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Speaker: Do you know what it's like when you wanna go cry But you can't let out all the feelings inside So you lay in your bed under blankets And how do you let people know that you're feeling just fine And your pillow gets stained with the tears that you cried And you're praying nobody comes in And that's why the redness is already taking your rise I wish you could hide it but there's no disguise in it Cry, let it all out If I had to be completely honest with myself I'm tired
Speaker: I'm tired. It's not a physical tired. It's a very, you know, it's in the soul. It's like I'm fucking tired. I'm tired of going through this shit. I'm tired of, tired of everything not working out. And I'm just like, I fucking tried. And it's a, I can't not lie and say it's not a, it's not like you don't want to live kind of thing. It's more of a, if God were sitting across from me right now.
Speaker: there would be a part of me that would just want to go up to him and say, listen, I'm done. I'm done. I'm not. I can't do this anymore. I'm just, I'm fucking physically and mentally spent and I'm done. And it's a, it's a silent battle too. Um, and it's a, it's a battle kind of hide from the world and from the people we love and the people we want to love or want to love us because
Speaker: Who wants a broken person? You know, it's like, if they knew, like if the people in your life knew how broken we were, like, would they stay? And then that raises the question of like, how do I fix this? Can you fix this? I don't know. I can hide myself
Speaker: I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can't explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely room And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
Speaker: You can't always live up to expectations you try to Please everybody while you struggle so you fake it And end up out of balance, compromising situations as a good man
Speaker: I'll give everything he has and do everything he could, man You might find yourself feeling all alone Inside a house you built that you don't recognize as home And that's what my daddy told me, and I'll tell my son the same Now that I'm older, I relate, and I actually feel his pain He never cried, he might've lied, but he did not complain And he said, son, one day you have to do it
Speaker: I get emotional when I stop and think and I look around me on the county lines of my small town I think about all the men out there who feel like I do now who are screaming on the inside but won't ever make a sound I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can't explain what it's like to be
Speaker: Keep fighting, as a man our sun is our horizon And our fathers actions play a role and we end up like them So they can't let us see them hurt, cause we'll embody what they do And start a generational curse, no wonder most men are so depressed All the things that they can't express They go to war, get thrown on the shelf and go back to war
Speaker: But they mental health, then grab that bottle and ask for help Try to pull themselves out of hell, then fall back down And then realize that they gon' have to do it themselves It's the circle of life as a man you provide They don't know what you worth till the day that you die And that's when they start crying Then move on to a man you confide in
Speaker: What's going on everybody?
Speaker: Happy Monday. Welcome. Welcome. Hopefully y 'all had a great weekend. Hopefully I didn't kick your ass too bad. And you guys didn't have to recover too much today and you had a good day to start your week. Um, first and foremost, happy mother's day to all the moms out there.
Speaker: Hopefully you guys enjoyed your day yesterday. You got to be lazy or maybe play some flowers or just whatever you wanted to do yesterday. Hopefully you got to enjoy your day. Um, big shout out to all of the moms for everything you guys do. Uh, obviously a lot of us wouldn't, well, none of us would be here if it wasn't for you, but some of us wouldn't be where we are today without moms. Um,
Speaker: I would have been a little bit more prepared for tonight. I probably would have made my musical selection songs about moms or songs for moms. Obviously, we would have put Tupac's Dear Mama in there. Greatest mom song ever. But nonetheless, hopefully you guys all enjoyed your day. And you know what? This is just a joke.
Speaker: I know it's not a joke on Father's Day, but shout out to all you dads pulling double duty and being mom and dad because it's your day too. Happy, happy Mother's Day to the dads who play mom. Fuck the dads. I can't. Mother's Day is for mothers only and Father's Day is for fathers only. But nonetheless, welcome to men caring for men. I am Glick.
Speaker: I am your host. I think I was referred to as a glorious host in the chat. I was talking about Steven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Connor said glorious host. I appreciate that, Connor. You're too kind. You're too kind, man. That's why I love you. Even though you're still pretty. Damn.
Speaker: I hope you burn a nail and I get to sit in purgatory and laugh at you from above. I might not have made it to heaven, but at least I'm not on fire. I'm glad you think hell's going to be such a bad thing for me. We had this conversation about how great it's going to be with everybody there. Wait, we're not already in hell? I mean, we're doing a network. Quick, it's your turn to shove the pineapple up Hitler's ass.
Speaker: Wait, is he Jewish? He can't be Jewish. Oh, God. This one's for you. We'll get to your adult moment here in a few minutes, Connor.
Speaker: Good to ask you. We also got Jera Vichy in the building fresh off of a new episode of the Jarvis podcast last night. Hopefully you guys got to either tune in live or you might have got to see the replay on the old YouTubes today. It will be up on all the podcasts and platforms Friday. But speaking of Jarvis's podcast, make sure you guys are checking out the rest of the network.
Speaker: Um, we are on all the socials and we are also on all the major podcasting platforms as well as we do do shows live Monday through Sunday, uh, YouTube and Facebook as well. Uh, the nonsensical network.
Speaker: you can find all those on all the social medias or you can go to bio .link slash nonsensical network. It is nonsensical network Jarvis. I know you said you couldn't remember, but I had to shorten it down. I had to take the well, I put the V in there because you know, we're trying to be better than the Ohio State. Yeah. Well, that's not hard to be better than them. So unless you're a Minnesota fan, which case it is bio .link slash
Speaker: non -sensical network. It's got all those links there for you. Listen, and if you'd be so kind, give us a like and maybe a little share of Ruski. We'd greatly appreciate the shares as well. Um, as I said, there are multiple shows on there. Mondays, we kick the week off right here with men camp for men. Tuesdays is garage garage. Jeff and the guys are going to talk about it. And, uh, Wednesdays is the newly branded, uh, what the fuck news? There's really no description there.
Speaker: needed. It is what it is. Thursday nights is talking shit with Mark and Brian, or we think about ourselves and not the network. I mean, wait, what? No, I didn't say that. No. Uh, and then, uh, Friday nights is clicks house of music. Uh, enjoy the marathon show that was Friday night, uh, last Friday. Um, like smash what's going on for his. Appreciate you. Uh,
Speaker: And then Saturday nights is the coup de gras, if you will, the originator of this network. Nonsense go nonsense, where we kick open the doors and invite anybody and everybody in. And Saturday night, we had a really fun night. We got to meet Wes, which was awesome. That guy was super cool. Came right in, came right after K -Bag.
Speaker: Mate came at his bitch, and it was awesome. Fuck, I should have stayed in there longer. No, it was a good thing you left, because he was going to get you, too. What did I do? You existed with the name Stephen Jarvis. Yeah, pretty much. And then we end the weeks with, like I said, with the Jarvis podcast. And this week, I didn't get to watch it live. Yesterday was Mother's Day.
Speaker: Shocker. What's going on yesterday? Well, yesterday was Mother's Day. Uh, so, uh, Nikki and I were, uh, you know, we, she wanted Sonic, so we went to Sonic and then, you know, we just kind of chilled at Sonic and ate dinner there. I don't know if you guys have Sonic or if you've ever been to Sonic, but they're like the old, it's like a, like a, like an old school, uh, car hop. You, you pull into the little bay and you order your food and they used to come out on roller skates. They don't anymore, but, uh, then they bring your food out to the car for you. So.
Speaker: We went there for dinner and kind of just took our time. We threw a movie on my phone in the car and was chilling out. However, I did watch the replay today on YouTube. I will say this great job, man. Fantastic show last night. Blaze was super cool in there. You did a great job and Peter Anthony is pretty cool. That's honestly the first time I've got to seem or or really get to know anything about the guy.
Speaker: because uh, I haven't got, I haven't, I haven't dove too much into the archives of talking shit yet. I plan on it. I just, I haven't done it yet. I did. However, uh, started watching. I found vengeance. I found vengeance too. I found, uh, um, Rosebud.
Speaker: Rosebud and the other one, uh, fall of camp blood. Yeah. So I found all four of them and I will be watching all four of them in the next few days. Uh, so far vengeance. I've got about a half hour or so left on it for our fan movie. I'm impressed, man. They did a really good job on it. That was a Jason Brooks who made that one and he's also Jason in that one. Yeah. So, you know, plus yesterday,
Speaker: You know, after pulling a five hour show on Friday, a six hour show on Saturday, I was, I was feeling a little worse for wear yesterday. So I needed, I needed a day to rest. I don't blazing. There were a lot of titties. Wait until you get to my buddy. Yeah. It's a fan film on YouTube on YouTube as well. Yeah. Might have to convince my wife to watch this. They're, they're Jason Voorhees movies.
Speaker: Really? I like I like what they did with vengeance so far. It's really cool. But nonetheless, I would you did it. You guys did a really good job last night. Well, Tommy McLaughlin.
Speaker: who directed part six actually wanted to bring Elias into part six, but the studio was like, no, you know, Jason's father doesn't need to be a part of this. So vengeance pretty much showed us a lot of the shit that we didn't know yet. So, I mean, amen for them doing a better job than the studios. Yeah, but no, good job. Good job. I watched the replay today. I had it on today at work. I threw it in my back pocket.
Speaker: What's going on, Alyssa? Go get back in your chat now. So, Blazin, it's good to see that you were doing all right yesterday and you were able to make the show, buddy. Blazin goes on Snapchat and he's like, get your ass in the thing. And I was like, dude, it's not seven o 'clock yet. Calm down, buddy. The bourbon
Speaker: We're a role in Saturday night. We were all having a good time. We had a we had a fun show Saturday night. What's going on Emma? Yeah, we had fun Saturday night. Riz came in. He was cool as hell. Super cool man. We had a lot of fun. So I actually they were still up talking. Blaze, how long were you guys on there? Because I was like I don't mean to be rude,
Speaker: I'm going to go eat and have sex with my woman and and I will say that I was batting 1000 that night because I did both and I just I turned my speaker down and I closed my laptop but I left the studio open for them to we can hear you. I'm like a walrus getting run over by the **** semi. You know, sometimes it does.
Speaker: All of our women have to make sacrifices. They have to be with us. It's not, it's not like more play more foreplay than as a woman. You know, the good looks department or anything like that. So speak for yourself Sasquatch. I must have to deal with a special needs husbands.
Speaker: Yeah, some people's wife has to deal with a hobbit, you know, or multiple. Well, I have to deal with delusional husbands who think they're the champ. Facts again. She was calling me the champ Saturday night.
Speaker: No, but I'm kidding. It's over the line. You're welcome back anytime, my friend. You were super cool. We had fun hanging out with you, man. That's why we do it on Saturday nights, man. We open the doors and we don't care who comes in. Uh, well, we do care, but yeah, as long as you're cool. Yeah, we don't want you to be like that Southern trucker. Jesus. Uh, it wasn't technically a, it wasn't a wiener bomb, to be fair.
Speaker: Another single, you know, I, you know, I, I, I don't, I don't wish I was saying, well, I love being early. Like Nick, like Nick, like our relationship's so easy. Uh, you know, we just kind of go with the flow and we love being around each other. So, you know, it's not hard. I've had relationships that have been difficult and it's like, Jesus Christ. Why am I putting up with this?
Speaker: But, uh, you know, with Nikki, it's super easy, man. I love being in a relationship with her. We, you know, we have a good time. We have, we have fun. Oh, there's, there's definitely bad seeds on both sides of the coin. It's just trying to find the one good one out of all the. Question is, are you willing to go to jail for this argument or should you save it for later on? Yes.
Speaker: I feel like - I say jail so that I, they think I'm still in the country. Well, I've made it very clear here. If I come out missing, then you guys don't know where I'm at either. She's killed me or she's had an unfortunate accident and I'm now in Cancun and Jeff and I will be doing the show together, which means Jeff will be drunk a lot more on the show because - Exactly. Is a son bitch. Facts on facts. Oh, fuck.
Speaker: Like I said, this is this has been one of the one of the coolest relationships I've ever been in one of the easiest and we just She lets you touch her Well, no Jarvis, you know, we're not talking about your wife, buddy. You know, I didn't marry the first one. Let me touch her The
Speaker: second. Connor married the woman that she's like, hold on a second. Connor, let me go get the camera. Okay, now you can. Because your scout leader put a wig on. I keep trying to tell you that was not a girl. I was a man in a wig. Like you kept telling me that you were a girl. I thought that counted. I can't wait for Okay.
Speaker: I just wanted to feel like a pretty lady one time, Connor. You weren't supposed to tell anybody. Does this dress make my butt look big? You make your butt look big. Does this suit make me look fat? No, your face does. Pretty funny Jarvis. Good job. Here's your one joke for the night. That's Tommy boy watching for me.
Speaker: Yeah. Right. Uh, no, I think, I think, you know, it's easy because we, we communicate really well. We talk about everything. Uh, so a lot of times, you know, yeah, I mean, sure we have our fights and we, you know, we, well, let me rephrase that. We have arguments or disagreements from time to time, but for the most part we talk about everything. So it's super easy. God damn it.
Speaker: And we have a lot of things that comment, so we, we could, you know, we, we have a lot of, we like to do a lot of the same things so we can have fun doing pretty much anything. So I don't complain. Like I said, the downsides for her. No, I'm not Connor. I'm Connor. Uh, I'm telling her with a DR, not an OR different people. There is no Connor will be back at a later time.
Speaker: This is Connor's twin brother. Connor. Being back within a month, someone sent help. We just wanted to party hardy. That's all. Party hardy, man. Who's the fun police watching this? No, like I said, I think the pros is for me that I get to be engaged to Nikki and the cons for Nikki is she's engaged to me at the end of the day.
Speaker: So, she's just like, you know, stuck with the Sasquatch the rest of my life. For Nikki, she can't pick a lock. So, she's stuck. Doesn't have to have babies with Sasquatch. This is true because both of us. No more babies. The next, the only babies that we want are grand babies and that better not be for like several more years. At least 100%. Yeah.
Speaker: don't worry if, you know, 20s, you know, at least if they're at least if they're 18, or if they're 19, and like three months, you know, they'll have a kid like after they're a teenager. Well, true. Mine's just a 19 grand squad. No, I prefer Papal Squatch. Damn it.
Speaker: I don't know. Tell us the stories of the good old days. Papal Squatch. Back before we had to worry about poachers. I used to masturbate by that bush right there. Everybody wants my picture. Yeah. The one time Sasquatch had to roam out of the
Speaker: Nicky showed up and domesticated him. Let's be honest. It was not a food run. It was a beer run. True. Why did a Sasquatch need beer? He had to deal with some kids. Hmm. Yeah, no. But gentlemen, it is Monday and this has been care for men. I want to start with Jarvis down there because
Speaker: I feel like Connor's got a story for us. I have zero stories. Connor's already got his whoopee out for the night, so he's going through it, apparently. Connor's got stories, allegedly, allegedly. I don't have any fun stories. They weren't fun for me, that's for sure. I was about to say fun, not fun for you. Because Connor has stories with us, which means I get to share Connor's stories with you.
Speaker: I guess I have to tell it that way. Glick doesn't spin himself a tail. It's a damn shame we know each other so well because you know that I'm going to exaggerate the fuck out of this. Evidently, Connor's Nicky wanted to be Jeff Jarrett for the night. Yeah. But how are you doing this week? How are you doing?
Speaker: Thank you. Hey, how you doing? Hey, what's the matter with you? What's going on? Hey, you want to talk to us or what? I'm not the bad. I didn't get hit by the local taxi cab going to the pizza joints. How's everything going, man? How was your week last week? How's your Monday start out for you?
Speaker: pretty good. Still here, Sunday, you know, and yeah, shut the fuck up. You're in the same boat I am at least I can actually walk downstairs.
Speaker: I made it down the fucking stairs. You just didn't walk. I'm so sorry, Connor. Because I'm free. I'm pretty good. It's, it's been ups and downs, you know, as the, as the networks been, you know, at least I can share my fucking other people's shit.
Speaker: Hey, Jeremy, how are you doing? I want to say some jokes about Germany, but I feel like we might be dancing. Cheers, Germany. Cheers from the US. Cheers from the country that, you know, didn't do a lot of crummy shit and then lies about it. We're doing all right over here. But no, I've been pretty good. Sunday was so appreciative of Peter coming on the show.
Speaker: even though he's probably been on my show more than any other guests I've had on there. I'm very, very appreciative of that. And then, oh, Blazin, if you can get ahold of Peter, he wants to send you some of the... He wants to send you your DVD, Blazin.
Speaker: I also want to remind you it's not 1986. I get a BHS instead. That's cool. Uh, sure. I mean, uh, pairs of all, you know, uh, you know, uh, you do you, man. If that's how you get down. Yeah.
Speaker: But no, it's been okay. A few mishaps here and there, but, you know, life as we know it. We're all trying to grow this network and did a TikTok thing about, you know, and tried to shut out the network as much as I can, but, you know. No, VHS would be really cool, especially because, you know, the way that they captured so much of the original
Speaker: Yeah, the original was at seven. Oh The fall guy movie that is right Nice See see Brian though. I'm waiting for the new Godzilla minus one because We're gonna have to wait an extra couple of months because Japan's like oh you want this movie? No, you're waiting. Oh
Speaker: Took Godzilla 75 years to win a big major award, but you know America fuck you That's our giant lizard I Mean the nonsensical Biden makes so much sense when he's fallen downstairs now I
Speaker: It really does. Um, now that's good. I mean, that's good though. Like I said, you know, you did a good job last night. Um, uh, I think blazin said it best and I did watch it because I'm quoting shit from it. I think, I think blazin said it best, man. You were writing your freaking element and you are rocking and rolling. So you did a good job. It was very good interview. Um, you know, you, you have no reason to, uh,
Speaker: Be down on yourself or or say anything negative about it. I mean oh no it was it was a good one um I just hated near the end when you know my camera decided to you know cuck me like it normally does in every show it's like oh hey we've had a good show hey Jarvis your webcams going down China must be hurting for business they have to go after me yeah
Speaker: I've seen that a couple. It's all right. It's a little difficult. He's having at the end of the day. I want to get me one. Like what, uh, I think it was Tommy McLaughlin has where it follows you. Oh yeah. That was really, yeah. I'd like to get me one of those. Yeah. But no, I appreciated Peter. Uh, you know, uh, he's great interview every time. It's just trying to figure out not to ask the same questions. What's going on, man. But like,
Speaker: I want to go see the new fall guy movie. The only bad thing is I have two movies now. I have to see in July the new Twisters movie and Deadpool, which comes out. Yeah. Well, I'm absolutely going to go see Deadpool. And yeah, right before we started the show, I was I remember what I was on, but an ad hit me and it was an ad. And I didn't realize that there was going to be a fourth fucking bad boy movie, bad boys movie. Yeah. Yeah. Don't you have me?
Speaker: I can't wait. I haven't even watched the third one yet. I'm gonna have to watch that. I love those movies. I quit watching after the second one. Fourth one's uh fourth one looks like it's going to be crazy uh ride or die or ride riding I don't know what the hell they were calling it ride or die or some shit uh but it looks like it's going to just be fucking balls to the wall crazy uh
Speaker: but uh I I love those movies uh you know say what you will about Will Smith say what you will about his his uh the guy's going through it man you know there's only so much that you can take from your wife like Jada has done to Will Smith before yeah the mentally I mean and this is the show for but hey Will we gotta show for you bro yeah you know uh you know the guy's going through it and I know everybody was like oh I'm never watching a Will Smith I'm like why he makes good movies
Speaker: I mean, I can't think of a bad Will Smith movie right off the top of my head that I've seen. Live action Aladdin movie. I said that I've seen. I like the Aladdin movie. I thought that was cool. I thought he did a good job as genie and I thought he did a really good job paying homage to Robin Williams. Robin Williams is my genie. Well, yeah, he's everybody's genie, but I think
Speaker: I think Will did a good job of making it his own, but still paying good tribute to Robin Williams. To me, I guess I don't understand why they have to make them all live action. Like now there's going to be a Mufasa movie or whatever. Are you mad at the superhero movies that are being made live action?
Speaker: I just wish they'd stop making them after after end game. It's just like OK, we get it. No, I want more and I can't wait. I can't wait for more. I mean.
Speaker: with with the addition of Deadpool into the MCU and and and and Introducing a whole fuck ton of new characters in this new one and and opening doors for you know Like x -men and stuff like that into the MCU. I'm looking forward to it Well, like Deadpool that movies could never get to me Deadpool can unless they made Magically are like oh, hey Ryan Rhodes doesn't want to do the same or let's find a new actor to play Deadpool then I'll be like, okay. No, but uh, but um
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, that's all Disney's doing. They're just doing live. And I've only seen Aladdin. I think I've only ever seen Aladdin because Aladdin is one of my favorite Disney movies. I love the cartoon one. Like I said, Robin Williams is one of those guys that, you know, they fucked him. Disney fucked him over with the whole Aladdin thing. But at the same time, it's like Robin Williams, if they could have gotten him to do
Speaker: a few other different Disney movies within that period. I think Disney would have had made really good bank with Robin Williams. Oh yeah. What's going on Cam? What's going on buddy? Thanks Cam.
Speaker: No, no, like I said, Will Smith, man, he's really going through it with, you know, especially everything that's going on with Jada. Yeah. I'm not going to be one of these guys to be like, Oh, fucking Jada. Yeah. She's, she's not the greatest person in the world. At least what we've, what we've heard. But, uh, you know, I agree. Yeah. I, uh, I like Will Smith movies. Um, like I said, I can't think of a bad one that I've seen.
Speaker: right off top of my head. But I'm looking forward to the new bad boys. I like him and Martin together. They're fun. Maybe. Yes. Wait, what audio clip did? I'm almost afraid to even ask. I can't remember. I'll be 100 % honest with that. I think Jeff made a couple audio clips. He was supposed to send them to me. But he made a couple audio clips.
Speaker: What the hell is it at? It's not even in here. He probably removed it. Yeah, it's not in here. Yeah, he's supposed to. He was supposed to send me those, but he made a couple clips. But I'm really scared about what these clips are going to be like.
Speaker: No, I mean, like I said, I'm excited for the new bad boys. I like him and Martin together. So I just I think people took too much out of what happened between him and Chris Rock and like Chris Rock. Didn't even really hold the ill will towards him. He laughed about it. Yeah, and yes, more than likely. Where is it is? It's only Steven we have on the show. Because he lost the will.
Speaker: I was gonna ask Connor how his week was. I'll just say mine was draining. I was exhausted come Sunday between a show Monday, Wednesday. Why do you think I quit doing so many? I think what I'm gonna do with Clicks House of Music, I won't be doing one this Friday. We have plans.
Speaker: Friday night, but I think I'm just going to do the show when I have guests lined up. I mean, yeah, that would work. I just, I don't want to be, I don't want to be music guy, man. I like, Oh, I like, I enjoy playing music when I have guests on the show, but like I enjoy playing their music, but, uh, those music shows take a lot of work and prep, let's be honest. And I'm already doing three other goddamn shows as it is, not to mention running, you know, trying to run a network.
Speaker: and I have a life outside of podcasting. So I was coming yesterday. I was just, I was just exhausted, man. My tank was empty. Bye Connor. Now my tank was just empty, man. So I need just today. Just kind of, I played, I mean, I played a little bit of black ops and whatnot, but yeah, I can't play. It was a good week last week. It was, it was a good week. I had a lot of fun doing the shows and, uh,
Speaker: and, um, getting to hang out with everybody and, and, and meeting, um, the Southern outlaws van and, uh, computer shut off. Uh, but, um, so, uh, yesterday was a nice, uh, little relaxing day to say the least, but I mean, I can't really say, man, I gotta say, you know, for the most part, uh,
Speaker: Mentally for me personally, I mean without you know with the couple exceptions of like a couple little hiccups here and there You know with the job situation and the finances and stuff like that Uh outside of that man, I've been pretty good for a while at the end of the day. Oh, yeah Yeah, which yeah
Speaker: I'm just crazy. Yes. You have to be crazy to run the schedule that I run, whether my personal life and then the podcasting life. It's a wild train ride, man. It's like the bus and speed, Jarvis.
Speaker: It's it's just like Ups and downs and I mean you either you either Yeah, hang on. I was gonna bring him in. I had to change my fucking thing. Yeah, you either Roll with the punches or let the punches put knock you down. I guess Or trip down some stairs and you know into your garage Speaking of stairs and going for a trip I heard
Speaker: Connor, how's your week been? How was your weekend, buddy? How you doing? I feel like that's been good for what the fuck news. Nothing crazy's gone on. Well, vacation a little trippy with us. I've just been hanging out. I did decide that I wanted to skydive off of my third step in the garage without a person.
Speaker: Yeah. And yes, I feel like I've been hit by a fucking car. You know, Tim McGraw was just kidding when he said, live like you're dying while you're skydiving. Just saying, Donner. I was going outside to check on the florists, the flowers.
Speaker: Going down my basement steps and I hit the second step with my right leg was my bad leg and it gave out. And of course I wasn't hanging on to the railing and I didn't have my fucking pain with me because I'm an idiot. And I proceeded to free fall down the last three steps and landed on my side and whipped my head off the concrete and rolled my left ankle in the process. And now my ankle is really swollen, which is great.
Speaker: My knee doesn't feel right. And yeah, I just, I need a wheelchair to prevent me from getting in more injuries, not necessarily because I need it to help me get around. Well, the good thing is, is that you hit your head. So there's no cause for concern there and not to worry about brain damage. Oh, no, that's already, but that was already there. That's like.
Speaker: So the big thing when you do airborne school in the army is, you know, your PLF and your parachute landing fall. And you got to make sure, you know, you hit your feet, right. And then you hit your knees and then you hit your hips. My PLF is head first. Fucking news. Diving that bitch. You're not the only one that said that, Brian. That's exactly what I said earlier, Brian. Kind of came out of the womb with brain damage at the end of the day. Let's be honest.
Speaker: Dude, I, I'll be honest, my head hit the concrete and I was like, that sucked. And I was like looking around literally just on the fucking floor in my garage. I went like a good distance forward. I had some momentum because from the stairs to the actual garage door is a solid like 10 to 12 feet. And somehow I went from like the fourth step up, the third or fourth step up all the way to my back was on the garage.
Speaker: So I had some, I had some good forward momentum, but I was like, I was laying there. I was like, I don't think I lost consciousness. I feel okay. I don't feel sick to my stomach. My ankle hurts a little bit, but I'm probably fine. That you were in an accident and call for help. No, no, I did not. I didn't set her up for the thing.
Speaker: For your birthday this year, I think we're all going to pitch in here at the network. 100 % did that. We're going to get you a life alert, you know, the little help I'm calling and getting up button. You know, the fucked up thing is you're joking about that, but my wife and I have actually discussed it. I mean, I mean, I feel like Connor definitely does need some life alert right about now.
Speaker: But I checked to make sure my legs worked. I didn't pee myself, didn't boot myself. I was just a little disoriented. Not at all because you'd already done that before you fell down the stairs. No, it wasn't the fall's fault. I hadn't added any more. The pee was still cold.
Speaker: You know, the shit was still caked on. You can kind of crush it on the edges. Yeah. It's kind of like clay that's drying slowly. Setting the bar low. Alyssa, have you seen most of the shows on this network?
Speaker: I'm sorry, I'll laugh at it again. That's so hilarious to me. I'm glad you're okay, but it's just, I wish I could have seen it. I was terrified because I was laying on the ground. Like, I think I can feel everything. Everything still works. I'm still moving. Everything that worked before the fall still works. You still feel nothing from the legs down.
Speaker: Brian, it's good to see you in the chat, buddy. But you can suck a big old Asian American Mexican cock. It's so horrible that we're laughing at someone that's fallen. It's very much like, is everything OK? And we're just over here going like, this is shit. Well, the people on the show didn't see.
Speaker: was when I first told the story was even kind of laughed like ha ha ha ha and like primarily a sarcastic laugh and Glick was peeing his pants. I'm still laughing. Glick was belly laughing and hearty, hard, hard and he was having trouble. You know I love you buddy and I'm glad that you're okay. I really am glad you're okay. You didn't get hurt too bad.
Speaker: But I know you and I know you personally. I mean, there's one show on the network we just can't decide which one it is. I can only imagine what you look like falling and the sounds you were making. Actually, I didn't I didn't yell or holler or anything.
Speaker: You ever done that? Like known something bad was literally in the midst of happening and you're just like you accept it halfway through. I was like mid freefall and I was like this is going to suck from his Boy Scout days. Connor when Connor fell, he was already accepting death. Honestly, I was I was going through my head how mad Nicky would be that we had to go to the ER on Mother's Day.
Speaker: What the fuck are you talking about? She's like, oh, he'll be fine. Fucking next thing, you know, you're dead. And she's like, oh, fuck, he died on Mother's Day. No, as soon as I walked in the house and I was like, I just fell down the stairs. I think I'm OK, but my ankle is kind of swollen. She was like, motherfucker.
Speaker: Just be glad my mom's here and she can take care of the kids while we go to the hospital. I was like, I'm fine. I'm walking. I'm fine. I'm fine. Connor's got one leg behind him. I'm fine. I'm fucking looking like a zombie. A hopscotch competition would be great because usually I have one good leg. But I think I just sprained the ankle on a good leg. We could do a three -legged race.
Speaker: Or or I'm really good at the log roll No, no, you know where you when you were a kid and you started at the top of the hill you just put your arms at your side you started rolling Eventually my feet start flopping around and they become a wimp and they just go everywhere But it adds to my speed it gives me extra grip in the grass
Speaker: Welcome to the Mental Health Men Caring for Men show. Connor rolling down a hill. You ever watched family guys where like Joe jumps off a building and his legs just kind of fly in the wind? That's me going down hills. All I could think of was when he said he was rolling down a hill with Black Sheep with Chris Farley where he's like, vote for Don Lee. Takes one wrong step and just
Speaker: gets to the cabin. He looks up. What the hell was that all about? He's in the family guy where like they all go skiing and Joe gets smoked by some dude coming down the hill and like he stands up. He's like I can walk my legs and then immediately. He's like Bonnie, just give me the chair back. Don't don't even I love that he's got he's so happy that he could move again with uses legs and then
Speaker: or or like when they're chasing like there's one where he's chasing after the dude who was the one who made him paralyzed. The like he gets like run over by a car or something and his legs like bones sticking out of his fucking leg. He's like, oh, my God. Oh, wait. I love the Christmas episode where he's trying to fucking apprehend the Grinch from stealing the fucking thing. And that's he rolls off the fucking roof.
Speaker: I forget who's who's running away, but no don't go downhill Every time I think my favorite family guy episode is where Lois fucking changes the steps around and Peter goes to take one step and just fuckin
Speaker: What the hell? Honestly, I, like I said, I was super quiet when I fell down the stairs. I hit the ground. I laid there for a solid two to three minutes and I just kind of reflected on my life choices. Connor's laying there like, Oh God. So this is how I die. Thanks. Well, I was also like trying to put off the moment where I had to move because I knew that as soon as I moved, I would feel all the pain. Yeah.
Speaker: The fucking adrenaline doesn't even kick in with Connor anymore. It just goes straight to fucking the worst pain you can ever feel. No, I said, what? So this is the end. This is where this is. Yeah. Hello, darkness, my friend. I was about to say as soon as I hit the growling. Hello, darkness, my friend. Hello, darkness, my friend.
Speaker: It's funny that you guys sing that song tonight. I love that song. It's a great song. Uh Brian, I read that so wrong when I look, I said, well, look on the bright side. I almost started singing the Monty Python. Brian, I've got one leg up and the other one downward and backwards.
Speaker: Oh, shit. No, I mean, it was just. People are going to watch this and like, oh, hey, it's a show where people actually care for other people halfway through the life. Stephen and Glick are going to hell. Why? Why? Why do they keep making fun of this crippled dude? One day I'm actually going to pull up in a wheelchair and you guys are going to make fun of me and I'm going to fucking roll away and they're like, oh, shit.
Speaker: Wait a minute. Oh, hey, Connor. Don't roll away on us. They put brakes on those things, you bitch. We're going to see a flight of stairs and we're immediately going to be like, oh, hey, let us put the brakes on. Oh, yeah. By the way, I sent Nikki something in the mail, so she should be getting that suit. We'll remove the brakes from your wheelchair.
Speaker: I PMCS all of my equipment before you to using it. I don't know why do you have PTSD clicks my friend. It's nothing to do with the military. I promise you it's not even close. I fell down the stairs and I came on this podcast to talk about it and get emotional support and all they did was sit on me and call me a cripple for three hours straight. That's close. Now you've looked for emotional support and all I did was laugh and call you a bitch.
Speaker: At least I didn't call you a fat ass this time. Ironically, when you called me a fat ass last time, I was skinnier than I am this time. Says the guy who was born to Dairy Queen at 10 o 'clock at night.
Speaker: There's nothing wrong with that. That really isn't. I'm not saying there is. However, when you call me at 10 o 'clock at night because you need some emotional support, you tell me you're going to Dairy Queen. Listen, I was sad that we were out of Ben and Jerry's and Kroger was closed. Dairy Queen was an easy decision.
Speaker: The phone call I need emotional support. Where are you going? Dairy Queen? Isn't that emotional support enough for you? Let me go to sleep. You bastard. I answered my phone at night. Yeah, I was already up for is in the nice hand. Hey man, I'm having a rough week while you're a bitch. What are you doing?
Speaker: That's pretty much how that conversation went. And then we proceeded to talk for about an hour. It was a solid hour, at least. Hunter eating his ice cream. Why do you have to invite Jarvis on there? Why do you have to give him admin? I've been on here longer than he has. And I'm significantly funnier than he has. Facts. Those are facts. Good points. I wicked those, and they're facts.
Speaker: One, I'm funnier. Two, I do funnier shit. Three, I get hurt, and I let you make fun of me for it. Four, I don't throw tantrums. What else do you want out of my phone? Don't worry. That's just a sign of me mentally beating Connor down, so he does it. Stockholm Syndrome started at Abercrombie, OK? Four years of sheer hell. About a month into Abercrombie, Stockholm Syndrome was locked in.
Speaker: I used to walk in on Saturday mornings with a bottle of lotion. Don't even say it, Glick. Don't even say it. We had good Saturdays together. Saturdays were good at the Abercrombie, man. There's nothing to do with it. Saturdays were dope. Weekends were the fucking bomb at Abercrombie. Yeah. Sitting around and listening to 106 .7 the Glick for hours on end.
Speaker: Want to make a TikTok comic? Did you read my mind? Did we just become best friends? Yeah. Yeah. Count us three and name your favorite dinosaur. One, two, three. Velociraptor. You want to go practice karate in the DC? Want to go fuck with G -Sok for an hour? Yeah.
Speaker: I could see you two just made the fucking, uh, where they're trying to make the bunk beds, but you guys in Amber Crombie and Amber Crombie are trying to make the fucking stands up on each other. Just for the record. And I know that it makes me a grammar Nazi, but there's no M in Abercrombie.
Speaker: Well, there's no there's no M after the first A. It's not Amber Crombie. It's Abercrombie. It's Abercrombie, but yeah, there is an M in it. There is an M in it. I stand corrected on my sorry. Amber Crombie, not Amber Crombie. It's not color.
Speaker: I know that phonics is hard for you guys. But when you read the word, just sound it out. I am not the one that came up with the company and decide to fucking make my own company sound dumb, but yeah. Well, I mean, that's like, that's like, they make billions of dollars. So you should have all you want. Exactly.
Speaker: That new app that's out there, it's kind of like Wish. It's Teemu. Oh, yeah. Teemu's actually pretty cool. It's not Teemu. It's Teemu. I started seeing ads for it. Their ads say Teemu. No, it's Teemu. Well, fuck them. It looks like Teemu. Yeah. It looks like Abercrombie. Abercrombie?
Speaker: No, the challenge comes up here in a couple months man for Amber Crombie good for you. I Love working the channel. I get to do it every year. I love it
Speaker: I know you said that like at least four dozen times on this podcast. Go get to go get to see. Everybody. Go get to see Matt and Damon. Matt's still a juicehead. I'm not where I thought you were going. David school. It's you know, it's one of those jobs, man. I wish they'd pay me what I make now. I'd be there in the heartbeat.
Speaker: Correct, Brian. See, he broke it down into syllables and everything. It's another clothing store. No one cares. I can't wear any of their clothes. Well, I could. I used to be able to. I have old clothes. Their clothes are low -key, pretty damn comfortable. I'm not even going to lie. They are super comfy. I don't know if they're using
Speaker: the flesh of Asian babies to make their clothes or what they're doing. They need to continue on doing it, whatever they're doing. God. They're comfy as shit, man. If I ever take my fat ass back to the gym or lose weight, I could get back into some of my Hollister and Abercrombie shit. Well, if he'd stop eating so much salmon, you know. Yeah, salmon's the problem.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the part of his diet is probably. I am a goddamn Sasquatch, not a grizzly bear. Don't don't Sasquatches eat fucking salmon too. He eats berries and wild Twinkies. Get it right. We we we groundhogs and squirrels and deer and and Jack's links. The occasional the occasionally because no one will miss them anyway.
Speaker: Yeah, Jarvis, come into the woods. What are you going to feel safer with? A swatch or a man? I picked a swatch. I missed those old messin' with Sasquatch commercials. My brother used to say, every time one of those commercials was, come on. God, I didn't know you got in the commercial. Wow, Brian, can you use fucking time?
Speaker: Scottish origin is a hypothetical name for a place in faith. No one gives a shit. Cut the fuck up, Steven. Brian knows how to use copy, paste and Google. I'm proud of you, buddy. Amberbank. Amberbank. We're going to take we're going to take a real quick break and you know, you know, the first hours always banter and check it on each other, see how their weeks went and how everybody's terrible.
Speaker: Uh, I'm sorry. We'll see you next fall. You're an idiot. I'll see. That was actually a good dad joke. I liked it. I fake laughed, but I was real laughing on the inside. I died a little on the inside.
Speaker: But it is a good lead up into what we want to talk about tonight. And we do want to talk about humor. And a lot of times, white men tend to lean on humor when it comes to dealing with tough topics or subjects like our mental health. But in all honesty, it's actually really fucking good for you and healthy.
Speaker: We're going to take a real quick break. And since the guys were singing it earlier, I'm going to go ahead and do it now. It's kind of silence. Disturbed, covered. Simon Garfunkel, I know. This is the cover of Disturbed's cover. It's the cover of a cover. But it's by one of my favorite YouTubers, one of my favorite musicians on YouTube, Dan Vasque.
Speaker: and he does an absolutely amazing job. So enjoy it and we'll be back here just a few minutes.
Speaker: Because a vision softly here creeping Left its heat while I was sleeping And the failure that was splintered in my brain Still remains within the sun
Speaker: Of silence In restless strings of water alone Narrow streets of cobblestone Beneath the halo of a history land I turn my colour to the cold and damp
Speaker: When my eyes were stabbed by the flesh of a neon light Let's play the night and touch the sound
Speaker: And they'd make a lot of songs Ten thousand people, maybe even more People talking with a house became People hearing with a house listening People writing
Speaker: Just don't decide, no silence Who said I do not know? Silence like a cancer bruise
Speaker: And whisper the sound of silence
Speaker: Hey, my friends, I am here chilling in my retro room and I have a. That was Dan Rask with his cover of Disturbed and or Simon and Garfunkel, whichever you want to say. Simon and Garfunkel. Sound of silence. That's a great cover.
Speaker: Bubble Flex is an awesome band, by the way, Brian. They were huge up here for years. They had quite the presence in Central Ohio. They've done a few good covers. I think they've done a cover of a Pink Floyd song. I think they did Hey You, or Comfortably Numb, one of the two.
Speaker: I think they've done some Dio covers and stuff like that. Bubble Flux is a kick -ass band. So one of those bands that in my younger days, I got to see quite a bit because they were like always in the area. I think they were based out of like West Virginia or Kentucky or something like that. Pretty close to the border, I believe. Oh my God.
Speaker: Hey you. But anyways, welcome back to men camp for men, everybody. And you survived the first hour. Congratulations. You passed your first test. Yeah. Now, would you like the red pill or the blue pill? Yes. We're supposed to be. Yes. Yes.
Speaker: We're supposed to be helping with men's mental health, but I feel like we're causing more problems, especially in Connor and Jarvis' world. Oh, no, I always look forward to the show. Me, I get to sit on my pedestal and look down at the minions and go, my life's better than theirs. Just remember, without us, you wouldn't get content. That's not 100 % true. He just wouldn't have as good of content. OK, OK. There we go. There we go.
Speaker: I do have to remember, I was doing pretty good on my own before I started the podcast. You did alright. I was pretty good on TikTok. I was pretty good on Periscope. I would love to see the numbers that I've seen from TikTok and Periscope on the lives here, but we would never get anything accomplished if we had those kinds of numbers, let's be honest.
Speaker: We struggle with four or five people or whatever in the chat, like hundreds or thousands of people in the chat. Every two seconds, a new comment will pop up.
Speaker: Mm hmm. Yeah. But nonetheless, like I said, you know, tonight, tonight I wanted to talk, you know, I wanted to I wanted to because we all do it. Obviously we do it. You know, blazing said it Saturday night. He looks forward to coming in on Saturday nights. Why? Because he gets to hang out and laugh.
Speaker: Uh, you know, he gets to come in and laugh and have a good time. And, uh, especially when he's had a shit week, you know, he, he said that a couple of weeks ago, he had a shit week and he wanted to come up, but, uh, he just didn't have it in him, but he, he missed it and he wished he would have. But, uh, you know, we need, we need to be able to laugh and have a good time. Um, you know, whether it's.
Speaker: Whether it's giggling at something someone said or laughing out loud at a comedy show, a good laugh is healthy for you at the end of the day. And there's a fuck ton of medical studies out there that prove that. As we've said on this show, and people have said for years, it's not like we made it up, it's just laughter is the best medicine.
Speaker: So we try to be serious on Monday nights, but we also like to still have a good time and share some laughs and joke around. Especially when things start to get a little bit too heavy. And we've had some heavy conversations on here, and we usually end up the same way. Either somebody cracks a joke in the middle of it, or once everything's been done, then we need to cleanse our pallets and we sit around and joke for a half hour. Like last weekend. Like last, though.
Speaker: Yeah. Last Monday, Connor brought all, made all of us have our tissues for our issues. Uh, you know, as we learned from, uh, our buddy, uh, Peter Piper fucked a pepper, uh, his eyeballs were pissing. But, uh,
Speaker: And not only does it have, but it's got short -term and long -term effects on your mental health, being able to laugh and have a good time. I got the boring stuff here, but I'd also like to kind of touch on humor helping us through tough times and bad times.
Speaker: as well, kind of mix it in with the smart people conversation. And I don't know these facts, so I got them off interwebs. Did you Google it? Yeah. Just Google it, dude. Jesus. Just Google it. I went to WebMD, and apparently,
Speaker: I have, I have blank hair cancer. Um, I also lost my right arm in the civil war. And, uh, I might be balding and I'm also got about a week to live. So hashtag winning hashtag. Hell yeah. I did. I did. I did. I did. Uh, Oh shit. It really is on web MD.
Speaker: my bad. You were just rolling on the floor laughing weren't you? Uh no I uh I um I wanna I wanna or Jarvis I wanna ask you and then I'll kinda go through a couple of these things and then I'll we'll get to we'll get to Connor as well. Let's just let it roll. Just remember just remember I won't interrupt you Jarvis. Thank you. That's pretty I don't I don't.
Speaker: It's a Monday night. We're here to have a good time. I will not interrupt you. This is all about being serious. One time.
Speaker: right but so it's about no one ever congratulated you know on the somewhat half -assed job i did last wednesday but you know well i'm just happy i'm just happy that you you came back in like congratulations for that like you rage quit but you were like you know i'll suck it up i'll come back oh my god i heard you mentioned this quite a few times jarvis she did such a good job wednesday night good job you should be proud of yourself
Speaker: You can pick a prize out of the treasure chest Jarvis. That's what we should do. We should have Jeff make like a little image thing that looks like a chart with all of our names and every time we do something good, we get a gold star. You can only get one for episode.
Speaker: Well, we know Brian and Brian and Mark aren't getting any so Yeah, I remember seeing this those were those were a while man. I wish I had pictures from when I decided to drive my car off a cliff Why'd you get out
Speaker: So why'd you get out, you pussy? I got out after we hit the crowd. But both me and my buddy walked away. I had a huge cut on my face where my radio flew out and hit me in the face. But yeah, about 250 foot drop. And we went, we rolled, we flipped, no server. From what the trooper said, he estimated three to four times. And we rolled four to five times like cider. And then we landed on a boulder. And it was one of those things where we hit the
Speaker: the boulder at the bottom or the rock or whatever you want to call it. Had we hit like two inches back, it would have crushed us because the whole back of my car was completely crushed. But we both walked away. He didn't have any injuries. I had a cut on my face that had a whole bunch of glass and shit in it. And it's because that was the fastest way to get down the hill. I mean, we almost died.
Speaker: In all honesty, we probably should have died. And as we're climbing up out of the ravine, we were laughing and making jokes. You know, that's how I felt after I fell down the stairs yesterday. And this is a guy who makes sure to me for not riding roller coasters. He's like, Glick, we rode the world's greatest roller coaster ride when we were 16. And you're afraid to get on a roller coaster? Yeah, man.
Speaker: Hell yeah, but but I want to ask you Jarvis if there was a time or two that you can remember off top of your head before we get into the nerd shit and I'll get into some of the nerd shit here as well. That you can think of where you really relied on on on humor to get through something or to deal with something. Every time I do do the podcast. No, I saw that coming from. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.
Speaker: But no star, no gold star for you. Yeah, we can't. So we're going to take away Wednesday's gold star, right, Connor? No, no, I'm just not giving a one for this show. OK, OK. So you can just rip it in half. Just give me a half star. That's fine. We'll give him a half star for Wednesday. OK. I feel like that's half the battle. Get the half star. Fuck the full star. It was a good joke. It was just a little hanging fruit that everybody did cover.
Speaker: Yeah. Sorry. How's Sunday podcasts going? I've got a half star on Yelp. We're doing great. It's half a star. Sad thing he's not lying.
Speaker: the one ranking I got on there. Sadly, he's still doing the show after five years. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut off, cut you off while you were talking, Steven. You're good. You're good. No, I feel like I don't think there's any time I can't count on one hand or toe that I haven't had to use humor with.
Speaker: Shut up Brian with dealing with mental health because honestly there's days where you know you have an episode or you know god forbid you have one of those days where people are uh
Speaker: Yes, yes hashtag stuck point Or even when you're having a bad day and people just they find that right button to push not not naming any names But you know, they find that right bush, but he did one thing
Speaker: I know, right? One thing and just made me want to. It was just a question. Yeah. But no, I just I feel like there's been times where, you know, I say one thing and then everyone's got to magnify it 100 more times than it needs to be. And then it's like, it's like, hey, Connor, tell me how much you hate me.
Speaker: And, and Connor comes up with an amazing joke or, you know, I say, Hey, Glick, you know, my show did well for once and Glick's like, did anyone watch it? And it's like, I would rather keep my beard shaved for the rest of my life than that. Keep you on this podcast. Thanks. Outside, outside of the outside of the podcast.
Speaker: going on only fans is as two skinny girls beat each other up with pillows outside of the podcasting world is there is there is there a moment in time that really, like I said, you know, that really sticks with you that, you know, enable to
Speaker: find, you know, some kind of sense, you know, find some kind of humor or, or have friends around that, that, you know, just being able to laugh got you through something in life. You know what I mean? Outside of the podcasting world. Oh, um, yeah, I, uh, one time I went up to my buddy Bryant and I'm like, Hey, Brian, you know, my, my girlfriend cheated on me and he's like, didn't she get pregnant with some other dude? And I'm like, yeah. And he's like,
Speaker: Bullet dodged, just saying. That's a fair point. Honestly, that's just a good point. That's not even funny. That's just true. Yeah. I mean, hashtag facts on facts, you know. And there's been other times that, you know, well, on last Monday when I was talking about what had happened with my dad, you know, Bryant's like, well, you know, there's two ways you look at Steven. You still have your dad and two, you didn't jump out the fucking window.
Speaker: And I mean, it's true. You know, I mean, you know, people may call it, you know, dark humor or whatever, but at those times, I feel like we always go to humor in those times when, you know, we're feeling like we're going to lose a loved one or we're going to lose a friend or, you know, our life sucks. You know, Glick comes out of the forest and, you know, there's a million posters of like Harry and the Henderson's and he's like, Hey, you know, I'm a Sasquatch too. Why couldn't I have gotten, you know, movie deals and all that?
Speaker: It's racist. They didn't use the real swatch for that movie. Unacceptable. Cancelled. I mean, they could have used John Lithgow as, you know, not only the dad, but as a Sasquatch. He was fake. Not a real one. Let's squash in these streets. Squatch wall appropriation, gentlemen. I won't stand. I mean, yeah. I mean, out of the instances.
Speaker: Just that one time was, you know, when my dad was on his death bed, but he didn't die. So, I mean, when he was laying in the hospital bed and, you know, I was like, Hey, that, uh, that looks pretty interesting. I wonder if I can touch that car. And then, uh, Brian asked me, he's like, well, they do. I'm like, I'm still your dumb ass. So evidently, no, I didn't decide to do a fucking lethal weapon moment. I mean, a lot of people jump off the roofs and survive.
Speaker: Yeah. All right, Connor, how are you doing? Some people fall down. Some people fall downstairs and survive. I just sneezed and it hurt like hell. I mean, at least you didn't fall down this time. Oh, fuck. Dude, that shit hurt so fucking bad. I'm not a wookie, but I play one on TV. Teen wookie. You know, the nerd shit here, obviously.
Speaker: they're short term and long term effects for your mental health. Some of the short terms here, they say, uh, short term mental health, uh, benefits, uh, of, of humors laughing automatically, uh, triggers, uh, positive physical and mental changes that help relax the mind. Um, the short term benefits include, uh, I know we're all gonna laugh at this.
Speaker: So let's go ahead and let me, let me get through it. We can all have a laugh because inside of our heads, we're 14 year old teenagers that, you know, it's funny, but, uh, Oregon stimulation stimulation. Sorry.
Speaker: A good laugh improves your intake of oxygen -rich air. This in turn stimulates organs such as the heart, lungs, and muscles. Your brain also releases endorphins, hormones that cause a feeling of pleasure and a relaxed mind. So that's one of the few short -term things here. So essentially every time that you laugh, you have a mini orgasm. Well, you know what? I like the laugh.
Speaker: Exactly. That's all it is. I like to show her my uh oh face.
Speaker: You put a bag over your head for that exact reason. Most of the time, other than that, most of the time it's a Glick, it's a Glick Sasquatch mask. And I'm like, hey, can I look at it? And she's like, no, keep it on. Keep it on, don't touch it. Glick, well, okay.
Speaker: I mean, she wants to fantasize about a champ, you know what I mean? I'm like, you could have fantasized about John Cena, but, you know, I mean, if you consider... Who am I? We keep calling this dude champ and his head's just going to keep getting bigger. And that lead pill is just going to call my name louder and louder. I know, right? Hey, Connor, I'll join you. I'll just stand on the other side of you. The good news is my wife won't have to paint the walls red anymore.
Speaker: But no, I mean, obviously. I'm sorry, God. There's all about red walls, that's red.
Speaker: That's that's that's stone. It's paint in the town red. It's not full coverage. It's really just a splotch. It's like it's like you got. It's it's an undercoat. Oh, good God. It's more challenging, but no, I mean it really does and we and we talk about it a lot on all the shows.
Speaker: You know, we look forward to coming on and doing the shows and having a good time and laughing and joking because when we are having a shit day or a shit week, uh, you know, obviously, you know, the endorphins kick in and we get done doing the show. And, uh, when we get done doing the show where we, we all feel a little bit better. Plus we have that adrenaline rush of just doing a show. Uh, yeah, we're all tired. We just did a three hour show or a four hour show or.
Speaker: six hour show or whatever. We're all tired, but then as soon as the cameras go over, it's like, well, mom for sound, let's go. But, um, uh, it's also a, uh, uh, a form of stress relief, uh, laughing activation, your body's, uh, stress release or your stress response mechanism. This, uh, this process changes your heart rate, leaving you in high and high spirits, you know, cause your heart rate going a little bit.
Speaker: And you're feeling good. You're feeling better, you know, um, really from tensions. Uh, laughter also stimulates a rapid, rapid blood circulation. When this happens, you may experience a calming sensation that takes away, uh, tension and stress. I don't know about you guys, but, uh, when I, when I start to, uh, when I, when I start to get, uh, get real stressed out, I feel it all in my shoulders and in my neck.
Speaker: And, and like, it's a, it's a, it's a physical reaction to where when I'm super stressed, my shoulders are like, they, like I, I almost, I can't do anything about it, but they, they raise up because all those muscles and everything in my shoulders and like my neck are also tense and just, and then it hurts too, because I'm stressed out, which leads to what they call the stress headaches. Usually you feel them in the base of your head or going down your neck. It's from all those muscles and whatnot kind of tightening up and.
Speaker: And I don't know, maybe it stretches your brain. I don't know. But it causes a stress headache. But it's always in the base of your neck and it shoots right down your shoulders. It's a stress headache. I don't know if you guys feel that, but I know a lot of people say that they can feel when stress is coming on because they can feel everything kind of start to tension up and see their physical trait of your shoulders starting to elevate more than what they usually are.
Speaker: Um, but you know, uh, you know, laughing's gonna be able to laugh and, and, and joke around it. That's going to alleviate that, which, I mean, there's been some shows that I've come on and I've been stressed the fuck out about halfway through the show. I can kind of relax. You know what I mean? I can feel it. Dr. Glick. I know a little bit about a little bit. All right. You don't get through life having as many injuries as I've had.
Speaker: and hanging out with physical therapists, which are the closest things to the demons that I've ever met in my life because those sadistic sons of bitches, they get awesome. They're going to suck. Yeah. Um, you know, you can't, you, you, you, you're going to learn a few things and I've picked up some things just believe it or not. Sometimes when it doesn't look like I'm listening, I'm actually listening. And then the naked, smarter than the average squatch. Um,
Speaker: but uh, it's just, it's just like, um, just a couple of the, uh, uh, yeah, we've already tried that once before, Brian, where were you? We tried it. Our DJ was terrible. We had a dude completely ruin it with his piss board jokes. It was just, it was the train. The MC was terrible. The, the presenters were even worse.
Speaker: Now there were one or two that were okay. And then, and then they wanted, and then, then it was my turn to roast everybody else, but I figured that the job was already done. So I didn't even try to roast anybody, but anyway. The sad thing is, I think that's one of our highest rated Saturday shows. Nah. That show was just embarrassing to watch or be a part of. Yeah. It hurt me in this whole, but anyways,
Speaker: Connor, I'd like to ask you that, and again, there's always a method to my madness. I have follow -up questions for this question, but I want to ask you, man, what was one time that really sticks out for you that, you know, being able to laugh and your sense of humor or somebody else's sense of humor was able to help you get through a pretty tough time. What's one of those moments that just really stick out in your head?
Speaker: I mean, when it comes to humor in situations to make you feel better, the military is almost like the goat, right? There's a whole saying in the military about, you know, embrace the suck. In our worst times is when we have the most fun.
Speaker: We are always having a terrible time always having a terrible time especially when especially we were an idiot and you join the army and becoming an infantryman I mean 12 -mile rucks buddies committing to the s -word and losing friends and you know being out in the the shit in the rain and having to deal with a whole bunch of other crap and it's it's
Speaker: you're never lacking in the department of shitty times. And so you kind of develop this dark sense of humor to be able to make fun of yourself in these situations. I could cite multiple, but my most, one of my more memorable moments in Korea was when we were at a,
Speaker: base per se and it was raining out and I had just gotten off of a 12 hour shift, me and six other dudes and as soon as we went inside we got called for an alert and we had to go back out to a guard tower that was uncovered with a machine gun that weighed way too much and a whole bunch of ammo that weighed way too much and we had to sit out there in 40 degree weather while it rained for three hours after our shift.
Speaker: And the whole time we're sitting there and we're just cracking jokes, having fun, smoking wet cigarettes in the rain, and fucking with each other. Like, hey, I bet Jody's fucking your girl right now. Just shit to get through. And it's not necessarily that all the jokes at the time are appropriate, but they help you get through and forget about the pain or the unfundness
Speaker: of the situation that you're currently in. And, you know, again, I could, I could cite multiple sources on this, but I don't want to be all year. That's, that's kind of where dark humor comes from is, is the bad situations and trying to find the fun in it, find the light in the tunnel, whether it's your buddy making fun of your girl, probably cheating on you while you're gone, or whether it's you, you joking about a six feet of rope and a wobbly stool because it sucks where you're at right now and what you're doing.
Speaker: I mean, and that's the thing too, is it kind of gets you through that. It's not that at any point it's necessarily appropriate. And we do it on the show all the time. I mean, last week I left the room for 30 minutes and I came back and Glick had poured his heart out.
Speaker: And everybody was crying, but everybody was laughing and joking. By the time I had come back, it was all over and it was back to dick jokes and fart jokes and inappropriate jokes. And I was like, how did this go from, you know, we're all serious here to this. It's almost like a coping mechanism.
Speaker: And it does. It makes it makes you feel better on the inside. It makes you feel better on the outside. Uh, and you can bring up the people around you as well. Uh, and you minimize the suck of, of whatever situation you're in. Yeah. You know, a hundred percent, you know, especially in your, if you're in a group situation, which we'll talk about that here down the road, uh, here in a few, um, you know, yeah.
Speaker: You know, Connor had his moment last week. I had my moment. And, uh, you know, but at the end of the day, we, we, uh, we, we just kinda, uh, Jarvis has had his moment too. And, and we, we actually, I, I made the conscious decision to, you know, not because Jarvis was doing anything wrong, but, you know, kind of looking out for him to, to kind of turn it into more of a jokey thing.
Speaker: When you were talking about when you were a kid and stuff, I can tell you, you were starting to get like super upset. So I made a couple of jokes, which spun it, you know, because I didn't want you on here. You were getting, you were getting like upset both way. You're like, you were getting mad and you were sad. You were sad and mad. And I was just like, all right, let me, let me, let me drop a couple of jokes and turn it around here. I was looking out for you, man. I wasn't like, you didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker: No, I think I think we all do a very good job on this show of doing that. When things start to get heavy for one of us, if we're having one of those discussions, I think we're all very good at dropping a joke, a real quick one -liner to just kind of lighten it up a little bit. And then, you know, that way kind of like a snap back to reality type deal. Yeah. Oh, there goes gravity. But we'll, we'll get into that here in a few as well. So yeah.
Speaker: So they have on here not only the short -term effects, but also the long -term effects or benefits from humor on your mental health. In addition to the short -term benefits, humor has several scientifically proven long -term effects that include it boosts your immune system. Maybe that's why I was immune to COVID because I'm always laughing and having a good time.
Speaker: We know Brad facts facts as has been shown on this show and talking multiple times But uh, no positive thoughts lead to the release of Neuropeptides these are brain chemicals
Speaker: So that says, man, and I think I nailed that fucking word, by the way, chemicals known to fight anxiety, stress and other related mental conditions, chemical reactions in the body that that alleviate stress levels, which in turns works against your immunity. Have you ever noticed somebody and I can say this for me personally, I know when I was at my
Speaker: you know, I was in a bad way and I was super stressed and my anxiety was through the roof. I mean, I'm talking, you're talking about a guy who, you know, uh, would, would want to go get McDonald's for dinner, but my, my anxiety was so high. I couldn't even go through a drive -through and talk to somebody. So I would drive around for three hours and then come home and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You know, I, it seemed like I was, I was more susceptible to colds. I was always sick. Um,
Speaker: They almost go hand in hand. I know we're talking about the fun bits and the sweetness of comedy and comic relief and being able to laugh at yourself and all these things. But that's what depression is. It's just a deep, dark pit.
Speaker: And it swirls you in. So you get in this brain capacity and it affects your actual body and how your body reacts to certain things, including viruses and illnesses and things like that. And you get sick and then you feel even more like shit. And the hole just gets a little bit deeper and deeper and deeper.
Speaker: And that's where you need friends or certain podcasts or podcast networks to bring you up sometimes and kind of snap you out of it and say, Hey, we can, we can go through the shit and have, have some fun doing it rather than going through the shit and just feeling like shit and getting worse as, as you go. Yeah. One to 100%. Not only that, but, uh, you know,
Speaker: Connor, uh, for you, uh, for myself, uh, anybody else, I think Jarvis has had a couple of injuries himself that, uh, have had long -term effects. Uh, believe it or not, a good laugh is good for pain relief. Uh, laugh causes your body to release natural painkillers. Uh, they're there, uh, therefore relieving you of a physical pain. Um, which again,
Speaker: I can kind of make sense to me. I can see that, you know, when I'm having a good week and I'm, and I'm laughing more and I'm, you know, and I'm, I'm having, I'm having fun and stuff like that. Uh, you know, I don't hurt as much as I, as I normally do. You know, you know, and we all know Connor, you know, obviously Connor's not really crippled, but we all know Connor's story, but
Speaker: You know, I've got a busted up back. I've got a busted up shoulder. I've got a ankle and knee that's that's that's busted all to hell and back. I mentioned my four hands. I've probably broken every finger.
Speaker: Uh, so many times I can't count that high grip it so hard, dude. Nice loose grip. Yeah. I've broken my hands more times than I can count and I've broken both wrists. And so, you know, that stuff catches up to you when you get, when you get older and there's some days, you know, and a lot of times it's if I'm having a bad week. So, so all this stuff compiles on you, man, if you're having a bad week and you finding yourself in like one of them, one of them dark holes, your, your body, I mean, like.
Speaker: mental health will wreck a body. You're more susceptible to the viruses and the stuff like that. But not only that, but your physical pain is more prevalent. And, and, and, you know, like I said, weeks that I'm really going through it and my anxiety or my stress, or even if depression creeps its stupid face up, man, uh, I can feel it in my body. I mean, it hurts. Um,
Speaker: I'm like, shut up, Ryan. Let me get in here. Like, he pulled her back out for the first time and I was like, it sucks getting old. I said, hey, let me tell you something. Once upon a time, I was walking down a hallway at the house and this is when I was still down in Charleston. So, again, I was dealing with a lot but I lifted my leg up and tore a big old fart right down the hallway.
Speaker: And when I did my back popped, I've had that for a week and a half, I walked around like the hunchback and Notre Dame dragging my, dragging my leg because the pain was shooting all the way down to my foot and all the way up. So like the whole, one of my body was like complete full on. Uh, uh, I was like a homie with an extra chromie for a week and a half.
Speaker: But it's the truth, man. I'm like, how the fuck does that happen? You know, I've been walking down a flight of stairs and step wrong and I hear my knee pop. And then for a week or so, it hurts. But at the same time,
Speaker: I also realized when I'm having a good week and I'm having fun and something like that happens, the more I laugh, the faster it seems like I heal up. I never, I just thought that it was maybe just my brain saying, Hey, you're good, buddy. You're having a great week. And it was blocking out the majority of the pain. Well, what the look at, look at me. Yeah. Sorry. Yep.
Speaker: but like
Speaker: essentially this, this chemical being in your, your bloodstream for too long and prolonged amount of times at a heightened level can seriously affect your health. And that's what comes down to the immune system issues and all that. And when you have these times where you can laugh and you can have a good time, those cortisol levels drop and you feel better.
Speaker: And that's kind of what you're talking about is when, when you can drop those levels, because you get to forget about some of the stupid shit and just be, just be fun, just have fun and forget about all the crap that's giving you troubles in one area of your life or the other. And you can drop those cortisol levels. Your body will thank you for it. 100%.
Speaker: And, uh, and, uh, and, and yes, please in my side, I had a nervous shot. I had to actually switch which side I wore. I put my wallet in my pocket because, uh, when I would had it on the other side, when I would sit down, like in a car or something like that, it would pinch it or seize it or whatever happens. So you had to swap my wallet, but yeah, no, I mean, you're a hundred percent right, Connor. Um, you know, our body releases those chemicals. See, I know medical things too.
Speaker: You should. I'm smart. Yeah, you should. You should. I'm you spent living in a hospital, my second home. But like you know, like I said, our body releases good and bad chemicals and you've got to have that good balance or maybe even a higher balance of the good stuff to counteract the bad stuff, you know, and shit now, you know, you know,
Speaker: Right there for you, Connor. My wiener's too small to try out porn position. I can do two positions, all right? What's wrong? I can't reach. Hang on. Well, three. Missionary, put your legs on my shoulders, or doggy. Sometimes doggies struggle for me, too. I got a small wiener. What do you want me to do? There's too much pushing for the pushing. Hang on. We've got to spread them a little more, see if we can lower the depth. Yeah, right.
Speaker: But, uh, but no, I mean, so, you know, obviously for, you know, physical, physical right there, man, those are two big physical components. Um, positivity, uh, obviously, you know, having a good sense of humor can help you interact and connect with other people. I think we do a very good job of that as a whole on this network. I think all of us have a pretty good sense of humor and ultimately we're putting ourselves out there, you know, some of us more than others and doing all these shows.
Speaker: But I think we try to have a positive outlook. We try to have fun. We interact with a lot of different people. We never know what's going to happen on Saturday. I mean, Saturday we met Wes, and he was cool as shit.
Speaker: Positive thoughts and good relationships may assist you cope by taking your mind off the difficult situations. Yeah, we bust each other's balls in here and we razz each other. You know, we make fun of Connor for falling down stairs or, you know, we make fun of Jarvis in a cage. Uh, you know, they make fun of me and call me a wookie when that's just racist. I'm not a wookie. I'm a Sasquatch. It hurts my feelings. Okay.
Speaker: But, uh, you know, but, but having that, that, that sense of humor and that good positive, uh, positive outlook for the most part, it makes us relatable. So why people like us, you know, it's not like we, it's not like they want to see us burn. It's not, it's not like we go live multiple times a week and, and, and, and, and nobody watches us, but we still keep going live multiple times a week. I mean, people like us because we're fun.
Speaker: Well, you guys are funny, I'm just here. Jarvis, he's getting better. Jarvis is getting better. At what? I was your teacher, and I was giving you your nine weeks report. I would say Jarvis is definitely improving, and the class is showing that they appreciate Jarvis more. Well, some people in the class, Connor, not so much. Well, yeah, he brings the bell curve down, so we get higher grades.
Speaker: Yeah, but that's the only reason you're passing buddy. It's not wrong. Don't worry, I'm in the same boat. Trust me without them without them curves, man. I'm I'm fucking failing the first week I show up within the first hour. They're like give them enough and pass them along. Yeah, not only that, but you know it also improves your mood at the end of the day and improves your mood.
Speaker: uh laughter can significantly lift your spirits by reducing anxiety and depression making you happy so you know the old saying laughter is the best medicine it truly is uh you know there brian is that good enough for you you fucking asshole
Speaker: It truly is, at the end of the day. Laughter is the best medicine out there. It does a lot for us. You know, I ask these guys and... But laughter is great, even though Steven fails to produce it many, many times per show.
Speaker: laughter is great. I'll pick up or left off. You know, the main, the main idea of the episode is laugh. Be positive. Even when it sucks. Word of the day is laugh. No, please continue.
Speaker: No, I was just feeling dead air because I knew Stephen wasn't going to fucking say anything. No, no. Like I said, you know, I asked these guys, you know, well, you know, it was one of those moments that really stuck out in your life that that that that laughter really got you through. And I got to say, there wasn't just one moment for me and I'm sorry, but they all revolve around the same thing and it's death. You know, both my grandfathers meant the world to me.
Speaker: and my mom, even though she had her flaws, and she wasn't perfect by no means. Both my grandfather's debts were a little bit easier because I got to say my final goodbyes.
Speaker: And all that and there wasn't anything bad, but it was still a hard time. But when my mom passed, it was really tough for me because the last time my mom and I had actually spoke, we had had a big fight. And it was basically revolved around her life decisions and where she lived and why my daughter couldn't come and spend the night with her. And it was nothing.
Speaker: that I, that I thought my mom would ever do anything to hurt my daughter. My oldest one, it was just the area she lived in was not safe. And some things are sometimes out of your control. Well, my mom and I had a huge fight. We didn't speak for about a year and a half. Now she, we still had our rituals. You know, she, she always called me on my birthday. I wasn't allowed to answer my phone because she sang happy birthday and she sang simple man. She left it in a voicemail. Um,
Speaker: And then the day before and the day of the Ohio State Michigan game, cause I'm a big Michigan fan and she's a, she's big Ohio. She was a big Ohio state fan. She always called me and left a message talking shit. And I'm telling you, I was not allowed to answer the phone. If I answered the phone, she would say, I'm not talking to you and hang up on me. And I wish, I wish I had
Speaker: One of these voicemails still, unfortunately, I lost them. But we didn't speak for almost a year and a half. And I got the phone call from my stepdad when she passed. And he was clearly broken up and hurt. And I thought that he said that Bear Bear passed, which was my mom's dog, which was her best friend in the whole world. And I called him back and I said, what happened to Bear? And he's like, Bear's fine.
Speaker: Uh, your mom is not your mom passed and I was done. Um, that was probably one of the hardest moments of my life. Uh, shout out to a couple of my family members and some of my very close friends, because that was one thing that got me through it in all honesty, because I took it very hard and it hit me very hard. And it's still hard. Even, even all these years later, 14 years later, because I had a lot of regret.
Speaker: And a lot of regret and a lot of anger because the last conversation I had with my mom was a fight and I didn't get to say goodbye because she went in her sleep. She went peacefully. She went to take her afternoon nap and she had a at -home nurse or whatever it was, lady who came and hung out with her during the day. I'm not quite sure what it was, but
Speaker: And my mom took her normal afternoon nap and about an hour later or whatever when when her aid nurse whatever came to Wake her up from her nap. She was gone. So she went in her sleep. She went very peacefully Years of of pain and hurt and struggle and You know, she got to go very peacefully which I thought was kind of fitting for her and
Speaker: But, you know, like I said, even all these years later, it's been 14 years, almost 15 or 15 years, something like that. It still hurts. But, you know, I had some people in my life at that moment in time that were great. And had it not been for the support and the jokes and the laughs and everything else like that, I don't know if I would have made it through because that was a real kick in the fucking stomach.
Speaker: kicking the dick, let's be honest. It was worse than getting kicked in the stomach. Because I grew up a mama's boy. I was very close to my mom. I knew my mom wasn't perfect. And I knew she had her issues and everything else like that. But she was still my mom. But I became a parent. And I had to make tough decisions and sacrifices to make sure my kids were okay. Not something I wanted to do, but
Speaker: It wasn't like I was gonna keep my daughter from seeing her or the grandkids from seeing her. I had no problem. I'd come out every weekend if she would have wanted me to. I could have dropped them off and let them hang out with her when I was at work if she wanted me to. But it was just I wasn't gonna let him stay overnight cuz I was too far away. If something happened, I couldn't get there in time. And it all boiled down to the neighborhood that she chose to live in and the area she chose to live in at the end of the day.
Speaker: But like I said, I had a lot of good friends and some family members who kept my spirits up, kept me trying to be positive as best as they could. When I was alone, it was a different story. But I did get to share a lot of good laughs. And one of the saddest moments of my life was also probably one filled with the most laughter.
Speaker: you know, uh, um, one of those, yeah, the most pain I've ever felt compared to, you know, also having being thankful and grateful for having the people in my life that were there because there was a lot of fun and there was a lot of joy felt at the same time. And a part of me, you know, at the time felt bad because I should be in mourning and I should be depressed and I should be sad and I'm, and I'm laughing and I'm having a good time with people. But as the years have gone by, I've realized that,
Speaker: That was exactly what I needed to get through that. I wouldn't wish that on anybody. Anybody who's lost a parent out there, you know what it's like, especially one that young. I think at this point, I may be older than my mom. I may be, I think, I can't remember, but she wasn't very old.
Speaker: but nonetheless, sorry. Let me pull the e -brake and bring everybody down. Jarvis is watching some fanfate made Halloween movie. He's not paying no attention. Chatter. I am paying attention, you know. Chatter's box is all self deleted themselves. Connor self deleted himself. Delete, delete, delete, delete. Sorry guys. It's a men's mental health show, right? Yeah.
Speaker: No, I hear yeah, I mean I Didn't always get along with my my grandpa Jarvis, you know, he was he was very fucking hard to get along with but you know, um Still made it there the day that he had passed away and everyone was saying their goodbyes and I just I pretty much just Grabbed his hand and I said this ain't goodbye. It's see you later. See you down that road
Speaker: You know, when Alyssa's grandpa passed away, Alyssa never seen a person pass away or anything. So I wanted to get her out of the room before she would witness that. And I just, I went up to Wendell, her grandpa, and I said, Hey man, you know, your wife's waiting for you up there. Go, go, go with your wife, you know, and it's not goodbye. See you later. And one of Alyssa's aunts kind of patted me on the back and said, good job.
Speaker: Yeah. No, my grandfather passed. That wasn't easy. Obviously, I told you guys I didn't take that very well. I told you guys that last week. I mean, that's when I became an alcoholic and I was in a very bad way when my mom's dad died. But, you know, we were close and he was an influence in my life. But this is a man that
Speaker: Uh, they told him, I think I might've been four or five that he had maybe six months to live and he lived like another 20 some years. And he, and he ended and the day that he was done, you know, I remember my uncle called me cause I worked for my uncle and we worked, we worked, uh, with my grandfather from times our company's coincided with each other or my uncle's company and my grandfather's company coincided with each other.
Speaker: So, you know, he called me and said, Hey, meet me at grandpa's or dad's. And I was like, okay, well, there's no big deal. I mean, our shops were only a few minutes away from each other. Uh, it was like a normal day. And, and, and, uh, you know, I got there and he was like, Hey, uh, grandpa wants to talk to you inside or, you know, dad wants to talk to you inside. I went in there and he basically said, I just want to say goodbye. You know, I'm done. I'm tired of taking the pills. I've, I've, I've accomplished everything I've wanted to accomplish.
Speaker: And so much more. And we built his dream shop a little while before. And he said, I'm done. And we said our goodbyes. And I mean, it hurt. It hurt like hell. Don't get me wrong. Obviously, I fell into a little bit of a tailspin. But my other grandfather, I was in Charleston.
Speaker: And he had a stroke and everything. And I'll tell you what, that 10, 12 hour car ride turned into a, I think I made it home in about seven and a half, maybe eight. I was a hundred and some miles an hour. That was the one time I made the trip from Charleston to Ohio, that the mountains did not even phase me. And I don't like driving through the West Virginia Turnpike because I don't like driving in the mountains. Didn't even think about it.
Speaker: I was, oh, I stopped to get gas. And that was the only time I stopped to get gas. You're not getting me on that one, Brian. That was, that was a good Brian. That was good. That was a good one. But, uh, you know, and, and, and I got home and, and he was still alive and kicking. I went in and talked to the silly fucker and.
Speaker: Talk shit to him a little bit, because my grandfather was a shit talker his whole life. Kind of like me, it runs in the family. Like I said, I grew up in Thunderdome and he had to learn to be quick because you got eaten alive in my family and talk some shit to him and held his hand and gave me a squeeze. He was he was basically in a coma. He had a stroke. I believe I think it was a stroke and
Speaker: He squeezed my hand, I was like, that's what I thought, fucker. And I said my goodbyes and everything, and unfortunately, I couldn't stay very long. It was basically a drive up, turn around and drive back home, but that hit me pretty hard. And again, my cousins were right there. We were all there for each other,
Speaker: losing that man kind of kicked everybody in the dick because he was a stubborn old man. This is a guy who was working on his truck one day and the kickstand came out from where he thought when the truck fucking ran his ass over and he should have killed him, but he said, yeah, not today, Satan. He had skin traps and everything because the truck just fucked up his back. I mean, it was, it was, it was bad. But, um,
Speaker: No, I mean, that's, you know, again, you know, like I said, just good to have those in your life and be able to share those moments, even even when it's the shittiest party, you know, shittiest moment in your life to still be able to find a reason to to laugh and have a good time. Connor, you're you're back, so you should speak on your grandmother. No, I feel like we're talking about grandparents and and we're getting all we're getting all sad and Chris, you talk about.
Speaker: losing losing your grandfather. I think about my my grandmother. We called her Mo. She had she had dementia really, really bad. Actually. It sucked that it felt like we we we just kind of lost her. And and it was almost a happy sad when she passed. Because we knew she was just kind of there.
Speaker: She was in a nursing home for about the last six months. And I was in Toledo, Ohio with my, with my guard unit. And my dad was visiting them because she was having a rough time. And, um, dad texted me around lunchtime and he said, Hey, is there any way you can come out here? I don't know if she's going to make it through the night. And I was like, yeah, let me go talk to my flight chief now. And, uh,
Speaker: I got out of the office with my flight chief. I got in my car and I got to the front gate. My dad called me and said, Hey, uh, stay at work. She's, she's, she's gone. And you know, my dad doesn't cry much. Uh, I think that I've only seen him cry once ever in my life. And it was at her funeral, but it killed me that I didn't get to say goodbye and
Speaker: Dad was there to tell me that she wouldn't have known you anyway. But the humor in it was being able to look back during her funeral and everybody comes up and gives their eulogies and talks about their experiences that they had with her. Mo was a really,
Speaker: Really fun Alabama girl, and she always had something positive or something fun or something funny to say. And she never drank alcohol, or at least she didn't by the time we were around. And every time she would ask me to go grab her a Coke, she would do her best drunk voice. Can you go get me a drink?
Speaker: But we were standing there, and I was talking with my brother, and he brought up the last Christmas that we had had. Because we were all sitting around, and we always have our family Christmas up there with my cousins and them. And most dementia was getting pretty rough around that point. She was coming up on the end of her time. And we were sitting around. We finished doing presents.
Speaker: My grandfather said, Mo, can you go grab the stockings? Do you remember where we put them? And Mo grabbed the tissue box, and she started pulling tissues out. And we're like, what you doing? What you doing, Mo? She's like, oh, I put the socks at the bottom of this. And she keeps pulling. I'm like, that's a tissue box. And it was.
Speaker: funny and sad. And my cousins, I took it pretty hard. My cousins were there to remember the stories of us when we went to campgrounds when we were kids with them and getting sunburned out of the pool and listening to Mo bark at us because we didn't put any sunscreen on and we were going to be bitching and complaining about sunburns later.
Speaker: It hurt to lose her because it felt like it took longer. It was like she slowly faded away. And about two months before she had passed and she was at the house with Poe as he had brought her home to have lunch. And I was up in Toledo doing on the job training with my guard unit.
Speaker: I was less than probably a half hour away from their house. So I stopped by and Poe knew I was coming. My grandfather knew I was coming and he had told Moe about it, but she couldn't remember. So I walked into the house and she didn't recognize me. And she thought I was there to steal everything. So she started yelling at Poe. What?
Speaker: This is your grandson. Calm down. And then they had my picture from my Air Force graduation when I graduated basic. And she said, that's a handsome young man right there. And she's sitting next to my cousin, and she looks over at my cousin, and she goes, you need to find you a man like that. Military boys, they know their stuff. Ew.
Speaker: Right here There is a there's a humor in the darkness and and to be able to find that and to be able to have those Those people around you remind you of the humor in the pain Made it just a just a little bit easier It still hurts to go to their house and not see her in the kitchen. Mm -hmm
Speaker: It's it feels wrong and I still say I'm going up to see Momo even though she's been she's been gone since since 2015 now. Yeah, but I still I still say it and he's still got the the wooden plaque outside their door that says, you know, welcome to Bill and Sue Myers house. Yeah. Always will be too. It's it resonated with me. Glick is is not having the ability to say goodbye.
Speaker: No, that's, that's something that, uh, I said these last, um, 15 years or so, uh, it's something that I struggle with and, and, and thank you Facebook. Uh, because you always feel the need to fucking remind me of that Facebook about, uh, about, uh, uh, you know, the day of, and for about a week or two after, I appreciate you. I appreciate your Facebook. Thank you.
Speaker: Oh, it always reminds me of when the day my grandma Peterson passed away. And I was at a wrestling meet that night. And I, I know, Connor. No, no, I'm not laughing. Was that in your porn days you were wrestling me? No, this was, this was my senior year, my last year of actually thinking that I had a sporting career. I'll just click now. You're good.
Speaker: You're good. I'm sorry. I'm sorry Jarvis. You're good. You're good. You're good. Go ahead wrestling man is gay enough and then he said wrestling meat is wrestling cocks Really slow I I had known that my grandma had Suffered a second stroke and I was just like, uh, my grandma Peterson. She'll be fine. Well, I had the worst
Speaker: wrestling appearance I think I had ever had in my short brief career of doing that. The whole team lost and I lost by so many fucking points. I looked up there and I'm like, God, if I played for the Minnesota Vikings, it'd almost be comical. And so my coach, he taps me on the shoulder and he's like, hey, Steven, I know you feel bad. You let the team down, but
Speaker: when you get home your mom's gonna call you and I was like okay so I got home and all of a sudden no sooner I go to sit down and eat supper I hear the phone ring and I'm like I swear to god if this is the coach to tell me that I need to come in on Monday after school because I fucking let the whole team down I'm gonna fucking I'll kick my coach's ass
Speaker: answer the phone. It's my mother and my mom's like, Hey, Steven, you know, coach already told me you let the team down. Yeah. No, nice and dandy. And I'm like, thanks, mom. You're not the only one that told me that I just got bitched out by. Yeah. Mom never even came to watch me play sports and she's the one giving me grief. It's like you could at least be like dad where he'll come to the sport and be like, Hey, never knew I raised such a quitter.
Speaker: Oh when I fucked up my what when I literally fucked up my leg folded my knee and it snapped My dad literally came in and they said, you know, you may have to tell your son He can't play sports anymore. The first thing he says is god. I never knew I raised such a quitter. Oh My collarbone and literally play yeah Yeah, but anyway back back to where I'm at. Oh
Speaker: I'll said my mom's like, well, uh, I know that you wanted to hang out with your grandma Peterson this weekend, but, uh, you may have to curtail that. And I'm like, why? And she's like, well, uh, she passed away. Yeah. Well, me and my mom had not, I had moved out of my mom's house when I was 17. So me and my mom had not talked until this time. And so I was like, gee.
Speaker: you know kind of told me my grandma was in the fucking hospital couldn't tell me that you know she had suffered you know this fatal stroke even though i knew about the second stroke i'm like couldn't couldn't have told me that couldn't have came to the school or come to my wrestling meet that was down in the cities right near almost near the hospital that my grandma was at when she died she's like well
Speaker: I knew you were failing at wrestling. I didn't want you to fail as a grandson. I'm happy to say goodbye. Yeah.
Speaker: I hung up the phone. I'm like, okay, Mom, whatever. Bye. And my dad's like, so you hear your grandma died. And I'm like, yeah. He's like, how do you feel about it? I'm like, I didn't get to say goodbye to her. But then eventually when I got to say goodbye to my grandpa Jarvis, my dad asked me, he's like, so how does it feel to say, you know, see you later, goodbye or whatever? I'm like, it doesn't almost feel like anything. Like,
Speaker: Yeah, I know they won't be here anymore. But at the same time, I won't look at the way that my grandpa was, you know, at that point, I'll always remember the time where
Speaker: He tried to throw a fucking fishing bucket at my head because I was sleeping and there was a big fish on my line. I had literally passed out and all of a sudden he could see the tip going like this. So he took one of those five gallon pails and like hurled it at my dance boat and fucking almost hit me and hit the boat. And I'm like, what the fuck? And he's like, there's a fish on your line, dumbass. And I go to reel it in. And he's like,
Speaker: Well, did you catch it? And I'm like, no, my line snapped. He's like, well, if you wouldn't have been fucking sleeping, you would have got this on, bitch. And it's just, you know, I never really think about how like the person died. I always look back at like stupid shit like that or like the time my dad caught a dogfish and my dad's beating the shit out of a fish and my grandpa comes by and he's like, he's like, God, I'd ask you what's going on, Brian. But I feel like you'd say you're pretending to beat the hell out of your ex -wife.
Speaker: and just drove away. Like my grandpa could find humor in that shit. For like, he'd come up and just like he'd be having a bad day and he's like, he's like, what happened? You stub your toe? I'm like, yeah, I think it's bleeding. He's like, well, I can always take you up to the to the hospital and they could get you a
Speaker: Procedure for being a bitch or some weird shit like that before you could answer you just take off it'd be like the fucking like memes where it's just like Debbie down or whatever and just takes off before you could say hey fuck you grandpa, you know and I just missed that guy so much but like with what you were saying Connor and what Glick was saying, you know, I
Speaker: like people will like my wife, she'll be like, I wish I would have gotten to say goodbye. And I said, you know, yeah, but as soon as someone asked you, well, did it give you any healing or anything to say goodbye to them? It's for me, it was always no. I guess, because it was just, it's like, I'll always think about them.
Speaker: And yeah, there ain't a day where I'm fishing where I'm like, God, thank God, my grandpa ain't gonna fucking hurl a bucket at me. You know, take me out and fucking give me brain. Thank God you're dead, grandpa. Fuck you.
Speaker: The oh my god the one time and a grandpa I know you're up that you're up there looking down at me and probably saying don't fucking tell him But I remember the one time my grandpa would try to start his boat motor in Us being a bunch of assholes. We loosen the fucking
Speaker: And I'm like, grandpa, what the hell? You couldn't pick it up. He's like, no, it decided to take off on me. I'm like, I would do you fucking old bastard. And he's just like, he's just giving me that look. And I'm like, dad, hurry up. Start the boat before he chucks something else at me. He's looking at his boat to chuck something at me. And all of a sudden my dad's like, I hear something hit my dad's motor. And I'm like, what the fuck was that? And he's like, damn, the old guy fucking wrench and hurled that.
Speaker: Why can't I find my 15 millimeter? It's in the light, granddad. And so we came back around. I'm like, dad, let me drive. So I quick fucking bring it back around. I'm like, hey, grandpa, he's like, what? And I'm like, miss me, bitch. Fuck it. I just took right the fuck off. I didn't give a fuck that there was no wake. No, I really can't. But yeah, I get the joke.
Speaker: But no, like I look back on that shit and like some people be like, God, your grandpa was a dick. And I'm like, at points. Yeah. But at least he missed with a crescent wrench. I mean, fuck. The bucket only hurts for a little bit. The crescent wrench, you know, there's fucking damage. Well, I think maybe we've switched gears a little bit here, but.
Speaker: That's where those memories and those people around you kind of come in handy during those moments of loss. I think Chris said it really well. The ones who care about you and see how big of a loss it is to you and how big of a hole they leave behind are the ones who end up coming in.
Speaker: giving you that that pick me up that that joke that dark humor that little bit of Hurts to laugh a little bit, but fuck that's that's right. That was him or that was her God, man. I'm gonna miss that. Whoo. Those were good times It's it's really what what takes that stress level and brings it down and kind of makes that whole feel a little a little less empty 100 % Yeah
Speaker: It's a way to, you know, we're able to, and again, it goes back to a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about coping mechanisms. It's a way for us to just really push through those trying times. And at the end of the day, kind of survive. Well, yeah.
Speaker: I probably should have asked my grandpa, hey, do you forgive me for loosening your boat? That ain't the worst thing. I know it's terrible, but like we used to have, you know, militaries, you know, a lot of people unaliving yourself is a big thing in the military for some reason. Self -deletion. Yeah. Yeah. Self -deletion. That's right. Brian said earlier, like it's self -deletion, Connor, get it right.
Speaker: But every time some of these events would happen, the military being the military, they have to have an awareness brief about it. So if there's a self -deletion, then you have to have a self -deletion meeting, like the next fucking day.
Speaker: Yeah. And these are dudes who just lost their best fucking friends. So we're sitting around listening to some dude crying bitch about how he wanted to delete himself when our, our good buddy just actually did it. And we're all sitting there going, if I have to sit through one more of these motherfucking meetings, we're going to add more to the list. I swear to God. Next person who does it, I'm going to come to the afterlife and beat your ass. I'm over it. I'm tired of these meetings. I'm tired of the briefings.
Speaker: Hey, I want to be in the military. No, no, you don't. But sorry. It's fun. Steven, you want to go up to grandpa's place? No, that motherfucker pushed me up and pushed me. It's essentially one of every three. If all three of us join the military, I'm sure one of us will go.
Speaker: My money's on. Everyone's putting it in like a Deadpool fucking like that's exactly what I was thinking to. What's the pool up to now? What's the self deletion pool up to? I come walking in. So how how how much? Who's the odds on favorite to self delete? Oh you are Jarvis. I'll put 50 bucks on myself or not. They have these signs.
Speaker: You know why? Because then you'll finally get his death benefit and you'll be able to get out of the cage. What death benefit? She's dying fucking poor. What are you talking about? Freedom is her benefit. You know the sad thing is, but like I literally though, oh my God, and I hate to cut you off Connor, but I literally told my wife, I'm like, you know how much more
Speaker: Better enjoyment your life would be if I was gone to listen. She's like, what do you mean? I'm like you wouldn't have to put up with fucking Glick Connor fucking constantly busting your balls anymore. I'm like If we bust her balls, it's all just it's secondary. It's like it bounces off you and hits her by accident We were aiming for you, but Glick's not a good shot, you know No, I I my grandpa
Speaker: god i don't need my grandpa's buried in first forest lake where there ain't really much lake stick be like oh hey a cemetery where my grandpa's buried i gotta go toss him in the pond and then call the cops right oh wait we put him there that's our fault my family waited like three years after he died before they could be like well we might as well put him in there
Speaker: in the ground now I'm like well you yeah I mean you cremated them so why not we why not just keep them in the urn above the fireplace you know that's kind of a morbid place to have an urn you'd be surprised how good of a shot I am
Speaker: Anyways, let's take a real quick break here. I want to come back. Got a couple more facts. But like I said, on the flip side of the line, I want to ask you guys another question. I want to ask you guys something else as far as it pertains to humor and whatnot.
Speaker: And not only that, but, you know, like I said, obviously humor has a special spot when it comes to dealing with with mental health or, you know, mental health issues. But I do want to take a real break. We're back here in just a few minutes. Got a little, you know, I've been coming to a real big fan of these like songs and stuff like these and whatnot. Are you just putting the Randy Travis one on? Oh, actually, Randy Travis actually co -wrote that song. Mm hmm.
Speaker: And it's it's really good. Yeah, it's a great song. But you know, Randy had a stroke and everything like that. So he's not doing so hot these days, but he's still alive and kicking. He's still doing his thing. So that is a really good song, by the way. But I am not playing Randy Travis. You think Toby Keith got my ass whipped? What do you think? I play about one second. Hey, Mr. Randy Travis. Yeah, you said it's OK to play your song. Yeah. Hold on one second. OK, say it now.
Speaker: YouTube, they have my permission. It's just fucking AI. I think I have this really cool M &M jelly roll, jelly roll mix of Heaven and Hell. So we'll be back here just a few minutes and keep this conversation moving.
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Speaker: And they burned me alive Lord knows that I'm a -trying, I don't know we're fine
Speaker: It gets progressively worse. Try your best to reverse. Unsuccessfully flirting with certain death or reverting to your promethazine urge. The fucking devil he lurks. Lose your best for any smirks. Wake up and everything hurts. And as you spiral downward, listen. I know just how it is when you start slothin' before you notice it. Now you're mixin' oxenis without prescription. Cough medicine Italian with
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Speaker: God, that's a good **** song. Great song. Yeah, the guys did a I don't I don't know how that mashup works or or or what they did or whatever but it's
Speaker: And I love that song in general. Jelly Rolls, Heaven and Hell. I love that fucking song so much. Welcome back to Men Can for Men, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we are talking about humor and the benefits to your mental health. As always, you know, we're trying to cover something and still having a good time and still, you know, joking around and whatnot. So we've been talking about humor. You know, we've shared some stories about moments where
Speaker: You know, we was really down and we was in a dark way and, and, and being able to have a sense of humor and was able to elevate us and get us out of those dark spots. Not only that, but we've also learned, um, the benefits, some of the benefits, uh, long -term and short -term, uh, of humor. Uh, so we appreciate you guys hanging out. Hopefully you're enjoying the show tonight.
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Speaker: Give us an old liking. That'd be awesome. Uh, anyways, we got Jeremy. She in the building. Connor, Connor has probably fallen down another flight of stairs somewhere. And you guys know me. I am Glick. Welcome back. Welcome back. Uh, I want to jump right back into this conversation that we were having here. Um, we cancel that, do this, do that. Um,
Speaker: You know, I do have a I do have a part two for the guys and myself as well. But, you know, we're giving you guys the nerd notes as well. All right. We're giving you the nerd shit, if you will. And, you know, this this this article that I have here pulled up, it goes on at the end of it. It gives you tips to improve your sense of humor. Join Jarvis joins Glick's world of jokes.
Speaker: and one liners and podcasting one -on -one. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not funny. I feel like I need it. You're good, brother. It's a confidence thing. And I'm loving watching the, sometimes you're a little over confident, but that's a confidence thing. And you're coming along, dude.
Speaker: two out of three ain't bad. Am I right? Miss count double check. We love once said two out of three ain't bad. So we love said it. It must be true. But you know, you know, it's one of those things. If you're a naturally a cheerful person, you may be less prone to depression and anxiety. Not necessarily true in my world. You know, I like to think that I'm you know, I'm a pretty cheerful person.
Speaker: I like to have fun, I like to joke around, but we all know we've kind of talked a little bit. We've touched on a little bit, my battle with depression and anxiety and mental issues. So I mean, it's not always true, but it does have its moments. This however, doesn't mean happy people are not vulnerable to mental issues. Life can be overwhelming at times. Even the strongest people break, a good sense of humor.
Speaker: is a natural way to keep your stress levels in check. And we've got a few tips here that might help. Focus your attention on the things that make you happy. Humor revolves around happiness. So try to stay happy by doing the things that make you smile. A good way to do so is by identifying the simple things.
Speaker: That bring good thoughts and rekindle fond memories, you know whether it's spending time with your significant other your kids or doing a podcast or doing broadcasting or Or going for a walk being one of nature go on to a concert, you know getting a bonfire Going on a random road trip, you know, you're finding those little things that make you happy also, maybe remembering fond memories of a
Speaker: You know, maybe there's a trip that you took with your family when you were a kid or, you know, uh, not so much my parents, but I always look forward to the summer because we generally went camping, which meant I got to meet my summer friends. I got to see my summer friends. These are all their friends that I got to see when I was, when I was a kid growing up.
Speaker: And I look forward to that. And I have those memories, uh, you know, my summer girlfriends, you know, like 12, 13, 14. And it's the only thing you only see these people during the summer. So you have your summertime girlfriend, you know, that was your girlfriend for summer loving man. Yeah. That was your girlfriend for the week. You were, you know what I mean? Uh, or the two weeks you were there, or, you know, if you got lucky and you went there multiple times a year, then hopefully their family was there and
Speaker: summertime girlfriend, summertime boyfriend, you get to spend a few weeks out of those three months that you're out of school and then you have your summertime friends. And those are the kind of good memories or just memories in general that you have, whether when you're a kid or even as an adult, we have memories. I got things that I look back on.
Speaker: And it always puts a smile on my face as an adult. It's cheesy and corny and cliche, but the day all three of my kids was born, that's one of those days that put a smile on my face. It makes me happy. But we have those moments. I hope the last camping place I went to as a kid forgot all about my ass.
Speaker: Oh man. Those were, those were weird times. Summertime girlfriends, but yet you never seem to get rid of them when they wanted to get rid of you. Yeah. Like I never went to like quote unquote, it's like summer camp. I never went to anything like that. It was just, you know, my parents had a membership at a quote unquote camping resort. Yeah. Connor probably knows. He probably knows it. Uh, cause he's not, he's kind of from the same area as me.
Speaker: But, you know, we, we always went there. We, we get cabins for a week or, you know, my grandparents had the camper up there or whatever, you know, whatever the case may be. Do I even want to, I'll be back. I gotta go get sissy down. Okay. No, I had, fuck. I remember the summers at Oak Lake campground. And one time me and my brother, we were playing golf and, uh, God,
Speaker: You got, you all thought coyote shack was bad. You should have seen me and my brother's golf game. Mine was pretty much, uh, keep the eye on the ball and where the fuck is my club going? Because I'd get so pissed off because I couldn't hit the ball or my brother'd be like, well, you're up stroke negative or plus 15. And finally I just took the golf clubs and started hitting them on the gr on the grass and against trees and shit. And luckily they never forced us to pay with it.
Speaker: Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, probably a good thing if you're destroying, uh, rage. Uh, Ray, good thing. Uh, we knew those people very well and we spent a lot of money up at that campground. Good thing. They never allowed us to have golf carts. Cause I think half of them would have been sunk. Right. Work on your anger issues, buddy. Hey.
Speaker: I was a pretty happy kid for the most part, unless he got me doing sports and my brother was cheating. But, uh, you know, one of the other things that they say, uh, that's, uh, you know, good to improve, embrace the giving spirit. Uh, not just material things when in company of funny people get involved and making jokes with them.
Speaker: When they make you laugh or turn the favor by sharing funny stories. I think that's something that we do pretty well on this here network with the multiple shows. Even the more serious shows, we still have our moments of laughing and joking and everybody having a good time. And hopefully our viewers are also having a good time and enjoying it as well at the end of the day.
Speaker: That's why, you know, when Jeff and I started this podcast, my exact words for him was, Jeff, this is a crazy fucking world we live in. And if we can give people an escape for a couple of hours, a couple of few hours, you know, at the time, it was only going to be twice a week. And then we graduated up to three times a week. And and now we show seven nights a week. But at the time, I said, even if for a couple a couple of days a week for a few hours a day, we can give people an escape from this crazy ass world that we live in.
Speaker: That's what I wanna do, man. I wanna share stories, I wanna laugh, I wanna joke, I wanna have a good time. And Jeff being one of my best friends, who else better to do it with than him? And now we've made so many new friends along the way, Connor being a friend of mine that I knew in real life. And him popping in here occasionally to support us in the chat, to popping in and helping me on shows when Jeff couldn't make it or Tony D couldn't make it.
Speaker: you know, keep me from doing a show by myself or Mike who used to be on the show or the countless friends that we've made in the chatters box. Not to mention along the way, you know, we became friends with Jarvis and that started from a simple interview and Jarvis has now joined us, not only on the network, but on the shows. And now, you know, we have Mark and Brian as well. And yeah, we bust their balls like crazy, but you know, we love having those guys here. So,
Speaker: You know, and we get to watch each other and support each other and we get to grow as one now. And hopefully people enjoy what we do, you know, that give them back, man. We're just here to have a good time and have fun and give, give everybody an escape from reality because life is hard. Life is really hard and it sucks sometimes. But, uh, you know, being able to give somebody something to look forward to.
Speaker: whether in the beginning it was a couple of days a week or now, if you like multiple shows here on the network, that network's only gonna grow and we're gonna have more shows down the road and we're gonna have different times of the day when somebody's live here. Hopefully you'll find something that you like. We all do this, we all scroll social media. Find something funny on social media.
Speaker: Uh, social media platforms can be a good source of laughter. You can join groups or follow people who are all about the humor. Uh, this way you can learn a few things about being funny. Like, uh, we all follow Bryce Tucker. We, we all enjoy Bryce. We think he's funny. Um, you know, there's, there's pages that I follow on Tik TOK or Facebook or whatever it is. I'm sure Jarvis is the same way and Connor's the same way.
Speaker: We follow them because they're, they're probably incredibly stupid and incredibly immature, but. But so are we. There's animal pages that I watch and this cat, this, this dude literally just takes animal videos and does voice servers as if the animals were talking and I'll get lost in a fucking wormhole on his channel for an hour. Just scrolling and laughing my ass off.
Speaker: at the video and he's just doing voiceovers for the animals. I like the British ones. Social media is a double -edged sword these days. Very much.
Speaker: One side of it, it can be very positive and you can really enjoy it and you can really have fun with it. On the other side, it can also be very negative and you find yourself in a weird place, a dark place and sometimes you wind up embracing a negative culture of negative people on social media or you find yourself
Speaker: almost being jealous of other people's success so you you want to poo -poo on them and and call them names or their fans names or you know deliberately try to create content over top of the content that they're creating you try to go live over top of them hoping to you know do whatever and so it is a double -edged sword and
Speaker: Uh, myself personally, I ain't got time for the negative side of it. I've lived in that negative world before and I don't want to be a part of it. Uh, I'm enjoying what we're doing here. And, uh, you know, and, and, and, and not only that, but when we find those fun things, we all share them with each other. Like that's the thing. We all share shit with each other all the time and we wind up sharing it here on the shows as well. So, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna find something on social media that's going to be able to make you laugh and
Speaker: Make you kind of chuckle or you know, you're having kind of a shit day and you scroll tick -tock and You see a video Connor falling down a flight of stare Some of us might chuckle others of us might belly laugh and piss ourselves others might have a soul that's not us But you know
Speaker: That's the thing. It's really weird how humor and mental health can kind of go in the same type of atmosphere, so to speak. On one side, you can have the dark humor and the dark mental health. On the other side, you can have the warm mental health and warm, good, hearty chuckle humor.
Speaker: And so, you know, and that's the thing, you know, with this whole... Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker: Glad to see you. Thank you for coming by. That's why this whole network, you know, we may bust our balls or, you know, we may, you know, tell Mark and Brian, you know, hey, you know, kind of build us up to, you know, hey, you know. Holy hell, I almost went Christopher Walken there. But, you know, at the end of the day, we're all in this together, no matter what. And yeah, the show may be men caring for men, but at the same time, it's we're not on here just to say, hey, you know,
Speaker: It's only one side of the coin that we all know that's not true. We're all in this together. And when we all get talking about mental health.
Speaker: And that all people from all walks of life can experience mental health problems or, you know, mental health solutions. We need to get into that discussion. And, you know, when people say, oh, no, no, no, we don't need to hear one side of the story or both sides of the coin. Those are the people you got to watch out for because those are the people that think in their mind that.
Speaker: Men can't deal with mental health issues or women can't deal with mental health issues when we all know that's bullshit and we need to all come together no matter if it's men dealing with it or women dealing with it or a dog dealing with it or cats dealing with it or Sasquatch is dealing with it or Yeti's dealing with it Everyone deals with mental health issues. We got to get on board this train Fuck the Yeti. Yeah, here we go Squash gang gang
Speaker: a town down What up genius, how you doing, buddy? No, sorry Jarvis. Good job, buddy. Sorry Cash was in here talking to me then I was like, I gotta pass No, no you're 100 % right man We were talking about this Saturday night I'm not gonna bring the topic up but but we were we were talking about a topic Saturday night and basically what it bowled down to is
Speaker: Uh, no matter how big or small your, your platform is or your, your stage or whatever, there has to be a voice. You have to be a voice to speak out, you know, and, and, and, and, and the only way it's going to get better, the only way you're going to get rid of stigmas.
Speaker: or a stigma like men's mental health is if somebody is there or some buddies are there and they want to speak on it and talk about it and pull the curtains back and not be afraid to show vulnerability. And to, you know, I don't think any of us are weak or anybody in the comments that, that, that takes part in the conversation or, or anybody that joins us on the show. I don't think it's a sign of weakness or anything like that. And in all honesty, I think it's a sign of strength. I think it shows how strong you are.
Speaker: because you are willing to let your walls down and be a little bit vulnerable, not only in a private setting, but on the internet, on the interwebs. We're putting this out there, baby. It's gold. I mean, if people would have done this a couple of years ago, they'd have been laughed at.
Speaker: because that's the thing. Mental health is such a stigma. And people can come on here and they can be like, well, statistics, fuck statistics. Honestly, we're statistic as soon as we're diagnosed with mental health issues. Well, not only that, and I'm purposely trying to take this conversation. I'm taking this ride with you because I'm waiting on Connor to get back because I do want to ask you guys a question.
Speaker: You know, not only is there already the stigma of men's mental health and being considered weak or not masculine, not being able to, you know,
Speaker: quote unquote fulfill the man's role and life because you want to talk about dealing with mental issues and stuff like that. But unfortunately on the other flip side, the other stigma that's been created and why a lot of men who deal with this stuff and that are afraid to talk about it because it became trendy on social media for people who I said it to a friend of mine once because he was posting all this shit on social media about
Speaker: depression and anxiety and bloddy, bloddy, blah. And I was like, what, what in life are, you know, what are you dealing with? Like, what are you going through, man? Like, let's have a serious conversation. You know, you come from a good family. You got money. You've never, you've never wanted for anything in your life. You know, you, you,
Speaker: You got an amazing relationship, and this is a friend of mine, so it's not a fake relationship on social media. He's got an amazing wife. And everything like that. I said, bro, in all seriousness, and I'm not discrediting it. I just wanted to have the conversation with you about what are you going through, man? Because you're posting all this crazy shit on social media, and me being a guy who's struggled most of my life,
Speaker: I'm kind of a you know, a part of me is a concern for you And worried about you because I want to make sure you're all right But also a part of me is somebody who's lived with this good chunk of his life. I'm also a little bit aggravated with you and and and and and we kind of conversated back and forth and I'm like, you know, whatever I said, but I said dude you wouldn't last a day in my shoes, man. I
Speaker: Yeah. And he was like, Oh, I don't know what you mean. And we just, we just touched the tip of the iceberg. Kind of like we've done here for me, you know, we've just touched the tip of the iceberg. And he was like, wow, dude, I didn't know. I didn't know. I said, it's not trendy. It's not cool to do media for, and a lot of guys have done that. They've, they've realized that it's clickbait and people are going to click and like, and follow and give them comments.
Speaker: because that's an additional stigma on top of it already, on top of a massive stigma that's there when it comes to men's mental health. That is another, you know, we've already got a mountain to climb at a second level. And again, like I said, you know, no matter how big or small your platform is, and that's, you know, be a voice, be a voice and talk about it.
Speaker: And that's something that I like to say here is we're not experts. We don't know what the hell we're talking about. We don't know all the medical terminology or this, that, and the other thing. But what we do know is real life. What we do know is our struggle, our battle, where we've been, where we're going, where we are now compared to where we used to be. So we can share that.
Speaker: Well, I mean, the biggest thing is, and sorry to cut you off, but the biggest thing is, and I said this on Saturday,
Speaker: You know, people can always say they join a platform and, and in Vogue now it's so cool when you hear the, the latest artists say, I joined this platform and I'm going to throw money at it. Us, we're throwing our time at this. You know, like, yeah, if we weren't in their same shoes, we'd probably be doing, you know, throwing money, but we also would be donating our time. And.
Speaker: I'm giving, I'm giving haters. We are giving haters ammo. Yeah. Oh, let them fucking let them go after us. We are. And this is something that I, this is something that I thought about and I struggled with because I've wanted to do a men's mental health show for a long time. But I realized, you know, one of the struggles that I had was if I come on here and I open up and I'm vulnerable, I'm opening myself up to a new world of craziness because
Speaker: I am literally giving ammo to those who already don't like me. And, and I had to come to the decision and this was an internal struggle and an internal battle that I had to have with myself in multiple conversations with myself, with the old man in the mirror, if you will. I'm not going to, you can't use my struggle. You can't use my journey against me because yeah, I've, I've had a rough road, but if the road I've journeyed down,
Speaker: It's not paved by no lanes. Uh, and most time I'm walking barefooted, you know, if it helps one person, then that's a win. So I had to come to terms with the fact that, no, this is an ammo for, for somebody else who don't like me. If you don't like me and you want to use part of my story that it's not even all the way out there yet as, as a means to downgrade me or talk bad about me or, or shit on my show or.
Speaker: shit on anything I'm doing, you're doing the work for me. I don't have to come at you because you're already showing everybody what type of person you are. Well, yeah, I mean, and that's where it is at the end of the day is that, you know, and you told me this, you taught me this a lot. You know, if you don't have haters, you're not doing it right.
Speaker: And at points that does suck, but at the same time you look back at it and it's like, yeah, cause they're giving me free publicity now. I will say this to the haters though. If you're going to talk about me, A, go ahead and put my name in your mouth and B, make sure you get the shows right. All right.
Speaker: Don't beat around the bush. Don't be vague and don't be passive aggressive. Just just say it. Oh click. Oh men care for men Oh, what the fuck news Oh Glick's house of music. Oh nonsensical nonsense. I want a nonsensical network. Oh Because you know what you're jealous because I'm doing better than you I I would love for them to say shit that I haven't already said about my own show The Jarvis show sucks I've been saying that since day fucking one
Speaker: All of our shows, you know, it's one of those things, you know what? But we're learning. We may not be everybody's cup of tea. But we're someone's. But for those of you who enjoy this cup of tea, we appreciate you and we love you. Don't stop being you. We love you, fuckers. I want to ask you, Jarvis, you know, I ask you, I ask you, we got off on a little tangent there, but that's OK.
Speaker: It was, you know, sometimes we do that. But I want to ask you, man, I ask you, you know, when was the time, you know, where we're being able to laugh, got you through a tough situation? Was there ever a time that you can think of or that you remember where the shoe is on the other foot, where you got to be the person to be there for somebody else and bring that sense of humor and that laughter into their life when they were really going through it and help them through a tough time?
Speaker: be honest, my dad, you know, my, my dad, you know, when they, when they said, you know, Hey, you're going to have to quit drinking, you know, or it's going to kill you. And my dad's like, gosh, you know, I don't know if I'm going to be able to stop drinking. And I said, gee, dad, I never knew I raised such a quitter.
Speaker: And he kind of looked at me and then I seen his smile and I'm just like, I'm like, dad, you got this. Like, dude, you've you've quit drinking twice. And now you're worried about quitting drinking for the third and final time. I'm like, dude, you've got this. And like my dad, he'll he'll
Speaker: He knows a few of his buddies are now dealing with COPD just like my dad is. Those buddies of his are still drinking the midnight oil and smoking the cigarettes and all that. My dad's like, God, those idiots, they don't know what they're fucking doing to themselves. And my dad, the last time I talked to him, which was on Saturday, he's like,
Speaker: God, I'm so glad I done with that shit. Like, Oh, why did I do that to myself? And it's just like, but you had to learn dad, you know, that's, that's the biggest thing about all this shit that goes on in life is you got to learn from it. You know, it's not, it's not something that you should just be like, Oh, Hey, uh, you know, I, I fucked up my knee pretty bad in sports. You know, maybe I should go out there and not learn from it, you know, or
Speaker: Or hey, you know, I drove my car off of a fucking cliff because I'm a fucking Sasquatch. I shouldn't learn from it, you know? Or Connor, you know, hey, I wanted to do freefall without a parachute on and fell in my garage and ended up looking like a turtle for a little bit, you know? But I learned from it, you know? And I think at the end of the day, like,
Speaker: The biggest thing, I know I talk about my dad a lot, but, you know, that man has given me so many things to be proud of. Like he's still here. He was there for me and my wife's wedding. And like my picture, anyone that knows me on Facebook can go look at my big, the big banner on my Facebook page. And it's me, my dad, my mom and my wife. And I was just so glad that I was able to share that moment with my dad.
Speaker: Well, yeah, I mean, and that's the stupidest thing is that, you know, sometimes
Speaker: People will come to you with a traumatic what they think is traumatic and you know, it could be two dudes You know kissing in Europe, you know If that's if that's the worst traumatic I was trying to make something out of Brian saying experience
Speaker: You got a lot of things going for you in life. I mean, I mean, a traumatic experience I have is my wife won't watch my show on Sundays. She's a huge fan of the other shows on the network, though. Yeah, you know, she she literally said she literally said she's like, you know what, talking shit is the greatest show on the network. I'm like, are you fucking blind? I think I think she's I think she's just a click fan. Yeah.
Speaker: she wants that sasquatch why why does she have to watch your show she's literally in the same living room as you as you record it oh no she'll go in her office she goes back to her cage we'll give her internet access in her cage and she can watch it i told you jarvis you have to give her some
Speaker: Maybe the haters do have something. Why does Jarvis put up with Glitch so much? You got to give her some accommodations. Give her the internet. Let her have Wi -Fi for, I don't know, four or five hours a day. Why are we making this sound like prison?
Speaker: Let her walk for an hour, you know. I know you take her out for walks. You said you guys go for walks. I know you take her out for walks. Facts. It was like David versus Goliath and Alyssa was Goliath. She beat my ass with that pillow. No, dude, I love how I like you speak here, dad. And that speaks for all you used to do. Not only for the relationship that you two have,
Speaker: But, but the kind of man that he is, because I know that you're, I know your dad's not your real dad. You've said that. Yeah. Um, you know, but he, he, he came in, uh, and, and, and, and filled in, in, in filled shoes that were not his. And, um, and, and, and, and, and step parents, um, when they, when they come into a kid's life, when, when, when you play a positive role in your, and, and, and someone's kids, someone else's kids is life. That's always amazing.
Speaker: You know, I can't ever speak enough about Nikki and how great she is with my kids. We met and she was done being, you know, like her, obviously you're never done being a parent, but her kids were grown. You know, her oldest boy is in the military and doing his thing and her youngest one.
Speaker: you know, he's, they're, they're both in their twenties and they're doing their thing. You know, they're growing there, you know, and, and they're both doing their thing. And she was like, I did my job. I put my time in now. I'm, you know, and then I'm like, yeah, but now you got other, you got it now. I got three kids and they're all under 18 and, and,
Speaker: You know, unfortunately, I'm not done being a dad and you know, and if that's not something you want to be a part of that's that's fine but no, I mean she's she's amazing and she she she treats them all like like like They're they're her own and and and they all love her to death I mean her my oldest one they get along great they all have their like she has their own thing with each with with each one of them where they where they kind of click
Speaker: Um, you know, so shout out to those bonus parents out there. I, I don't, I don't want to say step parents because that, that it's just, when you, when you think of a step, it's something you step on. You know what I mean? It's like, I'm going to, I'm going to, there's 13 stairs in my staircase and I've got to walk on them to get where I'm going or there, or for Connor, there's.
Speaker: 27 steps in his staircase and he just jumps off the top one and lands face first in the garage. But I like to call him bonus. I like to say bonus parents.
Speaker: Well, like the whole step thing, like yesterday on on the Jarvis podcast, the one show of the week that no one watches. Everybody watches it. Yeah, I'm just I'm giving everyone shit. I love everyone that, you know, takes their Sunday time and goes like, hey, you know, this guy doesn't that we just went to church. So let's let's watch this guy.
Speaker: right? Fuck. God, Alyssa. But no, I always did have a problem with the word step parents as well. Because honestly, like, like I said yesterday, during the show, I said, you know, Happy Mother's Day, and Happy Mother's Day to the mothers that aren't the biological mother, but the ones that have stepped up and became a mom. You know,
Speaker: And same thing with my dad. A lot of people used to always say, well, that's just your stepfather. And I used to get in fights with people about that because it's like, no, that guy went above and beyond anything he had to do. And, you know, on Father's Day, I always wish my dad, Brian, a happy Father's Day. Hey, Jarvis, I want to tell you something. Don't let me forget. I want to tell you something. The show's over. Just so you know, nobody watches my show.
Speaker: a little over 24 hours. You've already got 24. I know. I'm giving everyone. I'm giving everyone crap. Jesus. I mean, Italy a bunch of **** politicians on the show. I mean, other other other shows on there are doing considerably well but uh Gee, I wonder how many of them shows I'm a part of uh basically all of them but the ones that I host. Yeah. Uh huh.
Speaker: I'm teasing. Couldn't fill that shirt any better. I'm teasing. No, like one person could watch my show and I'm happy. Not looking at anyone in particular, it's almost like I could point to him and be like, hey, you know, I wish really wish there was be someone that could watch my show.
Speaker: Yeah, okay one time you watch my show her fault no one show out of 25 But no like multiple shows that you've done no, I it's it's all about getting confidence back and and Next week, you know what if I could do if we haven't done the topic yet confidence
Speaker: Absolutely. A lot of people will be like, what do you mean by confidence? And we'll talk more about it, you know? Yeah, I know all about confidence people. You guys say I have an ego. I call it confidence. Calm down there messing with Dr. Sasquatch there. Yeah. No, no, dude. And you know, I don't think Brian or Mark will admit to it. Or Brian was with the previous network that you guys were on, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: I I I think that I think and and I'll say this again next week I think that was a huge hit to all of your guys's confidence and I don't think you guys you guys are still trying to recover from it well Yes, but at the same time with I Love mark and Brian. I love their we're trying to end the show, but we need you to
Speaker: Like I love Mark and Brian to death. I've always considered Mark like a brother to me once we first started gaming and him having to deal with some of my emotions and shit and him seeing how I've grown and, you know, trying to be a better person. But like with them guys, like I've always told them when even before they joined the network, I'm like, you know what, guys, you always tell me to get out of the past.
Speaker: this is like our turn to get out of the pass pass together and make this network like this network this is something we get to build from scratch let's make it the best thing we can and like you know what i know i'm probably gonna get hated for this but you know we get it guys you want to grow your own brand but at the same time it's not all just about our own brands it's about all of us together
Speaker: And yeah, we know you guys like to share Glick's more than certain other people's and the network. We get it. Cause you know, I do that. I do that. I put it on their pages just like I put it on your pages. And I have no problem with that. Just at the end of the day, that's what I told you to do, man. Um, no, like I said, you know, um, uh, at the end of the day, this network can either fail or it can get better.
Speaker: And we want it to get better, but we got to all do it together. You know, uh, we're, we're all here having fun. And like I said, you know, I want, I was thinking about this, you know, the humor thing for tonight. I've been thinking about it after, you know, what I said about Robin Williams and, and, and, and, and it's one of the things, you know, like I said, you know, uh, even, even when I'm at my lowest, man, I try, I still try to wear that mask and be a happy go lucky guy and have fun and, and joke around and have a, because.
Speaker: And all honesty for me, I mean, that quote really hit hard for me. It really hit close to home at the end of the day. Basically saying, I know what it's like, man. And I just don't want anybody to ever feel like I felt. So I truly do try to be a good guy. I try to have fun. I try to joke. I try to laugh. I try to make everyone around me laugh.
Speaker: Yeah, I've had my moments. I'm not perfect. I've had my moments. I've had my moments on the show where I've lost my cool and I've been an asshole. Uh, you know, and, and there's a few people out there that I've apologized to and I don't have to say any names too, but there's a few people out there that I've apologized to. And there might be a couple of people down the road that I still need to apologize to. And when it's brought to my attention, I will apologize, but there's also people out there that don't deserve my apology and you'll never get my apology and you'll never earn my apology because you've shown me who you are and you've shown me what you are.
Speaker: but that's not going to stop me from, if you want to watch the show because it makes you laugh, please watch it because I'm still going to be out here sharing laughter and having a good time and, and, and, and, and trying to make everybody else's days better. Um, you know, I used to do a thing a long time ago on Tik TOK. Uh, I know a lot of people got mad at me when I stopped doing it and I did bring it back for a hot minute. And, uh, you know, lame Tik TOK it ain't Glick's fault.
Speaker: Yeah, no, no, no, no, it's not, you know, it's not TikTok. It's just, I just got away from it, man. I thought it was douchey, but you know, a lot of people liked it and I got away from it. I would forget or I just wouldn't do it or I didn't have time or whatever the case may be, or I felt stupid saying it around other people, but I used to do a little good morning thing on TikTok.
Speaker: and anybody who knows my TikToks or seen my TikToks or been around for a hot minute, you guys would know. Oh, absolutely. Not only that, but it also, not only for yourself, but for the people around you. But I used to do a little TikTok video every morning. And I would basically go, good morning.
Speaker: beautiful sons of bitches. Happy Monday, whatever. And remember, share a smile. And that's all I would do. Because you never know how far a smile is going to go, man. Jarvis might be having the worst day of his life. And somebody just walks by and smiles at him. And all of a sudden, that day goes from, oh, man, I'm going to take over the world. Let's go. I'm going to conquer everything I need to conquer, man. That one little smile, that's what people don't understand. You'll have to share that. You don't have to share it.
Speaker: Anything it's just one little smile and one little smile can go, could mean the world to somebody who's really going through that. And I was hoping Connor would be back, but I know he's dealing with the kids, but I do want to say, you know, I asked Jarvis about that one time where somebody who's really got, I had a friend of mine who was really going through it, man, really going through it. Uh, this has been several years back. Um, his, his girlfriend had left and she, she cheated on him.
Speaker: She left him. He lost his job. He had to move back in. He lost his job. A job he loved. Lost his place. Had to move back in with his mom and dad. And he was just, man, he was just riding the shit train, boy. I mean, you know,
Speaker: if it could happen and it was bad, it was happening to him, you know? And I called him up one day and said, hey, bro, next three days, it's me and you. He's like, what are you talking about? I said, we're going on a road trip. He's like, I don't got the money for a trip. He's right there for you, Brian. You're good, buddy. Yeah. Love you, Brian. No, I was telling Connor he's good. Fuck Brian. Connor's good.
Speaker: But you know, you know, anything and everything that was that could go wrong was literally at the end of every show he shows up. This guy. Good God, we're about right in the fucking show and Rock Lee decides to show up. It's not fucking climate anymore. It's fucking this guy. I love you, Rock. I love you. But no, I told him I hit him up on like a Tuesday or Wednesday. I can't remember what it was. It's been years ago.
Speaker: I said from I said from Thursday night until Sunday whenever we get home it's me and you and he was like that I don't have money I can't afford a road trip I you know I was like don't worry about it I got you these these next three days are on me or these three days are on me man we're gonna we're gonna go we're gonna fucking forget about the bullshit we went on a road trip wound up staying a few days
Speaker: where the hell? And somewhere and just and I'm not putting shit out there because some people are listening. We'll put two and two together. But you know, we went we went. We spent three days. We had a blast. We hung out. We we ate good. We laughed a lot, man. We just we just put all the bullshit behind us and just when we got back home, he was like he was a brand new person. And that that Monday it was like
Speaker: I'm going to get a better job. I'm going to get out of my parents house. I'm going to find a better one. And he was, and he was better for it. But that man has those three days. We had so much fun with it. We laughed. We joked. Uh, we, we reminisced and, and, and, and, and, and it's one of those things where it was just like, he just needed three days to forget about the bullshit and not think about anything.
Speaker: But we laughed so much during these few days that our stomachs hurt, our ribs hurt, our faces hurt. But that's what he needed, man. That was that extra, that was that.
Speaker: without being an absolute, you know, tough love, I guess you could say. But that was that kick in the ass he needed. That was that rejuvenation that he needed, man, to get his fucking bearings right. And he'll still message me to this day. Hey, bro, you remember that one time we went out of town? He's like, man, we need one of those weekends again. I was like, bro, you're married and got kids and work.
Speaker: I got kids and I work and I'm doing the podcast thing. And he's like, Oh yeah. But if we ever get three days, man, I was like, and I got Nick here. He's like, I know. I don't want to open it. We ever get three days where we can just disappear again. I got you this time. Why is it? Glick, Glick. First of all, you look great, man. Um,
Speaker: Yeah, you're looking good. Second, where the fuck is Connor? How come every time I jump into the podcast, Connor is fucking gone. The pillow beat down. Connor said he was putting his feet on. There you go, Brian. Oh, fuck. Hey, you guys noticed. You guys noticed. Yeah, there he is. Oh my god, he finally made it and he didn't trip down a bunch of stairs.
Speaker: you Steven I hope you fall down your basement steps today and no one finds you for a week what's up broccoli you know same old same old the beard man it's got me wild right now that is crazy I feel I feel like it looks so much younger yeah
Speaker: Rock, you need you need to send me a text message so that so that I can stop trying to send you Snapchats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it in the chat. Private chat, I mean, private chat. Yeah, don't listen. Yeah. Play the chat, bro. Play the chat. So I want to Connor, I want to ask you real quick, man. And since Rocky joined late, I'm going to hit Rocky with the hard hitting questions as well.
Speaker: We're trying to wrap up, but he's here and I want to ask him. He's a fourth voice on this. We gotta start getting rocky in the door a little bit earlier on Monday nights. He's Mr. Fucking president. Well, he's also three hours behind us. So there's that he's got executive orders and bills to sign a job to do, bro.
Speaker: Have you seen the current residing president? The job is in that part. He's got Russians. That's funny. Connor. Glick. First and foremost, you're beautiful, even without your beard. You're so pretty. Thank you. I definitely don't feel it. I'm sorry. I laughed at you for falling down.
Speaker: That's still funny. That is funny. It is painful. I'm in a lot of pain, but it is funny. I told you there's a method to my madness and I asked you guys the first question. I want to ask you the second part of that question is
Speaker: Ziver time in your life where the coin was on, you know, it was, it was a flip of the coin. The shoe was on the other foot where you were able to help somebody out of a tough situation, you know, something they were going through and dealing with by being able to be there and be, give them a reason to laugh at the end of the day. Yeah, for sure. I'm trying to, I'm trying to pick.
Speaker: Because I don't want to pick too much on a certain person. Fuck it. Yeah. So everybody who's been on the podcast for a while, or at least over the last probably six months, has seen Doc hopping on here a time or two. He is my best friend, period. He's been there for me for some time. I'm his best friend.
Speaker: for some tough times and some some hard **** and he has had some toughies himself. Um he had a marriage fall through. Um he dealt with a whole bunch of **** in Korea with his parents. He's still dealing with some of that **** right now. Um and I don't wanna put his personal life on blast so I won't I won't get specific about it but uh
Speaker: There was a week and we worked very closely together. He was my combat medic. He was my, he was my man first, Glick. And I could tell he was having a really tough week.
Speaker: He had got started. I'll have his last bitch. Well, yeah, because I'm going to die first. But anyway. Facts and facts. Very true. He was having a really hard week. And I could tell throughout the week and with his posture, the way that he was talking, not necessarily down about himself or anything, the way that he held himself and everything, it was just it was off. And he had gotten into this habit
Speaker: uh where we would invite him over and he would actually come over and and we would have dinner family dinner together so he he's become uncle doc in my household uh to my kids he is uncle doc and i was like dude listen it's friday after work uh just leave your car at work
Speaker: and you're gonna hop in my car. We're gonna go over to the, we're gonna go over to the shopette and we're gonna grab 230 racks and I will take you back to your car on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker: And we're just going to get drunk. I'm going to tell Nikki to leave us alone and, and we're going to just have some you and me time. And we went out and we went camping in New Mexico. I hit, I was probably like six months post -op. I was still in a lot of pain. You know what that means? What? Post -op.
Speaker: after my back surgery, you stupid cunt. Anyway, so it definitely hurt to go out there and lay on rocks, but it was about letting him turn off technology and be away from the clutter and the craziness and fucking calm the fuck down. What?
Speaker: you're making faces like you just saw a dead pig. What the fuck? I didn't realize you still had a Columbus number. Yeah. And there have been more occasions, obviously, but there are times where when you have your mental sanity and you can look back on the times where you didn't,
Speaker: You look at the people who have been there for you, and you see someone close to you struggling, you'd be doing a disservice to not give them the same treatment. To not give them that little bit of light in their darkness, in their tunnel, and kind of reach down and give them a hand to pull them up out of their hole. Or if not, just quiet the noise. Because sometimes that's all we need. And he came back to work on Monday. He left our house on Sunday afternoon. He came back to work on Monday, and he was fucking great.
Speaker: We talked and we had dinner that next weekend, that next weekend over at our house and had a couple of brewskis and just kept talking about it. But, um, but yeah, no, it's, it's what you do. And if nothing, if nothing else, you might not be able to make their day a little brighter, but at least you were there for them. At least, at least you're, you're there to be, to be someone they can talk to. But yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker: No, 100%. So, you know, Rocky, since you're here, I'd like to have you contribute something before we wrap the show. His beautiful face. He is our fearless leader. Outside of his beautiful face, but I'd like to allow Rocky to talk a little bit too. I mean, we are like right up against it.
Speaker: We're actually a little past it. But I asked the guys earlier in the show, and kind of the part two to this was, you know, you having the opportunity to be there for somebody else and provide, we're talking about humor, laughter. You provide that
Speaker: That get away that laughter that you know sense of humor, but the first question I asked them tonight Was you know was one moment that really sticks out in your mind? Where you were really going through it and somebody or multiple people were there for you to help you get through and it was literally just about having a good time and laughing and joking and and then just in a time where you probably most people to go and
Speaker: Why are they laughing and joking? You know what I mean? But that's what you needed to get out of that dark place. So the day I got sworn in to take care of this beautiful country. It was probably after my ex, you know, my my job as well as this this.
Speaker: music and everything else I run a company and also work full time, about 50 60 hours a week. And between both of those my time is normally always spent, and
Speaker: I didn't give the right amount of attention and care into my previous relationship. And because of that, it did not work out. We're still on great terms, by the way. It's awesome. It's fine. But when it when it fell apart, it was really hard because I had been with this person the longest.
Speaker: So, you know, you go from seven years to, you know, getting your own apartment and sitting in that thing and you're used to the noise and stuff. It's really hard for me. Probably one of the hardest times for me. And I'll never forget it. It's actually one of my vocalists. I already told her about you, Glick.
Speaker: One of my vocalists had been just calling me up. And most of the time when they're doing that, they're looking for work or looking for something to do. They can make some money and yada, yada. And I was just was not, my head was not in it. You know what I mean? And yeah, I was just, I was, I was, I'm a man. I'm a big tough, big strong man. But I was, I was nothing but a squishy melted gummy bear.
Speaker: Yeah, he was going through yeah, I was going I was really going through it was really tough time for me. I'm not gonna lie and Anyway, I'm ignoring calls. I'm not really taking any ice. I'm the kind of person that closes in I'm such an extrovert most of the time, but when I'm going through something I close in it's different and Because I don't want to put that off on anybody. I feel like my problems aren't anybody else's to really deal with And I'll never forget it
Speaker: I was just sitting in my room. I was drinking a lot of whiskey, like a lot of whiskey. I went through one gallon already. I was on my second gallon. I was halfway through and I was right at that point where you get your, I call it the whiskey high, where you're about to just go to sleep for a little bit, wake back up. And I don't know what their infatuation with this fucking area is with my window, but
Speaker: I just hear boom, like real big boom. I'm like, man, I'm, I'm drunk. So I just go back to sleep. Uh, next thing you know, bro, this, this, this, uh, this girl is amazing, man. She went out and brought her entire family. Okay. Well, when I say her entire family, I'm talking about her 75 year old grandmother.
Speaker: They climbed a ladder through my window Into my room because my room was locked so every time they would come and knock on the door They were getting any answers, but if you know me, I keep my window open. Yeah Came into my backyard climbed in my window Pop confetti and shit all over the place The window with fucking six -pack of beer. She's like, hey, you're not gonna go through this alone. We're all gonna sit here drink with you
Speaker: It was nuts. And these guys are sitting around talking about they're just talking the shit, you know, I can help a laugh and the whole experience is just weird and funny. Yeah. And I mean, it just it was such a relief almost. It was like a boulder that was lifted off of my shoulders and it was so small, very, very small, very weird to see an old lady that, you know,
Speaker: They climbed in my window, seven people.
Speaker: very weird but also like five year old woman's crawl through your window. Come on Rocky. I'll tell you right now man look look she she uh uh she she she brought her mom she brought her sister and her grandma her brothers her two brothers they're just mother just climbing through my window man and uh we all had drinks we we chitchat it they got me out of the room we went and had a bonfire I was I grilled up some food it was a great time um and in fact I didn't
Speaker: I didn't drink after that. I just kind of just enjoyed the company and it was, it was amazing, man. And they, I don't know how to thank her for it. Cause we're not even close like that. She just did that. She's close enough to know that I was going through a rough time, but I, I, I've never had anybody care enough to do anything like that. So I would say for, for me, that is a big one. That's one that comes to mind when I think of it. That's huge, man. I mean, the people that you have
Speaker: least expect or that you wouldn't think, man, coming through for you in a moment like that when you're, when you're really going through it. I mean, especially, yeah, a breakup scenario, man. Hell, I was there. Hell, I went through that on the show. Uh, unfortunately, you know, for me, unfortunately, but fortunately at the same time and, and, and, and again, you know, say what you guys want to say about Jeff, but that's that motherfucker.
Speaker: You're going to ride every storm with me. No questions asked. We would do the show and then be up for two or three hours after the show, talking on the phone. Yeah. Um, but no, that's, that's, that's what it's all about. And a lot of times that's what it is. The people that you least expect are the ones who come through.
Speaker: I mean, you blame them, though, Rocky. Which which window would you prefer? I come in or do you prefer like a door? Yeah, the top window, man. Everyone is saying it seems to be an entry point for my house. Make sure you open your office. He should come. Wait, what window door? I mean, I was I was utilizing euphemisms, but, you know, I really want to put it.
Speaker: Pretty significant thing for me just because you know I am that guy I'm the guy that's there forever. I'm like lick. I do I it's just my Sasquatchian nature I'm the guy that's there for everybody will always be there for everybody no matter what even if you wrong me I'm the guy to be there for that too
Speaker: Um, but I'm not the guy that tends to have most, you know, like, I don't even put it out there like that. Like, you know, um, so it was, it was meaningful. Big, like big, big, meaningful. I can't thank her enough. Um, no, no, that's, and that is one thing we're very similar in, you know, and that goes without, without being said or without question. I mean, Rocky, Rocky knows me. Um, I'm always there. And I'm sorry.
Speaker: I watched him be the same way. I mean, I've come on this. I've done shows where I've just been in dark places, but nobody would have would have known because of that mask on. It's showtime. Turn the microphone on. The camera's on. It's showtime. Let's go. But like I said, that was those times when I was even since the show started that after the show, Jeff was calling me and we just did a three hour show.
Speaker: four -hour show, whatever. And then we spend another three hours on the phone together because, you know, I was going through shit that, but I wasn't going to let it come out or be seen on the show. I didn't want nobody's pity. And I'm not going to ask anybody for help, but, you know, I'm never in that way. I'm going to jump out at me because I wouldn't answer. We'd get done doing the show and then he would call me and I wouldn't answer. But it'd be like, if you don't answer your fucking phone and I'd answer, I'm like, bro, we just did three hours. What the fuck do you want?
Speaker: It's like, it's not what I want. It's what you need. What's, you know, let's, let's fucking talk. Yeah. And we would, and vice versa. There's been times where I've hit him up as soon as the show is over. Um, but yeah, no, that is one thing. I think a lot of, I think a lot of, I think a lot of men do that in all honesty, you know, we, we will put ourselves out there for everybody else. But when it comes to ourselves, we kind of.
Speaker: into our little hibernation safety net, you know what I mean? And we don't wanna burden anybody with our problems.
Speaker: Yeah, man, I mean, we don't want to talk about it. I mean, this is great. I love this this format because you know what I mean. But most of the time what I'm like, so good. What's up, man? How are you doing? I'm great. Oh, I'm great, too. Yeah, we're definitely both going through shit. But that's the surface below the surface. It's kind of like the Titanic still sinking.
Speaker: It's just, it's just a swamp. It's like the Everglades. It's really pretty up top. There's gators and fucking dysentery. Python. But, uh, you know, uh, you know, I want to, you know, swims up your penis every time you go to the bathroom. The second part of that question is, uh,
Speaker: Is there one of those moments to stick out for you where you were able to be that person for somebody else? Were you able to, when they didn't expect it, when they didn't see it coming, when they thought they were going through it on their own and you were able to pull up and help pull them out of that funk and share some laughter and some good time?
Speaker: Oh, man, that's that's that's the deal right there, right? I mean, I think all of us can share tons of stories. I mean, I'm always there for that kind of stuff, man. Shoot. I mean, I mean, there's so many that come to mind. But I mean, I mean, I can say the most current one right now I have my I have one of my vocalists who's battling stage four cancer.
Speaker: Um wow he's been he's been going to chemo uh for the last six months and uh he just got a um he just got a uh he just went to his doctor's appointment and and they uh they it's not working it's not uh
Speaker: It's not working. This guy, the easiest way to explain Noah is he's like a, he's one of the surfer guys. When you think of California and surfers, that's it. Sunshine. Yeah, like long hair. And I mean, this guy, I mean, he just looks so, I mean, I love him to death, man. He's been on the team for a long time since I've started, actually since I started.
Speaker: Sorry Noah if you're looking at this but I mean he just he lost all his hair he lost his glorious beard he had a very glorious beard I can only hope to grow a beard like him but he's going through it and so every
Speaker: once a week you know he'll call me and it's random sometimes it'll be two in the morning sometimes it'll be 12 and uh i go to my fridge i grab one of my cases of beers and i sit on the couch and we just talk the shit and i do my best to to make them laugh and make them you know
Speaker: Realize the irony in the situation because he never smoked or did anything like that So he was so anti that and here I am puffing on these things all day long. I'm like But I mean it's an ongoing situation so it's very ongoing it's not it's not it's not bright It's not a bright thing for him and he knows that
Speaker: But he wants to live life by the horns right now. And if that means getting up at three in the morning to talk to my guy until I got to go to work at five or six, that's what I'm doing. Yeah. And I think that that's the most current, the current one. I think you should link him up with us, man.
Speaker: Oh, all day long, man. I told him already about the podcast way, way, way, way, way before. I told him to start listening to it and joining in. This was obviously before Men Caring for Men, but I mean, shoot, even getting him on here to talk about it. It might be a little tearful because me, I've been experiencing it for the last several years.
Speaker: So I'm a little I'm adjusted to it, but it is a very sad story And there's nothing but life in this guy like there's I mean, he's just he's perfect guy There was a guy he's the perfect guy minus all the muscles and the Sasquatch in blood Rock did you not watch the very first episode of this Connor had to make us all cry I I did not I got a point finger Steve. I listened. I learned honor
Speaker: Well, I mean, the situation he's in is a hard one anyways. I mean, when Connor was just in the chatter's box, we got behind a very good friend of his and she's an amazing, amazing woman. And we got behind her, we supported her and I don't know if it did any good or helped or anything like that, but I got to meet her mom. Her mom's an amazing woman as well.
Speaker: And we rode that journey with him. And fortunately for her, she won her battle against cancer. And now she's doing awesome things. I'm mad because she lives in Charleston. And I'm mad, Amy, because she lives in Charleston. I'm also mad that she lives in Charleston. And I'm not there where we could actually meet up and have drinks together with her and her beautiful fiance.
Speaker: But they're doing big things, man. They're enjoying life. She's living life. And that was something I was very proud of that early on in the show's beginnings, we were able to jump on air and support somebody and go through that with them and ride the roller coaster ride that it was. And we had her and her mom on the show.
Speaker: That was one of the first times I broke down and I and Jeff likes to tease me still because I broke down and I cried like a little bitch on that show But I took this journey with a man and I was talking to her and I was talking to her mom the whole way through and your mom was constantly giving me updates and I was updating the show and updating the guys and and You know having them come on the show after she got to ring the bell was was It was a lot. It was emotional, but
Speaker: Connor is friends with her and that we got the opportunity to be a part of that was amazing. It's something that I would 100 % do again for anybody and do over and over again without question. And it was also something that I was very honored and privileged to be a part of. A complete stranger that does a podcast about Dick and Fart jokes.
Speaker: to uh to to meet to to meet uh two total strangers um and and to take a journey with them and and then to to celebrate every every good turn but also be there for when things were taking a turn to the left. You know what I mean? Um so I 100 % I I think I would love to have uh get your boy on here or on one of the other shows
Speaker: Let him come hang out and and shoot your shit with us and anything we can do, you know Whatever, you know we can do to help We would absolutely 100 % want to be on board and Be a part of that if we could be for you know, if there's anything you wanted or needed from us You know, especially the men care for men show
Speaker: Yeah, we joke around and we laugh a lot on here, but now you're learning why now you're seeing why after tonight's episode and we do got to wrap this up but but now you What's up? I mean you have to at the end of the day like we could be like we've all said we could be Omega fucking serious all the time and yeah, the show is gonna probably get you know, maybe
Speaker: little bit better. But hey, we also got to like, Glick and Connor have always said, you know, we got to kind of bring it back. Because if we're on here crying 90 % of the time, like, you guys are a bunch of pussies. Yeah, exactly. And she's like, man up. And most of them would be Connor in the chat under some affiliated name going like you pussy alias.
Speaker: It's gonna Glick's gonna be like Connor ain't even here Jarvis. Why are you going at him for? It's kind of like someone else's Peter Piper, you know don't know who it is, but you know Jigs up guy But you know
Speaker: That is the thing. And I think Glick and Connor always hit the nail on the head. It's always bringing the show back to where, you know, it doesn't get so serious all the time. Where, you know, we can joke about, you know, Connor always falling down. You know, we joke about that. But at the same time, some of us feel really bad about that. You know, not saying any names or, you know, pointing any gesture.
Speaker: I'm sorry, Connor. I'm sorry, Connor. But yeah, you know, I'll quit talking because, you know, I don't want the viewer count to go down, but I love doing the show. I really love doing the show. Rockley made up for it. It's OK, Stephen. I know. I'm always waiting for Glick to be like, you're out Rockley's in like.
Speaker: I feel like I cannot even begin to imagine doing a podcast. I don't have. It ain't that hard. Brian and Mark do it all the time. I think their show is the only one that might be worse than Steven's. Max. I'm going to be on that show. I'm going to be on that show. I'm excited. Still got time to change your mind.
Speaker: Yeah, you got a whole nother week to change your mind on being on my show. But we're going to be talking about video games. So I mean, there is a. OK. Oh, OK. Yeah, I can get behind that. Got two guests coming on that show, Glick. Dental Report out of state. I don't know what to tell you, Chris. I had this one week night. We've been sad talking about funny things. Yeah, I had McDonald's. Yeah.
Speaker: I use the old George Foreman grill, made some burgers, and threw some fries in the oven. Oh, man. And when I get off here, I'm going to go eat another burger, maybe two, and some more fries, because I only had one burger. Wow, a Sasquatch only had one burger. Well, unfortunately, I had to play Call of Duty to get my dailies in, and then I had to start playing. You and Brian are the worst on that fucking game. I just do my day. I don't, you know, yesterday was the first time that I played.
Speaker: And like a week, like an extended amount of time. And it was the first time I'd been on all weekend. I hadn't been on at all Friday or Saturday. However, I do want to wrap the show up. I want to thank everybody for listening. I want to thank everybody for hanging out. Rockley, thank you for coming in. As always, you know, you're always welcome here. I got to get better about remembering the, I always feel bad. Like I'm just sending the link and he's like,
Speaker: Every day I see a link for each show each show send them in Eventually Rocky's gonna send me a cease and desist order The Duke of New York a number one
Speaker: Yeah, but I will get better drop that link your way, but no, we do appreciate. We always love having you pop in here, dude. We always, you know, you're part of the family. You're, you know, not only the nonsensical family, but you know, you're, you're, you're, you're my little brother at the end of the day. I don't give a damn what anybody says. You see the family resemblance between two of us. Goddamn almost identical. Pretty much run while you still can rock.
Speaker: He had his chance to run four years ago. Yep, too late now a minute. He's in too deep, as they say. Jarvis and Connor, as always, you know, I love doing this show with you guys. You know, hopefully as we continue to do the show and we continue to grow, we'll get more and more men who want to join us and be a part of the panel. That's one of the ultimate goals here.
Speaker: If you guys are not already, uh, go ahead and check out, uh, all the social medias. Don't forget, uh, seven days a week, ladies and gentlemen, whether it be on Facebook or YouTube, you can watch the live shows and you can listen to all the shows wherever you listen to the podcast. All at the nonsensical network or simply go to bio .link slash nonsensical network. All those links are there. So go on and run over and give us a follow. Give us a like.
Speaker: And, uh, if you'd be so kind, uh, drop a share on us. We greatly appreciate that as well. Tell your friends about what we're doing over here at the network. Uh, I think we're having fun and I think there's something for everybody here. Uh, even if you don't like me, there's three other shows that I'm not on. So sorry, I'm here. I would love to start weaning myself down to like two, maybe three shows a week, possibly two, but, uh,
Speaker: Anyway, um, we'll wrap the show up. Like I said, I think this is going to become a mainstay. I think this is going to become a, a, a, a, a closer kind of a toss up between two songs here. But I love this song. It is, uh, Nikki six and his new band six AM. Well, not new. They've been around for a while at this point, but, uh, life is beautiful and it's an acoustic version. So it's really cool.
Speaker: Uh, we'll be back after this all with our, uh, closing thoughts, our quotes and, uh, quote unquote words of wisdom. So boys, get your shit ready.
Speaker: Until you die You can't learn to tell the truth Until you learn to lie You can't breathe until you choke You gotta laugh when you're the joke There's nothing like a funeral
Speaker: Just open your eyes, just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful Will you swear on your lies that no one will cry?
Speaker: I know some things that you don't I've done things that you won't There's nothing like a trail of blood To find your way back home I was waiting for my purse What came next was so much worse It took a funeral
Speaker: Just open your eyes, just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful Will you swim on your line? And no one will cry?
Speaker: Open your eyes, just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful. Will you swear or deny that no one
Speaker: Just open your eyes, just open your eyes You'll see that life is beautiful Will you swear on your life that no one will cry?
Speaker: I love you. I love you. I can't quit you. You complete me. Something like that. I'm your crystal meth, baby. You can never put me there. Yeah, you are. Who's my crystal man? I am. I am. I am.
Speaker: don't worry. Iraq leaves the pipe to my crystal meth. Wait, what? What does that mean? And Jarvis is the dealer to my crystal meth. You guys all fit in. I was about to say, am I the flame? But I'm the dealer. There's plenty I'd like to go around for everybody. Anyways. Good God. I wonder if people listen to this show.
Speaker: Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Let's do greatly. Appreciate it. We'll be back next Monday night with a brand new episode of men care for men. We're going to talk confidence next week, losing confidence, gaining confidence, having that confidence to do the things you want to do. Make sure you tune in tomorrow night, uh, 7 PM for Jeff's garage. Uh, Jeff will be there. Benji will be there and, uh, Blason will probably be there as well. I don't know what they're going to talk about nor.
Speaker: Do I have any idea, even after it's explained to me what they're talking about? Because it's a car show and I'm like, yeah, I can put gas in my car. Let's be honest. That's part of the great show. Step two, find gas. Oh, fuck. You don't pardon your oil.
Speaker: There actually has been TikToks of that. You use the brain handle for every vehicle you drive. But before we leave, as we always do, I won't put Rocky on the spot yet, but I am going to put Rocky on the spot. I am, however, going to put Jarvis on the spot. Let's go.
Speaker: We're living for these moments. I have two moods. One, constant panic and worrying about every little detail. Two, it is what it is. That's my line. Shut up. That's also my line. Fuck you, Jarvis. There you go. I got him. Thank you, Carter. It's my ass and eat my dick. Yeah, yeah, see. It's my dick and eat my ass for you sons of bitches. What baby?
Speaker: Yeah words of wisdom I'm gonna change it up from Stevens whatever the fuck that was Listen everybody gets everybody gets down in life. You are not alone. You might be alone in the uniqueness of your pain But there is the circle of friends there are there is a circle of people that are gonna be there for you They're gonna give you the dark humor. They're gonna give you the good humor. They're gonna give you the support that you need and
Speaker: Don't quit just because you feel like you're alone because you never are. Peace out. What you got? What you got, Rockley? Life is too funny to not have a sense of humor. I think that at least, yeah, yeah, I will say that. And I'm also going to say that
Speaker: grass isn't always greener on the other side. So remember to be appreciative of what you have. What you have now. That's what I got. Absolutely. Well, ladies and gentlemen, 10 years from 10 years from now, you'll laugh at whatever stressing you out today. So why not fucking laugh today? At the end of the day, just laugh. And as always,
Speaker: Somebody's cooking something. Sorry, I got a super sniffer. And there's always five things to remember to try to quit. It's easy. So I know this sounds a lot easier said than done, but it can't be done. Five things to quit trying to please everyone. You're not ever going to be able to make everybody happy all at the same time, no matter how hard you try. Hearing change, nine times out of 10, change is good. Change happens for a reason, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker: Whether we like it or not, at the end of the day, it's usually a good thing. Living in the past. The past is our own worst enemy. It's always got a way of creeping up and smacking you when you're down. Yeah. Or when you fall down a flight of stairs. Concrete as a way of smacking you while you're down. Yes. And stop putting yourself down. Jarvis, stop putting yourself down, bro.
Speaker: Let us do that for you. Well, I know we bust your balls a lot, but y 'all stop. At the end of the day, speaking specifically to Jarvis right now, at the end of the day, you know, we all got your back, but everybody else is out there listening. Somebody out there has got your fucking back. Stop putting yourself down. Every time you put yourself down, there's going to be somebody that's going to pick you back up.
Speaker: I need to break it to you Jarvis. There's six motherfuckers that I can, I can say without hesitation. Rockley's included in this network. Every time you put yourself down, yeah, we might keep you down there for a little bit and beat on you a little bit, but eventually we're going to pick you back up. Hey Jarvis, it puts the lotion on the skin, you bitch. We only love you on the podcast network. Listen, Jarvis.
Speaker: only we only we get to **** with you. If anybody else **** with you, I'll get that Cancun **** you can get his four, his size four and a half boot and shove it down whoever's throat. Oh, so it's bad time to say Tiny D. Yeah and and and last but not least,
Speaker: Stop overthinking. I am guilty of this. I've lived in this world for so long. Stop overthinking. It'll get you when you least expect it. And as always, ladies and gentlemen, like I said, a successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that the other people threw at him. If you don't know what that means, sit down and think about it.
Speaker: and look at the people around you that are succeeding and growing and doing what they love. We don't get to where we get to without haters. That's a haters number one job. And the only job they have in life is throw bricks at people. You just keep building that foundation. Eventually you're going to build a wall. Eventually you're going to build rooms. You're going to build a roof. Everybody at your table is going to be eating good. Like in a corner, they're like a hybrid corner.
Speaker: They're like a hybrid. They love you but they're gonna toss some bricks at you too.
Speaker: No, they're going to they're going to be on the table and they're going to fucking laugh at the poor guy out in the fucking thing going like, huh, you want a piece of meat? Make sure it hits you in the head and then I'll come over there and be like, hey, let me see that and then I'll mortar it in for you and help you build your foundation. Yeah, we'll help you build your foundation with the same bricks we hit you with. Oh, it's wife left them and we hit them with bricks.
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