Episode 227
#209 - Interview with podcaster Bob LeMent
On this episode I'm talking to Bob LeMent. Co-host of Static Radio, one of the longest-running unscripted podcasts online. Bob has been recording weekly with his co-host Miles Tidal since 1999. Just to give you guys a quick perspective check, I was born in 1999. Been bringing listeners hilarious, off-the-cuff takes on pop culture, and current events. Even high strangeness, and life in flyover country.
Known for showing up to video interviews as a blue cartoon cat (yes, really). Bob brings the same playful, irreverent spirit to our conversation. People like bob paved the way for podcaster's like me, and that alone is amazing to in itself.
We dived into everything from classic movies, and conspiracy theories. To the weirdness of modern life and the revelation of aliens among us. all with his signature comedic edge.
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Transcript
Lost in the Groove Podcast
No. Well, you know, actually, i was um I was thinking of this idea the other day. was talking with somebody about this. we We think of aliens as, like, creatures from the outer like outer space, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But there are things that exist on our planet already that are very alien. Like, a great example is, like, take mycelium, like the mycelium network.
::Bob LeMent
um
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You have this fungus that kind of uses, like, an internet, like...
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
World Wide Web. Yeah. And they like communicate and they have different species and they're able to like chemically alter such as our species, like the way our brain makeup operates and stuff. It's like.
::Bob LeMent
A
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Isn't that alien? Wouldn't that be considered alien, right?
::Bob LeMent
little bit.
::Bob LeMent
Well, there may be more more than one thing that's considered alien. Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. um You're right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
got to get it.
::Bob LeMent
So then then they can, well, they do, the um other plants do that as well. I mean, the the fungus is all underground and they interconnect and and can kind of tell each other when things are happening, like somebody's getting dug up over there, dug up over here.
::Bob LeMent
but I think other plants can do the same thing. I was just talking about, I was talking with somebody about how, um you know, grass, when it gets, you know, there's a smell when grass gets cut.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yes.
::Bob LeMent
Right. And they've, the,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They actually now sell it in bottles as perfume, and it's like $300.
::Bob LeMent
yeah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We live in a great society, people. yeah
::Bob LeMent
But but that what's happening when grass gets cut is they're releasing chemicals to make that smell to tell other grass that they're being cut.
::Bob LeMent
It's like a warning system. It would be like a ah a monkey howling or a dog barking. That's what's happening with grass. So they're they're communicating.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah on yeah Right, exactly. like there There's like that symbiotic relationship that's going on.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But, you know, it's the idea in precedence when you look at... anything being formed or anything created, it all stems from ideas.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It all stems from places of an ingenuity, something that comes out of the box.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And a lot of those things are very foreign to us. The same way that how these plants have been able to manipulate the ground, rainforests, drylands, whatever,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's very alien. Like, yeah, it's based here in Earth, but if you look at everything outside of our known um like our known planet, these things exist outside as well.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's not like specific to this planet and this planet only. That's what I'm getting at.
::Bob LeMent
Okay.
::Bob LeMent
Interesting.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
i haven't really thought about it too much, to be honest with you. I mean, it's, there's, I always wonder, there's so many things ah happening, you know, where, when do we separate it and say, oh well, this is, well because we don't really know too many other places that do things. So therefore that kind of limits our, our purview, right? So,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But doesn't mean that they don't exist, right? That's the thing.
::Bob LeMent
True, right? But I'm just saying we we can't say, well, on Alpha Centauri, the grass doesn't make a smell, you know, so we can't, we don't have anything to compare it to. So we just assume everything that's happening on this planet is native to this planet, which to be honest with you, I mean, you want to get into aliens and all that kind of stuff.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
we could talk about anything. We could talk about fucking Doritos and Taco Bell, because that's the whole...
::Bob LeMent
well Well, no, no, I'm just saying, um but but um'm what I'm saying is is we are the outliers, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yes.
::Bob LeMent
we're the So why aren't we the aliens? Because is there anything, i mean, aside from ah ah Bigfoot, which people go back and forth on, there's nothing else really that walks on two legs?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
All right. We don't want to get a political over here. You know, Bigfoot is still a very heavy topic these days.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
but There's nothing else that walks around on two legs and and you know ah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Bob LeMent
commands its environment like we do and nothing else. i mean Other things do you know ah change its environment somewhat, but not in the ways that we do.
::Bob LeMent
We are the outlier. um And so to me, we're the aliens, because everything else seems to kind of go, seems to kind of go together, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Very much what, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
So all the rest of these things, um,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
are, you know, a little bit more symbiotic in their, in their nature, the hierarchy of everything and and the way it functions. Whereas, you know, we're, we're way out of line.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I...
::Bob LeMent
i mean, there should be something, if you think about, you know, chipmunks and squirrels and rabbits and, and, uh,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
all these little woodland creatures, they're all very, very similar and behave similarly and, you know, get on with our lives and so forth. Whereas we are totally off the charts compared to anything like that.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We are. i You know, you talking about this just makes me think of Star Trek. And I'm going to be as old school as possible, like the OG series. In the OG series, there was this epoch where they talked about a highly advanced species that existed outside a physical form.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And before they were like that, they had somewhat of a humanoid body like in physical sense and when they were creating known species and life throughout the universe they made them in their own image just kind of like you know how our bible kind of explains it in many ways so maybe like it doesn't necessarily mean the humanoids are special like because that is kind of a species you know we are homo sapiens we come from there were other types of species besides ours but like
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Bob LeMent
Right. Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Maybe that is where some form of alien species. I like these theorized ideas. Like maybe these, that's the form of some alien species, like highly intelligent species where they stand on two legs and they communicate through speech or maybe telekinesis or some other type of form of communication.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But like Gene Roddenberry was a fucking genius, man. but like that idea to still like even 60 years later is just,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
What if?
::Bob LeMent
What if, right. I mean, there's the infinite what ifs. I mean, that's the the great thing is that we can kind of think about all those things where, and i maybe bears are thinking about those things and we just haven't tapped into that because they can't speak our language.
::Bob LeMent
Maybe the all the bears, you know, meet up before they hibernate and they're like, hey, did you think about this?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Well, don't dolphins communicate, though, with sonar?
::Bob LeMent
They do, ah they do.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
but
::Bob LeMent
And and um if you think about ah one of the news story recently was um killer whales, orcas,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
That's pretty interesting.
::Bob LeMent
um will are one of the few species that literally will play with their food and like flip them out flip them out of the water before they eat them and and and do some you know kind of ridiculous things.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They've earned their name. They've earned their name as being killer. You know, like, Orca...
::Bob LeMent
Well, and then they'll also, they hunt killer, they hunt great white sharks. And so they'll, they'll coordinate in order to, yeah, this was a news story that just was recent, but I've known this years ago.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Are you serious?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh my god.
::Bob LeMent
So they're one of the few things that can kill a great white shark.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I want to see a video of this now.
::Bob LeMent
And so they'll coordinate their attack um because they don't have, ah they have the weight and the strength, but they don't have like the teeth um to, so they'll, you know, beat them up basically But they'll coordinate their attack to kill a great white with several orcas.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. And so I think, i think it's kind of an antiquated and science is advancing, which is what science is supposed to do is to, you know, kind of hold a line.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
um my god
::Bob LeMent
And then whenever we get more information, it's supposed to advance. And thankfully it's doing that. Now in the past, I think they kind of held the line a little too tight.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
um And so, and so it's advancing to notice that, Hey, all of these animals aren't just dumb.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
no
::Bob LeMent
It's not all just instinctual. There is learned behavior. Otters use rocks to crack abalone to eat. That's a tool. Crows will use tools to break open seed pods to eat.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Also, crows can mimic speech.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They can also differentiate between... This is bananas. I was reading this article. They did study with crows where they can differentiate between different objects. They can tell if something's food. They can tell if something is heavy. And they use that information to figure out how to get those items.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like how close they need to fly, how where they're supposed to be looking. This is a bird!
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
This is a freaking bird!
::Bob LeMent
Well, um hawks and eagles and ah they will, but they also take their prey up in the air and drop them.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know? Oh! Those dives!
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
::Bob LeMent
they don't they They don't want to fight.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I grew up in New York, I saw that all the time. It's crazy!
::Bob LeMent
They just grab them. They fly really high and then they just fling them. And then, course, gravity does the work. So if you think about that, that is a tool, right? Because you're using gravity.
::Bob LeMent
They figured out, guess what? If I fly high enough and I drop this rabbit, it's going to die. And when I come down to eat it, it's not going to bite my face.
::Bob LeMent
And I mean, yeah, there's something there, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Intelligence. It's a form of intelligence. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
um And so, yeah. So, yeah I mean, i've the weird thing is I've actually seen it happen. So I see a a hawk grab a snake and fly away and then it just drops it onto the road.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I have two.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's amazing. Like, I grew up in New York.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It was completely... I remember I watched um this hawk. I'll never forget this. It was attacking this raccoon family, like, on the side of the highway.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And you think like, oh, it's just one hawk. Like, a few minutes later, you had like six or seven hawks.
::Bob LeMent
Right. Yeah. Like, Hey, guess what?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Just one after the other.
::Bob LeMent
A smorgasbord over here.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Morgan's board! When's the wedding? I want to get the the wanna go to the main course, please.
::Bob LeMent
We got some veal. we got some raccoon veal down here, young one. the
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh my god.
::Bob LeMent
But yeah there's so many examples, I mean, ah of this. And and just, and even if you take away some of these kind of things, just the fact that, you know, ah bees burrow into the ground in wintertime and cicadas have a cycle of so many years where they, seven years, I think it is, where they bury themselves and then come back out.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, all of this, has It can't be totally instinctual because you know at some point, some cicadas had to come to the brink of extinction to say, hey guess what? If I go down in the dirt deep enough, I won't be affected by this shitty weather that's going on.
::Bob LeMent
And so, you know, it's so, you know, instinct or learned, it becomes the the lines blur a little bit, I think, because it's, ah you know, yeah some of this has to have some kind of processing behind
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It does and you know my My idea of this and a lot of is like based off of like research and things I've heard over the years so We are a organic, we live on an organic spacecraft that is flying through space, hurtling through space.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Hurdling. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And we know pretty well that comets, asteroids, certain structures like these can house certain cells or eggs or whatever the case may be frozen.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And they, ah on occasion, do enter into our atmosphere.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, the idea is that we have so many things that have had to adapt to this environment, this organic spacecraft, if you will.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Pretty much nothing is from this place.
::Bob LeMent
Probably not.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It came...
::Bob LeMent
I mean, over time, yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
right it came over here developed and formed the way that it is now you know i'm getting just like a basic understanding of all like definitely there's a more complex explanation to all of this but like it's not cut and dry you know like we're like what you were getting out too is like there's so many elements to this there's so many different things and just so many different ways and survival tactics and intelligence and communication it's There's so much.
::Bob LeMent
I know.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
There's so much.
::Bob LeMent
And and the other fact is we have, you know, um fairly short lifespans. And, you know, if you look at the earth and everything that's changed over the the billions of years that it's been around,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We do.
::Bob LeMent
Um, our time here is very short and we've had no recording except for the last, you know, 10,000, 15,000 years. So it's even shorter, right?
::Bob LeMent
We don't, it's not like we can go back.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Right.
::Bob LeMent
Let's look back in the record a million and a half years and see what was happening back then.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Good luck.
::Bob LeMent
We don't know. I mean, everything, everything's a guess.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Now.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, we do dig things up and, and do, you know, have some knowledge.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Core sampling, they do LiDAR these days.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. But it's still, we're not talking about millions of years of, of you know, truthful written history to go by.
::Bob LeMent
You know what I mean? i mean, yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's always changing. It's always changing. It's always evolving. It's always advancing. It's never...
::Bob LeMent
I think.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
I think we are just right now, we so this is you know going to be one of those ai speeches, but we are just now at the cusp of being able to catalog everything efficiently.
::Bob LeMent
And AI is part of that, right? So the fact that we have computers and we can have computers do a lot of databasing and then be able to draw on those databases and so forth, which is all AI is right now, um is that this is the this is the beginning,
::Bob LeMent
of being able to go that million year stretch. Prior to this, I mean, there wasn't enough animal hides in the world to write everything down.
::Bob LeMent
it's So so this is the this is the point of entry, really. We're at the very you know early stages of being able to catalog enough um to be useful in the future.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
and
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Do you know to your point regarding like advancement? You I love those people that get into the conversation about, you know, protecting animals and make sure they're not being um mistreated or harmed.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
um I'm totally on board with that. The thing that people don't understand is a lot of these farm animals have been modified for farming.
::Bob LeMent
Yes. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They, you know, like, what do I mean by this? Like, I'm talking about a molecular level. Like, they sit in labs, and i've I've spoken to scientists about this, too. And it's not necessarily like, you know, some of it is put to really good use. Like, a great example is to make sure that you don't get poisoning from milk.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
There used to be certain pathogens and diseases that get used to form in milk.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And even though it's processed in the refrigerator and homogenized, it still can pass and people could get sick. So there's a lot of benefits to this.
::Bob LeMent
You can still get sick from raw milk now if you eat because because you know cows don't take a shower every day and they basically shit all over themselves and roll it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It. Yes.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. And roll in it. Just like pigs.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Just like pigs.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. So... You know, everything gets in when you're milking the cow, everything goes wherever, whatever's down there goes with it.
::Bob LeMent
So, yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But it's it's really interesting because, like, who would ever think that we could reach a point where not only, like, we have abundance of everything, but we're able to almost literally control our environment?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I wouldn't say very well.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i Personally, i don't think we're doing a great job. But it's still...
::Bob LeMent
but what's what's what is What's the problem that you have? What's the specific issue?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, i grew up I grew up in upstate New York, so you know there were people that were further up that used to come down on the weekends or during the week that used to have my dad that lived in the farmlands, and we used to go out there too.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And –
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
it's It's weird watching farmers. This has always been weird. Just spraying pesticides and herbicides and all of this is.
::Bob LeMent
right
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And ah remember I'm outdoors and some of this like is kind of splattering. And I remember this, too. They call it the itch. That's what it's call iss called. It's called itch. And I remember like just walking back, you know, um down to the main road. I'm just itching my arms.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Then you like think yourself, wait a minute. If this is itching my arm right now, and it's like pretty bad, you know, it's like kind of like you hive. Why am I putting that on my food?
::Bob LeMent
Well, they were keep the bugs off.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
At what cost?
::Bob LeMent
I know at what cost. Yes.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Hey, what cause? You know what I'm saying? So there's like, there it's almost like nature's ultimate middle finger. You know, it's like, we're trying to like play with it with our biological and physical computers.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Whereas nature does it in an organic and super complex way.
::Bob LeMent
Mm hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And we're just like,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We alter it, but then there's so many other things that comes with it. It's like nature's like, nah, like escape, escape, escape.
::Bob LeMent
Right. Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
just pressing that button over and over again.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. Well, and then, I mean, unfortunately the worst thing about pesticides is it gets in the groundwater and then, and then over the years it builds up because the half lives are too long.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And poisons the water.
::Bob LeMent
And then the next thing you know, you're drinking the pesticides and you don't even know it. And then, you know, and it causes damage internally to you. And then, you know, it's, it's kind of round and round you go.
::Bob LeMent
And then, and then they're like, well, wait, we got to combat these pesticides. So we're going to treat the water. And then they treat the water. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
with fluoride and then not realizing you can't drink that stuff.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, and then, and then yeah. And then eventually you get so much of that in you.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
So, I mean, it is, I think, overall, I would say, the fact that we haven't had mass ah deaths means that we're trying to do the best we can. um But unfortunately, you know, to do better would be to to go back, you know, ah few steps and say, okay, we probably ought to stop.
::Bob LeMent
The reason we're doing this is to stop this. Well, how can we stop that? And then just work your way back to the beginning of things and find out um what's the best, you know, way to end this cycle.
::Bob LeMent
um Unfortunately, and we can get into this territory, is you have a little thing called you have a little thing called capitalism.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yes, please. Let's get into all kind of territories. Hello. Dum-dum-dum.
::Bob LeMent
And so each everybody wants to make their money.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
don't have sound effects.
::Bob LeMent
And so you can't knock out these steps because guess what? That knocks out the money. And, and so then now you have capitalism fighting environmentalism and all these other isms and you make no headway. And um I think that is, you know, it it would be, if you remember, and they don't actually go by this edict anymore, Google had a thing called do no evil, right? That was their edict.
::Bob LeMent
Whenever they started the Google company search engine, do no evil.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
that That sounds like something I would hear on a way, you know, to like a Satan's acceptance speech.
::Bob LeMent
but But they don't do that.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, say no evil, hear no evil.
::Bob LeMent
They don't talk. They used to talk about it more. They they don't talk about it anymore. They don't they don't go by that anymore. But I mean, if we had an edict as the human race to say, you know, let's do the least amount of harm possible.
::Bob LeMent
and we stuck by it, right, that's the mantra, then we would not be in the situations that we find ourselves in all these different places. I mean, there's literally, i don't know if you've ever looked into this, but there are chemicals in foods in the United States that aren't allowed in Europe.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
true
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
100, there's more, but at one point it was 132 that were banned in Europe.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
There's a lot more than that these days.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, but think about it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I think it's like 500 or something.
::Bob LeMent
So what's the difference? I mean, like are we like super people over here that can take anything? I mean, why did they decide it wasn't good and now over here, yeah whatever?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Well, honestly,
::Bob LeMent
You know, give the kid, babies can have guns, why not?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I think it also has to do with size. You know, when you look at Europe, Europe is a lot smaller in population than it is in the United States.
::Bob LeMent
I know, but it doesn't matter.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And.
::Bob LeMent
where Everything's compartmentalized, right? So people love to, I mean, I'm not going to bash you for saying that because that's what people do say.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
But here's what here's my comeback to that.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I'm just like trying to see the both sides of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
So they are like, well, we have so many more people than Europe does. Bullshit, right? Wisconsin is the size of you know some European country.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like Germany?
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, and it has the same amount of people.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
You already have a government of Wisconsin that should be doing the things for Wisconsin. And they generate funds for Wisconsin, right? Everything is compartmentalized.
::Bob LeMent
So now they're doing apples and oranges. They're saying, oh, the United States is so much bigger than Germany. No way Yeah, you're right. But guess what? Any one of the states is probably, Rhode Island, for Christ's sake, is way smaller, right?
::Bob LeMent
Why isn't Rhode Island taking care of this?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, Rhode Island's got a lot of problems these days.
::Bob LeMent
you know So, you know, everybody buddy everybody loves to make that comparison to where they're like, well, they don't have to worry about as much.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Well, guess what? Rhode Island doesn't have to worry about as much. They take in money. And so the argument falls apart because you're doing an apples and oranges comparison. If you start comparing, I mean, chances are Germany is probably the size of a bunch of states.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Right. with the same amount of populations, which means, guess what? All is possible.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, a great, ah honestly, like a great example to like, I live in Florida.
::Bob LeMent
It's...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And one thing that you learn when living in Florida is that the government out here is insanely corrupt, but in the type of corruption where they only care about business infrastructure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
That is the mindset of Floridian government. It's just business structure.
::Bob LeMent
Right? Most governments, yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But they do it in a way where it mostly emphasizes on multi-billion industries, such as entertainment, um Walt Disney Company, Universal, like there's a bunch of others.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Walt Disney.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
um Banking is a very big thing out of it.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
One thing which is insane out here, and like, you know, I'm kind of one of those that get on the cannabis train is Florida has done the exact opposite what California has done. What they've done is they've created a business lock, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
on medical cannabis to the point that they have created a way that it is nearly impossible for anybody in the entire state of Florida to not only do any business with anybody outside of the state, because obviously it's not federally legalized, but they cannot produce it unless it's under specific government supervision by government personnel.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
So basically it's like having your own personal cartel
::Bob LeMent
sure
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
By your farm, you know, just with a US government military uniform.
::Bob LeMent
but But that's the same for whoever produces your whoever produces your energy, your electricity, whoever produces your gas, whoever takes your garbage, whoever does your cable television.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's crazy.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God.
::Bob LeMent
ah i mean, you name it, telephones. um There is governmental monopolies.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Being tapped. Patriot Act. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
in every state all over based on these internet, some of them, you know, that's, you know, kind of the norm, really.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
And it's unfortunate because then because they all preach capitalism, you know, competition breeds the best thing for the consumer. And then when you look at things, you're like, wait a minute, they're all monopolies. All the big ones are monopolies.
::Bob LeMent
You know, ah Walt Disney World has a monopoly because they basically run that whole area of Florida that they exist in.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
You can't you can't you can't go and say, I'm going to set up, you know, they wouldn't sell you the land anyway, but you know what i mean?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Bob LeMent
And so and then the government caters to them because they're so big. And same thing with Universal, same thing with Universal. a lot of different things down in that part of the world.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
therere Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
um But it's, it, that is, you know, it's a funny because it's, you know, it's ah there's not, what do want to say?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
There's no way, there's absolutely no way at this point for you to say, I'm going to create the next Disney world. It ain't going to happen in Florida for you.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
You got to go someplace else. So that tells you, if you think about it, as far as the government goes, that the government's pulling for Walt Disney World.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
yeah
::Bob LeMent
They're not pulling for the little guy. Even though everybody likes to say, oh, anybody can make it happen. The reality is no, anybody can't make it happen.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You yourself can make whatever you want to have. I'm a libertarian. I'm the type of person, um not politically, I'm just libertarian. ah you know I come from a very left-wing perspective, and my mindset has always been where, let me live my life, respect me, and I will respect you.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
you know I believe that you can be someone that's creative and passionate and be able to be explorers and be open and all of those things. You know, there's a reason why we have the underground.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We have indie films. We have underground music and artists and, you know, one man bands. And there's a lot of different avenues. And it's not where any of these people are trying to change the world.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They're trying to make something for themselves. themselves That's it. Like it's you against the world. so what are you going to choose? Are you going choose like the 8 billion people?
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
are you going to choose yourself? And it's like. There's so many things you can do in that like short little life that we have. What do you want to do with it? Want to waste it?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Or you want to have some fun? Because I want to have some fun.
::Bob LeMent
Sure. i mean, everybody gets a choice to a certain extent, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
yeah.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, there are limits to everything. But um yeah, but I mean, you know, but getting back to the ah environment and government and everything is that, um you know, we don't...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
oh yeah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, yes.
::Bob LeMent
There is, this is one of these ah arguments that is hard for people to fathom, right? So i don't, so I don't know exactly like, do you live in a house? Do you live in an apartment?
::Bob LeMent
What's your situation?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i I live with um my mom. I live in a condo in Boca Raton.
::Bob LeMent
Okay, so you got a condo, right? So like an apartment.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
So you have this very, you know, in regards to the rest of even just the United States, this very tiny piece of the world that is yours, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
But if you think about it, yeah just don't even think about the world. Just think about the United States, right? if If they try to kind of hone everybody down into the smallest space possible,
::Bob LeMent
And if you want to have a bigger space, it's going to cost you a lot. But the reality is even in the United States, everybody could probably have a hundred acres to themselves because there's that much land individually. There's there's millions upon millions upon millions of acres of land.
::Bob LeMent
Now it all isn't in Florida.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
no definitely not in florida i guarantee yeah
::Bob LeMent
Some of it's better than others.
::Bob LeMent
But I'm just saying that, you know, the interesting thing is, and that's what government does, is keep is keep everybody kind of honed in. That's where all the regulations come. Property regulations are are massive, right?
::Bob LeMent
so but But if you were really for the people, then you would let the people do, you know, give the people the means to do what they want to do. and but that's not what happens.
::Bob LeMent
You want to hone them all in keep them all in the smallest space possible.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Bob LeMent
you know You can never be self-sufficient ever. i mean, um it's kind of ridiculous because we have we just have an incredible amount of space. Everybody talks about overpopulation and and this and that. No, there's no overpopulation. It's just everybody wants to live in this particular area because it's got the beach, because it's got this, because it's got that.
::Bob LeMent
The reality is we...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, don't worry, I'm moving at the end of the year.
::Bob LeMent
yeah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I'm out.
::Bob LeMent
Oh, you're out? Okay. The real alley is that there's more than enough space for everybody to have plenty of space, but but it's not allowed.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
The government is the probably the biggest landowner of of land in the United States.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Bob LeMent
And that's that's you know public lands and parks and all this kind of stuff, which is great, but...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Well, they own they own all land. Okay, the crazy thing is like when people think when you buy a house...
::Bob LeMent
Oh, well, yeah. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
OK, you technically own the land, but if the if you have an FBI SWAT team that comes to your house and says, get out and they have legal document and tender to say that this property is now theirs.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You have to leave.
::Bob LeMent
Right. It's not yours anymore, all of a sudden.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's not yours anymore, so. you know you got you get to take that with a grain of salt, you know,
::Bob LeMent
Well, you basically only you basically get it for the time that you follow the rules, pay your taxes and are alive.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yes. Yes. Good child.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, that's it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Here's a lollipop.
::Bob LeMent
That's it. So you never really own it. And I think, you know, the funny thing is, is that probably the Native Americans had the better system with land, which means that they had these huge territories and they moved around them.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Nah.
::Bob LeMent
at different points in the year for the weather or for the migration of of food, you know, or, or agriculture. And, but they had huge, huge portions of land. They just kind of clumped together because that was the best way to survive.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Or you do you do what they did out here in Florida, the Seminole Nation, become one of the biggest, richest tribes in the United States.
::Bob LeMent
And, you know, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Well, that has to do with gambling.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, they make a lot of money.
::Bob LeMent
Right. And that was, you know, but they're heavily taxed and, and you know, who who in the end is the winner of that?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Fun.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, I know they've got a lot of money and everything, but guess who they pay to every year?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
and then where and then where does that go?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Who knows? Cambodia? Another transgender study on um lions?
::Bob LeMent
i don't know.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Maybe tigers or beers or oh my?
::Bob LeMent
It could, who knows, whatever, it but it it gets lost in the wash.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And, um and so, you know, it's just one of those facts of life is that we've, and really, this has only happened since for the last, maybe 100 years, maybe a little bit more 150 years.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It does.
::Bob LeMent
fifty years
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Give or say, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
That government, yeah, government's role has been so all encompassing. It's not been that way for, it's not been that way for the whole time. um So, you know, it's kind of just this monster that keeps growing.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
the the crazy the the crazy
::Bob LeMent
It'll eventually devour itself.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
The crazy part, though, is it's like none of the other ones work. It's like we see where communism goes. We definitely see where fascism goes.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, boy.
::Bob LeMent
Mm
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, and socialism has its benefits. But like there there's a lot of like selling your soul to the devil that comes with that, too. It's like almost like. Capitalism has a lot of problems and issues, but it's like the lesser of all evils.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
you know It's just as bad as the rest of them, but it's the least evil out of the evils. Damn, I cannot believe I just said that.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, maybe there's something we haven't tried. i mean, we we haven't got a word for it yet.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We need the aliens, man.
::Bob LeMent
I, I,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
that
::Bob LeMent
I...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They've been flying around and observing us. They need to come down, bro. They've got to come down and make peace with us.
::Bob LeMent
Come down and teach us. um yeah I mean, it may be that there's something that we haven't tried that would work better, but no one's trying it or no one's allowing it to happen.
::Bob LeMent
You know, because of the current situation and everything, um what gets batted around a lot is we are the only, um you know, ah nation of means that doesn't have universal health care.
::Bob LeMent
United States. Why don't we have that? If ever all these other places have it. And the argument usually is, well, we're going to love more people. And it's like, no, all of them doing it, which means, which means they have a lot more people.
::Bob LeMent
Right. Because, you know, and granted, right, you're going to say, well, I don't get as good a care because you hear horror stories. Right. But um but every one of those places and I mean, you can look into it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Every one of those places has private health care that if you are wealthy enough, you can buy.
::Bob LeMent
The same system.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It would...
::Bob LeMent
Right now, we don't have we have the wealthy enough and we don't have the universal.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And so, you know to me, that's one of those things where it's like, you gotta read the room, folks.
::Bob LeMent
everybody's doing it and it's, it's working at, on a certain level, right? ah ah You know, ah infant death is lesser.
::Bob LeMent
um You know, all these other, other issues that are um like early detection are lower. um And that's all based on the fact that they get universal. Now, when you get into the point where you need a new liver or you need new lungs or you need,
::Bob LeMent
you know, brain surgery or something. Yes, they fall off. But the the reality is chances are you and a ah in a for-profit world are still going to die too because you don't aren't going to have the money.
::Bob LeMent
and you're going to bankrupt your family. And then guess what? Then that is a domino that falls. And where does it fall on? It falls on the government. And so it's ah it's another one of these things where you have to go, you know, look apples to apples, because I think the reality is, is that we're doing ourselves more harm by not having it with the rest of the world has it, because we're not taking care of these problems that,
::Bob LeMent
cause other problems. This is like the domino effect, like the chemicals.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know what the it it is, i think a lot of what it stems from is the fear of a lot of these scenarios get done state by state. And I'm going to be real honest. You know, if you had universal health care in this country.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i guarantee you, Florida is going to be the worst out of any other state.
::Bob LeMent
Well, and you can move it to a different state, I suppose.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Right. But the the the philosophy is, is then like people get angry, he's like, well, what happens if don't want to move? You know, the truth is, they're going to be negatives with all these different things. It's just how it's implemented. It's like, yeah, it's probably going to have to be done by a state by state basis. But you still have people in those states.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
OK, that can stand up and say no. We should not be doing it this direction. Like we need to make sure that if, you know, for example, you have a state where has very heavily dense populated places and they're having problems with doctors and nurses.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Okay, we need universal healthcare. Maybe we should build more clinics, right?
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
yeah there's There's fixes to all of these problems. There's excuses to make sure nothing gets done because they're great. Excuses mean you don't have to spend any money.
::Bob LeMent
Well, but and then okay, let's talk about money real quick.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, money, money, money, many money.
::Bob LeMent
We are trillions of dollars in debt as a country, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
a
::Bob LeMent
Which you know what that tells me?
::Bob LeMent
It tells me money doesn't mean anything.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
no
::Bob LeMent
Because you can be trillions of dollars in debt and still be a viable solvent country that leads that leads the world. the dollar leads the world. And it's trillions of dollars in debt and you're leading the world.
::Bob LeMent
That tells me that money is really immaterial.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
it's ah It's a fiat currency.
::Bob LeMent
So if they want to do it, the well, if they want to do it, that means they're going to do it, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's crazy. It's backed by nothing.
::Bob LeMent
Who cares? we get two trill Let's say we're $2 trillion in debt. I can't remember what the debt is right now, but... We're trillions of dollars.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's on dutch.org.
::Bob LeMent
Let's add another, let's do universal healthcare, add another trillion. Who cares?
::Bob LeMent
We're never going to pay it off in our lifetimes. You know what i mean? We're still number one, who but now you're helping people. You know what I mean? And and guess what?
::Bob LeMent
You don't have to take away from the billionaires because you just add to your debt. Who cares? cares? Obviously, we don't care now because we still got it. No one's doing anything about, you know, they're they're they're talking about doing things to get rid of it.
::Bob LeMent
But the reality is, how long have we had it now?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. they've been talking about universal health care since Kennedy. i mean, Kennedy was one of the first people to start talking about it and.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
that's because that's whenever the the world was doing it. and And we we weren't. And so it's it's always been on the table, but ah nobody's doing it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
to You know what? Like, from my own personal experience, I have needed root canal for about seven years. OK, I'm 26.
::Bob LeMent
Oh, my Lord.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I've needed a root canal for about seven years.
::Bob LeMent
i like your cat.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And I've she's adorable. I know we got two cats. ah i I've never been able to do it because i can't afford it.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Because in this country, dentistry is a luxury. Okay? It's not a necessity.
::Bob LeMent
It is still Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's a luxury.
::Bob LeMent
And even if you have dental insurance, it's never great.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Because... They want $2,000 to $3,000. It's like...
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, put it on... I love this. They're always like, put it on a credit card. Put on a credit card.
::Bob LeMent
Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Let's put it on a credit card.
::Bob LeMent
Well, you could be just like the country, just get yourself in tremendous debt.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I'm like, you want to... You want to...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's crazy. But... It's wild because you could go across the Mexican border. I mean, right now it's a little hard, but you can go across the Mexican border and get the same procedure for $400.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Maybe like a better doctor, like $700.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
So, yeah, like it's just it just goes to show that it's not...
::Bob LeMent
Or go to Turkey and get all new teeth.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
about care, it's about money. Because dentist schools in this country, okay, specifically here in the United States, has to be a specialty school.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
So these dentists have to spend 300 500, sometimes even a million dollars
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
for financial aid, all the schooling they gotta go through, and then they have to open up for practice. And then this is the wonderful thing we love about the pharmaceutical industry. They make sure that all the costs for dental supplies are triple the amount of any other type of medical supplies.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I know this because a dentist told me this, okay?
::Bob LeMent
Sure. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I was just blown away by this. And I'm like, the man was...
::Bob LeMent
Because it's profitable. It's a profitable industry and people will pay it
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
the name was six The man was 67 years old, and he was still paying off his student debt.
::Bob LeMent
Well, I would say he he probably wasn't doing it right, but that's okay.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
sixty
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Well, he was a good doctor. like he was the type of person that if you need an emergency procedure, you'd come there and he'd take care of you.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's sad because you have those good people that just get butchered by the system, just butchered.
::Bob LeMent
But
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. the But yeah, I mean, that's another thing, you know, dental ah health and mental health and all this stuff. The thing when you when I mentioned universal, I don't mean that you're going to get every procedure that you want to have for free.
::Bob LeMent
It means that you're going to get a baseline of care that is going to make sure that something like your root canal doesn't elevate because with with not getting a root canal, here's what you're
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Bob LeMent
Throwing yourself potential. You can get an infection. You get an infection in your mouth. What's close to your mouth? Your brain.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Your brain, your nasal cavities.
::Bob LeMent
You can get an infection that goes up into your brain and then you're totally fucked.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
So I'm just telling you
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But know. I know. i know
::Bob LeMent
So, but if you can prevent that, then you're preventing the higher cost of something in the future with having some kind of baseline thing. And I don't i don't want to become the guy that talks about healthcare.
::Bob LeMent
Because I'm not, but i'm just because the topic came up, I'm like, it is it really is smart money. It's smart money. and And why this country isn't doing it is beyond me whenever you look around. I could see if it was the 70s and only you know half the countries were in on this and it wasn't working.
::Bob LeMent
And you got to make a decision. You're like, ah, screw that.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You mean like their excuse with not changing over to the metric system, which, by the way, was the stupidest way that they did it.
::Bob LeMent
It's not working.
::Bob LeMent
Right. is stupid.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I'm like...
::Bob LeMent
Yes, we should all be metric at this point as well.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I know. I'm i'm pretty familiar. like i One thing that like you learn over time is being able to develop skills. It's like... It's not where we're talking about being able to change the world. It's being able to observe and see all the things around us. And like, yeah, there's going to be a lot of things that are bad, lot of things that suck.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And you you're right. Like these things do need to get fixed. But.
::Bob LeMent
Well, the the bad thing is they can all be fixed now.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, but they're not being.
::Bob LeMent
They couldn't be fixed 30 years ago. But at at this point in time, all these are easily fixable. And the amounts of money that we're talking about is not so astronomical that the the problem with having something like universal dental or universal health care is not really the money that's going to be spent to do it. It's the fact that we don't have enough people to do it.
::Bob LeMent
right So you have a population that's huge and you don't have that many dentists and doctors and nurses.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And so then you have to you have to you have to put initiatives in place to make them.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Because it's too expensive.
::Bob LeMent
right And so that's the first step. you may You get incentives in place to make all these people, to have this be an interest, to have people go to to college and and learn all this stuff and then put them out into the field and then It's a whole kind of system that has to be created.
::Bob LeMent
And I think that's what everybody's scared by because you can't just, if you just threw it out there and said, we're going to have it, it would fail because there's not enough. Because what what we don't aren't paying attention to is every day people are dying that don't need to die because they can't get things that other people can get.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No.
::Bob LeMent
and um And so, you know, if you start bringing them into the equation, then everything becomes overwhelmed. And so, but it, unfortunately, if you really are going to be ah government for the people, that's what you have to do.
::Bob LeMent
And there are people who can, I mean, we can figure this out. It's not, you know, it's not rocket science, as they say.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
no
::Bob LeMent
um You can say, okay, we need to have x number of of these specialties in these places in order to handle the load of our population.
::Bob LeMent
There's people that do these projections all the time. i mean, they do them for fucking highways, for Christ's sake. They can do them for people, right? They're building highways. You'll see a highway get built and not get used for 10 years. And you know why Because it's not for that 10 years. It's for the next 10 years.
::Bob LeMent
And you see that kind of stuff happening all the time. You're like why why are they building all this infrastructure in the middle of nowhere? Well, because the projections say that we're going to need it in another 20 years.
::Bob LeMent
We just need to turn that focus over to a different thing and it will happen.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Well, i I'm in the automotive industry. um
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's wild because the automotive industry does not have enough technicians. And it's not that there there's enough mechanics.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
The problem is that there's not enough people that specialize in these cars, particularly me able to work with electronics and understanding how new cars work.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And it's insane because, you know, I have like instructors and I've like talked with people, even certain businesses. It's so corrupt.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's insanely corrupt. Like the business practices, the the the tactics that they do to customers, like particularly as automotic um automotive technicians.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I had this experience myself where I'm spreading this out to people right now. This is a known thing that they go on. In order to make more money off of warranty repairs, what they'll do is partial repair.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
So they'll replace just a part of the component, or if it's like a rubber piece, like a bushing or something, they won't replace that. That way, if something does happen, you come back.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They can put it again in as that so that they can continue making money off of that.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
that warranty that because that's how the warranties work is if you put that in first and you continue putting in, they make more money off of it because it's considered like a continuous.
::Bob LeMent
sure
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
This is insane. This is insane. This is people that need cars to take their kids to daycare. These are people that have vehicles that I don't know, they're going on a hunting trip with their son or something.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, these are people that are that are driving back and forth, you know, to get a work. of but This is people's lives. This is people's lives.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And just to see like that type of behavior and knowing that like, obviously I'm not going to be that type of person. Now going to take the type of experience that I have and and wherever that takes me. But seeing that scares the living shit out of you.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It just wakes you up just a little bit to smell the roses.
::Bob LeMent
Well, we're consumers. We're not people. We're consumers.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, you're not people, consumers.
::Bob LeMent
That's why they have the word.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's a terrible word.
::Bob LeMent
Because you consume, so they want you to keep consuming.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i don't like it.
::Bob LeMent
And so they have to you know manipulate the system so that you continue to consume. That's why things have you know planned obsolescence and things are built to break. And you know warranties don't last that long. And you know you have to buy things every on a cycle.
::Bob LeMent
um because Because it all keeps the, you know, gooses the economy.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
was one of you know i's from: ::Lost in the Groove Podcast
in mint condition. This thing turns on. You can plug it in. Works like a champ. you know i have like a radio that's like over 69 years old.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Works fine. you know Put in some new batteries. It turns on. You can physically see that with your own eye. You know, you can physically see how like there was a time where you bought something and it was it would last you 60 years.
::Bob LeMent
No.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, well, because they weren't they weren't worried about this because nobody had anything. And so we were all new new customers. And so the problem has been when everybody's got everything, you have to, how do I get the next sale?
::Bob LeMent
Because there's not, you know as as they push these consumer goods you know down into the, you know ah for lack of a better term, the the lower economic statuses, right?
::Bob LeMent
then they have to figure out a way to churn the product. And so they make a crap product so that you have to buy a new one or they make it disposable. And, and so then, you know, you know, just like televisions and VCRs and disc players, and now, you know, radios and, and ah album, you know, vinyl players, it's just like, everything's like, that's why you have the new phone all the time.
::Bob LeMent
That phone is perfectly good and will work for many, many years. But they they they hold back the improvements because they can make phones a lot better than they do.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
and they make sure that they break.
::Bob LeMent
And they break.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
My last...
::Bob LeMent
Well, that's why they put it all glass. I mean, heck, what do you expect?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No, but what's crazy, I had an iPhone before this one, and it had...
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And I never knew this was a real thing. It reaches a point where when it decides that it no longer can supply the battery, it kills itself.
::Bob LeMent
Right. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Because then then that you have to get another one.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I...
::Bob LeMent
Software changes, everything changes.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I hate...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I was like, it was like $700 for a new one. I'm like, I just got this phone like two years ago.
::Bob LeMent
yeah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
like what do you mean?
::Bob LeMent
but bid the guy churn
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
it just killed itself.
::Bob LeMent
But this is, you talk about capitalism works. This is where capitalism doesn't work for the consumer because you because you're constantly you know forced into a predicament to where you're like, I just got this phone for two years.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
True.
::Bob LeMent
And now it's crap. And it's like, that is the negative of capital. They should, you know, i don't, I'm surprised they haven't. I mean, they kind of do it a little bit through the phone ah providers, you know, just pay your $10 and just get a new phone every time they come out or whatever it is more than $10, but you know what i'm saying?
::Bob LeMent
and And basically just rent it because that's all you're doing. You're not buying anything. You're just renting it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's the same thing like leasing.
::Bob LeMent
Just like land, yeah just like everything else. it's So let's just call it what it is and and do that. And then, you know, they've they've gotten forced into doing it because of recycling and and laws and so forth that have come down. But the reality is it's always been that way.
::Bob LeMent
You know, Before you just throw it into the landfill and now with everything's come down, they're like, well, no, you need to recycle it. And so then they put these things in place. Well, you can send your, you can send this worthless phone that you paid $700 for back to us and we'll take care of it. Hey, guess what?
::Bob LeMent
That saves us money. We start pulling all those stuff apart where reuse everything and we're saving money, but you're not. And you know, it, it gets to be, it's an, it's crazy, but people do it and we're all compliant.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's crazy.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Right. the the The reality of it is, you know, always, I always joked, do you remember the um Area 51 thing a few years ago?
::Bob LeMent
They're like, they can't stop us all if we all stormed the gates of Area 51.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah
::Bob LeMent
Right? You remember that?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I would not recommend that. There ex-military and high-up security.
::Bob LeMent
No, no, I don't recommend it either.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
going to back off.
::Bob LeMent
but it was kind of a, it was kind of ah a bit of a meme and a bit of a thing a few years ago. Same thing. If, if everybody just decided one day, guess what? We're not going to take it anymore.
::Bob LeMent
Things would change. You're like, I'm not going to pay. Everybody's just, they wouldn't do it because they couldn't, but because we're all addicted to this kind of stuff. But if they could, you'd say everybody's just like, you know,
::Bob LeMent
Nobody renew their phones. Everybody just drop out of the digital revolution. And boy, oh boy, would things change quickly.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's just, there's also this sense of like honing into nostalgia, you know, You've always got that person that drives like a a vintage car or that one person that's got like, you know, vintage furniture in their house or something.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I don't know. I've always loved those people because like they're sometimes like the most open minded and like, you know, we I could talk to them about what we've been talking about.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ike makes them happy, or that: ::Bob LeMent
Right, right. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's because like it's the same of staying real in the reality of it all. you know It's like...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I have enough to do this. i you know? Like, I...
::Bob LeMent
Well, unfortunately, that's the attitude that you have to have. You have to say, you got to say, okay, what's my top five things that make me feel good or make me happy?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And then that's what I need to concentrate.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Besides drugs. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Well, and that could be one of your top five.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And alcohol.
::Bob LeMent
I'm not saying that's not. And then and then you you have your top five and then you just stick to those and anything that falls off that list, you don't worry about because chances are you've got enough money for those.
::Bob LeMent
And if everybody took that approach, then we'd all probably be happier people. But the problem is you get marketed to 24-7 on all these other things that you don't have or will never have.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Or don't need...
::Bob LeMent
and, or don't need, and you just, and people buy into the hype. And once you bought into the hype, then you're, you know, you're caught, you're like a fish, you know, you're caught and you're reeled in and then you get stuck on this wheel. So, but, but honestly, I don't know if the logic in the world is such that if you just look at the government, there's absolutely no reason to not have debt because the government has such tremendous debt.
::Bob LeMent
So everyone should just charge as much as they can, as fast as they can, as high as they can get away with because that's the way everything's operating. They don't want you to do that. but But if you're looking at the example, that's what's happening.
::Bob LeMent
You know, so it is.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's a mindfuck. It's a beautiful mindfuck.
::Bob LeMent
It's always a do as I do as i say, not as I do. Everything in the world is do as I say, not as I do.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I've always tried figure out, like, the number one thing with... I've been around veterans. and they sometimes will say some of the darkest shit you'll ever hear in your life.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But... They're some of the most warmest and most wonderful people. And some of these people have been through hell. I mean, they've seen shit that I don't think any of us wanna see.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And they were put through the mill.
::Bob LeMent
No.
::Bob LeMent
Right. And then they get hassled when they want to get go to the VA.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Damn.
::Bob LeMent
Or, you know, they end up living on the street because of circumstance and and then they're hassled because they're homeless. Right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I know. But there's so much to learn from those kind of people, too. It's like you know you think that trauma and pain and misery is the thing that will always keep you down.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And thing is you know sometimes you're more resilient than you think you are.
::Bob LeMent
Oh, sure. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, you just have to be able to know your strengths and weaknesses and
::Bob LeMent
yeah
::Bob LeMent
Well, we are because we're constantly getting beat down by the world. I mean, not just people in military, but everybody.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah here Yay!
::Bob LeMent
it's you know you you You suffer through school, then you you decide if you're going to suffer through more school to do something else, or you go out into the world or and you get into the world.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
it's wonderful.
::Bob LeMent
And until you find that a tolerable fit, you bounce around from place to place. And i mean, it's all it's all a struggle. And i I personally think it's a very unnecessary struggle.
::Bob LeMent
and You don't need to be, everybody doesn't need a struggle like this. And some of it's self-inflicted, right? Some of it people struggle because they're just their own worst enemy. And some people struggle because of circumstance.
::Bob LeMent
But overall, you know, it's really... it's really quite of avoidable in a broader sense.
::Bob LeMent
All of this can be avoided. We have, we literally have the technologies to make a better world. We've had them for quite some time, for over 20 years, I would say.
::Bob LeMent
Literally McDonald's could feed everyone on on in the United States easily.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
They kind of do.
::Bob LeMent
because they have the infrastructure, they have the the means, they have the methods, they've, they've honed it all down.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
Right. So, you know,
::Bob LeMent
The government, we just talked about the government stealing your property and everything. Take it. McDonald's is the way to do it. Take it and then feed everybody. You know, um there's no way there's nothing stopping the government from doing that.
::Bob LeMent
It's to take all those methods, that whole thing, and just say, guess what? We got a bigger problem. We got to feed everybody. So you can either work with us or we're just going to take it. um because that's what they do.
::Bob LeMent
And, you know, so you can you can house everybody.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
yeah
::Bob LeMent
There's ample ah ways that you can house people. We could do that in a heartbeat. If everybody needs a house, we could, even if you're just like four people to a ah lot in little tiny houses, we could do it.
::Bob LeMent
Easily done.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I mean, there's definitely a trend with tiny houses, you know, like all over tick.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And you know, it's crazy. Like the new trend is renting homes. like there are homes that are built just for renting.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I'm like, so you want people to just keep on paying forever.
::Bob LeMent
Yes, that's that's capitalism.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's great. I mean, just let me write my name down. Let me just sign this. I'll take that house. No, no.
::Bob LeMent
ah So, but I mean, that's that's the point of it is, you know, you have people who want to generate and then you have people who have to pay. And if there's not enough payers and then too many generators, it doesn't work. So you have always have to have the payers.
::Bob LeMent
and And so the system is all geared towards keeping ah that equation even to where you don't have too many people to have enough money to become something other than payers, consumers. um that's you know we But all these things are easily, we have the mechanism now to name anything, transportation.
::Bob LeMent
we could We can make mass transportation available for everybody. We could literally make cars available for everybody. there's There's enough cars sitting on lots that if you just gave them away to people, everyone could have a car, right?
::Bob LeMent
There's enough food in restaurants that everybody could eat. There's enough ah space for you know rentals and hotels and everything to put everybody up somewhere.
::Bob LeMent
But we don't do it because that's not the system.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, i thinking about this, i wonder what the aliens hovering up in the sky right now observing our planet is thinking about.
::Bob LeMent
I think we're stupid.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like, i get they're observing us, but, like, are we that interesting to visit, you know?
::Bob LeMent
No, i i I firmly believe at this point. So number one, i'll I'll put it out there. I do believe that there are aliens. I do believe they've already been here. They've been to the planet. They've observed. They've done things.
::Bob LeMent
And I think we are probably one of the least interesting things on the planet.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
So they're not here for us.
::Bob LeMent
No. If they were here for us, we would know it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
What are they here for? That is a great question. Then what are they here for?
::Bob LeMent
um Why do you go on vacation?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
To relax.
::Bob LeMent
Okay. We're a destination.
::Bob LeMent
but We're someplace that maybe we're the only place that has trees in the galaxy. Okay.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I can't see the trees.
::Bob LeMent
I come to see the trees. Honestly, honest to God, if if we were the if we were the focus, then, then you know, i think we are not the focus of what all these things want, you know.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It makes sense.
::Bob LeMent
And we're just in the way.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
There was, um, there, I think there was a point where we were on their radar, you know, I like when you take, like, for example, like Egyptian history, I mean, even as an empire, you know, there's like there's so many deeper layers to it.
::Bob LeMent
Maybe. what
::Bob LeMent
I
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And like they're mentioning of like outer world species, like let alone their understanding. Yeah, like they were thousands of years behind.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But they had something that we didn't have, which is they all had a connection to something. They had like this deeper meaning of some kind, you know, to.
::Bob LeMent
i don't know.
::Bob LeMent
I don't know that they did.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No, but like, no, but like, again, like I'm not saying like it's ah they did pretty insane shit.
::Bob LeMent
sure
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I mean, let's be honest, Egyptians were kind of wild people, but it's just like baffling.
::Bob LeMent
We do too.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
What these people did thousands of years ago. is like, if if I can think of a thousand things that I want to do today, i don't think I want to mummify cat or mummify a person and put them in a sarcophagus.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like, I don't want to be lifting this 30-ton piece of stone right here.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like, what were these people on in those days? Like, ancient meth?
::Bob LeMent
well but you Well, but you didn't you also didn't have the organization. So, you know, there was a hierarchy.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, you did have an evil pharaoh. Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
there was a high Well, there was also some, what do you want to call it? They don't necessarily think the Egyptians built the pyramids.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Might have not.
::Bob LeMent
So maybe it's even a race and and a whole different set of people who did all that work that don't have anything to do with the Egyptians. um the the The big pyramids, the smaller ones, yes, but not the big ones.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, the big one...
::Bob LeMent
And they may have just stumbled upon them and then they started emulating.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
the
::Bob LeMent
They'd think the strings is actually older than the pyramids.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And so, you know i think the other problem is that we had, there's a whole different system, right? So we have capitalism that you know keeps the average person down and they had you know a hierarchy for kings and pharaohs and and all that that kept the average person down. um and And not even that, because now it's come to light that that there was skilled labor and they were paid.
::Bob LeMent
um who worked on the some of these temples and things like that. They weren't slaves. They were skilled labor. in And so it was much like capitalism in a way because it's like, oh, I'm a stone carver. Okay, you want a stone carver? I'll be there and live there. And then my kids are going to be a stone carver because i'm going to teach them. and And it was a whole kind of thing just like that. So, yeah, I don't i don't know that it's – overly different other than there wasn't a lot of alternatives. Like you talked about being in Florida, you want to go to California go to California, right?
::Bob LeMent
um It's not going to, you could save up a few grand and make it to California and, and find, you know, something
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
e ah A hundred years ago, being going from Florida to California was yeah pretty dangerous.
::Bob LeMent
insurmountable.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I mean, the chances of you dying was very high.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. Hi. Yeah. Same thing with Egypt. they know that you You live where you live because where else am I going to live? There's no place. ah I don't even know of any place else.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, I know people who literally haven't been out of their neighborhoods their whole lives and they have every opportunity to do so.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But they don't want to.
::Bob LeMent
But they don't want to.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
People like being comfortable.
::Bob LeMent
And so...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
I can say for myself, like being comfortable is the most amazing thing because it.
::Bob LeMent
Sure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
But it's such a negative at the same time, because making yourself comfortable limits you from exploring and experiencing things so all around you.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And. you know, I'm not a religious person. I i am spiritual, but maybe there is reincarnation. Maybe there isn't. I don't really care.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
What I care about is now, you know, you were alive now, you know?
::Bob LeMent
Right? Right?
::Bob LeMent
Well, but I think to loop back into the alien thing, I mean, that's why maybe we're not, we're just another, like, you know, maybe cats are more interesting. And that's why all that stuff with ah ah cat stuff came up is because the the aliens that came down at that time were more interesting.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
oh yeah. They're much more interesting.
::Bob LeMent
Cats like, oh gosh, I wish we better focus on these cats because they're the they're the cool thing. I mean, who knows, but I don't think that, I think that if we were the focus of any kind of alien interest or any you know, enemy or otherwise, more things would have happened that would be obvious.
::Bob LeMent
Whereas now it's just these fleeting kind of things. And I think it's, I literally think it's just, Hey, let's go see some cows or let's go see some trees or let's go check out how ants build an ant mound or,
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Or kind of like when you stop at Shell, you know, at the gas station, you know, along on your journey.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's like, hey, honey, do you want to take a quick stop at E-Earth?
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, or Arth? Oh, yeah. See the cows in the trees.
::Bob LeMent
ah Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You know, they're like, whoosh. And they're just like hovering down.
::Bob LeMent
yeah
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
like And theyll people are like, oh, my God, UFO.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And they just shoot off.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
And it's like, yeah.
::Bob LeMent
And then they're like, that was great. Let's go.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
yeah I mean, because otherwise it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't seem to make sense. We, we we're so as a species, you know, we're so selfish.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
e
::Bob LeMent
We think that everything is, is centered on us, but The realities are that the world happens whether we're here or not for everything. You talk about nature and so forth being this.
::Bob LeMent
we We quantify nature as nature, right? It's the old woman in the commercials or what have you.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Mother Nature.
::Bob LeMent
aunt Mother nature.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
She's always hot with big tits. Yeah, green tits.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah.
::Bob LeMent
so but But the reality is the world happens whether we're here or not. It happens whether any of these animals are here or not or plants are here or not. And I think that that that could be fascinating.
::Bob LeMent
You know, we always want to think we're the fascinating ones, but maybe it's fascinating that there's bees. I don't know. i mean, maybe they want to watch bees pollinate.
::Bob LeMent
I mean, it could be anything.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
That, yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
we The thing about it is like we we live in a place that exists with cycles. A lot of different things interconnect with one another.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
The same way rocks and water play a very key role with working together. you know And everything kind of comes hand in hand.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's not necessarily that we're in control. That's just how this... It works, you know, and the idea is also like almost a lesson of life.
::Bob LeMent
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's where if you try to manipulate and play, do whatever you want. But there's going to be consequences to your actions. You know, you can climb Mount Everest tomorrow, but doesn't mean you're not going to die.
::Bob LeMent
i would I would hesitate to guess that the ocean is probably the big interest for aliens because there seems to be so many reports around the ocean. But the problem is we aren't we can't see what's happening in the ocean most days.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We can't. And the thing is, is like we don't even know what's at the depths of the ocean. i
::Bob LeMent
Right. Right. Maybe there's not a lot of water other places and it's like, wow, this is like the water world for us.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's insane.
::Bob LeMent
It's like a giant water park and they just go shooting around out in the ocean. I don't know. But that to me, that makes more sense because there's so much of it.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
amazing.
::Bob LeMent
um you know
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
There is
::Bob LeMent
and And they can just go zip around and no one would ever see it. Above or below.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's amazing.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
It's amazing. Honestly, I gotta tell you Bob like We started with aliens and I love like we made sure to stick with aliens because aliens are cool, man right aliens are cool
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah
::Bob LeMent
and when we hope We may never know in our lifetime why any of this is happening.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah You know what and honestly like I'm okay with that I I'm the type where I love to be able to explore and learn new things and sometimes if there is an answer To certain questions, it's okay It's okay Yeah, doesn't matter
::Bob LeMent
so
::Bob LeMent
It's okay. it'll ah It's all going to happen, so you'll be fine. I mean, as long as the alien isn't picking you up and dropping you from a high altitude, you're good.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
eight or prying you from the butt cheeks down a
::Bob LeMent
um um because see To me, you know that's the the stereotypical thing, right?
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
boom
::Bob LeMent
As you get probed or whatever. But that's just that's just like you know a kid you know collecting butterflies. They're just...
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Like mommy can I pick that human um and want to check that one hilarious It's probably true probably true you know could talk to him Yeah Which is
::Bob LeMent
Yeah. I want one of each of what I'm trying to catch and I'll just grab one. mean... i mean
::Bob LeMent
ah we like to think that we're all that or something, but the reality is we're not. So
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i mean, she's more interesting than I am, to be honest. Like, even though, you know, she can't talk, she's more expressive.
::Bob LeMent
yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah
::Bob LeMent
Exactly. Who knows what what she's thinking? Maybe she's taking over the world right now. We don't know.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Probably. um i forgot to ask you in the beginning. You're a podcaster, right?
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
um What's your name of your podcast? And where where can we find your amazing podcast?
::Bob LeMent
It doesn't even matter. um yeah i'll give you the I'll give you the spiel. So ah i've actually got I've actually got two shows going right now.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Please.
::Bob LeMent
one The one that's gone on the longest is called Static Radio, staticradio.com, at Static Radio on all the socials. And I'm doing something new here for the last... I don't know, six months or something ah called Mondo Frico podcast. And it's about, oddly enough, has UFOs, has paranormal, has cryptids.
::Bob LeMent
And we talk about, ah we randomly select a topic for each show. And my co-host on that, Rob, does a lot of research. And then I basically just sit in and chime in and be a smart ass.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You're like a sponge.
::Bob LeMent
And that's
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
You're like an oozing sponge.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Soaking.
::Bob LeMent
And ah kind of like I was doing here a little bit today. So, you know, but that's Mondo Frico podcast.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Yeah, government, alien, conspiracies, capitalism.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We covered it, man.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, whatever. And last last episode was called is about the Mongolian death worm, which I don't think anybody's really heard about. But it's a thing.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
No, i have not.
::Bob LeMent
It can kill you if you're in the Gobi Desert, supposedly. So go figure.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
i not gonna go to the Gobi Desert.
::Bob LeMent
and The aliens may be interested in that.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Thank you.
::Bob LeMent
That's the only thing they're going to be interested in.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Maybe probing that one, figuring out where its butt cheeks are.
::Bob LeMent
Yeah, I got catch one of those boys.
::Bob LeMent
But yeah, that's what I've got going on. But ah but i'm I'm happy to talk about anything, obviously, as you can tell.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Oh, of course, listen, there are conversations that are worthwhile to go down and let me say i will go there. i want to go there. i want to dig deep, deep.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
ah Listen, Bob, it's been an absolute pleasure to have you on. i mean, covered a lot.
::Bob LeMent
We did.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Hopefully we open some eggs.
::Bob LeMent
i can't even remember everything at this point. Yeah.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
Nah, me neither can I. That's okay. That's where our listeners, that's where they involved.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
oh But to anybody out there wants to check out ah more of Lost in the Groove, you can find us at Lost in the Groove pod everywhere and anywhere you check out podcasts. All right.
::Lost in the Groove Podcast
We will catch you motherfuckers on the next one. Peace out. Yeah.
