Episode 353 – Binging, Financial Apps, New Favorite Shows, Events Updates

Sure. Good to go. Hey, welcome. How's everybody doing? This is episode 353 of the one and only it in the D show. We are broadcasting live from our quarantined homes. This is Bob, the sales guy that is Dave, the geek, get us online it in the d.com. And I do his favorite. Give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine. Podcasts are sold. Yeah, we would say Randy is doing the Twitters, but we don't know where the hell Randy is. So, uh, yeah, so Randy and Randy, if you're out there or if you know, Randy, go ahead and ping him and tell him he's late. And we're thinking of suitable punishments for him. He might do you want to fire when ready or just roll through? We'll do it in post. That's how that works these days. Perfect fire when ready?       Alright. Hey, welcome back this three 53 of the it and the D show. And like we said, we are a Randy lists and guest list this week. Cheers everybody. We're also a pros. We're also a couple of days late, uh, due to technical difficulties, go figure Highland for everything. Um, we're broadcasting live from our homes. If only we had, if only we knew technology, people that could help with our technology issues who knew it would apparently none of them could fix zoom. You're having it problems that I'm like, did you, is it plugged in? Is it turned on to have you rebooted, but Hey, you can find us online at [inaudible] dot com to his favorite. Give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. So, and as per usual, uh, we, uh, in case you missed the announcement last week, uh, we have decided to kind of hold off doing our in person events until August. Uh, so we will be setting those up shortly. Um, of course that's assuming everything is still open by the time August rolls around. Cause if you're paying attention, uh, places that opened up are starting to close back down again. So we'll see how that goes. I'm going to be a weather regardless of what it is. It's going to be an outdoor venue. I think we're going to pick Nancy whiskeys down in Corktown. Uh, we're going to see how this all plays out. We should just, we should just have it at like the DCF C soccer field, just we'll we'll all be outside. I think like I saw a thing from rhino. They're doing a wrestling event in the middle of like an eight acre farm. Well, no, it's behind the, uh, the SOC, uh, and it's, they've actually been th they were actually talking about doing it cause you know, we've been running their show for them. Um, they were talking about doing it, uh, at the, at the Marina at, uh, at rhinos Marina. We talked about that when I was hanging out. Cause it's, he's got a huge grab a lot. Yup. Oh, by the way, I, um, I got gotta, it's been a little bit of a bittersweet couple of days. Um, we had a couple of celebrations and a couple losses. I just, you know, I just want to throw it out. Um, me and my wife celebrated our 18th on Monday. That was kind of a, you know, half of it was a tech support for this show, but that's all right. What we're here for. My daughter just turned 16 and Hey, excellent job keeping that, ah, keeping that surprise a surprise by the way. Oh yeah, we, um, she still didn't believe it was hers. Um, we get, we give, we, uh, I didn't do the big red bow, but we didn't look very excited. I gotta tell you the picture she did. She was, she was shocked. She was like, is this mine? But it was, it was well worth it. And then, uh, had a couple of losses, uh, um, Merissa Morocco, one of them, one of my closest friends, uh, his older sister died of cancer. And, you know, without whom we would not have the flavor flave stories to be telling. I mean, that was, that was all her arranging and yeah. And her, uh, every party asking for diamond girl from nationwide, whatever. Um, but yeah, we're, uh, super sad that families are super sad, but, uh, she's been fighting for a long time and she's, uh, hopefully not in any pain. Absolutely. And then, uh, and your cat dude. So yeah, I mean, well, I mean, she was 17 and you know, she was just 17 now. Uh, I mean 17 years old and you know, hadn't really been eating right lately and apparently it was going into kidney failure and lost a shit ton of weight lately. Um, and so it's, it is, I mean, that's that hardest decision when you have pets is listening to them when it's, when they tell you it's time to go. And then so yeah, that was today. So that was, uh, that was a bitch, but seven 17 is a good life for, for any pet. Oh, for sure. Absolutely. Um, but Hey, uh, brighter, brighter topics. Jesus, let's get off that. So I don't get all weepy and blow my cover as a Dick. Uh, um, so no, so we did mention, you know, Hey, as long as places are open, um, I know I got out and about a bit. How about you? Yeah, I, um, got to the barber on Saturday. That was, uh, that was amazing for what to shave my head. Oh, Oh. Like when you're like, I'm like half bald, like, right. So like get only like, so like when it grows out, it looks awful. Like it looks horrible. And I tried to do the beard trimmer thing and it looked, it was even worse. Um, and my beard was getting sanely long, so yeah, I'd get a little, uh, trim on the side and, you know, it took longer to trim the beer than it did to cut my hair before. So, uh, but it was a, you know, felt like a million bucks when you left. And I, you know, I left the curly stash still nice for me. Um, yeah, I mean it to a, Duffy's low the local corner bar here. Um, kind of funny, uh, some of the places around town, like I think you, uh, were talking to you that they really took precautions. Duffy's took out a couple of tables, um, to Ralph Lou in Rochester Hills. Like the windows were open outside every table had a somewhat on it. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was interesting. So Friday, um, I went down to Detroit shipping company, uh, and we've kind of talked about, you know, their plans. They removed the migrating, everything outside. Um, it's cause I went down there cause you know, we've got our studio, there were, you know, reopening the studios now. And uh, so I had to put the TV in there, uh, that I had never installed in there before. So that's up and running. So now we can have zoom guests for there and keep the in the studio down like We're trying to do. And what they've done is, so for those of you who are familiar with it, you know, the layout, but if you aren't, so there's an indoor courtyard, which is where like all the tables were like in the center of the room with ringed, by all the restaurants. And then there's an outdoor courtyard that had a big tent over it. And then there was the back parking lot. Well, the big tent that was in the outdoor courtyard is now in the back parking lot. All of the tables that were in the indoor courtyard are now gone. They have been converted to booths that they built in the back parking lot. So there's like, there's literally no parking, um, in the back parking lot anymore. Cause it's either, uh, the cupboard tables with the tent or the booths. And they built, you know, these booths with little canopies over them. Cause we all know, I mean, other than today, of course it's been pretty hot and sunny lately. Uh, and they're making a run into that way and there's no, uh, there's no walk up to the bar to get drinks. Everything is you have to be seated. Uh it's tableside service. And so that's kind of one of the challenges that they're having there right now is like their staff, like the only people they've ever had on staff have been bartenders and bar backs. And, and so now they're trying to convert them to waiters slash waitresses. Um, well that's the one thing we were always concerned about was who, you know, who, if anyone's coming back to work, are they just sitting on their hands, waiting for the call or they're like, no way I'm not coming back or they're like, you know, it was kind of a mixed bag. Um, so I know it was like I said, I was there Friday. Um, and, and had a, it was nice to see, you know, some of the bartenders that I knew and that kind of stuff and some of the staff and, and it's still only brew hoe and coop, uh, that are open from a restaurant perspective. Uh, look amazing by the way from a dude he always does. Yeah. I mean he he's. Yeah. Dude, chef max is just, is freaking amazing with what he puts together down there. Um, so, Oh, and I guess that's the other, the other reason you can be inside, uh, basically, so going inside is literally only if you're walking in to go to the bathroom or if you're there for a pickup takeout order. Um, those are the only two reasons why you should be like on the indoor, on the indoor side of things. Uh, but they have refreshed the art. They've done a, a really great job. They've made a whole commitment to, uh, basically feature black artists for the next year. Um, and do the stuff that they have up right now is just amazing and outstanding. So, I mean, if you get a chance just to like be able to, cause you can walk around the art gallery obviously, um, which is on the second floor of the indoor courtyard. Uh, but you know, just take a look at stuff and see what's there. It's a really, really great, uh, it's a great pop in. Um, but yeah, so I mean, so that was nice. And then I walked around the corner to temple bar, which laughably kinda looks like a seven mile liquor store, uh, now, cause it's the a C know it's, it's, the bar is still the bar, but now they've got plexiglass shielding from the bar top to the ceiling, uh, with little holes cut out every now and then that they can slip your drinks through and like take cards or cash through that kind of thing. I was so surprised to hear that like honest to God, like usually it's the dive bars that are like, whatever, You know what though? I mean, so I, you know, I give like, you know, so I mean, you know, I spent a lot of time talking with Larry George, actually there was so there's only me,...