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Episode 48: a chat with Stuart and Ian
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The guy come back to chat about general happenings and partners not introducing best friends.
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Shail day, do-vil day, little day, little day Shail day, do-vil day, little day
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Cheers, bro. Cheers, bro. o
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Hello, kids. It's not my line, but... I didn't do that yet because sometimes I record we're just blabbering and then I use that to start the show and we're laughing. No laughing right now for some reason, though. Ha ha ha ha ha.
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Introduction and Podcast Premise
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Hey, kids. Welcome to Toxic Masculinity with Ian and Stuart. This week, it's just us. I've been traveling for work and all kinds of other nonsense, so I didn't have time to book somebody this week, and neither did Stuart. So we are just going bullshit with y'all for a little bit today. We'll see what comes up.
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Yeah. um I am exhausted traveling and doing other stuff, like trying to get things. i have to go back out on the road in another couple of weeks, which is not normal for me for work. So yeah we understand that our releasing has been a little slapdash of late. And a lot going on this year already. so But there's been a lot going on.
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um for both of us, really. And it's just been one those things, but we will try and get back on track as soon as possible.
00:01:41
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I don't know. I think every other week seems to be the pattern we've been falling into this year because of everything going on. But we'll see what happens. I like doing the show still. It's just, like I said, it's been crazy. I've been really busy lately. so Yeah. And I know you have
Relationship Dynamics and Meeting Friends
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too.
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So what's been going on, man? You got anything to talk about? What are we going talk about? We didn't even discuss that. You're just like, let's chat. i'm like, okay, let's talk. Well, as you know, and the lovely Siobhan has been listening to the show.
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She has. and And I keep interrupting her. Actually, that we were away um for her mum's birthday weekend thing. Their family all get together and go away together as a family. Bunch of happy bastards.
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um
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So I was away for that and she was going to take a bath. but And she was listening, she listens to our podcast, which was having a about at while we're away. was going to have a bath and I was like, right. Okay.
00:02:46
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And I went up to run the bath for her, make sure it was all okay, and then came out. She goes, you never talk about me much on the podcast. And I went, what are you talking about? I says, I talk about things that come up. There's no, if you come up, you come up. If you don't, you don't, blah, blah, blah.
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And literally, when I was going, I do talk about you. And literally, she was listening to the podcast while we were having this conversation. yeah Literally, the next thing that happened was I started talking about her. And she was like, okay, so you do talk about me,
00:03:17
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Yeah, I know. you You guys had called me drunken the other night, and you guys she was talking about how we don't talk. I'm like, to be fair, we covered a lot of history. like I talked about my bringing my upbringing and stuff like that. I'm like, things come up. We don't plan them to come up. It's not like we're avoiding topics or anything else. That's as what I'm trying to explain to her. It's a rambly chat. you know It's not like...
00:03:39
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I don't know. It's a weird one. But we've been having this conversation of late. Okay. What conversation? And now she said to me, so this is fair game.
00:03:50
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She said to me, you're going to bring this up on the podcast. I says, I'm not. But now that you say it, I fucking am. All right. Yes, sir.
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We've been together for two years. You and me? No. No. Me and the lovely Siobhan. I know. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. and I have met i've met all of her family. That's cool.
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yeah She has met my family once or twice. Not a lot. We don't really get together that often. We're not that type of family.
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She's met my friends. Yep. The only friends of hers that I've met are her neighbors. Yep. which are friends of situation rather than life.
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Does that make sense? here As, as one of your friends and being around some of the people that you introduced her to, I can understand why she wouldn't want to bring you around any of her friends. Cause we're kind of not awesome. Fuck you.
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Right. But here's the thing, right? Yeah. Yeah. She has a best friend. Yup.
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I've never met her best friend. Describe best friend. Define it for her. Like, what does she mean by a best friend? It's a girl. Is it oldest friend?
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It's that they hang out They do things. They talk about everything together. When she has a problem, it's her she goes to. And she has no absolutely no inclination. Mm-hmm.
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for us to meet. Okay. Why not? i I fucking don't know. She's just like, that's not what we do. She has met her best friend's partner, but they don't really talk or anything them like that, which I find, I don't know.
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what are your thoughts on that?
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Maybe she sees her friend as a fail safe where, She feels like if you don't meet her, then she'll only have one perspective to go off of to give advice for her friend and not be torn between choosing between people she likes or something. i i don't know, dude. i
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I have... Now, she has said she's worried that her friend won't like me. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Everybody likes me? That's not my problem anyway. No, it's not my problem either.
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Other than that, man, I mean, it's not... As far as that goes, like, if it's something you want to do, I don't think it's fair for her to keep you two from meeting. If you guys don't get on, you don't get on. You know what i mean? Yeah. It doesn't matter after that. At least, you know, have a shot at it.
00:06:43
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It just seems... But it's just me. I know. It just seems... I just find it odd. It's different. I mean...
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I don't know, man. Like, I i hoped that i hope that whoever my next partner is, is my best friend if I find another person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean, like, right? Yeah, I'm just saying. But I also have many best friends. like I would consider you one of my best friends. Yeah.
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I have... steps i have really really close friends that i consider family i have really close friends i have friends i have acquaintances i have people i know like it kind of spirals out so I don't know, man. Like, I know you can have more than one best friend. I'm not, like, five.
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I just... I don't know, man. I think I'd be like, well, I'd like to meet her and have my own shot. i Just let her decide on her own. And if you don't get along, you don't get along. But it's it's like... She goes, well, I haven't met your other best friend.
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And I'm like, yeah, but that's fair enough. But that's not because I don't want you to meet him. It's because... Circumstance has been, I haven't really seen him in the past two years either. I talked to him.
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I just haven't seen him. I mean, to be fair, she came all the way across an ocean and met a bunch of your friends. so Exactly. i mean, if you if you want to go tit for tat, which I don't think you should do. That's not what I'm saying. But she just adamantly doesn't really want me to meet her.
00:08:13
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Yeah, I don't know what's up. Am I wrong for finding that bizarre? Should I just go, fair enough, that's your day look? I think it's this. I think you want to meet her because you see her as somebody that Siobhan cares about, obviously. So you want to meet her to see what happens. And you're not happy that you're being kept from her.
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um ah just How do you feel about being kept from her? How do you feel? What do you think is the reasoning that she's not introducing you besides the basic like you guys won't get along? i I think she's worried that she won't like me.
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Again, that's not anybody's problem. That might might be a thing. do you know what i mean? I don't know, dude, if you're going cause drama like that, it's not really your friend. I understand. Like, like well, that that's, that's kind of, I mean, I understand being blunt with your friends and all that. Like I'm fully back all that stuff, but if your friend is happy and the person isn't doing anything wrong, you just just don't get along. That's no reason to like trash talk or shit on somebody.
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You know what i mean? Absolutely. So if that's the case, then that's not your friend. But it is. It really is your friend. like
Family Dynamics and Cultural Reflections
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Do you know what I mean? I'm saying rhetorically, like if that's how she acts, that's not your friend.
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It's fine to be blunt. it's it's if If you can't be blunt with your best friend, then you shouldn't have them. But it doesn't mean you got a harp on shit. It's like, I get it. You guys don't get along. Like that kind of thing. You know what I Like, just shut up about it. I understand.
00:09:43
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Like you guys don't get along doesn't mean that he's not good to me kind of thing. But I mean, yeah, that's it's it's different if you were if not you, but rhetorical, you were mistreating somebody and they weren't listening. They they weren't listening to their friend. But if nobody is being mistreated, your friend just doesn't like them and fuck that shit.
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Like, shut the fuck up. It's not mouth weird. Yeah, I don't get it, man. um
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I don't know, man. i would I don't think I'd be happy if I couldn't meet somebody like that. I kind of wonder what it work it would be like if the shoe was on the other foot.
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I don't know.
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Was she just talking about how you she was upset you don't take around your mom? Yeah, but... Yeah, but what... Wait, okay, hold on. Let's dissect this. What did she say exactly? Like, was she upset about not seeing your mom?
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um Sorry, Siobhan, I'm just trying to dissect this. i know you're going to listen.
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She thinks I don't try hard enough to integrate her into that part of my family. Oh, isn't that a little bit of self-reflection, maybe? she telling on herself a little bit?
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Maybe. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I hear you And I mean, I don't have a problem with her meeting and my family. I really don't like, and she has met them, but we're just not a hangy ID kind of family. It's like special occasions and that's what it is.
00:11:24
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Yeah. I mean, I don't have a, I don't have a large immediate family. have a shit ton of cousins, but I don't see them that often since we, I don't see, I have cousins, but I don't see any of them. I see my nephews.
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I don't have any of those. I have some, but not. And that is about it. I don't see any of my aunties or uncles. and don't see any my aunts and uncles anymore. don't see i I see my brother maybe twice a year.
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you know what I mean? it's We're just not that type of... I think maybe she finds that odd. but dont I mean, I'm close to my parents. I'm close with one of my cousins. I grew up with like one side of my family. I have like 25, 30 cousins and some of them have kids now and stuff. and i don't talk to really any of them anymore.
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Yeah. I mean, it's not that we, you know, mostly it's not that we have a problem with each other. It's just people have their own. said we're just It's just different.
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Do you know what mean? And Siobhan and her brothers and sisters are very close. Yeah. And that's cool. I like it. I like being around it. It's a good vibe to be around. Yeah. But my family just aren't really like that. If you've got a problem and you need shit sorting out, then my family are there and it's all good. Do you know what I mean?
00:12:47
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And that's the end of it. But Speaking of family, I think I've talked about this before, but I make my own family, too. I choose my family. Yeah, too. I would say you're like a brother to me. I have Cass, who's like a little sister to me.
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I have a few adopted brothers and sisters that are really close to me. Then I call them that because I can't ah can't explain how much I care about them any other way. because yeah Yeah. She's met you, eh?
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Yeah, I'm sorry. sorry savan shaan Unfortunately, she's met Rookie. She's met... You know, Holly and Rich and these that side of my family, so to speak. Yeah.
00:13:26
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She's met Andy and Polly. They're my best friend and his wife. And she knows them really well. And those are the people I hang out with. Most of the people I choose to be my family.
00:13:38
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Yeah, she hung out with my Jeff too, right? yes she's hungry Yeah, out with Jeff too. Jeff could own really well. Jeff really likes her. Um, um, so, you know, and, but I don't know, I guess from her point of view, it kind of makes sense that it's odd because her and her family are very close.
00:14:03
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Well, I mean, we can stop speculating about her and the friend thing and all that, but how does it make you feel that you haven't been introduced to her friend? I just find it weird. Yeah. But what about it? Be more specific. Um,
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I don't know. I don't feel like like she's embarrassed of me or something like that. I mean, I could understand if she was. like and you mean but i mean, I'm embarrassed of me, but that's different story. I'm an older gentleman, and maybe she'll go, with who the fuck's your dad?
00:14:35
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you know what I mean? Or something weird like that. But um I don't know. I just find it old. i just It seems a bit odd. Yeah, but how does it make you feel? Not like not like what you think about. like How does it make you feel? Do you feel bummed that you don't get to meet her? Do you feel like... like I speculated. like Speculate on why she wouldn't want to meet her besides you don't get along. Okay, okay, okay, ok okay. Talk to me, dude. Stop this fucking bullshit surface crap. We know. We got that part. When I say, am I ever going to meet Frances, that's her friend.
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And she goes, no. I go... I feel sad because I want to know that part of her.
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and And I feel like that bit being kept from me. Now, if she want, you know, fair enough. Keep that, you know, I'm not sure if keep things from me is the right thing to say, because I don't really believe in fucking secrets and stupid shit.
00:15:36
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No, but she's allowed her own space. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But it just seems odd. If the first time we were to meet each other would was at our funeral, you'd be like, what the fuck?
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Yeah.
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you know what I mean? Two people that are probably the two most important people in her life don't know each other. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what her... I mean, she's it's not like she's not intelligent. She's probably got her reasons. I just don't know what they are. i mean, we could see her and speculate all night, but...
00:16:11
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I would be concerned if if I was with somebody and they didn't want to meet their, at least meet their friend. I mean, i'm I'm not trying to steal your best friend, but to know them at least in case, even in case of emergencies in my case, like I want to know that stuff. But no, she did say the other night that she brought it up to Francis saying, Stuart wants to meet you.
00:16:33
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And Francis said, why? That's just weird.
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Okay, that's weird, too. have to think about this. So maybe it's not really Siobhan so much as it is Francis. And then in that case, why wouldn't want to meet your best friend's partner at least understand who she's with?
00:16:51
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Yeah. This is weird. You know what's funny is, like, we're talking about this, and in the grand scheme of things, a stereotype is that dudes don't ask about this stuff. Like, we just kind of don't. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:03
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But here we are trying to like figure this out. like i mean we're just We can sit here and pontificate all we want, but we're never going to know until Siobhan tells us. you know I know. That would mean we need to get her on the podcast, though.
00:17:15
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I know. She should come on the podcast. too oh I play referee or encourage, depending on what's going on in front of me. That's up to you, man. I'm not going to push that, but that's up to you.
00:17:27
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No, I think we could get her on. I'd be interested to know what her thoughts are. so Oh, Lord. referee in time about masculinity and different things i mean she does wind me up a lot about the earth being flat i don't think she actually means it no she's totally fucking with you dude what do you mean the earth isn't flat fuck you
00:17:56
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it's It's just an ice wall, dude. Come on. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the planes are landis. Birds aren't real. Birds are, well, didn't they find some like spy drones that were shaped like birds in China recently?
00:18:10
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du Shut the fuck up.
00:18:14
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It can't be that all birds are fake. Do you know I mean? they're dinosaurs.
00:18:20
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Well, that's true. That's an evolutionary thing. Chicken tastes like dinosaurs, so, you know. Yeah.
00:18:27
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So what else is going on, man, besides speculating on your your lovely partner's friends? Yeah, I know. I'm not entirely sure how she's going to feel about this episode, but hey-ho, here we are. I mean, we're just speculating. I'm not trying to do any harm. i shes She's got her fucking reasons, whatever they are. I just hope you guys have a chat about it. It's between you guys. I mean, i don't get wrong. I love her bits, but it just seems...
00:18:53
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It's like you kind of go in your head, you go, am I fucked up? And that's asked why she doesn't want me to meet her. And I just, I'm oblivious to my fuck up in this. and I mean, we all are, but that's still something you should be able to talk about.
00:19:07
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Do you know what I mean? Yeah. At the end of the day, don't want you to meet her because you're a bit fucking mental. I mean, I love you, but other people think you're a cunt. I mean, that's fair in both of our cases, but su that's it's very fair. Both of our cases, but still, I mean, i don't know. She's got a reason. She'll tell you, man, and you guys will have a talk at some point. She'll tell you.
00:19:29
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and like Yeah. again, i think it's good to know your your partner's friends and all that, just in case something happens to it's helpful to have like a way to recognize somebody. And have at least that connection of the person between you. But it doesn't mean you've got to stomp all over her space that you want to take space. No, wouldn't do that. I am all for space. I like my space. I recognize that she likes her space. Yeah.
00:19:51
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Well, everybody needs her space. I'm all for that. Very much so. Yeah. i I'm just, because I know she's listening. It's been a weird question and thing that we've had a lot real a lot of recently.
00:20:04
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Yeah. Yeah. And I just thought, you know, I mean, she said, you're going to bring it up. I says, I won't. And I did. Well, she said, well, it's because she challenged you at that point. She did. That is true.
00:20:17
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For a point. What'd you say? You're to bring it up. And you go, nah. you're like, well, yeah, am kind of now. So whatever. What else is going on, man? i'm What else is going on? What's going on in the world?
00:20:31
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Easter? Yeah, it is amazing to me. and It's ah the weekend. Well, actually. Zombie Jesus Day? Is that what we're doing? No. i'm I'm an atheist, so I don't really do anything about that. Yeah, me too. But it's... I did.
00:20:49
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Now, as you probably know, Siobhan grew up in a very religious household. and her Her dad was a pastor. Yep. ah So very religious. So i I brought up about Easter the other day.
00:21:04
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And she went, yeah, Easter, fucking, you know, Jesus dies, risen on the third day, blah, blah, blah. I went, yeah, yeah. I go, so tell me this. Why do you think Easter's on a different weekend every year? And she went, what are talking about?
00:21:19
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I went, I mean, Jesus didn't die and rise on a different weekend every year. That's that kind that's not how that works. And she was like, what is that? It's just because it's a pagan holiday.
00:21:31
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quote That was co-opted by the Christians and it's based around the the cycle of the moon and the was and the solstice. Just co-opting those pagan and Norse holidays and gods.
00:21:42
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Nah, no, nah, no. And I was like, Jesus. Exactly. And was like, high i I can't understand how people don't fucking twig that shit. I'm just saying, listen, please tell me what a Christmas tree has to do with Jesus being born in the desert.
00:22:01
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Um... I'm just saying Christmas trees are based on the Yule. I'm not asking you specifically. I'm saying as a Christian, what does a Christmas tree have to do with Jesus being born in the desert?
00:22:12
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I know that Christmas, I know the trees come from Yule and all that. so Yeah, it's, I don't know, like, I think, i don't i don't begrudge, like I said many times, I don't begrudge people their religion, as long as you're not being a dick about it, but yeah I think religions are fascinating. So, I saw something today where, this morning, where they were, some guy was comparing the four horsemen of the apocalypse to Norse gods, like, straight out, like, oh, that describes this guy, that describes this guy. I was like, holy shit, he's kind of right. That kind of makes sense. was i What are the four horsemen in the apocalypse?
00:22:43
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The first one I can remember is Odin because it's a white horse. And Odin rides a white horse and I forget the horse's name but it's got extra legs and all that shit. Yeah, but is it not greed, pestilence? That's what we've given them names. but Yes, it is. But what are those four names? are Greed, pestilence, ah something in death, right?
00:23:00
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Yeah. can't remember the four horsemen. Because I was listening to that thing this morning and i now I'm like thinking Norse shit. Third one's Neil Young, isn't it? Obviously.
00:23:12
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Yeah. ah Conquest, war, famine, death. Famine. Yep.
00:23:25
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Yeah. To be fair, not a religious person, but the four horsemen of the apocalypse is pretty fucking metal when you think about it. Dude, there's a lot of metal shit in the Bible. I know, right? Especially in like especially like Genesis and shit. There's a lot of metal shit in there. Yeah. In Revelations, a lot of metal.
00:23:42
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Genesis, good band. Good band. Very good band. Yeah. I don't know, man. i religion I mean, there's whole there's whole genres of music based on Norse religion. So, I mean, there's there's a metal band that has a whole song about a painting that was like and kind of brought up, but Norse stuff called Midvinder Blut.
00:24:05
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I'm trying to think what else has been going on recently. I've been trying to stay away from politics because I've been too busy
Political Protests and Future Plans
00:24:12
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doing other shit. I've been able pay attention lately, but I know there's a lot of shit going on. i know there's been a lot of protests going on in this country.
00:24:19
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think there's another protest tomorrow here. Yeah. How long do you think it's going to be until the ban protests?
00:24:28
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I don't know, right now we're like constitutional crisis era. Yep. Dude's straight up saying like no to judges and Supreme Courts and shit. and Fucking God. I swear to God. Say no to the bench he's stacked.
00:24:42
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Go figure.
00:24:45
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Shit's crazy right now. My fuck, my friend. Yep. We'll see how long it lasts and how far it goes. Yeah. I'm just going to move to one of those islands in Ireland and take the $92,000 to rebuild the house. That's fine.
00:24:57
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Nice. That sounds like fun. go Go and do that. And then I can come and join you. We can have a whole island if we get all the houses. Yeah. We'll brew our own patch in and... Mead. We need mead.
00:25:12
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going to do mead as well. We need bees for mead though. Bees are easy.
00:25:18
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Not on a fucking very windswept island with very little fucking flora and fauna. be fucking fine. Okay. We'll figure it out.
00:25:32
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Seen any good films lately? What did I watch? I rewatched 99 homes right before I came here and talked. Have you ever seen that? No. Uh, it's this dude that gets, it takes place like right around 2010, 2014. It was when the movie came out and it takes place in this area in Orlando. Uh, this dude gets evicted from his home. The court basically tells him to fuck off. Doesn't really give him a chance to fight.
00:25:56
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And he ends up working for the real estate agent and starts that, that like takes his home. It's like his family home. It's not just the one he bought. it's the one he grew up in and stuff. Right. So he starts working for this dude he starts evicting people eventually and starts making money. And he starts doing it as a way to get his house back.
00:26:15
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And this dude kind of takes him under his wing. and But the guy is ruthless. the The real estate agent is played by Michael Shannon. And he's like fucking ruthless. He refuses. He watched his father become poor and all this crap. And he's like, it's not happening to me. Like, fuck that. So he's ruthless with the shit.
00:26:31
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he yeah He has the system rig to like make extra money and all this. But it gets to the point where he has to evict this dude that he keeps running into the whole movie who's like on the verge of losing his house. And theyre his kid knows his kid and all this shit. But it's pretty intense movie, man.
00:26:45
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But it's literally the downfall of someone. It's like the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It's like the whole movie. It's pretty interesting. Other than that, I don't think I've watched much. I mean, between the trip and stuff, um I finished The Pit. That show was fucking incredible.
00:27:00
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Yeah, I haven't even started it. yeah That show is so good. It's just so good. And they do so much right. Me and Siobhan are watching Smiley Face. Oh, the Happy Face killer? Yeah, Smiley. No, Smiley happy Face.
00:27:14
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It's called Smiley Face. Is it Happy Face? No, Smiley Face. It's Happy Face. It's Happy Face. It's Happy Face. Google that shit, motherfucker. See who's right.
00:27:26
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i I listened to his actual daughter do, she did a podcast with somebody that was before the show came out.
00:27:37
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Smiley face.
00:27:41
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Show. How dare you? Happy face, it's called. How dare you? How dare you question me and serial killers? i'm Just kidding. Yeah, she did there's a podcast out there with the actual with his actual daughter that the show's based around. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, she's actually told the story herself.
00:28:00
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Yeah, the show's pretty good. It's pretty good, yeah. where he's He's great in it. In fact, the whole cast is great in Yeah, it's been good so far. and We watched the first episode of Black Mirror Season 7. I didn't start that yet. I saw it came out. Dude, that shit is fucked up.
00:28:16
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oh i mean that's black mayor's whole deal so yeah i started watching uh i told you to watch dying for sex yes no haven't haven't uh that shows about a woman who is with her husband she defeats cancer and finds out she's got it again but they can't cure it this time so she just like tells her husband to fuck off starts hanging out with her best friend and starts like exploring sex and all these things and it's hilarious it's such a good show nice I've been laughing. my And they're short. I like that they're short episodes for change. I've also watched the first few episodes of Mobland, Guy Ritchie's new series.
Entertainment Insights: 'Mobland' Review
00:28:52
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Dude, Mobland's good as hell.
00:28:54
Speaker
It's really good. fucking brutal. It's basically like ah vehicle for Tom Holland to walk around and muscle people. It's great. Yeah. What do you want me to do? all right Not Tom Holland. Tom. Or ah Tom Hardy.
00:29:05
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Tom Hardy. Yeah, Tom Hardy. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a vehicle for him to walk around and be a tough ass. It's fucking awesome. It's really good. Dude. Okay. I saw people complaining about the Irish accent that Pierce Brosnan is doing. Please explain that to people. Oh, dude. It's pretty bang on.
00:29:19
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Yeah, i figured. yeah it does it's not It's not the Irish accent that Americans think of. no because americans think lucky charms is irish accent yeah they're all for more like i think we're more used to what like a doublin thing when we see movies and set of a tool to roof the pre before all you you know to focus children me yeah but his his accent is more kind of cork carry that kind of fucking yeah and then helen mirren's doing the shit too which is awesome yeah i mean pierce broseman's family are from ireland so i think he gets away with doing an actual fucking ireland i'm sure he's allowed to did you did you watch any of the new daredevil
00:30:03
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I haven't watched it yet. No, I really do want to, but I just, there's too much and there's not enough time. It's pretty interesting based on the conversations that we have. Would you like me to spoil some of what's going on? I mean, you can guess it by the name. so That's okay.
00:30:20
Speaker
In the beginning, he starts off and he gets filled with rage and almost murders somebody, which is against his code. Like literally throws a motherfucker off the top of a building. Okay. So then he goes, fuck that. I can't do this anymore. I can't be Daredevil anymore. So he stops.
00:30:34
Speaker
So the whole time is him trying to do everything the right way without becoming Daredevil. So he's fighting he keeps fighting the urge to do it. And he starts feeling that same rage build up. Right. Then you get shit like Frank Castle showing up in the show too. And being you know he's like pure rage. Like, I'm just going to kill a motherfucker.
00:30:52
Speaker
So he's he's still trying to find the right path for himself. That's what the show is about. But, dude, if you you get if you watch the first episode, you'll be like, fuck.
00:31:02
Speaker
Holy shit, they're just going for it. Nice. I watched it and I was like, they are not fucking around with this show. Awesome. But, uh, yeah. I kind of got that feeling watching that mob land. The first episode of it, I was like, okay now.
00:31:18
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Yeah, dude. I, as much as mob land is like bad-ass and stuff, I tell you the first episode of daredevil, if you watched that shit, you're going to like, Holy fuck. I'm glad to hear it because I was worried. No, they just come out swinging, man.
00:31:32
Speaker
And the the person that gets dropped in the first episode is going to make your jaw drop. So how was your week in New York? um My week in New York was interesting. So I went up there for class for work to get certifications, work paid for my certifications. so I went up there, middle of nowhere to Fishkill. No offense to people in Fishkill. I'm used to like Newburgh kind of area.
00:31:55
Speaker
So that's right there. and used to go up there for shows all the time. But yeah, dude, I'd get the class like eight o'clock or so and be done like two or two thirty. um The people for most of the week, the first class was three days. The people with us were from Alaska.
00:32:10
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So it's kind of cool to talk to people from Alaska. They showed us like, uh, like video and photos of like, you know, moose hunting and fishing up there and the way they do like all this crazy fishing with just nets and all this stuff. It was, it was cool to talk to them. And it was, think you'd never been to Alaska. I'd never been to Alaska. My parents have. Does it feel like a completely different country?
00:32:29
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Yeah. Because it's, I mean, it's really fucking set apart. Like, Yeah, it's a total different life up there too. like They have the villages for like the natives and stuff that still exist. and they do like If you've ever seen movies about Alaska, but all those runs where they do like supply runs like so many times a year, all that shit's real. They were talking about all this The only real experience of Alaska through the medium of TV and movies that sticks out in my mind was the 90s TV show Northern Exposure.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah, no. About a... I want say a New York dentist? Yeah. I never watched that show, but I'm not talking about... yeah I love that show. I love the theme do to They don't do theme tunes like that anymore. no they don't.
00:33:20
Speaker
Theme tunes are shit now. Yeah, but it was cool to see the way of life. Like, they showed me, like, skin and moose and stuff. They were like, you know, the the natives can do whatever they got to do because they, like, they sustain on their own.
00:33:32
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But, you know, they'll fly in supplies for them and all this other crap. But, like, they have, like, so many fish you can care you can catch every year and they just... Like they'll just go out and fish and catch a shit ton of fish and just throw them in the freezer. And that's what like the locals will eat too, like out of their own freezers.
00:33:48
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Yeah. It's a lot of like a little more rugged, you know, even in the cities, like the people we worked with from a college. But they were showing us pictures like one of them was hanging out with us and like my dog just sat up and started barking and we were like, what the hell is that? and they looked outside. it was just a moose staring in through their door.
00:34:05
Speaker
Just looking in the house like, what's up? Right? Jesus. yeah and They're like, ah i told them i said all like like an animal to they're big yeah I told them I saw a moose in like Maine and stuff and they're like, oh those are small. And they showed me pictures. I was like, holy fuck, those are big.
Alaskan Encounters and Lifestyle Differences
00:34:21
Speaker
They're telling us stories about stuff up there. like It's pretty crazy. it was pretty cool to talk to somebody. Yeah, it was cool to talk to somebody from up there and get some new perspectives and chats.
00:34:33
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They were at ah it' to New York City and hung around. They got into you got to a baseball game for $10. They must have walked up and been like, oh, there's lots of seats. $10. Oh, nice. They went and did that, too, one night.
00:34:45
Speaker
Yeah, it was all right. Did you go to that? Hell no. i was in I was still doing classes when they were doing that. All right, okay. I didn't get to do anything fun. We had a hellish time getting there and a hellish time getting home. so Yeah.
00:35:00
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You said your flight kept getting bushed pushed. Well, we got there and we got there and our flight was delayed 20 minutes. We land and the rental car guy was like, I can only stay for 30, so see you tomorrow morning, basically. So we didn't have a rental car.
00:35:16
Speaker
So I had to get us a lift to the hotels, and then I got us a lift to class. And then we got ah the other guy had the rental in his name, so we called and bitched him out, they moved the rental closer to us.
00:35:27
Speaker
What we didn't notice was the last day, he's like, oh, yeah, they changed the time. We have to drop the car off. We have to drop it off at 3.30. Our flight wasn't until 9 o'clock, so... Dropped off the car at 3.30, hung out in a little tiny airport in Newburgh that had like a convenience store that was under construction and like three little tables we found to sit at. And they wouldn't let us check our bags because the airport's so small.
00:35:50
Speaker
So we couldn't get upstairs to the beer and the actual food and all that. So we just sat there. okay We didn't even, since our flight got pushed four times, we didn't even get upstairs until fucking 7.30. I think they finally took our bags.
00:36:04
Speaker
We didn't get on the plane until 10 o'clock. Because your flight was pushed, you couldn't check in? Nope. That doesn't make any sense. Surely if little you just check in. I can check in for my flight and have my ticket, but they wouldn't take our checked luggage. The counters wouldn't open for our flight until 7.30.
00:36:23
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And I had to check our luggage because we got a tool bag and obviously in not going to take a tool bag as a carry on.
00:36:30
Speaker
Man, that sucks ass. That sucked. Yeah. But yeah, that was that trip. I mean, it wasn't too bad. um i got to hang out a little bit. saw some friends, some of the guys from the nonprofit I was in came out and said, hey, what's up?
00:36:43
Speaker
I'll probably see cast the next trip up. Nice. Yeah, it'd be fine. You didn't see your folks around Nah, they're like an hour and a half away, but I didn't have, I wasn't allowed to get my own rental car. So if I took the car, Scott was my dude, Scott, that I was there from work.
00:36:59
Speaker
He's a really cool guy actually, but he was like, you could take the car. I'm like, and leave you fucking stranded. Like, that's not cool, man. I thought about my friends all my my old friend who I was in a band with. His band played about an hour and a half away. I thought about seeing if I could get into that show, and but I was like, I don't want to drive an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back.
00:37:19
Speaker
So I was like, I'm not even going to ask. So I just spent a lot of time. There was times where Scott would be like, ah let's go get food or something just because we didn't want to sit in our hotel rooms alone. So we'd go sit at somewhere and drink beer.
00:37:35
Speaker
So, no other crack? No, man, not really. I mean, like I said, haven't been paying too... I mean, i know what's going on, but I'm not, like, as focused as I have been just because I've been doing much other stuff.
00:37:47
Speaker
I'm trying to avoid it. little mental health time for you? Yeah, pretty much. It's fucking depressing. It is. so it is.
00:37:58
Speaker
It is, but I mean... Kind of got to know what's going on. Like a friend of mine is going to go to the protest. I'm like, what do are you doing Saturday? I'm like, I'm going to sit on my ass. What are you, what what's going on? I'm like, oh there's a protest. I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to that.
00:38:12
Speaker
Have you seen this shit China have been doing? Which shit, exactly, because they've been doing lot of shit. So tariffy tariff, tariff, tariff. Yep.
00:38:24
Speaker
And all the Chinese, mine basically the Chinese government went, manufacturers, have
Luxury Brands and Consumer Trends
00:38:29
Speaker
at it. We're not going to argue with you. And they've basically been telling people, basically telling people, and like, we make the Hermes bags and they're sent to Italy to be packaged up.
00:38:47
Speaker
Yep. I saw that. And we make them for a hundred dollars and they sell them for 5,000. And here's how you buy them direct. Yeah. i was gonna say, I saw people doing the direct buy too. Yep.
00:39:01
Speaker
And they're doing it left, right and center. They're doing it with everything. They should be. And that is funny as fuck. It's real fucking funny. All that shit being exposed.
00:39:13
Speaker
Yeah. Although high people don't know that. i've no idea. People don't want to know that.
00:39:22
Speaker
You know what I mean? They want to think that stuff they're buying that's super expensive is special. I know. Well, to be fair, let me let me rephrase that. Because it is special to them if they're buying It means something to them, even if it's just a class thing. It means something to them. I don't mean to yeah belittle people, but it's just not. you're not ah You're not as special little snowflake as you thought.
00:39:44
Speaker
That's all. Which, whatever, man.
00:39:50
Speaker
I just...
00:39:55
Speaker
I just think that stuff's ridiculous. I wear the same four or five t-shirts everywhere. Some of them are really thinned out. So it is what it is. um I'm not interested in that. If I need a new t-shirt, I'll design one.
00:40:08
Speaker
That's the way I think about things. I went to order some shirts from a lifting place, like a gym. They're really well-known powerlifting gym. I really like their shirts. I went to order it. I'm like, oh, their shirts are on sale. I go to checkout.
00:40:19
Speaker
They only have like FedEx or UPS or something. The shipping was like more than some of the t-shirts cost. And I was like, oh, fuck this shit. I'm not buying that. Like, why don't you have a post office version of mailing for like a flat rate?
00:40:33
Speaker
I'm not paying like $40 in shirts to pay $30 in shipping. Like, fuck off.
00:40:42
Speaker
So Siobhan just sent me a message. Yeah. It's been Siobhan show tonight. It has been a Siobhan show. She will be happy. I'll see. This is what true love is. She just sent me a message and said I just farted.
00:40:57
Speaker
What does say? She said, I just farted and it turned to me. I don't even want to waft the covers.
00:41:08
Speaker
Well, you're in that part of your relationship now.
00:41:13
Speaker
And I said, I'm about to read that out. She went, you're still doing the podcast? I went, yep. I'm just going to think twice before she tells you anything now. No, she won't.
00:41:24
Speaker
No, she won't. I know she won't. That's funny. That's really funny. Yeah. You know what's bad whenever you don't even like your own brand? ah jesus Yeah, that's a little rough.
00:41:43
Speaker
Jesus, things are fucked up right now. I'm fucking tired. ah What else has been going on, man? um and Nothing, really. i Just kind of same old, same old.
00:41:55
Speaker
How are things in Ireland and in Europe looking over at this nonsense that we have going on? I mean... Just like the average people. i'm not I know you're not paying attention to news and stuff, but...
00:42:07
Speaker
mostly...
00:42:13
Speaker
are y'all doing over there? What? Is it mostly like the fuck are you those idiots doing over there? Pretty much. Oh, okay. yeah That's normal. And then we're kind of looking at our politicians going, tell this guy to fuck off.
00:42:27
Speaker
You're looking at your politicians going, No. Yeah, pretty much. No. yeah And I mean, to be honest, most of them are. most of them are going, who cares?
00:42:38
Speaker
Yeah. You know? um It's been really different this time because last time people were afraid of him and now this time they're like, eh, I don't care. The thing is, the me and the main exports of America to Europe really that affect our daily lives e is tech.
00:42:59
Speaker
And tech-related services, Google, Microsoft, all of those things. Yeah, that makes sense. But Google and Microsoft's fucking main base is in Ireland.
00:43:14
Speaker
It's not in America. I know. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it makes sense. So it doesn't really affect us. To a certain extent. And he goes, you don't want to buy our cars. I'm like, no, we don't. No shit.
00:43:30
Speaker
People are starting to, look well, people that are paying attention are starting to learn that America doesn't have the sway that everyone likes to pretend we do. Yeah. And it's just moderately infuriating.
00:43:46
Speaker
and But it's good to see, it's actually pushing a lot of the European countries closer together, which is interesting. It's also pushing people towards China. is what Well, yeah, the the stuff of the the the China diplomat basically going, we don't care.
00:44:05
Speaker
Yeah. China's been here for 5,000 years. We'd be here for 5,000 more. Yeah. And it's like, fuck it. Well, I mean, they people are European. kind There's a bunch of different places that are like just like, well, these idiots in America are unstable, so we're just going to go to China now. Yeah, that's the thing.
00:44:24
Speaker
You know? It's kind of interesting. So, this is this is something interesting I did see. Well, let me rephrase. I would like to point out, everybody knows it's not the American people.
00:44:37
Speaker
I know. Motherfucker, I was in the middle of a point, but yeah. I i hope you guys know. Yeah. I saw somebody that did the math on if America made an iPhone from start to finish, like scraps to end product.
00:44:51
Speaker
And they they did the math, and I guess it would cost something like $30,000 if it was 100% American-made. Yeah, but you couldn't do it. You don't have disturb don't have the minerals for a start. we don't mate Well, you know't I don't want them to do the minerals here because that shit's toxic as hell.
00:45:07
Speaker
Yeah. I don't really want them to do it anywhere, but since we... But I mean, technology and also you don't have the...
00:45:14
Speaker
You just don't have the the skill. We have the skill. we don't want the toxicity here. It's not fuck all to do with it. I don't think you have the skill.
00:45:27
Speaker
To do what? To mine? No, no. You have the skill to mine. You don't have the skill for the engineering and the... Oh, we totally have the skill for the engineering. Dude, all we do here is end-stage products.
00:45:39
Speaker
We take all the little stuff and we know how all the little stuff works and we just keep making bigger and more fancier things out of it. You can't do that without knowing the baseline stuff. I can't hear you all of a sudden.
00:45:50
Speaker
Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. not Not for the volume that they have it in China? Well, just to mean... Just not possible? Well, i don't I don't think we have the population of China.
00:46:02
Speaker
Well, no, you don't. and So, that alone... Or the skill base? Or the educated skill base? I don't necessarily agree with that fully. You should. Your education system's fucked.
00:46:13
Speaker
It is, but considering a lot of the people that do the smartest things are immigrants here, I don't really rely on just the... Well, you know, they're not fucking hanging about. They're getting kicked out. Some of them are. Some Americans are getting kicked forbid you had any kind of funny-colored skin.
00:46:27
Speaker
You're fucked. Some Americans are getting... I know. Getting getting grabbed, too, now. Just going full bore. Yeah. All in. It's going great. Good times. Good fucking times.
00:46:42
Speaker
Yeah. the next time I fly to America, I'm going to have to bring a printout of what my tattoos are.
00:46:50
Speaker
Your skin's not dark enough for you to worry about it. I don't think that's strictly true. you I hate to say that out loud, but it's just the way things are. I honestly don't think that's true because people are getting fucking, there's all, that's a gang tattoo. And it's like, that's a photograph of my child. What are you talking about?
00:47:06
Speaker
That's true. But all those people have been darker than you and from countries south of us. Hmm.
00:47:13
Speaker
Please point to the Irish people that are being shipped off to anywhere because of a tattoo right now. It's not not it's not because you're Irish or you're tattooed, unfortunately.
00:47:25
Speaker
There's plenty of Irish illegal immigrants in America as well. I'll tell you that for free. I know some ah some some i know an an illegal immigrant of the lighter skin persuasion from your sort of area of the world.
00:47:37
Speaker
e Don't really see many of them getting hassled right now.
00:47:46
Speaker
They will if they go anywhere near a fucking plane.
00:47:50
Speaker
Maybe, maybe not. Slap on the wrist like ah the usual privilege.
00:47:59
Speaker
It's fucked, my friend. There's a lot of fucked up shit going on. yeah What was that about right to bear arms? A well-maintained militia to hold the government to task? Is that not something to do with the fucking Second Amendment rights?
00:48:18
Speaker
We're not going have that conversation right now. Is that not the point, though? little bit. Yeah. little bit. Fucking tell you. tyrannical government. This is the time you should be using the second amendment, but they, you know, there's not enough alcohol in the world.
00:48:40
Speaker
That's for damn sure. 2025. That's the truth. Um, yeah, man, I don't know. It's been, I've just been so busy. I haven't been able to focus on much. I've been working. i think I did a final mix on a song going to put out.
00:48:57
Speaker
Um, nice. Dude, I love, i came across, I was just listening to it before you came here, actually, on TikTok, this this ah this electronic electronic duo named Aroya.
00:49:12
Speaker
don't know where they're from, but I saw a clip of them on like TikTok. i don't know if it's real or not because you can't really tell but it's like them like basically writing a song kind of like you know what i mean like she's singing and then like start he's like no no do this and then she sings what he's like saying you should she should sing and then they turn it into a song kind of yeah which is loosely how things can happen but you know whatever it's it's a cool song and it's really catchy so i was listening to that so i found them that was pretty cool to find that stupid thing got stuck in my head for like weeks Nice. I wrote a song today with Zoe.
00:49:46
Speaker
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Did you record it so I can master it for you? it's It's just a loop at the moment we made it. I i bought a ah MIDI keyboard, a full-size keyboard. Oh, a full-size one? It's an Evolution
00:50:01
Speaker
MK461C. MKUltra? What? Yeah. and But we were I had it set up to today, just tested it out, and it turned on Logic, and made some loops, and she put some stuff in, and then I quantized it and moved it around, and we made a loop together. It's it's it's kind of fucking weird 80s noir. It's fucking hilarious.
00:50:24
Speaker
That's pretty cool. And then she was sitting singing along it, and I'm going to try and record what she was singing along to it, and then we'll ill I'll put it into a fucking more song-based structure.
00:50:37
Speaker
That's pretty cool. It was kind of interesting. that pretty That was fun. and Yeah, I like that shit. It's good. Yeah, that's pretty damn cool, man.
00:50:49
Speaker
Yeah. Doing music. She's a good wee voice. So she does. And we'll try and get it recorded at this age. It's pretty good. Yeah, I keep saying. I don't have a good voice, but I just keep singing anyway.
00:51:01
Speaker
Yeah, I know. It's terrible. Fuck it. Well, the reality is I'm just too impatient to wait for somebody else to do it. Fair enough. I like it, boys. It's good.
00:51:13
Speaker
Thanks. and Makes me hard. You mentioned that. I don't know how I feel about that right now.
00:51:22
Speaker
Yeah. I don't want Siobhan to get jealous because she's definitely going to listen to this one. Yeah. No, here, I had an idea. idea See these two-handers that we do? The two handers. When it's just me and you.
00:51:33
Speaker
Yeah. We should maybe play. do you know the wee clips I recorded of the kids answering the questions? Yeah. Play one of the kids. And then the next time we do two hander, play another one of the kids and I'll keep recording them.
00:51:47
Speaker
Yeah. We could do shorts with them too. Yeah. That might be a good idea. You can me TikToks with them as ah little little TikToks or something with them. Yeah. Do you know mean? Just putting them at the end of the show where just me and you chatting, talking shit.
00:52:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. For sure. Might be interesting. Yeah, they're funny. Dude, their your kids are fucking hilarious. I love them. Yeah, so you have two so far, and I'll i'll record a few more with the other kids in the family and stuff, asking them the questions and see, because I think it's it's cute to hear what their thoughts are at this age.
00:52:21
Speaker
Yeah, I got to go dig those clips out of our chat, too. I have them. again I can email them over to you anyway.
00:52:31
Speaker
All right. Well... I guess we're done for this week and nice little, nice little short show of us just catching up and trying to fill you in and having a little conversation about life and things we've been doing. Um, I'm going to try to get a guest and get one this week.
00:52:48
Speaker
Be good. And I'll try to edit it. I have a busy weekend coming up, but I can probably edit it before I take off. That'd be pretty cool. Uh, then we'll have one in the bag ready to go.
00:52:59
Speaker
So try to get somebody for that. Okay. Cool. There's not enough alcohol in the world. You're going ask the question or you're going to let me off?
00:53:16
Speaker
2025.
00:53:19
Speaker
Yeah. What's the mindless thing this week? It's so difficult. ah Um, I started cleaning out my backyard from all the leaves and branches that fell from the ah storms over the last year.
00:53:33
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Nice.
Personal Updates and Leisure Activities
00:53:34
Speaker
Yeah, I guess. I also did mechanical things with fake humans, simulated humans. was great. What about you? Kind of similar. I cut my grass.
00:53:45
Speaker
That's pretty good. i cleaned out the hot tub refilled it, got it ready. And had a night in it with the girls. There you go. Had a good time.
00:53:58
Speaker
They loved it. They were like, yeah, baby. I'm sure they did. Yeah, they love it. It's good. And then we had two weeks of nice sunshine. And now it's fucking rainy and pissy and cold again. Oh, it's heading toward 90 degrees down here. Yeah, you go fuck yourself. Yeah, we're going melt.
00:54:16
Speaker
Fucking shit. Alright everybody, we're out of here. Thanks for listening. We'll get some guests on soon again. Thanks for listening to our little catch up. Talk to you guys soon. Have a good week. We love you all.
00:54:26
Speaker
Bye. There's not enough alcohol in the world.
00:54:36
Speaker
To satiate my thirst. Oh no. There's not enough alcohol in the world.