Tell Em Steve-Dave - #683: It Takes Two

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

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listen to this podcast and they will regale you with their tails. Space Monkeys Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Space Monkeys. Hello! That's right. Walt's off. He's out and about.

He's on vacation. He's on vacation, yeah. Long vacation, too. It's like, I don't know, 10 or 12 days, something like that. Him and the Franks? Him and the Franks went, yeah. Down to Orlando to Universal. Oh, that's right.

Yes, yes. Yeah. Yes. All right. That's great. So no Walt this week. Unless we call him. We could call him.

Yeah, let him enjoy the park. Yeah? I mean, unless there's a comedic punch involved, then I'm all for it. But you never know. What if the guys online for the month? Monsters ride and we call and he misses his. Misses his cue? Yeah.

I wouldn't feel good about myself, would you? No, not really. It's nice to take a break. You don't really take a lot of breaks. Who me? From the podcast. Yeah. No, not really.

Yeah, I'm constantly like, okay, when are we doing it next? Yeah. Yeah. I got to keep it going. You got to keep it going. Because if I did it, nobody else would, I don't think. I'd be like, it's been three weeks since you did it. Yeah, what did we, what's the name of that pod we used to do?

Yeah. Yeah. So I got some stuff before we get to our traditional questions that we have people write in and we try to help them with their problems. Right. Oh, cool. Some of them I have phone numbers. Some I don't. All right. But first, how was your fourth? It was good. It was my parents were in my house. My brother and his kid was out. One of his kids was at my house. Great. Right down the middle, you know. It was. Weather held out. Whether held out. Pool was good.

he was happy. The fireworks display was nice. Yeah. So yeah, good. You know, I was proud, happy. The country, 20050 years, felt pretty good. 250. Look what the country has accomplished in 250 years. Look at all, look at all the other countries.

Some of them still in shambles. Some of them have been around for fucking thousands of years. Still living in twigs and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not the US of A. No way. No, sir. Give us 250 years. We're going to build something. We're going to build a lot.

Yeah. Fuck you. USA, USA. Yeah, my fourth is about the same. I didn't decide we were having a party until like noon because I wasn't sure about the weather. Yeah. And then we finally decided, yeah, fuck it. All right.

It looks like it's going to be nice. Your family came over? Had the family over, did some barbecue on the Blackstone, did some swimming. And that was about it. Very sedate. No fireworks. We didn't go to see fireworks. Sage Hayes fireworks, so.

Yeah. Yeah, I get out of fireworks every year. I can't see them from my house like you, so. Sure. This is subdued year. I thought it would be bigger this year. Yeah. But I mean, from my view, I know New York City did a great, and seen all the tall ships go by.

Right. That was cool. I broke out the binoculars and watched that. That was fun. Yeah, somebody, like, I can't remember who it was saying, but was it, was it Wall? I think he was talking about, like, how massive, or was it you, how massive the shipway? he saw it going by and he just could not believe how big it was it was like twice the size of like a cargo ship or something oh really wow yeah yeah it was like it was fucking huge it's cool

i saw something on instagram that i was like oh that's pretty cool but somebody had taken a photo of like the tall ships but like no land behind them out so you just see the ocean and the uh description was uh like it's insane that all those old paintings about these ships were 100% accurate it did. It looked like a fucking painting with the big sky behind it and the wind blowing the sails in one direction and the choppy sea and I was like oh shit it was like a photograph. Yeah.

Which is cool. Yeah. So that was the fourth 250 years. Do you see any movies? Went to see Evil Dead Burn. I saw it yesterday. What do you think? I wasn't super happy with it. I was like, it's okay. It was an okay installment. I didn't hate it but I wasn't like, I didn't like it as much

as Evil Dead Rise. No, I love it. It's probably my least favorite evil dead movie. Yeah. I felt like it was a good horror movie, not a great evil dead movie. Zero humor. No, no humor at all. No humor at all, which is shocking to me. And I liked it.

This is going to sound like a negative for you because it is a good horror movie. Sure. Just it was missing some evil dead things. But when I had evil dead things, it was awesome. What the fuck is that? I think that's, uh, that's, uh, get'em's. Sorry, but, um, yeah, it was like the deadites were, the deadites, when they were deadites were awesome. That scene with the gun, with that Bill Bar-looking motherfucker with the gun.

Oh, yeah, just kept shooting himself. Oh, it was so fucking cool. And, and, you know, anytime they leaned in on the glee and the joy of the deadites, I was like, this, this is cool. Yeah. I just found that the cast of people they were hunting, I didn't care for it at all. That was my problem, too. I'm just like, I don't relate nor care about any of these characters. Every characters.

Especially like the lead girl. I'm like, she's so inscrutable and like French. You know what I mean? That I was like, I don't, it's hard for me to connect with this person? Yeah, well, was it French directors? Yeah. I think it was shot in France. Was it?

Yeah. That becomes a problem sometimes when it's trying to translate to America. Like a big example of that is Alien 4. Oh, yeah. Where it's like, I'm like, this guy. Yeah. I'm like, this guy does not know what the fuck he's doing. There's a weird French tinge to it.

Yeah. You know my main problem with Evil Dead rise? And I'm going to burn it. I'm going to go see it again because it did get a lot right. And I did like it. It's just my least favorite Evil Dead movie is when they go that dark and they go that humorless, you still exist in the world where the greatest hope to fight these things is fucking Ash. Right.

Like you can't erase him from the cannon. He's the guy. So it's like imagine him. To me, if you can't imagine Ash in that movie at all, then it kind of loses the evil deadness of it all. And I thought the 2013 version had the same issue, but at least it was the first time it happened. Right.

And you were like, all right, they're trying something new. And at least there were enough evil dead touches to do it. And also the other thing is just like, and I know I'm going to catch some shit for it, but like enough. Enough with the females. Like, like, enough with the female leads.

It's three in a row of, and I love evil. Evil Dead Rise is fucking, I love it. So this isn't a problem with women leading fucking movies. It's a problem with like three movies in a row of a franchise based on a fucking meathead

who somehow blunders his way to being the best warrior possible, not having any element of that at all. Right. It's just these women running around getting terrorized and fucking, you know? Evil dead and name only, not really, it's a spirit or theme.

But Rise had it because in the end, when she's going nuts and, like, fucking covered in blood and her eyes twitching and, like, you know, and she says, come get some. I'm like, all right, you know what I mean? Like, it feels like evil dead. This, there was none of it. There was none of it. There was none of that feeling of a meathead's going to come in right now and save us all. Right. Which, to me, undercuts it because, like, these monsters can't be the scary and they can't.

be this dangerous if ash williams could come in and fucking win and like that's what evil dead is and i and i just felt like man i really hope the next movie involves some dopey dude fucking fighting fighting deadites because that's what i love about evil dead yeah it reminds me in as much as like like the first joker movie where i'm like this didn't have to be the joker this could have just been like some psycho guy but again it's like the same thing with with with the evil dead remake from 2013 it's like it doesn't have to be but they're trying something different so i'll bite but by the third time i'm seeing the trick and i'm like this is an evil dead like but it was though at points the gun scene was evil dead the the the old woman was fucking the grandmother was

awesome yeah um which she her her running joke never really paid off no no i didn't get that either but it is awesome when when that old woman's looking up the stairs she just starts cutting off her on legacy. I thought, that's pretty fucking funny. And then, like, in it, there's a Bruce Campbell nod in it, which I appreciate. But I found within the movie, I was like, well, now I'm a little bit confused because is that just a nod to Bruce Campbell or is that supposed to be Ash? And is he somehow related to this family?

Like, it just didn't. A lot of it didn't work for me and a lot of it did, I guess. So good horror movie, as an evil dead movie, I thought. I could have used a little more evil deadnet. Yeah. I don't know. And the family was miserable. Nobody was happy.

Everybody was bummed to hold the entire time. Every man's abusive or coward or cowardly abuser. I'm just like, guys, like, I mean, come on. You know what I mean? Yeah. The males are pretty weak in this. Week and evil. And you're just like...

Yeah, just just me... Yeah, like the main guy who, you know, in the very beginning who's fighting with his girlfriend. Oh, so cartoonish. cartoonish and you're just like, I don't like this guy. I hate him. Yeah. He's an abusive asshole. He's an asshole.

Yeah. And then you're just like, I don't want to spend time with any of these characters. And I don't care when they die. No. Like, it doesn't matter. That's a problem with the deadites more than you like the fucking characters. And then did you say for the after credits? Yes.

I don't want to spoil that. But like, that was, again, a great character. But I was like, well. I don't understand how this fits together. Yeah. I'm going to go see it again. Yeah, I think when a person that's not American makes a movie that plays in America,

it's just like certain things are lost. They can't be lost. Maybe not every time, but they can be lost. But some things can be lost in translation. Yeah. But man, I really hope whoever they,

because they're already shooting it, Evil Dead Wrath, I think it's called, I just, please, please just give me some fucking meathead. Give me a meathead hero. Just give it to me.

I've sat through now an equal amount of movies with women getting terrorized by dead eyes as I did with Ash. Yeah. Three and three. So can we just tip the scales back to a meathead for me? That's what I'm hoping. And no cameo from Ash either.

No, just that one nod to him in the house. Did you catch it or you didn't catch it? I might not have caught it. So, I mean, it's not spoiling anything, but when she's going up the stairs, the grandmother is in that chair, the picture's on the wall. One of them is, it looks like a headshot of Bruce Campbell.

Oh, really? I missed that. Yeah, it was like a headshot of Bruce Campbell. And I was like, well, is that Bruce Campbell? Or is that Ash Williams? You know, his character. I was like, I don't know. So I don't know.

Yeah, why would Ash have a head shot? Yeah. And if they're like, well, we just wanted to Bruce Campbell in the movie, I get it. But believe me, I get it. I want Bruce Campbell on every movie. And then I saw Backrooms. Backrooms, never heard of it. It's a horror movie.

I think you like it. It's like based on this internet thing where like there's all these liminal spaces, rooms behind the door and they don't lead anywhere and they get increasingly surreal as you go. And this guy gets lost in it. It was pretty good. You know, I don't think it's stuck the line. They were pretty good. And then I saw Supergirl. Did you?

Yeah. Everything they said it would be. Fuck, man. What a swing and a miss. It was the first half hour. I was kind of into the take on it. And then you're just like, like, there's no lie. to this movie.

Like, she doesn't have powers under a fucking red sun, but somehow she does kind of still have powers on her red sun. She could take a beating that would kill any normal person.

And then the dog who's Kryptonian gets poisoned on the red sun. And her first instinct is like, let me get him to a yellow sun. She just leaves him under a red sun. I'm like, well,

wouldn't it be better to have him under the yellow son to heal up? And then like, in the end, it was just like, I want to like it I kind of like it And this is coming from a

A guy who's not a Christian dad Who she said she doesn't want them At the Doesn't want them to come see the movie She doesn't like him No none of that stuff Like I'm able to be like All right whatever

She's a 20 something year old kid She's shooting her mouth off I don't even know what she said But I know that like She shouldn't have said it Once she's trying to promote a movie It's like stuff I'm able to shed all that stuff

All that political kind of stuff When I go see a movie Yeah What I can't shed is logic gaps and stupid decisions and, you know, just dumb, dumb shit. And Lobo was disappointing to me. Yeah, you said you had to see it because of Lobo. Yeah, I love the character so much.

And it was just Jason Momoa in Whiteface. I was like, wow, you guys didn't even, he didn't even try and make Lobo his own character. I mean, it helps that Jason Momoa is perfect for it. But I was like, I would have liked to seem a little bit more Lobo in it. Yeah. But whatever, man. What are you going to do? What am I going to do?

I'm going to review movies on a podcast now, apparently. That's what I'm going to do. Yeah, but evil dead, I was not disappointed in them, but I was hoping it would be a little bit more funny. So she says, this is Millie Alcock. She made comments about online criticism that alienated a certain segment of the audience. She's targeted specific demographics,

such as individuals with Christian-themed profiles. I guess that's on like Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And dads. She doesn't like dads. And then expressed that if you're pissing the right kind of people off, you're doing okay. Yeah. She also discussed the character's sexuality and her intentional disinterest in watching past female superhero performances.

Sounds like you got a winner on your hands. Wait a second. Wait a second. The reason it didn't do well? Yeah. Mazzaginy. Mm-hmm. You can only beat that horse so much, man.

Before you got to make a good movie. Yeah. I thought she was, I didn't think she was bad as Supergirl. I actually kind of didn't mind her take on it and I thought you, I don't know, again, I don't know why guys are saying she's ugly. I saw that too, like they said her teeth are all messed up or something. Dude, if that girl was talking to you in a bar and you had a shot with her, the last thing you'd be worrying about is her quote unquote fucked up teeth. She's so pretty. You know what I mean?

And like, I don't she, I didn't think she was a bad supergirl. And I don't care what she said in interviews. But I am looking at pictures of her. Her teeth aren't exactly straight. I'd say. It's so fucking what? The fucking video is like, it's so mean. The title is just ugly and then says WTF teeth.

She doesn't deserve that. That's like. But she's young. Like she's going to say what, look, she grew up in the era where pro people, kids her age were programmed to be sanctimonious, no at all fucking preachers. So you can't. Virtue. virtue virtue you can't really hold it against her like as she's i mean you can and people did but i i would be like this you know maybe the kid just needs to fucking age up a little bit and realize

that she doesn't know everything yeah it is weird when you you see like the people who are protesting everything and the people who are like i'm i'm anti this i'm anti that it's like it's usually people who are very young sure who like and i'm like i'm sorry but like i'm fucking closing in on 60 I'm not going to listen to some 20-year-old about like what life means. And, you know, like, and what direction the country needs to go in because, you know, right. They're unhappy with it.

Yeah. But you know what? It's going to be their country long after you're gone. Yep. There'll be somebody else's country long after they're gone. But they don't realize that yet. They don't realize it. Yeah.

I didn't realize it up that age either. Now. Now I realize it. You do matters. No. Nope. You can fucking sit out there with your sign as much as you want. You can hoot and holler as much as you want.

It's not going to change shit. It might, though, I guess. I think so? You're telling me no protests has ever changed anything? I don't know. Let's see. What protest has changed something? Vietnam, perhaps?

I mean, it definitely changed public opinion towards it. But again, like, if you meet some of these Vietnam guys and, like, they do have stories of like, yeah, now people were spitting on us. You're like, well, I mean, that's not great. You know, call them baby killers and shit like that, yeah. But so it's just, it's always been this way and it'll always be this way. And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't really matter. Protests that changed history. Yeah.

Okay, let's see. You got, uh, well, not many. Well, the fall of the most like, most recently, Black Lives Matter protests. Definitely craws a ripple, that's for sure. Definitely changed some shit. Uh, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Sure. Yeah.

I mean, I don't think you're saying that. protest doesn't work. I just think that, I don't know. What the fuck do I know, dude? No, I think, though, people protest a lot of shit for a long time. Like, at a certain point, I'd be like, I give up. Yeah. That might be a you thing.

You think so? It's definitely a me thing. Yeah. I don't know what you want for me. Yeah. I'm just going to go feed the squirrels and the cats in my yard and, like, just try and make that a little bit better for them. Yeah, you know, the other day I went to the beach with Mary Beth.

She goes, she loves shelling. She likes going, looking for shells and little rocks. and stuff and, you know, I brought my book and I was reading and I'm like, this is nice. I'm reading a book that has no messages, no political bullshit. I'm not listening to anybody with their fucking opinion in my ear. She's leaving me alone because she's going. She's shelling? She's shelling.

Yeah. It's perfect. I'm like, I'm by myself. I'm alone and nobody is fucking hooting her hollering about what I'm doing wrong. Yeah. It's nice. Yeah. It's nice.

I think people, you know, as people get out of, line and stuff like that. I think that's more what we'll see. What do I know? Yeah. I've been off line or nothing. I've been offline a lot. That's good.

Yeah. I've been. That's how's your head? Better. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely better. I don't really like,

I mean, I guess the shit that used to piss me off and get me annoyed is, it's still out there, but I'm just not seeing it. Great. I've completely changed my IG algorithm. I'm now, I'm now looking at kittens and puppies wrestling.

There you go, buddy. The more you watch him, the more they get sent you away. It's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty great. Yeah, it's opium for the masses. Just take your head.

Give you that. Give me that. Yeah. Let's see who else. Oh, I think you might like it because it definitely was gory. On HBO, The Mummy is streaming. Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Oh, yeah.

And I was like, at first I was like, it seems a little long. It's two hours and 15 minutes. But I'm like, all right, you know, For a horror movie, I'm like, I'll give it a try. Yeah. This could have been an Evil Dead movie. That is what I've heard about it. Yeah.

Dude, it is so gory. Yeah. There is so much violence in it and shit. And it's not like, like the person who is, you know, the quote unquote mummy is not very mummy like. They're more like a deadite. Like, that's what I was watching. That's what I kept hearing, right? And this is the guy that directed Evil Dead in 2013, right?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I got to check it out. I know people who have seen it hate it. Some people are like, it just don't watch it. I guess it scared me away, but you're saying give it a watch. I didn't hate it. No, yeah, I thought it was like, I mean, I went and thinking it was going to be something different.

I thought it was going to be more of a slow-paced, like, you know, mummy movie, but no, I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Oh, yeah, I'll check it out. Yeah. Then I'll take it. I'll take your, yeah, I, uh, it looks from the trailers, uh, it looked a little dead-eyedish. Yeah, the girl like laughing and causing. Mm-hmm. I'm assuming, I mean, it's a spoiler for a two-year-old movie, but I'm assuming that's no

She's like a demon or something like that. That's not like a mummy, right? Yeah, she's a demon. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I'll check it out. I'll check it out. Yeah, I liked it. What else did we got here?

Oh, uh, Taste's Funny Weekend. Will you be there? Unfortunately, I cannot be there. Can't make it, huh? Two very beloved crew members on Joker's are getting married to each other that weekend. So. Got to do that. I got to do that.

And it's a weekend thing. Like, I'm going five hours upstate and shit like that. Okay. I can't make it. which is a bummer because I don't get to Jiggy as much as I want to anymore since he moved to L.A. Yeah, well, I'll be there. Oh, great. Yeah, Jiggy texts me as if I wanted to come down and do some, do some potting with Ming.

Oh, very good. Man, I'm missing that. Yeah. That sucks. Yeah, you hadn't imagined it so I figured you probably couldn't go. I want to go. I just, it's like the one wedding that I couldn't be like, sorry, guys, I got to go do a show with my friends. Yeah, let me see.

I had it down here. Oh, yeah, the dates are, if you want to go, it's, well, it's Thursday, July 30th is like the bonus Thursday night. And then it's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The July 30th, 31st, 1st and 2nd, I guess. August 1st and 2nd. So if you're into it, yeah, it's a good time. Check it out. Taste Funny 6.

A lot of TaseFunny's DNA is built into Q West. So if you went to that and had a good time, it's kind of... Yeah, I thought Chiggy did a great show at Q.S. That was really entertaining. He's handcuffing people. He's good. All kinds of shit. I did have a question for you.

It's a moral question. Ooh, I like this. So I frequent a restaurant for breakfast. I like enough that they're like, this is a regular. Sure. And so we get certain benefits. Like sometimes we'll get free drinks. You know, we'll get a free basket of tortilla chips.

Nice. The other day I noticed on my bill she didn't charge us for the drinks, but she also added a discount. Ooh. A military discount. Oh, stolen valor? Stolen valor. She doesn't think you're in the military. She's just trying to, she's just using whatever.

Whatever means necessary. To give you the discount, yeah. Yeah, I saw that, and I said to Mary Beth. It was only like three bucks. It wasn't like that much. I mean, you didn't walk in and camouflage. It didn't sit like that. Like, they're trying to help you out, you know?

I got PTSD, man. Give me $3 off. Coming in a wheelchair with long hair. Yeah. Look like Charlie. Oh, he's sunny. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't sure.

Like, I don't want it to become a regular thing. Why? It's three bucks. It is three bucks. I think I'm not buying movie tickets with senior discount? Oh, I do. 100% of the time now. Yeah, I'm silver enough now that they just assume.

Yeah, I mean, the 18-year-old work in the counter, they think I'm 100 anyway, so it don't matter. Yeah. At one time, I think it would have bothered me. I would have been like, you think I'm a senior citizen. Now I'm like, hey, AAA here. Hold on, young one. So few things about getting older are positive.

So few things. Yeah. Like that if getting two bucks off a movie ticket is one of them, I'm going to take it. Yeah, with the movie tickets, which I did get the other day, I'm just like, you know what? Like my neck, like right time my neck has been hurting for like a week. If that doesn't qualify me as being a senior, I don't know what does. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's funny.

Yeah. So, okay, no stolen valor. I don't think so. I think you're okay. You're not asking for it. They're giving it to you. No, yeah, they just, they assumed. They assumed.

Maybe I had that thousand yards stare on my eyes when they fucking didn't bring my pancakes test enough. Lath thing, Taylor Swift wedding. Why weren't you there? Mainly because I wasn't invited. I would have won't if I was invited. Would you have gone? Yeah, of course.

They're talking about. Absolutely. That was something else. I love all these people that are like, hey, man, borders. Borders. Borders. Taylor Swift was all about borders for a while. Oh, was she?

And then around Madison Square Garden, what does you do? Against borders. And then what did you do from Madison Square Garden? I'm guessing you put up security fence and no orders. Yes, exactly. There's security out the ass. Yeah. So I don't know, Taylor Swift.

Well, what are you suggesting that she, like every other human on the planet, is a hypocrite? Yep. All right. That's what she is. Right. That's fine. I just wanted to admit it. Yeah.

Because they won't admit it. Is she political? I never really hear about her. She's not really too political. Yeah. No, but she did squawk about borders for a while. Just like Billy Elish when she was squawking about we're living on stolen land. And then it turned out where her mansion is built is built on like some certain tribes land.

And they're like, hey, we'll take it back. I'm guessing she didn't give it back. She did not give it back, no. There I don't think she acknowledged it. Yeah. Oh, there was a land acknowledgement that time? Nope. Sometimes it's better just to keep your fucking mouth shut if you're not sure.

I mean, most times they're better to keep your mouth shut. Yeah, just be quiet. Yeah. But it's easy for them to, and I certainly don't want to get into politics or anything with that. But it's easy to tee off on shit like that because you know what's never going to happen. Mm-hmm. So you could take the quote unquote right side with no repercussions. It doesn't cost you anything and nothing will ever change.

Right. So it's like, yeah, of course you could take the high and mighty route when there's like, the second it's like, well, what about your house? You see the real one come out. And by that, I mean not come out of their house. Right. Yeah. Yeah, to acknowledge it. Yep.

But again, she's got to be young too. Like Billy Elish. Yeah, she's in early 20s. Yeah. I mean, you know. I think, I think maybe people are too hard on. kids that age because they just grew up, one, the pandemic, and two, they just grew up in a time. And, you know, I think a lot of people are learning that it wasn't right.

But they just bring up broke, it's such a divisive, angry time, sanctimonious of people that they have no choice but to absorb that any more than you and I had a choice to absorb what was going on in the world while we were growing up. Which is why we're cool as fuck. I'd agree with that. Yeah, you know how the cool kids have to tell you how cool they are, right? Yeah, they have to remind you constantly. I'm cool, right guys? I'm not just saying a lot of people have said it, not just me. Oh, yeah.

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If you want you. I think I got a brand new pair. Let's see, what else we got? Purple is my color. I like it. It is. It is. I love purple.

I think when I was younger I fought against it. Purple's gay. Yeah? I think when I was younger, I considered it a girl's color. Well, it reminds you the grimace a little bit. Yeah. But at the same time, it's the most really little color out there. That's a great color.

I mean, it's just a pleasing color to look at. Yeah. Purple. I don't mind purple. I like saying it purple. Yeah, it's probably the finest color to say. I think it's a great color. If I met a hot alien woman with purple skin, I think I'd marry her.

Yeah? Yeah. You wouldn't shy away from it? Nah. All right. Like purple, beautiful, light purple skin with, like, maybe, like, darker purple nipples. Ooh. Yeah.

You see what I'm getting that? I think so, yeah. I think I'm turned around on all those purple stuff. Then I'd be a purple people either. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. La, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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There were at least three French songs. Oh, yeah, yeah. ...sung in French at weird times. Yes. Yeah, that's what I mean about, like, the foreigners directing American films. It's like, sometimes it totally works. Yeah.

Other times it's like, I don't know. Like I said, it gets lost in translation and there's just something like not quite right. I was wondering about that in the beginning when like they were painting out that guy to be abusive. Like every single line he said, there was no shades of anything. It was like this guy, they might as well put a neon sign on his head and been like, bad guy. Right, dickhead. Dickhead. Mm-hmm.

Bought you a thousand dollar pen. We got it. And you're just like, oh, boy. Yeah Yeah, I agree That dude was very one-dimensional Yeah, and then like When he was a demon later on

I didn't like the design of the demon Like the fire demon I was like I liked his ribcage though I thought the ribcage looked cool Yeah, but it's something I've seen a billion times Yeah, I guess you've seen another Evil Dead movie

The Army of Darkness, right? Yeah, those were just flat out more skeletal Yeah, I just yeah I just kind of wish they made more of an Evil Dead movie Sorry What's our next? We got some...

You know what these movies mean to me. I know. Yeah, I know. I know you're not going to take it lightly. I'm not going to take it. And again, I know I'm being very negative on it, but it is not... It's not a bad movie. It's just not a great evil dead movie.

Yeah. I would agree with that. Yeah. I would agree with that. Yeah, if I went in there not thinking it was evil dead and it's just like, you know... Some fucked up shit. The demons. Yeah.

You know, yeah. I would like, wow, this is not bad. Like, they did some pretty cool shit here. Right. Yeah, you're right. The actual tone of it, like, and the lack of... any comedic elements whatsoever. Yeah.

Really makes it not quite an evil dead movie. Yeah. I wonder if the lead the next one's going to be another, like, small woman getting abused by demons. Or can I just get a meathead? Where the fucking meatheads? There's a meathead out there. There's a reason why Ash is so fucking popular all these years later.

It's like people love fucking meatheads. Yeah. You know, I'm great. You suck. And then they step on a rake and hit their face. Like, that's the character. That's the guy you want. That's the guy you want.

Anyway, sorry. Forget about what we want and need. Guys, what do women want need? That's a great question. I don't know. I'm 58. I still don't know what women want. Yeah.

I try to guess. I always guess wrong, it seems. Remember that Mel Gibson movie years ago, what women want? Oh, yeah. Where you could hear what I'm thinking about. I never saw it, but like, they should remake that movie today. Oh my gosh. Do a sequel.

Holy shit, I'd have to watch it. That would be funny. Yeah. Yeah, that was one of those movies that I'm like, it looks, I know they're not going to be thinking what I want them to be thinking. Yeah. So fuck this movie. I think as I recall the trailer, and I don't think I've seen the trailer since I started a movie theater.

It was a lot of women looking at Mel Gibson going, hmm, he looks good in those jeans. Right. I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, I don't think that's what I would be hearing. No. I'm like, like, Ew!

Yeah. What? Talking to other kids, stand behind me. Don't go near them. Let's see. What do women want? Oh, okay. Let's see.

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All right, that one I get. All right. That one I like. Mm-hmm. How often do you have sex in your bedroom? Oh, almost always. Really? Yeah, almost exclusively.

Wow. I'm like... You're all over. Almost bedrooms for sleeping. Yeah, oh, really? You don't want to taint your bedroom, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's anywhere else in the house is more likely.

Bender over the couch and send her home. Get out. I'm done. No, no, no, no. No, of course not. Oh, I cradle her and I'm loving afterwards. You know, we order a pizza. At this age, what are you supposed to do?

You're supposed to celebrate the aftermath? It's like, you do it, you're done. And then here comes the pizza. You give a high five. Let's get a pizza. Yeah. Have you seen this episode of Ash versus Evil Dead yet? Look at this meathead.

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And the bedroom. I think I figured it out while you were talking. Okay. I don't have any kids. Like if you have kids, you kind of got to lock it into the bedroom. You can't just be balls out banging all over the house. Yeah, I agree. Because a sage's room is right down the hallway from us.

So you got to lock that door. Got to lock it. We got to blockade. I don't have these issues. Yeah. Worst I have is a cat staring at me while I'm trying to do my work. Yeah. Get out here, Boris.

We need to get attention. Chew. Chew. Chew. Chew. You. Fuck on it. Nobody tells you about that.

In high school sex ed class. Like sometimes you're going to look up and lock eye with a cat while you're doing your business and you're like, get the fuck out of here. And they're not going to listen. No. They're going to disengage. Chase him out of the room. Yep. Dick flopping.

Boner popping. Boner popping. Boner slapping all over the place. The fuck on it. Let's see. Okay, you want to get into the problems and the questions? Keep your face in that pillow. I'm getting this cat out of here.

Don't you move? Don't move. Face down and ass off. You know the rules. Get out here. That's the way Q likes to fuck. That's it. I can't do it anymore.

Oh. I don't know. All right. Let's see what we got here. Oh, this is a sad one. Get him no mic for you. No, I might forget him today. I had a question for him, but I'll save it for the next show.

Okay. Hey, boys, I'm wondering if you have any advice dealing with a sister with a severe addiction issue. She has lost custody of both of her kids. Who hasn't had a job since November, and yet she still expects blind on wavering support from me. Thanks in advance. All right. This is on, this is more, my, I just, I don't know, I don't, I'm not good for advice on this. No.

I don't think so. I don't think I helped you too much when you were in your throes. I was very permissive. And like, I don't know that I ever took a hard line when you were dealing with all that stuff. No, not really. You know why? Because I was functional. Yeah.

It's not like I was, I didn't have a, well, I didn't have a job for a while. Right. But like, once we started the podcast and we were doing that and getting that going and then the TV show started and all that. And then the Patreon started. It's like, I've been, you know, I had been functional the entire time. Like, I was probably for the first four seasons of comic book, man. I was on pills. Yeah.

You know, so I was still able to do it. Right. So that's why I think nobody really felt like, except for Walt. If I was going to point to somebody who suffered from it, I would say it was probably Walt, yeah, because like I was in the throes of it when we were doing Cryptozoic Man. So like I was late on deadlines and shit like that. So like Walt really had to bear the brunt of it. And Walt was the one who went to Kevin and he was like, look, I think we got to do something

about this guy. It's good. Yeah. He was a better friend dear than I was at the time. that's for sure because he took steps to help you. Yeah, he's that guy though. He looks out for people. Well, he's judgmental.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And it's like it's, you know. For better for worse. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't mind telling you what you're doing wrong.

But he did. He was, uh, yeah. Yeah. And he, he definitely like had to deal with like me being an asshole at times. Like I remember one time, like I lied to him about something. I have no recollection of it. I don't remember what it was about.

But then when he got upset, I was like, oh, what, you've never been lied to before? This is, you know, I believe him because this is, because he tells me, yeah, that's the logic of a fucking dope fiend. Right. So for her, I would say. It's on you for being sensitive that your friend lied to you. What are you, some kind of plus. Some twisted, yeah, some twisting the logic there.

Yeah, my thing, okay, so she lost her kids. She has not a job since November, and she expects blind and a wavering support. I think this is one of those situations where you have to go tough love. Yeah. You can't keep supporting somebody in something that's so detrimental to not only herself, but obviously to people around her, her own children. Yeah, I mean, if the government's taking the kids away. Yeah, that's a problem.

Yeah. That's a big problem, yeah. So I would, my advice would be that, you know, and I guess people didn't really have to do this with me, but with her, it sounds like you need to take a hard line and say, like, look, we're not going to support this behavior anymore. We can't. You know, we love you. We care about you. This is, you must know.

Even like, even like back when I was in, like I said, in the heat and right in the middle of it, logically, I knew that I was fucked up and I knew I shouldn't be doing what I was doing. I just couldn't help it because, you know, the addiction, you know. Right. And I wasn't ready to be like, fuck this. I don't want to do this anymore. It's fucking hard. It's hard to do when you're not.

fighting an addiction. Yeah. I mean, don't you to this day still, and I'm talking about myself here too, like, look at your own behavior and be like, why am I doing this? Yes. Like, what does it matter? I could sit there and logically be like, what I'm doing now is what I don't want to be doing. I don't want to be eating like shit.

I don't want to be wasting time. I don't want to be doing this. And I'll just do it anyway. It's fucking, it's a weird feeling. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. There are times when I feel like, I'll go on Amazon and I'll buy something. I'm like, and when I guess I was like, I was like, I was like, I didn't need that.

Like, why the fuck did I buy this? Why do I do this shit? Yeah, what hole am I trying to fill? Yeah, and to be aware of all this and to still do it, it's fucking, it's pretty nuts. Yeah, like at a certain point, like I read an Agatha Christie book and I had this character, Hercules Porot. Oh, sure, of course. Yeah, so, and he's like a, he's this weird, eccentric little, little guy.

He's got that mustache. Got his mustache. Yeah. And I really enjoy the book. And I'm like, I'm going to buy every Hercules Poe-Roe book there is. Yeah. So I went back and I went back. and I looked them all up, and I think it's like 25 books now or something.

It's going to take me forever to read them because I just started the... Are they thick? No, I can get each one done in about two days. Yeah. But I can't do it now because I just started the Dark Tower series. Oh, right. This is your first time doing the complete? Doing the run, yep.

Yeah. I read The Stand first, and I read Eyes of the Dragon because that also has some flag stuff. Yeah. So I read them just to... Yeah, and I'm like, I probably didn't need to read them. You didn't need to read them. Right. But there's like...

But I mean, they're good reads. Yeah. Yeah, I never read Eyes of the Dragon Week before. Oh, it's good, right? Really enjoyed it. Yeah. I remember at the time when it came out, I was like, this isn't horror. This is like, Stephen King is horror.

I don't want to read about dragons and fairies and shit. Yeah. And when I read it, I was like, this is fucking pretty good. This is a good story. Yeah. Yeah. I enjoy it. So why don't you think you can get through the eye and get the Christie books?

Oh, I can. This is going to take forever. And my point is like, why didn't I just buy them one at a time when I was, like, now I got all 25 books sitting there waiting to be read. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's like it's this completest attitude. Yeah, I want it. I'll have it here and I'll read them. Yeah, I will read them for sure.

But it's going to take forever because, you know, like I said, I got this Dark Tower series you got three. That's going to take me probably the whole summer at least. Yeah, I reread them last summer. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've talked to several people who have reread them. So I'm like, it must be fucking awesome.

It is awesome. It does, it does towards the end, you know, your tastes are going to vary on it. On the reread, I was happier with it than I was the first time I read it. So, but yeah, they're great. I mean, Eddie Dean is an all-time fucking character. He's one of my favorite characters ever. He spent a lot of time with him in those later books, too. Yeah.

Yeah, it's cool. Do you hear of the first law trilogy? No. by this guy named, I think Joe Abercrombie, they came out in the other 2000. Somebody recommended it to me the other day, and I tore through the first one, but it's the same sort of,

not dragons, but in that Game of Thrones type world with the new dragons. Man, I tore through the first fucking book. I'm recommending him heartily, man. You're a fast reader. Yeah, I read real fast. Yeah, you read quickly.

Yeah, I read fast and I love it. So it's like, it's not, like I'll just sit down on the couch and read for like three hours and just love every second of it. Yeah, that's what I try to do in the morning, like I started getting on. early. You know, like, Sage would get off to school and then I would just read for a while when

Marybeth was still sleeping. That's great. For whatever reason, it was great. For whatever reason, as I've gotten up, like, I get usually get up around six, I'll let the dog out. I can make my tea by the time I'm ready to sit down and reads like 6.30. I've noticed that they've, both Sage and Marybeth have started getting up earlier and earlier. And earlier. Encroaching. Yes, encroaching on my time. I hear them. And Marybeth comes downstairs and she's talking to the

dog and we had this discussion last night i was like look i don't know if i'm doing whatever yeah i don't give a shit if you talk to the dog and talk to the cat and talk to the fucking fish and all these other fucking pets she's constantly talking to but when i'm reading it's and you're like in the same room it's really distracting and it's always like a voice too right oh yeah it's never because i do it yeah i'm not picking on a merriment i'll be like i'm like who's a boris today are you abhoris yeah good over you boris yeah good er and I'm trying to fuck. I'm trying to fuck, Boris.

Yeah, but what, yeah, that's, but you haven't, this is, I feel like there's a solution for you. All right. And it's that fucking great basement you got. Turn it into your area. You just go down and like, close that door and you're good. I think you're right. I actually did, uh, did consider that.

But like, the one reason I, that I'm holding off is because every morning, like, I sit on the couch and then on the back of the couch I'll set my I'll set a pillow and then my cat's sail him comes up and he sits right next to me and he purrs and hangs out with me. You don't think he'll do that in the basement? I think he will but I'm scared of him getting lost in the basement. Oh, he's a cat. He'll come back. He'll come back. Yeah, I just yeah, I could bring him down but I just don't want him like wandering and like getting

into the floorboards or something like that because there's like that it's finished except for the one part where the storage that's unfinished. I don't want him in there. No door? No, there's two doors but they're like these barn doors. I don't know why they did this, but there's like, there's barn doors, but they didn't attach the bottoms. They did it twice in the house. Like they don't, like, they should be sliding. Yeah. But like they slide, but then like the end comes out and then they fucking slowly slide back.

So I'll have to put like a latch on it or something. No, what you do is you hire someone to come in either finish the doors. Yeah. That's an idea. Or you just rip those doors out and have them done. Like don't, this is your life, man. Yeah, you're right. Like you're not using that basement because a fucking door won't stay closed.

Like, this is it. These are the, these are the. upgrades, man. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Like, just get it done. All right. Yeah.

All right. Yeah. That's what I'm going to do. That's what you do, mate. When I first saw that basement, I was like, there was so much that could be done here. Yeah. Mary Beth has ruined it by piling shit up all over the place. Oh, you put them behind those barn doors.

Yep. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get on her. Come on. Let's, let's clean this up. Let's get your ass. Get out of bed. God damn it.

Yeah. And you could even like, because I did this in my house, I had, I put, um, basically pet doors interior in my house and some of them. So I can still close the door and lock out sound, but the cats have access to certain rooms in the house when I'm not there. You do

that at the top of those basement steps. You got your little guy coming down with you every day. There you go. It's heaven. Heaven, I say. I'm going to give it a shot. Give it a shot because you also have those two doors. Like you get sunlight in there. Yeah. And then you get one of those lights those fucking winter lights down there. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. For depression.

For depression. Yeah, I think I got one of them somewhere. Yeah, man. Who's, who's, now you're down there. Now you've got a neon sign. You got a jukebox. Oh. You got a nice TV on the wall.

I'm in business. Yeah, I got my TV down there too. You'll be fucking down there all the time. I don't need my family. What the fuck? That's the upstairs. I'll put a refrigerator down there. I don't need anything.

Now you're fucking talking my language. Yeah. Yeah, so anyway, the person who's... You still talk to Ernie? Who's wondering about Ernie? Yeah, but he's... doesn't do that kind of stuff anymore. He might have a recommendation for you.

Yeah, he may. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, there's plenty of guys. Just do it. Just get it done. Get it done this month and you'll be so much happier going forward. Yeah, all right.

Done. That's what I'm doing. Let's see. So, yeah, I would say you're going to have to take, if the soft touch isn't working, you're going to have to take a harder tact. And if somebody had taken a harder tact with me, I don't know. I might have changed. I might not. It's, it's, it's tough when you're, when you're in the, the addiction cycle. It's so true what they say. It's like, you have to be ready to be like,

I don't want to do this anymore. Like, I'm tired of this. You can't have other people telling you or do it for other people. Although I will say like when I was like, what am I doing? Like, I got to get off the shit. Like, Sage was a big part of that too. Right. Or I'm like, I got to get off this. Yeah. It's something to live for. Yeah. So that would be my, uh, that would be my advice to, uh, take a hard attack. and let her know that like, you know, you're not fucking around anymore. Yeah. You know, like she's got to change.

She's got to change for her kid. She's got to change for herself. She's got to change for her family. And if she doesn't, yeah, it does. I don't know what she's addicted to, but it must be something strong. Yeah, it just sounds so hard. Let's the next question. When did you guys first start actually hanging out?

That would have been 97? No, a little earlier. 96. Because that was 19 or 20 when we met. So 94, I was 18 or 17, let's say graduate in high school. Yeah, 96. About 96, maybe. About 30 years now.

Yeah, long time. Yep. Long time. Don't regret a second of it. Not a second. I'm so glad I met you. I, oh, yeah, dude. I mean, you changed my life.

So, so like I, when I met you, I felt like I've met my people. ViewSQ overall was like really good for me. Yeah. Yeah. It's surprising to me that, um, look, it's been many, many years and a lot of things have happened, but it's always surprising to me that I'm not closer to Kevin, given the impact that he's had on my life. Yeah.

You know? Like, that was such a formative time in my life. and I'm such a fan of his growing up, you know, clerks and Morats and I came in on chasing Amy. Like, sometimes I, like I said, it's been a long time and a lot of things have happened. But I always look back at that time. My life is so formative to me and how much of that he's responsible for. Yeah. Yeah, we think of all this shit we did by the, like, the cons and, like, you know, even, like, working at the office, just the, like, such a good group of people that we had.

We would go to the movies. We go out to eat. It was great. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Yeah, it was a real, it was like a social. I mean, I was always a low man on the totem pole back then, which wasn't fun. But I was also a fucking idiot kid. You know, why wouldn't I be?

Yeah. Why wouldn't I be? Remember, we moved the office one time. We moved the office one time from three harding across the street kind of. And Sal helped us. This is pre-joker. So Sal was looking for a couple extra bucks and Sal helped us. And he parked his car under a tree.

Oh, those birds. I've never seen so much bird shit on one car in my entire life. He comes out. He's like, what the fuck? It was like we fucked with him. Yes. And poured fake bird shit all over his car. I've never seen anything like that.

I've never seen anything like that. It's funny, Sal, on set. Sal, we're having a lot of fun this season. This has been like a really fun season. And we were just sitting around bullshit and laughing the other day. And he brought up again slamming his car, his fingers in the car door in New Orleans. Oh, really? He brought it up.

and I was just started to laugh and I started going, open the door, open the door. He's like, my fingers were still in the fucking door. It was closed on my fingers. And Brian Johnson's making fun of me already. I think back, I think it's so evil. And I go, dude, this is the guy who after I got into a car accident, I walked into the store and the first thing he said was like, if I suck dick in a car, I'm supposed to be in the passenger seat, not the driver's seat. Car flipped over. Car flipped over.

It's on the side. I'm wandering and like hurt. Like, what am I doing? Am I calling an ambulance? What am I doing? And you're like, you, yeah, you don't suck dick when you drive a car. I'd like to think that I've softened over the years. You have.

But it was fun. You know, you know, everybody laughed. I mean, Mosier fucking laughed. Walt laughed. It wasn't like, it wasn't like it wasn't funny. Yeah, I remember you coming in and looking like dazed. Like what the fuck just happened? Yeah.

No sympathy. No, none. Well, would you flip your car? It's a girl's car anyway. Yeah, it was. It wasn't a girl's car. That was the, um, uh, it was a Honda. Oh, okay.

You're talking about the Plymouth Laser, it wasn't there. And it didn't flip. It just went up, almost flipped, and it slammed back down. Slam back down on that side, yeah. But, uh, but Sal started telling that story on set. It was making me laugh. He's like, my face, because I hear people laughing and I'm trying to get my car the car door.

Yeah, Marybeth will still sometimes, like, if, like, there's a New York accent, she'll be like, open the door, open the door. Oh, yeah, she brings it out. Yeah, she'll bring it up sometimes. That's how friends, that's how dudes make friends. Yeah. Or how we used to. Yeah.

If it happened to me, I would expect nothing less from you guys. Well, now I'd be afraid you really hurt yourself. Yeah, yes. Now it would be different. Oh, shit, are we losing them? He's gone. He's gone. Yeah.

This guy also wants to know a secret question. I don't even know if, I don't think you've revealed the answer. The Star Trek guy who said to you, I don't watch your show. Yeah. I don't know. I really don't want to. I don't want to put the guy on blast. No.

Because he is, and by the way, I've met him again and he's, he wasn't much better at the second time I met him, but I don't want to be the guy. It's like this guy. You know. So I'll keep. that to myself for now. After he passes, I will. Yeah, then you'll reveal it. Yeah. Yeah. A piece of shit

he is. I'm not saying he's a piece of shit. You know, I just, he was, it was odd choices all around. We have Tobias, a UK aunt. Nice. The 10-year anniversary show is understandably canceled and Walt still has an aversion to flying. But can we expect the space monkeys to come back to the UK for some shows

anytime soon? You were missed and wanted. I'm not opposed. I'm not opposed either, but I don't know. The UK seems to be in shambles. I'm not sure. Like, London? In September, I hope. Are you?

Be careful, man. Every time I, every time I look online, it's like there's, there's riots and there's, there's fights and there's all kinds of shit going on. I mean, it's a major, I'm sure it's like you could turn that camera

to another street and everything's fine. Everything's fine, yeah. Yeah, I think that's like, to me that strikes me as like very selected content to position things a certain way. Mm-hmm. I'd tell you, I was on Canal Street, Manhattan this week, and I was like,

It was fucking pretty good. Oh, yeah. A couple of years I went to Cadill and it was like, what the fuck third world market am I in right now? Oh, they cleaned it up. It seemed like New York to me again. Nice. Yeah. So I don't know.

I think it's all just, what do I know? I don't know. But I'm going in September. Oh, cool. Yeah. I like London. Yeah, you're a London guy. Yeah.

Yeah. I like the UK. I liked it when we went there. Yeah, that was really fun. I would do another show there, yeah. All right. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it.

Maybe we'll get out there. I'm in the process of getting divorced. She cheated on me. And I was willing to forgive her. It's nice, but not a good idea. I've forgiven cheaters before. It never works. It's not a great idea.

I caught her a second time. That's why it wasn't a great idea the first time. Yep. And that's where I told her I needed time. So we separated in early March of this year. She moved away with her sister. I recently found out she is still in contact with the guy she cheated on me with. I started the divorce process, but I need help getting over her.

I'm hurting every day. I started antidepressants and therapy, which I've never been out on my life, and it's destroying me. I know she's evil. How do I get over her? Well, first of all, she's not evil. There's reasons why she's making those decisions that will never understand. She's definitely unfaithful. She's definitely a fucking backstabber.

Yep. But evil's a stretch. Yeah, unless we're there, she's not including some evil stuff. she's done. But yeah, this is like, this is very typical cheating separation type stuff. Yeah, my advice you would be like, but it's, you know, you got to learn it's, this is no longer about her at all. This is about you, pal. This is like, like, she's not making you feel this way. She's not making you heartbroken. She's not, it's the absence of her that's making you feel this way. Like you, my advice, you would be like, you owe nothing to her. You, you are,

this is about you. You need to focus on yourself. You need to be comfortable in your skin. I'm sure I've given this before, but like, this is just who you are now. You got fucked over. You know,

you probably feel stupid because you gave her another chance. And then she took advantage of that again. It's just like, you didn't do the wrong thing. People deserve second chances sometimes. In this instance, I would have told you not to. But you didn't do anything wrong.

but you have to just accept that you're heartbroken. This is what it's going to be. You got, I would say, five or six rough months ahead of you, but you just got to do it, but you just got to be okay. Because there's probably some loyalty in this gentleman to her still. Oh, I love her. I still care about her and all the good times and everything that we went through and I'm throwing all that out of dude, none of that shit's going to matter.

The second you're over her and none of that shit's going to matter. Yeah. And that day's coming. So just accept. that you're heartbroken, you know, as much as you can tamp down the anger at her, do it because it's ultimately not going to be helpful. And she didn't really do anything unusual. People cheat on people all the fucking time.

Yeah, even when they're giving second chances. Yeah, people just do it, man. It's, I don't think humans are wired for monogamy and, uh, you hear that ladies. I just don't think they are. And it's like, you know, she might have some weird kink that you weren't into. I mean, it could be a billion reasons that have nothing to do with you. And she just didn't tell him. Like, that could have been it.

Like, she didn't tell him. Or he wasn't open to it. Look, you know what I mean? Or she tried to tell him. And the point is, like, you just don't know. What you do know is that you're in a tremendous amount of pain. You probably still love this person. And you're trapped in that, which is all okay.

Like, that's fine. Just accept that that's where you are right now. And just move on. Just get out. Just get out and get away from her. Well, therapy is a good idea. Yeah. You know, I think therapy.

like talking it through helps. Uh, not, maybe not obsessing on it. Like I wouldn't, you know, think of it 24-7, but I think therapy is a good idea. The antidepressants, they may help, you know. May, yeah. You know, they may help me over the years. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I always say to people like, if you think about what goes on in your own head all day, the chaos, the, the, the shifting thoughts, you know, she's having them too. And she just sometimes need a dick. well, we can do it happens. It just fucking happens. Yeah, I mean, the flip side is like, okay, you're divorced, but now you're out there. Yeah.

Now you're going to be the one getting some pussy. Sure will. You know, and you're not going to have to think about her or her bullshit. Look, we've all, I don't know, most of us, I would think, have been through something similar. Sure. Maybe not getting divorced. Maybe you're not being married. No, but heartbreak's heartbreak.

Heartbreak, getting cheated on, getting cheated on multiple times. Physically abused. Yeah. Yeah. That's happened to me. Got hit with a door. Got hit the head with a door. God damn bitch.

Took it. Yeah. Not really. That was kind of the end. Was that the breaking point? That was near the end. Yeah. But it was the same thing.

It was like, well, you know, in this girl's particular case, you know, I found out later that she had gotten molested as a child and, and, you know, it kind of rewired parts of her brain. And, you know, and you come up with all these excuses. But the end of the day, she. fucking hit hit me with a door yeah that's i i found myself making many many excuses in my life yeah i don't know why i look back and i'm just like yeah like what was going through my fucking head at the time that i wasn't like i'm out i'm out your own problems the shit the yeah the the shit that was put into you growing up made you that person to take that to take that level of bullshit yeah it's all it's only when you're like you know what i'm not going to take this level of

bullshit anymore. Like, you have to, you have to defeat that wiring. You have to rewire. Yeah. And that's what this guy needs to do is just like, don't worry about him. Don't worry about her. Don't worry about the guy she's with. That's like, that's something totally separate from me at this point. The fucking last thing you should worry about is the guy that she was with. He's got nothing on you, dude. And it's probably going to happen to him too. Oh, definitely. I mean, I remember like, if I'd gotten cheated on, like a lot of my anger was directed towards the guy. And, Now I'm old enough to be like, it's got none to do with him. Nothing to, yeah, he, what, what loyalty does he owe me?

None. Yeah, none. Fucking none. And, and, uh, he's just a guy getting his dick wet, man. And I would be lying to say if I weren't at the, at some points, that guy. Oh, Jesus Christ. I was the guy. Fuck.

I mean, yeah. You were the guy many times. I went through a regrettable period. Well, for me, it was more like, I, I, you know, I thought a lot about this over the years of being like it ensured that things couldn't go any further. Right. In fact, it ensured that things had to be kept absolutely quiet. You know what I mean?

And that's like, that was the more attractive part of it to me. I was like, all right, this can't go anywhere. So I'm free to just have as much fun as I want with this without any expectations of it moving forward. Yeah. And you're not going to get into a situation where the girl's like threatening you all of a sudden and like, oh, you know, if you're like you try to break it off or something. Yeah, yeah.

Right. I was never really worried about that, but you're right. Yeah. There's zero drama, unless he finds out, which also happened to me. But regrettable, regrettable behavior for sure. But I understand it now, at least, you know what I mean? Yeah. Which is wisdom and time. And yeah, buddy, it's got none. Yeah, don't sweat the guy. The guy is just a guy. He's just a faceless dude. He's just a fucking dude with the same fucking issues of the rest of. us have like it's not worth getting upset about even easier said than done but just commit to having five shitty months get the divorce stay away from her don't romanticize it don't think about the happy times by the way like i'm friends with female that i think are great people that have cheated on their boyfriend you know what i mean like it's everything's so messy just fucking yeah just commit to no five months so you're got five months of hell and then you'll be fine yeah you're right because

what it's going to take is time that's it that's what it's going to take is just time and then you're going to be like, I don't give a fuck about this bitch anymore. In fact, I'm glad she's out of my life. Oh, yeah. I wish it had happened sooner. And one day you're like, you run into her and maybe you guys have one last fuck. You never know. You never know.

Stranger things have happened. Could happen. But you're in a shitty spot, bud. But if you just don't feel stupid, don't blame yourself. Don't get too caught up on who this other guy is. Don't think that you lost something special because you didn't. Because you never had something special because she was cheating on you the whole fucking time. Like, just don't think like that, man.

You just got to accept reality. Easier said than done. But you got to do it. Got to do it. It's tough. It's a hard road. Yeah, I've had it my heartbroken. Sucks.

There's nothing worse. I had my heartbroken so bad once I remember. I think I've told this story before on the show. Like, just like being on the floor in my living room in my apartment at the time and literally, like, chewing at the carpet. Like, I was just so, like, heartbroken and lost. So we all been there, pal. You'll get over it. Yeah.

I don't know if there's like, I don't know. I don't know if there's a person that you're like, I absolutely cannot live without them. Boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband. Yeah. Like I get being, I get the loving relationship that people have. I get like, you know, the, uh, the need to be, to be with them. But ultimately, man, it's like people die, people cheat.

People do this. people do that. It's like you can go on without a person. Oh yeah. And in a situation like this where the person is like actively contributing to like negativity in your life and making you feel bad and making you feel this way so you have to go to therapy and go on antidepressants. That's not a person who's worth it. No, no. Not at all. No. You just got to, you just got to get through it. But the only way through it is through it and everything you're feeling is normal. Mm-hmm. And just just deal with it. Just go through it. Do it.

Just do it. Let's see. It's going to be a good story one day. I promise you that. Yeah, sit there with your buddies and talk about what a fucking cunt she is. Yeah. That makes you feel better. Fuck yeah.

You think she's not saying that about him? Yeah. And don't be one of those guys that starts getting like protective because other guys are talking shit about her. No. Because if they never liked her and they're like, hey, man, you know what? I never really liked her to begin with. Think about that. Yeah.

Think about that and be like, wow, I didn't see it, but they did. Yeah. So next time you have a girl, you know, maybe you know, maybe you, don't take it out on the next girl Don't cheat on her Yeah take it out on her Yeah I would have evil to women

This guy's got a big problem My name is John And I'm 25 I've been listening since I was 18 My problem is my wife and I have been together Since they were 19 And married since they were 23 And he hasn't been getting any

It's not attraction It's not attraction or loss of love just been too busy and she's been stressed. What do I do? Help. First off, work on that stress for her. Get her a massage. Do something to help her out.

Like, alleviate that stress. If you can. If you can. If it's like stress at work, I don't know. I don't know what you can do. You know, I've always found. Get her the massage, I guess. Works good is, and I know people have a resistance to this, but I always found that, like,

I know, look, I know it's not going to sound great, but you just got to schedule sex. you just got to be like this is an issue look you're in your 20s this it doesn't get better than what you're going to have right now like this is it buddy like this is this is downhill from here

just got to be like look and whether we're like this Saturday we're going to to have sex you just have to do it and because the second due you're going to be like oh yeah that was I love this why why do we stop you know right

it's just habit it's really just habit And one thing that a mentality this guy has to adopt is that you are never too busy for pussy. Never too busy. No. I know he says he's too busy here, but no. You got to make time for that pussy. And that's, I think, the scheduling helps with too, because, like, even if Saturday, one or two things is going to happen. As that Saturday night approaches, you're going to be, like, looking forward to it and maybe that, or you're going to be like, I committed to this, I got to do this and you're going to get through it.

Either way, the effect is going to be the same. Both going to get laid. You're both going to feel better. and it just removes that fear of like, I'm not getting late, I'm not getting late, I'm not getting laid. So I would say just like, just sit down and schedule. You've got to have these conversations and you've got to schedule it. You just got to schedule it.

Yeah. Once, twice, three times a week. Yeah. You know? And truly, like, if she's all stressed out, it should help with the stress. Yeah, it's always held to me. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I would be my advice. You can't rely on passion to carry a sex life. You just can't. No. Because you just can't have the same passion for someone five years on. I've been married going on six years now. Yeah.

With her for 10. Yeah. Just had a discussion last night about passion and sex times and being attracted and all that other shit. Not in a bad way. No, these are the conversations you have to have, right, when you're in a relationship. Yep. And it's good, but I do think that. You better start putting out more.

bitch. That was the conversation. Oh, that was your side? You were asking for more passion. I need more passion. That's not how I thought that conversation went. Yeah, maybe Ash versus Evil Dad and ordering a pizza right afterwards isn't the way. But, yeah, I would say try the scheduling, man.

I know it sounds lame, but in practice, it's better in practice than it is in theory. I found. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But also look at her body and realize that it ain't going to look the same in 10 years. And I ain't going to look at the same 10 years after that. And it won't look the same 10 years.

You are in the years that you're going to look back and be like, if I had one more crack at that fucking 20-something year old body on her. I would love it. You're in it. You're in a moment. Pretend you're a time traveler. Yourself from the future in your own body now being like, holy shit, I got another crack of this tight young thing. Yeah, you don't want to wait. You don't want to wait.

You don't want to wait until you're in your 50s like me. then they're not going to want you at all. No. They look at you. Flabby. Rinkly. Defeated. Old.

Pizza sauce in your beard. I'm like, I do. Why didn't anybody tell me? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they got married pretty young, man. Yeah, that is young. That's young.

Especially since they were dating from like 19, you know. Yeah. And then nobody else until you're married. And then I'm married. I can't. I've seen it work. I've seen it work. I have some guys in my firehouse that married their high school sweethearts and they're definitely fucking doing pretty good.

I don't think it could ever work for me. No, mine's dead. So I wouldn't have worked. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I needed a collection of fucking perverts and freaks to come and teach me. Yeah. And luckily I had those ladies.

Yeah, you really want to get some sort of experience. I think so. life, you know, I think prior to getting married so young. I think so. I mean, I recall the feeling in my 20s of having a woman try something in bed and being like, what, what? It's awesome. You know, that's pretty good. I'm learning.

Yeah, I can teach this going forward. This is part of my repertoire now? Yeah, now you're the guy. You're not teaching that shit. Now I'm getting credit for the news. This lady, this is a good question for you. Okay. A 29-year-old 13% are from the UK. Oh, nice. Lauren.

11 years listening, and she bows to our superior knowledge. Okay. All right. We'll see. She's at that age where she wants to decide if she wants kids or not. As one child-free guy and the other father by choice, what are your opinions? I'm married to a great guy. We have good paying jobs.

I love bumming around, getting high, playing video games, sleeping until noon. And I think having kid changes all that. But while I regret not doing it, help me make the biggest decision of my life. Now, what I've heard in the past is like a lot of times the people, the reason that people have kids is they're like, I don't want to die alone. Yeah, that never held water on me. Me neither. Yeah. If I have to die alone.

And you know what? We all die alone anyway, even if we're fucking surrounded by people. You have no idea what's going to happen in your life. A nuclear bomb could go off and kill us all. Yeah. You're trying to play your video games with your kid bugging you next thing you know you're fucking incinerated, vaporized. it seems to me, Lauren, like you already know the answer. Yeah, she's not saying she's afraid or nervous to have kids.

She's just listening to the things that she can't do anymore. Yeah. And you're not listening, you're not listing any of the good points to having kids. No. And I will say this, if it makes you feel better, Lauren, I have never regretted. I have never had a single second in my life where I've wanted kids. or now that it's clear I'm not having them. I've never had a moment of just like,

oh, what it would have been like? I've always been like, I do not want kids. Right. I've never wanted them. I remember being fucking 13 and talking to my parents and then being like, you'll change your mind. If that's the way you feel and you know it, I think you're fine. And you're married, so I think what your husband thinks probably fucking matters a lot more than what I have to say.

His superior knowledge, yeah. Yeah, like, what if he does want kids? Like, well, then what's the answer? either they're going to go there separate ways or she's going to have kids. Yeah. I mean, if you're 29 and you're already, like, I don't know, I would lean towards now. And look, I got into a situation where, like, I didn't want kids either. I would have never had kids.

I liked living my life the way I did go in the cons and, you know, doing whatever I want to do at any time. And I still enjoy doing that, but I can't now. You can't. And I would be lying if I were to say, There aren't times where I'm like, what would my life have been if I hadn't taken sage on, you know? Right. And there are some things that would have been better.

Sure. You know? Yeah. I would have a lot more money. Right. You know, because I'm raising a kid, you know. Yeah. And continue to raise.

She's 20. But, you know, she acts like a kid. But every time I'm like, you know, you're a good kid. She's like, da-da, I'm not a kid. I'm an adult. Always reminds me. Yeah. I mean, but her life wouldn't have been better.

No. And that's what I have to remember. Yeah. Is that her, that it was, it was for her? It wasn't really for me. It was for her. And you sacrificed a lot for it. Yeah, I mean, I took a look and I'm like, all right, this is a little kid, not only a little kid, a little two year old, but a special needs two year old.

Yeah. It needs like that extra attention and that extra like little oomph to like, you know, get her going in different avenues of her life. And I'm like, I don't think my sister is the one to do that right now. Yeah. She wasn't. She wasn't the person to do that. You deserve a lot of credit for, man, because, like, it's, I don't think a lot of people would necessarily have made that decision.

And, like, that's where, like, I know people get on you on the podcast sometimes and you lost your Teflon Shield and, like, they don't like some of the things you say. But, like, if you look at that alone says something about you, that's like, I don't know, pretty, pretty great. Pretty great. I think you're pretty great all around. No, thank you. Likewise.

Yeah. I don't know. It's a weird one. I dated a woman in my 30s who was very smart and very feminist, but not in like the roll your eyes guy in the way, like real life. I hate men. Yeah. And she said that she said that, she said that, she does when she meets women who are older who don't have kids,

it does seem like they're missing something. Oh, yeah. You know, and I would surprise me coming from her. But I don't really have any experience with it. I just know I never want the kids. Yeah. Yeah, I think if you're even on the fence,

probably you shouldn't have them. Well, I don't know, because I think being on the fence is probably a normal reaction to thinking it through, right? Yeah, I guess you're right. Yeah, I guess so. I just feel like if I'm, like, even questioning something, I'm probably not going to leave in that direction, you know? Because it's not like, hmm, should I get a blue car or should I get a gray car? Yeah.

You know, like, the gray car is a little bit cheaper, but the blue car is the one I really like. It's like, it is something that you're going to live with. Like, this is the rest of your life now. Yeah. And it's not even your life because the second you have a kid, it's really not about you anymore. It's like that. And I never had the one I just never. never had the desire. There's just some of me I never had the desire. But beyond that,

I didn't think I'd be good at it. You know, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe if I had a kid, it would have been the fucking greatest thing ever, but I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. Yeah, no. I mean, look, I love Sage and I, like, I wouldn't change anything that I did. But again, there are times that I sit there and I'm like, what would it have been like? Where would I be right now? What would I be doing? But really, what would you have been doing? I don't know. I mean, how much better would it would have been sitting around without stage? Yeah, it's like how much better would it.

I mean, we've learned how life just kind of drags on until it's over. It's true. It's true. So who knows? Cat owner advice. Ooh. Do a couple more and then we'll say peace assholes. I spoke to you guys on one of the last call-in shows about his dog that died. The advice he needs now is much less said.

He adopted his first cat last Friday and would love any and all first-time cat owner advice. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, cats are, I gotta say, man, cats are way different than dogs. Cats are very self-sufficient and, you know, they don't, I don't think they command the level of, I mean, at least the cats that I have,

don't command that level of affection and attention that dogs do. Huh. I would say my advice would be clean the litter box twice a day. Just do it. Your whole house will be better for it. The cat will be better for it. And I don't know. I would get a second cat.

I would say second cat? Two cats have hardly more work than one cat. I agree with that. Yeah. And I think it's better for the cat. So I would say get two. But the litter box is a big one and trim the nails, trim the claws. Basic maintenance, I think, is the thing with cats.

Or get them a hell of a scratching post. We have like on our banisters, we have this like twine that's with that Marybeth wrapped around. So the cats scratched that because two of, well, there's only two cats left. Neither one of them will let you near their nails. Like we have to bring them to the vet together. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah.

It's crazy. Okay. So. I don't have that problem. Yeah. I buy cheap furniture. Like I have a really nice house. But when you get inside it, it's all fucking IKEA.

All of it. Like across the board. I think the most expensive piece of furniture I have is that, fucking burrow couch that I got. Because they're just going to scratch the shit out of it. And there's something too not caring. Just being like, oh, fuck it. It's an IKEA chair.

Let them scratch the shit out of it for a year. And then I'll just get another one. Same thing with carpets and stuff. I buy carpets off Amazon and shit. But yeah, that would be it. I would say just stay on that litter box, man. You will thank me. If you get in the habit of doing that letter box every morning and every night,

I had to learn that the hard way. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, sometimes it would, like, they would piss outside the litter box. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, you let it go a little bit too long and you're going to be, you're going to be paying for it. Yeah, just do it twice a day. It would be my advice.

Play with them, pay attention to them, got them really socialized. Yeah. Get him out of the house. That's what I did with Boris. He's more comfortable out of the house, which I'm glad for. How do you mean? Like, you let him walk around? No.

I have one of those fucking backpacks that the cat could go into and look around and stuff. I have a stroller that I can put them in and walk around the fucking neighborhood. I'll do that. You know, I bring him to Key West. You know, boys, he comes on the plane with me and stuff like that. That's made life easier. But honestly, just the litter box would be the most important thing. There you go.

All right. Let's see. We'll get a couple. Wow, a lot of people in addiction and depression and stuff. Oh, that's our brand. Wow. Hello there. Long timer here.

A few years ago, I was hit by a car. Chronic pain is a huge thing. Pain meds and social anxiety meds are my life these days. Since then, my legal case was sentenced. Did okay, but with my limitations and new money and pain problems, I've been drinking my face off. Whoops. I'm stuck in a cycling, fucking it all up. I'm 47 now, not working.

I'm confused and lost. What should I do to not entirely fuck it up? Any help or advice would be helpful. Oh, and between COVID lockdowns and the accident, I have been with a woman for eight years. Oh, I haven't been with ended women for a woman for eight years. I'm a mess. Seriously, a neurodivergent mangled Canadian.

Whoa, buddy. It's a lot, but I feel this pain. There are things, buddy, that I want to change about myself that I seem fucking incapable of changing. I don't know why I don't eat better I don't know why I don't work out more I don't know why I don't write more I think with me it might be like a comfortable nest syndrome

you know what I mean like I'm not really hungry in terms of career anymore or anything like that but I should not fucking I should not look like what I look like I don't know you don't look that bad to me I know but I appreciate that but I don't feel Like, I know I could be better. So I understand it, but I think this is one step at a time, bud.

Like, you can't tackle all the, you can't look at the whole photo and be like, I am a fuck up. How do I fix all of this? Right. Like, mind your money, first of all. Be very careful with the money that you won for the, the, don't, don't, piss it away on alcohol and drugs and bullshit. So be careful of that. The drinking, just slow it down.

You know, like if you're drinking a lot, drink a little less one day. Yeah, drink a little less the day after that. I'm unclear. Is he saying he's alcoholic or he's just drinking too much because he's in a period?

That's what it sounds like, right? With the limitations and new money and pain problems, I've been drinking my face off. I'm stuck in a cycle and I'm fucking at all. How old is he? 47. Dude, you're at that point where you got this,

yeah. If you were in your 20s, even early 30s, I'd be like, all right, you know, we all go through it, but you're at that age, pal,

where it's like, um, it's not great. Right. That was around that age. Yeah. I was around that age when I was doing pills and shit. And same thing. It's like, yeah, you definitely get stuck in a cycle where you're like, I mean, I wasn't working at the time.

And like, that's what I think you need is structure of some kind, whether you, whether you, I mean, I'm not sure how fucked up he is from the pain. The car accident. Well, chronic pain is a huge thing, he says. So I don't know if you can volunteer somewhere, do something like that. it, you know? Even like, yeah, that's... Structure was a big problem for me. Yeah, I didn't have any structure.

So it was like, I would just sit there and do drugs and watch TV all day. Yeah, and that's the thing that this guy... I'm not saying it wasn't awesome. All roads lead to the same behavior right now. So you have to disrupt that behavior somehow. You have to... Look, I'm not going to sit there and be like, dude, you just got to start going to the gym because that becomes another failure because you're not going to get up and go to the gym.

You know what I mean? Then you just feel bad about that. but you've got to break out of whatever cycle you're in. You've got to break out of your habits and your behavior. So what does that mean? I know it sounds lame, but like, well, therapy is good if you talk to someone once a week because that ends up a positive direction. But like, you know how many times I wish I joined the fucking book club?

I don't know why in my life I haven't joined the book club. It sounds so much fun getting together and like reading books and talking about them and shit like that. I don't know why I never did it. Now, would you want to do like a book club or not like an online book club where like a Zoom type thing? I mean, I think it's better in person. Yeah. I think it's better in person.

But for me, I'm not suggesting this gentleman. I mean, why not? But I think it's just breaking your cycle, man. You're just doing the same things over. You're treading the same ground over and over. And drinking, like, I did a lot of drinking in my day. I never felt great the next day. No.

And the answer for that is more drinking. You know? And I don't know that that's a, that that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, working out for you. Well, this is also the mixture of pain meds, anxiety meds, and alcohol is not, well, while fun is not good. Because it doesn't sound like he's having fun.

No. No, it doesn't like he's having any fun at all. Yeah, I've had great fun on drugs and alcohol. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like got an awesome time on it, but it doesn't sound like you're having fun. You've got to just, small changes. You've got to go easy on yourself. That's, I think the main advice is always like, you just got to go a little easy on

yourself. You can't, and I know I've said this before, but like if you just ride yourself and tell yourself that you're a fucking loser or that this side, the other thing, like, you're, you're feeling bad about, you already feel bad about yourself. You already feel like you're not living up to your potential. You already feel like you're not doing things the way that you want to do them. That's the problem. If you start beating yourself up over that, that becomes the problem. you're now hating yourself because of this behavior and all you've done is compound the misery. So you just have to go easy on yourself.

You have to just be like, look, I got, for whatever reason, you don't want to get hit by a car. You didn't ask you fucking get hit by a car. Like things happen to you, maybe to react in the best way possible. Okay. Okay. You're human.

Welcome to the fucking world. You know what I mean? So it's like you got to get rid of the self-loathing. You got to get rid of the anger at yourself, which I know you're feeling. it's useless to you. It's useless to you. You have to look at the patterns.

You have to look at the way you're behaving and you just have to make tiny changes. You're not going to reinvent yourself in a fucking week. You just got to make tiny changes. If you drink every night, hey man, don't drink Wednesday. Right. Make Wednesday the day that you're not drinking. Make or even better drink on the weekends.

Just be like, you know what? Saturday, Sunday, I'll have some and don't. But it's just tiny, tiny changes will add up. But the first thing you've got to do is, and has always helped me most is you have to go easy on yourself. Don't compound the problem with anger and hate towards yourself

because you're the only one in your corner, it sounds like buddy. And if the guy in your corner is just telling you all you that's wrong with you, it's not going to be helpful. You need to be your own Mickey. From Rocky.

That's right, Rocky. And not the Mickey that told him he was a bum in the beginning. The Mickey that came in later and was sorry that he called him a bum and helped him win everything. I think he said something key right. there. It's like small changes.

Like, don't look at this whole picture and be like, holy shit, I cannot believe what a fucking loser I am because of A, B, C, and D. Right. You can say, I can't believe what a loser I am. Let me try to change A. Right. And then once A is taken care of, like, it seems like you have some money, so don't worry about the job right now. Yeah. Great. By the way, that's awesome. Yeah. Like, if you can support yourself and you don't have to work, work on other stuff. Like you said, like, therapy probably could help, you know, uh, especially it's like, you know, you're, one day you're like normal and the next day you're fucked because you got into a car accident.

Yeah. That's a major life change that like I think anybody would have a problem adjusting to. Absolutely. So it's like you're not like even though you may seem alone or you feel alone, you're not alone. There's lots of other people that are in the same boat that, you know. Right. And I think I said it two episodes ago where I'm like, look, and I'm doing okay in life. You know, I don't like, I don't think I really have anything to point to that I'm like.

people, I think most people would look at my life and be like, he's got a, he's got a pretty good. I feel like a fuck a piece of shit. 70% of my days, like just 70% of my day is walking around just feeling like I've wasted my life, that I'm not doing what I'm meant to do, that I've let people, like, I think it's just being human. So, you know, you have to keep that in mind, like, what you're feeling is common. Right, exactly. Yeah, it's not, like, it's not unique to you. There's lots of people that feel the way you feel. even if they haven't been in car accidents and on pain meds and drinking their face off and another shit.

Yeah, it's like, trust me. You can walk around feeling like a fucking asshole all day long without any of that stuff. Oh, dude, that fucking, so I bought the bearded lady, so excited, right? And then like three days have gone in and I haven't texted a check on what going on. And I'm like, am I, why do I buy the place? What's wrong with me? Like, now I'm not pulling my weight. And you know, there's no weight to pull.

You know what I mean? Right, right. Just you could turn any positive into a negative if you got a mind, like mine. So, um, you don't even know if it could be like, uh, it's Q again checking in. Yeah, you're right. Exactly. Well, yeah, you just don't know.

You just don't know. So it's like you just got to go easy on yourself and take small steps. Don't be your own worst enemy. There you go. Peace. That's all.