Speaker 1: What's up, mister?
Speaker 2: Getto what's up? Man? What's your name? My name is
Speaker 2: Weston Western? What's going on? Western? How's life?
Speaker 3: Well? I live on a farm and I was just
Speaker 3: spraying the field and then I ran over a log
Speaker 3: that was hidden in the weeds and it went through
Speaker 3: my tire.
Speaker 2: Oh no, is that bad? Right?
Speaker 3: So now i'm here, Yeah, that's really bad. That means
Speaker 3: I need a new tire.
Speaker 2: How is working on a farm?
Speaker 3: Oh it's awesome. I love it. It's I would I
Speaker 3: would not want to live any other way. I'm actually
Speaker 3: uh in college right now and I'm studying mechanical engineering.
Speaker 3: But I really just want to end up back on
Speaker 3: the farm.
Speaker 2: Cool. Man's just like your parents farm? Or whose farm
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, so, so I'm a fifth generational farmer.
Speaker 2: Woh yeah, So when was the land that you're farming
Speaker 2: on first, like cultivated or whatever.
Speaker 3: So both of my grandparents grew up in a town
Speaker 3: about an hour away from us, and then both of
Speaker 3: them moved out to where I live now, and then
Speaker 3: my parents met each other, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: But so they actually it was all trees like a forest,
Speaker 3: and we cleared it out with big machines and made
Speaker 3: it turned it into farmlands.
Speaker 2: WHOA, what do you grow?
Speaker 3: So we grow cotton. So we have about ten tractors
Speaker 3: and then two big cotton harvesters, and they once the
Speaker 3: cotton has grown and it's all white, we run these
Speaker 3: big machines over it and it'll it'll tick off the
Speaker 3: white fluff off of the the little stop and then
Speaker 3: it turns into this massive bale of cotton. And then
Speaker 3: we stack those bales and sets of four, and then
Speaker 3: trucks will come and pick it up and take it
Speaker 3: to what we call it a gin, and the gin
Speaker 3: will divide the fibers and the seats, and then that's
Speaker 3: how you get your shirts and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about I ask what what what are they?
Speaker 2: What are they using cotton for? These days? I feel
Speaker 2: like shirts are made out of all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, a lot of China stuff. But man, I
Speaker 3: really couldn't tell you. Probably cotton ball, maybe.
Speaker 2: We do they do we need? Do we use a
Speaker 2: lot of cotton balls these days?
Speaker 3: I've used probably three in the past couple of years.
Speaker 3: Three cotton balls.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, man, I'm just look, I'm no farmer.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, like, I feel like you could
Speaker 2: be doing so much more profitable crops out there, like cotton.
Speaker 2: That sounds that's a very like seventeen hundred's eighteen hundred
Speaker 2: stass crop, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean out here it's really dry. It's
Speaker 3: like a desert. So cotton is actually the most profitable
Speaker 3: crop we can grow.
Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 3: Really, which is crazy. Yeah, because like my dad loves
Speaker 3: to plant corn because like the wind will knock it
Speaker 3: over and the next day it's standing up again, like
Speaker 3: it's it's like indistructble, but we don't have the water
Speaker 3: for it, so we have to do cotton. Isn't that
Speaker 3: isn't that kind of weird?
Speaker 2: I'm still like, I I guess, yeah, I mean shirts,
Speaker 2: but like what what else? Like what who's buying all
Speaker 2: this cot Like who's the cotton ball company buying all
Speaker 2: the cotton?
Speaker 3: I have no idea somebody if somebody's buying our cotton,
Speaker 3: So we keep going. But I mean it's a it's
Speaker 3: a really really good industry. And the thing about it
Speaker 3: is it's really hard for somebody who didn't grow up
Speaker 3: grow up on a farm to start farming. But like
Speaker 3: in my shoes, I'm almost twenty years old and I've
Speaker 3: had nineteen years of teaching and learning and all this stuff.
Speaker 3: So like I'm so far ahead of somebody who would
Speaker 3: just like want to start coming from the city. You
Speaker 3: say so, and I just I really, I really do
Speaker 3: enjoy it, just like the lifestyle, Like I really want
Speaker 3: to have a family, grow up on a farm. You
Speaker 3: get that country lifestyle, which there's nothing wrong with like
Speaker 3: growing up in a city. But you know, like last weekend,
Speaker 3: my me and my friends got together and have you
Speaker 3: ever heard of tannerite?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: All right. So it's like a it's like these little
Speaker 3: white white beads or like bebies, and then and you
Speaker 3: mix it together and you shoot it with a gun
Speaker 3: and it flows. So we stack a bunch of fridges,
Speaker 3: old fridges on each other and put like forty pounds
Speaker 3: of this stuff under there, and we get like half
Speaker 3: a mile away and we shoot it and it just
Speaker 3: blows up into a mushroom cloud. It's it's the best
Speaker 3: thing ever.
Speaker 2: That's so awesome. I love the way you said what
Speaker 2: you said, by the I love what you said by
Speaker 2: the way where you were like, you know, there's nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with living in the city because like because people
Speaker 2: who live in cities we think we're so much better
Speaker 2: than everyone else, and we say things and we say
Speaker 2: things like, well, there's something wrong with wanting to, you know,
Speaker 2: live in the country or the suburbs. But in this
Speaker 2: like sl you know what I mean, it's like a
Speaker 2: framing of like the way you're even saying it implies
Speaker 2: that there is something wrong, you know, but you're flipping
Speaker 2: it on its head, you know what I mean. You're like,
Speaker 2: like you see you see the city people, the way
Speaker 2: the city people see the country people. It's like, it's like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck kind of life is that, you know,
Speaker 2: living in a big fucking so you can't you can't.
Speaker 2: If you tried to blow up uh Fridges in the
Speaker 2: middle of Manhattan, you would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would be in a lot of trouble, Yes,
Speaker 3: but I can't. But I can do that here.
Speaker 2: You can do that there? What did it look like legally?
Speaker 3: Actually I don't know how legal.
Speaker 2: It is, but yeah, but there's who gives a no.
Speaker 2: But there's no cops out there. You can break any
Speaker 2: laws you want, I think.
Speaker 3: So funny thing is I know all the cops. Isn't
Speaker 3: that awesome? So we have we have Carl Kenneth Chase,
Speaker 3: like all of them, Sheriff Keith, like I keep so,
Speaker 3: so I.
Speaker 2: Had wait wait stop stop, stop stop stop? Did you
Speaker 2: say did you say Sheriff Pete Keith? Yes, sir, you
Speaker 2: fucking you guys have a sheriff. Absolutely, dude, God damn.
Speaker 3: So the funny part. The funny part. So I live
Speaker 3: in near Midland, which is like the oil field city
Speaker 3: of Texas, and so there's a bunch of oil field traffic.
Speaker 3: So all the cops don't give a fuck about us.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, you're local, you do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: You want to drive one twenty down a county road,
Speaker 3: go for it. We're gonna pull over this guy for
Speaker 3: going five miles over the speed limit because he's an
Speaker 3: oil field worker. So we almost have like privilege, if
Speaker 3: that make sense.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that definitely makes sense. Uh so wait hold, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 2: I was just making sure that my fucking microphone stories. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think it does. I think it does all right. Cool,
Speaker 2: So you know all of the cops by first name.
Speaker 2: Do you go on like joy rides with them and shit,
Speaker 2: like do they let you get away with shit?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely? Absolutely? So Like I have this one. Carl
Speaker 3: is my favorite cop, and I keep telling him. I'm like, Carl, Man,
Speaker 3: when are you gonna When are you gonna catch me?
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for it. And then he's like, oh, I'll
Speaker 3: get you one day. And he still hasn't got me.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 3: One of my close friends, his dad's a cop. He
Speaker 3: pulled me over and I just hop out and I
Speaker 3: walk over to his window. I'm like, what's up, man,
Speaker 3: how you doing? He's like, oh, good, how have you been?
Speaker 3: How's school going. I'm like, oh, it's going good, you know,
Speaker 3: And then I walk away. No ticket. I was speeding
Speaker 3: like thirty miles over the limit. Oh boy, isn't that awesome?
Speaker 2: Why? Well, what kind of laws is it? What kind
Speaker 2: of laws are you breaking out here?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: None that are important?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: I know, I know you're not the biggest fan of
Speaker 3: a drive in.
Speaker 2: I would know I was. That's I was about, Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't like I think going thirty miles over the
Speaker 2: speed limit is bad. I actively hate uh that you're
Speaker 2: doing that. But right, I have no but I have
Speaker 2: I have no jurisdiction upon you other than judgments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, let me ask you this. So when you
Speaker 2: graduate from school, you said you're in school, right, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: what and you're gonna Are you gonna go back to
Speaker 2: work at your parents farm or are you gonna work
Speaker 2: on your own farm?
Speaker 3: So I'm actually working for my best friend's dad right
Speaker 3: now on his farms class ranch. So he, my best
Speaker 3: friend's dad, works for like this billionaire and he owns
Speaker 3: all this land and like we ranch on it. We
Speaker 3: do like a feed yard, like a bunch of cattle.
Speaker 3: We feed them every day and tins and all this stuff,
Speaker 3: and then we'll let them out into the pasture and
Speaker 3: the forest and the ranch and stuff. And then he
Speaker 3: also has some farm land, so I am like the
Speaker 3: farm manager if you had to put a title on it.
Speaker 3: And that's what I've been doing out here, which is
Speaker 3: great learning experience. But after college, I really I don't know,
Speaker 3: because I kind of wanted to do engineering for a job,
Speaker 3: but I've lived all my life. Whenever I work, I
Speaker 3: get like my hands dirty. I have to be doing
Speaker 3: something I can't. I don't think I could sit like
Speaker 3: how you do like you sit behind a screen and
Speaker 3: talk to people, which talking to people makes it so
Speaker 3: much better. But I would just be doing like straight bookwork,
Speaker 3: and I don't think I could do that.
Speaker 2: Mmmmm. Yeah. You want to be making stuff and building
Speaker 2: things and working with your.
Speaker 3: Hands, right, yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, Yeah, I like that, man, I like that. And
Speaker 2: also you can pick a better crop, because I don't
Speaker 2: know why you guys are stuck in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 2: you know, making cotton cotton? Oh yeah, yeah, and uh
Speaker 2: and uh. And then you I assume you have a
Speaker 2: bunch of boys. You have a bunch of homies, You
Speaker 2: have a bunch, you have a god, what's the name
Speaker 2: of that movie? What's the what's the movie or the
Speaker 2: TV show where they jump a fucking car over a
Speaker 2: ditch and the freezes and there's a voiceover.
Speaker 3: Uh, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: Hold on, chat, what is the name of this movie
Speaker 2: I'm talking about? No, it's not Jackass? Hold on. Oh
Speaker 2: the Duke of Hazard Okay, you got your little Duke
Speaker 2: of Hazard. You got your little Duke of Hazard group? Okay,
Speaker 2: And what are they what do they all do? What
Speaker 2: are they all doing? What's their deal?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So we're all working on farms, and we're all
Speaker 3: just messing around, you know, So I know it's gonna
Speaker 3: disappoint you. But three of my friends are planning cotton
Speaker 3: right now, and then one of my friends is stacking silage.
Speaker 3: So you you grow like this really tall grass and
Speaker 3: then you cut it and push it in a big pile,
Speaker 3: and then you put a tarp over it, and then
Speaker 3: you let it like ferment, almost like beer or wine
Speaker 3: like ferments, and then you take the tarp off and
Speaker 3: feed it to animals and it's super, super nutritious and
Speaker 3: easy to digest.
Speaker 2: Why would that disappoint me because it's more cotton, Yeah,
Speaker 2: more cotton. Cotton doesn't necessarily disappoint me. I guess, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, as soon as you guys do
Speaker 2: okay with cotton.
Speaker 3: We're doing great. Yeah. And you know what's also fun
Speaker 3: about farming is you get to mess with big money.
Speaker 3: How so, So for example, if the average person makes
Speaker 3: or if a if an if a person makes one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars a year, but if they're farming, you
Speaker 3: would make like maybe three million dollars a year, but
Speaker 3: you would have two point nine million dollars in expenses, right,
Speaker 3: so you profit one hundred grand, right, but you just
Speaker 3: get to play with more money. Isn't that so much fun? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well that makes a lot of sense to me, But
Speaker 2: that's also kind of spooky to me, right because aren't
Speaker 2: you like you you, because you're investing all of this money,
Speaker 2: but aren't you like at the whim of so many
Speaker 2: things like natural disasters or lack of whatever, Like are
Speaker 2: you is there a lot of risk involved in farming?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, absolutely so. So you have like
Speaker 3: tornadoes and then hail is a big problem. So whenever
Speaker 3: your crop is really really small, when high winds can
Speaker 3: even just like burn the leaves off because it gets
Speaker 3: so hot out here, and then you can have hail
Speaker 3: just like pound it to a pulse. But we have
Speaker 3: a it's called crop insurance, so if if a natural
Speaker 3: disaster occurs, this company will come out, take a look,
Speaker 3: they're like, yeah, that looks pretty pretty bad, and then
Speaker 3: they'll give you money. So we kind of have a
Speaker 3: safety blanket, but not all the time. Like your your cotton,
Speaker 3: your cotton harvester that picks your cotton could catch on
Speaker 3: fire and there goes two million dollars like nothing, what.
Speaker 2: Do you do when you're not farming?
Speaker 3: So it's kind of seasonal. So we're just getting over
Speaker 3: planning season and planning season, and harvest season is the
Speaker 3: biggest season. But in the downtime, go on vacation, go play, like,
Speaker 3: mess around with friends. I don't know, you're kind of
Speaker 3: you're kind of always farming, right if that makes sense
Speaker 3: because you have all of this equipment and land at
Speaker 3: your disposal.
Speaker 2: How has it been managing both farming and going to school?
Speaker 3: So during school, I have a part time job on
Speaker 3: a farm, and it's been good. School. School was a
Speaker 3: very drastic change for me because I grew up so
Speaker 3: my high school I graduated with twenty kids, and then
Speaker 3: I went to college. In my first class, I had
Speaker 3: two hundred people in one room. Wow, And that was
Speaker 3: like a crazy culture shock for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you had twenty kids in the whole
Speaker 2: fucking grade and then you went from two hundred kids
Speaker 2: in one class. That's crazy exactly.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was. It was like nothing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, that first So I just got through
Speaker 3: my freshman year of college, and that first semester was
Speaker 3: very difficult for me because because that is, it was
Speaker 3: like not the type of school I was used to.
Speaker 3: I was used to very personal connection, and in college
Speaker 3: you don't get that really at all.
Speaker 2: Did you make any friends in college? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So luckily I'm a very I don't know. I find
Speaker 3: I have a very easy time making friends, which is
Speaker 3: very very fortunate. And so I made a bunch of
Speaker 3: friends through like my religion, like we have like a
Speaker 3: like a group or what do you call it, like
Speaker 3: a not a church, but I guess a hall. So
Speaker 3: I made a bunch of friends through there. I made
Speaker 3: a couple of friends through my major, and then I
Speaker 3: made more friends playing pickleball and tennis and like racket
Speaker 3: faulting pong, anything with a racket. I'm not too shabby
Speaker 3: at m Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Do you work with a lot of animals or just crops?
Speaker 3: So that's that's the funny thing is every time I
Speaker 3: bring up I grew up on a farm, the first
Speaker 3: question is always, uh, what kind of animals do you have?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, uh, we don't have any animals. We
Speaker 3: have cotton. But the animals I messed with on this
Speaker 3: ranch is a whole bunch of cows. That's their main
Speaker 3: passion if you will, and then they also have a
Speaker 3: couple of sheep and a couple of goats. Because, uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Why do you feel like people like have a lot
Speaker 2: of misconceptions about you when they hear that you grew
Speaker 2: up on a farm.
Speaker 3: I can understand how that would be a like us.
Speaker 1: Hm hmm.
Speaker 3: Not really as much as you would think, is how
Speaker 3: I would put there. Because everybody I've dealt with, as
Speaker 3: they've they've just always been super fascinated by the fact
Speaker 3: that I grew up on a farm. M But I've
Speaker 3: never I've never ran into anything crazy like a movie
Speaker 3: would portray, I guess if you say that way. But
Speaker 3: a really cool part about working on a farm is, uh,
Speaker 3: I have two South African co workers, and they're like
Speaker 3: the best people I've ever met. They're awesome.
Speaker 2: What do you like about it?
Speaker 3: And they oh, I love them because they like their
Speaker 3: accent is awesome. I find stuff that they like, normal,
Speaker 3: stuff that they say really funny, and then they find
Speaker 3: stuff that I say is super funny, and then they're
Speaker 3: just so they're so joyful because they've told me like
Speaker 3: a lot of bad things that have happened in South Africa.
Speaker 3: They're getting kind of like the government is kind of
Speaker 3: chasing them out in a way, but like they'll invite
Speaker 3: me over. They're teaching me South African words because they
Speaker 3: speak English in a language called Afrikaans. And then they'll
Speaker 3: make like all kinds of jerky and dried sausage and
Speaker 3: all this like interesting flavors that I've never had before
Speaker 3: because I've never been out of the United States before.
Speaker 3: Like all this new culture coming to me is just
Speaker 3: like awesome.
Speaker 2: Mhmm. Do you what what words do you say that
Speaker 2: they find funny?
Speaker 3: Oki doki? They they hysterically lose it every time. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: I'll just be like, oki doki, I'll see you later.
Speaker 3: If they go, ok oh, it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Do you have the stuff?
Speaker 3: They'll say stuff like uh laksha or a pry and
Speaker 3: I'm like, what does that even mean? It's just awesome.
Speaker 2: Do you have places outside of the US that you
Speaker 2: want to go to.
Speaker 3: I would love to go to Canada and Germany.
Speaker 2: Wow, what's going on in Germany?
Speaker 3: Germany? They have awesome So like I I use this
Speaker 3: in a scholarship interview, so like they have some of
Speaker 3: the best ski slopes because I love us snow skiing.
Speaker 3: And then anything made in Germany, like cars, tools, some
Speaker 3: of our explosives, we'd buy. Anything made in Germany just
Speaker 3: always has this like amazing quality. And I would just
Speaker 3: love to see, like everything is made made in Germany,
Speaker 3: is in everything in Germany is made in Germany. I
Speaker 3: just love to see, like what that beholds, if that
Speaker 3: makes sense.
Speaker 2: And then what about Canada.
Speaker 3: I would also want to go skiing there. And I
Speaker 3: like the cold, which is weird because I'm from Texas,
Speaker 3: Like it's one hundred and fifteen degrees right now.
Speaker 2: So if you could if you could get if you
Speaker 2: could get into any new crop right like you got
Speaker 2: let's say, you could snap your fingers and the land
Speaker 2: and the land were for for whatever you wanted it
Speaker 2: to be fertile for what would you grow?
Speaker 3: Never thought about this. So it's fertile, and I'm assuming
Speaker 3: we got.
Speaker 2: Some water whatever whatever you whatever you need.
Speaker 3: Whatever it takes, either al salfa or corn, that would
Speaker 3: be my answer, because corn corn is it's super tall
Speaker 3: and it's like it's like building a wall, but you
Speaker 3: don't even have to build it, you just grow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're growing a wall. What could be better than that,
Speaker 3: and it's so it's so dense. And then so there's
Speaker 3: a difference between like the corn you eat at a
Speaker 3: restaurant and the corn that they put into cans. So
Speaker 3: the corn you eat at a restaurant, it's called sweet corn.
Speaker 3: And whenever you grow sweet corn, it's only about four
Speaker 3: feet tall at its peak. But whenever you grow it's
Speaker 3: called field corn. Like the corn they put in a
Speaker 3: can with flavoring, that stuff can get up to like
Speaker 3: ten feet tall, and you just get lost in it.
Speaker 3: And then you can do so many things with corn.
Speaker 3: You can grind it up like corn meal, you can tredit,
Speaker 3: turn it into silas for the animals. You can bail
Speaker 3: it into bales. You can just fend it off, sell
Speaker 3: it as corn. Oh, there's a badger walking through this
Speaker 3: pecan orchard right now.
Speaker 2: You're in a pecan orchard.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a big orchard.
Speaker 1: Big.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Can I send you a picture of
Speaker 3: the badger. There's two of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, you can send me a picture of the badger.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have an iPhone. I don't think it takes
Speaker 3: a picture that far away for a reference. It's like
Speaker 3: the size m of a car tire.
Speaker 2: Did do you see okay, a badger of the size
Speaker 2: of a car tire?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this thinks huge.
Speaker 2: Wait, take a picture of that fucking badger. Send it
Speaker 2: to me. I want to see this.
Speaker 3: I don't okay, let me try all right, hold.
Speaker 2: On, when you said the badge of the there's no
Speaker 2: way that that badger is the size of a car tire.
Speaker 2: That's like a.
Speaker 3: I can't tell my ca My camera is too shitty.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is gonna come out looking like one of
Speaker 2: those fake pictures of Bigfoot.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. Oh shoot, let meed your eye. Hold on.
Speaker 3: It might be a little loud.
Speaker 2: Are you in your car? Are you in a car
Speaker 2: right now? My truck? Yes, they're okay. Normally I try not.
Speaker 2: Normally I try not to talk to people while they're driving.
Speaker 2: But I feel like being in a truck is I
Speaker 2: feel like this is part of your aura.
Speaker 3: It's appropriate.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have this cool switch on it. It can open
Speaker 3: and close my shaust to make it loud or quiet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you ever make it loud on purpose?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? It's loud right now.
Speaker 2: So you're chasing after that?
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, it's a bomb backer and there's like four
Speaker 3: babies following it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm hunting on your live stream. I don't mean to
Speaker 3: do this.
Speaker 2: No, that's but you're not gonna You're not gonna kill them, Ario, No, sir. Okay, good.
Speaker 2: They seem they seem nice.
Speaker 3: They were very nice. They're very uh you could describe
Speaker 3: it as cute.
Speaker 2: Do you see it? Do you see a lot of
Speaker 2: these animals like on the on your on your farm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have all kinds of animals. We have deer, rabbit, snake,
Speaker 3: all kinds of snakes, badgers, raccoons, bobcat, your coyotes.
Speaker 2: Everything you ever gotten attacked.
Speaker 3: Okay, I sent it to you.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let me see.
Speaker 3: So there's a there's a big blob and then there's
Speaker 3: four little blobs behind it. If you, I don't know,
Speaker 3: my service might be pretty bad out here.
Speaker 2: It it'll, it'll, it'll eventure it'll. I'll eventually see it,
Speaker 2: do you all right? Hold on? Uh wait, let me
Speaker 2: see here. Oh I see him. Okay, wait hold on.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is a really shitty picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah I told you.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I see them. They're like really tiny in
Speaker 2: the back. Okay, they're little dots. Yeah, okay, that's.
Speaker 3: A football field a way.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Oh so yeah, we have orchards out here, pecan or pecan.
Speaker 3: I don't know how how y'all say it up there
Speaker 3: in Jersey, but yeah, uh you're asking about the animals.
Speaker 3: That's that's pretty much all of them. I mean, we
Speaker 3: have like mice, all kinds of birds, pretty much anything
Speaker 3: you can think of out here.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been attacked by anything?
Speaker 3: Been attacked by dog? A wild dog? Oh? We have
Speaker 3: wild dogs?
Speaker 2: How is that?
Speaker 3: But that one that one didn't. It was kind of
Speaker 3: like a smaller dog. I just picked it up and
Speaker 3: threw it and then I was fine. Uh my arm
Speaker 3: was bleeding a little bit, but nothing too crazy. My
Speaker 3: my dad says, whenever I was little, in our barn,
Speaker 3: there was a there was a baby rattlesnake, and he
Speaker 3: said I was just pushing it across the floor with
Speaker 3: my foot for like two minutes. My dad thought it
Speaker 3: was a rope and then he he like did a
Speaker 3: double take and he ran over there and grabbed me
Speaker 3: and killed it, killed it, but it never bit me,
Speaker 3: which is super lucky.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have any fears?
Speaker 1: Fears?
Speaker 3: So I have a contradicting fear of being afraid of hype,
Speaker 3: But I love to climb. I love to climb stuff.
Speaker 2: You love to climb stuff even though you have a
Speaker 2: fear of heights, Yes, sir, what like what stuff for you?
Speaker 2: Are you climbing?
Speaker 3: So I'll climb like up on a barn to fix
Speaker 3: the roof, and I'm like, I love I love like
Speaker 3: the art of climbing up there. But once I'm up there,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, shoot, this is kind of scary. Yeah,
Speaker 3: being on the ground sounds pretty nice right about now
Speaker 3: and then, but like an airplane, I can't really. I
Speaker 3: used to have this, so I I used to be
Speaker 3: terrified of elevators, thunderstorms, and airplanes, and I think it
Speaker 3: was due to the fact that they're like scary if
Speaker 3: they start going down and I have no control over it.
Speaker 3: But then as I grew older, I was just like, well,
Speaker 3: I really have no control, so I'm just gonna let
Speaker 3: nature run its course and see what happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's I've kind of ended up adopting that
Speaker 2: philosophy in a lot of ways as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of whatever happens.
Speaker 2: But hmmm, what's your name again? We Western, Yes, sir Western.
Speaker 2: I've appreciated this little window into your life. This has
Speaker 2: been nice, this has been quaint.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I wish I wish you could come down
Speaker 3: here and visit, because I have family in New Jersey,
Speaker 3: so I've seen I've seen it, but but you haven't
Speaker 3: seen this because like you look to my left, there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of green trees in this orchard. You look
Speaker 3: to my right, there's a bunch of dead trees. Because
Speaker 3: because it's like a desert out here.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest, uh, what's the closest big city next
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 3: It would have to be Midland. But if that's not
Speaker 3: big enough, I'm about five hours away from San Antonio
Speaker 3: and Dallas and about six hours away from Houston.
Speaker 2: What's the sheriff's name again, Sheriff Keith? Sheriff Keith. Yes,
Speaker 2: there and there and there, But they're and there, and
Speaker 2: they're keep and they're keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 3: Yes, but not a like parental eye, more of a
Speaker 3: I just waved up to south asking not a parental eye,
Speaker 3: but more of just like a that's a funny thing
Speaker 3: to do, kind of I.
Speaker 2: Before we go, are there any other I I kind
Speaker 2: of want to give you the opportunity. If there are
Speaker 2: any other stories that you have about wacky farm shenanigans,
Speaker 2: I would love to hear them.
Speaker 3: Wacky farm shenanigans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like blowing up the fridges.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So me and the South Africans fixed up this polaris.
Speaker 3: Uh it's like a four seater, a thousand cc, which
Speaker 3: is pretty pretty, uh like souped up. And then we
Speaker 3: were going like seventy down this dirt road, seventy miles
Speaker 3: an hour and then he just starts doing donuts and
Speaker 3: then we haul it and we start jumping stuff and
Speaker 3: then uh we we turned and it like leaned up
Speaker 3: on its side, and then it stopped and we broke
Speaker 3: the belt to like tower the wheels, and if we
Speaker 3: had more power, we would have flipped. So it was
Speaker 3: like a It was like a crazy moment. And that
Speaker 3: was like a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Does that Does that stuff not scare of the shit
Speaker 2: out of you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I had a seatbelt on.
Speaker 2: I was good if but if the fucking car flips,
Speaker 2: So what does it matter if you have a seatbelt on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because then I don't because then I don't fly away.
Speaker 3: I stay with it.
Speaker 2: All right, Well you know more than me.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't say that. You're pretty wise. I love
Speaker 3: butting all your stuff.
Speaker 2: Thanks, man. I appreciate a Western, but I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know anything of about cars. Actually, no, I know
Speaker 2: enough about cars to know that it's probably not good
Speaker 2: to flip them over and be in them while that's happening.
Speaker 3: But that is a very.
Speaker 2: You know. I just I just like you Weston. I
Speaker 2: don't want you to die.
Speaker 3: Oh that means a lot, lyle.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to you You're you're You're a
Speaker 2: nice You're you're a nice guy. You're uh you're a
Speaker 2: real you're a real American, And I don't want you
Speaker 2: to uh meet in early death underneath a fucking truck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. I do have a rather
Speaker 3: heavy foot when I'm driving, but I inherited that from
Speaker 3: my dad too.
Speaker 2: So what's your relationship like with your parents? How are
Speaker 2: they cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, they're They're amazing. I would never I would
Speaker 3: never want anyone else. And then I've been told by
Speaker 3: a bunch of my dad's like college strinths, that he's
Speaker 3: he's the best guy that you could ever have as
Speaker 3: a dad and like, as a friend, he'd do anything.
Speaker 3: And I was, I was super, super lucky with the
Speaker 3: parents that I got and they're luckily still together. And
Speaker 3: then I have a sister. I believe she's gonna be
Speaker 3: a nun. She's like so she's like the sweetest person ever.
Speaker 3: And then my grandparents are amazing, so kind. My brother's
Speaker 3: he's good for a brother. Like, No, I'm I'm so
Speaker 3: so lucky to have the environment that I had growing up.
Speaker 2: What's your dad's deal? See, I mean, I guess they're
Speaker 2: all Also, your parents are both farmers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so my mom stays at home. She's a stay
Speaker 3: at home mom, and then my dad's a farmer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: farming really takes up kind of all your time. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, you are your own boss, so
Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want, if that makes sense,
Speaker 3: like unlimited vacation day.
Speaker 2: How old are your siblings? Are you the oldest?
Speaker 3: No, I'm the middle child, So so my sister's older.
Speaker 3: She just graduated from Texas A and M in college
Speaker 3: station cool. I believe she got some kind of agricultural degree,
Speaker 3: but she is a minor in religious studies. And I'm
Speaker 3: I'm like ninety nine percent sure that she's going to
Speaker 3: be a nun, which which is great for her, but
Speaker 3: also I'm gonna miss her because with that lifestyle, she's
Speaker 3: gonna be very isolated and I just won't get to
Speaker 3: see her as much, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Mhmm.
Speaker 3: But she's she's awesome. And then my brother is younger
Speaker 3: than me. Uh, he's gonna be a senior in high
Speaker 3: school this year.
Speaker 2: Do you sorry? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Uck?
Speaker 2: Do you have a do you have a brotherly relationship
Speaker 2: with him? Do you watch after him? I mean you're
Speaker 2: not that much older, right, You're like nineteen that he's
Speaker 2: like eighteen.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, so I no, I'm not super I guess
Speaker 3: protective over him if you will, because I don't know
Speaker 3: he Yeah, he's not too far behind me. He can
Speaker 3: do whatever he wants. But if if the circumstance came, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do anything for him or for anybody.
Speaker 2: Really, you would do anything for anything.
Speaker 3: Anybody I know enough? Yeah, Like I've been listening to
Speaker 3: you for like since twenty nineteen. I did anything for you, Lyle.
Speaker 2: How much do you have to know someone for you
Speaker 2: to be able to do anything for.
Speaker 3: Them enough to know that they're a good person?
Speaker 2: Oh, fuck shit, you're a cool guy, Weston. I really,
Speaker 2: I really mean, I don't want you to die. You
Speaker 2: should make a nice boy.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to die either.
Speaker 2: I imagine you as like a Tom Sawyery character that
Speaker 2: has a dog.
Speaker 3: I do have two dogs. Yes, their okay, I love
Speaker 3: them so much too. So one is a sheep dog.
Speaker 3: She does not participate in cheap in doing of the sheep.
Speaker 3: But she's just a house dog. But she's awesome. She's
Speaker 3: a little probably like I got her for one of
Speaker 3: my birthdays, probably like six years old, and she's the
Speaker 3: happiest little thing. And then we adopted my grandparents dog
Speaker 3: whenever they moved into town. And she's she's probably like
Speaker 3: fifteen years old, a brown lab and she I don't
Speaker 3: know how much longer she's gonna make it, but she's
Speaker 3: a happy little thing.
Speaker 2: Are you sorry? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say she has a little shedding disorder.
Speaker 3: I have to help her brush because she's getting old.
Speaker 2: Are you close with your grandparents?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. I always one thing I always
Speaker 3: kind of do is I look at I look at
Speaker 3: myself through the person that I'm interacting with, like their shoes,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, if if I was a grandparent, what
Speaker 3: would I want my grandson to do? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I'd love for him to just come by and visit.
Speaker 3: So I do my best to like go to both
Speaker 3: my grandparents and just sit down and visit with them.
Speaker 3: We actually ate with one of them for Father's Day yesterday.
Speaker 3: And then I'm yeah, I'm I'm super close to my grandparents.
Speaker 3: So funny thing is one of my my mom's parents
Speaker 3: live two miles away from my house, and my dad's
Speaker 3: parents live one mile away from my house.
Speaker 2: So you're right there, you're right next, so it's super
Speaker 2: easy to get to be close to him, yes.
Speaker 3: Sir, Yes, sir. And then I have thirteen cousins on
Speaker 3: my dad's side and I know all of them super well.
Speaker 3: We're all super close family. And then I have two
Speaker 3: cousins on my mom's side and they live in New
Speaker 3: Jersey with you over there, so.
Speaker 2: You are you're close with all thirteen of your cousins
Speaker 2: all fifteen? Yes there, geez man, that's awesome. Oh well,
Speaker 2: you guys have like big get togethers on the farm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, we'll all gather together
Speaker 3: and just like all of them will drink. I'm not
Speaker 3: a I'm not a I've never been into drinking. Don't
Speaker 3: smoke either, But you know, it seems everybody I hang
Speaker 3: out with, they they're always they always smoke and drink, which, again,
Speaker 3: absolutely nothing wrong with that, It's just not my cup
Speaker 3: of teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to be flipping any more cars
Speaker 2: than you already are.
Speaker 3: Right, that would probably increase with alcohol consumption.
Speaker 2: Right, You're a blessed man. I'm I feel like I
Speaker 2: suck for not remembering your name. Uh West and Western
Speaker 2: nosing Uh Western. You're a blessed man. You really are.
Speaker 2: I really don't want you to die Western. You're a
Speaker 2: blessed man. You have a close family, you have a
Speaker 2: strong idea of what you want to do with your life.
Speaker 2: You're adventurous, You're have a great fan. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're about as blessed as I think a guy
Speaker 2: can be.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, absolutely, and I'm I'm so grateful for it.
Speaker 3: I try to do my best for everybody else kind
Speaker 3: of give back in a way, but I don't know
Speaker 3: how that makes sense. Just give all my blessings that
Speaker 3: I've received in my life. I just try to help
Speaker 3: other people out and whatever that takes. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: always try to like form get togethers with my friends
Speaker 3: because I know sometimes it's kind of hard to get
Speaker 3: everybody together, but I do my best.
Speaker 2: That's an important role to have in the friend group,
Speaker 2: the gatherer because some people, because a group chat can
Speaker 2: just light dormant for years without anyone ever actually getting
Speaker 2: out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Like during college, our group chat almost died
Speaker 3: and then as soon as summer hit, I hit it
Speaker 3: up and we're all in my grandpa's pit. We had fridges,
Speaker 3: we had tannerite, and we had guns, and we had
Speaker 3: wine bottles and we fill them with gas and then
Speaker 3: we shove a rag down there and you light the
Speaker 3: rag on fire and you throw the bottle and when
Speaker 3: it breaks, all the gas comes out and it's like
Speaker 3: a fiery inferno.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are making Yeah, you guys are making molotovs.
Speaker 2: I've played video games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the best thing ever.
Speaker 2: I've God damn it, I'm not gonna ever try that
Speaker 2: in my entire life. I really, I really don't want
Speaker 2: you to die. Weston. You know what, you know what,
Speaker 2: you know what the problem you know what the problem is, Weston,
Speaker 2: is I just you're like you're like a Jenga tower.
Speaker 2: I feel I don't actually mean what I'm about to say,
Speaker 2: I'm just bullshitting you, but you're like a Jenga tower,
Speaker 2: where like I feel like flipping cars and making homemade
Speaker 2: Molotov cocktails is just as integral to who you are,
Speaker 2: as like, you know, all of the good things in
Speaker 2: your life that if you if you pull, it's almost
Speaker 2: like you can't have you without those things. I don't
Speaker 2: actually believe that in any way, shape or form, but
Speaker 2: I kind of do a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Just say don't I just don't blow your arm off
Speaker 2: with fireworks or light your dogs on fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, do you?
Speaker 2: I mean you have a certain what were we gonna say?
Speaker 3: Let's just say I sensed all the hair off my
Speaker 3: arm last week. So one of my tires went flat
Speaker 3: on the plow, and so I got starting fluid and
Speaker 3: a lighter and I shot some in there and then
Speaker 3: shot it and lit it and it just inflated the
Speaker 3: tire and I was like, this is the best thing ever.
Speaker 3: Fire is just like so entertaining and useful it's an
Speaker 3: amazing tool.
Speaker 2: You have what thirteen.
Speaker 3: Cousins, thirteen on my dad's side, yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, okay, so fifteen in total. And and so you
Speaker 2: have a lot of other people your age around you,
Speaker 2: and I assume that they are cut from similar cloth
Speaker 2: as you. Uh, yes, yeah, and no, and nobody's ever
Speaker 2: gotten into any horrible accidents or blew their arms off
Speaker 2: or killed a dog.
Speaker 3: So my.
Speaker 2: So about the arm.
Speaker 3: My friend lost the tip of his finger roping fears.
Speaker 3: But my great great grandma lost her arm in a
Speaker 3: tornado when she was pregnant with my great grandpa.
Speaker 2: Okay, and my great.
Speaker 3: Grandpa was the ninth child of eighteen.
Speaker 2: You're living a you're living an interesting life, man. I
Speaker 2: really can't think. I really I can't think of anything
Speaker 2: that could make your life better except maybe like a
Speaker 2: a shield.
Speaker 3: A shield that that is an awesome idea. I'll have
Speaker 3: to make one.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead. I'm live on twitch right now.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see if the twitch chat has any questions.
Speaker 2: Twitch chat, If you guys have any questions, I'll read
Speaker 2: them out to uh to mister Weston. So one said
Speaker 2: just a little bit of reckless Pyromania for the youth
Speaker 2: as a treat. Absolutely, someone wants to know your thoughts
Speaker 2: on the switch to.
Speaker 3: The switch too. So I've had I've had the switch
Speaker 3: like as soon as it came out, and I love
Speaker 3: that thing. But I have sadly gone away from the
Speaker 3: switch and onto the steam deck.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna lie. I didn't know there was
Speaker 3: a switch too, but I'm might have to invest into it.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised that you even play video games.
Speaker 2: You seem like you're like too busy lighting stuff on fire.
Speaker 3: You gotta make time for everything, which is a hard
Speaker 3: thing for my girlfriend to understand.
Speaker 2: Okay that.
Speaker 3: Someone everybody is you have to make time for everybody.
Speaker 2: Someone just asked if you had a significant other and
Speaker 2: if it's hard to find one out there. So you
Speaker 2: have a girlfriend it, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: So it is extremely hard to find one because everybody
Speaker 3: is related to me.
Speaker 2: Did you just find Yeah, do you just find the
Speaker 2: girl who lives in your town who's just happens to
Speaker 2: be the least related to you?
Speaker 3: So I found the girl from the neighboring town that
Speaker 3: wasn't related to me.
Speaker 2: There we go, rock and roll. It's a real catch.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and how long have you two been together?
Speaker 3: We've been together since April twenty eight of last year.
Speaker 2: Very nice. How's it gone?
Speaker 3: It's going great. Yeah. So she she really loves me,
Speaker 3: like more than anybody, and I'm so grateful for that.
Speaker 3: And you know, we've had our struggles, but you know
Speaker 3: we we don't like give the silent treatment or let
Speaker 3: the problem solve itself. You know, we'll sit down and
Speaker 3: talk about it and you know, get everything straight. You know,
Speaker 3: understand the other person's perspective is a huge part of it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, we're doing great. She has one younger sister.
Speaker 3: She's an interesting one. But I bring her cookies and
Speaker 3: she's she's great.
Speaker 2: That's so sweet. What's your so, what's your girlfriend's like deal?
Speaker 2: Is she also another farm farmer?
Speaker 3: So she lives out in the country and her dad ranches,
Speaker 3: like half ranches. Half is the superintendent of the water
Speaker 3: district of the city. So she has enough farm in
Speaker 3: her So she's great.
Speaker 2: Is her dad intimidating to you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Is it like a you must gained my approval, like
Speaker 2: I feel like in a small town, Is it like
Speaker 2: a whole you must have gained my approval before dating
Speaker 2: my daughter kind of deal.
Speaker 3: So that's how I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 3: And he's he's like six four, two hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 3: He was a bodybuilder. Yeah, in high school and college,
Speaker 3: I believe, and I weigh one. I'm five eleven. I'm
Speaker 3: I'm lean, but I don't have a lot of muscles.
Speaker 3: So yeah, extremely intimidating guy. But the second time I
Speaker 3: met him, we're like best friends already. He likes me
Speaker 3: way more than my girlfriend anyway.
Speaker 2: He said, he likes you more than he likes his daughter.
Speaker 3: His daughter. Yeah, so so does their mom. My girlfriend's mom,
Speaker 3: she likes me more too.
Speaker 2: Someone asks you, uh, are you planning to have kids?
Speaker 2: And if you do, will you let them play with fire?
Speaker 3: I will absolutely let them play with fire. And I
Speaker 3: would love to because the idea of raising a family,
Speaker 3: because I'm so close with my family that like it's
Speaker 3: not even a second thought to not have kids, because
Speaker 3: I just you know, I want to be a father.
Speaker 3: I want to watch these little pet spurns that I
Speaker 3: created grow up mh and like, you know, develop their
Speaker 3: own personalities.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I just think that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Someone wants to know what your favorite fast food is,
Speaker 2: and they have a guess for what it is. But
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you because I want to hear.
Speaker 1: What it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't get fast food a lot because I'm
Speaker 3: an hour from the nearest town, but.
Speaker 2: Probably kine Canes. They guess subway. No, they guess subway.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they guessed subway. I thought, I
Speaker 2: think it's kind of a bad guess to be honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I could. I could get horny for
Speaker 3: some subway every now and then. Same, but Canes Canes
Speaker 3: is really fast and they're consistent.
Speaker 2: What do you eat would you? I assume you cook
Speaker 2: a lot?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so we have a lot of steak, like ribs,
Speaker 3: pork like a lot of meat. I guess pork chop.
Speaker 3: Last night we had yeah, steak. The South Africans make
Speaker 3: a lot of like spicy. It's all about their spices,
Speaker 3: is what makes their food taste cool.
Speaker 2: You've been eating a lot of South African food lately?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they're lately.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, go ahead and finish.
Speaker 3: I was trying to think of food. I'm not a
Speaker 3: huge vegetable guy, but since I hit college, I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I should probably eat a little bit
Speaker 3: of vegetables. So I never like intentionally make vegetables, but
Speaker 3: at a restaurant, if they come on my plate, I
Speaker 3: try to eat them, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Somebody asked if you ever cook any road kill?
Speaker 3: No, not road kill?
Speaker 2: Would you if you like listen like like, uh, oh see,
Speaker 2: you've killed and eaten a deer? Oh?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've killed like a rabbit and ate it. A rattlesnake.
Speaker 3: We've tried that too. And then so there's a cottontail
Speaker 3: rabbit and a jack rabbit. A jack rabbit is a
Speaker 3: lot bigger, and they taste awful, but jack but cottontail
Speaker 3: tastes like chicken, and rattlesnake tastes like chicken.
Speaker 2: People who regularly listen to this podcast are be annoyed
Speaker 2: at me for this back up. But have you ever
Speaker 2: played Red Dead Redemption two?
Speaker 3: I have not, but I've watched my friend play it
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: I think I think you would like it.
Speaker 3: I would probably like it. I played GTA five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, I will say in the in
Speaker 2: the city versus Country debate, GTA representing the city, red
Speaker 2: de Redemption representing the country, Red Dead Redemption significantly better
Speaker 2: gaming experience, very true?
Speaker 3: Do they have molotovs in Red Dead Redemption?
Speaker 2: They do? Yeah, I'm almost positive they do.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll I'll test it out and I'll call
Speaker 3: back eventually let you know how it went.
Speaker 2: Have you ever eaten a badger?
Speaker 3: I have not eaten a badger, but I I could
Speaker 3: make it happen if you really want to know.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, let those better because that badger
Speaker 2: had a whole family.
Speaker 3: I better not.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna ask you one other thing about, Oh,
Speaker 2: how does it feel to like kill and eat an animal?
Speaker 2: Because I eat a lot of animals. I just don't
Speaker 2: kill them myself. I financially support their deaths by uh,
Speaker 2: you know, consuming the meat, but I don't get the
Speaker 2: I don't I don't get to kill them myself. How
Speaker 2: does that feel that you you see a thing and
Speaker 2: then you you eat it.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. It feels. It really feels like
Speaker 3: two different parts. So you think, like, so it's like
Speaker 3: I kill a deer and then I eat it. While
Speaker 3: I'm eating it, I'm not thinking of like, oh, this
Speaker 3: core deer might have had a family and you know stuff,
Speaker 3: because like whenever I'm I'm killing it is I'm in
Speaker 3: one mood, I guess. And then whenever i'm eating it,
Speaker 3: it's just like eating any other Like, you know, i
Speaker 3: just stopped by a subway and grabbed a sandwich right
Speaker 3: with steak in it. I'm not thinking of the cow.
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of eating it thinking of the flavor,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that so interesting that, like we eat, we're
Speaker 2: so far removed from like all the ship that we're eating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not planning on ever
Speaker 2: doing anything about it ever in my entire life, but
Speaker 2: it is. It is crazy. It is crazy to think
Speaker 2: about Western great talking to you man, anything else you
Speaker 2: want to say about farm life, about Western life, about
Speaker 2: anything else at all. Before we go.
Speaker 3: About Western life, invest in a radar detector?
Speaker 2: What the fuck is that.
Speaker 3: It goes off whenever the cop is hitting you with
Speaker 3: his speed tracking stuff?
Speaker 2: Why don't you just go? Why don't you just go
Speaker 2: like ten miles above the speed limit and not die?
Speaker 3: So on a casual day, I'll drive about eighty and
Speaker 3: most of our roads around here are seventy five, So
Speaker 3: that's a reasonable speed, all right, but when you get
Speaker 3: into town, the speed limits get slower, the cops get
Speaker 3: more abundant. So a radar detector is an amazing investment
Speaker 3: and it's the price of a ticket, so like you're
Speaker 3: saving yourself tenfold.
Speaker 2: That's so funny that that exists, that there's you could
Speaker 2: detect police radars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't believe you didn't. You've never heard of that,
Speaker 3: because that's like super super popular out here, which which
Speaker 3: we have long distances to drive. Like I mentioned, we're
Speaker 3: an hour from town, and you might walk down the
Speaker 3: street to your grocery store. We have to drive an hour.
Speaker 2: So don't fucking die, West, don't fucking die. I liked
Speaker 2: I liked talk I liked talking to you. I got
Speaker 2: to know you. The people listening to this podcast got
Speaker 2: to know you. They like you. That don't they We
Speaker 2: don't want you to die, West, and just don't die.
Speaker 2: Just keep not dying, keep keep keep living your best
Speaker 2: life while while also being careful to not die.
Speaker 3: I I love living my life and I wouldn't trade
Speaker 3: it for anything.
Speaker 2: Have a the rest of the night, Weston, Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for calling. Yes, keep it up later, Man,
Speaker 2: that was a good kid. I liked that. Guy is interesting.
Speaker 2: I still don't want to stick. Can anyone explain that
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Speaker 1: Hello, what's up, man?
Speaker 2: What's up? What's your name?
Speaker 1: I'm Pablo. Let's go to tablo Pablo.
Speaker 2: You share it? You share a fake name with the
Speaker 2: penguin from the Backyardigans and the famous, the famous painter
Speaker 2: Pablo Picasso, both of whom I believe made fairly significant
Speaker 2: contributions to society.
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't. I can't tell you one thing did,
Speaker 1: but I could tell you, like hive, Pablo, the penguin
Speaker 1: did fucking do it?
Speaker 2: Do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 1: Okay, he is blue. I guess he didn't do blue,
Speaker 1: but he is blue.
Speaker 2: You know what, you know what that one's It's true.
Speaker 2: Being blue is not the same as not really doing something.
Speaker 2: But I'll let you have it, okay. Four more? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And anyway, is he Hispanic? I don't know? Is
Speaker 1: he Hispanic or black? I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: he is, but you just said he Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: like ethnicity wise, like I'm Hispanic, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I identified myself in Pablo, you know what I mean, kind
Speaker 1: of like how like Darwin and amazing one of the
Speaker 1: Gulmas like black pretty much, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that makes a lot of sense. I think
Speaker 2: I think he's Hispanic. I think he's canonically Hispanic, although
Speaker 2: that doesn't make a lot of sense because I don't
Speaker 2: think there are any Latin countries that penguins are native to. Pablo, Pablo, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's up? What's up?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: But what would you want to talk today? Would you
Speaker 2: want to talk about today?
Speaker 1: I it's funny, I will. I will watch your streams
Speaker 1: every now and then. I'll usually just watch it when
Speaker 1: I up bloods on YouTube. But I usually, like I
Speaker 1: don't have I usually have something to talk about every
Speaker 1: time I call you. And I don't reach and this
Speaker 1: time I don't have any Well, I do have any
Speaker 1: I do have something. I I I'm twenty two and
Speaker 1: I may or may not be becoming a father and
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not I'm not in the Uh I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a dad, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Not yet?
Speaker 4: M hmm.
Speaker 2: May or may not may mean a lot of things.
Speaker 2: How how what may or may not mean? So?
Speaker 1: So I you know, it's it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where you know you're you're in it, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: you don't know. You know, I obviously use protection. That's
Speaker 1: very uh pretty smart, and that's something I don't do.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just one thing led to another. And
Speaker 1: I you know, the the girl that I'm with, My girlfriend,
Speaker 1: she like, uh, you know the ovulation phase. You know,
Speaker 1: there's that period of time where the egg is like
Speaker 1: can be fertilized for like twelve to twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and she was in that. I don't know if she
Speaker 1: was in that window, but you know there's like a day,
Speaker 1: like a day's worth Like maybe I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but like it's like days, like the windows like days long,
Speaker 1: but like the egg is so I'm really nervous and
Speaker 1: I've I've.
Speaker 2: Watched her for years. It's okay, man, take a time.
Speaker 1: But but but yeah, she you know's it's in that window,
Speaker 1: and she may or may not have been. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a specific day where like you know, you can
Speaker 1: if you you know, if you forget my language, if
Speaker 1: you're not and the you know, you're the person you're with,
Speaker 1: you know that you could she could be pregnant, and
Speaker 1: she was, she may or may not have been in
Speaker 1: that window. And I may or may not have finished,
Speaker 1: you know, because I was high. And that's another thing too,
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of factors, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of factors where I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 2: So so I guess, so hold on, hold on, hold on, okay.
Speaker 2: So so okay, So your girlfriend's not on birth control?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: And you you did you like you didn't even pull out,
Speaker 2: like you came inside of her.
Speaker 1: Okay. So okay, so here, okay, we're gonna get this
Speaker 1: is gee, dude, I've watched you for years. I love
Speaker 1: you like thank you.
Speaker 2: Problem, thank you? I love Yeah, I think I love
Speaker 2: you in the way I love you in the sense
Speaker 2: that you and I find ourselves at the in the
Speaker 2: same cosmic predicament of being alive at this blimp of
Speaker 2: time in the universe.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, dude, I'm sober right now. This is
Speaker 1: crazy that this is happening when I's sober anyway. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: So what I was saying is yeah, so so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you were saying, I don't know if I came in here,
Speaker 1: I was high, but like you know that, Okay, so again,
Speaker 1: kind of team but you know that kind of when
Speaker 1: you're in it, or like you know, you're sort of
Speaker 1: in it, but then you know you're kind of you're
Speaker 1: kind of going in it.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Uh, you like you don't finish all the way, but
Speaker 1: you sort of.
Speaker 2: Do you like trying them accidentally?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay, you didn't.
Speaker 1: You are not partial shot a partial partial night.
Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna actually I want to. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: The details, the details of the logistics of things are
Speaker 2: not are not important. You believe there is a chance
Speaker 2: that some of your seamen ended up in your girlfriends jen. Okay,
Speaker 2: And so how long ago was this that you.
Speaker 1: Yet yet? So it was yesterday last night. There was
Speaker 1: so many other.
Speaker 2: This was last night, This was last night, Okay, a
Speaker 2: few things. First of all, well, I am pretty sure
Speaker 2: that the Plan B pill it has I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: you're in a forty eight hour window with the Plan
Speaker 2: B pill.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing too, isn't I mean, you
Speaker 1: and I are probably the least you know, reliable sources
Speaker 1: on this, but like, can't isn't prem Plan B. Doesn't
Speaker 1: it not work when you're like, you know, in that
Speaker 1: furt the window, or like when the egg is in
Speaker 1: that twelve to twenty four hour phase where it's like
Speaker 1: it's there, you know what I mean, I can be
Speaker 1: for a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny, Pablo, I I I genuinely, I
Speaker 2: really appreciate that you're a fan of the show and
Speaker 2: that you're excited to be uh talking to me, But
Speaker 2: you should really not be on the phone with me
Speaker 2: right now. You should really be feverish. You should really
Speaker 2: be with your girlfriends figuring this out. If this happened
Speaker 2: to last Yeah, yeah, I thought when you said you
Speaker 2: may or may not be a father, I thought it
Speaker 2: was like a thing where you and your girlfriend were
Speaker 2: like decided, you know, she was probably you guys were deciding,
Speaker 2: you know, whether what you wanted to do or you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that this was this happened to last night.
Speaker 2: It's dude, it's the morning. It's literally it's literally the
Speaker 2: morning after dude. And where's your where's your hold on?
Speaker 2: Where's your girlfriend? Right now?
Speaker 1: She's she's out, she's at work right now?
Speaker 2: What what did what did she have to say about
Speaker 2: all of this?
Speaker 1: She I mean, obviously she's fucking freaking out. This is okay.
Speaker 1: And this is another thing. I feel horrible. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like an asshole because she's not not
Speaker 1: this week, but the next week she's driving with her friend.
Speaker 1: We're all in college. She's driving with their friend, and
Speaker 1: now she's in an outing club. You know. It's like
Speaker 1: a backpack and they do like they like to hike
Speaker 1: for days, you know what I mean. And I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't find an a drumming in it, but like,
Speaker 1: you know, teach their own. But she's going on a
Speaker 1: six week backpacking trip to New New I'm sure along
Speaker 1: the appalation trail. I think and like, this is probably
Speaker 1: the worst time to like have a pregnancy scare, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because she won't know, you know,
Speaker 1: she's pregnant until like two weeks later, you know, waiting
Speaker 1: for dude.
Speaker 2: You're okay. By the way, just to clear this up,
Speaker 2: she does not want to be pregnant, correct.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, we do not want to be pregnant.
Speaker 2: We want to you know, bro, go go to the
Speaker 2: go to CBS or Walgreens or whatever right now and
Speaker 2: buy a Plan B pill. My guys, this happened you,
Speaker 2: this happened last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, so yeah, let me Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: should probably say everything. So we're on the same disuator.
Speaker 1: But I did get her of Plan.
Speaker 3: ME today, Like, oh so you did, Okay, so you
Speaker 3: get yeah, So like we're kind of in the clear.
Speaker 1: I just don't, you know. I guess I won't really
Speaker 1: know until she gets the period, but she won't she'll
Speaker 1: be out of state, you know, by the time.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, so she took a Plan B pill.
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So okay, so first of all, you only
Speaker 2: kind of think that you may have accidentally came in
Speaker 2: her and she took and she took a Planned B pill.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah is that?
Speaker 2: Am I understanding that correctly?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But now I like I don't feel as worried,
Speaker 1: but I should you know what I mean because like
Speaker 1: the Ford the ovulation. I don't know, I'm not a
Speaker 1: not a woman doctor, but you know the ovulation. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well okay, well here's well, first of all, a few things.
Speaker 2: Is one is I'm pretty I feel like people who like,
Speaker 2: you know, what to say funny people who are like
Speaker 2: trying to get pregnant have a hard time with it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So the fact that this what you weren't even trying
Speaker 2: and h and you had a plan beople. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're probably not a doctor. I don't fucking know, but
Speaker 2: you're probably fine. But I get it's it's it's a
Speaker 2: scare for sure. I get it's a scare. Uh I
Speaker 2: guess when what you know? Like so I guess you
Speaker 2: just have to wait until she has.
Speaker 1: A period, yeah yeah, yeah yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And she's a work.
Speaker 1: Should work right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how's she doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, she's like scared and ship because like I
Speaker 1: was the one that like usually she's I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: truth be told. Like we've had like scares too. I'm
Speaker 1: not a very uh used protection you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't, you know, because I'm stupid.
Speaker 2: But anyway, are you gonna wait wait wait wait we
Speaker 2: are you are you going to continue to not use protection?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, like like this was like she was like it
Speaker 1: was it was the whole thing. Last night, dude. You know,
Speaker 1: she was crying sh because she's so stressed, you know,
Speaker 1: and I was trying to like, so here's how it
Speaker 1: went last night. She's all stressed because she's planning for
Speaker 1: this trip and she has her sister's wedding this year
Speaker 1: and yeah my cousins, you know a lot of all
Speaker 1: this ship, you know, and it's like coming soon. So
Speaker 1: it's like she's, you know, the six week thing is
Speaker 1: like taking all her time of planning for the wedding
Speaker 1: and all this ship. So but she wants to do it,
Speaker 1: and then she's all stressed, and I'm telling her like, yo,
Speaker 1: let me like like let me like make you feel better.
Speaker 1: And then and then this brings on, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like this is the this is my result
Speaker 1: of by trying to make it feel better, and I
Speaker 1: give her this scare you know, So I wait, wait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you okay, your girlfriend was stressed out about
Speaker 2: like her wedding, and you were like, let me make
Speaker 2: you feel better by us having sex.
Speaker 1: No, no, I guess, but it wasn't like you know that,
Speaker 1: that wasn't like the point. It just like led there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you know, like comforting her.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure, comforting her like I was comforting her. How
Speaker 2: long have you? How long have you? How long have
Speaker 2: you two been? Uh dating?
Speaker 1: For like a year? A year and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, is every Is everything going good otherwise?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? I like, yeah, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I mean, and I assume she's at work
Speaker 2: right now, she's texting. I assume she's texting you and
Speaker 2: and freaking out.
Speaker 1: I actually texted her a little bit ago saying, like
Speaker 1: I got on the call with you because I like
Speaker 1: we're like both stands of the year.
Speaker 2: That's that's very nice, Okay, I'm talking about I think
Speaker 2: you guys. Look, here's the thing. You guys did everything
Speaker 2: I think you could do, right, Like, yeah, probably be fine,
Speaker 2: just be just be just be there for your girlfriend,
Speaker 2: man while she's dealing with all this stuff. That's all
Speaker 2: I really got.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought so too. I this is like the
Speaker 1: last this is like, this is like the last thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about if I ever
Speaker 1: got on call.
Speaker 2: But you said the mind right now. Well I'm sure,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it's just on your mind right now. But
Speaker 2: what I mean, I'm looking this up right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the window of effectiveness for Plan B, an emergency contraceptive pill,
Speaker 2: is up to seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, yeah, so we're good.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, let's see here, let's see let's
Speaker 2: say the Plan BE effectiveness rate. Okay, within twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: Plan B is approximately ninety five percent effective. Okay, this
Speaker 2: is pretty good, odds Okay, Plan B is less effective
Speaker 2: if you are overweight, you have already ovulated and you
Speaker 2: were taking certain medications but you didn't. But it was
Speaker 2: like this, But you're not even telling me that it
Speaker 2: was like that, you like shot that it was like
Speaker 2: a full load.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay, do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a poolo, but it was like
Speaker 1: it was a It wasn't a pre come either, it
Speaker 1: was like a partial that. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You I okay, you started coming and then you pulled out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna assume.
Speaker 1: I guess. But it was weird because I usually feel
Speaker 1: like when I'm going to but that's how I can.
Speaker 1: So like, I'm like, did i've you know, what was
Speaker 1: that rush of liquid? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Look, all right, here's what you do, Pablo. Look, tell her,
Speaker 2: tell her that, tell her you spoke to the therapy
Speaker 2: gecko and that he googled it and said that, uh,
Speaker 2: there's a ninety five chance that you're fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell her that. I'll probably make you feel better.
Speaker 2: I hope, So I hope. So yeah, I mean, just
Speaker 2: be you know, just you know, she'll probably she's yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean she'll probably be, you know, understandably so a
Speaker 2: little freaked out until she has a period again and
Speaker 2: you know, man, just fucking.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it is just be with her, just be
Speaker 2: in it with her until uh you know that gets resolved. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I saw her alone.
Speaker 4: She was.
Speaker 1: She's i mean, she's like freak, you know. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm doing what I can. You know, she
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, what was it?
Speaker 2: You said that, Ei, there was another thing that you
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about. I think or you said that
Speaker 2: every time you think about calling it was a new thing.
Speaker 2: I'm very curious, I guess because I'm curious, like, is
Speaker 2: it do you have a pregnancy scare every every week.
Speaker 3: Nah, No, no, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm I I'm a little lie right now
Speaker 1: because I'm talking to you, and but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I've I guess I've always wanted to We saw
Speaker 1: you in Chicago in May of twenty three, I think,
Speaker 1: or whenever it was when Kermit Kermit was on stage.
Speaker 2: You remember that, Yeah, that was it was about a
Speaker 2: year ago. Yeah, and at the Den.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, cool show. Yeah, it was fine. We
Speaker 1: wanted to you, We wanted to see you, but you
Speaker 1: said there was a show right after yours, so if
Speaker 1: we wanted to meet you, we'd have to wait until
Speaker 1: after that. But we were like, a, let's just get pizza.
Speaker 2: Well he listen. Maybe maybe maybe if I do a
Speaker 2: maybe if I do a tour again in twenty one years,
Speaker 2: you can come with your son.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I want to tell him how like you
Speaker 1: said we weren't going to have a kid, and then
Speaker 1: and then we had a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I kind of jinxed it a little bit. No,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be fine. You're both gonna be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I can't, I can, I can
Speaker 2: there's a ninety five percent chance you guys are both
Speaker 2: going to be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I guess like I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: tell you, like I'm I'm in during my grad school year.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a grastudent this year, I'm studying
Speaker 1: healthcare administration. And but four years ago, when you started,
Speaker 1: like twenty twenty, I started watching you, like yeah twenty one.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: My freshman year, I just got out of a relationship
Speaker 1: from high school and it was kind of toxic and
Speaker 1: ship and I don't know I was I was just
Speaker 1: really lonely freshman year, Like the whole year, I just
Speaker 1: feel like I didn't do ship. I didn't make friends
Speaker 1: and ship, and I was just kind of lonely and
Speaker 1: pomo and shit. You know, but I always watched you,
Speaker 1: like I always watched you and you know, talking about
Speaker 1: you know, shooting the ship with other people and hearing
Speaker 1: like other people's lives and hearing me you know, you know,
Speaker 1: how you started. And then now you're like really open
Speaker 1: and shit, because I remember it used to like whenever
Speaker 1: people ask how you are, You're always like, you know, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: what about you? And now you're like really open and
Speaker 1: like stuff. And you always say, like I'm talking too
Speaker 1: much about myself now I'm I listen, you know, like
Speaker 1: I listened to him, like.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you know, thanks man. Are you doing Are
Speaker 2: you okay? So that was so that was like four
Speaker 2: or five years ago. Are you doing better now? Aside
Speaker 2: from whatever, hide from what's going on with you in
Speaker 2: this moment?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, yeah, I'm doing really good. I found myself
Speaker 1: I had. You know, it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: after relationship, I know, type in tight school, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, you find your you find yourself
Speaker 1: you know college, you know, finding out what I'd like,
Speaker 1: what I don't like, you know, friendship and relationship, and
Speaker 1: you know, made me realize I recently lost some friends,
Speaker 1: you know, from years ago when I was in that time,
Speaker 1: like I was in my lonely kind of lonely phase
Speaker 1: and like I had my close friends, at least I
Speaker 1: had them from my hometown. But now it's realizing, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not that good and you know, kind of letting
Speaker 1: them go. You know. This year has been kind of
Speaker 1: crazy because you know, you just kind of figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, like hey, I don't need these people, like,
Speaker 1: you know, even though it's sexual reason, but you know
Speaker 1: they're not adding anything in your life.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but you're so I mean, yeah, but you're so.
Speaker 2: You're so young, you're about to like I mean, you
Speaker 2: just graduated college, You're about to go into grad school.
Speaker 2: You're so young, you have so much more, You're gonna
Speaker 2: meet so many more people. Your life is gonna continue
Speaker 2: to like you just have no idea. I don't have
Speaker 2: any idea. I'm not even really that much older than you,
Speaker 2: but uh, you're just your life is gonna continue to evolve,
Speaker 2: uh exponentially. I think your I think your life evolve.
Speaker 2: I think the younger you are, the more exponentially your
Speaker 2: life evolves year to year. But that's not like, that's
Speaker 2: not like an inherent fact. Uh yeah, you got you
Speaker 2: got a bunch of ship uh ahead of you. I believe,
Speaker 2: I hope. I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, grad school.
Speaker 2: You're gonna what healthcare? Healthcare administration?
Speaker 1: Yeah, bro hand of the budget. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you go? Are you do you like? Do
Speaker 2: you like deny insurance claims?
Speaker 1: Nah? No, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: a devil. I'm want to be like one of those people.
Speaker 1: I want to, like, you know, make it better, you know, okayk.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not trying to get money.
Speaker 2: Who know, who knows, who knows. Maybe one day you'll
Speaker 2: have it. Maybe one day when you're ready, you'll have
Speaker 2: a kid and it'll be it'll be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I do want one, but like no, now
Speaker 2: you know, and then one day when and then when
Speaker 2: you do, you can you guys can watch the backyard
Speaker 2: against together and you can be like this, Pablo, he
Speaker 2: inspired me.
Speaker 1: That's ship. Dude. You're so wise, Like that's kind of
Speaker 1: uncle of you to say, but you're not really an
Speaker 1: thanks man.
Speaker 2: I really want kids. I yeah, I want kids eventually
Speaker 2: in the future. But I also I also I used
Speaker 2: to think the future didn't exist. And what I mean
Speaker 2: by that is I used to think that like if
Speaker 2: you say, oh, I want to do this in the future,
Speaker 2: you don't really mean it, because you uh, if you
Speaker 2: if you won't do if you don't want to do
Speaker 2: something now, it's like the like the future self doesn't
Speaker 2: exist and life is just one day and you know
Speaker 2: all that bullshit. But I actually think I think you
Speaker 2: think that's wrong. I think there is. I think they're kind.
Speaker 2: I'm low. I'm starting to feel like there kind of
Speaker 2: is a quote unquote there. I do think you can
Speaker 2: be ready for things or not ready for things. And
Speaker 2: I think I think I just I think I just
Speaker 2: fucked up. I watched too many motivational Reddit videos. I
Speaker 2: watched too many motivational Reddit videos that made me think
Speaker 2: I had to do everything in one day. But yeah,
Speaker 2: someday I'd like to have kids. Bablo, give your uh,
Speaker 2: give your girlfriend my good uh my good graces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will, bro. It was so cool to talk
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 2: people of the computer before we go, Pablo.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, we're protection and uh yeah uh not. I
Speaker 1: just with you, Brouh. I hope to see you, you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: take your time. Rest rest, you know, yeah, rest, you know.
Speaker 3: I'll be back.
Speaker 2: I'll be back on and I'm not not this year,
Speaker 2: but i'll be I'll be back next year.
Speaker 1: We'll see no, yeah, whenever, yeah, whenever, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give your girl from my good graces.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, appreciate it, Brough All right, take.
Speaker 2: Care of Bablo. Good luck, you too. Bye? Hello?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 5: My name is Alden.
Speaker 2: Alden? Is that am I?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Like the grocery chain like Aldi?
Speaker 5: Like almost yeah, basically like Aldise. That's how I tell
Speaker 5: people about my name.
Speaker 2: Have we ever spoken before, Alden?
Speaker 1: No, we haven't.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very good. What's up? How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: How's life good?
Speaker 5: We were supposed to be at Bonner today, but they
Speaker 5: canceled it on us.
Speaker 2: Well Bonnar, Oh, yeah, I guess I get Bonnard today.
Speaker 2: Well it's a Sunday.
Speaker 4: Oh was it?
Speaker 2: Okay? So they canceled, but they had it on Saturday
Speaker 2: and Friday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they had it till Friday and it was downcouring,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden they canceled it mid
Speaker 5: Friday because everybody was blooded out.
Speaker 2: How was Saturday and Sunday though, I mean Saturday and Friday.
Speaker 5: So Saturday, so Friday we just like went around to
Speaker 5: a bunch of the renegade and joined some of the
Speaker 5: like smaller little DJ areas. But that's when they had
Speaker 5: officially canceled it. But Saturday we all had to pack
Speaker 5: up and we're in Atlanta now.
Speaker 2: But before then, it was for those who who don't know.
Speaker 2: For those who don't know, Bonnaru is a really great
Speaker 2: music festival that they have every year in uh Chattanooga, Uh,
Speaker 2: somewhere in Tennessee like Manchester. Yeah, Manchester, Tennessee. And I
Speaker 2: did some shows there like three years ago. It was
Speaker 2: a good time, I think. Unfortunately, I think the founder
Speaker 2: of it just passed away.
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 5: I think like last year they were talking about it
Speaker 5: and then yeah we also me and my friend. You
Speaker 5: might have met my friend Breeze in Miami. She went
Speaker 5: to hear a show in Miami, and you guys hung
Speaker 5: out after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember your friend Brie. Yeah, we went
Speaker 2: to oh wait you're Oh wait is that you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Breeze very next to me.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, what's up, Bri? How you doing?
Speaker 4: He said, what's up? I missed you? We gotta we
Speaker 4: gotta hang out soon in Miami?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we Uh we went to the uh me your
Speaker 2: friend Brie and some of her friends. We went to
Speaker 2: the Strip Club after I think I did a show. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 2: oh what's up? Yeah, we went to the Strip Club after.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think I did a show at the Miami Improv.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know if this was twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: or twenty twenty three, B shout out the gold Rush
Speaker 2: Strip Club.
Speaker 4: What a great Yeah, and you also performed there at
Speaker 4: one point. Didn't you have like a show or you
Speaker 4: went around and interviewed people?
Speaker 2: I went to Yeah, I went around and interviewed people there.
Speaker 2: They let me do that, which was cool. They have.
Speaker 2: It's funny because at that so I think I'm at
Speaker 2: that strip club, like when they have they have this
Speaker 2: like l CD uh screen where they like if they
Speaker 2: have like a rapper, because a lot of like rappers
Speaker 2: or whatever the fuck like go there and if they
Speaker 2: have like remember he was here, Yeah, so they have
Speaker 2: like rappers come there and ship and so whenever they
Speaker 2: it's like somebody is in the building or whatever, they
Speaker 2: they say like like welcome future on this like big
Speaker 2: LCD screen. And I when I when I was there,
Speaker 2: when I first went there to like do interviews, they
Speaker 2: had a picture of my face on the screen and
Speaker 2: said welcome therapy Gecko. And I took a picture and
Speaker 2: there was like it's like a picture it's a picture
Speaker 2: of like welcome therapy Gecko on this LCD screen. And
Speaker 2: then like a bunch of like strippers in the four
Speaker 2: it looks really funny. It looks really funny. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like, I think this is the peak of
Speaker 2: my Everything's been completely utterly downhill since then.
Speaker 4: No, honestly, that's that's how I felt when like I
Speaker 4: came up and saw you.
Speaker 5: I came by myself.
Speaker 4: If you remember, I drove like two hours to the show.
Speaker 5: It was last minute.
Speaker 4: I bought a ticket and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm known to go with, but I I want to
Speaker 4: do something a boy myself for once. So I came
Speaker 4: to Miami, got a little airbnb, came to your show,
Speaker 4: and what was really cool I met I met some
Speaker 4: friends with people at my table and everything, and then
Speaker 4: we went to a bar right next door afterwards, I remember,
Speaker 4: and that's when we seen you outside and I came
Speaker 4: on stage. That was the first person who called up,
Speaker 4: which was awesome, cool experience, of course, and then we
Speaker 4: went to the.
Speaker 3: Shop plood wait, I oh you know what?
Speaker 2: You know what? Yeah, okay, now I'm remember I remember
Speaker 2: that because I thought I'm remembering it like you came
Speaker 2: with all these people and we all went, but no,
Speaker 2: you came alone.
Speaker 4: I just made friends, Yeah, friends while I.
Speaker 2: Was there yeah, yeah, you came alone and then there
Speaker 2: was some other people there and then we all went
Speaker 2: out together. That was a good time. I like Miami
Speaker 2: is fun, although Miami is.
Speaker 4: It's a little crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a little crazy. Like there's there's people, well there's people,
Speaker 2: like there's what's the strip It's not strip club, it's
Speaker 2: like a club club. It's called like ten ten or
Speaker 2: some shit like that. It's like, uh, I think it's
Speaker 2: I think it's called ten ten. They're they're parroting it
Speaker 2: in the New Grand Theft Auto Game, but it's like
Speaker 2: it's it fucking uh. It's Miami is a crazy city
Speaker 2: because like they'll be like a club that charges like
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars to get in, and the flying for
Speaker 2: it is around the fucking block, and it's like, who
Speaker 2: are all these people getting one hundred dollars to get
Speaker 2: into a night.
Speaker 4: We tried to go to that one. It was like
Speaker 4: live Live night club or live nightclub, I can't remember,
Speaker 4: but it's like the twenty four hour one and we
Speaker 4: waited in that line in the same spot for so
Speaker 4: long and we're like, you know what, we just got
Speaker 4: to go to a strip club or something. We got
Speaker 4: we gotta do something here.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was dude. It was such a fun time.
Speaker 4: Do you ever do you ever play like Fortnite or
Speaker 4: do you have like uhh Xbox at PlayStation? You play
Speaker 4: any kind of games?
Speaker 2: I play the Switch?
Speaker 3: What do you play on Switch? Uh?
Speaker 2: Right now I'm playing. I just bought The Grand Theft
Speaker 2: Auto the Definitive Edition, so I'm playing. Uh, I'm playing.
Speaker 2: I'm real. I'm playing the the San Andrea The Grand
Speaker 2: Theft Auto San Andrea's remake.
Speaker 4: Oh cool, because I play it on Xbox sometimes. But
Speaker 4: I've been waiting for the new one to come out,
Speaker 4: and I just seem that they pushed it back to
Speaker 4: like another year or something.
Speaker 2: They did they did do. I do genuinely wonder if
Speaker 2: that game will like increase tourism to Miami. I think it.
Speaker 2: I think it must. I think it as like like
Speaker 2: I have to imagine, I have to imagine that rock
Speaker 2: Star is like working with the fucking like Florida Tourism boarders.
Speaker 2: So they got to be doing something because there's no
Speaker 2: way it's not gonna I maybe, actually, I mean they're
Speaker 2: probably not because, as I assume you know, rock those games,
Speaker 2: those games don't always paint extremely flattering portraits of I mean,
Speaker 2: it's about I mean, it's a game about Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, I guess I take back everything I'm saying.
Speaker 2: They're definitely not working with the Florida Tourism Board on
Speaker 2: a game where you where you run around Florida killing everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just go around Florida killing everyone, run them over.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Probably probably not the best for tourism, I guess, yeah.
Speaker 2: But it will I probably assume it will increase. To her,
Speaker 2: I wonder if you know what, I wonder if that
Speaker 2: strip club that we went to is going to be
Speaker 2: in the game, bro, And if it is.
Speaker 4: We definitely got to play together and go in it
Speaker 4: together like as our characters.
Speaker 3: That'd be so cool.
Speaker 2: So who is your who? So you were here with hold?
Speaker 2: I sorry I lost track because I was talking to
Speaker 2: somebody else before.
Speaker 4: He was your friend, right, Yeah, So that's it's my
Speaker 4: best friend Alden and her and her boyfriend Jamal. They're
Speaker 4: from Alaska. So they flew from Alaska, and then you
Speaker 4: need to come to Alaska, she's saying. And then they
Speaker 4: came with Alden's roommate and her boyfriend Trent. So the
Speaker 4: four of them who went from Alaska. I'm from Florida,
Speaker 4: so I drove with Atlanta. We all met in Atlanta basically,
Speaker 4: and then we have our other best friend Megan and
Speaker 4: her boyfriend Evan, and they are from South Carolina, so
Speaker 4: they drove as well. We all met in Atlanta. That's
Speaker 4: kind of like our like meeting spot for Bonner run away,
Speaker 4: just so we have like sometimes to like get ready
Speaker 4: for it, go shopping together, do whatever, do our last
Speaker 4: minute things. And then we all drove to Bonny together
Speaker 4: and then, like Alden was saying, it got canceled after
Speaker 4: us being there for two days, so we had to
Speaker 4: hurry up pack our show up yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: It was fucking crazy and then yeah, what are you
Speaker 2: guys going to do with your day now that your
Speaker 2: clients have changed?
Speaker 4: So we're in Atlanta right now. Alden found an airbnb
Speaker 4: yesterday morning for us, so we're gonna stay here. We're
Speaker 4: thinking about going so there's like a botanical garden, so
Speaker 4: we're probably gonna take some musch from chocolate, I guess
Speaker 4: then like get a little get a little funny and
Speaker 4: like look at the potanical garden. We also saw there's
Speaker 4: like some karaoke bar close by in a trap house museum.
Speaker 4: So there's there's so much to do here. We have
Speaker 4: so much planned. But yeah, so we're just honestly, we're
Speaker 4: all like super bums from BONNERU. But we're all with
Speaker 4: like each other, which is the main part of what
Speaker 4: this was all about anyway, and being with our best friends.
Speaker 4: So we're we're living it up. We're living it up
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think as you get older or
Speaker 2: I mean then I don't know if it's an age thing.
Speaker 2: I mean just in general, a pretty much. Well, I
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, like what the actual thing
Speaker 2: you're doing is less important than like who you're doing
Speaker 2: it with. But can I can I talk to Alden
Speaker 2: Oldie Alden?
Speaker 5: Oh, of course you can talk to Aldi anytime. Love
Speaker 5: you get and listen.
Speaker 4: Like I said, we should play some like GKA or
Speaker 4: something together. That'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Maybe yes, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 3: I'm message sorry.
Speaker 2: I just I don't. I don't, I I uh, I
Speaker 2: don't play online video I only play one online video
Speaker 2: game if if I will play if I just I
Speaker 2: only play one online video game. I play Smash Bros
Speaker 2: Melee online and everything else. I just do alone. So
Speaker 2: I didn't want to and I don't want to sit
Speaker 2: I don't want to sit here. I also I don't
Speaker 2: like to lie. I don't want to be like we
Speaker 2: should totally do that, and then, knowing full I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna want to say that to you, knowing full well
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 4: You don't have to make any promises, Okay, But because
Speaker 4: I'm kind of the same way, like when I get
Speaker 4: home from work, I'll smoke and play and then everyone
Speaker 4: keeps adding me and I don't.
Speaker 3: I can't even talk at that.
Speaker 4: Point, Like I just need to like go around and
Speaker 4: kill people on Fortnite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I only play, you.
Speaker 1: Know, So I feel I feel you.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of the same way. But if anything can
Speaker 4: do like some some no mic, you don't even have
Speaker 4: to talk. We can just like fuck around and poot
Speaker 4: the city up together.
Speaker 2: Well, it was good. It was good reconnecting with you, Breed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it was great talking to you. I'll uh,
Speaker 4: I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5: I'm sure beautiful you guys, hay Lyisle.
Speaker 2: Hey, Alda. I just wanted to because I know you
Speaker 2: called me so I wanted to, uh, before if I
Speaker 2: was gonna, I was gonna end the call, but before
Speaker 2: I did, I want I didn't know if you had
Speaker 2: a specific thing that you called in to want to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 5: No, honestly, I didn't even realize that. It was like,
Speaker 5: I didn't think that your voice would be this different
Speaker 5: or the phone like people say, but it kind of is.
Speaker 5: So I kind of got a little starstruck for a
Speaker 5: second and I had to pass it up to breathe
Speaker 5: and tell the situation. So now that I'm calm, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I just we just wanted to tell you about bon Ru.
Speaker 5: We're all just hanging out in the backyard, sweet man,
Speaker 5: trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm glad that you guys are enjoying life.
Speaker 5: We are, yeah, all friends together, hanging out. We only
Speaker 5: get those with each other like once maybe twice a
Speaker 5: year or so.
Speaker 1: This is the best time to do it.
Speaker 2: Alden, right, Yes, Alden is righting. Else you want say
Speaker 2: to the people of the computer before we.
Speaker 5: Go, Not so much of the people of the computer,
Speaker 5: but more like you, I want you to come up
Speaker 5: to Anchorage. We're up here and I've been putting a
Speaker 5: lot of people onto you. So I really want you
Speaker 5: to be able to like, I'll talk to a few
Speaker 5: people and see if I do it.
Speaker 2: I want I will hold you. So I've I have
Speaker 2: fucking since twenty twenty two, I have fucking tried to
Speaker 2: do a show. I want to do my live show
Speaker 2: in Alaska, but no Alaska. I I'm on a big
Speaker 2: kick now of like I want to make travel videos.
Speaker 2: That's kind of like the my my main quest in
Speaker 2: life right now. Yah, and so I have I have
Speaker 2: a few on the docket, but uh, yeah, Alaska is
Speaker 2: up there, so I'm definitely gonna but I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 2: go to Alaska sometime soon. I don't know if I'll be.
Speaker 5: Able to yeah show yeah siu or even just like, yeah,
Speaker 5: let us know when you're coming up, because that'd be cool,
Speaker 5: just like meet you. We can show you around you
Speaker 5: different places check out like glaciers and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to know what's going on over there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a lot of people going insane in Alaska.
Speaker 5: I will say during the winter months, people are definitely
Speaker 5: going insane. During the summer, the sun is out most
Speaker 5: of the time, so a lot of people are feeling
Speaker 5: a lot better like seasonal depression wise, and just have
Speaker 5: so much more energy because the sun just gives it
Speaker 5: to you. You don't even realize it.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for calling Olden, and good
Speaker 2: luck the rest of your entire life.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thanks for taking our call.
Speaker 4: By everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I didn't want to lie to
Speaker 2: breathe because here's the thing I have, Like, like I
Speaker 2: have people even like like in my like real life
Speaker 2: or whatever, who are like, oh, add me on the switch,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, I don't want to do. I
Speaker 2: only play i'll the best I'll i'll i'll I play
Speaker 2: people in Melee. That's the only online game that I play.
Speaker 2: Everything else is like I'm sitting alone playing like I
Speaker 2: like like linear story driven. We're gonna go from point
Speaker 2: A to point B.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 2: Even I probably won't even play GTA six online when
Speaker 2: it comes out. I have no interest in whatever. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that I'm sure that they're cooking up something big
Speaker 2: for GTA six online, but I have no desire to.
Speaker 2: I just want to be in the story mode, although
Speaker 2: they're probably gonna do some fucking bullshit that everyone does
Speaker 2: now where like you have to be connected to the
Speaker 2: Internet to play the single player. They pissed me out.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, do I have any other post call
Speaker 2: thoughts on this? I don't. I don't. Hello, folks, it's
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Speaker 3: Find myself like mentally not being able to do the
Speaker 3: things that I want was able to do.
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