Missile Strikes, Roller Coasters, and Fireworks | The MJ38 Show #86

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Welcome in, ladies and gentlemen. MJ 38 show episode 86 Matthew and Justin here for you all day a day. Like, comment and subscribe. Please, please change your approach. Okay? It help us out, you know. Really appreciate. It. Would you be down to do me a favor? Yes. Subscribe please. Yeah. Just hit that button. You ain't even got to hit the bell. You can hit the bell if you want to. Let people ask you to hit the bell. I ain't going to be up in your DMs like that. Or be up on your phone home screen like that. That's intrusive. It's intrusive. It's intrusive. Unless you want to be intruded on, then I'm down for that. Click the bell, please. But never touched the bell like the Marines ring the bell. Don't ring the bell. Ring my bell, ring my bell. So we're in. Welcome in y'all. Hopefully that's going well. We're here for it off. We were just talking about one thing that I wanted to mention on the podcast. At some point today for sure, but we kind of already at least briefly mentioned it. Just foreign policy shit. And some breaking news happened a couple days ago. I've got. More breaking. News, more breaking news, more news. Broke. I was just cut from work. Hey, that feels so good. That is one of the best feelings in the world. I'll tell. You what. That is a nice a nice amenity that we have in the industry. People, people don't be getting cut off from other jobs from their 9 to 5. Yeah. Most people, they just getting cut that day is like. No, I said we slow. We're not going to need you if you're on a call center or if you're doing fucking retail. They're like, no, it's going to be dead time. We're not going to need you even back of House Atmos to you. I think so I think people want to save on labor. Yeah. If you're you know, you don't need ten cooks back there. If you only have ten people coming in or 20 people coming in one. Hundred percent. Right? Yeah, but other industries aren't like that. I don't mean to cut you off. No, no pun intended. Let's go. It just feels so good. I didn't want to talk about it later. I want to talk about who is fresh in my spirit. So, yes, cracking that, the feeling. You crack a beer. It's like getting cut from work. Is that same feeling like. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Instant relief. Yes. They're just chilling socially. You don't need to go. You don't want to go. You know, getting cut. Oh getting cut if you need to. Make the money. Yeah. No I'm not getting cut. Anything for that. I'm coming in anyway. I think you can decline it. Cut legally. Really? Yeah, that's what I heard. I don't know if it's true or not, but when. I heard that amongst the watering hole talk amongst servers or. When I was a manager, another manager told me that a long time manager told her that. Oh, okay. Interesting. Is that. So? You can you're technically allowed to decline a cut because if you're scheduled, it's like you're scheduled. Okay. It's fucked up to, like, as if you're a manager. You're kind of hoping that the person, if you say like, hey, you're cut today. Like that's kind of a decline of options. Like hopefully they just accept that. But if they say like, no, I need to work, I need the money. I was scheduled, like, I'm going to come into work. You can't be like, no, you're not coming in. You'll be bored. You could tell them that, I guess. Yeah. That's true. So yeah, you can come in if you would like. But you're going to be standing there for hours. Yeah, yeah, that's what I would do if I were the manager. Like, sure thing, dude, come on in. I mean. Yeah, it hurts a little bit more though. There like a cook. Cook, you know, getting paid more. Oh. Hourly costs a new per hour. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Labor and shit like that. Yeah. But anyways, much more important things going on in the world. That's our breaking news. Yeah we're super excited about that. Woo. Other other news had broken in this world over over the course of the weekend. I saw it on TV or on just one of the news stations, something I have no idea. So we're talking about our asses here. Y'all this but talk. Oh. Side, but talk. Like my eight month old daughter would say. Yes, yes. Fluent. So I've no idea what's going on other than headlines that I have stumbled across. Those being mentioning Trump, something about Iran, something about Israel, something about a, missile strike. And that's all I really know. I don't even know if it's like a missile strike. Is it even worth taking them? I think, you know. Okay. Go to your other podcast for that. But, yeah, I think I random struck a U.S base located Israel. I don't know. No, I'm pretty sure it was three different, like remote strikes that were conducted by us on Iranian ground somewhere in Iran, three different places in Iran, and in those three different places they were conducting and researching, developing nuclear weapons, nuclear, something or other, I think. Why would we bomb a nuke place? I mean, we didn't, but that's just seems. I think some places because. Yeah, right. It seems dangerous. Yeah. I don't know exactly. See. These are the details are missing, but just in theory we attacked and destroy these places where they were developing stuff that could be used against us in the future. You did do that. Wow. So what's what's the chat? Chat for saying. Okay, U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear facilities on June 22nd, 2025, the US launch operation Midnight Hammer. Midnight Hammer dropped the Midnight Hammer. It's kind of a badass day. That's pretty hard. Who comes up with the name, I guess, who votes. On the names? There's like, Operation Hawk Wing, like. No, sir. That's that's kind of gets kind of gay. The created the. Part. The creative departments like, excuse me, done. 4 or 5 bird operation names in the last six, like six months. Like, come on, we gotta switch up the animal. Please delegate to the marketing department. I don't understand why the administrators think. No. Badass name. Midnight hammer was targeting three Iranian nuclear sites with bunker buster bombs claiming severe damage. I ran with buster bombs, pitched bunker. Buster hit you up? Sorry, sorry. I ran retaliated on June 23rd. The next day, with missile strikes on, I added air base and Qatar six missiles, no casualties. The strikes triggered region wide airspace closures and heightened alertness. So we hit them. And then I ran hit Dubai and was I said. Yeah, is that a guitar? Sorry, star. Sorry guitar. Well, I think guitars in Dubai I think. All right. Interesting. Interesting retaliation. Move. But I'm pretty positive it was directed at a US base. I mean, this is not you, says added, but I think the whole thing was, is that they went after a US base somewhere. So then I was like, fuck, do we need to do something about that? Yeah. Yeah. How how is this going to escalate? What about further? So that was the 23rd source sorcerer. Today's the 24. That was yesterday. They retaliated. Yeah. It's crazy. I saw something in regards to some sort of ceasefire was announced in between Israel and Iran, I think, like yesterday. So that maybe they were like, fuck we, we ain't going to hit Israel. Are we going to hit Dubai? Adding. I don't know. There's a lot of nobody wants to fucking talk. Yeah. Nobody wants to go to war except for the military industrial complex and they want to go to a Cold war. They don't really want to go to a full blown nuclear war. I mean, that's like devastating. Devastating on both sides. Everybody loses. Nobody gets to continue on. Yeah. Who wants to be at war? You know. The military industrial complex. But they're the only ones. People and what does that mean exactly? Like these people that manufacture missiles. It's like they want people to be, like, buying more missiles and countries, and then they want those missiles shot, I think. So that way they have to buy more. And it's like. Yeah, because if you stockpiles a whole bunch of missiles. They're like, you need anymore more. Yeah. Oh, you got a thousand. Yeah. She doesn't anymore. Yeah. They're expensive as fuck. Better missiles. Yeah. Totally totally get their. Only revenue stream is selling missiles. Probably. Fuckers. I feel like I think Boeing makes weapons are like jets and stealth bomber and shit like that, but then they also make, like, airplanes. Yeah. So I guess there's companies that does a particularly or like solely profit off of like bullets and materials that are sold during war times totally times. Yeah. Maybe those companies, who knows. It's like Smith, Smith and Wesson or whoever, it's like makes a bullets and shit now. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. They they need the war to a degree to to literally stay alive as a business. Totally. I think, they also get the cheapest shit they can possibly get. That's like what the military is known for. So but there is companies fighting to make the cheapest shit so that when they go to war, they can make $1 billion on all the bullets shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bullets for training, all the equipment, all the fucking helmets. Grenades, all the shit for the airplanes and the Stryker jets and shit. I'm asking judge to define the military industrial complex. But. Yeah, so that happen. I guess there's a couple of different reactions I've seen and heard people have to this. What are we gonna say, though? This judge defines that the military industrial complex as a powerful network of relationships between a country's military defense contractors and government leaders who influence and benefit from military spending at war. President Dwight Eisenhower is the person that coined that term. And that kind of like famous address where he says we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influenced by the military industrial complex, which was like him saying that people were like getting together to have cold wars and countries that were saying that the war in Ukraine was kind of like, designed to have a war so that there could be spending because they got it every now and then spend. And I actually heard this crazy thing on Joe Rogan like 3 or 4 months ago, where this guy was talking about how there was a CIA plan and like the 70, 6070s, that kind of got like brought back to life by somebody in the 80s. And that plan was to have like proxy wars in these 5 or 6 countries. And he basically said, right then it was, the guy who was talking about it was the boxer who's like a political, speaker now boxer, UFC fighter. Tim Kennedy. Okay. Tim Kennedy was talking about and you could go back and find the Tim Kennedy episode from 2 or 3 months ago. And you can hear this. He's talking about like, this plan had an idea to have a wars proxy wars at like four countries. It was six and total. And then Ukraine was number five. And he's like, I ran was number six on the list. And it's like now Iran's involved in this global conflict. And I was just like sitting there like, yo. That's fucking. Crazy. No. Are you remembered that he had mentioned that months ago that Iran would be number six? Yeah. And now this happened. Yeah. And I was just like, what the fuck is that? You know. But what was he saying that the the goal of these wars was to produce or what was the benefit or the outcome desired? God. That's that's the that's the right question. Let's see if you can pull a Joe Rogan transcript. I don't know if I can. I'm sure I could look it. Up, but it was I know for sure it was like the CIA had designed this plan to have these proxy wars in these countries. And, the exact purpose. I'm just gonna misspeak on it. There's something going on, though. There's the fact that there's. How did he. That's crazy. That he's right, that this Tim Tim Kennedy. Right. It was a former fighter, former boxer, UFC person. Yeah. He he's a he was a UFC fighter that became a political commentary person. Okay. And then he had seen an interview or a podcast where this gentleman who was speaking about old CIA stuff was talking about how there was a plan that got like, tabled. And then 20 years later, they kind of like revisited that plan and then maybe put it back into place. But then there was like a lot of chitchat about, that's bullshit. That's just this is just natural evolution of conflict between NATO and Ukraine and Russia. And then but he's like, but I'm telling you, this is this is like one, two, three, 4 or 5. The next one will be Iran. And I was like, dude, I think he was like, on the money. It was predicated on, CIA plan. Do you know what I'm talking about? Come on. Chat fired. What do you think, Doug? One 2025 chat for there's no excuse. Find it. Nah. He's like, yeah, but he's getting real iffy now. It's like, hey, man, chill out. I don't know if you want to know the answers to these questions you're asking, friend. There's some implications here. Regardless, though, there might be something organized going on. So would we if that is the case. Was our action in collusion with that or just so happen to be. I don't know, the the conspiracy theory is that it pulls back to the military industrial complex trying to a have these. Okay. So yeah it was a I remember now I'm remembering one of them was Afghanistan. And I think it was like an oil base thing. Okay. And it was having to do with like trade routes and oil and military industrial complex and trying to like take put people in these places where we could influence global trade. Another thing that I had heard about was when we were in Afghanistan, Afghanistan was the number one poppy seed grower in the world. And then we were like in those poppy fields and then like we were fighting terrorism. But it seemed like we were influencing the poppy trade, which is kind of bananas, because I was also like around the time the opioid epidemic got out of hand. So yeah, I'm this is out the ask podcast. Sorry, but talk. Yeah, I'm all over the place with this. But talk. It's okay, it's okay. That's what we're here for, baby. Yeah. If it is warm water. Some shit happened. We're talking about it. Yeah. So overall, I'm trying to say that it feels like we want to really want war, but we manufacture war for ulterior motives, and then we blame it on, you know, they hate us or they hate us or some shit. Yeah. Yeah. And misunderstandings or they're bad people. We need to go do this for the safety and for the future benefit of the children. Okay? If you don't know, with us bombing these fuckers, you're against children. How's that feel? You like that? That's what's going. On. I don't want to be against children. No you don't, friend. I've got children. Yeah. This is your fault. Way to go. Way to be that that shit like numb. Crazy shit. So, yeah, I know there's a wide range of responses to President Trump's order or I guess President Trump. Plus our military's execution of this strike. I guess I think, my wife was looking into it a little bit, but they were saying that I don't think there's any casualties, at least from what was initially reported, at least maybe we didn't see that, I don't know. Oh, I didn't see anything. They weren't ever mentioned it. And judging by our research right now, I didn't see any casualties. Right. No, I said zero casualties on one specific. The response. Strike two. Our triple strike from. Iran to Dubai. Yeah. Because this is claiming severe damage. It doesn't say casualties. Yeah that meant I hammer. So that's true. If we were able to like neutralize a threat, that's pretty kind of cool without having to like kill people for it. We definitely don't back down. I mean, Trump's whole thing is like, we will bomb you. Yeah. Did you? Yeah. Afterwards. He's like, that was nothing. If you don't if you still a ceasefire. If you don't agree I turn to JFK. All of a sudden. We will we will burn you to the ground. Really? It's what he said more. He didn't say burning to the ground. But yeah, implication of there will be more strikes coming of a more catastrophic nature. Yes. There was no casualties from our strikes either. Yeah. See, that's kind of. That's it's kind. Of cool. It's kind of cute. I know there's definitely a wide range of responses from his our military's choice to do this thing. As far as people being afraid, maybe that, you know, the retaliations, I guess, and there was a retaliation strike was zero casualties. But I guess also the further relationship that we have, let's make people be getting scared, you know? So people being scared. Are you scared? No, I mean, either I fear God. I fear God. Hold me. I saw that the other day. Yeah, I God, oh yes. Oh, you said like six times that. Yeah. That's like a legendary moment from the hub DeAndre Hopkins. And it was it just Hall or something like that. They all German that's all there. He's a Titans. They're all Devin McCourty okay I think it's it was. Some Washington. Corner. Oh yeah it was Washington. Yeah. Right I don't know who. Was guarding this. He got lost in the sense of time after that because he just gets cooked on like the next play. And it's like the fight's over. Everybody storms the field. It's crazy. Yeah. So that's that's that's my ultimate answer as far as being afraid of worldly earthly things. But a lot of people are kind of I don't know might be a little little shook it up by this. I saw. Well yeah, I mean people love to be afraid and their subconscious want to have something to have anxiety, but you have anxiety. You want to give a face to it. That's that's the thing I think more that's more and more accurate. Yeah. Right. I think people was want to be able to the natural. There's a natural unease that we all carry all the time, always because we're fucking going to die. And we know that we have to prevent that. At the same time, talk to him. So there's a a. Natural unease that comes with that, that we're all carrying here. And then we like to put that on to things to help us maybe feel better about it or understand it a little deeper, or to maybe not internalize and hold on to it so heavily. It's like, oh, I could put this like my fear of life and death coming to an end. I put that on like apocalyptic, apocalyptic talk or end of the world type of talk. We people have been Y2K 2012. People have been fearing the end of the end of times for a long time. Yeah. And people hate like Donald Trump. World War three. Here we go. Yeah, that's some real shit though, because World wars, world wars happened. Oh yeah. That's that is true. That is true. And war would suck. Like I saw this video that what would happen if New York got Newt. Sherman. Displaying the fallout like, yeah. Man, yo. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like that would suck. It would suck. There's a lot of things that would suck if we want to do, like a fallout scenario or it's like the end of the week, we lost law and order. That would suck. Like I'm watching, The Last of Us right now. Okay. Yeah, it's like a zombie show based on a zombie video game, I guess. And then in that, like, I'm probably like 4 or 5 episodes in. Definitely good watch. Definitely does the green light like I'm ultimately. I'm engaged in the. Story. Yeah. There's a threshold for engaged. Yeah. It's good. It's really good. I haven't seen the second season, but the first season's pretty good. Totally. And by like 4 or 5 episodes in there, like 30 years into the zombie, maybe 20 years into the zombie shit have had, like going on, and yeah, I mean, that like the infrastructure is gone. There's no like, there's like militias and then there's like the military. What am I trying to say? There was like a new police force, and then there was like, militias overthrowing the police force. But regardless, it's all chaos in between that there's no right or wrong. That's, like, truly justified. There's no. Governing. Yeah, yeah. Law and orders. That's what I'm trying to describe. There's no law and order. Yeah. That's scary. I don't really trust mobs of other people to decide what's right and wrong, you know? Hey. Yeah, we can get to a scary place. Yeah. For sure. Either way, I think. I think we were talking about some true shit with, regards. So people just want to have a face for their anxiety. Yeah, unease that we just have. Naturally. That's why people hate the patriarchy. Or, like, people hate Donald Trump or, like, kind of like the woke mind virus. I think a lot of that's predicated on being self-conscious and having anxiety and having unease and not feeling good about yourself. So then you kind of like weaponize these feelings into a hate for something else. And blame all of that on them where like, it's just this whole life is like an internal game played on external matrix. Yeah. And so you're taking that external matrix and blaming it for your internal struggle. Yeah. And that's just bullshit. You're getting talked into that. Just not true. Yeah. You can help. You. You're getting talked into that so that politicians can manipulate society. Not even it's worse than just falling for a trap. Like you're like helping people fuck with people. And that's what drives me crazy. And there's groups of people that are I mean fit like 30% of America. I would say it's like so deep in this like hatred for something. Yeah. Like right. Whatever their version of tyranny is in their mind. You know like we rarely know what tyranny is. People hate. Things for sure. A lot. Or like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think we. Talk about it right now. We're we're pointing towards. Yeah, it's like 30% of people just have a fucking have it out for something in life or, you know, totally. There's something coming up. There's some, some sort of internal emotion that's being outwardly expressed towards something. A lot of people just fucked up, man. Yeah I just fucked up. Go to therapy, go to therapy. Give up your life. Yeah. Take the mushrooms. Also on that I'll be like oh your life. Like we can we back out to global conflict. But I had some vocal conflict. Here. At the gym like three days ago. Basketball. Well, I was lifting weights. Okay. And I don't know, just sometimes I get this weird energy from people, like. Like they want to be the alpha in the room, so they're looking for, like, the biggest guy in the cafeteria to hit in the face so that they can take the Alpha ship over. I'm not sure what it is, but it's like this guy who was like 64, he's like a kid, like 24. He was still had some job on him, you know, but he was like a larger framed guy, you know? Yeah. Big daddy. Sure. I'm just there lifting weights, and this guy's just, like, staring at me from time to time. Like he wants to kiss me or something. I'm like, yo, this guy's got some real gay energy. I don't know what his deal is. And then finally, he's like, walking by, looking at me while I'm just, like, sitting on my bench in between sets. I look up and then make eye contact and then hold the eye contact and he's like. Do ho ho ho! And then I see him. I go over to the mirror and just start flexing in the mirror. I'm just like, really? Yeah, this guy is fucking wild. So then like ten minutes passed by, then I need to do push downs and he's on the other fucking cable pulley. And I'm not going to be like, well, oh no, we're going to call this guy. So I just get to the, the one next to him and he's got some dumbbells. And instead of just like moving over and like splitting the space, naturally, he's just like standing in the middle of the cable pulls, doing his dumbbells while I'm like, using one of the two. Yeah. So he's disproportionately close to you. Yeah. And and like I'm just like, let's fucking guy. And instead of like, I could have, like pivoted out and like created more space, but I was like, fuck you, bitch. And I just go right down the middle. I start doing my workout, and then there's times like I go to get a water after every set just to like, hydrate. And I used to have to do a Fitbit. So it was like three steps. If you walk to the water fountain in between sets, extra calories. Maybe it adds up. Over the course of a year. It does. Right? Like I could just sit there and just do nothing. Yeah, exactly. But it's three steps. So I'm doing that. And then like by the third or fourth time, obviously I'm going to finish my set and go. And this dude would just be like standing there like wanting me to walk around him. And this is all real small microcosm of behavior. Shit. No, definitive of nothing definitive. It's all mental. Totally. But I just, like, kind of cut the space kind of close. I'm not going to give this guy a wide berth, like, go fuck yourself, kid. You know what I'm saying? Especially if it's like, yeah, at this point it's like, come on, I have to have a little bit of the wherewithal for other people's realities, you know? Come on, man, if. I'm in the fucking I'm going to do or like if I'm on the police and I know that there's two police and I'm one on one, someone's on the other, and I'm doing an exercise where I'm like lined up into the middle, I'm going to like, pivot out myself so I can give them a little extra. Space. So do you see obviously. Where does that there's nothing crazy. Nothing crazy. And then yeah, in between those sets, he was just like fucking just as I later described as jerking off to yourself in the mirror. It's like, bro, just like so much. I was doing more flexing. He was doing more flexing then he was lifting, and I was just like, yo, this guy's a fucking piece of work. So then like, I finally finish up and I go over to the pec fly machine and then I'm doing some flies, and then I see them going to the. I remember I was thinking to myself in that moment and I'm getting fired up. I'm just like, whatever it is you fucking do, bro. Wait, wait, where's he heading to first? When I was doing tricep, I had to stop popping. My head was like, whatever it is you fucking do, bro, I would annihilate you at it. You like to run track, I'll kill you at it. What are you. What are you, a linebacker? I'ma run through your chest, bro. I'll fucking give you crazy work. I know this, this. Competitive demon in me starts. Michael Jordan disease. And then I'm doing. Underwater basket weaving. Oh, basket weaving. Oh, biscuit left biscuit. Left basket. Weave your ass in a circles, bitch. Yeah. Whatever your sport is, whatever it is, Don't pick flies. And then I see them going to the gym, and I'm just like, And then they come back out and he say, he he's got a friend with them. Okay? But his friend wasn't lifting with them, so I don't know if his friend came in and they're like, oh, we'll go play ball. Yeah, yeah. So but they didn't have enough people. And he just comes out and just beeline for me and he's like, hey, we need one more, come play. And I'm just like, it clicks in my head. I'm like, okay. He thinks he's going to give me crazy work right now. He just wants to pull me out so he can show me who he is. Let's play some ball, dude. I love that. It's just like a nice little preface for the story. Yeah, like I got some altercation. Moment. At the gym the other day. Dude, I just started giving him crazy work. It was. It was a play five swap. Or we start playing two on two. There's there's like nobody there. No, there's like six other people there. Oh like what people there. Yeah. He wanted to pull me in there and shut me up because I didn't move around him, didn't respect his space or whatever. I'm like, bro. Whatever you think you didn't give me the thought of was, guys, pretty big. I need to give him a wide berth. None of that. They fuck you. Possible I'm wrong. I'm. I'm blind. Right. So I need to go look. Right in his eyes. Don't move around him. Is there something I don't like? You know what I'm saying? As I was venting, it's like, oh, it's all mental. There's nothing like concrete that we could say he was doing on purpose, right? Just because we don't have access to his hood. Right? You know what I'm saying? Totally. Totally. And then we, So you're playing two on two now? Yeah. And there's another kid to the gym and shit is watching. I'll play to watch. Yeah. And the first possession. I just like full squat, full stance. I'm locking you up. Tarantula mode. He's like, oh, shit. Turns the ball over. Like, so just like, yeah, it was a basketball player I. Yeah he like yeah. He was all right. He wasn't as good as me and my friends. So that was cool for me because if you'd have been phenomenal, I'd have been like, fuck, this is kind of hard on me. I got a step. I got to fucking. Dig deep. Here. Coming hard right here, bro. Gotta take a charge in two, one, two an elephants that way, bro. No, but he was a big player and I was a player, so I was going to win no matter what. But my shot just went fucking crazy. Like the first game. I hit four threes. That's eight points to 15. In the next game I hit five threes. He's guarding me and I'm hitting him in the face, dude. Oh, I'm. Just giving him crazy work. And it was awesome because he's like floundering and he's getting pissed off. And I'm just like bro your ego is oh. The other thing that happened was like, we go up like we were up seven zero. It was a skunk. Skunk them like straight up. And then they get at one point and he's like, yeah. I starts looking at me and I was just like, bro, we skunked your ass, dog. And then he's like, says I'm shit. And I'm like, bro, your ego is fucking fat, bro. Like, I don't know how to tell you, but your ego is like, just out here, bro. If you're if you're flexing, if you find yourself flexing in the mirror, in public, in like in the way of people, like watching people watch you watch yourself flex in the mirror and you're not, like, competing, you know what I'm saying? Like you're not like going like doing that for practice because, like, you need to get your, like, your poses down and like, you're fucking right. You aren't literally on stage for this. Like your competition. That's different. That's a little bit different even. That's like a little a little a little crazy. Oh, well, at least one dial notch over to like, it's a little. Sometimes I'm crazy. Too, but I'm crazy too. I get it. I'm fucking with it. But yeah, if you're just doing that. No, I did. This on your own volition. If you own prerogative. This guy's in the mirror. This is what you do at the gym? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, yeah. All right. For real, bro. Like. Oh, God. That is. That is what Planet Fitness is fighting against. That was the guy that created the lung alarm. Fucking asshole. If a real. So then it gets to the conflict point, right where I'm finally like shut the fuck up because I humbled him. Like winning seven zero. I'm busting his ass. He's not getting anything off on me and I'm making everything that I shoot. And then he's like doing any time he gets like a move off, he's looking at me like bitch. And I just tell him like, yo, your ego's fucking huge, bro. You can take a dose of mushrooms. And he's like, what are you talking about? I was like, bro, I seen you this whole time, bro. You trying to stare me down? You're looking at me like you want to make out with me jerking off in the mirror to yourself. I'm fucking taking up the whole fucking walkway when you're walking, bitch. Get out of my way. You feel my hair. You think you're hot shit like I see you. I know you don't think that anyone can see you. But I see exactly what you're doing, what you have going on. You need to get out of yourself, bro. I'll take some mushrooms. And he's like, you don't know me. Yeah, and I'll take a mushroom. Not only if I take a mushroom, I'll take a blue caps. You know what those are? I'm like, enlighten me, dude. He's like, blue caps are super potent mushrooms. Okay, like you've tried mushrooms. I've tried mushroom mushrooms. And I took a 3.5 dose of mushroom mushrooms. Okay, like, I know about mushrooms. And I was like, okay, let me show you what you just did. I said, I said, you should try some mushrooms. And what you said was, I'm taking better mushrooms than you. I did a bigger dose than you did. I know more than you do. It's like that. That tells me what's going on here. You just, like, exhibited the behavior that I'm talking about. You just instead of saying like, oh, I've done that. This is what I felt. This is what I did. I think I asked him, he's like, I've done mushrooms. It's like, what did you feel like? And then he went into that dialog. Did you have a psychedelic experience. That that's where I would take. Mushrooms with you. Didn't I have an ego dissolving experience? Exactly. Dude, that's like what I'm driving at. Yeah. And he's like. I don't know what you talk about, bro. I'm a doctor. Someday. I'm working on being a doctor. And I was like, what are you talking about? Oh, dude, why did you bring up Career Path? Oh, was like. You just you just validated my point again because you're like, I'm better than you are. I'm be a doctor. Like, you shouldn't keep building. Oh, I'm a badass. I'm a badass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, bro, I'm gonna make you take this l hard, bro. And then I frickin whoop his ass twice in a row. And then we get to where we're going to play a five on five game, and I just pick him up because I'm like, guys, let me let this kid live a little bit. You know what I'm saying? He's fucking 24 year old. He's got some shit going on. Obviously I'm not going to crack through. And one dose and one, one, two. This guy fucking hates me probably right now. And they started making some shots and he's like, I was just I just needed some space where I was working out. I needed some time for my muscles to fucking come back. I'm like, yeah, you saw me working out too, bro. Like, you know, you gotta explain yourself to nobody first of all. And then secondly, like, I went to the same thing you did. It wasn't like I came in fresh. I did a fucking fat ass chest workout right before we did all of this, too. And by the end of it the same, I walked away thinking, some people are just like, not. They're not healthy in their head, you know, like you can get sick up here and there's no nobody's gonna force you to fix that. And not only that, but it can spiral. You can go years being sick in the head. And I think that's what goes on in our society. I don't think everybody's holding up this standard of trying to be like a healthy, mentally healthy person. Just the distortion of reality. And that was just one guy, one incident I loved so much that he was like, I'm going to bring you in here and I'm going to fucking humble you. I was like. Oh. God smiled at me today. Yeah, right. It's awesome. That's like, show him son. Yeah. So yeah. It was awesome. It is. Like, but then then. So funny. Scaling that back to like, people as a whole, wanting someone to hate or wanting to be afraid of something. It's like, I don't think that people are super mentally healthy. I've been dealing with a lot of people who, like, are not taking the high road. All the. Time, like it's so easy to have something bad happen. Negative situation, somebody rubs you the wrong way and you could just take the high road. Salute. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. It's like, they must have some shit going on today. Yeah. I'm like, Fucking yeah. Fuck it. I got to react. It's fine. But like, I haven't seen so many people refusing to take that high road, man. It's like, really? It's crazy bro. I don't I really don't get it. Yeah. Yeah. What is that? Maybe it's stemming. Stemming from a it must be stemming from a. I think Jordan Peterson has mentioned this idea before. Just like whenever we look at the world, you don't see the world. Do you see, like, opportunity and obstacles. And it's like whenever you see those obstacles, people are just like, I don't know, is he riled up? Let's get riled up and need like a have a, have something going on in their mind, like, I need to overcome this obstacle or I need to set this right. Something bothers you. It's like not every there's a billion things that are going on right now, but not all of them bother you. And like, there's something going on there, like what is bothering you and why is it bothering you? And then why do you feel the need to fix it? It's like all that shit's going on within your own individual psyche, you know what I'm saying? People are like bothered by things and it's bothered so much. So to where they can't let it go. They can't, they can't just like let go of the weight. You know I'm saying that like oh this bothers me. I just let it go. It's like fuck it, I don't care. I like holding on to. It's like doing you more harm than just letting it go. I mean, it bothers me, though. Yes. And there are some things that you do need to fix or like, you know, saying that should bother you and that you should use that as a signal as, like a flashing light. So like, okay, I need to address this and like, here's some fucking DJ Khalid on this shit, bro. With best bip bip bip bip bip bip. Another one. Now I feel you sometimes there's. So I was praying about this in church because like I'm specifically praying for more strength and more endurance to take on more of the world's negative emotions without reacting. Just like more strength to take on bullshit. There's unjust, unfair, stuff that that's really just like unjust and unfair. Like, my spirit wants balance and harmony, and I think that's what's happening with other people. And I think that's happening to all of us. Yeah. And I think that's what I was praying for was like the spiritual strength to handle disharmony and unbalance. And I think that's why some people are so attracted to the idea of revenge is because they want fairness and balance and justice. But I think that we misappropriate those emotions sometimes we want to take justice into our own hands. Yeah. We want our own protection. Like even I wanted to tell that kid to shut the fuck up. But I kind of just stay quiet. Sometimes I get home from basketball and I'm like, I'm going to make you put a hostage tape on when you go to the gym. So you can't talk like you play basketball, because it's hard not to address someone's bullshit. Like someone fucking calls a foul that wasn't a foul. And then they want to fight and argue about it. Last night at the gym. I'm not going to lie, it got pretty rowdy. Okay? These guys started chirping at my boy Clayton because, like, I watched the baby all day and then I was able to have her mom watch her so I could go get a workout in. And then as I'm going to the gym, Clayton's like, hey, man, like, are you free tonight? I want to go to the gym. I want to whoop on some some parts about this. Here's what he said, okay? And I was just like, all right, bro. Yeah, sounds good to me. I got my shoes, I got I'm I'm literally driving to the gym right now. It's very serendipitous. You called me. I was going to, like, workout. Maybe we can ball and then workout. You know what I'm saying? He's like, yeah. Sounds great. I'll get an ax. I'm here right now. Just like, hurry up so you don't miss it. I show up and it's like, all right, we're playing. Come on. I'm like, this feels like fate. Let's go. So then, like a couple games in, though, Clayton says something to the sideline, and the sideline starts chirping back at him. He's like, shut the fuck up. Shut up bro. And I walk over. I'm like, what happened? He's like, I just told them to move because they're like all on the court. They like, I'm trying to run the run, my transition and like, I feel like I'm going to trip over them and stuff. And I just told the move and they started chirping at me bad. And then they kept talking to him and I was like, hey, why don't you shut up and wait for your turn, y'all? Y'all have a next. Y'all will get your chance and then we're up your ass too. And then in the game, like we're they're not good. Like they're bad. Like just straight up not great at all. There weren't, like, tennis shoes. And we're dominating and we're not even like playing defense because they're not worth it. And then towards the end of the game, I'm calling it I'm trying to leave after this game, I'm trying to pick up cava. I've actually already ordered Covid. Oh no, because they're going to close. And then what happens is, is that those kids are finally going to get their chance at Clayton's, like, you can't leave. Oh, and I'm like. Bro, I ordered my cava. And he's like, you can't leave because, we need to win this game. And I don't trust the rest of our team. And I'm like, I well, it's like, make it snappy, speedy. Yeah. And so we're just annihilating and I'm calling it. I'm like, all right, that's ten for all right. That's ten six, that's 12 six. We get to like 1310 and we're coming down the court. We're like, that's 1310. And they're like, I don't have 13. And I'm like, I never keep score guys. But I've been keeping score this entire time because I'm trying to get out of here like, y'all got 11. I'm like, no, we don't turn to this whole argument. I'm like, oh. The I hate the finally. I'm just like, shut up. And then they're like, you're a grown man, bro. And I'm like, yeah, you're pussy, bro. Like you're a sore loser. You're mad because you're losing. You're being a pussy. Like, stop. And they're like, I don't know what you're talking about, bro. And then I snap and I'm like, bitch, I told you what the score was. And I'm like, ready to go at it, bro? It's just. Because, you know, you've been standing on. Truth. Exactly. This thing, things like I mean, I have been keeping score this whole time and. You're not competition like, shut up. Like, I don't even know it gets to a point where they're like, you don't get no bitches, bro. Like, oh, this. Is shitty credit score. Like, oh, okay, y'all can play, too. It's Call of Duty, bro. Like, I don't know why you're talking trash. Turn into a Call of Duty evil fucking multiplayer lobby, dude. Yeah, seriously. So it's like. But I didn't handle that situation exactly well, because I felt I was standing on truth and it was unbalanced and they were unjustly talking shit. So then I got riled up and I started I'm Batman. Shut the fuck up, bitch. And I don't want to be. That person either, you know what I'm saying? I've. Yeah, showed off it. Clayton called because I'm like, all right, we won. I'm like, Deuce, deuce. Love you guys. Love you guys. Grab my bag. Fucking run into the car calling Carver. Hey, don't close, don't close, don't. Don't don't take my food. Please. Please don't. I pay for that shit on Apple Pay. Like, let me go pick it up. Yeah, yeah. Leave it outside the door. Yeah, a little was. I was like, about to say that they're like, well we have to stay till 1030 to clean up anyways, so we'll be. Here. Okay. Clayton calls me. He's like, you would not believe the amount of shit talking that they started going off on after you left there. Like all that. I believe it like I believe it very easily, actually. Yeah. You're right. Exactly. I'm like, hey, James, up until 11 fucking you hold on to that next. I'll come back with that. I guess with my car is eating. Playing defense with a handful of Covid. I don't even need a yeah. No hands off. No. Hey know all body, all legs. What. Have I really. Well, I was so tempted to do that, but he's like, no, I left two brothers. Like, not worth it. He's like, they're bad. They're really bad. And I was like, I know, I know, I know, why do I care? And that's why I never took the score to me. I was like, wow, it's even hard for me to take the high road sometimes, you know, I could just say you guys are mentally unhealthy. I can't argue about the score because I need to leave. It's like if you need the score to be there, I'm going to just go ahead and eject myself from the conversation. Let someone else take my spot. You guys go ahead. A lot of time crunch here. It just like had built up. So like fucking so high. Yeah, yeah, it would have been different if they had never had any initial interaction chirping with the boy. Right? I never got to play the game I like. I was ready to leave like I needed to go, you know. Yeah, it's. But these things get. Everything builds on itself. You know, I think the story builds, the story deepens, and depth is accruing. Yeah. Totally insane. It's like that one two, one two game you were playing with a guy earlier that like, fitness is not just a regular two on two game. There's like so much depth and nuance and story behind it, just. From. No verbal interaction, no verbal exchange at all. 100% body language, 100% just objective reality reading. Yeah, on both sides. And then led to this feeling he was feeling emotion of like, oh. I'm a ball on this pussy boy dog. Yeah. We'll take you to the rack. You're so right. That's so funny. That's so crazy, right? Yeah. So I think this is a show about I think beef is a show that's about that. It like, starts with someone getting cut off in traffic, and then that. Person. Speeds up to flip them off, and then that turns into like a physical, like a verbal altercation in turns into a physical altercation. I'm not exactly sure. I didn't watch it. Okay. Yes it was. I've seen it a while ago, but it was a solid show. Solid show. I think it was predicated on the same. But yeah, it was like, yeah, the whole premise of the show is built on the beef that is between these two people is just like one, like one point in both of their individual crazy stories of, like, their own, challenges of being alive, you know, just being a human, trying to figure out this life and shit. And that guy's guys on, like, the press up story going on. He she has her own depressive story going on. There was, like, angry at the world or like trying to assign something to whatever negative emotions are welling up inside of them. They're like a signing that's an outward expressions or people or situations and the like. Yeah, like they're both on that energy and vibration and like, they crossed each other's paths in like a car accident or whatever road rage. And it's like, oh, you're the problem. It's you I that's that that's what I think is happening with people a lot of times, like the woke mind virus, that's a triggering thing to say, but I think it's a real thing because it's like they gave you an avenue to use those feelings on a group of people and then also be very justified because it's like you're the victim and it's like bullying the bully is much better than bullying the nerd. You know, like you're much more vindicated and bullying the bully. And there's truth in that. Sure, there's truth in that. I love doing it personally. Yeah, it. Feels great to bully. I'm Batman. Yeah, I play Batman's about exactly. But none of it's good. None of it's good. It's rather not much. Rather than. I think God would rather me not. Yeah. I don't think I should call that guy a bitch. He was like 20. But he was being a bitch, dude. Oh, yeah? Do you think I should have more chill for people because they're younger than me? I think it's a case by case basis, but overall, no. Yeah. Lean. No. Overall. Because with kids, like, I was working in the YMCA for a couple, many, many summers and then also like during college for like a year or two for after school from kids age ranging from the ages of like 4 or 5 and like kindergarten, pre-K to like eighth grade, like 13, 14, maybe a little bit. Yeah. Somewhere in that ballpark. And like you, you treat them like they're people, you know, I'm saying, you know, treat them like their kids. Kind of you do. But at the same time, you kind of give them like some sort of, room to be themselves and to like, express, truly express what they're thinking. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. With that, like the making them feel stupid or make them feel like they're they don't know what they're talking about, right. Or whatever. But like, I give you that respect, you know, I gave you the respect of you are, like an image bearer of God, bro. You are the fucking like you are sovereign. You are a crazy, crazy thing that is like a crazy creation that has autonomous. Like you have autonomy. You can do things that are crazy and I have to respect that. And because of that, I'm not going to like, treat you like a kid or like, I can't I can't have a little bit more leniency for like, you just don't know what you're doing, which is like kind of like being a kid and being immature, not knowing what's going on. Exactly. Have some leniency. Have some grace for sure. Yeah, but there's also a point where you're like, all right, like, life's not going to have grace on you to a degree, if you like, crashed into a tree. That tree doesn't give a fuck how old you are. Yeah, sometimes I'm the tree. Yeah, I'm a fucking I. It's kind of fucked up. It's kind of fucked up is what it feels like. Well, yeah. It felt like there was a point in time where I could have just been, like, more diplomatic. Instead, I was like, bitch. And that was where I made the wrong choice. Like, I don't know, like I was ready to fight. I was like, does this guy have a gun? Because why is a skinny kid, like, getting in my face? Like, you're just mistaken, bro. Like, this. Is you make it bad choices, bro. Yeah, yeah, but you're about to crash into a tree. Yeah, I like that. You have a fucking a buzzsaw. Like I don't understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you prepared for this tree? Yeah. And I and then I felt like maybe there would be negative repercussions for me. I don't know that I slept with, like, my leg hanging off the bed and like, like the bottom of the bed, like, I kind of, like, slept towards, like, not at the top of the bed. Like it just crash out and my legs, like, hanging off the bed. Okay, so I wake up and my knee is throbbing, but it's not because I fucked it up in the game. It's because, like, my weight on my knee was, like unevenly distributed, like. The gravity pulling it down at the joint. Yeah. For like hours. Yeah. And so my knee still is like kind of throbbing. But in the morning it hurt really bad. And then this is I'm going to a basketball game I actually care about today. This is like the one on Tuesday and Thursday. I actually care about this game. The other shit is just fucking side quests, dude. Yeah. And I tell myself like, stop doing that because it's like fucking up the rest of your workouts. Like, you should just be like lifting weights the other times. And then Tuesday and Thursday come and play and actually care. And then I like, disregard my own advice sometimes. And then like, I got into this crazy conflict where I'm like, I feel like I did the wrong thing there. Like there might be negative repercussions for me in my life because of it. And then I wake up, my knees throbbing, and then I played like dog shit all day today, because I was doing all that bullshit last night. And like, the game where I really cared. I couldn't show up, my legs weren't underneath me. My shot's all in balance. I didn't make a single three pointer. I was like, I lost every game I played. Turn the ball over a bunch of stupid fucking times. Stupid bro. Fucking dumb, I left it. I was like, you idiot. Damn it! I mean, like fucking Matthew Barrett. Yeah. Then I'm like, man, you like, want to be this Christ bearing person. You want to be this positive influence in other people's lives. You want to be almost holier than thou sometimes, like you want to really stand on like, hey, let's be good Christians here. And then at night time, you're like. I'll fucking kill you. Like, please. It's comedy or tragedy. Praise the Lord. That's just what we're dealing with, man. This is what's going on here, okay? That's that whole that whole diatribe was me self describing my own personal experience with what I think is going on with people that seem to be unable to take this high road. And then, much like the beef thing, it's like things outside of my control. That's what I'm trying to get to. It's like most people are in situations where they can't control what's going on. It's hard to be in control in your household sometimes, even in your family relationships, in your work life. Relationship, your work life, all of that zone. Fitness, relationship with yourself. Preach, brother. Yeah. And I think that sometimes we find this micro moment where you're like, I can you think you can take control here? Like I'm justified. I'm vindicated. This guy wronged me, crossed me. He's fucking clearly in the wrong. I'm about to put on the fucking Batman, and I want to be a vigilante because subconsciously, because it's all these other out of control situations that you're in, like, way on you. That's why I felt in church. I was like, there's a lot of out of control shit weighing on me. I need more strength and more endurance to, like, persevere through these times. Like, I feel like I'm getting to the end of my rope. Help me have more. Help me have more rope because I don't want to. It's a marathon. A lot of this shit is a fucking marathon. It's a marathon, brother. And you got to keep running, dude. You can't just like, crash out. I was thinking about I remember Alex. Vamos put me out of that. Or just like re re stoked that imaginative or that I like that, that thought process of or perspective, that scale, that framing. It's like this is going to be a ten year thing bro. Like we're 30 like oh we're going to be pushing and we're going to be we're going to be a lifer, hopefully a good a good couple more decades at least. Thanks man. We're going to break. We're still going to have to be doing this shit. We're going to be doing something in the next 30 years. I don't know exactly what it is. Hopefully retiring because. Even if we're retired, we're going to be doing something with our day. You know, we gotta we gotta do something. We're playing. Basketball because it's. Working out. For sure, doing some sort of podcast, I think some sort of creative expression, some outlet. I'm not, you know, no idea. But we're we gotta be doing something here. Yeah. This is my pressing this fucking time. I'm here for it, I love it. I'm with you. So yeah, praying for more. Wrote. But I think a lot of people are running out of wrote marathon. Yeah. Now we're all just trying, man. We're just fucking out here living. Yeah. Survive it. Totally. So many people just don't know they writing. It's crazy. It's hard to, you know, we're just so beyond blessed. It's crazy. A lot of people live in America or. Or it's a lot of people who have a fucking at least have a roof and have some food. I mean, you were like, fucking Power Rangers were specifically super blessed. Oh, I feel stupid. Blessed. Yeah, yeah. But even just to be able bodied and. Like, clean water. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Be able to get a job. Yeah. Like that's AC. Blessings, Leicester. Yeah. AC get ten fingers and ten toes. You had to chill it. You had any outside stressors lately? No I was trying to think nothing crazy. Crazy. There was I guess I definitely had like an it somewhat of a stressful and stressful, but definitely not smooth. Exact day on Saturday. But it was it was fine. I was chill, like my, my mom came down and we were hanging out, but, we went to the Six Flags. Haven't been there in a while. It's been probably like a year, maybe a little bit less. Went to Six Flags. We love roller coasters. Been those type of people for a long time. My mom was wanting to put me on a roller coasters and then, my sister came and then she brought her son. He's like six. And then, we have Jace, who's our nephew, and he's like six as well, I think. So they're like hanging out homies. Whatever. Your sister came. Yeah. She's a six year old. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah, I, I'm. Obviously on Instagram like baby pictures. Yeah. She, she has two kids. She got a six. And then those sixes blew my mind. Yeah. That first grader. Yeah. Fuck his old dude's crazy. That's baby. J. Yeah. He's six. Oh, wow. Did I feel out of the loop? Yeah, I think he's five. I'm with you. I'm not. I'm not trying to call you out. He's right there. Like mind blown. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Like he was born around 2020. I'm pretty sure right around Covid, no Covid baby. The code baby J starting to talk. Yeah. That was what? Oh, yeah. It's. Not your fucking line. I just I just got old. Like it just happened. I just saw it. Just age. Yeah, right now I did. A video about your story. Sorry. Please. No, we were just going to Six Flags. Just chilling. And then we get there, and I. I figure it's, I guess my mom was there a little bit earlier than we do, so we're like, trying to get out the door, try and get their hand out, picking up the kids, getting the kids ready, getting all of our shit, whatever on the spot. We get there, we meet up with my mom, and then we're going to go see some coffee at the park and then go to. We want to ride a couple big rides because we have the kids with us. So like, we're going to the Victoria's gonna watch the kids for a little bit while we're wait where we're at the Starbucks waiting for the coffee. So we're going to wait where she's on the way here. We're going to go try to ride a ride real quick. It's like right down the road or right down the street, right? Don't come back and then we'll link up. Go ride another rider to take turns watching the kids and then go to the waterpark. We go, we go. Poltergeist is like one of my mom's favorite rides at Six Flags San Antonio, Texas. It's bomb badass. Great place. Cool little waterpark. We got some great rides there. Poltergeist. One of my mom's favorites. It's one that goes like super fucking fast. A lot of us have different like allure or different like types of rides. There's like different types of Pokemon. There's like different types of rides. This ride is a speed type. It's just fucking boom. Like as soon as you as soon as it starts at the gate, you're going 0 to 60 in three seconds and then you're going fucking fast. You're maintaining that speed is it's not like a giant voluminous or like high ride. It's kind of like you don't go with crazy high. It has not a whole lot of spins, has a couple spins, but mostly it's like twists and turns and barrel rolls type shit. Very fast. But we're we go online. It was relatively early, so Park just opened. Not a whole lot of people going in quite yet.

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00 maybe. And then we're going walk into the house, Poltergeist house, walk through like little fucking thing, go into the line getting our little lines like it's like a two, two persons per car. And then it's me and Gabby. We're going to go get in line and we're like going into like the first there's like six cars maybe then each car has two rows of seating. We're going to go in the very front. We're like the not not the front front, but we're the first car, but second row with the first car and then everyone else kind of lines up and it's like, I don't know, we just like walk up into that one. It wasn't like a whole lot of thought going into it. It was kind of like, all right, here's our story goes. And I was like standing there in my story. And then I see the hear the cart cart comes in and pulls into the station. And it's like slowly starting to creep up to, like, the whatever to be aligned with the rows. And then as it's slowly creeping up, I just see these two girls. They're probably like, I don't even know, middle school, high school, 18, 15 somewhere in that ballpark. And then the one of them is like as the car is just pulling up, she just. The chugging up dog. Chugging up a good three times three solid just boom, Chuck up a couple breaths. Boom. When you give it up. Just standing there and I just look across and I see the fucking. Guy, I don't know, it's a girl, actually. It's a lady on the whatever the fuck I'm right. What I fucking doing that. Shit and I like, see her, see her throwing up and I'm just like, we're not getting on this ride. We're not getting on this ride. First thing I think. And then, yeah, not even 30s later. I'm. Because no one else saw it. I didn't see it. My mom didn't see it, just didn't see it. Nobody saw it. And I was like, we're not getting on this ride, guys. Like, what do you mean? Like. Yeah, she's a no no, no, not not today. And then sure enough. So like oh we're going to have to momentary shut down our momentary, little time lapse here for guess, illness or some shit. I don't know, whatever. We'll be back up and operational in the next 5 or 10, whatever minutes. I was like, okay, they're going to clean it up. I don't even want to sit in that fucking seat anyway. I don't care how much I'll clean. You get it right now. I just don't want to sit there. I don't want to do it. I'm sorry. I I'm events like, come on, guys, get the. Fuck out of here. It's like. Oh, okay. So that was go back to with Victoria. It's like, how was the ride? Like, no not good. Some of us said the worst time but not good for us. It's like fucking. All right, let's let's just go and then we go immediately and like, in that same vicinity, right across from the coffee shop, we go to another ride. Since we have the little two little kids with us, it's like a I was like, yeah, let's go down this ride. It's like a log log cabin type of ride. It has like some water. You're not like you're going to get wet for sure, but you're not gonna get soaked unless you sit like in the front. Front. But you'll get wet for sure. It's like a log wet cabin ride. And then we're going. And I think because we have the two, 5 or 6 year olds with us and I'm like, yeah, let's just like, we'll bring them on to this one. This one's like one for like the kids, you know, the kids. It's not like a crazy ride. It has one one pretty good drop, but that's it. Everything else is like super, super chill. And you're going, like, you're literally like, floating on the water. Like you're going that's that's slow. So it's it's relatively calm. And then we get into two boats because there's nine of us total. So we split into two boats each. Boats can hold like eight people I think. So they go first my mom in them and then we go, we being me, the wife, Jace the nephew. And then I think Gabby's with us to her sister. And then we're just going in our boat, and we're just doing doing the ride, regular shit. And then they have, like, an initial, an initial drop a little bit, you know, so an initial, a little drop and then even then Jake is this is like his first, like, roller coaster experience. Not very happy camper. You know what that first little drop. He was like, oh no. Oh no, I didn't like that. It's like, okay, well, there's one more big drop. It's probably like twice as much intensity as that. So, you'll be right, kid. Don't worry. But it's so it was so strange because we're going through the ride, and I've ridden on this ride probably at least a dozen times at least. And then we get to the part like we're literally right before about to hit the fucking drop and like, we're like. And then it just stops. And then I think they announce over the system like, oh, we're actually going to we need to stop the ride for a minute or two for no idea. I couldn't hear it. Couldn't quite follow road or all right, all not. It was like, okay, I guess this was happening. So we sit there for like at least a minute, two minutes probably. And I'm just like, oh man, we're about to. The drop is coming up soon. Like it's coming up real soon. And then we start going again. We get the there's somebody like up on the, like sitting on like the lifeguard stool stand kind of thing, waiting, I guess, making sure that everything is going on. Well, at this point in the ride where you fucking catch the, the chain links and it brings you up to to the drop so that there the ride starts to go on again. They give us a thumbs up and then it's literally right there. It's like the drop. The drop is right there. Not even five seconds later we're dropping. And yeah, Jason is just fucking destroyed. He just he just it's just hating life. Just. Yeah. Not not not a good experience for his first roller coaster ride. So I was like, I shit. Interesting, interesting. And then we go to the Iron Rattler. Amazing ride. That's definitely one of, like, the goats. Sucked that ride. That that. Ride. Just fucking when it was the wooden rattler, bro. That was that was different. When I was a kid. We're waiting in line for the wooden rattler, bro. And I remember praying to God, say, God, please get me out of this. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. Please make this stop. That shit is broken. Like there's no way I'm going to. I can't do it. And then how are we going to do right? It's going to be close for the rest of the day. Remember, bro? And I remember thinking like. God is real as God's God. I don't mean like how. How 90 people wanted to ride it. I didn't want to ride it. And you closed it for me? Yeah. Like I was, like, confused, you know, because I was praying my ass off to not get on that ride. And then the ride closed. How old you. Had to be? 6 or 7, dude. Damn young. Yeah. My parents really wanted to go, and I remember I cried because I was like, you don't want to take me. And they're like, all right, we'll take you. But you got to be cool. And the ride? No, like two, six, five. Like they were going to. Do an adult day, you know? Okay, okay. And then I let it take me know. What the fuck? Really? You go stay with grandma. I hate grandmother's house. Like, no, you know, and. Then I get there and I'm. Like, I don't want to do this ride. And then they're like, you said you'd be cool. And I'm like. Okay. And then I'm. Like, sitting there, like crying to myself. Praying to God. And then finally they close the ride and my dad's like, you're so lucky. You're so. That's ridiculous. You're a lucky kid. And they're all pissed off because I couldn't go on the ride. I remember feeling like, that was. That was kind of a lame moment of like of me as a kid. I was like, you gotta take me. I don't want to do this. What's out? Taking me? Why you take me? Oh, my God, that's so funny. Yeah, that's what the kid thing. That's always about family after that, for sure. Yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. I'm sorry. I know that's that's great lore for that ride. Because for you, for those of you who don't know, Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio, they have multiple, multiple attractions. But this one, the Rattler, has been there for a while. It used to be just the Rattler, and it was like a wooden roller coaster ride that was one of the fastest wooden roller coaster rides in America, and it was rickety as shit and they would bang you the fuck up. Apparently I never went on it when it was over the The Wooden Rattler, but apparently it was like in this box, I guess, like a boxcar. Yeah, like a like a mining boxcar on these tracks. And there's getting banged to fucking hell and back. The thing would wobble in the air like. Like you're watching these. And it's. Like you're like, what the hell is I was, dude, it's sketchy, it's. Sketchy, but we'll talk about the roller coasters in general. Millions of conversations we have about roller coasters in general. But we go there either way. We go fucking throw up on the poltergeist. Jason's having a shitty time after the. The weird little malfunction never happened before. Right before the drop, we go to the Iron Rattler. We have we have success there. It's just like we go. Go up the line. We're waiting for ten minutes. We get on the iron rod. They have a fucking fantastic time. Great ride. They've they've since changed it. No longer wooden, it is now regular fucking iron roller coaster Iron Rattler. And it's badass. It goes. It's like just a great ride. It's just like a great movie, you know? And it's like, it's a good fucking movie. It's just a great ride all the way through. It does it? It does. Two great wraps, has some twists and turns, got some upside downs and shit. It's fantastic. So we have some success there. And then we're like, okay, it's going, we got to go to the car or the yogurt. Y'all got to go to the car, get your water stuff. We're going to go to the water park right now just by the water park chill, go to dinner later on, but then right across, literally like right across from the Iron Rattler is one of the new rides that my mom has not ridden yet. They built it last year or a year and a half ago, but definitely new to them. They're the it is. That was the, doctor diabolical cliffhanger I think is what it's called. But that one's fucking lit. It's really cool. It has like three rows of seven seats. So 21 people at a time, like this big fucking rectangle, it's like on a track. And then in the rectangle, it like, goes up at the very top. I like you just kind of holds and it's like sits you there for. So if you're in the front row, that part is pretty fucking gnarly. Pretty. It's pretty Gnarls Barkley It's Gnarls and then it drops you. But I was like, yeah, you need to go on that ride. You never in there yet. This is like a new ride for you. Let's, let's let's fucking one more ride and then we'll go. And then we look at the lines. It's pretty long. It's like, oh fuck, this is going to take at least a good 30 minutes. Probably probably 30 minutes at least. It's like fucking. Yeah okay, let's just go for it. Let's go for Gabby's with the kids. She's watching them. They're about to go get some food, so they got to wait for their food anyway. So we'll just wait here. We'll just get the sign says we're done. We'll go to the water park. Whatever. And then we're waiting in line. And then it takes a good, like, hour, like 50 minutes, a good solid 50 minutes. I'm just like waiting, just getting closer and closer, finally inching closer to the front. It's like, man, it's taking a long. Fucking time, bro. It's. And then it starts to fucking like rain, then starts to rain on us. At first it comes in waves of like just trickling. It's trickling, it's raining, it's sprinkling. It's like, oh no. And then one of the waves comes in for a good five minutes and it's just fucking heavy. I can just see it coming. I'm like, oh no guys, we we gotta go. We gotta be like we. Then we all the line splits up because there's like portions of the line that are covered, but portions that are not. So then everyone like gravitates like towards the fucking the coverings of course, because the first one was sprinkling wasn't that bad. We just stand in it. You can stand in that bubble. You stand in it. So then we wait for what turns into an hour and ten minutes. It's like, fuck, dude, okay? Victoria is like, okay, now I'm like, I'm gonna go to the waterpark like, fuck this. And I wait ten minutes. Our intent. Oh, that's a sit right there. That's a long. Fucking wait. Brother. Yeah, that's not a joke, bro. That's a long. Time to wait for a roller coaster. And then we were waiting. She leaves. I end up deciding, like, maybe within the next five minutes after she leaves, I'm like, okay, I'll just get you all stuff, like, give me your keys. I'll just go to your car, get your stuff, let me check the waterpark. Like I've already ridden this ride. My mom's like it's a sunk cost. And like, I'm in this bitch now, dog. Like I ain't leaving. I ain't fucking leave it lol. Even. But then. I leave. I go to the car, I can't find the car, but like end up having some crazy timing. And then, it was crazy. Crazy timing. I say that because I was looking in the water in the parking lot for at least a good five minutes, at least 5 to 10. I like looking for their car. I couldn't find it and then call and find the car, get the stuff, get get back into the park. And then as I'm walking back into the park, right into the water park, they're like walking up to the water park as well. And they're like, yeah, we never wrote it. Never wrote. It. This is like 20 minutes later. Additionally, oh, so they're in line for like an hour and a half hour, 40 minutes at least. And then she's my mom. My mom describes the story after I left. She was like, yeah, we fucking. So after you left, a new fucking guy comes in because there's a guy like, Six Flags employee who's like the gatekeeper to a degree. There's like a long line to get into the house. And then once you get into the house, there's like a little not amusement. Like, it's kind of like a a show to a degree is it's interactive, but there's stuff going on in the house that adds to the lore of Doctor Diabolical, whatever. Bullshit. Just an extra, extra waiting space. So there's, like, letting people into the house to get through that part. And then once you get to the house, you go to wait in the line. Line like where you're about to get onto the actual seats. So like, we're waiting to get into the fucking house. House. So like once you get into the house, you're pretty much waiting, like you're five, ten minutes away for sure. But like, we like, we got right up to the house, like we're next. Like it's us and these two guys in front of us, like about to go in. And then Victoria dips. I dip in, my mom's like, she's like, yes, you leave the guy who's letting people into the house, he goes on break or like they switch shifts or some shit. So some new random guy and then like after another like five minutes or so, ten minutes. I just like, ask the guy. I was like, yo, can you, like, call the. Because we haven't even seen the ride go down because after a rain they had a run and they had to run it like a dry run with nobody on it to see if it was okay, I guess, or I don't know. I don't know how that fucking shit works. If you work at Six Wives, let me know how it works. If you run theme parks, roller coasters, it's fucking annoying a shit. Dog, does it ever. Now we're going to dry run. Oh, really? Oh, hey. Close, close. I think I know it was on that one I like jeez yo yo. But so they. Fucking. My mom was just like, yo, can you, can you just call them, like, all the people who are operating the machine right now and, like, give us some information as to, like, give me the out more or less. Let me know that I can leave. And like, the roller coaster is done because, like, I'll stay here till I die. They've invested to ride this fucking ride now, bro, I've. Been in the lobby for an hour and 40 minutes. Like, come on, I'm not leaving. At the end. Did. And he's like, she says he like is he's like kind of. Because he's like new to the situation. So he's like getting all of this initial slack and like blasts from the crowd and everyone, like, there's like multiple people and in conjunction with my mom. Who are like, yeah, what the fuck? Marry me way in here. I can fucking rained on this guy. He's like. I just got off a break. Like, I don't know. I don't like shit, I do. You want me to? There's like a phone there and I can, like, can call up to the radio tower, I guess I call up to the people operating the ride and I guess to get information, because they were they were calling him kind of sporadic or not him specifically, but calling that phone, using that phone to communicate, like, hey, we got to let the rain pass. Hey, we got to do a dry run here a little bit. Hey, we're going to be down for the next ten minutes, but then she's like, fucking column. And they but he was like so startled that barely that he was like fidgeting. He like. Didn't he. Like, you can, she can. You can literally see his physical. Embodiment of comfort or like of conflicts of like wanting to call the people, but also not wanting to call the bosses and like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I gotta I gotta tell chef that, like, shit's fucked up for this table, dawg. It's like, oh, but I don't want to fuck up chef is Damon's like But yeah it was just the whole thing and eventually calls him. It's like yeah the road shut down. We're going to shut down for the next. Like I don't even know how much longer we're we're I think there was no definite time given. I'm pretty sure they just relayed to them that the ride is down for now, for the foreseeable future, until the rain passes and shit happens. Whatever. It's like, oh my god, dude. And then even at the water park, it was still raining like it rained. It came in another wave, like maybe an hour and a half later at like 3:00. It rained hard at 130 for like five minutes and then rained hard again

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00 for like 5 or 10 minutes and like, yeah, everyone in the water park was just the water parks. A little easier, more chill. You know, we're literally there to get wet. So it's not that big a deal. Still annoying as fuck, though. You know? I was like, it sounds fun. If I kind of drink, I'm like. Yeah, I just fucking. Yeah, totally. Drink. I feel like I need to let my mark. Yeah. Dude. Marty. Dark fucking brain. Marty. Oh, dude. Not a right mark. Yeah. So that was just like, yeah, that's like a theme of the day, which is fucking waiting. Fucking waiting for shit, bro. It's like building the patience and. Like, getting fucked on. There's getting fucked up and out of control things like, goddamn, we. We only rode the Iron Rattler successfully pull the guys was puke. The other ride was traumatic for the boy. And then we literally never got to ride the other one. It's like, damn. Yeah, that sucks. That was kind of like. Life was like that. I guess it just happens. It just fucking happens. Yeah. Sometimes I like the. Patience is a virtue. They make you want to put on the Batman mask. Is there a point where. It's like, get this shit on, I get this shit right? Like, the fuck y'all doing here? I guess a metaphor would be like, later at Chili's that night, your server fucks up and you're like. The fuck, bro. What is it? You got a lot of tables. Pretty dead in here. What are you doing, bro? Just going off on somebody because of all the other shit you couldn't control in your day or your life beforehand? You know. I saw someone else going through that. That was a funny thing. Or like, later on that day, really? Where exactly? We went to the. Yeah, went to the water park, finished the. Finished all the shit. Went back home, showered change, got ready, went downtown. We were going to try to go to, Rainforest Cafe. Throwback. Bring the the bring the kids. They never been a little. You don't go there for the food. You go there for the ambiance and the fucking weird ass rainstorm. Blue skinny. This is fucking Rainforest Cafe. But I just we. As soon as we get there. Man, I just it's. Once you get into the machine. Once you know how the sausage gets made, it's a little different in the sausage. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Go on. We walk up to the restaurant immediately. Smells like dog shit. It's immediately smell like sewage. Okay, I don't even real dog shit. No, no, no, this is like sewage. Yeah. You know, if you've been in the industry, you may you may have smelled at a time or two when the pipes get clogged up or something. So yeah, that happened the rooms before. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's it. Yeah. You know, it smells like it smelled like that. And I was like, oh man, there have some shit going out there piping. And then we're just waiting to put our name in. And then another thought crosses my mind because you look up and there's like, the fucking plastic monkey and the fucking cheetah, the parrot and shit. But then there's actually, like, a fur robotic fucking cheetah that moves its arms and his legs and shit, like sitting up there. That was like, how dirty is that fucking thing? It was the last time I had that shit clean. And they got misters. The spraying that was like, oh God, this is like, actually my. We just go see this place actually might be a cesspool. This is a fucking cesspool. Look at the cesspool. The fucking the way we. Get to the host, and we don't even get to put our names in quite yet. I think my mom is like, just starting interaction with the host and then down. I guess it's multiple stories. This restaurant, there's like four floors. I guess, first floors, entry floor with the host and and the gift shop. And then there, like the staircase initially go up to the second floor, I guess a seating. And then we just see a manager come down. I'm assuming a manager, I don't know, by the way, by the way, he was just being, you know, he's a manager. I guess I could be like, this guy just goes down halfway down the flight of stairs and he's just like an hour, 15 hour and 15 hour reservations hour and 15. Just like, this is like, what about two top? He's like, and it's just like, so like, this is like, this fucking guy. My mom's like, I heard him, I heard him. Hour 15. Okay, good. God, dude, don't worry about it, girl. If I was a GM for a long time, too. Yeah, she's in the industry for 18 years. She knows what it's like, but, yeah, like, I was just going through it. Yeah. That's nice. I know it is. Like, just be. Going through it. It was like, oh fuck dude. All right, well he'll be all right. But then we went to Sawgrass, right across the street. Right across the river rather. Yeah. And then they're like, oh, it's probably be like 30, 40 minutes for ten up. It's like, okay, that's all right. But then they like actually we, we can like make a table for you in the car. Like right now I'm like, it's like a high top. That's like yeah that's fine. Okay. Fuck. So no waiting there. So there we go. He. Yeah. The waiting game. It was a waiting game on the mostly. Yeah stuff. The waiting game. So just the anticipation you know. But nothing crazy. Nothing crazy really been going on. Yeah. Yeah. Well that's the whole day I mean, you're, you're when we went to the state fair when we were kids with your mom. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. This day, we like to memories stick out to me distinctly. One. We're on teacups. The teacups spins. Yes. And then it's on a thing that's spinning. Yes. And going up and down. And then we had to stop the ride because your cousin. Yes. Threw up on the ride. Yep. And I was like, oh, I felt bad for her. And then we keep going on the ride to get off the ride, I'm walking. I see a trash can just right. I'll just get let it all out. Yeah. Didn't even know I had to throw up. You made it to the right. You're a good dust. It was crazy. I was like. Hey, there's a trash can. I need. That is. Like so fast. But then the next one really sticks out for sure. Yeah. Yelling at the guy to try to stop the ride. He stopped the ride because my mom was with Caleb. She was like, stop the run. Of it. And then, You know, there's one that's like. And I don't like roller coasters already. I think I already had the Six Flags thing happen at this point. Yeah. And there's a thing that goes like, like a Ferris wheel, almost. But then, like, you're hanging upside down. Yeah. It's just the, it's just like a a car, right? Or it's like multiple, like cars. And then it's like one loop, like there's one loop track. There's a loop. Totally. Yeah. Seemed relatively chill. It's like a little light thrill. Difficulty. Four out of ten. Yeah, I can handle this. But dude, I swear, and I don't think I'm making this up, but we are ascending to the pinnacle and like, the thing holding us down just pops up. And I'm like, yo, we get to, like, upside down. And we're like, holding on to this bar. Like, oh my God, no, don't let go, bro. Like, I thought we were going to die. That's nice. That's about right. Yeah. Dude. The state fair. Yeah. Back in the 90s, it was. Like it was two people to a car. It was just me and you. And then they, like, push the thing down and we're like, locked in, secured. Like we're good. Like, you can be upside down. No problem. And the thing just pops. Up and we're not secured. We're like, upside down. Like, if I would have just been like, not athletic. Go it. Just like go like tumbling around it. Come on. I'm saying yeah, yeah. Then we could take a tumble bro with a concussion city bro. Is he a throw it around it. Fucking loop it. Yeah I've ever getting off the ride like, dude, this is not a game, okay? I was right to be afraid of that rattler. Do people die on roller coasters? Yes. That was the point that I was thinking about. As far as just like roller coasters in general, it happens. It happens way more than zero times. Way more than this. Much more than zero. Way more than zero for sure. I've never seen it. I've never been there. One and a. Half, thank God. I think it's. I want to say I'm not even sure if I've been to a park where it has happened, but maybe it's seven at Six Flags. I'm pretty sure it's happened at six, like I. Think, or I'm. Pretty sure. It's happened in our backyard here in San Antonio, Texas. I know we're getting towards the end of our time here, but I'm not sure I Google that one more time. They give the people some extra context because yeah, that was that was another thing I wanted to talk about was just in general the the Trump stuff with the Iran strikes, the roller coasters or the safety or lack thereof. Because I love them, I love them, I'm here for it. What is it that you like about them? I can't stand them. I think it feels. I like that feeling of like the gut and the gut and the fucking throat, bro. The looking at Putin. I like that dude. Like 99 people have died at parks currently or formerly under the Six Flags umbrella. Oh, damn. So it's across all their parks? Yeah. I'm trying to say there's a San Antonio. Oh. There's got to be at least a couple from San Antonio. They are Six Flags. 100 people have died and Six Flags. It says in 2013, a woman fell 75ft from the new Texas Giant. You know that one is. Now or is out located. In San Antonio. It is? Yeah. Texas Giant. Yeah, they might have closed that one. That ride's. Done. For safety. I never heard of that one. She died. Oh, fuck. Man, your. Seatbelt just doesn't work. You're like, all. Right, guys, my turn. Looking horrible. Horrible thing. To make a joke. About. But yet, dude, it happens to dudes. Awful. Fuck yeah. Yes, super scary bro, but I don't feel that. Okay, that one's in Arlington for clarity. Got it, got it. And they actually shut down the Iron Rattler in Fiesta as a precaution when that one happened in Arlington. Like, okay, let's chill out. Look, that's just in case this. One has the same exact. Specs. Yo, that's, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It says no, people have died in San Antonio. Let's go. That's nice. Come on, girls, for Broussard. If it sounds like it's about time. No, dude, no. I wish I was long last for everybody that goes to amusement parks. Yeah. Oh, I like it. I like the feeling, the thrill. I like the thrill. It feels. You know? It's like it's. It's like, don't drive it in a fast car a little bit, you know? It's like. Murder. I like that feeling right? Yeah, yeah, that feels cool. It's like the same, same type of idea, but you're not controlling it. It's already. It's like predetermined. So you're like, there's there's no like, safer input, you know, like guess like I, I could sit back and enjoy the ride. Yeah. I'll have to control the fucking vehicle. You would think you would like. I would like that more than the car part. But I'm way more interested in driving a car. Yeah, right. Some people are different. Yeah, that's the height thing is another thing to hear up in the fucking. It's scary in the clouds. I feel like I'm paying to get scared. You for sure you are. What the fuck? That's what it is. You're paying for that thrill. That. That feeling, that adrenaline. There it is. There we go. Because I'm not you. Do you? I guess like adrenaline does beat like does get created in like, response to like a horror movie, like a horror film. Because I don't like watching horror films. Like, I want to roller coasters. I like feeling scared in that aspect. I like the feeling of like a thrill and adrenaline, but I don't fuck watching a scary movie. Fuck them. They're dog. Shit. What am I doing them? Usually they're bad. Like, usually they're just bad and like, you're just paying for like, the jump scares or like for the creepy, eerie feeling or like the like watching Freddy Krueger or watching Jason or whoever the fuck I was. I'm thinking of Michael Myers. I think people used to get laid at horror movies, but I think people use them to get laid. Yeah, yeah. If you watch, like, the older horror movies, there's like a lot of boobs out and there's like tits, some innuendo, and then the like, everyone's kind of scared and I think there's want to get people's heartbeat. It's like, you know. Like, okay, real riled. Up. You remember this Halloween or maybe last Halloween I was watching, like, maybe like the first Freddy Krueger OG. Yeah. And like, in the 90s. The 2000. Yeah. Yeah. One like the first one. The early, early ones. And it was just it was like a different thing. I was like, this isn't made to be scary. It's not like I'm petrified over here. Like it was like, I'm like, this is like a goof. Like you're watching it for funsies. Like, I'm not sure what the funsies is. It's like, are. They gonna die? It's like. And then I saw a lot of boobs and a lot of, like, sexual like. Really. Motifs. And I was like, I think people were just using this to, like, kind of get riled. Up, to get cuddled up with the girl or to get snuggled up. Yeah, yeah, get their heartbeat rate. Something, you know, like, cause girls like the. The bad boys. Yeah. The like the danger. They like the werewolves. They do like the vampires. The beast like the billionaire. Yeah. The like the like the. 50 Shades of Gray. The the the pirate. Yeah, yeah. There's some shit going on there, so I think I don't know, you know, I don't know. I like the monsters. So there's something and then. Yeah, like women watch crime podcasts, like true crime podcasts at like a super disproportionate rate. It's like 75% of viewers of true crime podcasts are women. It's like, what is that? And then it's also like the CSI eyes and the the fuckin. Don't, don't, don't know. No law and order. Yeah. Back to law and order. Like, there's something about women are really attracted to those shows. I think it's like they like to be reminded of their own vulnerability. I'm not sure what it is. Yeah, or maybe watching somebody conquer or to set order in a in a place of severe chaos. Yeah. And danger. Yeah, but there's something. To the danger. I think that's part of the sexual like allure for, like, the werewolves in the pirates and the fucking the like the the monster that you'd like to try to tame. I think it's what Jordan Peterson, how he describes it in regards to like, that erotic literature for women. It's like, well, you want something that like. Those stories like. Someone who's really dangerous is also a potentially a great protector. Yes. Yeah. They'll help you from the other dangerous people. Yes. Exactly. Because danger is real. Because women are vulnerable like you are. And so you want somebody that would protect you and that person would need to be ideally like right on the perfect edge of dangerous. And so that's why you can't be like a real flat personality like oh. Why don't girls like me I'm so nice to. Them. It's like they're not into that. Yeah. It's why the writer of Twilight gave the vampire. Like, have you seen Twilight at all? Yeah. I remember, I remember it was a. Phenomenon back in high. Up Harry Potter, dude. And like, It was like Harry Potter popped in the Twilight part. Yeah, right. It was like 2012, 2013, maybe, like, yeah, now maybe a little bit earlier than that. It was like probably 2010 I think is when Twilight was like popping the fuck off. Yeah. Cause I was in high school for sure. And Harry Potter was before that. I was like elementary school, middle school. Harry Potter was popping the fuck off. And then. Yeah, freshman to junior year. I think there's like 4 or 5 Twilight movies. But my wife loves them. She's a person. She read all the books and all that shit. But we watched one of them as I watched it in passing. I know I got this cool thing on fucking Amazon. It's like I saw it on TikTok shop. I bought one on Amazon. It's just like a thing you plug in to your car. If you have CarPlay, it'll let you allow you to do Bluetooth, wireless CarPlay, and then also you can do using your hotspot. You can watch YouTube and Netflix as well. So anything for CarPlay? Yeah, that's what this fucking whippin whippin it was when we took the DJs to Austin, we had like a little fucking trip, a little car time. So like, just watch a fucking movie. This is watch Twilight in that passing time. But yeah, like the did you. Watch it. A little bit? They oh Joe was driving. So true. But like not a lot. I was watching it for sure. I know, I know some of the, some of the plot. No no no. No I just meant like as a driver like. You know. You try probably try not to watch it, but like, I mean, dude, I think I'm up here all the time anyways, when I'm. Driving down right. Here all the. Time, whenever you're driving, like, the car plays like the fucking GPS is, you know what I'm saying? So your your eyes are totally, you know, totally allotted to be that that quick, you know, quick little side up. The side note when I was a kid, my dad had like the iPod video and then had it mounted in his car and then he had all of the office downloaded onto his iPod video before it was like the iPhone. Okay. And so we would watch seasons of The Office while we were driving the two hour drive from my mom to my dad's house, my. And that was like how I first started to consume the office. Before I was watching it, like on Netflix was we'd have to get in the car and then I'd watch like four episodes, right? Yeah, totally. My dad's like not watching it, watching it. It's like, oh, that run, that will happen. Oh that's funny feature man. Yeah, that's cool, that's cool, that's tight. That's like. A core memory as a kid was. How you you had to be young. Dude. Like 11. Damn. Yeah. It was like 20 years ago. Almost totally. I mean, future man. Yeah. Because of my parents, I had to start doing that drive when I was ten years old. So I'm guessing it was when I was 11, but I could be wrong. Could be like 12 or 13, but still right around that point. That's crazy. I mean, it's iPod fucking video like that. Shit doesn't even exist anymore. Yeah, I know. What it is. That was. Like, not all iPods could play videos. Yeah, but then, like, they made one that could not shoot, but then you had to, like, download the movies from iTunes or whatever. You, you know. Yeah. However you consume them and then, then eventually the iPods could play that. If you got an iPod. Yeah, whatever. Anyways. Crazy shit. But Twilight, the author, gave Edward the main like, male character, the fucking main vampire guy. I don't know how to. I don't know how it all plays out. I only watched the first movie, but the he has, like, powers, you know what I'm saying? Like he's not. And some of those powers are like super strength and super speed. Yeah. Like he's not a pussy boy. Now, the first thing he did was save him from the car, right? Yeah. The car was, like, killed her. Yeah. Crushed her. And it's like, then he comes back and scares off these guys and type shit, you know? Yeah. So it's like the author gave that male character those characteristics. It's like, that's what they want you saying. That's what they. Need. They need the danger. Yeah, totally. He can't be no pussy boy. No, I have a nobody. My friend's ex-girlfriend. Like favorite thing to do was to get him to beat someone's ass in the bar. Wait, what? Like what? Of our friends like Julia? Bro. What's up? Julian, I love you. Dog duels. Like his ex-girlfriend. Real toxic relationship. This is like a misappropriation of this thing we're talking about. Would be like, kind of okay with stirring up some drama to get some guys to, like, want to beef with, like, her boyfriend so that he would be, like, drunk and blacked out and then, like, what, these guys ass more or less get into a physical altercation and she, like, got off on that, you know what I'm saying? Because I think she liked seeing her boyfriend be a fucking alpha. Whipped this guy's ass for me real quick. Yeah, it's like fucked up. You shouldn't do that. The danger? Yeah, the danger shouldn't. Be with the girl. That's like that gentleman. But, like. I think that it stemmed from a misallocation of appreciating his danger. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Yeah. I've been able to incorporate it into control it harness instead of that control being. I'm saying it's like, keep it within. That's the ideal. Confines. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Keep it bounded now. Just fucking crazy. That crazy, crazy maniac. Yeah, but some of. The allure of the fucking female shit is worth it. Like, I want to conquer this or, like, tame this fucking vampire, man. He's a crazy vampire, man. He kills people. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but. But I love you. But you could be normal with me. I love you, too. Yeah. Okay. He makes her a vampire. Yeah, that's how it goes. Later on, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. So she could stop aging and whatever the fuck. Be a vampire with them. I have no idea how it goes. I'm sorry. We're butchering this fucking story. Y'all know, but 50 Shades of Gray was a phenomenon for the same reason. Yeah. It's this dangerous, hyper powerful billionaire. Exactly right. Who's got this? Like, not just like, beyond, like, almost crazy side. It's like, that's the thing. It's not just being, like, hyper competent billionaire per se, but it's also like danger involved. Like, I was gonna tie me up, like, do crazy shit to me. I can't, it's just chaotic enough that I can't quite grab it. I can't quite put it into a box. I can't, it's like I can't, it. Can't get the lid on it. Who knows what's going to happen here. I love that shit. You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Over there. Crazy fucking crazy people. Dog. How are you? We can talk about that. What we're talking about. I think the idea is that if a guy was going to come up and assault a woman, a woman wants her man. She wants confidence to know that that man can stop that. I think that's the what's going on there underlying. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're resting on hoping for. Well yeah. Like excited fucking excitable. Show me more. Show me more boobs, ladies. It's like a little bit of boob is like, you know, that's part of the sexual attraction arousal process of men and women. Then guys are like, show me more tits. What I'm saying about the tits to. Misallocation of these things that we're attracted to. It's like we're attracted to a certain amount. But then I think sometimes we want way more than what we, whatever that appropriate line of the chaos is, you know, like. Julian's. Slippery slope. Yeah, exactly. We get, like, all the way down Peter's ass. Beat his ass, boobs us. We really have no governors. We really have no restrictions. We could letter. This is back to what I was talking about. To begin the podcast, we can let our minds get out of hand because it all happens up here and there's no real. No one else is up there with, you know? No, You can't be like, whoa, you're way out of balance with your thoughts. Like, see, someone stops you. You see the manifestation. When you're fucking in the mirror. Like, sometimes it's, like, visible. You know what I'm saying? Yes, but not always. And now that everybody, Damn. So I think that there was a line of consciousness there. I think when we were talking about the missile crisis, Cold war, proxy wars, World War three, and then we began to talk about we like danger, and we were talking about how we we are afraid, you know, like people have self-conscious and anxiety and we like to put a face on it. Maybe a roller coaster is like a healthy coping mechanism for being afraid. I'll be afraid right here. So let me let me take time out of my day to be afraid and get my adrenaline pumping because it's going to pump regardless. So let me let me channel that. And then we have this misappropriation of what we have going on here. Like maybe we have self-conscious thoughts and they get misappropriated. We have fear and it gets misappropriated. It's hard to govern all this in. And then when we get into a position where it's like World War three is happening, it's like, I don't know if that's the we don't know if that's what's really going on. That's just a trendy thing online. Global conflict is a global conflict, definitely. What's going on with Iran and Israel? Israel is crazy. And, what's the other place that's real? Egypt? Other place for what? Like Israel and Egypt? I think we're bombing each other for a little bit before I ran Gaza off. Yeah, yeah, some of that shit's as well. Some of these people are dying so much. People are getting bombed. It's. It is wild out there. It's crazy. We don't know. You know, we don't know the true depths unless you're fucking in the room, bro. Unless you know what's going on. Yeah, and you'd have to have an analyst, like, break it down for you. And even when it's broken down for you, like facts wise, understanding why something happened, like, truly, why did that government do that? Is it really because of what they said? Are they trying to go get oil? Are they trying to get the poppy fields is a 60 year old plan. They got re brought back to light. Why do you bring it back to light. Because he's trying to do some other kind of political, fucking heinous act, trying to seize control. It's like it's so all outside of our perception and control. Yeah. You know influence. We can't really be doing much. No, we work a fucking nine to fucking five unless. You're in the fucking room, dog. Like, unless you're in the shit doing the shit boots. No, I guess not even boots on the ground. Maybe. Like in controlling and communication with the people who are with the boots on the ground, with the fucking. If you're like the Brigadier, the one who's in the war room, or you are the one who's at the fucking meeting with the United Nations, like you don't really know what's going on. None of us do. There's only so many, so few people who handle those things. For us, as a population of America, there's 300 million plus of us. And there's like a thousand people. Maybe. Maybe who are like, actually doing this with other countries and whatever on. Our side, maybe like 15 really know what the fuck's going on. Yeah. We're all just assuming here. Well let's try to figure it out. We're all doing our best. Do some. Good. We're do your best. All right. Here's the thing okay. All you got to your day and you can't really do much that isn't in your day. So here's my advice to you. Just do your day well. Take care of what's in front of you. Have a nice day. The windshield bigger than the rear view for a reason. Because you got to pay attention to what's in front of you. Facts. Avoid them potholes if you can. Oh, yeah. Potholes come and trees coming. What's up? Oh, man. I said one sign off that I just want to mention. Thank you. I don't know how to get. Out of here. No. I'll talk all day. Last time I sign off, that was just in regards to the tank. Early July 4th pod. I think when this drops, it'll be the 30th. So it'll be the weekend before because it is on a Friday this year. July 4th is on a Friday. I guess when this drops will be the 30th. So it'll be this Friday when this comes out. So enjoy your 4th of July. I want to do a 4th of July draft. We do a 4th of July draft next time. So I've seen people do that on Pod. So it's like drafts of that of random Rams Halloween draft. Looks like things about Halloween that make Halloween great. Oh yeah. Okay. What's your first round pick? Bodies of water. Oh, for July 4th, I need to be in a body of water. I take boats, I don't. I'll give you a boat. You can have boat. That's why water can be a pool. You have a boat in the pool. True, true. Five pool. River lake, I. Mean. Oh, Shaquille. Is that under that dude? Firework is up there. Fireworks up there. I love a body of water. For July. I will make it a fantasy football team. Fantasy basketball team. Starting. It's a starting five. Okay. Does they just. Maybe three on the alone? If we have that many things that I'll make July 4th. Amazing swimsuits. Yeah that's up there. That's a good that's a good draft. I mean it's all predicated on water. You know it's all water based. Yeah. Yeah. Fire water is the best bro. Body of water ain't nothing like some. Well yeah. Fucking the the heat. Heat in a body water. Cold drink food, fireworks. That's what all you need. Can I ask one more question before we sign off? Yeah. As Kanye West cooked, can we be fans of Kanye and see all the way done? Was that what you mean? Or like, as far as is he done? Yeah. Like he just released like 15 songs or so. Are we allowed to play those. Minutes after the Hitler stuff? Yes. Yo. Yeah. Right. Is it, is it. He was. He reworded that song. Yeah, I've heard that right. He changed it to Ninja Hallelujah. No, I really it's. What is this? Swear. Hallelujah. Ninja I'm pretty sure. Yeah. I could play for you right now. Hallelujah, Ninja. It was genius. I mean, he's a genius. I mean, that song was terrible. The song was like, you shouldn't play that song. Do you think he made that song with that already ready to go. It fits so perfectly. It's hard for me to think not right. Or was it a response changing? They have crazy backlash. I was like, okay, I'll change it, I'll change it, I'll change it. If it's so perfectly, it's hard for me to believe it. What's that song called? No, no, no. I'm on a two right here. Hallelujah. Right? I think so, right. Let's look up. Hallelujah. I didn't hear the song, but I did hear that he did change it. The song. This is Kanye West. I'm giving commentary. So you can't strike me. YouTube. You can't strike us. Not a strike. This is a reaction. Video streaming. Right? I guess they took my kids from me. Oh, God. You take my bank account. So much anger. I don't know how to take it out. You don't say that on Twitter. It. It's okay. Yeezy to my kids. To see my children stuff. Let's see my Twitter. But then I'll see how I'm feeling on the villain. Okay. Okay. And that's where I used to be, I think. So, It feels he probably had that ready to go. You know what I'm saying? I had it ready to go. He's been great at grabbing our attention. Yep. One of the best ever. Yeah. I feel like he just. All he does is go bigger. Bigger too. Big tower of Babel, brother. Too big. Too much. So, yeah. Do we hate him for that? Yeah. Now, what's the cultural response? If you drive around with your windows down, bumping this down to two or bumping whatever, the one thing somebody that was the. It's called bully. Bullies. What if. It slaps. If you're if you're bumping that, what is someone outside of your car thinking about you. Crazy. So almost the same question with Drake. Yeah, right. What's the social perception of those fanbases? I don't think I don't think I care. I don't give a fuck. I don't think I care. Is that make me an anti-Semite? I don't think so. Nah. Fuck them, fuck them. I fucking the fucking wall. Do you love life? Stay safe. Happy early 4th of July. Eat a hot dog, put on some sunscreen, drink some water. Merica. Fuck, yeah. A lot of Roman candle, brother. An American. Candle. Fuck, yeah. I thought I wrote this shit. New, brand new product coming soon. The American candle. Yes. And it's like a fucking bazooka. Dog and an eagle comes out. I heard that. Be on the lookout. Brainstorming that one. Check. Tick tock shop. I have a great life Peace