The Golden Hour - Dodging Ropey Barbells | The Golden Hour #181 w/Brendan Schaub, Erik Griffin & Chris D'Elia

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

The guys share what their addictions are, Brendan gets triggered by Erik calling his wife his "partner" and talk fashion trends, dodging ropey barbells, Brendan's 2019 suck city fashion with super tight jeans, Chris taking meds for OCD, Erik's old coaching days, 90 Day Fiance' and much more! Get this episode AD FREE + 2 PATREON ONLY episodes/month only at https://patreon.com/thegoldenhourpodcastDraftKings - Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code GOLDEN so you’re ready for the moment. That’s code GOLDEN. Turn five bucks into $300 in bonus bets if your bet winsFound - Take back control of your business today. Open a Found account for FREE at http://found.com/. That’s http://found.com/Hims - To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://hims.com/goldenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guys, I just got diagnosed. I'm autistic. Fucking hourglass figure. Tits just got done sucking someone off. Not autistic. Live in a mansion. Just got your backs blown out. Got rope shots to your back?

Not autistic. Question. Back is covered with ropey barbells. Get the fuck out of here. We're friends that laugh. We're friends that shout. Sometimes we don't know what we're talking about. But that won't stop.

is nothing can stop us is that the new merch Christopher nah it's this old okay be cool man well I don't know you know I don't know I wasn't giving any sort of attitude nah you were no I wasn't

I felt a little energy from you why do you guys say this is last winter's fucking drop man figure it out what do you guys say these things about me yeah oh my god But yeah, you can get it on my website.

But it's old. Of course you can't. I got new merch. I'm going to make some new merch. Oh, dude. Make sure you check out Ericgriffin.com. Are you going to make it or is Claude going to make it, dude? Yeah, I'm going to make some designs.

They don't even do pictures yet, though. They don't make pictures yet. But, yeah. Oh, by the way, literally had no idea I'm going to Fort Wayne this weekend until last week. Wasn't on my website. They were selling tickets. Whoops. So I put.

put it on my website. So I'm going to Fort Wayne this weekend. Have you ever been to Fort Wayne, Indiana? Yeah, yeah. Oh. Have you? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So what happened? I don't know. Be cool, man. Be cool, man. Yeah. I don't know. Be cool, man. All the money you spend on making that website, it should be uptight, right?

I know. I should have been on Eric. No, but so go to Chris. Can I take it over? I'll be on West. I'll be on Fort Wayne and then Chicago and then a bunch of Miami. I'll be, uh, this weekend. I'll be at the Iowa.

Iowa comedy The Northern Iowa Comedy Festival Nice Yeah babe God damn boy Now it's that And I booked a

Before we even get it to A guest star Hold on We'll get it to that Does that Does that conflict with this What is it The northern what?

North Iowa Is that it to conflict With the South Iowa Comedy Festival at all? Why are you such a dickhead? Or no I mean just call it The Iowa Comedy Festival

Right Oh I added I got my spot At the comedy store on the way here and I was just easily added it to my website oh look at that let's see how easy it is oh wow he did it on the way here look at that just did it on the way here it's uh you know amazing yeah you're you're selling tickets and not it's not even on the website i know i know i know know wait so so this is good though you got you know what i like how clean shaving uh brandon

looks right now huh is it yeah yeah you clean up you clean up good man maybe a day maybe a day you look like i got to shoot that commercial bud i got shoot that commercial but i got to shoot that you still haven't told us what it is. I know you can't say it on here. I know. I'll tell you off here. What is, but wait,

so you got a guest start thing? Yeah, baby. I'm going to be on the paper, baby. Oh, yeah, yeah,

cool. That's a big show. Yeah. Season two? Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense, though.

That's going to be dope. Yeah. Anyway, you know, Daddy's working. Yeah. Trying to. You guys got to watch that show from season five or four just dropped.

If it's season five, then I'm out. because I haven't watched. I'm not starting season one. I fell off that show. No, that's the gift, Eric. I love when someone's like, dude, have you seen? That's true.

Four episodes or four seasons. I'm like, fuck, now I guess I'm to binge. I totally get you, but there's like 10 shows before that one that I should probably start that I have. Oh, disagree. Yeah, disgusting. And to be fair. Sorry about that. Yeah.

No, that's just completely uncalled for. And to be fair. And to, yeah. I just came out of nowhere. To be fair, he didn't, you know, he, he, he, he, K-pop Demon Hunter is still on his list and he didn't get there yet. I haven't got to that.

You're still right. Yeah. Okay, here's something that happened. I got to tell you guys. I want to know if this is happen to you guys because you guys are veteran parents. But try to do it without burping. Go ahead.

Or farting. Well, you can't farting. Well, you know, burnt points already and it's absolutely uncalled. Okay. So I'm in the guest room with, I'm in the guest room with Wolf. Okay.

We're just chilling because I'm on my computer and he's like, you know, he comes in. He's laying in the bed with me. The Rachel comes in. We're just all having a little family moment. Sounds like a dream. Rachel's like, I want to take a shower, you know, by myself. And I go ahead, go ahead.

I watch him, you know. Easy going. Easy going. You're easy going. I'm easy going. So she leaves. Immediately Wolf starts crying. Okay.

Yes. Close to his nap time. Okay. He starts crying and he's, my, nah. And he runs after her immediately. So I go, hey, baby, you know. So then, all right, he's gone. All right.

He's just with, I assume he's with her. Okay. And then. That's where he fucked up. Dude. You go. Yeah. Go ahead.

All right. But then she turns on in his room to TV, because that's what we do sometimes. He just turn to tea and he just goes in there by himself. He's playing with his dinosaurs. He's there. So food comes. We had ordered food. The doorbell rings.

I go, all right, you know, I go downstairs, get the food. And I go, you know what, I'll eat. And then I'll take care, you know. Yeah. But then it's nap time. Usually she just sleeps with him. Okay. It's nap time.

So I eat. I'm chilling. Then I say, okay, you know, I guess they're done. I go in my room and I start. My game stream. Okay. It's all about air so far. It is.

30 minutes go by. I'm not sure if we're so on your side right now. I'm not even asking you to be on my side. I'll tell you right now I'm not, but keep going. I would. I'm not either. Okay. So I'm gaming and then Rachel comes storming in the room.

Now, I see her face. And you know when you see your wife's face and you know, oh, man, I'm messed up. I'm messed up. Yeah, yeah. She goes, what are you doing? She's thinking, oh, whoops. sitting in his room. Yeah, I'm so on her side on this.

I'm so on Rachel's side. Sitting in his room and he's got the huge pee diaper and he's just sitting there. And you're playing fuck. Yeah, and you're playing fucking fortnight. And I was like this. I was like, but. Babe, I got Fortnite. No, no, no.

But the point was though, it's like I just needed a little bit like, hey, this was a miss. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. On both our parts. Yeah, yeah. So it was just like, it was the first time it was just kind of like, so I was like, wow, look at this. our little independent baby just

well he's yeah he's an adult now I guess I'm surprised you're not asking him to get the food at the door so I yelled down what a food and then you know I'm playing my video games set the table wolf

but it was just one of those things where he's just kind of like you know when he left with her yeah I mean I'd get that you know what I mean here's the real thing though but she didn't take him that's where he fucked up in

oh but she did you assume that he ran take him because she's telling me how when we're going through it like babe what happened she's like well i put him in his room and i turned on the tv you were supposed to thank you all right machel you fucked up here's the real thing about this whole thing because she tagged in she tagged in when she took him she tagged in but i have the whole i have the the the thing that makes it uh a situation or or possibly a situation so when she came down and got and had that face then what happened you said oh what fuck I messed up or what what

how did this go down and then how did she react to it oh for how long afterwards was she pissed off oh it's still going why we're always on the same page right right right right because I've been I get it this is what yeah this is the thing because if she was mad for too long and you were like oh I'm sorry I'm my bad that's annoying that's it that's too much yeah that's it's it's too much yeah that's Well, yes, because I was just merely saying, I was like, well, he, yeah, I fucked up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought he was with you. And then, you know, usually you nap at this time, you know?

And then it was like, no, it was like a whole thing about I put him in his room. You should have seen him. But then what happened was she went into our master bedroom and she closed all the doors. So she's in the bath, lounging. So I was like, my thing was like, we both kind of dropped the ball here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and of course it was like, you know.

A while after. But you know what? So Rachel's credit, she always says to me, I told you just a long time ago, it's always your fault. What? She says this. She says, I told you a long time ago, it's always going to be your fault. That's fine. Yeah, that's cool.

I hate when people do that. Happy live, happy live. Shut up. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, but I'm saying it's like, but the subtext of that is she's saying, I know sometimes I mess up, but I'm going to blame you. Yeah. Yeah.

I know. Yeah. I like that. So I go, I go, okay. I like that. But there is a, okay,

but here's the thing, though. I mean, it's annoying, but if you're gonna, yeah, I don't like that. But here's the thing,

here's the thing. You know that about yourself. Yes, yes. That's what's like. In the, in the midst of the like, uh-oh, this is going,

this is going too long. And this is like, you know, you know, at a certain point, you have to just go, uh-oh, all, you know, my bad.

But my thing is, my thing is, We all make mistakes, but if I apologize, the clock resets, baby. The bitch can't reset. At least. I apologize. We got to move on. At least in a timely matter.

Yeah. You got five minutes. You got five minutes and we got to move on. You got five minutes. You're not going to move on, bitch. That's not going to be good. That's not going to be good for your relationship. Well, that's the model I live by.

I'm sorry. You've got five minutes, bitch. Get it all out and then make me a sand. sandwich. Yes. Yes. If it worked like that, I mean, it's just, it's never going to work like that. Well, you can thank feminism. But do, but do you guys stay mad? Like, I don't know any guy who stays mad. Oh, no, no, no. Guys, it did. I feel. I throw interceptions left and right. I'm like, whatever, on to the next play. My bad. No, I just feel like there, especially if you know your partner, at a certain point, you're just kind of like, oh, okay. Oh, this is going to be one of these things.

Sometimes I just, yeah, he has a partner. That's your, I, I, say partner. That's your, I, I, hate when people say partner. Yeah, same. Did you say that? It's such an L.A. gay thing. I don't like that either. Yeah, I hate that. My girl.

You're in a partnership with this person. Oh, gay. No, yeah, okay, I understand. It is kind of gay in a lot of ways. It's gay. What you're doing is you're exacerbating. You're running with your own agenda when he says partner because that's not how he means it.

Thank you. Thank you. Got out of that one. Dude. No, no, you know. If you're using the word partner, it's just, it's just. It's just. But the way you say, the way you say my girl is the same way you would say my truck.

Uh-huh. Very much. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I own both. Right. See that? There we go. There it is.

There it. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just shitting with you. No, I know. I'm just, just a passive. It is. It is. What?

You're with him now? I don't think. If I, if I sent out the text and I was like, yo, boys, you want to go to dinner tonight with our girls? And Eric goes, let me check with my partner. First of all, that's, Oh, that's not what he did, though. That's different.

That's totally different. That's unforgivable. Yeah. But that's gay, right? Yeah, he gets uninvited. Yeah. Oh, no. I just can't go now?

No. Oh, no, I'd respond. Oh, never mind. Eric. Chris, you still in? Chris, I'll side text you. Yeah, no. Side text.

It's different. I think if you're referring to the fact that, hey, we're partners here, then that's okay. That's exactly what that was. Which is what he was doing. Thank you. But if you're like, well, I'll have to check with my partner. then you're just fucking, that's a guy and you're gay. Or we have a law firm.

Right, right, right, right. Or you're in business together. Yes, yeah, yes. Yeah, are we not partners right now, guys? This is Griffin and Griffin. Huh? Yeah, no, we're partners. Are we not?

No, no, no. I want to hear what Mr. No, you're my girl. Yeah, are we partners, Brendan? What are we right now? No, we're not partners because I don't own you guys. We're friends that talk. It's not you know what partners are.

Look, see, I caught him in a mind trap. He has a note to do. Like if I owned a bunch of slaves, those would be by partners, right? No. That's what you'd tell them so they'd work harder, but no. Oh, my goodness. So Nick's our partner? Why is that so funny?

I get it, Nick, I get it. I'm on your side, Nick. Nick's all you don't own me. You're so wishy-washy today. Yeah. No, you know what I am? I'm open-minded, man. I'm just open-minded.

I'm just, I'm not wishy-washy. I'm just, I'm going to try to look. I woke up today and I was just, you know, someday, and it's happening less and less recently. I woke up anxious today and in a mood that was going, hey, we're going to take over today. And I go, and I go, no, I can't do that. No. And I'm in the shower and I'm like trying to think about, I'm literally trying to actively think about things that make me happy. I'm like so good. Come on. I got a great life. It's great. I got my kids. My wife. You know, good buds. I'm like, come on man. And like I'm like really trying to turn it around. And I, so I think I got it. But it's it's, when you wake up with one of those moods, dude. It's always just like, gosh. You know what it's like? It's like being horny. And but and you're just like, ah, you can't rub it out though. You know what I mean? You cannot.

rub it out you just got to stay with it you got to stay with it so it's like walking around with a fucking emotional boner all day but when i know i'm having when i when i wake up in bad day i'll just go oh it's one of those days okay yeah yeah i understand you got to get through today i cool i get that but it just sucks that like it's sometimes it lasts all fucking day dude yeah so it's like i i need the release and the release is just fucking let me yell at somebody and take it there just let me yell at somebody and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and snap but i don't snap yeah you need to snap what if you would if you work out if you work out does it get rid of those sad demons but

sometimes you know like i couldn't do it this morning so i got to do it later but yeah well that's your fault well snap on him come on partner it actually isn't because somebody needed to watch uh watch the kids so so oh isn't your gym at home no wait and Yeah, but I don't want to do that because I do progressive overload. But I'm saying. And the other problem is, it's like the person you want to snap on, you can't. No, no, not one, the easiest person to snap on that just pokes. Yeah.

You know, you can't. Who do you guys snap on most? Who's like your crash test dummy? Oh, you're about to say, according to my wife, it's her. Well, because you're around them. So it's like, man, you're guilty by so you're just so close. You're in close productivity. I got to snap.

This week, my wife. I've said, it really, it hurts my feelings. It hurts my feelings that you said, you finally understand my vision for the, for the wizard house. I said, I had to read it nine times. I was like,

oh man. I was like, I get, that's only a compliment. It hurts that at one point. I guess that's what it was. Yeah. You doubted her, I guess. But that's like saying, but that's a knock on me.

I don't know how to see that shit. Yeah. I can't picture it. I'm an idiot. But, but, but, um, And so I told her that. But that's like saying like, oh, yeah. Oh, you look, you look great.

Did you lose weight? What? I used to be fat. Like, what the fuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's exactly. But you can say that to people, right? You look great.

Did you lose a lot of weight? Or no. Yeah, you can say that if the person you know already was trying to lose weight. Then you can now acknowledge because then the conversation is, hey, great job on the weight loss you did, that journey you went on. And now you look, now it's, and you're going like this. Now it's working. Yes. Now it's working. Yeah, don't say journey. No, yeah, I think you say journey if you really want to get it. Like if you want to be, he's obviously been talking to Claude too much. Like Claude would be like, this is how you say this.

No. Yeah. This is a therapist. This is. This is Dave Harvey. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. True. So what I'm saying is like that. So that's what that is. So you, I acknowledge your journey. You shorten that conversation in your head. You had all that subtext. And he said, hey, you look great. Have you lost weight? Yeah. The person, they're some text is like, whoa, you thought I was a big fat cow. Right.

And now, and wow, you know, why didn't you say anything before? And like, man, I really feel terrible about myself. You know what it is? You know what all this comes down to is our delivery. I think because we talk to each. A lot of this. My whole thing is delivery. And now that I'm a football coach, buddy, I got to change my delivery.

I cuss too much. I was getting my hair cut today. This dad comes in. He's like, yo, I sign my son up. I hear you're the coach. Have you seen him play quarterback? I said, I have not. But our quarterback is the best 10-year-old I've ever seen.

So your son's got to play a different position, right? If he wants to play and he goes, well, we don't know until we see him. I go, no, I know. Yeah. But you can't, as a coach, you can't talk like that. You got to be like, well, we'll figure out in camp. You know, it's going to be open competition. It's not.

It's not. I'll tell you what. I used to, I used to coach. and like one the one thing I found is that you cannot treat everyone the same because they are different. I mean, it's like, I know it sounds like there's some players suck. There's one kid that you could say your mama should have never had you with just defense you playing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, there's kids you can say that to.

And I know the kids you can say that too. There's a kids that like they're self-motivated. The kids you can push. Yeah, you can push them. And then there's other kids you have to coddle. You know, and it's just you have to know the difference. And that's part of being. Now, the other part of it is like dealing with parents.

I mean, dealing with parents. It's funny because they used to talk about this on stage a long time ago. But it was like, I always found that the moms and dads, they had a different, you know, there's a different way. Because some dads, they think their kid is Michael Jordan. And they think their kid is like, you know, so you have to like, the way you do that is you have to somehow the kid has to go in, fail, then you look over in the stands like this.

Oh, wow. Yeah. She, you know what I mean? Oh, no, I did that. I did that in flag football. This mom, her kid, it is what it is, was the worst player in the team. She goes, why isn't Jimmy quarterback? I go, because Jimmy can't throw the ball.

She goes, I disagree. I went, you know what? We're up. I'm like, you know what? I will have Jimmy start the third quarter. If he does well, then I'll leave him in. If not, I'm going to pull him. out so you can see. She goes, that seems fair. I'm like,

you're good with that? She goes, yeah, I put him in. He does fucking terrible. He's in for four plays. I look over. I go, we're good. Are we good? Oh, you're going to get into a lot. That is such a tough spot to be in.

It's such a tough spot because every, what are you doing? Get me one. Everybody is selfish about their own kid. Yeah, they have the dad goggles and I get, I'll never forget that ump during the game who goes dad goggles blue goggles blue goggles blue goggles always wins like you you're hoping for the best you're always seeing the best i have no skin in the game

i'm calling it fair i call it like i see it dad goggles blue goggles yeah man it's tough i don't but moms would be like moms but see the thing about a mom will come and say how come my kid is not playing and you're like well you know there's like a lot of good kids and you know and then and it'd be like, well, it was $75 for the team shoe. You know, that's like the mentality of some, you know what I mean? It's like everybody deserves to play type of thing. It's like, that's not what we're doing here. It was $75 for a team shoe.

Great, he could wear him to class. Well, you know what, though? You'll see as you keep going. There's like, so that everybody plays, everyone has to play a certain amount of downs. Everyone has to play in the infield. Everyone has to bat. That's not what we're doing. What we're doing is these are travel ball teams.

and we kids are playing. So your kid might not play. So if you wanted to play, go somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very, it's tough. Break time. The NBA playoffs are here in Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA boosts every game day the whole postseason.

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I'll never forget this. There was a kid that came to me years later. He graduated, you know, and we were here just talking. And he says, hey, man, he goes, why'd you put me on the team? You know? And I said, well, you know, I mean, the other kids, everybody was like, come on, coach, you got to, you got to put it up. He goes, he said to me this to me.

He said, when you put me on the team, I felt like I deserve to be on the team. And I should get playing time because I was now on the team. Oh, no, buddy. And I, but no, but I learned. In that moment, I said, I'll never do that again. Yep. I'll never do that again. I'd rather be, I'd rather be hated.

Mm-hmm. And then this kid tried to prove to me that he's good enough. They'd just be like, oh, because that didn't help. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I've been. And that person grew up to be Ted Kizzyzzyzki. No, but I've been like, I've been like that even for myself.

Like, you know, I always, you create villains in your life or like anytime people tell you you can't do something. I mean, I just, I've always been like that even for myself. So, you know, I just think it's better. That's a better way. But not everybody agrees with that because they're all about the, everybody's got wreckball mentality. But is this a comedy podcast or is it an inspirational podcast?

I don't know. Is this. This guy. If you look under category This guy who doesn't like This guy who doesn't like sports And like okay Go ahead and do a bit

Chris you gotta get in sports No no no no no no It's not even about sports It's about is it a self-help podcast Is this question And that's just a question Or is it under comedy Editor Editor I want you to zoom back

In the podcast right now To the point where this guy was talking about You know I woke up for 30 seconds And I was, uh, and I was just feeling like, boom, I had an emotional boner. Which is funny. And the book, boom, blah. I was feeling a certain way. Oh, God forbid.

It was to alleviate that they were the Ted Kaczynski joke. But no, no, no, no. It was a five minute rant on your mental health. Yeah, it was five minutes. And we entertained it. And we entertained it. That's crazy. Is this the Theo Vaughn podcast?

Yeah. Is Theo Vaughn here? That is crazy. And sometimes, they don't hit, man. No, no, no. There's no hitting. There's no hitting or not hitting. No, no.

The Kazzyzzyzzy joke didn't hit. I'm fully prepared. And Eric gave you a fake laugh. Eric gave you a fake laugh. It was excuse me. He went, I shouldn't have done that. Try and throw in some brevity.

When you're sitting here, Chris, Revity. Levity, too. Same thing. Right? Brevity's brief. Levity is to make it lighter.

Oh, Levity, right? What did I say? Even Nick has to come in and correct you. Thank God. It changed what the fuck was going on, though. Oh, I know. Oh, I know what's going on.

Chris woke up. He was saying how he was a sad panda when he woke up. And now he's trying to put it on us. Listen, partner. Listen, partner. The buck stops here. Don't project your nonsense onto us. We're having a great conversation about sports.

And you can put a monkey wrench in it. Brevity was for your sports talk then. Put some brevity in your fucking sports talk. All right. What do you want to talk about, Chris? I would like to talk. about fucking, I don't know, like pants or something, you know? Go ahead.

Just. Go ahead. Tell us about pants. I don't know, man. It's like, it was skinny jeans for a while. And then, and then it was big, big baggy pants. And I saw my friend. And I saw my middle.

That's a middle ground. It's a middle ground because I saw my friend two days ago with really skinny jeans on. And it was in Sacramento. And I was like, this is not really the thing anymore. But is it a, is it a Sacramento thing? or did he just kind of not get it? It's everything. Yeah,

because I wore tight jeans. And we're in. Have that. And we're in. Dude. No, Chris, this is a good point because I went to the rodeo with my family.

My jeans, when I put him, I went, he's a little tight, but they work with the cowboy boots. I'm going to rock them. Right. And then some guy,

my DM goes, bro, saw you at the rodeo. Little, he goes, he goes, and it's like a cowboy. He goes,

little tip. You can't wear tighter jeans in your girl. I'm like, ah. See, I talk about the fucking current status of the world. This little getting a gym for this. Yeah. So, you know, discuss.

Go ahead. I think it's a part of me. And what I think is and what I think is. But Eric, Eric doesn't go with the trends. Eric rocks the same pants no matter what, which I respect. You and I go with the trends. And if you look at tight skinny jeans, they're out. I'm catching strays now.

No, no, no. No, this is a compliment. We respect it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I do think that if you were going to, if you were going to, because, you know, you look at the gene trend now and it's more of a bootleg. It's not a flare. Cargo gene. It's not a tapered look.

This is the look to where you need, if you wanted staying power, if you wanted to be accepted for the long term, you needed a boot cut. So why don't we just stop here, but we won't, but we won't. It'll flare and come back and flare and come back. And we'll always think, you know why, you know why, Chris, it's, because they, The fashion needs money. So if everyone's like, all right, I just need one pair of jeans. This is a style for the rest of my life. Then they don't make money.

So then New York sets a trend or the England sets the trend. And then skinny jeans will be back in. Why did you pull up that picture chain? My jeans were so fucking tight. They were. But you didn't realize it. But that's okay. But that's, Brandon.

I was about to say, who's that. Who's that hot? Yeah. Who that baddie on the ride? So this is. So what? So let's just get this. So what did we learn, Brendan, right here from this picture?

What did we learn them? Not to wear those anymore. Okay. Period or with the boots or? Yeah. Period. Period. Period.

Period. Because in 2019, I'm just wondering about the hot. Your boy was spicy. 2019, your boy was spicy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dick Suck City right here. But you're wearing high heels and skinny jeans. So.

Buddy, those are cowboy boots. Right. In 2019, Dick Suck City. In 2019, Dick Suck City right here. Are they heels? Are you ready to go to the club? Now. It's kind of clubby to me.

So, yeah, you need a boot cut. Yeah, you need a book cut. So now we take a poll. Some cowboy called me out. Some cowboy called me out. All right now. At this moment right now in the podcast, in the comments, I want you to, we'll have a poll up. You don't even have to.

Inspirational conversation or pants, which one. But it's not, it's not fair to say inspirational. Me and Eric weren't given inspiration. We're talking about cutting six-year-olds from a football team. I know, no. inspirational is the wrong word. You're right. Boring is more of what we should call it.

So do you like boring stuff or stuff about pants? That's the poll. Pant talk? Pant talk? I welcome to pant talk. No, how dare you frame it that way? You can't just say. I know.

I know why, because Chris can't add to the kid sports conversation. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's so true. break. I sure can, dude. Can't add anything or actually personally relate to it? He shuts it down. Yeah.

And that's what congratulations is. That's what the fucking podcast is. That's why it's why, yeah, that's why it's a solo podcast. So good. You know what I mean? It's two hours about hair. But even the different characters in your head fight with each other. Yeah.

Dude, the fucking last episode is fucking great. Oh, here we go. It's just me. Our boy, Chris is crazy. Chris is a little crazy. I love it. I love it, but you're on the spectrum. I am fucking.

really crazy though if I think about it. You're on the as they say you're my partner on the spectrum. If we were dating and I say that's my partner he's on the spectrum. Yeah I don't know I should get tested again I should get tested again. You don't need to though. For what?

You have it, Bubba. I put myself into a category guys I have autism so I could be like one of those chick comics. Guys I just got diagnosed. I'm autistic fucking hourglass. So many more gigs.

Just got done sucking someone off. Not autistic. Live in a mansion. Just got your backs blown out. Got rope shots to your back. Not autistic. Question. Fucking God damn it.

Back is covered with ropey barbells. Get the fuck out of here. Why do you say bags? Why do you say bags blown out? It's back. You know what? Fucking ropey barbells just fucking trying to hit your titties?

Fuck out of here. So guys, I just got back from the doctors. I'm autistic. Fucking dodging ropy barbells like the like the fucking matrix, dude.

You fucking asshole, you're autistic. Nobody with autism is dodging as many ropy barbells as fucking you while you sit in your fucking mansion.

God damn it these chicks with your hourglass figure. Episode title, ropey barbells. I mean, it's just so annoying, dude. Every other. Can I cast you a question that can keep you going on this bit?

What's up? What's up? I, Is there any hot people without autism? No, dude. You get over it. Does it come with that though? You go, you go. You go.

I'm starting to think about it. Because nobody's hot when they're younger. When they're younger, they're autistic and they're, you know, doing the, and then they go bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo. Oh, fuck all that. Roopy bar goes on the way, dude. Yeah. There's a fuck all that.

There's no fucking all that. Why don't you start sucking you forget how autistic you are? And you know what? Or you're probably better at it. Right. Or you're better at it, in which case you still live in a great mansion. You can forget about being fucking autistic because you've got an awesome couch.

You know what I mean? It's, you know, and it's comedy. You know, it's comedy. So like, you can get mad at me for saying all that shit,

but it's comedy. And that's what we're not in the inspirational podcast comedy. We're not in the inspirational podcast section. We're in the competition. No one tried make this inspirational podcast, man. This is about, God damn it. Helping people with autism. You know what it is?

It's truth bombs. You just set them back. Yeah. It's true. It's just, you know the fucking, you remember in, what's the Lion Heart? Thunder cats. Ravehart. Thunder cats, the fucking. Oh, yeah.

The cat person that had the fucking end through it and it would catch your legs and fall. Yep. that's like fucking jizz to when it's fucking coming at you in the rope and barbell way and it fucking catches you on your tins and then you forget your autistic and that's it and that's that

there you go well you're gonna find that's no no that's not it that's a toy but that's that I mean you know right no that's that's his daughter or something oh god they're really wow you really follow oh dude Thundercats was this shit

bro I love Thundercats but wait they had a he was like a teal he had a teal suit It's like a cheetah. Chittara maybe? No, Chittara was the woman. Aren't they doing the Thundercat movie?

That's Lino. Oh, okay, Lino. Wait, that's not. There's a Thundercap movie coming out. You're right, you're right. That's a tiger. Tigra. Tigra, yes.

Tigra. No, no, no. That's it with the Bolow thing. That's the jizz curing autism. Right there. Right there. I'm saying nobody hot, nobody has autistic,

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But then his mom goes with him and the mom's like, you're not, you can't even work. You can't even hold the job. but everything you see about him on the show, I go, this guy can work. This guy can work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's going on? He's just lazy.

I guess there's debilitating. When it becomes debilitating or close to it, then you go, well, what do you talk about? Because I know a lot of people who are autistic who are thriving. Yeah, for sure. You know what I mean? So it's like, whatever your thing is. Yeah, you can figure it out. It can be OCD, whatever your thing is.

At what point does it become, oh, I can't function anymore. That's when, you know, Right. Yeah. Totally. Even like Tourette's or whatever, like that one show with the girl. Yeah. She made a whole fucking show of it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, you know, it's like when that guy is. It's Brailin out loud or some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brailin?

Bailey, I think it is. Bailey. Oh, Bailey. My bad. No, Braylin's her brother. She's hilarious. There's another girl who follows her. So when you get into that algorithm,

this other girl, like, it's funny because she's like really attractive and she's on Instagram doing her thing but she's just kind of like wow you know so that's oh yeah I've seen her yeah you know what I mean dark hair girl yeah so you just kind of go like what's uh this is what when when does it stop you you know I think that anything whatever autism you know whatever your thing is you know you can you you you fight it I think I'd love to be with a woman that has fucking Tourette syndrome man I think I'd love it Yeah, and that's you're on a plane

Nah, fuck it, dude I don't give a shit Bro, I'm so confident Like if my, If my chick was just next to me And yelled out, you know, chink or something Sleep it out, I guess

But like, you know, and you're just, at Kmartin, so you know they're there, you just fucking, you, yo, she has Tourette's syndrome.

But that's what the mom does in this show. They went on a flyer and at the airport and she goes, she's just learned what you have to do, you just have to have blissful ignorance. You just have to, like, ignore it. Hell yeah.

Just let her do her thing because what are you supposed to do? I've been at the airport and I saw that. It's tough for kids, though. But I saw, but she's this. I'm talking about she was this age, you know. But I remember being at the airport one time. Oh, I know, yeah. And there was a kid who was clearly something was up with him.

And he just was, you know, running and roaming around. And the dad, I could see the dad was just exasperated. He just said, just leave him. Just leave him. You know, and the kid was just doing this, you know, doing this thing. and I was just like, wow, that's, you know. It's sad, but, you know, it's funny too. It depends on what mood you're in, but it's sad, yeah.

I mean, you know, it's like, you know, I mean, you can't be like, okay, it's not funny. This little kid is running around yelling fucking, you know, whatever the hell he's yelling. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're in the mood you woke up in today with your Tourette's wife. Yeah. So now you go to coffee bean like you normally would. Does she have text? Does she text me Tourette's stuff too?

I was, bitch. The three dots. Oh no. She's having an episode. Bitch. I mean, it's like that's challenging

to your life. You have to always be that. So what happens when you're not that? And then it happens. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a very good question. Yeah. Because. Yeah. I think I might. I think. So I have OCD, and it's not mild.

I'm on medication, so that's good. Jesus Christ. Yeah. You knew that, no? No. I, I, I,

I, What? Everybody might say that out. The worst doctor. I mean, yeah, dude. It's like, Jesus Christ. You got six months.

You don't want him at a funeral either. Like, somebody's like saying, he's like, bro, your OCD so bad. You're on fucking meds, blah,

But that's, you know, it's every daily. Hey, can you send some to me? My girl's OCD with cleaning is driving me nuts. My wife is always like, I wish you had the cleaning one. I do not have the cleaning one. Oh, dude, my girl has a clean one so bad. That's kind of annoying, yeah. But, but, yeah, no, I have, I started taking Prozac and that shit fucking.

And what's it, what's it do for you? Like, your OCDs, well, I know you like count fucking doorknops and shit. I do not. There's three in this. room but bro Chris is hey Chris is so on the fucking spectrum no no no so

no you like yeah what is cracks on the sidewalk and shit what version of this OCD do you have? It's very hard to explain because it's not okay well give us

a real world example like you're someplace and your OCD kicks in because of what okay okay so say so say oh okay so okay your jeez barbells are going out

so so There was a time where one time, this was before I was, when, so once you get in your early 20s, give us the worst example. Once you get in your early 20s,

that's when a lot of the times it comes to, flares up, you know, at a high, super cyan fucking OCD. Yeah, flares up, yeah. So when that was happening,

I was, I was just on, I did not know, I did not understand what was going on. I was just like, like, give us an example. I am going to.

You, you'd like count all the red, cars of the park car or something shit? No, no, no, no, no, no. There's none in the park in there's none in the park lot right now, but I don't, I don't, just two brown cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, two brown cars and a cone and a fucking trash bin. But I, but, but what, what, mine were, it was never like this, this kind of shit,

you see. And it was never, it was always within my own thoughts. So, so like one time, I, I, I, I, I, I, God. Hey, just this explanation shows you have it, dude. Just fucking spit it out. I threw away this snapple, okay? I threw away this snapple.

And you didn't read the fact. Well, yes. And you thought about it all day. He's saying my OCDs hacky, but I don't, no, I threw the, I threw the snapple bottle away and it didn't feel right the way I threw it away. And I, like the release of the bottle? He doesn't get it. he'll never understand.

And that's fine. That's why I say it's hard to explain. It's not really the release of a bottle. It's my emotional state when I throw it away. Brendan clearly never have friends with issues. Yeah. No. Because he would just be a freaking bully.

You know what I mean? Like you couldn't be like a friend with like one of these arms. Oh, God. Half a T-Rex over here. Because then we can't play catch. But you're going, Chris. So you threw it away. My early 20s, I threw it away.

It just, my emotional state when I threw it away was not good. Okay. I go, I should throw it away again. Okay. I should get, reach in the trash can and throw it away again. And then I go like this, that does nothing. I know that does nothing. I know logistically, you know, logically and metaphysically, there's no correlation to what that's going to do.

If I didn't do it, I'm filled with dread. something dreadful is going to happen whatever that is back then it might have been I was going to get cancer I don't know right but I go I'm not doing it and this is all me just in the kitchen I'm not doing it fuck all that so I drove this was up my parents place so I drove

home and I go yeah I'm not going to do it and I and I as I drove home I was like sweating couldn't stop thinking about it I go I should have just done it should I go back home like legit

you're like rain man but you can't count right right right right like legit dread legit horror like it's not like and I understand it's not real but yeah you know it's crazy okay wait I need to step in here yeah so was also part so you have the OCD yeah and I think do you think now looking back on another part of it was how your brain works as a comic analyzing things yeah So then therefore you were like self-analysing, which those two things were boring. What I think is Chris, just for those of us that don't have it, OCD is over compulsive disorder. So you, yeah, you obsess over minor things. Ruminate thoughts ruminate.

I can do it with, you know, this doesn't really happen. But sometimes like if I'm at a coffee shop or something and I get stuck with a thought, like this doesn't really happen. anymore but like if somebody if I was like what if that person like hurt themselves tripped and fell and hurt themselves and like I would be like ficken thinking to that and I'm like I don't want to think about this person hurting themselves like that kind of shit right well so what happened with the snap oh I might have a splash of that yeah so I got well I did I never went I didn't go back his OCD is being a dick I yeah yeah yeah yeah no I have some OCD tendencies like uh they're that like my my truck like like I like I'll obsess over the parts until like

I get them until it's done, my anxiety will be so high. And then once it's completed, that I get kind of sad or I'll think about my kid getting hurt and I'll get really like certain ways he can get hurt. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, some of that stuff is normal. I mean, you know, I guess there's a spectrum, right? But like, gay. But yeah, yeah, yeah, partner.

Partner. Yeah, my partner has OCD over here. But yours is debilitating. if you don't take medication. It's truly, there were times where I, there were times where I, I mean, I hate to, well, no, I don't hate to say it because it helps people, but like, there were times where I couldn't leave my house, yeah. So did you go back for the sample bottle?

You never finished? No, I didn't. And, and, and, and, I didn't. Because I, I just white-knuckled it, right? And I thought about it every day for, you probably should have just done it for God's. Yeah, there was a, Chris, yeah, you should have just done it. But Chris, let me ask you this. do you see any tendencies in your kids?

Like, do you pass it down? Is it genetic? Wow. Do you see it with the voice? I mean, so my uncle's got it. My dad probably had a little bit of it, you know. Do you see it with your kiddos at all? Do you see certain things like, yeah.

Let's not just count the green cranes, buddy. There's other colors. I recognize the patterns, yeah. But like, I don't know if it's what that is yet or not. But, but, you know, part of me feels sometimes feels bad about it. But then I think, okay, well, I actually know how to deal with it. So it's a good thing, you know. I think it's a good thing, but it's also, but I think too, Chris.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's talk about. Yeah, but Chris, yeah, this is fucking therapy. But Chris, I do think, I do think since you figured it out, it can be a superpower too, because I think it's what makes you such a great comment too. So now it's okay. No. Yes, it is okay now. But so he said, so what he said, though, about the, the comic thing is what you're saying is true.

What he's saying about the comic thing is, I don't think that that's, uh, it goes hand in hand with being funny. But I do think that it definitely can elevate the way my humor is because I think about things in certain crazy ways for a long time. If you figure it out. If you figure it out, if you have that talent at all. Yeah. Like Elon Musk is on the spectrum and you figured it out to make it work for him.

Yeah. With Rockets or what the fuck. With Tom Brady's like Tom Brady's obsessive compulsive disorders with football. Like his wife was like, dude, you play one more season. and you're going to lose your kids and your wife. And he was like, say less. Yeah. And so there's people that can figure it out where they have success.

Yeah. And then their personal lives are miserable. No, yeah, that's why I go into my. But that's not really what I meant. Oh, what? No, no, no. What I meant was like, so you have this thing and there's part of you that like, if you would have just given into it, you would have turned around and went back,

you would have thrown the bottle away. Let's say you had done that. Which I wish you did. How many times? But I'm saying, but how many times do you have done it? So you felt okay. It could have taken 40 times. Okay.

So that's insane. Okay. So what I'm saying is this, you have that. But then there's also a part of you that is like in the Avengers cursed with knowledge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that part of you was warring with that part. And because you're always aware that this is. So what I'm saying is that's a whole other.

How do you deal with that? You get what I'm saying? Because it's like you, there's a part of you that's like, I shouldn't be doing this and you're fighting yourself. You know, so like you were trying to sell almost self-medicate in a way of like, you know, self-diagnosed and then you couldn't handle it. Right. And then on top of that, what happened when you, did you, would you go back to your parents' house like way later and then walk by that trash can and then think about that snap a bottle? You know what I mean?

So that's like. But it's gone and now what the fuck do I do? I want to go to the dumpster and find it. You know what I mean? It's like, it's insane, dude. But there were plenty of times where I went back and did that, you know, whatever it is. Right. But this time I didn't.

I remember it was one of the first times and it was just, you know. But behavioral therapy is a thing. Like, and I went to go do that for a little bit. And, you know, basically what it is is to fucking narrow it down is just fucking get over it. So what? You know what I mean? So don't do it. Then what?

Yeah. You know? And it's like, okay. Yeah. You don't get a fucking. But that same thing that made you white. knuckle and not go back. It's the same thing, that same thought process that helps you get past it.

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Is if, I'll still have that thought, but then I'll be like, okay, I know if I don't do it, the dread and the anxiety isn't going to be as bad because it just takes the edge off it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the side effects of Prozac?

What's the side effects? Fucking huge shoulders. No. I knew you were getting neck tattoos. No, the side effects. The side effects can be lower libido. Thank God. And depression.

But that's, you know. Oh, my God. God. I'd rather count crayons. Yeah, I'd rather count the crayons. That's terrible. No, not me, dude. Not me.

But I don't think, but it hasn't gotten me to breath. I know, but what I'm saying is, that would be terrible. That would be terrible, yeah. But no, but I, it is, the tradeoff is, for me, the tradeoff is worth it. Count the crayons. I mean, I can't have, I can't. OCD is just, oh my God, dude. Well, I mean, it's something you can't describe.

So it's like, I get it. It's like being trapped in a loop. Yeah, please don't try again either. Just being trapped in some sort of loop where you're just. like, you know, throwing a snap a bottle away. You know. Yeah, it's like, it's also like, I mean, Tourette's. We were talking about this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, you got Tourette's too? No, no, no. But no, no, but they, but no. No, but they say that it's very closely related and I totally, I can totally understand that. Like, that helps me understand Tourette's a little bit. Gotcha. Because if it's like, just don't say it.

But it's, dude. They can't help it. Yeah, but if they can do that, then they, you know. Yeah. I mean, even that situation with that guy with the people, you know, that guy's, that that Tourette's guy was there. because the movie about him was up for nomination

and the guy's in the crowd. You know, they should have put him in a glassed off area. Oh my God. You know what I mean? Like the fucking Hannibal Lecter. Yeah.

They're rolling. Hannibal Lecter. Can't hear it. I'm just like, you know, I'm 50-50 on it because part of it's like, hey, everybody, this guy's movies up.

You have to understand, if you don't get it, then what are we doing? Yeah. You know what I mean? And then at the same time, you go, maybe you don't come to this. Right.

Maybe you via satellite this. Chris and Eric, Doesn't Rick Glassman have OCD or something like that? I think, yeah, I think he, he is autistic. He has autism, but he, I think he has OCD too, yeah. But I think a lot of his is the cleanliness stuff. Yeah, I remember going over his house to do his podcast. I remember during the pandemic.

He's awesome. And the pandemic. And I remember him calling me and he's like, man, I want you to come to the podcast. And he was like really like, I just, but there, I need you to do this for me though. And I was like, it's all right. I was like, it's all right, Rick, what do you need? I get it. And he was like, Eric, Eric, he was like, I need you to come to.

Wait, wait, wait, hold on, Brendan. He was like, I need you to, you know, can when you get to the house, open the door, like, take your shoes off, walk all the way over to the balcony, put your shoes in a certain place. And I was like, you know, and I was like, same. Because he asked me do it during COVID. And I thought it was a bit. I know. That's the thing with him is because he's a comedian. You don't know.

Yeah, but he's silly all the time. And then I got over there. and I did what he asked and then I was like all right dude what's going on here and he's like no serious you have to do that I'm like oh this isn't a bit that's hilarious the fucking

I know but it's but it's hard to like if you have that if you especially like even if it's like the cleanliness thing it's hard if like you know you're just living your you're trying to live your life and then somebody like you know

grabs this and then maybe they yeah we can't stop thinking about it and they pick it up and they put it back and you're You're just like, you can't stop yourself from being like, oh, you have AIDS now or whatever you're thinking. Dude, my wife, because, you know, kids aren't clean. Yeah, yeah. So she's, she'll freak out a lot.

You know, I'm like, buddy, we got to chill. Like, they're, like, all right, we got to chill. Or like, well, I've opened houses and she'd be like, I can get the house ready. I'll look around like, it's ready. It looks ready. This bitch is ready. What else? What are we, what are we going to do?

Like, scrub the floors? I don't what else is there to do like we live in a museum you know it you know it's a hard part like what you're talking about for yourself yeah so if you don't have anything like that like you know there there's a thought process that people would say well that's normal okay so you know if you're quote unquote normal which is not the great greatest way to say that yeah but it's like you know how much empathy do you have when you're like when you're like when you're like when you're with someone. Yeah.

And then that person, they don't, they're, they don't even know how to have empathy. No. You know, like how do you? Right. Because like I, my, there's a lot of times for me it would be like, I would, I would, I would, my thing wouldn't be like, whoa, he's going crazy. My thing would be like, I would be like totally withdrawn within myself. And like, people would I guess think I'm in a bad mood or something.

And, and if they talk to me, I'd be like, yeah, you know. And I didn't realize what I was I'm not realizing how I'm coming off But like you know to be in a relationship with somebody like that They're like the fuck is this it was his problem You know and I'm like just don't you know I get to the point where I be like Just when I'm doing that just don't talk to me But then it's like that's a whole fucking thing now I'm affecting their lives Yeah yeah yeah and it's like you know sure it's better than yelling at them

And my thing is I snap and say fuck you and I have an anger problem But like is it you know so It's it's fucking tough man it's tough But I the Prozac help I took other stuff first and it kind of helped a little bit and then it petered out but the prozac shit man well there's also probably a part of it that also makes you super charismatic and like all those things so it's like there's a trade-off so if you're you know in a relationship with you you know be great if christian was here we could be like what are the good parts you know it and it would be like there's these things you know

what i mean so there's always a trade-off you got some negativity that goes with that and you just You find a partner who, you know, it's like, okay. You're shaking his head. You know what I mean? Yeah, but definitely I like to run bits into the ground, and that's probably because I like to obsess about them, you know. Yeah, but that also makes for a great solo podcast. Congratulations.

Well, I'm glad you figured it out, Christopher. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Man, it was, it's crazy to think about, like, how, I can't believe how bad I had, I was. Does your brother have it? No, no. I mean, he, no. My whole family is my whole family and like we all are shades of it, you know? But no, no, no.

My dad kind of, not really though, but my uncle for sure. Yeah, but I think there are people that get into the arts that have like, you know, when you're a, but you know, your dad is a showrunner, so he's meticulous about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think Matt has that about his directing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk, well, how he talks about movies or the things that he focuses on. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, again, it can be used as a positive in the...

I think Eric's the most normal one. I mean, I got a splash of the tism and then Chris full-blown. And then Eric, you don't have nothing, man, huh? I don't know. Who knows? You know, he's got other stuff. You know, he's fucking anxious or some shit. Yeah, everybody's got a thing.

Everybody's got a thing. Like, when I, like, I don't... Eric shit to his pants. I don't do drugs. I don't drink, you know? But I... Your thing's diet, right, Eric? When I go to...

This guy. No, I'm not even being mean. Show him in the high heels again. I struggle with eating. I struggle with dieting too. I'm just saying if you had to pick on you and me for stuff, you know, I've been big before. No, when I go to. The food is my relationship.

Like I. It's a tough one. And yours too. I think like I almost thought I could I have a, I could have a, I could have had a gambling problem. You know, I could have. Yeah. I, there were moments where I'd be like, oh, this is the thing.

That's one that missed me. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I, because I, so I've, I've gone to Vegas. Yeah. Like, I remember doing a. when the tropic candle you'd be there for a week I can remember like losing all my money

day one right and then I'm you know oh god just broke for a week waiting to get paid you know what I mean so you just learn a thing because there's something about like

I love playing craps and there's something about it that like you know it is fun yeah no I like it too there's a thing uh you better no but I get obsessed like I do this thing where I'm like okay well you start with this and then you you double that and then you yeah There's like a way, there's a way

Yeah, yeah And it's like sometimes it's great Sometimes it's not That that's about That's a that's kind of addicty Like I mean that's Like I do that with working out I'm fucking you know

But gambling's also designed to be that way Right like designed to get its fucking fangs in you It's all designed to well I mean like what did they say Like if a gambler's hell would be They win every time Oh interesting Yeah huh That every time they threw the dice it was a win

that that that there's nothing it is pretty funny that we uh you need that idea that you're going to lose that's what fuels the it is it is pretty interesting how this podcast has been very uh uh um you know we've been deeper than we usually are and we are still calling it ropy barbells yeah yeah that is a great dichotomy of what yeah pants yeah uh no but i do i do think that it's uh Yeah, I felt that with gambling too. I never got into gambling hardcore. Hey, Nick, Nick, would you say you have anything? I mean, clearly gambling might be, you don't have an issue, right?

I think I'm just on the edge of anything. Like, drink, drinking. But I've, nothing that's affecting my life in a negative way at the moment. Right. But in my 20s, I was definitely blacking out drinking too much. But then also, yeah, but you're next 20s, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but I never did that.

You never did that. No, but, but, but there's other things. Well, for me, for sure, mine was fucking sex and also, you know, but like, mine would have been sex if I could have done that probably. Yeah. I think a lot of guys would have been, honestly. There's a little bit of a gray area there. You have a lot of options.

Yeah. There's a little bit of a gray area. You know what? But, wait, wait, you know what? It's so, that this is really strange because that's actually unfair. What? You know, I'm just saying, you know, we think of the things that we think. are great things, you know, sex, food, making money.

You know, we think of those things of like, well, I mean, that can't be that bad. It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, any of those things you can destroy. But it's just like, but, and that's how we get out of control with it. I know. Oh, well, you know what? You know what?

You know what is a real motherfucker too? And like, is also like you see these fucking famous people. Fame is that way, dude. Yes. Like, like, like, fame's addicting. These people who, who, you know, yes.

You meet and you're like, oh my God, this is what they think the world is like. Like, it's just insane. And look, you know, there are people who are famous that have less of that,

but it's all to a degree. It's just. Well, I remember like, listen, man, I always felt like, like at the height of workaholics where it'd be like certain, you know,

it was like every one and 20 people would be like, oh man. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, I never, I always thought I don't want to like need that because I don't want to miss it when it's gone because I have a lot of comic friends

who were on television shows, big television shows and then it all went away and you can see that they miss it. Yep, got it. You know what I mean? You can see that they miss it. So my thing is just like,

you know, I always was just kind of like, yeah, you know. Yeah, no, you don't carry that. You don't have that with you. Like to me it feels like you're happy and like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I can remember being at a restaurant with a buddy of mine, you know, and he was really into it, you know,

so he would be like, man, those people over there, they're looking, they know, it's like, I'd be like, hey, don't worry about that. My thing would always be like, if somebody walks up to me and they're like, hey, man, Montet, you know, I'd be like, hey, what's up, you know, but I'm not going out of my way to look for it. Right, right, right, right, you know what I mean? I'm just kind of like, boom, you know, and as it's going away, you know, now it's just like, oh, now people are like, oh, weren't you on bad friends? Right, right, right, right, right. You know what I'm like, okay, then it changes. It becomes different, so. So you just enjoy your life.

You know what I'm saying? Fort Wayne. Chris is going to be in Fort Wayne. I don't even know. I guess they, I hope that. We'll see what happens there. Summit City Comedy Club. Is that a new comedy club?

I don't know. I don't know. No, it's not. I think I opened up that club. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think I was one of the first. Summit City. How come I'm not going to Summit City?

Seanberg, Illinois, which is basically Chicago, Nashville, Tennessee, New Westminster, BC. That's like Vancouver. Salt Lake City. So, now, Brendan, you, wait, go up a little bit. I had a question about something. Wait, wait, wait, wait, we're going to Eric Griffin.com first. Yeah, we will.

We will. So this is something I've never done. I've never done Schaumburg. You guys both have. I've never done. I always was a zanis person. I've done Schaumburg. Okay, so, and you said it's a completely, it's its own thing.

Yeah, but it's tough because there's nothing around Schaumburg. That's what I'm not going to ask. So if you stay in Schomburg, there's nothing to do. But if you stay in Chicago, it's about a 40-minute drive. Right. So what should I do? Chicago traffic, it's tough. But I always stayed in Chicago and just left early.

I wonder what I'll do. Because Chicago's fun. No, I. Chicago's great. Because of the weather, too. What kind of weather? I'll tell you right now, Chris, if you stay in Schaumburg, you're going to be miserable. I would stay in Chicago and deal with the traffic.

Okay. Okay. It's 50 minutes from Schaumburg to Chicago right now. No, no, no. That's, you don't want to do that. Air Griffin.com now, please. Thank you. Yeah, I'll be at the old good old North Iowa.

a comedy festival and then talk to the moon. What the fuck is talk to the moon? It's a comedy club in Pensacola. And you know what? If you're in Pensacola, Florida, please tell your friends because right now it's like, I'm on the verge of being like, am I still going to go? Let me tell you something about this. They got to change the name.

Where is it? Florida. Oh, yeah. That's not a good name. But change the name. But let me say something about it's Pensacola. What is it? I've been there.

want to go. It's a cool. It's a little bit of a... This is a really small club, too. The only seats like 60 or 8, something like that. So I'm like... I hope you go. I want to go.

If you're in Pensacola, go see. Yeah. Eric Griffin at Talk to the Moon. Yeah. And I got a bunch of other stuff. The comedy store in the best club. That's the best one on there. I love that.

I love all that. Yeah. Oh, I miss those days, dude. I got a lot of stuff. It'd always be on Eric Griffin. com. I got, you know, Join the Patreon.

Go join the podcast, the biopics, and the home. Just fucking go to his goddamn website. So he shuts up. I'm never going to shut up about it because everybody's been talking shit about my website for five years.

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