R2RO = Right To Remain Offended
The Right To Remain Offended Podcast or R2RO for short is Kraig, Eric, Chuck and Scott (with a special guest or two) getting together to discuss a variety of topics, from music to pop culture, maybe some politics and EVERYTHING in between.
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R2RO = Right To Remain Offended
Planes, Trains & Military Thangs
Have you ever wondered why some people, like Steve Jobs or Dr. Dre, wear the same outfit every day? Well, we’re about to give you OUR TAKE! This episode is a deep-dive into the psychology of uniform dressing, a strategy adopted by these successful titans to beat decision fatigue. We also share a laugh or two about our friends, Matt who has a strong preference for black tees and jeans, and another friend who staunchly avoids using deodorant. We guarantee you'll get a kick out of these hilarious, yet insightful anecdotes.
Now, ready for some high-adrenaline action? Buckle in as we shift gears to discuss the ins and outs of driving etiquette. Ever considered a special license for speed demons, or pondered the fairness of speed limit fines? We share our thoughts on these and take you through an amusing debate sparked by our friend Eric's question about passing an ambulance. We also swing by the exciting world of high-speed trains, comparing the mind-boggling speeds of electric trains in the US and France. If you're a regular commuter or a speed junkie, this conversation is sure to fuel your interest.
Last but certainly not least, we're unpacking the reality of military life. This isn't your typical Hollywood depiction, but a ground-level exploration of the unexpected experiences that come with choosing a military branch. We discuss everything from the unfamiliarity of infantry to the stark lifestyle contrasts in Baghdad, and even share personal anecdotes about our own military journey. Whether you've served, considering enlistment, or just curious about what goes on behind the scenes, tune in for a rare, first-hand perspective on military life. Trust us, it's a ride you won't want to miss!
We are rolling right to remain offended again. So we back with the original gangsters, the OGs. Just us four, no special guests, Everybody sitting in their assigned seats again. No surprise guests coming in. I see the doors open. We got an extra mic right here. We ain't getting no surprises in.
Speaker 3:Man, as much as people like to bitch about assigned seats, we sure as hell do it to ourselves all the time. We do it right here, man, it's a high school I've had in my assigned seat and still get to work. People want to sit in the same spot. They want to sit in the same spot, the conference table for every meeting. I'm like, come on, man, and I'm the way I go, pop in and just sit in somebody's seat. That.
Speaker 3:I know they sit all the time and you can watch everybody get like what the fuck are we doing, yeah, like what's Scott doing.
Speaker 2:Why is Scott's wrecking this whole show? Eric was a fireman.
Speaker 3:If they're barking. It's barking as fuck. You are not gonna work out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was nice and you did a good job this week, but I'm sorry you just can't stay. No, I got you sitting. Yeah, you parking in my spot. You got to go. I can't concentrate the whole day because I'm worried about where to fuck my truck's at.
Speaker 4:One spot over.
Speaker 3:It's like when you walk out of the gym, though right, you can't find your truck.
Speaker 2:That's exactly correct. Okay, go home. Now I'm stuck at work. I don't even know what to do. If you're always parking in the same spot, you always know where you at.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Very true very true.
Speaker 1:That's why I put all my stuff down like that too. Yeah, I don't have to worry about my keys. Where's my keys?
Speaker 2:Well, we've had conversations about that with the military coming out, the military, and you can't figure out what to wear. That's right, like there's all kinds of levels of anxiety, of weird things that people don't even pay attention to Like what you going to put on every day. Oh, because you just put a uniform on and moved on with your life.
Speaker 4:Yep. So have you ever seen interviews like Dr Dre and those guys talking about how, why they wear the same clothes every day? To get rid of that level of having to worry about that, steve Jobs did it.
Speaker 3:There's a whole list of them. Yes, Steve Jobs always wore the black turtleneck.
Speaker 4:And look at Dr Dre. He wears black pretty much every day. He may have some other things, but he has like an outfit pretty much that he wears, and I'm sure it's expensive as fuck outfit.
Speaker 4:But, it's like a black t-shirt and some jeans and some shoes and it's what he wears. And he had interviews like, yeah, talk to Steve Jobs. And that's why I'm taking that level out. I don't have to worry about what I'm wearing tomorrow. Now I have all this other time to think about. I have this time to think about other shit and we don't think that we think about it that much. But think about a couple of times where you sit in there like man, should I wear that shirt or should I wear this shirt? If they were all fucking black, it wouldn't matter, right? That's right.
Speaker 2:So the shirt I got on. I wear these to work. I got five of them in different colors. They're all the exact same and I just grab one and go. I don't care what color it is, because I'm gonna wear all five of them in the week.
Speaker 1:So it was a matter of somewhere blue on Tuesday or not.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, they all go with the same pair of jeans. Yeah, they all go with everything, so just grab the same shirt and roll up. Yeah, I have six of this shirt. That's exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:Just grab one and go. So, the rest of this shit don't matter. I'll find a shirt I like and then buy like six of them in gray Gray. So I mean, we got a friend Matt, right. He wears black, black T-shirts and jeans all the time.
Speaker 1:That's his uniform, but it's not like Eric's.
Speaker 3:It's as long as the T-shirt's black, he doesn't really care what it says, what the material's made of, true true, but Eric wants the same shirt, different color.
Speaker 2:I just want the same shirt because I like this shirt and then I want the same shirt and the same color.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it fits in his comfortable. I like the different color. You grow the same color every day.
Speaker 3:I'd rather wear gray every day.
Speaker 1:Same color.
Speaker 3:Sometimes I have to get different color shirts because I have so many pairs of gray shorts.
Speaker 2:Right, right, because when you walk in an office and you wear a gray shirt, the same gray shirt three days in a row. They're like hey hey guys. As long as you don't stink you good, bro, as long as you don't stink you good. I got a door Like stay out of my office if I stink Like.
Speaker 3:We're talking about a.
Speaker 1:We all know he stinks anyway.
Speaker 3:He doesn't wear a deodorant.
Speaker 1:So it doesn't matter what he wears, he stinks. He ain't got no deodorant. He wears the same shirt every day. Just close that dude's office, we good.
Speaker 3:It all depends where I go. If these are people I knew from my drinking days, then I have to worry, because then they're like kind of bender you want to be wearing the same clothes for three days.
Speaker 1:No, I just simplified that Two packs of cigarettes and you don't notice that you smell.
Speaker 3:Oh, man, the days of like when I stopped smoking cigarettes and then started, like noticing that smell. Oh my God.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I can't believe. I walked around smelling like that all the time.
Speaker 3:Ever man, you were talking about the parking stuff too, and it was reminding me of all those people that like to park in both spots. Oh, like the new car people.
Speaker 4:Oh dude, I saw a Cadillac today, yesterday Brand new Cadillac taking up two spots at Home Depot and I'm like in premium spots too. Like not that he didn't park off a little bit and take it Like if you're going to park on the outside of the parking lot yeah, take up two spots, make sure you know get on the periphery, then do whatever you want, get on the get way out there.
Speaker 4:You can park sideways. I don't give a shit, but if you're going to park in front of the door and take up two spots, you almost asking me to park up against you. Yeah, where?
Speaker 2:you can't even Behind you somewhere, just somewhere close, just somewhere super close.
Speaker 4:I didn't have enough room for me to fit my truck without crushing something.
Speaker 2:So I don't know if you know this, but about 15 years maybe 15 years ago, 20 years ago, I don't know 15 years ago, I got a really nice truck. I was super excited about it. It was either Denali or I don't know, something like that Somewhere around 2008, 2009. I got a really nice truck and your father-in-law, chuck, told me because I was parking somewhere's one day and he said hey, I mean, if you can't afford to fix it, you shouldn't drive it. Never, ever, forgot that since in all so many years, because I still think about that he was absolutely right. I mean, you're driving this Denali and you don't seem like you can afford it because you just park it way out there and you walk in all this way. So what's the point in even having it?
Speaker 4:And I'm like not a bad idea, but.
Speaker 2:I've never forgotten that. He's told me that.
Speaker 4:That's how I feel about people driving in dualies and stuff too that can't drive a dueling, like when they it's too big of a truck for them, like they just have no clue how to do it.
Speaker 2:You should have an extra license, like you should have a license. They should have marks on license for a lot of things Like I feel like I should be able to drive faster than most people because I'm better at it.
Speaker 4:So I feel like there should be an asterisk on my license.
Speaker 2:That's like, yeah, we'll give him an extra 10.
Speaker 4:It should be when you pull on my driver's, my plate. Yeah, it should show. Oh yeah, he's an 80.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let that do go, he's gonna be fine. He give him a 20% leeway.
Speaker 1:So you got like, instead of having a speed limit sign, you got a speed limit sign with like green zone, yellow zone, red zone.
Speaker 3:And you're like you better have that tag on your license plate and you can go that fast. Yeah, I'm happy, All right it's like the speed suggestion, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then, depending on your score and your license, you can go this percent up or you are your force to go this percent down.
Speaker 4:All right, I can deal with that. That's what it's supposed to be anyway. Any kind of speed limits a taxation without representation. It is 100%.
Speaker 2:It is. They didn't ask me how fast I want to drive on this route. No, you remember when ambassador was getting built up?
Speaker 3:That was really the whole thing. They forgot the extension.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, when we went down there to get that wood, to get the wood out of the fire.
Speaker 4:That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:But whenever they were building that out, they had no speed limit on that road.
Speaker 3:They didn't put speed limit signs up for like a couple months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a couple months and they just let everybody drive, and I guess they were trying to see how fast everybody was going to go. I don't know, I mean there is Eric.
Speaker 3:a long time ago had asked me because there was some road by his house and was like but there ain't no speed limit signs, I can go as fast as I want. And he's like can you figure out if I can? Yeah, I can, so I found out what the default is if there's no sign.
Speaker 1:One day.
Speaker 2:I was driving out to I-10 and I called Scott. I'm like, hey, how much trouble can I get into for passing this ambulance? And he's like, well, I mean the lights on. I'm like yeah, he said well speeding. I'm like OK, and.
Speaker 3:I just rolled out.
Speaker 2:Because the ambulance is doing like 80 on the interstate and I'm rolling up to it and it's got his lights on and everything, and so I'm thinking, oh crap, I can't pass this dude up, I'm doing 90.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're not up as a company. They're not allowed to drive as fast as they possibly would, so I called him and I'm like, hey, what's the law?
Speaker 2:Like, is it where I'm going to get in trouble? He's like not anymore than if it wasn't there, Right. After that never paid attention.
Speaker 3:There's rules about moving over when they're pulled over on the side of the road, but yeah, when they're rolling.
Speaker 1:I actually told him.
Speaker 3:I said get behind them. He said I want to go faster than them. I see it, but everybody's going to get out of their way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they're going to get out of your way too. They move and you just stay close enough and they can't feel in behind the ambulance. They have to feel them behind you.
Speaker 1:I'm like that's my people in the ambulance. Yeah, we just need to be good. Don't worry about me. I got the little red tag on my license plate. I can go 10 over Just posting on social media. Bro, we'll get the law exchange. That's how it works.
Speaker 2:I've always thought about that though, why, and like you see all the drivers Okay. So we already agreed, 50% sucks. If you're in the top 50% of something, you okay. Like, if you had 50%, your average, right, right. And then so you're in the bottom 49%, you're below average, so it means you're shit. So you got I don't know 300 and some odd million people in this country, so let's pretend like a hundred million of them drive. So that means they got 50 million people on the road that are shit, absolute dog shit, less than middle.
Speaker 4:And they should never be able to drive over 70. Right.
Speaker 2:And should never be in the left lane. They should not have the same bruises.
Speaker 4:Like if they're ever in the left lane, we should better take a picture of their license plate and send it.
Speaker 1:and be like they shouldn't tell on them.
Speaker 4:Like, just like if somebody was throwing a cigarette. But you can call you can. You can report them for littering.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Same thing. Anybody throws out trash, you can put them. I want to report people in the left lane that shouldn't be in the left lane. They should have a, they should have a blue tag on it or something like that they should have a list of people that aren't allowed on the interstate period. Oh, I'm good with that too, because there are some of them.
Speaker 2:I don't care what they're in there, and I mean I'm in tiered drivers and then I think you're going to the I feel like we're in the top 10% of Wow, I should, I should.
Speaker 3:Where's the criteria? What is the?
Speaker 4:what get?
Speaker 1:you in the top 10% like.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm going to drive fast and extra test and extra test.
Speaker 4:Like I'm down, and then if you get in a wreck, well, like if you could, if you reckon that test, you don't get to retake the test for like 10 years.
Speaker 2:But like if you could do the pit maneuver, while you in the drivers like you do the pit maneuver and shit, you get like top 5%. I don't know if we could do fun shit.
Speaker 4:All right, I'm down, I'm down, or we could just make three lanes like Europe, and just if anyone's in the left lane not going fast, they move. That's your bad.
Speaker 3:They get, they get out. I don't know 18 will is a everyone from.
Speaker 4:if the 18 will isn't a left lane, they lose a license in Europe. What Really? Yeah 18 rulers are not allowed to get in the left lane at all. They got, they have the other two lanes on the right side. There's always three lanes on their interstates.
Speaker 3:Can they drive in the left lane in England? Well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4:This was Italy and France. Somebody in Italy told us that, oh yeah, they're not allowed to drive on the inside, you just tucked up in that, in that.
Speaker 1:So you stay in that lane and roll in this kilometer, so I saw 140.
Speaker 4:So I was just rolling, whatever have them as fast as I was.
Speaker 3:You know that fancy as truck I got that we always talk about.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:Can read spin limousines.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3:It reads spin limousines and it will adjust the cruise control to something around that speed limit. So it doesn't go exactly the speed limit because I know Eric likes to think I always go exactly speed limit. But you can tell it, I want to go the speed limit, I want to go five miles under, but it'll actually let you speed. You can tell the truck, I want to go this many miles over the speed limit. Nice, how much over the speed limit do you think this truck will? Let me go Five, five.
Speaker 2:Ten, twenty, t, twenty.
Speaker 3:Nice. It lets you go 20 miles over the speed limit.
Speaker 1:I can tell Eric is truck.
Speaker 3:I can tell this truck every time you see a speed limit, go 20 miles over it and it will automatically.
Speaker 2:So you're rolling 40 or a 20.
Speaker 1:We're getting fucked up. There's about to be some laws coming out now that don't let them fucking programmers do that shit. That's kind of wild. You can't do that I try to. That is wild.
Speaker 3:I put it at like five or six because I figured it's within. So the old rule my dad told me growing up was stay within 10%. That was his thing. So if you go on, if you're on 70, go, don't go over 77. Well, didn't even if you're rolling through a 25, don't go over 30. Yeah, now, that's pretty good rule.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Didn't they make a thing, something like a six miles an hour? If it's less than six miles an hour, the city that gives you the ticket doesn't get any money and it goes to the state.
Speaker 3:It's 10 miles an hour because in this stupid state we had towns that created those speed traps. They were so bad, they were so notorious for it that the state finally got tired of it and told certain towns on state highways, if you take, if you write a ticket for anything under 10 miles an hour, that amount of money goes to the state.
Speaker 4:You don't get to get a little percentage of it, Get a small percentage of the under 10 miles per hour. So I got pulled over in a little small town north of Alexandria and the guy was like look, we're nice. We let you go 10 miles per hour over. I was like that's because you don't get any money. And he just kind of looked at me and I was like I know the laws, I know the rules. Man, I'm like it was at the newspaper.
Speaker 4:Bro, I'm 40 years old and that's some kind of special thing, because five years ago you sure as hell would have been giving me that ticket at five miles per hour. I'd try to be 400 bucks.
Speaker 1:I still. I'm still going away by the 20. I was too when I first started doing it, as much as they got in the settings.
Speaker 3:I get in the settings area of the vehicle, yeah, and I play with everything. I've gone and told salesmen more stuff about the car they're trying to sell me. I love all the tech but, yeah, I got in there and I'm like kept pressing the button. I'm like get the fuck out of here, this isn't safe.
Speaker 1:I cannot believe that that regulate that. There's much regulation, as there is around automobiles. You would think that there would be something that would not let them do that.
Speaker 3:Right it's going to be, and you also top out we didn't fuck it up.
Speaker 1:But maybe I don't know, none of our listeners, but it don't matter. Yeah, somebody's changing that shit. It will happen.
Speaker 2:I don't think John Bell listens to us yeah.
Speaker 4:But he might get a holla at him, but he might America.
Speaker 2:Yeah, america, that's right.
Speaker 1:Because something's going to happen, right, something's going to happen and somebody's going to say I got speeding ticket, this truck shouldn't even let me go that fast, right.
Speaker 2:But I mean, you could buy a car that's 200 miles an hour and in Texas the biggest we live is like 80.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Right, yeah, I think ours is 75.
Speaker 2:They have an 85.
Speaker 1:85. 85.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, west 85.
Speaker 2:That's probably the biggest in the country.
Speaker 3:There's some I think there's some places in Montana actually have no speed limit at all. Yeah, Because you can drive for like an hour and never see anybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be nice, so I watch Yellowstone.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's the whole truck from.
Speaker 3:Yellowstone. The movie show Sure yeah Set in Montana and every time you see people driving, there's nobody around them and they're going real fast.
Speaker 4:That's true, that's true, I did drive north through Montana going into Canada one time, and I remember not seeing a whole lot of cars on the road, not that you mentioned that.
Speaker 3:But is it fun to go really fast if there's nobody around and you're just going straight.
Speaker 2:I'll take this one. Yes, yes, it is. I do not drive for other people, so I only drive for me.
Speaker 3:Oh, I just didn't know if it was fun going that fast.
Speaker 2:It is, there's nothing to do, and if I get somewhere that's too early, then I could turn around and just do it again.
Speaker 4:I like the other cars. The funnest time I think ever was going in Austria and I'm driving in a little Volkswagen rental and a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce pull up. Yeah, lamborghini, rolls Royce, pull up, pass me up. I'm like fuck it, I'm following them, so I'm just rolling. I don't even know how fast I'm doing because it's in kilometers and I'm not even trying to figure it out it was a high number.
Speaker 1:It was a high number. It was like 160.
Speaker 4:Man, it could have easily been just 30 miles per hour.
Speaker 3:We could say 30 miles per hour, but it looked fast.
Speaker 4:For the listeners. It felt pretty fast, but we rolled for like two hours and there were not a whole lot of cars, dude, and it was just us and it was you a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce. So, a Volkswagen, a Lamborghini and a Rolls Royce yeah we were rolling and we go into a tunnel that was like a three quarter mile mile long tunnel and Lamborghini engine and a tunnel dude. It was badass, nice, and it was all the way through the tunnel. It was pretty legit.
Speaker 2:It was bad One of my friends had a Ferrari one morning and I was on my way to New Orleans. I was going to New Orleans for breakfast, right Nice. So I left Abbeyville to go to New Orleans for breakfast it really stupid early in the morning. Well, he had this Ferrari but only for the weekend and behind his house was an alleyway. So I was like I met him at his house at five in the morning to pick up this Ferrari.
Speaker 3:You lived in one of those fancy neighborhoods.
Speaker 2:A fancy neighborhood, like when you say an alleyway. It's like the nice fancy neighborhoods where all the car park and where all the garage is on the back. Yeah, like that, yeah that, oh yeah. So then I go pick up this Ferrari man we back out. It's up to me is five, 15 in the morning, we backing out and this thing is loud. And all you hear is it just bouncing off of all of these houses in this whole thing?
Speaker 3:It was probably rattling garage doors.
Speaker 4:Three streets over. They can Everybody heard, everybody, all of them.
Speaker 3:You said there weren't a lot of cars on that road when you were in Austria.
Speaker 4:This particular stretch of highway, like going through the mountains, it was four lanes Right and it would just be some random car here, random car there, I pass up. We passed up a couple cars, but it was there, wasn't a whole. I lived there.
Speaker 3:I lived in France for a summer, for about three months.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I drove a road in the car once that whole summer because they're their train systems, so good so that's what do you like? You don't see a lot of people, maybe on the highway, because what's the point? Yeah, you can hop on a train. I was looking up today, once again kilometers per hour. I was trying to figure that shit out but a buddy showed me a picture of this old train, like back in white picture of a train with a jet engine strapped to the roof of it in America.
Speaker 2:He said strapped, yeah, strapped.
Speaker 3:Strapped.
Speaker 1:I mean maybe they bolted it. They bolted it, I thought it would just look whoop. It looked like two. I just thought it was good.
Speaker 3:Maybe three, I put it on, put it on boys, it's like in white picture time and it talked about how it had gone 186 miles an hour and that is still the US record for training.
Speaker 1:So I was looking it up. I was like man, I remember those trains and you're going pretty fast.
Speaker 3:I went and looked it up they all averaged 186. Wow.
Speaker 1:That's their design.
Speaker 4:That's the speed they go at, that's the electric.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're all electric. The record for the I think it's out of France the train, they got it up to 357. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that's the record.
Speaker 1:They don't run it that fast? And the United.
Speaker 2:States record was from the 60s 186. From the 60s, yeah, but I think that's the one that changed 1964.
Speaker 1:They got a new one they built in Florida. Right now it goes from Orlando to Miami.
Speaker 2:But I've been hearing that from California for over a day. Yeah, but no, that one is actually there.
Speaker 1:No, it's there, I've seen it. It's not in production yet they just still do it.
Speaker 3:once a testing you can, for real, get from every major city in Europe via rail.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you don't have to drive.
Speaker 3:No, not at all you don't, I didn't, I didn't drive. For the only reason I rode in a car that whole summer is because we missed the train.
Speaker 2:Damn it, because it was going too fast. Huh, no, because it's not a real train schedule or me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we took a couple of trains. The car rental part was going to small towns and just kind of bouncing around little places.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you could work like airports, like you get there and there's a car rental place and you could just go to the little town, yep.
Speaker 1:I think a car rental place at the train station.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the train stations are like what you would think of an airport, like you go to Atlanta, houston, the big airports, so like the one in Switzerland, you pull in and it was huge, huge as train station. France was a big one in Paris.
Speaker 3:Paris has a bunch, a big one.
Speaker 4:A bunch of big ones, yeah, like a bunch of big airports all over the place, but with trains.
Speaker 3:It's so much better traveling, though, because it's not like the plane, like the trains show up more often and they're really on a real schedule, like if you miss a train, too bad, but there's another one coming, yeah, and I loved it, absolutely loved it, because you could roll up to a train station and you get these passes that'll last you for the whole year, yep, and it basically is unlimited amount of riding. Oh, but you still have to get a ticket because they have to make sure there's enough room on the train.
Speaker 2:You can roll up.
Speaker 3:You can roll up within an hour of when you want to leave and they don't know that you plan on going somewhere. Oh, you should Get. You find the next most of closest available time and just get on the train and roll.
Speaker 2:So, like an unlike missing your plane, you just catch the next one that's right behind it.
Speaker 4:Yep, somewhat right behind it. I mean it's not like yeah.
Speaker 3:It might be an hour, but it won't be yeah, within an hour or so.
Speaker 4:It won't be tomorrow or four hours later. Five hours later no, it's pretty good and it's much nicer traveling.
Speaker 3:I mean there's no turbulence. No, it's pretty cool. You're sitting in chairs with little tables hanging out like you can eat and drink. They got a bar car restaurant.
Speaker 2:That sounds way better than playing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got our shit all backwards. We've always been backwards.
Speaker 1:Well, we got trains here, people just don't take them because they're too slow or they see it, that's right.
Speaker 3:I mean our US records from the sixties. Yeah, what's the average.
Speaker 1:The average train speed in the US was six hundred, and fifty no average 150.
Speaker 3:150 average in the US. Yeah, no, that's us, no, no, that's, that's Europe.
Speaker 2:The average in Europe was higher. Yeah, whenever I looked at it today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know what America's I thought it was 150.
Speaker 1:The average speed of a train in the US is 150.
Speaker 2:I thought that's what it said.
Speaker 1:What I mean?
Speaker 4:shit then we should go on it. I guess Amtrak would be the only yeah, but our train stations are terrible.
Speaker 3:Terrible, that's right.
Speaker 2:It can't be 150 because I raced in things down highway now I know that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I ain't never seen a train go fast to my core.
Speaker 4:I'm like oh, they have so much regulation, they have to slow down in all the towns. These trains in Europe are passing up the towns. They don't go through the towns. And we had our train tracks going through the towns. People built their town around it. It's a hundred years.
Speaker 3:Here's one train through town.
Speaker 4:The trains are in the middle of nowhere like our interstate.
Speaker 3:It's like our interstate but, instead they built trains. We built interstate. Yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 2:But it says most Amtrak train. Amtrak trains travel between 110 and 145. Oh damn, in the US.
Speaker 4:They must just pick up the speed when they get out of town. They must yeah.
Speaker 2:But we have.
Speaker 4:We have more mileage. We have much more spread out than all of Europe. We're way more spread out than Europe.
Speaker 3:The entire continent of Europe, which you still understand how it's its own continent.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Going from Paris to Rome would have to be the equivalent of what I don't know Houston to yeah.
Speaker 3:We could at least build some regional stuff. But that part of our problem is because we built the interstate system. That's probably where the train should have been, Maybe run them down the median or something. So you're saying there's Dwight D Eisenhower's fault, yeah Well yeah, but the interstate system was built for the military, that's the awesome stocking forward.
Speaker 4:at the time it was a military.
Speaker 3:It's they were trying to figure out the best and easiest way to move military assets around the country including landing planes. That's why you have such long stretches of straightaways on interstate. On interstates, yeah, it's to act as runways in case they need to. If they need to, yeah. And if they got a role with some military stuff because it's limited access and egress. Then they can actually block off stuff and keep people up.
Speaker 4:It's easy, got you and roll.
Speaker 1:So on, and the forth stock was just extra.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they got a sign. That's why I got a sign. That's what. That's a sign.
Speaker 3:They just need to figure out how to make some faster military vehicles, because those things do not go fast, do?
Speaker 1:they.
Speaker 4:No, they do not be like, yeah, it's quicker to put them on an 18 roller and they put them on trains or yeah, sometimes they just make the they have a
Speaker 3:dream of driving all across the country to me yeah, we have to we have to load them on a train.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because I'm driving to a train station.
Speaker 4:I'm road by a car Boy. I was driving on these.
Speaker 3:Like 50 Humvees and all those vehicles long and they're going like what 50, 55.
Speaker 1:So 55 whenever there's a stick on the dashboard on the inside that says you can't go above 55. Reference this rig. Yeah, like school bus.
Speaker 2:But it don't make it like you. It don't matter what the stickers, as you can't make it. So, that middle muscle right in the top of your thigh, the middle one right there, man, I get back from like Fort Polk to Lafayette. That middle muscle was burnt because the whole time I'm trying to put the pedal through the floor like we're trying to go, I might have hit 58. I might have like there's a couple of spots on I down here with the tailwind. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:When you coming down these overpasses on I 49, you're like, get it, get it, get it, and after that, nothing. And the dude sitting next to you is like 12 feet to the right, yeah, and there's no air conditioning, there's no radio, there's no, not a nothing.
Speaker 3:The engine's quite them.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I was like this it's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1:We've had this conversation before. You just picked the wrong branch, bro.
Speaker 2:Oh, I learned that now we go fast, we went super fast, we can go speed up sound. So whenever I was in my 20s, I didn't realize that the people you picked on there was because there was a reason. Like we picked on the Air Force, right, there was a reason. Because y'all didn't do shit. Well, in like luxury accommodations, we sleeping on a fucking dirt Well, I mean they're just that's the smarter decision. But nobody told me that shit.
Speaker 2:I'm like in fact, you want to know what they told me whenever I showed up and they're like what you want to be and I'm like I don't know what's with the army gun. They're like infantry, bro, you would be dope at infantry. And I'm like hell, yeah, that sounds dope, I'm in. I didn't know what infantry was. I didn't even know.
Speaker 3:It sounded cool. You like guns? Yeah, you like guns.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you would be infantry, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:You like sleeping under the stars?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you like camping.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they didn't tell me it would be in Fort Polk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you like going camping? Yeah, bro, I like going camping. All right, you like hunting? Oh yeah, I like hunting. Yeah, oh yeah, infantry, huh, you're bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I figured it out at some point. Oh yeah, definitely too late.
Speaker 1:Yeah, way too late After you told the Air Force guys about five times oh, y'all get deployed. You're sleeping five store hotels and then even don't know on you that we were sleeping in hotels and you were sleeping in a tent.
Speaker 2:Dude, when I was in Iraq we had this giant place. It was called Camp Victory, camp Liberty, I don't know. They changed the name while we were there to be PC, but it was where Sonam's house was, his biggest house, the middle one. So the way Baghdad worked is, the richer you are, the closer to the center of the city you are. So then after that it circled out and you know. So you got like a barrister's lawyers and then you got pharmacists and it kind of circled out to where you have peasants way out. Okay, so we stand on this thing. It's. It's got Saddam's house and we're all surrounded. He's got this giant as pool, all this fun stuff. Anyway, we don't get to go much because I'm always I mean, I was doing 12 on, 12 off, and you do that for I don't remember four days in a row, and then you would swap. So I'd have one day that had 24 hours off to go to the pool.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So we go to the pool and meet all these different people. They had people from Australia, they had people from there, for there was all these people and they was living their life, having a good time. See the pool all the time and we chill Once. I think I've been to the pool like three times the whole year I was there.
Speaker 1:They was living their life over there.
Speaker 2:I'm like what the fuck did I go wrong? But I remember because that dude was like you, like guns.
Speaker 1:Where did I go wrong? Oh, we didn't have the internet. We didn't have the internet.
Speaker 2:We didn't have the internet in 2001.
Speaker 1:He said you're going to get to do some cool shit. I didn't Google what infantry was.
Speaker 3:How'd you pick the air force? Obviously, it wasn't the cool guns.
Speaker 1:No, I'm trying to think I knew I didn't want to go to college. I was like I'm done with school. So, like I was already, I did all my pre enlistment whatever like the end of my junior year. So I'm between my junior year and senior year high school. I was, that was done. I already had the decision made I was going. But I'm trying to think of how I picked the air force, because I'm pretty certain it was just because I was like I'm pretty sure that more me dudes get shot at all the time and I kind of like planes. So I'll just go there.
Speaker 3:Is this because of?
Speaker 1:top gun? Probably, yeah, well, maybe, though, but I mean I'm 80s, yeah, but I watched a shit out of that. I can, like I can quote it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So while you were saying that, I thought about something. When I joined the army, it was an event like two, a two weeks span. It was like a buddy was like hey, I got a great idea and I'm like what you got. And then in two weeks later I was there. So that whole year you talking about, no, just joined up, but that whole year I didn't have any of that. So literally when I showed up there was like here, infantry you.
Speaker 1:I picked. I picked the air force, so that was guaranteed. My job wasn't, but going to the Air Force was something. They just took my ass Vap scores or whatever and they were like, oh, you'd be good mechanic, you'd be good electrical, which one you want? I was like I don't know, I don't know Mechanica. Yes, I get the work was a plane.