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Getting Ripe
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Thoughts on crossing an important age threshold.
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Introduction to Lance
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I met this guy named Lance. The first thing I noticed about him is, he looks like someone who jerks off a lot. There is something about his face that screams, Jizz Boy.
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Maybe it's his long nose that reminds me of masturbation, but he's definitely a Jizz Boy. The second thing I noticed is, he always finds a way to sneak dumb, adolescent humor into everything he says.
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The third thing I noticed is, after he embarrasses himself, he self-deprecates to escape responsibility for his bad behavior. Personally, I find him pathetic and exhausting.
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He needs to get a job and contribute to the world. Fuck Lance.
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These motherfuckers crazy. You ain't gotta say all that, man. Can you feel it?
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I'm a piece of shit. Can you smell it? I'm a piece of shit. Everybody wanna come hear my problem.
Balancing Work and Podcasting
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I'm at the Slab Shop, bro, and my coworkers in the back sawing shit. I want the listeners to know that like this is not an easy there's not easy time slot for you and me this week. We're doing it for them, aren't we?
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For the people? You got to make some moves. i'm trying I'm trying to get get this thing off the ground, but we have a commitment to the listener. That's right.
00:01:53
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That's right, dude. I like your office, buddy. I see some wood in the background. Did you sell that piece? No, this thing's poorly positioned. There's a guy coming in for a Ross lab tomorrow morning.
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I could see him in that. Yeah? this is it You can't see it. There's a like a dope piece of epoxy. not Not like the weird river table stuff that people are putting on YouTube screwing up.
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There's like a nice wood rot there that creates a... Let's see if I can get down on it for you. I can't get the camera there. That's all right. That's all right. I'm just glad your things are popping, bro.
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ah It's like... You look tired. I'm kind of tired. I keep waking up. Like i'm I'm not stressed out. So I just keep waking up like 545 going.
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And then I just turn to the good book, dude. Time to get to work. Me and Jesus. I cannot read the old, like where I'm at in the Old Testament for more than like three minutes. And I'm just like.
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Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That says something. They weren't very good at entertaining, were they? Just don't spoil it for me. Don't don't give me the ending, bro. Please.
Turning 50: Just a Number?
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Okay, man, we're gonna talk a little bit about aging. We're just gonna jump right into it. had this ah stupid men's group with these pussies. I hope one of them's listening because I want them to know they're pussies.
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What isn't by by joining a men's group, you're kind of like, hey, I'm a little bitch because I'm going to I'm going to discuss my feelings and stuff. Isn't that kind of like it's pretty much it. Yeah, know. They're all great guys. It was it was a very meaningful exercise, I thought. But the last part of our conversation was about whether 50 was some threshold.
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And it's pretty interesting. They were like, a number's number. And I was probably the only one that was like, no, wait, that's a meaningful threshold. They're like, no, a number's just a number. It's about how you feel. And then dudes proceed to talk about all their issues or or the things that happened like right on the cusp of 50.
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So you're what do you think about all that? You're 48. Yeah. No one's above it, dude. No one's above it. I mean, you turn 50, like anyone's just like, it's just a number. Bullshit.
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and I feel i'd feel like a child, like emotionally. I feel like like a ah child. So that's true. Like, it's not the number's is not affecting me. Boy, like, gotta act mature now. It's like, no, I can't do that. Like, I wish I could. It would help, but I but i i can't.
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And then physically... Like I think we talked about a little bit, it's like a gradual thing. So I feel like I don't see myself falling apart, but I'm like, I probably am. you know like I'm like, oh, shit's a little worse, but it's not like one day you wake up and you're like, I can't move.
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right Like I'm up here for a month.
Weight Gain and Aging
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now not working out at all, instantly fat. Like within like at this, at 48 years old, the final if I'm not, you know, on the and like of a full-blown diet and and working out like an Olympic athlete, five hours a day, like within two days, ah put on like eight pounds of body fat.
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It's pretty sweet. Where's that fat going? Right around the lovey's gut? Yeah. Yeah, buddy. I get loves too. I always have. I got childbearing hips too. So it kind of sits, it like sits out there. it looks worse than it is.
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But, yeah, it's not going it's not like going to like, my upper ass or something like that for, like, a nice nice round ass. and It's tough. i get that When I know I'm getting fat or skinny is, like, under under the armpit, like the back fat.
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The lats? The lats carry fat? Yeah, like lat fat, kind of the side chest. And that is that's just, like, I would starve than harbor that fat. It's so annoying to me, like, wearing a shirt.
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it it's like It makes me so uncomfortable. Oh, yeah. that's that's it That's a person I hate. I feel like I'm
Honesty in Conversations
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on meth. I feel like I'm hopped up a little bit. Well, you're ah you look overtired, bro.
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looks like Are you drinking coffee there is that water? that's It's water. Okay. Well, I'm just making sure, man. Yeah, let me be honest because you know I like to be honest. Can I be honest, bro? Yeah, please do.
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I forgot what i was going to say, dude. I mean, we've had this conversation before. you You're definitely honest about you You're like, no, aging is real. like You're like, you suck. you feel You're a piece of shit, and no one can deny it, and to to try to beat it is is ah is ridiculous. that That seems like your take on this.
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I gotta be honest, bro. No, I gotta stop that. No, here's, you mentioned something about maturity.
Youthfulness in Aging
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And I think there is this reversion that happens as you sense you're getting a little older.
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And part of it for me is I've escaped the corporate world and now I can just be like, cock, cock, cock, all day long. And it's great and it's ah freeing and to be able to say what you want. And I can, you know, trash MAGA, trash woke people.
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I can do whatever fuck I want. Is that maturity though? Like do you even care about that shit? Or what is that? Yeah, I think there's a sense of maturity there. But there is a reversion to like feeling, nope, it's not happening. It's not happening. Look at me skip.
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Look at me run around. Look at me act act goofy. I can dance or whatever people do. There is that, at least it's a compulsion I have. Now maybe that's the same thing as saying, oh, it's just a number.
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you get offended by- It's just a number. Like a backhanded compliment about your age? Like if someone's like, no, you look good. I love, I like an older man with gray hairs. And you're like, what the fuck? Like that was a compliment, but you're like, I don't like that, dude. I like a bald guy with a gut.
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Do you? Yeah. I know they're trying too hard of like, oh, what? You're going to be 50. Why? No. Why? It's like, yeah, bro. Oh yeah. See that sunspot, bro. You see this raggedy ass fucking skin.
00:07:43
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Yeah, i go I go hard on the self-deprecation if anyone even mentions something. Yeah. Too hard. But it is real. It's real. It makes you do stupid things.
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I guess it just makes me question a bunch of, I don't know, whether things are going well ah for myself. like It just makes me like start to reflect a little too hard.
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Maybe because my wang isn't as hard, I've got reflect hard. ah See, maturity, falling right as we speak. See?
Societal Perceptions of Aging
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That's all we fucking talk about when we talk about aging now. the Like the Wang companies did a good job.
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They did a good job. Like, oh, I'm supposed to be fucking porn star. Well into my 80s. For sure. shit. But, um yeah. I don't even care about that, though. I don't i don't even think think about that it's not an issue.
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I know. But there's so it's all i'm saying is there's so much more about aging than than that. And for some reason, that has become, like, such an important thing. Yeah.
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Talk about the women in your age group. Are you fantasizing about it? have to. Well, no, like I'm just being honest, like, cause they probably have the same situation where they're looking at a guy our age and trying to think, well, do I want to hit that? What think? There's over there seems, I don' know if it's a trend, but there's a weird thing and they're kind of doing it to themselves, but there seems like there's a lot of women of various age groups that are like, I like older men or they're into it.
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And then, They're also at the same time kind of complaining, like it doesn't work that way for women. It's like 50 fucking is like, yeah, I can't get down with that. That's ridiculous.
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But like 40, just kidding. I mean, what a loaded question, dude. Well, I don't, I think, I don't know what like, well, sometimes there can just be an attraction to somebody who takes care of themselves. That's kind of what you value. You look at that and go, okay. Yeah.
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There is some good about that kind of, well kept together, like a aging woman is doing it like with pride and confident, kind of sweet and like doesn't have kind of the aggression of like a younger person. And you're like, wow, that's an elegant woman, right? Yes. Something like that. And that is pretty good.
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And for me, simplicity, I need to know you're not like clamoring to your Gucci bag and your three layers of makeup foundation and fucking nine lipsticks in your purse. I'm not down with that.
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just not down. ah quiet confidence. Yeah. A natural. Oh, natural. Straight from the earth. I mean, there is a, there is that thing where you're like, it's the same thing they probably like in older men and women probably should be like, embrace that. It's like the, the, you know, I, I don't know where I heard this, but something's like the, yeah you know, there's a, there's an age where a woman's like, I'm not trying to get any or meet anyone. So they just get into like gardening clothes.
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They start gardening and hanging out and they're just like, Ooh, comfortable slacks. And they're like, they don't give a fuck. And that's kind of cool. I don't know if it's like sexy, but it's it's a cool like, oh, that's there's an air of confidence about it in a way.
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And then there's some that pull it off where you're like, she's still got it. She's still doing it, you know? She's that she's aging like into that gardening age of her life, but still pulling it off. She's advertising her whole saying it's ready.
00:10:58
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Yeah, she's gardening in a mini skirt and and keeping it tight. Yeah. Okay. Well, I don't know what we settled there, but yeah, no, I think it's, it's all changed. These people that think it hasn't changed. her The only thing I want to settle there is like the idea, like this elegant man, which, which women seem to like this older salt and pepper or whatever. Silver Fox. There it is.
00:11:21
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I think ah a woman could do that too. It's okay. Yeah. So just want to put that out there. Yeah. I don't know if there's just a straight up double standard that they think there is.
00:11:34
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Yeah, I imagine the younger women going after older guys now is – Is that financial or is that an actual attraction?
Competence Across Generations
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probably financial. It's probably an attraction to stability because these younger dudes are – don't want to get into this because we're trying to talk about crossing 50. But these younger dudes look to be true pieces of shit. And maybe we should advertise directly to them.
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They're very lonely people. We should rip on them as like our like a generational kind of warfare, I think. We should let everyone know that that that anyone under, what's the age? What's cutoff? I'm going to say 35.
00:12:07
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Pussies, right? Total. Total crypto fucking Rogan listening jackwads. I gotta tell you, dude, I've been, now I'm out in it grinding to success here.
00:12:21
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And I've been thoroughly impressed with some younger people like in their twenties that have all the attributes of of a good, hardworking person and are are like knowledgeable in their area, you know, in their expertise. And I'm like,
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If you listen to people like us, you'd be led to believe that they're all like that generation is useless. And I'm like, no, there's good people on that day well what generation. Well, generation are talking about? I'm talking about- What's it What's the 20 years? I think that's Z. Yeah, I've met some Gen Zs that I'm like, you're way better than I ever, fuck it, than I am now.
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We're talking about those millennial turds. Yeah, and that that generation got fucked. They're falling apart. They're just messes. But we screwed them up, right? Like, you might have... Are your kids millennials or no?
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No, they're Your oldest is Z? Yeah, they're Z. What's millennial? Like, Something like that? Born in the Born in the late It's after Gen X, bro.
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was just thinking that our our generation fucked those people up by that... the the end Well... We got all, I think, yeah, that generation, they take a lot of shit, but I think the parenting got a little sideways. It was like rebel against that hard ass 70s, 80s parenting. And then it just got too, too pussified or just straight up.
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Let's just get divorced and be depressed. Listen to Nirvana or some shit. So let's be shitty parents. They got thought. I don't know what happened and i don't really care. Let's move on. But they, they like. make it racial.
00:13:51
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Yeah. Let's do something, something about that. But Yeah, the the millennials, I don't know, dude. You can't generalize anything, but but they seem to be basically pieces of shit because they they wanted so much and they found out they couldn't get it all.
00:14:05
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They were whining about how they their lives weren't as good as their parents. You know, don't have time for that. i don't have time for those people, okay? I'm here doing a podcast. Yeah. If I'm not the CEO of the company by time I'm 23, then I'm just going to be a barista and fucking tight and just mope around. that's the that's Is that their generation?
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I think so. I think they're shaking out of it now, though. We're so much better, though. We are. X is legit. ah But X is in their 50s now, a lot of them.
00:14:37
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Maybe turning on the cusp of 60. How long are generations? 15, 20 years? I don't know. I feel like I'm so much younger than you. I might actually be in different generation. It's weird having this conversation because you're so close to it, but like I can't get a sense for 50 or being that old. Like it's kind of far out there for me. So it's just like, i'll walk I'll work with you on the conversation, but I can't relate to you as far as being that old, dude. Let me be honest. As tired as you look right now, bro.
00:15:07
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it's the It's the angle, dude. You're pushing 52.
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yeah somebody
Life Stability vs. Feeling Unsettled
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you've been slabbing so hard a customer yesterday that haven't talked to all week came in goes i thought you guys were a lot younger yeah no you look fine man just just little just a little am how much caffeine have you i had had a i had a big old thing of coffee like an hour ago um yeah i like the i like the physical tired and i'm not getting any that i'm just getting the mental tired and it's It's relaxing, but it's not the same.
00:15:38
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The sweat tired is better than like stressed. Oh yeah, way better. Are you ah getting some intermittent exercise in between all this talking? No, just told zero. Like when I was saying I'm putting on weight, it's true. I haven't done zero exercise since I've been here. I got here on the 10th, 15 days, zero.
00:15:56
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Can't you just drop down and pop 20 pushups like every hour? That's not me. No, it's not you. Okay. Is it good? I could be doing, I could do the Shelby wall sits, but that's so Jen, Jen millennial.
00:16:12
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think that's not us. We don't do that. Jen, Jen X doesn't do wall sits during a podcast, bro. Yeah. But on the H thing, ah how do you feel like grinding so hard 49?
00:16:24
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at forty nine I, dude, I, well, i feel fine, like, but it's so funny, dude. I feel like the whole world around me has their life set. and And every house I've walked into is just this immaculate, amazing, mature house. And everyone's like probably moving towards ah financial goals. And it's like everyone, I'm like, everybody fucking won.
00:16:47
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How's that possible? Like everyone. Everyone's just like in this sort of upper mature stage. I think this is almost where you got to you start you should feel like, oh, this is kind of cool. My kids are old enough now.
00:17:00
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ah have some money. Like your 50s probably should be like a pretty good time. And yeah I see everyone's getting there. With stuff though, you don't know what's behind the scenes.
00:17:11
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Well, like ah I just feel like you you have some, yeah, yeah. Well, no, there's that. But like if you get by it, like your marriage is intact, you're, jobs intact your kids grew up all right and then you're like oh i'm young enough to like have a little fun ah have some money and i don't have to babysit i don't it it's like it could be a great time and i see it seems like the whole fucking world i' achieved that almost is that saint louis thing or that's just the clientele for uh 15,000 people that I'm running back into. It's like we, we was in the grind in thirties. And when, when I was here, okay. So what do you mean? They got their, their houses all dialed in. They've got like an espresso machine. What the fuck they have?
00:17:57
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I just feel like they've, they're, their career wise seem to be on a path. They've, they've achieved whatever, you know, maybe upper management, they might own a company.
00:18:09
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They've got, yeah, theyre they, you know, you know, the U S we, we, at this age, you might, or maybe five years ago, you upgraded out of your starter home into some sweet pad. You're not stressed about it.
00:18:21
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You can handle it. Either know you you were able to put some down payment down or, and I see everyone kind of has that. And I'm like, Oh, I didn't, you know, cause I, I moved out here in 2014. I was still coming back here for a while, but like, I see people like, oh you're you're a nicer house.
00:18:35
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And you're not, I don't feel, I don't feel your stress. of like, fuck, I got credit card debt and all your kids seem fine. they moved They might be in college now or they might be in high school. and like You see that like a sense of sort of more like relaxed.
00:18:50
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And I feel like I see everyone like have has achieved that. No one's like, I'm trying to fit. I might, yeah, I just started something new and I'm getting into that. ah you You feel like you're alone.
00:19:02
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Yeah, it's not like a bad feeling. Cause it's kind of, it makes this kind of challenging and fun cause I'm not set now, you know? So it's like, oh, this is cool. Yeah. 50 should be, I think your 50s should be fun. Like should be good though. Actually, if you're healthy, I think it should be a good time in your life.
00:19:19
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Maybe the best.
00:19:22
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Yeah, maybe. I think there are a lot of other things that this
Family Responsibilities at 50
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to think about. This men's group we talked about, your parents start aging and you have responsibilities there. The problems with the kids at the age that most people have around 50, the problems are actually real problems. They're not like, eh, he just fell off his bike and skinned his knee. It's more of like, oh shit.
00:19:44
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This kid's like smoking a bunch of weed or something. You got real problems. So you have ah different level of stress one of the guys I was talking is just sort of like dude I mean like the next five years ah I just anticipate some real shit show problems.
00:20:01
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It's hard for me to like be positive about that. So there's that too. Taking it from, yeah i mean the other, yeah you're right. you're You're at an age where we you could be taking it from both ends, getting rotisserie chickened, your parents will get sick, kids are fucked up. Then you got the financial burden of their college.
00:20:18
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But I see people that like you or they're like kind of knew that was coming, kind of plan for it And they're like, it's kind of rolling into it. So, But yeah, you you're going to get, there's also a weird thing now where you like, no one's going to admit it, but like you don't like your parents as they get older.
00:20:34
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They just become like something you got to take care of. And that's real talk. Yeah. It's so real. And nobody's ever going to say that. I actually, my parents, you know, I'm not around as much. So it's like, I have a good time whenm hanging out with them and they haven't like completely lost their minds. So like I can still communicate with them.
00:20:54
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Uh, but, I mean, there's so most people, if they were honest with themselves, when their parents get up in their upper seventies and eighties, it's like, and I go see them, but they're not like, I can't wait something. You know?
00:21:05
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Yeah. and And a lot of what's happening lately is obvious, like the political divide or just even a divide on a really intense issue is tough. It's tough to interact with people that have such strong views.
00:21:19
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Do you just like, every time you see your mom, are you like take a side on gender now?
00:21:26
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Yeah, pretty much. I mean, the no joke, dude. it's It's fucking. But it's coming at you, right? Oh, yeah. and No joke. It feels that way sometimes. Not so much her, but the other guy.
00:21:40
Speaker
But that's not an age thing, right? That's more like i like um ideology or something. I mean, you've got that with your parents, like the the a so not maybe even your kids or your cousin.
00:21:51
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The only thing that even brings you remotely together with these people is is that they're part of your your family or extended family. And there's nothing else similar about about you.
00:22:01
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Right. And you you'll be shocked when your kids are formulating ideas that you don't agree with. And that's like, it's really annoying. Because you've raised them and you expect them to kind of roll, you know, at least somewhat in their and their values. But it can go off the rails.
00:22:17
Speaker
You're going to go to a Bad Bunny concert. Yeah. Well, a little more meaningful than that, but yeah. For real. Yeah. Well, for some people. Some people it hurts, man. So it's a challenging time for sure. it's but it's Yeah, it could be awesome.
00:22:33
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I don't know, man. I mean, I look at you and I'm like, it should be pretty awesome. Especially like where are you going this weekend? Both your kids seem like they're getting settled in. That's pretty awesome. You and your wife are talking about, hey, we might have some flexibility coming soon. Got some money. let's i mean, the next 10 years your life might be like amazing.
00:22:53
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. No, I have a great life, dude. I mean, I'm not going to like discount it, but I do have a sense of dread and I have been dealing with some family members. over the last few years.
00:23:05
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You're getting it out early. With health problems. i One of my sister passed away. don't know if I said that on the podcast, but yeah. Just some real intense shit that, boy, it's hard to pull that out of the brain and go out and like take life by the reins.
Dealing with Family Loss
00:23:25
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Right. You know, day to day I live pretty much the way I want and I was late to this pod because I was working on some music and I um i enjoy that stuff, dude. But there's also this, oh you can't escape it.
00:23:38
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You can't escape. like The problems seem much more real at this age. I was talking to buddy, went to have beers, talked my ear off. But he was telling me, buddy died in a car wreck.
00:23:49
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A guy knew, another kid's wife died. it's just like, fuck all this. I don't want this, bud. I don't want to talk about this stuff. I don't want to like, that shift. He needed to, right? Yeah. Well, he, no, he did. Yeah, I know. and I wanted to support, but what I'm saying is like, I don't do well with that stuff. I don't just shake that stuff off and go, oh, okay.
00:24:07
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ah so I'm going to go fuck on a Caribbean Eat some valleys. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't do that very well. I think you do well with that because you don't, because you know, you like, pra you'll process stuff.
00:24:20
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But that's the dread. And I think that's overriding this age range more than anything. There's a lot responsibility. I guess I'm looking forward to when the responsibility isn't mine and maybe I can just be a total fuck off.
00:24:34
Speaker
Are you close that? I mean, when my kids have jobs, I think probably I can just start. And that's when your parents are gonna come and step in and fuck you though. Oh, I know. Yeah, so you just have to enjoy each moment, but I think 50 is significant.
00:24:52
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Yeah, I mean, that transition. Yep, it's a transition. Well, kind of speaks to like the good. i i like If I look back, I had this conversation with someone last night. the I mean, I kind of like now in hindsight, i'm like, you guys, having kids a little younger is, I mean, we had I had some great times like being married and being and and kidless for a long time. It was pretty sweet. It was fun.
00:25:17
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But like having kids younger, is pretty pretty awesome too, because you're you're young and vibrant and theyre and you have some time for yourself. And time after, yeah. did Did you have family reunions? you have a big family?
00:25:33
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we had We'd always always usually, i don't know if you remember, we'd go down to Florida where my grandparents lived for like at least Christmas and my mom's family would go down there. My dad was an only child, um but nothing like, not like we were airbrushing our shirts and and cooking fried chicken in the park or anything like that. well Well, let me ask you, do you think this exists? Because I have this fantasy that like, you know, both sides of the family could get together and there are multiple generations and little kids are running around.
00:26:03
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you know, you have, you're hanging out and you're able to connect with the people older than you and the ones younger than you and everybody's semi-healthy and maybe there's just one nut job who's, don't know.
00:26:14
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And I'm taming. maybe a meth head recovered meth head one guy but but the whole family's there and and there's a support network and you can talk through these problems without feeling alone i doesn't exist happen in the u.s does that exist though where does that exist exists like in everywhere else except for the u.s i mean it exists in costa rica to the to the point where people are like god damn it i gotta go see my fucking family all sunday and No one says that, but it's like, I gotta do this.
00:26:45
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yeah Like they're just busy, but they're happy, but that's their life is just family because every fucking, I'm sure it's a little less now because the families aren't as big, but you know, you can come from a family or your mom had nine or 10 brothers. I mean, you're in a, especially in a Catholic country, every is a baby being born, a funeral, baptism, baby shower, wedding, like,
00:27:06
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Yeah. All the time. I think that'd be nice. The only family reunion I remember was I was probably first, second grade. And my aunts, two aunts got no fist fight.
00:27:18
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Now that's badass, dude. That's it. That's it. That's what I remember. But who was a family union on one side of your family or the whole the whole thing? You tried to rally everybody? It is one side.
00:27:29
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And were they people that normally hung out or this was like, I'm seeing you in a while? Karen was always a bitch. It was all the brothers and sisters of the um my father's parents.
00:27:42
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i remember that rehashing an old, an old battle or there's just obnoxious people being stupid. Do you remember? It's fucking eight years old. I don't remember, man. I guess there was one on the, on my other side or two, one I didn't go to cause was playing shows.
00:27:57
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The closest thing I got to that was, yeah, ah we can get into that dude. The sacrifice of being an entertainer. Right. But my cousin's wedding, my, my, lot my two cousins weddings were pretty, were almost like a family reunion.
00:28:11
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Yeah. You know, my male cousin, Paul, lives in California, his wedding. And think my wife was pregnant with Luca. So it was 11, 12 years ago, almost to the date, I believe.
00:28:25
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That was, you know, all my aunts and uncles were there. And then my other cousin, Anna, she got she got married in 22 or 23 in Connecticut. But that was like coming out of COVID. So there was like no kids there. And there was some, there was some, as they said, I believe there's some Jewish stress around that around that ah deal. They were like, you know, worriers by nature.
00:28:48
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Was i Did you booze then? Yeah. Oh yeah. We got it done. It was a fun trip. We went to New York city for a couple of days. My kids couldn't go. So they stayed in Costa Rica. And then we drove up to Connecticut and saw my aunt and uncles and and it was fun.
00:29:03
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But I mean, those those things are fun. How much was that trip to New York park specifically? ah um I mean, and hotels in New York are not.
00:29:16
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It's probably, what do you think? 52 grand? I mean, I wasn't like making it rain or anything. Yeah, I think 1,500 is like two days. You can do it. You can do it.
00:29:27
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It depends how you do it. Like we didn't have a car. Like you could fuck yourself like parking at a hotel New York. That could add 400 bucks or something like that. You know, like why, you know, I mean, I think we were on the lower, maybe down there like Soho. And I feel like we were in a Hyatt or something.
00:29:43
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Nothing like too fancy but nice. but i But I feel like it was maybe 250 at night or something like that. Okay. Not bad. Yeah, we were parking in Chicago and we called ahead and...
00:29:55
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We're like, is there anything cheaper around that we don't have to do the hotel park? And they're like, ha, ha, ha, ha. And that was like the cheapest around. it was like $115. Yeah.
00:30:05
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ah What is your fucking Midwest kindness now, pussies? Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah, those cities are just... ah Yeah, and if you smoke cigarettes in Chicago, i think a pack is like 40 bucks or 30 bucks or something. So a pack is, yeah, buck a cigarette.
00:30:22
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um But the trip was great. But ah yeah, i mean, that that's the closest I've gotten to an actual family reunion would be ah an event like that.
Hope for Inner Peace and Family Reconnection
00:30:32
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so So let's close because, you know, I got to go somewhere tomorrow, so i have to edit this.
00:30:38
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uh what do you look forward to what do you look forward to let's not talk about all the bad stuff in in my 50s or just in general yeah in that decade there well i look i look forward to first of all figuring it out because as i mentioned it feels like everyone's got it figured out i haven't so i look forward to that sort of inner peace of figuring out and i think it'll be almost like a triumph that i'll get to enjoy more than other people Cause, cause I feel like I'm dancing with disaster for awhile and like, ah it's not that true. It's like, yeah, somebody in whatever the, like someone in Africa is like, yeah.
00:31:16
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Real tough life, Dick. Like, oh, did you did you have to, like, dip into your savings a little bit? Ooh. But anyways, yeah, like, just being in your late 40s kind of going, what the fuck am I going to do, you know? like So it'll be it'll it'll be cause for celebration or a real real shitty story. It just doesn't work.
00:31:33
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But, um I mean, I look forward to that. And then, i you know, i look it's like it's cool that it's so cool to see your kids grow up. and you're like, what's going to happen with them? like yeah it's kind of you're kind of It's being revealed to you what they're going to become.
00:31:46
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Mine are still pretty young where I'm like, Could be anything. my When I got on the phone you, my son just sent me a picture. what I think it was Lars Ulrich's drum set. He's been taking drums lessons. He's like, basically, that's kind of what I want. I was like, that's probably as much as a new Cadillac, I believe. Oh my God. He has a big-edge kit.
00:32:06
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Yeah. It's just the Ulrich kit. it's got yeah it's It's so funny. But ah but like he might stop drumming in like a week. Right. and But anyways, it's like, ah what are going to happen with these two kids? you know and like that's kind of um'm look I look forward to that.
00:32:23
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Hopefully. Hopefully. If it's good. The sad fucking thing is like it might the it might actually be better if they have to go through through some adversity first.
00:32:35
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That's the scary thing. also look forward to being... you know i mean i'm not i look i also look forward to to be in a place where I can like maybe maybe have enough ah money to reconnect. I don't say reconnect, but like spend a little more time my family.
00:32:54
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and I know was earlier talking about how no one wants to spend time with their family, but like I have a great time. it's It's almost more unique for me to like bring my kids and stuff to to see their family in the US, like Colorado, because it's like,
00:33:06
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the whole thing's like an experience. It's not just like seeing grandma and grandpa their uncles. It's like, we're going to another country and we're going to enjoy this other culture. So I love doing that. And I'd like to be able to do that more often. And for a couple of years, they were going all the time and they, we had such a great time.
00:33:21
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It was like the things you take for granted, not that it's just different. And it's like, Oh, that is kind of unique. You know? Wow. Yeah, it is cool. a Chipotle and a Qdoba in this hood.
00:33:32
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and That's crazy unique. So I look forward to, coming out of this, seeing my kids grow up and having a little more time with with my family before it's too late and they all die.
00:33:48
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You ain't gotta say all that, man. Can you feel it? I'm a piece of shit.
00:33:59
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Can you smell it? I'm a piece of shit Everybody wanna come hear my problems