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De-Evolution and Safety: Are We Regressing and Endangering Ourselves?
What if society isn't progressing, but regressing? Inspired by the band Devo and the satirical film Idiocracy, we explore the unsettling concept of De-Evolution. Laura and I delve into the provocative idea that our collective intelligence and education might be on the decline. We discuss the importance of continual learning and how it can counteract this troubling trend. It’s a thought-provoking conversation that invites you to question the state of human progress and the role education plays in it.
But that’s not all—we also highlight a real-life cautionary tale from a recent home inspection. A couple was unknowingly exposing themselves to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide due to a malfunctioning detector and a faulty gas water heater. We discuss the critical importance of understanding and maintaining safety devices in your home. Tune in to hear more about this alarming incident and our vital advice on how to avoid such hazardous situations.
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Speaker 2:Hey everybody, Welcome to the Standing Out Loud podcast. This is Jim, Of course. With me is Laura, the office goddess.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone.
Speaker 2:All right, so All right, the group Devo okay, I'm not sure this is going not really punk, they were kind of a weird band. That song Whip it probably the most popular song they had was Whip it. Alright, do you know what Devo stood for? It tends to be De-Evolution. So they have some weird theory that people are just they're not going up in evolution, they're kind of going backwards, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:I can kind of give it that.
Speaker 2:Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. Yes, so we're going to talk about that briefly here in a little bit, but first let's listen to this.
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Speaker 2:Okay, devo, de-evolution, idiocracy, de-evolution. Yeah, people get dumber and dumber, and not to say people get less educated is totally their fault, right? I've seen the fifth grade exams from like the mid-1800s. Most people cannot pass those Right. A lot of those questions I don't know because they're talking about the history of the country, which was not as long ago 100 years ago compared to what it is now, but anyway. So not being knowledgeable is not totally an individual fault, but it is a responsibility to learn.
Speaker 2:It's not just give up and not not give up, always learn. One of our sponsors did an inspection, the other about maybe two weeks ago yeah he was there. He's going for the, a buyer, apparently the sellers they had some serious health issues going on. Well, yeah, they were unhealthy Flu-like symptoms, something like that Coughing, Coughing, not feeling great. Spectre is down there and the carbon monoxide exhaust for their gas water heater, I believe it was non-existent, it was completely rusted out or not connected.
Speaker 2:It was rough. It was not existent, it was completely rusted out or not connected. It was rough. It was extremely rough. So they were breathing in carbon monoxide and the sellers had told that. What happened is their carbon monoxide detector kept going off last year and they couldn't get the shut off, so they threw it away.
Speaker 3:After replacing the batteries, and it still kept going off.
Speaker 2:That's right. They replaced the batteries.
Speaker 3:Replaced the batteries, it still keeps going off. So you're just going to throw away the device that's supposed to measure stuff to keep you healthy yes.
Speaker 2:so first of all, all right, it's, it's there for a reason, okay. So if it's going off, check it out, at least check it, check it out. But they're and I don't call the people stupid, but ignorance of what that may do. Maybe they don't know what carbon monoxide is, maybe they thought it's just another type of smoke detector and there's no fire going on here, so these things mess up. Maybe they don't know what carbon monoxide is Possible. But if I'm putting up a detector in my house and it says, hey, this is a CO detector, I'm like what's a CO what?
Speaker 2:the heck's a CO? What's carbon monoxide? I'm going to know if I need it or not, because if you have an all-electric house, no wood burner, okay Right. No natural gas, no proteins.
Speaker 3:No windscreens.
Speaker 2:If you don't have any gas appliances at all, you probably do not need a carbon monoxide detector. Why would you? You're not burning any fuel like that. It's all electric.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:But if I had a carbon monoxide detector and it's going off, I'm going to be looking into that. So I don't know.
Speaker 3:It boggles my mind that you buy something, it does its job and you get pissed and throw it out instead of trying to figure out why it's going off.
Speaker 2:Well, now you just remind me of something. Oh no, this is how we start. We're going to go on a little rambles. They got mad at the detector for telling them something life-saving, right, okay. So they're mad at the detector. Saving, right, okay. So they're mad at the detector. Why do people get mad at the homeless, patrick? We're pointing out something that could be life-saving as well. Why are you blaming the inspector? Why you try and throw the specters underneath the bus when they likely kept your, your buyer, from even have you know a crazy amount of unknown expenses, or save their life? Cause I guarantee, mary, years ago, when we had that chimney that had issues, structure issues, our inspectors that, hey, you need to get the looked at. And it comes to find out the listing agent and the seller, cause we have all the transcripts that were subpoenaed for this whole thing?
Speaker 3:Yes, we do.
Speaker 2:We have those transcripts where the listing agent conspired with the seller how to conceal the fact that the chimney was dangerous and should be rebuilt.
Speaker 3:And how many companies did they go through until they found one disreputable enough to go ahead and fake it to make it look better?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I don't know if the company was disreputable or they go. No, no, no, we're never going to use the fireplace, we just want it to look good on the outside, and that could have been what happened. They go, oh, okay, as long as you're not going to be using it.
Speaker 3:I can fix the outside and make it look good. They could have duped that fireplace company. Because at that point they'd seen how many.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that number.
Speaker 3:I thought they'd gone through like five or six companies, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't remember ever hearing the number, but I know there was more than one. No-transcript. But I mean, don't, don't be mad at the messenger, right, in this case the carbon monoxide detector. Don't throw that thing out. Don't be, don't discredit the homeless spectrum for reporting something that I mean for a fireplace. That is not going to just cost you money. That can cost you your lives of your kids, cause the kids are upstairs and you lit your whole house on fire and it was it was.
Speaker 2:It was an issue that the listing agent the seller knew about right, so always think that listing agent should have lost her license, but or his, yeah, yep, but always get it inspected and don't be mad at the results. It's not the inspector's fault that the seller neglected it for 20 years and tried to cover up that rot and the siding with putty and paint, which I've seen. There's a big hole in the trim. Wow, they filled that whole rotted area out with caulking. It looked a little uneven and I can Like dough. The whole thing would squish it. It was all. It was probably like half a tube of caulking just to fill in the rotted area. Then they painted it, thinking it's going to work, so yeah the ceiling issue is not smart.
Speaker 2:That's a civil. I mean somebody could sue the seller because We've seen that. What's someone gonna do? No, I didn't know that. I didn't know that, right. Also, some stranger randomly came up to your house and dug out all the rotted part a run by caulking run by caulking, which that's funny, a run by caulking, and yeah, and you know, and spend all their time and effort trying to help you out.
Speaker 3:No, not going to happen. Like the one guy, there was a leak in the sewer pipe in the crawl space. He said he had no clue about it, but it was like duct taped and somebody had tried to patch it up. Remember that one.
Speaker 2:I remember that one. I'm like, listen, I don't report that to the AID. I'm like, listen, I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't know too many people that.
Speaker 2:I don't know if anybody randomly sneaks in your house and does a subpar repair on your plumbing and then sneaks out without you knowing. I'm like seller knew Somebody knew that was done and they're not reported it.
Speaker 3:Yep, so anyway public service announcement.
Speaker 2:crush your carbon monoxide detector, At least to figure out what's going on. Yeah, if it is going off, check things out. I mean it's not hard. I mean something may have happened. But exhaust pipes get disconnected off of water heaters. I remember a water heater I looked at. This was disconnected all the way to the attic space, so it wasn't going to cause carbon dioxide poisoning. The exhaust was charring the underside of the roof.
Speaker 3:Oh, I remember that one.
Speaker 2:And that thing came disconnected, we're guessing, because they had a new roof on, so when people were tearing off the shingle to replace them they disconnected that pipe, never crawled into that attic space to see if it was actually connected and it was not and it was burning the underside so that whole house would have caught fire. It would have died died, it would have eventually caught fire.
Speaker 3:And we saved them.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, so as this happened. But well, pilots flying a plane, you were taught to trust your instruments.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is. I don't trust your instruments.
Speaker 2:Because you it can get, because it can get disoriented flying, because you've got cloud cover. It can be at night. You can't see what's going on. Trust your instruments. Your carbon monoxide and your smoke detector are instruments. Trust those. Replace carbon monoxide. They only last seven to ten years. Smoke detectors about the same time period, so at least every ten years, replace them, get new ones.
Speaker 3:What we suggest is when you move into a house you're buying a new house, you're selling and moving into another one buy brand new carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors when you move in and then, that way you know the date and you can just always change them out every 10 years.
Speaker 2:Yep, and then probably at least on one of them, if you replace them all, write the date you installed it and test the batteries Then you know, 10 years later. All right, it's time.
Speaker 3:It's done.
Speaker 2:All right, I think that's it for this one. Bye, everybody.
Speaker 1:Take care and keepffcom. That's J-I-M-T-R-O-T-H, and click on podcast. Until next time, learn and go do stuff.