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Ignore The Saw
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Ignore the things that annoy you or incorporate them into your schtick.
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Exploring Stone Providers: A Surprising Journey
00:00:36
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Times have changed, buddy. You've got to fit this in with your slab schedule. Used to be chilling 10, 10.30 in the morning, relaxing, kicking it, coming up with ideas, and now it's Lance is a slave to Matt's busy schedule. i Damn, dude. You're a slave to your neighbor's fucking... What is he building out there?
00:00:57
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The Coliseum? Fucking crazy. the Parthenon. It is insane. They're just constant. Saw, saw, saw. A month and a half straight. Dude, don't get me started. I've been going around a different, like...
00:01:12
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home home fabrication places like stone you know like stone providers granite quartz and i'm just like this is insane the place i went to yesterday was insane like the the amount the size of the stones the amount of stones the crane they had to move shit around it's like it i was like what the fuck is going on up here these pieces that must have been like you know 20 feet by 50 i don't even know how big they were but it was insane and he had they were like my it was like miles of them And the guy was showing me the crane, it was like, he's just hitting a couple buttons and then we go over and pick up this giant.
00:01:47
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It's pretty crazy. What do you do with a piece of stone that big?
The Mystery of Excess: 13 Bathrooms, Really?
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What do you do with a piece of stone that big? What do you do with a piece of stone that big? ah You put it in your mansion.
00:01:57
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i thought I talked to somebody today, was they were it was ah ah like an interior remodel group. So someone like frames up the house and they come in. The house they're working on is 13 bathrooms.
00:02:09
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Geez. I was like, they need to they need to change their diet if they need that many bathrooms, huh? So, yeah. So don't get me going on processed food, bro, what it's doing.
00:02:22
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It's so bad that people need houses with 13 bathrooms. Fucking Costco. Fucking Costco. Just kidding. Clearly they were rich. and I think it was like an extended family like lodge or some shit, but either way.
00:02:35
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Bathrooms are an investment. 13 of them but it's it's freaking nuts dude but i i can't talk too much shit because i'm i'm part of it but you can justify anything and like you can be like well our stuff is reasonably priced so i feel like i'm not in that game or you know how about rape can you justify rape you might be able to Like, who's who's justifying it? No, could you post justify it if the product is... if the product's... I'll go there.
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I'll go there, bro. The product is...
Dark Turns: Justifying Heinous Acts and the Sales Culture Impact
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real rape. Yeah, I'm saying the outcome is a pregnancy and that person does something that like saves mankind or helps mankind.
00:03:20
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It's like Bill bill Gates. na No, yeah not no. Not that shit, dude. Oh. Like Gandhi. I don't know. Yeah. You think Bill Gates has has done the – yeah, I guess you could say Bill Gates.
00:03:32
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Well, he's got the foundation, so that's why he can't be mine. Obama. Okay, yeah. It's the product of of rape and therefore it's okay. You never know though, huh?
00:03:45
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Well, a lot of and unfortunately, out of tragedy cut becomes triumph. So, all right, we probably should get off this one. Yeah, let's do So, you can justify anything.
00:03:57
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And you were talking about what? How many tables you're selling? Well, you could get, you know, we're trying to get money for them, but I could be like, well, whatever. I sold the table for four grand and I, and there are people out there that would sell it for 15 grand. So, so maybe like I'm not part of the evil capitalistic system, but guess what? There are people that probably could afford a table for zero grand and I'm not kicking up the money.
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So yeah, i'm part of it too, but yeah, that's was what I said last week. there was a lot of people in it. It was like, I don't fucking care. Like, I'm just trying to they're trying to make a living, you know?
00:04:33
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Yeah, yeah. Well, it's good you're doing it with your passion. Wood. It is funny, dude. It is funny. But there's there's like ah there's levels of passion and there's levels of, like what do you call it, I can deal with this or I can get behind it because it's not horrible.
00:04:54
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Something like that. like it's It's a bit of an artistic pursuit. yeah Yeah, I always thought that when you see when you pitched this idea, I thought that was a little more in line with who you are than selling dope. it like It's become just me out talking shit and a little bit of artistic vibe to it. like Some of the people that are in the space are a little more like cool.
00:05:16
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It's not an interior designer, although I have issues with ah most of them. Interior designer or home remodeler might be thinking about shit that you're like, okay, that's not just like, it's not boring, at least.
00:05:30
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They're thinking about yeah something creative. Things are potentially different, each conversation. Yeah. Like you were selling the same product for the same use case over and over and over again, would be kind of sad.
00:05:47
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But it is it is like ah It's sad. It's like a sad use of my talent for talking shit, but it is the right thing. Being like kind of ah a sales guy that's just trying to grow a market that doesn't exist.
00:06:01
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It's literally like they're just buying me. I'm just kidding. Get into that sales guy thing. They're buying you. I should start doing seminars.
00:06:12
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and but But there's like a four-month period where they they have to – I don't say buy me, but they have to tolerate me until they it clicks and then they go, oh, there might be something there that we can use. so So from that, just talking shit and being like personable has served me well.
Cold Calls and Social Media Wins: A Personal Sales Story
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Are you doing cold calls? Do you have to look like, hey, Barbara? Yeah. I'm doing cold cold calls, but I try do them in person, so I just show up to Barbara's place. I was just actually at Debbie's place, interior designer with it like a boutique furniture store, and I've been hustling this one for a while.
00:06:46
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But she just she just bought some from me. And what kind of a materials do you bring? I brought her this, it's it's only like, ah like we used our wood to make this cocktail tray. She she likes she likes to work with Ottomans, I think, and so or big countertops, but she likes to put like ah a serving tray or something on it, like a usable accent piece.
00:07:05
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I've been bringing her shit and she's like, no, the color's off, color's off. her tonight and she's like, that's beautiful. And then she was like, you know, I checked you guys out. This is after, sorry about that. After like, after probably five visits, it was like, oh, I checked you guys out. Your your social media presence is amazing.
00:07:22
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And I'm like, oh, you know, you know, when you you get somewhere and you realize that and you thought it started and it didn't start. It's like when you buy, you know, you buy something or you go to the mechanic and you're like, oh, it's been a week. He must have been working on my car for a week. But you realize oh he hasn't, he hasn't touched the fucking thing. There we go.
00:07:41
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Dude, I want so bad that that is not someone sawing out the Coliseum in your neighbor's backyard. That's the beginning of Motley Crue's Kickstart My Heart. And those old fuckers are... They're just working on the intro over and over.
00:07:58
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That's Nikki Sixx working on the intro, yeah. But it's not, is Lance? It's not Motley Crue. It's a grinding, brain-having saw.
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saw Will our fandom be able to hear that? Yeah, oh yeah. It'll pick up, because I'm getting loud and clear. Yeah, no, it's brutal. It's brutal.
00:08:20
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What the What the fuck are they cutting? Concrete. Damn, dude. That was a great
Family vs. Business: The Parental Dilemma
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lead-in segue. here So back to can you justify anything?
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So, undoubtedly... I'm coming coming up here my family's in Costa Rica eventually some shit's gonna be like well I'm here and I need to be there I need to be whatever and so my son has sixth grade graduation on December 11th It's like the first probably conflict where I'm like fuck I have there's an event I want to be at here and there's that so it's like I'm Justified like well. I'm up here like I'm making money for my family, but it's also at what cost is the person here we go So fuck you dude
00:09:07
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you That's what I want to hear, dude.
00:09:16
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That's a fucking funny band. like Probably terrible musicians. Or at least they were at first. They'll even say it, I think. And they probably got good just by playing. but Fucking Tommy Leak and drum, bro.
00:09:28
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And bang. every time Every drummer is but badass and has a hog, apparently. Well, I never thought the drummer for the Rolling Stones was great, but I don't know much about drumming. I could be wrong. he was The first one died, I think.
00:09:45
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So maybe... that was wasn't that um The Who? He died, too. don't know you've ever seen Spinal Tap, but they make fun of they they make fun of that in the movie, how many like drummers are always died. And the Foo Fighters drummer died.
00:09:56
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Yeah, recently. ah The best drummer was Def Leppard. yeah Yeah, he didn't die, he just lost. Keith Moon was the Who drummer. You're right. But the the heat Who died. But I think the Stones drummer died early on. And actually Mick Jagger like stole his persona.
00:10:12
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That floppy-haired, fuck it guy was like the other guy. He was the cool guy. And then Mick Jagger was like, oh, that works. Maybe, yeah. Anyway. Yeah, sorry. The dilemma.
00:10:24
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so sixth grade graduation. not the biggest deal. Costa Rica is kind of big deal because that's actually down there where you go from Primario, from like elementary school the to high school.
00:10:36
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And so people people like freak out about it. Yeah, I mean, it's like fifth grade here, I think. Well, fifth grade, though, you go to middle school. they're going You're going into high school. Oh, he's going straight to high school. But he's already in it because he's in this French school. so But people try to Costa Ricans try to carry on the tradition and make it a big deal.
00:10:53
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Especially the fucking younger parents now. They only have one kid and just spoil the out of them. They're acting like like they graduated from a private American school. Yeah. oh what's your What's your gut tell you?
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i so I think I put my kids through an enough over the last two years, so I should probably be there. But um but if but I got to tell them that we're
Capitalism vs. Family: A Reflective Balance
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not having Christmas because I can't i can't be up here making money.
00:11:19
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so fuck Which one of your dipshit partners can take over?
00:11:26
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None of them, dude. None of got the the game. What about your new salespeople? Yeah, I mean, they're going to go to that party. They got game. They're good people. they They could be there. it's ah It's just like it's all good throughout the year, but now I'm like, fuck, because then it's Christmas, and then my my kid, my daughter's got some Quinceanero cruise she's going on so then I got my son early January so it's gonna be like six seven weeks where i'm kind of piecemeal it together and now i'm like the company's starting to work and it's like I can push it over the edge but then you know then here comes all it it's like every time that you know in life ah you might feel financially stable but oh here comes fucking Christmas Valentine's Day like that you just keep getting popped you know I feel like that's gonna come up right in the time where it's starting to push through how much is flight
00:12:17
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Yeah, like six. maybe like I've been getting them for like $400, $450, but that yeah, i could come I could go up, back, up, back.
00:12:27
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Make out!
00:12:35
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Yeah, I mean, ah you well, you're just going to miss a specific event here. that what you're worried about? I just want to set the table, dude, and let you ponder on it. A, did you ever have those conflicts? B, now that you're you're so anti-money and capitalism, do you feel like it's never a justification to miss anything important? Or do you feel like, well, but I mean, I will. In my head, I'm like, it's fucking sixth grade. Who cares?
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but Yeah. Nah. I don't know, dude. It's just a matter if it's important to you or not. It is important, but I think it's one of those things, too, where I'm not going to get... There's going to be no like positive if I'm there, but it will be like, ah,
00:13:15
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dad's gone again, huh? Like maybe just a little bit of that. So maybe, yeah, it'll feel, you'll feel guilty. There's no doubt about that. There's no doubt, but you could, you could FaceTime him.
00:13:28
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The graduation, have his mom hold the phone up the whole time. Pretend you're in the military. Yeah. you know Do like the broken connection from Baghdad where they where they'll be like, Oh, here, look at your dad. Your dad wants to say hi for Christmas. And then they,
00:13:45
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They pause for like 10 seconds and then they're like, hey, Merry Christmas. And then they wait as the signal goes around the world. Like that, Lance. Yeah, and then a saw kicks in. now Yeah, dude, I don't think, well in the long run, it's not going to be a big deal.
00:14:03
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Yeah. Well, the big picture, it's like the whole, it's clear that I need to be up here and I, um it's a little less.
00:14:14
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It's so hard to, keep straight face while that's pumping um so i'm probably the next year i'm going to be going up and back and maybe i'll be saying this in 10 years like but hopefully the time shorten so maybe it's a week or something like that but in the big picture you're like what am i missing but as you mentioned before as the kids get older you're not missing much because they're just like take me here and i'm gonna hang out my my kids yeah I can so yeah I mean it's just a unique time in that in the business too and I'm not justifying it but I could see a reason for staying and trying to get this thing rolling because it benefits everybody not just you but the the whole family and I can also see ah sending the salespeople out
00:14:59
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Yeah, I mean, I get, and then also just getting people to sell this stuff for us. Could be a store, could be the interior designers. And then it's like they're doing the work. So it's just doing that. But I mean, i don't feel, not that worried about it, ah the the graduation. And I'm not that worried of i'm not that worried about ah coming up here, not coming up here. It's just, I know there's going to more things like that.
00:15:24
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You're like, oh, I missed the oh i miss that. You'll hear any successful person, whether it's like a doctor or a freaking actor, a professional athlete. It's like, I missed a lot of things in my kid's childhood.
00:15:37
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And you're just doing it for wood. That's the funny thing. If I was like, oh, he's a surgeon, you'd be like, yeah, well, you're doing the Lord's work or you're an athlete. It's like, yeah, of course. But like, did what you know, what's the level? Oh, you he's a dude selling wood.
00:15:51
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He missed his kids, whatever. Just like, yeah, it's kind of funny to think of it that way. But if you just say it's a guy working hard for his family, it sounds better. Yeah.
00:16:03
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I mean, you did sign up for something that it's not ideal that you live in ah different country and operations in St.
80s Music Nostalgia: Rat, Cinderella, and Cultural Tastes
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Louis. It's not ideal for a startup, obviously. You already know that.
00:16:17
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So some things are just going to be messy, dude. Yeah, yeah. I mean, but I got to go down there. i mean, I'm flying back Friday. i'm actually flying through Denver, dude. I'm going have a little bit layover. I'm hoping to see my parents. but
00:16:29
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But I got to go down there and get more wood. So it's like, well, I need to be down there. Nobody else is doing that. So it is messy. Yeah. and I don't mind. we just lets i mean, who are we kidding?
00:16:41
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Like, we just we just needed a topic. I came up with that, dude. Who would have known we had the song? Could have just riffed on Motley Crue and Poison and some of those 80s bands. One of the more underrated bands, I think.
00:16:55
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Rat. Rat and then number two, Cinderella. What do you think of Rat? Was that Round and Round? Oh, yeah. There's a weird... like I would put Rat, I think, in like early 80s because I feel like that was pumping when I lived in Maryland when we were like in elementary school.
00:17:14
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Mm-hmm. like i'm not sure all right maybe they're maybe they're before that but would you put them in a hairband situation i don't think so you're struck by lightning you're in love that's right i
00:17:34
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also like that band uh docking the one that did the uh theme songs or the background music for nightmare on elm street Is that like a... A Dawkins, like, the punchline... Like, if you're going to like a like, a kind of one-off 80s group, like, band in a joke, you used to be able to throw out Dawkins.
00:17:52
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I don't even know what Dawkins does. They're probably, like... They probably sold, like, a billion albums. so Because you don't know who they are, but you kind of do.
00:18:00
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Dawkins. Oh, yeah. I
00:18:05
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thought it was Scorpio.
00:18:11
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Oh. That's rip, rip, It's kind
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of like sticks.
00:18:24
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I forgot, dude. you You have an affinity for these somewhat shitty bands. like It's not really catchy to the chorus. No, I have an affinity. love the Scorpions.
00:18:35
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You're like Costa Rican. I'm like a Costa Rican, yeah. I love like... I think I got more musical theater in me than anything. I love Dio, and I loved Megadeth's silliness.
00:18:50
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Dio. Anything that feels concept-oriented, but also hard rock. But you don't like Queen? Isn't that the the pinnacle of talent theatric rock?
00:19:02
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Well, yeah. No, I like Queen. I always liked Queen. But did they... Did you really feel it when they were performing? i don't know that they embodied that act. I think it's because Freddie Mercury was too good.
00:19:14
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You were like fixated on his crazy like voice range and stuff. I don't know enough about him, but wasn't he just always in a t-shirt and jeans or something mellow, and then they just rocked?
00:19:26
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you knowt You want to see the makeup? Yeah. I just want to see the the theatrical theatrical aspect of it. That's why ah like peter Peter Gabriel, because his shows were always full of weird shit.
00:19:37
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I thought that's part of rock and roll. And I liked i like the cheesiness, the but voices that really... It's almost as if somebody was writing like a a rock play and they hired like Ronnie James Dio.
00:19:52
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Rock opera? When there's lightning! That's another funny fucking... thing and spinal tap is like stonehenge and all that shit where they're making fun all that stuff but like what like uh i in my opinion i think kiss is one of the worst bands ever but they're theatrical yeah they're not bad dude they got hits they got a lot of hits i mean i don't love them personally either but i thought they got hits but there's this like a that that I feel like I could play their guitar for them.
00:20:24
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You might. You might. do but I will say nice people. they were in i did a show in Denver. they they were in I think it was Gene Simmons was in the crowd, him and his wife or whatever.
00:20:35
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Like a blonde, you up all night USA star or something like that, I remember. and she They came back to say what's up to us and to Josh Blue. remember Josh Blue.
00:20:45
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comic and They were like, hey Josh, you're doing great. Is he still alive? Josh? Yeah, he's still there. ah Yeah, Gene Simmons, nice guy. If you had a tongue as long as Gene Simmons, what would you do with it? How do you know I don't, bro?
00:21:00
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It's kind of funny... You think women find that like erotic? A giant fucking tongue? Can't be, right? I don't know. It's definitely weird looking.
00:21:12
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I mean, there's a lot of like innuendo around it, right?
00:21:16
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yeah But he doesn't do anything with it, dude. can go up there and hit the ovaries with it. Boom. I bet you he doesn't do shit with that thing, dude. That's funny.
00:21:33
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quite long. Yeah, I don't know what you do with it. I don't know what society thinks about it. I never liked it. thought it was a little gross, especially French kiss. you remember the the full-on French kiss and in the 90s that we did? and I don't know that they kiss anymore.
00:21:49
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what are you talking about? like Like people French kissing each other? Yeah. No, I mean, I remember it being a big deal of like doing that middle school and stuff. And you think whoever, Gene Smith, the first girl he French kissed was like, what the fuck?
00:22:04
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Just listen to it. It changed. It's not Motley Crue anymore. Yeah, I think it's getting closer. Aye. Aye. um kind of but It got a little ACDC there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:17
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No, I just wondered what it would have been like to for a girl to like encounter that tongue. might It might have been really hard, hard to deal with. He's kind of like, girl gentle with that one. just Just in the mouth.
00:22:32
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She's just whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, fella. That's so funny, dude. Middle school French kisses, dude. Some of us weren't so so lucky, bro.
00:22:46
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Yeah. I had one girlfriend. We just sucked each other's faces off. like Literally like chapped lips after. It was just so stupid.
00:22:56
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That's so good, dude. Do you remember her name? Are you going to say it on air? No. Do I know her? Will you give me the initials? You know her. Really? Yeah. I wonder what what what happened to her.
00:23:10
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If she listens to the podcast.
00:23:14
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She would, I bet. because still interacted to me, bro. it. It'll be funny if, ah yeah. She's like, I always knew you would age well. If you're listening to, I don't know, any, what's the biggest part? Joe Rogan, but any any other one.
00:23:29
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And in the background, there were people sawing and shit on the patio. It's called charm. That'd be pretty funny. Joe Rogan, It's crazy because it's like, it's so clear. It's like so loud.
00:23:44
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I know, because this mic is like picks up anything. Yeah. What you going Joe Rogan? He probably has a so of studio, right? don't know. He just... What is he doing anymore? Oh, I don't know. you enjoy it? I haven't listened the show in a while.
00:23:58
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Yeah, man. he was so He was on recently kind of railing about how Jesus seems more realistic than the Big Bang. What, he was pro-Jesus or anti?
00:24:10
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Yeah. but What I don't understand when he talks is like what he really thinks. Like, is he trying to be controversial? Is he just – is it genuine? I'm not sure anymore.
00:24:22
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I think it's genuine. I mean, I think it's genuine. It's kind of it's funny because it's – I just think that he probably got – so big. like It's cool. If you and I were shooting this shit and nobody cares, nobody's listening to this, but if we got if we got so big, then it would seem like we're trying to be controversial, probably, because you can't just like speak freely. i think that I think it might be like that. I'm not saying you where you i agree with them.
00:24:46
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yeah But like the idea of podcasting is just fucking around with your friend or talking, really. It's not – and then all of a sudden now it's like, oh, well, he's actually – he's gotten so big that it's like he's influencing people negatively or positively.
00:25:00
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Well, he's not in yet it's somewhere in between that, right? Because he will say, I'm just a comedian, and he'll do the shtick and be funny and talk some shit.
00:25:11
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And then he'll go – deep into policy and say he's done the research and he knows what's up, like in terms of vaccines or some other stuff, or that and he'll go deep into the conspiracy theories and things like that.
00:25:24
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It's just not comedic and and what does it matter, right? It's his show, Lance, his show, Biggest in the World. but But because of his influence, it feels a little irresponsible at times.
00:25:36
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I'm just a comedian. Don't listen what I say. But all these fucking meatheads are listening to what you said, dude. If you say, buy this type of protein, they're all going to do it. yeah Well, yeah, but what I'm saying, like, if if we' we're, like, we're just going, or whatever. You know, when you talk about, what if you disagree with a family member or something about religion, you can say that.
00:25:56
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And you might come off as, like, fucking, this whole idea of Jesus and God is ridiculous. Nobody cares. But if he says it, if he says it, Then it's gonna like, well, here, now he's taking a, look, Joe Rogan, you hear what he
The Joe Rogan Effect: Entertainment or Responsibility?
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said?
00:26:10
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You know, ah but not, so if he says, yeah, actually, this idea of Jesus controlling shit sounds more realistic than Big Bang. It sounds like, oh, he's just fucking trying to appeal to his right-wing people now.
00:26:22
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Where maybe, it's just a stupid idea that he had, where it's like, it's all...
00:26:35
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It's all... Yeah, I don't know what happened there. Man, i I cannot get out of my head, kickstart my heart every time that happens. ah and i get out When I get off this, I'm going to listen it. Yeah, I get your take on his on that specific topic.
00:26:50
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Well, anybody. Yeah, I get your take on that topic. and and you think he's You think it's no, he's like trying to... i don't know. I don't know. It's just not for me. It's not for me, dude. I mean, I haven't listened to him in a while, but the only time I do is like...
00:27:04
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It's just his lineup, his guest lineup is insane. Yeah, this podcast is not for me either, so I should put that out there. yeah Have you heard of this this guy, Oz Perlman? My friend, I was hanging out at my friend's bar last night, or whatever, one night, having a cigar, and he was like, we were talking about how much we're like so lost on social media we don't use it, and then he's like, the only thing I do is watch videos of Oz Perlman, which is like a mind reader that like...
00:27:31
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the like
00:27:37
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Bucket the moon Bucket the moon Crazy take her baby who he Crazy
00:27:55
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Oz Perlman, dude. Look him up. he's ah He's supposed to be a mind reader. I will look him up. But what I was going to say is all all ah roads lead back to Joe Rogan. So if you go, I want to check this out. It could be like a scientist, politician, an entertainer.
00:28:08
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And then you're undoubtedly, if you do any sort of searching, it'll pop it'll pop up if the dude was on Joe Rogan. Oh, okay. How about Warpigs? The saw is kind of like that. Oh, The lower version of the saw.
00:28:26
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Yeah.
00:28:32
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Yeah, yeah I hear you. No, obviously, he's successful, so that must mean he's a genius. Black Sabbath kind of scared the fuck out of me when i was like in middle school. It ah was like too much.
00:28:44
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You listened to it. I didn't have my hands on it yet. war pigs. I was like, this is, uh, let's go outside and play stickball, guys. so I found it middle school, though, and I loved it. mean, excuse me, I found it in high school, early high school, and I'm like, yeah.
00:28:59
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I think I've told you the story. Maybe I did on, on seniors about my middle school, seventh grade music teacher, like playing Beatles records backwards and shit for this Paul McCartney death. 20 minute story that I got.
00:29:10
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Was that the biggest, the biggest episode? You don't have to say it. I know, I know it hurts you. Uh, but that started leading other kids talking. Remember in the late eighties, like kids talking about satanic music. There's always Bible thumpers who are like playing songs backwards and shit. And then it got into like,
00:29:26
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Ozzy Osbourne's like eats the head off bats and he's drinking spit and satanic and all that shit. It scared the fuck out of me. And I was like, uh-uh. No, sir.
00:29:36
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It was a little weird. Now I come to find out Warpigs is a political message. So is won by Metallica. But the good news is that they moved off a rock and roll.
00:29:48
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And now they just want women back in the house. And that's good news for us. Get in the kitchen. Joey Rogues or just the the the general, the right? The same types of people that were coming out against rock and roll music are now saying, get back in the kitchen, biatch.
00:30:04
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That's I'm saying, dude. If we if we had 80 billion listeners, now you would be taking a stand and be like, liberal pussy Lance.
00:30:13
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yeah Now there's only four people saying liberal pussy Lance. Yeah, I'm sure my criticism cuts deep. Get back in the kitchen. and
00:30:26
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you want to get in that You want to go politics? You got you gotta to bounce in a little while, right?
00:30:32
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That's five. Dude, like I've been going back and forth with my pops about trying to get them to back off. That's good. Religious stuff. That's healthy. ive been getting like I've been going hardcore.
00:30:45
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Is he coming hard at you? um defend Defending. Defending himself, yeah. It sounds like a little bit of like what Charlie Kirk did, maybe. like but If you ever see some of the videos of him being and like, well, naturally, the only the only person that anyone's ever carried an idea about for 2,000 years is Jesus Christ, and so it has to be true because of something like that.
00:31:07
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Oh, similar.
00:31:12
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Generals frowning in the Maserah.
00:31:17
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so it And it's fucking dark. Let me just tell you, it's dark. It's legitimately dark, and they're out there grinding. And they're literally grinding concrete. Could you stereotype the guys working out there? What what do they look like?
00:31:32
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They're Latin, and they're working hard, man. i got nothing against that. i just like It's just an absurdity for somebody that has such an important podcast. I just wonder no i just wonder if they're you know someone like that is working out public with all the shit you hear about ice.
00:31:46
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ice raids and stuff like are they out there like terrified that you're gonna call somebody on them or something or they're just like whatever this is all just media posturing yeah I'm not sure they they might be citizens I never even thought of that oh they could be citizens yeah I think they're doing the the blower now though just blowing all the dust over into my house mm-hmm yeah so that's pretty nice As long as it's not on their property, fuck it, huh?
00:32:19
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That's what I say. your neighbors Your neighbor's like, I'm sorry about this. Anything like that? They did the first time. They're they're like in their 80s. So their sons are actually got this project going because they don't want them to fall. So it's for a good cause, but it did it truly is the Coliseum in terms of the scale and level.
00:32:37
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I hope they're around to use it for a little while at least. Yeah, I agree. My ah neighbor, though my other neighbor, looked like he gave me an evil eye. And tell me what you think about this because... I don't have any trees in front of my house.
00:32:49
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I have one that sits on the my neighbor's yard and drops a shit ton of leaves on my property and I pick them all up. And I actually have taken now 25 bags to the, where you recycle so that you use them well. You pay you pay to do it.
00:33:04
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It's like a, ah that's brown matter for compost? Yeah, exactly. I'm taking 25 bags and the park across from my house, they don't pick up the leaves at all. And there are days where I'm just like, no, sir. And I just blow the shit right back to the park.
00:33:20
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Anyway, it appeared, I'm making this up, that my neighbor was giving me the evil eye when he came home today and I was doing that. the guy wouldn The neighbor with the tree or the other side? The other side.
00:33:32
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oh But if he knew how many bags I've taken already. Why don't you, you got some time on your hands. Why don't you put a scoreboard up? you know, and that like leaves taken. And then every time you flip the, you uptick.
00:33:47
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But it's one of those things, i don't know if you do this, but there's a, there's a line you potentially are crossing, or there's ah a perception that other people might have about what you're doing. And you gear up in your head to counter it in case anybody mentions, and you might gear up way harder than you should to respond to somebody who So you're just all amped up when you're doing that kind of activity and you're thinking to yourself, okay, if this fucking person walking tells me, why are you pulling him back in the park? I'm going to just unleash about the 25 bags and how I'm assaulted by all the leaves that blow in from the park.
00:34:26
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There are things like that where we gear up and get ready. Oh yeah. Or you start to put shit in in the other person's head that they didn't say or do, but you're like, oh, okay, now you're going to fuck with me about the leaves, huh?
00:34:37
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So I don't trust. I don't trust what the the so-called evil eye that I perceived from the neighbor driving home. I don't trust it because I know that I'm... Could have been from any source of thousand irritants in his life.
00:34:50
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Yeah. But you want them to see you take the bets. Have ever put a tip in the tip jar and then the person turns around? Oh, God, yeah. I got no credit for that. So you got to come back out with another $50 bill?
00:35:04
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Yeah. Yeah, I know. what What are other examples of that? i was just like I do it a lot. Where not getting credit? No, where I'm ah gearing up for an interaction that will not happen.
00:35:18
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i had I did that on the way to work today. I was thinking, I don't know why, I just thought that I would be met with some bad vibes and confrontation from my coworker, co-owner, and and for like no reason. The whole I was just like, that motherfucker, like driving to work.
00:35:38
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I was like, hey, Matt, how you doing? like It rarely comes true. and But when it does come true, you're so geared up that you overreact and create a situation I know I did I even did it I like I still had it in my head and we're having another conversation about something else and I said something like just go fucking find it yourself or something like and it was like not needed and he's like ah what do I have it you know he just was like ah pretty funny I I don't it's like you cannot trust that the voices inside your head even if they're like excessively positive but like usually the positive ones they seem like okay I mean do you do that positively
00:36:19
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Almost never. Exactly. You're never like, oh, this going to be so great. I mean, i might I might force that out just so I have some semblance of gratitude, but mostly it's gearing up for something that's going to trigger me.
00:36:35
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Yeah. And it's a bad quality. I think we all do it to some extent, though. I think I've been doing it my whole life where I'm like, oh, man, I probably other shit good shit would have happened if I didn't if i wasn't doing that.
00:36:47
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or Or just sabotaging a thing where like, ah, fuck, I really don't want to be there. i don like I've been go you know going to these, like you know part of what you asked about, like cold calling, where I can either go into a place, say it's a kitchen remodeler and they have a showroom, and I can go in and be like, this fucking sucks. What am I doing? Or I can be like, yeah, whatever. It's fine.
00:37:06
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yeah And I'm like, why do I keep, I've had enough positive experience where it's like, why do I keep doing that? Why do I keep just going, fuck this? like at least now I can talk about it. I know I can acknowledge that I was wrong after the fact.
00:37:22
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Yeah. But you'll never know. You'll never know in your situation. You'll never know if that guy, and maybe unless he comes up to you and is Lance, I got to talk to you about blowing the leaves into the park. And if he said that though, that guy would be so geared up. I'd rage.
00:37:34
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But you would probably would rage. Like I've taken 25 bags to the, would you put, would you point fingers at the other neighbor? It's his fucking tree. It's not his tree. It's the parks.
00:37:45
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and they come I think you said his tree is coming into your yard. Yeah, but I picked those up because they're old and and like I just consider that to be part of what neighbors do. But the park, like they have a whole staff that's out there doing shit all the time.
00:38:01
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And like just pick up pick the leaves up. They never do. Been out of shape about it. I just casually at some days, I just blow that shit right back at him. It's like almost wrong place the wrong time. You thought the guy you thought the guy was was like, oh, there goes Lance blowing his fucking mess to the park, huh?
00:38:23
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Yeah, but I mean, if he's at all has his eyes open, you can see I don't have a single tree up front. I have a ton back in the back, but the fuck you talking about, boy?
00:38:35
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simple things like that really ruin a day.
Leaf Blowing: A Humorous Neighborly Conflict
00:38:39
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I have an important meeting tomorrow night and I'm trying not to sabotage it with this, knowing that something negative iss going to happen. There is though people that are negative and you, and you, I am right.
00:38:48
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Like I am right. yeah Yeah. Who I'm talking about. But yeah. And it is something that I know some people would comment on and that's why I gear up for it. So it's like, i nobody else does that.
00:39:02
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I don't know. I don't know if they do. I don't see people. i'm not out there like watching people's leave cleanups. The thing about this guy is he's just constantly going to front. Just constant. He's always out in the front fucking with his cars. Just to front, to front. In fact, my wife and I will often comment. It's like, we can never go out in the front.
00:39:24
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It's very rare when we go out in the front, he's not there. Does he talk? Is he like one of those chatty people that won't leave you alone? He'll say, yeah, we'll talk whatever, but like occasionally. No, he's not that, but like he's it's just a nuisance. And so once you build in your head, oh, he's going to be out there. I know what going to go is try to have a drink on the front porch tonight.
00:39:49
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Oh, And it's it's uncanny, though. The dude is out there like tweaking a wiper on one of their four cars whatever. And he's doing something, putting some gear on it. He's got these two like legit African safari, like Land Rover type things.
00:40:08
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How old are we talking? 60 something. Those are his babies. So we're like gearing up, dude. And it's like, it's just unbelievable. You would laugh about it if you're really like, oh, yeah, there he is.
00:40:21
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ah Even that is funny, too. Like I've done that where that guy is annoying you. I do that all the time. He he would annoy me. And maybe there'd be no interaction or nothing, nothing to actually annoy me. But I'd be like, oh, you're fucking there again, huh?
00:40:34
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Okay. Yeah, well, it's really actually good to hear that you do that too. Because part of it is, it is it planning? Like for your for your meeting, some of that is planning and thinking through how you're going to overcome obstacles.
00:40:47
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And some of it's just pure frustration and negativity. It's sometimes hard to figure out the difference between the two. Yeah, it's kind of like i get I get in this, I'm not taking any shit.
00:40:59
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and then i And then I get in my head that someone's going to give me shit. So then I'm like, I'm not taking any shit. So then I might come out a little aggressive where I'm the one giving someone shit. And then it's like, okay, take it easy.
00:41:10
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Nobody did anything. He like hands you a donut and like, what the fuck, bro? i don't want fucking donut. I slap it away. fuck i i Like I said, like I said.
00:41:22
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ah used phrases like that. kick on my heart like i never have wow Right in the middle of that.
00:41:31
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ah They're down. It's 515 there. Yeah, they were done. They were clanking their tools back in the truck, so we're good to go. how many How many more do you think they got? How many more weeks? Can't tell, man. I thought it was done a while ago. It's been like a month.
00:41:45
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Started ah September 27th. They did take a like a week and a half break. and not a Maybe not a break, but they went on to another project. Probably for Dia de los Muertos. Not for a Kintiara.
00:41:57
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Yeah, a baptism. they Yeah, obviously these Latin guys are probably had some some baptism, something like that. These evil people are taking over the U.S., probably had a baptism, probably had to go to Western Union to wire money back to their family members that are making $28 a month so you can drive a Chevy.
00:42:18
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Yeah. Yeah. It does feel like some converging factors in terms of just the U.S. stagnating a little bit. When you get rid of all these like workers and good workers, and then you also drop tariffs on on MS.
Economy Mysteries: Wall Street vs. Main Street Disconnect
00:42:33
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but There's certain certain industries, right, that are just going to be, you know, fucked. Well, it's things are, it's, what's crazy is the, is the market, like the Dow and just pressing on despite all this weird shit going up.
00:42:49
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Like it's at 48,000 or some shit. like, what the fuck? I don't know what that is about. And international has been insane and all the stocks have been insane. i don't know what any of it's about. It seems like there's a lot of chaos in the world, but maybe what's happening. Sudan doesn't matter to the business owners. To wall street.
00:43:08
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I talked to someone yesterday. Um, um, a custom, he did, think he does outdoor stuff with Dex and he's like, can't get any customers. They're not doing big projects. He's trying to figure out why. Like, why? is it because the rates are too high? is they Are they nervous about the economy?
00:43:25
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And then he's like, he needs he needs some capital to do some projects and stuff, but he doesn't want to take his money out of his investments because his investments are doing good. It's like, investments are good, but the business is having a hard time, which I think is an interesting time.
00:43:40
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I think a lot of people probably feel, oh, my money's making money. But I can't actually make money because people are getting little tight with their money. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm not sure what's going to bring the market to reality, but it's certainly gotten out ahead of itself.
00:43:55
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No, no, no. ai Do you understand how revolutionary AI is going to be? you understand, Lance? Yeah. No, i no i get you I get it, man. I feel for that guy because I don't see, at least in terms of my perception, what's happening around me, i don't see...
00:44:13
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people doing projects like that. Except for your fucking... Except next door. There's no manpower left in Denver because the next door. That's why there's no projects going on. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:24
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It's tough out there. Doesn't look like a scene from Ben-Hur or something when all the when all the yeah when all the laborers leave at night. There's thousands of people out there working on it. But like you got... So you're going to take all of these workers out of the economy. Yeah.
00:44:41
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You're gonna let go of a bunch of federal workers. You're gonna drop in tariffs, which are just extra tax. And then then we're gonna let a shutdown go haywire forever.
00:44:53
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it It would seem the market would go, hmm. ah Let's take a dip, huh? Let's take a little dipsy-pooze. Let's do it a little dippy-dipper. And nope, no, sir.
00:45:06
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No siree Bob, dude. No siree Bob. it's It is weird. ah it hasn't hit It hasn't hit us yet. things are going i feel I would just say I feel like i feel this momentum when I was talking about what I do with my kids thing.
00:45:22
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But I'm like, is Lance right? And is is do I have to be successful before the pending doom comes? Because of you, I'm like very caught. Man, you hear all this stuff just blowing up?
00:45:35
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all these All these alerts? ah Yeah, so I wonder i wonder what what what's going to happen over the next six months, or just nothing. I don't know there's pen pending doom for half of the country at all.
00:45:51
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It's just the other half. you know They're struggling. They're not in the market for piece of custom wood anyway. so You got worry about. And if it does happen, dude, you can pivot to like cutting boards and shit like that. Smaller stuff.
00:46:07
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I just, I just sold one on the way home. um Essentially a cocktail tray that we're just trying to get this lady's, uh, she's an interior designer. So we want her to just use us, but you know, just like, well, you know, when we started this band, it's like, all we needed was a laugh, man.
00:46:25
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I know. Now years gone by and listen, I say we've kicked some ass.
00:46:32
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This is the song. That Iron Man, dude. Yeah, this one got me. When I was like 13, I was like, yeah, let's... That's what the song was doing to us.
00:46:44
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Yeah, it got a little lower at the end. It was more Iron Man than Kickstart My Heart. and Or what's that Van Halen piece of shit? Pound Cake? They had something like that, too. It had a little pound cake to it at the beginning.
00:47:00
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pound cakeke There's a guy that's not going to get affected by any anything. Sammy Hagar? He's just like, yeah! that's That's it. That's his reaction everything. Two pieces of shit.