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Speaker 2: Yeah? How we doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good? How are you?
Speaker 2: Oh good? This is Randy bo Bandy. How are you?
Speaker 2: Oh shit? I just said that.
Speaker 1: What What's what you said? What what's the matter?
Speaker 2: Oh no, nothing, I said, how are you? Twice?
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's okay. Randy bo Bandy Okay, So Randy
Speaker 1: bou Bandy, I have to say I saw you in
Speaker 1: the chat earlier and you said I apologize for my behavior.
Speaker 1: What yeah, yeah, yeah, what were you apologizing for?
Speaker 2: So I've been watching for for a couple of months,
Speaker 2: and uh no, I noticed, like, you know, I feel
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of people that lie, and I
Speaker 2: got hammered drunk last week and I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, a lot of people got to stop lying,
Speaker 2: so I said in the chat, and it was like
Speaker 2: incredibly poorly timed, like it was after that crazy call
Speaker 2: last Monday.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you so you basically were in the chat
Speaker 1: like oh everyone here is lying.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, but I mean, I mean, but that's
Speaker 2: I mean, I actually called last week because I got
Speaker 2: a crazy story and I think you'd want to hear it,
Speaker 2: all right and hit me. All right. So when I
Speaker 2: was when I was fourteen, so I'm twenty four now,
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought you were like in your forties.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I just live in Maine. We all talk
Speaker 2: like this. Continue yeah, but uh so when I was fourteen,
Speaker 2: I was at boy Scout camp in New Hampshire and
Speaker 2: that's actually where I grew up. And uh I was.
Speaker 2: We were all camped out on top of this mountain
Speaker 2: and uh, the like the counselors that were with us
Speaker 2: got a call from the bottom of the mountain and
Speaker 2: they said there was a crazy storm coming in, and
Speaker 2: so we kind of weighed out our options in the
Speaker 2: campsite and and we decided instead of, you know, a
Speaker 2: bunch of kids being halfway down the mountain on a
Speaker 2: bald face, we were gonna like kind of try out
Speaker 2: our luck at the top of the mountain where we
Speaker 2: kind of had some cover. And we actually ended up
Speaker 2: getting struck by lightning. So so that was wild. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was. I mean it wasn't direct it was indirectly,
Speaker 2: but it was like the ground got struck in a
Speaker 2: group of like twenty five kids, and so we were
Speaker 2: all like soaking wet in this thunderstorm. And then you
Speaker 2: add electricity into the mix and like, dude, I'm convinced,
Speaker 2: I like died for like a split second.
Speaker 1: Bro Okay, what was what was death?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Tell us please?
Speaker 2: I mean well, and and can I can I can
Speaker 2: I tell you one more thing. I wasn't sure of
Speaker 2: this until I got into a car accident in eighteen
Speaker 2: and I had the same experience happen to me where
Speaker 2: we slid off the road and we hit a telephone
Speaker 2: pole in a bronco in North Carolina when I was
Speaker 2: in the military, and I had the same I had
Speaker 2: the same experience happen where everything just kind of went
Speaker 2: purple and it kind of looked vainy, but it was
Speaker 2: It was crazy, and I didn't realize what had happened
Speaker 2: during the whole lightning thing, because I thought it was
Speaker 2: just like you get struck by lightning, and it's like,
Speaker 2: oh fuck, you got electrocuted, because like I went blind
Speaker 2: for a little bit and I got I went deaf
Speaker 2: for a little bit. It wasn't like crazy, it was
Speaker 2: like for a few minutes, and then it was it
Speaker 2: was like when I could see again, like all my
Speaker 2: muscles were contracted and it was nuts. And so, you know,
Speaker 2: all of us finally came to and we started doing
Speaker 2: our thing, and like all of us kind of realized
Speaker 2: this wee weird thing had happened, but none of us
Speaker 2: kind of talked about it. And then after this car accident,
Speaker 2: the same thing happened. And but after the car accident,
Speaker 2: I felt like I was kind of looking down at
Speaker 2: my body right, and because I looked down at the
Speaker 2: whole thing and it was after I saw this like purple,
Speaker 2: like veiny whatever. It was kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: you look at the inside of your eyeballs and you are
Speaker 2: like the insidey eyelids with your eyes closed, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's funny. Everything I've heard of, I've
Speaker 1: heard of everything going black, I've heard of seeing the light,
Speaker 1: but I have never heard of this purple before.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, it wasn't It wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 2: like a vivid purple. I would I would compare it
Speaker 2: to like you close your eyes and you like look
Speaker 2: at the sun.
Speaker 1: You know that's an orange.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I mean like.
Speaker 1: You death experience with my details.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, I'm I'm glad you're not like
Speaker 3: you know, all my friends, like all my friends that
Speaker 3: like talk to my parents are like, no, you're bullshit,
Speaker 3: And my parents are like, no, this kid actually got
Speaker 3: struck by lightning.
Speaker 2: And it's like my parents met me at the hospital.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. So is it is it.
Speaker 1: Not true that when you get struck by lightning that
Speaker 1: kind of means you can never get struck by it again?
Speaker 1: Is that is that that's.
Speaker 2: I mean, they they say that, but you know, you
Speaker 2: have to get struck by lightning once to get struck twice.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what I'm saying, you know, I guys.
Speaker 1: You I want to figure out what you mean by
Speaker 1: that you have to get struck by lightning once to
Speaker 1: get struck by lightning twice.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like a lot of catch. It's it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like a catch twenty two. You know,
Speaker 2: you got to do something to move on, But you
Speaker 2: gotta but you can't move on until you do that
Speaker 2: thing or something like. You got to move on to
Speaker 2: do the thing to move on to begin with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know like that?
Speaker 2: Like that, I I feel like, you know, you're catching
Speaker 2: me at my ten o'clock ramblings here.
Speaker 1: But what I'm curious. What's your name again?
Speaker 2: Randy?
Speaker 1: Randy?
Speaker 2: All right, Randy, and that's my actual name. I like
Speaker 2: to get ham, you know. I you know, I used
Speaker 2: to be in the Marine Corps. I like to you know,
Speaker 2: I used to build ships. I used to operate heavy equipment.
Speaker 2: You know. I work hard, I play harder. You know,
Speaker 2: it's just the way I do.
Speaker 1: What's the rest of your life? Like what do you what?
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 2: With I am? I am? Yeah, I h I Actually
Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked. I've been I was watching your show,
Speaker 2: and uh, I mean I don't I don't mean to
Speaker 2: pollute your podcast with other podcasts, but your show, uh
Speaker 2: THEO Vaughn and Joe Rogan. You know, I I spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time by myself, you know. I live alone.
Speaker 2: I've you know, it's funny, you know, everyone all the
Speaker 2: girls want you when you're but you get out and
Speaker 2: you know better than the rest of them. Which it's
Speaker 2: a hard lesson to learn, but everyone's got to learn it,
Speaker 2: you know. And so you know, I spend a lot
Speaker 2: of time alone and single, and I work on myself,
Speaker 2: you know. And I used to be a loud mouth
Speaker 2: and I still am when I drink, obviously, but you know,
Speaker 2: you know, you take baby steps and you work on yourself.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad you asked, because no, I've been working
Speaker 2: on self improvement. And uh, you know, I stumble, I
Speaker 2: truly do. I stumble, you know, because we can all
Speaker 2: be perfect. But I applied to college just before Christmas.
Speaker 2: I got accepted to you Maine Augusta go moose. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't really care for the moose, but I go
Speaker 2: for them and then and then yeah, so I'm I
Speaker 2: want to be a history teacher. Actually, I love history,
Speaker 2: you know, because there's there's a lot of lessons, a
Speaker 2: lot of important less sense to be learned from history
Speaker 2: because a lot of you know, a lot of people
Speaker 2: paid their blood to learn those lessons. And if we
Speaker 2: can learn from those lessons of the past, it prevents
Speaker 2: us from making those errors that you know that costs
Speaker 2: so dearly in the future.
Speaker 1: You know what, uh, what's what's an example of a
Speaker 1: lesson that you feel like we need to learn today
Speaker 1: to not repeat from history?
Speaker 2: You know, I can, do you mind if I step
Speaker 2: up on a soapbox or something real quick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, man, we're in this far.
Speaker 2: Let's do it all right. So, I mean, if I'm
Speaker 2: if I were teaching history. You know, this is my
Speaker 2: personal and this is my personal goal, is to teach history,
Speaker 2: not in like a high school standpoint, because high schoolers
Speaker 2: have no respect. I know a lot of high schoolers
Speaker 2: are watching this, have no respect. They're like a lot
Speaker 2: of drunk people. But but you know, I'd like to
Speaker 2: teach college history. So I can be a college, you know,
Speaker 2: a tenured professor and eventually say, you know, history is brutal.
Speaker 2: Human civilization, human civilization is is the oddity from nature,
Speaker 2: you know. Through through violence is how we've we've found
Speaker 2: ourselves the security to be so civilized and be so
Speaker 2: soft and emotional. And you need to realize that you
Speaker 2: don't have it that hard compared to people in the past.
Speaker 2: You know, my grandparents grew up in Nova Scotia without
Speaker 2: power and running water in the nineteen thirties, you know,
Speaker 2: and my memme is still alive today. She saw a
Speaker 2: man walk on the moon and she grew up with
Speaker 2: oxen pulling carts. You know, that's I think that's I
Speaker 2: think that's absolutely wild. And another thing is, you know,
Speaker 2: if you understand history a lot more, you care a
Speaker 2: lot less about race, especially being an American, you know,
Speaker 2: because you know, my my my grandmother on my dad's
Speaker 2: side grew up in now he occupied Norway, you know,
Speaker 2: and she she was white. She had no privileges well,
Speaker 2: you know, and she came to and she came to
Speaker 2: you know, my Memmea and Pepe, my mother's parents. They
Speaker 2: they're French speaking Japan and I don't you know you
Speaker 2: want to go to France. I'll happily translate for you.
Speaker 2: I'm very cultured for a white guy.
Speaker 1: Well well, well, let me let me ask you a question, Randy,
Speaker 1: what yeah, what like? Is there a particular era of
Speaker 1: history that you you want to teach?
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, is it the US or the world you
Speaker 2: want to learn about? That's the question?
Speaker 1: Whatever you want, man, all right?
Speaker 2: So, I mean, if I were to teach I mean
Speaker 2: as a whole twentieth century, the twentieth century, because you know,
Speaker 2: you see, you see a great change in the twentieth century.
Speaker 2: It went from only the poor people have horses and
Speaker 2: the rich people have cars, to the rich people of
Speaker 2: the poor people having cars. You see people walking on
Speaker 2: the ground without motor transport, to a guy going to
Speaker 2: the moon in sixty years. Dude, you know that stuff.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you see multiple genocides and that,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of lessons to be learned from that.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because I mean, when you really think about
Speaker 1: and I'm a guy, I don't know anything about it
Speaker 1: fucking anything, dude, But like, no, dude.
Speaker 2: You're the ghek dude. Hey, hey, honestly, Dude, I've been
Speaker 2: in a bad spot a lot of nights and dude,
Speaker 2: your stream, Dude, it does.
Speaker 1: Something, you know, Thanks Randy, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Ghak Well, I got to say, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: scary to see. I mean, if you look at the
Speaker 1: how human history has changed, like on a line graph,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a straight line for it. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like a horizontal line for pretty much ever
Speaker 1: and then the past like a few decades, it's the
Speaker 1: line goes straight up in terms of like our exponential growth.
Speaker 1: It's fucking terrified. I mean, even what I'm doing right now,
Speaker 1: Like this experience of talking to these people that I've
Speaker 1: never met before and I'm being watched by all these
Speaker 1: folks is like a not It's not even remotely a
Speaker 1: human experience that was anything accessible in the past, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, so so so new. All this social media
Speaker 1: is crap, and I feel like it's it does turn
Speaker 1: people insane because we're we're not meant for it at all,
Speaker 1: or and you know, our brains are not logged up
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah, it's it's scary.
Speaker 2: I totally get that, dude, Just perfect example. Dude. This
Speaker 2: is my first time setting foot in a school in
Speaker 2: seven years. Dude. I graduated high school barely in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: I joined the Marine Corps. If they were like, hey, kid,
Speaker 2: let's go. And now I'm in college and I go,
Speaker 2: I see like I'm in person two days a week.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to fucking do this shit. Dude.
Speaker 2: It's like I feel like, I mean not to knock
Speaker 2: on any homeschool kids, but I'm gonna knock on some
Speaker 2: homeschool kids. I feel like, you know, I feel like
Speaker 2: everyone's as socialist, those weird homeschool kids. You know. It's
Speaker 2: like I and you want to talk about change. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't mean to soak up the I don't mean
Speaker 2: to soak up the stream here, but you want to
Speaker 2: talk about change. I so my my my big deployment
Speaker 2: when I was in the Marine Corps. And all my friends,
Speaker 2: if they hear this, are gonna give me shit, just
Speaker 2: ragging on me. But but I deployed in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: In December, I said goodbye to my parents just before Christmas,
Speaker 2: and then we went, you know, across the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2: I was an am tracker. If there's any you know,
Speaker 2: am trackers. Yeah, yeah, eighteen thirty three. Baby, But we
Speaker 2: went across the ocean right and we were at sea
Speaker 2: when COVID happened, and they told us we weren't going
Speaker 2: to touch land until we came back to America. And
Speaker 2: this was in February. This is in February. We came
Speaker 2: back to America in July.
Speaker 1: Holy shit. So you're on a boat for what.
Speaker 2: I was on. I was on a ship, Dude. I
Speaker 2: didn't see land for five months.
Speaker 1: Holy get just fishing.
Speaker 2: Oh so, dude, if you want it, dude, look it
Speaker 2: up on YouTube. It's called the raz and Ra as
Speaker 2: a resupply at sea. That ship is so cool. It's
Speaker 2: a cargo ship pulls up to you and they send
Speaker 2: zip lines over and they just send over stuff and
Speaker 2: they say you get your mail, but they send over
Speaker 2: like helicopters of you know, mail and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I mean, how at sea for five months.
Speaker 2: You go crazy? I'll be I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2: You go, you go absolutely nuts, and you don't realize
Speaker 2: it until you get home. But dude, since I've been home,
Speaker 2: like I left, you know, I left, people were saying,
Speaker 2: you don't have safe, you know, no, You're sorry, you know,
Speaker 2: be safe, have a good Christmas, you know, all this shit.
Speaker 2: And I come back right and someone I went into
Speaker 2: a bar and someone said, where's your mask? I said,
Speaker 2: what the fuck are you talking about? Dude? Oh I was,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: At this time, at this time, at this time, did
Speaker 1: you sway?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you were on the boat for five months.
Speaker 1: Do you have a phone or the internet?
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's so I had. Yeah, I had a phone.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you're thousands of miles was so
Speaker 2: international waters at twelve miles, you don't get cell reception
Speaker 2: past that, and you know, when you're in the middle
Speaker 2: of the ocean, you're not getting cell reception from anything.
Speaker 2: And then you know, you know a fun story, my
Speaker 2: cell phone actually broke. I lent it to a you
Speaker 2: know buddy, and he broke it, probably watching porn or something.
Speaker 2: But nice, but but but yeah, So, I mean I
Speaker 2: had no real way to communicate with my family except
Speaker 2: for like a few laptops. But you have three hundred
Speaker 2: people on a ship. No one's talked to the family
Speaker 2: in five months, and there's three laptops. Yeah, no one's
Speaker 2: really going to talk to anyone, but you know, they'd
Speaker 2: print out the newspaper, but it was weird shit. You'd
Speaker 2: see like tens of thousands dead in New York City. Oh,
Speaker 2: they're filling trailers with bodies because they don't know what
Speaker 2: to do with them. And then at the same time
Speaker 2: you find out that a doctor lost his license to
Speaker 2: practice because he said, oh no, this guy didn't die
Speaker 2: of COVID, he died from a motorcycle accident. And it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of questionable. You know, so you formed these
Speaker 2: weird and then at the same time we heard all
Speaker 2: about the George Floyd riots and stuff like that, or no,
Speaker 2: not the George Floyd, but all the others, all the
Speaker 2: other riots. So you know where we were all, you know,
Speaker 2: a bunch of crazy time. Yeah, black white, all sort
Speaker 2: of racist Americans, forming our own in different opinions on
Speaker 2: the topic. And you know, none of us really had
Speaker 2: a problem with each other. And you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of us came to the conclusion without talking to anyone
Speaker 2: who actually was the source of the problem that you know,
Speaker 2: people don't communicate with each other. You know, people don't
Speaker 2: talk to each other like the human beings.
Speaker 1: Tell me more about the vibe on, Like to that point,
Speaker 1: people don't talk to each other, People don't communicate with
Speaker 1: each other. Tell me more about the vibe on.
Speaker 2: For five months? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what like there's three hundred of you guys.
Speaker 1: What's the community?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How how is everyone interacting with each other?
Speaker 2: Talking about some all right, So with the marines, there
Speaker 2: were very few females, as you can imagine the sailors.
Speaker 2: You know, there's quite a few more women in the
Speaker 2: Navy than there are marines. To do with that information,
Speaker 2: which you will, you know, it's it, but you know,
Speaker 2: not in a creepy way. It's more is the you know,
Speaker 2: the feeling is more somewhere between high school at sea
Speaker 2: and prison at sea with the occasional with the occasional,
Speaker 2: Hey there's a boat, everybody run to the guns. But no,
Speaker 2: it's very boring. You know. You sit around and you
Speaker 2: smoke a lot of cigarettes, you play a lot of poker,
Speaker 2: You do some people, you know, you know, you know
Speaker 2: back on what you know. I said people were liars.
Speaker 2: You know, you find a it's very easy to pick
Speaker 2: out a liar, you know, when they tell the same
Speaker 2: story on a ship for five months and the details change. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's very it's very easy to spot inconsistencies
Speaker 2: and stories when you hear nothing but live for six five,
Speaker 2: you know, five, six, seven months at a time.
Speaker 1: What do you feel like? What do you feel like
Speaker 1: you learned from that? Because you're this is such an
Speaker 1: interesting experience, like limited access to the internet, limited access
Speaker 1: to the outside world, literally isolated with three hundred other people,
Speaker 1: all three hundred of you guys, all coming from from
Speaker 1: different you know, spots and everything. Like what that's that's
Speaker 1: an experience that a lot of people have not had.
Speaker 1: What what do you feel like you learned from all that?
Speaker 2: Oh? I learned a lot of slang. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: I can like I got I got buddies from la
Speaker 2: I got buddies from all over the country. You know
Speaker 2: that guy from Wisconsin earlier. You know, I got buddies
Speaker 2: from Stone in Wisconsin. I got buddies from New York.
Speaker 2: You know, you learn a lot of shit. You learn
Speaker 2: how to talk to people, like the people because you know,
Speaker 2: society in the military is not the same as society
Speaker 2: and normalst society. You know, sorry, how people act in
Speaker 2: the military is very similar to how people act in jail.
Speaker 2: You say the wrong ship to the wrong person, and
Speaker 2: they're going to fuck you up, you know, So you learn,
Speaker 2: you learn to carry yourself in a way where you
Speaker 2: show others respect and you make others respect you and
Speaker 2: will not make but you know you you make it
Speaker 2: so others want to respect you, because if if you
Speaker 2: want real respect, people mean to want to respect you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: And in your situation on that ship, what kinds of
Speaker 1: things do you feel like people would do to what
Speaker 1: What do you think commands respect in that environment?
Speaker 2: Honesty, m honesty, compassion. You know. I am not claiming
Speaker 2: to be perfect, but you know, I you know, I
Speaker 2: was in a vehicle crew, you know. And if you
Speaker 2: have you seen the movie Fury.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with it, but I've never seen it.
Speaker 2: Or okay, so I mean I'm not going to say, oh,
Speaker 2: it's just like Fury. It's more like Kelly's Heroes if
Speaker 2: you've ever seen that with the with you know, Clint
Speaker 2: Eastwood and Donalds. It's a very good movie if you're
Speaker 2: into World War two, but it's actually about a heist.
Speaker 2: But anyway, no, you know, you live in a I
Speaker 2: was in an aav If you want to google that
Speaker 2: or if you ever play Battlefield three, it's that thing
Speaker 2: that looks like a tank that no one wants to
Speaker 2: use because it's not quite a tank, but at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, it's a tank, you know, so
Speaker 2: you live inside of it with you know, with your
Speaker 2: two other crewmen. I was a crew chief, so I
Speaker 2: sat in the turre and I had a driver and
Speaker 2: I had a rear crewman, and they were my family man,
Speaker 2: you know, because at the end of the day, when
Speaker 2: you're sleeping in a field or in the desert and
Speaker 2: you got no one with you, you got two guys in
Speaker 2: a big steel box and they'll hang out with you
Speaker 2: and they'll talk with you. And those folks that that's
Speaker 2: with you, and you know, they'll shoot anyone that tries
Speaker 2: to shoot you. And you know that, and you know what,
Speaker 2: you know what to answer your question, that's ah, I
Speaker 2: think I learned to appreciate people being with me more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, to that point, I want to say,
Speaker 1: to that point, I've been thinking about this more like,
Speaker 1: because you're on a ship with dudes. You didn't pick
Speaker 1: these guys. They're just like the guys that you're with.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying I'm trying to learn more. Like when
Speaker 1: I'm around people, like there's there's I think there's this
Speaker 1: thing when you're around folks, like you want them to
Speaker 1: be a certain way, or you wish somebody acted differently
Speaker 1: or something, but like just appreciating the folks around you
Speaker 1: exactly for who they are and just the fact that
Speaker 1: they are the folks around you right now. You know,
Speaker 1: say for anyone being like hostile or anything like that, Like,
Speaker 1: there are the folks around you. They're not perfect, they're
Speaker 1: not going to act exactly how you want them to,
Speaker 1: but they're Yeah, it's it's it's just exactly what you're saying,
Speaker 1: Like it's just an honor to be around people in
Speaker 1: general in this world.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, it's it's it's an honor to be
Speaker 2: around people. And yeah, you know what exactly because you know,
Speaker 2: I anyone who knows me will tell you that there
Speaker 2: is only one Randy, And uh, you know, I I
Speaker 2: think there's a I don't think people realize that there's
Speaker 2: only one to everyone. You know, if you say you're
Speaker 2: one in a million, there's you know, eight and a
Speaker 2: half thousand people just like you. But if you say
Speaker 2: you know, you're the only motherfucker on twitch TV. You're
Speaker 2: actually the person that made me get twitch TV. You're
Speaker 2: the only motherfucker that I would watch dressed as a
Speaker 2: gecko on my television in my living room right now.
Speaker 2: You know that. No, no, no, But I mean I
Speaker 2: don't If I wasn't watching you, I'd probably be watching
Speaker 2: like some YouTube video some dudes in Cambodia building some
Speaker 2: fake mud cave or some shit. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: but I mean, yeah, I appreciate you. You appreciate people
Speaker 2: for a lot more than just being a face, you know,
Speaker 2: and and you know when you're out there, you got
Speaker 2: time to reflect on life a lot because I I
Speaker 2: mean I was on I was on the scat team,
Speaker 2: which is like the small cal I ran into the
Speaker 2: gun when they said run to the gun. And when
Speaker 2: you go through like straight, it's incredible, though. You know,
Speaker 2: you go through like the Straits of Gibraltar, which is
Speaker 2: you know, the mouth of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
Speaker 2: You know, like Perseus sailed through that ship, Hercules sailed
Speaker 2: through that ship. Some of the greatest people in history
Speaker 2: have sailed through that. And I got to sail through
Speaker 2: that or go through the Suez Canal. I got I
Speaker 2: got to sail through Egypt, you know, or I got
Speaker 2: to go through the strait of horror moods, you know.
Speaker 2: And I mean, and I'm not touting that for like
Speaker 2: a respect that thing, but like, but like no one history,
Speaker 2: you know, I like history being my passion, you know,
Speaker 2: to get to see you know, I went into the
Speaker 2: Black Sea and I got to see, like I got
Speaker 2: to sail past I mean, granted it was during COVID times,
Speaker 2: so I mean it actually no, that kind of made
Speaker 2: it better because I got to see things like unimpeded
Speaker 2: by like stupid tourists. And granted I didn't see them
Speaker 2: as a tourist, but like, you know, people hate Americans
Speaker 2: because where there's just we're just a tourists of the world.
Speaker 2: But if you can see things as that, you know,
Speaker 2: objectively and not just being like hey, am I in
Speaker 2: the way right now? But you know, it was surreal
Speaker 2: to see a battlefield where so many people, you know, died.
Speaker 2: I mean not not being like, oh that's so cool,
Speaker 2: but like these these like the Australians went to fight
Speaker 2: in this battle because England said, hey, the Crown needs
Speaker 2: you guys, and you gotta go. And these guys had families.
Speaker 2: You know, these were sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, and you
Speaker 2: they they went.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like, does that inspire you in some way?
Speaker 1: Like this idea that these these guys, you know, they
Speaker 1: they try, they fighting for something greater than just themselves
Speaker 1: and their family. What does that do for you?
Speaker 2: I guess it's kind of I guess part of that's
Speaker 2: kind of the reason I joined because you know, I
Speaker 2: I so when I was in high school. You know,
Speaker 2: all my friends they're older brothers. Uh Oh. I grew
Speaker 2: up in southern New Hampshire, and southern New Hampshire is
Speaker 2: not a great place to live. You know. I grew
Speaker 2: up like like twenty minutes outside of Lowell, Massachusetts. If
Speaker 2: you know anything about that I grew up. Anyone from
Speaker 2: New Hampshire knows Manage Vegas and shit that it's dirty,
Speaker 2: it's gross. People work hard and they don't make a
Speaker 2: lot of money. So I wanted to leave man and
Speaker 2: and uh I wanted to go do something great. And
Speaker 2: you know when I was when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: I had this weird obsession with World War two. So
Speaker 2: when Band of Brothers caught my interest and all, you know,
Speaker 2: all that stuff, and you see these guys like fighting
Speaker 2: die with no care for they have no regard for
Speaker 2: their life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And but and at the end of it, and I
Speaker 2: and I found out why why no one? You know,
Speaker 2: it's because when you're in the military, when you're gone,
Speaker 2: all your friends ask when you when are you coming home,
Speaker 2: When are you coming home? When are you coming home?
Speaker 2: And you get home and none of them come see you.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: And then and it was it was, and it's it's
Speaker 2: kind of sad. And then, you know, I mean ship,
Speaker 2: I had a fucking jeep wrangler. I had a I
Speaker 2: had a nineteen ninety nine jeep wrangler. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: drove that from North Carolina to New Hampshire every chance
Speaker 2: I got, just to go see my friends, and none
Speaker 2: of them would come see me. I mean they would
Speaker 2: all fluff it up, be like I mean, actually, no,
Speaker 2: I can't say that my I got one. I got one. Buddy, Joey.
Speaker 2: He's been my He's been my fucking big dog. He's
Speaker 2: been my big dog since like first grade.
Speaker 1: What tell me about God, tell me about Joey? What's he?
Speaker 1: What's he like?
Speaker 2: Joe is my second brother, man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what's what do you What do you think
Speaker 1: makes you guys so close?
Speaker 2: H we we I mean ship? We lived life together,
Speaker 2: so I know you know what makes us so close?
Speaker 2: Tell me is we met? We met in first grade,
Speaker 2: the first day of first grade. And he he was
Speaker 2: born in North Carolina, so his parents were he grew
Speaker 2: up in a military family. And if he ever sees this,
Speaker 2: he's gonna beat my ass for spelling his ship. But
Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck. I'll smake his stupid face.
Speaker 2: But but but so he grew so he grew up
Speaker 2: in a military family. Yeah, and and so he moved.
Speaker 2: He moved to New Hampshire the summer before first grade.
Speaker 2: And so we met the first day at first grade.
Speaker 2: And my last name starts with an M and his
Speaker 2: last name starts with an L. So alphabetically, we just
Speaker 2: happened to sit next to each other. Yeah, and we
Speaker 2: just we we just hit it off. And then it
Speaker 2: just so happened. On the bus ride home, Joey is
Speaker 2: two streets up from mine, Holy ship. But now me
Speaker 2: and Joey, Me and Joey are hanging out. And you know,
Speaker 2: Joey's parents got divorced and he didn't have he he
Speaker 2: didn't have an easy life growing up. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I I had it. I I like to think I
Speaker 2: had it hard, but I know, I don't. You know.
Speaker 2: We all go through our own ship. You know. I got,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I got my own ship. I
Speaker 2: got a I got, I got, I got a lot
Speaker 2: of shit, you know. I And but but Joey had
Speaker 2: it hard. Joey had it hard earlier than I did,
Speaker 2: you know. And and it doesn't get easier. That's what everyone likes.
Speaker 2: That's what everyone sadly finds out is they get older,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get easier now.
Speaker 1: And did did that? Was that the case for you?
Speaker 1: You felt like it didn't. It didn't really get easier
Speaker 1: as you got older.
Speaker 2: My my life was pretty easy until I had about
Speaker 2: eleven years old, and then out of the blue, I
Speaker 2: started having like all these digestive problems. I got like
Speaker 2: really sick, Like I missed like forty five consecutive days
Speaker 2: of school. I was just a quke and I was
Speaker 2: really really sick. But anyway, back back on, Joey gakin
Speaker 2: not to not to back, but no, Joey's a Joey's
Speaker 2: a good dude, you know. And and if Joey didn't.
Speaker 2: Joey lived a hard life man, and his parents got divorced,
Speaker 2: and he didn't have a very stable home life at
Speaker 2: his mom's or his dad. And then for a while
Speaker 2: he had to he could only live with his mom
Speaker 2: because he couldn't live with his dad. And eventually he
Speaker 2: just started crashing to my house, you know, and we
Speaker 2: took him in, like I like, I took him in.
Speaker 2: He was my best friend, and just inherently my parents
Speaker 2: took him into and I got I got good parents,
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm I I'm not as thankful as I
Speaker 2: should be for my parents. You know.
Speaker 1: Are you still close with your parents?
Speaker 2: Not as close as I should be.
Speaker 1: Do they live in the same place as you?
Speaker 2: No? No, So I live in Maine. So I I
Speaker 2: you know, I joined the Marine Corps, I left New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: I came back, and then I came. As soon as
Speaker 2: I came back, I was quickly reminded of why I
Speaker 2: left a lot of it's a bad, bad heroin problem
Speaker 2: where I grew up a lot of heroin, a lot
Speaker 2: of coke. I mean, I mean, you know ship, you know,
Speaker 2: you grow up around it. You know, it's life, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah. So I was quickly reminded of why I
Speaker 2: left in the first place, and so I started fishing
Speaker 2: around for jobs and I was like, yeah, well I worked,
Speaker 2: so back on Joey. Joey hooked it up. Joey hooked
Speaker 2: it up as soon as I got so So Joey,
Speaker 2: Joey's like the ship dude. Like, Joey sent me mail
Speaker 2: on deployment. Joey's my only friend to send me mail undeployment.
Speaker 2: My parents and Joey sent me mail undeployment. Mhm, my
Speaker 2: parents and Joey. I got, I got a brother, my parents,
Speaker 2: and Joey sent me mail on deployment.
Speaker 1: So I want to go back to one thing real quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you talk because the reason we were talking about
Speaker 1: Joey is because you were like, you know, the sad
Speaker 1: thing of it being in the military is that you
Speaker 1: go off.
Speaker 2: Oh, Joey was always there. Joey's Joey was always there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I don't mean to trail off. No no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: What what what? What I'm what I'm curious about is
Speaker 1: because you said that you go off into the military,
Speaker 1: everyone's like when you coming home and you get back
Speaker 1: and know what's hanging out with you. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like that experience kind of gave you the perspective of, like, oh,
Speaker 1: these people, even if it's just Joey and mom and dad,
Speaker 1: these are the true folks, you know. Did it give
Speaker 1: you more perspective on like, I know what is.
Speaker 2: I know who's real. I know who's real in my life.
Speaker 2: I know who's in my life. You know, I got,
Speaker 2: you know, my parents and my brother and Joey, who's
Speaker 2: my other brother at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I got.
Speaker 2: My parents and my siblings and the guys that were
Speaker 2: on that boat with me. H, that's it. That's it,
Speaker 2: because we're the only ones. I mean, because I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't even know why I feel like
Speaker 2: I can talk about this. I feel like it's because
Speaker 2: I know I'll never meet you, But I don't know
Speaker 2: if you if you ever come to New England, let
Speaker 2: me know, if you ever come to Maine. You got
Speaker 2: a spot in my house, dude.
Speaker 1: But uh, well, well tell me why do you feel
Speaker 1: like why do you feel like you never thought you
Speaker 1: could you could talk about any of this stuff with.
Speaker 2: My parents, I mean with Joey. It's different with Joe
Speaker 2: I mean Joey used to drive down to North Carolina.
Speaker 2: He used to. He used to drive down just to
Speaker 2: drive back with me. We used to just we used
Speaker 2: to just I mean ship.
Speaker 1: And I like Joey d he seems like a fun Joe.
Speaker 2: Joe Joey's a real fucking dude, you know. And Joe
Speaker 2: Joey's like, Joey's my best friend. Dude. If Joey died,
Speaker 2: I'd fucking shoot myself at his casket, dude, Like like
Speaker 2: like like, I dude, I dude, if anything, I I will,
Speaker 2: I will harvest someone's soul from their body. If to
Speaker 2: try and fuck with that, dude, like I I I dude,
Speaker 2: I will sky rim enchant, cross bow your ass. Dude,
Speaker 2: Like I don't give a ship, I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2: You don't funk with Joey, But like, yeah, that dude,
Speaker 2: he's he's the realist person ever. And so he hooked
Speaker 2: it up with a job. When I got out and
Speaker 2: we were working, we were plowing snow together, and uh
Speaker 2: it was good. I mean ship, I mean deck. Did
Speaker 2: you grow up with a snow?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah I grew up with there was snow, so
Speaker 2: you know how it works, you know, you know, you
Speaker 2: know how it works. It's feast or famine with the
Speaker 2: plow drivers, you know. Yeah, yeah, so you know you
Speaker 2: get you know, fuck, dude, you get a storm. Dude,
Speaker 2: you're out in that truck for seventy two hours. You
Speaker 2: don't get out of the fucking driver's seat. You piss
Speaker 2: in a bottle, you eat McDonald's takeout, and you drop
Speaker 2: your blade on the pavement, you push that snow.
Speaker 1: Well, you were on a boat for five months, so
Speaker 1: I feel like a truck for seventy two hours. It's
Speaker 1: got to be nothing for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, time is time is irrelevant to me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shit, I've died twice. I know when it's kind
Speaker 2: of you know, it's not like I'm not scared of
Speaker 2: it anymore, you know all dude, honestly, it's I know
Speaker 2: this sounds crazy, but dude, after that car accident, I
Speaker 2: was so comfortable before I woke up. There's the disembodied
Speaker 2: voice that said, it can all be over you. But
Speaker 2: if it's, if you don't want it to be, you
Speaker 2: just wake up. Oh ya, wake up? And it was
Speaker 2: hard to wake up. It's like when you take ni
Speaker 2: quill and your alarms going off. But it's like, oh fuck.
Speaker 1: Now with the near death experience, it's funny you said.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's there's two kinds of things, like
Speaker 1: a near death experience could either make you more cautious
Speaker 1: and more like not afraid but careful the opposite. I
Speaker 1: can't die.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a ship, and I mean, here's why too.
Speaker 2: You know, I know how, I know how it's gonna feel. Well. Shit,
Speaker 2: I don't fear death. I'm not a fan of pain,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not. Pain isn't my favorite. I'm not
Speaker 2: scared of death. You know, it's crazy I do in
Speaker 2: the military. I didn't even almost die from anything cool.
Speaker 2: In a car accident and lightning. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: lightning is pretty cool. But all my friends have heard
Speaker 2: it so much. The novelty is gone. I mean, I shit,
Speaker 2: I haven't even told my parents. I tell my mom this,
Speaker 2: and I see your eyes tear up and I get worried,
Speaker 2: so I don't even continue. I just say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just joking, and I stuff.
Speaker 1: But no, it's just.
Speaker 2: You know, death, That's what I tell my because I
Speaker 2: don't want her to worry about me. I have a
Speaker 2: lot of friends. I have a lot of friends that
Speaker 2: either oh dad or you know, self checkout. You know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, but like I said, that's just that's
Speaker 2: just you know, his his the way things are. You
Speaker 2: got to take it in stride. Mm hmm. But uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Your friends that you let me ask you this, Your
Speaker 1: friends that like back from where you were, that that's
Speaker 1: self checked out or got addicted to drugs? What do
Speaker 1: you think think? What do you think led them to that?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I mean ship, there
Speaker 2: was there was one after after high school. His parents
Speaker 2: found him in his closet and I I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what led to that? Hm, why
Speaker 2: old me and him? He was like he was, he
Speaker 2: was I'm not going to say his name a case,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't out of respect. Yeah. Yeah. But
Speaker 2: when I was when I was sick back in like
Speaker 2: sixth grades, I was eleven. When I was sick, I
Speaker 2: missed a lot of school and a lot of kids
Speaker 2: made up a lot of rooms. The rumor mill is
Speaker 2: the rumor mill cuts you know that what.
Speaker 1: What what rumors did they make up about you?
Speaker 2: Dude? Dude? It was wild. It was wild. I was here,
Speaker 2: I was eleven years old. Dude. Kids were like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's got age, he's got herpes. I meanwhile, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't even you know, you know, fuck, anyone who's
Speaker 2: got a cold sore in those herpes isn't going to
Speaker 2: make you sick for forty five days. But ship, I
Speaker 2: mean not. But but at the same time, the rumor
Speaker 2: mill wasn't even nice to me, Like I mean, destruck
Speaker 2: by lightning thing as a testament to my luck in
Speaker 2: that regard, But like, the rumor mill wasn't even nice
Speaker 2: to me because like there were like, no like hot
Speaker 2: girls coming up to me. Rady, are you okay? Do
Speaker 2: you have cancer? Oh my god, you'll kid. No, you couldn't.
Speaker 1: You couldn't even milk. You couldn't even milk the fake
Speaker 1: cancer that everyone thought you had.
Speaker 2: No. I couldn't even I couldn't even milk the fake leukemia.
Speaker 2: You know, I couldn't even do that. No, it was like, well, Randy,
Speaker 2: we heard you like throw up a lot. What's that about.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: My stomach produces too much acid.
Speaker 1: So so okay, So so before we go to the president,
Speaker 1: So yeah, to the president. Well, what were you gonna
Speaker 1: say just now?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, so but but the one of my one
Speaker 2: of my friends.
Speaker 1: That yeah, you're talking about.
Speaker 2: He was one of the few kids other than Joey
Speaker 2: who who you know, didn't buy into the room though. Mmm,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean ship. You remember when like World
Speaker 2: that Wore zombies was a thing, right, me and Joey,
Speaker 2: Me and me and Joey were cutting it up on
Speaker 2: the rock back in like the No, dude, we were
Speaker 2: doing it, bro, we were doing things different Joey. Joey's
Speaker 2: a fucking real one, bro. But but and then, but
Speaker 2: my I got another buddy. I won't say his name,
Speaker 2: but I will say his uh. I guess you know
Speaker 2: his his uh his Mark Twain if you will. His
Speaker 2: pen name was blog, you know, and all the boys
Speaker 2: loved blog. Blog had a blog, had a van and dude.
Speaker 2: So we used to have these wild Halloween parties, you know,
Speaker 2: and it was it was we used to go. They
Speaker 2: were nuts. I mean it was they were irresponsibly dangerous
Speaker 2: Halloween parties. Damn near Project ex style Halloween parties. I
Speaker 2: was like, I mean, did you grow up where there's
Speaker 2: a lot of drugs?
Speaker 1: No, like like I mean like pot and shit.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean like yeah, so I mean
Speaker 2: like I mean pot, I mean, you know, smoking weed.
Speaker 2: You know, that was that was normal. That was normal
Speaker 2: for like a twelve year old where I grew up
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, yeah, you want something, you want
Speaker 2: to buy something.
Speaker 1: But what but what was what was so crazy about
Speaker 1: these Halloween parties?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: The Halloween parties? All right? So dude, no, it was
Speaker 2: like so, I mean, I don't even care if this
Speaker 2: motherfucker finds out. I'll clap his ass if he shows up.
Speaker 2: But uh, Dean Sheen. There was one party. Dean Sheen,
Speaker 2: this guy, I don't even know what happened. He's like,
Speaker 2: he's like, uh, I think I think he just faded
Speaker 2: into Dustin Thanos snapped or some shit. But Dean Sheen, dude,
Speaker 2: so I was at when was this two thousand and
Speaker 2: fourteen Halloween twenty fourteen. I showed up dressed as a
Speaker 2: banana and at this party and his big field. If
Speaker 2: anyone grew up in New England, you know how basement
Speaker 2: parties work, in field party and woods parties, well this
Speaker 2: is like, you know, anyone who grew up in like
Speaker 2: those weird like drug infested rural towns understands, you know,
Speaker 2: basement parties and shit. So it was one of those
Speaker 2: weird like you know, everyone's gonna show up. We're gonna
Speaker 2: just drink crazy amounts of alcohol. We're gonna have an
Speaker 2: unreasonably large fire. A couch might go in it, who knows.
Speaker 2: But you just do a lot of drugs. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: just dude, like fuck.
Speaker 1: So it happened with Dean Sheen.
Speaker 2: So Dean Sheen showed up out of the woods one night,
Speaker 2: like out of the fucking woods. Dude rolls like, we're
Speaker 2: all sitting by this fire, and you know, we're pretty faded.
Speaker 2: It's like twelve thirty one o'clock in the one, yes,
Speaker 2: and we're all sitting by the fire. Dude, we're feeling
Speaker 2: pretty faded. Right. We hear this like cracks stumble shit
Speaker 2: in the woods and then everyone's like, oh shit, who's
Speaker 2: got a gun? It might I mean, I grew up
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. It might be a bear. It might
Speaker 2: be a moose. And it's Halloween, so it's the rut.
Speaker 2: So like a moose, it might kill a group of teenagers.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's he's swerved up on Josequerevon and Horny.
Speaker 2: He's ready to go. So Dean Sheen comes rolling out
Speaker 2: of the woods instead of you know, and he goes, yo,
Speaker 2: well suck and we go Dean, what the fuck are
Speaker 2: you doing here? And he goes, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: kind of just came here from Londonderry. And we said, Dean, U, yeah,
Speaker 2: Londonderry's the other way and he goes, oh fuck, Well, anyway,
Speaker 2: anyone want.
Speaker 4: To buy acid?
Speaker 2: And and like four dues just got up and started
Speaker 2: dropping tabs assid.
Speaker 4: With Dean Sheen in a tent.
Speaker 2: It's like, we're just wild shit would be happening at
Speaker 2: these parties, dude, And like you can't even like you
Speaker 2: can't even fathom it, dude first, like I did. So anyway,
Speaker 2: so b Log is at this party and he had
Speaker 2: this like old like Dodge van, the kind of like
Speaker 2: the French doors in the back and he had shag
Speaker 2: carpet on the inside with a futon and we called
Speaker 2: it the slam Van, and dude, the slam Van, dude,
Speaker 2: it was just a vibe. Dude. It had like we'd
Speaker 2: dam out like Aerosmith and led Zeppelin and ship dude
Speaker 2: and we'd just vibe and smoke and chill. And then uh,
Speaker 2: one Halloween, it was another Halloween party, my grandfather died actually,
Speaker 2: and I told my parents and I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to this party. My mom like
Speaker 2: looked at me, and my mom's cool. My mom, my
Speaker 2: mom gets it. And she was like, hey, dude, you
Speaker 2: need to do call me if you need to come home.
Speaker 1: And it's a good mom, all right, good mom.
Speaker 2: My mom's a fucking gangster. Dude, My mom's my mom's
Speaker 2: the ship. But anyway, so me and Blog, you know,
Speaker 2: we'd it was me, Blog, a few other dudes. There
Speaker 2: was probably seven of us and we'd chill. Dude, we'd smoke.
Speaker 2: But but you know, my grandfather died and he was
Speaker 2: like my hero. You know. He was in the Army
Speaker 2: during the fifties and he got out and he started
Speaker 2: his own construction company and and he lived a hard life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and and you know when when he died, you know,
Speaker 2: my friends were all there and well, I mean they
Speaker 2: weren't there when he died, but they were there for me.
Speaker 1: They were there for you. I feel like you have
Speaker 1: but you have a good cat. Like I'll say this Randy.
Speaker 1: You have a good cast like you b Log, Dean
Speaker 1: Sheen and Joey. Good guy. I would definitely hang out with.
Speaker 2: You guys and do people people? Do you want to
Speaker 2: know how crazy my life is?
Speaker 1: I have an idea of how crazy, yeah, people are.
Speaker 2: People are more apt to believe a lie about my
Speaker 2: life than the truth. But crazy crazy ship.
Speaker 1: Well so anyway, so so, so listen Randy before we go.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't need to soak up
Speaker 2: all that time. I mean, I oh no, it was no.
Speaker 1: I gladly, gladly uh been marinating in it all. It's
Speaker 1: been really fun talking to you for all this time. Man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing all this time.
Speaker 2: Dude. I'm so glad. I'm so glad you I finally
Speaker 2: got on the call. Dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like we we went all over the
Speaker 1: place with this. I feel like we know a lot
Speaker 1: about It's very funny you said that that people are
Speaker 1: more inclined to believe lies about your life than the truth.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've gotten a good perspective on you,
Speaker 1: and you know, look, I want to just before we go.
Speaker 2: Here, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, give me give.
Speaker 1: Me uh briefly like your hope for the future.
Speaker 2: My hopes for the future.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, I mean I hope I've become a teacher.
Speaker 2: I hope I don't get bored with being a teacher.
Speaker 2: I mean, when I was little, I wanted to be
Speaker 2: a farmer. So I hope I hope one day I
Speaker 2: can get old and be a farmer and just be
Speaker 2: left alone. Well, I hope everyone in the chat though,
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, listen, just because just because that line
Speaker 2: says it's dude, don't don't just say, hey, the one's busted.
Speaker 2: Wait your turn call again like everyone else has. Just relax.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, well, Randy, let me say this, whether or
Speaker 1: not you get bored of being a teacher, I very
Speaker 1: much doubt that your students will get bored of you.
Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate that, Gek.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 2: No, that's really it. I'm just hey, I'm just glad.
Speaker 2: I'm just glad I could talk to you. Dude. Hey,
Speaker 2: I hope everyone here has a great night. Dude. That's it.
Speaker 1: You take care, Randy, Thanks for calling, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too, Gek.
Speaker 1: That was that was That was a good h that
Speaker 1: was a good call. I feel like that was a
Speaker 1: good cast of characters. We got fucking Dean Sheen. You know,
Speaker 1: at first I was like, oh no, he docks Dean Sheen.
Speaker 1: But we're look, we're not going to find Dean Sheen.
Speaker 1: There's no way that's his real name. I don't he's
Speaker 1: not on Facebook. We're not finding Dean Sheen. And if
Speaker 1: you do find Dean she give him my number. I'd
Speaker 1: love to talk to him. Dean Sheen, Joey d Log.
Speaker 1: What an honor would be it? A hop on hop
Speaker 1: on world at war zombies with those guys and pretend
Speaker 1: like I'm in fifth grade again. Thanks for calling, Randy.
Speaker 4: Call from Jackson Dean, Hello, Hello, how are you.
Speaker 2: Doing good?
Speaker 1: How about you doing all right? What's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Just doing some reading, listening to the stream.
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you reading?
Speaker 4: It's a it's a paper about timber driven piles.
Speaker 1: Paper about timber driven piles, well.
Speaker 4: Driven timber piles. It's for a foundation support that I'm
Speaker 4: doing for a building.
Speaker 1: You sound like a You sound like an adult.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm an adult man, I'm only twenty four.
Speaker 1: You that you you the way, reading a paper about
Speaker 1: timber support for a building that you're working on is
Speaker 1: is the most adult thing I can think to do.
Speaker 4: Okay, So this kind of leads into what I'm calling
Speaker 4: it about because I'm in a situation where I have
Speaker 4: my dream job and I love what I do. I
Speaker 4: have fun every single day, except for it puts me
Speaker 4: in a bit of a moral dilemma because in my job,
Speaker 4: I kind of take part in destroying the environment. And
Speaker 4: I'm just like, not for that?
Speaker 1: Is it? Because you cut down trees to make buildings.
Speaker 4: Essentially, I mean not directly, but I'm involved with the
Speaker 4: planning of like subdivisions and.
Speaker 2: Buildings.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so you uh are you? You feel
Speaker 1: as though your job actively destroys the environments.
Speaker 4: Right, But I'm big on protecting the environment, and I
Speaker 4: feel like I try and do my part to offset
Speaker 4: the bad that I've done. But I'm like, when I
Speaker 4: work on projects, I just feel bad at the end
Speaker 4: of the day about what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So you have your dream job, but you feel bad
Speaker 1: about doing it?
Speaker 4: Well, Okay, So I went to school to study asphalt
Speaker 4: as like my first like that was that was like
Speaker 4: my passion in college and I got a job out
Speaker 4: of college designing roadways and other asphalt associated infrastructure. It
Speaker 4: soose like perfectly in line with what I wanted to do,
Speaker 4: except for as part of doing that, part of my
Speaker 4: job also is in the development business, I suppose.
Speaker 1: M hmm, what what do you develop?
Speaker 4: I so I'm a civil engineer, so basically just residential
Speaker 4: and commercial structures.
Speaker 1: Mm hm m m. All right, well you sound like
Speaker 1: an adults. You you you destroy the environment like an adults.
Speaker 1: Adults do that more than children do.
Speaker 4: True, true, the environment.
Speaker 1: What here's my thing that what is so great about
Speaker 1: the environments that we need to not destroy it.
Speaker 4: So pretty? That's the biggest thing. Is like when I
Speaker 4: go out to these sites and it's like five hundred
Speaker 4: acres of beautiful forests, and I know that it's just
Speaker 4: going to be turned into two thousand houses in the
Speaker 4: next five years, Like it just it doesn't feel.
Speaker 1: Good, all right, Well, I mean people got to live somewhere, right,
Speaker 1: or are are these like? Are are these like just
Speaker 1: like super nice like rich people's like second houses type vibes?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 4: Honestly, man, it's all just real estate investors who are
Speaker 4: building like town homes and so it's not even like
Speaker 4: like if it was like single family homes, like that'd
Speaker 4: be okay, But this is just like income generation for
Speaker 4: people who are already wealthy.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm only saying this because I'm an idiot gecko.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: It doesn't know anything about how the universe works. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to piss off gret Thunberg, but it seems
Speaker 1: as though it is humanity's destiny to destroy the environment
Speaker 1: and then get and then die and get fucked. You know,
Speaker 1: if that was God's plan, then so so beia. We
Speaker 1: destroy the trees and the air, and we kill ourselves
Speaker 1: and then some then some, you know, billions of years later,
Speaker 1: something else comes up. You know, there's those dogs will
Speaker 1: still be running around and squirrels and bacteria and ship. Well, well,
Speaker 1: the Earth will be fine without it, right because the Earth. Again,
Speaker 1: this is coming from a guy in a gecko costa,
Speaker 1: the Earth created humanity, and so it really the Earth
Speaker 1: fucked itself in a sense. I don't know how scientific any.
Speaker 4: Of that was, but no, I mean, like everything kind
Speaker 4: of destroys its surroundings in like one way or another.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, but that's the nihilist, that's the nihilistic approach.
Speaker 1: That's that's the easy way out, which I you know, prefer.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to save me, I mean,
Speaker 1: do you cow? What do you care?
Speaker 4: I feel like it's my obligation to care. But then again,
Speaker 4: like I also do care?
Speaker 1: All right, that's good. Well, I then I then I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, what else can you do?
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I don't really know if there's
Speaker 4: a solution here. I just felt like I had to
Speaker 4: tell somebody because I feel like if I tell other people,
Speaker 4: they just will accuse me of not or I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just felt like I had to tell somebody who
Speaker 4: wasn't involved directly in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh, you think they'll tell you that you're an asshole.
Speaker 4: I think they'll tell me I shouldn't have pursued the
Speaker 4: career that I did. If I'm going to feel like this.
Speaker 1: Well I that's, by the way, a legiti, that's a
Speaker 1: legitimate thing to tell you. I mean, if you feel
Speaker 1: horrible every day, I don't know if that's a great
Speaker 1: way to live.
Speaker 4: Well, but I have yeah, yeah, but I have fun
Speaker 4: every day? Is the problem?
Speaker 2: You have?
Speaker 1: You have fun?
Speaker 2: Feeling?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What's making you have so much fun.
Speaker 4: It's just like challenging work in a in a way
Speaker 4: like try Like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is a challenge. It is a challenge to cut
Speaker 1: down that many trees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. You got to be efficient cutting down trees,
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what what else are you going to do?
Speaker 1: What else do you? Is there any can you do
Speaker 1: anything else? What do you what are the what are
Speaker 1: the alternatives?
Speaker 4: Well, so, like, part of the reason I got into
Speaker 4: asphalt in the first place was because asphalt is the
Speaker 4: most recycled component in construction in the world. It's more
Speaker 4: asphalt is reused every year than is created, And so
Speaker 4: I got I got into it for the purpose of
Speaker 4: trying to preserve our footprint on humanity and trying not to,
Speaker 4: you know, worsen the effect that we've already done. But
Speaker 4: I've kind of sidestepped my way into this.
Speaker 1: Position, dude, because why do you just become an accountant
Speaker 1: or something? Why you seem distressed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can never become an accountant, though. I don't
Speaker 4: know how those people do it.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Probably they destroy the environment too. They use a lot
Speaker 1: of paper.
Speaker 4: I think most of the things are emails nowadays, Oh.
Speaker 1: I become Listen, clearly you have some sort of desire
Speaker 1: to fuck up trees and stuff, so you could become
Speaker 1: like a paper accountant.
Speaker 4: That could be your niche I did used to do
Speaker 4: lumber jack sports in college, and so I got a
Speaker 4: I got a knack for chopping down trees.
Speaker 1: Okay, was this helpful at all?
Speaker 4: I feel like it was good for me just to rant.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't really looking for a solution. I'm just looking
Speaker 4: to looking at a rant at somebody.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah it helps.
Speaker 1: Hey, look enjoy I mean, and go out into the
Speaker 1: forest and look at enjoy it while it lasts. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's that's the that's the maximum amount of time you
Speaker 1: could enjoy anything for. So I go out into the forest,
Speaker 1: look at the trees, and then when it comes time
Speaker 1: to destroy everything and die, then just in your heart,
Speaker 1: be like, all right, this was destiny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take take it, Take it in while it's still there,
Speaker 4: before it all gets turned into something visions.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we.
Speaker 4: Go, No, I appreciate the stream and keep doing what
Speaker 4: you're doing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate you man. Take care later. Ah, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the universe, but I'm trying.
Speaker 3: Never Beacon goes on the line, taking your phone calls
Speaker 3: every night.
Speaker 2: Never Beacon goes.
Speaker 4: Doing his eye.
Speaker 2: He's teaching you Cloud on your line. Monday's not friendly,
Speaker 2: an expert