Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: How's your week been, man? How's. How's. How's the. The next. Whatever week this is of you working? How you liking it? Still good? Everything's still floating?
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's good. I finally have the tools I need at work to kind of work on my own and not bother everyone all day.
And, yeah, I've just been enjoying.
[00:00:23] Speaker C: They.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: They put me in, like, a back office, so I'm, like, all alone back there.
I hardly see anyone all day.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: They're, like, not proud of you at all.
Is it connection, you think?
[00:00:40] Speaker B: I don't know, but I'm starting to take it personally.
[00:00:44] Speaker C: It would be hilarious if you were just hanging up on me every 30 seconds just to fuck with me.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: There's gonna be some dead time, so we have to, like, kind of do a, you know, 10 seconds later type thing. Dude, 10 seconds, like, did airtime on podcast is a long time, man.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: That's too much.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: I didn't realize it until we did the fuck kill Mary.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: Oh, buddy. And I edited the crap out of that.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: So long. And then there were times that, like, we didn't even read the word. We're just like, ooh, ooh, ooh. Like, as a listener, I'm like, the. What was that word? Like, say the word, bro.
Neither of us said the word. All right.
Sorry about that. All right. Anyhow, you guys missed him hanging up on me twice.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: The twist of a lifetime would be that I was the one hanging up every 10 seconds.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: That's gotta be it, because, honestly, I didn't hit. I. Like, you were like, oh, you hit off. I was like, no, I hit. So all those little.
[00:01:56] Speaker C: I just thought it was funny that I saw your hand reaching toward the camera when you hit record, and then you just.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: I don't even know which side it is because my. My connection seems fine tonight.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Mine does too. I thought the same thing. I thought maybe it was. It was you.
All right, all right, well, how's. How's the. Now that you got all the tools, you're in an office, they're not proud of you. They put you away back in the corner by yourself.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: I mean, it's pretty sweet. If I don't have a phone call and I've emptied the email inbox, I crack open a book, and I listen really hard for footsteps.
And because I'm so secluded back there, I can hear anyone coming if anyone's walking back toward the office. And I just. I keep the bookmark in it. So I just shut it real quick, slide it over, start Working on something else.
[00:02:55] Speaker C: Someone comes in, It's great.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Is there a lot of. Are there a lot of moments like that, like your day? Not really busy busy yet.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: On. On days that I work till 7, I probably after 4 o', clock, I'll probably take two phone calls and a handful of emails.
So it's pretty.
Yeah. And the. The other team members are more on the floor, so they get the walk ins.
I don't really even get that many walk ins. So yeah, it's getting pretty boring. But yeah, it's all right. It's a dirty job.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Someone's got to do it, you know, Gives you. It frees you up so that you can.
What kind of book you reading right now?
[00:03:51] Speaker B: I'm reading Tearing down the Orange Curtain, which is a history of Orange county punk rock.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Okay.
I don't know.
Good stuff. I'm better to hear that than like reading this sci. This. The sci fi book on.
I can't like. Sci Fi to me is just.
It's a hard read for me.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: You don't like Michael Crichton?
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Not that I don't like him, but it like. Sci Fi to me is like. Like any Star wars or space stuff. I'm lost.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not too into that. Although I have read some Star wars books.
They're.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: They're pretty good.
I figured you had.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Figured you had, you know.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: I don't know if you know, but.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: One of Michael Creighton's movies actually made.
[00:04:41] Speaker C: It into my top five.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: I know once I said sci Fi, I was like, ah, shit, I'm dealing with the sci Fi guy.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: That's right, dude. Just today my sister's boyfriend showed me a clip from the Simpsons where the principal had like lost his job and he was in the convenience store and he's like, it's okay that I lost my job because I'm gonna work on the novel I always wanted to work on. It's about.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: It's about cloning dinosaurs and opening up a theme park and all this stuff.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: And Abu just goes off on him.
[00:05:20] Speaker C: And it shows like a montage where it like cuts in. It like fades in and out of him, like just reaming him for like an hour.
And he goes like, it's one of the most popular movies of all time. And I was like, oh, don't tell Brooks that. Brooks would never believe it's one of the most popular movies of all time. He thinks it's hilarious that it's in my top five.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: It is.
It's way Hilarious.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: Not if you'd grown up, like, with it, like, I had.
You were. You were out of high school and had a mortgage by the time that movie came out.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: It was. It was.
It was the book I picked in seventh grade. It was the book I picked in seventh grade.
It came out seventh grade for me, bro.
[00:06:09] Speaker C: You keep your sprouting hands off my beautiful, you geriatric fuck.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: That's it. I'm getting my belt.
Yeah, no, I noticed. We quote my favorite movies more than we quote Jurassic Park. We just talk about Jurassic Park a lot more.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: Well, guess what I'm gonna do at every opportunity.
Hold on.
[00:06:43] Speaker A: Observation.
All right, man. So welcome to Pseudonyms. Tonight was.
Was where you wanted to talk about?
What are we currently struggling with the most right now?
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah, because last. Last week, we kind of went over that for me.
So I. I thought whatever was just on your mind right now, we could kind of.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: I thought it be like, both of us, where we're struggling the most.
When you're like, yeah, where you're struggling, I was like, oh, he's. Figuratively speaking, like, where we are struggling at. So we're going to take turns on that.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: No, not at all. Ah, I'm cool.
[00:07:30] Speaker C: No, we could do that.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: That's fine.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: To do. To quote Dr. Allen. Nah, I'm cool.
So I've been thinking about it, because I've had the time. Had the time to think about it, and then all of a sudden, a new one pops up today.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: All right. So at first.
At first, I think I'm struggling with.
Oh, now that I'm in a relationship, it feels like my prayer life, my reading life has kind of switched. Everything has.
And I kind of need to reel myself back in.
But then at the same time, you'll get to see if this is gonna last, because my kids are like, hey.
Okay. So figured number three would be understanding. But then it kind of was insinuated today that it's.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: I did not. I did not see that coming, though.
She seemed pretty. She seemed.
[00:08:50] Speaker C: And I don't.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: I know this is a hard word for women, but she seemed difficult about.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: About some. Some people that you've dated.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: And she seems to be taking a pretty hard stance on the whole divorce situation.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. But I thought she'd be like, okay, cool. Like, what the fuck? He's met someone.
He's kind of staying there a lot.
I get it. Cuz, you know, my guy's over pretty much all the time.
And so I figured from that stance, that stance alone, she would be on board.
You there?
[00:09:33] Speaker B: That one's on me.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: A pop up. I swear to God. I swear to God. A pop up came up at the top of the screen, and it said, this call is ending. Are you gonna stay or are you gonna leave this call? And I hit stay, and it hung up.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: All right, well, so I was like, how she'd get the.
The desire to, like, want to kick it with your individual, you know?
And then every day, number four, I pick her up from school, and I'm like, want to go home? And she's like, I want to go to Miami's. And I'm like, oh, I don't ask her if she wants to go to Miami's. I ask her if she wants to go home. And she's like, I want to go to Miami's. And then number three was sharing with me tonight that, like, well, you look miserable.
[00:10:29] Speaker C: I'm.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Nervous now.
Why I'm wasting your time.
My phone needs to be replaced.
My WI fi doesn't work. I have no Internet in my life.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: Just so you know, like, the WI fi, and my data doesn't work in this house.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: No, you're good, man. You're good.
All right. So where were we?
[00:10:56] Speaker B: So number three, it's being a real b hole about this whole situation.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: She's actually not.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: But number four wants to go to her house all the time.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: I don't know if. If. If number three is bothered by it. So because of a comment that big country called and talked about today, and that's where the new problem comes in.
So she calls, and she's like, hey, I want to talk to you about, like, I don't care if you got 20 girls in your life and you. You all of them.
But, like, when you take your daughter, right?
She's like, but when you start taking your daughter over there to spend the night, and she's listening to you guys have sex in the room. Room next door, and.
And she's not comfortable there. She's. It's confusing her. And I'm like, what the. Dude?
So I'm like, okay, so where are you getting this from? And she's like, already. Argument. And she's like, don't get defensive. I'm like, I'm. Dude. I'm like, I'm asking.
[00:12:02] Speaker C: That's such a hilarious thing to say.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Well, then, like, she wants to go.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Why did you. Why did you molest all those kids? Don't get defensive.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: Come on.
Someone or something and then call them defenses. Hilarious, dude.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: So. So she. She pro. She starts to proceed into another area now, like, and, you know, like, I know you won't receive anything, but, you know, this is not leading a godly. And I was like, whoa, can I first comp, like, comment on the first things? And she's like, let me finish. Let me finish. You know, and it's just. It's like, constant. So I'm like, dude, I just want to comment on the first one. Like, number four ask every day to go to her house.
I'm like, I say, hey, want to go home today? She's like, no, I want to go to Miami's.
So we go to Miami's.
I kick it with number four a lot at Miami's. Like, just me and her just kicking it solo with the dogs.
And then I was asking number three about it. Number three was like, well, I asked number four, like, where's her favorite place, like, so far, like, to be? And she said, Miami's. And I was like, no, no, I'm not talking about Miami's. I'm talking about, like, mom or dads. And she said, dad.
Now, with all that.
The info she drops on me, though, I'm like, what is number four doing? Like, does she have a. Does she have a. An angle? She's taken on this, you know? I mean, like, it's her idea to go there every day.
She wants to stay there every day. It's her favorite place to be, according to her. But then she goes home, and she's like, I'm confused. And, like, it's. It's so. It's like, what is that a real call? So this is, like, a real kind of fork in the road. I'm as. It a real call.
Is she like, hey, I am. But I do it because I think this is what dad wants. Or she like, hey, no, I really like being there, but I also am concerned for mom, so I have to make it seem like I don't to mom so mom doesn't get hurt or.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: It'S none of that.
And it was just, like, an offhanded comment about, like, hey, I heard zoo noises coming from the bedroom or whatever.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: And then big country added the rest about.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Like, it makes her uncomfortable.
[00:14:36] Speaker C: She doesn't know what's going on.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: Like, I could easily see kind of filling in all those gaps on her own.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: That's the thing. For the most part. Like, we don't do any of that while she's there.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: So it's like, for the most part, he's in a room on.
But she's in a room across the. Across the house.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: It's not next door. It's not, you know, it's across the house. So I don't know.
I'm not sure, man. But so that's kind of where that's at. And then it's just couple. And then big country just wanted to go into.
And you're not, you're not living biblical and you don't even follow him. And it was just like, oh. Then she brought the marriage. And I'm like, oh, can we just slow down?
We can call about the kids.
By all means. That's welcomed, it's received. I thank you for sharing with me and I will definitely address it. I said, but, you know, I'll address it organically and like, try and just see where she's at.
And she was like.
I was like, but we don't have a relationship. Oh, I know. We don't have a relationship. I know. And I was like, whoa, you didn't let me finish.
We don't have a relationship where you can come in and say what my life looks like biblically or not, that you don't know enough about it, you're not involved in enough. You can only get third party information or secondhand information.
You're. You're not getting it from actually being there.
Yeah. And I said, so I do think it's weird. And I told her, I said, I think it's weird cuz number four, ask every day to go over there.
Like she asked to go there. I don't. I try and see if she wants to just kick it with me and her. She asked to go over there. I was like, so that's that. I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah.
So yeah, I. But there's nothing I could do till Friday when I see her. I'm not gonna bring it up while she's over at big countries, you know?
Yeah.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Do you guys want to get married? You want to get married, right?
[00:16:53] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, we've. We've said we wanted to for sure.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: But how, how, how's the divorce proceeding?
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Smoothly, I guess.
It's pretty smooth. From what she shares.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: When you guys were talking about eloping before, I didn't know that she was still legally married.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't know. I. So she said she told me and she did.
But the wording in our. I think I was so like in awe at the first date that I didn't realize what she said because she said it the first day. But she said it like, oh, she was blowing you. Like, I have to sign the papers. I have to sign the papers for divorce.
[00:17:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Which is true.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: But I mean, like, the first step is drawing the papers.
So it was like.
But she told me they were.
She. Well, she told me they were legally separated since like last year. So. Yeah, I was like, it makes sense. That's a little different than my stitch.
So what, what about you, man?
[00:18:18] Speaker B: Well, hold on.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: I wanna.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: I wanna dig a little deep.
Not about that. Did it, did it bother you when. When big country said that stuff to you?
[00:18:33] Speaker A: The biblical.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, I get that it bothered you in some way, but, like, did it get to you?
[00:18:41] Speaker A: So it got to me in the sense that I was kind of already there in the sense of like, what I was kind of in.
I don't know if we discussed it during the mini hang ups or if it was briefly discussed here, but I do have a. I am aware, I should say that my relationship, pursuit, relationship with the Lord has drastically went from like, I'd say it was like a good 70, 80 to like a 10, 15.
And that started. That was already like in. That was my problem.
When you were like, hey, let's discuss what you're struggling with. That was the struggle. I was like, cool, I've been thinking about this. Like, let's talk about this. And then the phone call this morning was like, whoa.
So it's kind of adding to it. I don't know, man.
I never know what he's doing. I'm just, you know, am I doing it wrong? I don't know. I don't know, man.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, but it makes sense because, like, you just had. I mean, everything outside of work was Bible study, prayer, fast. I mean, like, you were going so hard that it was like, that's. It's kind of unsustainable once you're in a relationship with someone.
So, like, I mean, kind of. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but like, for the most part, like.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I didn't want. Exactly.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: What do you mean?
[00:20:18] Speaker A: I didn't want. I knew, like, I knew that going into the relationship that there is a.
And I don't want to say booby trap in a negative sense, but there's the automatic flip of, well, you're adding an element into your life.
Tangible, you're with.
You guys jive.
And.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: It'S.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Man, it's horrible to say. She replaces, but she ends up eating more of the time that you would normally Spend in, in those aspects of word and Bible study and so forth. So like, she replaces, you know, comes a replacement because of the time she requires. Or, you know, not even requires, but just having that relationship. I knew that going into it and then, and then to be there, you're like, fuck, man.
I was like trying to be cautious against this, but that's kind of what.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: I mean is like, for the most part it's not a sustainable amount of like, devotion, I guess probably for lack of a better term is that like you just. Every moment that wasn't spent on work or with your kids was like diving into the Bible and stuff. So like, if you add something else to your routine, it's obviously gonna, you know, the water's gonna have to level out at some point.
So like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say it's, it's abnormal or anything for some of that time to be decreased, but if you feel like it's down at 10%, then, you know, maybe we need to work on that.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: Well, well, here's the flip side of it.
The flip side is some. There, there was a, a third element or second element, whatever it is, an element that enters, that takes up more time.
You're around them more.
There's.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: It.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: How sustainable is that? You know what I mean? How sustainable is, is that just as you were saying, like, well, when you weren't at work, you're doing Bible studies and you're like, that's not sustainable. Okay, so, but what took place of that? Is that sustainable?
[00:22:41] Speaker B: That's a good question.
Like, can you, can you sustain not spending all your time on this.
Can you sustain devoting time?
[00:22:53] Speaker A: I look at almost like the speed.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Right?
[00:22:58] Speaker A: I'm almost looking at as like the speed of what's in there.
To be like, yeah, we're eloping.
Let's say that did happen. You've now entered a relationship at a certain speed.
You know what I mean? Like, you came in hard, you guys are doing great. You're at a certain speed at the moment. You're like, hey, let's do this.
So any change after that, whether slower, faster, whatever, any change is almost confrontational. Like, hey, like.
Because even right now, like, I'm cool with going into the room at 8:30 and going to sleep, like, I'm ready to go out.
She wants to go in the room and maybe put on a show, eat some food, kick back, and I get it.
But at the same time, I'm like, fucking suffering, right?
Wake up at 3:30, I'm like, this is horrible. Yeah. So 8:30 is like a good time for me to get to sleep, but I adapt.
But then there are days where I pay for it.
And so it's like, let's say we would have entered a relationship at that rate where I can go off of the excitement of a new relationship to get me through my day, you know, and I'm moving and I'm at a fast pace. And then you get married, and then like, all of a sudden it slows down where you're like, hey, look, I need at least six hours of sleep four nights out of the week. You know what I mean? I give you one. Give you one. Stay up late night. The rest of it, though, you got work with me. You know what I mean?
[00:24:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Well, then. Then you get the. You're not the man I married, you know?
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
Now I get that, too. And even, like, if you wanted to take more time out, like, let's say you got married and so you guys were living together full time, not every other week, you know, now you want to take an extra hour a day to be in your Bible. And maybe you're already doing that. I'm not. I'm not trying to know that the, you know, times or quantity or whatever.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: But hasn't been a lot at all, buddy.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: Okay, sure.
I guess that based on what you said, myself as well, that's probably going to be the one that I choose to talk about tonight as well. But I, you know, if you wanted to start doing that, well, now you're taking away from an hour of time you would have had with her.
So, like, yeah, that's. That's a tough one.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: And here's the thing. There's totally that time, you know, I mean, because there's. There's times where we're just kicking in the room and yeah, there's some show on and she might be on her phone, and I'm just kind of like, laying there watching a show.
There's definitely that moment where I can be like, well, cool. You're. You're comfortable being on your phone next to me and just looking at, like, you know, Facebook postings.
I can definitely pull out my book and start reading. You know, like, I could take out the Bible or the Bible app and start reading some verses and stuff, you know?
[00:26:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: So, yeah, I don't know, man.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Not in my experience.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: That's how we started.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Different than a phone, me and her.
[00:26:22] Speaker C: What?
[00:26:24] Speaker A: That's how. That's how we started out. Me and her was before, like, it was. I had like, my tablet there where I can pull out my. My. My Bible and I would read it. And then now it's kind of like.
I don't know.
But it's got to change.
I can't keep going on like that.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: What about a lunch break?
[00:26:49] Speaker A: I don't really take lunch breaks.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: I know.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: What if you did? I got a. I got a crazy idea. I got an idea so crazy it might work.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: So lunch breaks are difficult just because the three. Well, there's three, four projects going on, so not everybody takes lunch at the same time.
So it kind of frees you up from one for a moment to go to another one.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: And do anything you got to do there. However, not against the lunch break.
Yeah, I could probably take a lunch break. And honestly, I listen to a lot of sermons during the day.
[00:27:36] Speaker C: Good.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: And I feel like that's like my shot of protein, you know, I'm saying, like. Yeah, it's a supplement. It's not necessarily a meal.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah. That's almost exactly my feeling.
I.
Yeah. Like starvation.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah. But I feel it, like, internally. I feel like it's like, oh, like I'm guiding myself right now, you know?
[00:28:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:09] Speaker A: It's a bad place to be.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. But it. It gets so normal after long enough that you become numb to it.
But, you know, I don't know, it just gets less noticeable after a while.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure. For sure.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:37] Speaker A: What's your day look like with. With reading, your reading routine? I'm asking hours and minutes. I don't care. You can respect that line. I am not.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: I mean, I.
Yeah, I'm reading books, but not.
I haven't really been reading my Bible at all.
I think I. I think I hit it on the 1st of November and was like, yep, here we go. November is the month.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: I take it back.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: And then I just haven't for the rest of the month, so. Yeah, but that's. That's been something that I've noticed pretty specifically is.
Yeah. I don't know. I guess, like, a starvation would be the best word I could use to describe it.
It's. It's definitely.
[00:29:28] Speaker A: It's almost like an inner peace starvation. Like your inner peace. It's not necessarily your world around you, but, like, internally, I feel just thirsty.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah. Like, I've.
I've been listening when I listen to podcasts at work, I've been listening to a lot of interviews with Nick Cave, the musician, and he'll just, like, talk about the Bible and, like, all of his lyrics are kind of like Biblical illusions and stuff. And I'll just think, like, God, if he can do it, Like.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: Like, I just.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: I miss that. I just miss, like, having that on your mind, you know? Like. Like, the. The longer you go without reading, the. The more you even forget certain things are in there for sure. And then you hear them in a song and you're like, oh, yeah, that's a great chapter.
[00:30:27] Speaker C: I need. I need to read that. Like.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: Like, that's why we have to read it. Like, that's why. Because we forget it immediately if we're not reading it.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: For sure.
Yeah. So what's your reading look like daily?
[00:30:41] Speaker B: I mean, that's it. Just. I read books at work on my break.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: I'm gonna ask you another question. What books have you read lately that you're like, that's a damn good one.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: Well, I had a long spell of not reading.
I got into the habit of not reading when we started moving.
And then I just never got back into it. So I've only read. I got three books for my birthday, and those are the three that I've read.
I read Banana Brain by C.S. fritz.
That was a really good horror novel about an evil monkey who is brought to a zoo. And he, like, steals someone's phone and he starts, like, texting on the phone, and he, like, knows up things inside your head that no one else knows, and he starts, like, texting them to people and stuff.
That was really good. That was by a Christian. So, like, that was. That was another one that was like, there's biblical illusions all throughout it and, like, things quoted from the Bible is like a simile or whatever.
[00:32:02] Speaker C: And.
[00:32:02] Speaker B: And then I read Goth a history.
It was by the drummer of the Cure, and he wrote kind of a semi autobiographical history of, like, the. Of goth music.
It was mostly about his time in the Cure, but he got into some other stuff.
And then after that, I went straight into tearing down the orange curtain, and I'm almost done.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: All right, let me.
Let me ask you this.
I feel like you're a movie buff. I feel like you're a book buff.
I want to ask you. I want to ask you some movies that were also books or came from books and see if you've read the books.
[00:32:47] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: What's that? What's that?
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Jurassic Parker games?
[00:32:56] Speaker A: No, I've seen her.
Did you read the book?
[00:32:59] Speaker B: I think I've seen two of them and I've never read them.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Okay.
Okay. Have you read all the Jurassic park books?
[00:33:10] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: All right, what's better, the books or the movie?
[00:33:16] Speaker B: The first movie I like better than the book.
I think the second book is better than the second movie.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Let me ask you, is that because the first movie gave you what dinosaurs looked like?
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Could be.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: And therefore you understood the book better in part two because you now had something to pull from?
[00:33:41] Speaker B: I.
I think, yeah. I think the fact that I saw the movie so young and loved the movie so much probably colored, like, whether I liked the book better.
But the moo. The second movie is like.
It's like if they took a brief description of what the second book was about, and then they were like, all right, let's with that. And then they just sort of like, like everything's a little bit different. Like, Julianne Moore's character goes to rescue Jeff Goldblum's character, not the other way around. And, like, you know, he gets injured and he's, like, half conscious the whole book, but he's like the main star of the movie. You know, it's things like that, like, huge plot points are completely different, and I think it makes more sense in the book then. And, and the whole San Diego.
The T. Rex loose in downtown San Diego. That whole thing's not in the book. That was a Spielberg invention, and I think. I think it's better for that.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. So that. That led me on to another book movie that I kind of feel is. Is in the same category almost as what you just explained.
The Godfather.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: Seen the movie, Never read the book.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
So I'm not gonna lie. I have the book.
[00:35:07] Speaker C: You moan, oh, it's such a good book.
[00:35:11] Speaker A: No, I was hoping you had read it.
No, but I have not read the book. I own the book. I have not read it. But I've read the first chapter.
The first chapter alone is different.
It's a whole backdrop of, like, the dude who played Frank Sinatra in the movie.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: The guy who wakes up with that horse head.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: The, the, the. The. The singer dude that, like, comes in, like, you know, I, I. No, I think the horse head was, Was it him?
[00:35:51] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. That was like his agent or something, right?
[00:35:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the dude who plays basically Frank Sinatra in the movie, it's like a whole backdrop on him and what's taking place inside of a hotel with, like, some female and, like, why he ends up going to the Godfather's, like, events was based on what happened in this hotel.
And that just kind of threw me off because that never made the movie. No, but it's like the opening chapter of the book.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: I wonder if he's that prominent in the rest of the book or if that's just a really weird way to start a book.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: I think it was showing the power of having someone like that come to you. Yeah, but at the same time, I know that real Frank Sinatra wasn't happy with this guy being in the movie.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: I don't even think I realized that it was that obviously based on him.
[00:36:58] Speaker A: Okay, so you don't. In the movie, you're like, okay, like, that's a Frank Sinatra, like, character. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
[00:37:05] Speaker B: Dean Martin, any of those guys.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: But then you read the book, and you hear the rumors about, like, how, like, Frank Sinatra would go, dude, have you seen that movie? That show? It's about the making of the Godfather. No, dude, you got to watch it.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: I've heard it's great.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: It is. And so apparently, Frank Sinatra would go to the author and the author and director of the Godfather and, like, mistreat them and was pissed off, apparently.
So I think that's a. That's cool that they took it out of the movie, because it's kind of like an Easter egg.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yeah.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: I've heard.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: I've heard some stories about him. He seemed, like kind of a dick.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Who's that?
[00:38:00] Speaker B: Frank Sinatra?
[00:38:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Total big dick, dude.
[00:38:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: And also, like, somewhere between, like, 12 and 20 rumored kids, like, people who claim to be his kids.
[00:38:17] Speaker A: Dude. I'm not gonna lie. My second cousin is Frank Sinatra iii.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: No.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Okay. So that's what we.
That's what we grow up hearing, right?
Whatever. I don't know.
I believe it.
I'm walking through Toys R Us with number number one, and I come across a Frank Sinatra, like, Ken doll.
But it's him when he's, like, young. It's young Frank. It's the one that's got the. The mug shot Frank.
And I stop, and I'm like, holy crap, that's my cousin.
Like, in my mind, I'm like, that's my cousin. Like, that's him verbatim.
And so, like, I pull it off, and I'm like, ah. You know, then I realized. I'm like, oh, it makes sense. You know, he's. He's the third, but we have footage of him when he was younger, like, like, giving notes to Frank Sinatra's the first and him being rejected by him. But, yeah, it's crazy, man. Looks just like him. I didn't think he was. I thought it was like, okay. Like, so and so. Slept with Francis Sinatra. The. You Know the, the son, Frank Sinatra Jr. Mm. The.
It's hard, man. It's hard to live in the shadow of, of a goat like that. Yeah. Like Michael Jordan's sons became nothing but Scottie Pippen's next spot. Scotty Pippen's ex wife's next husband. You know what I'm saying?
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's, it, it also can't be easy when like your kid goes on to be like way better than you in a field.
There's.
I can't remember his name, but you.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Kind of want that.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Sure. But it's. I think it's easier than the other way around.
[00:40:17] Speaker C: But like it also kind of sucks.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: Too because like I can't remember his name, but he's a stand up comedian and his son, but he's like, also he like, he really wanted to be like a musician and he like plays guitar in his stand up act and stuff. But his son is the guitarist in Avenge Sevenfold Sinister Gates and, and like.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: He talks about his son on stage and like how proud he is of him. But I always thought, man, like that's gotta suck that like your dream was to be a rock star. Your fucking son ends up rock star.
Like, I don't know, dude.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: See, I would be, I would be honored by that. Like your kids are supposed to go on and be better than you.
[00:41:01] Speaker C: Sure, I get that in theory.
But like in the quiet moments when you're alone and, and not as successful, you know, when you're struggling to pay rent.
You know what I mean?
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Yeah, but like when you're Michael Jordan, I would want my boys to go out and be like, at least as good.
Sure, at least as good.
[00:41:27] Speaker B: Even if you're Michael Jordan, your kids can be better than you and you're still Michael Jordan.
[00:41:34] Speaker C: You know what I mean? Like, yes.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: People are going to break your record saying, yeah, but like not being anything.
[00:41:42] Speaker C: And then your kid ending up being your dream, that's.
[00:41:45] Speaker B: That's rough. My daughter is showing immense musical talent for her age.
She, she's already singing Baby Shark.
Like I can make out the words. She's not even two.
She's definitely singing it and she can clap on tempo, so if I'm clapping, she can clap along with me without up the tempo at all. Which is crazy for a six year old to be able to do without training.
[00:42:17] Speaker A: So let me ask you this.
Did you get her to clap on point by one of your, your sessions? Like one of your. Were you like fucking keep it in line, you know? Like.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: No, no, no, she she loves. She's always loved clapping. So she'll, like, clap, and she wants you to clap along, and in the last couple months, when I. When I clap along with her and. Or she'll be, like, singing something kind of indiscernible, but, like, I'll start clapping along, and then, like, she'll start clapping and just on her own entirely, she started clapping in perfect tempo with me.
[00:42:58] Speaker A: All right, so let me ask you this. Your first kid, correct?
[00:43:01] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: That we know of.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: First. Yeah.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: How.
What do you. What do you. What do you experience in. Internally when you watch your.
[00:43:14] Speaker C: Your.
[00:43:14] Speaker A: Your child hit these different milestones for the first time?
[00:43:17] Speaker B: So that's what I'm saying.
She's coming for me, and I don't like it.
[00:43:23] Speaker C: She's.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: She's going to have significant musical talent. I'm calling it right now.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: So you're not, like, a proud pop.
[00:43:30] Speaker B: I'm not saying all of my kids are gonna have it, but this one's gonna have it.
And if I don't get my shit.
[00:43:36] Speaker C: Together now, she's gonna be winning Grammys, and I'm gonna be like, her sad opening act.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: That's awesome, man.
It makes you happy, though, huh? Like, you get this different kind of joy.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It's just been the last couple days that I've heard her singing Baby Shark, and I can make out the words and the melody that she's singing.
[00:44:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. I love when they. They click on a song, especially when it's one of your songs, you know? I mean, whatever kind of favorite song you might have right now or whatever.
And she, like, it's a trip because I'll put on different worship songs not knowing that the number four knows them by heart. And she'll start singing along, but, like, while she's doing her nails or playing with her toys or whatever, like, number four will just start singing along, and it. She'll just. But it's, like, under her, and it's like, that is so cool, dude. Like, get it. She's 10. But, like, it's even better when they're, like, under two and they're just in the backseat and they know this song by, like, heart. You know what I mean?
[00:44:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
I've been. I've been trying since she was in the womb. I've been trying to get her to like some of my music, and she's really not going for it. I was trying today.
[00:45:09] Speaker A: What is some of your music?
[00:45:11] Speaker B: I mean, everything.
Like, all sorts of stuff. But I. I got her to dance to say anything today, but she only does it for a little while. She'll dance for a minute, and then she kind of loses interest. And I'll. I'll keep turning on different songs that I think she'll like, like aquabats. Like, that's very similar to, like, kids music. So I thought, like, oh, she might like this. And it's like, she really makes me work for it, man.
[00:45:36] Speaker C: Like, I'm really trying to find something that she likes.
[00:45:39] Speaker B: But I'll. I'll sing her song. Right now. Our bedtime's like, song is Wicked Game by Chris Isaac.
[00:45:50] Speaker A: What? What is it?
[00:45:51] Speaker B: Wicked Game by Chris Isaac.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: I thought, I love that song, dude.
Look it up by Johnny Swim.
[00:46:00] Speaker B: I've never heard that. I've heard the hymn cover, the hymn cover, dude.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: Look it up by Johnny Swim. It's a married couple.
I love all their. I love almost all their albums, dude. Okay. They do it. And it's now the only version I listen to of Wicked Games.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: All right, that's.
That's a tall.
A tall order. I know that's not the right analogy, but is I. Before I ever heard the Chris Isaac version, I heard the him version.
And for a long time I thought, oh, I think I like the him version better because it's like a metal song.
And then, like, I was listening to that in the car and I. I turned on the Chris Isaac song and I was like, nap. Chris Isaac is way better than, like, there's no topping Chris Isaac.
[00:46:52] Speaker A: You got to listen to the Johnny Swim one. That's my favorite one. Because it's. It's like it's him and her talking together almost. I don't know, man. It's just. I love Johnny Swim. So I get.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: I'm going to pull it up on YouTube and listen to it as soon as we're done.
Yeah.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. I think you should. That's a good. Good call.
Okay. Okay.
There's a space movie, and I'm not talking Star wars or Star Trek where, like, a little kid was chosen to lead this, like, community of.
Maybe it was Earth, even against, like, some battle with outer space people.
And it was a book, and it became a movie. And Harrison Ford's in it. Like, he chooses this kid and he has to go through, like, this training program with Blade Runner teammates.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: It's not Blade Runner.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: Was Blade Runner a book? No, it wasn't Blade Runner, man. Some.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: Blade Runner is basically, like, a Part two.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So did you read those?
No.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Although I've always wanted to because they were Easter eggs on Lost.
Like, all. It's Philip K. Dick, and all of his books pop up, like, in the background of Lost and stuff. So, like, I've always wanted to since I was a kid, but I've just never had the attention span to check them out.
[00:48:23] Speaker A: All right, let me ask you. Damn. I had. I had a movie, too.
What's that? The Lord of the Flies.
Does that sound familiar?
[00:48:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
Had the book.
[00:48:37] Speaker A: They made a movie off of a book. Did you read the book?
[00:48:40] Speaker B: I had the book.
My. I was at a beach house with my family. My cousin borrowed that book, somehow lost it. I don't know how she did it.
She. Somehow, between the sand and the beach, that book disappeared. And I never bought it again, but I never read it.
[00:48:59] Speaker A: Oh, that's. That's cool. You had family?
[00:49:05] Speaker C: Well, she's. She's dead now, but she. She was my cousin.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: Ouch.
Yeah. So I'm at work, and this kid comes up, and he says, well, he was one of the kids we work with, Little black kid. And he's like, what. What we got to do for to trade for Jamar Chase?
Like, what's your mom up to? And he was like. I was like. I said, what's your mom look like?
He was like, she all right. She ain't really nothing special. So what's your daddy look like?
And I was like, I'm kidding. Like, I'm just kidding. Like, I know you ain't got a daddy in the household. And he goes, yeah. But his response shut me down, dude. He's like, yeah, he's dead.
[00:50:05] Speaker C: Have you heard. Have you heard that Bert Kreischer bit about when he goes into Starbucks and orders the black coffee every day?
[00:50:14] Speaker A: No.
[00:50:15] Speaker C: Oh, God, you'll love it.
[00:50:16] Speaker B: I'll try not to ruin it. But he. There's this black kid who works at the Starbucks that he goes to every morning, and he goes in one morning.
[00:50:26] Speaker C: And he orders a black coffee, or.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: He just orders a coffee. And the black kid's like, how do you want it? And Bert Kreischer goes, I want it thugged out black.
[00:50:38] Speaker C: So this kid loves the joke.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: And so every morning, he expects a different joke now.
[00:50:46] Speaker C: And the people, like, behind him in line and the other staff members, like, they don't get it. But he and this kid have this, like, rapport over these jokes. So he's like, every morning he goes. And he's like, I don't want it.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: To know it's dad Day.
[00:51:01] Speaker C: And the kids just, like, cracking up.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: I. I forget, like, how that ends.
[00:51:09] Speaker C: Or, like, what the conflict is.
[00:51:11] Speaker B: But it was a funny bit.
I had a weird thing with some co workers.
Yeah, you ready?
[00:51:25] Speaker A: I'm talking, like, orgy kind of weird thing. Are we talking, like, that would have.
[00:51:29] Speaker B: Been significantly, significantly less awkward than what happened.
[00:51:35] Speaker A: I really. All right, give it to me, Walker.
[00:51:37] Speaker B: I think I maintained pretty well in the awkward situation, but I.
If there would have been a suicide button on my desk that I could.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: Have pressed just to get out of the situation, I probably would have pressed it.
[00:51:55] Speaker B: This one of the two. So I work in a tutoring center. I'm tech support, but I'm in a tutoring center. So there's students in and out all day. There's tutors, teachers, all this. All these people.
[00:52:08] Speaker A: They trust you around students for now.
[00:52:14] Speaker B: Till they find out.
[00:52:18] Speaker C: Until they. Till they find out why they call me Uncle Nasty.
[00:52:27] Speaker A: That's not even funny, bro. It's not even funny that you're laughing.
[00:52:31] Speaker C: Are you sure?
[00:52:35] Speaker A: All right, so. So where you at? Where you at?
[00:52:37] Speaker B: So it's like.
I don't know, it's like five. It's like 5:30.
And it's been pretty. It's been pretty empty, pretty slow. One of the tutors comes back to my office, and she looks in and she's like, oh, you know, I was just seeing who was back here because, like, all, you know, everyone else near me leaves at, like, 4.
So she was like, I was just seeing who was back here. And she looks at my office, and she goes. Because I just moved into the office.
And she's like, oh, it's so barren here. Like, you need. You need pictures and stuff on the wall. Like, you don't even have a plant.
Like, nothing.
And I was like, yeah, you know, all my art is in storage.
I just haven't had a chance to get over there. But I wanted to get, like, some of my nice, you know, framed posters and stuff and bring them in.
And she's like, we should all, like, each draw, like, a little something for your wall, and you could put it all up on the wall. And I. I literally thought she was joking.
And my response was like, yeah, that'd be hilarious.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: You know, like, sure, that'd be funny.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: And I guess she took it very seriously. So she left.
And five minutes later, this tiny Asian man comes into my office, and he's like, hey, you know.
You know, I'm so and so, you know, we kind of introduce each other.
He's like, got suspenders on and, like, a crazy hat, you know, like, he looks like a fucking 80s sitcom character.
And he's so awkward. Like, he can look at me for a second and then he kind of has to like, look around and he's looking all over the room and. And then he kind of looks back at me for a second and he's like, he's very friendly, he's very nice, but like, weird as all hell.
And he goes like, hey, you know, so and so was saying that you might like us all to draw some pictures for you.
[00:54:43] Speaker C: And I was like, I was like.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Yeah, that was kind of a funny idea.
[00:54:48] Speaker C: Like, I, yeah, she mentioned that, you know, and.
[00:54:54] Speaker B: And he goes, well, I, I could draw some pair. Like, I, I'm a good artist. I could draw some stuff for you.
And I was like, I. Right, maybe. Maybe he is.
[00:55:04] Speaker C: All right, maybe he is. Let's.
[00:55:05] Speaker B: Let's go with this.
I should actually.
I'm gonna have it ready to send.
[00:55:11] Speaker C: To you so that you have a visual.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: And he goes, well, what kind of, what kind of stuff do you like?
And I was just like, I don't know what the hell to say to this guy. Like, I like sharks.
I like sharks. That's a well known fact about me.
And, oh, I glossed over the fact that he, like, asked me about my tattoos and like, what kind of tattoos I had. So I started just like pointing at tattoos. I was like, I got a goat, I got a headstone, you know, Like, I don't know what to say to you.
So here we go.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: He.
[00:55:53] Speaker B: He's like, well, what kind of shark?
And I was like, dude, a hammerhead.
[00:56:00] Speaker C: A hammerhead's pretty hard to beat, in my opinion.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: You know, you're all, well, let me ask you this.
What do sharks and humans have in common?
All the great ones are white.
I like the great white shark.
[00:56:19] Speaker C: The best curveball to just throw this guy, he's trying to be a nice guy, and then I just get racist.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: So he's like, okay, all right, cool. And he. And he leaves.
[00:56:35] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: Then this old, this old Middle Eastern couple comes in.
They're taking a computer class and they like had a question before they went to their class. So I'm helping them and this guy comes back like five minutes later, and I'm like, oh my.
[00:56:53] Speaker A: Did you send me this stick?
[00:56:55] Speaker C: I want.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: I'm gonna send it to you in a second. Once, Once it's time.
And he comes in with a piece of notebook paper, like a three hole punch lined notebook paper.
[00:57:13] Speaker A: This jack off. Right?
[00:57:14] Speaker C: Okay. You're the first one I've told This story to who gets what I'm saying about the lined three hole punch paper.
Okay, dude, you know what I mean?
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Like, I don't mind. Like, I'm already taking a step out by letting you put something on my wall that you gotta draw. At least put it on like some.
[00:57:32] Speaker B: Nice cube, open the printer up, take a blank piece of paper out.
[00:57:37] Speaker C: There we go. Okay.
So.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: Yeah, and honestly, I'm thinking even maybe some.
What's that, what's that, that thicker paper, resume paper or little cards, card stock or what's the other one that you buy? Like a construction paper something.
Give me something.
You just pulled this out of a. Hey, was it the spiral bound? So you had all the little fringies on the left side?
[00:58:03] Speaker B: It was. And I think that he successfully ripped that off.
But it looks like it.
[00:58:11] Speaker A: It looks like it was nice of him, but still. Shitty move.
[00:58:14] Speaker B: Okay, thank you.
[00:58:14] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: So he hands this to me and it's not bad. I'm gonna send it to you now. Don't get up. You'll see it when you see it.
[00:58:25] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna try and describe this the best I can.
[00:58:31] Speaker B: You see it, man?
[00:58:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Hold on. To protect this guy. I'm gonna read it.
So the left side of the paper has hold up.
[00:58:43] Speaker B: So. Okay, so let me. Let me explain. So it's actually not.
[00:58:47] Speaker A: Okay, so he. No, no, I know it's a shark mouth, but outside the margin that was on the paper already, all those triangles or did he draw those?
[00:58:56] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: That's pretty.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: I don't think he did that.
[00:59:00] Speaker A: All right, so it's a shark mouth.
It's a shark. It's a shark mouth. Like on Jaws. Like when they fucking take.
[00:59:07] Speaker B: It's not badly drawn.
[00:59:08] Speaker A: They catch him and it's open. It's just. It says for Walker, it's.
[00:59:12] Speaker B: It's not badly drawn. It's pretty good.
But it's not.
[00:59:21] Speaker A: But then.
Yes, that. And then he. He enters in with a foreign script of. Of cursive.
And he's like, yeah, for Walker from lj.
And then he's got like some. Some happy face underneath it. So there's the left side.
The other side. Dude, actually this.
This would have been better had this would might have been. You know.
[00:59:53] Speaker C: What the am I gonna. When he comes in with a sawed off shotgun.
What the am I gonna do? I'm gonna be the one who threw his art away. Are you kidding me?
[01:00:06] Speaker B: No, dude.
[01:00:07] Speaker A: It's not badly drawn though, bro.
[01:00:09] Speaker B: He should apply himself this the Two.
[01:00:11] Speaker A: Thirds on the right are.
Are a top view and a shark.
And then he's.
Yeah, and then he's got like the head outline of it with how it uses its. Its friggin sano whatever radar and how it detects fish. And then again in cursive.
Oh, is that like the scientific name of hammerhead shark? Probably.
Oh, and then he's got a front view of it coming towards you.
Dude, this didn't work in.
But he fucking handed it to you on a.
[01:00:50] Speaker C: It took him five or ten minutes.
[01:00:52] Speaker B: Not bad.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: No, but what's everybody else saying? What's everybody else giving you?
[01:00:59] Speaker B: Okay, so I've got this other co worker who's a little sardonic, he's a little cynical.
So I thought he would find this funny. That's all I was trying to do, just tell him a funny story. So I tell him this whole thing and he takes it like I'm offended or like concerned or something.
And he like earnestly tells me, like, I think that's just their way of welcoming you.
[01:01:25] Speaker C: And I was like, yeah, bro, of course. Like, I didn't think they were trying to get me to join a cult or something. Like, I just thought it was a funny story.
[01:01:39] Speaker B: But yeah, I.
Oh, generally that's pretty good though, bro. Ungrateful.
I'm getting, you know, I mean.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: I.
[01:01:52] Speaker B: Just think it's funny.
[01:01:57] Speaker A: I think it's hilarious because it sounds like you are the new, ah, what's his name? Dude, I. It's Danny McBride in.
Oh, Kenny Powers. You're Kenny Powers, bro.
Dude, this dude would leave town with you tomorrow.
[01:02:23] Speaker C: I hope we get in a car.
[01:02:25] Speaker A: Like, hey, dude, I'm taking this.
[01:02:26] Speaker C: I hope we get.
[01:02:27] Speaker A: Taking this show on the road.
[01:02:28] Speaker B: I do.
[01:02:33] Speaker C: Just remember, Stevie, you were driving.
I was. I was driving.
[01:02:38] Speaker B: You were driving.
[01:02:48] Speaker A: You're my assistant, so take care of this. Yep.
Oh, I love Kenny Powers, dude.
Rachel.
Rachel, dude, I love how he turns his back to her and calls her name like that.
[01:03:09] Speaker B: You do have me thinking here, maybe this guy could be some kind of a minion or disciple of mine.
Maybe I could turn him into something great.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, something great. But also like, yeah, you're Mole, first of all. You know what I'm saying? You're just like, hey, dude, first of.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: All, we're getting a haircut.
You're getting a high fade, and no more silly hats, no more suspenders, and your pants better not be checkered.
[01:03:52] Speaker C: Okay?
[01:03:54] Speaker A: I say you leave him as he is.
He'll want to change, he'll want to Be.
He'll want to come in and be like, yeah. He'll be like, dude, I'm serious. He'd be like, I'm Walker, Texas Ranger.
Yeah.
Telling you, man. He'll want to be. He'll want to be just like you. And.
And all you do is you just.
You.
[01:04:17] Speaker C: You.
[01:04:17] Speaker A: You make him.
You make him like your best friend, dude. He'll. He'll. He'll go to battle for you, bro. You just treat him like a human. Love on him a little bit. He'll be like, anybody talk about you? He'll be like, nah, nah, nah.
[01:04:33] Speaker B: You make a good point. And when he inevitably shoots up the school.
He won't kill me.
[01:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, you're that dude. He walks in, you're in the wrong office.
And he walks in, he's like, get the.
[01:04:48] Speaker C: Hey.
[01:04:48] Speaker A: Oh, hey, Walker.
[01:04:51] Speaker C: I guess. I guess you probably have some questions.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: Hey, just get under the desk.
[01:04:59] Speaker C: Yeah, buddy.
[01:05:00] Speaker B: What's going on?
[01:05:03] Speaker C: Put that silly thing down.
Let's talk about this.
[01:05:09] Speaker B: And then I'm on the news because I saved this guy because I shot.
[01:05:11] Speaker C: Him in the back of the head when he had his back turned.
[01:05:16] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[01:05:18] Speaker C: I talked him out of killing everyone, and then I killed him.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: I didn't see that coming. But that was. That was a good turn. That was a good turn.
Although you're taking the high road. You're like, fucking key to the city.
[01:05:34] Speaker C: It was crazy.
[01:05:42] Speaker B: We've gotten derailed by kind of a lot.
[01:05:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Where were we? Where were we?
[01:05:50] Speaker B: We both need to.
[01:05:51] Speaker A: Yeah. The struggles. But felt like we dealt with our struggles.
[01:05:55] Speaker B: No, we. We identified them. That's a huge step.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: That was Walker.
[01:06:01] Speaker C: Maybe next week we'll get into. Actually.
[01:06:07] Speaker A: No, but what do you got? What are the kind of solutions you got.
[01:06:14] Speaker B: Doing it, man? Just reading.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: That's a pretty basic one, but it's, like, working out, dude. I haven't even gone to the gym since, like, I don't know, a couple months in of me and her dating. I just.
[01:06:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:27] Speaker A: You know, and then I. Every night I take off the shirt and I'm like, really, dude?
And then she comes walking in with Cinnabuns, and I'm like, I can't let you eat alone.
[01:06:37] Speaker B: You know why she's doing that?
[01:06:39] Speaker A: I knew it. And I asked her, I said, are you trying to get me fat so no one else is attracted to me. She's like, yeah, no, babe.
[01:06:48] Speaker B: Nope. I would never. Why would I do that? Why would I and every other woman alive do that?
[01:06:56] Speaker A: I need to start. I Need to start getting back in that gym.
[01:07:00] Speaker B: So I've been. I've been working out for about a month, and that's another thing, dude. It's like, just one more thing taking up my time.
But I'm, like, stoked on it. I'm stoked to be doing it, but it's just another, like, diversion of passion another way.
[01:07:16] Speaker A: No, but here's the thing, dude. I. I heard this, and it makes total sense to me.
[01:07:21] Speaker B: Me.
[01:07:23] Speaker A: It says, Christians should be.
Christians should be in shape.
[01:07:31] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:07:32] Speaker A: I'm not. Not saying, like.
But the discipline aspect, and that's what they were basing on. The discipline aspect of going to the gym.
The discipline aspect of, like, keeping your body and rocky. To say this a lot, he would say he believes that the body and illness is also a tool of the enemy to try and derail someone, whether it's they got to miss an event, they miss teaching, or whatever it is. But, you know, he. You know, being in shape was, like, to him, part of being. Being a Christian, which made sense to me.
[01:08:15] Speaker B: Who said that?
[01:08:17] Speaker A: Rock?
He's passed on. He's dead. But, yeah.
[01:08:24] Speaker B: Do I know him?
[01:08:27] Speaker A: Dude, he was. He was the guy I always hung out with at the church we met at.
Older guy.
He was, like, missing a index finger, always wore suits.
He was, like, the dude that wrote the letter that, like, when we left the church, like, I was getting calls from pastors left and right, asking me to, like, address the letter and, you know, tell people that it was, like, a mistake.
I was like, nah, I'm good.
[01:09:02] Speaker B: You know, who died?
Do you remember Jeff from Master's Plan?
[01:09:11] Speaker A: I think you told me this, and I keep getting it mixed up with the other Jeff.
[01:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he was the guy who roasted the pig on the retreat.
[01:09:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:09:22] Speaker B: It was his. His wife. You remember, they got married after service one night.
[01:09:27] Speaker A: Yep, yep, yep. Now I do.
[01:09:29] Speaker B: His wife. His wife passed away.
[01:09:34] Speaker A: Oh, I thought you were gonna say he passed away. I don't. I don't think I remember his wife. That was.
[01:09:38] Speaker B: Everyone thought it would be him.
What, did he have a quadruple bypass or something?
Nope.
He needs to survive another couple years to argue with me on Facebook about Calvinism.
[01:09:55] Speaker C: His wife, on the other hand, was ready to go.
[01:09:59] Speaker A: Dude, I met this one dude.
He left for a job. Him and his wife worked at the surf park.
He left for out of the country to get where he went. I want to say he went for, like, cancer treatment, right? So he went for his cancer. He went to, like, Jamaica or Something and get some. Some surgery done that was cheaper. There comes back, his wife's dead. She OD'd.
Oh, she told me about, like, yeah, or she's OD'. Ed, or she didn't take her pills at some certain point or whatever, and she needed them. Anyhow, she dies while he's gone, and then, like, he ends up, I want to say, like, almost dying.
I think he found, like, some. Because he was going to, like, different countries, try and figure out a solution.
I think he was healed, but last I heard he was healed, but, like, not doing well.
Crazy story, dude. Like, they were both about to die.
Betty's regretting the fact that he got that surgery.
[01:11:11] Speaker B: Jeez.
And didn't he hate you for some reason? Oh, hit on his wife one time.
[01:11:20] Speaker A: They hit on her. It was a joke because I'm young and she was old.
[01:11:23] Speaker C: Sure, yeah.
[01:11:25] Speaker A: Never been on one of these. And I was like, yeah, I bet you say that to all the men.
[01:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I heard. I heard that. The shame she felt is actually why she OD'd.
[01:11:38] Speaker C: Someone told me that. And I said, that's up. You shouldn't say that.
[01:11:43] Speaker A: Someone told me that.
[01:11:47] Speaker C: Someone put that in an email and sent it to me, and I thought that was fucked up.
[01:11:54] Speaker A: It is. It is it? Well, I'm in agreement, but it is. It is messed up. But, yes, I can see. I can see that happening. It's a common. Common thing in my.
My life.
So. Dude, I don't know, man.
Just gonna start reading, I guess.
Where'd you.
This guy? In and out. Snip, snap. Snip, snap.
[01:12:24] Speaker B: I know, I know. Well, we're almost at an hour and a half, if you want to call it, but I think we should.
[01:12:33] Speaker A: Well, no, I want to know what.
I'm good with the challenge. Let's talk about the challenge. But I also want to know, what books have you read that you saw the movie and you were like, movies better than the book. Movies better than the book. We already got Jurassic park out there. What else?
[01:12:53] Speaker B: Movies better than the book.
[01:12:57] Speaker A: I'm always curious about that, man. Like, what. What about. I'm sure you've read Four Women or Four Little Women or some, right? You've read that?
[01:13:07] Speaker B: No, I'm not a very well read.
[01:13:09] Speaker A: Wanted to read that.
Damn.
[01:13:13] Speaker B: I'm trying to think.
I can't even think of any books I've read that were movies.
[01:13:26] Speaker A: All right, well, there's that. What's your challenge?
[01:13:33] Speaker B: You know, my. My reading challenge this year is fucked.
I've read 13 books.
I need to read 49.
I'll never make it now.
[01:13:47] Speaker A: What. Where. Where do you get that number from? Dude, that's. That's one week.
[01:13:51] Speaker B: I.
I just add one a year.
I started at, like, 36 because that's three a month, and then I bumped it up to, like 40 the next year, and then, like, I think at some point I bumped it up to, like 45, and then just have gone 46, 47, 48, and now 49. And I've only read 13 books.
[01:14:19] Speaker A: So let me ask you this.
Based on your track record, every time you add one, have you ever met. Met the quota?
[01:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, this will only be my second year not meeting it. I've been. I've been doing a challenge since 2016.
[01:14:37] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I thought this was, like, you weren't meeting it and you just kept bumping it up. I was until you start bumping it down, but.
Okay. Well, good luck with that, man. You got a lot of reading do. I don't know what you're wasting time on a podcast for.
[01:14:51] Speaker C: I'm.
[01:14:51] Speaker B: I'm looking through and I'm not seeing any, man. It's weird. I don't read a lot of fiction. That's a problem.
[01:15:04] Speaker A: Serious.
Yeah.
You just read them a book about a monkey.
[01:15:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but the other two were nonfiction.
[01:15:17] Speaker A: So a third of your reading.
[01:15:19] Speaker B: Fair to say, probably less than that.
[01:15:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:15:24] Speaker B: Probably a tenth.
[01:15:25] Speaker A: See, I'm not big on the fiction aspect of things. I feel like I'm wasting time.
[01:15:30] Speaker B: I don't. I feel like.
I feel like it's great for your brain, actually proven it's. It's good for your brain to be, like, imaginary things.
Whatever, dude.
[01:15:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Come out with some. I think it's. I think, in fact, they proved it, that it was.
[01:15:50] Speaker C: In fact, they.
[01:15:50] Speaker A: Makes you way smarter.
[01:15:52] Speaker B: Like, hold on, hold on.
[01:15:53] Speaker C: We're going to chat gbt. We're gonna see better dreams.
[01:15:58] Speaker A: You have a more peaceful sleep.
[01:16:01] Speaker C: I bet you're right. I bet you're right.
[01:16:05] Speaker A: Yeah, because I'm just pulling shit out of my ass.
I'm usually right when I pull shit out of my ass.
[01:16:12] Speaker B: Yes, Reading fiction is very good for your brain, and it benefits you in ways that go beyond general literacy.
It strengthens your empathy and theory of mind.
It improves focus and deep attention, enhances creativity and imagination, builds cognitive flexibility, reduces stress and improves mood, expands language and emotional vocabulary.
So suck on that.
[01:16:42] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:16:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:16:45] Speaker A: Wow. That was pretty. That was pretty good, actually. It made me. As you were going through it, I was like, dude, I should pick up some fiction, erotic fiction, as long as it's good.
[01:16:54] Speaker B: As long as it's well written.
[01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:16:59] Speaker B: I will say there. There is a book I read that is being turned into a movie. It's not out yet, but it's called A Fig for all the Devils, and it's probably the best book I've ever read.
[01:17:13] Speaker A: Really?
[01:17:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So every thousand years, the grim reaper has to get someone to replace him for a thousand years.
And so it's this grim reaper's time to find his replacement, and he chooses this kid.
And then, like, the whole book is, like, him trying to convince the kid to, like, take over for him as the grim reaper.
And it's excellent.
[01:17:44] Speaker A: Okay, you want to know what movie I started to watch?
[01:17:48] Speaker B: You know? I do.
[01:17:51] Speaker A: Jojo Rabbit.
[01:17:52] Speaker B: Oh, yes.
[01:17:53] Speaker C: And you loved it. You loved it.
[01:17:56] Speaker A: I. Dude. So hold on. I was tired, I fell asleep. And I'm about to watch the rest of it after this.
Okay, but he's already found the Jewish girl.
[01:18:08] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:18:08] Speaker A: And they've been talking, hello, little Jew.
[01:18:11] Speaker C: Girl at the wall.
[01:18:18] Speaker A: So I kind of know the direction.
[01:18:23] Speaker C: What? Who's.
[01:18:24] Speaker B: Who's Hitler?
[01:18:27] Speaker A: Just let it go.
[01:18:29] Speaker C: Just don't even think about it. Just throw it away. Just Hitler.
I'm so glad you're watching that.
[01:18:43] Speaker A: But, dude, it took a turn after that, bro.
Dude, he blows off his leg. Almost like, what the.
Dude.
[01:18:54] Speaker B: So I will say, here's food.
Sorry, go ahead.
[01:18:58] Speaker A: Little what? No, go for it.
[01:19:01] Speaker B: Here's a little food for thought.
So. So there's. There's a little detail in the movie. You know how Hitler is always offering him a cigarette?
[01:19:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:19:13] Speaker B: Okay.
Hitler, like all Nazis, hated cigarettes. He hated smoking, and smoking was outlawed in Nazi Germany.
So is this an oversight by the writers, or is this an indication that the Hitler in his brain is not quite the Hitler of reality?
[01:19:41] Speaker A: I think it's the latter, for sure.
[01:19:43] Speaker B: I think so.
Which culminates beautifully.
[01:19:51] Speaker C: I'll just say.
[01:19:52] Speaker A: Well, it's just. It's even in the conversation they have.
[01:19:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:19:56] Speaker A: He is so loose. He's so loose with. It is like. You know what I mean?
And the way Hitler's talking back to him, that's all created and generated by him.
[01:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:20:08] Speaker B: That's such a good fucking movie. I gotta watch it again. It's my wife and I's favorite movie.
[01:20:13] Speaker A: Really?
[01:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yeah, we've probably seen it eight or nine times.
[01:20:21] Speaker A: Have you seen Anonymous yet? Tell me you've seen it.
[01:20:26] Speaker B: No.
[01:20:27] Speaker A: Okay, look, I just listened to a podcast where the guy said, I have a dvr I have a. A jailbroken fire stick. I have, you know, like, movies and cable.
I can.
I have access to. To. That's kind of what I heard.
Dude, you gotta watch Anonymous, bro.
[01:20:56] Speaker B: Okay, I don't remember anything about this movie.
[01:21:00] Speaker A: It has.
Yeah, well, now you're gonna have to watch it with an open mind.
You're gonna be like, what is this? Is this sci fi? I know Brooks is in a sci fi. There you are.
[01:21:12] Speaker B: You know that scene in Forrest Gump when he's giving his speech and the army guy just, like, rips all the cords out of the amplifier so he's not transmitting over the microphone? And then, like, all the people are, like, frantically trying to put all the cords back.
[01:21:28] Speaker C: That's the. That's me. Every time I lose my connection.
[01:21:37] Speaker A: I don't know what we were talking about, but. Oh, yeah, nope, forgot. I just know I said my name and I was.
Had to go back over it.
[01:21:47] Speaker B: Anonymous. We were talking about Anonymous.
[01:21:50] Speaker A: Oh, you got to watch it. All right. You got to watch it, dude.
Yeah.
[01:21:56] Speaker B: Homework.
[01:21:57] Speaker A: That's okay.
Want to end with the challenge While.
[01:22:01] Speaker B: We'Re trying to read our bibles this week?
You want me to watch a movie?
[01:22:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:22:09] Speaker C: Friends like these.
[01:22:10] Speaker A: It's the. Dude, you got all day tomorrow.
You got all day tomorrow, bro. Yeah. Start off with church, ended with Anonymous.
[01:22:19] Speaker B: Wish I was going to church.
[01:22:23] Speaker A: Dude, go to go watch Anonymous tonight. You still have time.
[01:22:26] Speaker B: Yeah, it's getting late.
Later for you, though.
[01:22:30] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. You're such a.
[01:22:32] Speaker C: Such a.
[01:22:35] Speaker A: Saturday night man. Right?
[01:22:37] Speaker B: All right.
[01:22:40] Speaker A: This is when you get to stay up till 2.
You gotta. You got a village. Raising your kids so you don't have to worry about tomorrow.
[01:22:52] Speaker B: You're kind of right.
Kind of right.
[01:22:55] Speaker A: You can sleep in a little longer. I'll.
[01:22:58] Speaker B: I'll start it. I can't promise that I'll finish it.
[01:23:03] Speaker A: Yeah, just start it. Just start it so that you can get drawn in. You're not going to be able to finish that.
[01:23:10] Speaker B: That is actually a better way to frame the challenge because I can definitely start it.
[01:23:17] Speaker A: Yeah, start it. But there's so much in it that you're, like.
You're working, thinking, trying to put the puzzle together. Dude, have you seen the Prestige?
[01:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:23:27] Speaker A: Have we talked about that?
Okay. Damn, I love that one.
[01:23:32] Speaker C: I told you that story, right? About the standup comedian who just spoiled it for, like, a whole college.
He's like, they're twins.
[01:23:40] Speaker B: You.
[01:23:41] Speaker A: That's right.
Now, mind you, watching it for the first time was a mind blower. The Second time. You're. You're kind of like, okay, I. I can see how it is.
[01:23:51] Speaker B: I believe I watched it with you for the first time.
[01:23:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm a lot of. A lot of people's first.
You were gentle.
[01:24:10] Speaker B: All right, well, I think really buttered my popcorn.
[01:24:15] Speaker C: Were you just searching for a movie pun that you could do?
[01:24:20] Speaker A: No.
[01:24:22] Speaker C: At least you didn't.
[01:24:23] Speaker A: Yeah. At least you cut a hole in the bucket.
I did. You just don't eat a lot of popcorn.
[01:24:32] Speaker C: Maybe it wasn't popcorn.
[01:24:38] Speaker B: I think. I think we should try to read our Bibles ten minutes a day.
[01:24:45] Speaker A: All right, challenge accepted.
Challenge accepted minutes.
What are we talking about next week?
[01:24:58] Speaker B: You wanted to do that one on Israel, right?
[01:25:02] Speaker A: I say we do it. We freaking.
[01:25:05] Speaker B: I love it.
[01:25:06] Speaker A: Get banned from the Internet.
You think you don't. You think you have Internet problems now?
Just wait till you talk about Israel.
[01:25:13] Speaker B: Wait until you're on the list.
I'm down with that.
I have some opinions.
[01:25:22] Speaker A: I'm a doubt.
I have some. Some opinions as well. Man, these people got their hands in everything.
What if they've been? I mean, like, honestly.
Ah, we're going to have to get into that. We're going to have to get into that.
[01:25:36] Speaker C: I can tell yours is going to skew more racist than me, but still.
[01:25:41] Speaker B: Probably.
[01:25:42] Speaker C: Probably.
[01:25:46] Speaker A: It's not. It's. It's in a sense of like.
I just have questions on your thoughts. Like the blessing of Israel. Has that been removed?
[01:25:56] Speaker B: Oh, we're going to have a good.
[01:25:58] Speaker A: The house now.
Is the house now with Israel or the Christian church?
Christ followers, you know, you know the.
[01:26:08] Speaker B: Answer to these things.
[01:26:09] Speaker A: The synagogue, the Synag.
Yeah, I know. We got to talk about it.
[01:26:14] Speaker B: That'll be a good one.
[01:26:17] Speaker A: All right, man. I love you. This has been pseudonyms, guys, with Walker and Brooks.
[01:26:23] Speaker C: Love you.
[01:26:23] Speaker B: Love you, man.
[01:26:24] Speaker C: Have a good week.
[01:26:26] Speaker A: Love you, too, man. You too. I'll see you Wednesday.
[01:26:29] Speaker B: Bye.
[01:26:29] Speaker A: Bye.
