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Episode 44: The Two Return
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The guys are back with some chit chat about world events, illness, and more.
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Dealing with Shingles and Health Issues
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and drinking or you got water today This is my antiviral medication. Thank you. Good for you.
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Because I have shingles. Yummy. Lucky you. Yeah. so Adult chicken pox. Adult chicken pox. Yeah. I am pretty much down for anyone coming flaying my skin off with bone at right now. Yeah. No, thank you. Um,
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So basically shingles, I didn't realize this before, but so shingles basically runs along your nervous system.
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And it fucking makes, it's making my chest and my armpit and around my back feel like it's on fire. That sounds fucking horrible. I want nothing to do with that. And also, it makes my teeth sensitive, which is really weird when you have a cup of tea or something.
00:01:27
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That is really weird and random, but it fa it makes sense if it's fucking with your nerves. Yeah, it's fucking weird as shit. Yeah, I don't have any of that. Little has a... she's She gets allergies around this time of year every year. She's been itching a lot, but she got a hematoma in her ear, so I gotta to go take her to the vet tomorrow and see what's up with her itching and see if I can get it to stop so that can heal her.
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If they're going to drain it or what. It's not a big deal. She's not in pain, but she is itchy. So I'm trying to give her baths and stuff, but it's not helping this week. So vet it is. And then the hematoma showed up yesterday.
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Yesterday.
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Yay. Dogs. Yeah. So how did you know she wasn't well? Little. um Her ears that usually stand up like, like.
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Straight up. One of them is kind of flopped at the tip. So I checked it out when I got home after I noticed it in the morning and i and she had a little hematoma. It's just like, ah you know what that is? Yeah.
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So she's got a little sack of liquid. No big deal. She's not in pain. Just want to make sure she doesn't get more infections or something.
Returning to Podcasting and Future Travel
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Hey kids, welcome to Toxic Masculinity with Ian and Stuart. This week it's just us.
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Sorry we've been absent. It's not because we haven't been trying. Just between getting sick and other things going on, we keep getting put on our butts lately. I finally am over my cough completely. As you heard, Stuart's dealing with stuff, but he's feeling good enough to do this. So hopefully we're back on schedule.
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But it's just been ah it's been ah it's been a few weeks. It's been a little rough. But we're here. And hopefully we'll get some guests. I want to get, uh, Stuart and i were talking about getting Johnny back. It'd be cool talk to somebody in Germany again right now. It'd be a very interesting conversation.
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Um, and anybody else? So hopefully got some more, I got some more people that, well, that I am going to ask on that. I've talked to on the side too. So get some more voices on here for you guys to hear. um so Stuart, what's, what you've been doing, man.
00:03:26
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What are your thoughts right now in life? Please don't get me in trouble. I don't want to die. i'm just kidding. Jesus Christ. and
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The world is a dumpster fire. Yeah, pretty much. I'm an abnormal ball of rage and anxiety. More than usual. Yeah.
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um
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Yeah, it's all fucked. Planes are falling from the sky. The world's on fire. Yeah, good times. Nostradamus might have had a fucking point. i got four plane rides coming up in a month.
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Good times. No, I'm great. It's great. It's going to be fine. times It's going to fucking fine. It's going to great. It's going to be great. Yeah, absolutely. Can i take an insurance policy? I don't need that. Probably, man.
00:04:18
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Just make sure you have a party. I don't want any sad stuff. You guys should have a party and make fun of me when I die. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Don't cry. I don't want to see tears. Just be bunch of assholes like your usual. Please. Thank you.
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Yeah. um Yeah, no, i I have been feeling sorry for myself because I have, as I said before the intro, I have come down with shingles,
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which is a bit weird. And I've had it nearly two weeks now, and I'm just exhausted all the time. Yeah. Which sucks.
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And I mean, it was pretty fucking tired before that, which is apparently how you get shingles from being run down and stuff. Oh, I'm surprised I haven't gotten it like 20 times then. Have you chicken pox?
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Yeah, i had it I think I had it twice as a kid. Yeah. So once you have chicken pox, then basically the the virus sits in your nervous system. And if you're run down or stressed or whatever, attacks your nervous system and goes, yeah, I'm going fuck you up, motherfucker. No, I got the other thing that happens instead. So I just, my body tries to kill me instead. So we're fine. Yeah.
00:05:31
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Nice. Good time. So we're both living in the dream right now. Yeah. Well, you know, if I get too stressed out, stress is literally can kill me. So, you know, it's, it's a good time. All those people that in weightlifting and stuff that think not having cortisol is awesome. You're fucking wrong.
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Just so you know. Yeah.
Celebrations and Unique Expressions
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So weird. But in, in other news, um, my oldest e had a birthday today.
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So good, dude. She was so adorable. 12 years old. Dude, you're fucking preteen in it right now, man. Oh, dude, this time next year, I'm going to have an actual teenager. What the fuck?
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um Although she's pretty much like an actual teenager right now. I know. i was going say, him thanks for making me feel old, by the way. She told me today in the car, I was absolutely non-riz.
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I don't really know what that means.
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you know You don't have Riz? No Riz for you? I'm totally non-Riz.
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Oh. I was um you know having fun with her. I was singing to Pink Pony Club by Joplin Rohn. That's a good CPR song. And she took... ah She took umbrage.
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Yeah. Riz is like charisma, apparently. Kind of like an attraction kind of thing. Yeah. Charisma is pretty good way to do it for the for the ah elders of us. Yeah. But most ah I think most kids think their parents are non-Riz.
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as Dude, I mean, we didn't think our parents were cool. So, you know, actually, my parents were kind of cool, but I didn't want to admit it back then. So, I mean, it's just, they're doing the stuff we already did, but unfortunately for them it's not as, it doesn't affect me as much when at least I don't give a shit. I'll learn your lingo and say it back to you and be a dork. I don't care.
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Yeah. It's kind funny. It's funny. learn Dude, she's awesome. Yeah. Does she have a good birthday? You guys do stuff today? um Well, she was at school, and um she wore her It's My Birthday Badge all day.
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Hell yeah, she did. I a lot of happy birthdays in school, she said, and her wee friend got her a present, and she came home, and i had got her some gifty poos, and she opened them, and then we had a bit of a kind of family party thing. Yeah.
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That's cool. A couple of our friends come in from next door and they were dancing in the living room and having a bit of crack and we had cake. Yeah. That's cool, man. Good fun for a midweek shenanigans. She said she had ah the best day.
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That's great. who Can't really argue with that. I still can't believe she's 12. I was going to say, so as ah as a dad with a 12-year-old daughter, are you feeling about the teenage years coming? Nah, she'll be all right.
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That's pretty good then.
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Not too concerned about it? No, not really. Yeah. Not really. She, yeah yeah, she's fine. She, so Cora, obviously everybody knows Cora has autism.
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Yep. Cora always wears a ring on one hand, a ring on the other hand, or bracelets on one wrist or a watch on the other. And she always wears a hairband. Yep. um But her hairband keeps falling down on her forehead.
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and when I was talking to her today, was like, push your hairband up. And she goes, hmm. I says, you do realize you look like Geordie LaForge from Star Trek? And she looked at me going, I don't know who that... And I go, I showed her a photograph of Geordie LaForge. And she goes...
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don't try and change who am. I'm just being me. a I love her so much, dude. i was like, well, that's a fair answer. I love her so much, dude. Don't try and change who am. I'm just being me. I was like, all right, she's going to all right. She's got the attitude and the little ones got the fucking manic. She's got all the manic energy. That's pretty funny.
00:09:23
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Can't wait to see them grow up and like start standing up for each other. It's going to be great. ah great No. Oh, man. Yeah, I don't know, man. There's not much going on. I got to go fly up to New York a couple times, and there's been, what, like six planes falling out of sky so far in over yeah the last four weeks, five weeks? What are you flying there for?
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oh Work. I'm going to get certified in some repair stuff. They're paying for it. It costs like $23,000 for the certification. Right. Jeez. I'm doing like B-certified repair, three different things for work.
00:09:56
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They cost like as... Some of them cost as much as a small car, so saves them, saves them money and allows three of us, uh, three of us will be able to do work on them.
00:10:07
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And if any of them warranties, since we're certified, it won't, won't kill the warranty. It's great. I'm not mad at it, man. It'll be fun. Um, Will you be able to go visit your folks? or I won't get to them because I won't have a car, but I'm only going to be an hour and 15 from Connecticut home. So there's a lot of people that are going to drive over to see me, I think. yeah I'll be there for two different weeks with a week between them because that's just how the classes landed. So people are going to like an hour or two to come see me. So there'll be there'll be a bunch of people coming to say hi.
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um And the people I'm going up where up there with, the the two others are pretty cool. Yeah. yeah I did some scouting and some listeners to the other podcasts live up in the area I'll be at. And they're like, check out this place for like this food in this place. I'm like, cool. That's all I need to know, man.
00:10:56
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So I'm good. I mean, it sucks because I won't be able to get to a proper gym. So I'll have to make use with like no weights, but I'll figure out something I always do. I've been in, I've been in places with very, very few weights and figured it out. So calisthenics.
00:11:11
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Hell no. That sounds like cardio. get your Get your cock chair right and lift yourself off the ground. No, thank you. um So yeah, that's what's going on with that, man. ah Other than that, I don't know, just the last few weeks, tired. Been doing a lot of stuff. This week's been really tired. i've been doing...
00:11:30
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This will be the second podcast this week and the other one that started a little later. did some graphics this week to pick up a little extra money. A friend of mine is paying me for cleaning up some stuff, which was kind of cool. It's kind of a cool project he does.
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um Yeah, man. I don't know. It's been crazy week. Next week is going to be... Next weekend is my dude's birthday. We're go to play. We're to pub golf on Friday, and then I'm going to the rodeo on Saturday, so I'll be watching a rodeo hungover. It's going to be great. did Did you get yourself a cowboy hat?
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No, I went looking a couple places that had shapers, but they didn't have straw hats, really. They didn't have enough, so I haven't found one. I think I give up for now. I'll start looking again later. But it's too hot right now to be doing felt.
00:12:14
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Like right now it's cooling off, but it's going to be like 80 again next week. And I'm not trying to wear felt on my head when it's 80 out at night, you know? Okay. I don't really know what you mean, but fair enough. Felt.
00:12:26
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Like beaver fur.
00:12:29
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Okay. On your hat. That's what the hats are made of. The cowboy hats. All right. The ones people are used to seeing. And then there's, there's straw hats for summer that have vent and they're lighter and. right Okay. so i'm I'm learning you, man. Okay.
00:12:44
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That's good. So how is the yeah how's the general political landscape affecting your mental health right now?
Political Discussions and Mental Health Impact
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I'm just angry a lot.
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I'm not stressed. i'm I'm angry a lot, but um generally also in kind of a holding pattern because... There's so much shit going on at once.
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Good, bad, mixed bag of things. i you you can't really can't really stress out until you see how the other stuff like fleshes out. You know what i mean? like Between courts and decisions being made in the government.
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I don't know, man. It's just super uncertain. i don't like some of the stuff that's happening at all because of what's happening to just... like Average citizens are just trying to go to work.
00:13:32
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Yeah. People trying to just buy shit. I don't know, man. Yeah. It's fucking weird. It's a weird time to be alive. It's very weird. And it's not just affecting you people.
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I know. It's affecting everywhere now. I know. I mean, that shit that went on this week with... Putin. Yeah. oh yeah All the conferences this week. Trump.
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um Jesus Christ. like Even the vice president, the shit he was saying, people just like didn't even applaud for the crap he said. i'm just Oh my God. think every European leader thinks he's a fucking bellend. He is a fucking bellend,
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Yeah. Shocking. I'm just like, i am I am totally in shock that this is even happening. Yeah. I just, I wish... I understand people's desire for change, but I also wish more people had
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broader sense of scope for the entire world and actually took the time to reach out and speak to other people. and didn't just like lock down in what they're fucking think is right.
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And it's getting harder and harder to do that unless you know people outside of this country. who It's such a small world if you want it to be, you know what I mean? I'm just astounded by talking to some people and them going, you know, yeah, I mean, they they're being positive about the shit that these fucking cunts are doing.
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And you're like, do you Do you not live in the real world? This is affecting real people. you know problem The problem is right now is all the legacy in mainstream media is falling in line. So there's no, there's not much dissent for people that actually get a balanced, balanced view on anything and unless you just search for it.
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And to be honest, man, and to be fair to most Americans right now, like people don't have time for that shit. Mm-hmm. and it just makes it worse. And then they get sucked in their information silos, like everywhere else on the planet, no matter what you believe, like it's easy to fall into that, no matter what your belief is. Like, even outside of NFL punter.
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Yeah. The Viking. Yeah. who Yeah. Civil disobedience. Yeah. Lay down and got immediately arrested and carried out. Yeah. Lay down and immediately got arrested for protesting against, uh,
00:16:06
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MAGA plaque on a library. Something along the lines. I mean, two things I would never put together would be MAGA and a fucking library. But anyway. I mean, to there's there's people that are starting to change their opinion, people that regret voting for him i mean, whatever your stance is, dude, like...
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You have to, the thing is here is people, not even just here, but the thing is some people, and this again goes on both sides. This is like discussing an information silo kind of effect, but people think they're doing research, but all they're doing is confirming their belief.
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So you're not doing research unless you try to disprove the thing you think. So if you can't find both sides and then make your mind up, then you're not actually doing research. You're just drilling down further the hole, no matter which side you're on.
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And you should know, and matter what you choose, you should know what the other side is thinking and you should be able to have a discussion And it shouldn't devolve to like dumb trolling and name-calling shit.
00:17:10
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This is like affecting people's lives. like Farmers are getting fucked over right now again, potentially. like yeah There's so much shit going on, and people are just so unaware.
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Like, the ah like fucking we're going to get refund checks for taxes that wasn't that weren't even spent, that they didn't even find? like What the fuck are you talking about, people? Yeah.
00:17:36
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I mean, i don't understand, man. People are just out of it. Like, we had people in place that were doing what, like this. They're called inspectors general. That's what their job was.
00:17:47
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We closed down places that benefited us, that cost a billion dollars to run and pulled in $21 billion dollars back to us, the people, protected us, and that's gone. Like, it's just fucking insane, dude. I mean...
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If this is what you want, if this is what you voted for, fucking kudos to you. But it is not what I want. It does not feel like freedom to me. Yeah. But it feels like, m obviously, I'm on the outside, you're on the inside, and we're both feeling the mental health effects of the news bombardment.
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ah the very on the very shallow end of it, never mind actually thinking about what's happening. Yeah. But we're both feeling that, which means we're not going to be the only people feeling that particular mental health bombardment of what the fuck is going on at the moment right around the world. is like And then you've got your new health secretary or whatever you call them, RFK Jr. Yeah. am Basically trying to get rid of antidepressants and antipsychotics.
00:18:51
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Yep. It's going to great. What the fuck? I don't know, dude. bizarre.
00:18:58
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Dude, the stuff that is happening and the people that are in charge of things just make no sense. I mean, there are dangerous people in charge of some things, too, and people are just unaware. they don't want to believe it, and they don't know. I don't know, man. like um You are position.
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you are in a you are also in ah in a position similar to me but the opposite where you have many American friends, but you're also on the outside. So you get a lot more perspective than even I do trying to dig for stuff from outside of the country. So what do you see going on? Because I might be fucking wrong. You know what i mean? Like, I'm totally willing to accept that I'm going to be completely fucking wrong with what I think.
00:19:36
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um i mean, I might be wrong too. you That's fair enough. I have to understand that I might be wrong. But... I don't really think that I am because it just
00:19:53
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screams propaganda and madness. They're throwing so much shit at the wall to make everything batshit. That's the point. That you kind of wonder what their game is, you know?
00:20:06
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Well... Depending on who you listen to and believe, they're basically just checking off fucking Project 2025 shit. but Yeah. Which they said they weren't doing. Yeah, of course. But his name's in the fucking thing like 300-something times. so um But honestly, dude, like I might be wrong. Maybe in the end it'll turn out fine. i just don't have that feeling. like Everything in my gut, knowing what I know, talking to the people I talk to...
00:20:33
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Listening to things on both sides and I do talk to people that are opposite of me because I want to get their perspective I just don't know what people are thinking anymore man, and it feels a lot like um It feels a lot like gas, like you're being gaslit.
00:20:48
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Like there's uncertainty because there's so much shit barraging you at once, but you're grasping on the things that like, that you have already put trust in because they're being brought to you by people you've, I've tried to debunk, for example.
00:21:03
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Yeah. Tried to say that this, like try, I try, try really hard to debunk things before I make a decision, which is why it's so hard for me to keep track of everything. it's hard for me to do continuing arguments because I'm always trying to read so much and it's like, i only have space for so much shit or something.
00:21:18
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I don't know. But, uh, Yeah, dude, I don't know. I'm just angry. i'm mostly take the rest of the fucking whoever's in charge, take all that shit out of it. But knowing that people are suffering and knowing that I have friends in the government that are dealing with bullshit, like these are people I care about. Like, I don't even care who the name of the person is in charge. Just at a ground-based level, people being stressed out about if they're going to have a job or not, or if it's going to be safe to travel, or if it's going to be safe to do this, or...
00:21:48
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Are they going to have support if something goes wrong in their job? Like, these are things that have been long part of the government. Like, I don't even give a fuck if you're right wing or left wing. I just, just looking at the baseline of my neighbors and my friends and the people I know that are just trying to live in this world and don't give a fuck about politics necessarily, how it's affecting them.
00:22:10
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Yeah. It just seems like, um, um,
00:22:15
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Very strange. It's just really weird. And the amount of people that are coming out and going, hold on, I like that he was doing all this stuff, but now it's affecting me. I'm not happy about it. And you're like, well, we tried to tell you, man. I just don't understand how people haven't had any empathy at all before that um until it affects them. It's so weird.
00:22:38
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Out of sight, out of mind, dude. Well, I mean, look at now, too. Like, all of a sudden, they're trying to spin that Ukraine started this war. Like, yeah we all saw it. Yeah, I know. We all watched it.
00:22:49
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Yeah. We watched it start. Like, what do you mean? i know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Zelensky's fault. He started it. and He forced Russia to invade their country.
00:23:00
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Yeah. That's totally how things happen, too. i Honestly, with were I think... It feels like we're on the other side of the mirror, dude. i feel like we're headed into an absolute shitstorm.
00:23:12
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Yeah, I know. Do you know what mean? do have some faith the protesting is happening here in the country. People are starting to change their minds a little bit. I'm seeing stuff like that happen. Who knew fucking America and Russia would be the axis this time around? Dude, fuck off. fucking The weird thing is, is I don't even think it's the majority of this country. It's just the government.
00:23:35
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Because he didn't even win. Here, you don't hear you don't make people pledge allegiance to the fucking flag every day for 100 years without knowing that if the government goes to war, you're all going to stand behind them. That's what unbridled patriotism does.
00:23:50
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That's why you have flags everywhere. That's how that fucking works. That's called nationalism. Yep.
00:23:57
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What was saying? I was saying something before you said that. don't even remember now. Fuck. um Axis half the population. Yeah, I don't i don't think.
00:24:09
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Oh, yeah, yeah. He didn't even win the popular vote. He got the plurality, but he didn't even get 50% of the vote. He lost the popular vote. So even from the starting line with fewer people voting, he didn't even have the majority of the of the country that voted. You know what i mean? It's just because it got split three ways instead of two.
00:24:27
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Um, so I have a hard time believing and accepting that the majority of this country backs what he does. And it doesn't, the polls that I've seen back that, that thought up.
00:24:39
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yeah doesn't mean they're accurate again i'm more than willing to accept that i might be fucking wrong and i might be the one getting gaslit and everybody else is right but it doesn't feel right to me my brain unfortunately is going to some serious doom and gloom do you know what mean and i can see the shit really hitting the fan i'm trying really hard to not go there and just kind of look at things objectively and try to be more logical than panicky.
00:25:05
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You know what i mean? ah know. I'm trying very hard to keep my head. Huh? I'm too pretty to go to war. like I can't, so... Yeah. No, I probably can't either. either I'm, I'm too mentally imbalanced.
00:25:18
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So yeah. Yeah. I'm just trying to keep an even head, man. I'm trying to do my best to keep, keep my head in, in trying to learn what I can. and I think the thing that helps the most is to see, try to find things that I see as positive.
00:25:31
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I mean, unfortunately for us in this country, judicial pace is fucking slow. liking seeing the people that are actually standing up for your fucking rights. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, people are. and People that are actually standing up and going, no, fuck this shit. that's yeah It's about time. How you don't do that more, I have no idea.
00:25:48
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the People are lost in it, dude. People don't... It's crazy. three It used to be the top 1% of this country had 50% of the wealth. Three people now have more wealth than 50% of our country.
00:26:02
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know. And for people that think there's no corruption... ah Bezos got, since the election, since Trump took office, Bezos has gotten over $20 billion. dollars who ah Zuckerberg's got over $50 billion and Elon Musk has made over $100 billion. dollars So if there's no corruption, explain that to me.
00:26:22
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i know. It's crazy. And for people to honestly believe that these people are rich and they're not taking anything from doing what they're doing, you're fucking mental. I don't know anybody that's gotten that rich by being a good person.
00:26:38
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And I would like to point out those numbers came from Bernie Sanders this week, I believe. um Yeah, he he definitely parroted those numbers for sure. And repeated those. Yeah. Yeah, but it's but it's it's the it's the Mexican immigrants that are that are your problem. Yeah, yeah guess it's always somebody else. um no The fact that the first things that that Musk went after killed 32 investigations into his companies, his companies pull in $8 million dollars a day from government contracts. the defense is The defense spending is the only thing that's not really been cut since he started all this crap. It's fucking... It's just insane, dude. I i honestly don't know...
00:27:19
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if I'm fucking on the wrong or right side anymore, but I just keep doing what I believe. You know what mean? Like, it's just so hard to keep track of everything. And again, I'm willing to admit if I'm wrong, then I'm fucking wrong. It is what is. If it looks like a fascist and smells like a fascist, it's a fascist.
00:27:36
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So what kind of stuff are you guys seeing from like other, because you get more news than we do from other countries, I'm sure. Yeah. What are you guys seeing over there? Just so i maybe people, Americans here can relate to some stuff.
00:27:47
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Well, the stuff about Ukraine has freaked a lot of people out. And ah Europe's going, I mean, the European Parliament have been going, right, we need to fucking sort this shit out here because yeah yeah we can't have this. We can't have Russia getting away with this because next stop is Poland.
00:28:08
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And we know what happens when people invade Poland. It's always Poland. Do you know what I mean? We've been here before, twice. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, so there we go. And then you had your vice president over here talking absolute bollocks.
00:28:27
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Fucking bollocks. And it's just crazy. it's it's It's just lunacy. I've heard ah Canada made a deal with the European union Union for oil so they can stop buying so much from us.
00:28:41
Speaker
Yeah, but ah you buy most of your oil and gas from Canada. so Yeah, well, we produce a shit ton.
00:28:52
Speaker
I heard natural gas, the shipping out of natural gas is going to increase threefold, so the prices on that are probably going to go up for us. um I mean, we make, um we were breaking records the last few years with oil production. So I don't know what people fucking want.
00:29:08
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The CEOs are starting to pull back now. So like that shit's going to get more expensive no matter what anybody else does. So the price of oil isn't up to you. It's up to, it's not up to us at all. But I mean, back um mostly that's the Saudi Arabian countries.
00:29:22
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Yeah. But I mean, there there is some bearing on what we do. Like refineries being here can it cost, they increase the cost of gas for us, for example. Like if we don't have refineries, like it's really to the point where I've heard California is looking into getting into refineries as a state, which if anybody has the manpower and the capital to do it, I mean, they're basically their own country. So yeah if they do that, that might be good for that state. You know what I mean?
00:29:50
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On another note, have you watched the movie, um, civil war? Yeah, I did, but I have to watch it again. Christ. Like the ah the way they did it through like a media kind sight line.
00:30:02
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It was pretty cool. It was very interesting.
Cultural Preferences in Food and Cooking Shows
00:30:04
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Me and the lovely Siobhan watched it a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. And it was really good. um The cast were great.
00:30:12
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It was really beautifully shot and beautifully done, but also fucking terrifying. Yeah, yeah. Because, you know... Yeah. that's i It's not...
00:30:24
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unbelievable. Do expect that's high it would go? Yeah, it's pretty... It could be. I mean, it's too hard to guess on stuff like that here, so um And the other completely different news, man, I started watching a show called The Pit on HBO Max. Have you seen any of that?
00:30:43
Speaker
No. It's an emergency room drama. Oh, it's not based on the old 1980 horror movie? No, no, thank God. I do love that movie. I don't want them to remake it, though. um No, so it's it's ah the cool thing about it is not only are like a lot of the dosing and stuff that that I hear them call for kind of correct.
00:31:04
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i mean, they do do some things that are not there, but like that wouldn't happen in the yeah ER. Yeah. It is an overrun ER and they have, uh, every episode is an hour of the shift, which is kind of cool.
00:31:16
Speaker
Oh, it's not like day to day. So every episode you get an hour of real time shift. Yeah. It's pretty cool. So it's like, what was it? 24 was like that. Yeah. Yeah. So they do it like that, but it's a drama and,
00:31:28
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It's really good. Like there's a dude, there's some funny stuff that actually happens. Like one dude keeps getting blood on him and he's changed his scrubs like three times, like stuff like that. But then there's also like things that happen that are kind of more serious.
00:31:40
Speaker
But if you're looking for something and you like, like, uh, like medical kind of drama shows, it's, it's really good, man. I I'm very much enjoying it. I just started watching it on a whim. I'll be honest, the last medical drama that I watched would have been Grey's Anatomy.
00:31:57
Speaker
Yeah. But we stopped watching it. It got a little long in the tooth, man. Yeah, ah but basically we had we stopped watching it after my father-in-law passed away of COVID.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah. And they started doing the COVID episodes. couldn't watch it It was too much. Yeah, I get that. I still rewatch House. I haven't really watched a medical drama since, to be honest with you. It just, ah it was too hard in the, in the head really from that point of view, which is kind of interesting.
00:32:30
Speaker
I've been watching clips. There's lots of clips of House at the moment on the old Instagram and the reels and shit. Dude, I fucking love House. I still rewatch House. I fucking love that show. It was so good. Like, Dude, I mean, you couldn't do better for a medical Sherlock Holmes. And I mean, honestly, Wilson house and House... Yeah, and Wilson and House are like the perfect best friends. They're fucking amazing. It's one of the best like buddies yeah buddies on TV, in my opinion. They're so good together.
00:32:55
Speaker
it was so good. Dude, yeah, I think you should try The Pit, man. There's there's ah I don't want to ruin too much for you, but there's a point where an ambulance gets stolen and they start taking bets on who took it and how far the ambulance will get.
00:33:07
Speaker
Like shit like that happens. Right. okay Okay. Nice. So there's some funny shit. mean, the ER is like ER. I think it takes place in Pittsburgh and they call the ER. That's what, and like one of the, one of the hospital staff comes down there. It like, i told you not to call it that. And he's like, whatever.
00:33:22
Speaker
who but Yeah, it's crazy. The waiting room's, like, stacked, so there's drama in the waiting room, too. like shit like Like, people waiting to come back in that keep getting sent back out after they check something on them and stuff like that. really good, man. I really enjoying that. shall check it out. What am I watching? I'm not watching anything. Oh, the only thing I'm watching is... ah um I'm on ah still on a bit of ah a weird run on YouTube. on I find these these dudes that do like a like a cooking channel.
00:33:56
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on YouTube called Sorted. S-O-R-T-E-D. They've got two chefs and two normals, as they call them. Normies.
00:34:08
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Home cooks. The normies. And they will test kitchen gadgets, old-fashioned, old-timey gadgets that they've got from fucking... antique shops and all this shit gadgets from wish and timu.
00:34:24
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and And then they'll do like cooking competitions. They'll go, right. This is that they'll basically like to do this really good thing to go. Okay. These are the ingredients and this is what the normal is getting.
00:34:36
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These are the ingredients. And then they give the same ingredients to the chef yeah and show you what the chef does with them. And you're like, well, fuck me. That's really interesting. But they also have a bunch of game shows.
00:34:48
Speaker
That they do through this thing. And one of them is called Poker Face. Oh, shit. So they had a ah poker face, which was all chili based.
00:35:00
Speaker
So they have to eat whatever the fuck's put in front of them. And they're not allowed to fucking show it on their face at all. Like, nothing. That's But what they did one, they did a Poker Face episode with five different types of tinned fish.
00:35:15
Speaker
Oh. And the last one was just thrumming. no. Which is the fermented shark that tastes like piss. no. No. i the guy who's ah the site is todjule And on be Poker Face, and his eyes going,
00:35:36
Speaker
yeah And me and Siobhan watched it one night, and literally, I think I fucking hurt a rib. I was a laughing that much. It was so fucking funny. I'll have to check that out. I also enjoy ah the Australian metal dude, and that's what I reckon. fucking love that I don't know who that Oh my god, dude.
00:35:53
Speaker
He hates like... He hates, like, canned sauce and all this shit, and but he curses the whole time, and he's, like, a wicked smartass when he's cooking. this the guy that goes, just fucking stick it in the bowl? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen his clip. He's, like, shoving your face, shoving your face, or shoving your mouth and shit like that. And he's, like, fuck it.
00:36:09
Speaker
Stuff like that, dude. He's so fucking funny. Um... Yeah, that's so good, man. Yeah, I like it when you go down a wee rabbit hole of fun stuff. It's good.
00:36:20
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I have found myself down the British spud tram fucking rabbit hole somehow on TikTok. Spud tram? Like the trucks where they sell potatoes, like jacket potatoes. yeah, baked potatoes.
00:36:33
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Yeah. So between spud bros and spud man and little spud, and I'm like... damn, now I want to go back to Universal because they have jacket potatoes and I can get beans and cheese on one. well There used to be a place in Belfast that was like and at the top of the Golden Mile, they called it. wasn't really Golden Mile, but it's where a lot of pubs and stuff were open Friday, Saturday night.
00:36:54
Speaker
And it was called Spuds. Yeah, dude. I kind of want to say shit now. Yeah. But i don't i buy I'm going to let you into a wee secret here. Yeah, yeah. I don't like baked potatoes. What a horrible Irishman you are. i know. I love potatoes. Calm the fuck down. I'm not going to fucking let them go. but i but I think the skin, the flavor of the baked skin does something weird, and I just don't dig it. I don't dig it at all. I was going to say, the way they make them, it seems like they're really fluffy and soft on the inside. Oh, yeah, they're really fluffy and soft inside, but the skin does something weird to the flavor, and I can taste it, and i don't like it. I don't dig it. i don't fucking dig it.
00:37:34
Speaker
Just give me a mashed potato. or a bone potato, or chicken potato. I mean, technically, you could still make a... Or a russet potato. You could make a fucking mashed potato and put this... Not a pank potato. Not a pank potato.
00:37:45
Speaker
It's very gross. so You could just fucking make a mashed potato put the same shit on top of it. It'd be fine. It'd be fine. yeah Yeah, I mean, over here, like, we do, like, the bacon and sour cream and butter, but, like, you guys do, like, the fucking crazy shit on there. Beans and cheese. Beans and cheese, and some Spud Bros was doing tuna, and fucking, I've seen chili con carne, and fucking chicken and mushrooms, and I'm like, Jesus Christ, i want you to eat this crap.
00:38:09
Speaker
bosh When you say that, chili con carne. Chili con carne. Dude, I'm like, fucking moberry chili ku con I wish I could sound like Matt Berry intentionally.
00:38:23
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ah that Oh, here's an interesting one. some that Just because it popped into my head. So yeah um in Ireland and the UK, when we have chili con carne, or chili con carne, as we would call it, and we have it in a bowl with white rice.
00:38:42
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. uh i'm so i made this for holly and rich when they were over the first time they were over and they were like what the fuck are you doing with the rice was like what do you mean what the fuck am i doing we have a rice and they were like you you just have chili and i was like what No rice?
00:39:05
Speaker
We do rice. You do rice? Okay, so now I'm really confused because they were like, no, no, we don't do rice. No, my family does rice or cornbread for the bottom. Okay. well then they were like Or you can do rice.
00:39:18
Speaker
You can just put it in the bowl too, but like I grew up putting either rice or cornbread and is what we used on ours. And my dad's from like... redneck area so i mean i figured figured yeah we did we did both of those i always had that all right well that's that's okay well that's so that you're not the weirdo it's the two of them it's the two of them fuck them yeah i like ah a nice and a a little white rice with some lime zest put through it it's good nice chili it's good nice nice jasmine rice yeah don't really jasmine rice i find a little too perfumy
00:39:53
Speaker
ah The stuff I get isn't too bad. Otherwise, I would too. I would agree with that. But I also like to throw... like this is suddenly turning into a cooking show. um I like to throw like a chicken, like a bouillon or something in the in my rice to give it a little more flavor.
00:40:08
Speaker
Bouillon. Bouillon. I like to do that with my rice sometimes. i'm doing my It's weird when we start talking about food, I'm doing my turned on voice. by Yeah. I don't know, man. Other than that, dude, I've just been watching lots of debates.
00:40:23
Speaker
Yeah, I've been watching lots of Brian Taylor Cohen because he explains shit real well about the fuck he's gone. He's got the lawyers that come on.
00:40:35
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yeah I've been watching um Pondering Politics with Josiah. He's pretty interesting. He's pretty good. He's a smaller channel too. Midas Touch over took Rogan. I never thought I'd see that day.
00:40:48
Speaker
i don't know if it's going to last, but Rogan isn't number one right now. Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of clips of him or any videos a lot recently. there's um in a kind of He's kind of taking a hard nosedive into White Knighton for Elon, his buddy, and I think that's pissing off some of his fans, but I don't know.
00:41:07
Speaker
I don't know. i don't pay attention. I don't watch Joe Rogan. I only watched a few like guests that I was curious to hear from, like Henry Rollins and stuff. Or Neil deGrasse Tyson or somebody like that.
00:41:21
Speaker
People that I find interesting. Yeah, well, I always watch Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's good. Yeah, he's good. There's good one at the moment. Him and Professor Brian Cox talking. Yeah, he's got his own good stuff. yeah to Neil deGrasse has his own podcast, right? With some people on StarTalk.
00:41:37
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. it really good too He always talks to interesting people and not just about kind of spacey science. Yeah, he's actually a little more interesting than that. in the broad spectrum He's just a smart and interested he's a smart and interested person. so being curious is cool. I like that shit.
00:41:56
Speaker
A lot of people aren't as curious as they fucking should be.
Exploring Patriotism and Cultural Identity
00:42:00
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ah know. i like I like to know. i like to see. like to try things.
00:42:07
Speaker
So i don't know I don't know. got my horny voice again. o you like to try things. I like to try things. Is that what Siobhan has to listen to? Yeah. Jesus Christ.
00:42:21
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Roll over.
00:42:26
Speaker
That's really not. It's like, excuse me, would you mind? The one thing I do here, we can talk about masculinity a lot, is the podcasting. um Even on TikTok, the guys that are doing debates on there, a lot of people when they get cornered and they they do the, they start trying to out masculine people with the bullshit. Like, you sound like, you don't got no testosterone. I'm like, the fuck does that have to do with anything? What does that mean?
00:42:54
Speaker
It's just because they try to like insult them by saying that kind of stuff. And I'm like, it makes me want to get on there with my voice and just be like, what the fuck are you talking about? You sound like me when I was 12. Yeah. i want That's people lashing out because they either A, can't have a good argument or they don't have a good argument. or they can't or won't accept what's being said to back to them. Yeah.
00:43:19
Speaker
Because it shatters their worldview, which is understandable to an extent. But it's just weird to take those kind of tactics. Like, if you want to debate somebody, have a talk, man. Don't be a fucking weirdo about it. just Just have a conversation.
00:43:34
Speaker
but don't It should be an exchange of ideas. It shouldn't be you, like, just insulting somebody because they disagree with you. So do you think we could get a MAGA head on here and get ideas on masculinity? I don't know how that would go.
00:43:49
Speaker
i mean, we maybe could do it. I don't know that would go. Depends on the person, I guess. I have... I have pretty civil conversations with people. I mean, somebody I was talking to and they're like, ah well, they're raising kids to not like care about the country. And I'm like, he's like, you know, like stopping the pledge of allegiance. I'm like the pledge of allegiance isn't what makes me love my country.
00:44:09
Speaker
Like that doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. Like I don't love the country cause of the national anthem. I love my country. Because of the history. I know we have fuck ups, but we've also done some incredibly amazing things. And we've showed up for people and showed up for ourselves at times. But the thing that they don't seem to understand is you love your country because that's where you happen to be born.
00:44:28
Speaker
Yeah, but also... mean, if you were born in another country, you would love there just as fucking much. I think the thing that people misunderstand is that loving loving your country is like loving a person. You have to know and accept the flaws. Yeah.
00:44:42
Speaker
You have to know the full story or at least the try to if you can't. I mean, none of us can actually know because none of us were there, but have to at least try to and you have to love the faults and accept the faults and do what you can to like either mitigate or if you can even mitigate at this point, you know, you have to accept that we're not fucking perfect.
00:45:02
Speaker
But you can't, in my opinion, you can't truly love the country unless you actually know the country. Being like, walking around with fucking 50 American flags on your shirt doesn't make you any more patriotic or love your country any more than I do.
00:45:15
Speaker
I mean, honestly, if you want to fucking talk, my whole chest is a giant fucking American flag. So, I mean, it's got other stuff with the flag, but... It's tattooed on me, man. Like, fuck your t-shirt.
00:45:26
Speaker
Blind patriotism is insane. Blind patriotism is insane. don't get it. Yeah, I just, I don't know. just, I think, like I said, I think the biggest thing people overlook is it's just like a person. Like, you have to know and accept the flaws.
00:45:43
Speaker
You have to learn from them if you can't it. He's the greatest country in the world.
00:45:49
Speaker
I mean, he said sarcastically. I know. I just can't even say it right now, but I, even in the mess we're in right now, i still love my country. I was raised here. i am an American. i mean, I have German and Italian background, but it's still my country.
00:46:04
Speaker
Other countries have gone through this kind of shit. right okay here and as People have probably said this. People definitely said this before, right? For a country that fucking loves your country that much and the users are so patriotic and vitriolic about your love of your country and the greatest country in the world. And that's my flag and fucking America and all this shit.
00:46:29
Speaker
He is never just say you're American. These are always Irish American or Italian American or German American or whatever the fuck American. You're never American.
00:46:40
Speaker
So I think deep down really you fucking know that is bullshit too. Yeah, but I mean, I never actually went up to it. If I was in your country and somebody asked me what I was, I wouldn't tell them I'm German and Italian. I would say I'm American.
00:46:54
Speaker
do You wouldn't have to ask. I understand. Well, they might, that there's a slight chance they might think that I'm a crazy Canadian for half a second. they no No, definitely not' not that i'm not. I'm not, but I'm saying like if somebody asked me and I'm in another country, but like here, it's very common for people to be curious about their backgrounds, but also it's because In our deepest roots. There's no other country that does that.
00:47:18
Speaker
Yeah, I know. But you gotta you got to remember, like we separated ourselves when people came over here. So our culture split into their own little neighborhoods, their own groups. So it's kind of like... Yeah, but that happens. That's not... just saying. like' saying That happens everywhere.
00:47:32
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, it's it's newer. It's still new for us compared to the rest of the world. True. You know what i mean? like It's not that far in our history. where like Even where I grew up... There was a lot... Like, my town that I grew up in was a lot of Jewish people and a lot of Italians.
00:47:48
Speaker
Like, it's still kind of like that in some places. So it's still kind of part of the culture and fabric here. It's just a weird... It's just... It's just weird.
00:47:59
Speaker
I can't... There's no other country in the world that does that. understand that, but it's also because... Like I said, like even in our country, and I'm sure it's there too, but like there's there's still like little Italy, little Ireland, little Chinatown. We still have these little areas that are specifically for those cultures, and people have pride from that stuff still. Yeah, but I guess that...
00:48:23
Speaker
ah been But it also goes into like the whole basis of our country is a melting pot. So I kind of get why people do it. I just read don't. The every country is melting though. I know, but I'm saying like, it's part of the fabric of like what built us is like everyone always like, this is the great melting pot of the world. Like it's kind of the mythology portion. So it kind of makes sense to me in that, in that way.
00:48:42
Speaker
I'm not saying it doesn't happen anywhere else. You always do that. I'm not saying it doesn't happen anywhere else. I'm just saying it's way newer here. You got to remember like your countries over there are fucking way older than ours.
00:48:54
Speaker
That's true. Like way, not even a competition, ah much older. i know. So I think it's still, still some of that, like the ripples of that shit still being here. literally drink in a pub that's 150 years older than your country. I know.
00:49:09
Speaker
I know. That's kind of funny. Yeah. it's crazy dude but i'm just saying like as far as the world goes it's this country's super young still it's like adolescent maybe definitely at the moment yeah but yeah i i think that all comes from that i mean there's still pride in where people's roots are too like people are still there's people that are still proud to be italian and i mean we have our own version of italian accents here in new york and stuff like do you understand the point that i'm making it does seem a little weird I totally get it. and And I agree that it, especially outside, but it's part of the culture here. Like, yeah, I know, but you just kind of go, and it's, suck it's off on it's also mostly tied to like Europeans. It's not really, it's not really other, other kind of nationalities. Cause I'll let you in the sake of this fucking nothing. We love more than hearing, Oh, I'm Irish.
00:50:01
Speaker
I know you fucking always go off. No, you're not. My friend, Ak, who's been on here, is definitely Irish, but only by culture. That is most definitely an Irish name. yeah Yeah, for sure. yeah And I guess he does have the head for it.
00:50:17
Speaker
Dude, he's got the red beard. Well, his beard's turning white now, but he's got red hair on his beard. I'm probably going to edit that out because I don't want to give his full name. But... Yeah, man. I mean, I don't know.
00:50:30
Speaker
Just a bunch of little fucking chat. We'll have, hopefully not so depressing next time, but we'll have
Podcast Themes and Humorous Anecdotes
00:50:34
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some more people on. mean, we will try. There is going to be an abnormal amount of political ah discourse, I would say, because it does have a big effect on most people's mental health.
00:50:44
Speaker
and Yeah. And it's weighing heavily on people, no matter what side you're on. And again, man, said. And it's weighing heavily on us, and it's good for us to discuss it together. It is, but also... you if maybe if we can put a bit of...
00:50:57
Speaker
insight or insight out there that other people find interesting or useful or want to discuss back with us, then I'll be doing it. I'm just here for exchanging thoughts and ideas. I mean, and like I said, I'm perfectly willing to admit I might be wrong. I don't really know 100%. just know what I think. Well, yeah, i'd like to I'd like to say I would admit that I'm i'm wrong, but think historically... not admitting it. I'm just saying I'm open to it. Historically, I'm always right.
00:51:23
Speaker
so Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh man. All right. We're going to go guys. We're going to have somebody else. Come on next week. I'll find somebody or Stuart will have, I really hope Johnny comes on. I think that's Johnny. I'm just waiting for, um, to come back with the date.
00:51:38
Speaker
And here, by the way, what is the, um, Oh, what's the manliest thing you've done this week? Um, Hmm. That's a tough question this week.
00:51:54
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um I threw beads at Mardi Gras at kids at Universal Family Family Mardi Gras. And there was kids that were way in the back that couldn't get to the front. So I was potentially trying to hit the kids.
00:52:06
Speaker
Here's your fucking beads, kids. You're trying so hard. That's good shit. Yeah, I was trying to do that for the kids. So I, uh, sang and danced to pink, uh, pink pony club, pink pony club by the lovely chapel room.
00:52:23
Speaker
Yep. Good for you with my now 12 year old daughter. It's a 107 BPM. I think that's a good CPR song, dude. So, Oh, nice. So if somebody drops around, you just start singing pink pony club and doing CPR. Yeah. This is the weirdest near-death experience I've ever had.
00:52:40
Speaker
Well, they used to teach Staying a Alive. Which, I mean, works because Staying Alive. And there's ah there's people that put together whole playlist of songs that are in the right BPM. So it's kind of fun to go through and see what other things you can sing. That's funny.
00:52:56
Speaker
Oh, man. All right, guys. We'll talk to you soon. We'll have a guest. Hopefully it won't be all doom and gloom, but you know there's going to be a lot of wading through and questioning things and trying to sort some shit out with what's going on on the planet right now. so Speak to you next week. We love you all. Later, guys.
00:53:11
Speaker
Have a good week. Bye.