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Speaker 1: Celeb Welcome back to QVC. I'm Karen Lafondo, your host

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Speaker 1: to your favorite QVC little special. I'm always on air

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Speaker 1: from three am to four am, ten am to twelve am.

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Speaker 1: We have an amazing man with an amazing product here today. Everyone.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Mike Lindel, CEO, inventor of my Pillow. Hi, Hi, Karen.

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Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm really excited me back here. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I've got my pillow. I've got sixty thousand pillows in

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Speaker 1: a warehouse in d Pluth, and I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: unload this merchandise on your audience. I know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: love my pillow, and if they don't love it, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get one hundred percent guarantee payback in the mail.

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Speaker 1: And they're made in the USA, right here, right. I

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Speaker 1: believe in making products right here at home, right here

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Speaker 1: in clock Away, Minnesota. I love my hometown. I love Americans.

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Speaker 1: I love giving jobs to people chances. We've already had

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Speaker 1: a hundred sold and we have ninety thousand left. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: and again, oh our price is still thirty nine ninety nine. Now, Mike,

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Speaker 1: what makes those pillows? Let me tell you, Karen, Okay,

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Speaker 1: First of all, I just had a stroke six seconds ago.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds that I have a stroke live

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Speaker 1: on national television and I keep selling my pillow? Okay,

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Speaker 1: but this kind of shit happens to me all the time.

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Speaker 1: I used to be a crack addict. I used to

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Speaker 1: be a coke addict. I used to be a card counter.

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Speaker 1: I was divorced, I was married, I killed myself and

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Speaker 1: I'm here and I'm telling you there's nothing better than

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Speaker 1: this pillow. I met Mike on a bender myself in

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Speaker 1: nineteen to eighty seven, seven days in a Greater Biloxi

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Speaker 1: Casino hotel combination. Well we just started smoking crack for

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Speaker 1: seven days and did leave the hotel room. Well, my

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Speaker 1: life turned around. Karl. Let me tell you that that

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Speaker 1: weekend Biloxi was one of the most incredible weeks of

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Speaker 1: my life. I never thought I'd see the sunlight again.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of that week, you told me

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Speaker 1: you looked at me and your eyes could barely open

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Speaker 1: and you were crazy. And I said you looked like

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Speaker 1: a two dollar prostitute and you said, I know, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, we only have one thousand pillows left. These

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Speaker 1: pillows are gonna change your life, just like Christianity change

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Speaker 1: Mike and I's life and helped us quit drugs and

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Speaker 1: gambling and prostitution. Carolyn, me tell you something. It was

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Speaker 1: God who told me to use three different kinds of

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Speaker 1: foam in my pillow. God came to me in a

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Speaker 1: dream and he said, it's not just one foam, it's

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Speaker 1: not just two phones. It's gonna be three kinds of

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Speaker 1: phone that you gotta put in there. We have ten

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Speaker 1: pillows left. Do you I hear that? Give you sears?

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Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Lafondians? Ten pillows left? Karen, I

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Speaker 1: am going into cardiac arrest. I'm gonna need you to

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Speaker 1: ask me to call me an ambulance right now, American ambulance. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we have one pillow left. Okay, can we get medicine set?

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Speaker 1: I think Mike's having a heart attack. Okay, he's passed out. Now. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're sold own. That's it for me. Thanks for watching.

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Speaker 1: I'll be on again at two am and five am.

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Speaker 1: I have a great day. Thanks for shopping. Who's that

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Speaker 1: knocking at the door. It's all your friends, your filthy horse,

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Speaker 1: your husband's gone, and you've got books on a bottle

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Speaker 1: of wine to kill it. It's books, It's gossip. I'm shook.

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Speaker 1: It's memoirs, Martini. Clebrit Book Club, Come read it while

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Speaker 1: it's hot. Celebrity Book Club, tell your secrets. We won't

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Speaker 1: talk celebrity books. No, boys are alloud. Celebrited book say

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Speaker 1: it Loud and cloud. Celebrity book Club buzz me and

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Speaker 1: I brought the queer Poe. Hi, friend, I am so excited.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to talk to you. Yes, but just

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Speaker 1: in general, No, there's nothing more delectable than the potter

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Speaker 1: between two lifelong best friends. To quote The New Yorker,

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Speaker 1: I listen, you know I said this before the New

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Speaker 1: Yorker came along and wrote a rave review of our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what's delectable potter? Just straight up patter,

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Speaker 1: just straight You know, I'm not talking about back and forth. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about all right, that is banter. I am

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Speaker 1: talking about patter. Patter is it's both easier and more difficult.

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Speaker 1: It's jazzy, it's jazz. It's cats, and you know we

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Speaker 1: are jazz cats. And I am making it a goal

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Speaker 1: this year. Fuck New Year's resolutions. Okay, I love that resolution. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking a little more like September, because isn't for

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Speaker 1: me that's when resolutions really start doctor schools, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, go to see more live Jaws.

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Speaker 1: more exercise, do more jazz, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's so vague and it's kind of easy to not

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Speaker 1: how about this, Yeah, I Lily Marata, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: see one live jazz show every month, m right, instead

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Speaker 1: the Blue Note website but it's not the day right,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, is this going to be my

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Speaker 1: infamous time going to jazz? No, now you're going to

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Speaker 1: be like, oh, crap, September somewhere so far and I

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Speaker 1: haven't ducked into a jazz club with my longtime girlfriend

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Speaker 1: right boom, even though you know our first like hang,

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Speaker 1: was that a jazz club? Well, no, we literally ducked

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Speaker 1: first time. Wow, it was like kind of like a date.

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Speaker 1: It was like we went to a bunch of group

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Speaker 1: there was literally a live jazz band. I was like,

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Speaker 1: well we have to go in. Okay, Well now you

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Speaker 1: absolutely have to like repeat this so you can like

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Speaker 1: keep the sparkle spark alive. Does you like jazz? Take

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Speaker 1: somba classes? You know who kept alive? Yeah, somehow is

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Speaker 1: still alive. A little fella by the name of Michael Lindell,

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Speaker 1: CEO of My Pillow and Now My Pillow, My Coffee

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Speaker 1: and My Sleps and the author of the book What

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Speaker 1: Are the Odds From Crack Addict to CEO by Michae Lindel. Ok. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the book we read this week. I know

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Speaker 1: I've said this thousand times, maybe one of the craziest

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Speaker 1: often true in its own way. Yeah. So this book,

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Speaker 1: a cover, it's rare that a cover jumps off the page,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, Like this it's a hologram. It is

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Speaker 1: A hologram is always something that changes, like, oh it's

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Speaker 1: a rock, now it's a lion. No, because they're always

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Speaker 1: been Like the Kanye West hologram. It's like it's just

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Speaker 1: I mean? Oh, you're right when they do Brittany and

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Speaker 1: it's also like a rock in either way. I watched

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Speaker 1: The Kevin Federline released last night. Oh wait, and this

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Speaker 1: has to do with their whole drama. Yeah, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get because we're celebrity gossip from like three weeks ago. Right,

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Speaker 1: the cover is dreysanam whether or not this is a hologram,

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Speaker 1: but it's like a weird plastic that has two images

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Speaker 1: the photos him smiling as a current as you know

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Speaker 1: his current CEO jin Ceo with a little like onyx

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Speaker 1: wears a very QBC men's jewelry sold I would want

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Speaker 1: to say, like it's I it's like it's mall men's cross.

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Speaker 1: like Ramona cells in her like Chotchkey wholesale or Christian website.

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Speaker 1: So I've been on the site. There's actually so many

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Speaker 1: it's the onyx of it that makes it like also

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Speaker 1: So that's the like that he wears a cross, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can see that he's a reformed Christian CEO. Now

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Speaker 1: his hair is like slicked back, and he's got this

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Speaker 1: And then so the other photo is him as a

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Speaker 1: I'm just like I think he still is having like

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Speaker 1: so yeah, let's get into it. Um, I don't know

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Speaker 1: have you ever lets lested, rested your heads, molested your

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Speaker 1: I'll go to a bed bath and beyond when I'm

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Speaker 1: just like I'm trying to simulate something here of some work,

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Speaker 1: and so I mean it's possible, but nothing obviously that

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Speaker 1: for therapy because I don't have time to even go

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Speaker 1: a very mich Lindell day because I was sending out

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Speaker 1: like going in this full story about like when a

423
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: Missippian like when it Vegas and like learning card counting

424
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: from like vast demo, like the most incredible card count is.

425
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: Sure he like there would be a Nathan for You

426
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: episode about him where Nathan for You was like, Okay, what,

427
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: Like I feel like Nathan would be like, I have

428
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: an idea. You sell me the deed to your business,

429
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 1: but I'll pay you back with interest, And how about

430
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: an idea that you give like three pillows out per

431
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: one pillow And he would be like yes, and like

432
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: but he almost invents those own schemes for himself. Like

433
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: one way he gets the pills selling as he puts

434
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 1: a pillow in like this entire hotel, which I thought

435
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: was genius, and then he gives like a card that's

436
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: like here's my number, and then there was a mini

437
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: pillow on the little bedside table next to it to

438
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: like be like, hey, you like this pillow like call

439
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: us but that it didn't work. But it worked, no,

440
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: But then he got an article in the Star Tribune.

441
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: Well the article the press got him all this, and

442
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: we know this because the New York Times got us

443
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: a huge bump and listener huge. But back to Deadwood

444
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 1: for a second, and like this, like historically his history

445
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 1: of gambling is that his like grandpa Bob was in

446
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: a gambling ring in Deadwood, famous HBO show like and

447
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: Bugsy Siegel was like, man, I'm gonna go to Vegas

448
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: and his grandpa was like, people just like to gamble,

449
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: No one needs the lights. And then Bugsy Siegel went

450
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: on to create Vegas, and boy was he wrong. My

451
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: grandmother once told me the story that my dad was

452
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: like your grandmother was like lying in the so random

453
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: that like um, but it's very lame women literally hashtag

454
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: believe women. It is the story My grandmother was like, yeah,

455
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: like I had some uncles and like aunts, and you

456
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: had some relatives who were like went to Vegas when

457
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: it was nothing. They were like in real state, yeah,

458
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: and they were going to start building up. But then

459
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 1: it was like they got bought out or like lost

460
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: a card game or something like that and like left Vegas.

461
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: But it was like it was very like the story

462
00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: of like we almost owned Vegas. We almost owned Vega. Yeah,

463
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: Like it was like they were gonna build something and

464
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: then didn't like lost out in some real yeah. Same.

465
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be one of the original invassadors

466
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: in Resorts World Casino by JFK, and they were really

467
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: aggressive in trying to court me, and no of like

468
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: what my life would have been if I was this

469
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 1: Vegas air and it was like me walking down this

470
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: crazy multi spiral staircase into this like marble room. Oh oh,

471
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: you thought, oh well, it was like there was like

472
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: so many hot tubs and bear skin Rogers and piano everywhere. Damn,

473
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: we'd only own Vegas. What I want to talk about

474
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: card counting, because this is one of his big like

475
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: things that keeps a genius. That's I know. I'm just

476
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: so like when we were listening to this together, yeah,

477
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: as a podcasting duo, and he's talking about Vosses, this

478
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: guy voss his card counting class. I was like, there's

479
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: no way if I took that class. I don't I

480
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: don't think you couldn't memory as the matrices. Yeah, because

481
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: it's so like double twos on threes, threes to the fives. Yeah,

482
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: how to play Blackjacks. It's one of the main games

483
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: I know how to play. Gambly was you just have

484
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 1: to get to twenty one twenty one, right, but right,

485
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: obviously it's easier if it's just you and the dealer,

486
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: which Michael Lindell is always like, I want to go

487
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: head to head with the dealer, And as you said,

488
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: his trick because all the pit bosses, once you start winning,

489
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: they start looking Yeah, and also hello the bubble people.

490
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: So he calls the security cameras the bubbles and there's

491
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: someone watching the bubbles. And you got the bubbles and

492
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: you got the pit bosses and they're always on your ass.

493
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: So he does his little act, which is drink twenty

494
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: to get absolutely wasted, but like still be able to

495
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: like count into a six deck shoe. And it's like

496
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: the shoe is a term that I guess means a

497
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 1: bunch of decks, and and be really chatty because he's like,

498
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: you think of card counters as these serious, like sunglasses

499
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: wearing guys who are at who are like you know,

500
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: So here's what I don't want to say about Ka

501
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: County And so, yeah, counting it's not illegal, but the

502
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: casinos don't like it. I thought it was illegal. See

503
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: I thought it was illegal too, But the way he

504
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: talked about twenty one, but he's always just being like

505
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: what we were doing was technically not illegal, it must

506
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 1: be not illegal in this state. They would just like

507
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: find him and like toss him out. They'd be like,

508
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: this guy's counting, like don't ever come back here, and

509
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: they like rough him up. Right, I bet if you're

510
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: part of a card counting rank, because there's that movie

511
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: twenty one, which he said that he was almost a

512
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: part of. Right, He's like, so I was card County

513
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: and a consult They were going to make a big

514
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: Hollywood movie called twenty one, but then he was recruited

515
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: to be like a potential leader of that crew. But

516
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: then that crew got like arrested and disbanded, like right before.

517
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: They said other card countries like found them at that casino,

518
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: like at some riverboat and we're like watching him, and

519
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: they were like, we like what we see. This also

520
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: opened me up because it's like, you know, gambling, we

521
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: think Mohican, obviously, Atlantic City, Vegas boats. I was like,

522
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: it's like, I know about riverboat casinos, but I guess

523
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: Mel Gibson just such a good film, and like I

524
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: feel like other nineties thal like the Pelican Brief, maybe

525
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: they're on a riverboat casino, okay, but then these other

526
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: gambling towns that actually are not river Like he's always

527
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: at Tunica or Tusca. So I got in my car

528
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: to Tunica. We're going to Tunica and anyway, just buckle list.

529
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: I want to go to these smaller I want to

530
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: go to Tunica. I want to go to Tunica. So

531
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: I told Karen that I would go to Tunica. I

532
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: would I would have ten thousand. I would come back

533
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: with thirty thousand, which would cover our debts. Um anyway,

534
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: card County, I think we should take a card County class. Yeah.

535
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: I love tamas okay. But then I'm like, if it's legal,

536
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: how can you just take this class? Because he was

537
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: just like you find out like through it was a grapevine,

538
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: but it just sounded very like they met this It

539
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: was like a six month class. They had a full

540
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: bucks nine dollars. This guy had a full like casino

541
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: floor built in the basement of this warehouse, was teaching

542
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: the class and had all these former pit bosses as

543
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: like teachers in the class. And I'm just like, this

544
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: seems like a huge operation to like not be known

545
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: if it's like technically illegal. When so he owns like

546
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: three bars, which sounds like the most epic bars. This

547
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: is before my pillow. Let's talk about schmidty Is for

548
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: a second. So a huge part of this book is

549
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: about him unin operating. Schmidty's the badass local neighborhood bar Shaska, Minnesota.

550
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: And it was just like the regulars man and they

551
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: come in and we'd talk and do shots. And he's

552
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: just the kind of a better who's like doing shots

553
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: with constantly and this and this was the reason why

554
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: he like kind of got into coke and also owning bars.

555
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: It was like a way for him to have friends. Yeah,

556
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: because he'd be like, oh, so amazing that I owned

557
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: this bar where all these like, you know, working class

558
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: guys would come in and they were all like friends

559
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: and buddies. And then it's like the moment like he

560
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: had to like talk to someone, he was like doing

561
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: a thousand shots on doing coke because he was like,

562
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: I mean social anxiety, yeah, and you know, and I

563
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: get it, you know what I mean. And we use

564
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: drugs to not just numb the pain, to things more fun,

565
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: to make us feel invincible. And you know, when he

566
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: was owning that bar, he started dart leagues, you know,

567
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: baseball leagues, little leagues, and he was doing you would

568
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: think you do where he'd throw the napkins up into

569
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: the ceiling fan, which he called Schmidti's snow, Smitty's confetti

570
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: or whatever smitty And I was like, it was literally

571
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: just him buying napkins and throwing them in the air. No, no,

572
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: but he would throw them into the ceiling fan, and

573
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: the job of that makes a lot more sense. Yeah.

574
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: I was just kind of like, you're throwing napkins in

575
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: the air, Like now the fan was a key, the

576
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: Schmidi's snow, it was a key component of that, and

577
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: then he does this other thing when um, he needs

578
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: like the ceiling demolish, so instead of paying for ceiling demolsials,

579
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: he just gets all the badass of bikers who like

580
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: his bargees, fuck it up and like it two parts

581
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: of the one stone, because they would have made a

582
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: big mess anyway if they were bad boys. They were

583
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: bad boys, and they were Time went off and time

584
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: went on, and he was like, why don't you just

585
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: like demolish my ceiling so I can install a new

586
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: one randomly? Um, and he also is married to love

587
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: his life Karen for much of this book. Yeah, so okay,

588
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: I don't I have to say he was like, Karen's

589
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, Like I didn't

590
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: think of her as such a looker in the photos,

591
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: and well I was actually wrote down in my notes

592
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: that I think she's much hotter than his creepy Christian.

593
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: Second way, Kendra who's in the back, who just like

594
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: is really like kind of giving like Mormon sisterhood, like

595
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: where the hair is like too long high bangs. Oh sorry,

596
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking for get this photo of him getting baptized

597
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: and twenty eighteen, like in Louisiana. It's so insane. Okay, here,

598
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: let's just get to Kendriver a second, because basically here

599
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: I wrote that he was pussy whipped into Christianity. Yeah,

600
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: it's like but I'm like, so was the pussy that good?

601
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: That's always what's so crazy? Like, damn pussy is so good?

602
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: Have you converted me? Like this woman seems so creepy

603
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: and crazy? And he even says to him and they've

604
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: never even met and they're always like staying in separate

605
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: hotel rooms because he's like, she was a Christian woman,

606
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: He's like, and sometimes she was even too Christian for

607
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: me because I'd be lost and she would say, let's

608
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: pray about which city. Oh. I kind of thought that

609
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: she was going to be like Slamonla Toxham Christian, Like

610
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: I thought she was gonna be GB Yeah, like but

611
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: maybe just like more like titties and like maybe a

612
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: little bit like curvyer like this Kurby fan dada, Yeah,

613
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: which showed me Karen So Karen, he me, Karen is

614
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: just like very mind western like that where it's like

615
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: you're a straight woman who's like really butched looking in

616
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: this way. And Karen him, even though yes, they were

617
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: like both like doing cooke all the time, but it

618
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: sounded like they had honestly, like a really beautiful marriage.

619
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm other beautiful marriager. They were going to Toad's house

620
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: and doing crack till nine am, and it's like, where

621
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: are here four kids? And like, what's my saying is

622
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: He's been like yeah, so at that time, Heather, our

623
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: oldest was in school for fine arts, And I'm like,

624
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: how are these kids even like doing job applications? And

625
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: you guys were straight up at Toads like doing crack.

626
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: But I think that this kind of proves the point

627
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: that today's parentine like, yes, is too crazy, too crazy,

628
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: And it's like you actually don't need to be such

629
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: a helicopter parent and such a tiger mom and like

630
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: being so violin like twenty four seven. It's just like

631
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: because his oldest one, who went to art school, she

632
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: drew up the my pillow logo. Yes, hello, she's a

633
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: famous logo designer at nineteen and her parents were crack adducts.

634
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: So it's like, you don't need to be to be

635
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: like such an insane how her parent twenty four seven,

636
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: And to quote Michael Lindel about the Trump kids. Oh,

637
00:34:54,520 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: you can't fake good kids well, him quoting pet Oh,

638
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: him quoting the quoting Mike Pass the Chetak good kids.

639
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: He was like, And when I went to the stadium

640
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: at the Republican National Convention and I met Eric Donald

641
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: Trump Junior, such amazing beauty, beautiful, smart, articulate people men

642
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: and women. So at some point what I found was

643
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: crazy about the relationship was that they both did crack,

644
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: because like he's talking about crack addiction, and like he

645
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: first starts doing coke, and then somebody at Toad's house,

646
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: which is like the house they go to after party

647
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: like every night after Schmidty's like, someone brings crack and

648
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: where he starts to notice that, like everyone is sneaking

649
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 1: off into bedrooms with spoon. He's like, what's all this

650
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: bedroom hufflepuff about? And then everyone's like yeah, so it's

651
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: actually kind of being like crack boots now and everyone

652
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: is just like fully doing spoon, baking soda, like taking

653
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: the coke and then doing croc stuff. And he's like huh.

654
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: And so he tries it once and he's like this

655
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: is whatever, and then he tries it a second time

656
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: and that's when it all goes downhill. Yeah, because he's

657
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: like it's coke times ten and it's amazing. And you know,

658
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean personally, I have no interest in doing crack.

659
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: Well again, I do feel crack is very and yes

660
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: we're nineties kids, but yeah, some people aren't doing crack well.

661
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: I mean, Hunter Biden is still doing crack. But it's

662
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: funny that similar between this and the Hunter Bidding book

663
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: because they both describe crack in a similar way, just

664
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: of like doing it. Yeah, like you mean the process,

665
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: the chora boy and like like yes in the makeshift

666
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: pipe and then far mean when you're looking for like

667
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: any little bit. I will say one this book is

668
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: so much better than Hunters. Yeah, true, Hunter does the

669
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: same where he downplays it but also ups the romance

670
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, where he's like we were in you

671
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 1: know this squall or shitty apartment, Like it's more private

672
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: school boy doing it. Like and I was living with

673
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: a homeless woman. I don't know, you're living in kind

674
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: of an empty like one bedroom condo and DuPont Circle

675
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: and it's like not like so squalor and like Mike

676
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: is a kind of time of the schooler. But not realized,

677
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: like he only like he's like, oh yeah, Actually, at

678
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: one point I realized, like this apartment that we were

679
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: doing cracking was pretty disgusting. There was guardboard up like

680
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: over every single window, slits cut out because you got

681
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: so paranoid and crack that you wanted to like see

682
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 1: if anybody was coming right, Like, he has too many

683
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: crazy stories about like lighting himself on fire and like score,

684
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: it's like more about the score. I've been the scoring

685
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: for him in hotels. Well, he's also on the Hunter Biden.

686
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: He's not like lying and like covering up so much

687
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: because he's the president's son. So he's not just like

688
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: omitting ship where he is doing crack in the White

689
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: House right now. He's just like I'm no. And then

690
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: like I was in this hotel for seven days and

691
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: he's maybe abellishing here. And there's definitely the question side

692
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: about yeah, I guess the kids where he'll be on

693
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: like a hunting trip because he never missed his like

694
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: goose Okay, I'm sorry trips. This was like such a

695
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: classic like this book being insane when he's just like

696
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: so in the hole with my pillow. But he's also

697
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: like we need to make eight point two million dollars

698
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: like in profit this year. And then he's on a

699
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: hunting trip and he's like checking his sales figures and

700
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: he sees this huge spike and then he like calls

701
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: his salesperson and he's like and he's like, Oh, it's

702
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: because we bought like an ad on Fox News. And

703
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: this is where his whole like journey into Trump Beekins

704
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: is because his Trump his Fox News ads do really

705
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: well for my pillow. And then he's like, I need

706
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: to buy more ads on Fox News immediately, like within

707
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: the next like two hours, otherwise like I'll miss the

708
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: window to like make money this year or something. But

709
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: he's still on the hunting trip and it's improper etiquette

710
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: to leave a hunting trip without killing a deer first,

711
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: so he has to kill a deer. But because of

712
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: Minnesota law that season, he has to kill a large doe. Well,

713
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't you believe it? A large dough walks in front

714
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: of my eyes and I killed him. In mind, I

715
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: killed that forty two bugs, and then I had a premonie.

716
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: So he has a lot of premonitions, just like you

717
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: had to shoot a large doze. So that you could

718
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: buy more ads on Fox News. But I mean that

719
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: not like most Trump like Fox thing ever. So so

720
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: that his whole also like conservative thing starts when he's

721
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: like slightly getting off crack because he's like, so, I

722
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: wasn't a Democratic Republican. I honestly had no idea what

723
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: anything was. Keep saying he was in a cultural comma

724
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: for forty years, even though he was like really into

725
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: music and he curated the Schmidty But this is why

726
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: he was in a cultural comment Like he talks about

727
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: curating his jukebox at m Schmidty's and it's like the

728
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: most normal bar jukebox ever. Yes, it's literally just the Eagles,

729
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: greatest hits, Prince Yeah, and Bob Seger and he's like, yeah,

730
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna put on top forty, I was gonna

731
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: do Skinnered Seeger one Prince Song. It was like just

732
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: the most normal, like big Western dive bar juke bars

733
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: I could possibly imagine. And he was like, I put

734
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: special effort into curating songs. I knew my regulars would

735
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: love they would love him, and we would Oh, you'd

736
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: see a group of bikers breaking out singing like David

737
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: Cassidy I guess he was saying like he wasn't gonna

738
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: put like a Nirvana CD on or like a well,

739
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't like rap right anything but rapper country when

740
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: he is, he doesn't even seem like that. So in

741
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: the country, oh well, because remember when he gets arrested. Yeah,

742
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: and he's in jail for thirty days, and then all

743
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,839
Speaker 1: of the other inmates are singing rap and hip hop

744
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: song and he goes and to quote Diane Keaton and

745
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: something's gotta give. He's very just like, I'm sorry, I

746
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: don't get it. Why does every word have to rhyme

747
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: with a bitch? And he's like, I didn't like this music.

748
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: It was degrading to women. So then he's like I

749
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: then he wanted to change, remember, And then so then

750
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: he leads the entire person in a Disney song and

751
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: it's a Small World after All, which is so creepy

752
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: and Christian, and then they all think he's not even

753
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: Christian yet. Yeah, he just like I think that's just

754
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: him like literally not knowing anything. But why need's trying

755
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: to sing like a you know, a Bob Segert track

756
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: or whatever, but like not moves. I guess like those

757
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: are a little bit harder to just like I don't

758
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: know prison to do. I mean, you could do old

759
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: time rock and roll, but I think he knew, like

760
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: because if you start like in your prison and you're

761
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: just being like a little dude who pounds, people aren't

762
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh shit, yeah. I feel like I

763
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: would do that, be like try to like thinking I

764
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: know the lyrics to a song that that was Curioke.

765
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: I'd be like, father of mine, tell me where did

766
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: you live? And I'm like, come on, boys, m anyway.

767
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: Then I think he's insane, but so trump thing blah

768
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: blah blah. Basically he's like in his factory. This is

769
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: years later. He's quick crack, I think, and like a

770
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: news station calls, it's ABC in New York. Oh yeah,

771
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: and they're saying, do you want to put an ad

772
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: on our show for this for don Imus? And he

773
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: says no, because I put an ad on like a

774
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: local Choscar radio station once it didn't work, so I'm

775
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 1: not gonna do it again. And he's like, but because

776
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: of my Christian faith, someone ever hurt me. Yeah, everything

777
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: that happens is a premonition because of his faith. And

778
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: he's kind of mailed Caputo. Yeah, no, it's this one.

779
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: This book is gonna be new Cannon too. Like his

780
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: spirit is premonition. Premonition is just any thought he had. Yeah,

781
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: Like when he has a premonition of what his photo

782
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: is going to look like. When he takes a photo

783
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: of Trump and it's just a photo of Trump with

784
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: like memorabili in the background, it's like, well, that's the

785
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: most normal photo an elected official. He's like, and I

786
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: had this idea and there would be all these framed

787
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: photos behind us. Why would I even think that? And

788
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: then when I did meet Trump and we took the photo,

789
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: it looked exactly like the one in my dream, and

790
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, yeah, but it's like there was a

791
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: moment where they were going to take a photo somewhere else,

792
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: and then Up is like, no, let's take a photo

793
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: in front of all my like accolades, like of course,

794
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: Trump come, I'm sorry. So New York radio calls and

795
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: they're like, do you want to put it out on

796
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: DNA imus And he's never heard of DNA imuss im

797
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: cultural coma cultural comma. And then until he flies to

798
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: New York City, that's all too insane. They're like, not

799
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: only do we want like your as, but you should

800
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 1: like fly New York to meet Imuss. This is another

801
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: thing where why isn't fucking better help flying us to

802
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: the Better Help HQ. It's probably in this building they

803
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: are so Dumbo based, unless they're just like, actually, we're

804
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: based in Vancouver, Yeah you should come and um better

805
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: fly us to Vancouver. We will pay for our own lodging, yes,

806
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: but we would like ground transport to your HQ is

807
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: fine or frontier busmo. So he meets with im. So

808
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: that Imus comes in and he's like this like thin

809
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: cowboy and he's old and as a grumpy and he's like, wow,

810
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: look at this amazing man. But then he shows him

811
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: the pillow and I just likes the pillow. I'm just like,

812
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: you're crazy and he's like, no, you're crazy. And they

813
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: start doing ads and then someone is like you should

814
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: do an infomercial and he's like, no, infomercials are desperate.

815
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: But I don't know if every time, okay, every single

816
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: page of this book is him just being like and

817
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: what would happen next would be something that would change

818
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: the world most of my life and it's like, well,

819
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: I guess like technically everything changes the courts of your life,

820
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: especially every time he needs like a new Like he's

821
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: still being so crack addict in this way where he'll

822
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: just meet a person and he'll be like, what happened next?

823
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: It was a conversation that changed my life. We stayed

824
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: up for seven days doing crack and talking about our

825
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: feelings and our past lives, and it's like this, you know,

826
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: I want to know what she looks like? Is Rachel

827
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: his like crack girlfriend, medium crack girlfriend, post divorced, pre

828
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: the Christian because I bet she was like hotter and

829
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: like a kind of I think that she looked like

830
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: the most haggard babysitter a lot. That's what I'm saying

831
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: that I think she was like hot and like a

832
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: really fucked up, like haggard addict way. Yeah, like just

833
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: like that like brunette, sunken brunette, like dry, crimped, long hair,

834
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: like scrunchy, like driving like a huge also a huge

835
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: Chevy Blazer. Yeah, they're all driving these like big messy chefies.

836
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: Karen first his best friends to mind with that Raylan

837
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: line Um daddy got sober, mom got his best friend. Yeah,

838
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: it's literally that, okay, but this is another night where

839
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: he's like also counting cards but also gambline is also

840
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: like a million dollars in the whole might below and

841
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: like going through a breakup and crack. Progressive slot machines

842
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: were relatively new at the time. The big draws that

843
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: the jackput just kept building until someone won it. That night,

844
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: the jackpots at the Flaming Goes three progressive slots were

845
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: up to one point five million. Winning that kind of

846
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: money was just a fantasy, of course, Still, I thought, Wow,

847
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: that's all I'd need. I'd sit there and plugged all

848
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: three machines. For a while. I was winning someone losing

849
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: someone when this young guy and his family walked up

850
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: behind me. It was the kid's twenty first birthday. Do

851
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: you mind if we play one of the machines, he asked.

852
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: The kid and his family only wanted one pull, just

853
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: to say he'd done it. Sure, go ahead, I said,

854
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: after all, it was his birthday. I stepped aside. The

855
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: kid plugged in three silver dollars, so like, what techade

856
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 1: is it? And he pulled the lever. Then I heard

857
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: some of the worst sounds that'd ever heard in my life.

858
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: The machine started to jingle and ring and flash bright lights.

859
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: The kid and his family leapt into the air, then

860
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 1: started laughing and hugging each other. The kid had won

861
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: the jackpot. For a couple of moments as to there

862
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,479
Speaker 1: in shock, I'd been one pull away, that pull away

863
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: from one point five million. Anyway, then he goes on

864
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: and he does found my pillow whenever, and I'm still

865
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: just so mad that that family didn't give him any money.

866
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 1: It's like it's the slab machine he was sitting at.

867
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,439
Speaker 1: It's like, this is why I'm just almost like did

868
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: that happen right where? I'm like that, And then like

869
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 1: this family who was just like little Freddie just wants

870
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: a shot, like they didn't they took it and were

871
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 1: like buy bitch, like and they see this like insaney

872
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: butdragon alcoholic, sad guy like just pulling the lever all night,

873
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: and they weren't just like, oh you can have fifty right, No, No,

874
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 1: I don't buy it, Mike. I just yeah, I don't

875
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: because I could also see it maybe like he walked

876
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: away and then like he saw them winning like thirty

877
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: minutes later something. Yeah, it's a little more likely than

878
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: it's like he was in a casino when walking and

879
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: saw like a kid win yeah, and was just like

880
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: I gave him. But it's a great story and I'm

881
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: a storytelling. Here's a little preview if this makes VIP lounge.

882
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: It was just kind of like gays getting oh this

883
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: was where like I was in the beer line getting

884
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: a blue Point amazing local Long Island beer and this

885
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: like these two gays were there and one goes, what

886
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: do you want? And the gay response so stressed out.

887
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, this isn't me. I've never done this.

888
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: This is literally an option of like a Bluepoint or

889
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: a stella like full breakdown. I don't know, this isn't me, Okay, Ryan,

890
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 1: I don't know where I am. I don't do beer.

891
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't excuse me. Where on the list. To hear

892
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: the whole thing, go to patreon dot com slash pot

893
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: and subscribe my segments. What does she eat? What does

894
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: she wear? How does she live? What does she eat?

895
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: What does she eat? So obviously like steak and lobster

896
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: in like a casino way, as like his cought meal,

897
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: but like what is he eating on the daily? Like

898
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 1: he was so heart attack caught me for like decades,

899
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: but also probably not eating a lot of the time,

900
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: like yeah, he was going eight days without eating, yeah,

901
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: and then would get a casino kind of meal. You know.

902
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: I bet sometimes he's making himself at lunch just a

903
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Oh sad, but I guess

904
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: like wonder bread is. So I feel like, not in

905
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: a sad way. I just mean like okay, just like like, oh,

906
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: you know what it is, You're actually he's been so

907
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: podmlochsh me about it because she's just go on, well,

908
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: I have to saw this one thing where she was

909
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: just like when I eat for work and so sometimes

910
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: I love to have a very very simple snack to

911
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: keep my appetite at bay and she just wants a

912
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: peanut butter sandwich. Maybe she doesn't even have jelly. But

913
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: I see what you mean where it's like similar way

914
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 1: where he's just like I'm working out a warehouse. It's fast,

915
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: like let me just make a peep in sandwich and

916
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 1: like fuel and keep moving up and then like dinner.

917
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: Like now that he is a Christian and like sober,

918
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: like he probably and like he does love to like party,

919
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: Like I feel like he is like you know baby

920
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: he loves like baby Q and sausages and burgers and

921
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: like he's grilling them. Yeah, dad girl. I mean the

922
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: fact that the wife is now like more culty and

923
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: like not such this just like bucks some last that

924
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: I was imagining. Yeah, I'm it's making me think that

925
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: she is being a little bit more like we're having

926
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: heart healthy like asparagus pasta tonight or something like creamy.

927
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 1: It's like creamy light options. It's like a salmon. Yeah,

928
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: I think it's chicken. I think it's like bow tie

929
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: pasta was like a creamy and she's buying some sort

930
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: of like like premade, like can't do like locale chicken.

931
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,320
Speaker 1: Like the chicken itself says it's like fat or something,

932
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: and it's like it has like pre grill marks on it,

933
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: you know. Even though they're like billionaires, she's buying like

934
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: this weird. And then I think when he like takes

935
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: her chicken, they're still like homeplate and fresh plate or whatever. Oh.

936
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: I actually could see them doing hello Fresh Yeah, I

937
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: could also, Like I feel like she is so evil

938
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: stepmom in this way where he's coming home and like

939
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: and he's like reaching for his favorite brand of you know,

940
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: soda beverages and like she's replaced with diet. Yeah, and

941
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: she's getting the diet Lowrys likes. Come over and they're like, Dad,

942
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 1: you used to love like Lowries on our like barbecue

943
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,280
Speaker 1: chicken night. And he's like, well, kids, you're gonna love

944
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: Kendra's sweet mustard low fat like steamed chicken. And they're

945
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: all kind of like okay, yeah, okay, what does he wear?

946
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 1: Well now he's still like Katy Perry's parents and wearing

947
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: like big sous and like on cuff lanks that are crosses.

948
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 1: Also see it's like like you know, it's always the

949
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: blue button down like and blue suit and then just yes,

950
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 1: how much on ex jewelry and then like on the weekend,

951
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: well there, you know, he's always so like before he

952
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: becomes my pillow, like so like suits, like I was

953
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: in pants, you know, khakis and a polo. Yeah. Well

954
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: because the first time he wears a suit when he

955
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: has that meeting with the like the fabric distributor in

956
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: New York because he thinks that the informercial is going

957
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: to do Gangbusters and he's like, I need to order

958
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: so much fabric, like on loan on credit wait and

959
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: that whole scene where he like tricks his friends and

960
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: does have a garage full of fabric. Oh yeah, he

961
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: has like the thirty thousand dollars in cash, like in

962
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: a duffel bag, like in a secret truck, and the

963
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: cops are there and like he's about to get arrested,

964
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: but he has the deed in his hand and he

965
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: like snorts the coke as the helicopter or I mean obviously,

966
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: like his eighties and nineties style is like grill worthy

967
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: and he's in so many like kukie Hawaiian shirts and

968
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: like it's it's very flat rooms like um and like

969
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: pleated khaki pants and like the ones I'm wearing now,

970
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,919
Speaker 1: a new Balances Dad Balance Dad. He's totally dad core,

971
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: and like is wearing that shirt of like cocktails you

972
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: have and just like is wearing all my new corduroy.

973
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: I think now his like off duty style is just

974
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 1: like drive fit Marshals. It's like drive fit Helly Hanson Hanson,

975
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: and like, I don't even think he's wearing that much

976
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: like Trump March No, because he's like and everyone was

977
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: signing the famous make America Great Again hats when he

978
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: gets somebody to the Hampton's. He's still like, wowee, this

979
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: is fancy. Yeah, um, how does she live? I mean,

980
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: let's just say it the bad higher the bed, the

981
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: closer to God. But do you think it's one Do

982
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: you think he's like so branded in this way where

983
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: he just uses one my pillow because that's all he needs.

984
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: I'm still imagining like five layers of pillows. Oh but

985
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: are they all my or no? I think there's the

986
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: decorative that they do, the yes, the classics, straight straight

987
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: couple taking take off, and then there's like maybe two

988
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: my pillows or maybe he's like just one that's all

989
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: I need. I think there's four my pillows that I

990
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: would have four, I would have four. I think that

991
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: the furniture is very heavy. I think the house is

992
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: extremely big. It's a light carpet, it's huge. There's workout rooms,

993
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: there's rot iron, bogony, there's like a lot of fake plants.

994
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: I think there's the Yeah, the office has lots of

995
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: He probably has aimed like checks and you know the

996
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: first check, the last check, the Schmidti's contract contought back. Anyway, Yeah,

997
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: the house um is huge and it's massive, but yeah,

998
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: it's definitely like rot iron like looking over the living

999
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: room or something like that. But I'm sure it's like

1000
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: fun to hang out and they're like nine person recliner

1001
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: like TV area. Yeah, well, I'm sure he's only allowed

1002
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: like to watch like certain amount of like movie. He's

1003
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: a top gun is approved, but like not twenty seven dresses.

1004
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: She's like de fagged. Yeah, who are you in the butt?

1005
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: Am I? Avanka Trump? Right? And you are such a beautiful,

1006
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: articulate young American. Good kid, good kid. I don't know.

1007
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: Are we just like regulars at Schmidis? Are we just

1008
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: like the Democrats he meets at a National Prayer breakfast? Okay, wait,

1009
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: maybe you're his daughter who draws up the mars. No,

1010
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 1: because I'm getting very good at photoshop. Yeah so am I, Karen?

1011
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,959
Speaker 1: I do feel like we are regulars and Schmidis because

1012
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: we're just being like, wait, yes, we're going to Vega,

1013
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: and we're like taking any opportunity to do anything random

1014
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 1: and fun life. We love life and like total dive bars.

1015
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: And then maybe we do start wearing at Floyd's and

1016
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: he gets mad at us, and we're like, I don't know,

1017
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: SMI is getting sketchy? Ye ask me he's just getting

1018
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: kind of sad and now we're Floyd's we're moving our

1019
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: softball team. There. Um. I give this book ten out

1020
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: of ten pillows. It's so amazing and you need to

1021
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 1: read it, listen to the audio book, buy a pillow. Yes,

1022
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,839
Speaker 1: we're getting paid for this episode. I'm very curious about

1023
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: the pillow. No. When I read this book, I was

1024
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: one hundred pages in and I was like, I feel

1025
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 1: like I've read five books already, Like there's something more

1026
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: happens in this book than at the typical celebrity memoir

1027
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: where you're like, what how old are you? And he's like, oh,

1028
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: like is so self published? That's what's like. The sentences

1029
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: are self published. Just the paper is self published, and

1030
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: like he kind of messes up sometimes in the audio

1031
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: book too in this way that's anyway. Yeah, the paper

1032
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: feels very like from a printer. Oh I just hopened it. Yeah,

1033
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: it's Lindell Publishing. There you go, all right, Well that's

1034
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. Brand. It's been an incredible

1035
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Speaker 1: journey from crack Addict to CEO to podcast. Best Best

1036
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Speaker 1: Salary Book Club is presented by Prolonged Podcasts. I owe

1037
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 1: them about two hundred thousand dollars, but I swear I'll

1038
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: not gonna pay them back. The show's pruced by Benjamin Fresh,

1039
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: who is my step uncle's will loan me ten thousand

1040
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Speaker 1: dollars with edge roll sport from Leone from Andrew Partsis

1041
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Speaker 1: and Arlene Rebelo and Madeline kaplin Um. They once told

1042
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: me to get the hell out of Dumbboat, but now

1043
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: I think they welcome me back and we are in

1044
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: business together. Our Prussia managers perceive verlind Um. She is

1045
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: a woman of God and has turned me on to Jesus.

1046
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: Our in turn is Noah john Um. He is my son.

1047
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: We go hunting all the time and I'm sorry Noah,

1048
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry I've done drugs while hunting. Virtual Themess

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