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Speaker: morning. How you doing, sir? What's going on, man? Oh, I just wanted to see what's up. Well, I got my drink ready. I got my cigarettes ready. I got my family because it's 10 ,000 degrees in this room because you're not in Mexico. Of course it's. Oh man. No idea. Well, I set up
Speaker: in my room where I have, I literally laid out, I'm laying on the bed. I set up a whole bunch of clean clothes on the bed to counteract any echoing. And I have the bedroom door closed. There's a glass door that I have a curtain in front of, light off everything. It's like, not pitch dark in here, but the sun is right on the wall in front of me.
Speaker: And it's just lazing in here without the fan. Well, you'll have to pardon any noise you may hear. I do live on a main road. Unfortunately, there's a lot of traffic that goes, goes through here. I'm not even worried about that. But anyway, so, I mean, I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but this is a real thing. So this is the very first episode. Oh,
Speaker: nonsensical nonsense. I mean, this is, this is a real deal, you know, moving forward. I mean, I'm pretty, I'm pretty stoked about it. I don't, I don't know how you're feeling about it. Oh, I've been dreaming about this ever since I heard the first ever episode of Kevin Smith's podcast. And I was like, and I was always like, Oh, I would love to do a podcast. And this is like, I would love to do a podcast, but who would I do it with?
Speaker: You know, and when we both found out that we both like doing podcasts and talking endless hours of shit, pretty much. And it's very easy for both of us, Lord. How many times just in the last few weeks have we gone off on tangents for an entire day? Well, my wife yelled at me yesterday because you and I wouldn't stop talking. Just sending messages back and forth.
Speaker: Yeah, she'll have to get used to it. I mean, I don't think we'll ever be on the level of Kevin Smith or anything like that. I mean, we're just too dumb. We are too dumb. Just like the rant. I was explaining the concept of nonsensical nonsense to my mother yesterday.
Speaker: Oh, Lord. And you met my mother, I think once, once or twice. A long, long, long time ago. I think it was like graduation. Yeah, it was graduation day. Yeah. And for those of you who don't know, Glick and I have known each other for, what, 24, 25 years?
Speaker: Yeah, about 25 years now we've known each other. And so I was explaining to my mother yesterday, I said, you know, Glick and I are starting this podcast and she's like, okay, what's a podcast? I said, well, it's basically a radio show. She's like, that's perfect because you two idiots will just talk for days.
Speaker: And I said, exactly. She's like, it's probably nothing I want to listen to. Yeah. Well, it's not like it's going to be anything. It's not like we're going to go. I said, well, we're not going to go crazy filthy. I'm sure there's times we will, but it's not our main goal. Um, like for instance, we were talking about the Batman thing yesterday and, and so did you see it?
Speaker: I'm actually, uh, I'm, I'm pretty impressed and it looks like it's going to be good. Right. I was like, you know, I saw it and I mentioned it to you and we went on a real rant there about the different Batmans. And of course, like we said, Keaton is king. Well, and that's because we're old too. I mean, the older generation like us, we're going to automatically Keaton is our Batman, you know? Right. Well, actually, um, Zach.
Speaker: Zach Efron and, um, Joe Rogan actually do a little speech about that in that movie neighbors or bad neighbors or whatever. Um, where he's like, my generation's Batman is key. And Efron's like, mine's bail. You know? Well, if, if you really want to get technical, our Batman is Adam West.
Speaker: Yeah, we're not that old, but he, you know, I remember as a kid before, you know, the, uh, can I remember, I do remember, um, my being at a family reunion and my uncle had Batman on VHS. Okay. That, that a, that dates me a little bit. And I think I was maybe.
Speaker: what was it, 89, something like that. And my cousins and I freaked out. We had to see it because none of us had seen it yet. And we freaked out and had to see it. Oh yeah. And, uh, about four or five years ago, I bought the DVD set of all, like even Clooney, you know, the Clooney Batman. I mean, those were okay for what they were. They went down that real campy. Yeah.
Speaker: Kind of the Adam West Batman. It was real campy. Well, well, you got to remember though. I mean, when, when Jim Carrey was playing Joe, uh, was it Riddler? It was everywhere. Oh yeah. Well, they, they, they, um, Oh, what's the word I'm looking for? They commercialized it. Uh, like McDonald's and stuff like that. Uh, they had to go a little bit silly where,
Speaker: Christopher I think was Christopher Nolan I could be wrong when he brought in the Christian Bale Batman They went that darker edgier, which is what this man looks like or oh my god Yeah Like at one point you see Batman punching dude that's on the ground the guy's already on the ground and You know Robert Pattinson as Batman Knocking the shit out of this dude in the face
Speaker: Yeah, it looks pretty dark. I mean, it does look pretty dark. So I like that aspect of it that they're actually. But my big problem with the whole Ben Affleck as Batman was there wasn't enough of him. A lot of people aren't going to like what I'm about to say, but they'll get over it. I personally, I love Ben Affleck as Batman. I thought he was perfect dude.
Speaker: He one of those guys I would watch take a shit. Well, I wouldn't go that far. But he was a guy that captured. He captured both the Batman side and the Bruce Wayne side. So perfectly. Yeah. Where even Christian Bale, I didn't really care for his Batman, but he he wasn't able to differentiate the two the two characters.
Speaker: Yeah. Even as Bruce Wayne, he was like, Oh, I'm, I'm pissy. And I don't want to do anything. I was like, dude, you're fucking Bruce Wayne. You got to be apart. So, uh, which, you know, again, when speaking of Batman and Ben Affleck, I guess there's a big petition that a lot of the actors, um, Zack Snyder and everything want to want to do an actual Ben Affleck Batman movie and, um,
Speaker: continue the DCU, but make it the Zack Snyder DCU, which after the Zack Snyder kind of Justice League, I don't know if you've seen that yet or not. It is a four hour long movie. And I'm telling you at the end of that movie, you are, don't even realize you just sat there for four hours and you want, you want more, you want so much more. Now see, what was your take on Suicide Squad, the first one?
Speaker: I liked it. But growing up, yeah, growing up, I used to, I used to read Suicide Squad movies, started on movies, the comics. So I enjoyed it. And I liked what they did with it. I liked the characters that they brought in. I'm a little, I've seen trailers for the new Suicide Squad 2. I'm a little torn. I'm not, I'm not into it yet. Yeah, I'm not a hundred percent sold. I've seen it talk about eating dicks on a beach is hilarious.
Speaker: And, you know, Margot Robbie, she's another one. You put her on film reading a phone book. I'm in. Oh yeah. Yeah. She's, she's a really good actress. I mean, it's kind of like them nailing Joe Godot as, as Wonder Woman. You know, I'm not, how do I say it without pissing everybody in the world off? I'm not a huge fan of hers. I don't know what it is. I'm just, it took me, it took me a minute.
Speaker: to, to, to like her, uh, basically because, I mean, again, going back to that's being, we sound like such nerds right now. Um, we remember the, the one woman, uh, television show with Linda Carter. Yeah. Linda Carter was bad up until just recently, she has always been Wonder Woman.
Speaker: to anybody and everybody. Now, now we've got this where, you know, you look down the line as Batman goes, you've had Keaton and Clooney and Kilmer. I thought Kilmer did a decent job. He's the movie kind of like, eh, but Kilmer was awesome. The movies were dumb, but about Kilmer is a great actor. Looking back at those movies, I'm like, wow, what the hell were we into?
Speaker: I told you, man, it was that commercialization. That's why those movies went the way they went, because they could sell them. I mean, they could, especially to kids. Yeah, they, I mean, they could sell it to kids. So even McDonald's got involved back then. I mean, if you remember correctly, all the happy meals had had. I went, I used to go to McDonald's. I didn't, I didn't even eat happy meals anymore, but I wanted the Batman.
Speaker: Now the stuff they sell on Happy Meals is like, really? Well, you know, just recently, I mean, I don't know how it hits you guys down there, but just recently, um, they had Pokemon carts and the Happy Meals. I have Pokemon. Blew, blew up again. I don't know much about it. I've never known anything about Pokemon. I've never, I've never been a fan. Although, um, my, my kid has Pokemon Go on my phone. Um, but
Speaker: I just, I don't get the con. I, my wife loves anime. She's got, she's got a Dragon Ball Z tattoos. Oh Jesus. Right. I mean, I never really got into anime. I think it's, I think it's our generation just as like, really?
Speaker: I got it when I was younger, but it was a little bit different back then than what it is now. I mean, my boys are on that Pokemon thing right now. They've got cards coming out of their asses. They got so many cards. It's ridiculous. Well, I mean, technically we were into anime, but we were into Transformers because technically Transformers is anime. Well, back then it wasn't. Now it is. Now it is. It originated in Japan.
Speaker: Yeah, all of our cartoons that we grew up with are now have been even Scooby, man. And they completely would Scooby. Although Matthew Lillard in the Scooby -Doo as Shaggy. Holy shit. Those Scooby -Doo movies were awesome. Matthew Lillard just he's he's never going to be anything more than Shaggy from from now on.
Speaker: Unfortunately because yes, he did that movie with what was that? What the aliens and the What was Jason Lee was in it the Oh, I don't know with the the dreamcatcher We're talking 98 99 something like that. Yeah
Speaker: He was he was amazing in that movie and then he did Scooby -Doo and he just he can't get back on track. He's just like Yeah, don't forget he was in screen yeah, he was I I always expect him to be the next Ryan Reynolds. I
Speaker: Yeah, the way the way he acted in Scream, you know, that that but wait, there's more, you know, and I was like, that dude's gonna be the next Ryan Reynolds. And then he just he's done a ton of movies. I mean, he used to do a lot of I think he did a lot of those goofy teen movies, like she's all that or whatever. I think she did that movie without a paddle. That movie, that movie cracks me up. There's nothing funnier than
Speaker: then Bert Reynolds sitting there going, doing a dynamite. I lost it when Seth Green was sitting there doing a dynamite. This is the problem we run into. We start ranting and rambling about nonsense, but I really wanted to take a minute to just kind of let people kind of
Speaker: get a feeling for
Speaker: Yeah. My oldest is six and three that I know of. Let's put it that way. You sounded like maybe I have three. My oldest is 16. She lives in Mexico city with her mother. Um, and my youngest is five and my middle one is 10. I got 16. Well, so we'll just say 16, 12, seven, or eight and seven.
Speaker: Um, you need a TV. I need more than two. Why do you think I drink? Yeah. So, you know, we're both dads for, uh, while we're close to 40. We actually met, um, oddly by chance, cause we didn't go to the same high school, technically. No, no, we, uh, we went to a career center trade center. Nope. But.
Speaker: Your original school was? Oh Jesus. East Knox. Thank you. I was sitting there trying to think of it the other day when I was talking to my mom and I went to Clear Fork and which is a good, what? 45 minute drive from each other. Yeah, I think they're about, yeah, about 45 and this is such a timeframe, but like 45 minutes to like an hour and some change, you know, they're, they're a good distance away from each other. And
Speaker: To explain to those that don't know what the career center was, it was, I want to say five or six schools. Oh no, we had, Oh Lord. There was Mount Vernon, Clear Fork, Frederick town, Dan'sville, East Knox, and what am I forgetting? Centerberg. I said it's Frederick town. Yeah.
Speaker: There's another maybe one or two more schools, but I could be wrong. I don't know man. It's been so long ago Say six maybe seven. I mean, it's just it was a trade center was the JBS Yes, and how they work Well, you gotta remember I have people listening down here and Sorry, I forgot your third world country there's seven schools that
Speaker: If it was just one school, there wouldn't be enough students. So, and you went there and learned to trade it. And we took, I want to say, I want to be nice about it. And we took one of the dumbest ones. I think we took a good one. I mean, we took a great one because it was a building trades and it was basically a small bit of every little thing.
Speaker: It was a jack of all trades class. Yeah, basically. And basically, if you give us the material, we can build a house from scratch. Exactly. There was a problem for me. The problem for me is I think I learned maybe five things that I didn't know in two years. And that does not mean being arrogant. That's me
Speaker: I've been working with pools since I'm what, five years old? Well, you know, we all learned one very important lesson. Yeah. Well, we learned that lesson too, but we learned a very important lesson when we was in school. And that was when you're working with concrete. We did.
Speaker: I would say easily multiple miles of concrete laying. We did so much. We did so much concrete work. We might've, it might've blows, but yeah. Well, we did the whole pad out behind our, our, our, our shop. We did that. How deep was that? It was like almost a foot and a half. Yeah. Yeah. We were about 16 inches. Um, and then we did the entire children's playground.
Speaker: Yeah, we did all that sidewalks. We did a bunch. I mean, I just, I remember Tinney that was like just screaming at us. Oh my God. We did. We did the ice skating, right? The principal had, he was having like a, an expansion on his basement or something. He was expanding on his house. And I remember we went out to his, his house.
Speaker: and everybody complaining because he was dipping and we couldn't smoke. And we built, we did what? We did what? Two houses for Habitat for Humanity when we were there? Yeah, something like that. Plus the houses that Tinney was working on. Tinney, oh, he was, he was contracted. Yeah. Fucking true labor. Slave labor, man. Right? I was like, that's kind of like road crew, prison, Shawshank Redemption kind of shit.
Speaker: That's like, that's like the poor Chinese kids working in sweatshops is what it was. I'm sitting there telling you a bill. No, right. I want, I want, I want my $15 an hour. I want my reimbursement, you son of a bitch. But, um, I remember Tinney standing up. He had to be 12 feet higher than me standing above a wall.
Speaker: And I'm drilling a hole and he's sitting there telling me that I'm not drilling straight down. I'm drilling at an angle. And I just remember getting so pissed. I'm like, dude, if you don't think I'm doing it correctly, by all means walk your ass down here and drill it yourself. I know, I know there was a lot of side projects our senior year that I, that I missed because I was already working at that time.
Speaker: I was working... Yeah, you were cozying, right? Yeah, Steven and I were at Cozying. Somebody else was at Cozying with us. Might have been Brad. Was it Jen, though? Didn't Jen work at Cozying for a short time? I might have been. I think Jen was there, too. I know there was just a couple of us. No, see, I never went to Cozying for the simple fact I was against everything mainstream back then.
Speaker: You know what I mean? That's the crazy thing about the Career Center because you and I could not be any more polar opposites when we met. Even now to this day, I mean, even though we can ramble and rant about anything and everything, we're still both polar opposites. Back in high school, you were kind of a, actually, in all honesty, we thought you were a little bit on the fruity side,
Speaker: but you were also like a punk. You were like, you were also kind of, I don't know, punk anti -establishment. I wouldn't say pussy, but you never did participate in any of the slugfest that we had. Well, I'm sorry, in the locker room while changing, you guys wanted to duke it out. I was like, that's just a little gay. You guys called me fruity. It's not like we were making, having boxing matches.
Speaker: You make it sound like there was like 15 guys all making just punching each other Just going at it. Yeah It was like, you know what? I just want to get my shit on and get the fuck out there. Mm -hmm shit over with because that was Thing that I did like about the classes like I'm not a book person. I I'm so no But
Speaker: If I'm working with my hands, you show me how to do something, I can do it. Yeah, I'm very hands -on when I'm learning something. Somebody asked me if I can build something. I'm like, look, between me and YouTube, I can build anything. Because there's somebody on... Speaking of building stuff, I mean, you're doing those 3D wall hanging things. I'm still waiting on my Thor's hammer. I'm not going to pay for it, but I mean, I'm waiting on it.
Speaker: Well, the, the medium is not art. The shipping is not easy. How does the shipping work for you being down there in Mexico? And if you're trying to ship to the States. Well, shipping to the States is actually not difficult. Uh, first I have to know where it's going. So I need an address and then I have to weigh it and measure everything and then take it over FedEx. And then they'll tell me how much. So it's basically the same thing as if I'm shipping.
Speaker: You know, something from, from here to my girlfriend down in Tennessee, it's all based off of the size and everything. Yeah. It's everything's the same. The difference is I can't do overnight. Oh, really? Well, yeah, that makes sense because it has to go through customs and all that fun shit. Yeah. But like, if I order something off of eBay, I can't get it next day.
Speaker: How long does it normally take for shipping for you? I mean, is it like a normal three to five days? Well, it depends. It takes about three to five, yeah, something like that. I don't use eBay. I use an eBay equivalent called Mercado Libre. I know Mercado. Yeah, I know what that is. Yeah, it's basically Mexican eBay. It's literally, if you go onto eBay and scroll all the way down to the bottom, you can switch countries. And if you click Mexico, it sends you to Mercado Libre.
Speaker: Yeah. So I use that mainly because it automatically switches it to pesos. So I can easily go, yeah, I can afford that, or how much is that? And then it takes, like I said, the last thing I ordered was the yellow drill press that I have, and it took three days.
Speaker: So you mean by this point, you've been down to Mexico, what, 20 years now? 20 years or something like that? Yeah, well, it's actually 19. In February of next year will be 20 years. Oh, and don't think we're going to slide past that. We're going to get into that discussion in one of these days about why the hell your ass is in Mexico and still been in Mexico. It's actually, actually is a quick, easy story. I think you're running from the wall. I moved out. Yeah. I'm just running like you read about. No, actually I came down, um, after high school, I, uh,
Speaker: I got, I met a guy and he offered me a job working in his tattoo shop. I met a guy in Mexico. That's the equivalent of I put him in, in Mansfield. I actually, I was working at step two, you know, making the step two products and a bunch of us, we worked third shift. Well, when we got off work, I wanted to get an eyebrow ring. I don't know why, but I wanted an eyebrow ring. A friend of mine wanted a, uh,
Speaker: a lip ring and somebody wanted a nose ring and some, all this stuff. So the four of us, I think it was four or five of us piled in a car and went to tattoo shop. And this guy shows up and he pierces us and everything we pay and get ready to head out. And he's, he's like, you know, guys, it's like six o 'clock in the fucking morning. You called me to get in here at six o 'clock in the morning. Why? You know, I was like, well, we worked third shift. And he says, well,
Speaker: If anybody wants to work normal hours, I have job opening. I'm like, I'm down for that. So I started working for him, cleaning the shop, learning how to do body piercing, got certified body piercing. He asked me to open up the shop in Mexico during spring break. And he was like, I'll pay you this much. And I'll, you know, you load everything up, you go down, the shop's already set up. You get there, set everything up and start selling.
Speaker: I was like, all right. So I loaded up the car and came down. And then about a year of that, and he realized that one of the locals that was born and raised here would work cheaper. So he fired me. He let me go nicely. He's like, you know, you're kind of expensive and blah, blah, blah. I was like, all right, cool. Whatever, man. At the time I was already dating a girl, not my wife, but a different girl.
Speaker: So I was like, well, I'm going to stay. And I found another job. It turns out the people that he hired stole everything. Oh, she screwed him out. They like, they like stole all his equipment and everything. Just all his equipment. Never paid him a dime and disappeared. And he was like, Oh, I want you to resupply all the equipment. I want you to come back. Cause cause when I was running up, he never missed a dime.
Speaker: You know, uh, he was, I pulled in like two, $3 ,000 a day profit after paying me and the shop and everything else. Well, you're down there in Cancun, aren't you? What's that? You're down in Cancun, aren't you? Yeah. So yeah, that, that tour, it's tour spots in spring break. You guys are going to make a lot of break. Well, back then I was doing, I didn't do the, I don't do tattoos, but I did the piercings and, uh,
Speaker: Back then it was the belly ring was everybody had to have a belly ring and I was doing 50, 60 of them a day and my cost was $1 .50 and I would charge like $40 and I would have people lined up down the block in an area where there was 15 other piercing and tattoo joints. They would be lined up. Why? Because there's an American there.
Speaker: that speaks perfect English and look super clean and, you know, all that fun shit. So he, he wanted me to come back to work for him. And I, in the nicest way possible, told him, go where to stick it. I said, why? So he can fucking fire me again. Fuck you. Yeah. Right. And, and you know, like I said, I was dating my then girlfriend and then her and I broke up and I was getting ready to leave and I met another girl.
Speaker: And then, you know, uh, I dated that girl for five, six years and then I met my wife and the rest was history. At this point I've lived in the States and Mexico the same amount of time. Yeah. I was going to say, now have you, have you been home to, uh, to, uh, to visit at all or anything like that? Since you, since you've gone down there? I've gone back, uh, I think twice.
Speaker: two or three times. The reason why I don't go back is it cost me more to go there than it does for you to come here. Well, it's yeah, I didn't say it's, it's, I mean, it's super inexpensive to vacation down there. I mean, I've looked at it in the past. But for me to get a flight round trip from here to there and then back to here is more extensive than for you to get a flight from there to here and back to there. Yeah.
Speaker: How hard is it? How hard is it? Because I've never traveled outside of the States. So if you fly in or anything like that, do you have to deal with the border? I guess border patrol or anything. I've seen what people drive through. Let's say I drove it. And driving it was an interesting thing. That's a story for another day because it's a very long one. That is a long ass drive.
Speaker: It is a week and a half. It takes a week and a half to drive from Mexico to Ohio. It took a day, less than 24 hours to get from Ohio to the border, going through Texas. But Mexico, now you got to remember, I also didn't speak Spanish at the time. You still don't read
Speaker: I do speak Spanish. I speak more Spanish than you. I'm sure you do. I'm sure you do. And you've lived there for over 20 years. I get my point. The thing is, is like when you fly in, uh, the, as soon as you land, the first thing you do is you come through immigration as you're getting off the plane.
Speaker: And you have to fill out, well before you land even, they give you a Visa card to fill out. And the Visa is instantaneous. Where if my wife wanted to go to the States, she has to go and ask for a Visa. It's a like three week process. So are you still considered an American citizen?
Speaker: Yes. Yes. But I have what's called, I have an FM two, which is a, uh, permanent residency. So I can basically do everything that a Mexican can do with the exception of owning, uh, with voting. I'm not allowed to vote. FM two is something totally different up here in the States. That's about radio. Yeah. That's not this.
Speaker: but like, um, I could apply for Mexican citizenship, but there, it costs like $2 ,000 or something like that. And there's a test and everything, but there's no benefit to it for me. Um, because unlike everyone, most people, like for instance, if you came down here and you lived here for five years and you got your permanent residency,
Speaker: you would have to renew it every year at the cost of like, I think it's like $150. I do not have to renew mine, because my kids are half Mexican. So where if as a single person with no kids, no Mexican kids, you would have to renew it every year. So getting the citizenship would make sense because you don't have
Speaker: every time you say, every time you say Mexican, I'm like, Oh, we're gonna be canceled. I still have that. I still have that negative concentration when I say it. Yeah. It's like, it's our first episode and we're about to get canceled because this jackass keeps saying Mexican. But it's, it's,
Speaker: It's not I'm not saying it derogatory. No saying it's a stated fact that I live in Mexico surrounded by Mexico. It's just the world we live in. Trust me, I've said a whole hell of a lot worse in my lives. I mean, I've got several friends that are that are Hispanic and I've gone on
Speaker: ridiculous rants and had horrible Mexican accents and everything else and broken Spanish that I speak. If memory serves correctly, your sister who actually did building trades after us, is she not Hispanic? Two of my sisters
Speaker: are both their biological sperm donor was Mexican. Because they were actually they were actually they were actually both born in Texas. So yeah, their biological sperm donor is is Mexican. So yeah, but I mean, yeah, I mean, so that that that I I've always thought about that, but never it's never dawned on me to ask you. Yeah. You know, I don't know.
Speaker: Cause I met your sister only once when we were doing that, uh, where the schools were coming in, we were doing a little show and tell of what we do in building trades. Yeah. And we tried to convince her not to take building trades. Oh yeah. We convinced, we convinced a lot of people not to. Yeah, not her. But, uh, yeah, it was, it's a, it's an interesting concept when you move down here.
Speaker: the a lot of things that you don't you you you lose track of as in the the concept of let's get it done now you know like well you and I were discussing a couple weeks ago of the internet connection yeah okay yeah okay so I'm sorry that's all right we are those of those of you who know me know I'm a little slow I'm a little
Speaker: The lights are on, but nobody's home at times. I was trying to register. Uh, yeah, there, there's no, there's no immediate rush down there for anything. It seems like no, no. Well, it depends on the area. Uh, in Mexico city, it's more hustle, bustle. Let's get it done. But in Cancun it's a real, it's such a melting pot of all of Mexico and
Speaker: you know, you could meet somebody in the hotel zone where the touristy area and never see that again, ever. Yeah, because they're, I think that's a mentality when you're, when you're in a tourist destination, because, you know, I live down in Charleston. Nothing's urgent. Yeah, I lived down in Charleston for almost 10 years down in South Carolina.
Speaker: And, uh, you know, that's a huge tourist city. It's not a big city, but it's big enough, but it's, it's a huge tourist destination and nothing was, nothing was immediate down there. That's one of the things I loved is that it was just a nice, slow and steady pace. You know, most people, now that we had a lot of transplants down there, she had a lot of people from New York and they still had that New York mindset. Um, but for the most part, it was, it was just kinda, Hey, we're here. You know, we'll, you know, we'll, we'll,
Speaker: Enjoy our time. Yeah, we're going to enjoy our time. The weather's beautiful, the sun's shining, the beach is awesome. You know, type detail. So I can totally understand that, that mentality. And then you come back, then I come back home to Ohio and it's all one thing. One thing I tell people about, I get questions all the time. Uh, how long have you lived here and blah, blah, blah. And there are a lot of people like, Oh, I want to move here. I think would be awesome. And,
Speaker: I can categorically say that 90 % of Americans could not live here full time. Well, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a different world down there. I mean, anywhere you cannot get over the mentality of I'm American. I'm the greatest blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, number one, you need to check that out of the door.
Speaker: Well, they think they're going to move down there and it's all, it's going to be a vacation every day when you know, exactly. And it's not, you know, because you and I discussed it when you first found out I lived here and you were like, Holy crap, dude, you must be living high on the horse. And I was like, well, not really, because since I live in Mexico, I make Mexico money. I don't make the same kind of money that you do. Like if you and I had this job in the States and I did the same job down here, I would make,
Speaker: about 70 % less than you. But it's now is it? It is a lot cheaper to live down there though, isn't it? Oh my god, it's so cheap. Well, odd things have odd prices. Depending upon I would say depending upon your area down there. From what I've heard and what I understand, it's a whole hell of a lot cheaper down there than what it is in the States.
Speaker: Yeah, well, electronics are roughly about the same, except for like something like the PlayStation 5. The PlayStation 5 right now is what, $500? Yeah, something like that. Something like that. Yeah, about $500. Okay. It's almost $600 here. Now, well, you know, Sony... Because of import taxes. It's an import tax. It's imported.
Speaker: I guess that makes sense. I guess I'm trying to think. But the weird thing is, is used cars are the one that blows my mind. Well, you guys, you guys are still selling brand new Datsun's 1985. We're jogging futuristic cars up here in the States. You guys are blown away by what we have. There are a few Tesla's here. They're not.
Speaker: They're not rampant like they are in the States last year or two, man. The Teslas have become a regular before, you know, five, five years ago or so. It was like, Oh my God, that's a Tesla. That's awesome. Anymore. It's the norm because they've got, it's like, yeah, there's another one. Yeah. There's, there's, there's the sedans, you know, the regular cars, sports cars. They've got SUVs now. I think the other day I seen something that looked like a minivan.
Speaker: I don't even know, but I mean, and they're, and they're affordable now. Like, you know, regular, regular people can go and buy them. So, you know, for us, it's lack of dealership. There's no real Tesla place to buy Tesla here. Well, do you guys have, so, so you say lack of dealership. Now, do you guys have, um,
Speaker: For instance, you guys got like, you know, like back home here, we got like Coughlin Chevrolet or Coughlin Ford. Do you guys have actual full blown? Well, yes, but they don't, they don't, excuse me, let me clear my throat. They're not, they're named different as in, you know, it's a Ford dealership. Coughlin is the family that owns it or whatever. Like we got exactly.
Speaker: Exactly. They don't put their name on, I think. The funny thing about Mexico that nobody really talks about, everything is something mex or mex something. So like, so it'd be like Ford or Mexico or something or Mexican Ford? No, it's like, no, no, no, not Ford, but like, um, the cement company here is cement mex, you know, and it,
Speaker: I find it hilarious. You know, I'm like, don't you want to be a little bit original? But some of the names of companies around here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, look at the name of this, this podcast. There's two Chevy dealerships in Mexico, in Cancun, possibly three.
Speaker: One of them is Chevrolet of Coba, and one is Coba. They're two totally different streets. One starts with a K, one starts with a C, but they name it after the street they're on. Almost like in an address. But you know, there's a Cadillac dealership here. There was a Ferrari dealership here for a short time. And then they realized that nobody can afford five Ferraris.
Speaker: Well, it's not really there's people that can afford Ferraris, but they're not gonna buy them because Well, my wife explained to me like this The one thing that you don't think of when you're moving down here is that you also have to deal with the car exactly and I was just gonna say that the car tell me don't wanna
Speaker: They don't have a huge presence in Cancun, but they do have a present. You don't want to show off in flash. You know, you don't want to, you don't want to put a big deal on it says, look at me. Yeah, exactly. So like, uh, but don't get me wrong. There's people that are driving their Porsches are everywhere. Uh, like I said, a few Teslas. Um, but what cracks me up is the price of used pickup trucks.
Speaker: For instance, if you see a rusted out 85 S10 while you're in your route driving, what are you looking to pay? A rusted out 85 S10, I might give you $200 for it. Exactly. For the exact same truck, you're looking at a minimum of grand. But at the same time, where for me, if I go buy an 85 POS,
Speaker: S10 why would everybody in this and I don't know but Here more than likely it has not been taken care of so it's gonna need a lot of work There it might look like a piece of shit, but that's something bitch will run. Oh I'm it'll run but but I'm basing that just off of the people that I know their their idea of but you know, I totally get where you're coming from because as I
Speaker: Dumb hillbillies, we don't take care of our shit. Well, I mean, we take care of it, but it's it's it's Jimmy Rick. I mean, it's like, oh, yeah, I know. Look at this. I'm not a mechanic by no means. So I'm just going to sound like I'm going to sound stupid, but it's like, oh, this alternator is not lined up right. Oh, I got some duct tape. Well, we'll duct tape this alternator to the gas pump and it'll be fine. Yeah. But it the concept of when you buy a truck,
Speaker: is nobody buys a truck here, a used truck as a daily vehicle. Like just go back and forth. It is considered a truck. You know, you're going to haul stuff every day. They had that same mentality when I, when I lived down in Charleston, cause a lot of the pickup, when you would buy a pickup truck and you would go and register, register it, they,
Speaker: a lot of the trucks were registered under commercial. And I don't know if that was because they got cheaper, because in Charleston compared to Ohio, you know, in Ohio, you pay your registration fees for your tags or whatever. In Charleston, you pay a car tax and it's based off of how much your car is worth. So I don't know if commercially, they got a better price. So you would pay a yearly price like
Speaker: For instance, my car, when I bought it the first, the first year I got it, it was brand new. So when I went and got my tags for it, after my 30 day tags were up, it was like 300 and almost $400 for, for the sticker on it. Where here, my stickers are like 40 or $50. But at the same time, the taxes were a lot different down in South Carolina than what they were here in Ohio. We didn't have a lot of the same taxes down there was a lot. Excuse me.
Speaker: In some sense, it was a lot cheaper to live down there than what it was to live in Ohio. But there was little things like that that they really, uh, stick it in your ass with no lube, I guess you could say. Well, the, the one that cracks me up is, you know, I'm a smoker, I smoke cigarettes. Uh, and every once in a while, now I'm, I was never a big Newport cigarette kind of guy, but
Speaker: because I grew up in the Mansfield area, I was, I put it that way. In the Mansfield area, everybody freaking spoke Newport. It was, it was the... If you spoke Newport, you bum a square from somebody that somebody would be like, Hey, Mansfield got a square. They didn't want it if it wasn't Newport. And
Speaker: a pack of regular cigarettes cost me, let's see, about $2. I can live with that because I think I smoke Marlboro and I think they're just about $7 a pack for Marlboro's here. Well,
Speaker: As someone that pays, I pay $3 for my cigarettes because I buy a pack. So let me ask you this. So your cigarettes are longer. Do you get 25 in a pack down there? We only get 20 in a pack. So, so your cigarettes are, are two, two, $3 a pack and you get 25, you get five more sugars and then we get, uh, how much, how much is a pack of 14?
Speaker: Yeah, they got 14 20 and 25 hours. All right. I mean, I don't, I can't speak for any other brand, but I know like Marvel and camel, it's, it's, it's our camel. It's funny. So how much, how much is, uh, how much is a, uh, uh, 12 pack of Budweiser? Well, see, I actually was, uh, you asked me this question. I think I was drunk when I actually, I think I was drunk when I asked you to. Yeah. Well, we were, but, um,
Speaker: The problem is this, the store I went to didn't have it. Well, what, what, what, what American beer, I guess, as far as American beer, like you can get it, but it's, it's in order to get it, you have to go to Walmart. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. That being said, there are like six Walmarts here in Cancun.
Speaker: I sit in the middle of two of two Walmarts. It was funny, you know, you bring up the Walmart situation. Now I say that squirrel. Yeah, when the whole Corona pandemic happened. And everybody was losing their fucking minds. And of course, you know, you couldn't find total paper anywhere this and the other thing. I didn't
Speaker: understand the whole toilet. I don't understand that. I still to this day, I don't understand what was going on there. I had no problems personally finding it. I was able to find it, but everybody was worried about like groceries and food and, and this, that, and the other thing being the next thing that would, that would be affected. And I had a few people ask me, they're like, Hey, are you, are you, are you worried about it? And I said, no, not really. And they're like, well, how are you going to say you're not worried about it? I mean, you got kids and this and the other thing. And I said, well, first of all, I live in a town.
Speaker: and the city I live in, I live right in the middle, basically. And to the, we'll just say, just to the left of me, less than five minutes, I have Walmart, Kroger, Aldi, two or three dollar stores, and a whole bunch of restaurants. To the right of me, five, 10 minutes down the road, I have another Walmart, Bilo, Aldi's, Kroger's. I was like, I have so many grocery stores around me, I don't think every one of them are gonna run out of food,
Speaker: all at the same time. So I'm not worried about it. I sit in a perfect position here in town to where everything's convenient, which is nice for my lazy ass, especially when the kids aren't here because I don't cook at all. I just door dash. That was another kind of culture shock for me. I have always, with the exception of my last year in the States,
Speaker: I've always lived out in the middle of freaking. Yeah. And for the most part, I, you know, I've lived in small little towns. I mean, when I left and when I left and went down to Charleston, I lived in the same town I live in now. Um, and I came home, you know, I'm 10 years later and so much has changed. Even like my, my family's hometown. It's, it's become a city where it used to be a village. Now it's a city.
Speaker: And like 10 years, so much has changed. So. Oh, well, you know, I'm constantly getting, uh, when I talk to my parents or something, they're like, Oh, do you remember this place? I'm like, yeah, I love that place. It's gone. I'm like, well, you should see, you should see man. So the lesson to now it's, it's ridiculous up there. You know, I go up there three times. I go up there three times a week. Uh, you know, I deliver and even for me, I vote.
Speaker: As, as your dog, what, what do you drive exactly? Do you drive a pickup or do you drive a 18? No, I drive, I drive a, uh, uh, a box truck. Uh, I drive a freight street. It's a, it's got a 38 foot box on it. Freight shaker. So, and I deliver to nap. I mean, that's, it's, it's a franchise family owned, uh, but we have 24 stores right now.
Speaker: And I only, and the nice thing about it is with the exception of like, and nobody's going to know what the hell we're talking about right here, unless they're from Ohio and they're listening to this, um, with the exception of, of Lexington and Mansfield, at which yes, Lexington and Mansfield are no longer rural towns. They're cities now. Well, they're creeping on touching each other. I mean, it's getting close to it.
Speaker: It's getting close to it now. I deliver to a lot of rural tiny towns. And I love it. I love it. So, I mean, you know, so I don't have to deal with the city and all that bullshit. I don't have to deal with traffic. Most of my days, man, I'm literally just kicked back in my truck. I got my foot propped up.
Speaker: on my seat and I'm just cruising, man. It's a perfect job for me. My bosses let me do my thing. I'm left alone. I get to look out a windshield. I generally listen to podcasts all day long or talk radio all day long.
Speaker: Yeah, so it's just like man, this is this is amazing. This is like the best job and they pay me good Do my dad my dad drove a for a company called
Speaker: And, and from my age of like three until like 12, I was like, I'm going to be a driver. I just never, I just never. Yeah. That's what my old man does. My dad's been a trick driver my entire life. Now I can never do like Houston. I can never go over the road. Um,
Speaker: Just because I enjoyed being home with my kids. He probably hated us. And I know he's going to listen to this, and I know I'm going to catch help for it, but it is what it is. But I actually, I like my kids. He didn't have, he did quick stops like you. I don't think he ever did long haul because national speeding, they made bus seats.
Speaker: for buses and they would make them and then deliver them to the companies that make buses. And my, this is back when, oh my God, this is like 83 or 84. And, but I can guarantee you, I would put money on the fact that national, national seating when they, before they went out of business, they used to use a, a special plastic thread.
Speaker: to sew the seats together and my dad would deliver that thread and they would always have like seven or eight extra boxes of this thread and we're talking if it was a spool about a foot long and it had I would say 2000 yards on a spool and the guys in the warehouse would give my dad
Speaker: this thread because he would use it as fishing line. It was basically, and I would, I would put money on the fact that my dad at least has probably two still. It sounds like, it sounds like it would be some really good fishing line. It was like 40 pound test.
Speaker: 40 50 pound test. It was great. Especially fishing around Ohio. I mean, you're not going to go, you're not going deep sea fishing where you're, where you're snatching up a fucking Marlin or anything like that. You, oh my gosh, you want an experience when you come down here, dude, we're going to go. You're jumping the gun. If I come down, come down for,
Speaker: go deep sea fishing. I went, I've, I've taken my dad every time my dad comes down. The first says as it gets on, dude, I lived in Charleston for 10 years and never once got to go deep sea fishing. And I wanted to go so that I'm not a fisherman by no means I've, I've never, like, I, I enjoy going fishing, but it's more for the company. And it's not my deal.
Speaker: It was never my bag. I just wanted to go just to go. Like, you know, just so I'd be like, yeah, I went deep sea fishing. I caught one of the biggest Goliath fish. I don't know what to do with it, but I caught it. Well, um, my dad is avid, avid fishermen. I mean, he's got the boat. He's got tackle from like 1975 still, you know? And he's, he was always like, you want to go? I'm like, no.
Speaker: but the the crazy thing you know taking my dad deep -sea vision stuff that that leads into the fact that the crazy thing about all the things I've done in Cancun like every touristy thing you can do I've done and I've spent zero dollars on it Wow
Speaker: Well, it's actually so well, as person that used to sell said tours, you know, when you come down, you want to go deep sea fishing, you don't go to the fishing dock and go, Hey, take me out fishing. No, you find a person to sell. Oh, yeah. I did that for years. And, and in order to know the product, they would give you free tours. Yeah.
Speaker: and they come out, go deep sea fishing with us so you know what happens on the, I'm not sure. All right, why not? And then you get to know the people that own the place or run the place. And when you got people come down, you call in favors. The greatest secret of can is marketing, you know, and not marketing like, you know, it's, it's not what, you know, it's who you go down here. Uh,
Speaker: there's some really crappy tours that the big companies like the company my wife works for uses. And the only reason they use it is because somebody knows somebody high up in said company. Well, I mean, that goes, that, that goes across everywhere. It's all a matter of who you know. Yeah. I mean, uh, my former boss owns two,
Speaker: Tours called the jungle tour where you literally get in a two person uh 30 horsepower speedboat And play follow the leader you drive play follow leader and then go snorkeling for 45 minutes and drive back It is one of the best tours ever because you drive And you can go as fast as you want as long as you don't get caught And
Speaker: My, my former boss has one of the best in Cancun and I've done them all and he can't get into, he doesn't know, but he doesn't care. He's got millions of dollars because of that. He's been here 40 years, something like that. He moved down here in Cancun and, and like 82 or something like that, 81 or 80.
Speaker: And, uh, he, he literally moved down here from another part of Mexico with $10 to his name. He basically darted the timeshare program program of Cancun and we, he left the hotel that he worked for years. They gave him like $10 million as a thank you. He's like, he was like, I'm going to go start my own business and
Speaker: I want to do a whole bunch of stuff. And they're like, well, we want to thank you for helping us get up and running for the past 15 years where here's this. And I slid him over a check of like $15 million. That's a hell of a thank you. Right? Well, yeah, but you gotta remember these hotels, he's probably made them 50, 60 million apiece. Yeah. Just him. Plus all the people he trained to do the same.
Speaker: Cause back then timeshare was the big deal. Now it's timeshare is a dying concept because with everything online, you can get a cheaper deal going on Expedia .com to come down to Cancun, get a great fucking room, get a great package where
Speaker: Years ago, you'd have to spend $100 ,000 to get the exact same thing for a timeshare. I've never understood those timeshare concepts. I remember back in the day, which even then I was I was younger. You know, back when we was in school and stuff like that, my parents bought into Salt Fork up here. And it was awesome. I didn't know anything about it. Obviously, I was just a kid back then. But it was awesome because you'd go to their campgrounds or whatever.
Speaker: And we used to go all the time and you know, they had the cabins or you could, if you had a camper, you bring a camper up, blah, blah, blah. But now that I've gotten older and you hear some of these timeshare things and it's just like, yeah, but who really, you don't, you don't have the time or the opportunity to really get your money out of it. Looking back. It's literally impossible to get your money out of it.
Speaker: You know, like looking back, what, what I was making sure I would say maybe a hundred people about their timeshare money, got their money back. You know, like I said, looking back on it, when, when my parents said that membership of salt fork and stuff, I feel like, I feel like we definitely got our money out of it. Cause we went a lot. I mean, we would go a lot, especially in the summer times. Um, you know, we would go a lot, a lot of memories up there at salt port hanging out camping and
Speaker: meeting everybody and having your summer, you know, you had your summer friends or your, your, your summer boyfriend, your summer girlfriend. Now, for me, that was Cedar Point. We would go, I would go with my church group. Uh, and this is a funny concept. They bust us all. Well, yeah, exactly. Right.
Speaker: The holy water would boil as I touch it, you know, but, uh, so you get to zero point. And the first time I ever went, I was like, this is going to suck because we're going to have to stick. We get there and the user will be like, all right, be back at the bus at seven o 'clock. See you later. Wait, what? Well, I remember, I remember, uh, you know, of course back then when we were kids, you know, we didn't have cell phones and this and the other thing.
Speaker: I know there was one year where my parents and I, they took all of us kids and then because I was the only boy, I always got to bring a friend with me. I have four sisters and I was the only boy. One of my best friends.
Speaker: And I thought I was gonna live the rest of my life like that after having two girls. And then my ex -wife, she got pregnant again. And I'm like, if this is another girl, I'm shooting myself in the face. But I finally got my boy and then now my girlfriend, she's got a boy that's like, ah, the numbers are even. There's three of us and three of you. But we went to Kings Island one year and that's basically what my parents did. They're like, you guys gave us a little bit of money. They're like,
Speaker: You guys go do your thing. The girls went there, their thing. I said, be back at this spot in like two hours so we could check in and whatever. And it was like, wow, I could not imagine like, so you can't imagine doing that with my kids now. Um, like we're getting ready. We just planned a vacation. It's going to be like, we're, we just planned a vacation. Like our partner and I were taking our first family vacation together.
Speaker: and taking the kids, and we're all going down to Pigeon Forge in July. I cannot imagine just letting the boys definitely can't let the boys because they're a little special. Excuse me. Well, I know for a fact that Cedar Point was, what's a way to put this, the hookup central for me, because my cousins and I,
Speaker: we're all roughly the same age. We were all in the same church group and we'd go and we'd split off just the four of us and you get in a line and you see a good looking girl. That's maybe 15, 20 people ahead of you, which means every time you go around that stupid line, you're next to her every time and you just start a conversation. Next thing you know, that's your girl for the day. And
Speaker: whatever happens happens and then you never see that again. No, I don't, I don't even think that like just letting my kids work just because
Speaker: you know people are oh you're going to stand up on the roller coaster instead of sit down well my those are my those are my boys yeah it's just because it's because people are lock his knee oh yeah it's just it's just because men people are openly fucking weirdos these days like it's acceptable to be a fucking a wacko
Speaker: So like we're going, like I said, we're going down the pigeon forge and everything that we've got planned. And there's a lot to do down there. A lot more than I could have ever imagined. I didn't know how much there was to do down there, but it's all of us together. It's not going to ever be a point. I mean, other than when we're back at the condo and because we're going to have at least one lazy day where we're just hanging out at the condo and the kids just want to go spend the day at the pool. Right. It's like, all right, well you guys can, you guys can go to the pool.
Speaker: You know, mama and I will hang out with the condo. We might come to the pool and hang out with you guys a little bit, but that's going to be the only time that they're just going to be able to run off by themselves. Well, when my wife and I bought this house, uh, the, the clincher was not the pool was not the house itself. It was the gated community that I could actually let my kids ride their bikes. And I don't have to actually go out there and watch the whole time. You know,
Speaker: And because the world is so messed up right now that, you know, mentally that it's just like, wait, what? We are in a, in a weird, and then maybe, maybe our parents stopped the same way when we were kids and we didn't think any, we didn't think anything different because, you know, I remember there'd be times where back home, you know, me and my friends would just disappear.
Speaker: and we'd go down to a creek or whatever and you know oh yeah i i think i think for an entire summer my cousins and i spent the entire summer in the woods so i mean maybe maybe we would maybe my any of you parents that may be listening if uh if uh you're in your 60s or 70s and your kids are now in their 30s and 40s or whatever
Speaker: let us know about that. You know, email us at nonsensical nonsense podcast .com or email because I'm curious because some of the things that, did I ever tell you the story? This is an amazing story. My cousin, my grandfather built the house that I took you to the graduation, uh, in the woods, my uncle's, we're talking like 30, 40 years of, of dumping trash.
Speaker: And when they jumped in trash, stuff they were hiding from Grandpa. It was a 27 acre area of woods. And cousins and I found a mini bike. You know, I have like a five horse Briggs and Stratton on it and big golf cart size tires. Like tires you would put on a golf cart where the front and rear tire is thing.
Speaker: And the motor was seized up. And the chain was locked in place. And we took a pair of bolt cutters, cut the chain off, unbolted the motor, and just rode that thing down the hill. Nice. No brakes. You know, the steering was maybe 30 degrees at most. And to stop, we would run into a tree. I mean, shit.
Speaker: He then run into the tree. That'll stop it. I remember me and my friends.
Speaker: I remember me and my friends, we used to have BB gun wars. We'd shoot each other with fucking BB guns. I have ways to this day that still have BBs lodged in their, in their body from us shooting each other or frozen paintballs. Like I could not. What did you do? You put on a jean jacket.
Speaker: that would protect you like now I could not imagine my kids doing that even like even like when the kids get the nerf guns out I'm like God I'll shoot each other in the face because that's we're getting older because as a kid don't think about that because I remember shooting my brother in the nose maybe oh I
Speaker: Yeah, I've stopped playing friends in the face with a BB gun or frozen paintballs. I mean, that was like, that was less, less we forget, less we forget the 17 year old Chris Glick shooting Vincent Borean in the face of the fucking pressure walker. I don't know how many feels about you putting his name out there, but yeah, yeah, I think he still has that spot on his head too.
Speaker: I think that was just, it's like, that's just a kid thing. Like as an adult, we're like, what the fuck were we thinking? As a kid, you were like, yes, this is a good idea. But in my defense, we were all taking turns shooting each other's hard hats off with that new pressure watch. All right. Yeah.
Speaker: It wasn't vindictively. It was literally to knock the hard hat off his head. It's not my fault he flinched and got a knife push on his forehead. He popped it in the weave. I've got a message for you. Vince, if you're listening, please send us a picture of the strong wind. If you still have it.
Speaker: so we can put it somewhere we can see it because we can put it where people can see it I mean we got nonsensical nonsense Facebook Instagram and Twitter yeah we'll put it on the Instagram Facebook pages be hilarious but let's not even get started on some dumb shit that we did in that class alone oh my god I remember the crazy thing there was a love hate
Speaker: The hate -hate relationship I had with Tom Tinney was this. Tom Tinney went to high school with my father. And they hated each other. Like, you know how back in the 50s it was the jocks and the greasers? My dad was the greaser! Yeah, Tinney was. I cannot imagine being a jock.
Speaker: Yeah, there's there's no doubt fucking nerd sorry Tom if you're listening He was the biggest ass I've ever met in my life But you talk about getting older and seeing things in a different light
Speaker: He wasn't, now that I'm almost 40, he wasn't that bad of a guy. That dude was pretty chill compared to us. He was pretty chill considering our class. Yeah. But the very first day I met Tom Tinney, I went to visit the class with my pops. And we walk in the door and my dad goes, Tom Tinney, holy shit. And I was like, mother fucker.
Speaker: I'm not going to be able to get away anything. We leave the class about an hour later. My dad goes, that guy's an asshole. And I went, wait, what? I've already signed up for this class. I'm taking this class. He's like, yeah, you're fucked. I was like, damn it. Yeah. Well, you know, you say that my, my daughter, uh, my oldest daughter, the principal at her high school, Kim and I graduated high school together. And she hates it. She's like your buddy. And I'm like,
Speaker: like we were barely like we knew he was like him and I got along to a certain degree but he was by no far by no means my buddy and I'm like and besides the point stop being a punk ass kid that's another thing that that movies don't get right um I don't know about you but myself in high school I got along with basically everybody
Speaker: I was friends with the job. It's not that I smoked pot because I think the one I didn't, I smoked pot one time and I'm not going to mention the guy's name, but he gave me a ride home. He went to the court with me, but he gave me a home. It wasn't in our class. Gave me a ride home. Anyways.
Speaker: but he gave me right home. We smoke, you know, and I, as a cigarette smoker, if I, you hand me something to smoke, I'm going to smoke. I'm not going to pull us out. Right. I mean, I wouldn't so live by that, that, that rule in life because well, but exactly, but like this talk here, smoking,
Speaker: Well, I ain't no pussy. I smoke cigarettes. But I had never smoked pot. I've, you know, I've been around these guys fucking my, almost my entire life. And they're like, Oh, you want to smoke pot? Like, sure. Why not? I'm with friends.
Speaker: We get to my house and they fucking leave. I'm stoned out of my fucking mind. First time ever stoned and I'm stoned out of my fucking mind. I can't even barely open the door. My mom had bought an apple pie. I ate the entire thing. Yeah, I did a whole case of big things. Who's your daddy? Yeah.
Speaker: oh my god I started to watch bits of that movie the other day and it's dated like you fucking read about dude all those movies I mean you know like you can't well it's almost impossible it's like watching you know nerds revenge of the nerds or or
Speaker: porkies now dude i just went through because i got hbo max i got i got hbo max well i just got hbo max and they got a lot of old movies on there so i just watched uh the beverly hills cop series all three of them it's on netflix those years see netflix in the states and mexico are two different things but
Speaker: No, I was watching those and they're still funny. I mean, they were hilarious. I was laughing my ass off, but I was just like, they could never make this movie today. They're absolutely no way in hell could they make this movie. Well, oddly enough on that same concept on oddly enough coming to America and coming to America too. I haven't watched it yet. A lot of people said it was bad. I don't know. It's not. But they are making a new Beverly Hills.
Speaker: That's well, I've heard that for years. This one's supposed to, but Beverly Hills are coming to America too was okay. The, the, the Eddie Murphy's daughters and that fucking, the, the oldest one, gorgeous. Never seen her before, but she's gorgeous. But the, the, the concept is like,
Speaker: It was almost like, how did he get this kid from the States? It was almost an afterthought. They're like, oh yeah. Well, it was one of those movies. And there's been a lot of movies like this that did not need a sequel. It's coming to America. It did not need a sequel. And there's a lot of movies that I like that. You could not see the sequel and be fine. So I'm still debating if I want to watch it or not.
Speaker: the the
Speaker: Well, for the longest time, and this is this is a direct quote from our friend Steve Schwartz. Every time I see counter Reeves, I go, you know, you know, you know, he lives just right, like right around the corner from me.
Speaker: No shit. We need to have him. I told him I said, dude, we got to we got to hang out sometimes. But, you know, he's doing the married life, that kids and everything like that, which well, I'm going to I'm going to steal it away for a minute, because Steve, another unlikely friendship was was Steve and I. And we actually became pretty good friends through going to the Career Center. We went to the same high school like we lived in the same town and we were never friends until we until we started going to the Career Center.
Speaker: I always thought Steve was one of the funniest motherfuckers I ever met. And he was, he was, uh, the man never had, when he's sitting in a chair, never had two feet on the ground. He would always be sitting on it. He'd always have like curled up in his chair and I'm like, dude, how's that? Not the school chairs were very recoverable, but he was always like curled up tuck in one leg, be under his butt. I'm like, but
Speaker: He was always funny. Yeah, he's a good dude. Him and I just recently started or just recently talked on Facebook and found out that he just lives right down the road from me. So that should definitely raise up with him. I went out with Andy Nelson when I first came home to Ohio. No surprise. We almost got into a bar fight. Andy Andy was kind of the
Speaker: uh i wouldn't say ringleader but he was he was always he was definitely instigated i like him in case oh yeah now like like i started it when we went out when we when we went out i started it oh i didn't start it okay so let me dive into this real quick okay so okay
Speaker: There was, there was a group of idiots that were basically making love to the pool table. And I was just like, Hey, can, can I jump in on a game with you guys? And they're like, nah, you know, we're, we're, we're a lot. I'm like, all right, cool. I understand. You guys are just afraid I'd kick your ass. Well, one of the idiots, one of the idiots took it the wrong way, thinking like I was going to fight him and he thought he was a hard ass and seven foot tall and he weighed like 90 pounds.
Speaker: And I was like, that's not what I was trying to say. Like I'd kick your ass at pool, not going to kick your ass in a fight, but I will kick your ass in a fight. Well, then it just kept escalating. And then by that point, I was at the point where I'm going with these guys because.
Speaker: I know one, a funny, like one, it's funny as hell. And I'm having too much fun too. If it really comes down to blows, I could take these guys. And then of course Andy seen it and he's like, Oh, we were fighting tonight. So it escalated and I mean, I was doing everything I could possibly do to like get these idiots to swing and they would not even
Speaker: Considered well there I'm assuming they were younger, but it was just it was just me It was just me and Andy and they were younger than they were yeah But that's that's that's the whole millennial thing as we talk shit, but we don't do it They were younger than us and there was a lot more of them than us, but you know, he's always he's always He was down
Speaker: He was down to fight. Oh, I would have to get a bar. He was sitting at the bar the whole time, like just waiting. I went to go grab a beard. He was like, so we fight. And I was like, I don't know. I'm trying, man. He's like, let's fucking fight. He's like, just hit one of them. I can't just hit one of them. I don't want to go to jail if they swing at me first. At least we don't. We won't get arrested for kicking their asses. Please. Yeah.
Speaker: But see, that's the funny thing is like, uh, one of the oddest jobs I've had down here, and you're going to find this funny. Uh, for those listening, I am five foot three and 140 pounds of marshmallow at this point.
Speaker: in high school i was a little bit cut you know because i i did sports but in high school you might have been five three a hundred pounds soaking wet but you were you were you were shamed you were interested i was 125 in high school 135 yeah that's that's pushing i wrestled 135 in high school yeah but you were cut i mean you were insane you weren't you weren't like the rest of us giant animals because
Speaker: I spent the moment in the gym, I swear to God, you know, one of the jobs that I got down here, one of the biggest nightclubs in Cancun is called Coco Bongo. I think we were talking about that a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. It, you know, max capacities, like 3000 people. And I got a job as a bouncer.
Speaker: Now, imagine these six foot apes drunk out of their mind and this little five foot three goes, hey, that's enough of that. Just because some of us are six foot and over. Why do we have to be apes? I feel personally attacked being six foot two. No, no, no, no, no, no. You know what I'm talking about. These guys look like John Cena.
Speaker: And they literally don't have the flexibility to wipe their own ass. These guys are... And other bouncers are going, I'm not gonna tell them to stop. I'm the kind of asshole that was like, fuck, I'll do it. Watch this. I think, you know, hold my coke because I couldn't drink while I was working. Like, hold my coke, I'll be right back. You weren't working at the right place if you couldn't drink while you worked. Well,
Speaker: That it's the only club in town that is the strictest club as well. It, it, it, where in every other club, if drinking age in Mexico is mostly a suggestion, but, but it's 18, quote unquote. Where are you going? Yeah. Well, it was always a suggestion for us. Cause I remember.
Speaker: getting drunk in my field. I mean, there was bars back home that we could go to and not even, they wouldn't even bat an eye when we were 16, 17, 18. But where other clubs, if you look like you're over 18, they're like, yeah, come on in, have a beer. Cocobongo, if they weren't sure, they would just say no. Which sadly is most kids these days,
Speaker: Some of these kids look a lot older than what they really are. Yeah. Well, and they now, if you're going, you need ID. And I'm like, this, that's a weird concept to try to explain. You're in, quote unquote, one of the party capitals of the world, and you're going to say no? Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's a hard thing to do. I mean,
Speaker: But I mean, you, you have to, cause I, I, I've done a little bouncing in my time and, and I, I worked in a, in a bar where it was down on campus at OSU. And, and it was in its 21 and over. And they would let the Buckeye football players come in there and like, I'm like, these, these kids are barely 18.
Speaker: And it's my job not to let them in, and then you're going to come and yell at me because I didn't let them out. I don't give a goddamn that they're an Ohio State Buckeye player. That's more of a reason for me not to let them in because if they get in trouble here, that is your ass because it's, because it's going to be national news. You know, it's, you know, it's not going to be just like big 10 school. So
Speaker: I know you're not a sports guy. Trust me, there's going to be sports that come up because football seasons. Once again, for those of you listening, I'm a hands on, build anything, fix anything kind of guy. And Chris is a sports guy. So
Speaker: There's going to be times where if you're unsure, one of us will probably explain it to the other because I'm hands on building. But that was non -offensive. And once again, you're taking me again. If I try to tell you that I pulled the camshaft out of my fucking Mitsubishi other day, you're going to go. I'm actually standing out the window listening to you.
Speaker: Basically, because I took apart the entire motor. Yeah, once you start talking like that, I'll just start staring out the window. Like, what's going on outside? Exactly. Yeah. Well, see, I've never been a sports guy because, like I said, my dad, his whole thing, his sport was fishing and bowling. You were a cheerleader back in the day. I remember that. Oh, I was the cheerleader, but not for a team. It was a, it was a national cheerleading competition squad.
Speaker: It's not like I was sitting on the sidelines on a football game. Let's be honest. Again, that did not help you back in the day when we all thought you was a little bit free. No, it did not. Yes, but my biggest fear when I first became a cheerleader was letting you guys know until Nathan, Ben, and somebody else actually showed up at my practice. I think Sarge was there because you guys all went to school together.
Speaker: Yeah and Sarge showed up too and he and once they saw that I was the only guy with 22 girls that were gorgeous they went all right this is kind of cool. Well I don't know about being kind of cool but I don't think any of it surprisingly surprisingly surprisingly with our group with our class being as diverse as it was I mean we all gave you shit for it
Speaker: We weren't a bunch. We were, we were kind of like a dirty dozen in a, you know, but, you know, we all gave you shit for it, but none of us really cared, but God forbid anybody outside of our class give you shit for it. That's the one thing I did love about our class and every class was the same. Uh, in the trade school thing, it was, we were together fucking damn near 24 hours a day from,
Speaker: English class to the, to the building trades class morning from the start of school, the end of school, and class was very similar. And if we ever did mix and somebody from a different class said wrong thing, it was a, it was a showdown between the two classes. I'd be willing to say I thought I'm a win, but our building trades class was probably the baddest class in the entire school. We could fuck up anybody. We were, we were kind of a group.
Speaker: We were kind of a scary group. We had, we had some people in there that, that to this day I'm like, yeah, I don't know what that dude was thinking. And anybody listening from our building group, you know who I'm talking about. You know exactly who that one person is that nobody seems to be able to find. Well, I'm never going to fuck with that dude, but
Speaker: I'll back him up. I'm still waiting for the news article to come out about him. I'm waiting to get interviewed on that interview because I'm like, he was a quiet kid. Just like Oscar. He was a quiet kid. He kept to himself. He was good worker. He was probably one of the best in the class as far as grades. I would have never thought that he had 275 bodies in his basement.
Speaker: I was always nice to him because I wasn't sure, but we all secretly said the same thing to ourselves. I'm going to be nice to this guy because one day he's going to snap. Yeah, I can't find him. And he never did. I tried looking him up. I cannot find him, man. Like I can't find him anywhere. Just just so I could just like, well, yeah, I'd like to just reach out and be like, hey, man, do what's up, remember me?
Speaker: We're still good, right? Just in case you want. I was nice to that one time. Just in case you're looking for me, I live in Cacubac, so I go under the name Jeff. But, uh, you know, there, there was a couple of kids in our class that I was not fond of, but they didn't last after the first year. I don't even remember them, but I know there was a couple that were like, yeah, you're not gonna.
Speaker: You're not going to, you're not going to survive. Yeah. Yeah. But like one of the persons I love to, to watch deal with Tinney was Casey. Oh my God. That was the funniest exchange. Casey was on a whole nother. He was on a whole bullshit. Nobody even gives a rat's ass about, but yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker: And I don't want to go into the description. I don't want to explain anything. He was on a whole other level of absolutely no fucks at all. You talk about somebody that literally had absolutely no fucks. It was that man right there. And didn't care. He didn't care about the class. You know, but you could lose an hour of the day with him arguing with Tinney and we just sitting back and watch.
Speaker: You know, if you guys would shut the fuck up, I could go out to the red barn and smoke a cigarette. You remember hot boxing cigarettes in the red barn behind the shop? Oh my God, dude. And behind the over by the green. And I remember, and I'll probably catch shit for this from if any of my exes here, but I remember the cosmic cosmetology girls
Speaker: The cause says, you know, I stayed away from, I stayed as far away from them as I possibly could, but you, you are always down there. Well, I was also hanging out. I hung out with a lot of the secretarial girl, but there was a lot of cause girls from clear for two. I do remember that. No, there's only three. There was more than that. I know most of them from Mount Vernon, the ones I, there was only one or there was maybe two or three that I was actually friends with.
Speaker: I remember there was one girl from Mount Vernon who actually transferred to East Knox, and then the other two girls were actually from East Knox. But I tried to avoid that area of the building like the plague, them and the secretarial girls. Well, that was the thing, is since I was on a cheerleading squad, I was a non -threat, which was my end.
Speaker: And what I would learn cheerleaders. You were not that smart back in high school. Calm down. But my cheerleaders would basically coach me on how to talk to girls, which is why I dated so many. So you were a little fella, so you had to learn how to talk to girls. I was just a big old country, country bumping corn fed some bitch. Fuckers were just these big corn fed white boys.
Speaker: These corn fed white girls would see and go, how are you doing? They'd see me go, what the fuck is this? We didn't really say much, I don't know. We just groan it a lot. He's actually kind of funny. He's actually kind of funny. We'll keep him around. Which is still kind of how it works today. My girlfriend, when we first met,
Speaker: We met on TikTok, but she was like, I'm just thinking you can sell them, but it's kind of funny. It looks good. So, well, we talked to him. Well, you said it best on TikTok. You said, you know, I'm kind of like a fungus. I grow on it.
Speaker: And I use, even before you said, use that for years, my wife to this day goes, why the hell am I with you? Cause I'm like a fungus baby. I just roll on. He's like, yeah, like I don't trust me because that first day of class, you know, cause everybody does it. I mean, and this is just going back to us becoming friends. I mean,
Speaker: Again, that's something that nobody really cares about, but everybody does. Everybody judges people like, okay, for instance, off of the, off the subject to you and I, I've got a friend of mine who I consider my brother, you know, he's, he's a lot, he's got a lot younger than me. He's a black guy. And, uh, we started working. We worked together when I first moved to Charleston. I worked at Aaron's and the first day there.
Speaker: He looked at me like, look at this big country racist motherfucker. And I looked at him like, look at this fucking little punk ass kid. You know, I didn't, didn't really. One of my best friends down here, I, we met at a job and it was the same thing. You know, I showed up with my, uh, ball cap on and work boots at a call center.
Speaker: And he shows up at a tide. I'm like, look at this nerdy motherfucker. And he was like, look at this country. And he's a black man as well. And we'd literally, we'd talk all the time. And that's how me and him were. I was like, my first thought was this little young ass motherfucker. I'm not even trying to work with him, but then, you know, him and I became, we became friends. And I mean, now that I'm in Ohio and I don't know where he's at. I don't know if he's back in South Carolina or still in New York or where he's at.
Speaker: But, uh, you know, even to this day, that's my brother, man. That's, that's my boy. We'll fuck with each other and we'll talk so much shit to each other, but we're also the first ones that, yeah, if somebody else comes in, comes in, the other one, the same thing with me and you, I can fuck with you all day long. You can fuck with me all day long, but somebody, you know, cause he feels
Speaker: different ways about different things, but you know, you can post something on Facebook and I can reach out to him and be like, Hey man, is that really how you feeling right now? That's kind of shitty considering our, our history. And then we can talk about it, you know, amongst us, the two of us, we'll talk about it. You know, we don't got to bring everybody in their brain because, you know, people from, you know, don't want to make it people that don't know us from Adam. We're going, Hey, but
Speaker: Same thing with – we vowed on this podcast not to talk religion and politics. Yeah, exactly. And I plan on sticking with that, but politically? I'm going to say one thing about – I'm going to say one thing political -wise or politics. Go for it. Go for it. God damn you, Joe Biden.
Speaker: I just filled up my car yesterday and it cost me $33. Since I bought my car, the most it's cost me to fill up my car was like $22. I was like, you son of a bitch. It's probably not even his fault. But politically, my friend and I are 100 % opposite.
Speaker: And we've made a rule that if we're going to talk shit about politics between us, we need to back it up with facts. I don't talk politics with anybody. I don't, I don't, I don't, uh, I try not because I end up with anybody. I'm not going to talk religion with anybody. Um, because at the end of the day, it all goes down to the gay, straight, bi, trans thing. Yeah. What it boils down to at the end of the day is you're going to have
Speaker: your views and whatever you believe in. And I'm not going to try to change your mind. Just like I would hope that you would have the same respect not to try to change my mind. Exactly. You know what I mean? So I just avoid it. Like for me religiously, I know I'm trying to figure out how to make the speaking of TikTok, try to figure out how to make this video because somebody asked me if I was Norse begging and I am, but I don't tell anybody that.
Speaker: You know, I don't bring it up. Well, you also, you don't, you don't, you don't preach. You're not a preacher. You're like, Hey, I believe what I believe. And you believe what you believe. And we'll just leave it at that. And like, I've always liked for the longest time, I've considered myself Norse pagan, but nobody's known it.
Speaker: nobody's known or anything like that. But now it's become a trend. Like most things, it's become a trend. Well, because of the show. Yeah, it's become a trend. And that was like my my my broster. And I say broster because he used to be my sister and is now my brother, who basically jumps on board with anything and everything I like.
Speaker: he's on this, uh, Viking kick. And, and we were having the discussion two weekends, uh, two weeks ago at my niece's first birthday about the whole situation. I was like, I'm not, I don't, it's not that I'm like the Vikings because now all of a sudden he's on this Viking kick. I said, I'm North pagan and it's, it's two total different things, but, but I just don't bring it up because I don't, you don't need that. First of all, you don't need to know there's something in your business. Second of all,
Speaker: You know, it is what it is. You know, my girlfriend is Christian. What's that? Yeah. Well, I was raised Catholic and I became Mormon when I, when I married my wife. And as a Mormon, I'm not supposed to drink or smoke or anything, but I'm about to lighten up that puts that in perspective. That is so weird to me. That's so weird to me that, that
Speaker: I'm not supposed to get coffee, all this weird stuff. That's so weird to me that that's a thing in Mexico, Mormonism. Because I would just automatically assume that most Hispanic people are Catholic. So is that big down in Mexico? Well, there's everything here, just like everywhere. I mean, I'm not saying there's a big group of a big section of a big group,
Speaker: But there's a lot of Catholicism, there's Judaism, there's Mormon, the Mormon community is huge. I know in the upstart, you know, when they first started with with Mormonism and stuff like that, and then they were starting to have some issues that a lot of the community did work its way from Utah down south into the Mexican or Mexico area. Right. But I didn't know that it was still such a big community down there for that. Oh,
Speaker: it's just like everything there's there's a lot of um i guess that would make sense i i'm gonna butcher it but i'm not sure what it's called it's like uh santerium santeria santeria yeah santeria yeah there's a lot of that down but that's like that's like i mean that's that's that's kind of like uh voodoo isn't it like voodooism yeah i i i would
Speaker: I wouldn't paint it with that brush. If you look at all the conversations we've had so far, if you look at voodooism, it's not what the media is hyped up to be. It's not bad.
Speaker: It's more of saints and religious figures. We'll put it that way. We don't talk about religion in politics. Let's talk about religion for a half hour. What else did I have to line up here? Oh, what about your thoughts on Uber Eats and the whole delivery thing?
Speaker: Wouldn't that have been amazing? Basically what you just said is, Hey, Blake, I know you're a fat ass, so let me talk to you. Last night I looked at what was in the cupboard to cook and I looked at my wife and the kids were gone and I'm like, you know what sounds really good. And my wife goes, what? I said,
Speaker: fucking tacos from a certain restaurant and this restaurant is a half hour drive away and we were getting ready to watch a movie and we went we both said I don't want to go anywhere I said you know we could movie watch it it's called it's new on Netflix called Thunder Force
Speaker: it literally just came out yesterday it's it's um melissa mccarthy that that that uh i know what you're talking about i seen i seen them so it was you have do you have hula down there uh no we don't have hula down there or you don't have it you can
Speaker: You cannot get hula down here unless you have a VPN. Yeah. Which I'm looking into. Okay. Sorry. I didn't mean to, uh, I didn't mean to, uh, completely, uh, squirrel you, but, oh, you were talking about Uber Eats and the, and the, and the convenience factor. Now I am a, I am a huge, um, I fucking love Uber Eats. Um,
Speaker: Well, I don't love Uber Eats. I love the fact that I can. But the, the ability to use it. So, so I use DoorDash a lot. We use a company called so much to the fact that probably 75 % of the DoorDash delivery drivers,
Speaker: know me, know you to the point where they'll text you and say, Chris, we just got your food on the way. And I'll be like, Oh, cool. The door's open. Just come on. So we don't, we don't use a lot, but, uh, I would say, yeah, three times at the, at the,
Speaker: and maybe six times a month at the back. I use it a lot because, you know, my ex -wife and I, we co -parent. So, you know, I have my kids, I like, I have my kids 50 % of the time. And when they're not here, I honestly, I just don't feel like cooking. You know, I work 10, 11 hours every day. Not that it might work. Which was my concept last night. Not that my job is super hard. Yeah.
Speaker: Not that my job's super hard or anything, but I get home at 6 o 'clock or whatever, and I just don't feel like cooking anything. No, you know what? That's a little bit of a cop -out. Every job is hard in its own way. My job is hard. It's not like I'm just driving the truck. I have to load and unload my truck and everything like that.
Speaker: No, but even if you were sitting in an office all day, it's not technically a hard job, but it takes a toll. Every job takes a toll somewhere. Even my job as a stay -at -home dad. I say that while on a podcast. Where are your kids right now? I don't know where my kids are. I've been doing this for almost two hours. My kids, I can say this, my kids are here right now and I had to have the conversation,
Speaker: I'm going to go record a podcast and they're like, okay. And I'm like, you guys, please not fight. Can you please don't fight Fortnite and watch a movie. I'll be back in a little bit, which is easy enough to say, which is easy enough to say because my, my, my, my girls, my oldest one's almost 16 and then I got the one that'll be 12 and eight. They're at that stage in their life where they just hate me anyways. So they don't really need you. My boy,
Speaker: is the one that I figured who would be in and out of here 700 times, but he's actually being pretty cool. Yeah. He's actually being pretty cool. They're just kind of, they're all just kind of chilling out and you know, just, just doing whatever they do. But, um, yeah, I made him a quick, quickly, quickie lunch and you know, you set my kids in front of YouTube, you won't see them three days. Well, mine are, mine are all self -sufficient so they can do their own thing. You know,
Speaker: the the
Speaker: the fifth
Speaker: Um, but, uh, yeah, I totally, I totally barked man. I don't know where I was going with that. I have no idea what the hell I was even talking about or where I was going with it. The fact that every job is stressful. No matter what it's hard. You didn't want to cook it. So, I mean, like the other night I came home and I, I literally, I legit pulled stuff out and got the pots and pans out. I was going to cook dinner for myself. And it's also hard to kick dinner for yourself when it's just you. You know what I mean?
Speaker: Yeah, I don't know how much to cook. And I got it out, and then I sat everything on the stove, and I went to do something, and I came back and I'm like, nah, fuck it, I'm just gonna order DoorDash. But of course, then you get on DoorDash, that's what we were talking about, that's where this whole thing fucking came from. You could spend three decades looking for something to eat. Yeah, so indecisive, like, what do I do? Every one... And I have this problem with Netflix and Amazon.
Speaker: there's so much things to choose from. You spend more time looking for what you want to watch or eat or whatever, then actually eating or, or watching. And that was the thing. Like I spent more time when we were kids, we knew we were going to watch because there's only three fucking channels pretty much. And it's the perfect time to be in a kid. TGIF was the best.
Speaker: Yeah, family matters and full house. I used to believe family matters. I had the biggest crush on the chick that - Oh yeah, the daughter. Yeah. And speaking of TGIF, you remember Full House? Okay. The middle girl. Yeah, Stephanie. Yeah. Never really thought two thoughts about her until I saw Fuller House.
Speaker: The new one where it's it's you know, the daughters have moved in. The guys have moved out. She gorgeous. Well, I mean, I was like growing up like I always. I remember watching Full House and. You know, because we all have our childhood crushes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I had a big one. I had a big crush for for DJ. Yeah, Candace Cameron, man.
Speaker: Yeah. She was in the new cooler house. It's her, uh, her best friend, Kimmy and Stephanie living in that. Yeah, they all live there. Yeah. And Candace has got her boys and my, my kids actually, my, my kids actually love for house. I've only watched part of the first season and I liked it. I'm not, I can't, I can't, I can't get into it and watch it. It's not the same.
Speaker: And I like that they, you know, they still bring in John Stamos and Bob Saget and Dave. Well, Stamos looks the exact same. Some bitch hasn't even aged. You Greek God, you mean I'm over here. How did I gain 40 pounds overnight? My ass is over here. Like I'm going to go buy a gym membership and go to the gym one time in three weeks.
Speaker: Yeah. She was looking at, we were watching a movie or a TikTok compilation on YouTube and this guy goes up and his shirt's off and he's got every muscle waving at you. And she's like, holy shit. I was like, yeah, I used to look like that 20 years ago. She's like, you should go to the gym. You get that back. And I said, yeah, in about 10 years when I find the time to go to the gym.
Speaker: Well, it's it wasn't I don't have the time to go to the gym because I can go to the right now. My biggest and my biggest thing is killing me is like I've got the membership. I want to go. And and I plan on going and then I get off work and the motivation is completely fucking shot out the window is gone, gone, completely gone, just gone. The funny thing is, though, I still have the strength. Oh, yeah, like
Speaker: Like the physical strength to do something my wife is constantly surprised on how little I am that I can overpower her in like an arm wrestling match and stuff and But I don't look it of course and And I don't know if it's me And and I've always wanted to ask somebody else and this is a perfect place to do it. Do you feel 40? Do you feel your
Speaker: like you brought up my age again. No, fuck, I'm 40 years old. No. And I'm like, I don't feel like I really don't. I don't feel like I have the same ideas and not ideas, but I have the same outlook speak as I did when I was 20 going, yeah, I can do that. And then you actually do it and go, fuck, I can't do that. I should not have done that.
Speaker: Yeah. Well, like we went to the beach, which I'm not a big beach guy, oddly enough that I live in one of the best beaches in the world. Uh, we went to the beach and, and we were talking to a friend about how I was in cheerleading and I used to be able to do backflips and stuff. And I said, I could still do it. And my wife went, you're 40 years old. You cannot do a backflip. My dumb ass try.
Speaker: I got up from having sand in my face and I was like, yeah, that was dumb. I can't do that anymore. Well, I mean, I don't necessarily think like that. No, but you still think I still have these crazy notions where it's like, you know, I can still, I can still probably do that. I mean, but as far as like, well, I won't say that because
Speaker: I would say as far as strength goes, like I physically, I know I'm strong as strong, if not stronger than I was. But the problem is, is what happens to the energy is definitely not there. But the problem is, is after I do it, you're sore for a month. Yeah. Like I was trying to explain to my girlfriend, I don't want to go to the gym.
Speaker: to lose weight or, you know, I've never been the guy who's had muscles on muscles or anything like that. I'm a big guy, but I've never had that, you know, even when I was working out when I was younger, I wanted to go to the gym so that I was, you know, like my shoulder hurts, my back hurts, you know, my knee hurts. So I can go to the gym and I can get that repetitive motion and yeah, I'm going to lose some weight. Yeah. I'm going to be in better shape of what not.
Speaker: But it's more of the fact that I can go to work every day and not come home at the end of the day and be, and be hurt. You know what I mean? So we get that, that, that, that repetitive, uh, bullshit going on. But I think our stupidity of being kids slowly, eventually creeps up on you around. Well, about the only thing, the only thing that I still think I can do that I probably shouldn't do is the amount of alcohol that I drink because I can drink the hell out of it.
Speaker: I'm drinking cigarettes because I can smoke four packs in a row. And then the next morning, I'm like, that was a bad idea. And I can drink a case of beer. And then the next day, I'm just gone. I was like, yeah. And I get odd pains. Do you get this? I don't get it. If I move the wrong way, I'm sore for a month. And I don't know how I did it. Like the other day, when we were on Haps,
Speaker: And I hurt my hand. I still don't know how I hurt my hand and it took a week to get better. I can do something as simple as been over and put my boots on and throw my back out. And then for a week, my back is killing me. So my side was like, the other day I was just like, Oh, I don't know what I did. Yes.
Speaker: My wife's like, you slept wrong. I was like, I slept. I 100%, I 100 % agree with that and know that feeling. It's ridiculous. Well, it's about that time then we're right at two hours. So let's go ahead and that'll be it for this episode. But, and we probably could, but
Speaker: I want to do another one. I know. I'm loving it. Um, but, uh, let's go ahead and come up some more subjects for the next one. If anybody has a Facebook, TikTok, uh, what are the other ones? If anybody has any ideas or if you want to bring up, uh, I lost my train of thought again, but anyways, yeah. Any, any ideas, any suggestions like that?
Speaker: Feel free to follow us and like us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Haps, all under nonsensical nonsense. If you want to email us, feel free to email us at nonsensical nonsense podcast at gmail .com.
Speaker: Once again, this was a bunch of rambling nonsense, but this was the first episode. Two idiots that don't know what we're doing. This is the first episode of nonsensical nonsense. So we're still trying to find our footing. Please, uh, please be kind. Working out the bugs. Uh, wow, this is fun, man. I can't believe it's actually just happened. This is a lot of fun. I know. I can't wait to do the next one.
Speaker: We'll go ahead and we'll talk off here about when we're gonna do this. Next one hopefully will be a little bit more organized. Maybe we won't talk over each other as much as we've done.
Speaker: Uh, we need to work, bring, bring, bring a little bit more, uh, topics, but no, it's fun, man. That's all that matters. As long as we're having fun with it, hopefully, hopefully the people that are listening, we'll have fun with it too. But yeah, let's go ahead and, uh, let's go and name this. Thanks, Jeff. Thank you, man. I appreciate, uh, you actually, Chris, I appreciate the fact that we can do this after 20 years, 20 plus years of being friends.
Speaker: and that we can try something that we both wanna do for the, I would say for the last 15 years. Oh yeah, definitely. And I'm looking forward to more and more. More, more, more, more. I agree. Those of you guys who have listened to this and made it all the way to the end, thank you, much love. We love you guys and appreciate your support. Welcome to the club. Go ahead and,
Speaker: call it.
