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What a weekend, I mean, what a Friday night.
I know.
For Netflix, what a shit show.
What a shit show for Netflix.
The PR disaster they deserve.
I'm sorry, love Netflix.
They bring us a lot of guests and we,
and there's, I love their supportive comedy,
I think they've changed the landscape in a lot of good ways
and then some bad, but they cannot do live
to save their fucking lives.
I know, this is like the second time, right?
This is the second, third, fourth time.
I'm trying to figure out who does live worse,
Elon Musk or Netflix?
I'm just, I can't decide.
My dad and I watched The Fights, I know you were watching too, we were texting back and forth. Yeah, Jeff and I'm just, I can't decide. My dad and I watched the fights.
I know you were watching too.
We were texting back and forth.
Yeah, Jeff and I were watching, uh-huh.
Or when we could.
Yeah, when it was available.
I mean, so let me give you a little,
so I tell my dad when we get first thing,
I said, dad, we got Netflix, right?
He's like, we got Netflix, we're good.
It's installed on my TV.
I said, okay, great, fantastic.
He's got this new fangle.
My dad spent money on a TV. I'm so proud of him. I'm so proud. Nice flat screen, 4k, you know,
the whole thing. So proud of him. And so he's got the little Netflix button on the remote. And so
it turns out he does have a Netflix account. I was just shitting you guys. But anyway,
so we turn it on right as it gets started at 8 o'clock. Everything is fine until right before the Taylor Serrano fight.
And then shit starts going haywire.
I mean, but here's the thing.
So we're at my dad's house.
Two of the kids are on iPads.
My stepmom is in the other room watching TV.
Astrid's, you know, looking for studio chairs in 4k or something.
I don't know what she's doing down there.
I got my phone connected to the internet.
Like we're not exactly in the middle of civilization with my father, so I thought maybe he's got like
that old, you know, 1g internet going on. It's like, dad, I think it's just your internet's congested.
So we run around the house making everybody get off the internet.
Everybody get off the internet. No improvement whatsoever. It's sticky. It's like 102p. You know
what I'm talking about?
I said to dad, I go,
this is how you guys used to watch fights,
like in 102 quality.
Like it was just fuzzy and weird.
I know, I kept like getting out of Netflix,
getting back into it,
because I thought that was the problem.
I didn't know.
I mean, it would freeze, stop, whatever.
So I did all the things that my, you know,
technologically advanced calcium filled brain knows to do,
which is basically back out of Netflix, turn on another show on Netflix to see if it has
the same problem.
And what I found, my dad was watching The Diplomat at some point, which is a great fucking
show by the way.
It is a great show.
So good.
So good.
I love that.
Kerry Washington, is that her name?
No.
No, Kerry Russell?
Yes, Kerry Russell. Oh my God. what a smoke show and such a great actress.
Yeah, it's a great show.
She was so good in The Americans.
Did you watch The Americans?
I didn't, but I kind of want to go back
and watch that now.
Go watch The Americans, so good.
One of my favorite television shows.
Anyway, I back out, I turn on the diplomat,
perfect 4K quality, and then I go back to the live,
and it's another fuzzy, weird, pixelated bullshit.
And all they're doing is talking, like the common,
who is doing the common, who is that,
who is the lady who was doing the Amber Rose?
No, Rosie Perez.
No, not Rosie Perez, but the lady who was on the panel.
Oh, yeah.
With the beautiful black girl with the curly hair.
Was that Amber Rose?
No, that's not Amber Rose.
Okay, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, Kate something.
Anyway, I don't know.
So we're watching it, okay, great.
Rosie Perez, that obnoxious announcer
who will not shut the fuck up to save his life.
Yeah, he was bad.
I don't know who that was.
Did you see his hair?
That guy looked like he,
like he's like a Vegas dinner show guy
who just like rolled into Texas Stadium
and decided to do some commentary on the fights.
He was really obnoxious.
I'm sorry, I gotta say, he drove me crazy.
And then he had Cedric the entertainer too.
Loved Cedric the entertainer.
I thought Rosie did great.
Rosie did great.
Roy Jones Jr., I thought he lended some great perspective.
Though the commentator, whatever that fucking twad,
blue in the blue, whatever his name was,
and Roy Jones kept on fighting about Tyson biting his glove.
But whatever, okay, we'll get on with it.
So before the ladies start fighting,
it's like turned into a shit show.
Then I'm getting kicked out.
Chrissy and I are texting each other back and forth.
I start going on X, which my dad has no clue how X works.
Right?
So I'm on X.
I'm like, look, dad X everybody, there's like millions of people, you know, it's
like 4 million people complaining about this right now.
He's like, how do you do that?
What channel is that you got on there on the, on the X?
How do you, how do you tune into a Twitter?
And I'm like, dad, you don't tune into a Twitter.
You tune into a fight.
What are you talking about?
And so we're just, I'm just going through the list and I'm watching how many people are complaining with so many funny memes.
It's, it's just lovely.
I just, Netflix is falling on its face.
And so I started telling my dad, I'm like, we're going to have to watch this tomorrow.
Like there's, I don't, I don't know how we're going to get through
an entire fight like this, but we powered through and, uh, we watch this fight between Amanda Serrano and
Kate Taylor, Katie Taylor.
I have never in my life.
And I'm a guy who will tune into the big boxing events.
It's not my favorite sport in the world, but I understand that there's something
a little bit majestic
about boxing, about two people beating the tar
out of each other and then smacking hands in the end
and saying, you know, good fight.
There is something like a little majestic.
I think it's just a boy in me who like, you know,
I don't know, something about it.
And I like listening to the commentators talk
about strategy when it just looks like they're really
just beating the shit out of each other,
but apparently there's strategy to it.
These two women put on a show,
like I have never seen in any boxing match ever.
It was incredible.
If you did not watch this and you have the stomach for it,
go rewatch the Serrano-Taylor fight on Netflix
and you are in for such a treat because these two women had the biggest balls
in the entire stadium all night long.
They really did.
I mean, they were going at it.
I mean, there was the cut that happened on the face and then there
was blood everywhere.
It was nuts.
Round three or round four, Katie Taylor head butted, and I don't think on purpose,
head butted Serrano and it opened up a wound above her eye on the eyebrow.
Like on the outside of the eyebrow.
Stunning, she's gonna have stitches.
Oh, stitches.
We're gonna have to super clip that shit together.
I know, I was like, God.
And she started bleeding immediately,
and it just got worse from there.
It was grotesque, it was hard to look at,
and then Netflix, in their infinite directorial wisdom,
decided to pan in on at, and then Netflix, in their infinite directorial wisdom,
decided to pan in on that cut any chance they could.
I know, I was just like, ah, stop!
How many people threw up?
I mean, it-
I know, I thought I was gonna see like her skull.
Yeah, I- Right there.
You could see her skull, it was gross,
it was fucking gross, and I think they probably
could have handled that a little bit differently.
If it was me in the directorial booth,
I probably would have showed it
from a little bit further away, not so close,
but they were showing the cut guy
like sticking stuff in there and.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Oh.
That makes me shiver.
My dad and I, and I am not too squeamish
about blood in general.
Pimple popping, yes, okay.
But blood, not really.
But I had to turn away.
It was, it was, but after the third or fourth round, after that cut happened,
these two just got within one foot of each other any chance they could and smash for smash,
hit for hit, pound for pound, they beat the shit out of each other. And these punches were landing
with force and each one of them, one would do a combination,
right, left, left, left.
I know, I kept thinking was somebody was gonna go down.
Somebody had to go down.
I thought to myself, I told my dad,
I'm like, someone's gonna die.
This is Rocky IV.
I know.
This is Rocky IV.
When they just start beating each other
it becomes a contest to see who's gonna die first.
And I was like, somebody throw in the towel.
We were mesmerized by this fight.
And thank God, thank God that Netflix or whoever
had the wisdom to put this fight on
before Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
Because Jake Paul and Mike Tyson was the biggest flop
since Geraldo tried to find Capone's vault.
It was so fucking shitty.
It was, and we saw Mike Tyson's ass.
I mean, I know everybody's seen this meme right now,
but I think I woke people up in the house.
Like everybody was sleeping except for me and my dad.
And maybe my stepmom was up somewhere, but she was in the other room trying
to, you know, not bother our internet, our internet connection.
Um, but halfway through the Serrano Taylor fight in one of the in-between
rounds, they go to the locker room, where Mike Tyson's son is interviewing
Mike Tyson right before the fight.
And so all you see is this chest up shot of the two guys and you're saying, hey, dad,
what's going to happen tonight?
You know, Mike, it's just a fight.
We're just going to have some fun times.
It's all in good fun.
You know, I'm going to beat the shit out of him.
You know, whatever he's saying.
Okay.
Sweet moment.
They give each other a hug and Mike Tyson kisses his son.
I thought it was a very sweet moment.
Like, you know, dad, you're about to die.
I love you. And as Mike turns around to walk away from the interview,
the camera guy pans out and Mike is walking away
in a high waisted thong.
Well, was that a jockstrap?
It's a jockstrap.
Yeah, yeah.
But all it shows is just his naked ass.
I know, I go, oh my God, I just saw his ass
and Jeff was like, what, what?
Had to rewind it.
You had to rewind?
I was on the floor, my dad was like, what was that?
And I go, dad, that was Mike Tyson's ass.
And he goes, is that on purpose?
I go, I don't think so, dad.
That was really funny.
I think it took the director too long to cut.
I think he forgot to say switch to three.
Yeah, that was really funny.
Becoming the world's instant,
an instant classic meme of all over.
I had to go to Twitter immediately
where people were just on it, like left and right.
And I mean, first of all, gotta say for a 60 year old guy,
almost six year old guy, what a great ass.
Looking good, Mike, yeah.
Mine looks worse and I'm much younger than he is.
But second of all, what a fuck up on behalf of, Mine looks worse and I'm much younger than he is.
But second of all, what a fuck up on behalf of Netflix.
And then we get to the big show, you know, Jake Paul comes in spraying his brother's spraying deodorant all over him and some car.
Did you see that?
The car situation.
Yes, and the spray.
Yeah, spraying this deodorant.
I mean, come on, guys. And the car. I was like, Yeah, spraying this deodorant. I mean, come on guys.
In the car, I was like, really?
You aren't rich enough.
You got to spray your deodorant all over your brother.
You think your brother is about to go into a ring
with Mike Tyson.
You think he wants deodorant all over him?
I mean, what a, oh God, just terrible
from beginning to end.
I wish.
Yeah, I mean, you could tell almost immediately that.
It was the joke.
It was, yeah, it was basically Jake Paul just not hurting him.
Well, I mean, yeah, you can tell from the beginning that Jake was,
it seemed to not be taking this all that seriously.
I mean, the car, the entourage, which by the way,
I don't know where they find these bodyguards, but God damn, are they big?
Did you notice? I thought, well, let's these guysguards, but goddamn, are they big? Did you notice?
I thought, well, let's let these guys get in and fight because these are the real heavyweights.
Some of those bodyguards were like 10 feet tall, 600 pounds of pure muscle.
Does Jake Paul need that kind of security?
Maybe he does.
I don't know.
Anyway, so he comes out razzle dazz, the whole nine yards, and then Mike Tyson can barely walk to the ring,
and he just comes out by himself,
looking a little scared if I'm being honest.
And from the moment the bell rings, Mike gets in there,
lands a couple of punches, and it looked like Jake got hit.
Like he felt it.
But he just, he was planted in the middle.
It's like his legs were sewn to the ground. Mike Tyson, he couldn't move.
He couldn't get on his back foot.
No.
And Jake, between the height and the reach advantage,
Jake Paul just, he could have destroyed Mike,
quite frankly, because Mike was just a sitting duck.
And I'll give Jake one piece.
Like, I don't want to tell you that Jake is winning me over, but Jake, I
turned the corner just the tiny bit on Jake over the weekend and I'll explain why.
He's getting paid a lot of money and everybody wants to see the show and
everybody wants to see somebody drop somebody.
That's why they're there.
But it becomes pretty apparent by round number three, that Mike is in no
condition to fight anybody, let alone Jake Paul. I mean, maybe like a 59 year old against a 59 year old, maybe Mike
then, where they're just both kind of standing there, not moving. Like you know those
snow, those snow, snowmen that you blow up during Christmas, put out in your front lawn?
Yeah, they kind of bobble back and forth. Yeah, that would, you, Mike in that, in a
snowman, I mean that would be a good fight.
But Jake Paul, no, Jake's in peak physical condition
and he is really big and he has a great reach
and he has knocked people, a lot of people out.
Yeah.
And you could just tell that-
He's 30 years younger too.
Yeah, he's in, what, 28 years old?
He's like 27 years old.
That's the peak physical condition. When I was 28 years old? He's like 27 years old. That's peak physical condition.
When I was 27 years old, I'd kind of look like I do right now,
but I could have been in peak physical condition.
Now I'm just lucky to get up by eight o'clock in the morning.
This was not, the joke was on Netflix,
the joke was on all of us,
and Jake pulled off one of the greatest promotional con jobs
ever, quite frankly.
And you-
Well, he had a lot to do with the women's fight beforehand.
And in fact, on that little documentary series
leading up to the fight that I watched last week,
he was talking about the girls fight.
He was like, that's the one I'm really interested in.
And quite frankly, that was the one.
That was the winner, that and the ringside girls boobs.
Yes. They looked like they were about to pop like balloons.
And the camera would just be like right there.
I mean, the boobs on either side would be flanking the person that they were talking to.
Yes.
That was crazy.
Yeah. Ring girls in 2024, I mean, I get it. My dad was like, why are those Ring Girls still in there? Why do they still do that? And I'm like,
I don't know, dad, to be honest with you.
They're all influencers.
They are all influencers?
Yeah, we were looking at stuff the next day.
Wow. The winner there is the plastic surgeons, because holy shit. I told my dad even said,
those things look like they're going to pop. They did look like they were going to pop.
Those tops were so tight.
The boobs were just, they couldn't go anywhere else.
Once the third round was over,
it was like abundantly clear
that this was not great for Mike Tyson.
And as a matter of fact, the commentating crew,
especially Roy Jones and Rosie Perez,
they really had a lot of concern for Mike.
They were like, this is not good.
Like he's not doing well.
And he kept biting his glove,
like he was sucking his thumb or something.
Did you see that?
Yeah, it was a little weird.
But here's why I turned the corner a little bit.
Jake, in being the showman that he is,
being kind of the circus,
this, I don't know, like,
he's the guy who the circus runs
around, right? He's the circus master. He's the, what do they call him?
The ringleader?
The ringleader. He's the ringleader, he's the tentmaster, he puts on the show, and I
bet inside of him, being the problem child, quote unquote, the best thing that he could
do for his career and to make himself more of a shit show is to knock Mike Tyson out.
But he didn't.
Now somewhere down in him, it said this is my hero and I'm not going to knock him out.
Yeah.
This is my hero or at least my boxing hero.
And I'm not going to knock him out. I'm not going to do him a disservice, even though it would do me a service.
I'm not going to do him a disservice and I'm not going to, you know, go completely easy on him, but I'm
just, let me hit him a few times and then we'll get out of this.
Yeah.
The fight went so quick.
It was no more than 30, 35 minutes long because they did two, six, was it six or
eight, two minute rounds?
I think it was eight, two minute rounds, 16 minutes altogether,
minute in between each, each round.
It was just, it was over and done with.
And you could tell that the crowd inside of the AT&T
Stadium was highly disappointed in what was going on. They were booing, there was
almost no cheering going on whatsoever. Can you imagine paying forty three
thousand dollars to get inside of that? Is that how much it was? Actually I didn't see
any tickets for sale on the floor. I looked like five minutes after this show
started. I looked they had so many tickets available.
Up in the upper seats, you could get in the stadium
for like 60 bucks.
But if you wanted to get down in the lower bowl,
it was a couple thousand dollars.
I didn't see any seats available for the,
on the floor seats.
And so I imagine those were all promotional tickets
given away by Netflix and sponsors
and all that other celebrities and all that other stuff.
But this was just like, it was kind of disappointing from beginning to end. The Tyson fight was disappointing from the beginning. tickets given away by Netflix and sponsors and all that other celebrities and all that other stuff.
But this was just like, it was kind of disappointing from beginning and the Tyson fight was disappointing from beginning to end. Netflix is obviously terrible at doing live. They should just
give it up. They fixed something because in the end it did all work fine, but it was leading up to it. It was really bad.
When you have the thing everybody is talking about, you have to have so many servers ready
for that network traffic.
You can't just scale it the moment that it starts happening.
And I think that's what was going on.
They said like 60 million, about 60 million people
were probably streaming it live across the world.
You had to be ready for a hundred million people doing that
and they just weren't ready.
The network, it just got congested and they didn't,
like it took them an hour to fix it because it wasn't until about the fifth round of the women's fight
did things start getting a little bit more clear. Now to their, I guess, credit, I'm
not even sure I would give them credit for this, but to their credit, by the time that
Paul and Tyson started, it seemed to have been fixed. But when everybody started jumping
on right before the Serrano fight, it just, it was a shit show for at least 45 minutes to an hour.
Shit show. Kicking me off.
Scramble television. Very blurry and weird.
Freezing.
Freezing. Slow, pixelated.
Oh yeah.
And so, and to some degree, and I told my dad this, I said,
I'm kind of glad this is a little bit fuzzy
because I don't want to look at that cut anymore.
I just don't want to look at that cut anymore.
That cut above her eye was just gross.
And then what about afterwards when Serrano was talking shit
about Katie Taylor headbutting?
They said, oh, they do it dirty.
She just headbutts everybody.
I don't think so.
I think she was just fighting.
That's my opinion.
She just leans her head in and just starts fighting.
What those two women, I will pay $100 to see that rematch.
$100.
I would definitely do pay per view to watch those two fight again.
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, there will be no rematch.
However, the word is, is that Tyson and McGregor
are talking about that fight.
Tyson and, I mean, not Tyson,
Jake Paul and Conor McGregor.
Now that.
MMA style, now that.
That'll be good.
Is a fight I will watch on YouTube after it's done
because Jake's not gonna get me twice, there's no way.
But at least Conor McGregor is kind of close to his age.
What's Conor? Exactly.
Conor's 35 or something.
I mean, at least Conor McGregor would put on a fight.
He has the legs to put on a fight.
So mad respect to Mike Tyson,
you're still the greatest that ever lived.
I don't care, this is just a little pockmark on you.
You know, just a little pockmark on an otherwise exemplary boxing record.
And Jake, I give you a little bit of respect, but you did pull one of the greatest boxing
con jobs ever, making everybody believe that this was going to be the fight that they needed
to watch.
And I sure am glad that I did, but for not the reasons I thought.
You know what I'm saying? Exactly. no, it was different than I thought.
I wasn't disappointed that even though I have 34 children
who wake up at 5.15 in the morning
that I stayed up till 2 a.m. to watch all of it.
What time did you get to bed?
Yeah, it was 1.32.
Yeah, by the time I took a shower and got in the bed,
it was about 2 a.m. and my lovely wife let me sleep in.
So for the first time since I can remember,
I mean, I think I slept till like 10, 15.
That's amazing.
Can you have children when you sleep til 10, 15?
Life is good.
And when you sleep til 10, 15
and you don't have calcium as an excuse anymore,
that is a fantastic day at the office.
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we can't wait to see you there. Follow and listen to Office Ladies on the free Odyssey
app and wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, a little housekeeping before we get started. I'm going so fast this morning, my mouth can't
keep up.
It's that powdered cold coffee.
Oh, it's that powdered cold coffee. That shit is full of caffeine, but not full of taste,
I'll tell you that much. I mean, my wife came to me like a month ago, a month and a half
ago. I love Starbucks.
And the only reason why I love my Starbucks
is because it's very close to the house.
It's like, I can walk there.
So I have no like particular allegiance to Starbucks.
It's just a familiar taste
that I like the taste of the coffee.
It's fine. It does the trick.
And it's fully caffeine, right?
Yeah, professionally done.
Yeah, exactly.
Everybody, and the cold brew coffee there is pretty fucking good.
I mean, I do have to say it's pretty good.
I agree.
Is it as good as I've ever had?
No, but it's pretty fucking good.
So my wife starts telling me about this TikTok rage, the Nescafe cold brew powdered coffee,
right?
You just put it in a cup, you put some water and ice in there, the cream, sugar to your
taste.
She starts telling me about this and she's like, listen, we could really save a lot of
money on Star, because I spend what, $2, sugar to your taste. She started telling me about this and she's like, listen, we could really save a lot of money on Star,
because I spend what, $2,000 a year on Starbucks?
I don't have $2,000.
American Express would like that $2,000 back.
So I'm like, okay, I'll give it a try.
For the sake of the family and do my,
every once in a while Astrid goes around tightening up
the belt and my coffee is the first thing to go
and all of my British extensions on Amazon Prime.
Brit Box and Acorn TV.
She's like, are we still watching those?
And I'm like every night.
And she's like, do we really need them?
I always feel guilty.
It's like, she makes it sound like it's food
in the children's mouth or Brit Box.
I'm like, are the kids going to eat? Probably not. Well, just one more month of Brick Box if you don't mind.
They look fine. They look fine. You can see their ribs. They're kids. The ribs will be
fine. There goes that fucking microphone. I'm getting a new one when we change the studio. I swear to God I am. It's decided.
Astrid, no more food for the kids.
I need a new microphone.
So I try that Nescafe, that cold brew coffee, and she buys it.
And she made one the first time we got it in the mail or Amazon or whatever.
And it was really good.
And since then, I have not been able to replicate how good it tasted because I keep trying
different combinations and it just doesn't taste
all that good to me and it does taste powdery.
Like it tastes like powder.
The powdery stuff is hard to get right.
You have to be able to mix it the right way.
Is that it?
Maybe I should take one of those,
she has a blender, like the coffee blenders.
Maybe I should take a coffee blender and do it that way.
Anyway, not what I wanted to talk about.
Little house clea-
Cleaning.
House cleaning.
Little house cleaning going on here.
Okay, let's do some house cleaning.
All right, number one, 12 days of TCB.
First of all, we're gonna be doing fresh episodes
through the entire holiday season.
I know a lot of podcasts take off time
during the holiday season.
Some don't even send any episodes out.
I can't believe that.
That's a dumb thing to do.
But anyway, they do.
We won't because we need, because I have to pay for my powder coffee.
Um, so we have fresh episodes coming at you all holiday season long, including
the 12 days of TCB, the 13th through the 25th.
We'll do some special stuff in between there.
We'll talk about a few charities that we like in the hopes that we
can raise some money for that.
We've gotten some suggestions. We'll take a few of those suggestions.
We'll put them out there.
Also, I've done a little research,
trying my best to make sure we're not,
you know, sending money to Jake Paul.
And number one, that's about our schedule.
Number two, the Office Ladies is now on the Odyssey app.
Anywhere you can find your podcasts, really,
but they are here with Odyssey,
and now the Office Ladies are, you know, they were...
I love those Office Ladies.
Yeah, they're so, uh, I really do like the show.
It's a rewatch show, or it was a rewatch show.
They've now been through all the Office episodes,
so now they're gonna do more of, like,
kind of like a thing like we do, you know,
chitty-chatty.
They're gonna take, uh, comments and questions
from the listeners.
I'm not getting paid to say this.
I'm just sharing with you that the office ladies are now on Odyssey.
We're happy to have them on our network and for what reason, I don't know, but
they're happy to, they're happy to be here too.
So go check out the office ladies.
And then number three, it has been decided in season number six, which
will start early next year in January, we will be doing an episode
of the commercial break during the weekdays.
I'll tell you more about this when the time comes,
during the weekdays on Twitch.
So we will be recording an episode live
that you can tune into, comment, ask questions,
tell us how terrible we are, all that good stuff
right there live.
So you'll hurt our feelings while it's happening.
That's exciting and scary at the same time.
Anytime we do anything with technology or where people can actually tell us how bad we are while it's happening, it's going to be, yeah.
We're either going to be a runaway hit.
There's three things that are going to happen.
So one of the three things.
Or we're going to run away.
Yeah.
Runaway hit.
Yes.
All the audience is going to run away.
We'll have like one Twitch lip follow.
Like we have on all of our live shows so far.
Or number three, it's just gonna be,
it's gonna be the funnest place to go make fun
of two idiots talking to me on Twitch.
Twitch is a tough place.
I've been to a lot of those Twitch channels
and if you're not doing what they want you to do,
it can be a real shit show.
I imagine some little teenager's gonna find us,
like randomly, and then he's gonna tell all his friends
this is the best place to talk shit about two old white people. But whatever, we'll take it.
We'll take the listeners. Okay. What did I want to talk about? I wanted to talk, ask you if you had
seen the end of Breath of Fire. I did watch Breath of Fire. Yes, I did watch the end of it.
You watched the end of Breath of Fire. And tell me more about what you thought about this young lady.
I don't know.
Guru Jagat.
Yeah, Guru Jagat.
Guru Jagat.
Yeah, I mean, the fact that she died, I knew that was happening, right?
We knew that from earlier episodes, but you know, you didn't know what manner she died,
what happened. It's a little
suspicious. I can kind of see how some conspiracy theories might have grown from this because she
was really off the rocker. I mean, it was 2020. 2020. And yeah, and so she then couldn't do the
live shows. She couldn't make money anymore. She was in trouble. What was the thing too with the,
did she meet somebody? She met a guy and she fell in love with the guy very quickly. Like it was a very
fiery relationship. Someone called it an intertwining of two narcissistic personalities driving the worst
in each other, right? And they don't focus on him a whole bunch and maybe that's because legally they,
you know, they don't want to be liable for anything they say about him.
And where is he?
What happened to him?
Yeah, okay.
So yeah, so she dies in the end of a rather strained,
like she breaks her leg and then she gets a pulmonary
embolism and dies of a heart attack weeks after she had
the surgery for that broken leg.
Now she did fly from, she broke the leg in Germany.
She flew back, we're talking about this breath of fire.
This young lady who took over Kundalini yoga, or took the kind of, took the banner and ran with it.
Right.
Kundalini Yoga, from the guy who started it, who was Yogi Bajran, back in the 60s and 70s,
and he had hundreds of thousands of followers, he started Yogi Tea. He started many, many businesses, actually. But
what we learned in the 90s and early 2000s after a book was written about him is really he was a
serial sexual abuser who was also a con artist who made a lot of businesses that simply con people.
That's it. Including one where they would call, this is the craziest, they would call offices in
the 80s and they would be like, you're out of printer paper. And they would be like, oh, we are? Yes, you're
out of printer paper and we need to refill it. And they would be like, oh, okay, okay,
I'm sending 50 boxes of printer paper. Sounds good to me. They would invoice them and then
never send the paper. They were just like, they were literally blind calling people offices
and telling them they needed office supplies. And a part of that too was that apparently the the yogi guys said karma doesn't work through the phone.
Yes, no karma on the phone.
So you're okay to scam people.
When you use technology, don't worry about it.
Yeah, it doesn't work.
So this guy was he was really and we also learned that Yogi, the Yogi himself, Yogi
Biji, Yogi Biji.
Didn't even do yoga.
Didn't even do yoga.
And this ancient secret yoga that he brought to the world, Kundalini yoga, was never ancient
nor a secret.
No, he just made it up.
It was something he made up almost whole cloth, taking pieces from other things he had learned
as a Sikh back in Pakistan.
And listen, if you've ever done Kundalini Yoga, then you know there is something to this. So whatever he stumbled upon, he stumbled upon something.
I mean, breath work is a real thing.
Sure.
I mean, it can help you relax. It can help you, you know, get excited.
Absolutely.
Make you kind of lightheaded.
And give you a hard one too.
Yeah, so bratwork's a real thing, but yeah, it was under a false premise that this was some ancient thing.
Yeah, listen, so here's the point. The guy was a con artist basically, and he did not such great
thing. Now a lot of the people that followed him went on to do great things in the world, but he
himself, so it's hard to throw the baby out with the bath water. But this young lady about 10 years ago, 12 years ago, went to LA and started
reinvigorating the Kundalini Yoga, I guess, practice by opening up a studio in LA and
it became the most trendy, fashionable thing and she became-
Oh yeah, celebrities were going, Madonna was there, Demi Moore, all these people.
And she became a guru herself.
People really started following her.
She was doing, she took advantage of social media,
she was doing lives, she was doing YouTubes,
she was doing all this other stuff.
And people really started following her.
But in 2020, but she was all, excuse me,
she was also known to spend money with abandon.
And people were getting conned is the only way to say it.
If you went to level one, then you had to go to level two, then you had to go to level three.
Sounding familiar, Scientology? Had to go to level four.
The more money you paid, the more…
The closer you would be to spiritual realization.
Yes. And the more money you would pay, the more access you would get to
Guru Jagat. That's right. That is such horseshit. And against everything, if you really pay
attention to this kind of New Age spiritual movement, it's really, she would call it
prosperity yoga or prosperity meditation, prosperity yoga.
Prior to preaching.
Yes. By the way, the Buddha would walk 50 miles in a day to sweep someone's front porch for
a grain of rice.
That's it.
And he didn't expect that grain of rice.
If you really take this back to all of these lineages, this is abhorrent to anything that
they preach to practice.
I'm not saying you have to whip yourself on the back in order to get spiritual enlightenment.
Well, same with the prosperity preaching within the Christian world.
Isn't it amazing? Isn't it amazing how all of these people preach that you can get rich by making me
rich? That's fucked up, and it's just like, think about that for one fucking second before you write
the check. Listen, people should get paid for the work that they do. Five dollars for a class of yoga, 25 dollars, whatever it is. Cool. But the fact that she wanted people
to follow her, give her money and be in power is just like, should be a red flag altogether.
And in 2020, when everything shut down and her money started going away because people could no
longer go to these conferences and all this other stuff. Workshops. She freaked out and she got super conspiratorial and she started the vaccines are going to
awaken with the 5G waves.
This is where a lot of this started, like a seed of this.
It gets amplified in this community, a community that I know very well.
It gets amplified in this community because of people like Guru Jagat.
As a matter of fact, maybe because of Guru Jagat. She starts talking about crazy shit. Skinwalker aliens running
around and lizard people, you know, controlling the world and pedophile rings that extend
through the entire universe. And it's like, hold on, hold on. I thought we were just meditating
here. I didn't realize. I didn't realize. I didn't realize science wasn't science.
But it is here where you have to be careful because a lot of times in New Age spirituality,
they will claim that the reality is not reality, it's your reality and you get to make it,
and don't listen to anyone else's reality.
Fine, great.
But really what makes reality is that all of us, rather than having our own realities walking around
in a fucking psychedelic haze,
is that we can all agree on some things
are actually happening as we see them together.
Like science and math and it's raining.
And like, you know, people are getting saved
by this or that or people are dying
because of this or that.
Truth is truth, it's facts,
that's our connection to each other,
is when we can agree on these things. It's a system of trust that we're all seeing and doing
the same things and getting some similar results. But Guru Jaga just throws all that without the
baby with the bathwater when her money goes away and decides that everyone is an alien.
It was crazy. Yeah, it really took a turn.
It did. And so history repeated itself. She started becoming a con artist, telling people
to work for free, taking their money, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. You know the story. Okay,
it's as old as time. Like, someone becomes a guru, a cult starts, someone gets rich and it's not you.
That's it, right? Yes, correct.
All right, there you go. And no one gets spiritual enlightenment because everyone's butt
hurt because they were in a cult. That's how they have to get out of it and pay for therapy
and all that other good shit, right? Which is another cult according to Guru Jagat. But let's
go, let's move on from it. Guru Jagat goes to Germany, as all this is going on like 2022,
she runs to Germany to do like a meditation retreat. And she falls in the shower, she breaks her ankle pretty badly, breaks her leg.
And she refuses surgery in Germany for whatever reason, probably because the skin walking aliens
are the ones that are trying to kill her.
And she decides to fly back to LA to have the surgery.
And the doctors are like, don't do that.
Of course you don't do that.
You've got a compound fracture.
You need to have surgery immediately,
or you could have all kinds of terrible things could happen. But she does it.
She survives the flight. She gets there. They do the surgery. Everything's fine.
They have her on blood thinners to hopefully avoid an embolism,
but an embolism quote unquote happens a couple of weeks later and she dies of a
heart attack. It's left very open-ended, right?
But the documentary tries not to skirt
into conspiracy theory land too much.
It doesn't wanna be what it's essentially
subscribing not to be.
So it wraps it up a little neatly where people are saying,
well, we wanna believe that she's still alive,
but the truth is, there's a death certificate
and she's probably dead, but you wonder.
Yeah, you do kind of wonder. It was kind of, and I don't mean to say,
sound callous saying this, but it was kind of convenient that she just died.
Well, yeah, if she's really dead, then it sounds callous. But if she's not dead,
if she is in fact living somewhere else and just has avoided responsibility,
then, you know, it's not callous. It's whatever. So I'm not here to say one way or the other. I
don't know. I don't know Guru Jagat.
I don't know anybody who's connected to her directly.
Yeah, I don't really care to be honest with you.
I mean, should anybody care?
Honestly, if you spent your money to go to those things,
if you felt better in the moment,
well, you felt better in the moment.
If you gave Guru Jagat $6 million
and she's no longer responding to your phone calls,
well, that's a different thing altogether.
But if you spent $1,000 on a retreat and it made you feel better in the moment, well, then that's a different thing altogether. But if you spent, you know, $1,000
on a retreat and it made you feel better in the moment, well, then that's on you, isn't it? And
you got something out of it. You felt better in the moment. I'm not saying that if she did something
illegal, she should shirk responsibility, but it's 2024 and that seems to be in vogue.
Oh, yeah.
Let's just get it off.
Exactly. It doesn't matter anymore.
Yeah. Wow. You don't need a guru to point you in the right direction. There are lots
of books and you can go to retreats and you can go to classes and you can commune with
like-minded people and do like-minded things and have fun. But when you start deifying
somebody, then you're getting into real gray area where you're vulnerable
and they are powerful.
And then if they are so great and they have attained some kind of enlightenment here on
earth that you're looking for, why?
Why are they so much better than you are?
Why are they so much different than you are?
How did they do it but you can't unless you pay money? How did they all of a sudden get anointed,
but you have to pay a bunch of money or do all these tasks or suck them off or whatever it happens to be to get there?
Think about that for just one second. If they did it, why can't you? If they did it without paying anybody, getting molested, conning somebody into spending lots
of money, if they did it, why can't you?
The truth is, you can.
So I'm not sure that anybody in the commercial break audience would be vulnerable in this
way, but I'm just sharing in case there's someone on the outskirts of one of these weird,
new agey, or maybe not even new agey, you know, Christian, whatever. Why do you have to give all your money to them so that you can do
what they did, which is become rich on their own? Can't you just like, you know, save that
money? Like, okay, you want to give to the church because they're, you know, giving to
homeless people and you like that idea or, you know, it's Christmas and some of the kids
don't have presents and you're going to give some gifts. I get all that stuff. I do all that stuff.
But I don't give my money endlessly to somebody who claims to have some kind of enlightenment
that I don't have, and I never have, and I'll tell you why. Because I just ask the simple question,
why can't I? Why can't I do that? Like, can I do that on my own? Why do I need you to do that for
me? Why do I need to pay you to do that for me?
The devil's always in the details. It always is. And the reality for a lot of these new age
places is they blend reality and truth so that they can get something out of you. That's it.
Everybody ends up rich, but you. And that's at the end of the day, what really fucking drives me crazy
about some of these places.
Everybody ends up rich except for me.
Why not me?
Why can't I have my own religion, Chrissy?
Well, it's another scam
and there's a million of them out there.
So this one just happens to involve a yogi.
That's right.
Yogi BG, yogi TCB.
I really like yogi tea too. And now I don't know. Well, and they never really tell you Yogi. Yogi T. That's right. Yogi BG. Yogi TCB.
I really like Yogi T too, and now I don't know.
Oh yeah, I know.
Well, and they never really tell you whether or not those ladies are getting the money
or not.
Yeah.
There's like a whole harem of women with the original Yogi Bajrat.
There's a whole harem of women who signed NDAs before he died. And if they signed the NDA, they got 50% of his
wealth indefinitely, like for life, as long as they were alive. And some of the women
decided to fuck the NDA, I'm going to write a book or I'm going to tell my story about
how I was abused. And so Yogi-T is one of the things that they would benefit from if
they were in fact getting the money.
But no one ever specifies in the documentary
whether or not they're getting the money.
Yeah, because I'm not gonna do yogi tea anymore.
If they don't get the money, I'm not buying yogi tea.
If it's just enriching some fucking, you know,
60 year old white dude with a long beard
and a fucking headdress, then I'm not doing it.
I'm not doing it for a guy in white robes.
I'm not doing it. I'm gonna white robes. I'm not doing it.
I'm gonna look into it.
Yes, but if it's going to those ladies who were abused
and that's a different story altogether,
I'll drink yogi tea till I'm blue in the face.
While we're on it, send money to Chrissy and Brian Care
of GoFundMeWe'reBroke.com.
GoFundMeYou'reEnlightenedWe'reBroke.com.
We'd love to have your money.
All right, let's take a break.
We'll be back. In. We'd love to have your money. All right, let's take a break. We'll be back.
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All righty. You know, I told you we went to my dad's house this weekend. Yes, you did.
So we are, um, so we had a great time, you know, dad and I watched the fight and then we woke up on Saturday and then we went and bought some accoutrements here for the studio that we're changing for the 55,000 time.
My stepmom was like, do you guys change that studio often? And I go, well, we change the wires pretty often
because you can see we paid a guy to come in here
and professionally clean up these wires.
And this is what we ended up with.
If I could show you a shot of that.
It is a hot mess back there.
Just the thought of undoing all those wires
and doing them again is making me sick to my stomach.
I was in here last night staring at them
and going, I have no clue. I don't even know where my stomach. I was in here last night staring at them and going,
I have no clue.
I don't even know where to start.
I don't know where to start.
I really don't.
Last time I had to put a piece of tape around each one
and name it, which is probably what I'm gonna have
to do again and then do it.
But I'm not paying anybody to do it again
because this is what I got when I paid.
I can do that on my own.
I can do nightmare on my own.
I don't need it.
So we were up in the South Carolina Clemson area.
We went to this rug store, right?
And we go to this rug store and it's pretty empty.
It's like a rug outlet.
It's where they make area rugs.
And so we're buying one for the new camera angles that we're going to have.
We're buying, you know, just to look a little pretty.
And so Astrid's, we're all looking at rugs.
It's this huge room with all of these rugs, some of
them laying on these big tables, some of them hanging up on those big, you know, like, it
looks like a picture book almost, you can move them and they do it.
Right, yeah, they move. They're hanging.
Yeah, they're hanging and they're huge and they move and you can, you know, pull them
and then they open them up and see what they're looking like. So, it's huge, it's empty, there's
no one in there.
There's like maybe two other people in there and a couple of people who work there.
And in the corner they have this little house for the kids, like a little playhouse for the kids, a little play area for the kids, right?
We've been there before.
This is like the 18th rug we've bought because Blue manages to ruin every fucking rug that we have.
And the prices are right, a couple hundred dollars for these huge rugs.
And that's the right price
when you have kids and or Blue,
because Blue's gonna ruin it, you know she is,
just don't spend a lot of money on it.
So we go in here and the kids are kind of wound up,
and so it's like, okay, let them run around
and have some fun, there's no one in here, whatever.
What can they do?
They can't damage anything unless they decide
to take a shit on one of the carpets.
Like, you know, and they're pretty good children
in the first place, so they're not, you know, and they're pretty good children in the first place.
So they're not, you know,
they're just running around having fun.
So I'm at one end flipping through carpets.
And my kid is at the other end.
I see him running all the way to the other end.
It's like football field long building.
And I can see him and he's like, he's so cute.
One of my kids is so curious about everything.
There's an office door that's open
and I can see him like,
just like kind of moving his way into the office.
Probably to get on the computer and Google
like Disney Cruise or something, right?
Yeah, he wants to, he's desperately trying to.
He's looking for a TV, a computer, a remote.
He's desperately trying to book himself on a Disney Cruise.
Every time I turn around, he's definitely trying to book himself on a Disney cruise. Every time I turn around he's on the Disney cruise website, trying to figure out how he spends dad's credit
card to get on one of those cruises, which is cute, but it's annoying that, Hey, stop,
get off, stop it. So he's at the other end and he's peering in and there's a couple
of people that have worked there are milling around and I'm at the other end and I go, hey, hey, you, hey, get out of there, come
here, get over here, get over here right now and get over here, right?
I'm just yelling that to them.
And all of a sudden, I see out of the corner, like my peripheral vision, that someone is
like running toward me and I'm like, oh, what's going on over there?
And then I'm yelling, now, let's go! And this guy comes running up and he goes, yes, sir.
Chrissy, I am dying a slow death inside as I realized that-
He thought he was calling you, you were calling him.
Yes, yes!
Yay, get over here!
You, get over here! No! Hey! Stop that! Get over here!
This guy, this guy had no idea. He thought I was yelling at him, and he'd come running over,
he came running over, and I was like, oh my god, dude, oh my god. I go, oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm so sorry, I was talking to my kid over there, and he's like, oh, that's all right, man, I thought
you needed me, and I go, I just was screaming, I'm so sorry. He's talking to my kid over there and he's like, oh, that's all right, man I thought you needed me and I go I just was screaming. I'm so sorry. He's like I just thought you needed something real quick
Get your ass over here right now
Me well my skin is falling off my bones. So I'm taking this like
Fluorosaurocyl or whatever it is. I my bones, so I'm taking this like, fluorosauracil or whatever it is.
I don't know, have you ever taken this?
No, you were trying to tell me about it last week.
My stepmom was taking it too.
It's called-
Is it oral?
No, it's a cream.
Oh, you couldn't do this oral.
It will kill you.
It's radiation, it's chemo for sunspots.
Like when you have fair skin like I do, and yet you love to bake in the sun for hours
at a time without sunscreen,
then as you age, you get these sunspots,
which look like freckles,
but they're not really freckles,
they can have a little texture,
like they can just be a patch of rough skin.
It's essentially a form of skin cancer that's not deadly,
like it's not gonna kill you,
but your cells get a little,
like the skin gets a little rough,
just tiny little patches of rough.
So you put this cream on your face
for like three or four weeks,
depending on how the doctor tells you to take it,
and over the period of the first couple of days,
it starts to get a little red, the spots start,
it's amazing because it only targets those particular cells
and it starts to get a little red
and then after a week or so of using it,
all of the sudden your face is just like melting off.
It looks like I have a terrible sunburn with blisters.
That's what it looks like.
And it's horrible and it feels really painful.
And then it doesn't look great
when you're staring up close.
So you and I went to that meeting on Friday
and the first thing I wanted to say was,
excuse my melting face.
Like, excuse my melting face.
Well, I noticed you had a little something
on your cheek there, but.
That's it.
Yeah, other than that, I can really.
And now it's already starting to go away.
It gets nasty, it gets really angry,
and then it goes away.
And when it goes away, you stop using it, right?
When it starts to heal itself, then you stop using it.
But it's really, so anyway, so there I am,
standing there like this pockmark,
look like I got fucking beat up, got, you know,
like just yelling at people in the empty warehouse.
It was insane. Like, it Like, I was just so upset.
So we go and then we go and we have some food at this barbecue place, which is...
You're saying it was really delicious.
The smoking pig in Clemson, I'm going to give them a shout out. The food there is just delicious.
It's a great place.
Love a good barbecue.
Yeah. They have all this, they have this huge yard out front with like these old
train containers, like shipping containers.
Oh, okay, yeah.
And they have a bar, they have a couple of bars outside, they have a train container
on top of train container.
And then they have all this stuff for the kids and adults, which you see a lot of like
the young, like college kids are there, you know, drinking and playing.
Sure.
Nice Saturday.
Yeah. They have a big fire pit with, you know, going so it's cold outside.
And then they have all this stuff the kids can do. So we let them run around and then you go
and eat. And then they have this thing, which I just think I thought about this. We've seen this
so many different places, but now I think about it, it's brilliant. They let you take a permanent
marker and write on the walls. And Nomad, whatever you want to write, wherever you want to write it on the decorations, on the door sills, on the tables, on the chairs, wherever you
can write permanent marker. So there are tens of thousands of names, little quips, little drawings
all over the walls up and down in and out of this place that's not that old.
It's probably six or seven years old, this place.
And so the kids start getting fascinated by this
and they wanna write.
I thought about this.
It is entertainment.
It will keep you coming back
because next time you're in Clemson,
you're like, let's go check out our signature.
And then you never have to repaint the walls ever.
And it can hide any dirty spots that you have either, right? So the kids and I
are writing out, you know, we're running all over the restaurant writing stuff all over
the place like a bunch of fucking morons. And one of my daughters, the baby, is, so
we're eating at this table in this room and then there's a table behind me, so, or actually
in front of me, behind Astrid who's sitting facing me,
and then the baby is sitting next to Astrid. Well, she's big enough to stand up and she talks and
walks and all that stuff. She stands up at the beginning of the meal, there's a table sitting
there with three people who are just trying to enjoy their dinner, and the baby stands up
and is staring directly at that table. Now, I love children. So if that was me on the other table,
I would just have fun with this the entire meal.
I would love it, right?
It would be great.
But I think these people are kind of like,
maybe they're having a conversation
about something serious.
Maybe this is like not the time for them to play.
I'm not saying they were being dickish about it.
They weren't, but you could tell
that it was just getting a little bit annoying,
but I could not convince my daughter
to sit down and stand straight.
She just kept on getting up and looking, not saying a word,
just deadpan staring them down.
To the point, at one point I noticed
that one of the guys kind of turned his chair away from her.
And I thought, this is trouble wherever we go.
I'm yelling at everybody in the carpet place.
Now you can't have a comfortable meal around my kids.
They have this putt putt out back.
My kids are putting golf balls everywhere they can,
like in their pockets, in their shirts.
They're trying to steal the golf balls.
I'm like, you can't do that.
This place sounds like a big play land.
It's lovely.
It is.
It's lovely. You gotta go. I mean, if you ever go, you gotta go. It's lovely, it is. It's lovely, you gotta go.
I mean, if you ever go, you gotta go.
It's wonderful, the smoking place.
I passed through there when I'm going up to Greenville.
Well, you should go, stop by, take the kids.
The kids would love it.
I mean, I know it's like a far drive to go just for a meal,
but the kids would love it, I know they would.
Excuse me, I take my glasses off
since my skin is literally growing in around them.
Yes, it's melting.
Okay, this is the last two more days and then I'm done with this because it's burning. It's really hurting
at this point. But the funniest part about this, this night, which we just had a great night,
then we went, we got some ice cream and every, you know, eight o'clock at night, kids are ready to
go to bed. We pull up to my dad's place, which has a gate and there's a couple of gates. There's a
couple of gates. There's one of those huge neighborhoods on a lake and the front gate, which you have to go, you either have to call on the back gate,
or you have to go into the front gate and check in with the security guard, but we have a pass.
So, we usually go in the front gate. So, we go into the front gate, and the guy is sitting in this
security house, right? And he gets out, and he, yeah, the hut. That's right. Probably with a heater,
a shitter, and it smells like Doritos. Probably with a heater, a shitter,
and it smells like Doritos.
I can only imagine, right?
But listen, these guys are getting paid $15 an hour
to basically not do it.
I mean, who is he gonna stop from?
To wave people through, yeah.
Yeah, who's really, someone with bad intentions
is really gonna be stopped by a gunless security guard
at a shitty little hut at the top of a hill?
No, of course not.
Um, but he comes out guy I've seen a million times before, like, you know,
every time we go there, this guy's at some point during the trip, this guy's
checking us in or checking us out.
And the guy is like, hi y'all y'all there for the Arban Bay.
And I go, what?
And he goes, y'all coming in for the Arban Bay.
And I go, uh, and no, uh, no, I'm going to? And he goes, y'all coming in for the R-Bang-Bang?
And I go, uh, and no, no, I'm going to a different, different, different house.
It's not an R-Bang-Bang, is it?
And I go, R-B-B?
It's R-B-B?
What is R-B-B?
And he goes, R-B-B.
You know, the R-B-B's, the ones you rent.
And I go, Airbnb?
That's what I said, R-B-B.
I'm like, RBB?
What is it, RBB?
This guy had that Southern accent
where you almost can't understand what they're saying.
You can get into that in the Carolinas.
Yes, in the Carolinas,
there's some people who speak with that.
R.
Yeah, air is R and then, you know, bear is bar.
So you don't understand a fucking word.
Chrissy, we were sitting there for like 30 seconds trying to misunderstand each other.
R-baby!
And I'm like, Arby's?
Did he say, I look at Astrid, I'm like, did he say Arby's?
Are we here for Arby's?
Oh, Astrid is even more clueless because if there's one thing that trips up Astrid, it's
a Southern accent.
It really trips Astrid up.
If it's very thick, she has a really hard time.
Fair enough.
Like if we go to certain places in Spain,
where the, like Letheia, where all of a sudden
everything becomes a th instead of a s,
it's really difficult to understand that Spanish.
I already have a hard time doing it anyway.
So this guy is RBBs us, like for 30 fucking straight seconds. And I'm like, I don't fucking have any clue time doing it anyway. So this guy is RBB's us like for 30 fucking straight seconds.
And I'm like, I don't fucking have any clue what's going on.
But he was RB and B in us the whole time.
RB and B, there's a bar over there.
RB and B. RB and B. RB and B kids, RB and B. That's the way it goes.
That's the new one.
Yeah. What'd you do this weekend?
Mmm, Jeff and I had a little, well, Friday night we watched the fight, obviously.
A little love making with Jeff.
Saturday, we did. We had a date night.
We did. She said we did. She did.
We did.
Good for you guys.
We had a date night, went out to a fun dinner, got a little dressed up and enjoyed ourselves.
When was that? Saturday night?
Saturday night.
Oh, where'd you guys go?
We went to Southern Belle.
What's Southern Belle? Never heard of that one.
Yeah, it's down there in my, you know, little bubble of downtown-ness.
Yeah, yeah, you don't know. We had a meeting outside the perimeter, which is the perimeter,
the 285 that circles the town. It's a highway that's just a circle. That's all it is.
And Chrissy had to go just outside the perimeter for a meeting the other day.
I was a fish out of water.
She didn't know what to do. She was like, do I need a pass?
Where am I?
Yeah. She brought her passport. Check into the restaurant with her passport.
Well, we've got such great restaurants downtown that we kind of just tend to stay in that
little zone, which I think a lot of people do in Atlanta, stay in their zone no matter
where that is.
Yeah. I'm not... Just because the traffic is crazy
and you can't just...
There's so much new stuff all over,
you can't try it all.
Yeah, I am not snobbish one way or the other.
I get it.
Like, there's some people who live outside the perimeter
who won't go inside the perimeter.
It's the same way.
It's OTP, ITP.
I don't play that game.
Like, whatever.
Wherever it is.
And I've lived downtown
and I've lived outside the perimeter.
I've lived in every part of this fucking town.
I've had 34 different residences because no one wants me.
Yes, we have.
Yeah.
No one wants me or you.
Uh, but Southern Belle, was it good?
What kind of food was it?
It was really good.
Well, it was Southern inspired.
And, uh, yeah, it was just, it was lovely food.
I, you know, salad, fried green tomatoes, some braised short ribs.
I love me a fried good fried green tomato.
Yeah.
There was a pasta dish.
I don't know.
It was delicious and the atmosphere was lovely.
It's right there next to the Landmark Theater.
Oh!
In that plaza.
Druid Hills area.
No, no, I'm sorry.
Not the Landmark Theater, but the Plaza Theater.
Oh, the Plaza Theater.
Off Ponce. Okay, got it, Off Ponce Ponce. Right. I used to live right there.
I lived right there. I walked there all the time. Is that, is Oprydium still there?
Uh, yeah. Well, that's over by the Trader Joe's.
Okay. Yeah, that's on the other side. That's over by the Trader Joe's. Wow. Lovely. Good for you.
Congratulations. Little lovemaking with Jeff. Congratulations to Jeff. Congratulations, Jeff.
And then we watched football yesterday.
Oh, you did? Jeff says, blew off a little steam. Congratulations to Jeff. Watched a little football yesterday. Watched football on Saturday.
Yeah, I watched football on Saturday and-
It was a big Tennessee Georgia game,
which Tennessee lost.
They didn't, they didn't.
Georgia looked really good in that game.
But yeah, so I told my dad, I go,
oh, the Georgia game's on, dad, we should watch it.
And he goes, I didn't know you liked football.
I didn't know you even understood what football was.
And I was like, yeah, dad, every once in a while
I watch football.
He's like, ah, God, whatever. He didn't believe me.
Even my dad doesn't think I'm a man. He's like, ah, whatever.
What can you do? I'm just a boy, just a boy trying to learn the world.
That's right. All right. We're doing a good job. Thank you. All right.
Well, it's Wednesday and now that we've talked about our... Everything from the weekend.
We got to understand that's how we record.
Thanks to Ron Funches for bunches and bunches of funches here this weekend.
Yes, Ron.
Ron was great.
He was.
He is great.
I do love me some Ron.
Everybody had told us how wonderful Ron was, and not...
It wasn't even pretend not true.
It was so true, it wasn't even funny.
I know.
He was a lot more intellectual than I would have thought and I liked it.
Yeah, I just thought he was a very sweet man.
He was really nice and you could not believe how excited my kids were. When I told them I talked to Cooper from the trolls.
Anyway, no
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I think so, but I'll tell you that I love you.
And I love you.
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Best to you.
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Until next time, Chrissy and I do say, we will say, and we must say, goodbye. I gotta get some cocaine!
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