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The Wild Cards Masterfully Debate

from The Wild Card Podcast · host Ron Blair, Jeff Curtis, and Jared Eaton

Welcome to The Wild Card Podcast!!  Here's another fantastic episode from the archives!  This is episode 8 of our attempt at this whole podcasting thing.  Today's episode features Jared Eaton, Jeff Curtis, and Ron Blair discussing such varied topics as: the necessity of pants and spoons, our favorite roles we've portrayed, The American Civil War: a.k.a. why are racists such dicks?, and, on rare occasions, we part from our tangents to discuss...... Nope, this episode is pretty much just tangent after tangent.  Join us on this journey to wherever and we're sure you'll  ask, "What if these guys really have something with their Thoughtful Podcast?!"Please like/subscribe and leave comments below!

Welcome to The Wild Card Podcast!! Here's another fantastic episode from the archives! This is episode 8 of our attempt at this whole podcasting thing. Today's episode features Jared Eaton, Jeff Curtis, and Ron Blair discussing such varied topics as: the necessity of pants and spoons, our favorite roles we've portrayed, The American Civil War: a.k.a. why are racists such dicks?, and, on rare occasions, we part from our tangents to discuss...... Nope, this episode is pretty m...

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At the Cracker Barrel! Fucking Cracker Barrel. Welcome to the Wild Card Podcast. I'm your host, Jerry Denton, and my co-pilots on this Journey to Wherever are my good friends, Jeff Curtis.

Hello. And the man who puts the laughter in slaughter, Ron Blair. Oh boy. Well guys, we're getting pretty good at this.

I mean, we're basically professional podcasters now. Right. This is the podcast in which we come together and just talk about stuff. Things.

Sometimes there's a topic in mind. Sometimes we just discuss something. But one thing we always like to do at the beginning is get to know us because we are just so interested. Yeah, we're fascinating people.

And we are. Exactly. And so this one today is his favorite question actually comes from a loyal listener. Basically Blake inspired this with a YouTube comment, so this isn't exactly what he asked.

But I've taken what he asked, the spirit of it, and turned it into a favorite. So all three of us have been very involved in theater. Right. So I want you to tell me what your favorite role you've portrayed is.

Now this is not favorite show you've been in. Right. This is not the most fun you've ever had. It's just what role is your favorite you've ever portrayed.

Usually I'll answer a fagin in Oliver right off the bat. And I really I want to stick with that. Yeah, there's roles like getting a turnblad or a TV. That was the first show you and I did together or Macbeth.

You know, I've been fortunate enough to play some really great roles and it's hard for me to pick just one out of them. But Oliver usually fagin in Oliver usually leaves the pack. That's it. I love the musical.

I love the music and I enjoyed the songs that I got to sing. The costume was great. The kids were great. You know, it was a great role.

It's a lot of fun. Is it one you go back to quickly? Oh, that would be a heart beat. The only reason I wouldn't drop everything to do Harris Ray is because of the high heels.

It seriously took a month for my feet to start feeling normal. They were they were a little bit numb for an entire month after that show. Your face is beautiful. Oh, it's a big, big.

Jeff, I would say party member number four from 1984. That was good. That was a great show. I it's my favorite role because it's the biggest role and the most medium role I've ever got.

Usually I get small parts or course parts and you know, they're they're fun. But party member number four who has no name. I got to do I got to do all kinds of different stuff with it. I loved doing that part.

I've been pretty blessed at the time. I've been in Elizabeth now to get to do some some bigger roles. Big roles don't always be fun. I've done playing shows around here recently where I had maybe what people consider a great role.

I'm like, that wasn't a fun show. I didn't have much fun with it. Well, I'll tell you you hear these kids a lot. They want the lead in the show.

They always want the lead. I'm like, you're going to get what you want one day and you'll find out. And find out how stressful it is. Difficult.

Yeah. And you've got a balance, you know, putting in all the extra work so that you can see that you're really doing that leadership with also being humble. And mind you, your experience in a show where you're the lead isn't jackassing around with the rest of the cast like some shows, you're focused on it for some time. You have to be there.

And I left out to you, Mariah. I would feel bad if I left you. I'm on my own because that was so good. I've done that role twice and it's so much fun.

I got to you, Jerry. Well, I think I've got two that I kind of come to. And one of the more recent I loved Elephaman. I had so much fun as trees and Elephany.

It was just such an emotionally complex character and just, you know, in musicals, you don't often get those. No, the characters and musicals usually more than that. One than each and only one of them. Yeah, there are types.

Yeah, there are trees. Stumbling and bumbling and awkward. There's a lot of facets to him. It was really awesome.

I also, I would say, I did a show not long after college called Carnival. And I played Marco the Magnificent, who was a magician. And I love that role, not only because I got to do magic on stage. There were a lot of sleight of hand and fire tricks and things.

I had to figure out how can I make this look good. But he was also kind of the villain, not evil or maniacal, but just sleazy and selfish. And I never get to play anything like that. So there would be times people would come up after the show and greet the cast and they would greet people.

I'd walk right past me. Oh, yeah. You were perfectly cast and I'd respond with thank you. Well, that the playing out of type is I usually get the dorky nerd.

Right. Right. You're excellent at it. It's really good at it.

It's your real house. But playing a villain is just juicy. It's so good. And I actually had one entire season where I started with a Herod and Jesus Christ superstar.

It's kind of a bad guy, Bob Ewell in the Killamocky Bird, who's bad. That was painful to play. That was rough. And then at Christmas time I played Megan, which is he's villainous, like cute, you know, and the moonlight magnolia is where I played a womanizer, you know, macho type of guy.

He went to villain, but he was he could be perceived as one. He was very antagonistic. Followed that up with Tito Morelli, who was also a womanizer. And then legally bought, I finished it off the playing professor out.

It was sleazy and awful. So that whole season, every role that I played, whatever character I played had this flaw about them. And it was probably the most fun season ever. I get it.

I've got seasons plural. The last of playing the dorky nice guy was kind of a coward. Right. And when I go to the mama's boy, that's a fun.

So that's a fun discussion. I'm sure we can have more discussions of theater. So basically Blake, I'm sure you'll be hearing more about theater in the future for us and more discussions of that because it is something we've all spent a lot of our lives doing. We're going to move into the main portion of the podcast today.

We are blessed that Jeff Curtis is going to be bringing the thunder. No fear today. Jeff, do you have a question for us? Are you going to get into it?

I have a topic for us today. Today we are going to be doing a number of thought experiments. Sounds dangerous. Yeah.

Is this like Ghostbusters? Where I can electric shock if I don't figure out, you know, what the card is? Is this like psychic? I don't think it's a good thing.

I don't think it's because we can do that. I'll be happy with Jared once the punch. Here it comes. There are no right or wrong answers.

We're going to ask a series of what if questions and we're going to imagine what the world would be like if this thing had never happened or this thing had happened or how much fun is that? I'm terrified. I'm all nervous. As you see, I do not have a comment.

I have a comment on that. Jeff does not have research falling off the table. I have one sheet of tiny little paper with a whole bunch of words on it. He's drawn a bunch of penises on it's really strange.

That's funny because it's a moonlight magnolia. Let me tell the story real quick. When we did moonlight magnolias, which is about the David O. Selznick, Victor Fleming.

Victor Fleming. That's what I was thinking. And Ben Heck, the three of them walked themselves in a room for seven days to write the Gorn with a wind script. And so it's a four person show.

One of the characters is not on stage the entire time. The three of us, it was Josh Logs and Andy Free and I. Yeah, it was a great show. Good cast.

We were on stage the entire time almost. And of course my character being the director of the film, I would just sit back sometimes while those two were talking and having a picture. And I would look like I'm working. I drew a penis every time I sat down or multiple penises every time.

And Kristen Darby, who was our stage manager, the first night she went to clean the set. She found all these drawings of penises everywhere on the stage. She was like, good Lord. There's like a hundred penises here.

And I said that's the only thing I know how to draw. Well, Jake Richardson, we were doing a once upon a mattress. He had his music stand with his music from when he was a night at Yale Samrkand. And inevitably people would get a hold of that sheet music and just draw those inappropriate pictures on it.

Of course. Like Austin Hale was one of the primary contemporary. He would have to be the culprit right there. I think Jacob was also involved.

Of course. Of course. Some of my favorite people. Three of my favorites.

I would. Oh, we're, a hundred and twenty-four house brings penis pics to the masses. And I guess what's important. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe the forp is dead. So we have to pick up the rain. You have to have something to be known by.

Something. Something. Something. Something.

That's what I was drawing. Something. You can keep stroking that thing over and over again. It's only on the same people.

And then, you know, right. You know, the more you stroke it, the more people enjoy it. You know, the more the more exciting it comes. I've got nothing.

I just wanted to say the word come. Yeah, he's success. Yeah. I succeeded there, but I failed at a cohesive thought.

That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. Okay.

Alright. Let's do your little experiment. All right. Listen.

All right. This is the more I just think I'm boring after this present conversation. All right. What do you think the world would be like if pants had never been invented?

So much better than it is. No pants. No shorts. Oh no.

No pants. When I say pants, I mean no pant like garment. Can we still wear like a saurobe or a toga or a toga or a kiln? A kiln?

A kiln? Anything that doesn't have pants. I'm okay with that. I don't do pants.

I'm a short-scot. Now, for my job, I always have to wear pants because you have to at least pretend to look professional, especially when you are not professional. As you have not. So you have to at least have the facade of being professional, so I have to wear pants every day in the weekend.

Man, I complain about it every day. I don't wear long sleeves. You've probably only ever seen the long sleeves in pants if I was working or if I was in a show. Yeah.

Because I don't like sleeves or leg sleeves. It's completely against pants. No, I'm with you. My most comfortable costume was in hairspray and it was like a sundress.

Everything moved so freely underneath and you'd get to breeze up in your undercarriage from time to time. That was lovely. Do you think that it would affect the world or the way people interact with each other or politics or anything else if everything was the same but nobody wore pants or shorts? I think it really depends upon were pants never invented or did we get rid of them?

Is a pants never invented and no one knows what's the difference? Right. There would be one I would say. I think it would be the gender thing.

We would need to cross our ankles like women do or we're taught to do back in the day. I think it would be a lot more insight into real quick. It would be a little bit more. No, I'm just saying we would adhere to the same don't pleasure hoo-ha at the public.

What about construction workers building houses and buildings or on roads? Writing a motorcycle. Writing a motorcycle. They just be flashing their shit everywhere.

I was thinking about the heat on the leg there. Oh, that would be awesome. You think there would be things that we as a society wouldn't use or wouldn't do because of this change? We don't have hands.

I don't think so. I'm trying to figure out what long socks can those be gone to? They don't have to be but they weren't part of the question. Well, I like long socks myself.

This shorts only calf with kilts and shorts. Anything like that. I'm a short sock like not even past the little knob you'll be looking at. Oh, God, I can't wear those.

I absolutely can't wear those. I just feel like I don't make- I've got so much leg hair that socks are oppressive. They're like grabbing handfuls of leg hair and just rip them out. See, I have a problem with bare feet.

Every summer I've got this tan line that ends right under my shin. That's what's the short sock is. You get a little bit more exposure to the sun. Even though I'm never shoeless.

It's closer to almost looking like I'm not transparent. I'm more comfortable bearing my ass in public than I can wear in short socks. That explains why we're looking at your ass right now. I actually enjoy showing my ass quite a bit.

I used to mood a lot as a kid. It's a nice ass for a bad guy. I guess I could go back to the- I'd almost say seriousness of the question. Yeah, because it's very serious right now.

I think Ron was on something. If we didn't have these things that were identified as this is what men wear, they're females wear, but everyone wore versions of the same kind of clothing. I think people would make it work. If pants weren't ever invented, they couldn't be invented.

We'd still make it work. I don't think it would change. On a side question I have is how do you feel about school uniforms? I can see the purpose of the utilitarianism, but I'm against them.

I hate everything about that. Because I think they try to take away the individuality as a way. If you can't express it, you're going to do it some other way. Right, that's exactly right.

And the whole thing is about creating an idea, just discipline everybody, kind of conforming to. And I'll hear people argue sometimes, like, well, then the people who don't have as much money can still buy clothes that look like everybody else's, but it'll be a different brand. It'll be an awful lot. You'll still want something to be done.

It's good to get your dicks. Yeah. One of my kids went through school uniforms. The other one didn't.

I really didn't see a different. I will tell you this. The kids in Pink Floyd's The Wall were wearing school uniforms as they were falling into the meat grinder. And I think that's an important lesson right there in that it's all about this conforming.

We're forcing them to be a drone. Leave them kids alone. I'm saying. Hey teachers.

Leave them kids alone. All knowledge is just another break with the wall. You can't have pudding if you don't eat your meat, Jared. How can you eat your meat if you don't have any pudding?

Alright. Question another frustrating. So we're all in the it's okay to none of the pants? Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe not in public right now. I'm ready. I wear box of briefs.

I'm ready to go around. I'm going to throw that away with that. That'd be fun. Theater.

It's just like you walk up stage. Your pants are off because you've got to be doing the conversation. You know, whenever I play baseball up until I was 15, I would go to the bathroom to change my clothes or something. You know, and I would preferably be in a stall that's private.

It's a mal. I'll whip it wherever. 30 years in the theater will take off my clothes wherever. Do you whip it good?

I whip it real good. Real good. Yeah. And Divo.

The next question is what if Divo had never heard before? The world be such a sad place. Okay. Question number two.

What if indoor plumbing had never been created? It would need to be invented because I don't shit outdoors. No, I do. You wouldn't have any.

You could shit in a bowl inside your house or a bucket and take it outside, but no indoor plumbing. No water, no running water, no running toilets. I think just hygiene, I think the expectancy would be significantly lower. Yeah, I cannot smell like a surf from the middle ages.

I can't. We said surf on like certain inches. Yeah, they smoke. They smoke a little ocean.

You want copper tone? Absolutely. They smoke nice. Do you think we'd have giant apartment buildings and skyscrapers that there was no indoor plumbing?

No, I don't think so. And you'll have cheaper than under plumbing. There's still a waste problem that you're going to have. Yeah.

How are you going to get? Because if you live on the 20th floor and you have to hold water up to your apartment. You look at each of the cities like with aqueducts and baths, like there's still like hygiene was still important. It just becomes so much easier to be hygienic into plumbing.

I can take three showers a day. I love hot showers. Yeah, I do do. There was a time not as long ago as I missed.

I'm sure you knew when I did all that I could chew. Me, my family had, we had no running water for three years. And so I can attest to the fact that no running water is one of the most miserable existences once you're used to running water and staying clean and then taking a horse bath every day for three years. It's absolute misery.

Yeah. It's the worst. So if indoor plumbing had never been invented, I would invent it because it caused bullshit on lugging your own water. It depends on what's the biggest thing you'd miss.

I think for the most part, if everyone was going to the bathroom outside, I could do that. But not having indoor shower is my weakness. I'm not going to wash my hands. I'm going to brush my teeth.

Those are things I would miss more than going to an outhouse. Even though I was pretty disgusting. If we had outdoor, we were doing what was going on to that. I think hygiene would have become a little nicer.

I agree. You know, spraying for bugs is not like exploring places they shouldn't be. Right. Now when I lived in the haunted house that lived in the haunted house, when I worked in the house industry, I didn't live in the haunted house.

It's totally down by the Ohio River. I lived in the back of a van to be security. At the same time, I was sitting on the dock of a van. No kidding.

That's fantastic. A little town of Colorado. A little town of Colorado. Right.

I had to drive to a campground if I wanted to take a shower. When it gets to be October, the campgrounds don't have great hot water in the campground. So while they were still running water, it was still like being a pioneer man taking this cold shower. You'd get to shower.

I couldn't leave the place until there was somebody there to relieve me. I only had a limited time back to be away. So there was a point where I came to look forward to these awful cold showers just to be cleaned. Yeah, I found some backcountry camping.

When you get to know that, sometimes we would go, because we'd be out in Colorado. You'd just go to a rest stop and take a shower there. It was still glorious. It's so odd when you stop at a truck stop to gas up or whatnot.

And then you see the showers and they're like, what is this? You can shower in here? Damn. So we're pro and no pants.

We are anti-noinocle. Anti-noinocle. Anti-noinocle. We have to have indoor plumbing.

Do you think there are things I've got to be on a bunch of things that you would miss more than indoor plumbing? I'd miss that a lot. Like my kids. Yeah, yeah.

You got two. Yeah. That's how that works. Alright, what would be the ramifications if no spoons existed?

Fucking anarchy. I'll tell you, if you can't eat soup, you can't eat cereal. Oh, I don't know. Just drinking it straight out of the bowl like a fucking savage.

I don't think so. That's not how we do things. This is a civilized people. We have to have spoons.

You wouldn't be able to play the spoons. That would be bad with this. You couldn't hang them off your face? What about wooden spoons?

Those guns, too? Yeah, no spoons. No spoons. In drink out of a bowl or a table.

No spoons. They're about shovels. They're about shovels. Hey, sir.

Be with a fork or knife. Yeah, bullshit. No. You can't eat chili with that.

You know, if there's no noodles in your chili, you can't eat that. I mean I eat and scoop ice cream with a fork though. Because a lack of a spoon will not stop you from eating ice cream. But I can't from soup.

I think the biggest thing would be there would be a lot more because all three of us are not facial hair. Absolutely. There will be a lot more food in our facial hair. Absolutely.

Absolutely. from all the things. And as it is, I don't know about that. If you ever go to Subway and get like, Manny's on your sandwich, it's in the mustache.

I don't go to Subway or use Manny's, so. Neither one. I need Jared. Oh yeah.

I don't know. That's how I use it. I don't belong to him. It's not the same thing.

Manny's in sandwich, man. So it's always on my face. No, I got to Subway. I spent eight bucks to get turkey on bread.

Because I'm such a plain person, a boring guy. I'm like, can I get some turkey? You're like, yeah, you want this, this, this? Nah.

Yeah, but let's talk about that bullshit for a minute. OK. So it's a time where Subway would cost $5 per sandwich or less. And now, if I go in there, it's $8.

Yeah? You like it a footlong? I don't know if I can take a footlong. I can take eight at the best.

Eight inches. Six thick inches, maybe. Do you have a six-inch? I'm deep-cutting a six-inch.

I can actually get that entirely in my mouth. That's good to know. But I have an enormous mouth, mind you. Yeah, so there's a lot of room in there.

No, I'm looking in there. It is spacious. It's really big real estate. I'll say thank you.

Now, Penn Station, give me a medium or large. I'll shut it all the way down, no problem. And have room for half of a Subway sandwich in my mouth. It's enormous.

It's cavernous. This mouth. So yeah, I can just suck some Subway or Penn Station down. One throw some.

Yeah, some with heavy meat. I can suck down the meat, anyway. I'm not a good sub guy. In general, I like sandwiches.

I'm pro-samish, but subs, it's just so much extra bread to fill you up. Now, see, that's why I like Subway, as I've been to other places and I won't mention names. Because I like it. I don't know what I mentioned, it's Gary's diner.

There's a place around here. I like it very, very much. But if you get a sub, it comes on this bread that they're like, yeah, it's fresh, baked bread. There's so much of it.

Then it becomes all bread. I can taste nothing but bread. I would prefer to have the thing that KFC did where it's a sandwich made out of chicken breasts. I would do that.

That would be exciting. Now, I worked at Amish. I'm going to talk about this word. There was no way Amish.

We had a deli. We had so many hands. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And from me, turkey and chicken and a bunch of cheeses.

And I would constantly get some Cajun turkey. Oh, that's good stuff. With a provolone. And we made in-house white bread.

And then Peniniet. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Because we had a griddle. And I was like, I can eat three of those right now.

And we're here in the Mirobe hungry. It's a weeknight. So we can't stay here for dinner. I wish we could.

Because it was making trabag with potatoes. It's complicated. It's chicken and potatoes. Like all those things.

And tomatoes on a pan. We'll also get tomatoes. Cooked. Where the juices from the chicken mix with the potatoes.

Oh, yeah. I like mixed juices. Hot, hot mixed juices. I like that we can get you from this.

For things that are no way second. Out of everything. I think we should have pushed that. Everything I agree.

Less and less sexual and still. Right, make them sexual. Alright, so. We'll have the actual question.

No spoons. No spoons. Yes, we got to do no spoons. Alright, so we're split on the spoons though.

I'm cool. No spoons. I think there would be things in the future. I'd be like, oh shit.

I wish I had a spoon. I don't know what that is, but I wish I had one. But I think I could survive without that more so than. I think if you're eating chicken noodle soup and there's crackers in there.

Man, I would use the cracker to like shovel it in my face. Yeah, I guess that. No, it's good stuff. But I just feel like my face will get all crummy.

What if you take two forks and put them together and fill the holes and then just like. What a badass. I'm not doing hand signals all the time. I'm doing hand signals all the time.

As you clearly tell. Acting the entire thing. I was creating like a carriage using two forks. And then like he lifting the soup in my mouth.

Well, nothing does not be from taking your hand and scooping the soup. The hot soup is. Yeah. No, I've had a good cold soup.

We talked about that in the last episode. Alright, here's our next one. It's a good thing. Ron, I are here to solve these elements.

Yeah, that's true. To give the definitive answers. How do you think the world would be different if the alphabet had never been invented? Anarchy.

There'd still be hieroglyphs. Okay, well, alphabet. Now, when you say alphabet, do you mean the one we use or any? No alphabet that only picked to graphs were writing.

Okay. I mean, we're not even in our way back. I don't think it would be that different. Right.

That's true. I don't think it would be that different because it would be a lot more oral tradition. Yeah. And it would be a lot more you have to teach kids what these symbols mean.

I don't believe you said oral tradition and none of us jumped on it. Yeah. You want to jump on it? I would love to jump on your oral traditions.

I think we can still convey a lot. I do think things like writing would be hindered significantly. Yeah. And reading.

I think there'd be more literacy. I think there'd be a lot of people in that. I would love students. There's already a good deal of that.

As my kids were growing up, you know, if they pronounced something incorrectly or you was incorrect. Yeah. I would jump. I'd throw the spoon at it.

And jump on it. You didn't have that spoon. Right. If I didn't have it, I couldn't hurt my children.

But they'd be like, what's the big deal to add? It's only a comment. I'm like, no, no, no, no. This is how we communicate.

We as a society have agreed that this is the spelling, this is the punctuation. This is how we communicate with one another. If you discard that. Now imagine a script in which there are no letters.

How much more it would be? I'll do you do a turret. Because there'd be so much interpretation. Yeah, there'd be.

People that means this definite thing. Like, there's not like clauses. Subjects and prejudices. Just symbols.

You're like, yeah, this guy is angry about this. Right. I guess I'll create words to convey that. Yeah, it's already difficult enough to translate a script but to embody the character with what you read through words.

So just looking at the picture and thinking, okay, I'm angry. What do I say? That would be a nightmare for a performer. And you'd think there'd be fewer words as well because there wouldn't be a picture for abstract concepts very easily.

Right, absolutely. So no, I'm pro alphabet. Plus, alphabet, serial. And alphabet, soup.

Which I'm eating with two forks. By the way, by the way, I'm pro alphabet. Yeah, sesame street. I do think how entertaining would sesame street be?

The sponsor of this picture of... Right, right. You would see the little pinball. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.

That would be the whole show. And you'd be like, this show sucks. I do think that since we are here, people would like to give credit. I really think we should give credit to almost at Arabia, which isn't really like a place.

I wrote them a spot. Yeah, the Middle East. That's where alphabet came from. People want to think of Greek mathematics.

They're too Greek Roman. No, no, Middle East. That's where civilization came from. The Western alphabet came from.

Actually came from Egypt, I believe. Yeah. I have to bless the rings in Africa. I do too.

I just fell in with one from that song. I can't think of the next one. Okay, how do you think it would impact the world if nobody had ever invented the wheel, which was only invented once? We'd be carrying a lot of shit around.

We'd be more muscular. We'd be stronger, but we would also be exasperated with life. I think there's got to be a better way. Do you think we'd be as technologically advanced as we are without having to cover the wheel?

I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes. Not trying to discredit the wheel. Not trying to discredit the wheel.

We'd love you. Necessity is the mother of adventure. If we hadn't invented the wheel, there would be something else. I can't imagine a world that sounds wheel.

The wheel is such a perfect invention. I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it not being invented. Period. Because it's these two square wheels and they're like, no, that didn't work.

Before the wheels came to the Americas, people were pulled on... Of course it was. It was pulled on. It was like...

Egyptians and Romans used to carry people on these literally. So here's the science. I'm like, okay, let's remove the wheel. What's the fastest way to transport something?

And then sled was where I went immediately. I was thinking, I did a rod. I bet we could have established something. I don't know if it's like a road or what it is and removing a lot of friction.

So like WD-40 something up. You can take some of these slides where you need to go. So you want more oil? That goes to like monorail.

What about the frictionless no contact magnetism service? I think we could have still gotten... Here's my concern though with that. Especially in the early days of civilization, the wheel is not invented.

So you use sleds or litter bearers, which leads to slavery every time. Because nobody is going to carry themselves. You don't want to pay somebody to carry you. You already had slavery.

Ron, to you, every road leads to slavery. That's true. It's all the prisoners. It's all the prison.

Unescapable prisons. So that one I feel like as impactful as the wheel is, it would probably be in the top five for me. But I know it's not number one. I've got in my head.

I already have the most important invention in history of mankind is. What would that be? Would you say the wheel would be one for you? I don't know if it's the wheel, but the wheel is definitely the top five.

I've never thought about what it would be like. I've never put the other five. I think the alphabet, to me, would be because communication is so important. And then this would be number two.

Silver bullets would be number three. I don't need those. You do. I'll do.

I don't know where wolf will be Jack rolled. No, you don't think that because you can't do it. No, you know, here's a question. Here's a question because we've had this argument several times.

Are we talking about the lone chaney wolf man who's basically a guy with a furry face because I kick the shit out of one of those? That's my point. My point is if it's half man, half wolf, why is that intimidating? I'm talking about like a weird wolf from the howling or American where wolf in London.

I'm saying I'm just going with the concept of a where wolf. If it's half man, half wolf, it means it's less human than a person and less wolf than a wolf. That doesn't sound like a big wolf cop. Wolf cop, the big pussy wolf cop.

No, I'm talking about the bad ass wolf. I'm thinking team wolf. I think it's what they're asking about. I'm telling you that.

I'm saying I'm going to chance. Even then team wolf had super strength. He could jump over and punch the shit out of the guy that killed his mom. He had to kill his mom.

He had to kill his mom. Yeah, he shot his mom. You wouldn't kill them. No, you wouldn't.

You wouldn't kill them. You obviously wouldn't. Like it is there's always a series of events that lead on mom killing. It's not something that's like.

Well, I think where wolf mom might be different. She was in the chicken coop. According to the name wolf. No, she's dead.

That's what I was thinking. If you see where wolfs in the chicken coop. Okay, back to this. Yeah, well, we've...

Number one, invention and history of mankind for me is food preservation. Like refrigeration. Because if we didn't have a way to store food, like with a canning or salting or preserving food, we would all be farmers. That's true.

But allowing us to some people create or get the food and other... and distribute it, we could have artisans. That's only that's number one. I don't think any of that would have happened without the food.

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