00:36:23] And I don't know what you do.
[00:36:25] Yeah.
[00:36:25] Like, I mean, a new offensive line coach, I think that line improves. Yeah. That's the biggest, to me that's still the biggest issue is that offensive line. Yeah.
[00:37:40] Because they're bad.
[00:37:43] Right.
[00:37:43] You know, I mean, there's no two ways about it, they're bad.
[00:37:46] Right.
[00:38:41] Yeah. It seems like they're keeping the guy,
[00:38:43] the guy who was actually calling the plays
[00:38:45] after they fired Canada,
[00:38:48] was the officer was the quarterback coach.
[00:38:50] It seemed like they're keeping him.
[00:38:53] And the other guy was the running back coach.
[00:38:54] The guy that they was like the officer coordinator.
[00:38:57] He was the offensive coordinator
[00:38:59] and he was the running backs coach.
[00:39:00] And the guy who was the quarterback's coach
[00:39:02] was the guy calling the plays into the quarterback.
[00:39:04] Yeah.
[00:40:07] on Tuesday morning. So Moonbeam, the company that owns Century 3 Mall, is being basically
[00:40:16] taken to court over there and neglect with the property. Just basically leaving it to rot, which is causing a lot of problems because people are breaking into it. There's been
[00:40:23] fires. There's been people trapped inside. road. Yeah, I mean, there's potholes the size of a yugo over there. Yeah, I mean, it's horrible. You can't drive that road. Oh, I see. It's like unbelievable. It is. I mean, there are roads in Afghanistan that are far more passable.
[00:41:40] Yeah, it's crazy, dude.
[00:41:42] They just need to get rid of it.
[00:41:47] It's a large plot of that mall that can be saved. No. I mean, the infrastructure just on that second level is horrible. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna come down one way or the other. Right, exactly. But like the parking garage has been falling in for years.
[00:43:00] Right, and even while it was open,
[00:43:02] there were parts of that parking garage you couldn't access
[00:43:04] because it was like dangerous.
[00:43:06] Sinkles.
[00:43:07] Yeah. I don't think it was that bad. I mean, I don't think it's that bad, Donner. And plus, you know, people on West Mifflin don't really have a lot of options. I mean, they do. I mean, they can go out to the South Hills Village or Castee Village, you know, but that's still all drive.
[00:44:21] I mean, the people that live in Jefferson Hills right there.
[00:44:23] You know what I mean?
[00:44:24] Right.
[00:44:25] And West Mifflin's surrounding.
[00:44:27] You know, that bus goes down to the home side, down to the one front. I'll have to ask on them.
[00:45:40] Yeah.
[00:45:43] Yeah, because I don't know.
[00:45:44] Yeah, neither do I.
[00:46:45] And you know, I'm only saying it's because like as far as major metropolitan is like you talk about Chicago You talk about New York you talk about like San Francisco like they have these phenomenal
[00:46:51] public transportation systems. Yeah
[00:46:55] Allegheny counties is awful. Yeah, it is. You know, like you said like the tea is great for when you're in downtown
[00:47:02] But outside of that
[00:48:06] Grandma Santa we would go down catch the train in Port View and it would take you to Pittsburgh we'd get off at the train station should do her shopping and we
[00:48:12] catch the train and go home. Yeah that was like an odd thing but that's like
[00:48:18] the about the closest we Pittsburgh ever came to having something like that to awful. I think so. And I say that having people I know who work in Pittsburgh public transportation. Right. It's a shame. It is because the city relies on, well, more so back in the day than it does now, but I mean, you know, you just have to just to get a bus. Yeah, Rebecca's a beast of a hill. Right. Oh, it is It is. Oh, yeah, I mean, it's not steel street and it's not lawthrop street, but yeah, I Don't want to walk that hill. No, I have walked that hill. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah Yeah, it's horrible. Yeah, so I
[00:51:03] Well, all right
[00:52:02] never learn how to drive because they don't need to. Right.
[00:52:03] You know, like public transportation gets them everywhere.
[00:52:06] Everywhere.
[00:52:06] You know, whereas here, like it's like,
[00:52:09] if you don't have a car, you're never getting off your block.
[00:52:13] Yeah, right.
[00:52:14] You know, yeah.
[00:52:15] So, like in a very unique situation,
[00:52:18] I don't know how unique, I'm sure there are other places
[00:52:21] that people are gonna be like,
[00:52:22] oh, our trouble of hitchhows and socks are this or that.
[00:52:24] I mean, I'm sure it does.
[00:52:25] But I'm just saying yeah, you needed trolleys going in and out of the McEesport. You needed trolleys going in and out of homestead. You needed trolleys coming in and out of Braddock. These were all, that was clared and like, that's where the mills were. So people were, that's how you got the work was you took Oh yeah, this. So Christopher Nolan likes to, he likes to talk about cinema.
[00:55:03] Okay.
[00:55:04] Cinema.
[00:55:05] I love Nolan.
[00:55:06] I'm not going to expect from die hard. I want to go see die hard. Right. That's what you, so why, that's why Marvel movies do so well. It's not because of, it's because it says Marvel. In fact, I don't want to see. That's, you know, the proof is in the point with Guardians of the Galaxy.
[00:56:21] Like, you know, that should have failed.
[00:56:24] Yeah.
[00:56:25] Like, don't give me a,
[00:56:25] James has made three amazing movies. You know what I mean? So that's why you see them constantly being remade. Right. Oppenheimer is a movie about theoretical physics and the power to destroy the world. Right. You know, like, I mean, it's how and how one man
[00:57:41] balanced that. Yeah. And
[00:58:47] part two to this, but it is a movie that you have a couple of known commodities that people are willing to take a chance on.
[00:58:51] And it looked like a very well done movie.
[00:58:55] I've always felt franchise-able movies are like comfort food. with that. Sure. Oppenheimer, wow, that's about the guy who created a nuclear bomb. I don't think if you did a story about Oppenheimer that was directed by some brand new director. It never works that way. And I'm glad he does because it's beautiful. Yeah. But I mean, like it's the same time, like sometimes I think he's just like full of his own shit. Like I feel the same, but I still think we were really Scott, sometimes really Scott, like again, you talk about it, like the guy is amazing. He's been amazing for years. Like as far as like how he's direct shit,
[01:03:00] how what he see, what you see on the screen,
[01:03:02] how he sees things that he wants you to see.
[01:05:40] did. The alien franchise is nothing but. You don't know. Because Tarantino's movies, like I never thought of him as like a visually stunning director. No.
[01:05:41] Like it's more artistic style.
[01:05:43] Yeah.
[01:05:43] But also, like much like Kevin Smith, And for someone golly reason, you know, Spock drops an end bomb. Jeez. Just... Nah. Yeah. Yeah. Big range comes out of the bathroom. Yeah. He's like, I wouldn't go in there.
[01:07:04] But that's what I'm saying, like...
[01:07:06] Pam Greer plays a horror. It's like, but I also like it's like it has become that thing like man, I just can't see that working I know like that is shit you have never done before I know never Like not even close I appreciate you enjoy the franchise, but dude
[01:08:25] It's crazy
[01:09:24] Right, you know, I've watched enough of his movies and like the camera doesn't move
[01:09:28] Even like when he does like
[01:09:33] And he's admitted this like he's directed like a number of like the CW
[01:09:37] When they had this the the DC
[01:09:43] CW shows. Yeah, like the flash and supergirl he directed a quite a few episodes of supergirl Like three or four episodes of flash and like he even admitted like I didn't really didn't do much
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