Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, Oh what's up?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Who is this?
Speaker 1: This is Marco. I'm guessing this is gig.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, have we ever spoken before? Marco?
Speaker 1: We actually have at the Salt Lake City show. I'm
Speaker 1: the Slinky Guy.
Speaker 3: Oh you're the fucking slinky guy.
Speaker 1: Yes I am.
Speaker 3: Oh Mike, wait wait wait okay, wait wait wait we've
Speaker 3: never spoken on this pot We've never spoken on the
Speaker 3: podcast before though, right.
Speaker 1: No, no, never on the phone, just that one.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. All right, So all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give some context to the people listening. Uh So, you know,
Speaker 3: as as some of you probably know, I do live
Speaker 3: show versions of this show where I bring folks up
Speaker 3: from the audience and we do a little interviews and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And I did a show a few months ago in
Speaker 3: Salt Lake City Shout Out Wise Guys Comedy Club, and
Speaker 3: you know, every once in a while. The way the
Speaker 3: show works is that like people text me with like beforehand,
Speaker 3: with like things that they want to talk about, and
Speaker 3: I'll like write down like five of the text that
Speaker 3: I get, and I'll call people up and uh, I'll
Speaker 3: usually pick like I'll pick like one kind of serious one,
Speaker 3: one kind of silly one, and then sometimes somebody will
Speaker 3: text me something that is kind of just like kind
Speaker 3: of boring, but uh, and I'm like, fuck, let's see
Speaker 3: what this is. And usually those end up being the
Speaker 3: best ones. Like I think in Louisville, Kentucky, Uh, somebody
Speaker 3: texted me and they were like, I sell oreos for
Speaker 3: a living, and that that guy ended up being the
Speaker 3: most fun. And then in Salt Lake City someone texted
Speaker 3: me saying I like to play with slinkies or it
Speaker 3: was something like that.
Speaker 1: Right, I knew exactly what I said. I said, I
Speaker 1: brought a sleeky and I'm ready to talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there it is, okay, I brought a slinky and
Speaker 3: I'm ready to talk. I saw that and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is stupid. Let's let's do this. And then uh,
Speaker 3: you came up and I thought you were just gonna
Speaker 3: bring a slinky on stage and fuck around with it.
Speaker 3: And then this fucking guy who're on the phone with
Speaker 3: right now, he busts out these like insane slinky dance moves,
Speaker 3: like I didn't know that you could be good at
Speaker 3: slinky and this dude is like, fucking I can't even
Speaker 3: I cannot even with words describe what you were doing
Speaker 3: with this slinky like you you were, you were you
Speaker 3: were making all these It's like you were making fucking
Speaker 3: constellations in the sky with it or something. I don't
Speaker 3: even know how to describe it, but yeah, you you
Speaker 3: you really brought the house down with that slinky act.
Speaker 3: That was very impressive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I appreciate all those good words.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel good. Make you appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was super cool. So and then I asked
Speaker 3: you and then and then here's what really got me
Speaker 3: is I was asking you. I asked you a bunch
Speaker 3: of questions. I was like, have you ever like busked?
Speaker 3: Have you ever like, do you ever do you like
Speaker 3: make slinky videos on the internet or something? And the
Speaker 3: way you responded is you were like, I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't do this. You're basically like, I don't do this
Speaker 3: shit for cloud Er money, all right, I do it
Speaker 3: for the love of the slinky game. I was like, damn,
Speaker 3: I have so much respect for this fucking guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. At most I post like one or two
Speaker 1: videos like every two months when I'm finally feeling it.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I just feel demotivated. I'm like, I'm just a
Speaker 1: dude who like can say I.
Speaker 3: Wish you did though, because I want to tell, like,
Speaker 3: I want to like, if someone's listening to this, where
Speaker 3: can I point them in the direction? Because I can't.
Speaker 3: Words don't do justice to what you can do with
Speaker 3: a slinky. How can I Like, if someone's listening to
Speaker 3: this and they're like, I want to see what this
Speaker 3: guy's really made of, can they listen? Can they find
Speaker 3: you anywhere?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I actually have an Instagram. It's blotter Fried b l
Speaker 1: o t t e r.
Speaker 3: Fried b l o t t e r Fried. Yep,
Speaker 3: that's me, and you're and you do your slinking tricks
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I fucked around with just more and just
Speaker 1: slinky too. I had juggle, I have toy, I do
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3: No, this guy's sick, definitely. As somebody who has seen
Speaker 3: his slinky prowess in action, I recommend checking out his instagram.
Speaker 3: Well cool man, I'm glad we got to I kind
Speaker 3: of forget what we talked about on stage, so actually
Speaker 3: this is good. How'd you how'd you get into doing
Speaker 3: the slinky thing?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I saw some dude on Instagram just fucking around the
Speaker 1: slinky shout out Slinky Josh. I just saw him doing it,
Speaker 1: and I had the mentality of monkey see monkey doo.
Speaker 1: So I ordered one and I took like a few
Speaker 1: months that it took to actually learn it. I've actually
Speaker 1: realized something about myself. It's not hard for me to
Speaker 1: learn something hands on, So I was surprised how how
Speaker 1: easy it was to learn. But Slinky Josh was the
Speaker 1: main guy. And then I found some other like Korean
Speaker 1: guys on Instagram as well, who like would just set
Speaker 1: up shop outside and do all these crazy fucking slinky tricks.
Speaker 1: And yeah, mostly everything I've learned was just based off
Speaker 1: of seeing somebody else doing it and being like, I
Speaker 1: want to do that. I I just want to look,
Speaker 1: I just want to do that. It looks cool.
Speaker 3: Man shout out to Slinky Josh. Really pushing the slinky
Speaker 3: metagame forward. That's cool.
Speaker 1: You're real, dude.
Speaker 3: What do you do with your life when you are
Speaker 3: not slinkying?
Speaker 1: I'm mostly hanging out with my buddies, nerding, geeking out,
Speaker 1: playing magic. I work at a pizza shop. I fucking
Speaker 1: spin pizzas and shit too. That's one of my other talents.
Speaker 3: Wow, damn, So you're really like you're really just like
Speaker 3: a sleight of hand guy. You're doing are you? Are
Speaker 3: you spinning the pizzas and throwing them up and catching
Speaker 3: them and all that shit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I do all that shit. My coworkers like
Speaker 1: they kind of become desensitized to it. But like new
Speaker 1: people who get hired, they'll see me do that shit
Speaker 1: and they're like, whoa, what the fuck? And then everybody's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, he does that.
Speaker 3: Do you enjoy your job at the pizza shop.
Speaker 1: When it's slow and easy?
Speaker 5: I do enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But when it's when you're getting bombarded with like eight
Speaker 1: different tickets and you have this big order of like
Speaker 1: seven extra large pieces, and you have somebody breathing down
Speaker 1: your neck saying that you're taking too long, it kind
Speaker 1: of sucks. But the people there make it worth it.
Speaker 3: Dude, I really and I just I mean this so
Speaker 3: much when I do. Remember when I was talking to
Speaker 3: you on stage, I remember thinking like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what is it? What it is about this guy, but
Speaker 3: he seems as though he has life figured out. Do
Speaker 3: you do you agree with me? Do you feel that
Speaker 3: way something about something about just the I like, I
Speaker 3: don't know you just seem as though you Obviously nobody's
Speaker 3: life is perfect, and of course, you know, sometimes work
Speaker 3: sucks and sometimes life sucks, and that's just going to
Speaker 3: be a constant for every human being that has ever lived,
Speaker 3: currently lives, or will ever live. But you just seem
Speaker 3: like you got it figured out. I don't know, what
Speaker 3: do you agree with this?
Speaker 1: There are days where I just I like to believe
Speaker 1: I do, but I completely don't think I have it
Speaker 1: figured out. But then when you have so many people
Speaker 1: around you telling you, like, dude, you got something, like
Speaker 1: you're different, like you you've got something figured out that
Speaker 1: the rest of us don't, It's it's kind of hard
Speaker 1: not to believe.
Speaker 3: Is that true? To a lot of other people around
Speaker 3: you tell you that you have you have life figured out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I believe them. I believe more than I
Speaker 1: believe myself. But whenever I figure that I don't and
Speaker 1: I'm doing shit, I just kind of think back to them,
Speaker 1: and like gets me emotional. But yeah, yeah, just knowing
Speaker 1: that my buddies and my family just tell me that
Speaker 1: I got it figured out makes me believe that I do,
Speaker 1: even though in my head I don't feel like I do.
Speaker 1: Everybody telling me I do. I believe them more so
Speaker 1: than I do believe myself.
Speaker 3: Why do you think so many people have told you
Speaker 3: that you haven't figured.
Speaker 1: Out just because what I do, the self discipline I
Speaker 1: have on myself, everything I've learned, and just like you said,
Speaker 1: everybody has shit that they're going through. The trauma that
Speaker 1: I've had in my life made me who I am today,
Speaker 1: and like, I just kind of kind of feel like
Speaker 1: through it all after talking to so many people about
Speaker 1: their problems in mind, I just kind of figured out
Speaker 1: like something mentally inside of me just knows how it works. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to put it into words other
Speaker 1: than like I just I just kind of know instinctively
Speaker 1: what to do in a situation or how to feel.
Speaker 1: I know how to cope with my emotions better. A
Speaker 1: lot of people come to me for advice when it's
Speaker 1: something really really hard to deal with. Because I'm a
Speaker 1: very level headed guy. I'll say what I want to
Speaker 1: say when I say it, and people enjoy that about me.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't try and sugarcoat anything. So when somebody tells
Speaker 1: me this, I tell them they're acting stupid and they
Speaker 1: shouldn't do it, and then they respect me for that
Speaker 1: because not a lot of people tell them up front that, hey,
Speaker 1: you're kind of being dumb. Don't do that.
Speaker 3: Mmm mmm what you don't have to talk about it?
Speaker 3: But like, can I what's the dark backstory of of
Speaker 3: the slinky guy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I won't get too specific with people because like, it's
Speaker 1: other it's other people's problems that.
Speaker 3: That's okay, you know, you don't have to you know it,
Speaker 3: here's the thing you actually don't have. You don't have
Speaker 3: to actually give him the answer. I just wanted to
Speaker 3: say I only I only asked you that question, not
Speaker 3: even because I I really like needed you to tell
Speaker 3: me the answer, but I just wanted to say the
Speaker 3: phrase the dark backstory of the slinky guy. So if
Speaker 3: you don't want to talk about it's.
Speaker 1: Fine, No, dude, I'll give the backstory. A lot of
Speaker 1: people well I grew up with and are very close with,
Speaker 1: kind of gotten take advantage of as kids, you know,
Speaker 1: the not the good stuff, very very horrible stuff, and
Speaker 1: like talking to them about it kind of gave me
Speaker 1: a different perspective on life. There's that, And like I
Speaker 1: have people all around me with these sort of diseases
Speaker 1: and stuff, and it's hard to see him, hard to
Speaker 1: see him worry about their lives because I worry about
Speaker 1: them too. I know people with like cerebral palsy. I
Speaker 1: can't say I suck at talking, but talking to them
Speaker 1: and just hearing the thoughts about how they have a
Speaker 1: time limit and that time limits way shorter than mine
Speaker 1: really pushed me to just learn a lot more. And
Speaker 1: I also have buddies like my closest friends. I fucking
Speaker 1: love them so much because we just all trauma bond.
Speaker 1: Hearing about how they had to deal with abusive relationships
Speaker 1: with their parents, or hearing how dad was never around
Speaker 1: to love him as much and now he's trying to
Speaker 1: get back into their lives, and all this stuff made
Speaker 1: me realize how much I had it kind of good,
Speaker 1: even though there was a lot going on that wasn't
Speaker 1: very good. It wasn't it's It's one of those things
Speaker 1: where I talked to a lot of people about their
Speaker 1: problems and realize.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot more to life than just kind
Speaker 1: of dwelling on the past, because they go through it
Speaker 1: and they fucking make themselves like the best person They
Speaker 1: can be and it just encourages me so much more.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, it is. It is, like I was,
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and like
Speaker 3: when you when you really think about it, for most
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, setting aside even just examples that
Speaker 3: you know, you and I may gleaned from you know,
Speaker 3: our our anecdotal personal lives or you know, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: stuff stuff I've seen, you know, or listened to from
Speaker 3: this show, or just like in general, it's like my
Speaker 3: fucking most for like most people that have ever lived,
Speaker 3: life has been like horrible, you know, so oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so so just like that's kind of the perspective I'm
Speaker 3: trying to have. It's like, for most people, life is horrible,
Speaker 3: and for most of the people that I've ever lived,
Speaker 3: life has been kind of shitty. So if you're able
Speaker 3: to live, you know, if you're lucky enough to live
Speaker 3: even in a brief moment of not horribleness, you know,
Speaker 3: you're you're kind of killing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I tell my buddies. Lately, I've been
Speaker 1: trying to you know, enjoy the little things, like I'll
Speaker 1: always just kind of be in a horrible mindset because
Speaker 1: like shit happen, but being able to show off my
Speaker 1: slinky skills and get like a simple smile or a hey, dude,
Speaker 1: that's fucking awesome. Keep it up. It keeps me going
Speaker 1: and it kind of really thins out the bad that's
Speaker 1: happened in my life, makes me makes me feel better
Speaker 1: about the day.
Speaker 3: What's your ultimate dream, mister slinky man, What's what's the
Speaker 3: what's the goal or are you just kind of living
Speaker 3: life day by day?
Speaker 1: My end goal in life is to just become a
Speaker 1: DJ or some sort of influencer with my juggling skills, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, I I have people all around me
Speaker 1: telling me I know something, and like if I could
Speaker 1: push that agendas to somebody else and get them out
Speaker 1: of the hole that they're in, that'll be enough for me.
Speaker 1: But like, if I could get it the way I wanted,
Speaker 1: I'd be a top DJ playing rhythm or fucking dove
Speaker 1: step on at like some sort of big excision show
Speaker 1: or something. But you know, as of right now, I
Speaker 1: just lived day by day.
Speaker 3: I have the I have a buddy who he's on
Speaker 3: he goes on he got popular on TikTok for like
Speaker 3: giving life advice while he chops vegetables. Ah, and I
Speaker 3: feel like you could do something like that, except instead
Speaker 3: of chopping vegetables, you're doing slinky tricks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would, I would subscribe. I would subscribe, I would
Speaker 3: have I would love to hear oh yeah, I would
Speaker 3: love to hear your your observations as you do your
Speaker 3: crazy slinky tricks. They're cool slinky tricks. I'll keep piping
Speaker 3: them up.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, I love it when people head me up,
Speaker 1: especially you get a fucking that's that's the top tier
Speaker 1: thing for me. When I went to your show and
Speaker 1: like did all that in front of you, and how
Speaker 1: much you like, I loved it, it made my whole
Speaker 1: entire No.
Speaker 3: That was that was. That was sick. That was that was.
Speaker 3: That was a cool, fucking, cool fucking moment because it
Speaker 3: just took me by so surprise.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: I was really I picked it because I thought it
Speaker 3: was gonna be funny. How boring it was that you
Speaker 3: were just like had nothing to talk about and we're
Speaker 3: just like gonna fuck around with a slinky. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize you had a whole circus act planned. But that rocks, man,
Speaker 3: That rocks, so uh well, let's see, man, Uh, well,
Speaker 3: I'm glad we got to we got to reunite. Yeah,
Speaker 3: is there anything else that you wanted to talk about
Speaker 3: or say to the people of the computer before we go.
Speaker 1: Well, I do want to hurry and tell you this
Speaker 1: about that whole entire thing. The way I got into
Speaker 1: that show is I used my brother's ID because I'm
Speaker 1: only twenty and that ship was twenty one plus.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's I just wanted to get that off
Speaker 1: my chest because I thought that was pretty funny. I
Speaker 1: go to a lot of raves using my brother's I
Speaker 1: d I don't ever drink or any of that. I
Speaker 1: just like to go to shows.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to get the venue in trouble,
Speaker 3: so I'm not I'm not gonna I'm gonna tend like
Speaker 3: you didn't say that.
Speaker 1: Oh I never said it.
Speaker 3: But anyway, Well, thanks for coming man to good luck.
Speaker 3: I think you'll I'm not I'm not worried about you.
Speaker 3: I think you'll continue to live a good life.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gick And Uh to end it off, fucking
Speaker 1: pirate Adobe products. Fuck them?
Speaker 3: Uh give me what give me? Let's say, what's the
Speaker 3: Instagram again? Where people can look at your slinky ship.
Speaker 1: Blatter fry b l O T T E R F
Speaker 1: R I E D beautiful, take care slinky boy. Yes
Speaker 1: you two. Geck bye bye, Hello, Hello, Hi?
Speaker 3: What is your name?
Speaker 2: My name is uh?
Speaker 1: I think I said.
Speaker 3: Vivia Blix vi VI Vivia Blix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh an edgy teenage gamer tag that I
Speaker 2: decided to stick with.
Speaker 3: Very cool, very cool Vivi Blix. That is a cool
Speaker 3: gamer tag. I like that one. When I was a kid,
Speaker 3: gamer tag was Red Treks or something like that.
Speaker 4: Significantly less cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Vivia Blix is a vampires that suck life rather
Speaker 2: than blood, like vitality youth out of someone. And I
Speaker 2: played a lot of like can't be Shitty smash bros
Speaker 2: in my youth. So I was like, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be Vivi Blix.
Speaker 3: That sounds sick Vivia Bleix. Well, Vivi Blix. Uh, what's
Speaker 3: going on? How?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What brings you to this show today?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Gek, So I mean, I uh, I find myself at
Speaker 2: a crossroads in life. To be honest with you, I
Speaker 2: feel like I've always kind of done what people not
Speaker 2: necessarily what people have told me but I've always taken
Speaker 2: advice very seriously and it's led me to a pretty
Speaker 2: sweet spot. I mean, I'm married to the love of
Speaker 2: my life, I'm in my mid to late twenties, and
Speaker 2: I own a home, which I was told I would
Speaker 2: never do, you know, all these awful things. But I've
Speaker 2: kind of been given a decision to either keep doing
Speaker 2: that and potentially being more and more happy, or doing
Speaker 2: something I've wanted to do for a really, really long time.
Speaker 2: So I guess that decision comes down to I've always
Speaker 2: wanted to move abroad, specifically to Spain. Ideally I work
Speaker 2: in the wine business, as Spain has always seemed very
Speaker 2: attractive to me as a place to move, and a
Speaker 2: friend of mine in a small town where I'm currently
Speaker 2: living doing the wine thing in the United States is
Speaker 2: selling a bunch of his sheep. So my options, it seems,
Speaker 2: are to stay where I am on property that I
Speaker 2: own and become a sheep farmer, which I never thought
Speaker 2: i'd say in my entire life, or follow my dreams
Speaker 2: and move abroad and kind of ignore the advice that
Speaker 2: people have tried to give me up to this point.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know, by the way, can I just say this,
Speaker 3: and I'm not saying this to be mean, but I
Speaker 3: think I had a different idea of what your life
Speaker 3: might be like by the fact that you called in
Speaker 3: using your gamer tag, and I'm pleasantly surprised to hear
Speaker 3: that it's way cooler than I thought it would be.
Speaker 2: Well, I am pleasantly surprised that it is that as well.
Speaker 3: I supse, I am, I am. I You've got a
Speaker 3: cool thing going on. Man, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 2: So one of those things where it feels hard to
Speaker 2: complain about because it's like, I have two cool sounding options,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately they are still mutually exclusive options.
Speaker 3: So let me understand this. You work in the wine business.
Speaker 3: Your friend is selling their sheep, and uh, you can
Speaker 3: either buy your friend's sheep and become a fucking cheap guy.
Speaker 3: Where you live, what you have like land? What are
Speaker 3: you where you keeping these sheep?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not a whole lot. I live in Texas,
Speaker 2: so I mean there's plenty of land out here. It's
Speaker 2: like five acres, so, I mean it's not like one
Speaker 2: hundred acre ranch or anything crazy, but it's enough to like,
Speaker 2: you know, get some some homestead exemptions on taxes. Going
Speaker 2: and all that cool stuff and keep doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: But it's also like, yeah, I can't. I can't buy
Speaker 2: a flock or a herd or I guess, yeah, a
Speaker 2: flock of sheep and then immediately move abroad like those
Speaker 2: aren't you know? You can't do both at once.
Speaker 3: It's enough, it's enough for a couple of sheep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely. I think they say, like you
Speaker 2: can keep up to like eight sheep per acre, so
Speaker 2: I could have, you know, quite enough sheep that I
Speaker 2: would be. I would be up to my neck in sheep.
Speaker 3: Where would you move abroad to?
Speaker 2: I've looked at Spain, Argentina or Chile.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: My wife is Hispanic and is fluent. I'm currently trying
Speaker 2: to attain fluency in Texas. It's pretty easy because every
Speaker 2: we we're on the south side, so like everybody around
Speaker 2: me primarily speak Spanish. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And what you would just move and rent out your house.
Speaker 2: Probably rent, if not sell. I know. I was looking
Speaker 2: into like citizenship in Spain, and apparently they're one of
Speaker 2: the few countries that don't allow dual citizenship, So if
Speaker 2: we were to go there, we would have to renounce
Speaker 2: our US citizenship, which that part's a little scary, I'll
Speaker 2: be it's just because I don't know. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, rent or cell, I got family that plan
Speaker 2: on staying here in the meantime, So I mean, worst
Speaker 2: case scenario, I tell my mom, congratulations, you can retire
Speaker 2: and just live on this property out here and whatever.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Wow, that's pretty cool. Have you spent much
Speaker 3: time well, okay, first of all, like, have you ever
Speaker 3: been to Chile, Argentina or Spain.
Speaker 2: I've been to Argentina, and I've spent quite a bit
Speaker 2: of time in Mexico because that's where my wife's family
Speaker 2: is from, and her mom is definitely their family is
Speaker 2: like high falutin Mexico City, Mexican. They're they're like yes
Speaker 2: Espaniola and talking about like the Olympiesandre the cleansing of
Speaker 2: the blood and how they wish they were whiter than
Speaker 2: they were and all this crazy Spanish shit. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're they're kind of the ones that put Spain in
Speaker 2: my head. But then, like I said, the more I've
Speaker 2: looked into it, the more I've been like, oh, that
Speaker 2: sounds pretty sick.
Speaker 3: Uh, Well, I guess before you renounce your US citizenship
Speaker 3: to become a to live in another country and become
Speaker 3: a citizen of their country. You probably want to check
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's uh, that's definitely on the
Speaker 2: I mean, this is like like a five year plan,
Speaker 2: not like a one year plan. But yeah, visit on
Speaker 2: the list.
Speaker 3: Okay, but if this is a five year plan, I
Speaker 3: thought you said these sheep up for sale right now.
Speaker 3: I thought it was like, you got to make your
Speaker 3: right whether or not you can buy these sheep.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's exactly where I find myself where it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's a five year plan and it sounds
Speaker 2: nice in my head, but it's like, well, now the
Speaker 2: decision comes to is the five year plan worth investing in?
Speaker 2: Or are these sheep my future?
Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: How old are you?
Speaker 2: I am twenty six?
Speaker 3: Oh you're my age. Wow. Man, you've got way You've
Speaker 3: got like, way more of a life than I do.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I'm not like not I was like
Speaker 3: I was not only expecting, like I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't know what I was expecting, but yeah, you you
Speaker 3: have way more of a life than I do. That's
Speaker 3: pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: It does not feel that way, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: But uh again, one of those things, I feel.
Speaker 3: You have a wife, and I said, you have a
Speaker 3: wife and a house, and and you're thinking about buying
Speaker 3: a sheep. That's pretty that's more. That's very real to me.
Speaker 3: I think that's very real. You seem like you seem
Speaker 3: like a very real person.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. And I guess that's also why
Speaker 2: it's so scary though, because I feel again like I've
Speaker 2: I've attained what I've attained from, like uh, you know,
Speaker 2: listening to my elders as it were, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it, and uh and you know, being like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: this is the smart way to move through life. These
Speaker 2: are the investments to make. This is you know, you
Speaker 2: you struggle for a little bit to succeed in the
Speaker 2: long term. I mean, we're broke as shit right now
Speaker 2: trying to afford a mortgage, but I know that in
Speaker 2: the long run, some acreage out in the wine country
Speaker 2: is going to be worth some fucking mutt spardan me
Speaker 2: some money one way or the other. Uh So, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's it's the weird thing where it's like,
Speaker 2: do I again, do I continue that path and listen
Speaker 2: to like, ah, yes, garner these sheep, and keep investing
Speaker 2: in your property and do the thing. Or is it like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm done doing all that and I
Speaker 2: want to do what I want to do this time around?
Speaker 1: And will it work out?
Speaker 3: What would you do in Spain?
Speaker 2: So I I'm one of the Californians that moved out
Speaker 2: to Texas. I moved out here thinking I was going
Speaker 2: to work in oil. Uh. So I grew up by
Speaker 2: the mountains and the coast and and uh seventy and
Speaker 2: sunny all year round. So I would go to Spain
Speaker 2: and I'd live out by the coast, uh, with the
Speaker 2: mountains and all that up and like right above Portugal
Speaker 2: up in uh. Oh shit, what's it called Halicia? Uh?
Speaker 2: Just making wine? Man, just doing the doing the same
Speaker 2: thing I'm doing here, but uh with a much less
Speaker 2: certain future.
Speaker 3: I guess why is your future less certain in Spain
Speaker 3: than it is in Texas in terms of making wine?
Speaker 2: Just because I I don't know anybody there, I don't
Speaker 2: have I don't own land there. I don't like here.
Speaker 2: I have that support system, you know, I have friends
Speaker 2: I have family, I have land, I have all the stuff,
Speaker 2: and in Spain, I mean obviously my wife would go
Speaker 2: with me, but I mean it would just be us,
Speaker 2: you know, doing trying to make away. I mean, like
Speaker 2: I said, obviously we'd visit first and do all that,
Speaker 2: but uh, we thought we'd have more time to kind
Speaker 2: of make that decision, and I guess we still do.
Speaker 2: But opportunities are starting to starting to knock at our
Speaker 2: door that we if we don't end up going to Spain,
Speaker 2: we would look back and feel foolish for passing up,
Speaker 2: you know why.
Speaker 3: I mean, wait, so what opportunities are are are bringing
Speaker 3: you into Spain? Because it seems to me like the
Speaker 3: only time sensitive opportunity here is the sheep, whereas Spain
Speaker 3: will hopefully still be around in five years.
Speaker 2: Hey, well, I mean they had that civil war like
Speaker 2: right before World War two.
Speaker 3: Man, you never know, mag listen, man, I guess i'd
Speaker 3: I don't know what. I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 3: what to do with your life. It sounds it sounds
Speaker 3: to me like you you still have some business left
Speaker 3: to do in Texas and you can always move abroad
Speaker 3: later in life if that's what you really want, to do.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true, I guess. Yeah. Also part of
Speaker 2: it is, you know, we've not that we're again this
Speaker 2: is five year plan talk, but we've talked about like
Speaker 2: having kids and all that good stuff, and I'd kind
Speaker 2: of rather do it in the country with universal health care.
Speaker 2: So it's also like, you know, yeah, we get a
Speaker 2: flock of sheep, and we do that for what ten years,
Speaker 2: and then we're in our late mid to late thirties,
Speaker 2: and then then we start talking about having kids. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just.
Speaker 3: Yeah that I'm also thinking. I've also I've planned out
Speaker 3: my entire life as well. At the age of twenty six,
Speaker 3: I've pretty much planned out everything I'm going to do
Speaker 3: until I die.
Speaker 2: Oh good for you, man, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, no, no, it's it's not at all.
Speaker 3: It's it's literally it's literally, planning is not doing anything.
Speaker 3: Planning is just thinking. It's the least impressive. That's like,
Speaker 3: it's like if you congratulate it. That's like if you
Speaker 3: congratulated me for planning on winning a Nobel Peace Prize,
Speaker 3: it's nothing thing, there's nothing to congratulate at all. But uh,
Speaker 3: you know, you can congratulate me when I'm dead, and
Speaker 3: maybe I'll I'll have uh, I'll have gotten to the
Speaker 3: through through the full life plan. But yeah, dude, why
Speaker 3: don't you just fucking I don't know, twenty six is young.
Speaker 3: Why don't you just fuck around with some sheep and
Speaker 3: then you can, uh, then you can move wherever you want.
Speaker 1: Figure it out later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured out later. You'll you'll, You're not gonna die.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna die young. You don't seem
Speaker 3: like a dying young type to be.
Speaker 2: I thought I was. At one point, I definitely went
Speaker 2: down the path of I know, I heard a bunch
Speaker 2: of a bunch a rave talk and all that earlier
Speaker 2: in chat. That was definitely I lived in Austin and
Speaker 2: that was my life for a long time. But yeah,
Speaker 2: now I've definitely out, yeah, just doing you know, going
Speaker 2: to raves, doing a lot of illicit substances. I mean,
Speaker 2: me and two of my buddies, we'd go in and
Speaker 2: like buy acid by the vial and all that shit.
Speaker 2: We weren't we weren't messing around with papers and intermediate.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I definitely at one point thought i'd be
Speaker 2: dead at you know, what's twenty seven club or whatever?
Speaker 2: But here I am at twenty six kicking, so I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I will say, if you ever do want to get
Speaker 3: back into drugs, something about being super fucked up on
Speaker 3: molly and petting a sheep sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, you might be onto something there, geg.
Speaker 3: Don't let me put any ideas in your head anyway.
Speaker 3: What's your name again?
Speaker 2: I'm buying sheep. It's too late, I'm buying sheep.
Speaker 3: Viviblic How can I forget vivia blix? Vivia blix? Is
Speaker 3: there anything else you want to say to the people
Speaker 3: of the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: I guess just based on what I've said already, I'd
Speaker 2: say the people around you might know what they're talking about,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't always mean it's what'll make you happy.
Speaker 2: Success is subjective.
Speaker 3: Thanks for calling, Vivid Blicks.
Speaker 2: Nice chatting with the gag.
Speaker 3: Hello, Yep, what's your name?
Speaker 4: Uh Steven?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Steven?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: I may have made a crucial error in a roommate decision.
Speaker 3: Tell me more, uh for.
Speaker 4: A background, I've been friends with uh my, I've been
Speaker 4: friends with this guy for about a dude going on
Speaker 4: six eight years or so. We were acquainted via the
Speaker 4: religious via church, and you know, knew him throughout high
Speaker 4: school and eventually he ended up not or needing a place,
Speaker 4: and uh yeah, I ended up telling him that we
Speaker 4: got to go deal with my spot and things were fine.
Speaker 1: But he has a piece.
Speaker 4: Of historical memorabilia that I cannot condone. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 4: doesn't have any stattoos.
Speaker 1: But it's a very.
Speaker 4: Strange situation to be in, like a well one, I'm
Speaker 4: I'm of Hispanic descent. You know, he hangs out around
Speaker 4: black people, but I'd never seen him around any Jews,
Speaker 4: not that there are many where I live. But unfortunately,
Speaker 4: the previous roommate was Jewish and I'm very close with him.
Speaker 4: And yeah, once this saw got out, he was extremely offended,
Speaker 4: as he has the right to be. But man, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: What exactly what like? Okay, you say it was a
Speaker 3: piece of historical memorabilia? What was it? Was it was it?
Speaker 3: Was it like a Nazi gumball machine? Was it a
Speaker 3: baseball cap? What was it?
Speaker 4: It was a pin, I believe to me. Once I
Speaker 4: was playing I was playing Fortnite or whatever, and he
Speaker 4: showed it to me, and I don't know if he
Speaker 4: was like gazing me, but I looked at it and
Speaker 4: like I was shocked, and I was practiced in my
Speaker 4: screen and my character's dead and I'm like, why do
Speaker 4: you why do you have that? And ever since then,
Speaker 4: it's been very awkward talking to him. And yeah, it's
Speaker 4: kind of like like as this he was like shit
Speaker 4: testing me and I definitely didn't pass.
Speaker 3: So what a minute? So is this like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna attempt to give this man some benefit
Speaker 3: of the doubt by asking this question. Is this like
Speaker 3: a so this is like a literal like this was
Speaker 3: like a pin from the nineteen forties? Or or did
Speaker 3: he like or he did he go to Kinko's and
Speaker 3: get this? Made?
Speaker 4: I think he h he says it has historical value.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming it is a pin from the forties. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just uh And like I said, it's even it's
Speaker 4: it's upset my other friend. And he has a right.
Speaker 3: To did he did he? Where did he even get
Speaker 3: this thing?
Speaker 4: I think he said a vendor. I didn't really ask
Speaker 4: too many questions because I was in shock, but he
Speaker 4: said I think he said uh, I think he said
Speaker 4: in a vendor in Branston. Yeah, and he's he's into
Speaker 4: he's always been into older stuff.
Speaker 2: We like.
Speaker 4: We bonded over like collecting Star Wars. So you know,
Speaker 4: this is kind of a big jump.
Speaker 3: Definitely. What's the name of that, what's the faction? The
Speaker 3: fucking uh the Imperials, Yeah, the Imperials. Definitely a Nazi pin.
Speaker 3: Definitely a jump from like an Imperial T shirt or whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm so is but okay, but okay, but I guess
Speaker 3: I guess what I'm asking you and I and I guess,
Speaker 3: is this just like this fucking thing where this guy's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is kind of weird or is he like is
Speaker 3: he is?
Speaker 2: He?
Speaker 3: Is he? Uh? Because I guess there's a difference between
Speaker 3: like he just has it because it's like old and weird,
Speaker 3: versus he is a Nazi? Like is he do besides
Speaker 3: just this pin, do we have any information that would
Speaker 3: show that he is a Nazi?
Speaker 4: No? No, I'll give him the benefits out and say no.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, you start to feel some type
Speaker 4: of way maybe maybe it's like there's another Hispanic person
Speaker 4: that lives with me. Maybe when he starts ignoring me.
Speaker 4: It feels a lot more. Uh, maybe there's something behind that,
Speaker 4: you know, there's a little bit of that. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of like because like like I said, you know,
Speaker 4: we we grew up collecting antiques, going to like antique.
Speaker 3: So I will, okay, tell me more about your relationship
Speaker 3: with this guy, because you said you've been friends with
Speaker 3: this person for a long time.
Speaker 4: Grew up in church, all right. I've always known his
Speaker 4: like family is like we're down we're down south. So
Speaker 4: I've always known his family is pretty uh you know,
Speaker 4: got some views, but like never never to this extreme.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I know, like there's some like I fought in the
Speaker 4: Vietnam War, so I say the sea word going on,
Speaker 4: you know, the sea word for Asian people.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you make cuns. No, No, I was like,
Speaker 3: what the Vietnam War to do with?
Speaker 4: Like the Louisiana guy from a few days ago. We
Speaker 4: can't say that down here, but we can say the floor.
Speaker 3: Well you can't say you can't say cunt in Louisiana.
Speaker 4: Uh, there was somebody on your show that said.
Speaker 3: That a few days ago, that said cunt.
Speaker 4: He said he said that it was like nails on
Speaker 4: a chalkboard, shout out that guy.
Speaker 3: Oh right, whatever, anyway, I'm okay, here's okay. Look, here's
Speaker 3: the thing at the end of the day. Okay, so
Speaker 3: you you've known this guy for a long time, but
Speaker 3: do you but besides the pin do you think like, okay,
Speaker 3: you know, let's see that. How many people live in
Speaker 3: this house?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Four?
Speaker 4: It's pretty spacious.
Speaker 3: Okay, So four people live in this house? Uh? And
Speaker 3: are all four of you like friends?
Speaker 4: I brought him into the living environment at they have
Speaker 4: ran into him previously, but not as.
Speaker 3: Okay, what I mean besides, just like he's got this
Speaker 3: pin line around, like does that? Do people have problems
Speaker 3: with him?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: He's uh, leave some food around, let some ants build up.
Speaker 4: But uh okay, I mean, well I've done that and
Speaker 4: I'm anai Yeah yeah. But that leads me to the
Speaker 4: other part, which is like, I have a friend who's Jewish,
Speaker 4: really good friend of mine, very much got upset. I
Speaker 4: didn't want there to be any you know, violence in
Speaker 4: my house, so I kept it from him.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think it's I think it's fair if you
Speaker 3: say to your roommate like, hey, I get that. I
Speaker 3: think it's fair if you said to your roommate like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, I get that you like collecting historical memorabilia,
Speaker 3: but if you could just, uh, you know, not wear
Speaker 3: the Nazi pin when my friend is over, that would
Speaker 3: be cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give him. I'll also say he has never
Speaker 4: worn the pin, so he's just had it in his hand,
Speaker 4: so at least, you know, we got that going for us, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know he's got blond and blue eyes, so
Speaker 4: it makes it a little bit more Yeah, you know, all.
Speaker 1: Right, do you know, I.
Speaker 3: Guess I'm just like, I don't, like, do you have
Speaker 3: a you. I guess it's kind of weird that he
Speaker 3: has this pin. But also I mean I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know if it automatically makes him a nye feel
Speaker 3: like we don't have enough information about this guy, Like
Speaker 3: we can't just make a bunch of assumptions.
Speaker 4: Okay, then then I do ask you the second point,
Speaker 4: which is like, okay, yeah, my my my Hebrew friend,
Speaker 4: my Jewish friend got very very upset at me, and
Speaker 4: I do feel rightfully soul, but like it's it's hard
Speaker 4: to say why I kept that from him, you know, hold, like.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, by the way, I'm Jewish too, and
Speaker 3: if by the way, by the way, okay, your friend
Speaker 3: got mad at you because your roommate has an old
Speaker 3: Nazi pen.
Speaker 4: Yes, extremely, and what does that.
Speaker 3: Have to do with you.
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't tell him, and he was under the
Speaker 4: impression that I went tell him with something like that happened.
Speaker 3: Was it it was it like was it like your
Speaker 3: friend came over or was it like your friend came
Speaker 3: over and it was just lying in the fucking kitchen
Speaker 3: and your friend was like, why the fuck do you
Speaker 3: have that in the kitchen?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, another roommate told him, assuming that it wouldn't be
Speaker 4: that big a deal. And this my friend has not
Speaker 4: really interacted with that particular roommate who has it, so
Speaker 4: you know, he kind of viewed it more. And you
Speaker 4: know he's saying like, like, you know, like, well not
Speaker 4: to believe like I'm killing Jews, which obviously.
Speaker 3: Yes, but like that that is kind of their.
Speaker 4: Whole Obviously I don't support that, obviously not. And yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm at a stamson of my friendship because like I'm like, look,
Speaker 4: I don't agree with him having that, but I don't
Speaker 4: want I don't want you to, you know, act very
Speaker 4: angrily towards my friend and my house or not whoa, whoa,
Speaker 4: whoa my roommates in my house.
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, here's the thing. These are the you
Speaker 3: are Okay, this is three people. You guys got to
Speaker 3: communicate with each other here, Yes, all right, because your friends,
Speaker 3: I don't know why your friend has this pin. I
Speaker 3: don't know if your friend is history what. I don't know,
Speaker 3: you know, and you don't know either, and your friend
Speaker 3: is we don't. We just don't know. We're just sitting
Speaker 3: around assuming things. And I think it's a bad way
Speaker 3: to uh go through life. So why don't you why
Speaker 3: don't you all sit down and have a conversation, for
Speaker 3: God's sake, if if there.
Speaker 4: Is something that would make you assume, it would be
Speaker 4: this this pin though that's true.
Speaker 3: You know you're right, You've got you got you are
Speaker 3: true about that. You got me on that. That is,
Speaker 3: you are one hundred correct. If there were ever something
Speaker 3: to make one assume, then that would definitely be it.
Speaker 3: You got me on that that is true. I will
Speaker 3: give you that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Also, we've talked before I started escap civil war back
Speaker 4: in the day, and uh, yeah, that was it.
Speaker 3: I don't. I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't a memorable call. By the way, my
Speaker 4: name is Stephen.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you. Is anything else you want to
Speaker 3: say with people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 1: Get nation?
Speaker 3: Take care man?
Speaker 4: I'm Stephen. Bye.
Speaker 5: Hello, what's up? Gig?
Speaker 3: What's up? What's your name?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 5: My name's Cody, Cody.
Speaker 3: How can I get you today?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, did you see my text message? Or did you
Speaker 5: just get my call?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, sure, sure you use a texted me? You
Speaker 3: said something? How you said getting ripped has ruined your life?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's one of the things I'll talk about.
Speaker 3: Okay, how do How is getting ripped ruined your life?
Speaker 3: I've I've only ever heard stories of people getting ripped
Speaker 3: and it making life better for them. I've never heard
Speaker 3: of somebody who gets in shape and it makes their
Speaker 3: life worse.
Speaker 5: So I used to be extremely ripped and shredded, and
Speaker 5: now that like I'm not anymore. It's kind of kind
Speaker 5: of ruined my perspective on myself because now all I
Speaker 5: want to do is get back to that point, but
Speaker 5: it's really hard to So.
Speaker 3: I don't understand, like you're not that's that's not what
Speaker 3: So I don't understand getting getting shredded has not ruined
Speaker 3: your life. Getting being out of shape is what you're
Speaker 3: saying is ruined in your life.
Speaker 5: But see, if I never were to have gotten shredded,
Speaker 5: I would have never known how good it felt. And
Speaker 5: now that I can't get back to that point, I'm
Speaker 5: sad that I can't get back there.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you were fat. Okay, so you were fat,
Speaker 3: you were out of shape.
Speaker 5: I wasn't fad, I was Yeah, it was just kind
Speaker 5: of like skinny fat, like no muscle, kind of had
Speaker 5: a shape.
Speaker 3: Okay, alright, so you're out of shape. You got in shape,
Speaker 3: saw how good it felt to get in shape, and
Speaker 3: then fell out of shape. And now you are sad
Speaker 3: because you at one point knew how good life was
Speaker 3: when you were in shape, and you wish you never
Speaker 3: even knew what that was like, because now the knowledge
Speaker 3: of how good life could be has ruined your current
Speaker 3: life exactly. Okay, all right, that makes sense. Why don't
Speaker 3: you just get back in.
Speaker 5: Shape because I'm trying, But now my life is so
Speaker 5: much busier and so much more distractions, and like I'm
Speaker 5: kind of like a lot more sad than I was
Speaker 5: in now. So I'll just you know, I'm sure you
Speaker 5: can relate to this. You kind of just sit around
Speaker 5: and eat a bunch of candy.
Speaker 3: Who the what the fuck is this? What do you
Speaker 3: what are you coming to me for? Well, you're always
Speaker 3: I mean, by the way, by the way, by the way,
Speaker 3: by the way, by the way, you're a hunt by
Speaker 3: the way, by the way. You're one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3: There is not even a single modicum of a lie
Speaker 3: in what you just said. Is that what you're doing,
Speaker 3: You're sitting around eating candy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of got addicted to eating candy in
Speaker 5: seven eleven food.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, getting in shape is horrible. I I I'm
Speaker 3: kind of at a point. I'll just talk about my
Speaker 3: my personal journey because I'm also uh sad, like I
Speaker 3: the other. A couple of weeks ago, I went to
Speaker 3: carvel I don't know if I someone told me, if
Speaker 3: I've talked about this on the podcast before, but I'll
Speaker 3: just talk about it. I went to Carvell you know,
Speaker 3: Carvelle's and ice cream place.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm from the South. We don't have lots
Speaker 5: of nice things.
Speaker 3: Okay, we went to we went to I went to
Speaker 3: an ice well. I went. I went alone into an
Speaker 3: ice cream place, and at this particular Carvell, everyone working
Speaker 3: there wanted to die and didn't really care about anything,
Speaker 3: so it was very easy to get extra topping by
Speaker 3: just asking for it. So what I did was I
Speaker 3: got a fucking I think they call it a concrete
Speaker 3: It's like soft serve ice cream, and they blend in
Speaker 3: a lot like Reese's cups in it, and I was
Speaker 3: just the guy. He was kind of standing there like
Speaker 3: sort of lifeless, and I was like, can you put
Speaker 3: more Reese's cups on there? And he put more on there,
Speaker 3: and I was like, hey, can you put like you
Speaker 3: just put even more on there, and he just kept
Speaker 3: pile them. A min there was like half the cup
Speaker 3: was Reese's cups on the other half, and he and
Speaker 3: I are both just desolate in this fucking in this
Speaker 3: carvel and he blends it together, and I'm walking out
Speaker 3: the Carvell and I'm looking at it and I think
Speaker 3: to myself, Oh my god, for the next two minutes
Speaker 3: that it takes me to eat this thing, I get
Speaker 3: to be happy. I get to be happy for two minutes.
Speaker 3: How amazing is that? Like what a cheat code.
Speaker 5: Tell me if you can relate that two minutes you're
Speaker 5: eating it, but then you get done and you're like,
Speaker 5: I want to feel that again, but I don't know
Speaker 5: if my stomach can keep up keep up, but you
Speaker 5: kind of kind of risk it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's like, that's like what addiction is.
Speaker 3: That's like alcoholism and food. But it's all just like
Speaker 3: borrowing happiness from tomorrow or or I guess, in this case,
Speaker 3: from from two minutes from now. Yeah, so I feel you.
Speaker 3: It's no, it's no easy feats to lose weight. It's not.
Speaker 5: It's not to get shredded together.
Speaker 3: Get oh man, tell me why? Okay, so let's talk
Speaker 3: about this. Why was it so? Why was it so
Speaker 3: great to be shredded? Let's talk about it that.
Speaker 5: Like because the amount of dopamine I could get now
Speaker 5: from like from eating like a Jersey Mike sandwich I
Speaker 5: could get just from looking in the mirror, you know.
Speaker 3: Interesting. Okay, did you feel better or was it just
Speaker 3: like you enjoyed looking looking good?
Speaker 5: Definitely? I used to always like preach how like junk
Speaker 5: food was a bleeding cause to addiction, like your physical
Speaker 5: health or not junk food with the leading leading cause
Speaker 5: of depression, is what I meant to say.
Speaker 3: Do you feel as though do you feel as though
Speaker 3: junk food is causing you depression?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt. So you know, I'm trying to quit
Speaker 5: it again, quit the junk food. But no, all you
Speaker 5: can do is try to try again. M hm That's
Speaker 5: what I tell myself.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 3: Well, how did you get in shape before? Would you do?
Speaker 3: You do fasting? You do cardio?
Speaker 5: I mean it was a lot of cardio, but it
Speaker 5: was more of just like diet, and I feel like
Speaker 5: a big portion of it. I was young and just
Speaker 5: wanted to get shredded, so I was extremely under eating
Speaker 5: and then I got like I lost like all my
Speaker 5: body fat, and then I had nothing but to build
Speaker 5: up from there so I could build muscle without putting
Speaker 5: on the extra like weight. So like even a little
Speaker 5: bit of muscle looked like a lot because I had
Speaker 5: no body fat. If that make sense?
Speaker 3: Okay, So why are you finding it more difficult to
Speaker 3: get in shape now than before?
Speaker 5: Well? I was in high school then, so I had
Speaker 5: nothing really to worry about. And now I'm like about
Speaker 5: to be twenty one, and I live on my own,
Speaker 5: and I had a bunch of traumatic stuff going on
Speaker 5: in my life, and like now it's just kind of
Speaker 5: like easier to just like bug it. Like I got
Speaker 5: other things to worry about. But I know at the
Speaker 5: same time, I could easily worry about that as much
Speaker 5: as I worry about other aspects of my life.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're looking for fitness advice, you've come to
Speaker 3: the worst place humanly possible.
Speaker 5: No, it's like I know what to do. It's all
Speaker 5: about just doing it. You know. Everyone used to come
Speaker 5: to me for the advice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually ate. I literally I literally ate a
Speaker 3: bunch of ice cream right before coming on to do
Speaker 3: this podcast.
Speaker 5: I woke up at two a m. Last night and
Speaker 5: went to the gas station.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I do that. Oh that's that's that's that's me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: But it's the worst.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in Look, man, I can and have talked
Speaker 3: about this kind of stuff on and on and on
Speaker 3: because it's very prevalent in my life. I don't think
Speaker 3: I ever knew how to eat right, and even now
Speaker 3: even I don't know if you feel this way. I
Speaker 3: feel trapped sometimes, right because like you gotta eat. You
Speaker 3: can't just it's like quitting cigarettes or anything. You can't
Speaker 3: just not eat. I mean the verse. There's a version
Speaker 3: of that where you just like fucking eat lettuce or
Speaker 3: whatever all the time. But uh, I feel trapped because
Speaker 3: every day I have to eat, and I know that
Speaker 3: when I go to eat, I'm gonna eat too much.
Speaker 3: And I feel like you.
Speaker 5: Just can't not drink right right right?
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I don't know if I mean,
Speaker 3: getting shredded is probably being in shape is probably good.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna make that's my that's
Speaker 3: my official opinion on this. I don't I do not want.
Speaker 3: I do not want to look at your instagram. I
Speaker 3: have no I do not want to look at your instagram.
Speaker 3: Is it is?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Okay, don't all right? No, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 3: think you do too. Yeah, I mean if you have
Speaker 3: like a I don't know, I've let okay anyway, So
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do? Are you gonna, are you
Speaker 3: gonna promote? Are you gonna? Are you gonna get in
Speaker 3: shape again?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm gonna try my best. I've been, I've gotten
Speaker 5: I've been like, there's been multiple points where I've like
Speaker 5: stayed committed like three months and then I've got in
Speaker 5: pretty good shape again, and then it just kind of
Speaker 5: like happened again.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: That is that so fucking annoying. It's like one of
Speaker 3: the it's one of the only thing, like like with
Speaker 3: most of life's like achievements, Like most of the time,
Speaker 3: when you reach a goal, you're like you're kind of done, right,
Speaker 3: like once you achieved like a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of the things I feel like I've I've achieved in
Speaker 3: my life or just like just like in general, when
Speaker 3: you achieve them, they they they remain achieved for the
Speaker 3: rest of your life. You know, if you if you
Speaker 3: win the bronze medal at the Olympics or whatever, no
Speaker 3: one can ever take the metal away, nobody. You can't
Speaker 3: be unachieved, right, But if you get your like body,
Speaker 3: like like the goal of getting your body a certain way,
Speaker 3: it fades like almost immediately. You have to keep grinding forever.
Speaker 5: You have to make a lifestyle, you have to.
Speaker 3: Make it a lifestyle.
Speaker 5: So annoying, there was something else I wanted to I
Speaker 5: was excited to talk to you about too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, something, go ahead.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 5: I texted you saying that I'm scared I may be
Speaker 5: coming I might be becoming a wook.
Speaker 3: If you know what a wook is, tell us what
Speaker 3: a wook is.
Speaker 5: A wook is basically a like a rave festival, Like Druggy.
Speaker 3: You're afraid you might be becoming You're afraid you might
Speaker 3: be becoming a druggie.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I don't like do drugs like every
Speaker 5: day or anything like that. But I'm like, you know
Speaker 5: what Bonnaroo is.
Speaker 3: Sure, I performed a Bonnaroo back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5: Really, I went to Bonnaroo this past year, twenty four
Speaker 5: and it was my first rave, and it was my
Speaker 5: first time trying a bunch of drugs. And ever since then,
Speaker 5: I've been to like five more raves and I've done
Speaker 5: the same drugs every time, and I love it. It's
Speaker 5: so much fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what are you afraid of?
Speaker 5: It's not necessarily a good thing to be going out
Speaker 5: every week in the rais and getting extremely high on
Speaker 5: hard substances. Is it?
Speaker 3: Are Are you going out every weekend and going to raves.
Speaker 5: A lot of weekends?
Speaker 3: I am Okay? Are you afraid? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 3: You said you've only been to five of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's kind of a lot. I mean Bonnaro
Speaker 5: was only like two months ago. That's like every other
Speaker 5: week you've been.
Speaker 3: To five you've o guess you go out to a
Speaker 3: rave every other weekends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been a few back to back weekends. But
Speaker 5: I'm also I'm going to one in New Orleans and
Speaker 5: like two weekends.
Speaker 3: Okay, that'll be You're you're afraid you're doing too many drugs?
Speaker 5: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 3: What kind of drugs?
Speaker 5: So it's mainly like cocaine in Molly's Fun.
Speaker 3: I mean you probably shouldn't do it every weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you probably shouldn't do it every weekend.
Speaker 5: Well, Maley's kind of harder to find. But it's also
Speaker 5: cheaper than Cokay, so it's like pick your battles.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, I fucking I I don't know, man, what
Speaker 3: do you? What do you? What do you want me
Speaker 3: to tell you?
Speaker 5: I don't know, gay, I just wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm so happy to be talking to you.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm sorry. I'm like a literally have no help
Speaker 3: at all on any of this. Is that the problem
Speaker 3: is what the problem?
Speaker 5: Are you? Geeked?
Speaker 3: What does that mean, are you geeked? I don't know
Speaker 3: what you mean by that.
Speaker 5: Like, I know you get geeked sometimes before a stream.
Speaker 3: You can't. You need to explain what that means.
Speaker 5: Like are you a little high?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I'm not a little high? Wh you a lie?
Speaker 5: No, I'm at work. I've been like installing sinks all day.
Speaker 5: There was some dude that was on like one of
Speaker 5: your previous dreams. I was talking about how he was
Speaker 5: a plumber, and you were kind of dogging on him
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 3: What don't mean I was dogging on him for it?
Speaker 3: Hold on? Well what did I say?
Speaker 5: I forget you were it might have been the dude
Speaker 5: that dealt with like dead animals, Like he he what
Speaker 5: did he do? He cremated dead animals and then he
Speaker 5: became a plumber. Yeah, it was that guy. And then
Speaker 5: you made it seem like working with like becoming a
Speaker 5: plumber was worse than creaming dead animals.
Speaker 3: I think, like objected, I wasn't dogging hold on, hold on,
Speaker 3: I wasn't dogging on him for it. I wasn't dogging
Speaker 3: on him for it.
Speaker 5: I was much rather do what I do than cremated.
Speaker 3: Oh listen, I wasn't dogging on him for I think
Speaker 3: it's a really it's a respectable profession, but objectively it's
Speaker 3: not desirable to work with diarrhea.
Speaker 5: But I don't work. You said the same thing to him,
Speaker 5: and we're both gonna have the same response. We don't
Speaker 5: work with diarrhea. We we give birth to toilets. That's what
Speaker 5: you said. I was in there when you called me.
Speaker 5: I was actually installing a toilet, and then I was
Speaker 5: gonna shit in it after I installed it. Now I'm
Speaker 5: in the porter body, so I'll probably just stay in
Speaker 5: here after I get off the phone.
Speaker 3: You're in a porter body right now. I'm in a
Speaker 3: what's the smell like?
Speaker 5: It's like it hasn't been here that long, so there's
Speaker 5: a slight aroma piss, but mainly it just smells like
Speaker 5: a urinal cake.
Speaker 3: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 3: people of the computer before we go there?
Speaker 5: There's one more. There's one more thing I wanted to
Speaker 5: say to you. I've been so you know how you're
Speaker 5: sponsored by bark Box. Yeah, sure, you say that. If
Speaker 5: if you were a dog, you would eat the whole bag,
Speaker 5: But since you're not a dog, you can't.
Speaker 3: I have often, like ever since I was a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I like, like, there used to be these things called
Speaker 3: began strips, which are like little dog treats. You know
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. You know I'm talking about And I
Speaker 3: used to think like, oh, if I were a dog,
Speaker 3: this would be dissol taste really good. And and yeah,
Speaker 3: bar box Has says stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Dog dog treats are safe for humans. My grandpa used
Speaker 5: to eat them.
Speaker 3: Way, is that the thing you wanted to tell me?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you can actually eat the whole bag if
Speaker 5: you want to, you don't have to.
Speaker 3: I do not, uh listen, if if I'm speaking as
Speaker 3: a representative of the company, I do not recommend humans
Speaker 3: consuming their their products.
Speaker 5: Well, it's just like they make them safe for humans
Speaker 5: to eat because and.
Speaker 3: I'll say this even if I were speaking freely, even
Speaker 3: if I wasn't speaking as an informal representative of the company,
Speaker 3: I also, as an unpaid individual, would not recommend eating
Speaker 3: dog food. And you can put me on the record
Speaker 3: as that. Yeah, okay, anything anything else, anything.
Speaker 5: Else, I like, I have nothing left bock of dog shit.
Speaker 5: Let us Bonner twenty twenty four, TikTok Riz Party.
Speaker 3: I'll try to eat. Listen, listen, I'll try to eat.
Speaker 3: I want. I was gonna, you know what I was
Speaker 3: gonna do just now. I was gonna say to you,
Speaker 3: I'll try to eat better if you will. But I'm
Speaker 3: I'm not, and I don't like. I really don't like
Speaker 3: giving empty promises to people, so I'm not gonna. I
Speaker 3: was only really doing it because I thought it would
Speaker 3: be a nice way to end this call, but I don't.
Speaker 3: It would just be an empty promise. I'm gonna continue,
Speaker 3: probably to eat shitty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't get any questions from the chat.
Speaker 1: Uh no, oh okay, love you.
Speaker 5: Get thank you for going me.
Speaker 3: Thanks man, have a going you too, I have nothing.
Speaker 5: Ghosts off the line, taking your phone calls every night,
Speaker 5: everythink goest going his ride.
Speaker 2: He's teaching you
Speaker 5: A houd your life, but he's not really an expert.