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Speaker: what What's going on everybody happy Monday, holy crap I was over here just uh Don't mind me. I'm just dying during the intro. but
Speaker: hopefully you guys are having Yeah. Hopefully you guys are having a better Monday than I am now. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to men caring for men. Hopefully y 'all had a good weekend. Hopefully you got to rest, relax, maybe take a day off. Uh, no, a lot of people was first weekend of kids being back to school or weekend of prep.
Speaker: before the kiddos go back to school and all that jazz. oh So hopefully you're able to kick Monday right in the hours as like he says, right in the hours. But this is Men Care for Men. It is a nonsensical network show, production, presentation, whatever you wanna call it. We're part of the network. And Blaze is still filling in. Blaze is still here in the building with me.
Speaker: I am. I am. How's everybody doing? How are you doing, Glick? I think Blaze and I are the two hardest working guys on the network. but but I don't like that. I don't like being associated with the word hard work. I thought you were going to say associated with the word hard.
Speaker: yeah
Speaker: Depends on how much whiskey I've had. Yeah. But nonetheless, we appreciate y 'all being here. We appreciate y 'all checking out the shows, speaking of the shows. If you're not already, we do have the socials. We are everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. You can also watch the shows Monday through Sunday. And I'll get into that later on in the show. I'll tell you guys about all the different shows.
Speaker: Ah, but you can join us Monday through Sunday here on the network and enjoy the shows live on YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook. And you can also listen anytime, any place, wherever you listen to podcasts at all at the nonsensical network or the nonsensical network or whatever, or you can simply just go to bio dot .link slash nonsensical network. And all of those links are going to be there, including ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special brand new link.
Speaker: As of yesterday, shout out to Nikki, my fiance, because this is her baby, the nonsensical nonsense spread shop .com, which is actually our merch store. We now have merch. We've got, we don't get a lot of there yet, but we do have network um shirts and hoodies and, uh,
Speaker: We also have nonsensical nonsense, shirts, hoodies, and some coffee cups and some water bottles and some stickers and all that jazz. Nice. Which if you go to our, which if you go to our bio link right at the very top, it all caps, it says merch. You click that and it's going to take you straight to our merch store and you can scroll it and take a look at it. Can see if there's anything in there that tickles your fancy. And if there's something that you'd like to see in there,
Speaker: let us know and we might be able to make it happen. My list has already grown. I got dildos and I got joint wraps and I got toilet paper. I'm just going to go buy a couple of stickers and go to the lion's den and buy a couple of dildos and just mail them to you.
Speaker: It's your official Glick's house of music dildo. Get your official license, nonsensical nonsense flashlight. yeah But um, yeah, no, so I'm super excited about that I'm super excited to have the merch finally I know I was talking to binge earlier. He said he's going shopping when he gets off work tonight. So And I imagine yes, it's it's it's it's It's our network and our shows and I created everything but even I have to buy the stuff myself I'm gonna imagine this weekend I might be placed in an order myself for a couple things for
Speaker: Uh, me and, uh, Nikki and maybe see if the kids want anything. So glad to get, get them something school appropriate, which would be like the nonsensical nonsense shirt. Probably.
Speaker: Cause unfortunately the network has beer mugs on it and that might be frowned upon. I mean, you could just say it's apple juice. Oh yeah. That's right. They can't wear that kind of stuff in school. Oh, that's a bummer. Uh,
Speaker: But then check out all the network or check out all the social media. Check us out. Check out the merch store if you guys are interested. We'd greatly appreciate that if you would. And let me go ahead and get this copy real quick. And give us a follow, give us a like. And if you'd be so kind, give us a share. Don't forget, it is, this is a new thing we're trying on Mondays. We're gonna drop, oh, maybe I am. I don't know what I'm doing here. This is Jeff's job.
Speaker: I think I figured it out. Yay. I figured it out. Got the link there in the chatters box. Anybody who wants to come up with an invitation for men. Uh, this is Men Count for Men. It's a men's mental health podcast. So any men that are out there listening, in if you guys want to pop up, just hit the link in the chat and you're more than welcome to jump in. You can take part of the conversation. You can, um,
Speaker: got something on your mind, you got something on your chest, you want to get off, you're more than welcome to come up and do so. um As much as I don't like saying the words, it is what it is. And we're just going to say it, run with it. It is a safe space. We encourage all men to us to talk,
Speaker: to come up and be a part of the show and just share what's on your mind. You know, uh, that's what we're here for. If not, you get to listen to us talk and we are not experts by no means. Neither one of us have degrees in psychology. Uh, we just, we've just lived life and been through some shit and seen some shit. Blaze is a veteran. I am not, but I like those in that we i like to, I like to fall on some of the tools that I've learned during my,
Speaker: my experience through mental health um facilities. Yes, there was one facility, but my my mental health journey of recovery, it's kind of where I glean my info from, so. Yeah, it's based off of experience, you know, life, life in general. And i think I think I can speak for both of us. I think for the most part, you and I are both in a ah pretty good spot in our lives.
Speaker: Um, I'd like to think I'm still looking at a better spot, but yeah, yeah. Better work. Better. We are Academy Emmy Award caliber actors. Oh, fuck yeah, dude. Give me the Golden Globe, buddy. Yeah. I'll take an Oscar. Hey, Where's, uh, where's, where's the Golden Globe and acting award? I don't know. I think it is. Where's, uh, Where's Kevin Spurto said I need one of his one of his. enemiess You got like six of them. You can afford to give one away to me now. But yeah, as we always as we like to do around here on Mondays, we like to kick the show off with a little weekly bro check even though.
Speaker: Your voice cut off. We don't hear you.
Speaker: hello give me merry yeah there it goes I got to get a new cord for my microphone. I heard weekly bro check and then after that you went silent. Excuse me everyone. I am i'm battling a bout of heartburn at the moment. What's up Brian? He's at the gym. Hell yeah dude. Get pumped listening to us.
Speaker: That's right. You can get pumped at the gym while listening to us. yeah but because We're here to make you sweat. but Sweating to the oldies, men. Men came for men. Oldies edition. Uh -oh. Uh I'm not doing the whole world of trouble over here. Oh, that's some technical difficulties.
Speaker: Yeah, this is probably not going to be a good thing. 45 minutes later. Yeah, right.
Speaker: This is not going to be good for events that I have coming up. Oh, we're back. OK, we're back in business. Don't you miss the days where if you had a wire issue, you could just run down a radio shack real quick. I miss those days. Yeah, right. I miss radio shack.
Speaker: Well, Brian, if you get back before a half hour before the show ends and you want to come up with me or hit that link. Yes, everybody hit that like subscribe and that little notification bell. Because when we come on, we'll make you go ding. Ding dong. No. OK. Ding, fries are done. Oh, that's an oldie. That's an oldie bombs classic right there.
Speaker: Ding, presser, dun, ding, presser, dun, ding. No, what I was saying before I had, thank God, thank God all I got to do is like put my mic down on my headset. So if I do completely lose my microphone, I'll just do that. But I do not need my microphone to go out right before I'm getting ready to do a event outside of the house. No, um no what I was going to say was, you know, Monday, Mondays,
Speaker: We'll do a little thing around here. We call it the weekly bro check. And any of the guys, if there's any men listening, actually, I don't care who you are, a man or a woman. If you're listening, we're going to do a little weekly check. Let us know how your week's going. Let us know how, how, how everything's going for you. Hopefully you're yet you had a good week, a good weekend. Uh, and hopefully your Monday started off going pretty good, but it's kind of redundant, but we still do it. Nonetheless, boys, how are you doing my friend? I'm doing good. Um,
Speaker: yes Just just waiting. I start class in a couple days. I could actually start my English Now if I want to it's it's already posted the classes or the course Because ah it it is all all online. I was actually thinking about starting tomorrow because first module is just like introduction supplies you need etc, etc, and I gotta Go online and buy my books, but that's about it. Other than that. I am good I'm just kind of like in a in a state of a
Speaker: anxiety, happiness. Um, that's, yeah, I said anxiety, a little bit of fear, a little bit of excitement, like all at once, you know, all with the, with the, with the going back to school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like anything bad or anything. It's just, you know, you're normal, like, whoo, who about to, about to kick shit off in the academic world. And yeah. i like the normal The normal things. Yeah.
Speaker: I was sitting there going over a little bit of the module for English and it's a fast paced writing class. I'm like, I don't like the fast paced part.
Speaker: Can we get a slow to medium pace? You know what? That um that right there would be a good way to meditate. Just watch Brian but just fucking flip meat on the grill. That's that sizzling and the popping.
Speaker: I was disappointed, disappointed and sad yesterday. I didn't get any, uh, my Sunday meat picks from Brian. So, you know, um I'm feeling a little down in the dumps tonight. believe you're gonna enter got to carry the show You know what, Brian, I think you need to make a, make a like a, make it a habit to pop up on Saturday nights with some meat porn. And I'm talking about like state steak, steak and ribs and chicken, not like.
Speaker: ah not hot dogs we know We have a rule on Saturday night, no waiters.
Speaker: not So you do you have to you have to order like actual paperback books for your classes, even though it's online or are they actually so. um ASU uses a program called Canvas. I think it's used for other things in the video editing and video world. um But it's the basis of their like online classes to them and they got like an ASU online bookstore and I'll just buy did a digital copy. So yeah, if I want I can pay extra and have it printed out and bound and sent to me.
Speaker: but I don't need that. But it's, you know, so the first time I went to college and I actually had to buy the hardbound books and they were like $200 plus. So when it was time to look at buying my books and I have to thank the VA and the taxpayers for paying for them. here well I need two books for my English class. One is like $46. The other one's like 30 bucks. I'm like, oh, oh, that's not bad.
Speaker: So I was pretty, pretty happy about that. Yeah. I remember when my ex wife went back to school, she had to buy her books and I'm like, how, what, how much do you need? Like, yo. yeah Yeah, it's not, it's like in a lot of, I won't say a lot of people, but when I first started going to school, like my associates, I didn't realize that when I was like, ah, you know,
Speaker: gonna sign it for classes, I'm gonna go get my, my, my writing utensils and my notebook paper and my composition book and my calculator, you know, yeah, no backpack back to school. And it's like, y 'all I need I need these these three books for for this semester, math and English and, and I'm looking at it, I'm like, wait a second.
Speaker: ive You can get horse cheaper than you can't buy college books but no offense to chief yours yeah no no it's Yeah, see like the Brian just says yeah used and that's the thing about my books used to back in the day and Yeah, no, yeah, that's I mean, you know, I I think I think there was one or two books that she had to buy brand new, but even we weren't used, but even still, you know, she would make use, but the price of books was just, it made no sense at all because it's like, it's just going to resell this back to you guys or whatever you do with them. I don't know. I didn't go to college.
Speaker: Um, I'm not the college type. I know that I'm not the college type. So, you know, that's, I'm not going to waste my time, energy and money and and do something that I knew wasn't going to pan out at the end of the day. But it's just like.
Speaker: $300 for a book that you're going to buy back for $100, you know, and when when when she's done, like they don't make no sense, like sell the book for like 50 bucks and didn give her the 25 back when she sells it back to you. But and so i recall I was trying to tell my daughter that because she's going to be looking to go to school. I'm not sure when she's wanting to start.
Speaker: but she's doing all online courses and whatnot. And, uh, and I said, I think you're still going to need to buy books. And I just, just so you know, are probably pretty damn expensive. Still, because I don't know if it's all going to be online, right? for you I don't know how that works, but yeah is just be prepared, you know, that you got a job while you're living at home.
Speaker: save your money for the necessities, you know, like, yeah, hey, get your driver's license, be getting a car and for your college stuff. And that, you know, if you're staying at home and you're not moving out, then that needs to be the priority or those three things. Don't go blowing your money on all kinds of goofy, silly shit. Now, a couple of things when it comes to those priorities, one for the books, anybody out there about to go to college or thinking about going to college, there are ways to buy used books. There's even book exchange programs for,
Speaker: for low -income college students, where you can just borrow the book, I think. I forgot what the website is. That's if they they have that's if they have it available. As for a car, though, um I've noticed this younger generation, if they're like city -bound people, they usually mass trans or public transport, or or they live close enough to walk, or there's usually some sort of transportation system for college students. I noticed that when I was in Oregon,
Speaker: otherwise She's doing everything online. I just wanted to get her license and tag on car because I'm tired of driving her butt back and forth to work. Not that she, she literally works, you know, less than five minutes from the house. But when she closes, she don't get off work from anywhere between 12 and two o 'clock in the morning. And you know, who has to stay up on a work night until two o 'clock in the morning until she gets off work. This guy. yeah And then I have to turn her out and get up at six o 'clock.
Speaker: I was just about to say what Bryce said, get her a bicycle. They make those e -bikes now that, uh, I have told her, i cannot i am onical I have told her a million times, Hey, you can lodge your brother's bicycle Lord.
Speaker: and yeah ride i i it ride up bicycle to where I guess get you a good pair of walking shoes. I mean, I don't know what to tell you there. You know, I mean, when I was your age, I already had my own place. Uh,
Speaker: Had three cars. I had three vehicles and, uh, you know, I was working two jobs. So I don't know what to tell you at the end of the day. Yeah. Different time, different, different, uh, different ways to get shit done. I guess I told her she should get a scooter too. It's just, Hey, I'm not going to be peed on this. cut like better What you got now at the end of the day. Shit. I was looking at by every one of the scooters when I lived down in Charleston, just to get around and.
Speaker: You know, go to the gym and go to the grocery store and stuff. After, after andle and I split up, I'm like, it's been $2 ,000 and get a nice little like moped little thing. I don't know. Everybody drove them down there anyway. So it's not like people are going to see me and go, Oh, that guy's driving a moped. Shut up. Give me a nice little vest, but try that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 250 CC scooter brand is a 2 ,500 bucks.
Speaker: You can buy an ebook or ebook. E -bike cheaper than that nowadays. Those e -bikes are really cool. i've i if i If I got a lot, not that I don't not get out of the house, obviously I get out of the house quite a bit, but I don't have time to like go for a bike ride.
Speaker: Yeah. If I had time, I would love to get myself one of those e -bikes because, A, I would ride like 10 miles and then be like, I don't want to pedal back. All right. Just hope I wear the electric and just drive my ass back. but ah Where you live, i'm i I'm curious. I know this is ah looking at a BMW 650 GT scooter. Damn. It's not bad there, Brian. That's not bad at all. but Um, do you live in a city or do you live out outside of the city? No, I actually, I actually live in town. Okay. like is Does your, does your town have like a lot of bicycle lanes?
Speaker: You know, I don't pay much attention. I think the main roads do have bicycle, but they also have sidewalks. Um, so you can ride on the sidewalk and stuff like that. I honestly don't pay much attention because I live in one of those weird hybrid towns where yes, technically, if you look at it and, and, and you look at it on a map, it's a city,
Speaker: but it's grown over the years, but it still has that small town vibe. You know what I mean? Because it used to be a small. but it still has that small town but vibe to it. So we're like, literally, I can go less than five minutes and I've got multiple restaurants, like sit down restaurants and fast food at Walmart. I mean, Walmart is right in front of me. It's like, not like right in front of me, but you know, two minutes away, three minutes catch and and Kroger's and stuff like that. And then I can go 10 minutes the opposite direction. And there's another town. It's,
Speaker: heath which if you're from here, American Heath are basically the same thing. But there's everything I have over here. I have over there, Super Walmart, Kroger's, Target, Aldi's, whatever. and in all the you We got tons of restaurants and stuff. So I mean, we're in town, but it still feels like you like a small town vibe for the most part. Okay. You don't get that big city, that big city feel to it. Let's go to our lake. Gotcha.
Speaker: um But, you know, like I said, she could easily get a bike and ride it or whatever. I mean, and, and, uh, that's the cool thing. Like if I did, if I was able to get one of those e -bikes, bike trails, literally it puts up to the property where we live to our complex. So, I mean, and the bike trail, I could ride that some bitch from here to.
Speaker: Indiana, if I wanted to, I think I don't know how far it goes. This is bike trail stretches miles. So yeah ah I don't know if a lot of people know this, but if you use Google Maps, you know how it shows you like your the minutes and miles it takes if you're driving. It it also tell you the bike, ah if you're riding a bicycle or if you're walking. And then with the bicycle, I noticed in the last place I lived,
Speaker: Google maps has all the bicycle trails mapped out too. So if you click the little bicycle icon, it'll take you to the the bicycle trails and stuff. So you're not like going to main road and cuts through it's pretty, good pretty dope. That'd be pretty cool. I think, I think I was looking at it. Well, I know we were playing on that one night on the show cause I was like, how long would it take to walk from Ohio to Cancun? But I have looked at it before when I'm like, when I first got down into where my buildings are.
Speaker: And I was trying to figure out where to get something for lunch at. And when you put in a restaurant that's only a couple of minutes away, it automatically brings up the walking map. I was like, oh, let me click on the bicycle. And when it does that in downtown Columbus, it's obviously a major metropolis or a major city, whatever you want to call it. But it does break down the bike, like the bike, where the bike paths are on the on the on the roads. You know, what roads have the bike lane, the bike lanes, that sort of.
Speaker: So there is that, but, um, yeah, I don't know. I know I'll have to pay attention next time I'm out, I'm out and about. I just never pay attention. Cause literally like our, our main roads are sidewalks on either side of it. So it's still, like I said, you know, still got that small town you feel to it. Um, but any, how you been doing, man? How's, how's your, how's your mental check?
Speaker: ah yeah I'm honestly, man, I'm doing good. I'm super excited. ah I'm super excited with everything that's going on. Obviously, we have the merch store now, which, ah you know, i'm a I'm super grateful for Nikki, because Nikki's kind of taken that project on. know Obviously, i'll I'll add my two cents and and we're all kind of when it comes to designs and stuff like that. But for the most part, that's that's her baby. i'm grateful I'm grateful that it's up and I'm super appreciative that she's taken that on. So that's not some one more thing I have to put on my plate at the end of the day and I don't have to worry about. um But yeah, now I'm just super excited and a little bit nervous about a couple of events that are coming up. Obviously, you know, doing the MCN Labor Day weekend that Saturday night.
Speaker: for the Southern outlaws. um the Southern outlaws ban. I'm a little nervous because I've never been in that situation before. But. um Super excited. For the potential of of. Other opportunities that it could open the door for it and then the following weekend again doing the.
Speaker: one year anniversary bash at Buckeye X throwing. Again, nervous because I've often talked about and said that I want to do live events and take the show to a live event. But I don't know how it's going to go. and So I'm nervous about all the what ifs. check that you know Technical issues, internet issues, mic issues, camera issues, whatever. ah But again, hey, what's going on? any What's going on with you, brother?
Speaker: uh but again i'm also really excited at the opportunities of being able to get involved with the community here and being able to hopefully take the show or shows multiple you know being able to do different things around the community and be an active member of the community and take part i've always wanted to be uh active in the community and do things around town and and whatnot. So the opportunity is there. Nikki and I was talking about it yesterday. She's like, you know, this could lead to more things for you. You know that, right? And I said, well, that's what I'm hoping because the owners of this external place, there they're locked into the community. They're locked in. They do a lot of things. They got a lot of friends and a lot of places that could potentially
Speaker: like move us around and do things with for for for us as well. And it's just nerve wracking because a lot of things could go wrong, but also exciting because I wouldn't have thought three years ago that I'd be where I am today or where we would be where we are today as a collective. So, you know, I'm definitely feeling good about it, man. You know, feel it, feel it, feel it real good. Good. Hey, hood. I'm glad you're doing good and thanks for checking us out live.
Speaker: oh Have you have you taken your laptop and shit up there and just checked out the Wi -Fi and see how how it rolls? Not yet. So I think um I Was that we were up there yet. Well, we were up there yesterday and I didn't even think about getting on the Wi -Fi because we So wrapped up with the merch stuff But while I was there I was kind of scoping out the lay of the land and I was like, you know They have a big table when you first walk in and I was like I could sit up here You know, but doesn't really, I can see that the ax throwing lanes, you know, and whatnot. But then they've also got like a upstairs balcony. and And I was like, this would be great if I could get like a tall table. But then I also thought about maybe getting a stand and setting my phone up there, bringing my phone on board, like into the stream yard. And just I'll mute that microphone. So it doesn't give me any feedback or any issues.
Speaker: But I'll be able to get a shot from up above and be able to see the lanes. Hopefully I don't know where they're going to do like the beard competition stuff at. So we got to figure out all that all the logistics. I'm hoping I want to talk to Mickey. Maybe I can go up there one night when the kids aren't here when she works and see if we can meet if we meet the if I can meet with the owners and kinda.
Speaker: see what their plans or what their ideas are and and and set something up. But, uh, from my understanding, the internet's pretty solid. and Good. Good. I think that's probably going to be your best or your most important thing to have is the wifi. I think you should find, uh, you'll figure it out. Just do you have a, do you have a, uh, DSL, a DSLR camera or something like a camera that you can wifi?
Speaker: Cause I know stream guard, you can do multiple cameras now. Yeah. So I'm actually going to get an external camera for my laptop as well. okay Um, I want to get one anyways, just to use for normal use, but the one I'm looking at has a built in Mike's it's 360 swivel. So, um, hoodie, um, correct me if I'm wrong, aren't you up in the Northeast Ohio area?
Speaker: just Just relax. Just relax and breathe. Oh, I will. start that yeah See, I'm nervous now, but that's that's the thing. Like once a microphone is in my hand, you know, like I know I'll have nerves until I start talking at the concert, until I start. And and then the it's just going to come fly into my head because I guess I do my best work off the top of my head.
Speaker: Um, once, yeah, you know, once we get there and we're, we're set up.
Speaker: Yeah. Um, once I'm there and I have the laptop set up for the live event, I'll, I'll be, I'll be fine. It's just worrying about all the what ifs in the meantime, what if Godzilla attacked at the same moment? See, don't worry about the what ifs.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like there is that too. I'm not in a rush. You know, the the event starts at like one. um I'll be in and out. ah You know, I won't actually.
Speaker: So I'll have plenty of time to test all my equipment. You know, we won't actually go live until we go live at seven o 'clock, but I want to do some things like on my phone and. uh, get some videos and some pictures that I can throw up on social media early on in the day and and everything like that. But, but yeah, I'm not going to be rushed to set up equipment. It's just me. So it's like laptop on laptop hooked up microphone on, and I'll go up there early in the day and come up here and do a test and make sure everything's wired up, linked up. How I'll do a test here at the house to make sure all the external stuff is working. Um,
Speaker: you know, all the extra, all the extra stuff that'll be hooked up. Yeah. So, so, um, worst case scenario, if we do start to have technical issues. I'll flip it on the fly. I go to my phone and I'm doing the show like this on my phone.
Speaker: You need a, you need a production assistant or like a cameraman or something to follow you around now, like fucking trailer park boys. yeah Uh, like, yes. Yes. She doesn't know what she's doing. She, she's, uh, she is. She's a tech geek. She is. She's been having all kinds of tech issues at the, she's the queen of the geek squad. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, fortunately for me, you know, ah you know, for me, it's, it's kind of a basic, keep it simple, stupid setup. So, but no, like I said, ah again, like Lisa says, who knows Godzilla could attack right as we go alive. And then I don't know. I can either create great content or just a huge ball. Some Cloverfield shit, but man, I have a question for you with work and family and you're about to get, I mean, you've got a fiance and you're taking on this huge.
Speaker: huge project of stepping the network up, man. How do you find the balance in your life? I was actually, that's a good question. I don't know. It's a good segue too, huh? I just looked over the clock and I was like, let's take a real quick break. um But what do we come back? What's that? I said, but we can get into that when we get back from the break, right? When we get back.
Speaker: Yeah, the panel is great today when I got to hear and what I got to see. um they They were cool. But yeah, we're gonna take a real quick break and then out when we come back I will. I will answer maybe we will technical difficulties already. Then when we come back I will. I will answer police this question. Is this what we're talking about? Let's do a little. ah Let's do a little James Luecker here with counting my days. Like this so.
Speaker: Well James Luca with counting my days good chick about all all the social media to show him some love He's doing his damn thing Can't wait to have him back on the show Get that interview done. But in the meantime, you guys should go show him some love Speaking to show us some people some love. Make sure you guys show us some love. We got all them socials. We got all the live shows. We got all the podcasts and listen anytime, anyplace. So go to bio dot like slash nonsensical network. And don't forget, we now have March as well. So you can wear our shit. You can let all your friends know on your fans. Yeah, you let all your friends know that you like the nonsensical network.
Speaker: I don't know if that's going to work out in your favor or not. I was going to say, if you guys in the audience have your own shirt and merch, let me know and I'll wear you on me and you wear me on you. Yeah. her like what do you wear alice channel I inner ed gain. yeah What are you wearing tonight, please?
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Speaker: Thank you. like Thank you. I'm super stoked. um I'm really excited for it. Definitely, definitely. Very, very appreciative and and and thankful for the the quote unquote honor and privilege to be a part of not only not only getting to do the gig but getting to be a part of that event. It's a great event. It's for the disabled veterans. So that's that's awesome and all the money is going to that DAB chapter.
Speaker: so can't can't be more excited for that. Anywho, we are back. Welcome back to men caring for men on the nonsensical network. He's blazed. I'm Glick and we're talking about tonight. We're talking life balance. We're not doing a very good job of balancing a show tonight, but I think we're doing a fine job. finester we yeah We always make it happen. We're talking about life balance. You know, everybody always says, you know, you have to have that perfect. Well, not that very many people do. Let's be honest. I was one of those people. I didn't
Speaker: You know, years back, I've never had a good work -life balance. You know, I spend most of my time at work and at very I at my time at home. But life balance in general, I'm talking more like life being family, you know, kids, significant others, obviously your job. And then, and then personal time, because we all need our personal time. We need to do things that are for us.
Speaker: Um, and especially, you know, as just being a, a men's mental health show, you you know, we but we've got enough on our plate as it is, man. Guys. Um, you gotta know from.
Speaker: providing and all that stuff and working and you know, and they asked me a really legit question. How do I do it? I don't know. Uh, I'll be 100 % honest with you, man. I thrive and complete and utter, uh, I call it organized chaos. So I just carve out a little bit of time, uh, for, for, for everything. Obviously I have to do my eight hours at work. Uh, I come home, got a couple hours before the shows. Um,
Speaker: And if the kids are here or in Nikki's home, you know, we kind of hang out dinner, you know, watch a little TV, then I come and do the show. And then afterwards it's mine and Nikki's time. We watch TV and watch a couple of shows, a couple of shows that we watch. And then, you know, I try not to let podcasts and stuff, uh, interfere with life.
Speaker: You know what I mean? So. One of the reasons why I started uploading episodes the day after or the day of that we do the live recordings is because I would sit there for on Fridays for two hours or more uploading podcast episodes. So it's just.
Speaker: Yes, I do love podcasting. ah you know it is I don't want to say it's a hobby. It's more of a passion. Obviously, I've said it before. This is a dream of mine. I would love to reach a point where um I am doing this full time. I am making a living doing this. This is my job.
Speaker: and then you know so you know then I'm able to be a little bit more flexible when we do shows, when we don't do shows, when I'm doing shows or whatever. but um
Speaker: And then that that balance, that work -life balance is so much better. But you know I have things that I enjoy to do just me without the stresses of work or family or podcasting and and whatnot.
Speaker: that I don't really have the time for and and I can tell when I have to force myself in something simple as playing video games for me. That's that's my happy place, but I can tell when I'm starting to get overloaded or or. And I had to that I had to force myself will sit down, give yourself an hour. Don't think about work. Don't think about. Podcast it, don't think about the kids and whatever. Just sit down here for an hour. Play your video game. Yeah.
Speaker: because it starts to wear on you and it does affect us. I think that's what happens a lot of times when you don't have that happy medium with the balances with men. And when we start to go to those dark places and the depression starts to creep up or the anxiety starts to creep up. I'll be 100 % honest with you guys, in the days leading up to the concert, my anxiety level is going to be through the roof. That's normal. that's that That anxiety is going to be normal though, but I think you, uh,
Speaker: I think one thing you had said, sometimes you have to like force yourself to sit down and play video games. Because it's one of those activities you enjoy. And it's like your your escape from work and other other obligations in life. And the funny thing about it is is we get so busy that I think we forget to schedule those down times. Yeah, we have to be like, OK, Monday through Friday I have work between this time and that time, dinner with families around this time, okay, I need some meeting, I need some video game time, a height time, dog times, like, you literally have to remind yourself to put that in the schedule of your daily life. Because those things are important, because without those, everything else is going to fall apart too. It's like, again, like like we're talking about, there's this balance and we got to find that balance. What's up, Chris? How you doing? What up, Chris? Was Chris up here the other night?
Speaker: Yeah. Chris did come up Saturday night. Oh, I missed that. Yeah. he popped it that he loved it He popped in Saturday. No, exactly. And you know, like we were joking last last night because I'm like, Hey guys, just want you to come up for about a half hour. I want to make this announcement about the merge. I'm super excited about it. Nikki's super excited about it. And that turned into an hour and 45 minutes or something. Oh, it did. And I also want to say that.
Speaker: the audience showed up too. And they were, they seemed pretty excited. So that half hour turned into like almost almost two hours. Yeah. It almost turned into like a spontaneous right off the, right out, just right off the cuff, like a, like a little, like a little bonus show. And I'm going to, and I'm going to actually, I'm going to actually repurpose that and and I'm going to shoot it up onto the Spotify's and stuff like that. And I'm going to be like a bonus nonsensical nonsense or something, you know, just a, you know,
Speaker: We had a big announcement and we just decided to, and I, you know, like I went out last night and I was like, I'm, Nikki was on the couch playing on it. I said, I'm sorry. I really, truly thought that I only planned on a half hour. She was like, it's okay. Don't worry about it. Everybody was excited. The chat was going. She was in the chat. You know, she's like, it's all right. Don't worry about it. I kind of felt like. She was in on it too. So you have no blame to shoulder you. Yeah.
Speaker: Not yet Chris. I probably wrote this this weekend. I'll probably put an order in for for a few things. Not everything is up yet. Some things are still under review. I don't know why some stuff went up and then other stuffs under. I don't know what that is all about, but it said it could take two to three days for the shop to be fully opened and everything to be there. But for the time being, everything is 25 % off for the first two weeks at the shop is open so.
Speaker: ah But yeah, no man, you know, its typically Sundays are, are my days, you know, Nikki works every other Sunday, the kids are gone. So there's Sundays that the kids are gone and Nikki's at work. That's one of the few days during the week that I have all to myself with nobody here. And I, you know, I enjoy it because I watch movies, I play video games and I sit around and Wally fuck on my phone. I don't, um,
Speaker: Oh, I didn't know you could customize the shirts like that. Yeah. A bonus, right? Bonus. Hey, shut up to the store, man. I didn't know you guys could customize it. There you go. Oh, I can get one on the back. I can get blazing on the back of mine. but Yeah. That's, that's cool. I'm actually, if I, I didn't realize that I'm definitely clicked on the back. you get Maybe one day we'll do a giveaway. Yeah. We'll do a giveaway and we'll give away.
Speaker: officially game worn shirts to a winner. You could have a shirt that the Glick wore. You could buy Jeff Sweat in a bottle too. No, we would have to do a top giveaway for Jeff's shirt. No, I said Jeff Sweat in a bottle. You know that some people would do that, but no man. Yeah, you you know, I and that was one of those things that I learned. You know, like I said when I.
Speaker: When I came back home, you know well when when when the split up happened with my ex -wife and everything, i was in I was in a real bad way. like I was in a real dark place and it wasn't just it wasn't just from the divorce. I mean, it was all it was life in general and and me never reaching out for help or never talking to anybody, just, just bottling shit up. and And, and that was one of those, like I said, my Sundays are my Sunday. That's, yeah that's part of that balance. Um, but there's also times throughout the week where I shouldn't have come home from work. And I'm like, all right, I know I got three hours before the show. Give me a half hour. I'll give me a half hour. I'll call a dude. Yeah. I think he's like, yeah, there you go. And she grabs me the controller.
Speaker: grabs her Kindle or she goes and cooks dinner or whatever. Or there's times where we're sitting on the couch and and and ah it goes without saying, but I think she's noticed and and God love her for this because I don't think I've ever been with anybody that's ever noticed any of my weird courts.
Speaker: But if my anxiety is getting the best of me or something, I fidget a lot. I'm a fidgeter or a restless or whatever. And there's been times where we're watching a TV show and the show's over. She's like, hey, why don't you play Call of Duty for a little bit? Nothing else is said. Just play a few games of Call of Duty.
Speaker: And then my anxiety goes down, you know, I throw my headphones on or turn the game up or whatever. Cause I'm that type of guy. I have a sound bar. I like to turn it up when I play call of duty real loud. So you're in the game. Yeah. So, you know, um, and it's just that, just that, just that little bit of time to just not worry, you know, personal times, specialty and, and, and, and, and going to the gym is like that for me.
Speaker: good I have been able to go to the gym as much as I would like to as of late, but you know, it's one of those sacrifices. You gotta knock out when when you we you know, we've only got my car right now. We're hoping to remedy that soon. Yeah. um and But. And and I just can't spread. I'm not sporadically go to the gym guy like I'm not going to go to. Oh, you're off Wednesday. Alright, I can go to the gym and then not be able to go back to the gym for a week or something like that. Like but go to the gym. that was That was another one of those things for for myself that I, that I enjoyed doing to just kind of, it's, it's about centering. I think at the end of the day, you're kind of centering on yourself, bringing me back to that. Well, happy, happy. week and the end of I think for me, juggling everything, it's building a routine where I fit everything in a certain place. And I go through that routine. Granted, I was, excuse me.
Speaker: i Have to remind myself that that routine can be interrupted at any point in time that I need to Adapt and change with that not get frustrated with you. That's my thing but um You had mentioned You didn't mention it so and this this this one goes for all of us even in the audience I know when we talk about life balance these things these things we carry around in our hands and can be a total destruction of those balances sometimes. There's been times where I'm like, okay, I have to do something in 30 minutes. Let me sit there and fiddle on my phone. And the next thing I know, two hours has gone by. I'm like, what the fuck? Set alarms, people, set alarms. No, but yeah I think sometimes we, I think sometimes we get distracted by things and we can lose that balance. And I think it's important to stay focused.
Speaker: Uh, to maintain that balance, we're going to falter where humans going to happen. Don't get me wrong. Like I haven't been walking in like almost a week and I have to remedy that tomorrow, but, uh, I think getting in a good routine, having, I'm not saying like, I know some people are always like, get a daily planner, write it all down, schedule on a calendar. some of us Some of us don't do that. Some of us don't live our lives like that. But I think it's a good. It's a good idea to maybe like worm a mental note somewhere in your in your head that, you know, can easily reflect on. like Oh, it's eight o 'clock tonight. I mean, I have I have little timers and stuff to remind me to do shit when I need to do it. But all in all.
Speaker: Now, the phones 100 percent could be A serious distraction lord knows i've gotten yeah, it's like, okay. I know I need to set up the studio I know I need to download music and I need to You know do Eight different things to get to show get the show ready. All right, i'll do it at 6 15 And then i'm fucking watching youtube or Playing a game or whatever and i'm like shit. It's fine. It's up 6 45 god damn it yeah
Speaker: But I much like you much like you said, I'm also I'm very routine, ah you know, and he like this is this is how I go about my daily business. This is what I do. And um every once in a while, it's not as much and not as bad as it used to be. But I'm trying. That's one thing that I am trying to get a hold on.
Speaker: is when there is a curve ball or a monkey wrench thrown into my routine, not getting angry and frustrated because I am notorious for that. Like I've got this, this, and this plan for the day. This is what I'm doing. This is what we're doing. And then curve ball comes out of nowhere. And I'm just like, God damn it. And it just throws off my whole freaking,
Speaker: che for the day or whatever you want to say. Like, I'm just like, but you know, but yeah, that whole writing and stuff down, by my boss and I, we were talking about that a couple of weeks ago. I'm not that guy. I mean, it might work for you, but I said, I'm not that guy. You so don't, don't, don't lock me in. Like that age nine, you do this from nine to 11, you do this. Well, I said, that's, that's not me. That's not how I roll. I said, you have to understand I might be working on three different projects all at the same time. I said, they're all going to get done.
Speaker: But that's just how my, that's just how I'm wired. That's how my brain works. So, you know, you're not pigeonholed. I feel like that's counterproductive for what you're, you know, and then it's going to make things crazy. So I was like, let me do my thing. If the buildings aren't falling down, they're not on fire and nobody's complaining. Yeah. Well, that's like on.
Speaker: ah So I got some, I'm getting over like some kind of cold. I got a lot of congestion and pollen in the air, but, uh, which is really weird. It was windy today with allergies. or Um, Friday I had got an email, so I'm going to issue online. So they're like three hours ahead. So I have to work off an Arizona time zone when I deal with like, uh, like, uh, uh, class coaches and ad administration, whatever. So I have to wait till like 11 o 'clock or noon.
Speaker: call or talk to anybody but Friday I get an email like it's seven something at night saying there is an issue with some confirmation for school through my uh through the Pat Tillman Center which is the the veterans do you eat dairy sometimes Jerry can make you own allergy worse actually you know what poet I don't well I do but not a lot because it messes with me but that ice cream a few days ago. So I know it's not that, but I appreciate you looking out. Um, no, I do. I have, I have a thing with dairy. I have to like, I love cheese, but yeah.
Speaker: yeah yeah Um, but so, but Friday I get that message and it's like, I, I email, I read it like eight something, but it was sent to me like seven something. Of course, it's their business time there in Arizona, but it's not the business time in Lexington where my veteran CRE counselor is. So there's nothing I can do. It's Friday night. There's nothing I can do until Monday. But there was ah there was an old me that would sit there for those those three days in just
Speaker: just dwell on it and like oh my god what am I gonna do is this gonna like set stuff back and you know I would I would work myself up over it but now it's like that when that happened on Friday it's like well I literally just had to tell myself there's nothing I can do about it till Monday morning so there's no point and even it being on the forefront of my my my uh thought process for the weekend you know I just made a mental note Monday, when I get up, actually set a reminder on my Alexa. Hey, you want me to call a blah, blah, blah at certain, certain time. And that's kind of the way I do it now. I don't, I don't, uh, because those hiccups are going to happen because I thought I had everything and all the pegs, all the teas are crossed and eyes are dotted. I'm ready, thirsty to go to college. And I get that fucking email Friday. I'm like, Oh God, there's like only a few days left. Yeah.
Speaker: But I didn't, I didn't let it get to me. And you know, I got up and I took care of business and not, I wasn't frustrated. I didn't, I didn't, anxiety didn't fuck with my anxiety or anything. I just, you know, I dealt with it when I could. I didn't, I didn't try to, I didn't make the problem bigger than what it really was. yes so And those little things helped.
Speaker: Yeah, sometimes sometimes you got to be able to flip that switch and and and be like, all right, there's nothing I can do about it. And then that's something that I do now. When I leave work, when I clock out of work, i thought but I don't worry about work. I don't think about work until I go back to the next day, until I clock in the next morning. you know I used to take work home even up until a couple of years ago.
Speaker: something would frustrate me at work and I would come home and it would be on my mind and it would be on my mind and until I went back the next day. Uh, it was just like, I got to stop doing this because now I'm coming home and I'm frustrated and I'm aggravated. And, you know, it it was maybe, maybe about a year ago, I was finally, maybe a little more than it just a little over a year ago. I was finally able to go, you know what? I need to be able to turn off work when I'm not there.
Speaker: You know, obviously some things you don't turn off. I'm always thinking about something with the podcast, but, you know, not necessarily in a negative light. I'll be a hundred percent honest with you. Um, the last three years, uh, a little over three years of podcasting, there's been a lot of aggravation and frustration and, and whatnot that's gone into it. But these last, uh, these last few months, man, have been, have been just amazing because now I'm like, I'm thinking about.
Speaker: all the good shit and like what could we do to continue to be on the path that we're on as far as a quote unquote network or shows or or whatever. So that's a different different way of thinking. So it's not like it's living in my head rent free, you know, like get this fucking co -host who's a jackass or yeah just this other show that's just driving me up a fucking wall, you know, like, cause they're all about themselves or or whatever.
Speaker: Uh, and it's just like, no, no, you could just be like, Hey, I gotta map out for my guests. I know I've got guests lined up. Okay. I'm getting close to, uh, not having guest book. Let's get on it and start booking guests and stuff like that. But again, you know, I try to do that. Um, you know, like usually I'll come home from work and Vicki's got to go to work. Hey, you know, I'll play a couple rounds of call of duty and then it's like, all right, let me get on my phone and start reaching out to people. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I have a hard time doing that. I'm not that type of perp of people person and that's probably why I don't have anybody Friday. Um, I'm not going to lie. I'm not that kind of person because when I'm not doing this, I try not to think about it. I'm the same and I've gotten, so I used to be really bad at it because being in the military, when you're not at work, when you know, you're still on duty.
Speaker: I was always on call. I had, you know, I was always on standby and there was moments where I was, you know, I was with the family. I got a call. It's like, well, sorry, whatever we were doing now, we got to stop at the point of work. And that kind of really puts, makes it hard not, not to not dwell on work when you're at home. Um, it took me a very long time to get to the point where.
Speaker: when I'm not at work or not doing something that is work related, just not to think about it. And I think I've got to the point where I've got too good at that. When I'm not dwelling on the work, it's like, it's the furthest from my mind. And I'm not thinking about the stuff that I could be doing to help the workflow, but at the same, you know, it's just, a it's something I gotta, it's a hurdle I gotta, I gotta to work out. Cause, cause I just took this project on and it was a project I took on myself.
Speaker: I got college coming up and there was some other things I wanted to do. I had to sit there and tell myself, I was like, Josh, stop. You're putting a lot on the plate and you haven't even started a class yet. And that's going to be like 30 to 36 hours worth of fucking schoolwork. I got to do a work a week yeah full time. you know like I can't be adding stuff to my plate because that's not even on my plate yet. That's going to be a huge chunk. Yeah. then There's that like,
Speaker: trying to switch school off when you're not doing school, which is not easy to do either. No, exactly. And I'll tell you what, you know i've I have this mindset of, I feel like I'm bothering people when I reach out to them to be a guest on the show. So what I did is I just simply went to a little AI chat or a little AI thing, created this message that could be easily interjected to anybody, um, any, you know, any genre. And that's, that's my way. I'll send it. Okay. They respond and it's an invite to come on the show, you know, uh, and, and, and, then and then if they respond, it opens the door for conversation. And then, then we start to converse back and forth. I tell them more about the show. I tell them, you know, more what it is, what we'll be doing, what, you know, it's not your typical interview, quote unquote, interview show.
Speaker: Um, and, and then that makes it's made that process for me so much easier. And I don't get in my head about it to where it's like, Oh man, I really want to reach out to this person. Well, I don't want to bother them. I won't, I won't do it. Now it's just like copy paste. Boom. I send it. It is really not. a I mean, it's, like I said, it's, it's essentially a knock at the door yeah they open and respond. Then we, then, then I'll go from there.
Speaker: I don't feel like I'm bothering somebody fair enough. Fair enough. And and that's exactly what I'll, I'll, I'll create another one. Cause you know, I talked about wanting to, uh, maybe see about trying to get some wrestlers on the show or people in the wrestling business for cash or show. I won't create a message. Just, just, just to, like I said, just a simple knock on the door. Hey, how you doing?
Speaker: be interested in having his guest. If you respond to it, you respond to it. If you don't, you don't, I'm not going to, I'm not going to sweat it. I'm not going to worry about it. I, you know, but also I'm not going to sit here and you know, bother you every, every two weeks. You know what I mean? Like the notification sits there until you open the message. If you open it and you read it and you don't respond, okay, cool. That's all I need to know. You know, if you don't, it's not open. I'm not going to, I'm not going to freak out about it. Eventually you'll
Speaker: Fair enough, fair enough. But, um, but no, I think, I think that's been one thing that's, you know, but men like for for me trying to quote unquote control my depression and anxiety. That's one of those things was just realize also, but this is kind of a two parter, but realizing that it's okay to take time out for myself.
Speaker: Because I used to think before, if I did something that I enjoyed that was like a break from the monotony or whatever, that I was doing something wrong. Yeah. Like, you know, I was a bad guy because I wanted to play video games for an hour or whatever, or got I just want to go to the gym. And then I'd be like, I feel like an asshole because that's an hour and a half that I could have been at home with the kids or been doing stuff for work or or whatever, but it's like,
Speaker: OK, no, you're not a bad guy because you want to set a little bit of time out for yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah and in and you're not. We need our own time, even if it's like daily. I mean, I. I don't think we can all live our lives the same and expect. We can't sit there and expect the same time obligations from each other at the same time, because we all have our own different lives, because we need ah you and I both know that we need our own downtime.
Speaker: Well, your your spouse does, your children do, your parents do, and it's all different. yeah It's all different um interests and times to focus on those interests. ah I mean, ah think I think as long as we keep that in the back of our mind, i think I think we'll be okay with it. I know I am. It's like, I know I need my downtime because they need their downtime. So it's only, you know,
Speaker: No, that's been that's been a huge factor with. Like I said, just feeling better in general and not having I mean, I'll be honest with you. It's been a hot minute since I've had a bad day quote unquote bad day. But just realizing hey. Right, you know, find that that that happy medium that you know, make the time that you need to. Obviously you have to go to week. You know we have to go to work. We have to pay the bills.
Speaker: You got me for, you got me for 40 hours a week job. You know, this is, this is a time that you said I were eight hours a day, five days a week. So you get me for 40 hours. There are those random times where I do get, when I get called in for something or I might have to stay a few minutes, whatever, but you get me for 40 hours. That's all I'm giving my brain and my body, the physical and mental aspect. You get 40 hours a week.
Speaker: Nothing outside of that 40 hours. Um, and then it's why I don't like the idea of salary jobs. I, I've done the salary jobs and, and then I will always do hourly any chance I can. Uh, don't get me wrong. I think there are a few jobs out there in the, in the, in the workforce that a salary position makes sense because the job demands some sort of on -call status, like fire department law enforcement.
Speaker: Yeah. EMT, kind of shit like that. Yeah. But anything else outside of that, I mean, it should just be a fucking hourly job. Get get paid for the hours you put in. Don't get paid for this. Yeah. You know, and I, you know, I've done like, I worked for work and it was salary based, but it was also commission based.
Speaker: Yeah. You know, you got, all you had to do is finish your route. You didn't even have to do anything. And however much your route was worth, you got like 21 % of it. So, you know, or whatever the salary or so or commission. And then on top of it, they had this weird, crazy overtime system. If you worked over 80 hours or whatever in a week, it was like 80 divided by your salary divided by.
Speaker: 40 and then time Babaji blah blah blah. I don't know came out to something weird ass random number You know, which for me I did do a lot of overtime when I was there so it was like, you know Yeah, it doesn't see it came out to something weird like five dollars an hour or something some crazy shit like that You know, but I was doing a lot of overtime. So Worked out at the end of the day But But no I mean, that's that that was one of those like, look, when I'm when I'm off the clock, I'm off the clock. This this is your time.
Speaker: And then like, I know, and that was one of the other things we had to do with the, with the podcast because we were getting out of control. We were doing shows, you know, Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and then add in the new shows and and they were going three, four hours. And I was like, look guys, we got us, we, we got to, we got to, we got to button them up. We got to clean them up. You know, Saturday night is Saturday night. We all agree. That's six hour show. That's Saturday night. That's how we get down on Saturday night, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker: We're old, we don't go out to the bars, we don't go clubbing. We sit at home and we podcast all night. You know,
Speaker: you know I said the other shows, two hour. men Yeah, sometimes we do go over a little bit on the shows, but I said two hours at the most because it was cutting into too much of my whole time, my life, you know, my the kids and and in time with Nicki. And I was like, so no more than two hours, buttoning up two hours. If I'm doing a show, I'm out of here in two hours.
Speaker: whatever you guys want to do on your shows is fine by me because that's, that's your that's your shit. I'm not involved with it. I said, but you know, the shows that I'm on more than do two hours at the most. I told cash when we talked about doing his show, I said, with Howard, that's more than enough time. We can come in, talk about whatever, you know, if we go a little bit over, we'll go a little bit over. It happens, you know, especially if we start getting guests, you know, we might go a little bit over with guests, but we're also doing his show earlier in the day.
Speaker: earlier earlier in the evening, but um, you know, it's it's um It's all about finding And kind of placing those things to where you can have work life family extracurricular this is an extracurricular if you will and then still being able to find personal time and like I said, I try not to I try not to do podcast related stuff. Like if Nikki and I are sitting down and watching TV or if we're doing movie night with the kids or, or whatever, if Nikki and I go out, but there are those random times where somebody shoots me a message and I'm like, shit, I got to respond back to this real quick. Um, I tell you what, it's, it's, it's, it's been for me personally, now that I've kind of started, you know,
Speaker: Chomping out these time frames. It's been a lot better. It's been a lot less. And then I still have my time. Like I said, Sundays, typically Nikki's at work. If the kids are here, my middle daughter, she's usually hiding upstairs all day. Cash and I are getting caught up on wrestling or watching movies or watching TV or, you know, watching wrestling or something, or he's in and out. Last Sunday, they were here. His, him and his friend were in and and and out of the house all day. And I'm like,
Speaker: play video games, watch a movie and i't take a nap and sometimes sometimes you end up with a free time. You weren't even planning. It's like yeah see those those disruptions those disruptions in your routine sometimes can pay off to your benefit. Like I got extra downtime now. So yeah.
Speaker: But it has been extremely beneficial for, for, for, for my mental wellbeing. Like I said, this, this last last year and a half has been such a, a drastic turnaround from where I was two years ago. Um, and it, it also, I think it also, not only do I feel like I'm a better person to be around better, better, uh, partner, better, v ah better employee.
Speaker: ah You know, some people who've been around for a while, you knew how quick I was to fly off the handle and and look for a fight when we were, not look for a fight, but accept a fight when we were podcasting, when we would deal with assholes. And now it's just like, yeah, I see you. I can choose to ignore you in the chat. Now they don't even come in because they don't get no rise out of me. I don't care. yeah of them You know, and I know this is just my observation.
Speaker: And I hope nobody takes any stake in it, but this is just from my observation of what I've gleaned from some of the people I listened to. Dude, I think during that COVID period, like it didn't matter who you were. I'm not saying this for everybody. There were some people that I knew that really was able to handle that stress well, better than I could. And I think a lot of us just lost our fucking minds.
Speaker: All agree 100 % absolutely agree. You know, for me, and I've said this a million times, my life didn't change during COVID. You know, I, I was quote unquote dubbed an essential employee. I don't know why I was delivering auto parts, but whatever, ah you know, but I was still, you know, I was still going to work every day, you know, granted doing the homeschool and stuff.
Speaker: ah That was a little trying at times, but it was also nice having my kids staggered in age the way they were. So they, they helped each other a lot. You know, my oldest one and my middle one being four years apart. And then my middle you know Austin being four years older than buggy.
Speaker: The buggy being four years older than cash. And then Austin being eight years older than cash being the oldest, they were actually able to help each other because they had still that a lot of that school stuff was still fresh in their mind. Yeah. And they were doing a lot of crazy ass, goofy ass, like math made no sense to me at all when they were doing this weird core stuff. And I'm like, Oh, common core. It's actually not that difficult. It's, it's been kind of the way I think common core is actually like sort of like a simpler way to do it in some ways, but I've always been really good at math. So I just do math in my head. And they're like, you have to take this and move this here and put this here. And they're like, I'm like, and just go five plus four and then count it and write the answer. If you can't figure it out. Well, I have to show my work. I don't know. I don't know how to show your work on that. I mean, five plus four, draw five check marks and then four check marks and then put nine beside it. I don't know what I like. And then my daughter would come in and I got it.
Speaker: I'll help cash. I'm in no way a mathematician. i i am not i'm I'm not going to sit here and say I hate math. I'm not the most math, but I'm just not a math -ing kind of person. The way I look at math, it's a language that explains. It's like a language that coincides with science to help explain physics and stuff.
Speaker: But i when I discovered the laws of logic and I learned about those, it actually made math easier um because that's kind of what math is built off is logic, rational logic, things like excluded middle, law of -contradiction, the law of identity. Those are like the three main ones. And learning those kind of helps me out because I can look at you know, one times one is one because, well, the law of identity, but, you know, so that kind of helps me out, but I hate doing it. I usually like to apply logic to rhetorical arguments and commentary and shit, not so much to numbers, but there's so there's some overlap there. I just prefer words than numbers.
Speaker: Yeah, but I it's just like I'm not breaking down calculus in my head or, you know, I can do some simple algebra, some simple geometry, whatever, but i'm not like breaking down all, you know, i basic math, you know, I'll break it down in my head real quick, but it's just like. Yeah, you know, so, you know, for me, and and I mean, I can only speak for me personally, the whole COVID thing, my life didn't change. It was still day to day, normal routine.
Speaker: go to work, take care of the kids, you know, all that stuff. But I seen people, I witnessed it from people, uh, not only online, but in my personal life that they, they absolutely lost their fucking minds because they didn't know most days they didn't know what day, what day it was. And they didn't know if they were coming and going anymore. You know, they weren't, you know, like I had a buddy of mine that the first few months he was working from home.
Speaker: And, you know, he's single guy, no kids, whatever. And, uh, he was like, dude, I drink like a case of beer a day. Oh, shit. I'm like, why? I ain't got nothing better to do. I said, aren't you working? Yeah, I'm fucking hammered doing my job. And I'm like, how's that work out? He's like, I don't know. Everybody else is hammered too. And I was like, Oh, if you can't be in a journal.
Speaker: Yeah. And then like, you know, we come out of COVID and everything like that. And and I was talking to Alex. Yeah. He, you know, he lives out of state. He and I were talking and and he was like, yeah, man, I, I had to go into AA and stuff like that. I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, he said it was starting to affect. He's like, you know, things are kind of back to normal. You know, we're doing a you know a lot of companies that gave the option to work from home. Some of them went to a hybrid work schedule where you, come into the office a couple of days of work. He's like, but he's like, I couldn't stop drinking. And he was like, I wound up going in and and getting, you know, checking myself in to a rehab facility to get cleaned up. He's like, I'm in AA. I'm doing the whole 12 steps. And I'm like, you're not an alcoholic. No, bro. He's like, you should tell like, I don't know what to tell you because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I want to do is go crack a beer. Wow. I'm like, damn, dude. I was like,
Speaker: I was like, just for sitting at home because I would have loved to have the opportunity to sit at home for a few months and get paid for it. Uh, you know, I could have done so much.
Speaker: Okay. Chris said he can add his logo to the back of the. dan it Sorry, my bad. Calm down, Chris. There are shirts full on customization over here.
Speaker: fuck yeah options got a level yeah
Speaker: we are a no way shape and or form affiliated with chriss technic and for his brands business I don't know. I might if it's cool enough. I don't know his brand. I might like his brand. I might I might want to be associated. with Hey, maybe I'm not either. Yeah. No. Um but yeah, man. I mean but I think, I think a lot of it with COVID is, you know, a lot of people just felt, uh, felt trapped. You know what I mean? They just kind of felt trapped and they didn't know what the hell to do with themselves. And, and, and I think that's where we've seen a lot of the crazy drama that was online. People were discovering broadcasting for the first time. And they're like, I have a pedestal. I can say and do whatever the hell I want. And then they'd be like, yeah, no, it's not exactly how it works.
Speaker: This is true. There was a lot more people online. I was, I kind of kept it. I had, there was this, I know we're so off topic, but at this point, there was a gentleman I worked with that right there at the kickoff of COVID, he was bragging how he was starting to buy into these streaming network stocks or something like that, these small startups and shit. And they they were going good too. He was bragging about it. I was like, dude,
Speaker: once this is over, they're going to go down. He's like, no, we'll be fine. This stuff, this stuff's here forever. ah I'm like, why is everybody so but one, one thing I didn't understand how people thought that was going to last forever, but, but there as, as things were trickling down and people were coming back to work and there wasn't this big push for, for streaming and online conferences and all that. Yes. He he started to be like, man, I'm starting to lose money now. So.
Speaker: No, yeah, no, exactly. You know, there's so many, you know, that's, that's why, you know, with the fall of, of haves, you know, I, I told Jeff, I was like, if we have to take a break, we're going to take a break, but I'm going to find something legitimate for us to go to and still be able to do the show and still multi cast and everything like that. And we've been here ever since. Yeah.
Speaker: And I love streaming and I know other people like restream and essentially the same thing, you know, it's just, um, mechanics are different. So mechanics are a little bit different and it's just more of what you prefer. Yeah. But you see people who now are so lost and they, and they, they, they kind of take it as a badge of honor. They're like, I was on HAPS. I was on.
Speaker: wow vogal or vocal or or bibbityboityhipty skip I think people of fish had a streaming thing. Yeah. It was a me stream me. There's you now. There's the gab. There's the cantina. There was like you had said apps and periscope and hell even Twitter had their thing for a little bit. I think they still have it. There was a lot of them and it It got crazy. What's up, John? What up, John? COVID made a lot of us vulnerable, especially those of us who were extroverted. No, I think, yeah, yeah. See, I'm more of an intro. See, it was some parts I was okay with, and but it was it that happened at a time in my life that I was going through a very drastic change, yeah not not a positive change in my life. And it was a lot of sort a craziness.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought he said and it said I fucked a lot of people. um i fucked a little Wait, did I hit that twice? No, it's two different. It's two different. Oh, Once more, once more detailed. You're right. um And if I yeah, there was people I probably wouldn't have entertained had that and not been a thing. Absolutely.
Speaker: Oh, no, you know, in the house. What's up, John? I've seen John a lot around here. I appreciate you, John. Thank you. John's becoming a regular, a regular. Oh, yeah. We're becoming like like like Cheers around here on the network. Everybody knows your name. anyway Everybody knows your name. I love that show. That's a great show. I wonder if I can find it somewhere. I haven't watched it. I haven't thought about it. That was a really good show.
Speaker: No, exactly. and And you see these people, you see people that are bouncing and ah and every time they go to a new streaming site, I think it's the next next best thing. It's the next, um, because they're still trying to find their place. And again, we're a little off, a little off topic, but not completely all the way off topic because it's about finding that balance. And this is where, you know, we found our balance here on, on StreamYard. And I love StreamYard and I don't mind, you know, I hear a lot of people go,
Speaker: Well, I'm not going to use StreamYard because you have to pay for it. Yeah. I don't mind paying for it because it's a good service. Yeah. Well, StreamYard is not really a streaming, like a streaming community as like Periscope or Hat. It's a streaming platform. We use it to upload to other sites. But yeah, I i like StreamYard. yeah none You know, I wanted something to where I could, you know,
Speaker: Other people claim that they were the first multi casters, but they're not. I'm not even the first multi caster. But when I envisioned this show and doing it live from jump street before, you know, uh, that was, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to find a platform where we could go to multiple platforms at the same time. And that's how we stumbled onto Haps. And, and at the time I was like, I really don't want to pay for it. I'm not in a position to pay for it. That's why we didn't start with.
Speaker: stream yard or re -stream or whatever. And it was like, this will do, this will do for the time being. And even while we were there before, it was we're going to go somewhere else eventually. We're still going to be able to multicast onto all these different Facebook and YouTube and whatnot, but we're just going to move it somewhere else. It's more beneficial to us. You know, being in here, I'm able to download the audio, shoot the audio right over, upload it, get it where I need to get it. It just makes life easier, faster.
Speaker: And I'm not, you know, where before I'd had to download the video. I had another, I had another app on my phone that once I download or not my phone, my laptop, once I downloaded the video, I could then take that video and remove it and then download the audio from that video. And then I was able to, uh, you know, I was like a four step process. It took me hours to get a show or to do upload. This is just more streamlined and make my life easier. And again,
Speaker: I spend less time doing this and I have more time to be with kids or Mickey or doing my own thing. You know what I mean? So, you know, it is. And I think that's what happened. Thank you, John. Appreciate it. People were just so, I don't know what, I don't know if it was bored or what it was, but their balance was so out of whack and they just wanted to live right here in front of a camera.
Speaker: and I agree. I don't think I would have entertained a lot of people. If I knew then what I know now. I would have avoided a lot of issues and a lot of problems, but. but
Speaker: You know we were we were so new and trying to figure everything out and trying to do things but. okay So. We're seeing you're talking about life balances. And I know we're talking in particular about about our own. And I don't really want to shame any anybody's actions. But one thing that I have found i find kind of disturbing, and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm over analyzing this. But there are some streaming sites out there I've noticed where people will do what's known as a sleep stream. like They'll stream like all day long. Yeah. They'll never turn around.
Speaker: And then when it's time for their bedtime, they'll just turn off lights and go to bed, but they'll leave the stream going on. And and so you can watch them sleep. Yeah. is And people do like thousands of people. And I don't, I don't know. Like I don't want to sit here and come out and say, Hey, that's just unhealthy. There, there could be a very good, good reason that I'm missing, but I don't think there is i don't know. i saw I feel, I feel as though if I were to either a participate in a sleep stream like just turn off the camera and go to bed and let everybody have the opportunity to watch me sleep. I think ah something might be wrong with me if I were to do that but if if I was one of those people sitting there watching people sleep I think it's some kind somehow kind of a little bit even more kind of disturbing. Like I said I don't want these negative connotations around the activity but
Speaker: It's weird. It's it's it's it's weird and and it blows my mind. a Hey, it blows my mind the amount of people that watch it. yeah It also blows my mind how much money these people make. Some people do make money off that stuff. Because they're sitting there throwing gifts at them all night long. and It's just like, yeah It's like, did I miss something? Did they snore and I missed it? yeah Yeah, I don't get it. It's, it's, it's really kind of discouraging and disheartening for people who create actual content and actual content creators who try to put something together, entertaining. And you know, you, you feel like, Hey, we really did a show last night, man. We had a great conversation. And then you look and you're like, yeah Oh, only had three people watch whatever. Meanwhile, this jerk off is fucking just sleeping in his bed and
Speaker: 300 ,000 views, 300 ,000 people watched him. He's got a million followers and he just made $10 ,000 overnight. Like what the hell? oh yeah I'll tell you this.
Speaker: knowing what I know from basic training, if I had a camera i had access to go into barracks, why people would go into basic training at night and, and, in and stream them sleeping. I know that sounds creepy, but when I was in basic, like the stress got to us and we would talk in our sleep and we had to do rotations where we were called dorm guard. We had to walk up, make sure, you know, people were safe. I guess it was just so weird.
Speaker: thing we had to rotate and do once once an hour every night, but we would walk through. And I remember one night I'm walking through and some dude is dead asleep, raises up, puts his hand on his, his cheek like this, puts his other arm, it starts hailing a cab and it's like just stuff like that. I was like, that stuff would probably make some money on a sleep stream. but yeah yeah je funny Yeah. But yeah,
Speaker: It's funny. I mean, I've accidentally passed out on streams. Like you said, and now I've actually I've accidentally passed out on streams. I think Rocky has some I think Rocky might have some screen recordings of of me passed out drunk as fuck passed out on the street. And there's like 300 people there. Well, I'm like, what are you doing with your life? You know, like, hey, but yeah, I'm not going to show them because, hey, if that's your thing, if that's what you're into,
Speaker: If you enjoy watching somebody sleep a more power to you, you know, it's just like, it's, it's kind of weird to me, but hey maybe that's what, maybe that's how they find their, their, their, their, their balance in life. You know, that's, that's their, that's their personal time where they just unwind and relax. you know I've never streamed when I was that tired again. I don't blame you. I don't like streaming when I'm too tired. If I'm tired and I'm in in a stream and it's like been a couple of hours of like, sorry guys, it's bad time for me.
Speaker: um i' diary i'm not here dirt on and just eyebo i'll do i you i'm out I do want to balance my schedule in life one time to where I can do a 24 hour stream. I'm not sure how I can pull that off on stream guard because they only let us stream six hours straight. Well, you can, I think you can stream as long as you want. I just realized that if we go any longer than six hours, when I go to upload it, it won't allow me to upload it for on the Zencast.
Speaker: Oh, but you two. Yeah, we yeah we've we've done we've done eight, nine hour, I think we've done up to 10 hours on on Saturday night on on here. um I have done a 36 hour stream on Periscope and I did a 24 hour stream on TikTok. Well, if I ever do a 24 hour stream, it's gonna for it's gonna be for like a charity. Purely, yeah, purely accidental.
Speaker: When I did that when I did the 36 hour one on periscope My ex -wife and the kids had come to Ohio to visit and I was home alone and I was just like but I don' go a periscope started periscoping on on Friday night Having a great time man. This is having a ball.
Speaker: drinking and everything else. And then the next thing I know, it was Sunday morning. And I'm like, hey, I'm going to stop periscoping. I didn't know John Street. I was drinking a couple of times wherever I got to industry before going to bed.
Speaker: look up with more viewers than I had at bedtime. Isn't that creepy though? It's like, oh, it's like just waking up in the morning and there's like a bunch of people staring at your bedroom window, just like watching you sleep. It's like, yeah go away. But I mean, I guess if you leave your own stream on, it's kind of on YouTube, so. Yeah. I mean, like I said, to each their own, whatever makes you happy. You're not hurting anybody. You're not hurting yourself. More power to you. It's just, I,
Speaker: I don't mean to be. I'm not saying I'm not saying it to be negative. I'm just saying it's weird. You know, it's different for sure. Yeah, it's definitely. OK, OK, I did the 24 hour stream on TikTok again. It just happened. I was live. I was hanging out. We was having fun. There was a lot of people in there. There was a lot of chats going on. You know, the chat was coming through. I'm drinking away. I'm like, I'm hungry. I go to the kitchen. It took something to the eat while I'm streaming. You know, and sit down. I'm like, I'm going to play some Call of Duty while I talk to you guys. And I was playing Call of Duty and then 24 hours went by and I was like, holy shit, y 'all. We just did 24 hours. You know, I'm out of here. and I'll see you guys next time. I was just glad I wasn't driven drilling or snoring. See, and I think people watch to catch people doing that. I think, I think in some ways that's why people watch. They're like, Tony or say something in their sleep. I'm going to clip it.
Speaker: Tony, we we actually, I do have, I might be on Tik TOK it's, I know I put it up on search. Tony's passed out on this show on, on our shows a couple of times. We'll be right in the middle of conversation. The next thing you know, you look here. We're like, Tony, yo, man, a Tony. wait I think I did. I think I passed out asleep, man. I think years ago when I first started streaming, when I was drinking heavy. I think there was one time I did pass out, but I didn't have control of the stream. Somebody else had control, so they were able to shut it down, so it was no big deal. right yeah yeah i think i think there's I think there's a TikTok that we made where we right and we were writing a bit of a conversation, me, him, and Jeff, and all of a sudden,
Speaker: he was lights out. Of course we laughed and chuckled for a few minutes and we just dropped his camera down. He woke up like a half hour later, came back up. Hey guys, sorry about that. It's like that friend you drink with, you pay he'll pass out for like an hour, get back up and start chugging beers again. I was just taking a break motherfuckers. I'm that friend.
Speaker: Oh, I bet. Well, you guys is wonky time schedule difference and stuff. I believe it. Now he did it a few times, right? He just right in the middle of a conversation and he'd be talking to it. I'll say, I can't do, if I'm that tired, where I feel like I'm going to do this off, I'll just go ahead and end whatever I'm doing. I have no bones about that. Cause when it comes to like, I'm tired, I want sleep. I want my bed, like every everything else in the world and go fuck itself. here i've been out been there before We've been doing this show and I'm just like,
Speaker: or like, you know what, guys, I'm done. I'm going to bed. You just do what you want to do. I'm out. You know, it is written sometimes it's just I've been sick or something. It's just like I don't have it in me to to to try to, you know, force myself through a show. It's just like, hey, guys, I'm out. Go ahead. Do what you need to do. Finish the show in the show. Whatever you want. You know, I don't care. I'm i'm going to bed. Yeah. absolutely That's why I didn't pop up on Saturday. Friday, I was feeling pretty tired because like I said, I was feeling under the weather.
Speaker: And Saturday, like I was thinking about coming up, but I was laying in bed. I had the laptop on my lap. I'm sitting there watching and I literally dozed off for a while. Like I woke up. I thought I saw Chris technician in there. Like, whoa, he's in the box. Am I dreaming? And the next thing I know I'm back asleep. So like I, like it was kind of like it, like that Saturday night, what I watched was kind of like, I don't know if it was really a dream. So.
Speaker: Good. Yeah, I was we were we were all kind of shocked with enough. This technician popped up. He would allegedly would roll over talk to me, me thinking I was there, but I don't know what's real truth in this. I wouldn't even worry about it anymore that he'd say you the truth. Yeah. yeah You want years but to hear a funny snoring story?
Speaker: that I got in trouble for. Oh, my God, that was this chick I dated. This was God, I was in my early 20s so long ago, it feels like. And I was seeing this lady and we got in the top. She had made this comment that I snored. I was like, I probably do. And I was like, you snore too. she And she was very adamant that she did not snore. I was like, you snore people. Snores don't be dill. And she got really pissed that I wouldn't let her get away with having the attitude is like, I don't snore. So I recorded her one night. She started snoring and I recorded her and I played it back to her the next day. We didn't date anymore after that. I did i did that to her next. Well, it was a different outcome. She laughed at it. She's like, oh my God, I didn't know. I sounded like that. I'm like, yeah.
Speaker: Not the outcome in my head. Yeah. No, I get it. and You know, like, oh, no. I know I'm not I'm not proud of that moment. Like I'm not proud of that moment. Like I said, that's why I that's why I caveat it with it was in my early 20s. I'm 46 now 47. I've learned my lesson about not being a creepy young dude.
Speaker: that
Speaker: don't but don't I'm not excusing that behavior. Don't get me wrong. No. no and and You know, like you said, you know, you were just tired for, you know, like, okay, you didn't come up Saturday. Not that big a deal. I mean, Oh, no, I but i know. was But again, it's finding that balance. You got to find a man. Look, yeah i' too um I'm not feeling it tonight. i Trust me. There's some nights where I'm not feeling it. It's just like, Oh, I can't really. I can't really. additional wasous I'm the I'm the host here. I can't really ah I can't really call it, you know, but there have been nights on Saturday nights where it's just like, Hey,
Speaker: Hey, what's going on John? John on the, on the YouTube snap. Uh, it's like, uh, yeah, no, I'm not going to, uh, I'm not going to make it tonight. You guys, are you you guys are on your own. Well, I figured Saturday night was Saturday. So I know the other week you had made it, you're pretty much a co -host on Saturdays. And I meant to, I meant to interject. No. Yeah. Saturday night is Glick and Jeff show. I just like showing up because it's fun.
Speaker: But everywhere if I can't make it that night, I'm not going to hold myself to it. Right. Now, you know, Saturday night was, you know, Saturday night, it is what it is. Whatever happens, happens, you know, we had, you know, Rocky came up. Chris technician popped in, which was shocked to everybody.
Speaker: um ah Brian was up there for a little while for a hot minute, actually. Uh, then we had another guy who came in, who has a podcasting network as well. He kind of stumbled across us and was in the chat. and We mentioned the open door challenge and then he popped in and hung out for a little bit. So, you know, um, Good glad. Seemed like the last two Saturdays was kind of slow on the people popping up. But yeah, I know, I know sometimes that happens in some nights, we get a bunch of people.
Speaker: its hi or miss You know, that's that's the. That's the.
Speaker: The joy of of the of the open door challenge. You never know what's going to happen. You never know who's going to come in. You never know. Life's like nonsensical nonsense on Saturday night. You'll never know what you would get.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly. We never know who's going to come in. we We never know if anybody's going to come in. But I think it's just a fun concept to do that you don't see a lot of other people doing quote unquote podcasting world. And it's kind of like the idea when I when I brought it to Jeff, it was like, it's like calling into your favorite radio station and talking to the DJ. Yeah, you know, ah you come in and hang out as long as you want.
Speaker: And as long as you're not a jerk off, we're not going to kick you out. If you're a jerk off, we're going to kick you out. There was one night I did six hours on here and I was drinking. It wasn't like drinking that much. yeah like that off bunch your gremlins That's okay. i found we were multiple We were multiplying Saturday night. So she called us. gremlin I, uh, I started surfing different lives on YouTube and there's this one, uh, there's this guy.
Speaker: who streams here in the state. I am the Kentucky atheist, and he wasn't there, but one of his co -hosts or um show partners, I don't know, he had access to the the stream and he let me pop up. I sat there and shat the shit with them. Mostly it was political and theological banter, but every once in a while, I'll see one of them guys come through here on a Saturday or a Friday or something, like B .S. Lewis is one of them. I'm like, fuck yeah. so been
Speaker: I'll probably be up there. So I know, I know this has turned into a ramble bit, and but it's been almost two hours. There is a podcast out there that I'm going to sign up to be a guest on called Dogma Debate. I will, I haven't signed up yet. I don't know what the process, how long I'll have to wait, but I will let everybody know when I'm going to do that.
Speaker: um It's not so much like what we do. It's more of Politics and theology banter see where I'm going with this people I have other interests But we'll make sure I'm gonna talk about us and me the whole time Oh, I'm sure I'm sure if Michael asked me, you know, where can they find me? I'll definitely plug the network But you guys in the whole time you have to talk about me the network. So he has this he has this economy economical been that I don't particularly agree with him but him and I the host has.
Speaker: has so much other ideas in common that I'm just like perplexed that he differ on this one. And I want to talk to him about it. So I must, and then they put this thing out. If you want to be a guest, go to the document that baits .com and sign up. I'm like, Oh shit, I'm going to do that. I have a one -on -one with Michael, religion, religion, Virginia, Virginia is this name. He's a comedian. It's written in your contract. What's written in my contract?
Speaker: that you talked about, Willis. That if you guessed on another podcast, you have to talk about the network in me the entire time. Anytime they ask you something, so what is your feeling? It's about flat earth. Well, I'm on the nonsensical network and Glick created it and Glick is awesome. We don't have to go down that. We don't have to go down that rabbit hole. I know where that references from.
Speaker: Dude had a Glick size stick in his mouth the entire time. Not a very big one. I mean, it was Glick size. Glick clacks. but You have to mention the network every 90 seconds. That's something else we're going to have merchandise. We're going to have our own fresh breath mints. They're kind of called Glick Glacks. It almost sounds like it.
Speaker: but you're going excited It almost sounds like egg plaques. It's going to be like tiny penis mouth. Click mints. Click mints. Click mints.
Speaker: the put Now, we always have a tendency to go off rails a little bit at the end of the show, but at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker: You just got to find what makes you happy. and and and And guys, we really need to have that balance in our life. We've got to find our personal feng shui, our chi, if you will. Peanut -shaped tic tacs. These we call them dick tacs. Dick tacs, click plaques, glick minutes. Breath filler, nasty, but glick in your mouth.
Speaker: Enjoy a little. This is what happens when you have me on here.
Speaker: This is not, we believe it or not. This is us finding balance in our day. Oh, I dude, I'm not going to lie. I mean, this is all right. So what I'm about to say, it's definitely in line with the show. Like me moving back to Kentucky and there's not a whole lot of people that I really had a lot of common interests with. It's just, I'm going to type an area I'm in and my thought process and Everybody's like bars and big lifted four wheel trucks. And that's just not my, my bag. And that's fine. I mean, Hey, people want to throw mud, throw mud. I've done that before. It is fun. yeah Anyway, my point being is since I've been, um, since I gravitated toward you guys network, cause I didn't start off as a host of course, but I felt a more, um,
Speaker: belonging on like on a social kind of way and it's it's um it's nice it it definitely helps the the mind having a social um like a click yeah yeah a little little social circle so to say um you're very you're very welcome to your thanks so thanks you're welcome glad we could do our part Um, no, and I agree. I don't, I don't, you know, I, I joke her around all the time. I don't, I don't have a support network. Thank you. I don't have friends. I don't have friends in real life. My, my, my friends are all online. Keeps doing that too. I would go ahead and click, click a comment and another one pops up and I clicked the wrong one. Yes. A support network. Thank you, John. Mmm. Wavelengths farts and
Speaker: 100%. See, perfect. Some wavelengths, fart, and dick jokes. And some weed. John just like finished that sentence for you. Like, yep. I'm going to change it up. We'll do something a little different tonight. I'm going to do a little zig wrestling to wrap the show up with it all. We're playing a little music. We're going to come back with our final thoughts and get the flock out of here.
Speaker: Chavin' said, Sing, boy, sing.
Speaker: I've become such a...
Speaker: I'm becoming such a huge fan of Zay. I want to have him on again just to hang out with him. Yeah, it's a sharp bike. I want to have him on again just to just to chitchat with you more. we We had a really good time and and wound up actually having a lot of things in common. and I'd like to reach out and have Zay on the again down the road, but y 'all check him out Zay Graslie, but show him some love. He's out there doing his thing and you know, summer is almost over, but by next summer I'm going to go ahead and go out on a limb and guarantee that everybody's going to be doing that Carolina slide everywhere you go.
Speaker: ah That's his new song that just came out. It's a dance song. But ah we do appreciate y 'all listening. We appreciate y 'all hanging out tonight. Hopefully you enjoyed the show. If you haven't already, check out the rest of the network. We got lots of things going on. Monday night's Men Caring for Men. It's Men's Mental Health Podcast, which you just watched. Tuesday nights is Glick's House of Music. I'm hanging out with local bands, up and coming artists. We're hanging out, shooting the shit, playing some of their music and getting to know them a little bit better. Tune in tomorrow night, 7 p .m.
Speaker: sorry, 8 p .m. I will have the Southern Outlaws Band. And and from what I understand, from what Arliss told me, it's going to be the full band in the house. So that'll be a personal night. So they'll all be there. And we're going to have Joshua Lee Nelson in there. We're going to be talking about the the upcoming show on Saturday, the 31st, I believe, at the Five Fours Distillery, which Josh and the Outlaws will be performing. And I will be emceeing. I'll be doing my thing up on stage.
Speaker: Whatever that thing is, I still don't know yet, but I'll be doing my thing. Wednesday nights is what the fuck news. It's in the news and it makes us say what what the fuck. It's probably gonna make you say what the fuck. And if the news story doesn't make you say what the fuck, our conversation about the story will definitely make you say what the fuck.
Speaker: Uh, Thursdays, every other Thursdays, not this Thursday, but next Thursday we'll be back with Cassius corner. It's Cassius wrestling show. It's him and I talking about, uh, wrestling and just, just hanging out father and son, hanging out, talking something we both enjoy Friday nights is whose argument is anyway, that guy right over there. Right here. Still trying to figure that channel out, but, uh, it'll get there guys.
Speaker: Um, to this week, I'm supposed to be talking about AI and, uh, and, uh, and the goings and comings of AI. You know what I found out that, uh, within the science fiction, zeitgeist, the idea of AI taking over, being part of our story as humans this came out in like 1800s. Oh, wow. sure doing that Yeah, I was going to, I was going to drop that reference on Friday night.
Speaker: If I don't have anybody there, I'll have some, uh, some videos to share and discuss. You have to get on the ball and start reaching out to people. I know. I know. It's just say every good night, Leggy. It's just like, I don't want to have music interview. I'm like, it's not like, I don't, I don't want to do interviews, but just discussions and, and, uh, I'm trying to find that, that honeypot.
Speaker: can see that little AI trick, just got to put in a brief description, what you want to do, use that and then just start hitting people up. I mean, you'd be surprised how many people would be down to have just a conversation about whatever you want to talk about. I've been thinking about just hitting up TikTok and scrolling through there and finding people like, Hey, man, I think your idea, although I don't agree with it, it's interesting to talk about it. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, you never know who you know, like I was I was worried with doing the music show that the way that I wanted to run the show is not your typical interview where it's Some interviews are good, but they're also kind of boring. It's like, you know, these guys have been asked the same damn questions 300 times I'll change the game up a little bit but yeah, we're gonna ask a couple questions Obviously with people want to know certain things but outside of that we're just fucking hanging out for a couple hours shooting a shit, you know Nice, you know And I love it. and and And the response has been great. I mean, the people that I've interviewed, they're like, it's probably one of the coolest, quote, unquote, interviews that we've ever done. You know, I'm kind of proud. um I'm not kind. I'm proud as hell about that. I think that's really cool. But um Saturday nights is nonsenseful nonsense, school nonsense. The big show, if you will, unhinged and apologetic. We never know what's going to happen.
Speaker: Mainly because nothing's ever planned or scripted. We just fucking go with it. But we also do the open door challenge. We drop the link in the chat. We challenge you guys to hit that link and come up with us and hang out for a little bit. And then Sundays we wrap up the week with Jeff's garage. If it fits in a garage and he's got a motor, Jeff and Benji are going to talk about it. I don't know what's going on with that show. It might be on a little bit of a hiatus.
Speaker: just for a couple of weeks. Uh, I think maybe, I don't know. I know bindi's work schedules, uh, an unpredictable, it's kind of really busy right now. Bindi's super busy right now. So they're taking a little possible hiatus. We'll have to wait to see life balance. my for minutes Life balance, ladies and gentlemen, life balance. But ladies and gentlemen, you can find all of those shows and all of our other social media. Well, my social media antics for the time being, I got to get the guys more involved on the social media. We're still working on that.
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Speaker: We're going to let that simmer. We're just going to let that simmer. All right. Let it, let it soak in. Yeah. Go buy our stuff because apparently Nikki, Nikki wants a mini cow and goat farm. So you got to go buy our stuff. So, so she can have a farm.
Speaker: And the person who buys the last shirt that puts her over the top to buy a goat farm, you get an invitation to feed the goats permanently. You'd be a slave. You'd be a farm slave. You have to feed the goats all the time. I'm joking. Well, the correct terminology is farm hands. We got to keep it on the up and up and illegal. Can't call them slaves. yeah Indentured servant. We get farm hands.
Speaker: You're going to be permanently contracted to feed goats for the rest of your life. So that's all I'm saying. Don't forget, when you get your first order, there'll be a punch card. And on your 10th item, this guy right over here beside me will meet you behind a random rest stop of your choosing. And you know what goes down behind the rest stops, ladies and gentlemen. which A little hot too. Spit on that man.
Speaker: That viral meme needs to die.
Speaker: Anywho, thank you guys for listening tonight. Be there tomorrow night. Tune in tomorrow night for Clicks House of Music. It's going to be a fun show. Last time I had the the Southern Outlaws on the show, we we we went five hours. I guarantee you, we're not going five hours tomorrow night. It is a school night, but we went five hours and had a great fucking time. They're they're they're really good dudes. So we'll be doing that before we take off, before we get out of here.
Speaker: Blaise, do you got any final thoughts or last words pertaining to tonight's topic? Well, tonight's topic? Or pertaining to tonight's topic? All I was going to say is, in a world full of Karens, be a Mary Jane. Yeah. Be chill. I heard that recently. It's been stuck in my mind. I really dig that. Be chill, y 'all. Be chill. Be chill.
Speaker: wow Like John says, chill, good chills, and good vibes. Yeah, chill people, good vibes, dick jokes, fart jokes. And sometimes weed. Well, I always have something planned for whatever the topic may be. And I like this. I've heard this before. I've heard it a time or two. And iss it's something that I've kind of really let sink in as far as where I am at today. There's no such thing as work -life balance.
Speaker: It is all life. The balance has to be within you. I dig it. I dig it. It's better than mine. Create your own balance. As always on Monday nights, a successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that are thrown at him. Please keep going the bricks because my foundation gets stronger and stronger every day. You see the group of guys I have surrounding me.
Speaker: We're having fun. We're having a good time until next time. We'll see y 'all next Monday for men campermen. I don't know who will be here with me, but I will be here. We're pushing Connor to get his ass back to work. He's really milking this whole back surgery thing. Oh guys, I had back surgery anytime to recuperate. He didn't need statements taken. I could just live with him. Yeah. I mean, I know I could have drove out there taking an outcome.
Speaker: I got a pair of pliers. I got staple remover man. Yeah, I had to perform surgery on Nicky and Walmart the other day. I should ah so I should talk Jeff into doing an episode on tools that remove staples.
Speaker: Do a segment on staple removers. But, uh, ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you next Monday with a brand new episode of men camper men tune in tomorrow night for a clicks house of music. And, uh, while you're waiting for the new shows to come out, go check out the old shows. You can watch the replays on YouTube and Facebook, or you can listen to them in your car while you're out and about when you're sitting in school in school line, because school's back in when you're sitting there, Matt is held because nobody knows how to drive. So go to Spotify, turn on old nonsense school network.
Speaker: And if you don't love me, love yourself. And make sure you turn it off before your kids get in the car. Otherwise, you're going to ask the weird things like, why would people eat somebody's shit in dead skin? How did that man have a bloody penis? Oh, Jesus.
Speaker: Oh, man. It's like Saturday night, every night. What's a dildo, mommy? Your dad. Take your kids. What is pegging?
Speaker: Well, though it's all the parents it took their kids to a Deadpool movie because it wasn't MCU Disney That happened
