We Need A Promo Code For That Canal

America had it's 60th inaugural ceremony yesterday... Pretty interesting to watch. The people watching alone was great... but let's talk about that canal and how we can get some sort of discount to go through it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because I did two episodes in the first week that
we were back, and I feel like I slacked last week.
I gotta get an episode in. There are a lot
of things to talk about, although talking about some of
them might get me in trouble. But whatever, here's the podcast,
just a bit of the contrasts from what I'm used to.

(00:20):
I usually have to talk fast because there's far people
sharing the mic. But this is just me, so I
might say whatever i'd like. It might be serious, sometimes
it might be funny. Sometimes to scratch your head and said,
Bryan is such a tummy, but it's just me. I
ain't got no help. This is Brian Grimes and are
talking to myself. I was up yards Brian Grimes, this

(00:41):
is my podcasts and I am talking to myself. So
last year, total of five episodes in the entire year.
This will make three in the first three weeks of
this year. So already you gotta be proud of me,
right because, uh, I'm doing it. I was a I'll
have to go home today too. It's about to go home,

(01:02):
and I was like, you know what, I do want
to go home. It's cold outside. As I'm recording this,
it's like in the fifties. Outside, my wife made some
bomb broccoli cheddar soup that I could eat when I
get home. But I say, you know what, before I go,
I'm gotta make this podcast episode and I'm gonna post
it that way I can stay on top of things,

(01:23):
because I said I was gonna stay on top of things,
and I'm a man of my word. So there you go.
So the inauguration was yesterday of President Donald J. Trump.
I didn't know his middle name was John. I always
knew J. I just knew Donald J. Trump. I didn't
know it was John. It was interesting. I'm a history nerd, right,
so for me, like I was gonna watch it no
matter what I watched back in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen, Like,

(01:46):
I'm just a history nerd, and this is a pretty
historic thing. I mean, it's only been done sixty times,
because we're gonna celebrate two hundred and fifty years coming
up as a country here soon. So it's an interesting
thing and the whole process is pretty interesting. It's fun
to watch the people come in, the body language of
everybody that comes in, especially these days, because you already
know who doesn't like who and who said what about who. Now,

(02:09):
what you don't know is how much they really dislike them,
because a lot of this stuff is all theatrics, right.
I mean they were calling each other names just a
couple of weeks ago, and then at you know, former
President Carter's memorial service, they were TIHI haha, laughing, yucking
it up. So I don't know how serious they are
when they call each other names. It's all politics. So

(02:31):
but it's fun to watch the body language. There are
certain people who are just disgusted with the other side,
and you can watch and see and it's funny. But
I love George W. Bush. That's my man's I always
love George W. Bush. I loved him when he was
in office and he did that. You know, I got
an old saying and Texas is probably in Tennessee too.

(02:52):
The fool me once, shame on, you fool me, can't
get fooled again. That was that. That was the epitome
of quotes. And Will Ferrell killed it when he played
g dub on SNL. But I love George W. Bush.
I love him for the strategery, I love him for
all that stuff. He cracks me up. He's like your

(03:15):
I'm my family's country, so I have like, you know,
country grandpa uncles. He's like your country uncle. He's hilarious.
And at the inauguration he was funny. There was one
point where they froze the camera on his face and
then it was like silent, but then they didn't take
the camera off his face, and I thought it was
hilarious because I'm like, oh, here comes something. You know,
some video golds about to pop out when they focus

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on gdub too long, and he did. He looked like
a kid that was like up on the risers that
chorus back when you were in elementary school, who just
did something to make the rest of the chorus laugh.
And he got busted with a little smile on his face.
It cracks me up, But the whole thing was funny.
Bill Clinton got caught ooglynd again. He got every time.
Every time if I was Bill Clinton, I would wear

(04:00):
like dark sunglasses like I was blind, because literally every
time that man goes in public, he gets busted staring
at somebody, and you can see Hillary in the background
cutting that eye at him. Zuck got busted staring at
Jeff Bezos wife, and then the memes going around from
it are hilarious from the whole thing. Elon Musk. He

(04:23):
was all over the place. I remember staring off in
the space, which I guess makes sense because he flies
into space. When they mentioned going to Mars, that dude
got so excited. It was crazy. The crowd was crazy,
Like I saw a screenshot of one of the busses
going over there, and I had Jake and Logan, Paul
Connor McGregor, THEO vaughan who used to be on Real World,

(04:43):
the dude for Real World is now one of the
biggest podcasters in the world, and he's at the presidential inauguration.
I get crazy times like it is. It is wild
times that we were living in. But it was interesting.
Carrie Underwood killed it singing a cappella. I like her.
She said, you know not, no't worry about it. I'll
sing it. I'll just sing it. Could have put her

(05:03):
up on a little riser or something, though, like she's
sitting here on the same level as everybody else. I
get it. They moved it inside last minute, so and
then of course all the craziness that comes out of it,
all the memes that come out of it, all the
posting of things that come out of it. That are all,
you know, one side or another side. One thing I
will say, I hate when people repost things out of context.

(05:24):
And two things. One the person that did it originally.
I hate them because they did it originally. But I'm
not sure what's worse the person that did it originally
or the person that reposts it and then blah blah
talks about it but doesn't renoul the original context before
it was posted. The Elon Musk thing is what I'm
talking about. If you haven't seen it, I'm an Elon
Musk fan over over the last year, so I've really

(05:47):
grown to like Elon Musk. I saw. I'm an Elon
Musk fan. But the whole like you know that he
was doing the Hitler arm thing. The man. First of all,
he is awkward, right like we know that, so I
mean you could tell through the whole thing, like just
his body language is different. But he in the speech
he was given, said from my heart like bottom of

(06:08):
my heart type thing to you, and he put his
hand out, so he touched his heart that he put
his hand out. But of course what you see is
just to put the handout thing, and that's what everybody
started to reposting. Of course, they also left out the
context of from the bottom of my heart to you,
and so when you take that out, it looks like
my man is just throwing up his arm. So the
person that posted originally is shame on them. But then

(06:28):
the people that repost it, and I'm like, oh, did
you see it? Shame on them? Worse. I feel like
because it literally Google's free. It drives me crazy. When
Google is free and you're literally a few clicks away
from finding out the context of something or the information
behind something. Yet you refuse to do that, but you
got no problem using those few clicks to repost things

(06:51):
that are like blatantly off. It just it drives It's
one of the most maddening things about social media. It's
crazy to me. That's one of the good things about community.
Knows people are like ha ha, hold on wait a second, huh,
wrong context, buddy, and posting the right context. So that
one was a little bit much, and then and then

(07:12):
the other one. Everyone's talking about, well, two things, the
Panama Canal and the golf formerly known as the Gulf
of Mexico. So first of all, the Panama Canal thing
is wild, right, So again I don't want to get
too political, and I know people are going to be
like I knew all along, you're a Trumper and I'm not. Man,

(07:32):
I'm a common sense dude, So I'm like right in
the middle. I'm an independent. I voted for Barack Obama twice,
Like I got no problem. I vote for who I
think is going to do the most common sense, best
thing for average people. Because I'm an average people. None
of these people are average people, so that's why I
don't get too bent on any of it. Like like
they that's why they can sit and talk mad trash

(07:54):
about each other and then two weeks later sit and
joke and laugh because they're not They're not common folk.
So I vote for who I think is going to
do the best for the common folk. But this Panama
thing cracks me up because there's layers to it, like
if you do do the history, like read the history
of the Panama Canal, like it originally was way back
in the day. And look, I don't claim to be

(08:15):
an expert genius on anything, Like I said, all the
information in the world is just a few clicks away.
So the French started it back in the day, and
then they couldn't finish it. They had some issues. And
obviously this is all like a very quick synopsis, it's
not like the in depth. But the French started it
back in the day and they had some issues and
they couldn't couldn't get it finished. And then they were

(08:36):
going to sell what was done already to the Americans
to pick it up, but the Americans threatened to use
a canal they were going to build through Nicaragua instead.
So they were asking at the time one hundred million,
give or take, which would be about three billion today,
but ended up selling it for forty million dollars, and
the Americans took it over, and the American engineers finished

(08:59):
it and took care of the building of it and
all that stuff. And then over the course of the
years there's been back and forth, back and forth. But
because of an agreement signed back in the seventies, in
nineteen ninety nine, Panama took full control of the Panama Canal.
But the fees that they charged to go through there

(09:19):
are wild. I'm talking like six figures. I think the
cheapest thing I saw when I was reading up on
it was sixteen thousand dollars. I mean, if you have
a small boat, like a thirty six foot boat, so
you ain't you ain't shipping nothing on a thirty six
foot boat. I guess I could probably get my boat
through there for about five thousand dollars, but you're not
shipping anything on that boat. But the highest I saw

(09:41):
was in the three million range. Now multiply that by
how many boats go through. Their ships go through there
in a day. They even charge cruise ships. Now, if
you're going through the Panama Canal on a cruise ship,
there's a surcharge, and I think it's somewhere around fifty
two thousand dollars or something like that, and then you
actually have to pay that on your TI like they
charge you back the cruise ship does to cover their

(10:03):
Panama Canal surcharge, but it's like millions and millions of dollars. So,
while I disagree that the idea of taking the Panama
Canal is a good idea, like it that just sounds ridiculous.
We're gonna take over, Like you can't condemn other countries
for taking things over and then say you're gonna take

(10:23):
things over. That doesn't work. So the idea of taking
over the Panama Canal is crazy, and let's be honest,
I don't necessarily need to run the Panama Canal. But
I mean, if we're gonna look at the big picture,
we did purchase what the French had started and we
did finish it. So I'm not saying we should get

(10:46):
it for free, but I'm saying we should probably get
to pass through for just above cost. I'm not saying
you should lose money on us, but I'm just saying
we shouldn't be paying the full freight that everybody else
is paying to get through because we we bought the
failed project from the French and then we finished it.
So I feel like we should get like a sticker

(11:09):
that when you go through the gate it's like, oh cool,
you don't got to pay, like an ePass or one
of those little clicker things like hey we're coming, click click,
and then the water you know, does what it needs
to do. We get to pass through, go through the
other side. Again, I don't think we should get for
free per se, like I don't want them to have
to pay, but you know, at costs in such a
bad thing. I mean, if we're being real, it's only

(11:32):
it's only fair, right, And I think part of the
other fear is that when global politics things is wild, right,
So if we don't swoop in and become that like
the A one number one spot, there's always the fear
that the the opposition will swoop in. And obviously if
they were to get control of the Panama Canal, that
would obviously be bad for not just us, but for everybody.

(11:54):
So there's obviously layers to this. I'm just saying, we
built the thing, and we originally bought the part that
couldn't be finished. We technically own a little bit of it.
We should get a little bit of a break, is
all I'm saying. I think that's good for everybody. Everybody wins.
That's just me though. And then this Gulf of Mexico thing.

(12:15):
That cracked me up a little bit because it's been
the Gulf of Mexico since sometime around the late fourteen
hundreds early fifteen hundreds. It's been referred to in some
capacity as the Gulf of Mexico. We were in a
country at that point, so the fact that we're gonna
come in and try to call it the Gulf of

(12:35):
America kind of makes me laugh. I'm taking a cruise
to Mexico in a couple of weeks on the Margaritaville
at Sea. By the way, great specials going on right
now Margaritaville at c dot com to a book your cruise.
We had a great time, went with my son. It
was a lot of fun. But anyway, I'm gonna go
on a cruise through the Gulf of America. I'm gonna

(12:59):
swim for the first time in the Gulf of America
when I go on my cruise. That's a little bit ridiculous.
I guess you could if you were to try to
sell me on the Gulf of Americas, that might work
because North America, Central America, South America and not really South.
But you know, you might be able to sell me
on that. But you can't really sell me on Golf
of America. I'm sorry, Like it don't even make sense.

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And now people making fun of us. I saw a
small airline airport in Dublin was making jokes about renaming
it the Dublin Ocean over there between Ireland because of us.
So we're now we're getting punked by a small regional
airport in Ireland because we were trying to change the

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name the Gulf of America. That part, to me is silly,
like whatever, man, it's the Golf of Mexico. Man, it's
been to Golf of Mexico since before. We were actually
a country dog. Seriously, you can't be doing that, but
that Panama kanathing. You do need to give us a
discount or a little ePass clicker or something. I don't
know either way, I think everyone just needs a chill
like it. You can't be mad, well, I mean you can.

(14:06):
I can't tell you what to do, but don't be
mad at people in your family over this kind of stuff.
When you see people that hated each other, hated each
other weeks ago, our friends and laughing now, they ain't mad.
They ain't mad about it. They were the ones calling
each other names, They were the ones getting named, getting
like names called about them, and they ain't mad. So

(14:28):
how you gonna be skipping holidays because of something that
a politician said that don't even know you, and they
ain't mad about it. That's why you just gotta let
it go. Look, I think it's legit. They walked Joe
Biden to the helicopter. He got into the helicopter, he
flew away right off into the sunset. I thought it
was real smooth how we pardoned the whole family on

(14:50):
the way out, Like he just left the pardon on
the desk, like took he took a magnet and stuck
it on the refrigerator of the White House on the
way out, And they're like, oh, look at this, what
is his partners? But whole family just in case. I
don't mind that either though, Like, like, honestly, my son,
if he went sideways, right and I had the ability
to pardon him, I'm gonna pardon the kid. Like you

(15:12):
can say, like, are you gonna pardon your kid? And
you can say no. I don't know why you'd say no,
but I would say if they were to ask me outright,
if I'm the president and my kid did some little sideways,
they were to ask me, are you gonna partner your son?
I would say yes, And then I'd flip it around
and say, you're telling me right now you wouldn't pardon
your son, And the answer is yes you would. So
don't get mad about it. It is what it is.
But you just you can't get mad about who the

(15:34):
next man pardons. If you're gonna pardon your own family
or anything. Like that, like it is what it is like,
that's that's the right, right, So you can't get mad.
Don't be bringing up what other people did. If you're
gonna do the same thing, that's all I'm saying. But yes,
I would also pardon my family. I'd do it the
same way he did it. I leave it a sticky
note on the refrigerator on the way out, saying, oh,
by the way, these people right here, yeah, they got

(15:57):
pardons just in case, So I would. I would do
the same thing. I look, I'm sitting here just waiting
for my prices to go down. That's all I know.
I'm sitting here waiting for my guy. I gotta get
gas on the way home today. I'm gonna pay more
than I should for it. So I'm just sitting here
waiting for my prices to go down, That's what I'm weighing,
and my stocks to go up. My prices to go
down and my stocks to go up. And if that
don't happen, then I was lied to, and then we'll

(16:20):
see what's up in four years, because that's the way
that it works. I just I don't I don't understand
all the meanness, all the the negativity and the look whatever, man, Like,
we're just trying to get by on the average person's
you know, salary, on the average person's day to day problems.
These people are, they're they're dealing with problems way above us.

(16:41):
They're cheering about going to mars. I'm I'm just trying
to get home this afternoon without spending forty two dollars
in gas. That's all. So I don't I don't don't.
I don't subscribe to the like getting all bent out
of shape and blowing out of proportion on this things
because a lot of times most of the stuff that
people freak out and yell about don't even happen anyway, right,

(17:04):
and it wasn't going to happen anyway. It's all part
of the plan to move you in a direction that
they want to move you in, no matter which side
it is like that, that's to me, it's all part
of the plan. Each side's got to create this, oh
my goun, and so all of us will freak out
and do whatever it is that they want us to do. Like, look, man,
make educated, intelligent decisions based on what you need to

(17:27):
make your day to day life better. When you see
something or hear something. Google is free. A couple of clicks,
you'll find the information that you need and you can
make the assessment for yourself. You don't just got to
hit repost on something because you see somebody post it
and go oh my god, and like grab your pitchfork
and your torch and and join the mob. You don't
got to do that, like, seriously, a couple of clicks,

(17:50):
figure it out for yourself. If you disagree with someone,
that's cool. It's fine. You could disagree like and move on,
Like I can disagree with you right now and we
can go a sandwich. It's cool. Like, seriously, it ain't
that serious, y'all. Anyway, Gonna try to do this at
least once a week. At least once a week, which
would mean fifty two episodes this year, which would be

(18:13):
over ten times the episodes that you got last year, right,
so that's gonna be pretty solid. You can check it
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to argue with people on X a lot TikTok. Eh,

(18:36):
I'm still the Brian grimes at TikTok, But I don't
know what's gonna happen to TikTok in seventy five days.
We didn't even get into that people freaking out over
the TikTok band was gone for twelve hours and then
it came back. I do understand though, people getting freaked
out about it, if you use TikTok to make your money.
I saw someone making fun of a girl for crying
because her TikTok was gone. But the backstory of that
girl is she built a following of over eight million people.

(18:59):
She makes thirty thousand dollars a month. That's her living.
That's her livelihood on TikTok, and then overnight it was
just gone. So I could see why. Look, dude, you
take away something that's making me. First of all, if
you give me something that's making me thirty thousand dollars
a month, what but take it away. Yeah, that's gonna
be a little upsetting. I'm probably gonna shed a tear

(19:19):
or two, but I would recommend if TikTok is what
you rely on, you start working on that plan B
because you don't know what's gonna happen in seventy five days.
But yeah, that TikTok band was crazy. Anyway, all of
that to say, I am on TikTok at de Brian Grins,
but I don't really pay much attention to it. So
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