E438 Man In Here

20:44And you doing corn once a year. you know, you could have like, if you owned a name tag, and it said your name on it, you walk in any damn Shoney's and just start working. It didn't matter. You wasn't on staff. It didn't matter. You walk in that bitch, you write on there, Ricky's daddy or whatever on the time card, you clock in it. As long as you had a name tag, then you were bam, qualified, baby. That's where I'm from. and, uh, yeah, I'm from three East McGee street, baby Covington, Louisiana,

21:26where we burn shit in the ditches, baby. That's what we did over there. We want to know who I am. That's who I am. Or we go out there and do, uh, we do, you know, we, we get a little water on us or something and we'd run and jump back and forth through the smoke. If people were burning trash, we'd jump through the smoke back and forth. Just, you know, kind of just this smoky little double dutch where you're just jumping from side to side till your whole body you were black. We'd just be down. I mean, we'd be down. We had black face, black body, black neck. I mean, black, I'd even, if you were naked, that wiener would get a little black.

22:11Now that far, it kind of, that was, you know, you had to, now you enjoyed that. But we'd be down. I mean, the cops, we got dark. We jumped through that smoke all the day. Cops would show up.

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24:31That's F-O-R-V-E-P-O-L-E.com slash this past weekend or pound law, pound five two nine from your cell. This is a paid advertisement. Anyway, what's going on with you guys? I'm sorry for talking about myself so much. You can hit the hotline 985-664-9503 and let us know what's going on with you. And that's always open. yeah but Miss Bobby I think her name was Miss Bobby so she was a hair cutter or she had the uniform so at one point the bus driver originally cut our hair and he drove bus one Mr. Ray was his name and he pulled the bus over once every couple weeks and he cut everybody on that bit everybody got the same cut on that bitch everybody so but something happened to him something happened to him i think he i don't remember i think he might have been changing a tire and got hit by a vehicle or something you know natural causes or whatever you know whatever natural causes were back then um something happened to mr ray and so we had to go to Miss Bobby or Miss Billy.

25:54I can't remember her name, Bobby or Billy. And they wanted her to be a man. You could tell you sold pictures of her. They'd always, her daddy had dressed her up like a man when she was a kid. And they wrote even, you know, you'd see somebody write man, man in here on her back. You know, somebody would write that on her back and, you know, she'd have a picture of her in college and somebody written man in, in here on her back. I think that that might've being the original trans was somebody just writing, you know, man in here, man in here on her back. And we got it. Everybody got the point. You didn't have to get the section.

26:34You have to do all of that. So it really saves a lot of money, which I think that's nice. You write man in here on each arm. You show that to me when I roll up, I get it. All right, Bridget, I'll call you Bradley I get it boom that's it we don't need you know we don't need a lot of other insanity around it if you trans and out we've all everybody damn sometimes I feel like a little bitch you feel me sometimes I feel like three-tenths of a bitch you know and I kind of see what I you know I'll let it pass or something. I remember, I don't know. I guess I don't have a lot in. I never put on panties or nothing.

27:22But anyway, so let me get through the story. So she was the hair cutter and I was over there one time and my mom would drop me off because that old lady, she was real chatty. She'd talk to you. I mean, she'd damn, she'd talk to you by the time she got done talking to you, you know, it was, she was 91. If she's 90, It was just like, dang, man. So she kept talking. And so mom would drop me off there. Mom would drop me off there. And I get the cut. I get that trim. But one time I was in there, she had a stroke, right? And she's laying on the ground with the scissors, you know. And I'd never been around somebody that had a stroke.

28:00I didn't know what it was. And so I just sat there, man. You know, I feel bad about it. I was well-behaved. but I sat there for probably 15 minutes. And I thought she was just being real quiet or something, or I don't know what I thought. Maybe she was doing hide and go seek, but she just forgot to hide and thought she was hiding or something. I don't know what I thought at that age, but I remember just being in that room and it was quiet as could be.

28:37and then uh her son came or something and he's like what the hell happened in here and he called me a f*** it and uh anyway what else man sorry i'm just going off on it that's where i'm at I'm all over the place. I just got back from Medford, Massachusetts, over there at the Casino Ballroom. And that was an interesting venue for comedy. I appreciate everybody that came out. The setup of it isn't ideal for comedy, but a nice staff over there. beautiful um and a lot of beautiful people that came out and god it was freezing and was it was bizarre and freezing over there and um and yeah next time we'll try to find a venue that's a little more suited for comedy it's a i think for rock and roll or for um you know if you're going to see like a little peep uh reenactment or you know if disney does like little peep on ice or whatever, then I think it's great.

29:52But I think for comedy, for me, it was tough because I like everybody to be able to see me in the front. And this was all, it came around the sides a little bit. So, but I was thinking about that. I was like, how do I, the second night I was like, how do I adjust the show so everybody can see perfectly? And anyway, we did our best. And I want to thank everybody who came out there, who came out in Houston, who came out previously before that in Boston, down there in Corpus Christi. Yeah, it's just been a lot of places. I didn't get to do as many pop outs into the lobby to thank people. We tried some this weekend.

30:36The lobbies were small. In Houston, we did one night or two nights we came out and it was just pretty chaotic. So we're just trying our best. I'll try my best to pop out there afterwards for people that are kind of hanging around. But I just want to let you know that. Because some people would send me a DM and be like, we came out, you had already been gone by the time we got out there. Sometimes we didn't get to do it. But we try. And I just want to let you know that I think about that. What else? Oh, Billy Conforto's brother came out and his name is Chuck. Chuck Mintz. Named after the candy, I think, but they spell it different.

31:31They spell it different. And everybody, a lot of you guys know Billy Conforto and you remember him. and man he was you know Billy was the first he was a homosexual

31:52kind of prize fighter slash bus boy that was a lot of you know I would say those were his domains really and he would you know he damn you know he'd hand job a male waiter and he'd have but at the same with the other hand he'd be you know cleaning up a four top so he'd be polishing off a a one top and a four he'd be you know he could do a bottom and a four top at the same time that's who he was and and when i met him he we were working at like a fine dining type of place but nobody ever came in there. So we were just doing whippets mostly. And we did so many whippets one time. He's just told me that he was gay.

32:45And I think that that, and that was the first gay human I'd ever met. And, uh, anyway, he and I became good friends over the years and, and he would sell, uh, he sold, he sold a lot of good weed. I think it was good. Now I'll say this. He had, Billy also had a lot of attack animals. He had attack animals. And if you don't know what that is, go up to an animal and

33:23and if you get attacked, then And now you know. So he had a lot of pit bulls. And he would train them. I mean, these things were. He'd be like, oh, it's the nicest dog, Dio, bro. It's the nicest dog. And then you go pet it. And it would fucking rearrange your fingers on your hand. So he would get you. You'd get high with him. And then the dog would be so scary that I would be. I'd be on the furniture. I'd be hanging from the ceiling fan. So I think a lot of people, they would see that. They'd be like, damn, that's the best weed in the world. This dude's hanging, you know. This dude's doing interior design in the house.

34:09He's, you know, he's living in one of the dresser drawers. This guy's fucked up. That must be the gas weed, right? So anyway, but the truth was he had dangerous animals. And if you bring an attack animal with you and you get somebody high, even on skunk weed, then suddenly your shit is the greatest shit they have. Because if somebody sees, you know, somebody take a couple puffs of your stuff and then they run across the field yelling, help me. They're going to be like, damn, that's killer weed. But really, that's just killer. And he's a, you know, four year old American pit bull rescue. So, but his brother came out, man, and that was beautiful to get to spend time with him.

34:56That was in Baton Rouge. I don't think I mentioned that. And he brought his, Billy Conforto's niece and nephew. And it was good to see that their births weren't affected by drugs or anything. You know, they were two able-bodied children and mentally able and very kind. and it was just great, man. It was great. It was like I was there with Billy for a minute. You know, it was pretty special, and what else? We reached out over there to do a special plaque or something for him in Louisiana, and so far, the places that we've reached out there over there in Mandeville, we have gotten denied so far, so we're still seeing what we can do.

35:45We want to do something a little bit nicer, or something, you know, you can't just do it. If you call any place, they say, oh, you can do it. Or, you know, everybody can't call and put up a, you know, a peach tree for, you know, somebody, for Boo Radley or whoever died because it would be all trees. So you have to do something different. So I don't know. We'll figure it out. But I just wanted to let everybody know. And on the YouTubes, we got pictures of his family that came out.

36:19What else? I'm gonna have a sip of water right now. I'm gonna take a moment for myself and have a sip of water.

36:32Praise God, baby. I'm upstairs.

36:41What else, man? I went on a little coffee date yesterday. I met up with a gal and we had a little coffee and she showed up. I think she was on some type of she seemed like she was on

37:01stimulants. I'll say that. I think she was on damn stimulants, bro. Because I was she was like trying to listen fast. You ever talk to somebody and they just keep getting closer to you, bro? Like they just, like they just, like they're not going to hear your next word. They're going to try and fuck it, you know? Like they just like, boy, you put that word out here. I'm going to fuck that thing. Like that. She would just seem like real stimulated. so I think she was on some damn stimulus man so I just ordered a salad and chatted with her for maybe 27 minutes then we took a little walk around on the sun went in the sun cause I like staying in the sun when I walk and uh and then that was it went our separate ways um oh man I long for the days when I could, whenever everything felt normal, when everything felt a little bit more categorized inside of me.

38:19And specifically in my brain. And so that's where I started noticing for myself, I got to slow things down a little bit and give things a little bit of an opportunity. But I got Zach here. Zach's going to help me with the news today. Producer Zach, how are we? I'm good. I need one second, but I'm good. Okay. Hold on, give me a second. No, take a moment for yourself, man. That's what we're talking about today. But cut that audio off if you don't mind. So we can have our moment too while you're having your moment. You know, silence, that's going to become part of a premium. I noticed that. You go a place now and there's 17 screens going and there's a damn violin and there's somebody playing a machine gun.

39:08I mean, there's all kinds of stuff.

39:13You know, it's hard to get a little peace these days. And that's one thing that was nice up there in New Hampshire. One thing that was nice was the Wentworth Hotel. And, man, if you could bring that up, Zachy. this place is and i think a lot of people go there for the uh summertime but let me tell you you want a good night you want some peace and quiet you want some you want quiet and quiet peace is a is like a little louder than quiet right you want quiet and quiet that's it wentworth hotel can you see it here we go there we go take a gander at it now i'll say this it's a little pricey it's not crazy though but it's a little pricey um but i think it's the kind of place where you're investing in what you get on your return i i felt fortunate that we could stay there and i really really liked it uh but it's quite i mean they don't even um it's quiet let's think of something think of something real quiet zach what is it like a uh did you ever have a computer in your room and you're like going to sleep at night the computer's running yeah like a little fan like a fan in the computer you mean yeah like a fan running the computer or let go yeah that's that's not that quiet is that quiet or not quiet you think you want to go quieter than that yeah yeah like what is as quiet as something can be what's the quietest you ever been be honest when i was i went to my friend john's house one time when i was a kid and he wasn't there and his parents were fucking so i just uh i listened for a little bit and then i i got out of there wow what made you get out was it a certain did something was there a certain did they shift gears or something did something did was there a part where you're like okay this is too much because yeah that's real quiet when you're trying to be so quiet that you are yeah if you're listening to somebody else mate or fight if you're listening to like putting your ear to the wall like your original reality television was putting your ear to the wall right before they had all the shows it was peeping tomming or putting your ear to the wall and there'd be no you yeah you would stop i remember literally I would squeeze my ribs like this to keep my heart from even making that sound that it makes.

42:10So I didn't want to miss one moment. I didn't want that commercial break of my heartbeat to interrupt just the pristine, pure reality television I was getting by listening to my neighbors fight or have sex. Or both. I remember one time people were definitely somebody kept punching somebody and then you could hear them just just damn ejaculate

42:40so what was it? what do you mean? what were you saying? you said oh and so what caused you to leave? oh I just you know they were kind of going at it and it was like my best friend yeah and if i'm being being honest his mom was hot and that was kind of a factor in it too but uh i mean you know how that like you i felt like i couldn't it felt like illegal to be there yeah oh it's hard to it's there's definitely um it's hard to listen to somebody you care about mom I'm getting plugged up by somebody. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate that, man. But yeah, there were, oh, I remember God. The neighbor woman, if I got in the neighbor woman's hamper, I'd damn.

43:30I remember just, I would just stay in there, dude. And just smell all her clothes. And I remember just wishing that she was my mom.

43:43I remember that. what else we got the news hit us with some of it zach we got to get to some calls a lot of calls have come into the hotline 985-664-9503 some we saw um pentagon did a new study and it says 77 percent of americans are too fat mentally ill or on drugs to join the military okay well let me see about this 77 percent of young americans go to the information here and what do they say in there Pentagon study revealed that 77 % of young Americans do not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight. So they're not good out of the gate. They would have to make an exception, right?

44:26Okay. Overweight, what else? Drug use. Drug and alcohol abuse is 8%. Medical, physical health, 7%. These are the percentage of people who didn't get in. And mostly, though, it's overweight. Okay. And that's between the ages of, let's give real information here, please. Go back down. That's between the ages of 17 and 24. Okay. Several key findings. Go on more, please. Several key findings were noted in the summary of the report. For example, most ineligible youth, 44%, are disqualified for multiple reasons rather than in only one area. Would you have any of these, you think, Zach? Yeah, I don't think I'd make the weight cut.

45:12What is their weight cut? Do you know it? I don't know what the number is, but I don't think I'm there, dog. And that's okay, man. And any of the other ones? Because it says with one, you could probably get a waiver. Well, I could get a waiver for the overweight, and then I can lie about the mental. You can just kind of lie about all that stuff. That's true, huh? Yeah, the weight, you can't lie about it, you know? So if you can just get a waiver for that, then what's the problem? Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. You can't really dress in black enough to look like you're not on Lexapro or something. You know?

45:50Yeah. But, okay. So the weight would keep you out and you would be able to lie about the... Yeah, lie about the other stuff, then we're good. Yeah, and that's our military. And I could get in shape. I feel like it's, you know, like, couldn't they get us in shape? maybe so. So that's the news, the largest increase. And I'm not shocked. Go back up to the top of it there, bub.

46:17Americans are too fast. I mean, definitely. There are some places you can, there's people that you can see people and they are bigger than when they got here. And even if you'd have took them as a baby and put them, did like age progression, they would have never got to where they are now. There's people that are bigger. And so that's, this also shows where we are in time, I think. I think if we, it's been a while since we, you really felt like a calling as a regular person. Look, there's no draft. There's no anything that has to, you have to stay on your toes. There's no mandatory service. So yeah, people, I think you're going to get fat.

47:01You're going to get mentally ill. A lot of that goes in hand in hand too. I don't want to say that, but your brain is part of your body. If somebody cracked your body open, your brain's going to be in it. And so if you got gristle on your body, you could have gristle on your brain. It might show up differently. That's why sometimes I feel like if there were a war, if there were a big, something that would call everybody together and bring everybody like, okay, we're on the same team. You almost wonder if the dark artists that are out there that are stirring the cauldrons, you know, that are putting the ingredients into all of this, if that's what they're aiming for.

47:41What else we got, Zach? NASA announced the first crew that's going to go to the moon for the first crew in 50 years, I should say, that's going to go to the moon. This is them. Okay. We got a brother in there, definitely, Lamar Odom they're sending, and three whites. Okay. They're just going to fly around the moon and come back, so they're not going to land on it, FYI. Oh, this sounds like... John Glenn. He did the orbit. No, this sounds like Bang Bus is going to space or something. But yeah, okay, great. Another people are going around the moon. Jesus Christ, all right? One of these guys is Canadian, too.

48:19Okay. See how he's Canadian, see? Yeah. But what are we doing? You know what I'm saying? and I feel like we've been around the moon. What are we, are we just trying to like, and is this NASA? It feels like kind of like a soft way for NASA to kind of strike back against some of these more private firms that are going out there. You know, they're sending a brother out there. I respect that. You know, Brothers in Space, how that's not a movie I can't even imagine. You know, like I've seen, you know what I'm saying? You put six brothers either in space or at a Bruce Springsteen concert. and that's solid gold.

48:57But yeah, Brothers in Space has got to be, I mean, that would win movie of the year. What else we got? A Louisiana water plant employee arrested after peeing in the drinking water supply tank twice. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they give you one time or they warn you. I remember one time when I was over there, something that I had fell in there. I don't want to say it was like a might have been my pager or something at the time we had pagers you know yeah and I think mine fell off into the thing and they they weren't pleased but yeah this is what you get when you let people work at the power plant what is it at the water plant you know I did not I worked did 90 days I did community service working there city officials say they do not know a 57 year old Michael Mastin had urinated in the water supply other times in the past because the security archive only saves footage from the last 30 days.

49:50Wow. Well, I can tell you to zoom in on the guy right there. Yeah, he has, brother. That dude definitely. This guy's just serving clear body piss right here. Mastin was allegedly seen in security footage, leaving his office, turning the angle of the security camera, then urinating into the water supply. Wow. So he knows the camera's there. he just can't help himself wow bro that's what it's come to that's what it's come to if you got that low rise baby you got that one story and you want that two story baby you want that crank up I'm talking about that wiener topping out max wiener then blue chews licensed medical providers will work with you to find the right ingredient and strength for your prescription that's right blue chew is a unique online service that delivers the same active ingredients as viagra and sialis but in chewable form and at a fraction of the cost blue chew sildenafil and todelafil tablets are chewable that's it they're made in the usa baby those are those american rippers right there and they help you get statuesque in there with your body and with your wiener topping up.

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54:53unless maybe they know something that we don't maybe they're trying to like you start to think if there's bigger powers out there that are influencing like they want more confrontative type stuff you know i just don't understand the connection like unless you want i don't know if bud light drink i just don't know if i'm a bud light if i'm a beer if i want to get something that's making me discuss like a topic that's argumentative yeah i would i'd venture to say most of their clients aren't interested in that right that's what they yeah it's like it's almost that like thing where it's like why do you put it if it's something just let it be something why does it have to be something that you use as a uh tool for marketing all the time I think they're just trying to get in the trans market You think so?

55:51How many trans people are there?

55:57Okay, this is a UCLA study From June 2022

56:05nearly one in five people who identified as transgender are ages 13 to 17

56:131.6 million people ages 13 and up identify as trans that's this number is right here what percent of humans are trans folks

56:31you know the idea 1.6 million people ages 13 and up identify as transgender and i guess and that's what does it mean identify you know do you think trans people drink bud light oh i bet i bet after you go home and you take off the lashes and it's like oh ron what a fucking day over there outside of claire's boutique you know what a day what a fucking day over there outside of the uh courthouse my god these heels are killing me huh let me put my crocs back on and light up a marlboro red i think yeah i think for sure dude after you go home look after every man goes home from work and takes off the whatever the job is i don't care if the job is lipstick um or whatever you know if you do whatever you do if you do hair extension whatever uh yeah you fucking definitely want a cold one so maybe they're on to something maybe they're on to something i just wondered does nature what does nature do because i wonder sometimes what is going on are more people just identifying that they don't know how they feel genetically or more people saying i want another wiener or no uh uh, uh, vagina.

58:02What are they saying? Yeah. They probably just want to lose the given one and get a different one. And what do they do? They fill the vagina in with what? Wiener? Uh, you know, something along those lines, probably you're close to it. I think it's a little bit, I think they're getting better at it each year. Wow, man. We got to have a, we should have a surgeon on to discuss that. Um, Okay, what else? Yeah, I guess. What do you think? Do you think Bud Light drinkers are going to... I wonder if people who used to identify as men drank Bud Light and then transitioned to women and stopped drinking Bud Light because it doesn't fit that vibe.

58:40And now Bud Light's like, well, you like it. You know, you can drink. Maybe they're trying to normalize drinking it for... For trans people? For trans people. But it's really, you're going for a very small market. 1.7 million. right but what's the other size of the world i guess those are 13 and up we don't know how many of them can drink yeah so what else we got i guess a couple migrants were arrested because they killed a bald eagle and they were planning on eating it and they didn't know that you're not supposed to eat the bald eagles well we are these legal migrants or illegal migrants as we have to wonder because if you don't one of the things that should be on the test is can you eat bald eagle yeah i guess there were two honduras nationals were cited for unlawful possession of of the eagle yeah so just owning it or just possessing it yeah so i don't know i mean i think look it's one eagle well they're a protected species who the illegal aliens uh both but the eagle it's crazy i wonder what gets more protection these days isn't that crazy The guys did.

59:46The eagle's dead. Yeah.

59:52So, interesting. The eagle's dead. Yeah, they ate it. I mean, look, I've had rare animal in my day. I've had things that I wouldn't even mention others. But it is what it is, man. And I say let them have one. Let them have one. Everybody deserves to taste a little bit of eagle, I think.

1:00:16all right is that all we got yeah i think so all right and that's zach from cincinnati

1:00:24uh i wanted to take my glasses off to kind of just out of respect to think about this next part um you know they had a shooting here in nashville last week and um and it was you know I'd never been in something like that I'd never been that close to something like that I'd never been I saw I saw a couple brothers shoot each other one of them shot each other in the back one time outside of like I want to say like a

1:01:02Dairy Queen maybe something like that one of those kind of shooty urban kind of restaurants months but i'd never seen something like i'd never been around something like this when this had happened you know i'd never been around something like in the environment and you're you're in traffic and people can't get you know you can't get somewhere but you know it's because all the parents in traffic are trying to locate their children and it's just i mean it's you You almost want to get in the way because you want to try and do something, but there's nothing you can do. It's just such an abrupt, insane finality when that happens.

1:01:52And I think I just, you know, my heart goes out to obviously all those people. I think, you know, I keep those people in my prayers. And, you know, and they say that prayers don't help. But prayers are for Pete. Prayers are for comfort. It's just taking a moment outside of yourself to think of some comfort for someone. It's just saying, hey, here, this moment in my life that feels peaceful, I want to give it to you because you need it more than I do right now. That's what a prayer is to me. I'm not sitting there praying no guns or praying like people shouldn't shoot. I don't know. Everybody looks at it differently.

1:02:34I'm not trying to get into that discussion. So I think what I was thinking of is just how do we get, how do you end up with people that do this type of thing? How do you end up with these, you know, childhood shooters? How do you end up with people that go into a school and do this? And I think a lot of it is, to me, a lot of it is a societal thing. And I'm not going to, everybody has their views. I'm not challenging your view here. This is just a space where I'm sharing what I think. and I could be wrong. That's totally okay. But I feel and I think sometimes that people don't have purpose. You have a country where, you know, it used to feel like, like if you worked at a, I'm gonna go off on some different thoughts here.

1:03:23So if you worked at like a business, then you had a lot of middle-class businesses. You had a lot of smaller businesses. And if you worked there, then if the company did well, you did well and so you had a sense of purpose maybe through your work you know you're going to move up the ladder you were going to be um you know a foreman and then a a chair a manager and then maybe have some percentage share and then you know you're going to get to a place and now it feels i think like we've we've let a lot of our companies get to these big conglomerates and it's about the bottom line. A lot of companies are beholding to their shareholders, but not to their sharecroppers, if you will, to the people working within the company.

1:04:14So then what I'm saying is as a person, you may not feel any people you, I feel like you people can get a sense of purpose from their work. So if you don't have that sense of purpose, then you can be pretty aimless, right? And then if you don't have love, like if somebody doesn't love you or you feel unloved or you don't love somebody, like if you don't have a family or a husband or wife or children, then you may not feel like a lot of love, right? And so having love gives you a sense of purpose. And we have less families these days. The familial structure is really kind of broken down in America.

1:04:56you know you have a lot of single parent homes you have a lot of two parents having to work um so right there we're kind of right there there's a place where people were i feel like people used to get a lot of purpose and now a lot there's people that aren't getting purpose from their work and there's people that aren't getting purpose from uh their heart being fulfilled by someone else or them being the peace that fills someone else's heart. So right there, man, you have a lot, you have people who don't have a lot of purpose. And then there used to be a sense of America. We are this country. We are these people.

1:05:38We are united. We are, we care about our neighbor.

1:05:47but that's been a lot of that is gone by the wayside we've become a you know I feel like our our our political leaders have sold us out to the highest bidder I feel like it feels like it doesn't feel anymore like your politicians or your leaders have your best interest. It doesn't feel that way.

1:06:17And I'm not crying here. I'm just trying to see how do we get to somebody that does something like that. That's what I've been thinking about. Like, how do you get there? How do you get to somebody that does an shooting of a school?

1:06:36Because you got to get there somehow. and it keeps happening. So anyway, I think that a lot of it is purpose. If you don't have a purpose, then you are at the whim of whatever could come along. You're at the whim of whatever influence you, whatever influence you get or whatever ideology comes along that you can attach onto.

1:07:04And so no job, no love, no real sense of honor or connection to your country. So then you, I mean, you're, and then on top of that, if you, if you find that you're the victim, if you start to say, well, I'm a victim, you know, it's my, you know, everybody else, I don't have any responsibility for myself. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. Then you're going to find, not only are you going to find any ideology that comes along, which the internet is going to give. The internet creates an algorithm that gives you whatever you keep looking at, you get more of. So if you look at pudding or something, you get all pudding, boy.

1:07:46And then three years from now, I'm wondering why you can't be in the military now. Because, buddy, you puddinged out. You chose pudding. And pudding chose you. Because whatever vice it is, it'll choose you back. So if you want to be someone who is, you know, you want to get involved with like an alt-right or alt-left or you want to get involved with school shooters or anti-Christian or anti, I'm just trying to think, something, some severe ideology. You want to get, then the internet, the Twitter, whatever is going to keep serving you it. so now you next thing you know you're down a rabbit hole and i think at that point that's how you end up there i think you end up in a place where i'm gonna i'm gonna be seen i'm gonna make sure they know who i am i'm gonna make sure that they say my name or they hear my name or They see me.

1:08:56And that's just, that's heartbreaking along the whole way.

1:09:04You know, so I don't know. I think I've just been having a lot of thoughts about that. How do people end up there? How do people get to a place where they would do that sort of thing? Now, some people I think are just crazy. and those are crazy people. That's different. But how does someone who's just been, you know, because next thing you know, you're on Twitter, you get an anti-religious thing. You're like, oh, I went to a religious school. I also have trouble identifying in the world, maybe sexually. So, man, I'm evicted. It's all, man, you really. And then your Twitter, your feed, your social media just keeps serving you more of that.

1:09:46Hey, you're right, you're right, you're right. And then, man, you're gassed up.

1:09:58So I think a lot of it is a sense of purpose, you know?

1:10:06And having a sense of purpose. And some of those sense of purpose is like the American one I can feel. I felt like when I was a child, it felt like, oh, we're part of this, you know.

1:10:21But it doesn't feel like that a lot anymore.

1:10:27But also, I got to recognize that I can still do things to try and make myself have a purpose, you know. And you find purpose. And, you know, I'm fortunate that people love me, my family, you know. you know that i have a job i have this podcast to come to i have uh i have some sense of purpose for myself you know and a lot of you guys do too i think we're kind of a purpose-filled group or we're trying to find that but i think that's something that um i feel like that's for me that's something i think that that's part of that is that man when you don't have a purpose the dark arts they are at your door they are waiting on the edge of your ear to come in and get your brain and those include like you know all the just the links just the rabbit hole you can go down in that will make you hate because man you find a rabbit hole when you get halfway to the bottom of that bitch there's a HOA meeting of just hateful owners association halfway through some of these rabbit holes.

1:11:41And it's just,

1:11:45it's just dangerous. So anyway, let's hit some calls, huh? Hey, Mr. Vaughn. So lately I have been coming home from work and I like just to sit outside, inside. I like to grab a beer and I just, Sit in silence, like not do nothing. But my wonderful girlfriend, whom I love very much. Oh, man, she talks. She talks so much. Oh, my God, dude. First of all, I didn't believe you had a girlfriend. I was not expecting that part. That seemed like a surprise to all of us listeners. I would say that, but that doesn't mean anything. And what I'm trying to say is, yeah, if there's somebody that talks too much, dude, it's unreal.

1:12:43It's unreal. I have an early girlfriend that called me sometimes. She talks. I don't know. She talks. Oh, my God. If I even think about her calling, dude, I just get angry. That's how I get. Because I don't want to listen to her. I have people, there's people I won't go spend time with. They talk to me, their wife talks to me. We're not friends anymore. We're not friends anymore. You know, you sometimes got to put your, put your spouse on a word count. I don't care who they are. You get 4 ,000 words this spring. Do what you want with them. But when it's done, honey, it's done. And that's that.

1:13:35That's that. Get a little step thing for words. Oh, shit. Cindy got about seven prepositions left, boys. That's all she's got. And two nouns, come on over. It's going to be a quiet time. We about to enjoy the game.

1:13:57But yeah, I don't have a solution to it. You chose her. You chose someone. You're a lifelong listener, they call it. and you just a damn you know you a damn word pervert boy so you need to do something when she starts talking get that wiener out fucking start drinking your own spit do something and it could go the other way too if you have a chatty husband dude I was somewhere the other day we were in somewhere eating some meat and some guy wouldn't shut up it was you can't enjoy just you gotta shut up at times and here i am talking into the second hour of a show so what do i know um but let's see what else we got here yo the uh i need some advice i'm down i'm my name's zach i'm down here in the booty louisiana area gang baby that's it booty baby i feel you right over there by the airport by the big bridges right over there near Laplace where your boy Billy Conforto used to live and die and some weird shit been going on uh I've been having two best friends uh forever and I think they uh they fell in love with each other and turned gay and uh I just don't know how to how to handle it they're acting weird well they're not acting weird brother they're gay and they're being gay and that's

1:15:46that's that's people are doing it people are doing it you couldn't I mean these days you throw a damn frisbee it'll hit a gay dude dude that's that's how popular it is it's the new you know it's like doing the fries in the free chocolate freezy thing that's remember when that came out that same type of deal but it's men it's men doing it yeah i don't know what you do i think you'd be a supportive friend get them a trip get them a little vacation or something if you're down there and And, you know, I don't know. I don't know. What do you do? I mean, are you trying to see if they are in love or are you?

1:16:32Because love, here's the thing. Love ends up trumping everything. And even if it's gay love, gay love still ends in love.

1:16:49So now I don't know. I mean, yeah, I don't know what you do. I think you fucking dap them up. But that's what's going on now. People are being gay, buddy. And you got to, if you, I can't, but the odds, you have two best friends and they fall in love with each other, man. And part of you is probably jealous a little. That's what's the craziest part. Because I remember if I had two other friends growing up and if they even hung out together without me, bro, that shit made me mad, dude. it's like, oh, are you going to tell me fucking Terry and fucking Gerald? We're at the skating rink yesterday. And I'm at my house jumping through the ditch smoke because people was burning trash in the ditch by myself.

1:17:46Playing BLM out there in the smoke. And they're having a fun time. It's tough. But do you willing to do gay to get all of the friendship? And that's where one of them said, hey, look, I'm about to secure the bag, dude. And he's talking about nuts, son. And that is gay men. Praise God, man. Thank you for sharing. And I think, yeah, you just got to be cool with them. Just chill, man. Let them do it. let them do it and love them all right let's take another one oh my name is jamie i live in san diego california and i just think something immediately needs to be addressed oh well dang let's hear it jamie onward the president Joe Biden.

1:18:40Okay.

1:18:43Okay. Look, I think this is one thing. Joe Biden, he's a old man. He has dementia. It is not cool to do this to an old man. That's what I feel like. I don't care what your political stance is, your human stance. you know my father was uh 70 when i was born my father was an old man so i grew up with a with with an old man and watching them and watching them and understanding their presence and their ability and their mobility all of it and we all know that this man is not suitable for what we have him doing or what people are pretending to have him do. Because at a certain point, there's no way this guy is making choices or making decisions.

1:19:39It's impossible. It's impossible. He's looking at things. He's ordering, you know, the other day he ordered an almond or something off the top of a building. He doesn't know, he doesn't understand what's going on. This dude's petting visible cats and damn sniffing children, dude. It's all just old people stuff. He's not well. So at a certain point, we're the kind of country that says, this is what we do with our old. We take advantage of them to the point where we're even willing to let them be a shill, which I don't know what that is. It's something, it's like a false front or something for whatever else is going on.

1:20:28and I think that's pretty sick man if you saw somebody doing this to an old person you would think it was fucked up that's what you would think if somebody was doing this to you if somebody was showing up at your grandfather's every afternoon and making him go in the front yard and say a bunch of shit and then making him go back inside you know when they treating him up with ice cream or something and they got, you know, or whatever, child sniffs or whatever, they got a little bag of fucking, you know, nine-year-olds, you know, Barrett sniffing or whatever. I don't know. But it would be, you know good and well, it would be messed up.

1:21:11So I think it's fucked up by the, by all of, by all politicians, but also it's the Democratic Party. It's your candidate. You got to know this isn't cool. It's just not cool. It's not cool to do to an old person. you know I don't know what you would it's like it's like senior trafficking that's what y 'all doing y 'all senior trafficking that man and I think it's messed up and it makes it just reminds me and I think this makes me angry because it reminds me of uh you know you would see people take advantage of old people sometimes you know I would see that with my dad sometimes people would take advantage of him because of his age or they would manipulate and reuse him in ways that he didn't see because he wasn't able-minded enough to notice and that shit made me angry and it's the same type of shit that these folks are doing on this more um on this national international scale and level you know i don't know i'm sorry to let that get me keyed up but that's real to me man that's real stuff someone shouldn't take advantage of a senior citizen like that they should it's not it's not it's it's messed up it's messed up and we're acting like it's regal like who the fuck are you kidding that this is a regal way to go about anything um

1:22:44what else do we have zach any other calls you recommend sorry i'm I might need an afternoon off it's just been a lot man you know you go around you have a there's just it's just a lot baby boy what else who's somebody that's having a tough time with something hey Theo my name's Connor I'm from Sacramento California what's up Connor thank you for calling man appreciate you I just want to first thank you for all that you do. You know, I don't know if you realize how much you do for a lot of people. You know, the way that you talk, you know, I relate with you so much, even though we have such different backgrounds and upbringings and all that.

1:23:33But I really appreciate what you do. And, you know, recently in my life, I'm a new car. Thank you, brother. I appreciate the nice words, man. It's very kind of you. Onward. You know, recently in my life, I'm a new college student, you know, starting my first year. So a lot is changing in my life. You know, my parents are splitting up like the past couple months. And I broke up with my girlfriend recently. And in such a short amount of time, my life has changed so much. And so I guess what I'm trying to say is even when my life or just your life in general is changing so much, I find it hard to motivate myself to get out of this low sort of ebb that I'm in.

1:24:29So what I'm trying to say is when your life is changing so much and it's throwing so much at you so quickly, How do you stay motivated to really grow as a person?

1:24:45Thank you, brother. I appreciate the call. It's funny. That's kind of how this episode started out.

1:24:55Yeah, I think for one, you got to find some moments of your own. You have to take a step outside of things. You have to find time to do that. And that means, you know, I got to limit myself better on my phone and what I'm in taking, my attention, what I'm giving my attention to. You know, people, we don't even have imaginations anymore because we don't need it. The second my imagination used to start like this, your brain, you would have a moment of peace. You sit somewhere and then your brain would get bored. So your brain would start thinking of something. or imagining something, or creating something, right?

1:25:40Because imagination is just where creativity does bad in practice, right? That's it.

1:25:50And next thing you know, you would be imagining something, and you would daydream, or you would come up with a neat idea, or you would come up with a dream or a goal, or a realization, something that you needed to take care of that you hadn't.

1:26:09um but that all that all happened because you had that you had that open space you had that time you had that imagination imagination did that now the second we get a little bit of free time we go to something we go to a phone we go to a uh tech talks you go to something you do a vaping you do do with something. You do with something because you can't handle that. What's next? What's next? But all that used to be next was imagination.

1:26:49And we don't have that anymore. We've replaced it with, let's just watch other. Let's just watch others or let's find something to take up this moment. Um, so I'm sorry. I don't even know where I trailed. I trailed off there. What was I saying to this guy? Is that, well, he was originally asking about, um, staying motivated when life changes so much so fast. Right. Okay. So you got to get that moment for yourself. Sometimes you have to find it. Right. Uh, because yeah, that imagination would give you fun ideas. It would make your life fun. Interesting. You'd be able to conceptualize. You'd be able to get a scope of your own life.

1:27:30so that kind of helped sort things now we're just always like in the experiential mode so we're not doing enough of the sorting to give us a good view of things and when you don't have a view of things that can lead to depression you're like oh i don't know what i'm doing yeah because i'm not giving myself time to know what i'm doing i'm just doing so sometimes you need a little bit more time to know what you're doing to get a look at things if things are too hectic.

1:28:04But yeah, I think to stay motivated, I think more than ever, we're at a time where you have to come to your own rescue.

1:28:14You know, the dark arts of algorithms and screens and attention-seeking advertisement, Apricisement, you're depressed. Don't you want these fucking Cadbury eggs? That shit is at an all-time high.

1:28:40And sometimes you have to come to your own rescue. And that's the worst thing we want to hear. Because I want somebody to blame for how I'm feeling. I want somebody to blame I don't want to I don't want to have to put it on my you know I don't want to have to put the cleats on me I just want to look at the shoe marks on me and blame them on and say to my hubby Deborah did that Jonathan did you know but I don't want to have to get up and make my own prints in the world so I think some of it can be that. Parents do get divorced a lot of times. When you get out of high school, they've been waiting to get divorced.

1:29:31So as much as that can be tough on you, I think try and recognize what their lives have been like, maybe, just hypothecine. But recognize that they might have held on for an extra three years because you were still in high school as a child. So I don't know. There's a lot there. But even if you have awareness, you're calling and thinking about, well, what do I do? You know, how do I stay motivated? What was the last part he asked about? What did he ask about, Zach?

1:30:02Just not being able to, like waking up, not knowing the motivation. Yeah. It was, you know, parents got divorced, broke up with his girlfriend in college. Yeah. Yeah, you got a lot going on. So I think recognize that and give yourself a little bit of space. you might not wake up with the with the with a sense of purpose every day but if you do start to develop one for yourself man it's going to be helpful and you can here's something that i've learned recently from a fellow buddy of mine and this is my buddy thomas that used to own gray block pizza and they were over there at 1811 pico boulevard on the way to the beach gray block get that hitter they was the original sponsor of this podcast and he told me the other day he said hey man and they make the blue cube baths now he sold the one company and went from doing pizza pies to doing uh ice plunges and he's he's the fellow that gave me that beautiful ice plunge at the house that blue cube um but he said hey man you can each day when I wake up, I decide if the world is for me or if it's against me.

1:31:13And that's pretty powerful because right there, you're going to get a little bit of sense of purpose.

1:31:25But having a good sense of purpose is so key, man. And I believe the world is for you. I believe that the world is for us. I really do. I think that there's predators out there. You know? There's dirty lungs out there with damn trumpets. Tying the trumpets to their mouths.

1:31:52But that don't mean that we can't fight, baby. That's what I'm saying. And I think having a sense of purpose is key, man. And is the world for me or against me? Because if I say the world's against me, then that's how my day is gonna go this world is against me but if i say man the world is for me the world wants me to do well the world wants me to do better the world wants me to see someone and smile at them the world wants me to let someone go if they do something wrong not real like look not cray if they do something they get your shit get their shit you know or go get your back. That's what I mean.

1:32:32But yeah, the world is, it's for me. So anyway, I believe that the world is for you. I believe that. And every day you might not succeed in thinking that way, but over time you can. I believe that you can. So I just pray that you have some sense of purpose, man. I pray that I do too. Every day I don't, but some that, you know, but more often than not, I feel like I do. And I'm grateful for that. But if you're struggling, man, if you're going through something, man, just don't feel like you're alone. You know, there's people thinking about you. There's people you can't even see or feel in the distance

1:33:11that care about you.

1:33:15So let's get out of here the way we came in. Sorry, this is a long, but I hadn't gotten to spend time with you guys in a little while. And this was important to me. I'm going to take a week off at some point in the coming weeks so I'm going to start to figure that out but you guys be good to yourselves baby let's go out the way we came in on Eddie 9 Volt Little Black Flies a long time ago I was in love with a girl and I think I took that love a little too far

1:33:58You can see the cigarette burns on the wall And all the empty bottles in the hall If the water gets too rough, you know who to call