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Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Good morning and welcome back to another episode of Sweetness and Light.
Speaker: I'm one of your hosts, Justin, along with another one of your hosts, Eric and Justy.
Speaker: Beware the Ides of March because they might lead to disconnections.
Speaker: When I say welcome back, it's because we we already tried this once before.
Speaker: You know, I feel like this is deja vu, truly.
Speaker: That's what I feel like we're going through here.
Speaker: But I got to tell you, this is this feels even better, though, this time.
Speaker: It does, it does.
Speaker: Unlike Caesar, we weren't so much stabbed in the back, but... Disconnected.
Speaker: But, yeah, and we had to come back.
Speaker: I think the right term is aborted, right?
Speaker: I suppose that's what some people might use.
Speaker: I felt like we were Plan B'd, is what just happened right there.
Speaker: I like the idea of that.
Speaker: Yeah, we thought we got away with it.
Speaker: We snuck through.
Speaker: We were month seven, and then suddenly we had to restart.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I gotta tell you, we're gonna keep going, we're gonna push through this, and we're gonna make it, and dare I say happy Ides of March to you, Eric?
Speaker: Do people say that?
Speaker: Because why not?
Speaker: That's kind of where I'm going with this.
Speaker: I think it's something that maybe we should start.
Speaker: Well, you know what?
Speaker: I'll give you this.
Speaker: Yesterday was my half birthday.
Speaker: I know people think of it as pie day and all that, but it was my half birthday.
Speaker: So I feel that, yeah, the half birthday celebration continues on.
Speaker: It's another happy day.
Speaker: Well, I gotta tell you, that means that today is my half birthday.
Speaker: Yes, it is.
Speaker: So happy half birthday to you.
Speaker: A very merry unbirthday to you and a very merry unbirthday to me.
Speaker: I'm excited.
Speaker: Well, I had to march, I just eyes of justy.
Speaker: And yeah, you know, you're, you're, I guess you could say that you are Ides of September is, is your actual day.
Speaker: You could say that.
Speaker: I'm not sure I would associate that, but yes.
Speaker: But a magnificent day nonetheless.
Speaker: Now, as a huge fan of Rome and what it gave to society, not all parts of it, but most of it, I'll take it as a compliment.
Speaker: The decadence, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker: More the Pompeii side, less the Rome side, yes.
Speaker: That's what you're going for, right?
Speaker: Well, I guess what you want to make sure is that you don't end like either of those cities or empires.
Speaker: No, well, I do have a side note to that real quick.
Speaker: So we mentioned last time that my mother-in-law had found, you know, the solution of what happens after you die.
Speaker: Well, she always brings up that Rome and Pompeii disappeared because of how they treated Christ.
Speaker: So that may have something to do with it.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I was just impressed she even knew about Rome.
Speaker: So I think that was just a step in the right direction.
Speaker: Yeah, she's done some reading.
Speaker: That's good.
Speaker: And we encourage everyone on this show to keep on reading, by the way.
Speaker: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker: The more and from multiple sources, not just one.
Speaker: I think that's fair, right?
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Mainstream, less mainstream, friends, not friends, and particularly from people you don't know and disagree with, like learn from others.
Speaker: And that's how we all become better, smarter, and work together to save this world.
Speaker: Well, and I have another side note to exactly what you brought up last week about your back being thrown out.
Speaker: I got to tell you, I went to – I got to interject to say, is that even a show?
Speaker: Because I know that we ended halfway through.
Speaker: So do our listeners know about what we're talking about?
Speaker: I think we need to pick that one up right after I say this.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Thank you for reminding me.
Speaker: That is a great point.
Speaker: I forgot that we had Zencaster issues last time.
Speaker: Well, I don't think it was Zencaster issues.
Speaker: It might have been me.
Speaker: Well, it might have been you.
Speaker: I was going to blame your internet service provider.
Speaker: But do they still call them that, by the way?
Speaker: I don't even think it's a cross.
Speaker: I don't even know what it is now.
Speaker: It's Xfinity.
Speaker: Certainly no one says ISP.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: That is officially an archaic term.
Speaker: That has been retired.
Speaker: So what is the provider who provides your internet called?
Speaker: As far as I know, it's just Xfinity.
Speaker: There's nothing like, they just say like the world of entertainment next year or something like that.
Speaker: There's no generic term for whoever, who you get your, your, there must be something that people say.
Speaker: I'll have to look it up.
Speaker: I'll look it up while we're doing this.
Speaker: But I was in class today and one of the women turned 30 the other day and- Happy birthday.
Speaker: Well, thank you.
Speaker: Her name's Kendall.
Speaker: Happy birthday, Kendall.
Speaker: And literally on her birthday, her back got thrown out.
Speaker: And so it just made me think of you that, you know, there's something about those
Speaker: you know, something about it in the air right now of people's backs going out.
Speaker: Yeah, well, mine was pretty specific.
Speaker: I mean, mine was after 500 or 659 days of rollerblading during the pandemic.
Speaker: So over the course of two years, my rollerblades finally gave out.
Speaker: And that's not a surprise.
Speaker: I mean, I think I rode them pretty hard.
Speaker: I was averaging 10 miles a day.
Speaker: So that's, you know, that's 6,500 miles away.
Speaker: And I'd used them before COVID.
Speaker: And so that's a lot of wear and tear on your blades.
Speaker: You know, they're not, I don't know that most people use them that far or that hard.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: And so, you know, every one of the straps and buckles had broken over the, you know, over the course of the two years.
Speaker: So did you replace them or did you use tape?
Speaker: No, because I couldn't, I tried to, they have replacements, but, but they're all out of stock during the pandemic.
Speaker: So how did you do without, with all the straps?
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: One of the straps was completely broken, so it didn't work at all.
Speaker: In fact, it was just gone.
Speaker: The other three wouldn't tighten up, so I was just skating in looser blades, which I don't recommend, by the way.
Speaker: You want blades as tight as you can get them that it doesn't cut off circulation, essentially.
Speaker: So that was pretty bad.
Speaker: I mean, I had to replace skate laces about three times on either side.
Speaker: And one of the frames that on the right boot, the frame that holds the wheels to the boot, the bolt had come out during blading once, which caused caused me to crash.
Speaker: But I had to, you know, I replaced the bolt.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: And that was fine.
Speaker: And I was, you know, that I might not have tightened it enough.
Speaker: I certainly don't blame the blades for that this time.
Speaker: the bolt that holds the frame in the rear severed.
Speaker: And so it just broke while I was going up Washington Boulevard.
Speaker: And so the frame just swung out and I went, and I, and I just went flying, you know, I've actually fell backwards.
Speaker: I'm lucky I didn't fall into the street or hit your head.
Speaker: Well, I may have hit my head, but I mean, it's just like, um,
Speaker: You know, I went down hard on my back and was kind of immobilized for a couple minutes on the street, which wasn't ideal because you could still get run over even in the bike lane, you know, knowing L.A.
Speaker: drivers.
Speaker: Now, this was not a ploy to get mouth to mouth.
Speaker: Is that correct?
Speaker: This was an actual accident?
Speaker: This was a horrific accident, really.
Speaker: Not as bad as when I hit the, or when the cyclist hit me and knocked himself out for five minutes.
Speaker: But I guess, well, for me, it was probably worse.
Speaker: For him, you know, but neither of those were as bad for me as they were for that guy.
Speaker: But I, you know, after a couple minutes, pulled myself to my feet, you know, kind of banged up.
Speaker: Took an Uber home from there since the blades were no longer usable.
Speaker: It didn't feel great, but then it wasn't until later that day that my back started hurting.
Speaker: And hurt enough that I actually employed common sense for once and didn't go blading for the next day or go to the gym or do yoga or really do anything.
Speaker: That's fantastic.
Speaker: Which is out of character, by the way.
Speaker: Very much, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Normally I would start right away.
Speaker: But I did, as soon as I was able, which was probably sooner than most people might have thought, I did find some old blades in a closet and put those on and use them for the next week until I got some new blades.
Speaker: So new blades are awesome.
Speaker: And like you, now I'm a three-wheel blader and 125 millimeter wheels.
Speaker: So I'm
Speaker: So pretty, you know, five inch wheels essentially.
Speaker: So I stand pretty tall at this point.
Speaker: They feel good, don't they?
Speaker: But that said, yeah, the worst of it was, so time passes, I get new blades.
Speaker: Squatting down, not bending down, squatting properly to use the new blades last week.
Speaker: And suddenly my back just was wrenched.
Speaker: And I assume it's connected to the fall a couple weeks earlier.
Speaker: I did go to the ER and they asked me if I came in to be treated the last time, when it originally happened.
Speaker: And I said, no.
Speaker: And they said, I probably should have.
Speaker: Although, and I'll be honest, I actually considered it, but the reason I didn't was people like you and other, Eric and everyone, imply that I'm overusing the ER and urgent care during the pandemic.
Speaker: But I think the reason I've been in there several times is because I've needed to be.
Speaker: So my own experience with going to ER, honestly, is one time for me, and I've got young kids, so we've been more than I would like to say, but you, above anyone else, have been
Speaker: Far more than any other human being that I know.
Speaker: And you're, you're kicking and looking great even after going all these times.
Speaker: Well, and, and, and as other Eric pointed out, like, you know, I mean, I'm in there several times because I live pretty hard.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I'm, I'm living on the edge and, uh,
Speaker: You know, cause it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: As as it said, when we were when he and I and our boy Travis were on chain reaction on the game show network, you know, our team name was the risk seekers and we live down to that.
Speaker: Well, more importantly, I'm just glad you're okay and amazing.
Speaker: We had talked last time when we had talked, not on the show, but you had mentioned that you might have a slit disc, do you?
Speaker: Or a bulging disc?
Speaker: Unclear.
Speaker: I'm seeing my physician this week.
Speaker: And as I had mentioned to you before the show, I'm actually heading out for some blood tests right now, right after the show, in advance of that doctor visit.
Speaker: I just assumed that was for STDs.
Speaker: That's for this, it's related to this accident?
Speaker: Well, we screened for multiple things.
Speaker: Okay, good.
Speaker: I was hoping that would be the case.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: You got to cover all your bases.
Speaker: Yes, or uncover them.
Speaker: So we were at a friend's house a couple of days ago and I made a syphilis joke and she looked at me like deadpan and goes, that's not funny.
Speaker: And I said, I'm sorry.
Speaker: When did you have it?
Speaker: She kicked us out of her house.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: I thought she was going to say, oh, that's funny.
Speaker: She did not.
Speaker: Her husband definitely thought it was fantastic and said that was too close to home and it's too soon.
Speaker: So I don't know what that truly means, but I'm excited to find out.
Speaker: Not syphilis gonorrhea, but still a problem.
Speaker: Still in stood.
Speaker: Still something you want to get checked out.
Speaker: There's a cure for both though, right?
Speaker: Like there's antibiotics.
Speaker: As long as you catch it, as long as you don't ignore them.
Speaker: See, this is why you should go to the ER, by the way.
Speaker: As long as you don't ignore them, they're both easily treatable.
Speaker: But if you do ignore them, syphilis can certainly take you down.
Speaker: Actually, this brings up a question to you though.
Speaker: Well, have you ever been syphilitic?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Not that you'd admit on air.
Speaker: You know, I'm not shy.
Speaker: I would admit it.
Speaker: And no, no, thank God I've not ever been.
Speaker: You?
Speaker: No, but I'm curious.
Speaker: So tell me this.
Speaker: When you were, was there an issue that can your eyes get all runny?
Speaker: Like, I mean, like more than watery?
Speaker: Like your eyes sort of like turning to mush the eyeball itself?
Speaker: Is that a side effect of it?
Speaker: Or a symptom?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I knew that south of the border, I know the brain stuff, but I didn't know the eye thing.
Speaker: That is, anytime I see someone with watery eyes now, I cannot not think of that.
Speaker: Yeah, well, this is something worth investigating.
Speaker: I'll ask my brother.
Speaker: Maybe we should have him on and ask him all these kind of random... Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I mean, there's a lot of things to catch up.
Speaker: A lot of things we need to find out.
Speaker: In the meantime, maybe an are you syphilitic t-shirt would be a good addition to the...
Speaker: So I think that's a great one.
Speaker: I'm still going to say in favor, not only of that, but I like the idea of happy Ides of March to you.
Speaker: That's actually nice too.
Speaker: It has a nice ring to it, right?
Speaker: Have a blessed Ides of March.
Speaker: And for those that don't know, Eric and I have gone back and forth.
Speaker: We have a shirt that's out there for sale if you guys want to get it at yourshirtingme.com.
Speaker: And it says hashtag justified.
Speaker: And it's gotten mixed reviews in terms of what it stands for.
Speaker: But if those who listen to that show know exactly what it's about.
Speaker: And yeah, I mean, it gets a lot of love from everyone, but some of them are giving it love for the wrong reason.
Speaker: They think we're justifying other things.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But I'll say this.
Speaker: However you want to interpret it, do so.
Speaker: If it's supporting your cause, that's what it means.
Speaker: Fair enough.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: That's a very... To you.
Speaker: To you.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Embrace whatever it is, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody.
Speaker: Well, yeah, because we may be personally completely against it.
Speaker: We're not supporting your cause whatsoever.
Speaker: But if that's what you want to present it as, I mean, it's your shirt after you purchased it.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: We will take the revenue.
Speaker: You use it as you will.
Speaker: Justified.
Speaker: Oh, good times.
Speaker: Now, I have to ask Eric.
Speaker: So I still have not seen Jackass, but I'm going tomorrow.
Speaker: That's ridiculous.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I'm sorry, but it's spring break out here.
Speaker: So I am going tomorrow and I'm super excited.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So what do you want to know?
Speaker: Well, no, I don't want to know anything, but I will tell you that I've listened to since.
Speaker: It's been a weird, you know, like serendipitous kind of thing where you bring it up.
Speaker: And then I was looking at several of their podcasts and literally I just went through search my latest episodes.
Speaker: There were two episodes of...
Speaker: Johnny Knoxville on them and so I listened to both of them and he goes into quite a bit of detail as to how they filmed it the way they did and why they did it and it got me beyond excited I mean not only you and other people said it was so great but the way he described it and why they did it the way they did is truly brilliant did he mention the the brain hemorrhage
Speaker: Uh, he, well, he goes through, he starts off on, it was on, I don't want to say the podcast.
Speaker: It was on smart list.
Speaker: And he goes into saying that prior to this, doing this, he had had 19 concussions during this.
Speaker: He had the hammer, all the other kinds of stuff.
Speaker: So how he's still functioning is beyond me.
Speaker: I mean, that's, that's setting yourself up for some, some serious issues going, going forward.
Speaker: So let's see.
Speaker: I think he said he's 50 or 51 now.
Speaker: So think about that, though.
Speaker: I mean, 19 concussions starting at age 14, he said.
Speaker: And he's still incredibly cognizant, very with it, everything else.
Speaker: So I have to give him credit that I'm sure there will be damage.
Speaker: But unlike football players that tend to exhibit it in their 40s and late 80s,
Speaker: 30s when they get it really bad.
Speaker: I'm just surprised that he's had so many and gone almost, you know, 50 and no signs of it.
Speaker: Are you suggesting that maybe he started out smarter than some of them?
Speaker: And as a result, his decline isn't as obvious?
Speaker: I would say that's probably maybe the case.
Speaker: I would also say that 100% luck.
Speaker: Maybe he's got a thicker skull.
Speaker: Who knows?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, but if he's still being concussed, I mean, you're being concussed, you know, I mean, regardless.
Speaker: He may have a more resilient brain though.
Speaker: Maybe he's taking MNN or, you know, Reversatol or HGH or something to make up for it.
Speaker: Resveratol.
Speaker: Yeah, Resveratol.
Speaker: Yeah, sorry.
Speaker: Maybe you need a little Resveratol in your time.
Speaker: Yeah, Ginkgo's not working.
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: But, you know, you're still pretty functional, I would say.
Speaker: Functional, not ideal.
Speaker: Well, you can't ask for too much.
Speaker: Fingers can't be choosers.
Speaker: No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: Well, so I was talking to Matt, our editor today, right before we got on this podcast today, and he was very funny.
Speaker: He goes, I, you know, I want to hear more Eric injuries.
Speaker: So his ask is that it's been a while and he had not heard the latest episode that we had to cut off recording.
Speaker: So now he'll be very happy with this learning about that.
Speaker: You do have another injury because he was like, we've had a drought of Eric injuries and it's nice that you're bringing it back.
Speaker: So again, almost serendipitous.
Speaker: I didn't mention it.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Well, this one's for you, Matt.
Speaker: So happy Ides of March, as we now say.
Speaker: Well, and I hope, I mean, are you bleeding today or no?
Speaker: You know, I may not.
Speaker: I go almost every day, but I have to go by, do some blood tests, and then have to meet up in Beverly Hills with a financier for some funding for an indie film I'm producing.
Speaker: So I don't know if I'll have a chance.
Speaker: That said, my boy, I mentioned I was on Zencaster myself the other day without you.
Speaker: Yeah, breaking my heart.
Speaker: Well, I know you do a lot, you know, you're doing a lot of other podcasting as well.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: Yeah, with your erotic dad's podcast.
Speaker: And yeah, my boy and I, we're starting a new show and we're planning on doing a little trip to Mexico to kick it off.
Speaker: Oh, fantastic.
Speaker: Now, what is the topic of the show?
Speaker: You know, a bit like this, a bit everything, a little more structured.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So we'll have topics and, you know, and two people with strong points of view.
Speaker: His point of view might be even stronger than ours, but...
Speaker: He's going to be careful what he says in case he wants to run for office again.
Speaker: Gotcha.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: But the Mexico trip, so we plan to shoot a short and then a behind-the-scenes of the short.
Speaker: Oh, nice.
Speaker: That'll be exciting.
Speaker: Now, what part of Mexico are you guys going to?
Speaker: Cabo, one of your favorites.
Speaker: When do you guys leave?
Speaker: I'm jealous.
Speaker: You want to come?
Speaker: We're going...
Speaker: And by the way, here's the plan.
Speaker: So Midnight Oil, the 80s Australian – I love that.
Speaker: The Australian rock band?
Speaker: Yeah, is on their final tour.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: I love them.
Speaker: So they're playing in L.A.
Speaker: at the Hollywood Palladium on the 7th of June.
Speaker: We're going to go see that show with a buddy of his who's a big fan.
Speaker: And then we're going to leave the next day.
Speaker: Honestly, that sounds like sheer heaven to me because I love Mineta Oil.
Speaker: I love Cabo.
Speaker: That's fantastic.
Speaker: I actually will probably look into that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, you might want to come and it would actually help us.
Speaker: Because we're going to self-shoot this thing.
Speaker: So it's going to be sort of back and forth talking heads.
Speaker: But if we had a third person, it would be even better.
Speaker: Well, like most things in bed, a third person can often help.
Speaker: Well, a third man.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: Well, that is huge news.
Speaker: I did not know that.
Speaker: Congratulations.
Speaker: And I'm really excited for you.
Speaker: Thanks.
Speaker: Thanks.
Speaker: And possibly you.
Speaker: We'll figure it out.
Speaker: Either way, we'll make this an adjunct sweetness and light adventure.
Speaker: Always.
Speaker: We always do.
Speaker: And on that note, I want to say, Eric, it was great seeing you, my friend.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: And thank you to our audience.
Speaker: Thank you, everybody.
Speaker: Great seeing you in a blurry sense.
Speaker: Before the restart, you were coming in fully clear.
Speaker: Right now, you blur into the background.
Speaker: It is a little like watching a blurred 1960s, 1970s porn, I guess.
Speaker: But it makes it all the more tantalizing.
Speaker: Well, thank you.
Speaker: Happy Ida March.
